Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-28 00:00:00

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.'Shoe-lane, under the following circum-
-It appears that the unfortunate man was a
and since the loss of his wife has •bee--
ponang state of mind, but it was not appre-
he would attempt self-destruction. Shortly
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he Was discovered with his throat cut from ear to ear, a
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speetor Howard, of Fleet-street station-house, who sent.
for Mr. Kelly, surgeon, of Fetter-lane, who promptly
attended, but life was extinct.
SHEEP AND HORSES POISONED.—At Firbeck,. near
Tickhill, Mr. Singlehurst, farmer, has sustained a most
serious less, by reason of having upwards of forty sheep,
besides several horses and cattle, poisoned. It was at
first supposed that they had been killed by electricity
during the-storm oi-eh raged with great force over the
neighbouthood on Wednesday morning last, but from
sheep, horses, and cows having died suddenly since, an
investigation has' been made, which 'leads incontestably
to the belief that they have all been poisoned by 'rape-
cake, which had been forwarded to Mr.Singlehurst from
Liverpool as indiaure' but was used as food for- cattle.
An analysis of the cake shows that it-contains mineral
poison. _ Notwithstandino• the heavy loss. already en-
tailed upon the owner, it feared that this willbe in-
creased by severaliothers, as both sheep, horses, and cattle
are affected to such amextent that theyare not expected

to recover. •
NEW STEAM BArrpauEs.—The new-steam batteries,
tenders for which we stated in our last had been issued
by the Admiralty, -have been awarded, one to Mr.
Palmer, of Jarrow, the rother to Messrs. Westwood and
Baillie, of Millwail. The former has been allowed
slifteen months tecomplete his contract, which has been
-taken at £43 per tons the latter • heart agreed to
complete their vessel within twelve months, the price
being £44 per toe. The tonnage of each vessel
is 3,668 tons, ,builders' measurement. This will en-
Ole us to form' .some estimate of the -enormous cost
of these vessels, since :the former will cost £157,724,
and the 1atter,116,4392. This, it must ba,reniembered,
is: os the mere kullsotthe boat; and as her equipment
will necessarily be very .expensive, and her engines of
immense power, we -shellstake a low estimate of the cost
what we assume, that each vessel will, when ready for
sea,; cost about a third of :a million of money. This is
purchasing vessels .at .the ,rate of about three for every
million of pounds sterling. These, however, are only
the smaller steam batteries:, those already 'building of
6,000 tons will cost upwards of a quarter of a million, or
£264,000 for the hall alone ; and, when fated .for sea
will costnot less than half-a-million of money each. John
Bull will have paraded, before his eyes, four ships of
large tonnage, of unquestionable strength, and of very
questionable utility, seeing, that their success is an ad-
mitted problem.—Steam Skipping Chronicle.
APPREIJENSION OF A RAIN4LWAY PRUSSIAN POST,-
()mei' OFFICIAL.—On Thursday last a young man
named Martin Horst, aged twenty-three, who has very
respectable •counections in Prussia, was apprehended at
the Maidstone Cavalry Depot on .a charge of absconding
with 800 thalers (£120), the property of, the Prussian
Post-office authorities. The prisoner, it appears,. had
;for some time been employed in the post-office at Aix-
Jae-Chapelle, and en the 16th November he suddenly
disappeared with the above-named sum. As he wore
the uniform connected with the office, by representing
'himself as
,a messenger on special business he was en-
.abled to pals the Prussian frontiers, and make his way
to Oitend, without any passport. Here he embarked
for Dever, on arriving at which place he wrote to his
parents at Aix-la-Chapdsle, stating that he had obtained
an excellent situation in a mercantile house in Dublin.
The letter, however, was intercepted by the authorities,
who comMunicated. with the Prussian Embassy in
London, and information was at once given to the police
authorities at Great Scotland-yard. The case was
placed in the hands of the chief inspector of the detec-
tive department, Mr. John Whicher' who soon ascer-
tained that a person answering the description of the
prisoner, after spending a considerable .sum of
money among females of lose character in London,
had enlisted at Charles-street, Westminster, in the 12th
Lancers, and had been sent with other recruits to the
Maidstone depot. Acting on this information, the in-
spector applied to the War-office, and on Thursday
Horst was formally discharged by Colonel Balders, C. 8.,
and given into the charge of Superintendent Blundell,
at the Maidstone police station. Later in the day he
was conveyed by Inspector Whicher to Dover, and
placed on board one of the steam-boats for Ostend, at
which place an officer was to be in readiness to receive
• him. When apprehended he had none of the stolen

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a bribe (Is.) to a burgess woo --_
Witnesses having been examined, the 12th of October
that the man to whom the • - -

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