Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-11 00:00:00

BEFORE MESSRS. ATKIN AND J. 11. TURNER.

DANGEROUS ASSAULT.—A. young man named Andrew
Dean, was charged with having inflicted a desperate
wound on the head of Bridget Really, by striking her
with a stone. Mr. Munk was for the prisoner. Evidence
of the blow having been given, Surgeon Kavanagh, of the
Southern Dispensary,said the wound was a deep transverse
one on the top of the head, and at first looked about the
worst he had ever seen. He could not, at present, tell the
rcsalt. The prisoner was remanded.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.-A LADY KILLED ON
WEST DERBY ROAD.

A dreadful accident occurred yesterday, about one
o'clock, on the West Derby Road, whereby a lady was
killed on the spot. It appears that, about the time stated,
Mrs. Ma'y Garner, the wife of Mr. John Garner, who
resides at Lower Breck -lane, was driving into town in a
small pony vthicle, which she usually drove herself. It
seems that a horse attached to a dray going in the oppo•
site direction, had, from some unexplained cause, ran
away at a furious rate along the West Derby Road.
Turning the corner at the Licensed Victuallers' Almshouse,
the dray came in contact with Mrs. Garner's phaeton,
flung her violently out of it, and one of the wheels
passing over the centre of the poor lady's body, killed her
on the instant, crushing her ribs and chest in a frightful
manner. She was instantly taken up, but was quite dead.
The body was conveyed to the Workhouse adjacent, where
it awaits an inquest. The deceased lady was 40 years of
age, and was much respected by a large circle of most
respectable friends, and her fearfully melancholy death has
plunged her family and friends into the deepest distress.
Mr. Garner is a well known ironfounder and merchant of
this town. A gentleman who saw the accident, says the
horse that canted the death of the unhappy lady, was
mina at a earful
rate..without any nallar. nnr did he sea
any ariver near the animal.

MORA TRANSPORTS FOR INDlA.—Fresh notices have been
issued by the East India Company, inviting tenders to be
received on the 11th instant, for the conveyance by screw
steamers and sailing vessels of troops of Iler Majesty's
service from England to Bombay and Kurraehee, also from
England to India ; the vessels to call at Ceylon for orders.
The whole of the men to ba embarked not later than the
25th instant.
THE NEW DUTIES ON TEA, :SUGAR, AND RICE.—On
Tuesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer will propose his
ilea duties. On white refinel sugar the duty will be 183
4d the cwt: ; on white cleyed, 16s the cwt. ; on brown
clayed, 13s 103 the cwt. ; and on brown Muscovado, 12s
8d the cwt. The new tea duty will be is Si the pound,
and on rice 43d the cwt for feeding cattle, 91 the cwt
on rough and in the husk, and 414 on meal not other-
wise described. The new duties are to continue until
Mach, 1860.
IMPRISONMENT you DEBT.—There are at the present
moment •upwards of 220 persons confined for debt in
Whitecross-street prison, which is a larger number than
were incarcerated last year. In the Q ieeo's prison there
is a goodly number, and in Horsernenger-lane gaol, an in-
considerable number, with the exception of County Court
cases under which c ,arts the commitments are for Cor-
tempt," and no matter how often captured, imprisoameat
will never pay the debt. The Insolvent Debtor's Court
has adjourned fur the vocation until September, but will
sit on Monday next and on the 28th inst., for bail cases.
Imprisoiment tries friends, but if those who have, or are
about to petition, could get two sureties to be answerable
for their appearance, and if it is denied them to " go out
of town," they might get " out of prison" during the
summer weather!
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT LOWER 31008 IRONWORKS.—On
Saturday morning, between one and two o'cleck, the
Lower Moor Ironworks, belonging to Messrs. Woolsten-
hulme and Rye, were discovered to be on fire. Abeut ten
o'clock, the roof, which up to that time had appeared safe,
fell in, and a beam passing into the wall of a machine shop
adjoining, occupied by Mr. Whittaker, was drawn along
with it, and dragged down the wall. A portion of the
felling bricks lighted upon the roof of a shed in the yard,
and went through it ; and although workmen were
employed in both places, none of them sustained any
injury. 'rho millwrights' shop contained a large number
of valnaWe patterns, and a considerdale quantity of
seasaned timber for gearing mortice wheels, which have
all been destroyed ; and although the amount of damage
has not yet been ascertained, it is said that it cannot be less
than £1,500. The loss, however, will be fully cJvered by
insurance in the Yorkshire office,

• EMIGRATION OF DEC EIARGED GOV EIVadENT A RTIS
Til committee appointed at a public meeting, held at
Woolwich in April last, to relieve the- existing distress
(resulting from the large numbers suddenly discharged
from the dockyard and arsenal) by means of free emigra-
tion, have just published a report of their labou s, whlch
proves that the funds were appropriated in a wise and
tconom:cal manner. The total amount subscribed was
£6,300, .which sum includes a grant of £3,000 froth
Governmnt and £2,000 from the Wellington Emigration
Fund. The ebintaaltee have-provided outfi's, and sent out
to Q ebtc 1,020 men, women, and children, and the railway
expenses of these emigrants have been paid from Quebec
to Toronto. it is also arranged that, on arriving at
Toronto, each adult will receive 10s. Fifty emigrant;
have teen sent out to Australia; and the fund h:s also
enabled the ecrnruittee to pay the expenses of many fatuities
from Woolwich to dis'ant, parts of England, where em-
ployment was obtained for large numbers -of the men.
TIRRIFIC 'FOUNDER, STORM IN GU EFFIELD•-0,1 Satur-
day afternoon, Sheffield was visi:ed h most terrific
thunder storm. About half-past two in the after-
to an, a vivid and ay.fady grand flash of ' ng
brilliant-
!y i laminated the darkened horizon, and iIl s was quickly
followed by a loud.crash of thunder. Flasli of er flish of
lightning, and peal after peal of thunder, continued to

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light npa-nd shi.ks the neighbourhood for the next hour;
awl during the whole of this time, rain descended hi a
manner which caused the streets to have the appearance of
gushing rivers. In the lower parts of the town the water
gathered together to slch a depth as, in rainy cases, to,
enter the houses of the inhabitants, rmd cause considerable
inc-invenienct. Oughtbridge, the bidge in course of
re-erection was demolished.' In Pitsrooor a cluster of
houses were struck by the electric current, *Oue of them,
more elevated than the rest, had the gable end and stack of
chimneys thrown down upon the ra.:,f of the adjoining.-
house, which was immediately rendered uninhabitable. A
woman seated with an infant in her arms was struck

senseless, and remained so for half an hour. Beyond this
no pers)nal injury was sustained. The interiors of the
houses were seriously injured. The crops around Sheffield
are much damaged.