Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-18 00:00:00

hoaxes in their night dresses. Not far distant from Smithy
Bridge, a horse, belonging to Mr. Samuel Lord, miller, was
struck dead by lightning; it was worth from £4O to £5O.
Robert linshaw, the husband of the woman whose legs were
broken, was lying in bed with his children. A mullion of
the chamber win 'low was knocked out and fell upon the bed
in which they were lying, but they fortunat ly escaped
injury. The bank of a reservoir, belonging to Mr. Thos.
Heap, chairman of the Rochdale Board of Guardians, was
carried away The gable end of the scotching room,
belonging to Messrs. Schofield and Clegg, cotton manu-
facturers, was carried away, and the whole of the building
will have to coma down. The water entered the mill of
Mr. James Tayler Barnes, where it damaged a large
quantity of flannel pieaJs. Two grocers' shops suffered
severely—one occupied by Mrs. Sutcliffe, and an-
other by a person named Eastwood—destroying most
of their stock of groceries. The whole of the ale is the
celebrated Tim Bobbin Inn was destroyed.
At Huddersfield the loss of property was upwards of
£1,009, and a woman was struck dead by lightning
At Halifax the damage is estimated at about £5,000.
The storm extended itself to the East Riding of York-
shire, and burst over York with fearful violence, and was,
followed by a fall of rain such as has not been witnessed
for many years. The result was, that msny houses were
flooded, and the canal called the Fos•, which passes
through York, overflowed its banks to a great extent.
Indeed the lowlands and roads in many places have been
flooded to the depth of several feet.
The storm raged with great fury in Derbyshire and
much damage was done.

It is stated that the Coolnamuck property, formerly the
estate of James Sidleir, has pi-sed into the possessioa of
Lord John Baresford, brother of the Marquis of Waterford,
having been purchasel in trust for his lordship at the
recent sale in the Encumbered Estates Court.
The Presse says that General Cortlatidt is not a Germ in,
but a nativc, being the son of an English olfioer by a native
lady. Nor is he a general in the Company's service, but
one of the old generals of Runjet Singh. On the dissolu-
tion of the Sikh State he took service with the British, and
"is the real hero of almost all those achievements for
which Major vd,rardes received in 1843 so much credit."
The Espero of Turin says :—" As soon as all the mi-
chinery for the tunnelling of Mount Cenis shall have b-en
set up, his Majesty the King of Sardinia will fire the first
mine by means of an electric wire, and will set the engi,.e
of MM. Grandis, Geattoni, and Sommeillier in motion.
Tae first rock detached from the venerable mountain wi•l
be conveysd with great pomp to Aix les. Bains, awl will
be used as the foutldation-stoste of the new bathing cstab-
lishment which is to be built there."
SILK PR 0 DUG rL)N IN PIEDMONT.—The Chamber of
C .mtnerce of Turin has published a general statement on
the sale of cocoons during the current year throughout the
Piedinentese states. The total quantity sold was 2,208,350
kilogrammes, for 20 831,38Gfr., shoeing, as c ,Invined
with 1855, a d_minutton of 1,435 300 ki!ogs.
3,119,572er. There has, therefore; been a falling off of
wtarly one-half in the (paucity, but the rise in the price
has, to a certain extent, compensated silk-growers fur the
loss.

