Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-29 00:00:00

gomumcid NT ArEtk 1101%ibAY 3iONDAt next, the 31st Commercial instan S t, it Twelve o'clock, in th e aleroom, 390 Boxes Port ORANGES, ex Diton, 30 Ditto Lisbon DITTO, ex Frankfort (s.s.), 60 Cases Palermo DITTO, x e Damascus, 13 Boxes DittO DITTO, • 40 Cases Naples LEMONS, ex Taurus (s.s.), 400 Ditto Messina DITTO, ex Express, 300 Bags Turkey NUTS, 100 Ditto Bilboa CHESNUTS, 200 Ditto Para NUTS, 80 Ditto Black Spanish NUTS. Apply tc GEORGE BADENACH and SON, Brokers. WEDNESDAY On WED:MS .xt, Febr .ry 2nd, at the Brokers' Saleroom, Oldhall-street, 2 2,1 gs es M An o g z o am la biquo ORCHELL.k. WEED, just landed, per Hoppet, from Lisbon.---Apply to Messrs. Leech, Harrison,-and Forwood, Merchants; or to ROOKS, OKELL, and SPENCE, Brokers. FRID AN On PIaIDAY next, the 4th February, at Eleven o'clock precisely, on the Quay, East side Brunswick Dock, 136 Logs Cuba MAHOGANY, 101 CEDAR, lately landed ex Dorothea, from Neuvitas. 1'54 Logs Cuba MAHOGANY, 18 Tons COCUSWOOD, lately landed ex Waybosset, from Santa Cruz, 308 Logs YELLOW PINE, 24,057 Feet, 50 „ OAK, 5,596 ~ „ ELM, 2,552 „ 2,710 2nd Quality PINE DEALS, 2,600 2nd „ PIPE STAVES, -8,400 Merchantable PUNCHEON STAVES, 12 Cords HEMLOCK LATHWOOD, Symes' shipment, and now landing ex Sea King, from Quebec. 30,358 SPRUCE and PINE DEALS and SCANTLINGS. 3,955 SPRUCE BOARDS, lately landed ex E. D. Peters, from St. John, N.B. To which will be added Quantities of American WALNUT, BIRD-EYE MAPLE, COCUSWGOD, and ROSEWOOD; also, several parcels PINE and SPRUCE DEALS, Quebec OAK, ELM, and RED PINE, Pictou BIRCH, &c. On account of the Importers. For catalogues and further particulars apply to DUNCAN, EWING, and Co., Brokers. Oh 2 ate, PATENT ASPIIALTE ROOFING FELT. A cheap, durable, and perfectly Waterproof Roofing. ONE PENNY PER SQUARE FOOT. And PATENT HAIR FELT, For Clothing Steam Boilers, &c., by which a saving of one-fourth in the consumption of fuel is effected. WM. GIBSON, Successor to W. W. POWELL. Office arid Warehouse ON SALE, 100 Tons MANURE OIL CAKE --- For analysis and price, apply to • THOMPSON, BAGNALL, and BUTTERWORTH, Brokers, 30, Moorfields TO LANDOWNERS AND FARMERS CHESHIRERighIkii6OiiVANY have constantly ON SALE Nitrogenised BONE PHOSPHATE, and other valuable fertilisers. —Samples and prices may be had at the Office, 3, CABLE-STREET Works -LOWER B J. R. CAMERON, CHRONOMETER MANUFACTURER AND OPTICIAN, 54, SOUTH CASTLE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. MARINE. CHRONOMETERS ON SALE OR HIRE. GOLD and SILVER IVATCHES, SEXTANTS, QUADRANTS, BAROMETERS, TELESCOPES, 4.e CHARTS FROM LATEST SURVEYS H ................. .....=..................p... .. ISTORY OF THE WORKING CLASSES, Every Saturday, in the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES, Price On* Penny WARM WINTER CLOTHING; T HE GENTLEMAN'S OUTFITTING WAREHOUSES, 26, BOLD-STREET. P. L. MACTAGGART. 24 AND INVERNESS WRAPPERS OVER COATS. DRESSING GOWNS DRAWERS AND VESTS. FANCY FLANNEL SHIRTS. RAILWAY RUGS AND PLAIDS. MUFFLERS AND SCARFS. FLANNELS AND BLANKETS. BOYS' - WINTER CLOTHING TO CORRESPONDENTS Under no circumstances can we insert communications not he author's real name and address, not neces- ecepmpanied sarily for 1 We beg our friend "Auld Scotia" will believe that we received his information in the best spirit, and that we are much obliged to him for it. "A CONSTANT RuanEa."—Poetry isnot our sphere, consequently your lines are unsuited to our columns. Besides, we think that Robert Burns has been eulogised enough by poets and poetesses. AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, &c. THEATRE ROYAL—Grand Comic Pantomime. ROYAL AmmiTHEATßE—English Opera Company. HENGLER'S CIRQUE VAnniTE—Miscellaneous Attraction ALLSOP'S WAX WORK EXHIBITION (Lime-street). THE PARISIAN GALLERY OF ANATOMY, Paradise-street. MANDERS' MENAGERIE -Foot of Shaw's-brow. ST. GEORGE'S HALL—Organ Performance. Fes' For particulars see advertisements on Bth page -THIS DAY CIA). gartlxin Chat SATURDAY, .TANUARY 29, 1859, THE DAY'S NEWS We have three days later news from the United States, by the arrival of the screw-steamer City of Washington. One remarkable piece of intelli gence is to the effect that some meetings had been held in New York, by certain parties who sympa thise with the young men recently arrested in Ireland, on the charge of being members of a Ribbon Society, with a view of raising money to defray the legal expenses of their trial. A New York paper, in alluding to this meeting, says : " But why should not the fund raised in this country ten -ears ago, for the aid and comfort of the insurrectionists of that time, be applied to the present purpose ? It strikes us that it might be so applied legitimately. That money amounted, if we are not mistaken, to $30,000, and was lodged in the hands of Judge Emmett, Horace Greeley, and others. If properly invested, that sum might have nearly doubled itself since—an amount far greater than could possibly be raised now in these hard times, with a severe winter pressing upon that class from whom contribu tions would be most likely to come." If we are to put any faith in Washington correspondence, the Administration is fully assured and satisfied that the past differences with European Powers regarding Central America are in the way of being settled honourably and usefully to the United States, and if present negotiations are not interrupted by fillibusters or revolutions, a few months will place America in the position it desires. To this end, it is deemed wise not to dis turb the Clayton-Bulwer treaty at present. The administration cannot make public the nature of these negotiations while pending, but it is fully satisfied of its position The Committee of the House of R epresentatives has agreed to report a bill on the purchase of Cuba question. It pro poses to place in the hands of the President thirty millions of dollars to negotiate for the purchase of were the Island. Theresix for and three against the report— there will be a minority report