The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-23 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The Prussian Chamber of Deputies has adopted a bill,
fixing the month of January, in each year, for opening
the Legislative Se=sion' and was rejecied by 169 against
101: the bill reducing the interval of twenty days to ten
between taking any two votes, for modifications in tha
coh,!titution.
The .&7..?rwegian Storthing was opened on the 9th. The
speech by tht; Viceroy alludes in terms of gratulation to
the treaty of s,-.eden with England and France. The
condition of the Uneuo Kingdoms of Norway and Sweden
,
is represented in glowing colours.

The Royal Agricultural Sccietv hold their aznnal
meeting at Salisbury this summer. -
The ll7cxford Independence states that 317.7. Blake,
brother of the Mayor of Waterford, has arrived in Lo:2(10a
from Sydney, with a gold nugget weighing upwards or
four hundred weight, and valued, at a rough calculation, to
be worth £20,000.
DEATII OF CRINOLINE...-.CRINOLINE Esx Monrg.—The
hoops, and rings, and skirts thirty-six yards wide, will.
disappear now that the French Empress, no longer enceinte,
has appeared in a dress of extremely moderate circumfer-
ence.—Medical Times and Gazette.

NEW STREET LETTER Box.—The Builder states that
new and ornamental street letter box or,pillar, to supersede
that at present in use in some of our leading thoroughfares,
is in preparation. " The plan of the box," says the
Builder, "is a hexagon, and the top has a useful little
ai:iele in the shape the compass let into the surface.
The eh; :f decorations are festoons,of flowers hanging from
masks at th:,
.angles of the hexagon. Altogether, if the
cgs arc :harp and cle'ir, we are inclined to think
tbius a satisfacto, work."
thisme t al
wuals
" THE. TAIL END OF T 11,17 LAW."—An amusing affair
occurred lately. The Justice's eortilt was in session. Judge
Cushing on the bench. A plaintiff appored to recover a
grindstone, and being called to the witness at..'uldy deposed
as fellows : "I called on the defendant for the sit;Pe, but
he refused me, telling me that before I got it I must try the
tail end of the law, and I at once brought the matter befortt
your Honour." The court looked stern and threatening,
spectators snickered, embryo lawyers laughed behind deli-
cate handkerchiefs, grim officers smiled, and the witness sat
down astonished.—Reston Herald.

ACCIDENT TO MADAME RISTORI.—A letter from Napl
says—Political excitement bas been a little relieved by an
accident which Mel Ristori on the last night of her
performance in Naples. She was acting in " Phedra," and.
in the fourth act, where she has to fall, her feelings were
wrought to such a pitch of excitement that she fell amongst
the lamps in front of the stage; Her arm was much cut
and burned, and instead of starting, as had been her
intention, for Rome. imtnediately after the performance,
she will now, in all probability, laid up for some time in
Naples. The Romans will. theretoi•z; lose the dramatic
treat that was reserved for them, as the Parniv al is now
near its close.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.—E. Danson, jun., A. DO.-
son, E. and A. Kidger, Preston. Proctor and Driven
Habergham Eaves, near Burnley, Lancashire, cotton
manufacturers. Cuuard, Brett, and Austen, London and
elsewhere, ship brokers. J. Sibley and Son, Ashton-under--
Line, machinists.. Greening and Cook, Warrington,
Lancashire, wired rawers. Clark and Shorland, Man-
chester, ironmongers. Dividends: March 13, W. 0.
Young:, Sun court, Cornhill, Manchester, and elsewhere.
ship broker. March 21, F. B. Farebrother, G. W. Brem-
ner, and J. II Collyer, Stockwell and Manchester, wax
merchants. March 36, R. Saul and T. Kirby, Preston,
joiners. March 13, J. G. Claus, Liverpool, merchant.
March 17, J. Griffin, Liverpool, poulterer.
IMPORTANT INVENTION. —The superintendent of
railway in the south of England has patented an invention
by means of which coals may be used in locomotive
engines, instead of the more expensive fuel, coke. It is said
that eighteen lb. of small coals or screenings will do as
much work as tweety-eight lb. of coke, and no smoke is'
produced, it being a part of the invention to consume
.the
smoke as speedily as generated. Two engines are being,
made upon the improved principle for the East Lancashire
line. The adoption of the improvement on the. East
Laneashfre, will, it is said, effect a saving of•no less than
£lO,OOO per annum, the cost of working the trains being
reduced from lid to id. per mile. The invention is appli-
cable to stationary engines.
The New B"dtord Standard, of the 7th instant, gives the
sCaptain A. O.
particularetish m an:
ooff
Na
eswa dßaenddfotrodu, hdiinegd
con" 13;;;c1 of his ship, the
Lancer, in November last, a few days' saii from Pernambuco.
His wife, whom be married a few months before his death,
accompanied him his voyage. When the Lancer arrived
at Pernambuco, Captain Cushman's remains were sent home
in a vessel bound to Philadelphia. Subsequently Mrs.
Cushman took passage for home in a vessel bound to
Boston. She was in feeble health, and died on the voyage.
Both vessels arrived safely at their ports of destination,
with the remains of the husband and wife on board, but
neither was able to reach the wharves on account of the
ice, and both remained ice beic,;ed—the one below Phila-
delphia and the other below Boston." On the 6th instant
Mrs. Cushman's remains reached New Bedford from Boston,
the vessel having finally succeeded in coming up the harbour.
Captain Cushman's remains are expected to arrive from
Philadelphia in a few days, when joint funeral services
I will be held.