Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-25 00:00:00

JULY 25, 1 859

affectedly candid as Franklin's fragment.
experiments, all figui,e in the record with a cl
adorned reality.. Wherever there is geuim, ti

geniality ; and Franklin was a man of genii's, as,:vi
man of power,—a man
wearied,
a mind.that' never rost
a curiosity that never• till, death laid it to
a man
,whose letters and journals indicate t
of humour which brighten the life of ever
of humorous observation: It is a pity ti
which seems to. attend! autobiography invo
too ; that, intending to tell. the whole
began. and got little beyond. the seal
of the printer!s boy, breakfasting on peppc
a turn at the pleasures of London when th
in a love affair, that betwixt himself and
afterwards becaMe his wife, faulty
twenty-fifth year showing, save by intense vitality

nowis

bity, the promise of that after-career which became s
nified. We see nothing in this early time of the ma.
grew to be an adversary to England's Cfovernmen
envoy of a rebel and a 'resolute people ;• or of the 'n
at an age little short of eighty years old, could so int,
daughter' of the Caesars as to cause a Queen of the I
to.place her own litter at his disposal,' so that
suffering under mortal disease and quitting m
travel softly from Paris to the port. of embarl
are few stories, we repeat, like that of Benja
and here is a new reminder of one of its enza
his strong family affections. These belo

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heart of the rock,•l
but only imperfect greatneSsL---iss
no happy greatness. On Franklin's return to Ameri
his great age and after his signal services, .the old

began anev

—his recommendations slighted—his perquisites refuse
him---the bit of laud (on which it had been, possibly
fOnd dream to establish his children's children), not vote
Min by Congress_ Yet nothing is more remarkable--
tb studenti of character more signifieant-7-than the:
absence of querulousness in the tone of his memorii

to Min bi his relations of three generatic

RAII%THAM.—The harvest has now fully comp
and surrounding parishes. In many d our fi
vesters may be seen wielding the scythe ; an
present fine weather continue, first-rate crops
expeCted. Some of the crops have been beaten doWI
the late heavy rains, but the damage that has. been dot
but slight. In some- fields the steam-engine is busilY
gaged thrashing out the different kinds of grain.—.ll
stone Gazette.

BILLIARDS AT' THE CRYSTAL PALACE.--mother ail
tion has been added to the' Crystal Palace, and one that
doubtless be appreciated by gentlemen in the habi
making a lounge of the place. It consists in the op'
of a billiard room in the upper part of the tower ‘C
terminates the railway colonnade. The room is admit
fitted up, and contains four first-rate tables.

FRESH ANECDOTE OF WELLINGTON.:—The Duke
in Spain was riding out with an aide-de-camp; wile
shower of rain fell. Turning to the• orderl7.
behind, he asked for his cloak,,but not getting it 1'
diately, he said. " Quick! " «You can't have it till
straps are undone," said the man sharply, to which
Duke answered with a nod of the head; saying to the
de-camp2 " Thai man is his own hell."—literary Gaze°
The sister of Chateaubriand, Countess Marigni% lime
Dinan, Bretagne,. has lately celebrated her 100th
Athenceurn.

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COSTUME OF A LEGISLATOR.—The Hon.F.
,ygon,
for Tewkesbury, says the London correspondent el.
Cheltenham .Looker-On, is just now creating extraorcll.l
excitement in the House of Commons, by the sown
exceptional nature of his costume. No one can: dab' t
moral courage of the honourable member,' should he,
fullness of time, become First Lord of the Admiralty,
now wears a white hat, crimson neckcloth, Tellow *a16.1,,

mauve inexpressibles, red socks, and lemon-coloured
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A FATHER _
BATHING.—On Friday evening, about- seven, as a
named Hammond; who worked at a shipbuilder's yet;
engaged in teaching two of his sons the art of swinun,i
Barking Creek, he suddenly became exhausted, and
seized with the cramp, and both he and one of his
who was clinging to him, sank rapidly to the bott0;0
boat was at once manned; and its crew commenced drilsceol
the creek, and succeeded in picking up the man about tvo
yards from the spot where he finally sank ; but up tole"
o'clock on Saturday morning there was-no trace of the tai
FORAGE CAPS.—A pathetic entreaty has reachod2shof
we would use our influence to get the sergeants ,of the
more comfortable and tasteful forage cap than is now ".
and a better elan of naekine it than "it
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AND SON 'SS'

