The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-02 00:00:00

BEFORE MESSRS. BENN AND DIXON.

CAUTION TO SAILORS —A sailor, named William W.
Wilson, was charged under section 243 of the Mer-
chants Shipping Act, which inflicts an inaprisor,ment of
twelve weeks on sailors who refuse to do their duty on
board ships. Mr. Mansfield (barrister) appeared for the
prosecution. From his statement, anti the evidence
given in supp)rt of it, it appeared, that in October last, the
p-isoner shipped on board the Bane Ventura, bound
from this port to Savannah. For the first ten days he
conducted himself well enough, but after that he con-
ducted himself very badly, and beat the ship's boys, and
created much disturbance. He was frequently remon-
strated with by the captain and mate, but to no purpose..
On the Ist December, when the vessel was off the point
of Savanna, the prisoner refused to work, and he was sent
by the coma' to prison until the ship would sail on her
return voyage, On the 18th January the vessel sailed,
and on that day and the next he refused to work and
acted very violently. This continued until he became
so outrageous that on the 3rd February the captain had
to put him in irons, in which he remained up to the 19th,
the day the ship arrived in port. The allegation of the•
prisoner was that the mate treated him very badly; and
besides, he had a sore leg, which he said was caused by
the mate. He was sent to gaol for six weeks, with
hard labour.

We (Stamford Mercury) regret having; to report that
Mr. Gilmour, the oldest member of the Melton Runt,
broke his collarbone on Tuesday last, whilst hunting with.
the Cottesmore hounds. We are informed the horse Mr.
Gilmour was riding rushed blindly at a large gap and
broken fence, not rising to hand, but falling quite over,.
Mr. G. is making favourable progress.
A letter from Genoa says : —" A line of steam navigation
is about to be established between Odessa and this port,
which will contribute to draw still closer the bonds already
uniting Piedmont and Russia. A company is being formed
at Odessa, with a capital of 40,000,000, to establish lines
with all the diffn'ent ports in the Mediterranean. The
principal will, however, be to Alexandria, Genoa, and
Marseilles."

BENNETTSRIDGE PAIR.—The February fair, which was
held on Tuesday, showed a thinner supply of every descrip-
tion of cattle than usual, but there was a large attendance
of purchasers, and a tolerably good amount of business
transacted. Prices went very high. Fat cows were few,
and averaged from £l2 to £l7 ; milch cows, £l2 to £l5 ;
two-year-old heifer, generally of inferior quality, £6 to,
£9 ; yearlings, £4 10s to £6 103; fat sheep very scarcer
and chiefly of an inferior description, at from 42s to 508
hoggets, 24s to 355; fat pigs brought from bss to 56s per
cwt., stores went considerably higher in proportion;
bonhams, 50s per couple. There was a large show of
horses, and high prices asked, but there was not much
buying in that department of the fair.
CANADIAN SHIPS.—We are glad to learn that the repre-
sentations of the shipowners of our North American
colonies to the committee of Lloyd's, in reference to the
threatened deduction from the characters of their ships
unless certain new rules as to the ships' fastenings were
complied with, have been successful. However prudent,
the rules referred to may be, it would be manifestly unjust
to enforce them rigidly against colonial ships, until such
time as colonial shipbuilders can obtain a supply of the iron,
knees and riders now required to be used ; and we think
Lloyd's Register Committee have exercised a proper discre-
tion in deferring the enforcement of their new regulation%
against Canadian ships from the Ist of July, 1857, to the
Ist of January, 1858.—Stripping Gazette.
VENEZUELAN PORTS —A notice has been issued by the
Venezuelan Consul resident in London, which it is well
that shipmasters trading to the ports of that Republic
should make themselves acquainted with. It is to the.
effect that, after the Ist of next June, the masters of ships.
arriving at Venezuelan ports will be required to deposit at.
the Custom House, in addition to the ship's register and
the manifest of her cargo, a sealed envelope containing the
original invoices of the cargo, certified by the Venezielan
Consul. Under these circumstances, and as these regula-
tions are to be enforced under penalties, the Venezuelan
Consul at the port of London has announced—" that
after the Ist of March exporters from this port are required
to present at his office two invoices of each parcel of goods,.
to be certified by him ; one copy of which will be retained
by the Consul and sent by the ship, and the other returned
to the exporters under seal, for presentation on the ship's
arrival at her port of destination In-Venezuela."—Shipping.
Gacette.

BELFAST NEWSPAPER EDITORS.—It is a curious fact that
all the principal journals of this town have, of late, changed
their editors. Young Mr. Go:lkin, of the Whig, is off to
America (he was, during the war, one of the " Specials" of
the London Daily News in the Crimea), and a Mr. Whitty
has succeeded him. Poor, gifted, ever.to-be-lamented.
Mooney is succeeded in the News Letter by Mr. RllO, an
English barrister and graduate at Oxford. The editor of
the Banner is gone, and 'who (if anybody) has taken his
post no one can tell, It is rumoured-that a clever Usbura
amateur writer supplies general leaders. Poor James
Simms, of the Mercury, is a shattered wreck—his successor
is Mr. Durham Dunlop, of yore the editor of the Dublin
Monitor, Peter Purcell's journal. M,. John Anderson, of
the defunct old Chronicle, is gone to the Dublin Daily
Express to give a helping hand to Mr. Godkin, senior,
formerly of the " Tenant right" Derry Standard, who is
(thief editor.—Newry Telegraph,
DARING OUTRAGE.—A most wanton and unprovoked
outrage was perpetrated in Lisburn, on Saturday night
last, or early on Sunday morning. Three young women,
of highly respectable character and inoffensive disposition,
reside together in the Female School., Smmour-street—
of which, one of them is teacher, and another, teacher of
the Infant School, close by, The school they live in ie
situated in a backward, rather lonely place, being off the
regular line of the street. It appears, on Saturday night
last, having secured their premises as usual, they retired
to bed about eleven o'cle.ek ;
and, in the course of an boor
afterwards, they were awoke by a tapping at the back
daor, which was soon followed by the noise of breaking of
;lass; upon which they immediately arose and counselled
t ,gether, to devise some hasty moans of escape, believing
it to be burglars; hut, hearing another crash of glass, they
no longer hesitated, and ran down stairs, making their
exit by the back door, on a cold and tempestuous night,
with no other coveting but their night-dresses. Having
alarmed some neighbours, they returned to the house,
accompanied by the watchman, whom they met.On
entering, they heard a foot above stairs, and were not a little
astonished to see the cause of married man, named
.Alexandor Algienzie, a poimber, who resides in Castle-
street. He had ransacked their bedrooms in a disgraceful
manner : and, when he was questioned as to
.his intentions,
he made some unmeaning excuse. There is no apparent
motive to which one can attribute this diabolical and
unmanly act, which is doubly worse, as the females were
entirely unprotected; and it is hard to conceive what one
been able to fly as
might have had to record had not they
narrated. We hope, if this is established against him, as
we have reason to believe it will, that he will
receive
that
I just punishment his infamous conduct so well merits, and
I teach those who would commit such dastardly and ungen-
; I tlenaanly ac•ri on lonely women, that they cannot escape
with impunity.—Communicated to the Belfast Mercury.