also. In the Senate, Mr. Steward had dintroduced a bill, amending existing acts f or the Suppression of the African Slave Trade. theprovides capture es o f r employment of steamers for the the slavers, authorises States to pass law s to the traffic in foreign slaves, and app ropr iV e r s ess a m illion of dollars to carry into exe cu ti on t he provisions of the bill. A London morning contemporary states," on the best authority," that a deputation of the National Bank, headed by Baron Eskeles, had an audience of the Emperor of Austria in the early part of the present week ; when his Imperial Majesty took the opportunity of positively assuring them that " very friendly despatches had arrived from Paris, and that there would certainly be no disturbance of the peace of Europe." Our Paris intelligence mentions a plan, said to be arranged between Lord Palmerston and his good friends at the Tuileries, according to which the Miniitry is to be attacked, as soon as Parlia ment opens, for their attachment to peace, which the late Premier and his adherents will endeavour to show is attachment to the despotism of Austria, and hostility to the cause of Italian freedom. The thing is not unlikely. At any rate it is understoodin foreign diplomatic circles that the problem of ulti mate peace or war will be decided, not in Paris, nor in Turin, nor in Vienna, but in London, As the case stands, not one of the European Powers i lend the least countenance to whatever designs Sardinia and France may have upon Austrp. n Italy. But if Lord Derby were made to give . to way Lord m Palmerston, a war might be waged spring, not, however, for the promotion of Italian freedom. From the East, we hear of the Skuptschina hav ing decreed full liberty to the Press, of the likeli hood of an approaching change in the Turkish Ministry, and of objections which the Porte enter tains to the election of Couza as Hospodar of Mol davia. Sir John Young has left Corfu, and the lonian Parliament was opened on Tuesday, by a speech from Mr. Gladstone. The 'Alexandria correspondent of the Times gives us some interesting outlines of the proceed ings of the three Imperial Commissioners ap pointed to inquire into the Jeddah massacre. The operations of the commission have been conducted with strict secrecy, and very little has transpired to the general public beyond the fact that the first portion of its labours—that relating to what may be termed the criminal question—had been brought to a close, and that the commi s sio ners wer e entering upon the discussion of the next point, that of inquiring into the claims for indemnities and establishing the amounts due to the sufferers in the late disturbances. The meshes of the con spiracy which resulted in the massacre of last year have been fully unravelled, and, when all the details become known, it is said they will be found to afford a new and striking illustration in sup port of the oft repeated adage, that the most elaborate fictions can seldom attain the dramatic strangeness of simple truth. From what is really known, it would appear that the men who suffered death last year to stay the stern demands of outraged Christendom consisted of merely a small number of the humbler instruments of others more powerful, but no less cowardly and treach erous. Indeed, we are informed that the greater number of those who composed the tribu nal by which they were condemned are found themselves to have been among the chief insti gators of the massacre, their own hands imbued wth the very blood in expiation of which they consigned their wretched accomplices to a miserable death. Another most diabolical murder has been com mitted at Sheffield. On Thursday morning, a man named Wilson, a brass turner, was set upon by several ruffians and was was so severely stabbed that he died the same evening. We regret to say that the assassins are at large, no clue having as yet been obtained of who or what they are. - The Address in reply to the Queen's Speech will be moved in the House of Lords by the Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham, and will be seconded by Lord Delamere. We alluded yesterday, to a shocking occurrence in London—the quarrelling of two tradesmen under the influence of drink, and the accidental death of one from a blow dealt by the hand of the other. At the Marylebone police-court, on Thursday, Mr. Plews was examined on the charge of having occasioned the death of Mr. Burrows, the unfortunate man above alluded to. The evidence tended to show that he acted under some provocation, and that it was impossible for him to see what would be the fatal result of the blow, He was remanded. The obnoxious paper duty again turned up in the Court of Exchequer on Thursday. Mr. Barry, a paper-maker of Brompton makes a species of parchment from hides and skin, and as the Board of Inland Revenue contended that this was paper, and therefore subject to the higher duty, they brought an action against him, which came on for trial yesterday. The arguments on both sides having been heard, the Court took time to consider its decision. The annual meeting of the South Lancashire Book Hawking Association, was held yesterday. From the proceedings, it would appear that the expenditure for the year was 51. 