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

CORK BUTTER MARKET.—DEc. 11.

There were about 1,800 kegs and firkins off,red for sale to-clay,
Prices w.r,, as follows :—Firsts, 103 s ; Seconds, 96s ; Thirds, 85s,
and Fourths, 74s per cwt. .

BANKRUPTS.

By British and Irish 3fagnetie Telegraph.

Thomas Tyrrell, Tonbridge, factor.
George Hami' Haddeham, Isle of Ely, machine maker.
Thomas Wolff, Woolwich, corn chandler:
Wm. Baker, and L•icy Smith Baker Campbell, milliners.
Charles Middleton, Poplar, builder.
Edward Norton, South Hackney, grocer.
Rupert Allport, Mill wick, Staffordshire, butcher.
David Roberts, Halifax, worsted spinner.
James Law, Halifax, shoemaker.
John Vigiress, Walsall, timber merchant.
Edward Jones, Welsh frankton, boat builder.
Thomas Edward Pickford, Lancaster, commission agent.
George Camm, Sheffield, grocer.
Thomas Robinson, Manchester, ironmonger.
George Merton, Borough Mill, Derbyshire, miller.
Thomas Millington Pritchard, and Thomas Higginston,
- Liverpool, rice merchants.
Elizabeth Swinneton, Stoke-upon-Trent, victualler.
Samuel Rhodes, and John Armstrong, Turtwhistle, cotton
factors.

Our beautiful planet is indeed worthy of •ur study;
it was once our cradle—it will soon be our grave—bet-reen
the dawn and the night of life it is the scene of our busy
action, and from it we *hall rise to another state of being.
—Professor &Oman.

"What do you think of whiskey, Dr. Johnson?" hic-
cupped Boswell, after emptying a sixth tumbler of toddy.
"Sir," said the doctor, "it penetrates my soul like the
still small voice of conscience, and doubtless the worm of
the still is the worm that never dies."

CHILD MURDER AT ETWALL DERBYSHIRE —Oll Tuesday,
Mr. W. Whiston, coroner, held an inquest on the body of
al infant that was alleged to have died in consequence of
misconduct of its mother, Jane Palmer. It was the
opinion of the surgeon that the child had been suffoc ited.
The jury returned a ve-diet of " wilful murder" against
the mother, and she was committed for trial at the next
assizes.

THE RICE'NT COLLISION ON THE NORTH EASTERN RAIL-
IVA Y.—On Tuesday, at Gateshead, John Davis, a servant
of the company, was charged with having caused the
collision on the 2nd ins'. The company's solicitor called
witnesses to prove the case, and said he was instructed to
press for a penalty. Davison (his previous good conduct
being considered) was convicted in the mitigated penalty
of £2and costa, or one month's imprisonment.
HINT TO Exoursirics.—A celebrated Parisian dandy was
ordered, this summer by his physician to follow a course
of sea bathing at Dieppe. Arrived at that delightful
bathing town, he ordered a machine and an attendant, and
went boldly into the water. He plunged in bravely, but in
an instant after came up puffing and blowing. "Francois,"
said he, " the sea smells detestably ; it will poison me.
Throw a little cau de Cologne into the water, or I shall be
suffocated The attendant complied, and the dandy
continued bathing.
COLLIERY ACr CONVICTION.—On Tuesday last, Mr.
Robert Poole, the manager of the Old Park Coal and Iron
Works, belonging to Z Boteeld, Esq. was summoned
before the magistrates at Wellington, by Mr. Wynne,
inspector of mines, for neglecting to provide, at the Little
Ityton Pit, near Lawley Bank, a steam gauge, indicator,
break, and signals, as required by the general rules in the
Coalmines Inspection Act, when a penalty with costs, was
enforced for each offence.—The magistrate said they hoped
this would have a salutary effect on the coal proprietors
throughout the district.
Charles W. Smith was inducted at York, on Tuesday,
with uttering a forged promissory note at Wakefield for
£25. In July last the prisoner went to the superintendent
of police at Wakefield, and charged a man named Barkcr
with forgery. He called himself a petty naval officer, and
said be belonged to the ship Excellent. He also called on
a solicitor, whose clerk got a bill for £25 c .shed, whic'a
the prisoner said he had received from Lieutenant Gibbs,
R.N. The bill was found to be a forgery. He had uttered
a similar bill at Lceds. At the time the prisoner had only
left York Castle a fortnight, where lie had boen confinid
for 12 months for forgery. He was sentenced to penal
servitude for ten years.