Northern Times. — 1857-09-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.—The Emperor has addressed the following letter to the French A.mbassadar : I send you £l,OOO sterling its my personal subscription, in favour. of the officers and soldiers cruelly afflicted in India. I also send you £4OO, the result of the subscription of the Imperial Guard. We have not forgotten the generous subscription of the Queen and of the English people, at the time of the inundations."  The great Clear Grit organ, the Toronto Globe, has dee'ared against the report of the Committee Of the House of Commons on th Heds m's Bay q testion and of course the smaller fry will follow sui-. What party writers or orators may chance to say in the matter can be of little weight in the estimation of any one who knows bow such things are treated in Canada; but the question itself is one of grave inn ortance in corm, ction witn the future .rf the country. The American Association presents, at this moment, metal more attractive to the Montreal public than a discussion on the rather hackneyed subject of the Hudson's Bay territory ; but we shall, by and by. have to trouble our readers with a few remarks on the decision arrived at by the Committee of the Horse of Commons, as embodied in their report.— Afon;lrcal Pilot. MELANCHOLY CATASTEV)PNE —Much painful excitement has been caused in the rural hamlet of Timble Great, about six miles from Otley, by the following sad occurrence. On Friday last four lads were engaged in reaping a field near the former place until afternoon, when two of them, named David Teal and J. Holmes, went away with the inie !vim of going to Titub'e to get acme refreshment, leaving the other two, whose names were Abraham Teal, age 15, and John Teal, his nephew. snmswhat older, being 17 years of age, and a son of Mr. Josh. Teal, of B:uhberhouses, eheemaker, in the field. The parties had taken With them in the morning an old gun, with which to shoot small birds. David Taal and Holmes had not g)t beyond 'the length of two fields from the sp .t before they heard the report of a gun, upon which they turned back and found that John Teal had gone, takieg with him the gun, while his uncle, = brahani Teal, was seen lying in or near the hedge. Thinking he was merely hiding h'inself, Homes said, " Come out, we see thee." The uncle not moving, Holmes called out to h' us in a louder tine, Is t h u asleep?" Sill recuiving no reply, Holmes and his cotnpnnion then went up to trim, took off li; rap, and discovered he was quite dead, having been shot through the head. The body was subseqeently removed to the house of Mr. Stephen Teal, shoemaker and farmer, of Timble, the father of the deceased. The nephew, John Teal, did not mike his appearance until dusk the same evening, and was in the greatest mental eugnish at the shocking occurence, the dee,ased and be having been from ctilelhoed on the most affectionate terms. His explanation of the dreadful affair is, that it was purely the result of an accident ; that they were sitting under the hedge toge!her, when his uncle said, " There are three birds (partridges) gone over our heads, you must have a shot at them ;" that both of them got up simultaneously, when the trigger of the gun (which was then in his heed) caught a twig in the batik., went off, and his uncle vets s'eet —Leeds Mercury. REMARKABLE SUICIDE —Two brothers, named Wiliam and Henry. Adaufe, sons of John Adam!, a cabinet-maker, residinz Devonshi,e-s:reet, Sheffield, have been found drowned under singular circumstances. From inquiries made by the race, it eppeats the*, on -Wednesday last., Henry Adams, who is fifteen years of ege, had a quarrel ~cith his father, wh', it is, all ged, either struck or pushtd hire, at d angrily 'told him to leave the shop. This was atmt four e'elock in the afternoon. and shortly afterwards the youth went to the Victoria Reilw,y station to carry a parcel fur some Mende Ho returned home, refused to partake of tea, and, having watched a favourable opportunity for speaking to his sister, told her ho should not again be seen alive, and went away. He was not aftotwards seen alive. Ott the following; day (Thursday), about five o'clock, William Adams, who is twenty-one years of ego, else lett home, as is al'eged, plortly after having had an altercation with hi; fitter. He went will £2 to pay te poore' rate. nod instead of retuning home with the receipt, forwarded it through the post, with an intimation that he too should never be again seen alive. On receivieg this intirnetion en the Ft i lay, Mrs. Adams repotted the absence of William the elder son, at the police-dice, but, s'rengely enough, said.nothing at that time of the younger son, who had gone away on the Wednesday. Nothing mere was heard of the brothers until Monday morning, when the body of the younger eon, Henry, whose absence had not -been at first reported, vies found in the canal, jast at the outskirts of the. town. On Tuesday rnoraieg the body of the Eller •soe Willem was found floating in the canal about hill a mile further from Sheffield than the place whe-e his brother his found. Theca are the circumstances connected with the melancholy event, so far as they have at present transpired. The only cease assigned for the rash conduct of the younger sots is the altercation with his father; while with regard to the elder son it is thought that a severe illness from which he bad been suffering for some months might have bad an influence on his mind. An inquest will, however, beheld, when the circumstances will be more fully investigated.