The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-20 00:00:00

HISTORIC SOCIETY.

The twelfth meeting of this society-was held last night
in St. George's Hall. J. D. Danson, Erci:", was in the chair.
The following gentleman was admitted :7-Capt. Rob3rt
Mathew..

- The following donations were received : Proceedings
of the Philosophical Society of Wasgow, vol. 1 ,
1841 44 Transactions of the Society of Liverpool
Polytechenia from May 1853, to May 1856. The
present appearance of Wallasey Church, since the
are, by Mr. G. Graysbrook. From J. D. Dans rn, Esq.
aulueri's lintalailla, 4 VOlB. r COM James Jamywouti, rm.
M.P., a small Medal Commemorative of the Meeting of the
British Archteilogical Society, 1850.
Objects of Interest Exhibited : Mr. Robert Ready, of
Cambridge, a beautiful collection of seals, consisting of
rayal, baronial, and episcopal, upwards of 1,000 in all.
They were elegantly got up. and much admired.

A copy of a magnifieent volume, the property of the late
Mrs. PuHand of Paris, was sent for exhibition by Eyre
Evans, EQq.; it was printed on vellum in old English letters
of gold, and was surrounded by broad margins, illuminated
by the hand, It was got up by John Whittaker, in 1816.
and was dedicated to the Prince Regent. The documents
it contained are " Magna Charts," and many others, and a
portrait of King John. It is said that only four copies of
the work were got up in this style, the whole was be.auti-
fully bound and in a box.
Dr Hume announced the lamented death of the Eail of
Ellesmere, the first president of the society. He passed a
high eulogium on the late Earl, and suggested that the
society should put on record an expression of their regret
at his less. The motion passed unanimously.
The paper for the evening was by John Locke, Esq., B.A.
on Mediate East, but was read by Dr. Hume in his absence
It was illustrated with maps, &c. The paper consisted
of an interesting discussion as to the best route to
India ; and, considering the large amount of capi.al and
value always afloat, there would be a great gain, were
it only in interest, in expediting the communication, to
the extent of two or three days. On a comparison of the
three great elements of directness, facility of comrnuni-
,-...,ti0n, and commercial advantages by the way, his route
will be found to combine many points of importance. The
railway commences at Cairo, under Mount Carmel, crossing
Palestine and the northern part of the Arabian Deserts,
reaching the Euphrates at Hillah. By steamer the route is
continued from the head of the Persian Gulf to Bender
Abbas, and thence reaching our Indian possessions at
Kurrachu,—thus escaping the difficulties in the navigation
of the upper part of the river, and some other objections
which have been made to this overland roue.

THE PAPAL STATES.—A letter from Rome, in the
Constitutionnel, says that the events of Milan have pro-
duced an immense effect in that capital, and every one
expects to see .a general amnesty declared. The Pope has
been long inclined to do so, and it he had been allowed to
follow his own bent, would most assuredly have anticipated
the Emperor of Austria.
THE BACON TRAGEDIFS.—As announced in our impres.
sion of yesterday, Professor Taylor has found arsenic in the
body of Mrs. Bacon, which was exhumed at Great Chester-
ton, Rutlandshire, for the purpose of analysing the contents
of the stomach. The inquest was prceeded with on
\Vtdnesday, and the jury returned a verdict of " wilful
murder" against Thomas Fuller Bacon. Great excitement
prevails in Stamford and the whole of the surrounding
neighbourhood.
GERMAN RAILWAYS.-Saxony and Prussia have just
concLuded a treaty, of which the object is to establish
between the two countries a new communication, by means
cf a railway to connect Leipsic and Berlin by a direct line.
This line will form a jinction at Bitterfield with the
railway which unites Wittemberg to Halle, by way of the
Elbe and Bitterfield.

