Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-05 00:00:00

-ALLEGED MURDER ON THE HIGH SRAS.

Circumstarves cf a very painful nature, in regard to a
New York passenger ship, were mentioned to one of our
repirters yesterday. As our habit is, however, we do not
give publicity to legally-unauthenticated statements. We
may mention, that a well known and favourite American
ship, in the New York trade, arrived here on Monday from
that city, and that from certain infornia'ion received by the
police, detective officer Scott went on board, and the result
of his inquiry was, that he ascertained a man named
Williams had died on board, and, if his information prove
true, the man was deridenly murdered. Of course, as is
well.kuown, our autho, ides cannot take legal cognizance
of crimes of ih's sort. committed on board American
vessels on the high seas. The matter was, however, before
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reason at present to doubt it, the unfortunate Henry
Rogers, the captain of the Martha Jane, of Sunderland,
was hung at Kirkdale, last Sep,ember, for a far minor
offence—as reprePen,ed to our reporter yesterday, It is
to be hoped that the details of this affair will be made
public. We may, at the same time, remark, that the
captain of the ship is in no w.ay implicated, the transaction
being referable to 4 ne of the chief officers of the Vt36130',
who, it is alleged, acted entirely on his owu account, in
total igooranca of the commander.

At LEWIi tz, CO ,IPAINTY'S, Ranelagh-stieet.
IDIOTS ar. CLO riLIAD frorn the Ages of Six to Twenty Year

Four Mt n were ki"ei in New York while cxnarating for
the foundation of a lager bcier the earth la,viig
unexpectedlycaTed in.

RAILWAY CASE —The railway case at present bafo-e the
Sheriff with regard to compensation from the Duekalel
and Perth lire=, cleinred by Sir Wm. Stewart of Murthly,
is still ping on. A number of witnesses were examinee
yesterday, and to all appearance the trial will lest fer some
days yet. The damages sake I by Sir William (.E40,000)
are of course mote than he expects to gat. The velue of
the baronet's property at Birnam must have been
considerably increased by the terminus brine at that place
and we shauld think that less than the halfe of the earn
will be the award of the jury. With regard to relieves,*
merely passing through (even the policy of a gantleman.'s
estatr), where the nearaat &tenni is eorea miles distant,
the damage alone, with the exception of surface damage,
is in our opinion no damage at all. The amenity—which
is so much insisted upon by propiiet rs for allowing a
railway line to go through their grounds—were the question
to be laoked uyon in a right ii,4llt, would never ha granted
in any case, as a more desirable and even picturesque object
than a railway, with its deep cuts and high ernbanktueuts.
with the trains rushing through at intervals, can hardly be
conceived. We recollect when would-be dilettanti
lamented the great loss our quota of lakes—Lochlamand—
would suffer by the introduction of the steamboats upon
her waters. The artist now finds that the steamboat is one
cf, his gtateest aeciaseries ; and the starting of a locomo
tire through the grounds of a nobleman is an object of
interest to a spectator, even from the windows of a lordly
mansion. In the early days of railways we knew of some
nice amenity jobs having been perpetrated. We trust
these days are gone.—Glasgow Daily Mail.
THE KING OF PRUSSIA AND THE GEN:HARMS. —The
strictness with which the King of Prussia observes the law
of the land, in tripes as well as in important matters, is
amusingly illustrated in this on.dit. At a recent Treib-
jack` (battue), the Minister Mantenfftl, General Wrangel
and his Majesty were posted at the side of a wasta awaiting
the aepearauce of the expected stag. A sharp gensdarme
spied the patty, and rode up to 'he Milne Ministry
" Your shooting license .qr." " License ! " replied Man-
ttuffel, with a blank stare, " pooh, I in ver have nne."
" Then you must cerne along with me," was the decisive
reply. Oh, nonsense ! my man ; do you know who I
am ? I'm the Prime Minister " May be, but can you
prove it ?" " Prove it ! no," said the astonished Premier ;
" but sten, there's a gentleman at the corner (printieg to
General Wrangel) who can vouch far what I say." T. e
gensdarme would not leave his mart, but insisted on his
accompanying him ; and, or. coming up to General Wrangel
instead of atliag him about the Minister Mantauffal,
commenced the same series of interrogations eb .ut the
license; with the same result—the General being unpro-
vided with that artic!e—but bearing out his character as
a soldier, by getting into a tremendous pasiion at the
man not knowing an old general of his Majesty. The
gensdarme was obdurate, and on the point of insisting on
their accompanying him to the Lsndrath (the. Prefect),
when, as a last resource, the Premier observed—probably
not without a secret chuckle at, the conrquences—" The
elderly gentleman in the corner will perhaps vouch that I
am Protident Manteuffel, and this gentleman is General
Wrangel." The prisoners (de facto) were now marchcd
off to the g ntleman is the corner—his Maj-sty ; and to
his no small surprise, the laconic gensdarrae began by
asking for the license. Ia this instance, however, his
request was immediately complied with. Without hesita.
tioo, his Majesty banded the document, made out in due
form, "To his Mujes'y the King of Prussia." The man—
who now became for the first time convinced of the truth
of the assertion of the General and Prime Minister—
alighted in hot haste, abashed,. from his. horse, with a
humble military salute, The explanation was soon made,
and much relished by his Majesty, and the sturdy gene-
darme was restored to a consciousness that his Z,41 was
not an offence, by the pleasant feel of a Frederick d'or in
the palm of his hand.—Court Journal.

At LEWIS &COMPANY'S, Ranetagh-street.
BOYS are CLOTHED from the Ages of Six to Twmity Years.