Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-02 00:00:00

ADDRES'FL

• MKS. CAETAIN MAY,—We, the undersigned members
.ofthe Elephant Club on the steam-ship Edinburgh, beg
leave .to .preeent to the Ocean Child, through you, its
mother, the accompanying cup, as a memento of our
very pleasant trip to Liverpool from :New York, in
which the birth of your child formed•such uninteresting
.episode. , , •
:We be to -add our sincere wishes that the,ehild may
long be spared to accompany and eoinfOrt yon.through
the voyage of life, and that he may prosper in all that
'makes Manhood worthy and noble.
Though destined to be far separated during our lives,
and probably never (again to -meet, yet we will indulge
the hope that;at some point of the future we may, fn
-ourniaturer
.rars, meet the ocean babe grown to, he an
.honoured member of society. 1. • •
Irmnny .E. -LANDON, -New.York.
. J. F..B,owin,- Richmond, Va. .
I.osß.Fint NicAoEsoN, Chicago, 11.
• J 014.1,7 NEW .111, New• York.
. Mourusex EwL.N9-,-.Purser.
W.1.1.4.1.A.3r BAKER, Callao.
J.MES B. BLACK, 11.R.C.5., Eng.
Gr.og.Gn Dirkenhe'aq.
ikrlV.- NAYLOR, Limerick:: . •
Joirli E. IsfeEEnov, Albany, New York.
• • , LOUIS WOLF,I7, Giessen, • Germany., -

OBITUARY FOR 1859.

Deaths among the aristocracy daring the pait year
have been more than orditarilT numerous. Oat of the
members of the peerage of the three_ kingdoms there
have died the Duke of Leeds, the Marquises of IVator-
ford and Bristol; the Earls of Rothes, Aylesford,. Ripon,
7errers,- Devon, Moray, _.Tankevville,
cart, Har4rougli, De Grey, Minto, Jersey (2), West-
moreland, Waldegrave, and CamperdoWit ; the Bishop
of Bangor, Viscount. St. Vincent, and Lords Northwicke,
Holland, Macaulay, and Hastings—total, 26. Of 'the
above titles, the earldom of Harliorough and the barony
of Macaulay are the only ones that have become extinct.
Of the baronets, there have died during the- same
.period the following (twenty-two in all) :—Sir James
Ramsay, Sir Chaloner Ogle, Sir John Newport, Sir John
Nugent, .Sir Henry Sinffner, Sir E. 13. Perrott„ Sir
Harry Dent Goring, Sir Isaac L. Goldsmid, Sir Henry
Meredyth, ;Q.C., .Sir Michael Cusac Smith, Sir Jarnsetjee
Jejeebhoy, the Rey. Six Charles Farnaby, Sir Robert
W..Vauhan, Sit George T. Staunton, General Sir John
Slade, Sir James Grant (of Monymnsk) Sir John Hay
Willianis, General' Sir Robert H. Cunliffe, Admiral Sir
f •
Henry- L. - Baker, and Sir Robert Alexander. Of the
above,' the' titles of "i\e-i-vpc.,r,, Farhaby, Vaughan, and
'Staunton have•becoine extinct.

The knightage during the' same period has lost the
following of its members T. Isaac H. Ciirteis,-Sii
James Pitcairn, 'M.D., Sir W. H. Thornton, General Sir.
Alexander Leith, -Sir Anthony Oliphant, Sir Richard
Grant, J. A. Murray (Lord Murray in Scotland);
',Sir, John Lewes Pedder, General ,Sir Joseph Thack-
well, Sir ,4rthur. Ingram Aston, geßeral Sir James
AiLssell; General Sir J. Law Lusbington, Admiral Sir
David Darin Sir Win. Norris, General Sir W. Eyre,
the'Ri,ght lion. Sir James Stephen, Sir George Good-
*lan, Sir Thomas Taskl Giant, Sir F. S. Darwin, Sir
-Frederick-W. Trench, Sir-Williana Cf:rpenter Rowe, Sir
James B. 'Macaulay,: and Sir Richard B. Crowder-22
in all: • • •

