Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-03 00:00:00

PASSENGERS PER S.S. HUNGARIAN.

Messrs. G. B. Symes, H. ,G. Montgomerie, J. Bin-
more, F. Burpie, T. MTaty, P. Shea, Le Teter, J. B.
Forsyth, N. Serutinghain, A. Ross. F. Guay, Winton,
J. Roberts, M'Donough, A. Gibson, *Lean, B. 'Me-
gone, R. Forsyth, J.. Grenier, F. Panglier, H. Render y,
P. G. Lagoie, F. Brassenn, L. L. Viger, Murray (2),
B. B. Hughes, Monin, Manstead, Sporting, W. snow,
Albert Cooper, Jas. Roy, Morgan, Salisbury, Millward,
Ferguson, Hoffmny, Wm. Brown, J. Lawson,
.Thirret,
Williamson,Armstrong, W. Stephen, J. Stephen, Jas. Williamson,
Captain Y. Snow, Mrs. Montgomene, three children, and
two nurses, Mrs. Sabel and servant, Mrs. Binmore, Miss
Cartwright, Misses Forsyth (2), Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. Mor-
gan, and Mrs. Wainfold and two children.

MOTrre IN FURS, AND FLEAS ON Do6B.—Their prevention and
cure, by Greer's Patent Anti-Vermin Lotion (Camphorated),
3d. 6d., awl ls. at the Anti-Vermin Office, 49, Brownlow-hill.
It is a wOll-kriown maxim that " time is money "—the terms
are relative; so to save one is to save the other. We save
both time, and economise patience, and present good tempers,
when we have a good PEN—a bad one upsets patience and
temper. Preserve all, then, by purchasing your steel pens and
other stationery at E. T. Hall's wholesale steel pen warehouse
23, South John-street. John Gillott's, Thomas Lowe's, G. W. , Hughes; and other maker's, on sale at Is. per irro^,P. Good
Pen Holders, 2d. per dozen.

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The latest' edition. Just published. Sent free per post for ' I
three stampsor may be had on application. TEETH : THEIR
Loss AND Enna/mon. On the best means of restoring teeth,
by the new' principle of self-adhesion, with vulcanised •gum-
coloured India-rubber in lieu of bone or gold, and by means of
a flexible gum, without springs or wires, and without extract-
ing roots, at half the • ordinary cost. By Messrs. Gabriel,
Dentists to the Prince D'Ottajana. A multum in parvo bro-
chure, which all requiring the aid of a dentist will do well to
peruse, as, emanating from such a source, it may be confi-
dently relied on.-- United Service Gazette. Dental Establish-
ments ; 134, Duke-street, Liverpool; 33, Ludgate-hill, and
110, Regent-streecLondon. Note name'and number. Estab-
lished 1815 Vide diploma.
EXTRAORDINARY AND USEFUL INVENTION.—There is nothing
that housewives complain of with greater truthfulness than
the breaking of some favourite piece of glass, valuable china,
or earthenware. In hundreds of cases such things cannot be
metaled, and of course cannot' be mended. The latter want
has been obviated by an -extraordinary and effective invertion,
by Mr. Adshead, of Derby Pottery, near Derby. It is a cement
that may be said to heal in- a 15erfect manner, all cracks and
breaks in the articles spoken of, and not only in these, but in
marble, alabaster, &c. The benefit of this article need not be
dwelt on. We have seen some of its effects at Mr. Hall's, our
neighbour's, ani,l the glass that has been cemented by it is
stronger in that part than in any other. The article is very
Cheap, and no house can be long without it. Mr. Hall is the
agent for its sale in Liverpool, and all interested can judge for
themselves by looking in at his establishment. Agent for
Liverpool, E. T. Hall, 23, South John-street. Sold in bottles,
Is. each ,or sent free on receipt of sixteen postage stamps.
N.B.—None are genuine except beating the signature, "E. T.

THE. NEW CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF

WORKS.

