Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-05 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

Y sterday the Coroner held the following inque3ts :
On the body a man, name unknown, who was found
floating in the river. He was about fivo feet eight inches
high, and stout make. Ha had on a blue flannel shirt,
blue duck trowers, and laced shoes. He was about thirty-
four years old. Verdict, " Found drowned."
On the body of Hugh A. Young, seventeen years old,
who was drowned in the river whilst bathing. The details
appeared in our paper of yesterday. Verdict, " Accidental
drowning."
On the body of a man, name unknown, who was found
at the Custom-house in a state of drunkenness, and who
died in the Northern Hospital, undr tho circumstances
stated in our paper of yesterday. Verdict, " Died of
excessive drinking."

THE SCARCITY OF Paprn.—lt was st ted in May last that
the paper manufacturers of Westphalia and the Rhenish
proinces in Prussia had agreed to increase the price of
piper 10, 15, or 20 per cent-, according to quality. The
paper manufacturers of Northern Germany, at a meeting
held at Stettin, and these of Southern Germany, at one
held at Fran kfort, have since resolved to adopt the same
augmentation, and the measure has caused general dissa-
tisfaction in Germany, in which. from the immense number
of book, newspapers, and periodicals published, the demand
for paper is so very grew. Although paper has increased
in value in all Europe, owing to the scarcity of rags, the
step taken by the German paper makers is regarded as
unjust, inasmuch as they have long been doubly protected,
first by a tax of from 60 to 100 per cent., as' valorem, on
all rags exported; and next, by one of about 30 per cent.
on all paper imported. The booksellers and publishers of
Germany, not fewer than 850 in number, have energetically
protested against the increase of price adopted by the paper
makers, and call on the different gcvernmeu!s of Germany
to take off the exaggerated protec ion which the paper
makers enjoy, so as to allow a large importation of the
article from abroad. In the meantime they have resolved
to confine their consumption of p iper to the narrowest
limits, and for that purpose will either
.delay altogether
the publication of new works, or will only strike off small
elitions of them.
THE B:SHOF or Sr' DAVID'S, who is generally consi-
dered a very quiet man, comes forward in a letter in The
Times, to hurl defiance at M. Massey, Mr. GladsSone,
Mr. Dillwyn, Mr. Hadfield, the House of Commons, and
all the world, in the matter of the new Swansea Cemetery.
It seems that there has been a delay in consecrating the
new cemetery at Swansea, in consequence of the vicar
claiming compensation for the expenses of conveyance to
and fro, the cemetery being two miles distant from the
town. The claim was admitted
,to be a reasonable one,
but it was difficult to arrange a legal fulfilment cf it. The
opinion of counsel decided that the expense of providing
vehicles could not be laid on the borough rates, hut that
compensation could be afforded the vicar by "a revision of
the interment fees." It appears that the committee of the
Town Council of Swansea adopted this arrangement, which
was accepted by the vicar, approved by the bishop, and
that the final step was only put off by the absence of some
members of the town council, on the subject of local affairs
in London. In this interval Mr. Massey inserts a clause
in the Burials Acts Amendment bill which relieves the
inconvenience caused by the delay in the consecration of
the Swansea Cemetery in a completely different way—viz.,
by giving permission to all incumbents to bury in unconse-
crated ground, whether with or without the bishop's
consent. The Bishop of St. David's, in the letter of
to-day, condemns this clause as gratuitous and unneces-
sary, inasmuch as the causes of the delay of consecration in
the Swansea case were now over, and the burial ground
only waited for a formal act of the Town Council to obtain
its legitimate use as consecrated ground ; and he asserts
that the house passed the clause in ignorance of the true
circumstances of the case, and under the untrue impression
that an interminable quarrel between the bishop and the
Town Council interposed between the burial and its con-
secration. Accordingly his lordship treats the house fiS
deceived, and acting altogether under a mistake, in passing
the clause.
GIGANTiC DEER SKELETON.,—Two or three days since,
as one of the Ormonde tenants here, named John Bulger,
was at work in his dividend of the reclaimel portion of the
bog of Poulacapple, he observed that the sail in one seot
was of a pecuiar colour and nature, or, in his own words,
"black as jet, and greasy Looking." Prompted by curiosity,
he rinv ilea
on reaching the bottom, composed of sand and marl, he,
to his surprise, turned up a huge skeleton of the Cervus
Megeceros llibernicus, the extinct gigantic deer of Ireland.
