Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-14 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC NEO

By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.

BLOCKADE OF CANTON•

1••=•••••.• PtilY
. A notification from the Foreign office
lished in last night's Gazette, stating that °'"edi
Bth August Admiral' Seymour had establishito
blockade of the port and river of Canton, snag
accordingly announced that all the rnetteureilbo
thorised by the laws of nations and treaties 111080
adopted and executed with respect to &cede,
which may attempt to violate the said blocks

THE KING OF DENMARK.

BERLIN, Tuggv°l4.o
The King has slept tranquilly during til"
night, and is better.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TiTtior.f
The Three por Cents closed to day atitottlit
"
being a decline of 20c., although the Bank i;
has been raised to 61 per cent.

o A ilbs,rel,
A gentleman of rank, fortune, intellect, 311.'4 r
principles, is announced as a candidati for Fro°, itstiO
retirement of the Attorney-General from the rept.°
of the borough. jeep
patentißmupborb teharanscwebh,eoealnnl aid
:treoonitnoorinsot,,7sZy Mr. Goodyear,
bigl
In Ali
greata
even more general use. -
At Baltimore a bull-terrier dog feiz,d D'e AAA)
valuable horse by the throat, and held to his grasPi.lllo,l
that he had to be killed by being struck on the .7,019.2.
an axe, all efforts to release him otherwise proving "dr
ing. Tile jugular vein of the horse was completelie"
and he d:el immediately.
William Ptile was charged with unlawful.) -56, tr„,
Mary Siunderson. The complainant said, Whee;sif
she was married, " Not exactly." She was alf"os rt.
to TbhrienditshciosTarryticlesis:
was a widow, and she said, "Nut quite." is tlii;
single, then," said M. Sh 3 said she 11-04'
and being asked to say what she was, said sbe
t"
midwife," midwife,"