As'it has taken Lord Palmerston more than six weeks
to find a fitting successor to the late Mr. Fitzroy as Chief
Commissioner of Works, it may be interesting to the
public to know what the qualifications of the new Chief
Commissioner are, who is to be the Right Hon. Mr.
Cowper, M.P. for Hertford.
The Right Hon. W. Cowper is nephew of the late
Lord Melbourne, is son of Lady Palmerston, and con-
sequently step§on to the Premier.— He was born in
1811, and entered the Blues and became a lieutenant,
and has since had the good fortune to hold in succession'
the following appointments :--
1. Aide-de-camp to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
1832.

2. Private Secretary to Lord Melbourne, 1835.
3. A Commissoner of Gieenwich Hospital, 1839.
4. A Lord of the Treasury, 1841, to the time of Sir
R. Peel's ministry.
5. A Lord of the Admiralty from the fall of Sir
Robert--Peel's ministry in 1846, to Lord Derby's first
ministry in March, 1852.
6. A Lord of the Admiralty from December, 1852, to
February, 1855.
7. Was raised to the rank of ,Major in the'Army by
brevet in 1852, when he was a Lord of the Admiralty.
8: Under Secretary of State for the Rome Depart-
ment from February, 1855, to August, 1855.
9. President of the
,General Board of Health. August,
1855, to February, 1856.
10. Sworn a Privy Councillor, 1855.

' 11. Vice-President of the Council of Education from
February, 1857, till the fall of the Palmerston'Adminis-
tration, in February, 1858.
12. Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Pay-
master of the Forces, 1859.
13. To be First Commissioner of Works, Feb., 1860.

, TILE GOVERNMENT REFORM BII,L.—It is understood
that the Ministerial Reform Bill will not inflict absolute
disfranchisement on any constituency, but will take
away about twenty second seat from small places having
two members. There is EOMO fear that the House of
Lords will raise the occupancy franchise to £8 in burghs,
and £l5 or £2O in counties, and it is not considered
certain that the proposal of a •£6 tenancy franchise in
burghs will obtain a majority even .in the House. of
CommonS.--Scotsman.

BIRTH OF .ft CAMEL.—On Saturday night one of the
camels in the stud of, Messrs. Sanger, Nieolson-street,
gave birth to a fine male, which is doing remarkably
well. So far as we know, this is the first instance of
,the birth of a camel in this country, The " welcome
stranger" bas been christened " Young Edinburgh,"
and naturalists and others are invited to view. it. The
parents were imported from Arabia by the 'Messrs.
Sanger, and were in the habit of performing in the
arena with the others of the stud.—Edinburgh Courant.
We (Herald) are authorised to state that the Queen,
having accepted the services offered by the very nume-
rous corps of Volunteers formed throughout the king-
dom, has been graciously ple4sed to notify her intention
of appointing a day for the special and exclusive recep-
tion of the officers of those corps at St. James's Palace ;
it having been represented to her Majesty that they
generally are desirous of presenting themselves as volun-
teer officers before her Majesty.

CONSUMPTION OP Cxrs WINES IN ENGIAND.--The
quantity of wine imported from the Cape into this
country has increased very rapidly during the last five
years. In 1854 we imported 282,943 gallons; in 1865
the quantity was 369,477 gallons; in 1856 it rose to
493,524; in 1857 there was a further increase to
654,837; and in the last year the quantity consumed in
the United Kingdom was 797,092 gallons. The value
of this commodity has increased during the period just
named from £49,357 to £178,559. It is the most
valuable export of the colony next to wool, and any
steps which may be taken for improving its quality or
adapting it . to English tastes deserves to meet with
every encouragement. —Cape and Natal News.,