13s. above the income, and that the association are now in debt about 471. Against this, however, - there are books belonging to the association worth 1061., being 581. more than the Society's debts. In the case of the Liverpool Borough Bank, wherein Mr. Dixon, who had a verdict returned against him for some 1401. at the summer assizes, last year, sought to have the verdict set aside, Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Justice Crompton, and Mr. Justice Hill have refused, on the ground that the verdict was right and proper. On Thursday night, Cardinal Wiseman, after concluding his lecture at the Philarmonic Hall, proceeded along Hope-street in the carriage of Mr. Chaloner, when it was attacked by a mob of ruf fians, who ran after it, threw stones, and otherwise outraged decency. Some slight damage was done -to the carriage. Only one fellow was captured, and Mr. Mansfield, yesterday, fined him in £2, or in default, two months' imprisonment. We under stand the cardinal proceeded to London last evening, by the five o'clock express train. THE CARDINAL ON POPULAR AND PRACTICAL EDUCATION. WE certainly ought to feel very much obliged to Cardinal WISEMAN for .the excellent Lecture he delivered at our Philharmonic Hall, the other evening, on the subject of education,—and of Edu cation, too, in its most popular and therefore most available form—Practical Education. We have all of us, perhaps, been to apt to look with preju dice upon any thing touching such a question as Education that might proceed from such a quarter ; and not, it may be, without some reason, taking into account what we find recorded in the pages of history. But even Rome has had to yield, on this question, to the " spirit of the age " She has been unable, like all the rest, to resist the influences of enlightened progress. It is no longer practicable, if even it were politic, to foster ignorance— scarcely, indeed, to tolerate it. Her Cardinals must now come forth—in free and enlightened England, at least and not only countenance Education among all classes of the people, but even find fault with the dilatoriness and the defi- ciency of its system, as an enlightening and rege- nerating process of mental culture and training. This were certainly not very characteristic of Rome. And what a flat contradiction does it not give to her vaunted principle of Semper eadem ! Yes,—always the same, where the surrounding cir- cumstances are so too; but not, assuredly, where it is otherwise. Always the same in Rome itself, and wherever all that is Roman is in the ascendant. But not so here. It would not be possible ; —nor would it be prudent. The moral and social atmosphere of the place has to be con sidered, as well as the religious. Imagine, for a moment, such a lecture as this from a Cardinal in the Vatican ! Why, he would be looked upon as a madman ! Talk of educating the Italian peasantry, —suggest the importance of some " practical Edu- Ication," say to the twenty Or thirty thousand lazaroni of Naples ! How the Holy Fathers would stare ! Poor Cardinal WISEMAN'S fate at Rome would soon be that of GALLIO at Florence, did he dare to deliver such a Lecture there, as that with which he has just surprised and gratified the people of Liverpool. We make these remarks in no unfriendly spirit, let his Eminence the Cardinal, and his friends, be assured. We are perfectly sincere in bur humble praises of fle Lecture, and in the expressions of our hearty thanks for the excellent and seasonable practical suggestions it conveyed. It was certainly one of its most noteworthy and admirable features, that such was the case. The Cardinal embodied his question—how best to induce the poor to take advantage of the Education which he admitted was now, to a great extent at least, provided for them—rather in a suggestive form than in that of a perfect proposition. He put two interrogatories,—" Is the Education, in the first place, which we are giving to the poor, of a sufficiently practical character ? If not, is there any means by which we can communicate this character to it ? Can we give it a more practical character than it now possesses ?" And this, as he proceeded to explain, with the great practical object in view, of presenting inducements to the parents of our poor children to avail themselves of the opportunities now so liberally provided on every hand for their sound and useful Education. For we must take the liberty of dissenting, in some degree, from the Cardinal's insinuations, that the Education provided for the children of the poor is not sound and useful, so far as it goes. And that it does not go farther is, upon his own showing, the parents' own fault. " The total number of children," he said, " being within a fraction of five millions, nearly three millions are of the uneducated class, and little more than two millions thus receiving education. But out of the two millions of the scholars at school, more than a million and a half remained only two years at all at school. I will leave you to judge," he con tinued, "of the results of such an Education ; or rather, we may ask, is it an Education at all. Then," he added, " out of the two millions in edu cation, only 600,000 are above nine years of age ; so that we have the greater part only children scarcely arrived at the full develop ment of mental powers. And of all that receive education, the average 'is two years and a half at school." Here, then, is the great practical difficulty. And the only way to overcome it, is to take away the inducement to withdraw the children from school at so early an age. That inducement is the money gain that can be secured by putting them to work, even as children. The labour of such children is estimated, it appears, at five millions sterling a-year. "So that," as the Cardinal observed, "we are calling upon parents to sacrifice five millions that come, into their pockets, to give their children an education which they are hardly able properly to value." Undoubtedly this is the first and greatest obstacle that Education has to contend with among the poor. And how is this difficulty to be grappled with ? Cardinal WISEMAN suggests its being met by a reversal of such a law as that now in force, obliging the youth employed in factories to be at school so many hours every day. " While you have a law," he says, " that every boy in employ - ment in a factory shall frequent a school, and that in a proportion which is hardly sufficient, can no plan be devised whereby those boys who are at school can likewise be brought to occupy so many of their hours in industrimis pursuits—in the prosecution of trade or business in one form or another ? The school has been made supplemental to the manufactory. Could not that be made, in its turn, if not subordinate and subservient, at least coadjutant with the schools ?" Such a sugges tion is certainly a very rational