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

THURSDAY.

On TELIASDAY next, the 13th instant, at TwelTe o'c'ock, at the
Commercial Saleroom,
63 Barrels CUR it cx Meander (F.s.);
50 Do. DITTO, ex Thessalia (s.s );
61 Do. DITTO, ex DIOECOW (sat.).
Apply to GEO. B XDENACH & EON, Brokers•

4, Soy Side.

BEST SILESIAN
ZINC
AND
SPEL TER,

IMPORTED DIRECT.
Apply to WICHELHAUS & BUSCH,
3, York-buildings, Sweating-street, Liverpool•

GARDEN SEATS ! GARDEN SEATS !

Subscribers have just got to hand a largB
A. Assortment of
GARDEN SEATS',

IN NEW AND ELEGANT DESIGNS.

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SEXTANTS, QUADRANTS, TELESCOPES, BAROMETERS,
CHARTS, &C.

THE NEXT DESPATCH PROM INDlA.—Expectation is SOII
chiefly directed to the regular India and China telegraPbj
which may be looked for any time between Monday a°
Wednesday next.
VISIT (.F THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.-011 Friday the
Emperor and Empress, with Her Mojesty and the FriPc',
Consort, embarked on board the royal yacht to witness the
regatta at Cowes, Returning at eight o'clock, the sea rad
too high to permit a visit to the Liverpool clipper!,
Should the wind go down there is no doubt that the vessel'
pill be inspected before sailing. of
THE GREAT SHREWSBURY CAIE.—The cemmittee
privileges of the House of Lords met on Friday.
Roundel' Palmer continued his summing up, which las.t.e..,
the greater part of the day, and was principally a reeapg;l„.
lation of the facts already detailed in evidence. Sir r,
Kelly commenced his reply on the whole case and had 12°'
concluded when the committee rose. st
FEDERAL GERMANY.—The Cabinet of Carlsruhe hael-„t
submitted to the Courts of Vienna and Berlir. a proJ!)„,
for the institution of a Federal Court, to be charged 1",
all Federal coes'ions of litigation. No question to be r‘,;
ferred to such court, until after having been eommunieatvt
to the Diet. The project has been favourably received
Vienna and by the Secondary States.
FIRE NEAR BARNSLEY.—At an early hour on Thlllll,o
morning, a fire was discovered in the stack-yard of DO'
John Shaw, farmer, of Notton, near Barusley, and it
not extinguished before upwards of 200 loads of whes
which was gathered into three stacks, and about eight ton;
of hay were consumed. • The fire is supposed to htVg,
resulted from the proximity of a steam thrashing meet:llo'7
which had been at work near to the stacks.
WESTM MELAND ASSIZILS.—We understand that tbd
liend4l m,tnorialists for the removal of the Westmorelan
assizes to that town, have received answer from the sectri,
tary of state that their prayer cannot be complied ~
We also learn, from an authentic source, that no alteraWlT
of the place of holding the assizes for Westmoreland gri'
be made ; on the contrary, it is contemplated to add a 10t
',;
of Lancashire and a part of Yorksh're to Westmoreland fps
assize purposes.

JEWEL ROBBERY ON BOARD THE MARLB)ROUGH
MAN.—lnformatiou has been received by the police of 8,::
' extensive robbery of jewels, value £1,200, from the ship
Marlborough. The articles were enclosed in a tin ease'
and were of the most c sly character. One of the brace's
lets is unique, a family relic, sa round with miniatures i`
Queen Elinbeth, Mary Q seen of Scots, Duke of Wer
lington, Duke of York, William IY., and Queen Victorl°
in the centre. At present there is no clue to the thieves'
On the 15th of July the celebrated old oak at Pleischwitf
near Breslau, tumbled down with a thunderliko crash'
having shown a few days before a scspiciou?-looking
This giant of the vegetable kingdom had a circumference °`
sixty-six feet at its base, and of thirty-thres feet at the
place where its three powerful chief branches separated'
In its hollow interior, on a rustic seat which had been
erected there, nine persons could sit. German authoritist
in the domain of vegetable physiology are of opinion that
it could not be under 1,500 years old.
SUICIDE OF A. CITY MEDCLIXNT.—On Saturday morning,
Mr. Jas Davis, a city merchant, put a period to his existence
grave-square. private residence,
appearsdenee,No.
t4h,aUt,p
ipler
eßonanscgelatfehu-esetroefet,sßorael
heavy losses, said to exceed £lOO,OOO, within the last
month, arising from the fa'lure of a large commercie`
house in New York, he hail been very desponding, °,;
that morning Mrs. Davis found him absent from 111
bedchamber, and the unfatunate gentleman was ulti'
mately discovered hanging by means of two silk haat
kerchiefs from a hook, upon which a large oil paintto%
was suspended in the drawing-room. He was cut down,
and Mr. Griffiths, a neighbouring surgeon, was sent WI
but life was extinct.

WILLS AI.4I;CHARITABLE BECOESTS.—The will of On
Right Hon. William Henry Viscount Downe, of Belgrave'
square, and Sessey, Yorkshire, has been proved in Londe'
under £60,000,. within the province of Canterbury. Right
lion. Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, £15,000 personalty
General Sir Charles Bulkeley Egerton, G.C.M.C+,, Karl"
£B,OOO. Sir Oxford Gordon, Bart., of Hove, Z 40,000.
Sir Francis Basket Myers, £15,000, Walter Pitcairn'
Esq., of the Trinity House, £20,000. Mrs. Mary Parker,
of Warash Hall, rear C4rlie, £25,000, within the proviee,°,
of Canterbury ; and has left to the British and Foreig"
Bible Society, £200; Wesleyan Methodist Missionary
£500; to the chapel at Tiviat Dale, Lancaster,£2so:
Wesleyan General Elueational and Chapel Fund, £l.OOl
Wesleyan Theological Institution, £100; Weslo33l-
Ministers' Legal Annuitant Society, £lOO.
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FMPLOYMENT IN CANAD k.,--31r. Buchanan, the Liovernul
Agent of Emlgra,ion at Quebec, has issued a notice dated the dtm.
July, 1857, stating thAt in cons, quence of the recent taro
tion to Toronto and Hamilton, the demand fur labourers and wdo
chanics at these places is, for the present, reduced. He recomna°llo
parties to proceed tJ the country districts, and paticularly to L 0
►
Ottawa and to the neighbourhood 9f Belleville, Trenton, t ort
and Cobourg. Mr. Buchanan also specially refers to the tag:eg,
applications he has re:eired for labourers, at high rates of a'r.„,;o
from the townshio of Otanabee, county of Peerborough, and 11.'0
certain parts of the Ottawa country. Full particulars as to the
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route to these districts, as well as the pamphlet of toe Caton-
Government upon the resour.es of Canada, with maps of the rita,
ways, showing their connection with those of the United StB_l;
continue to be issued gratuitously to all persons who apply for thr'd
personally or by le•ter, at the offices of the Grand Trunk Rail'
Company, 21, Old Broad-street, London, E C.

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MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1857.