Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-17 00:00:00

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swept over the city. It rained without interruption for
eighteen hours.
LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY :—Return for week
ending Oct. 15' 1869 : Admitted: In-patients, 45 ;
out-patients, 23; surgical casualties, 26. Discharged:
Cured, 15 ; relieved, and at own request; 11; made
out-patients, 4 ; irregular, 1 ; dead, 4 ; remaining in
the house, 393.
ACClDENTS.—'atherine Wilkinson, residing in Cum-
' berland-street, fell down stairs on Saturday last, and
fractured her ribs ; she was conveyed to the Northern
Hospital on Sunday,—Mary Kinsman, residing in Brook-
street, was scalded on the arm by her husband having
throWn a kettle of boiling water at her ; and Sarah
Hulme, residing in Waterloo-place, Brook-street, having
jumped through the window to escape from her husbane,
thereby seriously injuring herself, were also conveyed to
the same place, and are under treatment, ,
LIST OF PASSENGERS PER R.M.S. ARABlA.—Misses
Scott (2), Mr. R. Scott, Mr. Chadboune and lady, Mrs.
E. Hawes, Mr. Scheuly, lady, and child, Mr. Warren,
Mr. Fales, Miss Clarke, Miss Hurlbut, Miss J. Denny
and servant, Mr. Pearce and lady, Mr. Tucker and lady,
Master Tucker, Miss Reed, Mr. Bowes, Mr. Baker, Mr.
Graham,,Mr. Dallas, Mr. Gillion, Mr: Elliott, Mr. Galvey
and servant, Mr. Lowente and two children, Mr. Galvey
and lady, Mr. Vassin, Mr. Schnieder, Mr. Whipple, Mr.
Marsh; Mr. Hawes, Mr. Nixon, Mr. Koppitz, Mr. Russell
and lady, Mr. Holmes, Mr. Ines, Miss Jewitt, Mr. Jewitt
and lady, Mr. J. Amory, Mr. Amory and lady, Mr. Joy
and lady, Master Joy, Mr. Page, Mr. Harrison and
lady, Mrs. Parker and servant, Sir Henry
Mr. Jaffe,. Mr. Schillid, Mr.' White and lady, Mr.
Wigham, Capt. Swankie, Mr. Garrat, Mr. Lodge, Mr.
Day and lady, Mr. Haine and lady; Mrs. Henderson
and daughter, Mi. Flinn, Mr. Hodge (distressed sec-
man), Mrs. Ballington, infant, and two children, Mr.
Gordon, Mr. Frith, Mr. Lyman, Mr. Fage, Mr. Came-
ron, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Winter, Mr. Brand and friend,
Mr. Davidson, Mr. Gay, Mr. Plumenthal, Mr. Leach,
Mr. Mrgreaves, Mrs. de Maubrey, Captain James, Mr.
Carvell, Mr. Pearson, Mr. Harris, Mrs. Wilson and two
children, Miss Lomax, Mr. Brown, Mr. Noar, Mr.
Samuel, and Mr. D. Jove.
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REVISION OF. COUNTY VOTERS.—The following are
the results of the revision of county lists on Friday and
Saturday last :

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Conser- Conser-
vatives Radicals vatives Radicals
objected objected struck struck
Townships. to. to. off. off.
Bootle-cum-Linacre 27 24 26 8
Great Grosby . . 9 4 8 3
Little Crosby . . 1 0 0 0
Everton .. ..120 43 92 27
Garston .. . . 12 1 9 1
Halewood .. . . 1 0 0 0
Huyton and Roby.. 3 6 2 2
Kirkdale . . . . 21 8 15 2
Knowsley .. . . 0 3 0 . 2
Litherland. . . . 5 2 3 1
Prescot . . . . 8 11 2 4
Thornton . . . . 1 1 1 0
Torbock . . . . 1 0 0 0
Walton-on-the-Hill 11 8 5 5
Wavertree. . . . 5 7 4 5
Little Woolton . . 1 1 0 0
Much Woolton . . 0 0 0 0
West Derby . .146 46 90 29

