Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-18 00:00:00

MARRIAGES

On the 16th inst., in St'. Peter's Church, by the Rev. W. H
Denney, Mr. Charles Natty, to Miss Sarah L'Amie.

DEATHS

On the 15th inst., at the residence of her aunt, Gardner-road,
Teubrook, West Derby, Susan Gill, aged 17 years, daughter of
the late Edw. Alfred Gill, of Seymour-street.
Yesterday, at his residence, Speketield Cottages, aged 64 years,
Mr. Thomas Fleming. Deceased lost his wife by being run over
by a shandry on Friday last in Church-,treet, opposite St. Peter's
Church. one of the most dangerous thoroughfares in the town.

On the 17th inst., at 63, Everton-road, Mrs. glloa Margaret
Barralii?r, aged 72 pars,

Although it is the month of January, 1809, most
people admit we are living in hard times, hence
It should be the study of every one to ask themselves the
question, " How can I save my money ?" We reply,
without hesitation, buy your steel pens, and other sta-
tionery, at E. T. Hall's wholesale steel pen warehouse,
23, South John-street. Joseph Gillett's, Thomas Lowe's,
G. W. Hughes, and other maker's pens at is per gross.
Good Pen Holders 2d per dozen. _

INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION IN IRELAND.-011 Thurs-
day a numerous and highly influential deputation from
the province of Ulster, waited on his Excellency the
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, at the Viceregal Lodge, for
the purpose of presenting a memorial which had been
agreed to at a meeting held in Belfast on the 21st day of
December last, on the subject of establishing a system of
intermediate education between that disseminated by the
schools under the National Board, and the higher order
of instruction imparted by the several colleges in Ireland.

REFORM MEE'LNO AT 'HERtFORD.—A Ablic meeting
was held here on Thursday evening, to which the city
members were invited, to discuss the question of reform.
The proceedings occupied three hours, and resolutions
were passed affirminc, the vote by ballot, equal electoral
districts, with enfranchisement of the intelligence of the
country. An amendment affirming that the suffrage was
sufficiently low at the present time, and against triennial
parliaments, was moved, but negatived by a large
majority. Both the members (Colonel Clifford and Mr.
G Clive) addressed the meeting.
FIRE AND Loss OF Two LIVES.-011 the 10th inst.,
Robert Cowan and George Wardrobe were engaged in
pouring some naphtha out of one vessel into another ou
the premises of Mr. IV. Cass, ship chandler, Goole, in
the "West Riding of Yorkshire, when, by some means not
clearly ascertained, the naphtha became ignited, the
premises were set on fire, and the two men eveloped in
the flames. The fire raged for upwards of an hour, and
did damage to the amount of £6OO to £7OO ; and both
of the unfortunate men, after suffering severely, have

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died from the injuries they received in the fire.
EASTER. -It will be interesting to people who have
nothing better to think of, to learn that Easter, which
will be on the 24th of April this year, • last fell on that
day in 1791, and will not fall on the same date again till
2011. Since the introduction of the Gregorian Almanack
this has only been the case in the years 1639, 1707, and
1791. The period in which Easter can fall reaches from
the 22nd of March (earliest date) to the 25th of April
(latest date), leaving 35 different days for the celebration
of this festival. In this century taster will fall only
once (1886) on the latest date, the 25th of April.

SHORT SENTENcEs.—Missionaries are bringing to light
many interesting facts in regard to the mental charac-
teristics of the•people of Africa. Mr. Moffat, who has
seen much of the southern part of this continent, gives us
the following narrative, related to him by a man from
Central Africa. It is, perhaps, without a parallel for its
simplicity :—" My years were. eighteen: There was war.
At this time my mother died, My father died. I buried
them. I had done. The Foulahs caught me. They
sold me. The Housa people bought It.. They brought
us to Tomba. 'We got up. To a white man they sold
us. We had no shirts. We had no trousers. 'We were
naked. In the midst of the water, into the midst of a
ship they put us. Thirst killed somebody. Ranger
killed somebody. By night we prayed. God heard us.
The English are good. God sent them, They came.
They took us. Our hunger died. Our thirst died. Our
chains went off from our feet. Shirts they gave us.
Hats they gave us. Trousers they gave us. Every one
was glad. We all praised the English. Whoever dis-
pleases the English into hell let them go." Colonisation
Herald.

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DIPLOMATIC CONSEQUENCES OF A SNOW-BALL !—A
letter from Smyrna, addressed to the Pre,,sv d' Orient ,
contains the following account of a quasi-diplomatic
dispute between the consuls of Austria and Russia
apropos of a snow-ball :—" Children, we know, are
accustomed to amuse themselves with snow-balling, and
one of these missives has been the cause of an unfortu-
nate event which is the subject of general conversa-
tion.i:er
A youili, attached as a domestic to the ser-
vice of M. Jean Fillipuzzi, director of the Austrian post,
was amusing himself with other children in tolrowiat ff msnow-balls, when one of these innocent projectiles struck
the cheek of a child of M. Ivanoff, Consul-General
of Russia, who was on the field of . battle. After
cries and tears from. the child, Madame
i‘ an
off
complaint to Madame Fillipuzzi who, in, her hus-
band's absence, expressed the liveliest regrets for
what had happened. But sonic seconds afterwards
protests, seized the
an officer from the Russian consulate
orders Madame ivanoff, entered M. F.ll* obeying the
and, ins pite of the most entered i 'prizes house,
.ernrnent
wsehno-arcihtalsloisye,d ahnidm,b
mroaugehthim
af
porisolleard.
amate
o.l.l,oturipoit .
sulate, and then had him trans
prison. On hearing these facts,
zzai addressed
dem an demand
711'1,
it
,T.e itn— con-
to his consul, the cot
fqr the relea4e of the el-1,1911a (3 .4--s-a4s.trt;
violation of his donlicue - "VI,. htld
this satisfaction, ttakl }.ti- i.s_
,I",,ussran consul retused
, t!Rr49tio!l for the.
.. . relations between-the two con-
Thesulates weve, 1i....:‘ •
ait\o- ' - ben off in the most peremptory manner.
ii'. lohna'ssbuetien
liietishhapp Constantinople.
caused submitted to the respective ambassa-
consul,. bun P
...,rs at ta
Ntheisanewallipilreit Mofr.twßelluvrart,yeatrshe,
ens to be an lonian subject, to be set at liberty.
Such are the consequences of a snow-ball!"