Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-29 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1857

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Up tolhe hour of going to press our usual
Telegraphic News had not come to hand.

LEWIS AND COMPANY'S NEW ESTABLISHMENT D'oll. BOYS'
CLOT/LlNG.—Number of boys clothed for week eliding
Saturday, October 24th, 475; corresponding wEek last year,
280, which was the first week this establishment was
opened ; increase, 195 boys.
APPOINTMENT OP MESSENGER IN THE COURT OP BANE-
RUPTCY.—The Lord Chancellor has sanctioned the ap-
pointment of Mr. Henry Blundell, for many years eaaployed
as assistant messenger in the Courts of Bankruptcy in
London, to be the new messenger of the Court *f Bank-
ruptcy in this town, in place of the late Mr. Henry Ayres.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.—" H. S." has favoured us with
with what he calls a poetic effusion on "The Indian
Atrocities." We, and the public, were under the impres-
sion that there was sufficient of butchery already perpe-
trated by the Sepoys on our countrymen, women,and chil-
dren, without the aid of " H. 5.," whose " poetry " is cal-
culated to do as much violence to the feelings as the sword
has done to the bodies of defenceless victims already
sacrificed.

AN OFFICIAL VISIT.—On Tuesday last the President of
the Board of Trade, Lord Stanley of Alderley, visitod the
offices of the Local Marine Board and the Sailors' Home.
His Lordship was accompanied by M,. J. Laird and Mr.
Greaves in his visit, and, much to the gratification of those
gentlemen, and to all connected wish those estaVishments,
his Lordship expressed the pleas ire he felt in iuspectin;
,such admirabiy managed institutions belonging to this
port.
CANADA ROYAL MAIL THROUGH LINE OF STRAMER4.—
The passengers by the steamer Kingston, one tf the
Canadian Royal Mail Line of Lake Steamers, have pre-
sented Captain Kolly, of that vessl, with a testimonial,
acknowledg!nz his ability, zeal, aid courtesy. The
address, which is signed by all the passengers, alludes also
in complimentary terms, to the Liverpool agent of the
Company, Mr. D. P. Michel, of Waterloc-road. The
passengers by the Kingston sailed from Liverpool, some
time ago, by the ship S. Parson., and they all appeared to
be highly delighted with the attention bestowed upon
them both in that vessel and while en route from Montreal
to the Far West by tht through line of steamers.
SAILING OF THE AUSTRALIAN PASSENGER SIIIP HERALD
—This splendid nip;ber ship, belonging to Messrs. Edward
Thompson and Co's. " Mersey Line," took her departure
from the Merseyjesterday, about noon, with a large and
valuable cargo of general merchandise, and an unpre-
cedented number of passengers, consisting principally of
the better class of emigrants, for which she has superior
accammodation. Judging from her previous voyages to
Australia, it is not improbable she will perform the voyage
in seventy days. She is to be succeeded on the berth by
that famous ship Oceanic; of 3,500 tons burthen. The
Ooeanica is one of the fastest and finest clippers of the
dav, sister vessel to the celebrated clipper ship King of
Algeria, and only twelve months old. The day appointed
fo:sailing is Wednesday the 25th November.

A KNIGHTHOOD FOR THE GLASGOW PROPOST.—We (Glas-
gow Daily Mail) are highly gratified to learn that her
Majes'y has signified her intention of conferring the honour
of knighthood on our respected Lord Provos. We con-
gratulate the citizeus of Glasgow on this mark of royal
favour towards their chief magistrate; aad we venture to
54y that few men have earned the distinction more wortkily
than Mr. Orr.