the House of Commons there have died during the
•fm.me Period—Lord James Stuart (Ayrshire), Mr. W.
T Fagan (Cork), Mr. Robert Stephenson (Whitby),
and the Right Hop. Henry Fitzroy:(Lewes).- • .
Amongst. .other titled
.personages whom death has
carried off, we ought to mention :more particularly the
Duchess of Cleveland, the -Marchioness of Sligo, the
Maretioneas of Dote, the Countess of Harrow}; the
Hon. Montit-Stuart Elphinstone, Sydney Lady Morgan,
Lady •Delamere, the DoWager Lady Blackett, the
Dowager Lady Hunter Blair, Lady Blantyre, the
Hon. Mrs. J. E. BokaWen, the Dowager Lady Peel,
Lady Eleanor Bitler, the Hon. "and Rev. Thomas
Cdvendish, the COuntess Of Courtown, Lord AV. R.
Keith-Douglas, • the Hon. and Very Rev. H. D.
Erskine (Dean.of Ripon), the Hon. Mrs. W. E. Fitz-
manrice, the Hon. J. W. Fortescue, the Hon.. Mrs, H.
T. Howard,- tho. Hon.' Mrs. • E.: Jernirigham, Lady
M'Caskill, the Hon. Lady -.Mahon, the Hon. and Rev.
E. F. Nelson, JAM Henry. Seymour, the Dowager
Countess of Norbury, the Hon. J. C. F.-i.x-Strangways,
Lady O'Conor, the Hen: and Rev. W. O'tfrady, the
Hon. Mrs. B. Paget. Lady ITelena Robinson, the
DowaOr'Lady (Charlotte) Suffield, the Hon. Edward
Wingfield, the Hon. Major Pelle*, and the Hon.` Mrs.
E:•Young.
In the literary and scientific world we have regret
the loss. of _very 'many great ..names—Macaulay and
Stephenson, -Henry Hallam, Isambard ~Briincl,
:Thomas De Quincy, Washington Irving, W. 11. Pres-
cott, -T. a. Hervey, Mr. Johnson (the Radcliffe Obser-
ver at Oxford), Mr. W. J. Broderip, Rumholdt, Dr:
Lardner, C. R. Leslie, R.A., Joseph Sturge, Mr. D. W.
Alitchui, Eashley, Esq., Q.C., Leigh Hunt, the Rev.
John ..7.ltforil, Professor Nicholl, the Rev. J. Angell
'James, Prii-icippiLee, 'Dr. chandler, (Dean of Chiches-
ter), Dr. Peacocke Dean of Ely, Baron Pennefather,
and the Bi.,hops of Antigua, New Jersey, and Sierra
Leone. The next eminent name which strikes us as
not included under any one of the above heads of divi-'
sion is that of General Jacob.

A COPII.A.—A instance of intrepidity is related by the
Bon2b.cy Times. It Appears that while a patty of fifty
persons of, the Jewish community
_were engaged in con-
versation, previous to prayer, Mr. Reuben unwittingly:
roused from its repose a large-cobra di.eapello, which at
once
,pounced., upon .the disturber. Eluding its grasp,
the ,young man caught the cobra in the middle of its
body, but iti darted Off with a violent -jerk, and 'again
turned upon 'its assailant. Mr. Reuben, however, hold
the cobra a third timb in his hand; and giving it a swing.
in the -air, 'struck- his head .against the ground several
tunes, find killed the dangerous reptile; much to the ad-
miration of the Jewish gentleinen present on the spot.
FISHES' NESTS.—M. Valenciennes has just presented
to the Academy of Sciencea-,-irrther-viame- of -Dr: Fleury,
chief of .the medical staff at St. Pierre and Miyielon,l
_severalspecimens of nests built by fish in the vicinity of;
.Newfoundland- They are generally found attached to
the lines thrown out to catch cod fish, from depths of about
60 yards: The diametdrs of these nests vary from I'l to 7
. inches and their depth from t 027- Plpy are round,
and their',sides rather thick. The creature, whatever it is,
builds them by entwining the branches of several aquatic
polypi, such as the certularia, cellaria, catenicella, &c.,
among which are found enlaced numerous shells of the
mytilus borealis,,with au immense quantity of 'the
spawn of that species. Aristotle tells us that there.arc
fish endoWed With.the instinct of building nests among
the marine algae. M. Valenciennes .conchrded his corn-•
.munication by stating that he had been told by the
fishermen of the Island of Seu, opposite "the dangerous
point of ' Penmarck (Finisterre), that lobsters,- _which
always keep at a great depth, sometimes exceeding 7-5
fathoms, build very neat nests for their young.
A REMARKABLE ASTRONOMICAL- " FACT.'-'—Professor
Nitehell, in his, lectures on astronomy, related. a 'very
remarkable fact. He said that he had not long Since •
met in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, a man of •
great scientific attainments, who. for forty years had been
engaged in Egypt deciphering the hieroglyphics of the
ancients. This gentleman had stated to him that
he had lately unravelled the inscriptions upon the
coffin of a mummy, now in the London Museum,
and that,- IV_ the aid of previous - observations
he had discovered the key to all the astrono-
mical knowledge of the--Egyptians. - The zodiac, .with
the - exact Position • of the planets, was delineated
on the coffin, and the date to which they pointed was
the autumnal equinox:in the year 174 before Christ,
or nearly 3,600 years ago. ProfesSor Mitchell em-
ployed his assistant to ascertain the exact position of
the heavenly bodies belonging to our solar system on
the equinox. of that year -(1722 s.e.), and sent him a
correct diagram of them, without having communi-
cated his object in doi,r,g so. , In , coMpliance with this
the calculations were made, and to his astonishment., on
comparing the result.with the statements of his scientific
friend
_already referred to, it was found that, on the
7th ef-P.C.tober, 1722 n.e., the moon and planets had
occupied the exact position in the heavens marked upon
the c2l4n in the London Museum,