Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-28 00:00:00

gomilmtini 3alits. THIS DAY Tans DAT, the 28th instant, at One o'clock, at the Brokers' Saleroom, 1, Chapel-street, About 30 Bales Damaged COTTON, re-packs, pickings, &c. For further particulars apply to TITIIERINGTON, GILL, and Co., Brokers NEXT WEEK On WEDNESDAY next, February 2nd, at the Brokers' Saleroom, Oldhall-street, 263 Bags Angola, ORCHELLA WEED, 22 Bales Mozambiquo j ust landed, per Hoppet, from Lisbon.—Apply to Messrs. Leech, Harrison, and For wood, Merchants ; or to ROOKE, OKELL, and SPENCE, Brokers. On FRIDAY next, the 4th February, at Eleven o'clock precisely, on the Quay, East side Brunswick Dock, 136 Logs Ciba MAHOGANY, 101 CEDAR, lately landed ex Dorothea, from Neuvitas. 154 Logs Cuba MAHOGANY, 18 Tons COCUSWOOD, lately landed ex Waybosset, from Santa Cruz, 30 8 Logs YELLOW PINE, 24,957 Feet, 50 „ OAK, 5,576 „ 36 ELM, 2,552 „ 2,710 2ntl Quality PINE DEALS, 2,600 2nd „ PIPE STAVES, 8,400 Merchantable PUNCHEON STAOD, VES, 12 Cords HEMLOCK LATH WO Sy mes ' shipment, and no w landing ex Sea King, fin= Quebec. $0,358 SPRUCE and PINE DEALS and SCANTLINGS. 3,955 SPRUCE BOARDS, lately landed ex E. D. Peters, from St. John, N.B. To which E will be added Q,nantities of American WALNUT, BIRD -EY MAPLE, COCUSWOOD, and ROSEWOOD ; also, several parcels PINE and SPRUCE DEALS, Quebec OAK, ELM, and RED PINE, Pietou BIRCH, tze. On account of the Importers. ;war catalogues and further particulars apply to DtrIVCAN, EWING, and Co., Brokers. en 2,ite, PATENT ASI'HALTE 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 and Warehouse-12, CABLE-STREET. ON SALE, 100 Tons MANURE OIL CAKE. For analysis and price, apply to THOMPSON, BAGNALL, and BUTTERWORTH, Brokers, 30, Moorfields TO LANDOWNERS AND FARMERS CIIESHIRE ' P - 1107FIYATE - C - CaPTNir bave constantly ON SALE Nitrogenised BONE PHOSPHATE, and other valuable fertilisers.—Samples and prices may be had at the Office, 3, CABLE-STREET. Works :—LOWER BEBINGTON. J. R CAMERON, CHRONOMETER MANUFACTURER AND OPTICIAN, -- - -- 54, SOUTH CASTLE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. MARINE CHRONOMETERS ON SALE OR HIRE. GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, SEXTANTS, QUADR ANTS, BAROMETERS, TELESCOPES, .1c CHARTS FROM LATEST SURVEYS. -HISTORY OF THE WORKING CLASSES, Every Saturday, in the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES, Price On efenny 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. B OYS' WINTER CLOTHING TO CORRESPONDENTS. Under no circumstances can we insert communications not ac?,ompanied by the author's real name and address, not neces sarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, &c THEATRE ROYAL—Grand Comic Pantomime ROYAL AMPIIITIIEATRE—EIIgIiSh Opera Company lIRNOLEK'S CIRQUE VAlitErE—Miscellaneous Attractions ALLSOP'S WIZ WORK Exitinerion (Lime-street). THE PARISIAN GALLERY OF ANATOMY, Paradise-street. MINDERS' MENAGERIE — Foot of Shaw's-brow. J" For particulars see advertisements on Bth page, .-TIIIS DAY jrEl gatkru Eimm FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1859. THE DAY'S NEWS Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, the Princess Frederick William of Prussia and Princess Royal of England was delivered of a son. She was married on Monday, the 25th of January, last year. - The advices from the Continent this morning are hardly so warlike as those of late. It is affirmed that the English government has written both to the Sardinian and Anstrian Cabinets on the question of Italy, giving them very good advice; and the statement comes from Vienna that Austria is likely to surrender her objections to the assembling of a Congress, for the purpose of settling the open qustions of European policy. Italy remains quiet. Two French ships of the line have left Toulon for Genoa, probably to bring home Prince Napoleon and his bride At the opening of the French Chambers it is expected that the Emperor Napoleon's speech will announce the settlement of the question of the Danube. Austria, if looking to a war in Italy, must naturally wish to stand as well as possible with the powers parties to the treaty of Paris upon all questions properly appertaining to that treaty. It would be a matter of course to call the conference together to register the final regulations for the navigation of the Danube. Bence, probably, the rumour of the day. But it is, moreover, just possible that Austria may have devised a form for hinting her willingness to discuss in the congress the means of avoiding such a calamity as a war. A revolution is impending in the free city of Hamburgh. A number of the heads of the first