The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-28 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY

M. DE LESSEPS ON THE SUEZ CANAL.

At a dinner held on the 24th inst., at Goldsmith's Hall,
London, and at which were present—Mr. Gladstone, the
ili.hl3 of .L-adon, General Williams, Sir Roderick
Murchison, the Right Honourable W. E. Glad-
stone, Mr. Ellice, and M. de Lesseps, (the
projector and concessionaire of the Suez Canal) the health
of the latter gentleman was proposed in an eloquent speecb.
by Mr. Gladstone, coupling the name of M. de Lesseps
with that of the Suez Canal, an undertaking with which
every Englishman must sympathise.
In reply, M. de Lesseps expressed his gratification at the
flattering reception he had met with from so distinguished
an assembly, and which he attributed rather to his position
as the promoter of the Suez Canal, than to his own per-
sonal merits. He then summed up in a rapid glance the
present condition and prospects of the enterprise. It had
passed through the period of doubt as to its practicability.
This part of the question was c )mpletely set at rest by
the rep aq of the Internalional Comniesion, and that of
the Academy of Science of France, recently drawn up by
M. Charles Dipin. As regarded its financial sue-
cese, he had received numerous and solid proofs
from all sides, that there would be no want of con-
fi fence on the part of capitalists. The project had
aroused the sympathies of ail nations, and as far as
he ha I experienced, he could safely say that the English
penile had not shown less interest than any other. The
voice of the press arid other manifestations, public and
private, had shown him th.t the canalisation of the Isth-
mus of Suez would find in Great Britain Vie most efficient
support as she became convinced that by thus abridging
the route to the Indies, her power and prosperity would be
inereesed in the ratio of her superiority over all other
nations in shipping industry and capital.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,-YESTERDAY,

LIVERPO(►L.
BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.

STABBING 'BY A FEMALE.—Catherine Coyle was charged
with having stabbed another- femile, named Catherine
Cooley. The parties lived in a house in Frederick street,
and on Sunday they had some eltunktn brawl, when the
prisoner struck the othPi Woman a bit)* with a knife, on
the forehead, Which indicted a wound that will disfigure
her for life. The primmer was sent for trial.
Klemm; up A Row AND KICKING (TOM A LADY.—Mr 9.
Anne Bond, the wife of Mr. Bond, ptabliCan, residing in
Regent road (the house formerly kept by Mr. Langan).
charged a filo*, named Edward Tobin, with kidding Vio-
lently assaulted her, and with breaking 153 worth -of
glass in the shop window. Mr. Buck appeared for the
oreseention, and from his statement and the evidence of
Mrs. B;nd, it appeared that the prisoner and another nun
had some en !reel in !he house, when they were pat out,
but in the evening the prisoner called grain, and acted
in the most disorderly manner, and brake the wind!tws,
at the same time luelaing the July ii the most brutal
in inner. She had t., send for a medical man, who had
been in attendanee on her since. Mr. Bluck said, alth ugh
the cornt,l4inant had been so badly treated. yet she hal
no (Flier feeling than that of having proLtetion from such
outrage. The pris,ner was i;ted 154, the value of the
glass, and ordered to find two-sureties in £5 each, and
himself in £lO, or in default t..) be sent to jail for six
tnooths.