one. It is meeting a practical difficulty with a practical proposition, at any rate. We shall probably return to the subject hereafter. In the mean time let us hope that the question as put by the learned and reverend Cardinal will not be disregarded by our students ire " Social Science." And let us repeat, also, in conclusion, the expression of our heartfelt thanks to the distinguished Lecturer, for the materials he has put before us for a closer and better consider ation of the all-important question of the Practical Education of the Poor. THE HEALTH AND MORALS OF TOWNS ALL of us who live in towns must be interested in their health and morals The subject is one which, in its practical. details, bears more closely, it may be, upon situations in towns which are principally, if not wholly, occupied by the poorer classes, than upon other situations. But surely this Were no reason why any of us should be indifferent about it. If Providence has merci fully cast our lot in happier circumstances, our gratitude, if nothing else, ought to prevent us being selfish. Besides, it is one of those matters which will not let us be unconcerned about it, — at least, with impunity. It concerns us all, more or less, as a community, in that respect in which we may be said to be one body, though many members ; and in which, if one member suffers, all the members, directly or indirectly, suffer with him. The unhealthiness of one portion of the town in which we live, cannot but exert a baneful influence, in a greater or less degree, upon the other portions. And, moreover, there is the duty under which we all lie, of caring one for another. He must be a very indifferent member of society indeed—very wrong-principled, and very cold hearted—who can see his poorer fellow-citizens suffer from being obliged to live in an unwhole some situation, which he himself has the means and the opportunity of escaping from, while the poor man has not, and yet feel careless about remedying the cause of his neighbour's suffering. The question of the health and morals of towns, then, is one of general interest and concern ; and it may well be a subject of public congratulation that it is one which at the present time, more than at any previous, period, in this or perhaps in any other country, has occupied so much attention, on the part both of the Imperial Legislature and the local authorities. This legislative regard for the health of towns, we say, more particularly, is of very recent date. It was not until the year 1848 that the principal attempt at sanitary legislation received the unwilling assent of the House of Commons, and the Public Health Act became law, —that Act under which general powers were gictm to local authorities for constructing certain permatont works of sanitary improvement, among which d ra ii2_affe ail(' water supply naturally held the first place. The great principle having thus been recognised, there has been no great difficulty experienced in carrying other congenial sanitary measures ; and now, as well as the Baths and Wash-houses Act passed in _1846 and 1847, we have the Public Health Act of 1848 and supple mental Acts ; the Common Lodging Houses Acts of 1851 and 1853 ; the Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act of 1851; the Burial Acts of 1852 and 1853, and subsequent Amendments ; the Smoke Nuisance Abolition Act of 1853, and Amendment ; the Nuisance Removal Act of 1855 ; the Diseases Prevention Act of 1855, and the Local Government Act of 1858. And there can be no doubt that a proper administration of the extensive powers for sanitary improvement granted by these several Acti; is calculated ultimately to effect a very great amelioration in the physical condition of the people of this country generally, but more especially of the crowded populations of our large towns, and to produce eventually a corresponding improve ment in their moral and social state also. It is instructive to observe occasionally the different operations that are now going on, all over the country, in pursuance of those Acts of Parlia ment relating to the Public Health. One instance that has just attracted our attention, is that of the proceedings of the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London. They employ a regular medical officer, and they have taken care to select a man of considerable eminence in his profession for th• important post—Dr. LETHEBY. This most effi cient public functionary made his Report to the Commissioners a few days since ; and it contains one or two remarks which have, we think, so close a bearing on our own town, that we would briefly notice them here. He is alluding, for instance, to the increased mortality - of this season of the year, when he says,—" The high mortality in the season is due not merely to the trying influences of tile weather, but also to the circum stance that this is the season when there is always a large congregation of poor in the city, and with it the evils of overcrowding. Besides which the condition of the weather does not permit of those sanitary operations which are so largely employed in the summer and autumn." Now here we have a hint which applies, we say, with great force to the case of Liverpool. It is a point that is scarcely yet sufficiently thought of, or attended to. No one, however, can read such a description as the following, which has fallen into our hands, of that overcrowding in the dwellings of the poor, more especially in lodging-houses, which was found to prevail before the Act was in force, and remain insensible to its vital importance as a sanitary matter, and a question of morals : No description can properly realise their condition, — sufficient to say, that where filth and bestiality, sin, misery, and dirt ware in the ascendant, now order and cleanliness, comfort and good behaviour, are the rule. Formerly these places were known as the hot-beds of vice and crime, the very breeding-places of fever and disease. The Magistrates are • now rarely troubled by their in mates, and a case of fever is scarcely known among