The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-13 00:00:00

TILE AFFAIR OF THE TRANSIT.

The engineer was. the first to discover the accident by
going down into the engine room. when he found himself
up to his waist in water. All her powder is damaged,
sugar and pease spoiled, flour and oatmeal damaged—all
other matters under water damaged also. The men
employed were up to their necks in water in getting the
amunition out of the fore magazine. The Transit owes
her safety to having seven different watertight compact-.
meats, so that the water did not get aft. A court of
inquiry on the commander, master, and officer of the watch
was held on Thursday by Admiral-superintendent Martin.
This closed court is expected to be merely preliminary to
an open court martial•

THE SYDENHAM CRYSTAL PALACE,—The number of
visitors at the Crystal Palace on Friday exceeded 27,000.
DEATH or A. MISER —A few days ago the body of an
old man, named Partridge, a rag and bone collector, was
discovered on a heap of filth in a room in one of the back
streets of Exeter. The deceased was in the habit of
prowling about the city and collecting bones and garbage,
and he has been seen to eat the most disgusting morsels
from the streets. He lived alone in a room which was
filled with rags, filth, and vermin. He had complained of
illness a few days before his death, and had, strange to
say, resorted to intoxicating liquors, of which he drank
freely. After his death a savings bank book was found,
from which it appeared that he bad a large sum of money
in the bank ; and he had also lent £l5 to his landlady,
besides sums of money to other persons. His death was
' evidently caused by self neglect, dirty habits, and insuf-
ficiency of food.

APPICATION OF ELECTRICITY Ta THE MOVEMENT OF
MACHINERY. —The following important piece of informa-
tion is from Paris:—On the invitation and under the
auspices of the Emperor of the French, Mr. Thomas
Allan, of London, has come over here to exhibit to a
scientific commission, appointed by the Emperor, an
electro-magnetic engine of Mr. Allen's in►en'ion which.
solves, I am assured, the difficult problem of the appli-
cation of electrici!y to the ►novemen of machinery. Mr:
Allen has received every encouragetmnt from his
Majesty, and evety facility fria) the government officials.
His engines are now at work at the engine manufactory
of M. Cail, whither scientific men, anxious to test this
new motive power, are flocking to witness the experi-
ments. Napoleon I. was greatly interested in this
scientific problem, and the present Emperor is not less
so, and is, I hear, about to order a practical application,
as an experiment, to a locomitive engine.
" Damns IT LIKE A Doo."—ln the court of special
sessions, this morning, a man named Smith was arraigned
for stealing a demijohn, containing three gallons of
whiskey. '• Are you guilty or not guilty ?" asked the
clerk." " Wall, you c'n call it what you likes ; I tuk the
whiskey, that I admit, and drinked it too." " You took it
without leave, did you not ?" "I never wait to be asked
when that article's round." "You drink all you can get?''
"Try me and see, judge : I reckon I'm experienced in that
line o' trade." " I think, from your appeararce, that no
one will doubt your word on that pi,int." I can prove a
character, if anybody doubts it." " Nobody doubts that,
and it will he necessary to send you to the• eenitentiar, for
three months to get the whiskey out :`of you." " Can't
stan' it, judge ! I've lived on the critter for fifteen years;
it's been my meat and drink, and you'd better harg me and
done with it." "It's a pity, but there's no help for you ;
it will do you good to get sober." " Wall, if I must I
must ; but I'll tell you what 'tis judge—l dreads it like a
dog !"—Atnericari paper.;