11S3AULT.—A very tall and powerful looking fellow,
nettled Pat GAllagher, was chenred with having
as4aulted officer 534. The offi 3,1- heard loud
shouts of murder in Henderson &re:A on Satur-
day night, when be ;vent to the place where he
found the prisoner heating his step laughter, and nn at-
t6 i-event hiin, he beat the officer. fig was
fined £2, Or three Months' imprisntinient.
ROBBERY BY A BOY—A SPOKTING YOUTlT.—ioseph
Gorman, a boy about thireea ye ire of age, eves trow.,,tit
up by detective officer Patrick, on a eh •rge of having
stolen a ca,ll box which contained 410, a cinen•ity of
papers, a gold ring, and other things from the office of
Hr. Alfred Power, Rumford placer rhe lad, it appeared,
was at the office waiting for a Xhip, when ha torik an on_
portunity of running off with the box, He took
the box to Everton, broke it open, took out the
money, and put the rapers tinder a sane He
then took a conple of lade, not so wicked as
himself, and th y went off to Cheshire, where they
Commenced—not nn the tuff, b it on the sand, where the
ten pounds were lost betting on Donkey races, and then
they returned to town, in order to retrieve their fallen
fortunes, when Patrick arres.ed them, and cut short their
sporting propensiies lie recovered the ring. The
prisoner was sent to j tit for six weeks, and was then to be
sent to a reformatory for five years.
DBSPIRTI,G a FAMILY.—WiIiiiM Moss, a corkeulter,
was brought up btt Mr. Htrzhes, on a charge of having
deserted his wife and four ch•ldren. He was sent to jail
fur three months, with hard labour.
MORE STABBING BY A WOMAN.— t w 11 dressed married
woman, nettled Strata Walsh, was ebarged with having
stabbed a min named Michael Delany. Mr. Block
defniderl the prisoner. The parties reside in
Addlingtnn street, and it appeared that there was a TOT
in the street about ten on Sunday night, when the prose-
,tor, who is a tailor, went nut to see what it was about.
when the prisoner roslierl at him, and without any pro-
vocation (as he stated) st bbd him wi la a knife in the
arm, and sarg-on Br ,wn denriberl the wound, which
would be bid for a week at least. The defence set up by
Mr, Block wee, that there was an attack mide by several
pe s ms, including the prosecuter, on the prisoner, and
that the blow, although not intentional, was in self de-
fence. He celled three witnesses to sustain this view of
the else. Hi 3 worship blieving the witnesses for the
defence, discharged the prisoner.

CAUTION TJ STONE THROWERS —Thomas Horman, a
young man, was charged with throwing stones from
flotham street, over the railway bri.ige into the Lime
street s/ation. The case was fully proved, and his
Worship said, tie act was a most rn;sehievous onq, and
done with the worst intentions. Ha sent him to jail for
two months.

AN,,THER VICTIM nF THE LIME STREET " Hoe."--A
young man, narn,d Willi,m Wilson, who had been in the
employment of Messrs. 11.1 gate and sons. brassfounders,
Dale street, was brought up by detective officer Smith,
who s ;id he had been is search of him for some days, on
a charge of having embezzled several stuns of money
helonginn• to his employers. He heard he was in the
habit of visiting a house of ill fame in Myrtle street, and
he went on Saturday night and found him there.
He told him the charge that was preferred against
him, the prism-r replied, " I plead guilty to the charge,
and if it were not f.,r that infernd ' hip' in Lime street,
I would not be here." John Abel, from Mr. Evans, coach
hu'lde4 C ariton scree`, proved having pail the prisoner
.L 2 Ss the ba'ance of an account, on the 13th March.
Mr. Wil iam Grims iale, the manager of Messrs. Holgate's,.
stated that when the prisoner received money it wis his
doty to pay it over to him on the same day.
Tile sutn paid by the last witness was not accounted for
by the prisoner. Mr. A Loon'], who appeared for the
prisoner, cro=s-examined the list two witnesses. The last
named said the prisoner was discharged on the 28th
Mitch. Mr. Cooper of Gill street proved having paid'
the prisoner £2 5s on the 30'h March, two days after he
I, ft, but he did not know he had left the employ of Messrs.
olgate at the time. Smi h produced an accoont, given
to him by the p;•isoner, who wr ,te the amount that he
had embezzled, arno-unting to £l3. Mr, Joseph Cox, of
Iterphaw street, proved having paid the prisoner LI 2s,
on the 24th March last. The prisoner w,.s sent for trial.•

