Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-25 00:00:00

avowed any connection with the journal in qucs•

tion, and the Patric of Tuesday, in an articlE

pursuant to order, says that it expr

;es only its

own views.

The following appeared in a part of our impression

of yesterday

FRANCE.
REDUCTION OF THE ARMY
[REUTER'S TELEGRAM]
ft • 1 •

The Monitotr,-of this. morning,

PARIS, Wednesday.-
contains the following :
"The Emperor having ordered that the. army be
placed from a War to a peace footing, _-
War has given orders that, from tl:.e 20th of September,
those men should return to their homes whose term of
service expires in 1859 ; moreover, furloughs of three
months will be allowed to those who are in that class of
exceptional cases provided for by the statute of 1832,
and the same has also been granted to the men who can
prove that they are indispensable for the suppo'•`
their family."
The Moniteur further announces that
nard has been elected deputy for Lille

the Minister of

M. Kolbe Ber-

THE ITALIAN DUCHIES.
[REUTER'S TELEGRAM.]
MODENA, August 23.—The National Assembly, in
its sitting of to-day, unanimously voted the- following
decrees:—

Ist. The confirmation of the dictatorship of Signor
Farina, giving him full power to contract a loan of
millions of liras.
2nd. The erection of a monument to commemorate
the votes of the Assembly deciding the decheance of
Francis the sth, and the annexation of Modena to
Piedmont.

3rd. That the volunteers who served in the late cam-
paign for the independence of Italy, have deserved well
of their country.

4th. That the Dictator be charged to negotiate with
the several powers for the restoration of the political
prisoners, which Francis V. carried away with him on

•
leaving the country. •
The Assembly was afterwards prorogued

RUSSIA.
•
The Invalidc Russo has received a warning for the
provoking tone in which it has of late discussed several
political questions. Special instructions also have been
given to the Censors as to the mode of exercising their

functions

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

A CURIOUS FACT

For six. and tij.l.ty years past

different fire stations, yet, singular to say, not one o
them has ever been used during the whole of that period

THE AFRICAN MAlLS.—Yesterday afternoon, the
screw-steamer Armenian, Captain Blow, sailed for the
West Coast of Africa. She will call at Madeira and
Teneriffe. She carries out the monthly mails, and about
thirty passengers for the different ports of call.
THE CANADIAN MAILS.—The Montreal Ocean Steam-
ship Company's royal mail steamer North Briton, Capt.
Grange, sailed for Quebec and Montreal yesterday after-

noon, with the weekly Canadian mails arid about seventy
passengers ; including the Rev. Mr. Gibbs, the tutor of
the Prince of Wales, and Sir Henry Holland.
AN EAST INDIAMAN ASHORE.—Yesterday the Fairee
Queen, from Glasgow to Ceylon, went ashore on Arklow
Bank. At our last advices great efforts were being
made to get her off. Her cargo was being discharged
into lighters, and a tug-boat had been sent round from
Dublin to render all the assistance possible.
BA.NIERIIPTCY CoußT' YESTERDAY.--1 240 Robert
Proctor.—This bankrupt passed his final examination,
and the certificate meeting was fixed for Monday, the
19th September.—ln re Henry Wilson—This bankrupt
also passed his final examination, and the certificate
meeting was fixed for Tuesday, the 20th of September.
Mr. William Henry Ward, an American, has just
patented an invention, which, if successful, will prove
of vast importance to the commercial world. He has
devised a new code of signal telegraphs for the
' ocean marine service, by which, it is anticipated,
intelligence to and from America and England will
be obtained in rive days. *According to • his scheme,
a steamer leaves New York, say on 'Wednesday.,
arrives off Cape Race on the Sunday following, and
receives from the lighthouse there- a telegraphic sum-
mary of proceedings at New York on the previous day.
Next Friday, the steamer will, under ordinary circum-
stances, reach Cape Clear, and will signal the intelligence
which may then be transmitted by the electric wires to
Liverpool and the other great commercial ports of

WARRINGTON AND
RAILWAY CO?

'early mee

STOCKPORT

IPANY

(ITT A TRAT AN

the prop:

rintrton and Stockport Railway Company was held at

the boa:

Esc., the el

Mr. Kirkman, the

:h it appear

of the Warrington an

ad the report, from

,Stockport Railway to the LOT

has received the royal asse

this act, the shareholders of the Ward:

art .ltailwa

Eton and toc1:-.

NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

convocati'm to the provirt

receiv=ed a malori

Her Majesty the qieen,

that has occ

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

arage of. Kilmc

Rev. RiAard Hamilton, M.A

CONVOCATIO

who was instituted to

tor for the archdeaconry of Lew

new el

COURT AND OFFICIAI

;we candi-
Sir Henry
and Vicar

his opponeß

NTELLIGENCI

is Royal Highness th

Prince Colisori, the royal family, and the- ladies and
gentlemen .of the court, arrived at Gosport on Tuesday
evening at about twenty minutes to six o'clock. The
royal party embarked on board the Fairy, and proceeded
to Osborne amidst the customary salutes of the garrison,
the ships in harbour, and at Spithead.
Her Majesty and his Royal HighneSs the Prince
Consort, their Royal Highnesses the Prince Alfred,
Princess Helena, and Princess Louisa left the Pavilion
at Aldershott on Tuesday morning, and again visited
the entrenched camp. They remained inspecting the
defences thrown up, and were present during the
manoeuvres executed.

The Queen, Prince, and Royal Family left the Royal
Pavilion in the afternoon, and returned to Osborne.

Lord Brougham is at present staying at Tynemouth,
enjoying the fresh breezes of the North Sea, which
sweep that headland. It is the intention of several of
the mechanics' institutes and working mens' institutes
on the Tyne to present athlresses to his lordship.
The Emperor of Austria has just entered on his twenty-
ninth year, having been born on August 18, 1830.

Count Victor Wimpffen, lieutenant in the Austrian
navy, son of the Austrian general of that name, has just
married the daughter of Baron de Sina, the banker,
receiving, with the bride a fortune of 25,000,000 francs.

The iron. Miss Edina Campbell, daughter of Lady
Stratheden, will shortly be married to the Rev. Mr.
Duckworth, son of Sir J. T. Duckworth; Bart.

The number of yersons at the Forester's fete, at the
Crvstal Palace, yesterday, was 62,343, the largest con-
ed there o

AN EXCITING DUEL.—A correspondent of the New
York Timov gives the following particulars of an affair
of honour between the lion. Sylvester Mowry, delegate
from Arizona, and E. E. Cross, editor of the Ilrizoniaii.
The duel was fought near Tabac, in Arizona. The cor-
respondent says : "They fought with Burnside rifles, at
forty paces. Three shots were exchanged, without effect.
Upon the fourth round, the cap on Mowry's rifle did not
explode, while Cross's ball whistled harmlessly past his
antagonist. Mowry held his rifle still levelled, as an in-
dication that he had not had his shot, and many, not
unders'tanding the code, supposed that he designed trying
it again. Several grasped their pistols, as if to shout him
down, and there were cries of 'Hold your fire!' • Don't
shoot, Mowry !" Cross stood perfectly-calm, awaiting
the result. Mr. Mercer (Mowry's second) advanced,
when Mowry lowered his rifle and handed it to his
second. They still claimed their shot as a right under
the code. Mr. Cross unhesitatingly expressed his
willingness to grant it, but his second •demurred.
After conferring •with several gentlemen familiar with
the code, who agreed with Mr. Mowry that he was
entitled to the shot, Captain Donaldson (Cross's second)
acquiesced, and Mr. Cross, handing him his rifle,
folded his arms, apparently unconcerned, and faced
his antagonist. At this stage of the proceedings,
the spectators became terribly excited. Many, per-
Imps a majority, thought it unfair, and some spoke
of putting a summary stop t' the whole affair ; but,
upon learning that those present, supposed to •be best
acquainted with the duello, had declared him entitled to
it, they reluctantly fell back. At the word, Mr. Mowry
fired in the air, and declared himself satisfied. Cross
had stood directly facing hilt, not knowing that he could
rely upon his generosity to decline firing upon an un-
armed foe, fully expecting death, and yet not a nerve
• trembled—not a single evidence of fear was displayed.
Tears sprang into his eyes, and all enmity vanished be-
fore such an exhibition. Mr. Mercer (Mowry's second)
crossed the field, and, taking Cross by the hand, in-
formed him that Mr. Mowry was satisfied. They started
forward to meet Mowry, who was advancing, and after
shaking hands, they stood for some minutes to receive
the congratulations of their friends.
THE PART LIFE OF SMETHURST.—The convict who at
present lies
.in a position so perilous is the.son of a small
schoolmaster, and was born in the neighbourhood of
Coventry in the year 1804. There is, however, no
pretext for the allegation that his father was tutor to
the Earl of Dysart, nor does there appear to be
any better foundation for his assertion that he
is a regularly educated medical man. According
to his own account, as detailed in a boarding-house
where lie lived, he married his present wife from
feelings of gratitude for her attention to him when ill
during the period of his career as a medical student ;
but there is no proof that he originally was more than
a chemist, or possesses a higher professional degree than
that of the Apothecaries' Company and a German
degree. lie undoubtedly, however, carried on medical