CARRYING THE JOKE TOO FAR.TI.IO Courrier de
Lyon relates 'the following sad results of a practical
joke :—An apprentice of that city, who had been out
catching frogs last week, brought several home alive, and
to play lais brother a trick, put three of them in his bed.
In the middle of the night the frogs, finding the bed too
warm, tried to get out, and one of them happened to
crawl on the lad's face and awoke him. Feeling some.
thing cold and clammy on his cheek, the.lad was dread-
fully frightened, and leaped out of bed, calling for help.
When his parents came they. found' him lying on the
floor in strong convulsions, which were, however, re-
lieved by proper treatment, and the boy has since re-
sumed his usual occupation,• but has lost the faculty of
speech. . ,

THE APPALLING ACCIDENT AT WOLVERHAMPTON.—
On Wednesday evening the inquest was resumed on five
of the seven deceased who were killed by the pit acci-
dent at New Cross Colliery, Wednesfield Heath, near
that town. Evidence was given to show what were the
duties of the field engineer—namely, that he was em-
ployed solely to see to the safe working of, the engines,
and that-he was expected 'to' examine every morning,
before the,miners descended, engines that might have been
thrown out of gear during the night, but it could not be
shown that the field engineer had neglected to attend to
any complaints that had been made to him, until, at the
close of the inquiry, Johnson, one of the two engine
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nesaid that he had complained to Fisher, the field engineer,
that he had no spanner to screw down the bolts of the
carriage that, being properly fastened, kept the machinery
in gear ; and that he had also complained to the field
engineer that the block that formed an additional security
was not long enough. Fisher, he said, replied that he
would send down a carpenter, and have a block made of
the required length. The jury returned a verdict of
manslaughter against William Johnson, the engine-
tenter who had charge of the engine at the time of the
accident ; and they desired the coroner to severely
reprimand Fisher, for, although he was not legally
responsible, yet he was morally to blame for having per-
mitted the engine to work before he had examined it.
THE RAILWAYS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.—The
customary returns-of the number of persons engaged on
the railways of the United Kingdom has been printed by
order of the House of Commons. On the 30th of June,
1859, the day to which the returns in every case -relate,
the total number of persons employed on the railways
of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, was 156,245,
showing an increase over the equivalent number
for the preceding year of 8,823. The largest class em-
ployed is that of labourers, who number 56,937 ; the
artificers from the next largest class; numbering 28;358;
and after them come the porters and messengers, of
whom there are 18,548; the clerks numbering 9,736;
the plate-layers, 9,310 ; the guards and breaksmen,
3,973; the assistant engine-drivers and firemen, 3,779;
the engine-drivers, 3,735; the switchmen, 3,571 ; the
station-masters, 2,789; the foremen, 2,711; the police-
men and watchmen, 2,435 ; the gamekeepers, 2,330;
the inspectors and timekeepers, 1,339 ; the superin-
tendents, 655 ; the ticket collectors, 455 ; the secre-
taries and managers, 358; the engineers, 343 ; the
storekeepers, 301 ; the accountants and cashiers,
299 ; the draughtsmen, 219 ; and lastly, the trea-
surers, who number only 50 ; in addition to these
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dom, 993 miles of line in- course of construction ; and
authority had been given for 3,160 miles more, which
had not been commenced at the time to which the return
refers.

SUSPECTED MURDER IN GLASGOW.—On Tuesday
morning, about three o'clock, constable 67, of the south
side, found lying in a back court in Malta-street, Glas-
gow, a man in a state of insensibility, and bleeding from
a wound in the head. The constable ascertained that
the name of - the wounded man was George Mitchell,
residing at 2, Mathieson-street, where he had him forth-
with conveyed. The relatives, on examination, found
that a watch and some money were missing. from the
pockets of Mr. Mitchell. Dr. Stewart was in immediate
attendance, and- reported that the man was seriously
.injured. This opinion was soon confirmed, for the un-
fortunate man died at eight' chleek in the morning.
The deceased was about 50 years of 'age, and was fore-
man p.rinter in the Christiln News office. He was last
seen in company with a- woman about twelve o'clock
the previous night. In the course of Tuesday this
woman, whose name is Elizabeth Sodden or Wallace,
was apprehended in a public:house in Crown-street,
where she was drinking with her daughter and another
woman; and, on being searched, the deceased's watch,
keys, and other articles were found in her possession.

