Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-17 00:00:00

and costs, or 14

ziven to the above effect

charged

with picking the pockets of a younm woman, named Margaret
Stuart, of 125., at the Tranmere %Takes, on Monday last,
He was sent to Chester Castle for six months.

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The costume of the Spanish ladies has not changed for
two hundred years.

" Union is not always strength," as the sailor said when
he saw the purser mixing his rum with water.
A man's religion is not a thing all made in heaven, and
then let down into him. It is his conduct in life.
LEGAL CHANGES.—The Daily News says it was positively
stated in Westminster all day on Wednesday that the
legal appointments had been definitively settled as follows t
—Lord Campbell, to be Chancellor ; lord Chief Justice
Cockburn to be Chief Justice of England, with a peerage;
Sir W. Erle becomes Chief of the Common Pleas; Mr.
Justice Willes transferred to the Queen's Bench ; and Sir
11 ,Keating, appointed to the vacancy in_ the Common Pleat

STATE OF THE THAMES.-The following is from a ;epoit
just presented to the Metropolitan Board of Works by Pro-
fessor Miller, of King's College: - " The progressive rise of
temperature, both in the atmosphere and in the river during
the past week, accompanied by a diminished fall of rain, has
been attended by a marked change for the worst in the state of
the Thames, which is rendered particularly evident at the up-
flow of the tide, when the mud, in which decomposition has
been promoted by exposure for some hours to the sun's rays, is
stirred up by the advancing water, and the imprisoned gases are
set tree. Putrefaction is always more easily prevented than
checked after it has commenced. It is therefore desirable
that immediate measures should be taken to prevent, as far
as possible, the addition to the river of any matters from the
sewers in an active state of putrescence. With a view to
this object, I have, during the past week, been in almost
daily communication with the chairman of the board, whb
informs me that arrangements are complete for enabling the
deodorsing agents to be mixed with the contents of the sewers
near their outfall. For the present, the most advisable course
to be adopted appears to be to add lime in regulated quanti-
ties to the sewerage products before allowing them to become
mixed with the water of the river. Some difference of opinion
exists as to the efficiency of this mode of procedure. There
is, .however, no doubt that when lime is added to recent
execrementitious matters it combines with some of their con-
wstiittiatenthtsenlVich are
aiflo ccumleonstt
chymicalpne to
ro d
ceocinompopuonsin
dtioor , and forms
eicipfeitath
which is less liable to putrefaction than theoririinal material,
If this precipitate could be separated and the liquid portion
only be run
,off, as is practised at Leicester, the subsequer4
offensive decomposition of the liquid sewage products would
be effectually obviated, as experience has fully proved. But
even where it is not practicable to effect this separation, thh
use of lime at the present temperature will exert an important
influence in retarding the process of putrefaction. - If the
liming be found, as summer advances and the temperatufb
continues to rise, to be inadequate to check the putrefaction,
other more powerful but much more expensive deodorising
compounds may be employed either as adjuncts or substitutes.
I am at present engaged in trials upon the best means of

applying these .at the Mouth of one of the large sewers, and
I hope to he able in a short time to report to you the results
of the trials."

DISCOVERY Of FOUR DESTITUTE CHILDREN IN A HOUSE
.IN BIRMINGHAM—This locality was early on Tuesday
morning excited by a report that four young children,
having been left in a house in Tower-street, were discovered
in a destitute and famishing condition, and that two of
them were dead or dying. On inquiry it was found that,
although no loss of life had taken place, yet the real occur-
rence is one of somewhat singular character. About six
weeks ago, a woman, apparently about twenty-seven years
of age, came to live at No. 1 house, in a court
called Brunswick-place, in Lower Tower-street. It was
for some time not known to the other inhabitants of the
Court, which contains several houses, that this woman had
four children with her, as on no occasion were they. Seen
to come out of the house. The woman said she had
husband, but that they were very poor ; she had no decent
clothing for her children, and assigned that as a reason why
they did not mix with others in the place. The last that

was seen of the-. woman, whose name is said to be Love“,
was about four o'clock -on Monday afternoon. She then
went out, and the eldest boy, putting his head through A
broken pane of glass iu the window of the bedroom, asked,
"Mother, how long shall you be ?" The reply was, "Na
long; and when I come back I shall bring you something'.
You must keep quiet.". The, shutters of the room below
were fastened up. Nothing - more was heard of either
the mother or her children until - between eleven and
twelve the same night, when police-officer Hillcox,
accompanied by another officer, emu) to the house. They
entered the place, and, huddled in a corner of the
up stairs room, they found the four children. The appearance
of the officers is thus accounted for. Directly upon leaving
Birmingham, Mrs. Lovatt must have joined her husband,
and the pair before ten o'clock were in the custody of the
police, at liandsworth, on a charge of stealing a door
chain from a gentleman's-hall. After they were locked up,
Airs. Lovatt told Hallcox where she lived in Birmingham,
and that her four children were destitute in the house,
having had no food that day. Of course no time was lost
in coming over to Birmingham ; and the officers, humanely,
brought food with them, lest the tale told should be, as
they, to their astonishment, found it wa!, true. Of eoarso,
the neighbourhood, although by this tune twelve o'clock
had arrived,. was aronseJ to a great extent, and
several persons, amongst whom Mr. and Mrs. Farmer, the
landlord and landlady of the Crown Inn, were kind and
attentive to the poor, hungry, and almost naked children.
It would appear indeed, that the little ones must have long
n ot
to cb i l
telld children en
his
and severely suffered from want of food; their pale and
appearance testify in g.to , this sad fact. The
two girls, the
.boys being about nine and seven, and the
consisted of two boys and
Girls fire and three
group
f 3 f i., squalids
:Farmerof
deserted
years of age. The eldest boy begged
'i. ne maythe
was wretched
in the house. wmother that anyone had been
nelexitiit,ieomne.that
Thethe scene
onl
y presented
vestige
of furniture was an old bottomless chair and an
iron pot,-eontaining water. Of course information was duly
given to the borough police, and on Tuesday morn-
ing, the four children were placed under the care of the
relieving officer for this district, and, having been carefully
supplied with food, conveyed in a car to the
workhouse,
where they still remain. The man, Lovett, it is said, lived
some time since in Brearley-street, and the eldest boy states
that for two years he never knew what i i t was to ben the
street; and when they came to Tower-street, six weeks tips
it was in the night.—Birminghn pi Paper.