MEXICO AND Sraise—A Madrid letter says that the
news received from Mexico is truly lamentable. Hired
bands of ruffians are murdering Spaniards in order to rob
them ! The residents in the country are obliged to fly
to the capital for refuge and to abandon their property.
The Spaniards in Mexico have sent an address to the
government praying for proteci )n. It is said that in the
last cabinet council held at Madrid, it was determined to
act in the most energetic manner against Mexico, and the i
captain-general of Cuba has received orders to send vessels
and a military force to that country.
PUNISHMENT FOB A DEBT.—A correspondent forwards
to us the following xtract from the .Portsmouth Telegraph,
accompanied by some severe, but just, comments upon a
system under which a trifling offence is accompanied by
such a brutal punishment as the infliction of fifty lashes—a
punishment, moreover, the eery anticipation of which is
calculated to exasperate the victim to a pitch of madness :
" On Monday, as a private in the Royal Marine Artillery,
named William B -own, who had been sentenced to receive
fifty lashes, was being marched to the halberds to receive
his sentence, he suddenly broke loose from the guard and
dashed at olonel Parke, who was in the Barrack Yard in '
Portsmouth, at the moment picking up a letter he had
dropped, and struck" the gallant colonel a violent blow on
the head, felling him to the ground. The man was
immediately secured and led to the halberds where he
underwent the punishment awarded to him. Whilst it
was being inflicted he bowled and groaned in the moat
frightful way. At its conclusion he was taken to the
Infirmary, and on his recovery be will be tried for the
assault on his commanding officer, which has attached to
it the puuishment of death. He will, no doubt, be
transported for life. The only reason that can be assigned
for the assault is the ignorant belief that by committing it
he would escape punishment which he was about to
suffer (and which he found so endurable) by being tried
for a crime that would get him out of the corps, to which
he had belonged rather more than a year. We are glad to
say that Colonel Parke suffers but little from the assault.
The crime for which the flogging had been passed was the
incurring of a debt of 84. for slops ; this sum the captain
of the company said he should put against biz pay account.
The man replied by an insulting remark that he would do
no more soldiering till he was paid,
CocacuoAcnne.-01 the numerous insect -tribe to whin
the diellicgs of mankind are subject, there are none
more obnoxious than the common kitchen cockroach,
where their multiplication is permitted ; the ravages they
commit are extensive and vexatious. They are all nocturnal
and exceedingly agile ; their flattened bodies allow them
to hide with ease in every crevioe, whence they sally forth
in hordes during the night, to devour every sort of provision
which is not secured from their voracity. Like all other
depredators, they are thrown into confusion and put to flight
by the presence of light, hence they were, in ancient times,
appropriately called lucifaga, o. light simmers. Their
destruction is not confined to articles of provision for the
table ; silk, woollen, and even cotton cloths are devoured
and rendered useless by being gnawed through. At some
seasons of the yea?, when the male cockroach fiy about,
they aro very troublesome, especially about twilight, when
they dash into rooms, and often strike against the faces of
those present, to the great alarm of females, who generally
dread them excessively. The presence of light, it is-true,
would secure us from such invasion from the cockroach, but
a great number of other nocturnal insects would be attracted
by its glare ; and under a greater degree of annoyance, when
' a cockroach takes refuge or seeks coneealnaent upee any
person, he will inflict a smart bite, if particularly hurt or
alarmed. The sapient Sancho Panel declares that there is
a remedy for everything but death ; and it is truly happy
for mankind that the multiplication of this pestilent race
may be repressed by its own voracity. And yet, all the
inventions hitherto brought out for the extermination of
this undeniable noxious pest have either proved so unsatis-
factory in their results, or so objectienable in their nature,
as soon to have fallen into disTise ; indeed, it may with
truth be said that, notwithstanding the demand for such an
article has always been great, no usable or efficacious
remedy has ever hitherto been introduced. There is now,
however, we are happy to say, a remedy, and the only
'remedy we can with confidence recommend. It is an origi-
ginal, scientific, and rational remedy, well worthy the notice
of the public, and by which the worst infested dwelling-
house., ships, or other places, may be thoroughly cleared of
cockroaches in an incredibly short time. Mr. Greer, at the
Anti Vermin office, 49, Brownlow hill, in this town, is its
sole inventor and patentee, whose prices for it range from
sixpence upwards, and whose contract terms for clearing
1 houses by it are—,6 No cure, no pay."-4dvt. e„-,eee_e;