MURDER OF A SPANISH SAILOR IN
LONDON.

At the Thames Police Court, on Tuesday, Peter
Philip Perio, a Portuguese seaman, was examined on a
charge of wilful murder. The man who is supposed to
'have met his death by foul means was named Jose Rico,
a Spaniard, who came to this country in the ship Lion.
It appeared that on Friday last a black man,`named
John Cole, was charged with stealing a quantity ofwear-
ipg apparel, the property of the deceased and another -
foreigner named Phillippe, in a boarding-house for foreign
seamen, kept by a Greek named John Seymour, whose
nephew was murdered in the same house a few years
ago by one of his lodgers. On the evening of the day on
which the charge of robbery was heard at the above
court, the deceased Rico, who had given evidence of the
robbery, was found dead in his bed, with marks of great
violence on his body externally, and with nine of his ribs
broken. The murder is supposed to have been com-
mitted, not from motives of revenge in consequence
of the evidence he gave at this court, but for the put-
pose' of robbing him of his money. Marnio Martino, a
Spaniard, and a " Portuguese Brazilian," absconded
from Seymour's house just before RicO was found dead
in bed, and great suspicion attaches to them. When the
prisoner was apprehended, he was in bed, within a few feet
-of Rico, when the latter was found dead. A man was
going upstairs towards the bedroom, and found a hat on
the stairs. The man called out, " Whose is this ?" to
which the prisoner replied directly, "It belongs to
Rico." There were contusions on the body of the de-
ceased, besides the fracture of nine of his ribs, indicating
peat violence, and that he had been jumped upon.
There were marks upon his face, and his nose appeared
to have been pinched as if to stop his breathing. Sey-
mour, the landlord, stated that the deceased was in the
yard at the rear of the boarding-house, at five o'clock, '
and at seven he was found dead in bed. The prisoner
was the only other person in the house at the time,
and his bed, as just stated, was close to that of the mur-
dered man. Mr. Yardley (the sitting magistrate) said
this was especially a case for the police to investigate
and collect evidence. There was not a spark of evidence
against the prisoner—nothing upon which he could de-
tain.him for an hour. The prisoner, when asked if the
hat belonged to the deceased, said " Yes." That was in
his favour. The running away of the other foreigners
did. not affect the prisoner. He could not detain any
man in custody without evidence, and the prisoner must
be discharged..

FOREIGN OPINIONS OP ENGLISH WoNEN.—From a
recent number of the Etoqe Beige, a journal conducted
With considerable talent, we.extract the subjoined para-
graph :—" At the last Chantilly races, a lady well known
in the fashionable circles at Paris, inoculated with the
English passion for betting on horses, lost 15,000 f.
Het husband, ignorant that she had any stake on the
race, entered the grand stand in great glee, having
won 20,000 f. on Black Prince ; observing his wife did
not partake of his joy at this good fortune, he offered to
share his gains with her, upon which elle avowed her"
loss. Like a kind husband, he immediately paid it, saying
however, ' I must take a house for you madam, in the
country, there is no longer any question about that, and
never let me hear of your betting again.' In England,
women who possess an independent fortune, bet
like the men. The daughter of a great English poet,
Ada, the sole fruit of his unfortunate marriage, fell a
victim to her passion for betting. Having staked an
amount of £BO,OOO on the Derby, she lost three quarters
of it (or 1,500,000 f.) all her personal fortune. It was
her ruin: her husband, inexorable, allowed her a small
pension, upon which she retired to an estate in Rutland-
shire. Six months after this exile, the poor lady died of
despair."

