Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-10 00:00:00

COURT OF PASSAGE.

On Saturday this court was held by adjournment for the
purpose of disposing of s'veral cases that had stood over
from the last court. Mr. Jame', Q C., presided.
TIC ['LEY V. JEFFIRS.—This was an action brought by the
plaintiff, Mr. Thomas Tetley, formerly of No. 7, Biker.
street, to r'cover of the defendant, Mr. J. B. Jeffery, the
sum of £l9 the value of a carpet, which it was alledged
his servants had destroyed through their want of knowledge
as to the pr,par me'hod in cleaning of it. A female
domestic serv.lnt, in the plaintiff's employ, proved the
carpet in question having been sent to the defendant's
to be cleaned, and on its being returned found that the
coliurs bid all ran one into another. The carpet was
was produced in court, when a witm ss stated that it had
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the plaintiff to be don-nited.
HALLINGSWORTII V. O'lNlAlta.—This was an action to
remver the sum of .El 2 7a for rent due to the. plaintiff, the
fendant having guaranteed the payment of it. Verdict
fir the plaintiff.
The other cases disposed of wer) totally devoid of public
interest.

GFNERAL WYNDILIMFOU INDIA.—Major-General Wynd-
ham, the hero of the Redan, has accepted an important
commend in India, and will proceed to the East as icon
pOll ib'e.
tsN AMERtICAN LADY DINING IN PAILIS.—We dined last
week with a French Countess. Your American imagina-
tion may perhaps fancy lavish display and abundant waste;
bat no—the helm was small, though arranged and fur-
nished with the most elegant taste. The lady would not
have been a true Frenchwoman had she expended money
in useless. superfluities. 'I be dinner, which was quite
perfect in a certain way, might be characterised in a like
meaner. There was not too much of anything, and yet a
plenty. Abundance did not appear so much as tastefal
and beautiful arrangement. surpassingly delicate, too,
were the sauces. For instance, after many dishes, there
was served a roast turkey, nhich I supposed•was like all
other turkeys—very good ; but I was serprieed upon
adding the saucy to a good, nutritious bit of the breast.
I discovered a new and unexp, cted flivour— something
that I did not remember to have tasted at an American
table. To begin. I shall give you the order and
names of the courses, thinking that it may help some
yourg housekeeper giving her first dinner party. There
were only ten at table, which was oval, and the hostess
sitting at the middle of one side. The centre ornament
was—not an expensive silver epergne, as you. might have
seen on some more extravagant table—but a large pyramid
of beautiful camelliet, rcses, and violets, buried in fresh-
looking green moss, with here and there peeping out a little
pot if ripe strawberries—for it was February, and they
were then a rarity—the whole rising from a low, brown
wicker basket. The china—that is the plates, for no
dishes were placed on the table, as the waiters, who num-
bered only two, handed every dish, it being first well
carver,,en aside table—the china was admirable for solidity
and beauty ; the ,colour was dirk blue and gold. The
glasses were four to each person ; and one in particular,
of fine and slender shape, W 49 exquisitely ornamented
with a garland of leaves and grapes ; this, I observed,
was kept for the beat wine. After the soup, which
had rice in it, and was flavoured with tomato,
there was p'aced on the table opposite the hostess
a large si:ver salver. covered with a damask
napkin, on whieh lay a splendid turbot entire, so large
that it covered the salver to the edge. It looked so
enormous that I thought of a small whale. All thoughts,
however, of such eourse and oily creatures vanished at
once when, on helping myself to a piece of this fine white-
looking fish meat, and adding the sauce, which was cream v
and a little acid, the delicous turbot melted in the mouth.
Then came pungent radishes, which are a French appetizer,
and cold spiced sausage, cut in slices ; and a good red
wire was solved to all. After small rich oysterirates, came
the fillet of beef, with a mushroom sauce, and accompanied
by simple potatoes. Then lamb chops, dressed with bread
crumbs, and accompanied by boiled green peas. Next
roast Terkey,.. with the ablve-:mentioned extraordinary
sauce, and adi of sweetbread of veal cooked in a simple
but meet satisfying manner ; and finally, lettuce, dressed
only with oil ana vinegar, and a little parsley cut up fine.
With each different course, of course, a different wine was
brought, champagne being.
with the dossers, which was
only the best and most delicate ice cream ; the fruits,
bosh frfth and candied. and greet sugared chesnute,
which are a favourite Frecelt ben-boat Finally, black
etff:e, served in cups and saucers each different in style
and pattern; and after the liqueurs and sweet cordials,
WA all, both ladies and gentlemen, left the table and
went to the drawing room. I thought as we came home I
never heeled a dim] -1. could be so complete; yet with
nothing very Expensive, nothing showy nor elaborate, yet
every dish was finished, and the whole artistically perfect.'
How much more satisfactory is such a dinner than one of
those largo and costly evening parties where no one in
particular is p;eased or benefited ; whore the guests are
crowded, and their costly toilettes crushed ; where the
ices, et ceteras, are taken standing, and no artistic taste is
gratified. We suppose that tan such dinners would not
cost as muck as one such ball, and tow much more plea-
sure to be derived therefrom, to say uothirg of the added
comfort and hospitality given to one's gnesta.—A Lady,
in New York Tribune.

