Northern Times. — 1857-12-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE DAY'S NEWS.  It will be found, by reference to another column, that H. S. Bright, of Hull, indicted for forgery has been tried at the Yorkshire Assizes, and that he has been found guilty and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. At the Police Court yesterday, the case of the merchant who had lost some £750, was again before the magistrate. A gentleman, named Doyle, found a pocket-book in the street containing a cheque for 5700, and bank notes value £4O. He at once took the same to the police office, and yesterday the loser identified the property. It was handed to him, but he st tamed somewhat cherry in rewarding the finder, ultimately the sum of two pounds was given to him. We are given to understand that the grant of a pension by the East India Company of £l,OOO a year to General Wilson, and of pensions of £5OO each to the widow of General Neill and the mother of General Nicholson was confirmed yesterday by a special general Court of Proprietors. Yesterday Settler, the foreigner, who shot Thain, the detective officer, on board the Caledonia steamer, was arraigned on the charge of murder, at the Central Criminal Court. The trial, however, was postponed until the next session, on the ground that the accused was only committed last Friday, and that he had not had time sufficient to prepare his defence. It would seem that a clue has been got to the identity of the woman who, together with a foreign man with whom she cohabited, was found on Sunday night with her throat cut in a coffee-house in London. She appears to have been an Englishwoman. The inquest on the body was opened pro forma yesterday morning, and adjourned for further inquiry. In another column will be found the particulars of an application to the Recorder of the Central Criminal Court, by Mr. Bodkin. The former gentleman has issued a warrant for the apprehension of Mr. E. A. Glover, the late member for Beverley, on a charge of having made a false declatation to the House of Commons as to his qualification to sit in that House. It would be a curious subject of inquiry to ascertain how many hon. gentlemen now sitting and voting in the House might be placed in a similar position. The inquest on the victims of the double murder and suicide at Croydon, near London, has con eluded. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against W. H. Sinither ; and also testified that he committed suicide while in a state of mental derangement. The iragedy should be a warning to all young men of limited means who are disposed to employ their stockbroker and to dabble in the funds.  Another attempt was made to launch the Leviathan yesterday. She w.is moved 10 inches forward, and 6 inches aft. The total progress is now 106 feet. Later attempts resulted in the breakage of a ram and cylender chains. At high water yesterday, there was between 4 and go .feet Of water under the vessel. The Times of yesterday says :—" In order that a proper hold may be obtained, a regular series of large piles has been driven on the opposite bank of the river, one on the wharf of Messrs. Humphrey's yard, and the second a little below high water-mark, between the water-gate Ferry and Deptford Dockyard. Each of these clumps of piling are almost similar in strength and arrangement, to the piles which serve as a basis for the hydraulic rams in the yard itself, and, like them, too, they have not been resorted to till the eleventh hour, and in fact, until the failure of all other methods has literally forced their adoption upon the engineers."  Our foreign news is of some interest to-day. The Bank of Spain has resolved to coin 25,000,000 reals in silver. In Holland another Minister of War has been found in the person of Colonel Bleurs, hitherto Commander of the Artillery. The States Gentral, immediately after voting the budget, adjourned to the 9th of February. From Constantinople we have an important anneancewent, that the French Ambassador is to follow the example of his English colleague, and take leave of absence for some time. The official text of the decree by which 'the Porte dissolved the Roumau Divans has not yet reached us, and we are informed that it will be purposely kept secret for some days more. They Sultan, by conferring the order which bears his name on the Saxon representatives in Paris, the gentleman whose efforts contributed so much to prepare the way for the peace of Paris, seems to have wished to express just now his contentment with the conclusion of that peace. A notice has been issued at Constantinople, by which Russia has attempted publicly to justify her behaviour in closing certain ports on the coast of Circassia, and to show that the proceeding is quite in accordance with the treaty of Paris. That treaty, establishing freedom of commerce in the ports of the Black Sea, contains, nevertheless, a limitation of that freedom in so far as measures of quarantine and police require it. Thus, argues the Russian document, those ports must be neces I  sarily exempted in which no quarantine has yet been established. According to this argument, nothing more is required to close every port in the Black Sea than to omit erecting in them quarantine establishments. The fault, however, is in the treaty, which should have named the ports deslared free. That was avoided by the plenipotentaries on all sides for reasons best known to themselves. •  A gratifying festival has taken place at Riga, the