The Northern Daily Times. — 1856-12-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TIE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.  genuine philanthropy, self denial, and attractive manners. And the universal reverence in which he was held for his personal and public virtue and worth, was, on the day of the funeral, emphatically attested by the suspension of all public business throughout the city. High and low, rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant, alike joined in this wellearned mark of esteem and regard. There was a public .proteasion, in which the clergy of the . diocese ef Cork and Cloyne, and the civic authorities; .the merchants, and traders of Cork, and the leading magistrates and gentry of the surrounding districts ,joined. We read that the scene presented at the cementery on the art ival of the body, was affecting and solemn in the exetreme. Here many had waited, with a reverential and an affectionate ankiety, notwithstanding the torrents of rain,` from an early hour; in order that they, should witnesses of ale last act of the sad ceremonial: But over the interment—the en, tonibment—we must draw a veil. The feelings of grief which here found a voice, and proclaimed their intensity, ttere too sacred to become the theme of newspaper parade. Oe. entering the cemetery, the clergy ranged them selves at vither sides of the entrance, chanting the burial-service, arid-accompanied the body to its last resting-place. The grave ls situted at the toot of the large stone cross, erected by the very rev. deceased, a short distance inside the inner gate, this being the place selected by himself for his grave. The body was then lowered, and when the heavy fall of the earth on the coffin was heard, the feelings of the thirty thousand people who surrounded the grave, became almost e Azle 1. , Tri..OttitVt;it'pe. r of to-day will' found particulars of 11:sact cltlatnity WhichlitipPened here yesterday, namely, the burning to death of a man and woman in Athol-street, in the north end of the town What makes the event more melancholy is that, as far as we know of the case, the sad calamity has been caused by the intemperate habits of the unfortunate sufferers. This should be a warning to all who indulge in the practice of partaking of the faccursed drug—that which frenaleS reason; causes, man to overlook all self respect, and renders him unfit both: fel-tittle and for eternity. Another matter to which we would here. refer is the horrible treatment of a female in Peter-street, when a monster in human form made a most brutal and murderous assault upon a little girl often years of age. Such atrocity merits the several punish  to our gallant defenders, than we are to the men who stood before Sebastopol.  That heroic little army restored the military prestige which a forty years' peace bad almost obliterated. They gave to our half-forgotten traditions all the realities of fact. Poor CHARLES JACKNIAN may have been one of the least con. spicuous of the soldiers who took a Part in the great struggle. Still, he was a Crimean soldier —a Christian—and some respect ought to have been shown for his cloth and his creed. He ought to have been allowed a parish funeral, if nothing More. The churchyard 4 New Town should not have been the scene of an ,exhibition worthy of the days when