Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-01 00:00:00

CORONER'S COURT.

Yesterday, the Coroner held inquests on the bodies of
the under-mentioned parties :
On the body of thigh Owen, who was drowned in the
George's dock. It appear,xl that the deceased was
engaged on board a vessel, and while standing on a rope
between that and another, laughing and singing, he fell
iato the water and was drowned before his body could be
recovered. Ver:dct, "Accidental death." _ _

On the body of Thomas Armstrong, who died in the
Brownlow-hill Workhouse. Verdict, " Died from natural
causes."

On the b)dy of a child, who died from the want of
proper care and attention at its birth.

IMPROMPTU 'NEA.TH AN UMBRELLA.

When manufacturing Britain thirsts for Rain,
Whilst arid dryness reigns from Hull to Ruthin,*
Should Manchester or Liverpool complain,
Invite the Queen, and never heed St. Swithin.
30th Jane, 1857, 10 30 a.m.
* Provincial dialect—" Rlthin."

A SUITOR TOR THE PRINCESS ALlCll—According to a
letter from the Hague, the glen Mother is shortly to
proceed to London, a marriage, it is said, being projected
between the Prince of Orange and the Princess Alice, the
second daughter of her Britannic Majesty.
MONSTROUS SUPERSTITION —We learn from a lengthy
article in The _Lancaster ('a.) Express, that the remains
of a young lady, who died of consumption nine years ago
at Ephrata, in that State, were exhumed on Sunday last,
for a purpose so monstrous as almost to surpass belief.
Since her death, her mother, two sisters, and two brothers
have died of the same disease'. The surviving members
of the family, who are "Spiritualists," became convinced
that by some hocus-pocus the winding-sheet of the corpse
had got into her mouth, and that by a continual suction
(the modus operandi of which is only known to the
spirits) she hal actually drawn he other five members of the
family after her ; and that unless this winding-sheet was
speedily rear,ved from the mouth of the corpse, she would,
in like manner, cause the premature death of the whole.
connection I

IRISH GIRLS nir AMERIC.I.—The City of Mobile, Capt.
Marshall, sailed from Liverpool for this port (N.Y.) on
the 26th ult., freighted with over 900 passengers. Among
these are a party of 120 young women and 14 men, mem-
bers of 133 different, families, the expenses of whose im-
migration are defrayed by public sub:3crip ion from nearly
4,000 different persons, the majority of whom are
labourers and servant girls, to a fund entitled the " Irish
Pioneer 'Emigration Fund." The object of the Insti-
tution of thie fund is to raise the wages, and otherwise
batter the condition of poor families in the poorest dis-
tricts in Ireland by the assisted emigration to the United
States of Canada of one member of each family, specially
selected on account of good character and industrious
habits in the expectation that the persons so assisted will
not only better their own condition, but will, according to
the usual generous practice of Irish emigrants, also send
for, or otherwise greatly help, the rest of the family in
Ireland.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT HALIFAX FAIR.-011 Monday, an
inquest was held at the Pine Apple Inn, Halifax, in refer-
ence to the death of John Lee, a delver, from Reggarning-
ton. The deceased came to the fair at Halifax, on
S anriey last, and he set out for home in a state of intoxi-
cation. At the bottom of Haley Hill he and a young
woman got into the spring cart of Mr. Bramwell Chapman,
greengrocer. Lee had got out of the vehicle for something
or other, at a certain part of the road, and when he was
returning by the wheel, the driver (not knowing he had
left his seat) set off the hose. The legs of the deceased
slipped between the spokes of the wheel, and he was
carried round three times, his head being dashed violently
again=t the road each time. The driver then succeeded in
drawing up the hose, but it backed the cart over the
deceased before ho could be reseaned, and the two men
who had gone to his assist:nee narrowly escaped beingrun
over. This was not the fault of the diiver, the animal
being very restless, in consequence of having been fright-
ened by the crowds of people on the road. When &tally
taken up the deceased was quite dead. The jury returned
a verdict of " Accidental death."
SNAHES.—Plutarch tells us. in a matter-er-fact sort of
way, that when Cato the Younger led his army into
Egypt, he took in his train some of the people called
Psylli, to charm away the ferocity of the snakes, and care
their bates. Ifafortnnately their secret (as well as that of
the Ophiogenes, who 'cured by touching the wound) has
been lost, In its place the police commissioner of om-.
bay bas been lately compelled to resort to the only kind of
charm which in no age of the world ever lost its potency.
He reports that more deaths are occasiomed by snake bites
than by tigers, end the local government have adopted his
suggestion to offer rewards for the destruc.ion of the rep•
tiles. It results that 300 a day are now beirg killed, and
the hunters " ALI& off the mortal coil" at the inapeetor's
door, and receive their eight annas for every' ordinary
snake, and twelve for every cobra. The hulk of those
hitherto destroyed has consisted of the foorsa, or whip-
snake, the most ugly and venemous' of the whole species,
Of this snake the civil surgeon of Balnagherry reports
(Bombay Courier) that "lie knows no remedy for its poison,
ammonia being of no avail, as in the bite of other snakes.
It appears that the poison does not act on the nervous
system, like that of the cobra, but on the olood alone."--,
Lances,