Having carefully gathered up the bones, including the
smallest fragments, he brought them hems. The news
spread with eectric speed in the neighbourhood, and in
the evening, when the toils of the day were over on the
bog, group after group went to see the relics of the " Eta
roadh," or red deer, as they are called in ancient song and
snory, and by many a fireside the gild sports of the Fenian
chase were narrated with fresh avidity. The discoverer,
having cleanly washed all the bones, proceeded to match
and arrange them in one of his rooms. On the following
day the Dowager Marchioness of Ormonde, accompanied
by Lady Elizabeth Butler, drove there to see them. The
joints are prodigious, as are also thejaw-bones, armed with
rows of teeth and grinders, in good preservation. Bulger,
warmly sharing in the gratitude that is felt by all in the
neighbourhood towards the noble marchioaess, exclaimed
—" If the bones were worth twenty pounds, I would
gladly give teem to your ladyship in preference to any one
living," and accordingly he brought them to Garryricken
House in the evening. It is a pity that the antlers have
suffered so greatly from decomposition as to be detached
from the head, as are also the horns from the wales It
Lady Ormonde had been living in Garryricken in 1836.
when the first deer skeleton was found in Paulacepple bog,
she might have got a pair of antlers that would span the
entrance gate of her demesne, had not a rude peas ,nt, who
am, however, glad was none of the natives, by the blows
of a spade, severed oec of them from the head. Bilge'.
hopes to succeed in a search for more deer skeletons in the
bog. where so many have been already discovered. In
turning up one of them in 18-16, a substance, soft, black,
and gles v, was found, which some c died deer-suet.
Our Irish bogs are Nature's museums."—Kakenny
Moleretor.
THE MATRIMM./ItL EMPORIUM AT CONSTANTINOPLE.—
The far-seeing slave-dealers, who provide the Turkish
market with Circassian wares, had no diffikealiy in fore-
telling that the treaty of Paris would abandon to their fate
those gallant mountaineers of the C oicasus who have so
long and so manfully struggled fur independence from the
Russian yoke, and that soon they must bid an eternal fare.
well to their limanive traffic in Circassian beauty, and
their judicious supply of wives for the Pashas of Constan-
tinople. Accordingly, ere the treaty came into operation,
and the government of the Czar was authorised to forbid
the export of its new subjec's, they proceeded to buy up,
far and near, every eligible young lady of Circassian origin,
and forward her, as speedily as possible, to the emporium
of matrimony at Constantinople. Nor was this so hard a
lot for the,c mountain daisies as it mayat first sight appear.
They are taught to look upon the slave-market of the
Turkish capital as the arena in which they are to contend
for the prizes of life—namely, comfortahle quarters,
luxurious baths, a house full of slaves, and a rich master.
To be deprived of her season at Stamhoul is a bitter dis-
appointment to a Circassian belle. We in England can •
not understand this. Our fair Anglo-Saxons broil in
London through the dog-days simply and entirely for the
exquisite delights of its amusements and its society. Who
ever heard of an English girl going to a ball with any
ulterior view but that of dancing? Who ever detected her
payiug her modest court to an elderly Pasha (of the Upper
House) for the sake of having jewels and amber, and
gilded arabs and slaves at her disposal ? Who ever knew
a blooming rose of June thet would have made the treasure
of his life to L-z irus, and changed his gloomy dwelling to
a bower of Paradise, transplanted by her own desire to the
hothouses of Dives, there to queen it for a day among all
his plants and exotics, and then pine neglected and
withericg away ? No, no, we know nothing of such
doings ; but the trade flourishes handsomely in the East,
and consequently the spring and summer of '56 saw Con-
slantinople literally smothered in beauty. I use the
word advisedly, for an Oriental enslaver, in the language
of Burns, is "a lass who has acres of charms," and a
pasha purchases his wife as he does his mutton, by the
pound. Now, demand and supply, File action and
reaction, are "equal and contrary," nor is woman more
than any other marketable commodity, exempt from tare
immutable law; so when this invasion of beauty came
pouring into Constantinople, the value even of a Circassian
decreased steadily in an nla'ming ratio, till a damsel that,
in the golden days of gallantry, would have fetched a
hundred and fifty pounds sterling, was now to be bought,
" warranted," for five ! Mark the sequel. Luxury crept
in amongst the lower classes. The poor Turkish artisan,
anntitioning a Circassian bride, sold his tools, his all—nay,
his faithful black wives—to purchase the unheard-of
biessiV. The poor negro women were turned adrift into
the stree ts. Who was to bid for them? During the worst
period of the panic, black women were selling in Con-
stantinople h't a shilling a dozen,—,Eraser's Maga4:-.ine, for
August.