Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-21 00:00:00

to-day, but for tl
overtures between Fran

oaromia.
peace-makers ; while, supposing he
inference will be that she has been c

I be me

the change of course wt.
until some actual reduction of armaments be witnessed, the
public will not be drawn into any unhesitating manifesta-
tion of confidence.—Titnes City Article, Saturday Evening.

The Post announces the death of the Earl of Devon. •
The Arehbishop of Canterbury has appointed Wednesday
next to deliver his decision on Sir. Poole's appeal.
MAIL NEWS.—TheNepanl, with mails from Bombay and
the Mauritius, arrived at Marseilles at 3 p.m. yesterday
(Sunday). The mails for London left at 10 p.m. The
passengers are placed in two days' quarantine. No dates
from Suez given, and no mention of Australian mail.
A portion of the Neapolitan exiles lauded at Bristol on
Saturday. The reception was of the most enthusiastic
kind. Mr. Langton, M.P., and other city dignitaries, went
on board, tlig,yessel,..astid,savgitifill. a,le.irty welcome,
1140404111§y1:4-00g. eZti4i.ilis tit r, of
• tOintiegsAiWandS, - ; ; ••••„:
'SHIPPING DisAsTp.s.---Aeeording., ..tidvices. 'by. the
West :IndiaMail; the Britilh,vriteret-.:Vess'el Ithoriel
foundered in the Gulf Stream: The Cypei vas lost:off
the Mosquito. slloze. The Peruvian
~Eit,..Bejize, the
Agnes Taylor at Demerara. The. caPtaias; of :all those
;„: 41,4, Mog_rdalena, barque

vessels nave come noom
of London, was• on shbre at Belize, and
become a total wreck..

kely- to

DISTRESSING POISONING CASES. •
On Thursday, an inquest was held at Eeelesfield, on the
bodies of 111+ Samuel Greases, farmer, of Ecelesfield
axed 81 years • and of Mary Greases, his yfe,.. aged 7G
use .deatbs beep. -Onset", bv7 eating a herb
r‘nzi

mown as " W6lfsbane .or mOhishiied
the examination of several witnesses that Mrs. p-reaves, on.
Tuesday forenoon, went into the gnrden.adjoining her house
and the Ecclesfield churchyard, forithe-pOrppse ;of. obtain—
ing some lettuce, chives, and. passfeY; in :order to make%
nf rifitilPrinct'kttire •it seems

t ap'pearer

that she plucked a quantity- of "•wOlfsharie monks-
hood," which was. growing in• the garden: Suh4equently
she mixed ' together the parsley, and,.. what

&c.,..ancl the salad was placed upon the.diniicitable. :Both
Mr. and Mrs. Greaves partook freely of • the salad-and colt
mutton which had been provided for dinner, and, shortly
afterviards‘Mrs. Greaves became very sick and ill. She.was
;sted np stairs and placed upon a bed. Her sufferings
she expired. Mr-
shortly

were intens,

Ind alioui three r

before her death, when he was also taken ill in a similar
manner. After sufll-ring considerable agony, Mr. Greaves
died about four o'eleek—an hour after the death of his wife.
Mr. Illingworth, surgeon, on examiation, found the " wolfs—
bane" or " monkshood" amongst the sale, agc
0,4 on,,inspectil.;
ing the garden diseoTereditni7int4,44l4.lo9',9.-.lcpAti on
bed i'vliere: the herb --was; gitowiitO: ;441105% !Wei&
pereeitable near 'the lettueb wakth(eir.ed; thia•
she .had.by mistake'monkshead!' Ileeb.instela
of iettnce. Be the direction of the coroner, Mr. Illingwortli

ade.a 'post- mortem, examination of the baffles. He-state&
id he had not the slightest doubt whatever, from the
-- during life and the•examination after death, that
poison. The
medical

both died from

ury returned. a verdict in accordance with th

has been.

rs. Greaves, for sonic time past,

rnbecile and' childish

•
MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY,
ARTISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP,
Madame ninon is in. Leaden. Madame

Novell° is

coming in May. .
The American papers announce a last reading by 3frs-.
Fanny Kemble, previous to her retirement fromfo .public
e
The French -booksellers' list announce a lth_e_orn m•
g-
volume •by Dr. Liszt, on " The Bohemians and their
Music•
."'
Herr Wieniawski's Quartett party consists of M. Bernard,
Herr Schrenrs, and a- M. Tieuxtetaps for violoncpllo,
addition to himself.
The Gazette Musicale of this week announces that a.
Stratluarins violin has lately changed hands at Paris for the
sum of 15,000 fr., £6OO. •. •
The exhibitions by the. Royal Botanic Society of plants,
flowers, and fruit this season, will take place on Wednes—
days, May 25, June 15; and July 6. .• ,• .
'The new play of Mr:. E. Falconer, to be tmotinced for his
benefit at the Lyceum, Theatre, on the 31st inst:, is entitled
" Francesca." . Mrs. Charles Young will plar. the heroine.
Mr. JosephWyon,. a very promising. v,oung medalist,
as well as the son and grandson of excelleuL engravers, has.
thewir
Leedsi iehssasii
igar
sic
spd:
received the appointment of chief engraver of hr Majesty's
seals.
-mtulame
in drtsaVneicit.neci4ntteuemarntndi
nhaeanriad hogurisvtb a DAC
visit Leeds
adts
Institution.

