Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-09 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY.
The Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock.
-Mr. Vincent Scully and Lord Raynham,. took the oaths

and their seats

PRIVATE BILLS

A number of railway and private bills left over from last
ssion, including the Charing-cross Railway bill, were

Alvaneed several stages

ENDOWED SCHOOLS

Mr. Dillwyn moved and obtained leave to bring in a bill
to amend the laws relating to endowed schools. The hon.
member said he did not know what course the government
All he asked was permission to introduce

would pursue.

his bill

SIR ALEX. BURNES' DESPATCH.
Mr. Hadfield move 1 that the returns relating to the East
India (Cabul and Affghan), presented on the 2•.
be printed. He said the printing of the returns would set
at rest an important question, whether the despatches of
Sir Alexander Burnes, as laid upon the table some years
ago, had been mutilated or not ?
Sir Stafford Northcote said, on the part of the govern-
ment, they had no objection to the documents asked for
being printed. They had no desire of secrecy, but he (Sir
Stafford) having been one of the members of the printing
committee, desired to state that, as the report was mere
matter of history, on grounds of economy it was considered
unnecessary to print them.
On the motion being put, it was agreed to without a

4th March,

division,

SCOTTISH TRIAL BY JURY AMENDMENT

,Mr. Dunlop moved, and obtained leave to bring in a bill
to amend the Act of the 17th and 18th Viet., for allowing
verdicts on trial by jury, in civil cases in Scotland, to be
received, although the jury may not be unanimous.
After some formal business was disposed of, the house
adjourned at twenty minutes past one o'clock.

" I curse the hour when we married!" exclaimed an
nraged husband to his better half, to which she mild]•

replied, "Don't, my dear, for that wa

he only hap

we have had !"
A singular occurrence has taken place at Bromtib.
where a valuable donkey had got his head fast in a swing
which was fixed in a tree which was hanging down in a
running noose, and poor Neddy unfortunately put his head
through, and was found the following morning quite dead.
NOT AN EXORBITANT ULTIMATUM —We emphatically de-
clare that all the blood of heroes poured out like water will
have been shed in vain, if Austria be suffered to hold a rood
of ground between the Ticino and the Tiber.—Daily News.
[Austria would be rather too happy to ucgociate on, that
basis ]
DEATH BY LIGHTNING. —During the thunder-storm, last
week, a man, named 'Brennan, residing at a place called
Killeens, beyond Crossmolina, was instantaneously killed by
lightning- His hat was very much shattered, his clothes
burned, and his body entirely charred. The same flash
killed an ass the unfortunate man was driving at the time.
WESLEYAN METIIODISM. --The returns of this body are
said to show a great increase of members since
In Bristol circuit there are 9,048 members, bein
of 547.; in Bath circuit there are 7,177 members, an
increase of 504, and in the first South Wales circuit 2.878
members, an increase of 203. The aggregate number of
members is 26,1,341, showing 'an increase of 14,550 upon
last year's returns.
The Border Advertiser states that an engine on the Gala
and Ettrick railway went over a pheasant, which in rising
got into the firebox, and *vas cooked and made a meal of by
the engine-driver and stoker. The Gateshead Observer,
alluding to this, says : "It needed all our faith in our
Border brother's reputation to swallow the fact that the
pheasants are beginning to cook themselves for the stokers !
Tell it to the gamekeepers!"
TYPE-srrriNo —A printer accustomed to set type never
thinks what the,letters are which he is to put into his stick.
Ire,never looks at one of them as they go in. But when he
first began to set type it was a very different thing with him.
He looked and read, " And as they departed thence," &c.,
and so began. " And "a; and then he had to see which
end was up !He puts in a, and comes to n. lie takes up
the wrong letter ! He puts that back, and gets the right
• - Then lie gets d, and puts that in. Then he thinks,
wanted, and lie divides one word from
-vies the next word, and he looks at

last year

g an increase

now there is a si:

LLIt; Ile,. UM:. •
each lettei and makes mistakes at that. But go a year
after, and let the man set up the same Terse, " And as they
departed thence, Jesus began to say to the multitude "—he
reads as much as that, and then clink ! clink ! clink !---it is
all done. What made that F. How those different faculties
of mind—the muscles---all work? What an immense
amount of trial and discipline has been condensed into that
automatic nower! This is a wonderful element of human

mind.---H. TV. Beecher.
A NEW STORY or NAPOLEON. —A oorrespondent of the
(R. I.) News tells the following anecdote of Napo-

Newport, ,_
leon the First : —Among my old French acqua,...
many years since, was one old savan, M. C-Ih,
attached to Napoleon's corps scientific. Ile accompanies
him into Egypt, and was one of those whom Napoleon
ordered as follows, "Thy savans and jackasses form in
the centre." I have never seen so passionate an admirer of
the Emperor. Among the many incidents he recounted of
Napoleon, shall I jot down one for you? At the time
Napoleon was general of the army of Italy, he was very
spare and youthful looking. While laying siege to Milan,
and confident of its surrender, he quartered himself at the
palace of an aristocratic Italian lady, who was bitter in her
hostility and sarcastic in d---.
ence of the young general.
C presence of his staff, with malicious emphasis,

formerly

riding
A 4- A;

le you

Le said to him, in

" Quel age
AfnelamA

avez veils, iuorisiviii- iv ~.. Vl,. 0.1. . ,
''
j'ai vingt ans, maisdemain matin j'aurai mine ans (Milan).
And true to his boast, the next day he entered the city.
VEGETABLE PARCHMENT.—III a. recent number of the
Mechanics' Magazine, public attention was called to a
newly manufactured substance, the uses of which promise

