Northern Times. — 1857-11-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

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 'VV.:. .ll ".4 o 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.