Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-09 00:00:00

THE WEST AFRICAN MAIL,

PLYMOUTH, TURSDAY.—The Candace, African
mail steamer, Captain Hawkes, arrived here this
evening from the West Coast of Africa, with mails
and fitty passengers, including those of the missing
steamer, the Niger, the rumour of the loss of which
is confirmed. The Niger was wrecked near Santa
Cruz, but the whole of the crew, passengers, and
mails were taken to Teneriffe, and thence brought
on in the Candace. There is no news of political
or mercantile interest from the coast. At Sierra
Leone an officer of a West India regiment had shot
another through jealousy.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, July 7.—APPOINTMENT —Lieu tenan!s J.
M. Jackson (1846), to the Impregnable, 104, flag-ship, at
Devonport; and 11. S. Hamilton (1817), to the Ganges,
84, at Sheerness.

Surgeon T. M. Costello (1851), to the Atholl, 4, receiving
ship, at Greenrck.

The Admiralty have ordered the President to be paid
off at Chatham on Saturday next.
The Admiralty have also ordered the Cossack to be paid
off at Sheerness on Monday next, when she is to be placed
in the Ist division of the steam squadron of reserve.
COURT-MARTIAL.—On Tuesday, a naval court-martial
assembled on board the flagship Waterloo, Captain Henry
Harvey, C. 8., &c., at Sheerness, to try Captain Henry
Spratt, of the Royal Marines, serving on board her
Majesty's ship President, on the charge of saying to
Captain Charles Frederick, his commanding officer, on the
quarter-deck of the said ship, that he had acted unjustly,
and of repeating that assertion although warned. The
prisoner's remarks had reference to some punishment that
had been inflicted on one of the marines. The court sat
in deliberation for about half-an-hour, when it was again
opened, and Mr. W. W. Hayward, the Deputy Judge Ad-
vocate, read the sentence of the court, which was to the
following effect :—" That they considered the charge fully
proved, and that the prisoner be reprimanded and lose one
year's time.

IRISH PEAT COMPANY.—A special meeting, of this com-
pany was held yesterday, at the offices in Old Jewry.
Captain Ingram took the chair, when a discussion took
place on the affairs of the company, and a proposition was /
laid before the meeting by :Ur. Hills, a chemist, for the
more economical management of the company's works, SO
as ultimately to leive a profit to the shareholders. The
terms and means necessary to carry out this gentleman's
views were agreed to be left to a committee of five share-
holders, who would consult with the directors on the
subject and report to the shareholders. This was the
only business. A vote of thanks was passed to the Chair-.
man for presiding.
FIRE AT BERMONDSEY.—On Tuesday morning, a fire
took place in Bermondsey. The scene of the fire wile
Tyers-gateway, on which stood the premises belonging to
Mr. W. Fish, tanner and leather-seller. Owing to the
inflammable nature of the stock-in-trade the fire spread
with great rapidity, and speedily the entire range of both -
buildings was on fire. In spite cf the exertions of the
firemen the flames seized upon 1,2, 3, and 4, in Canal:
place, the inmates of which were compelled to rush out
into the court with their children in their arms, carrying:
with them any portable article they could lay their hands
upou. The engine-house and bark stores were burnt out,'
and the four houses in Candall-plane severely damaged'
The loss, it is believed, will fall upon the Anchor Fire*
office. The origin of the fire is unknown.

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.

THE TURKO-RUSSIAN FRONTIER IN
ASIA.

In accordance with the 30th article of the Treaty
of Peace, which assigned to a mixed commission
the task of verifying the Turko-Russian frontiers
in Asia, and, if necessary, of rectifying them with-
out prejudice to either party, one French and
one English Commissioner have proceeded to
Alexandropol, where they were cordially received
by the two Russian Commissioners.
Two Ottoman Commissioners will be associ-
ated with them, and the mixed commission will
then enter immediately upon its labours.

POLICE-OFFICE, DUBLIN.—On Monday, the office was
densely crowded with carmen, the number of carriage
complaints being very great. In the course of the pro-
ceedings, Mr. Porter observed that, as a magistrate and a
Citizen, he could not help saying, from his own personal
observation, that thousands of carriage irregularities
occurred in the streets which demanded the attention of
the police, bat of which he found no mention in the book
before him ; while, on the other hand, the complaints
brought forward by the police were of a kind in which the
public had comparatively no concern. He did not find
that car-drivers were summoned as often as the facts
Warranted for going at the wrong sida of the street, and
in particular the drivers of drays, who scarcely ever went
right. An ill-dressed and rather dirty driver, who owned
his car, was summoned by a constable, who stated
that the complaint was for having the car in bad repair ;
the oil cloth was torn. Mr. Porter : Was he dressed the
Way he is now ? Constable: Yes, your Worship.
Mr. Porter: Was the state of his car or of his dress
the worse ? Constable: the car, your Worship. Mr.
Porter : Then it must have been a most infernal car•
(Laughter.) Defendant said he had "got it done since."
Mr. Porter : You ought so have put yourself in proper
repair too. It is a scandalous thing that the first car
stand when strangers or foreigners come across on arriving
in Dahlia is the dirtiest in Ireland, not to say in Dublin.
They are very passionate fellows in Cork, and if you told
a Cork driver that the cars and drivers of his town were
as bad as those of Westland-row, he would knock you
down. I have frequently asked London magistrates what
do they do with cases of carriages in ill-repair, or dirty
drivers, and their reply was, "We never have them." It
is very mean on the part of the car-men of this city to
Oblige policemen to be dogging after them in order to
keep matters right. Defendant was fined one shilling.—
Saunders.

