Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-16 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS.

We published portions of a despatch•from Sir A.
Wilson, respecting the capture of the City of
Delhi. The gallant General writes on the 22nd of
September, and says that on that day they were
complete masters of the City. A private letter from
an officer forming part of the devoted garrison of
Lucknow has been published. It is dated 27th
October, and is believed to contain the latest ex-
plicit intelligence from the leagued city; and if
the letter be genuine and accurate, the condition
of our countrymen and countrywomen in the
Residency is by no means so desperate as is sup-
posed.
The Sc]rboreugh election has ended in the return
of Mr. Dent by a majority of 93 over his opponent,
Mr. Cayley. The tow.a was quiet during pollirrg
-hour, but there was evidently great excitement.
,Mr Hunt, the Conservative candidate, has been
returnWl for Nor..h Northamptonshire in place of
the late Mr. Augustus Stafford, beating the Minis-
terial candidate, Mr. Vernon. There is a vacancy
in Buckinghamshire, consequent upon the elevation
of Mr. Cavendish to the peerage, and also in the
Elgin Burghs by the retirement of ?Jr. G. S. Duff;
but the probability is, that both constituenaies will
return new members of the same political com-
plexion as the former,
:The trial of Mr. Bright, who is charged on nine
indictments with forgery, has commenced. We
are yet without the verdict in the case.
The Liverpool Assizes were brought to a termi-
nation yesterday, after the trial ofa few unimpor-
'CßS es.

-Yesterday afternoon, a service of plate was pre-
sented to Mr. John Laird, of Birkenhead, by his
- numerous friends and admirers, for the many emi-
nent services which that gentleman has., for a
lengthened period, ren'ered to the township. An
ample report of the proceedings will be found in
another column.
The-meeting of the Select Vestry, held yesterday,
•was of no great importance.
At the Central Criminal Court, yesterday, the
:prisoner charged with the robbery of the,jewels, &c.,
,Ipf the Countess of Ellesmere, valued at some
15,000, took plaice. Jackson, the receiver, was
.sentenced to ID years' penal seruitude, and his
wife was acquitted, on the plea of having acted
under hiS' control. A very slight addition (,ix
months' imprisonment) was made to Atwell's
punishment, who is already suffering imprisonment
for another offence.

At -.the- Stafforei Assizes, Willi3m Allanson, a
-tailor, has been coLvicted of wholesale uttering of
Bank of England notes, and was sentenced to fif-
teen years' penal .servitude. His wife received
twelve months' imprisonment for the same offense.
At thesD3rby ASSIZ'23, one Henry Buxton, a
labourer, only twenty-one years of age, having
been found guilty of highway robbery, and pleading
guilty to several burglaries, has been sentenced to
twenty years' 'penal servitude.

Oat; Abel RensmEtn, of Rochester, wrote to the
Registkr,General of Seamen, that while he (Hens-
man) was on his passage from London to Yarmouth,
that the captain of the steamer got drunk, and
otherwise tniscondueted liimaelf. Hausman also
wrote to the Shipping Gazette, but this .was not
published. The captain, Daniel Goocicx.e, felt
hirnsslf aggrieved when he learned this, and for the
purpose of clearing his character from such a stain,
he brought an action for libel in the Court of
Common Pleas, and obtained a .7erdict for £7,:0

damages.
A somewhat singular controversy has been going
-on between the •` leAing journal" and one of our
"low pricea" Metropolitan cotemporaries re-
aTecting the extreme similarity of the Paris car-
xespondenee which .each of the nap:-;is in question
have been publishing. Indeed, so identical are
many parts of the respective communications, that
a cursory re,ade:: would imagine that both produc-
tions were emanation of the same brain. On
Saturday the Times printed in its second edition
the letter of its Paris correspondence, in which
was an alltnion to the fact of the Paris papers
quoting an article from the Nord, in which some
comments were made as to the fact of the Times and
Daily Telegraph publishing on the same day a leading
article on the same subject, couched in almost the
same language. The leading journal feels some-
what indignant that any paper but itself should
have fresh and interesting original articles, and
although it pi inted the letter of its Paris Corres-
pondent in Saturday's Second Edition in its
entirety, so ashamed was the " Thunderer" at the
discovery, that on Monday's First , E lition all
allusion to the "penny print" was omitted. The
case is a singlar one—but to those conversant with
the Metropolitan Daily Press it will not appear
unusual. poi) it be, that the party who contributes