It costs me 10s. 6d. ann ,cll,

caps," writes a sergeant, " viz., three caps at 3s. 6(1.4'y
and even, then, after, two months' wear, a cap does nvii
well. The cap is Smashed as flat as a pancake, so th'
never properly set up, and looks the ugly. thing iveL,
making a smart soldier look clownish."-- United hi"
Gazette.

was held at the Bowling Green Inn, Halifax, relati_a4
MANSLAUG HTER AT HALIFAX.—On' Friday, an 11;
the death of John Davies, overlooker in the combing aqi
ment at the works of Messrs. R. Whitworth and Co.
had died from the effects of the violence of John get
a comber, in the employ of the same firm. Botoj
men are Irish. Hughes worked under the deces',l
Messrs. Whitworth's mill, and he.was turned off bY P
in consequence of disobeying- his orders,. on Tb::,(1
afternoon. On leaving Messrs. Whitworth's mill, Owil
threatened the deceased with violence. When the tis'o
met in the evening, in Windincr-road, "high word? 01
place in, reference to what had happened in the afterl3o
and ultimately Hughes picked 'up a large stone, with Ws
he struck, Davies on the side of the, head, felling him tit
ground.. Afterwards Hughes, kicked his victin:4 00 away. Davies was then removed from the street/J
attended by Dr. Wightman and'his
assistant, but he Oro
at an early hour next morning. The jury
returned 9,4
die; of manslaughter against Hughes, who, is still at 17ii
Trip' CAUSE OF THE PEACE.—In concluding 31141$ article under the head of "The Emperors •", and Lord t
the Saturday Review remarks :—" The true cause 0.1
peace will probably be known at some future time...
explanation addressed to the public bodies of France PIA
account for the curious Austrian allegation, that the tt;
imposed by the neutral powers would have been more
able to France than the conditions of the treatyitself.
is reason to believe that the proposals of Prussia, as ic,,A
the zealously pacific exhortations of England, were 115'1
Villafranca as concluSive arguments to incline the EMI,
of Austria to an accommodation. Au ordinary ;
would have waited for a
_suitable occasion of subinl
to the friendly and profitable pressure of the arbitilal
powers. If Napoleon 111. thought it better. to s..fareli
advantages within his reach, its can• only: if at
that some equivalent has been secured or contemn
and may be conjectured , that' the future co-operatrie
neutrality of Austria forms one of 'the. principal
of the arrangement. Both the Emperors, though they
widely in their- grounds of complaint, express or ialt,
censure on the policy of the neutral powers. Their;
POSed hostility may supply a pretext, hereafter for an n"'on Prussia or one, ngland, while their lukewarmisess
Austria maybe

__4,Beu as. a or-re,
assist them: against the aggression, of France. On the
there is reason to think that the great disturber of !.,11.
has overreached himself in his.latest display of ingenwt,
WILLS .AND BEQUESTS.---The will of Baroness de '7 berg, late of Belsfield, Windermere, Westmoreland,)
been proved by the executors, T. Tilson, Esq 4 of Brixtelflif
T. Johnstone, Esq., solicitors Raymond's-building,
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personalty was sworn under £100,00u:,1
will hears dat e June 4, 1859; and the baroness died OR the
that month. The charitable bequests are numerous/
large amount, exceeding. £25,000. ner ladyship 11:4

ospital, t

a, and to the Marine Society,
To the. Whitehaven Infirmary £l,OOO, 01,
Forming a fever ward; £3OO towards repairing 9ft
thereto, which was. built at her expense ; £1,000.14
Samaritan Society to the same, and £l,OOO tovraTi
support of a chaplain to that intkmary ; and has becin;o;
to the Whitehaven Infirmary the portrait of the late .11
Steele, her friend and benefactor, with a request thatl,o
be placed in the board room of that institution.
:rower Ward School, in the city of London, £2,000
interest to be applied yearly in apprenticing.,
most deserving boys of that school, who,
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he called
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