The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-16 00:00:00

THE AMBROSIA OF RIVINGTON,

TO THE EDITOR OP VIE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—When the Pike water was first intruded
upon a population perfectly contented with their
former supply, it was undeniably bad in its colour
and taste even by the admission of its advocates,
but it was to he strained ..and filtered and purified
and no one knows what—in time. As in your
article of this day you justly observe, the solace
held out was patience ; ' it was only for us to wait—
to endure. the pernicious effects of solutions of
lead, minerali in affinity, with several acids and
even animal life in embryo—to overcome all -pre-
judice and repugnance at drinking dirty water—
to close our eyes to the discoloured appearance
and our palates to the nauseous taste—and to have
patience and wait for the " vood time
coming." That time was coming then;
to all appearance, it is coming now, and
ever will be in perspective—the " one far-off
divine event," which is much too far-off to become
a tangible rc-aiity. The approach of Pike water to
purity has riot even the semblance of a repeating
decimal, which ever becomes mere accurate, or of
the theoretical lines in geometry, which always
near each other, but never meet, for our water be-
comes worse each day instead of better, and more
deieloped in its fearful characteristics. The case
of Mr. Joseph Treffroy, who complains in your
columns of the-illness of himself and family is by
no means solitary ; scarcely one of my friends
and acquaintances, including myself, is free from
illness. Excessive sickness, spasmodic pains,
trembling, and faintness, and pains in the limbs
are all ascribed to our diurnal drink. It is foolish
to lay the blame on the weather, it is certainly not
the comet. If the water be not the actual cause,
at any rate it gets the credit of it, and a storm
of popular indignation is surely gathering, which
will ere long find a voice, and assert its right
to be heard. Mr. Treffrey's cistern also wants clean-

ing out. It is a remarkable fact that hundreds of
cisterns and reservoirs have suddenly become foul,
and in amazing need of cleansing. That these cis-
terns, periectly immaculate before,should suddenly
become imbued with a desire to be cleansed, is
perhaps ascribable to the weather—or the comet.
So at least our representatives may reason, for
these gems of wisdom aro famous for inconceivably
sapient ideas, vide the High-level Bridge, and the
removal of the Museum; but unfortunately the
vulgar and matter-of fact people, the low, plain
sailing, tiboultivatecl plebs, do not behold these
Barnacles in their true resplendance, and may
even dare to question ther unapproachable supe-
riority, and to gainsay their most magnificent
undertakings.—l am, sir, yours respectfully,

- HENRY FiLica
Erskine street, 15th May, 1857.

ERRATA.—The letter which appeared in our paper
yesterday, addressed to the Water Committee,' on
the Water Supply, should have had the name
" Joseph Treff rey" attached to it, anti. not "Jeffery,"
as it appeared.

TIIE rukauE OF Wemcc.—The Shah of Persia, when he was told
that a workman hail fallen from a ladder, called ont : Who is she?
who is :lie? Please your Majesty, 'cis a he. Nonsense, said the Shah,
there is never an accident without a woman : who is she? Tho Shah
was right; that man had fallen from his ladder because h 3 was look-
ing at a woman in a window. . .