WHY OU)E WAS ANstExitu —When Dalhousie's father
was commander-in chief here, he visited the King of Oude
at Lucknow, and made a point of introducing her lady-
ship, which the king did not understand at all, and fancied
the laird want >d to sell her. After a short time he said
to his attendants—" That will do ; take her away."
This shruld certainly have figured among the reasons for
annexing Onde , it would have been stronzrr thAn any-
thing vet adduced for that spiliation.—Sir C. Napier's
Memoirs

PRICSFINTATION' OF THE PORTRAIT OF THE Live Silt
Rosmar PEEL TO TAMWORTH. —On Friday evening a gay
and elegant company assembled in the Town Hall, at
Tamworth, the mayor of the town, E. B. Hamel, Esq,
having invited the principal inhabitants to a soiree musi-
cale, for which he had secured tl-e vocal talents of Mr. and
Madame Weiss, and the sk'll of Mr. D F. Davis, a local
harpist. The occasion was selected for the p-esentation
to the town by Sir Robert Peel of a fine copy of the por-
trait of his late father, painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence,
and which forms no uninteresting feature in the splendid
gallery of paintings at Drayton Manor. The copy, which
has been executed by Mr. Wood, a former pupil of Sir
Thomas Lawrence, was fixed at the extremity of the hall,
but concealed from view by a curtain. At the termination
of the first part of the entertainment, Sir Robert, in a
graceful speech, presented the portrait to the mayor as the
representative of the town. That evening, he remarked,
was the anniversary of the fearful night three years be-
fore, when he witnessed the heartrending scenes of a
shipwreck, of which he was almost the sole survivor. As
the date of that event came back in future years, it would
also bring back the recollection of this m)st gratifying
occasion, which would not fail to associate very agreeable
reminiscenses with an anniversary hitherto of a very pain-
ful nature.

NEAL D, aw, THE AMERTC.O7.—" F. S. H." sends us the
following, the result of t c rdal study of this American :
Our age, like every other age, since Adam was driven from
Paradise t ) atone for his sins, has sent forth a p.oneer in
search of an antidote to crime. First the patriarch, then
the moralist, then the lawyer ; and. last,our plain civilian ;
who, like all moderns, outdoes all things that were done
before. Mr Neal Dow is the boldest, and, perhaps, the
most novel a ivocate for teetotalism. He is father of the
" Maine liquor law." A. bold stroke to take from a man
the power to &bag() himself, as Shakspere says, "of the
sight of means to do evil, makes things evil d me." Bat
it is not now my intent to bs the adt,ocate and maintain
the divine right of free agency, or the power of man to
deprive him of it. I wish bat to present my reader with
an outline of the man that has done so much, and laboured
so hard, to convince poor humanity of the beauty and
grandeur of temperance. Temperance thou art a
mighty god; thy power is all clear and invincible,
the ladder of youth to manly greatness, the father of home
and the daughter of beauty, and the mother of peace.
If thy enemies were not so numerous, their champions
would not bs so brave. When I first saw Mr. Neal
Dow in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on Thursday
night, I looked as Achilles did upon Hector—to see where
his power lay. He is a ittle over 50, about the middle
height andsize,and wore his 'rock coat buttoned to his neck
ala militaire. Yet to is too much the citizen to look the
soldier. His complexion dark, hair dark and long, dis-
hevelled, and falling back from his face; his features
sharp, temples flat, bat spacious, whilh would give him
power but not music ; forehead, high, broad, and flat in
front, its lines marked ; id ‘ality broad and full, but the
forehead too square to be the poet ; eyes small and deep
set ; the eyebrow near to the eye, which would give
strength to benevolence; nose small, keenly chiselled;
cheek bon es high, which would give him boldness in
enquiry and daring in action ; cheeks are 11,110 w; mouth
neither large nor ,mall, but eloaes with firmness; lips are
thin, too thin for richness of expres4on, yet enables him to
carry his projects even if others suffer. He is choleric
and sanguine, which enables him to smile well and laugh
heartily. His face is expressive of confidence, yet full of
lines of thought and care.