Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-15 00:00:00

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miserable
and dejected, while the bridegroom
looks—indeed, the bride looked most miserably ni
tried to look
valiant and consoling, but his features showed what he leo
within. , However, there being no alternative- the dissr
pointed pair, with' their frienc/5, left the church,' and ,'/edi
turned to their homes as they left, without being J°616,,
together in the holy bands of wedlock, In an early ImProe j
sion, we have no doubt, but that we shall have to re
ir
the marriage of this happy pair, as no doubt the erro can
easily be rectified, and we can only hope that this mg ,?.!
the greatest disappointment they may ever meet Intl). i.'
this life, provoking as it may have been. this
HBALTH Comierrrre.--,-The usual weekly h 11,
committee was held in the Council-chamber, To7vll-=-3,
yesterday afternoon. Mr. Alderman Dover presided, 7
the other members present -were—Messrs. Sheil, Beckw_llo,
Bowring, Anthony, Crosthwaite, Haydock, and Crelh
~,
specter ?It.
The borough engineer, building surveyor, and in
nuisances reported various particulars of the operationc! ii:
their several departments during the week, from 01,1.:6:t.,,
nreetine• of
appeared that 99 nuisances, complained of by inhab 500
had been inspected and means taken to remedy them' 433
houses; in the unhealthiest districts' containing '77.,i,
apartments and 405 cellars,- had been put under ep..,;;
nation, with the view of improving their sanitary conehtwo
and 88 lodging-houses had arse been examined and rePor!eic
upon. The medical officer of health repented that in the.whe
of
ended last Saturday, there were' registered in the Par's w. •
i i ,
Liverpool 172 deaths,and '
the
in all 244, which is about the corrected average I),lesseo
corresponding week of former years. ZYmotic di,
typhus
occasioned 58• deaths, of which. there were from 5,
crouP
17, hooping:cough 10, measles 6, scarlatina 6, io
small-pox 3(2 unvaccinated), syphilis 1, carbuncle 1. rot
death has been registered from diptheria during the as
fortnight. From diseases of the lungs the deaths wof
77, being 7 more than in the previous week
this number 41 were from consumption, a. ,:joils
weekly mortality, than has occurred during the Pr-00.
vul twelve months. Twenty children died - fontn,rester
sions, and II from water in the head-3Z; the
number than' ever' previously recorded. Dunk' oat
quarter which ended 2nd April, ,7,267 deates' on
registered in the borough, including 206 5c ees
and violent deaths, and deaths in hospitals, 05
comprised in the weerzly reports. The Thor r moms
190, -a
,
433 below that or the •°L
corresponding quarter
and 104 less than the corrected average of the of
period of the eleven preceding years. From dise3,,se9'3ie
the. zymotic class, the deaths were 821, against ,iO4
the same quarter of last year. Measles, seau'rta' of
diphtheria, and diarrhcea, show, a decrease as oP,„13011.•
with the quarter immediately preceding, while in 'mall
pox, hooping-cough, craup, and typhus, there is 31; Or
increase. The numbers were—smallpox 39, meas„-:449
scaltatina 187, diptheria 20, hooping cough 190, er°lr S,
diarrhcea 48, dysentery 9.'„ typus 145, intermittent fei'-' 3 21
erysipelas 21, syphilis 11, quinsy 6, cholera 2; int' aenzi,,,,,A
chicken-pox 2, thrush 2;. purpura 2. The deaths 11,,g
diseases of the lungs during the quarter, were 1,043, i'vtlie
185 less than in the same period of last' when 4
year: ~, Tees,
mean temperature was nearly 4 degrees lower. The o• 3i
temperature of the quarter was 45 2-10 degree beiNfe
degrees higher than the average. Rain fell on WI tile
days, being the averagerainfall of the quarter. Thy
whole Ass
of the public business before the committee.

HE COURT.
The Queen rode on T
horseback in the Riding-seuv"
Buckingham Palace, on Wednesday ended
bj
The Prince Consort rode' out on *horseback, afoot.- ,
Captain Du Plat. t
The Princess Beatrice visited the Duchess of "—II
Clarence-house, St. James's. Alice
tile,
The Queen's dinner party included the Princess i;e:s9 0,
Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Duke and Dac"„oilf
Beaufort, Earl Granville, Lord Churchill, Lord Mgcl the
Major-General the Right Hon. J. and Lady Alice rflor
Right Hon. Sir John and Lady Peking-ton, 9.01""—.
General Wylde.

HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-ROOM.
Yesterday afternoon her Majesty held her first (u'dasce
room this season, at St. James's Palace. The attetpeett,
was very numerous. According to custom, the Christi
before the drawing-room, received a deputation' freill'
Hospital, in the Throne Room. arts sn
Her Majesty condescended to inspect the e-
drawings of the boys. lorio•he'
Yesterday was the birthday of her Royal
the Princess Beatrice, the youngest of the royal f°lll

THE ELECTION•

MEETING OF LIVERPOOL. REFORM-

t
Common-hall,
Yesterday, a meeting of Liberal electors was heiddliptiag
Hackin's-hey, for the purpose of 3-Qhair-
measures in reference to the ensuing election. I'llenc
men and secretaries of the various wards. were Pre3er-ht'd ter
sides a large number of influential gentlemen att3eors•
the Reform interest. Amongst others there were b.
W. F. Macgregor, J. Ryley, H. Mulleneux, T. M.,:.n11'
H. Macrae, C. Holland, R. W. Ronald, John
Gair, T. D. Hornby, William Earle, C. T. Bowring,
Jones, C. Robertson, B. Wrigley, &c , &c. Mr. 11. roc

bank presided. pcg"
, A vote of thanks was passed unanimously to S. „tint
Esq., M.P., followed by a resolution pledging the tliv•n•
to use every legitimate means for securing his re-eleettluti
The necessary organisation in reference to the cv

election was also decided upon. A 11
The proceedings throughout were characterise- oils
utmost unanimity, all present being animated With 4001
to use their best exertions in aid of the triumph 0
principles. •

IRISH

RIBBONIS

ARREST OF THE ORIGINAL INFOIIO

(From Belfast News-Letter)
BELFAST, Thursday Night.—This evening, bet`geefilorinir
and five o'clock, the constabulary, having received ii,114 efe
tion. that Henri D'Alton, alias Tighe, the person w's, pet
the information which led to the arrest on the °t'-‘1
last, and for whose apprehension a reward was offer's t 0
returnedd to Belfast, a party proceeded to his fatber:°,,l'n
enZe. They found the door securely bolted, by, b-la,
admittance by the next house into the yard, and suilcceee4

in arresting D'Alton after a desperate

'll
Ind wa'

found covered wi straw in a pigstye,
a pitchfork, withth which he endeavoured to strike °lle

officers of justice

ANOTHER EXPLOb

POWDER MILL,
AND LOSS OF LFP'oont
HASTINGS Wednesday Night.—This rorn
nine ing,
H
o'clock, many of the inhabitants of this sit*
startled in consequence of hearing a loud report YeL•ll solar to the explosion of a heavy piece of cannon, altui' or
even felt their dwellings shaken. It was irnmediate'iocclef
mixed that an explosion had taken place at the ,IOP-a sent
works of the well-known firm of Messrs. Lawrence 311
; ofor
near Battle, about six miles from Hastings, an-cl this
it I°4
spot,
tunately proved correct. On proceeding to the
.ascertained that the explosion had taken Place that3 3 Oil'
mg house," Lower Pepperage works ; and being
inamed Putland, aged 57, had lost his life, his hodliistio
l terally blown to atoms. So complete was the annib
of the deceased, that not one-fourth of his body 11Dec
°u 3, as
searciiertioo
found, although the ruins had been, carefully
well as the adjoining land. The two largest P9lll thue
picked up were a foot minus the toes, and the skull :'°l, chi.
hair completely torn off. His family consists of ninsee t°
dren, but fortunately most of them are of a sufficient 1;10on
1-
9btain their own livelihood. It is supposed that the
isy, (a wooden structure of no great extent, and.core_'doion)
small brick pillars, built into the ground as a t
t or
contained only about 2 cwt. of the
and das•oo.
tunately no other person was in the house at the 04,

ER. LATE MELANT—.-.v—Hcaor DEA:a of Dv. R.:::;r of
G. ic THE LATE MELANCHOLY DEAvU OF
for
GLo On Wednesday, Mr. "Virakley, corone_r 1 ova vt
Middlesex—, and a highly respectable jury, c ulpit3obleciii,so
nhabitant householders of the neighhoutshood, 31 ate ''t
the Prince Albert Tavern, Rensingtc,-n, to neighbourhood §otiro,
circumstances attending the death of Dr. Robert oopitof
Qadniledoayteh4rea, • aatgeitd.ho4r2o,
flasteeveprhaylsiacbialne tom etdhiecaßl owyaolrkFsrcaeliderraaosP;lo
ewhicho melancholy event took place through• 0,, ,sensatlil,
chloroform. The inquiry attracted much paint L
an a number of deceased's professional friendsusit_t.,clleci,clll
watch the proceedings. After hearing the eviclulecce:
.fora the mortal de
jnr f
9."."antity of chloroform as an intoxicating aviiiig bito9
with the view of destroying life, or of °
liberffaeticetns,
orfechoirsdetda:ihnagt
athuoi
euolnealcfoil

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