SCOTCH V137T0119 TO PAWL—Strangers continue to flock hither in
search of business or pleasure, and the large hotels-are quite full. ra
the Louvre for best, nee, there is scarcely a bed to be hal, and one hears
in Its splendid hells all the languages of Europe, anti more p trticu-
lerle the various dialects of the Anglo-Saxoe. For exampl, ('cane
table d'hote.) Scotch visitor—" 1 say, eaitere coeld ye brine ns a
bottle o' sma' to wash down this queer stuff ? (the interlocutor had
just been paying his devours to au excellent 'pate de foie gran).
Waiter (to the profound amazement ef hfs questioner —"Wi' pleasure
sir, ,bat we've nano tha noo, for its a' dune." The facetious
traveler little dreamed that the cravatted' functionary was
"Eras St;rlittg," The Gruyere Was recommended as " Man
unco like the Goodie cheese ; " aad on being further asked for
" a' gill o' the best," the attendant said " there waanaetliing 89.9 gude
hereawa, but he could gle a bit thins orn' o' fairish Connyac. A
Russian Prince era:resit, (Todtleben himself, for anything I know)
seem, d much amused at the ectiloijny ; and sand-y neighbouring
cockneys fell into a state of bewilderment on hearing the "decal
Scotch lingo " in such a place.—Paris Letter.
A' EDITOR'S OPINION OF Tea Rl' TOMACT.—On the Prince's
arrival on toe dais, the setae anthem was then vocally given, by the.
cosine it singers whom we have previous y name. While i is being
sung, let us glance at those surrounding his Royal Highness. He
himself look, well, and time, vvinle it is giving him a ba'd head is
also giving him the look of a paterfemili4s. arise to his rig 'it is
Earl Granville--,4 youthful iooking peer. Near by is the nnaristo-
eratic, and ;ad-looking Duke of Argyll, with a head of hair as yellow
as that owned by the " yellow haired laddio" of the old song. Car-
lisle has a fuse grey head; Sir Benjamin Hall has the look of a " bie
Ben," but not one—right nor left—neither Neweasde, with his
Crimean beard, of huge dimensions—worn, we presume, to iemind
Mat of his Crimean sins —ner Clanricarde. nor Staff .rd, nor Ch neos,
n 4' either of -the other titled spec'etors, has that lofty bearing, and
majestic look which belongs. to Darby and Pal.nf retie", and which
peculiarly belonged to the late Sir Robert Peel. There was no very
tine sp-chnen of an Plegleth nobleman preys .t. Probably some of
the noblemen would have looked better in plain Clothes. Certainly
some of the Exhibition committee would have done so; for several
is their court dresses looked as like laigeeys as "Maechester men."
—Warrington Guardian. . ,

EXECUTION OF NOTORIOUS BOSH-RANGER,

AND A 0111AAMAN.

Shortly after eight Wale*, a.m., on Wednesday, William Twigham,
• convicted at the Criminkl Sessions, at Castlemaine, of the murder of
Sergeant el'Nally, and Chn-a, Lnke a Chinaman, convicted also at the
last sessions for the murder of a Chinaman, known as A-pu", at
Castlemaine, suffered the extreme penalty of the law, in the interior
f tho Central Gaol. No efforts had been made to save the lives of
sitter Lf the culprits, there being no mitigating circumstances con-
nected w.th either case. Sergeant 11'Nally was endeavouring to arrest
notorions buelaranger, known as (limy Smith, when he was shot by
Twighain, , who was-connected With Smith's gang, and expired shortly
afterwards., Chn-a-Lnk had some dispute with his victim 'relative to
the payment of an account, and drawing a knits stabbed A-pui several
times, and death shor ly afterwards resulted. Of the guilt of either of
the men, there cannot be tee slightest doubt. Twighana, since his
cohde.rnation, has been attended constantly by the Roe. Ur. Studdert,
Chaplain of the gaol, and by.the Rey. Mr. Cases. The exertions of
the rave gentleman to bring the culprit to a proper state of mind were
hatipiey attended with sueceas. Cihr-a.Luk was perfectly ignorant of
the English language, bat was frequently since his condemnation
visited by an interpreter. Twigeata was a remarkable powerful man,
about 5 feet 8 'reties and a half in height, of fre.h Connie:don, brown
hair and'es.es,' With a determined and forbidding expression of cents-
tenence. lie was 33 years of age, and was a native of Wolverhampton,
where. he WUS engaged for, a considerable, time as a sawyer. lie
arrived in this colony as a fee immigrant by tee Joshua, in 1851, and
almest immediately proceeded to the gol&fields, where he was emi-
nently successful, and returned to England; where he squandered his
Money in dissipation, and nitimetely returnot to this colony. but, as
he -et ited, found th'ngs much altered and money more difficult to
obtain than 'formerly. lie appears to hare- alme,t immediately
associated himself with a gang of butfirangevs, ant admitted having
been engaged in numerous easel! of „sticking up." At eight o'clock
the Sheriff enterel the cell of the prisoner Twighene, who wile` eagaged
with the Rev. me. Studdert, and announced that the hour appointed
for. the execution had arrived. The prisoner walked from his cell with
a firm step, and haying shaken hands with the Rev. Mv. Studdert, his
eree.s were pi:1;0nel by the executioner sy iii 'remarkable rapidity and
tte w7,fai cap having been placed upon his heed, he was hurried
forwaeei o the weeteru extremity of tee gaol, where teetox contain-
iagrthe engine ci death was erected, and was joined near the entrance
by Ch..-a-Luk, who was also pinioned and appeared perfectly
unconcerned. Same surprise WS expressed by the offletala connected
with-the gaol at Chn-a-Luk not having been. visited by, any of his
countrymen since his cendemnation. A, very general -feeling exists
amongst his countrymen in the vicinity of he spot at which the crime
for which be suffered was committee, that his punishment was wall
merited. Both prisoners ascended the steps without assistance; the
rop-s were adjusted with extraordinary rapidity, the bolt was with-
drawn, and both seer° launched into eternity. Not the slightest
etrugele was observable in Twigham, and very little in Chu-e-Lek.
Tile sheriff, the chief medical officer, and six or eight other officials
were .present At ten o'clock an inquest in accordance with the
provisions of the act regulating private execn.ions was held upon the
bodies end a verdict returned to the effect that the deceased had beet/
executed in pursuance of sentences passed upon them at the last
Carlemaine sessions.—aleY,urne Herald.

