Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-17 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS.

It will be found, by reference to another column,
that H. S. Bright, of Hull, indicted for forgery
has been tried at the Yorkshire Assizes, and that
he has been found guilty and sentenced to ten
years' penal servitude.
At the Police Court yesterday, the case of the
merchant who had lost some £750, was again before
the magistrate. A gentleman, named Doyle, found
a pocket-book in the street containing a cheque for
5700, and bank notes value £4O. He at once took
the same to the police office, and yesterday the
loser identified the property. It was handed to
him, but he st tamed somewhat cherry in rewarding
the finder, ultimately the sum of two pounds was
given to him.
We are given to understand that the grant of a
pension by the East India Company of £l,OOO
a year to General Wilson, and of pensions of
£5OO each to the widow of General Neill and the
mother of General Nicholson was confirmed yes-
terday by a special general Court of Proprietors.
Yesterday Settler, the foreigner, who shot Thain,
the detective officer, on board the Caledonia
steamer, was arraigned on the charge of murder,
at the Central Criminal Court. The trial, however,
was postponed until the next session, on the
ground that the accused was only committed last
Friday, and that he had not had time sufficient to
prepare his defence.
It would seem that a clue has been got to the
identity of the woman who, together with a foreign
man with whom she cohabited, was found on
Sunday night with her throat cut in a coffee-house
in London. She appears to have been an English-
woman. The inquest on the body was opened
pro forma yesterday morning, and adjourned for
further inquiry.
In another column will be found the particulars
of an application to the Recorder of the Central
Criminal Court, by Mr. Bodkin. The former
gentleman has issued a warrant for the apprehen-
sion of Mr. E. A. Glover, the late member for
Beverley, on a charge of having made a false decla-
tation to the House of Commons as to his qualifi-
cation to sit in that House. It would be a curious
subject of inquiry to ascertain how many hon.
gentlemen now sitting and voting in the House
might be placed in a similar position.
The inquest on the victims of the double murder
and suicide at Croydon, near London, has con
eluded. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful
murder" against W. H. Sinither ; and also testified
that he committed suicide while in a state of
mental derangement. The iragedy should be a
warning to all young men of limited means who are
disposed to employ their stockbroker and to dabble
in the funds.

Another attempt was made to launch the
Leviathan yesterday. She w.is moved 10 inches
forward, and 6 inches aft. The total progress is
now 106 feet. Later attempts resulted in the
breakage of a ram and cylender chains. At high
water yesterday, there was between 4 and go .feet
Of water under the vessel. The Times of yesterday
says :—" In order that a proper hold may be ob-
tained, a regular series of large piles has been
driven on the opposite bank of the river, one on
the wharf of Messrs. Humphrey's yard, and the
second a little below high water-mark, between the
water-gate Ferry and Deptford Dockyard. Each
of these clumps of piling are almost similar in
strength and arrangement, to the piles which serve
as a basis for the hydraulic rams in the yard itself,
and, like them, too, they have not been resorted to
till the eleventh hour, and in fact, until the failure
of all other methods has literally forced their
adoption upon the engineers."

Our foreign news is of some interest to-day.
The Bank of Spain has resolved to coin 25,000,000
reals in silver. In Holland another Minister of
War has been found in the person of Colonel
Bleurs, hitherto Commander of the Artillery. The
States Gentral, immediately after voting the
budget, adjourned to the 9th of February. From
Constantinople we have an important anneance-
went, that the French Ambassador is to follow the
example of his English colleague, and take leave of
absence for some time. The official text of the
decree by which 'the Porte dissolved the Roumau
Divans has not yet reached us, and we are informed
that it will be purposely kept secret for some days
more. They Sultan, by conferring the order which
bears his name on the Saxon representatives in
Paris, the gentleman whose efforts contributed so
much to prepare the way for the peace of Paris,
seems to have wished to express just now his
contentment with the conclusion of that peace.
A notice has been issued at Constantinople, by
which Russia has attempted publicly to justify her
behaviour in closing certain ports on the coast of
Circassia, and to show that the proceeding is quite
in accordance with the treaty of Paris. That
treaty, establishing freedom of commerce in the
ports of the Black Sea, contains, nevertheless, a
limitation of that freedom in so far as measures of
quarantine and police require it. Thus, argues
the Russian document, those ports must be neces I

sarily exempted in which no quarantine has yet
been established. According to this argument,
nothing more is required to close every port in the
Black Sea than to omit erecting in them quarantine
establishments. The fault, however, is in the
treaty, which should have named the ports de-
slared free. That was avoided by the plenipoten-
taries on all sides for reasons best known to
themselves. •

A gratifying festival has taken place at Riga, the