Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-05 00:00:00

DEATHS

On the 29th nit., at her residence, Stanley, near Liverpool, aged 64,
Frauces, relict of the late Frederick Dempster, Esi., of Dublin, and
daughter of the late John Tuton, Esq.
On the god inst., at 12, Roscoe-lane, Ws. G. Branagan.
On the 3rd inst., in London, aged 23, Harriet Elizabeth, youngest
daughter of the late Josei h Hornby, Esq , of DrUd's Cross, near
this own.

Sir Births, Marriages, and Deaths, are only inserted wheneent

to our Office duly antheaticted.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

By British and Irish Magnetic Telegi aph.

WORCESTER RAC RA V - ESTERDA Y.
HANDICAP PL ATP.

Jane ,
Eleven ran.
AUTUMN FLYING STAKES.

Admiral of the White ....1 1 Li•tle Gerard.. 2
Twelve rin. Won by a short head.
SW:CIL Our.—Mid of Th,rwent and Peto.

ANNUAL STEEPLE CHASE.

Theodine 1 I Forest Queen.. .2 I Omer Pacha.....3
Nine ran.

PAID FORFElT.—Bri:adier, Oliharn, Ktii;ht of the
Shire, o.d Dog 'fray, and West )n.

SINGULAR CASE OF SUICIDE, AT LEICF..STER.—Ii June
last Robert Spriggs, a pill-doctor, residing in Causeway_
lane, Leicester, was marries to a person much younger
than himself; bat in cons'quence of some disagreement
as the manner in which Spriggs was disposing of her
property, his wife left WEE a few weeks ago. This preyed
upon lis mine, and on Sunday last he was found in his
travelling van suspended by the neck quite dead. When
found he had his spectacles on, and his wife's wed ling
slippers were firmly fastened round his neck—the hed4 of
each slipper meeting at the chin, and were fastened together
by a screw.
SHIPBUILDING IN PIOSTON.—On Tuesday, the largest
vessel ever built at the port of Pres'on, and named the
Ceylon, was launched from the yard of Messrs Smith and
Rutherford, shipbtilders, Marshensl, liar dimensions are
as follows :—Length over all, 166 feet, :and between per-
peneiculars' 146 fee'; breadth, 50 feet 3 inches; depth,
19 feet 6 inches ; tonnage, 0.m., 593; rees'erel tannage,
590; burthen, 850 deal weight, 1,000 lineal measurement,
Tne ship, which is a square-,igg,ad vessel, was designed by
Mr. Juhn Rutherford, of the firm of Messrs. Smith sad
Rutherford, and has been built for sale, under espeeiel
inspection.

GOING THROUGH THR MOTION4.—An American paper
says :—lt s not long since we laughed over the good old
story cif the Ingenious condn,Aer of an °roll, sirs, who being
paid by a gentleman to supply a band cf five musici ins f
a serenalc, was unable to °lit An more than four. But a
lucky thought c ime to his ail, and he ailed the vackney
with a barber, who bore a flute. In the mouth of this man
he put a nark, end on it he west through the motions.
Not being embarrassed with difficulties of blowing, he
found it an easy matter to tri'l away with his fingers, and
this he did so ski fully as to be highly prai ed for his
remarkable softness of intonation. We may laugh at the
idea ; but the man who 'cults a little closely into soeiety
and its various humbugs, will slon observe that the barber
in the story, Is not the only individual extant who has
deriv much praise a d solid pudding from " going
through the motions." kv 47 where, and in every walk of
life, do we behold these geniuses, devoting all their ener-
gies to mouthing and fingering, and, as Dickens would say,
in finding out " how not to do it." Worst of all, those
fellows who figure away so ornamentally', and put on such
airs of accomplishing miracles, when they cannot boast of
even so much as mere blowing, are the verb ova who g,st
the most honour, and the best ray,