Total

372 165 257 90
Conservative gain, 187.
The Radicals had to pay as costs £4 155., and the Con-
servatives £8 10s.
IMPORTANT POINT IN MERCANTILE LAW.—In the
Sheriff's Court, at Glasgow, last week, an action of some
importance was instituted by Messrs. Cunard and Co.,
shipbrokers, London, and Alexander M`Donald, writer,
Greenock, their mandatory, against Mr. Robert Steele,
shipbuilder, Greenock, for payment of the sum of
£512 10s., beimg commission at 2L- per cent. upon the
sum of £20,500, the price of the screw steamship Scotia,
belongino. to Mr. Steele, and which was lately sold to
the Greek. and Oriental Steam Navigation Company,
London. It appears from the summons that Messrs. Cunard
and Ca. had been the means of introducin.; the business to
Messrs. R. Steele and Co., Greenock, and that they had
agreed to sell the vessel. That Messrs. Cunard and Co.
had been endeavouring to effect the sale between the
parties as brokers ; but before the matter was finally
arranged, Messrs. Steele had sold the vessel to the same
company, through another broker. The plea urged by
thepursuers seems to be, that having introduced the
business to the defendants, and having acted as brokers,
and their agency having been brought to an end before
the transaction was broken off, and as the vessel was
sold to the same parties, they are entitled to be paid
their commission. The point is one of considerable
importance; and as the defendants, we believe, intend to
resist the claim mordicus, we shall watch the progress of
this case with some interest.—North British Mail.
THE LATE LORD DUDLEY COUTTS STUART.—On
Monday last, the 10th instant, Sandon Hall, in this
county, the seat of the Right Hon. the Earl of Har-
rowby, was the scene of a very interesting event. In
the part of the hall called the " Polish Vestibule," orna-
mented with the tapestry offered by the ladies of Poland
to :Lord Dudley Stuart, the various reminiscences of
Polish gratitude, the bust of Prince Czartoryski, and
the portraits of other illustrious Polish patriots, the
Earl of Harrowby, surrounded by Viscount Sandon, the
other members of his family, and a few friends, was
presented with a gold medal struck in honour of
his late relative, Lord Dudley Coutts Stewart, the well-
known champion of the Polish cause. In addition to
many tokens of admiration and grateful feelings towards
Lord Dudley Stuart during his life, a national subscrip-
tion has been raised in Poland and among the emi-
grants, in answer to an appeal from Prince Adam Czar-
toryski, for the purpose of striking a medal, which would
thus perpetuate their gratitude for their departed Mend
and benefactor. The medal was originally intended for
the sister of Lord Dudley Stuart, the lamented Countess
of Harrowby, whose premature death, equally deplored
by the Poles, is the cause of its having been presented
to her husband.—Staffordshire Advertiser.
PURIFICATION OF FOUL WATER. —AN IMPORTANT
DISCOVERY.—Every one who recollects the discovery of
electrotype, will also think of Liverpool and Mr.
Thomas Spencer, the chemist, in connection with it.
The discoverer of the electrotype appears to have now
made another discovery of a different description, which
bids fair entirely to eclipse even his former one in
importance and value. He seems to have penetrated
into nature's grand secret, whereby she converts all
kinds of foul and contaminated water, as it filters
through the rocky strata, into the pure and wholesome
spring ; and not only so, but he has shed a new light
ou the nature of ozone in connection with this discovery.
It is impossible here to do justice to these discoveries,
but we may state that Mr. Spencer has experimentally
ascertained that the magnetic oxide of iron, which
abounds in rocky strata, and in sands, &c., attracts
oxygen, whether it exists in water or in air, and polar-
ises it ;—that this polarised oxygen is the salubrifying
ozone;—that this ozone, so formed, destroys all disco,our-
ing an polluting organic solutions in water, and con-
verts them into the sparkling and refreshing carbonic
acid of the healthful spring. Even sewage water can
be thus almost instantaneously purified. Moreover, Mr.
Spencer has diseovered that the apparently mechanical pro-
cess of filtration is itself magnetical, and it is now known
that all substances are constitutionally more or less sub-
ject to magnetical influence: thus all extraneous matters
suspended in water may be rapidly attracted in filtra-
tion, and so separated ; and this may be done whether
on a great scale or a small, either by the magnetic oxide
or black sand of iron, by a mixture of this with ordinary
sand, or by various other means ; and Mr. Spencer has
discovered a solid porous combination of carbon with
magnetic oxide, prepared from Cumberland hematite,
which is said to have very great filtering power._
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