them. This applies more particularly to London. Let us hope that of Liverpool also much the same can now be said,—though one would certainly like to have some authentic assurance of it. The subject of overcrowding, generally, in the dwellings of the poor, is being attended to very carefully, we find, in the City of London,—as well it deserves to do. Dr. LETHEBY thus speaks of it in his Report to the Commissioners :—" In the course of the year I have laid before you certifi cates of the overcrowding of 66 houses, in which there were 116 rooms occupied by 184 men, 219 women, and 138 children. The inmates were distributed somewhat as follows : One man with two, three, or four women ; two men and two or three women ; and sometimes three men to two or more women. This is the kind of unwholesome ness which I am most anxious to put an end to, and I hope to be able to gain the assistance of the landlords of such places in my endeavours to check the evil, for I am sure it is their interest to see it abated." Some idea of the evils may be formed from this statement. Let us hope that in Liverpool also such unwholesomeness is not neg lected. It is to be remembered then, let us repeat, in considering this subject of the Health of Towns, that it is not merely the physical condition of the people, and more especially the poor, with which it has to do, but their moral and social condition likewise. The " kind of unwholesomeness," for instance, of which Dr. LETHEBY speaks—that, namely, arising from the overcrowding of houses is an unwholesomeness which must corrupt the mind, as well as impair the body. Men and women huddled together in the same room, and young people and children often mingling in the revolting scene, cannot but be most injurious to the morals of all involved in it. The evils of this overcrowding, as we have seen, affect, in an important degree, the rate of mortality. But they also do what is still more baneful,—they demora lise, they brutalise the people, and thereby consti tute one of the greatest curses which society can have inflicted upon it. In the whole range, then, of the extensive question, there is perhaps no feature of the case so important as this„affecting as it does so fearfully both the health and the morals of often very large portions of our town populations. THE DISGRACEFUL " AFFAIR" AT ST. GEORGE'S HALL. —ln reference to the above affair, so much talked of and so properly and universally condemned, Mr. M'Bride, the honorary secretary of the centenary ovation, called on us last night, and requested us to state the following : `• That, after a long sitting of the committee yesterday, and a thorough investigation into the whole circumstances that led to the hat and coat emote, Mr. Mgienzie and the other officials of the hell were completely acquitted of any blame or neglect, and that the whole affair arose in consequence of a few turbulent persons having broken into the room at first, which caused the whole row ; and that the committee would be happy to receive any coats, hats, or other garments that might be in wrong hands, and distribute same to the proper claimants." Mr. M'Bride asked us to publish the above paragraph unconditionally and absolute. We told him very plainly that we would do nothing of the sort—if he wanted us to publish the paragraph, we would do so to oblige him, but that we should accompany it with our own comments, and on these conditions he consented. Now, our opinion is by no, means changed by the "long sitting of the committee," nor the self-acquittal of Mr. M'Benzie. We never accused Mr. M'Kenzie in the matter, but now that such unheard-of efforts are being made to exonerate him from blame, we say at once tiid he should have attended to his business as the keeper of the Hall. It may do very well for Mr. M'Kenzie to shunt over the blame on the committee as a body, and it may be all right for the committee, as a body, to acquit Mr. - M'Kenzie. The committee and Mr. M'Kenzie should, however, remember, that the public do not acquit either the committee nor Mr. M'Kenzie— one or the other must have been the accountable party to the public, and it will take a vast deal more than the Verdict of the committee to acquit Mr. M'Kenzie, and most assuredly the public will never acquit the com mittee. Who was responsible ? That is the question. Mr. McKenzie is the paid keeper of the hall, and if he thinks he can shirk the responsibility on the committee of management, the sooner he does so the better for his own reputation. But both committee and Mr. M'Kenzie are now trying to dodge public indignation, but neither will succeed. We think one just as bad as the other; and both equally deserving of public condemnation, and so we told Mr. M'Bride last night. Should any great public event take place at the Hall in future, we trust Mr. M'Kenzie, the paid keeper of the establishment, will know his place, and attend to his business in a more becoming manner than he did on Tuesday night last ; and that any committee that may have the management will be judicious enough to avoid a shout of public indigna tion, by adopting something like proper arrangements and the selection of proper persons to see all done with order, decorum, and decency. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. THE GAME OF THE SEASON.—Third edition of the amusing card game of " St. George and the Dragon" now ready. Sold by Mawdsley and Son, and all book sellers. FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. BASIL BAKER.—The funeral ceremonies of the late Mr. Basil Baker took place yesterday morning, in the Necropolis. The procession left the house of the deceased gentleman, in Grove-street, at half-past 10 o'clock. There was a large attendance of Mr. Baker's relatives and friends. The burial service was read by the Rev. Mr. Moore. Although it is the month of January, 1859, most people admit we are living in hard times, hence it should be the study of every one to ask themselves the question, " How can I save my money ?" We re ply, without hesitation, buy your steel pens and other sta tionery, at E. T. Hall's wholesale steel pen warehouse, 23, South John-street. John Gillett's, Thomas Lowe's, G. W. Hughes, and other maker's pens at is per gross. Good Pen Holders 2d per dozen. HONICHOPATHY V. ALLOPATHY.