;ADMIRALTY COURT, LONDON.-Aut!•3T 7.

B EFOU.S DIG LUSHINGTON.

THII ROYAL AltCla—'B,lTTO3iii.Y BOND.--Th'tlll9 case the
action was brought against the barque Royal Arch, by
Messrs. S. S. de Wog' and Co., of Liverpool, as agent; of
Mr. Mahlon Vail, of New York, the holder of a bond on
the ship. It was pleaded that the vessel ,having received
considerable injury from tempestuous weather while
prosecuting her voyage from Scotland to New York, her
cantain, upon arriving at the last named city, in December,
1855, not having money at command to defray the (aliens'
of repairing has vessel, altd being unable, on his own
personal credit or that of his ownerv, to obtain the same
otherwise thaw by bottomry, applied to Mr. Vail to make
him the necessary advance on the bottomry of the said
barque ; to which application Mahlon Vail promised to
accede, upon condition of the master obtaining the consent
of the acing owner of the ship, Archibald J. Campbell,
of Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Such consent being given,
£l,OOO was advanced, and a bottoairy bond signed on the
sth of February, 1856, for the amount, which was to be
repaid, with interest, upon the expiration of five days next
after the ship's arrival at a port of discharge in the United
States, or in any of the British prtvnces of North America.
It further alleged that Royal Arch having in due course
of time returned to New York as a port of diseharge, and
five days having expired, an agreement was come to under
which the time of payment was extended until five days
next after the arrival of the vessel at a port of discharge
in any of the British Provil ces in North America, except
her then intended trip to Nova Scotia. It was asserted that
the blique subsequently proceeded to Liverpool, in Nova
&via, and then to Shediac, in New Brunswick, where
she took on board a cargo and sailed therewith to Liver-
pool, in England, and that the said bottomry bond was
now duo and in full force and effect, and that no part of
the £4,000, or the interest thereon, had been paid. In
opposition to the validity of the bond it was alleged the
master did not make any application to the said Mahlon
Vail for a loan of money ou bottomry, and that the sum
of .€4,000 was not advanced, but that Mr. Vail did advance
money for the general disbursements of the barque to the
amount of £3,060 or thereabouts. That when the ship wet'
ready for sea Mr. Vail, for the fist time, required the
master to Enter into a bottomry bond as a security for the
tradesmen's bills when they become due, to which arrange-
ment the master and the acting owner at Nova Scotia
strongly objected, but Mr. Vail refusing to allow the ship
to go to sea until the security required was given ; the
master, having no alternative, signed his name to the bond
of the sth of February, 1856. It was further pleaded that
upon the vessel's sabseqaent arrival at New York, in May,
1856, when the said bond (if valid) became due, in conse•
quence of Mr. Vail's conduct she was not placed in his
hands, but the master himself collected the freight, which,
after payment of tae ship's disbursements, was handed
over to Mr. Vail, in part satisfaction of his claim on the
owners, and that although an agreement was afterwards
entered into between Mr. Archibald J Ain Campbell, " for
self and owners" and Mr. Vail, the two other owners—,
Cohn Campbell and Sylvanas Martin—were not cognisant
of the matter, and had not authorised a third party to act
for them. It was submitted that the validity of the
instrument must be pronounced against, and the court
was asked to decree costs against the party setting it up.
The Court would take time to consider its judgment.