Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-01 00:00:00

atisartantous Rants.

LEFT-OFF CLOTHES WANTED, for Exportation, (Ladies',
Gentlemen's, and Children's,) for which the highest price
will be given in cash. • Ladies and Gentlemen waited on at
any hour in all parts of Lancashire and Cheshire.—Address
Mr. or Mrs. Jackson, 47, Brownlow-hill.
N.B.—Naval and Military Clothes of all kinds bought. tfo

To Moranns AND Nunsßs.—To supersede the tardy use of
the fine tooth comb in the nursery, and to cleanse the hair and
skin, preventing ardmalculm, obtain Greer's Patent Anti-Vermin
Lotion (perfumed), 3d., 6d., and ls., at the Anti-Vermin Office,
49, Brownlow-hill.
It is a well-known maxim that " time is money "—the terms
are relative; so to says en 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 irr.:2. Good
Pen Holders, 2d. per dozen.
Ho r.Lowav's PILLS the most powerful medicine for the cure of
female complaints. After many years' experience, it is incon-
testably proved that there is no medicine equal to Holloway's
Pills for the cure of diseases incidental to females; their in-
vigorating and purifying properties render them safe and
invaluable. They may be taken by females of all ages for any
disorganisation or irregularity of the system, speedily removing
the cause, thus restoring the sufferer to robust health. As a
family medicine they are unequalled, and may be taken by old
and young, restoring health and energy after all other means
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AN UNPROFITABLE VOYAGE.--The bark Dorothy,
bound to Quebec, put into the Motherbank on Friday,
, forty-four days out from Southampton, with loss of two
topsails, mizen staysail, jib, and main .course, having
put back from lat. 48.22, long. 27'20.
LORD PALMERSTON'S INVISIBLE REFORM BILL.—
Ministers are engaged in considering their Reform Bill,
it is well that they should give their best attention to it,
and not come to Parliament, as their colleague, Sir
Charles Wood used to do, with a bill, to be made by
the house itself. Let Lord John Russell be able to say
that, "so long back; sir, as October last, I laid the
details of this bill before my friends." Let us know
that, whether the bill be good or bad (and it is diffi-
cult to imagine how a measure framed by dissentient
politicians can fain to be unsatisfactory), it is, at all events,
the bill of the Cabinet. As for Lord Palmarston it is his
metier to joke about most things, but never did man
carry out so bold and prolonged a joke as he did about his
bill. Never was any "slodge" so like that of a certain
gifted but indolent dramatist, who, having had the
money in advance, and having exhausted every device
of delay, was driven to declare that he had written the
-play. The manager in eestacies hustled off the author
to dinner, with the alleged play in his pocket... Wine
went freely round, and then the dramatist was entreated
to read a scene or so. Compelled to yield, he produced
his MS., and hurriedly explaining a sort of plot, to
the confusion of the ideas of his hearers, gave them sbme
dialogue with which they were enchanted. But one
of the guests happening to rise to stir the fire, glanced
over the author's shoulder, and saw that he was reading
from blank paper. The discoverer kept thc secret, but
the author, once released, could never again be brought
,to book, and—the play was never written. Lord Pal-
merston is much too good natured a man to mind being
told that this was about the way he served the country
with an invisible Reform Bill, whereof, when his suc-
cessors came into office, not a scrap could be found. He
must not try this over again, however, and as the Reform
Bilfis not exactly his, this time, but his Foreign Secre-
tary's, there is a tolerable certainty that we shall get
something. We unaffectedly hope that it may be a
statesman-like measure, but grievously distrust the pro-
cess by which it is to be got together. —Bath Chronicle.
A RASE OF HEARTLESS IMPOSTURE.—On Saturday,
a young and good-looking female, accompanied by Ser-
geant Goodwin of the N. division of police, applied at
the Worship-street police-coUrt, for assistance under the
following distressing circumstances :Applicant stated
her name was Holmes, 'was a native of Preston, in Lan-
cashire, and that about .a year since, while residing with
her parents at JO, James-street, North-road, in that
town, a person of gentlemanly exterior and address
engaged offices at their house for, as he alleged,
business transactions in' the. silk trade on a large
scale. These representations were apparently borne
. out, and. after the lapse of a few months' he
became a suitor for her hand. On the folleWing June
he started' for London' ,it being arranged that; the should
be married there, and subsequently she was induced to
senda quantity of furniture, amounting to MO, a gold
watch and, appendages, together with her entire ward-
robe directed to be left- at the railway terminus in his
name. From that moment she had not heard anything
of him ; the distress of mind to which, she had been sub-
jected was. very great, for it was-now manifest that she
had been the dupe of a most unprincipled scoundrel, who,
under pretextof marriage had thus obtained the property
mentioned. She came to London by the advice of her
friends and had learnt this fact and during her absence
her father had died. She was penniless, and besought
the means of returning home. Any doubt that might
have been entertained as to the• truth of this sad story
was set at rest by the sergeant of police mentioned, who
assured the 'magistrate he had received communica-'
tions direct from the officers. of Preston confirma-
tory of the young woman's statement, and a
paper was handed to the magistrate, in which
the mayor of that town was mentioned as
heading a subscription for affording the means
of defraying applicant's expenses to London, in
pursuit of the scoundrel who had duped her.
During four days, he (the sergeant)
goods, the result?: of
had been codes-
vouring to trace:
him and the g
which inquiries were these-7
sh
eg:o New North-road,ods were taken from
the railway to 24, GoPs.lll- r'ret
where the fellow was lodging under the name he had
given at Preston—" Victor Henry Pitrays,"—but that
he soon after decamped with them. He was,.moreover,
one of a most notorious gang of swindlers The magis-
trate commiserated the position, of the young
and instantly ordered her the, requested,agk

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