—A meeting was held last evening, at the Medical Institute, the object of which, we understand, was to make a second attempt to exclude homoeopathists from membership. The attendance of members of the profession was large ; but reporters for the newspapers were informed that it had been deter mined not to admit them. Notes of the discussion were taken on behalf of the institute ; but whether with a view to publication we do not know. THE PANTOMIME.—Even the many competing public attractions of various kinds which invited visitors every evening during the past week, did not prevent the pantomime at the Theatre Royal from drawing its usual numbers together. The manner in which these perfor mances have been attended night after night fully justifies the encomiums we bestowed upon those portions of the pantomime which are by far the most important as attractive features—its scenic splendour and mechanical perfection. PHILANTROPHIC BURIAL SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this Society was held last evening, at the Philadelphia Chambers, Hackin's Hey. The president of the society took the chair. From the report read by the secretary, it appears that the society is in a flourishing condition, having upwards of £3,000 surplus. The report was adopted and all the retiring officers elected, the chairman remarking, that this was the first case in which the officers of a sick and benefit club had been re-elected without opposition. SOUTHERN HOSPITAL.—WeekIy report.—Admitted : Accidents and urgent cases, 48 ; medical and surgical cases upon recommendation, 14 ; total, 62. Discharged; Cured, 13 ; relieved, 2 ; irregular, 1 ; died, 2 ; total, 18. Attending as out-patients, 35 ; remaining in the hospital, 65. Treasurer, James Houghton, Esq. Visitors, IV. Mountfield, Esq., and S. Hindley, Esq. Honorary Chap lain, Rev. W. Leveson. Physician and surgeon for the ensuing week, Dr. Cameron and Mr. Nottingham. House surgeons, Mr. John M Bateson and Mr. C. Pemberton. THE BURNS CENTENARY IX AYRSHIRE. -No where, not even in Dumfries, where the poet lived and died, does the Centenary of Burns appear to have been so spiritedly commemorated as in his native districts of 'Ayrshire,— and, more particularly in the county town itself, a Auld Ayr:wham ne'er a town surpasses For horiesi men and bonnie lasses." The Ayr Advertiser of this week devotes the greater part of its sheet to excellent reports of the festive proceedings. The humble cottage of the bard's birth was itself the scene of a most affecting ovation ; and Alloway exceeded even the great display of 1844 in interest and enthusiasm on this occasion. BEnr: , roio.)r.—We - understand that a sale of fancy work will take place in the Assembly-rooms, Rock Ferry Hotel, on Thursday next, the 3rd of February, in aid of the funds for the erection of a new organ, in the parish church of Bebington. The sale commences at two o'clock, p:m., and is to be kept up till ten o'clock. Each adult is to pay , one shilling for admission, children sixpence each. There will be ,a band in attendance, and it is expected that it will be a very successful undertaking. The parishioners - are indebted to Miss Naylor, of High field Park, for this kind effort to replace the very old and worn out organ now in use. This lady's exertions having the sanction and approval of the rector of the parish. THE GREAT TAKING FISH iS still the wonder of the town, and crowds visit it every day. It will soon be re moved, and therefore, as the stay will be short here, those who have not seen this great natural curiosity should do so at once. We have already given our opinion of, and spoken in detail about, this strange natural monster of the deep. Among the fashionable visitors to this most extraordinary exhibition, during the week, were —the Earl of Sefton, the Hon. C. B. Molyneux, the Hon. Frederick Henry Bathurst, Mr. John Bramley-Moore, M.P., Gilbert Henderson, Esq., Recorder of Liverpool, Captain Hornby, Knowsley Cottage, Major Chambers, Captain H. C. Falkner, &c. KNOTTY ASH. INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS, MANCHESTER UNITY.—As has been customary at this season, for time past, the members of this order, belonging to the " Earl of Derby Lodge," in the district of .West Derby, met at a festive and recherche repast, on Monday last. It was provided by Mrs. Leech, of the Turk's Head, Knotty Ash. The lodge numbers a large body of members, and the progress and usefulness of the society was, financially, as well as beneficially, shown to be in a most flourishing condition. The chair was taken by Mr. Barns, P.G., and the vice by Brother Hethering ton. The deputy grand master of the district, John Wainwright, Esq., and other influential members were present. The former spoke pertinently, and at great length. Their usual toasts were given, and responded to, and the hilarity was only stayed by the approaching hour of midnight, when they parted " odd" fellows, but " good" fellows. THE SPECTATOR.—This old established weekly Metro politan Journal has reduced its price from Bd. to 6d. From its establishment in 1828 to the present day, it has held its own as the foremost weekly in England. We need_ only say that the Spectator will continue unchanged in all its essential characteristics. Its staff will be the same. The Editorship rests with a writer who has worked in conjunction with the founder of the journal from 1840 to the beginning of 1858. The literary department remains in trust with a writer who has discharged the same duty for a still longer period. The political principles of the paper will be the same— a steadfast reliance on the British Constitution, the persevering eudeavonr to carry out that constitution in practical Measures accordant with the spirit of the time, and the faithful promotion of national interests. Any change which has been made in the paper consists in an extension of its scope. On all public questions, the Spectator commands the best sources of information, and it is restrained by no party ties from laying that information before its readers, unmutilated and undis tortei. LIFE-BOAT SERVICE. —RHYL, WEDNESDAY.