Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-17 00:00:00

Captain Evans's reports, in reference to the state of the
port, and was proceeding. with the examination of the
witness, when

SIR J. GRAHAM interrupted, and asked whether, as it
was now nearly four o'clock, the learned counsel proposed
to conclude the evidence on behalf of the Corporation
with the exception of Mr. Shuttleworth's evidence to-day.
Mr. 111EnEwrrnEa said Captain Evans was not the last
witn:93 whon he should have to call.
Sir. J. GRAHAM remarked that Ma committee would
have met at twelve instead of one but for the express
understanding that the case of the Corporation would be
concluded to-day. If there was to be this continual delay
and waste of time, he saw no possibility of concluding the
inquiry in time for the House of Lords.

Mr. MERE-A-Erma defended himself and the corporation
from any charge of intentionally obstruetiag the progress
of the kg:airy, and appealed to the committee for
indulgence, reminding them-that so far the evilenc '2 on the
part of the corporation hal not occupied half the time
which had been employed in examining witnesses on the
other side. •

Si: J. GrAITAM : Proceed with the case in your own

The examination of Captain Evans was then resumed
until the adjc.,urnment of the committee at four o'clock.

Potatoes aro- now selling in Galway at 41 pr:r s'one.
Five hundred' and sixty-nine se,,rrn,n availed th,m-
eelves, last year; of the advantagrs of tha Belfast Sailors'

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placed at their disp.al, Er hehoof of E.lticati'mal losti-

tutions.

The DownsAire Protestant sayl that Mr. Jonathan
Richardson, the la!ely-lectcl tn-itihq for Lisburn, has

sent in his resignation of nimbersbip in the Orange Ins&
tation, which has bean accepte3.

MR. W. FL RUSSELL, THE Times CORRESPONDENT.—
krrangernFnts have been completed for the delivery in
Edinburgh of Vr. Rnsseli's three lec'crzs on the Lite war;
the first to be given on the 24'h inst.
Cairn RUN OVER IN 131;OMiBERY-SQUARE.—Conwirut's
INQUEST —Yesterdny, an inciLyeA ..as held on the bo of
a little girl uznr-A E rt.:ma Reynolds, aged eight years, who
was run over in High-street, Bi,omslo'sir;, on Thursday
last, by a flurherse van gale?: to Covent-;)•arclen mlrket,

and who died Vac same everting at the Middi-ses
Hospital. A verdict of" Accident death" was re.orned,

with a recommendation to the driver to be more careful in

futusa in driving his van.
A `YARNING TO TiUTTE DEALT Rs. —At the Belfast

Police-court, the other clay. Ann M‘Gee, a dealer in butter,
was prosecuted by Markfr-^orlstable Bunting. with having
exposed for sale frcudulently made-up butter. The

cor,stahle s'a'ed that the butt: r, 41hq., iv's old

crock, and pri3-.ner was s:lling it, tor fre,h. A fine of
ss. and costs was implsed; 0.,.d the butter ordered to be
folfeite:l. [Worthy of being imitated ; that, is, the
de&sion of the Bench—nog, the efferee.]
MIL SPURGEJN AT THE &EERY GARDENS.-03 Sudsy
to.)rning, a very latga nonmhr•r of persons att,-ro,el the
Music Hall of the Surrey Gardens, in order to hear the
Rev. C. Spurr eon. Among V'e visitoN were the Marquis

and illareliior;ess of Bligo, Lady Courtney Boyl,s. Major
Sibttorp, H ,n. Mr. Coventry, Lord and Lady Wensleydale,
Mr, Blakewell, M.P:, Lord Kiutore and frierVs, Sir Joseph

Pax'.on, Lord Caltherpe, Mr. Merry, M.P., Hon. 'Kir.
Bathurst, Countess of Gaittshorough. Lord and Lady Bur-
lington, Earl and Co:inte:ts Cravn, &c.
JOHN SADLEIrt'S ESTATES.—The estates of Jolla Sadleir
situated in the counties of Waterford, Tipperary and
Limerick, are alvc:rtised for sale in Henrietta-street, on
Tuesday, the 7th of July next. The Rttitiorier for the
sale is the official manager for winding up th affairs of
the Tipperary Bark. The property is offere:l in three lots,
the gross net rcn'al of which is estinnte! at £1,282 per
annum. In the present fborishing- state of the Irish land
market—twenty-two years' rate of purchase being the

average for welt circumstanced estates—a handsome— sum
ought to be realised towards the relief of the unfortunate
vletims of the Sadleir swindle.
MISPLACED AFFECTION.-- Loving Wife : Here, James',
see what a good little wifey I've been in your absence.
Whilst you'v.) been aw.iy, amusing yourself, I've cicaned
all your pips. Look, Sir, I'd be bound you would'nt
know this Meerschaum again ? It looks nice and elan

now, doesn't it ? though you can't tell, dear, what a deal
of time it took me to take all the nasty colour and dirt off,
I assure you I had to scrape it ever so thick with an oyster
knife. [Poor James looks very disconsolate, and gazing,
with eyes of ahjrct despair on his favourite Meerschaum,
that had taken him five years' hard smoking to " culrotte,".
turns upon his heel, and wipes away a tear.]
The recent eemits in Belgium have produced a deep