Her Majesty has lately purchased some beautiful
jewellery for the Princess Royal, in anticipation of
her approaching nuptials. Same very magnificent suites
were sent for the inspection of the Queen and Princess to
Balmoral, while the Court was resident in the Highlands.
France is the cockney nation of Europe. The French,
in their own conceit, have nothing to learn out of France.
They are, therefore, the worst linguists in Europe, and
never touch on the history, ustra,ge.r, and peculiorit'ea of
other people without betraying the most extraordinary
ignorance and misconception.—Examiner. •
POOR-RATES AND PAUPERISM.—A return msved for last
sessi on by Mr. Edward Bouverie, M. P., gives the following
particulars of poor-rates and pauperism in England and
the Principality of Wales : —lt would ape ear that os the
Ist of July last, in 623 unions, having an aggregate
population of 16,602,776 persons (nearly the entire
opulation of England and Wales, which was by the last
census 17,927,609), th cc were 102,123 indoor paupers—
viz., 26 815 males, 31,861 females, and 43,447 children
under the age of 16 years. There were also 1,286 vagrants
relieved in woileheuses ; making a grand t'stal of 103,409
in-door paupers. Tee industrial statistics
-prefixed to these
figures inform us that the ratio of those employed in the
mechanical arts, trade, and in demes.ic service was 29 9
per cent. (England and Wales alone), these ernaloyed in
agriculture 17.0 per ceet., those employed in mining and
mineral works, 6.5. per sseut. Throughout the whole
kingdom the per centage was,—mechanical arts, trade, &c.,
45.5, agriculture 4.6, manufaeausera 6.5, and mining 6 3
per cent. The net total number of outdo or penpers on the
Ist of July last was 789,640, including 124,493 males,
309,742 females (adults), and 251,701 children under 16,
besides 709 vagrants. The figures exhibit a decrease of
pauperism as compared with July, 1856; of 1 5 per cent.
Ourt GREAT 7SOCIAL EVIL.-00 Monday last an irtqaest
was held at the Duke of Wellington public-house, Cannon-
s reet, St. George's East, London, before Wm. Baker, El.,
and a jury of the tradespeople of the neighbourh sod, on
the body of an unfortunate female, named Martha Nash,
aged 17. From the evidence of Leere,ia Cornelius, it
appeared that, on Tuesday, the 29th install., the deceased
was observed, very snarl gly c'ad, seated on a do or-step in
Shipalley, Wellelose-square, ening bitterly. Witness p-o.
cured her removal, first to the Messeon-house, in Wellclo‘e-
square, and afterwards to the Missior-house in Calvert.
street, Wappieg, where, upon examinatior, she was found
in a very dirty condition, and suffering from disease, the
result of her profligate life. See refused to wive any par-
ticulars of her family or state where she hal been residing.
Witness caused her immediate wants to be attended to, but
on Fiday morning last, ahreui five o'clock, after having
passed a restless nigh', and several titses complained of
pains in her chest, eeceased expired. Dr. Ross, of Shad-
well, deposed that he had examined the hotly of the deceased,
and attributed her death to the result of cold, disease, and
want. The jury, after some deliberation, returned a special
verdict—" That the deceased was found in a dying state,
anl afterwards di- d in bed—ruse unknown."
THE NINE OF DIAMONDS THE CURSE OF SCOTLAND.—
The origin of this evil repute Las been ranch controverted.
Singer, in his work on " Playing Cards," says this card
was named from every ninth monarch of Scotland, being a
had king • and net, as generally supposed, because the
touke of durnberland, the night before the battle of Cullo-
den, accidentally wrote his orders for refusing quarter up :n
the back of the card ; and the nine of diamonds appears in
a print of curses, &c., dated some months previous to the
battle of Culloden. Another cause assigned is, that the
nine lozenges with which the saltire is charged in the
armorial bearings of the earls of Stair are se arranged as
ro resemble the nine of diamonds, which was called " Toe
Curse 'of Scotland," from the active part taken by that
nobleman in the Union, which was most unpopular in
Scotland. Again it is said that the similarity of the nine
diamonds to St. Andrew's Cross led to its being called the
" Cross of Scotland," which in the Scotch pronounciation
heesme "curse," but the nine of any other suit would be
equally applicable. The, explanation is stated to be found
in the game of Pipe Juan, in which the nine of di unonds
is the pope; and the well-known anti-papal spirit of the
Scottish Church caused the Pope to ba called tee curse of
i.`.icetland. The nine of diamonds, says another authority,
war the great winning card at Cemmette, a game intro-
dueed into Scotland by the French attendants of Mary cf
Lorraine, Queen of James V., and the ruin of many Scotch
families.--Cent. Mag., Vol. lvi.
THE "SONG OF THE SHIRT" IA BELFAST.--We believe
that Hood's immortal lay became instrumental in effecting
great and permanent amelioration in the condition of the
wretched needle eomen of London. He created a whole-
some public feeling against the ‘. sweating systena" as
practised in the cese of poor shirtmakers, and called forth
multitudes of irtfleential friends for that suffering class,
and led to the formation of powerful and earnest assecia-
tions to promote the social welfare of the whole holy of
hired seamstresses. It were very desirable that the
sufferings and the claims of the same class ire Belfast had
their poet or their preseher. We hear nothing new of the
aching beads and inflamed eyes of the motrop Titan shi rt-
makers, wearing out their weary eyes for the starving
pittance of sixpence a day; their " misery, hunger, and
dirt," it is to be hoped have passed away. But we see,
with much pain, the very same System introduced here,
and ca liel on, we fear, to supply shirts for the London,
es well as the other great markets, where Irish linen has
long been in favour, and where Irish labour in making it
up may become so, if it be only cheap enoagh. It would
scarcely be credited by philanthropists at a distance that
the greater portion of the sewing of afine linen shirt is at
present executed in Belfast for fourpence half-penny, and
that is the daily earning of a needlewom-an of average
experience so employed. Such, hewever, is the fact. The
trade i 3 being • carried on extensively ; yet the applicants
far week, even at the figure mentioned, exceed,the demand
for their see vices; the general depression ie the sewed
muslin business, coiled by the Glasgow failures aid the
American suspen ions, haae thrown hundreds of -needle-
women in this town and a wide district of Ulster out of
employment. It may be added that the usual elawrge for
completing a fine linen shirt has hitherto beta in Belfast
24, ,and this occupied two days.