—It has been blowing_a violent gale during the night and morning, from W. to - W.N.W. At 12.15 P.m. signals of distre's were hoisted, and Richardson's tubular life-boat, which belongs to the Royal National Life-boat Institution, stationed at Rhyl, was promptly got out with horses, and launched in Abergele Bay, through a heavy surf, in a most seamanlike manner, and proceeded under canvas and oar in an admirable style, in the direction of No. 139, per chart, the wind W., towards a large American ship, with her ensign union downwards, and a Jack flying at her foremasthead. Several very large ships were in the offing, beating about for pilots, and for water to cross the bar into Liverpool. The life-boat was seen through the telescope at the Semaphore, among the ships, eight or nine miles off, and she is now supposed to have run into the Point of Ayr, or Prestatyn, as she could not possibly fetch Rhyl with a strong flood tide and heavy sea. Eight p.m., the coxswain has just returned. The beat had reached Prestatyn safely, and was there moored for the night. The boat behaved most admirably, and chased the ship, which got into Liverpool, name not WWI* The signals of distress were shown off the Little 000 Head in the morning, and were continued till mid-dajo when they were observed to be such. The promptitude with which the life-boat put off, elicited the adnuratit of all present. The men will be paid their usual awar d „ by the National Life-boat Institution for their laudable„' services. SHAKSPERIAN CHARACTERS BY A LADY.—It WWI i doubt, be remembered that some twelve months b ac , Miss Goddard appeared in this town in the characters e ' Hamlet, Romeo, Lucretia, &c., with the greatest Bucca l, having also created a great sensation in London. Sind her appearance here she has been engaged in many .„ the theatres in Scotland, where her success has even b e e greater than previously, the "canny Scot's" being Ml'? taken by surprise at the wonderful triumph of histri onic art as exhibited by a lady. * THE CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—It will be seen o f advertisement on our last page, that this clever band C l Minstrels again make their appearance before a LiverPel; audience on Monday evening next, at the Clayton Hall' the former scene of their triumphs ; and from the suece attending their first visit, and also the large patronag e extended to them in their tour through Ireland and Sca t ,, land, they will no doubt again " draw crowded houses. Amusements of this kind are seldom worthy of an ythisi like a second visit ; but, independent of the original s n i recherche burlesques performed by them, they rea l l possess the merit of true melody in their singing, and The the beauty of the songs leave nothing to be required. performances will be given every evening, as before , under the direction of the accomplished Messrs. Rayno r and Pierce, and the audience department will continue to receive the most unremitting attention from the "fa d Nimmo." As this visit will probably be the last t i t : ' Liverpool, and likely to be only a short one, we advise applications for seats to be made to the Messrs' Hime, or at the Hall, as soon as possible, otherwise disappointment may be the result. AT THE AMPHITHEATRE, this evening., " La Traviata , , that has now become almost an " Household Word,' will be performed by the Opera company, who continue to be received with excellent favour ; indeed, we Mai look upon it that Mr. Galer and his company hal e achieved no small success, having made a longer staYi li „ Liverpool than any party of the same kind has done l i ° ' some years past. This looks well, not only for tie, artistes, but also on the part of the public ; an d, what is more, we believe it is now the only Opera company the provinces, and formed before even the present RoY, English Opera Company. We understand the :Se; Opera, by the talented Conductor of the Orchestra, ge' Meyer Lutz, is now in rehearsal, and will be s horty produced ; and, from some of the music which we W e already heard, can speak favourably of it. Miss Fannj Reeves, the heroine, has a pretty part and some beautif music allotted to her ; Madame Maude Bishop is sl ao likely to increase her pleasing popularity; Mr. Gal e , r i ; the hero, will have an opportunity of displayino . , effect, his fine tenor ; and Mr. Lyall has a most'takil character to fill, wherein he is likely to shine forth O f t , more resplendence than we have yet heard him. 3 ' o . Borrani has not been forgotten, several pieces having bee; written specially adapted to his voice. SCREW AND PADDLE STEAMERS &CROSS THE ATLAIalf i ; Much dispute has arisen about the comparative leng' tb of the eastern and western passages across the N° r „, Atlantic by paddle and screw steamers, to and frc . '" different ports in this country and in North America' During the year just ended, 281 North Atlantic voyal e : were made by the mail and passenger steamers. following was the average of the eastern voyages of es b e , line of steamers—viz., from New York to Liverpool . Cunard's, 10 days 20 hours ; Collins's, 11 days 14 hours' Liverpool screws, 13 days 3 hours. To SouthaniPt ° ;/; by Croskey's, 12 days 19 hours ; Vanderbilt's, 12 days '„ hours ; Hamburgh screws, 12 days 22 hours ; Bromi c ; screws, 13 days 14 hours. To Glasgow, by the Glasg d , screws, 14 days 10 hours. To Galway, via Newfoun land, by Lever's, 16 days. From Boston to Liverpe° ' by Cunard's , 11 days 8 hours ; and from Portland t° Liverpool, by the Portland screw, 12 days 20 11 0° a ; The following was the average of the western pass 3 g r ' w of each line of steamers —viz., from Liverpool to .S e i4 York, by Cunard's, 12 days 13 hours ; by Collins's days 16 hours ; Liverpool screws, 13 days 