impression on the Viennese, and they do not attempt to
conceal the satisfaction they feel at the check which the
Ultramontanists have received. The daily papers of Vienna
describe the state of public feeling in such plain language
that the Cardinnl Archbishop is wroth, and vows that he
will complain to the highest authority in the realm ot the
"unbearable license" of the press. The paper which most
stirs the bile of his Eminence is the Wandel er, and he not
long since sent one of his subalterns to tell its printer,
who has a shop on the ground floor of the archiepiscopal
palace, that he would give him notice to quit if he did not
without delay break off all connection with the paper.
FALLING DOWN A WELL.-0a Tuesday last a singular
accident occurred to the• wife of one of the constabulary
recently appointed in the district of Elhana. It appears
that the poor woman had occasion to draw some water from
a well on the premises, and by some mea.lls which she is
unable to explain, ste fell head foremost into, the well, a
depth of sixty feet. An alarm was immediately, given, and
.on the neighbours assembling, the woman was attempted
to be drawn up. In raising her the bucket got detached
from the rope, and fell with a crash t) the. bottom ; the
rope, however, by some means was twisted round her, and
she was thus brought with safety to the top of the well.
The only damage she sustained was a complete drenching.
—Kentish Gazette.

TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRATM COMMUNICATLON.—fIer
Majesty's steamer Cyclops, one of the vessels empl iyei in
carrying out submarine telegraphic communication with
America, is at present at Valentia taking soundings along
the shore portion of the line, preparatory to laying down the
cable, which will take place in August. The M opetic
Telegraph Company intend laying down a act of wires from
Valentia to Killarney, from whence additional wires will
be extended along the present route to Loudon, in order to
facilitate the tratismitsion of intelligence between the two
continents. A set of distinct wires will be laid down from
Valentia via Killarney to. Donaghadee, following the route
of the present wires, across the Channel to Portpatrick, and
thence to London.
A CLERICAL CASE.—CLERICAL ERROR.—On dit in the
gossiping circles, in a certain town which skirts the shores
of a celebrated western firth, that a young, handsome, and
accomplished clerical celebrity has, for some unknown cause,
left in the lurcha beautiful young lady of the most agreeable
manners, and of handsome fortune, who was looking for-
ward, on the tiptoa of expectation, to the fixed day,
which was rapidly approaching, when, for better or for
worse, she should bestow her hand and heart on him who
had long sought them. Bat a " chahe came o'er the
spirit" of the intended bridegroom's "dream." He had
wooed, he had won, but now he would not wed ; and the
words, "the last link is broken that bound me to thee,"
came like a peal of thunder on the expectant bride. Of;
course, scandal is busy in search of the reasons for this
fitful fancy of the faithless swain. Rumour has her
thousand tongues, and a thousand stories find their way
abroad among the gossip-hunting young ladiec, eorious
old maids, and staid matrons of the sea-side town. They
have it that, on the discovery of the " tocheri' being
" thirled" to the lady, exclusive, as the lawyets say, of
the jus mural, the " Lewin' love" of the miutster waxed
cold, and he broke the link. Gossip further insinuates that
the lady did not break her heart, but consoles herSef with
the reflection that not she herself, but the tocher's the
jewel that he sought to Win."—GreenockTelfgrapla.
A GOOD. SHOT —Abram Bass. Esq., of crielteting edge,
brity, whilst practising with other members of the Barton-
on-Trent Rifle Club, was one day unexp:daily joined by a
bevy of ladies, one of whom requested to see some of Mr.
Bass's shooting. A two-inch bull's-eye being plat: d, four
successive shots were fired at 110 yards. Every shot went
through the same hole, a little to the left of the centre,
without breaking the outer edge of the paper. On another
occasion, when lunch had been discussed on the banks of
the river Trent, and the black bOttles looked as though
their occupation was gone, employment was found for them.
A wager was laid that the bottles should be worked and
thrown into the river, seventy yards from, the shooter (Mr.
Bass), and that, whilst floating, the cork of each of the six
bottles should be hit to win ; if the body of the bottle was
struck, to lose. Every cork was struck. The weapon in
this case was a pistol or peculiar construction, with a 10-inch
rifle barrel. The staple fixed in the stern of a flat-bottomed
fishing boat was struck, the first shot, for a wager, at 300
yards. A swan was shot through the head at 170 yards;
a duck feeding upon a weir at 320 yards, and a hare ht 280
yards—both shot dead. A boy was seen angling upwards
of 90 yards from the bridge on which Mr. Bass wasstanding,
with not less than two score lookers on. A bet was made'
that Mr. B. would break through the upper part of the fine
rod the boy was using. the firth shot. The wevon in this
case was the pistol before-mentioned. Tho, shot was made ;
the line, with the whalebone monnting% fell from the rod.
The boy stood aghast. The wagin, was won, and handed
oiler to the little 6•81M11140:=-Irt:Atish Gazette!