Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-18 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL.

REFO RE MR. MANSFIELD.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER BY A BLACK MAN.—A black man,
named Sabina Wilson. a sailor, was charged with the
following desperate outrage—stabbing Thomas Nicholson
and James Furlong. It appeared that the prisoner was in
Vauxhall-road on Tuesday night, and about ten del ek he
acted rudely towards some children, whom he flung off the
footway. The complainant Nicholson said, "Don't hurt
the children," when the prisoner, with an oath, asked
what he had to do with it, at the same time striking witness
a blow in the back, and immediately he felt blocd flowing
down his back, and he gave an alarm. The prisoner was
pursued, and on Furlong coming up to him he struck him
a violent blow with a knife in the neck, under the left ear,
and another on the head. Surg on Arnott, of the Northern
Dispensary, stated that in both cases the wounded men
had the merest possible escape of their lives. The wound
on Nicholson was in the back part of the chest ; it was
three inches long, and most dangerous. He would not be
able to do anything at least for a month. The wound on
Furlong's neck was quite proximate to the carotid artery ;
his escape was almost miraculous. The prisoner was sent
for trial at the assizes, on both charges of attempting to
murder.

LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.

BEFORE MR, COMMISSIONER PERRY.

In re J. .f.RoniaTs.—The bankrupt, metal broker, of
Liverpool, applied yesterday for his certificate. He was
supported by Mr. Evans. Mr. Fetcher appeared for the
assignees, and offered no opposition. His Honour granted
an immediate certificate of the second class.

THE BANK OF IRELAND.—On Thursday, a dividend of
61 per cent. for the hill-year was declared. This ii the
largest dividend yet given by the Bank of Ireland.
RAILWA.YS IN THE ROMAN STATIL—A letter from Civita
'Vecchia announces the arrival there, on the Ist instant, of
two English vessels from Newcastle, laden with materials
for the construction of the railway from Rome to Civita
Vecchia. . _

THE EXHIBITIONI OP ART TIMM:WIS.—The returas for
Saturday give the following results :—Admitted by season
tickets, 2,955 ; on payment of a shilling each, 6,208 ;
total, 9,163. Of these 2,580 arrived by railway. There
were two special trains, one from Hull, and the other
from Wrexham, each bringing a good number of pas-

sergers.
Mrs. Allison, of Notti'lghatn. N. H., was 107 years of
age on tin 10th day of last month. She is blind—hut
members of the family in which she resides are able to make
her hear. She sits erect in her chair, but does not walk
,vithout asistence, and yet appears comfortable and well,
and is apparently as likely to live a number of years as
other aged persons in good health.—New York paper.
NETLEY 110iPITAL.—The government are determined
to p,nceed with the erection of Netley Hospital. They
have a host of medical authorities to testify to the salubrity
of the spot on which it is building. The Corporation of
Southampton have ordered Dr. Cooper, the officer of health
to the Corporation, to prepare a report for the govern-
ment, to show from medical statistics the fallacy of the
statements which have beon made in parliament and the
public press relative to the insalubrity of Southampton and
the neighbourhood of Netley_
DOUGLAS JERROLD IN Slocum—As a "jolly good
fellow he was unsurpassed. When Thackeray, ju4t before
his voyage to America, to lecture on the " Four Georges,"
was entertained by a select circle of his li.erary friends,
Dickens, who was in the chair, vacated his office at mid-
night. Thereupon Jerrold jumped into his place. "Now,"
said he, "let us commence the evening, gentlemen." And
from that moment the fun was fast and -furious, indeed.
Some .;one once said, in Jerrold's presence., that Charles
Dickens and Albert Smith, in a literary sense, ",rowed in
the same boat." " Ali," said Jerroll, " bat with what
different sculls!" When Albers Smith became famous,
Jerrold withdrew the remark with the quiet o'servation
that Albert Smith had greatly improved in his rowing."—
Hull Packet,

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WICK HARBOUR.—The Northern Ensign, in complain_
jug of the exposed state of the harbour of Wick, says :
" During the approaching herring fishery season, we shall
have from 1,120 to 1,150 boata engaged in this perilous
enterprise. They will be collected from various districts.
Each lawful night 6,000 men will leave the shores of Wick
on board of these boats, which, with the materials, rnay be
estimated at £120,000. Spending the night at sea, rowing,
and casting and hauling their nets, at distances varying
from three to thirty miles, they return in the morning to
their respective stations ; and when the tide is out it is
no uncommon thing to see 800 boats lying at anchor
within an area of 240 acres, with their precious freights,
all at the mercy of the elements, having not even a
narrow sheltered creek to which fifty of them could fly in
the event or a storm at law water, or even a couple of hours
t► ereafter."