21 ho w ': From Southampton, by Croskey's, 13 days 8 hoursi Vanderbilt's, 13 days 16 hours; Hamburg screws, 1 days 21 hours; Bremen screws, 15 days 14 hours. Yr °„, ...7 Glasgow, by the Glasgow screws, 15 days 14 hou,`," l : From Galway, via Newfoundland, by Lever's, 15 days hours. From Liverpool to Boston, by Cunard's, 12 dai s 6 hours ; to Portland, by the Portland screws , 12 ds e c / 20 hours. Daring the past year two of the No r ',l Atlantic steamers were lost, viz. the New York s a „, Austria, the Arabia and Europa came into collision, t 0 ii, City . of Baltimore was obliged to put into Halifax `, repair machinery, and the Ariel to put into the 5 31 % port short of coals. Forty steamers were employed I s performing the 281 voyages, and these ships rant distance throughout the year of a million miles, bul", l 150,000 tons of coals, carried upwards of 50,000 passe o{ gers, who paid about £BOO,OOO passage money. Out, the 50,000, nearly 500 lost their lives in crossing t" Atlantic. it ATTACK ON CARDINAL WISENIAN'S CARRIAGE. "*".; the Police Court, yesterday morning, a young o ° o named John Leever, about 18 years of age, who lives „ t 13, Ray-street, and who was described as "knocker ab e ,;" o St. John's Market," was brought up by o ffi cer . 1 ' 9 ;4 Robinson, 719, on the following charge : —He said, ab e ,; ( l half-past ten o'clock last night I saw the prisoner, „'" 0 . about thirty or forty such fellows as the p r isoner, runull after some carriages, shouting, and throwing stones- , c a saw the prisoner fling a st one a t one , an d th en I arres t , s him. Inspector Horn said : Last night Mr. Chalouer, carriage, containing Cardinal Wiseman and other g e kh il e tlemen, was passing along Mount-pleasant from ''' o f Philharmonic Hall, when it wa s a tt ac k e d by a no b n t - e blackguards who threw stones at it. H e h a d receiv ed n h - t ,t stating that much damage had been done to the carriage, ld the extent was not stated. Perhaps his Worship w ° be remand the prisoner, until further inquiry could, et , made into the matter, as it was very gross conati,4 Inspector O'Brien said he was at the Hall, when he s ': c e a great mob outside ; there were about thirty Pt i e officers present, as some attack was apprehended. o f mob was collected with, apparently, the intention le, following the carriage of Cardinal Wiseman up lifY. lt o3 s street. The police arranged that instead o f th e carrl„'„et going that way, they should pr o c ee d a l ong Hope-st;re to Mount-pleasant. When the mob f o u n d this, t' .. "50 was great disappointment amongst them, and about i ri oi of the number, chiefly fellows like the prisoner , furiously after the carriages, and it appeared they th r ! ot t stones at all the vehicles. Mr. Mansfield: And did y. a; only capture one out of the 150 ? The Inspector gu r y It was a long way from the Hall where it happened. ce r y thing passed off at the Hall in a most satisfae te cte manner, and the arrangements made by the police 0 very effective ; the attack spoken of by the officer, was 11p least half a mile from the Hall, when there was not hll t ; apprehended at all. Mr. Mansfield : What have yo'; ‘ , l , say to this, prisoner ? Prisoner (very unconcernelti n ) a l Why, I heard that Dr. M`Neile had challenged Cart il 'i Wiseman, and I went to see if it was a fact or not, bu er could not find it out. I then joined some twenty o tb e young men, when one of them said, "let us hav e t bor row," and then we joined a mob that was followiligl i carriage. I saw some of them pick up stones, an picked up one, but did not throw it. Officer Robins : 0 g I most distinctly saw him take up the stone and it at the carriage. Mr. Mansfield : Do sir, know if it hit the carriage ? Officer : I don't know,. but I heard several stones rattling against the earrlot Inspectors O'Brien and Horn said, the officer at or time did not know who the carriage belonged to, who was in it. The officer said he knew nothing ° f .le, of the parties at the time. He merely saw the earr l- 0, followed by a mob of blackguards , throwing- s tones i t t ", s • and he caught the first he saw fling a stone - : Mr. 313 , i t. field said this is a most infamous and disgraceful . } , r- at I suppose there was some tale or excuse got up gv ° io Protestant feeling, or some other hypocritical tale , I order to counteract this most disgraceful outrage' o t order you to pay a fine of £2, or in default of pai l 11 , 0 - two months' imprisonment. The prisoner was e mitted in default of payment. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE IN LONDON.—OR •• %pp day, shortly after eight o'clock, a mos t P ill h ort occurrence took place in the Ha m p s t ea d- roa d, a 5 13 0 , distance from the New-road. Mr. J o h n Thomas -go. rows, hatter and clothier, whose premises occupy l t he 14, 15, and 19, Adam's-row, Hampstead-road, facing 5 s Reservoir, had been out in company with Mr. T 11 ,1 4 0' Plews, formerly an extensive timbe r - merc h an t in ' l , B street, Bedford-square, an old acqua i n t ance , tol e es glass together at the Sol's Arms, at the corner of Oh l " for street, where they both appeared a little the worse feA liquor, Mr. Plews especially. After talking a t of minutes at the bar, they appeared to be g e tting °;'", ;0 g• temper with each other, and left the h ouse quarre`c eo t, In a few minutes their altercatio n b ecame ver y vi ° er fal and Mr. Plows, who is a tall and tremend uon sly man, being incensed at some ob serva ti on Mr. n' fell made to him, struck him a blow., Mr. Burrow s t he forward, and, his forehead coming in contact wi, t ' v oa handle of an old-fashioned chest of drawers, he ).5) / his the ground, and, appearing unable to rise, one ° 0 03 shopmen rushed to his assistance, and, on finding,, insensible, exclaimed to M r . Pl ews. " Y ou have lad Mr. Burrows." Mr. Pl ews was arres t e d t h a t nigh 4 ." on Thursday was brought before the magistrates `ap, remanded.,Substantial bail was accepted for 1115 pearance. THE NOMITEIN TIMES SATURDAY, JANUARY , 29, 1859 he 5 ,n 16