The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-25 00:00:00

THE COURT, tS.c.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, SUNDAY.—The Queen and the
Prince, with the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the
Princesses Alice and Helena, attended Divine Service in
the Private Chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Dean of
Windsor officiated.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MONDAY, FED 23.—The Queen
visited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House.
The Prince rode on horseback with the Prince of Wales.
The Princess Royal visited the Royal Mint. The Earl
and Countess of Clarendon, Lady Bloomfield, and Gen.
Sir Charles Yorke dined with the Queen in the evening.
THE QUEEN—Her Majesty and the Court will leave
town about the 4th of next month for a short sojourn at
Windsor Castle. The Queen's accouchement will, however,
take place in the metropolis. It is not expected that the
Court will remain at Windsor more than a week.—Court
Journal.

VISIT OF THE PRINCII OF WALES TO THE CENTRAL
TELEGRAPH STATION.—On Saturday afternoon the Prince
of Wales visited the Electric and International Telegraph
Company's Station in Lothbury. The young Prince was
received by Messrs. Cutchley, Mark Phillips, and Till,
three of the directors, and inspected the various depart--
ments. The Prince appeared particularly attracted by
the direct telegraphic communication with Hamburg,
Berlin, Vienna, &c., and he expressed much gratification
with his visit.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A MOTIlk? BY TIER
DAUGHTER.

arA young woman of dwarfish stature, and very repulsive
expression of countenance, named Catherine Speid, was
brought up at Bow-street Police-court, yesterday, on sus-
picion of having administered poison to her mother, Cath-
erine Speid, with intent to murder her. Margaret Jones, a
married woman, the sister of the prisoner, said that
at about 12 o'clock the previous day, the prisoner mixed
some warm beer for her mother, who soon after was taken
very ill, and presently was seized with violent vomiting.
She continued very bad until the evening, when the doc-
tor was sent for. Suspicion fell on the prisoner, because
about ten days ago she threatened to do for her mother.
Her mother was taken ill in the same way about a week
ago. George Harringham, assistant to Mr. Bowers,
chemist, Tottenham Court Road, said that, at about 11
o'clock yesterday, the prisoner came to the shop and
asked for a tartar emetic. She said her brother was in
the habit of taking it in porter as an emetic. He gave her
20 grains, and told her to mix that in a pint of beer, which
would make ten glasses, and let her brother take one
wineglassfui as a dose. Mr. Jones, resident surgeon at
the University College Hospital, said that he was called
in to attend the patient, an old lady of about 77 years.
He found traces of antimony (tartar emetic). He
should think she must have taken about twenty grains,
the whole amount suspected to have been administered.
She was now much better, but not sufficiently well to
attend and give evidence. Mr. Jardine : Do you think
the prisoner at all deranged in intellect ? Witness : It
may be so, but I am not at all satisfied of that. She
spoke very sensibly last night. Sergeant Hart, E 4, took
the prisoner into custody. He found in her box a small
bottle of antimony wine and a little paper packet of sugar
of lead. The prisoner, who utterly denied the charge,
was remanded.

LORD STANLEY.—The lamented death of the Earl of
Ellesmere, leads us to ask whether Lord Stanley might not
be regarded as in every way eligible for filling the now
vacant office of Lord Rector of King's College ? In that
case his youthful friends amongst the Matischal College
students would no doubt be ready to exercise the small
amount of self-denial requisite to their allowing the
sister institution to enlist the services of a nobleman of
such intellectual grasp, high character and unexceptionable
antecedents, as Lord Stanley.-44berdeen Free Press.
In the Melbourne Legislature considerable amusement
has been occasioned by Mr. Gavan Duffy. By virtue of his
parliamentary experience he had been lecturing the raw
levies about the " usages of the imperial parliament," and
accordingly it was gratifying to the lectured to see their
preceptor at fault, and (on a highly important question)
voting by mistake with the side he had spoken against. He
claimed, however, to have his vote recorded, not according to
the side of the house at which he sat during the division, but
with to" ayes." While preferring this claim he startled
the house by addressing the Speaker sitting, and with his
hat , the practice, as he explained (on being called to
order for it), not only permitted, but enjoined by the
" usages of the imperial parliament." [!]
He carried both
points—kept his hat on and got his vote, which turned the
scale, recorded with the " ayes."