Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-18 00:00:00

DEATH.

On the 20th March, on his passage from Rio de Janeiro to Bombay.
Edward, eldest ,on of Thomas Atkinsoe Jackscn, of this port, aged
17 years.

sr:, Births, Marriatres, and Deaths, are only inserted.wher. sea'

to our .oMce duir authenticated.

THE NEW YORK LAWYER. —His forte is talking. He
thinks if he can make a speech of three hours he ought to
be Chief Justice. If he is closing, he calmly alludes to
the fact that the witnesses against him (all persons of
undoubted character and respectability), are perjured ras-
cals, whom he intends to send to the penitentiary; that
their fathers were hanged, and their mothers led loose
lives; that their children make a living by picking pockets,
and the whole connection is a blot on the face of the corn-

inanity. If be is opening, though he knows he has no
evidence, he simp!), refers to his adversary as a model
ruffian, who sweats crime, and has committed villanies
which surpass any on record either in the page of history
or the volume of fiction. When he is Ihored, be makes a
pun, or threatens to knock his adversary down with his
fist. A valuable paper which may damage his case he will
not scruple to snatch at ; nor will he allow vain prejudices
of honour to impede a skilful exercise of trick to carry a
particular point. Indeed, to sum up in a few words, the
model lawyer of the present day in New York is ignorant,
empty headed, and illogical ; he will abuse adversaries and
1 witnesses like a very drab, and the only indemnity he gives
us for his deficiency of forensic ability is a display of
pettifogging skill and unprincipled dexterity.—New York
Herald. _ _ ___ _ _

TIER PERSIAN EXPEDITION —There has been published
an estimat9 of the extraordinary expenditure on account of
the expedition against Persia. It comprises the following
items :—Amount estimated by the government of Bombay
from Ist of October, 1856, to 30th of April, 1857,
£530,833; amount estimated to be due to the -Peninsular.
and Oriental Company for transport service, to 30th April,
1857, £53,763 ; amount paid in England for clothing and
provisions, £14,164; amount estimated for further sup-
plies of clothing and provisions, and for medical stores,
£35,562 ; amount estimated on account of the reinforce-
merits, from January Ist to the 30th of April,' 1857,
£379,166 ; further expenses estimated to the 30th April,
1857, £120,000 ; estimated charge on account of Euro-
pean and native troops, for May and Jane, 1867,
£364,000 ; estimated charge on account of native troops
left in occupation of Persia, for July, August, and Sep-
tember, 1857,
£364,000 ; paid to the Peninsular and Ori-
ental Company for coals supplied for the purpose of the
expedition, £3,947 ; total, £1,865,435. • The estimate is
stated by the East India Company not to be based on very
reliable data, the government of. India not having yet.
submitted any formal account of the expenditure. After'
the termination of the service, an account will be rendered
by the East India Company, after the settlement of which
an "til"ate will be submitted to parliameut for the
i_
u3lay.lee shown to be due. Assuming that the whole of the
expenditure in such account will be extraordinary expen-
-1 diture, within the meaning of the undertaking of her
Majesty's Government, a moiety of it will be payable out
of funds to be provided by Parliament