Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-08 00:00:00

TESTIMONIAL.

Ship Agamemnon, River St. Lawrence,
9th Augntt, 1857.
TO CAPTAIN ROBERT BARLEY.
Dear Sir,—We, the undersigned, a committee appointed
by the whole of your passengers, feel it our duty, as it is
our most earnest desire, to return you our sincere and
heartfelt thanks far y our unvarying kindness to us all, and
more especially for the anxious sympathy you have con-
tinually shown for the helpless women and children. We
are satisfied that the feet of having no surgeon on board
has greatly increased the responsibility of your position;
and although your kind attention has ever been given to
all with the greatest promttitude, benevolence, and im-
partiality, we cannot but feel that it mast have consider-
ably interfered with your own private leisure. We think
it quite unnecessary to offer our poor testimony to your
abilities as a commander, but we must say, that the cool,
gentlemanly manner in whirth the duties of the ship have
been carried on, notwithstanding the very bad weather we
have had, has appeared to us much above the standard we
had been led to expect. We beg of you to accept our
united thanks and best wishes for your continual pros-
perity ; may you have a profitable and speedy passage
home. Be assured that you carry with you the most
grateful feelings of every one on b ,ard. Will you be kind
enough to express to your officers and crew our high appre-
ciation of their whole conduct, which it appears to us has
ever been of the highest order, as might naturally be
expected from the good example continually before ,hem.
—We have the honour to subscribe ourselves, dear sir,
your grateful PASSENGERS. Signed by the following
(committee) appointed from 200 passengers—Thomas
Wright, chairman, Wm. ROSS, Walter Morrison, Edw
Co,,enev, Edward Cross, Miles Martin, Riehd. Jones,
Wm. Willbec, Ja. Cochrane, John Jones, Albert Whaby,
Danl. Whitmar .11, Wm. Primince.

ACCOAIMODITION IN THE SOUTH DOCKS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NoRTIIERN TIMES.
Sir,— The imperative necessity and importance
of obtaining d,:ck ac3ommodation for vessels
arriving with cargo from foreign ports, is so
apparent that argument thereon is unnecessary.
At the same time perhaps you will permit me to
make a few remarks upon the subject indicated
in the above heading.

Having lately arrived from Quebec, where I
bad occasion to charter my ship, the Zaluka,
but was unable to do so without stipulating
to take the cargo south of the Liverpool
Custom-house, find that after passing a
large sum for dock dues, besides lying a number
of days in the river, that there is no chance of my
being able to dock these spring tides; nor can any
ono inform me when the ship can be docked. Yet
it appears that there is no want of quay room in
the doTAis south Of the Custom-house, for I learn
that during the last twelve months they have been
filled with ships taking cargoes of salt. Surely,
docks of less importance than -the Brunswick,
might be used for this purpose, and thus give pre-
ference to ships with timber cargoes. Numbers of
ships will otherwise lose their fall voyage. Evi-
dently, bettei arrangements for the eouvenience of
Quebec vessels and their cargoes should be made
in the great shipping port of Liverpool.—Yours,
&c. JOIIN SIMPSON,
Master of the Ship Zaluka.
Another correspondent forwards the following—
" A ship, the Jane Lowden, though bound to
discharge in the Brunswick Dock, has been
compelled to go into Huskisson in the meantime,
and wait there till room is found in Brunswick—
Why not c9mplete the Dock south of Toxteth? If
such work is continued, owners will not charter
ships for Liverpool. The extra expense caused by
dock delays is enormous,• and ships cannot now
afford it ; besides it gives the port a bad name and
must injure it, and if our Dock Authorities did
their duty properly, there is no real cause for all
this de'ly and expense; only fancy, ships laying
one or two weeks and longer in the river waiting
to dock, then keeping their crew all this time, and
losing so much valuable time, and likely losing the
fall voyage."

ALLrGED CHILD MURDFR.—Maria Clarke, a harsh-
featured. middle-aged woman, an inmate of the Hackney
Union Workhouse, was charged at the Worship-street
Police Court, Landon, on Saturday, on suspicion of having
wilfully caused the death of her illegitimate female child,
eight years ol l, by throwing it into the Regent's Canal.
It appeared that, early on Fiiday morning, the prisoner went
to the men connected with the lock upon the Regent's Canal,
in Dalston,,aud asked them to drag the water at a particu-
lar spot; saying, that she feared her child had fallen into
the canal The drags were brought, and the child's body
was taken out, when a policeman, who was present,
having hie suspicions roused by what he had heard, took
the prisoner into custody. Her account of the affair was,
that she had obtained leans from the workhouse, at Hack-
ney, to go out and look for a situation, and her daughter
went with her. In passing along the canal she missed the
child, aud after searching for her some time, she went on
to her sister's house at Cambridge Heath, where she slept.
The next morning, f.:eling uneasy about the child, she
went down to the coal, and asked the men to drag the
water. The prisoner, it appeared, had left the workhouse
clandestinely, as she bad done several times before, and
taken her child with her. When taken into custody, she
amused herself by singing in her cell, and appeared quite.
gallour. hhe was remanded for a week.