The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-12 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

The follewitig appeared in a portion of our impression
of yesterday mornirg: -
MA.RSEILLES, Sunday, May 10 —We have advices from
Alexandria to the tad of May. The Bomb iy mail arrived
at Suez on the 30th April. There are no tidings of the
Calcutta mail The capture of Mohammerah on the 26th
of March, by General Outran), with a force of 4,500 men,
which left Bushire on the 10th, is confirmed. The entrance
of the Karoon has been skitully fortified by the enemy,
but the f its were silenced by the steamers in two hours.
Prince Khanlas Mint' at the head of 13,000 men, fled,
with a loss of 200, leaving ammunition, stores, camp
equipages, and 17 guns. General Stalker and Commodore
Etheridge, have both committed suicide, in a moment of
temporary insanity. The Bombay money market was
imt rovieg. The import market was fair. Freights were
falling.

THE FALL OF HOIT3i!TS IN LONDON.

Since the account published in onr paper of yesterday
we have received further particulars respecting this sad
calamity. During all Sunday the painful excitement
crested by -the serious calamity and loss of life by the
falling of Messrs. Maple and Hunter's premises in Totten-
ham Court-road, so far from havirg subsided, had, in conse-
quence of the publicity which the catastrophe had obtained
increased tenfold, more especially during the early portion
of the day, arisiou from the prevalent notion that there
were other bodies sill remaining under the fallen debris
and thousands of persons were assembled. In addition to
the four deceased perso.ls taken out of the ruins and con-
veyed to University College Hospital on Saturdr y,
a Ilhourer, named George Keevil, was t known
to hive been at work in removing the bricks
from Mr. Punter's party wall, and being missing, the
greatest exertions were made in the hope of recovering his
body. The workmen continued their labours with this
object until two o'clock on Sunday morning, when they
arrived at the immense mass of brickwork composing the
fallen party wall, and the body not being then found they
relinquished their labours till six on Sunday morning, when
they were resumed, but it was not-until half-past one in the
afternoon that the mutilated remains of the poor fellow
Keevil were found, c•ushed into an almost shapeless mass,
under that portion of the party wall where he was working.
They were collected together, placed in a shell, and, amidst
the most intense and painful excitem en t among the thousands
assembled, conveyed to the University College Hospital.
It is therefore now quite clear that five human beings have
already lost their lives by this occurrence, and the proba-
bility. is, that a sixth victim will be added in the person of
Mr. Taylor, jun., one of the builder's sons. The report at
the hospital yesterday was, that although this sufferer had
rallied, there are still but faint hopes of his surviving the
frightful injuries he has sustained. Mr. Eaton, Mr. Maple's
clerk, is reported as progressing favourably, although
it is feared the bones of his legs have been splintered.
There can be no question but that this lamentable sacrifice
of human life will involve some parties in a serious amount
of responsibility, as it is quite evident that they had been
warned of the dangerous character of the buildings. It
anpears that some days since the attention of Mr. Beid,
the surveyor of the metropolitan police, had been directed
to the works in progress, and that he had served the
necessary notices both upon Mr. Maple and Mr. Hunter,
or their representatives, under the provisions of the Metro-
politan Buildings Act, describing the premises as
" dangerous buildings." The period when those notices
expired by law was Monday, and, had not the occurrence
taken place and the building continued, it would have
been the duty of the police authorities to have at once
taken measures for pulling the buildings down.

DESPATCH FROM M&LTA —Lord Elgin passed Malta on
the 2nd May• Lord Lyons' squadron continues in Valetta
harbour.

TIIE TRANSATLANTIC STEAM CRS.—The Moniteur publishes
the project of law to authorise tha Mmister of Finance to
f.ubsidyse three lines of traffic by means of steam packets
between France and America.

Nets, Sunday Evening.—A despatch from Berlin, dated
yesterday, has been received, which states that Prince
Napoleon has delivered to the King of Prussia an auto
graph letter from the Emperor Napoleon, on the subject of
the Neufchatel dispute.
NAPLES, May 2.—The garrison of that city has been
completely changed, and is now exclusivey composed of
Swiss regiments. A young Englishman has been attacked
in the streets of Naples, and his life is in great danger.
The King setds daily, by telegraph, to:enquire after our
countryman's health.
It is said that, when Lord Cowley gave the invitation,
the Grand Duke said he must consult his brother, the
Emperor, and, accordingly, sent a telegraphic despatch to
St. Petersburg, which soon brought back the Czar's per-
missioa. The visit wilt have nothing of an official
character.

VIENNA, Sunday.—An amnesty has been granted to all
those persons who having been condemned to imprison-
ment for political offences are now in Austrian prisons.
All trials for political offences are quashed, excepting those
which are pending against the refugees.
BOSTON NEWsPAT'ERS IN A VERY BAD, Way..--Our
Boston neighbours have had a hard time with their news-
papers. The Traveller gorged itself with the Atlas and
the Chronicle and Telegraph, and wiped them out of
existence, and now the 'limes dies, absorbed into the
Herald. Mr. George Roberts announces the death of the
Paper in its last number, and gives public notice of its sale
t.' the Herald. geed-will, types and all. The Times was
started in February, 1836, and was, consequently, twenty-
one years old. The only dailies now left in Boston are
the Traveller, Journal, Courier, Advertiser, Post, Trans-
cript, and Herald—seven, in place of the ten which
flourished when the year began.