A FRENCH MOTHER BILOWNRIGI3.--The Lyons Tri-
bunal of Correctional Police three days back tried a
silk winder, named Tronel, and one of her workwomen,
named Darout, for a series of atrocious cruelties exer-
Cised on the apprentices of the former. Their offence
was brought to light by the death of one of their victims.
On the 22nd December the commissary of police of the
quarter was informed that a girl named- Rose Pivat, 14
years of age, had just been killed by accidentally falling
from a fourth floor window. On his proceeding to the
spot to inquire into the cause of the accident. he was told -
that the poor _girl overbalanced herself ,while looking
down into the court-yard; but on interrogating the de-
ceased's fellow-apprentices the fact-was- fully established
that the poor girl had thrown herself from the window in
a fit of despair, brought on by the cruelties of the two
prisoners. Witnesses proved that the prisoner Tronel
was in the habit of shamefully ill-treating her appren-
tices, and several of the latter deposed that their mistress
gave them such bad food that they could not eat it.
She beat them with sticks, pricked them with needles,
and tortured them in every way she could think of. The,
prisoners had one day attempted to seat the deceased's
sister on a red-hot iron stove, but the girl's desperate
struggles and cries made them at last desist for fear of
alarming the neighbours. The tribunal sentenced the
prisoner Tronel to the maximum of punishment, five
yearimprisoment, and her workwoman to one year's
imprisonment.

THE GOOD Dueirrss.—The anstitutionnel has some
eulogistic observations on the character of the late '
Grand Duchess of Baden from which we extract the
following :---" When seated on the Grand Ducal throne,
the august Princess never forget either' France or
the illustrious family to which she belonged. When
the days of trial came she showed herself 'superior
to adversity. Faithful to all her duties and all
her friendships, she was seen to despise the dangers •
to which both she and the' Ducal family exposed
themselves, and protested energetically against the
vexatious measures which harassed the exiled relatives
of the Emperor. She hastened, not in secret, but
openly, to console Queen Hortense, and to evince ber
respect at a time when a jealous and mistrustful -
policy compelled the mother of Napoleon 111. to
quit successively. Geneva, Aix, and Constance, .and to .
accept-an obscure hospitality in Thurgau. The popu-
lations have far more sympathy and admiration for
noble sentiments than is generally suatelpserspiassotsahenoc'ret-ii,
onapanydosithoeten
Duchess Stephanie soon experienced it. Her courageous
conduct, her devoted attachment to the proscribed
family, far from injuring her in the estimation eUthe
German populations, increased the respect which had
before surrounded her. She had also made subjects of
her own, and the mothers and the wives whom she
edified, and the numerous poor whose wants she relieved,
had justly surnamed her 'the Good Duchess,' a surname
now popular in Baden."
STEAM-SHIP COLLISION IN THE THAMES.—On Wed-
nesday forenoon a very alarming collision took place on
the Thames, off Deptford Dockyard, between the Leith
and London steam-ship Gertrude, and the General Steam
sNhaipvigwantsiocnut Cdoomwpnatnoyb'selsotweatmheer
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tially sunk before she could put ashore. The Gertrude
is a powerful iron screw steamer, and left the Iron-
gate wharf, at. the Tower, in the course of the
morning, with an Oh tide, for Leith, in charge of
a Trinity-house pilot. It is stated that the weather,
although fine overhaul, was somewhat hazy, and on arriv-
ing off the eastern end of the dockyard at Deptford the •
Holland steamer,. from Ostend, was observed coming up
against tide. oth vessels were proceeding at about
three-quarters speed, but whether the regulations of
the Admiralty in respect of vessels approaching each
other were complied with has not been ascertained.
It is clear, however, that they kept - on their course
and came in most fearful collision with each other,
the Gertrude's stem completely burying itself in the
starboard bow of the Holland, and cutting her down
below the water's edge. There were a number of
passengers on board each vessel, and their cries for
assistace were heard from both sides of the river. OIL
the vessels getting clear, and the extent of injury which
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