Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-23 00:00:00

ITALY.

ttemade,ade, that
i)
In PARMA, Sept. 22.
contradiction to the assertions that have been
under the government of the
riaze
ucties, ma Parma,
dintained. neutrality during the war,
Parma
publishes a despatch from the

Late minister of foreign affairsto the representative
of Parma at Vienna, dated Alay 26, which proves

contrary. The same journal promises the
Yablication of Other documents of equal and even
e
importance, concerning the rule of the

30118 in the Duchies, saying that such pub-
°xis are rendered necessary for the refutation

ut statements made by their defenders.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily
84378 it is believed that the speech of the King of
Sardinia to the Romagna deputation, will not
differ in substance from that made to the Tuscans.
Ile Will not separate the cause of the Leger
from that of the other provinces of Central Ita 3 .

THE RUSSIAN

ARMY.

A letter from Poland states that, in consequence
of the war in the Crimea, and the interruption of
recruiting, the Russian army has declined to
about one-half what it was

The battalions are

raised to their force effective of 1,000 men

d the new recruitment will take place in

November

The following appeared in a portion of our impression
of yesterday :

THE FRENCH COURT

LREUTER' S TELEGRAM.]

„"l ISIARRITZ, Sept. 21.—1 t is asserted that the King of
e liel2ials Prince Richard Metternich, and Count
Walewski 'will prolong their stay here until the depar-
ture of the Imperial Court, which will take place to-
wards the end of the month.

PRINCE PONIATOWSKI

LREUTEIeS TELEGRAM.]
—Prince Poniatowski left Florence

TRIN, Se)t.
to-daUy for Biarritz

LORD COWLEY.
)recl d Cowley is not at Biarritz. It is said he is in-
by the English Cabinet to remain at Paris for

"On the 6th May, Lieut. Hobson pitched his tent
h
beside a large cairn upon Point Victory. Lying amongst
some loose stones which had fallen from the top of
cairn was found a small tin case, containing a record,
the substance of which is briefly as follows : This cairn
was built by the Franklin Expedition upon the assumed
site of James Ross's pillar, which had not been found.
The Erebus and Terror! spent their first winter at
Beechy Island, after having ascenced Wellington
Channel to lat. 77 deg. N., and returned by_ the west
side of Cornwallis Island. On the 12th September,
1846, they were beset iu lat. 70 05 N., and lon. 98 23W.
"Sir J. Franklin died on the 11th June, 1847. On
the 22nd April, 1848, the ships were abandonede fiveleagues to the N.N.W. of Port Victory, and th
sur-
vivors,a hundred and five in number, landed here
under the command of Captain Crozier. This paper
was dated 25th April, 1848, and upon the following
day they intended to start for the Great Fish River.
The total loss' by deaths in the expedition up to this
date was nine officers and fifteen men. A vast quantity
of elothing,and stores of all sorts lay strewed about, as
if here every article was thrown away which could
possibly be dispensed with ; pickaxes, shovels, boats,__
cooking utensils, iron work, rope, blocks, canvect a
dp
circle, a sextant engraved " Frederic Hornby, R.N.," dip
small medicine chest, oars, &c. .
"A few miles southward, across Back Bay, .a second
record was found, having been deposited by Lieutenat
Gore and M. des Vceux in May, 1847. It afforded no
additional information.
" When in lat. 69 deg. 09 N., and lon. 99 deg. 27
W., we came to a large boat, discovered by Lieutenant
Hobson a few days previously, as- his notice informed
4-11M113`
It is reportedkßAT .____..... me. It appears that this boat had been intended for the
lONS FOR CHINA. ascent of the Fish River, but was abandoned apparently
Watt, and th at
PlYrnouth that the C sar Jamesships,the sledge upon
.Alexandria for teh
szerland route to -
Agatuemnon will convey'n troops' to upon a return journey to the
which she was mounted being pointed in that direction.
The first of thee She measured 28 feet in length, by 7-1- feet wide, west
the ohines uadron intended China. • most carefully fitted, and.made as light as possible, bu
left Plya,,e, the screw-steamer for service against the sledge was of solid oak, and almost as heavy as the
. , uth for her destinat: gun vessel Pioneer, six, boat.
China large detacinne
will shod
yesterd
from the head
n.t will shortly b aY• i 4 A largequantity of clothing was found .
within her,
establishment, at Chaticluarters °f the Ite despatched to k letons. One of these lay in the after
also two human s e a
pile of clothing ; the other,
panics, now serving inia_r.2to raise the BthYlal Engineers' part of the boat, under
Chin raise
to their re ‘•
nd 10th corn- which was much more . disturbed, probably by animals,
quired numbers.
AMERICAN R was found in the bow. Five pocket watches, a quantity
AlLyyreligious books,
that forks, and a few
Satterthwaite's circular states AY s. of silver
harvest in the United States is that were also d but journals, pocket-books, found ;no 'aa abundantarticle of clothing. Two.
double-
beneficial influence on the is already exercisin names upon an
stood upright against the boat's side,
Western railways are moving great interest. clae barrelled gu
thehad been placed eleven years before.
'wheat, which is telling on the trafficgreat quantitiesof precisely as. e
will returns d One barrel in each was
loaded and cocked ; there was
effect be much more apparentwhen and an the ammunition in abundance also s. or • . _
301 b 401bs of choco-
vnrn has to be moved. The th .
passenger traffic doefi
e Indian late,and tobacco. Fuel was not wanting ; a
some tea
not ' drift tree lay within 100 yards of the boat. "