14711iey2rbeer's new opera has been,re-christened, and is
to see the light at Paris (positively next week) as Le Pardo*
(id:Notre Dame di Auray. M. Gualied's Faust is also now-
on the Orreshold.

Herr Reichardt, the popular German
• •
Prusaia, tenor, has returned.
to. London for the season, after -a- most successful autumnal.
and Holland.
and winter tour in France,_ Germany, Austria, Poland,
•
Tile' 44th anniversary dinner of the Artists General
Benevolent Institution will.take'phice at the Freemasons'
T'Ye/n etn :Saturday the. 16th. Of April, when Viscount

The dates for the ardte will
''performwes, of the Handel Com—
memoration Festival at the Crystal Palace have been fixed
as follows :—Monday, June 20, ./Ifessiah ; 22; Dettingert.
fres Deunt and a Selection ;. 24, Israel in Effyrt.
Mr. Harcourt Bland, the accomplished comedian of the
Theatre Royal, Glasgow, has accepted an advantageous
engagement with Mr. liarris, who succeeds Mr. Charley
Kean in the management of the Princess's Theatre.
Christy's minstrels, whose reputation is now fully estab—
lished in almost all the cities of. Europe, appearancewe larn
about to visit 'Cheltenham. They make their r
at the Asserubly-roonis ;off the Ord: and two following
dap.
Measures are said-to he in contyrumplatiediately appointingb the council
of the Horticultural Society- for im a
auperintendent to manage the gardeut4tLCicihisagwrieekoarstahestetixedy_
erimental establishment, and to t
,
exp -
1 Wiens in Loudon.

IVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE—SATURDAY.
BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.
A RUFFIAN. —A fellow, named Thomas Sheldon, with a
face and bead like an ugly bull-dog, was brought up by
officer Astic, 450, on a charge of having threatened to
.s sister, Frances Sind. The offices said he was
101130 of the latter, in a court off Prudhoe-
London-road, where the complainant and her
resided, and he heard the prisoner use awful.
towards both ; he had a knife in his hand, and
mid stab his mother and sister. His sister, who
,nt person, said she and her moVier
and worked very hard for their
the prisoner was an idle blackguard, and although
enty of work, and well paid, he did not do
e last two years, and his sister and mother
he was continually drunk, and in the habit
mother and sister, but at last his conduct
ous and dangerous that he was given into
cer said he knew the prisoner to be a very
lard indeed. His Worshit} sent the prisoner

to be a d,

) outran

to gaol for twelve months, in default of finding bail.
A Qum?. PLACE FOR A WATCH.—A wretched-looking
f_ra pie, named Bridget M'Cormick was brought up,
earn_ ed with being drunk and booked for safety. Bride-
well keeper Slack, of the main bridewell, said some
time after the woman was locked up he suspected
amething, and on searching the "old lady's shoe," he found
a valuable gold watch in it, for which she could not account.
It appeared- to have been made at St. Helens. The woman
was remanded until inquiry could be made about the watch.
RSCONDERS.— Detective officer Patrick brought up a
nn named Thomas Francis, described as late a coach-
in the employment of Mr. Richards, of Longford,
county of Somerset, on a charge of having absconded from
his master, and robbing him to a considerable extent. The
officer said; having received information of the robbery, and
the absconding of the prisoner, he was on the look out for
him, and on Friday he got him, with his wife and two chil-
dren, on board the ship Western Empire, bound for Boston.
It appeared he had been previously a sailor, and also in the
drazoon giiards, from which he had been purchased, and he
to work his passage out in the ship as a sailer.
was ordered to take him to Somerset.
officer brought up another absconder, named
nson, a respectable looking young man, late a

bad shippe
The officer

traTeile

information
proceeded to
house. The

prisoner was

person
Ethvar
for thl
There
servan

for support

ANNUAL

Rag]
metre
dom,

in the
34 2.
per

Newcastle-

ie employment of Messrs. Cali., of
rged with having embezzled a large sum of

ag to his emproyers

The officer- received

nd-a likeness of the prisoner, and he at once
Regent-street, where he arrested him in a
prisoner admitted to him his guilt. The
sent to Newcastle.

MESSRS. HOLME AND CASTELLAINE

everal cases of affiliation that came before these
vas rather a curious one, in which two Welsh
•e concerned. Ellen Pritchard summoned
33 for the support of her child. Mr. Bluck was
plainant, and Mr. Godfrey for the defendant.
some curious facts elicited. The girl was a
the defendant a warehouseman at Mr. Williams,

;ton. Amongst the witnesses examined for the
a gentleman, named Thomas Roberts, a native
,o gave the following initials after his name
L.A.H.L. Of course after this there
made in favour of the plaintiff for 2s 6d a weel,
f the child.