ExTaAORnI4SEX FIIf,IINDITT —Last week, on the fir n of Krincl;-
breech, in Kintyre, a, sheep cf the Cnerfot breed dropped three lambs ;
a rtvila cow of the Ayrshire kind also increased rne Eve stock by the
addition of two calves, the one a- hall and the other a Wier; and a
draught mare ga:s tLe welcome contribution ef a couplet of fine
heaithy colt foals. - No wonder that our honest farmers leek ro blithe
and fluff cn the market day, when their " sheep and kye thrice
bonnie, O!" Long may the ltße continue I—Correspondent of, SU-
nadrneek lourratii
bLAvaaY TO_ as kII3OUGHT OUT" IN Kswrucer.— The Newpbrt
(Ky,),lsews states that "a proposition is in contemplati At to buy the
la d& and negrog owned by slaveholders in Kentucky at their present
valuation; and if three-fonrths of the slaveholiers in the State will
agree to seal Airs pi-Oposed company will advance a sum of mmby
equal to one-hal; of the estimated value of b,th, and in one year aftir
pay the wlrtle. lialance. The Blares will,be set free, atri the !and sold
. .

i at an alvaaced price, in view of the StatelsecorniCg free in one year
after the first payment
.to the masters; raid the State become settled
with real industrious, eeterpiiiing free people
P..earitsr.rots's View .or TEXtrERANCE.—" Intemperance!"
Skid elfiss thirtingtbn sUlemely, with a rich-emotion in her tune, like
an after dinner speech, at the some time bringing her hand containing
the enuff ahe had fast brought from the boa down upon her knees,
while Lion, with-' violent snooze, Walked away to another part of the
room—"letemperence is a monster with a good many heads, and
cceefes into the ::03921 of fanflies like an alligator, and destroys its
peace and happiness for ever. But thank Herien 1 a new erie hu
dawned apan the world, and loon the hydrant-headed monster will be
overturned. Isn't it strange that men will put enemies into their
mouths to steal away their heals ?''—" Don't you regard taking snuff,
as a vice ?" cc asked, iancce.ntly. "If it is,' she rep.ied with the
same old Argument, "it iliso small a one that Providence tient take
pane notice et it, and beeide3, my oil factories would miss it so." Ali!
kind old heart, ia was the drunkard's argument ; and he who casts
stones at his frail brother must first see if there be not something at
home to correct before he premraee upon his own infallibility.
TEE New 'intro Guroz.—To the New Whig GWde attaehee a
peculiar interest. Not only was it supported by the keen satiric wit
Of Mr. Croker, but our present premier is understood to have con-
tributed to it. What a facetious consul we have !" exclaimed C
when Cicero delivered that charming raillery of the stei s which we
fi in the Pro Ilfsrev.a. We open the merry pages of the Guide
with a Corti n veneration, when we know a e are perusing the squids
of a First. Lerd. What is still more to the purpose in that particular
is, that the late Sir Robert Peel laal a considerable hand in the fun.
though in maturer years he kept under stern control that itch sense
or humour which belimged to him as a great man. The te,t piece'
perhaps, in the volume, is • from his truly facetious pe . Apparently
borrowing an idea from Addison's esculent pipers on' the exelsanze
of airtLet'oes at the Mount in of Miseries, he supposed pairs, 'elected
from thiiministerial and opposition sides of the house. to exchange
heals. Thai happy device enab:ed him to place in ludicrous contrast
the ineupera who ex hieited t e strongest polite of dissimilarity, and
while depicting antaeon4ts. wit h a slight satiric touch, to draw a
complimentary picture of friends. Yet upon the whole bath sides
are traded with a tolerably equal hand ; and it forms no small p rt
of the interest with which we read the piece, that it is a lively at etch of
the etyle of speaking of many of the ce ebrities of the last generation.
—Quarrertg Review.
Att,TRALIAN EmiGRANTS.—The enclosed extract from a letter from
a friend residing near Melbourne, and actively engaged in agricul.
tuml pursuits, wili be sound ful of int,.res,. to a laree class o'. our
readers, aun remove any doubt r,gazdiag the probability of eini-
grants ob aining emplevmeet in Victoria at remunerative wages :
Nlelsouree,.2olh January.—What we wantnow is plenty of emigraete.
"1 he colony is. tieing s rously injured by the scarcity of labour, and I
oto only wonder that so few people come ; there is room for any
numbea rhsccuntry is the finest place in the world, and the more
people we get here the butter labour is. At present farming mon get
303. a-week and rations, gardeners about the sane. sometimes more.
I am plying 851. a-year to a married couple, and. keeping them and
their two children be ,ides. lam offering Bs. a-week and keep for a
boy about 11 or 15 years old to mind cows, and cannot get one. All
ether out-door labourers are paid for at a proportionately high rate:
Why will not men come out ?—they c,ouldall save money. One man
who has been with me twelve months, has saved the whole of hie
wages, exeept 101. Where a common• labenrer can save 501. a-year,
who can say the colony Is not prospetrons ? Bnt we must have emigra-
tion, or toe colony will be seri ,usly injured. Five thousand men will
he wanted next year for the railways: where are they to come from ?
The bmployers of labour will be almost ruined in wages if we have not
a supply of hands from the old'conntrya Every ship-loed of emigrants
is swallowed np immediately, and makes no impression. Victoria is,
in my opinion, one of the most wonderful places in the world, and the
climate far before England. If left it at all, it would be only to re-
turn as soon as possible.