Le present

PRANCE AND SAVOY.
[REITTER'S TELEGRAM.]
tER
410i,Sept. 22.—The Sardinian Government has
c, ---essed' a circular to the Great Powers, denying the
,11;11:7t. of the cession of Savoy to France, and declaring
report to be entirely void of foundation.

A THE ITALIAN DUCHIES.
tr,A corrected report was circulated in Paris, according
fta,hieh the Count of Flanders is to have the three
'lan Duchies, and the Archduke Maximilian, Venetia,
nth
a separate
.constitution.

TheRECRUITING FOR THE POPE.
r .
rn indtpenclente of Turin, states that the Pied-
powers Government has sent a protest to the Great
Austria in the toleration and secret aid afforded by
a in the recruiting of soldiers for the Pope.

THE FRENCH NAVY.
"g
_ The correspondent of the Times says the increase
nature oing on in the French navy is on a scale and of a
‘i,. inexplicable, except on the supposition that the
ur,w7l!rnment contemplates as not very remote a struggle.e
twenty or with some
great naval power. There are now buildinp,
sail of the line, w
. r
.orders to be built, in the French dockyards,
pleted.in
eighteen months.
hich are expected to be com-

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

. -
BANKRUPTCY COURT.—No business of the least
interest was transacted at the Bankruptcy Court
yesterday.
THE INDIAN QUEEN.—The brig Contest, which has
arrived at this port from Valparaiso, brings the follow-
ing passengers of 'the ship Indian Queen, which had
been dismasted and damaged, through collision with an
iceeberg, on her' passage from Melbourne to Liverpool,
viz.:—Henry Coubery, Christopher Warren. and Thos.
Mathby, in the cabin ; and 73 in the steerage.
• DEATH FROM A SCALD.—Edward Joseph Berry, a
child nine months old, residing with his parents at No.
4 Court, Walter-street, was sitting on his mother's knee
at breakfast, on Tueiday morning, when he pulled over
a cup of boiling tea, which burned his legs and arms.
He died of convulsion's on the following day. At the
inquest yesterday:, a verdict of " Accidentally scalded"
was returned.
FIRE THIS MORNING.—About three o'clock this mor-
ning, a fire was discovered in the premises of Mr.
Dwyer, fruit-merchant, in Houghton-street. An alarm
was immediately given; and Mr. Hewitt, with a plen-
tiful supply of hose, from Hatton Garden, and Mr.
Barrett, with the West of England fire-engine, were
speedily on the spot. From the prompt measures ad-
opted, the fire was speedily extinguished, although at
firstit appeared very threatening.
LARGE ARRIVAL OF AUSTRALIAN GOLD. The
" White Star" clipper Blue Jacket, Captain Clark,
arrived in:Liverpool yesterday, from Melbourne, after a
rapid passage of eighty days, the fastest passage which
has been made for many months past. The Blue Jacket
has brought 36,000 ounces of gold, valued at £144,000;
she has also brought 11,000 sovereigns, besides a large
and valuable cargo consisting chiefly of wool and hides,
together with other articles of colonial produce. Besides
her valuable freight, the Blue Jacket brought eighty-six
passengers, of whom seven were in the saloon.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—George Murray,
a labourer, was engaged at No. 3 Warehouse, Stanley
Dock, on Wednesday. He had deposited some goods on
the third floor of the warehouse, and was putting the
empty trucks on the top of the stage to go down to the
quay. The cage was in motion on the descent, when
the deceased attempted to get into it, but it had got
down about' two and a-half. feet. When he seen this,
he.laid hold of the side of the flooring, and then the top
of the cage came ilown and jammed his head between it
and the warehouse. The cage was stopped, and the

