The Northern Daily Times. — 1856-02-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

PERRY ACCOMMODATION.-Of late much has been said and written on the management, or rather the mismanagement of the Seacombe and Egremont ferries. Last evening, another instance to be added to the many already onlrecord, occurred. The passengers leaving Liverpool by the halfpast six o'clock boat for Egremont, (and of these there was a goodly number) again suffered much inconvenience from the neglect, or gross carelessness of some parties having the management of that ferry. The boat had arrived nearly opposite the terry, when a voice was heard shouting, "Go back to Seacombe ; ' consequently, the engines were reversed, and the passengers were landed on that slip, having to get to Egremont as best they could. Comment on this, as an accommodation to the public, is unnecessary. When the nine o'clock boat left, the ferry slip had given way, and it was with the utmost difficulty that the passengers could reach the boat.  We learn from Paris that yesterday the French Government had just forwarded passports to the two Russian Plenipotentiaries. Count Orloff must have already left St. Petersburg. Baron Brunow had left Frankfort for Paris, and M. de Bourqueney left Vienna the same day. It is stated that at Berlin, great anxiety begins to be felt as to the way in which the Frankfort Diet will receive the Austrian propositions. It is feared that the secondary and minor German States will endeavour to avoid a definite resolution, but will seek to obtain the admission of a repre• sentative from the Diet at the Paris Conferences. It is felt that this may throw an impediment in the way of Prussia, on the plea that she will be sufficiently represented in that manner. Prussia wants to be invited on her own account, and also as the protector of the general interests of Germany. The statements now continually repeated, that the Cabinet of Berlin is indifferent about the Conferences, may be taken for mere talk.  DOUBLE MURDER  IN KENT  Yesterday morning intelligence reached London that between one and two o'clock that morning a double murder was committed at a gentleman's mansion at Penshurst, that a servant in the establishment is in custody, and that of two burglars who entered the house, one was shot dead on the spot, and the other mortally wounded. The tale as it has reached is this :—A family at Pensburst (name not ascertained), left Kent last week, for the purpose of making a tour on the Continent, leaving the house to the care of a confidential person, who had for some years past acted in the capacity of butler. Yesterday morning, between one and two o'clock, the game-keeper having been out for the purpose of looking after poachers, who had infested the preserves of late, passed his master's house, when his attention was attracted by a light in the dining-room windows, an unusual circumstance at that hour in the morning. On looking through a chink in the shutters he saw two men busily engaged in rifling his master's plate chest, and packing up its contents. He went round to the back part of the premises, and having forced an entrance soon confronted the thieves. A scuffle ensued, and having a double-barrelled gun loaded in his hands, he shot one of the burglars dead, and so wounded the other, that he was unable to move. He then proceeded up stairs, when he met the butler with a 'candle in one hand, and a knife in the other. The gamekeeper at once collared him, and drew him up stairs, where to his dismay he found the housemaid and cook dead, their throats having been cut. The butler was given into custody, as was also the wounded burglar, who is not likely to survive very long the injuries he received. Mr. Pilgrim, the superintendent of the South Eastern railway at London-bridge, states that intelligence of the murder had reached him, but that he was doubtful about the truth of it.