--r

?ORT OF Tin

MEDICAL OFFICER

1858 was one of high mortality throughout
Loyally ; and Liverpool. in common with the
and nearly all the principal towns in the king-
no exception to the rule. In so far as Liver-

ed, this unfavourable result seems to hay
part by the severity of the weather through

f Febru

and the first half of Marc
ater Dart of

)vember, but chiefly

kind since 1848—

d 13 adults,

tered in the b
wc

nary 1

the most serious

which proved fatal to

ugh during the 52 IN
13,937, being 986 1

960 more thim the a

,cted for increase of popu-

n of the five year

,earlatina deaths from -botl

a balance of about 400 in

i 4 to be r

abered that scarlatina is a

little under the con

1 of sanato

9,57 G were in the parish, and 4

i-rate for the firmer o

26. g, and for the b

igh of 3

ibed to diseases of the Zymotic class are 4,265
;re children, and 625 adults. The total, which
the year preceding, has been only four times

the eleven pi•evious jrcars since_ the

s of this cla

,anatory

which followed the lowest temperature of the year, when
the mean was 34, degrees. The minimum mortality (40)
occurred in August, in the week subsequent to that of the
highest mean temperature (68 degrees). Of the 4,053
deaths, 1,618 were from consumption, of which 539
occurred in the out-townships. It is worthy of remark,
that while the deaths in the out-townships from diseases
of the lungs, excluding consumption, were nearly as
1 to 3 compared with those in the parish, the deaths
from consumption were as high as Ito 2. The death-rate,
however, in both cases was lower in the out-townships than
in the parish, although the" districts approach each other
much more closely in the mortality from consumption than
from other diseases of the lungs. In the parish the deaths
from' the latter class were 1 in 153 of the inhabitants, and
in the out townships 1 in 264 ; from consumption they were
lin 259, and lin 305 respectively. But not less than nine
of the twelve parochial wards had a lower consumption
death-rate than the out townships aggregate, the three
exceptions being Exchange. St. Anne's, and Lime-street.
The mortality varied from one in 540 inhabitants, in Castle-
street Ward, to as high as 1 in 256, in Lime-street. In the
following list the sixteen municipal wards are arranged in
the order of their mortality from consumption in an
ascending scale :

Castle-street .
North Toxteth

Saint Paul's

One in
.. 540
.. . 507

One in

Abercrombv
Everton and KirkdalE

RodnE.
Pitt-street
Saint Peter's

Great Georg
Vauxhall ...

Scotland

West Derby ..
South Toxteth
Exchange ,

St. Anne'e
Lime-street

From a subsequent table it will appear that the order of
their general mortality differs materially from the above.
From one of the early reports of the Registrar-General it
appears that on an average of the three years 1838-40, one
in 170 of the inhabitants of Liverpool died yearly from
consumption. Since that period the mortality has been
greatly reduced, the yearly average of the last three years,
1856-58, having been not more than one in 284.
Gout was fatal to five males, being about the usual num-
ber yearly recorded in Liverpool. With one exception all
were above 60 years of age.

nortaliCy in each quarter of the year, was, in the
Disease of Con-
the lungs. sumption
827 429
514 470
302 380

March quart
June •
September „

December

All causes.
... , 3,699
, . . . . 3,241

It will be seen that while the deaths from lung diseases,
without consumption, in the two colder quarters, were
about double the number in the warmer seasons, those from
consumption in the warmer six months actually exceeded
those in the remainder of the year._ _ _

The deaths from violence were 521, against 489 in the
previous year (378 males, 143 females-242 children, 279
adults). Inquests were also held in 72 cases of sudden
death from natural disease, the number in the previous
lying been 99. Of the 521 violent deaths there
were from

Fractures, wounds, and contusions

Burns and scalds
Drowning
Hanging
Suffocation

Manslaughte

Exposure to cold, tit

les, 32, of whi

Banging
Drownin

Shootin
Cut-thri

glect, &c

Irani

Jumping
Poison

n window

Of the 86 who were suffocated, 79 were infants said to
have been overlain by the mothers, four of whom are
recorded to have been intoxicated at the time.

s of accidental drowning, 28 occurred in
he canal, and 4 in pits.
ho committed suicide were
.3 males, 15 procured their living by

The extreme ages of th(
16 and 61. Of th

1 labour, 8 were of a higher class, 3 of whom
Bowed no occupation. Of the 9 females, 8 were married,
and 1 was unknown ; their ages ranged from 21 to 61.
Intemperance (including delirium tremens 17) was
assigned as the direct cause of death in 54 cases-39 males
and 15 females. Of the latter, 12 were married and 3
widows, their ages varying from 23 to 70. Of the males,
28 were labourers or mechanics, 2 sailors, and 9 in a supe-
rior station. In addition to the above, 6 males and 2
married females, who met with fatal accidents, wore intoxi-

manna.

accidents occurred

ths, and the rate of mortality in each
in the following table,

borough

asual place at the

In 10,0 C
Deaths. inhabitar
913 .... 365