AN IMPORTANT PURCHAVE.—We learn of 8,,f1C15,.
made yesterday in this city for two thousand iiT3o(°.;
flour at 4 dos. 50c., to be delivered in the su°lll,4ll 0.0
tober. The purchase itself is not. a matter of Ea' sohAs
sequence, but the connections of the purchaser areck
lead to the supposition that it is for foreign 20°3 S'S°7,S
it indicates the beginning of a foreign demand le'
deuce in an advance of prices.—Evansville (Ind)
md4
19th.
(51
LUCK IN ODD NUMBERS.—LateIy, at Vet„,,
s-n
moat) the wife of a wealthy merchant gave birth r to as'
infants, all well constituted and perfectly strawy
father, delighted at the circumstance,
has ofd
carriages, with three horses each, for the bantisl44.BlLs
mono ; three godfathers and three godmothers "oltr,
present, together with three nurses, three priests; $ to;
,
candle bearers. , vat sli
A respectably dressed gentlemanly-looking rasaeostellos
day arrested on the Mathew-bridge, by Sau—f itti°'o
Hughes, of the Thomond station, iu a bad state ° 00,0
cation. When brought to the lockup he gave bittssOrl:
Sir Robert Naughton. The Mayor committed "iii
0001/
baronet" to prison until he would get sober.es- e
sr
chronicle. e mane' tI.
A Frenchman who had deposited a sum of —estisi
safe keeping with a friend, hearing the latter was movie'
fail, called upeu him and said, " Sara I wants 031.80110:0
ti certainly, sir," replied the other, drawing out rulhea t
book, from which he was about to fill up a cheek. ,ofils
Frenchman said;' Stop, care, you got de movie c,siltflot
of course," said his friend, " I will Oa you a a"-aif sl
immediately." "No, no," said the Frenclimanhtioir
got de sonic, Ino want him, but if you no goi" foi
wants him."
may be clibefi
li
FINE ARTS.—However popular opinion sI/ if
as to the merits of the Pro-Rafaelities, there es 0 i
doubt as to their energy. Last year they starte.oto of;
hibition of their own, and attracted the atteutl oleteis
the lea Lig cognoscenti in art. Now the prinetP:qedit
have enrolled themselves together under the to
lop,
Junior Etching Club, and are setting busilY to o 1 Cr
this ether branch of their profession. ArOne. nitte,e),
we find those of Millais, Luard, Lord Gerald fee' is
Harwell, Martiaeau, Hrlliday, C. Keene, et bits/
Lewis, and S. Solomon.. The society is as roe'
infat cy, bit we shall watch and chronicle its Pr dr
Daily News. 'll Pr 9
Correa, IN THE SEA.—Experiments are noW Is 0010011
with nirosr3
to show that the sea is constantly charged
of copper. Mr. Sspimus Piesse caused a haelS)f sent
to be hung from the sides of steamers pasSlagofoitp
Marseilles and Nice, and obtained a precipitation usettios
upon the iron. He finds the same metal in thee: Fore
.of animals inhabiting the sea, and recommends tmossilt'da
experiment of putting an oyster—a bad one, if P 24 fell
on the blade of a knife. and leaving it there for r asitle
when, on the retrieval iof the oyster, the caPP9bee? 0!
found on the' knife. • IdMr. W
Mr. Piessesopiniore ee 001
blue colour of Aetna portions of the Moditerraneooe°
to an amtnoniacal salt of copper, while the grec
other sels is owing to the chloride of caner' dr,
,Tout nal ,
..,00
se-11:..410
EDUCATION OF THE CHILDREN OF MINE3S' lv
day a meeting was held in Leeds, in conuectiogioettos
West Yorkshire Northern As=ociation, for aware iseool
to the children of persons employed in coal swiss Oier
mines, when a ninnber of prizes varying fr 1,001,101,
tote her with certificates, were distributed. ;se or,
tion took place a few days previously, when :21,071V111'
offered, and it wr,s conducted by the Rev. F• " sigeoltiol
of her Majesty's Itspectors of Schools. On the es*,
result was satisfactory, for thoug,ia the pupils we tart lido
in spacial subjecei they were well up in elensea iestess
inter. 'Ten prizes were awarded, and they "'eressergistail
distributed in the presence of several of the 'Boettl." iti
gentry of the district. The object of the assBoose
similar to that of those established by Mr. Tee
Stafferdsbire, De.rbs shire, Warwickshire, nanseh s6jstis'
shire, and which have bean attended with 30 "'s-isor
in improving the educational status of the risis' ' se'
of those districts. Deli
,04i
The Red Jacket left Melbourne 19th JOY ;04.9;0
fine weather to the solith point of Van Dtera'sperttp t°B
'e
as tehveern fortlay days. She
vtietar
y
e hoecieixt,..ypiewo
wSeheek,Slleb:Smeqpneenni
at subsequently the
,ietri;iepliill.4:ll
stand far to the north ; half the passage front ' , ha,: P's
Land to C.e Horn was made in 'eight claYS'„eess,Stios
and variable winds afterwards retarded her Pr7roll.;eitl
was thirty-seven days from Melbourne bef°r, iti S'lol,,E'
the Cape, a distance she has before perfornie" to theisos•
two days ; she was twenty days from the Horndosioets
and to that point from Alelbourn i, fifty -5011 s easge y
the line to Liverpool, twenty-eight days; sl,3(esra'oo7,6
east traders; to the r a r.llel of fifteen nor `r-se °',o
very light variable airs from all points; tr;,-; ai,,v, 513';
Vends to Holyhead her time was fifteen sisi:iss 1° 0068
experieeeed ihe hurricane in the South Po; , oneissi
has never had her m tin royals stowed save `ad; blO 81).-i
r
only. Cargo consists of 70,000 ounces of gelf
too 190 i
large quantity in the hands of the psssenget'l,°o, cc)
lo f t 0
has 120 • 500 bales wool, a quantity of tai 10 1
I
wine, hides, &c. foirgBol to
A CAUTICN 70 LADIES.-0/I ThUridlY „e, iln tell tee
reverend gentleman holding an important syehesn serf
the liish Church, having arrived from the ,Singh!lV
mail steamer, took his seat in a o trriage 01 "-Del op r
Railway, the only companions of his jatle op elilro
respeetable-looking lady and a younger !elan the peed
her daughter. When the train got into ma°, 1 helveoev,o
of the pa sengets suddenly exclaimed, 04'0
..S
robbed of my watch and purser and when deemBo vr)
trig; 'ter 0
Salthill she told the station-master and a 'tete 0
"there was one of the swell mob in the ,00 rit, t,
again loudly announced her alleged 108-0. to apt in ix
gentleman was exceeding perplexed hew ea laukste le
delicate predicament. Had there not been joisesveoollo
case," such a charge would have required _ereocl4o,r
planation and an emple apology; but the res Bod ti',00,,,
man with great forbearance remained st!ert,'•.s, the 15 if Pit
again proceeded. All the way up to Da/Lnee 90,14.0.
female kept ogling him in a stypicious nt!.."8.1. to t Sidle
expected some sleight-of-baud display Ise6tllleoo ttisegeasisif
fingered craft. At the Westland-row sta'!Teeenuo, 01.0%
were aboueleaving the carriage, but the r- t silo fjorio,
man interposed, adding that he could n?tsed. osnitei
imputations any longer to pass ucquest! oliesory.
calltd the station superintendent and ! rho retiellsl
repeated to ihem the elder lady's words, 070 doe e'oa sd
an exchange of cards with her. By th oe alareseOef
thought over the gravity of her acsusation, ar the r eplio
the consequences, tried to escape. Neithse3te fr°111.03,0
strewed nor the policeman could exact a`• tssionso: 00
of the ladies, who insisted that the exPrtbe to° 00000
Salthill Were, " there is a swell mohnian is
_end gelrepio4o
the request of the superintendent the rere' dills 0 'lr
ac opted thpology, but the strangest PaLe iststP:;eo %,0
was yet to occur. Before the ladies left tse° one ess
f Its hea
missing watch was found in the folds 0 .00
that the I'
ments. She still he'd, however,
at Atm.—Evening Packet.