to be innumerable —vegetable parcnment. ne snovil...“l.
of the process by which it is produced is as remarkable as
are the qualities it is found to possess. Vegetable parch-
ment, as we said, is blotting paper dried, after being
pasSed through a solution of sulphuric acid—nothing
more. Fronk the effect of this operation the weak, porous,
non-fibrous material becomes, on drying, tough, hard on
the surface, and, in a high degree, fibrous.; Its whole
character, in fact, is changed. It is different in all respects
save one to what it was before immersion. That one
..•

respect is its specific gravity
and a she

ng paper

the same size of vegetable parchment are
'lit exactly. It would be imagined that the

of ecku

thiisty I
the acid

per must drink u

) and retain some ff

If it does so, by some strange paradox

, - -
and perishable paper remains, nevertheless, as heavy m
the strong and everlasting parchment. It has been founi
by practical' experiment that vegetable parchment gives
-..•r,. "ro” m.ofnrahle to that of either naner o:

THE REMa.T

L OF SIR .TAMPICTOW'S I
REMAINS.

Yesterday morning, the Bayswater roof' was
vehicles of every description, with a concourse of pea,
that has not. occurred for many years in that locality.
cause of this gathering was the removal of the remains of
the late Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton; who died
at Waterloo, from the burial-ground of St. George'S Cpapel,
to St. Paul's cathedral. The deceased commanded the
second division, and gloriously fell at the head of the same,
about half-past two o'clock in the afternoon, when the
battle was at its height. The Duke of Wellington, on
hearing of his fall, d
exclaime, "Is it possible ? No.--
exertion is necessary, for we have lost our rio-1“
gallant general had served throw'
campaign, and was consideretl
for - • •

fined with

pout the whole Peninsula

;ond only to the

ll very

EQUITY COURT— Yesterday.
THE' LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY
COMPANY V. THE LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY
COMPANY AND" THE PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY.—Much interest
was created amongst persons connected with the railway
interest by the judgment of the Court of Chancery in this
case. The case came before the ' court on a motion for a
decree in the cause, and was practically an appeal from a
decision by 'Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood, vile
refused to_ grant an injunction which the plaintiff, the
_ .-

London, Brighton, and South Coast R
cimAt to obtain in January last to restrain

'estern Railw

Wester

Ind examining

in detail the var

companies,

pally from conveying passen

Ling the South Westeni Com-
:ers or goods on the Brighton
and condemned the South

Western Company in the costs of the appeal

EAST INDIA COMPANI
A. meeting of the Court of Directors of th

copied side by

me, from widel

ist India
and that

opposite the

project two arms, tone' of which is
•cular steel drill, and the other by a

r TO MAGISTRATES,

At Doonas potty sessions,
in a fishing case in which Mr. Lysaght
mplainant, the magistrates being equally divided, the
cnairman gave a casting vote in addition to his other vote.
Mr. Lysaght wrote to the Chief Secretary to have the
opinion of the Law Adviser on the point, and the following
important reply has been ieceived :—" Dublin Castle; June
1, 1859. Sir,--I am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to
,acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th ult., and
I am to acquaint you, in reply, that Mr. John Brown, J.P.,
has beeninformed that the Law Adviser is of opinion that, if
the Magistrates in attendance at Doonas petty sessions on the
occasion in question were equally divided, the chairman had
no right to insist on a double vote, but that the proper
course would have been to have adjourned the case for a.
larger attendance. I am further to inform you that the
TA. Adviser declines to instruct the magistrates
_as to the

they shou

pursue, or to interfere in their discretion
r. your obedient servant, T. A. LARCOII."

HONESTY' REWARDED.—A few days ago the well-known.
metal•broker, Mr. Samuel Griffitlis, was about proceeding
to Birmingham per the Great Western Railway, and having
called in at the refreshment-room of the Low Level Station,
he accidentally left upon the table a roll of bank notes to
the amount of £l6O. On arri,ving at Birmingham he
discovered, to his dismay, that he. was minus the notes. On

returning, however, to-Wolverhampton, he wes agreeably
surprised by having the packet placed in his hands by. Mrs.
Aliport, of the refreshment-rooms, who, noticing that it had
been left behind, took very proper care of it. Mr. Griffiths
was, it need hardly be said, highly gratified, and in token.

of his _
usual liberality, pressed upon her to accept £5, which she
delicately, but firmly, declineit. Determined to make the
lady some acknowledgment, Isk. Griffiths immediately pro-
cured a handsome silk dress, which he presented to her, and
which she, after some hesitation, accepted. —Bliininghans
jbwroal

imiratlon of

AiGOOD STORY OF PICOLOMINI IN DRTROI

—On the

morning previous to the concert, a mysterious whisper was
circulated in the vicinity of the Biddle House, that Pico-
lomini was to rehearse at Firemen's-hall, in the afternoon,
and, that, through the personal friendship of her manager,
a•gentleman of this city had been invited to attend, with
permission also to take with him a few friends. It was
TIVIITIFIPT of friends he found! But

wonuerlui to see Lim • .
being fearful of trespassing, he selected only fifteen of
them. Two o'clock being the time for rehearsal to com-
mence, this select and honoured party were seen marching
In the hall. They evidtn6y had been v&y particular
in making their toilet, and had carefully ad-
nna mit an extra., Quantity of

tear's oil on their I

tairs of t

arrived

Among ti

Their appearance,

was li

- •
they ascended

e an honovable, dignified
company of artists. More entering, they were obliged
to show their cards of admission to a nice looking young
man. who said : "Alt right." The prirne.donna had not

Lill.
e, and: annously awaited nor appearance.
In were two United States. ex-officials, two
firmament, and au editor; also an artist,