Domisixe EDUCATION OF WOMAN.—What wo have for the pres-nt
before us is the educe ion of the house in another aspect. Now,
" whit is educaton? "—what is the signification of the term ? —it is a
question on which there has lately been much careful splitting of
hairs. There is a distinction made between education and instruction,
which as there could be no dispute about conclusions, we need not
enter into. Bat heretofore when we have touched upon another
question—that of the education for our own profession—we have had
to urge the simple truth that edin-ation at all times should be vi -we
and directly given at the prep.ration for the future life. If the
eclat:at:ion or instruction of women could be set on the course thus
plainly designated, how vast an amount of benefit would ac rue to
the condition of tha artizan, how excellent a chance might there be
that a w:dor social ev:l could be removed. The education of the woman
shoaldte equally such as will fit her to be in an independent posithe,
or to ac quit herself of the duties of the family and household. What-
ever may be the requ'aites for the married state In the higher classes,
the wife of the working man is hardly ever competent in any p 'Aloe
of her du lea. Fiom such a home as there may be in a basement or a
single room, she•was launched at childhi;od through the glitter and
temptations of Loudon to earn at some unintet eating drudgery in a
vitiated atmosphere, during hours far-lonEer than those during which
men work, wages for which it is incapable of demonstration that fool
and other requisites can be obtained. Need we say what too generally
at such an age mast ba the result—it irone most awful, while least to
be wonder, d at. Or otherwise, if the girl is fortunate she may be
sent to a school, where we are told she may ans-.ver to "who was
Cyrus?" -bat grows to womanhood. without knowing how to clean a
room, to m,ke a shirt, to buy good food, or to cook a dinner. Or she
born, es servant in a family. where everything is rot her own, and 1
we to aid extrevagance are to bo found at least in the kitchen. In
any case what wife have we been educating for the working man?—
The Bui'der.

