Northern Times. — 1857-11-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

STANLEY LITEE.4.EY AND DEB WING SDEIETY.—This society held its usual weekly meeting on ,Wednesday evening, 18th instant, at eight o'clock, Mr. T. Daniel in the chair, when a most interesting and instructive lecture on the " Mutinies in India" was delivered by Mr. W. H. Morris, at the conclusion of which a vote of thanks was unanimously accorded to the lecturer, and the meeting separated. SUtCtDE —Yesterday morning, a man named John O'Hare, a tailor, aged forty years, who resided atel9,. Great 0:1mb11-street, hung himself in the pantry of the house: It appearel that for some time past the unfortunate man bad been drinking very heavy, and about a month since he was sent to the hospital in a state of delirium tremens, and when he came out he went to Ireland, and returned about a week back, and since then he threateded, several times, to pat as end to his life. An invest will be held on the body this day.  Amsasr oN. A CHARGE or Munnurt.—Yesterday, a man named Michael Tc.vey, a tinplate worker, was brought before Mr. Mansfield, at the Police-curt, on a' charge of hiving muriered a girl named Mail Maya, in Tipperary, iu 1855. The only thing that transpired was, that "the woman was murdered, and that there was suspicion attached to the prisoner, who was said to be her sweetheart. He absconded at the time, and was not heard of afterwards until arrested on Wednesday night, in Bevingt,ort-hill. He was sent to Ireland last-night.  HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANDASHIRD AND CHESHIRE,— The weekly meeting of this Society was held in the Grand Jury Room, St. George's Hall, at seven o'clock last night. The chair was taken by Mr. P. R. MacQ tire. The fallowing donations were received h—Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, No. 5 ; Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin for 1857 ; " Lord Palmerston and the Isthmus of Suez Canal ;" Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. Among the subjects of intenst exhibited ware an Ethiopian spooa, elegantly carved with a pocket knife; a primitive article in brotiz>, of which the use is unknown, but which is supposed to have been one of several sands for a shield, or a portion of a bridle bit. Dr. Hume's ethnological map was also exhibited, shewinr the arranunicnt of sirnames in the county, of Antrim, accompanied by a descriptive article from a recent number of the Ulster Journal of Ethnology. Applications were received for admission to mpmbership by several gentlemen, among whom were Mr. 'T. D Andersoo, Liverpool,, Mr. Ivie Mackie, the present Mayor, and Sir James Wa'.ts, the late Mayor of Manchester. Among the donations to the society, should also be mentioned n curious volume, printed in 1745, entitled " The Names of the Roman Catholics, Nonjurors, and others, who refused to take the oaths to his late Majesty King George, together with thzir titles, additions, and places of abode,"&e., &n., "and," the title page added, "now published with a generous view to promote and serve the true Protes'ant interest of these kingdoms." Tne volume. contained 151 pages of names and titres, arraeg nd according to the several counties of Englan I. The paper for the evening was a iecture by Air. J. T. Towson, on the subject of Icebergs in the Southern Seas. The lecture, which was illustrated by drawings and diagrams, entered into the coestion of the obstructions recently opposed to Australian voyages by the prevalence of ice, and in especial referred to some singular phenomena presented by is bergs, which have very lately been met with on the' homeward voyage. • _  Tan ou- nn