PLUTO AND THE TRIEF.-JOS3ph Denby, an ill-favoured
thick-set young fellow, was charged, at the Worship-street
Police Court, on Wednesday, with attempting to break
into and enter the dwelling-house of Mr. Black, a mer-
chant, residing at the " Priory," Lower Clapton,
Under peculiar circumstances, detailed by Mrs. Black
With considerable naivete. About half-past six
o'clock in the morning the lady was somewhat alprmed
by a slight yet suspicious noise belo stairs, and
descending made her way to the larder, fairly presuming
from prior incursions there that it was then the scene of
operation; quietly peeping in at the door she observed
the prisoner with one hand thurst through the aperture
of the iron bars, and tenaciously grasping the tongue
of an ox, which he appeared to have selected
from the various viands resting on dishes on
the shelf beneath. The tongue, however, was too
large to pass through the space with the thief's
fingers closed on it, and, moreover, being cooked, was'
like many others, very slippery, and it continually fell
back again. Mrs. Black noticing that the article was
becoming terribly mauled, thought it time to interfere,
and, oponing an adj icent window, called loudly for Pluto.
The marauder started as the deep bay of a hound broke
through the stillness, and leaving the tongue wedged
between the bars, he scoured off across the lawn. " Pluto,
Pluto," was repeated from the window by the lady. A
rush was heard among the shrubs at the farther end of the
grounds, and just as the fellow reached it, Pluto made his
appearance therefrom iu the formidable shape of an enor-
mous Newfoundland dog. Both were at a stand for half
a minute; then the thief stepped slowly and gradually
backwards. Pluto majestically followed him. The thief
yelled ; Pluto growled; and at this critical juncture, while
the animal was apparently waiting further orders from
his mistress, the gardener and other servants issued from the
house, and seized the scoundeel, who manifestly considered
their custody much preferable to that of P,uto's. The
dog was prevented from injuring him, and a poliu-constable
subsequently conducted the prisiouer to the ststion-house•
When asked by an attendant, " What brought you here ?"
he answersi, "Why, my legs to be sure." A sergeant of the
N division said he had had the accused in custody three
times for felony, and he was a notorious area sneak. He
had also Ikea convicted at the Middlesex Sessions. The
magistrate told the fellow that he should not send him
for trial this time, but order him to be imprisoned for three
calender months in the Flonse of Correction with hard
labour.

On Tuesday, the 4 h of August, Mr. Kinglake wi-1 mo-e
in the liou eof Commons, " That an humble address be
presented to her Majesty, praying that in consideration of
General Kmate's services during the late war, and espe-
cially in consideration of his share in the action fought
before Kars, on the 29th day of September, 1855, her
Majesty will be
the graciously pleased bestow upon
General some fisting mark of her royalt o approbation."
New GOTHIC CHURCHES IN LONDON.—Of recent G.eloic
churches in London, there are only two which seem to us
to have a truly urban—we will not say metropolitan—
character. These are, the new church in Margaret-street,
and that in Gerdone:quare. The latter is of cethedral
dimensions; there are cathedrals which are inferior to it in
respect of size ; and, indeed, in respect of general altitude,
which is the chief direction which magnitude should assume
in ecclesiastical edifices, the church in Gordon-square is
most liberally and nobly built, and makes Mr. Pugin's
Roman Catholic cathedral stunted and vulgar by compariion.
This church, however, is quite unfitted for our ordinary
national ritual, for which, indeed, it was not intended. It is
internally and externally of the common cathedral type, and
its imposing effect is obtained by a magnitude
considerably
beyond that which would be convenient for any service in
Which the sermon is the chief point. There is no re-
tnarkable orginality in this church; it is merely remarkable.
as, upon the whole, the best restoration of mediaeval
church architecture in the metropolis. The other church
We spoke of has a far higher merit. It is a truly original
work. Without exceeding or even nearly reaching the
interior dimensions allowable in a modern protestant
church, and without any sacrifice of true ecclesiastical
effect, the builder of this church .
has succeeded
in giving it a truly urban size and effect by a must
artistical amalgamatian of the parsonage and school-
house with a church itself, of which the singular
but beautiful spire rises to the altitude of 225
feet above the pave' ment. Not only is
obtained, but the edifice is rendered an integral part_ of
adequate size thus
the street ; for the Parsonage and school-house come righnt
up to the Pavement, and are continuous with the houses o
side, at the same lime that they form, as it were, the
jecting wings offs the church proper in the centre. BY t'
arrang9naent,thise ordinary defect of magnitude in London
churches is still further avoided ; for isolation always makes
a building conspicuous, and calls for dimensions above those
required in a position of less pretence, like that of the present
edifice. On entering the building, which is constructed for
a congregation of about 600 pers )ns, the beauty and costli-
ness of the materials and workmanship at once take our
thoughts away from considerations of size The shafts,
Walls, and tracery are wholly of rare native marbles—
Derbyshire alabasters, Cornish serpentine, Purbeck, and
granite—wall-441e exception of a small surface covered
with coloured bricks, and the Spaces occupied by Mr,
tpree's frescoes. The great window, by Gerent, is one of
Alto' est magnificent specimens of modern coloured glass.
letber, the interior, when completed, will. be un-
va
bY anything of the sort in England, With the one
exceptiledon, Anything
ef the little Lombard chr.,rch at Wilton.
—.National Review, new number,

IMPE DIAL PARLIAMENT.

(By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY.
The Speaker took the chair at noon.
The British and Irish Grand Junction Bill was read a
:bird time and passed.