'adjoining London. Bat it was at Ramsgate where
he practised longest and was best known ; he carried
on• business there for several years, and it is
but fair to fadd that, except being considered some-
what close-fisted and fond of money, he bore a tolerably
respectable character. After residing there for some time,
he left for Germany, with the double view of
,placing
himself wider the celebrated hydropathist Priessnitz,

for the purpose of obtaining relief- from a lameness
with which he was afflicted, and of acquiring a suffi-
cient knowledge of the system to enable him to practise
it. On his return to Ramsgate, he not only opened a
cold-water-cure establishment, but published a book upon
the subject. The latter is entitled "ilydropatheria."
The book is rather respectable as a compilation ; and it
is somewhat remarkable that when absent in Germany
his practice was, ht his request, taken. care of by a
gentleman before whom he was eventually brought at
Richmond on a charge of murder. But at Ramsgate
he never got into what is termed " fashionable practice,"
and he consequently removed to the establishment of
Moos-park, in Surrey. .After keeping this for several
years he eventually sold it to advantage, and led a com-
paratively private life until arrested on the charge for
which he has recently been condemned.

A Miss NIGHTINGALE IN ITALY.—The English lady
alluded to as " Mrs. C." in some recent notices of the
campaign in Lombardy, is the same person who forms
the subject of the following letter of gratitude addressed
to her, and inserted in an Italian paper (Gazzstta del
Popolo) by an officer, in the name of himself and his
wounded fellow-soldiers. The lady, we should observe,
is Mrs. Crawley, widow of Mr. Ambrose Crawley, of
the E.1.C.5., and niece of the present Sir Edward
Meredyth, Bart. Mrs. Crawley happened by chance to
be travelling within the vicinity of the frightful
bloodshed then going on, and with the spirit of Miss
Nightingale she converted her journey of recreation
into a course of devoted service to the sick and wounded.
Her aid proved most effective after the terrible engage-
ment of Solferino. The Italian officer in his letter ex-
presses himself thus :—" In the first moments after the
glorious day of St. Martino an immense number of
wounded, and amongst them several officers, were
taken to Desenzano for • the first relief ; but there
were no hospitals . prepared there, and there was
a want of everything. This state of things was
greatly remedied by the exertions of the officials
of the place, particnlarly Avvocato Manfredi and
Signor Cerese, who did their utmost to procure
lodging for the wounded, and all that was, of urgent
necessity, and who themselves attended the wounded.
Their charitable work was ably
seconded by many of
the good and gentle ladies of the country. The wounded
.
who were at Desenzano remember with gratitude those
persons, .but amongst them they recollect with particular
pleasure the sympathising and graceful countenance of
a lady, who,
Italian in heart, for she took the most vivid interest
though not born in Italy, was truly
is the victims of a cause so sacred, and which she had
espoused with all her soul. This lady was the. Signora
Crawley (Corinna), an Englishwoman. She was an as-
siduous visitor at the hospital of Desenzano, where she

passed many hours of ilTerday, sitting by the bed of each
wounded, inforMing berstilf of their,, ants, and provid-
ing for them, consoling all w...affectionate words, so
much the dearer as they came from the heart. Accept,
noble lady, the thanks of all the wounded, in the name

timents of

the sincerest gratitude.—l
Capital() del Bersaglieri.'

(Signed) EMILIO PALLAxionvi,