Bra!ilNG A WIFE'S FACE. —At tis 3 Wcuedp-street Police-chart, o,
Wed:ss:lay, George Rooert Packley, a labourer in the employ of Mr.
Nicholson, re.g merchant, Shoreditch, was charged with the fallowing
brutal sea nit non his wife, who applied for a warrant, elsearing
Tier life was in danger, th .t she feared to go home, and was manifestly
in such a state of satrering, that money for her immediate wants was
kindly s rpplied her trend the. poor-box. Complainant now evidently
rag; ettel the step she had taken, end did th-r ntroo,t to screen her
hushaudfroM the act with he was charged, namely; burning her face
With hot leather. This being the case, Mr D'E:mcourt observed :
I never desire to force a wife to give er idence against her husband,
tuft a painful intimacy with assaults brought to this court, convinces
me that no lenity shown by women is of the slightest service to those
who act rke brate+ and cowards. The best plan is to speak the whole
truth and face out the svorat. Twice, you have obtained processes
against this man before.—After these remarks, complainant, whose
face was bandaged, said : Well, air; be merciful to him, never mind
whet he has done to me, perhaps he will be batter for the future. Last
Fr'day night he came home, and because I would not take his boots to
be mended, being at the time very ill, as indeed I have been since my
confinement, ho swore most drew:fa ly at me, but he was drunk at the
time. Well, I was irritated at hearing the bad words, and threw the
boots on the fire. He let them b 3 there tail they were red hot, and then
picked one up and held it to my face. 14y chin is inja-ed frani the-
under lip to beneath the jaw, as also my eye. I ran out screaming
"murder," and ono of the nrighbouvs seeing the charred leather
sticking to my skin, pawed some oil over it. I could not e t, but am
better now.' DJ be merciful to him. .11e is not so when sober, and
brings Ice home his money regolsrly.—Mr. D'Eyncourt, after Fairall,
thd warrant officer, having stated that the man had a goSd character
for industry, observed that bpt for the fact of Isis not neglecting to
support his wife he would assuredly have sant hitt] for six menthe
prlsonmsnt: , The act was most bruial, end defendant must go f:r
three wont'is:

'lna Bum. Bir.—On Friday marning, shortly Wore seven o'clock,
en elderly bache'or.loAing geritieutin el.tere.l the bc4king.of&ce at
the Etthiba-gli and Glasgow Railway Station, for the purpose cf
procuting a ticket. Tye clerk raw him, on ent. ring. steep and lif
something from the ground, and when he asked his ticket he observed,
several built notes in his laud. After fumbling -with the rings of his
purse a litt e, he htirtedly Landed the clerk the pay+, tint, being
erid-nly eager to got cut of the way. The c'erk: supposing his
customer had found the money which he saw, ptt the tntestlort to
him, when the latter smarily retorted, telling "do mind his own
basinnss,"' and, hastily plating the t'cket into an onts,ds pocket,
walked away. A minute or no previous to this another gentleman had
been observed by the clerk to enter the office in a great harry, an if
thinking bitnsit late for the- train, end also:bought a ticket for
Edinburgh, but the clerk took no particular- notice of the circum-
stance. Min the live p.m. train from Edinburgh .ariived to
gain entered the booking-
cionukilengeletrrahvethleatr ahe.
had gone away in the
t3ceg,°and t h bcomplaineda:ehe-ti
rnorn7ng without getting Lis ticket, and had consequently been
obliged to piy his fare a seco.id time at Euinburgh. The clerk
recognfaed him as the person hesnspected in the mornir g
of having fonnd the money, arid said he had given the ticket to
him, as he always gave tee ticket before lifeng the money, snd
ace,rding y he refused to return the fare. •lu the midst of the alter-
cajun the gentleman whom the clerk noticed' in the morning hurry-
ing though the office stopped in, and stated that he had lost four
notes is the nicrcine, which ha-thought'ne must have dropped white
p irchasin,r his ticket, and he asked the clerks whether he knew any.
thing of them. " Yee," replied the clert;who fait he spoke the
t, tub, "that gentleman has-found them," pointing to the customer
with whom ho had been wrangling. The latter looked confaseo, and
Instsnily, -yet reluctantly; drew, tbe money.frorn his Pecker and
handed it to the rightful owner. "Now," said the Clerk, ".I think I
can tell you where ta.' find your tieltet,-Inok in the ontside pocket of
your cost" The covetous traveller, putting his band into t'.e picket
indicated, drew forth the missing ticket, ant, consc.etice-stricke
and chagrined, quickly left the oMcie, after being mime...haled tly„t
he had by his over-greed lost teeth his fare and the money he had
wished to appropriate.—Glasgow Mail.