Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-22 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

A letter from St. Petersburg, dated the 13th
inst., in the Nvrd, says :
I can now announce to you as positive the proximate
departure of the-Emperor. His Majesty will embark on
the 3rd of June for Kiel, with the Empress and the Grand
Dake Michael. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince
Gortschakeff, Ceunt Adlerberg, and Prince Dolgorouki will
accompany their Majesties. From Kiel -their Majesties
will proceed to Virildbtad and Kissingen, where the Em-
press will sojourn for some time. The Emperor is ex-
petted to return to St. Peter&burg in July with the Empress
Mother, the Grand Duke Michael, and the Princess Cecilia
of Baden. In this case the marriage of the Grand Duke
will be celebrated at Peterhoff in July.

TEE TRAGEDY ON BOARD THE MARTHA JANE —Th is
case was mentioned in the House of Loris on Friday
night by the Earl of Shiftesbury. We have heard that
Mr. Tyndall, the Board of Trade solicitor in this town, has
been 'instructed to prosecute in.the case on behalf of the;
board. Oa Saturday the depositions in the case were read
over, and a full committal was put on the prisoners.
EDUCATION !—A little learning is a dangerous thing.
The following is a verb. et lit. copy of a note sent to some
one, who advertised for some one else—we don't know
what to do in a morning paper :—" Deer Sar I hoffers
my Sarviases has U as hadwirtissed inn i Kan ghet
gud rafrancis Iff Rhequirred iff U giv mee a thriall i will
doo the beast I cann 2 plaise U soo noo moore at preshent
frown yoares affecthionately (If thee not a
whisperer, we don't know what is !)
Li,utenavt-Colonel Rogers, commanding the Enrolled
Pensioners of this district, has received two French war
medals from his Royal Highness, the Commander-in-Chief,
.for presentation to two pensioners now residing in Liver-
pool, who particularly distinguished themselves daring the
late war. Advantage is intended to be taken of the force
being assembled for drill during the week commencing
22nd instant, to present them in the presence of their
comrades.

ACCIDENTS.—On Saturday evening Mr. Robert Clough,
in-door superintendent of detective Police, met with rather
a severe accident. He was passing the corner of a street
in the locality of Lime-street, when some person who was
in pursuit of a thief ran against him and knocked him
down, his knee coming on the kerbstone, the joint was
much hurt, and he will not, probably, for some days be
able to leave his nom. Michael Clarey, a dock labourer,
fell into the bold of a ship in the Sandon Dock on Satur-
day, and received a scrims wound in the head. He lies
at present in the Northern Hospital. Bridges Reed, the
nook of the ship Norva, had his leg broken on Saturday
en the ship Monarch, in consequence of a drunken fellow
named Ryan, knocking him down with a cask, which broke
the limb. He is in the Northern Hospital.

IRON Slur BUILDING. —Mr. John Clare's offer to cor-
struct vessels to go to Australia in thirty days, has excited
not only great attention in this country, but likewise in
our trans narine possessions. A practical engineer (Mr.
Ross, of Montreal), states that after several experiments
and continued research, he has constructed a working model
of a vessel which will create an entire change in the system of
naval architecture. A ship built on his principle, he avers,
can perform the voyage to Australia in sixteen days, and
will not sink. Should this plan be practically carried
out, the commerce of the world would increase a hundred
fold. We live, at present, in an age of wonders. Rail-
roads, less than a quarter of a century since, were doubted,
and the existence and application of the electric telegraph
was looked upon as a fable. The above statement may ap-
pear startling ; and we must confess that we have our doubts
as to the practicability of it being carried out. The ques-
tion is one of great importance, and demands investiga-
tion ; and we trust that those who are interested in our
marine will direct their attention to these improvements,
as should they be found feasible, they will be another
wonder of this marvellous country.—Mining Journal, 20th
June, 1857.
EXTRAORDINARY INVENTION.—This is decicedly the
patent age for inventions. and one of the most useful and
ingenious inventions we ever saw has just been patented
by Mr. Levy, of Birmingham, and from its efficiency_ must
come into universal use. It is called "the cork com-
pressor and bottle corker," and as its name imports, is
for corking bottles. It is a piece of hard wood about six
inches long, divided in the centre by a hinge. The cir-
cumference is, at the centre, about three inches, tapering
down to about an inch. The lower_ part is hollow, and
a piston is fitted in the upper portion above the hinge.
Into the lower cavity a cork is put, the hinge is then closed.
The lower portion, which is scooped out so, as to fit the top
of a bottle, is laid on a bottle, the piston is then smartly
tapped on the head, and it 'shoots the cork with unerring
certaiitty into the neck of the bottle, and level with the
top, and with more firmnese than any known operation at
present in nee. The whole operation of corking a bottle
of any size .14,91,
,any sized cork, does not, occupy a
second of time, and IN matter how large the cork, it is
compressed to fit the bottle in its operation downward,
and it is utterly impossible for the bottle to be broke:,
as all the pressure cotnes ort the, little machine itself.
It can be carried in the pn4et, and ;is most decidedly
an astonishing apparatus,