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deceased put on it. He received severe injuries, and
was taken to the Northern Hospital, where he died that
night. At the inquest yesterday, a verdict of " Acci-
dental death" was returned, _ _ _

The following patents, ' • amongst others, passed the
great seal during the week ending September 20th,
1859 :—A. G. Hutchinson, West Derby, for " Improve-
ments for counteracting damp in buildings ; " T. W.
Miller, for " Improvements in blocking or securing
ships and other vessels whilst being removed, examined,
•

or repaired;
apparatus for grope:
provements in rotary engines
provements in steam-boilers, an
W. Sinnock, for " Improvements in submarine and
subterranean electric telegraph cables, and in machinery
for the manufacture thereof; " W. M. Smith, for
" The construction of fare-boxes, for the prevention of
fraud on the part of drivers, conductors, &c." A com-
munication' from abroad by J. B. 'Howson' of New
Orleans.—Calizmunicated from the Fatent Offices, 4,
Clayton-square„ Liverpool. •
SHOCKING DEATH.—At the coroner's court yester-
day, an inquest was held on the body of Frederick
Hobhouse, a millwright at the Faulkner -street
Mills. The deceased and a fellow-workman were down
in the well of the mill. The other workman was
hoisted up in safety, and the deceased was in the act of
being hoisted up, when, within fifteen yards of the
top, be cried out—" Oh, Jan, I can't hold on." He
was, however, requested to keep a good hold. He
replied "all right;"- but the next moment he fell from
the saddle of the rope and was dashed to the bottom.
Assistance was immediately obtained, and a search was
made at the bottom of the well. He was brought to
the surface, but life was quite extinct. His spine was
broken, as were also both legs, and his skull was lite-
rally dashed to pieces. Death must have been almost
instantaneous. A verdict of accidental death was re-
turned.
WORKHOUSE COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting o
the Workhouse Committee was held yesterday forenoon,
Mr. Chuchwarden Cropper in the chair. The other
members of the committee present werej—The Rev. Rector
Campell, Messrs. Svred, Owen, Scott, Critchley, Smith,
Byford, Broom, and Williams.—The different trades-
men's accounts were read over and passed.—The
Governor's report showed. that the total number of
paupers in the house was 1,704, being a decrease of 41.

,inn vesse

" T. Ivory, for " Im-

' • 0
and 337 as compared with the corresponding week Of
last -year.—The Medical Officer's returns showed that
the number of deaths in-the house, during the week was
10, namely, 2 men, 3 women, and 5 infants under two
years of acre. -The total number of sick paupers under
treatment last week was 470 ; new cases since, 111;
cured and discharged, 112 ; now remaining under treat-
ment, 459, including one case of small-pox, 19 fever,
and 17 cases of itch. The number of paupers relieved
in the vagrant sheds during the week ending the 17th,
was 160 males, 41 females, and 16 children ; total, 217 ;
showing a decrease during the week of 80 persons, and
as compared with the corresponding week of last year,
a decrease of 76 persons. The number relieved last
week was less than in any previous week since the sheds
were-erected.