Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-14 00:00:00

COURT AND OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort,
Princess Alice, Princess Helena, and Princess. Louisa,
crossed over to Portsmouth on Monday morning in the
Royal yacht Fairy. Her Majesty returned to Osborne
in the afternoon.
Lieut.-Colonel James T. D. Crichton Stuart. as sworn
Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Bute, before the Lord
President and other Lords of the Council, at the.
Council Chamber, Whitehall, on Monday.
The new Solicitor-General, Mr. William' Atherton,.
Q.C., M.P., is the son of the late Rev. Wm. Atherton,.,
a distinguished Wesleyan minister, and some time
president of the conference, his mother being a daugh-
ter of the late Rev. Walter Monson, a clergyman of the
Established Church of Scotland. lie was born in
Glasgow in 1806, and was married in 1843 to Agnes
Mary, the second daughter of Mr. Hall, the chief
magistrate of Bow-street. In 1839 he was called to
the bar by the Inner Temple, having during the pre--
vio-as seven years practised as a special pleader. - Ile
has represented the city of Durham since 1852, and is
what may be considered a very advanced Liberal,,being-
in favour of the ballot, a large ref-,rm in the law, the
removal of all religious disabilities, and the extension
of the suffrage.

THE LATE LORD GEORGE • BENTINCE..—DPCSSed in
buckskin breeches—none of your Norway does or West
Riding imitations, but in the hides of his own stags,—
with exquisitely made boots of true orthodox length, and
antique colouring in top; a buff waistcoat, and reddish
brown double-breasted coat, ornamented by the button
of the jockey club ; a quiet beaver, placed neither at a
right 'angle nor yet a left, but in the juste siailie of
gentlemanly taste, on a well formed head of auburn hair,
with large whiskers of the same colour ; a starting-Rag;
in his band, and followed by eight-and-twenty race-
horses, stepping like a troop of old Franconi's, bearing
a tulip-bed aloft—so brilliantly shone the silken jackets
of the riders in the sun, the observed of a hundred
thousand eyes, Lord George Bentinek, as steward of the
races, undertook to start- the immense field for the
" Great Yorkshire Handicap," on a plan of his own
special invention. •
THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION AT PALERMO.—The
following particulars relative to the attempt to assassi-
nate the-director-general of police at Palermo have been
received in Paris :—" It was at half-past one o'clock
in the afternoon 'of the 27th of November that the
Commander Salvator Maniscalchi, director of the
Sicilian Ministry of Police, alighted from his car- .
riage in front of the church of Santa Rosana. M.
Manisealchi was accompanied by his young wife and
two children. At the moment he was about to enter
the church, he was stabbed by an assassin. The dagger
entered deeply into the lower part of the back, and
the shock was so violent that M. Maniscalehi, in order to
avoid falling, was forced to lean on the arm of his wife.
The wounded man, however, was able to turn round and
to obtain a view of the assassin. The latter is a man who
does not appear to belong to the operative classes. Ho was
dressed with a certain elegance, and wore a watch chain.
M. Maniscalchi had sufficient strength to withdraw the dag-
ger from his back and to pursue the assassin. His coach-
man and a police agent followed him, but the wounded men
was soon compelled to stop and the assassin escaped. A
search was made in every direction, but without success. -
It is believed that the assassin relied on the aid of ac-
complices to save him from detection. It is koped that
the director's wound, although dangerous, is not mortal.
It was feared that an insurrection might be the cense- •
quence of this attack, but Palermo remained perfectly
tranquil. The city, nevertheless, has been placed in a
state of siege. It was reported at Naples .on the 3rd
instant that the director of customs at Messina had been
similarly attacked."