Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-15 00:00:00

T FJE AUSTRALIAN PARCEL-EXPLANATION,

Mr. Kiraptou of Sweetinvtraer, came bet ore Mr. I,
Mansfield on Saturde.y, and said that in consequence of a
paragraph that appeared in the papers, a day or two since,
he wished to say a word or two in reference to it. It ap-
peared by the report, that two young ladies had made an
application to his worship in respe:t to &parcel that had
been sent from Australia to them through his office, and
that they had applied for it to him, but could not obtain
any information about it. Mr. Mansfiehle The application
that was made to me wes that you refu.sed to give them
any information, and it was desrahl that they di eild
have suca info ration, a 9 would enable them to sue the
parties in Melb-Jurne fur the value, as the ladies were going
out there. I directed the ladies to go to your office, to
get such information there as wo Ild enable them
to recover the money or value in Melbourne. Mr.
Kempton sail it appeared that some one ca led
at his office, but he was absent in Altehester ;
and without waiting to see him they came before
the magistrates, and made the application that appeared
in the paper. The piece' alluded to came by the Donald
AtKay from Melbourne, and she arrived here on a Satur
day, and on the f 'lowing Tuesday, the earliest moment
after her arrival he forwarded it, as addressed, to Belfast.
It was not likely that he would give a parcel to two
persons in Liverpool, when that parcel was addressed to
Belfast, and to which place he ha forwarded it. It was
addressed to James Shaw, in Belfast, and even if he had it,
he would not give it to two females in Liverpool, who
merely called at his office, and about whom he knew
nothing. He had, as he said, forwarded the parcel
the moment he got it, and he now wished to
give this explanation to set the matter right.
Mr. Mansfield : I have no doubt whatever that
the gentlemen who attend here from the public press will
give your explanation due publicity. Mr. Ki mpton : We
have a large business from Australia to this country and
the Continent, and if the paragraph went forth unex-
plained, it would be calculated to do us harm. If the
parties had waited until they saw me, I would have ex-
plained all this to them. The ship that brought it was
about 100 days out, and persons began to get uneasy about
their property, but we forwarded it the moment it arrived.
The matter then dropped.

A CALL TO LIVB --It is well known in the "Ros"
that scarcely any books sell so well as, pions memoirs;
and that in pious memoirs in general those go off he-f.
which relate to young people, e4ecially young females,
who, after a morbidly exemplary career, have made " kin
early and lovely death." The serious-consumptive mar-
ket, as we may. call it, is always to be reckon,A upon, and
a wretchedly diseased taste the fact implies. It would
scarcely seem to need insisting on, that a young girl is
made Co live. That is the express object of all this com-
plicated machinery of youth and beauty. The lungs are
to breathe, the heart to beat, the legs to walk and run, the
hand to clasp, the lips to kies, and the eyes to shine. • It
by any misfortune the lungs should become unfitted for
their office, and the fair creature should die, it is a great
sorrow ; something abnorfnal—a warning; ray, a penalry.
Such an event says to those who have ears to hear :
" Purify the air you; ventilate your dwellinl-
houses; minimise au wholesome influences of all kinds;
train your own daughter, it you have one, to active ex-
ercise ; give her as little desk and as much open air as
possible; in a word, do all you can to help her to do what
he wax made to do—to live."—Tait.