E tALY MARRYING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES..At the
Worship-street police-court the other day, a youth,
apparently nut more than sixteen, applied to Mr. D'elya-
court for a process against his wire for an ass suit upon
him. Magistrate: Your wife! Why surely you are not
married ? Applicant: Oh, yes, and have a child seven
months old, sir; but my wife ill-uses me sadly. She has
stabbed m 3 with a knife. I must have a summons against
her. Officer : He has a stab, sir, on the right arm. air.
D Eyncour, : Early days ! Well, t Ike a summons.
MIDWIVES IN THE EAST INDIES.—Tne Paris Univers,
which is an Ultramontane oracle of no slight pretensions,
has found out a new subject for its pious wonderment.
" It is," says that print, "a matter of surprise that the ma-
jerity of the consorts of the, Kings who rule the petty
States of India, under the protection of the English G,vern-
ment, gave birth only to daughters. Is the result to be
attributed to the Providence which watches over the in-
rerests of t e Company—or arc the midwives who deliver
these Queens bribed to substitute female for male chil-
dren." Surely a journal that believes in "La Salette
mirac;es ought to be able to solve this knotty point?
DEATH OF A SONAMBULIST BY DROWNING —Oo fonday
an inquest was held at West -Ha tlepool, on the ody of
Aaron Hubbard, aged 18 years, a native of Bewdsey,
Suffolk. Deceased was a seaman on board the Tanner, of
Whitby, lying in the West Decks; and was supposed to
have got up iu his sle -p (being a sonambulist) on Saturday
'learning last, about four o'clock, gone upon deck, and fallen
overboard, a person having heard a splash in the water as
of somebody falling into the dock about that hour. The
dock was dragged after the alarm was given, and the body
of deceased was found about twelve o'clock, having been
in the water about eight hours. The jury returned a ver-
dict of " Fcund drowned, there being no evidence to show
how deceased got into the duck."—Leeds Mercury.
VOLUNTEERS FOR INDIA.—We understand th it numer-
ous applications for employment are received, almost
daily, at the India House, not only from Englishmen, but
from Frenchmen, Germans, Belgians, and other foreigners,
who are desirous of proceeding to India to join in the
operations which are being conducted for quelling dis-
turbances and restoring tranquility. These offers being
made, for the most part, under the impression that the
services of military officers are required by the Government,,
it is as well to prevent disappointment by expressing our
belief that such is not the case. It is only necessary to
consider for a moment the number of officers who are now
if-elf:die without regimental duty, to satisfy any one that
the Goverment cannot require the aid of volunteers.—
Allen's Iddian Mail.
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A MERMAID.—The dsclareien of two fishermen on the
Argyllshire coast, appears in the Shipping Gazette. They
say :—" We, the uridersigned, do declare, that on Thursday
last, the 4h of June, 1857, waen on our way to the
fishing station, Lochin :all, in a boat, and when about
four miles south west from the village of Port Charlotte,
being then about 6 p.m., we d stinctly saw an object about
six yards from us in the shape of a woman, with full
breast, dark complexion, comely face, and fine hair bagg-
ing in ringlets over the neck and shoulders. It was above
the surface of the water to about the middle, gazing at us,,
and shaking its head. The weather being fine we had a
full view of it, and that for three or four minutes.--John
Williamson, John Cameron.—lslay, June 9, 1857."
Northern Ensign.
A MAN HALED BY A SPRING GUN.—On Monday
morning, the 4th inst., a glee finisher, named Adam
Bressnall, was accidently shot by a spring gun, on the pre-
mises of Mr. Philips, gun maker, Steeleouse-lane, Bir-
mingham. As a guard against thieves a spring gun, loaded
with slugs, was placed in such a position, •that on the
door being opened the contents of the weapon would be
discharged at the intruder. A secret wire on the outside
of the door communicated with the trigger, and on this
being removed Brassnall could enter the workshop in:
safety. On Monday, however, being in a hurry he omitted
to detac'e the wire, and on stepping into the room the
weapon exploded, and the unfortunate man, receiving the'
charge in his chest and side, fell hack mortaly wounded.
He tied next morning at the General Hospital. At the-
inquest a verdeat of " Accidental death" was returned.—
IVoreestershire Chronicle.
NEW MID 1L FOR THE WARS OF THE REVOLUYDN AND
THE EMPIRE.—The Monitcur publishes an imperial decree,
of which the following is the essential part :—" With a
desire to confer honour by a special mark of distinction
upon the soldiers who fought under the banners of France
in the great wars of from 1792 to 1815, we have decreed
that a commemorative medal is to be given to all French-
men and foreigners who served in the armies and fleets,
and fought under our banners between 1792 and 1815.
The medal will be in bronze, and will exhibit, on one side,
the effigy of the Emperor, and on the oiler the words
inscribe!, Campaigns of from 1792 to 1815. To his cone-
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lace, of the 84th Regiment, was tried on Friday by a court
martial, on two charges. let. In borrowing money from
a puivate. and neglecting to pay the same. 2. In drink-
ing a glass of wine with the said private in an hotel at
Ceatham. The firtc-, charge, be was not guilty, the money
was proved to have been paid ; the second charge, he was
found guilty, and he was sentenced to be reduced to a
private, after 17 years faithful service,. It appews that the
serjeant was sent with the private to the post-office to
get a post-office order cashed; and the private, showing
respect to the serjeant forgoing with him, treated the
serjeant with a glass of wine. The sentence is looked
upon i.-.s most cruel throughout the barracks, as the serjeant
never had a blot against his character.
THE PROSECUTION OF SPOLLEN.—The police brought
forward their witnesses, not as an array of persons ab'e to
clear up the whole case and throw light npoa the move-
ments of the prisoner, but they brcught up every one who
could swear against Spollen, and they kept ba' k all who
might have testified to any fact in his favour. Thus a
great point was to ascertain thentate of Mr. Little's office
aed n,ighbourhood on the evening of the murder, yet
Catherine Campbell, the assistant to the housekeeper, and
who knew more of the matter than the housekeeper herself,
was not examined. Another point was to establish whether
or not Spol'en spoke the truth when he said he took tea
with his wife and eldest son ; but the eldest son, who
could have been examined, was not examined. .It was
also desirable to hays corroborated the evidence of the sus-
pected child, as to the piece of lilac calico which she raid
she received as a present from a young girl; but this young
girl wag not examined,—The Leader.