Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-01 00:00:00

STiALING A. CHILD TO GET A. HUSBAND.

On Sunday afternoon, a German girl, about 16 years of
age, named Bertha Bushkill, residing in Strattonport,
.Queen's county, was brought before Justice Wood, at the
Essex Market police-court, on charge of kidnapping a
child, eight months old, son of George Rhode, of N 0.75,
Avenue A. It appears that accused had been keeping
company with a young German, and was very desirous
that he should marry her. The lover rather declined this
honour, until finally she threatened to have him arrested
for seduction, and claimed that he was the father of a
'child, which she pretended was being taken care of by
some of her friends in Houston-street. The lover finally
-consented to marry her, providing she would produce the
child. Bertha accordingly came to this city, and in-pas-
Slog through Avenue A, saw comp:ainant's daughter-with
the child, on the walk. She gave the little girl twenty-
. cents., and -sent her to a grocery to purchase
'°ll3° soda crackers, and while absent, the young
'Toveriernan absconded with the infant. Returning home, the
was much pleased with he infant, an at 'once
agreed to fulfil his part of the contract. A room was
loligaged, and preparations were going on for the wedding
"be consnmmated on Monday. The distressed parents
nad_offered a reward for the recovery of their infant, and
-one -of the citizens of Strattonport reading it, at once
Viispected that this was the child, and, through his exer-
nns it was restored to its parents. The Germans in the
Z.leioltY of Avenue A very generously raised a subscrip-
I°e et 150 dollars, and paid it to the finder, whose name
;yurt'hee did not learn. Justice Wood committed the girl for
r examination, and the wedding is indefinitely post-
poned. The crime is a very serious one, and may be
tnunpl, "41, ,ed ,hy sending the accused to _,State Prison, or :by
`"4 tne jail.—New 'York Paper.

...
The
_Providence Journal, June 8, says :—" The report
that Rcrace Vernet had been commissioned to paint a
battle-sieee for the Capitol at Washington is not yet c0n-
.44 Med. Vernet is, without doubt, the best living painter
in battle scenes. A friend in Paris writes that he met
Tercet, and congratulated him on the compliment from
the New World to his genius. The painter replied, that
be new nothing of the fact. He had been sent for by the
American minister, who -read to him a dispatch f: orn
Washington. It was in English, of which Vernet does
-r
it understand a word. He replied in French, regretting
Isisindnaasbit"ty to understand what the minister bad been so
0-conntnunicate to him, and the intervi,-,w closed,
to the mutual satisfaction of the partied. Bat Vernet
added, that as soon as his grandson, Edwin Delaroche,
came home from school, he should send him up to the
.h
meriean minister, to find out whit was in the dispatch,
and to report todirt] if it was true that he had been invited
to America.
CHOLERA AT Sr.. PETERSBURG.--Accounts from St.
Petersburg have been received here of a fatal and some-
what mysterious occurrence at the seminary of St. Cattle-
Tine, instituted for the daughters of nobles, and under the
unteidiate patronage of the Engl.-cm. On the occasion of
rile festival, a dinner was given to the pupils, and to.other
'lieli educated at the institution, among whom was
thti(i)untess Morny. A short time after this repast, many of
e Young ladies and -visitors were seized with violent
'a/rips and sickness, and ere long five died, and the re-
Tainder were more or less in danger on th 15th. Madame
le Morny had been indisposed, but noteseverely. The
Ikroperor on being apprised of the catastrophe, proceeded
, the establishment, ordered a strict investigation as to
h;e causes, and, meantime, directed the pupils to be re-
'r.vtd, for change of air, to one of his palaces fronting
" At the date of the accounts the causes had not
rhoot aseertaineJ. Public rumour attributed them, bow-
e'te cholera, and not to poisonous ingredients, resulting
lincorroded kitchen utensils.
my :1,1"-ITIvE SOCIETY IN NORWA.Y.—AS I was waiting for
wrapVge at the first post station, a young gentleman,
carriage,"P in a pelisse, and 'ust about to enter his own
whi , j
lisb, .i You en was at the door, said, suddenly, in Eng-
I answered
.g yes.), i'fterirde till Norchcepping, sir ?"
change, that 1 a few pleasant words, he proposed an ex-
should go on ilisltr:. come in with him, and his maid
I accepted without other vehicle, and meet us in the city-
easily off in a most elegant
• and we were soon rolling
tiched coachman, in etoegaut little turn-oet, with a mous-
'aim was a pang noldiernb°olBT on the box. My compa-
sottie two hundred tniles "2., travelling along the country
fair type, I suppose, of tit vel:111 his own horses. He was a
Patriotic, a little bigoted bothaj9ritY of his class—intensely
In politics and religion, not
remarkably cultured, of serious turn, and with a very
generous spirit of courtesy and hospitality.
tile Russian and E" Iv En war. ,s 1 We spoke of
Ab . such a blunder as
as that !" said be "We had
Only to throw ourselves in,
aril Pinland would*
but
have been certainly retaken. Such a
b .0 for driving those
-.Alt we
late. ~Waited, and we negotiated', and it was, in fine, too
we
„„it will never Come again such an opportunity !
hei„`iio.weUld have enlisted to a mad, To be sure, we
it,,_° e t so large an army as the Russiansbut every one
~,,inwe one Swede , .
"ortuay is worth three Russians.".-,fir. /fruce an