Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-24 00:00:00

RUSSIA

ST. PETERSBURG, Wednesday, Feb. 445';190
Friday last, the Ambassador of the Grand h the
of Bokhara arrived here. The object 11cd...jef
Embassy is the removal of obstacles which IPeco
the development of commercial relations be
Russia and l3okhara.

AUSTRIA.
VENICE, Feb. 23, via Vienna.—The Arc°
Maximillian, Governor-General of LontbardP
at present here, but will shortly visit Triestesol
TRIESTE, Feb. 23rd, via Germany.—The Ste
just arrived, brings adviees from Alexallu,riffel
the 16th inst. Prince Alfred had gone to Actiotif
zayat on a hunting expedition. He will CO
his journey to Cairo and Suez.

THE= lONIAN ISLANDS. Ai, aP,'
CORFU, Feb. 19, via Germany.—The ne"fieor;
pointed Governor of the lonian Islands, Sir jot'
Storks, issued a proclamation on the 1701
announcing his assumption of office.

ITALY.
MILAN, Feb. 23,' via Vienna.---On the °cc-;
of the funeral of Bandolo, an opposition denstli'
tion of the nobility took place in the
but subsided quietly, without further disturu'oo'
,istri
Continual quarrels occur between the 1"--„.
Modenese, and Piedniant?.se sentinels stt'-‘)
along the frontiers.

TILE COLOURED SENTRY. Theodore Parker, of `b:
inn-ton, tells the following anecdote, related to bl'brig
n o soldier, who vouched for its truth At CaalAdie,
General Washington had heard that the coloured ''evnig
were not to be depended upon for sentries. So 011,icieti
when the pass-word was' Cambridge,' he went 04f1,0111:
sentinelaten an overcoat, and then approached a ),
. Who goes there ' cried the seutiac'arfitiB
friend,' replied Washington. ' Friend, advance 11°10,1
and give the countersio-n,', said the coloured mar; sfsts:
ington came up and said ' Roxbury." No,

response. ' Medford,' said Wishington.
returned the coloured soldier. Charlestoso4o`i
Washington. The coloured man immediately etre °,
I tell you, Massa Washington, no man go by 0"
he say Cambridge.' Washington said Catablo"o
went by, and the next day the coloured gentlerotee,
relieved of all further necessity for attending t°,, s°'
titular branch of military duty."—Scotto"

American Jour9. al.
QOll/1,11;
ROMAN ANTIQUITIES AT LINCOLN.—Durin; ,ro-
excavations for building purposes, on a plot 0107, ioo
which had served as a cemetery for the southern „, of
division of Lindurn Romanum, several memeot°";,,aliL
once busy population of this colony have been hr.°o-ctim'
light. These consist not only of fragments nf,‘,llloll
stones, sherds of funeral vesselQ, amphorae, fin,!'",csao4

some of the latter of the fine red texture known as
ware," but also of two or three unbroken cineralicli
a gracefully shaped jug, believed to be the same °pip- ?,,,;e,
ancient people designated by the name of " urc004"00
used by them both for domestic and religious 'oo' et,'
This latter was found about four feet below the ,s.,'ef
the urns, which, from the coarseness of their fau''LlePs`)-,r
those used by the plebian order, and containedithel
of all that could be collected from the queuel,
of the funeral pile, were exhumed about the sai-3eY
from the surface. It would seem, from the tittr;tV
coveries on this site -viz., the ground at the lb°lo,°Wl
corner of Monson-street, adjoining the north (4,,'.f0rai,j3;1
well known Roman house in the suburbs of 711,1.4;
this, like the cemetery of the upper Roman tcl,[6,lla;fo
somewhat spacimis enclosure. Among the sevAe'obs„oo,
tions of its extent may be mentioned, in4erihe'a rec" Or,
portions of tesselated flooring, formerly OAisl4o
met with when the gronnd has been disturhe'engra
locality. In Gough's Camden may be seen the lostel
o" an entire slab, found at the beginning of thebe boy'
tury by some excavators digging for sand at
the adjoining old buildini The slab had he3ll werli
,01
over a large portion of its surface, which was_,,socte
surronn lei by the kind of moulding that svereftV
these gravestones, but the antiquaries of that dastooe:
able to decipher the reading from the decaYe,elp sit)b ocli
soft material on which it was incised, and trwhioatil
allowed to perish from the indifference with ieslereir
things were then regarded. Similar, thono S4ll
slabs, and many fragments of such have ceilart•or4
times since been turned u 2 in sinking wolis'he rae.,,111-pet",4
near. In these recent excavations miY
two inscribed pieces, now in the possession ° it 01;1
of these objects, but whether or not deciplieroolis,
unable to state The precincts of this neerghe
be inferred, skirted a considerable leagth°ol3o,,,
agger by which the swamp forming the su,i-it In
dry of this Roman colony was forded, an
en thf,, St,
likely abandoned as a place of sepulture its t'tber
me 'pants of the place became Christiall'en forfotv,
century, fresh sites having also been eillrtautf
ch'urehes, and the remembrance of this .iTuPf-roal,,stailifii'
of all Roman, towns sank into an oblivion ,„4,/ Stn
is not even now entirely rescued.—Lt"ooln ""
Mercury, -