EDIBEZZLEMENT. AT ROCHDA.L.E.—TaOaII3. Coucher, a

travelling Seotchman employed by Mr. John Adamson,
draper, was charged at the Itochdate petty sessions, on
Monday, with embezzling moneys belonging to his em-
ployer to the amonnt of X 1 10s, 31 Mr. Adamson, in the
early part of last month, sent a young man along with the
prisoner on his round. and seeing that he would be fettled
out he absconded. Information was given to Superin-
tendent Callender, who traced Coucher to Manchester,
thence to Liverpool, and from thence to Scotland, te a
place near Cestle Douglas. He sent Sergeant Greenwood
after him, and Coucher was apprehended. A list of other
moneys was placed before the bench which the prisoner
was supposed to have embezzled. On one sheet there
were seventy sums varying from ls. to £1 17e. 61., and
oa another twenty varying from 59. to .22 105., the natn,s
on which had been made fictitious by the prisoner.
Coacher was committed for trial.
EXTRAORDINARY PXPLOSION AND LOSS OF FIVE / AIVE4.—
I the evening of the Bth inst., two buildings, used as fire-
week shops, in the eeighbourhood of Berlin, blew up with
a fearful explosion, shattering all the windows in the
neighbourhood, and destroying the lives of five persons.
The following circumstances connected with this accident
are peculiar. It took place when no one was engaged in
either of the workshops, which are separated from each
other by a path of several feet wide. Of the firework
maker, his assistant, the formes ilog, and a woman w4lo
was near the spot at the time, who have perished, it is
distinctly stated that none of their clothes were burnt nor
their bodies injured, but that their heads were split, and the
brains protruded ; the firework maker's wife, who was not
far off at the time, was uninjured, as was also their dwell-
ing house, behind which the two workshops stood. It
appears that those last two incidents are due to the cir-
cumstance that a large open plot of ground, used as an
exercising ground fur the military, closely adjoined, and
admitted of the expanded air finding vent in that directicn
THE YELLOW FEVER. ON BOARD THE WEST INDIA.
STEAMERi.—The Lot Plata, just arrived, brings news of
the continuance of the yellow fever in the West Indies.
When she left it was chiefly amongst the shipping at St.
Thomas and Martinique; the other parts of the West Indies
appear to be free from it. All the persons belonging to
.he Panama, the last homeward mail steamer, who were
struck with yellow fever, and left behind at St. Thomas,
are dead. Dr. Manfred, and Mr. Turner, the fourth
engineer, died of yellow fever on board the Trent. Soon
after the La Plata left St. Thomss, yellow fever made its
appearance among the crew, and nearly forty persons were
laid down with it. Every endeavour was made to stop its
ravages and mitigate its severity. The utnitnt care was
taken in ventileting the shin, cleansing it from disinfecting
substances, and nersing and cons ding the sick. In addi-
tion to the surgeon of the La Plata Dr. Eamilton, a pas-
senger,. rendered most veluable assistance A Jamaica
clergyman, who was also a passenger, attended
most indefatigably on the sick, to 'cheer them with
religious consolation. Out of the whole number
attacked, only six died on the passage.

GRATITUDE TO RELATIVES OF CRIMEAN OFTIO?.RS.—The
following is a return of the sums paid as compensation to
the relatives of certain officers in lieu of pnsions, &c., in
pursuance of the provisions of the 10th clans of the R,,yal
warrant of March 1, 1856—viz : the sum of .2465 18s 91
to Henry Hart Anderson, father of Captain Anderson of
the 31st Foot; £262 19s 3d to Mrs. Susan Armstrong,
mother of Lieutenant and Adjutant Armstrong, 49th Foot;
£729 9s 14 to Mrs. Elizlbah Helena Bennett, mother of
Lieutenant Bennett, 334 Foot; £3,791 14s 84 to Mr.l.
Mary Carpenter, widow of Li:,utenant-Colcnel Carpenter,
41st Foot; £459 8s 74 to Mrs. Emily Munro-Cary, mother
of L;eut. S. T. M. Cary, Rile Brigade ; £4,520 5s 101,
held in trust by the Secrc!tary of State for War, for the
benefit, of the widow and children of Lieutenant-Colonel

Dawson, Coldstream Guards; £257 193 to Colonel Daniel
Fras'r, father (reiirel full pay, 42d Foot) of Captain Fraser,
42d Foot ; £464 11s 51 to Rev. Robert W. Goodenough,
father of U.cutenant Goodenough, 97th Foot ; 1457 19s 9,1
to Mr. James Bryant Messenger, father of Lintenant Mes-
senger, 46. h Foot; £720 14s 2d to Mrs. A. Meurant,
mother of Lieutenant Meurant, 18th Poo ; £469 4s 7d to
Mr, James Morgan, father of Lieutenant Morgan, 63J
Foos ; £3,017 8s id to Mrs, Is tbei;ts Patlllo, mother of
Lieutenant Colonel Patulio, 30th Foot ; £719 183 Id to
Miss a]san Mary Smith, Miss Sarah Marianne Smith, Miss
Lucy Maria Smith, sisters of Captain F. Smith, 9th Foot;
£747 lls 7d to Mrs Helen Taylor, mother of Lieutenant
Taylor, 41st Foot ; £3,200 held in trust by the Seeetary
of State for War for tbe benefit of the widow and children
of Lieutenant-Colonel °nett, 19th Foot ; and £417 Os 10d
to Mrs. Eliza White, mother of Lieutenant White, of the
62d Foot. All the above gallant officers were killed in the
Crimea, either at Inkerman or before Sebastopol.