families in the city have already met to determine on a complete revision of the government. Why not ? If Hamburgh be infected by the prevailing spirit for government reform, let her act upon it by all means, but she will do so peacefully as becomes her. It now appears that ' Mr. Gladstone has really accepted the office of Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, but only for such a limited period that he will be back, and be re-eligible for election by the University of Oxford, by the time a fresh election can take place. l'hoefre are now two candidates before the elec torsCaltho East Worcestershire—the Hon. Frederick Lord Admiralty. ve T esoutorseho The landowners of the countychoose ; and that done, the electors will, of e, ratify the choice. An important refo rm meeting has been held at Blackburn, at which Mr pressed his general agreemPeinikt w ington, M.P., ex thatithgeAn I t r l e . m B a r n i g t' wass bill, and a vote of thanks to unanimously adopted. A banquet to celebrate the anniv e rsay of the foundation of the Australian colonies. took i) place on Wednesday night, at which Sit j a nd Sir E. B. Lytton, with many of theakington Colonial celebrities were present. Both minister speeches, and the usua l st y le of g lor ification made speeches, prevalent. Sir Edward was eloquent upon the circums t an ce that the Australian colonists were deeply imbued with the feelings of the " English gentleman," and of affection for the old country, i n contradistinction , apparently , to the Anglo- Saxon inhabitants of North America. In a speech at Keighley, Sir James Kay Shuttleworth gave warning to the managers of Mechanics' Institutions that those bodies are pro bably about to encounter serious opposition from the working of a recent minute of the Committee of Council for Education. That department, recog nising the importance of promoting good teach ing for youths from thirteen upwards who, whilst actively employed during the day, are desirous of devoting their leisure hours to learning, has determined to encourage and give generous Government aid to evening schools in connectton with day schools, Sir J. Kay-Shuttleworth anticipates that from the liberal grants which these evening schools will now obtain they may become formidable rivals in many localities to the Mechanics' Institutions, which have been so useful in supplying supplementary education to those who have to earn their own bread at an early age. The Birmingham stipendiary magistrate has committed an ex-policeman, named Brailsford, on a charge of murder, he having, on the 7th Decem ber last, while an inmate of a lunatic asylum, violently attacked a fellow lunatic, and so severely injured him that he died in a short time after. On Wednesday evening, two well-to-do trades men in London met, and, being friends, went into a public-house, and got rather tipsy. They ulti mately quarrelled, and one of them, a powerful man, named Plews, struck his friend, Burrows, who fell against some furniture, and an internal vessel of the head was ruptured, causing the almost instantaneous death of Burrows. It is alleged that the Government have com pleted a contract with three large iron companies for a supply of 68-pounders as fast as they can be cast. An important contract for gunpowder has also been taken. The city article of the Times announces that a number of forged bills of exchange have been successfully put into circulation. They purport to be drawn by the Barbados branch of the Colonial Bank on the parent establishment in London, and are supposed to have been manufactured and nego tiated in New York, whence, after having passed into good hands, they have been remitted here to several respectable firms for collection. Those already presented at the Colonial Bank amount to an aggregate of about 9,0001., and from the manner in which they are numbered it is inferred that at least a total of 15,000/. has been put forth. The plate itself is a forgery of a very clumsy descrip tion, and the signatures of the bank manager and accountant at Barbados have been poorly imitated. The bills are for amounts ranging from 400/. to 1,4001., and the sufferers are most probably all in America. _ . There is every reason to believe that in a day or two, at farthest, the telegraph line from Cagliari to Malta will be in complete working order, as we learn that on Tuesday the line was ascertained to be perfect between Cagliari and the west coast of Sicily, near the island of Maritimo, about one-half the entire length from Cagliari to Malta. The weekly meeting of the Dock Board was held yesterday. It was decided that a superinten dent of pilots, at a salary of £2OO a-year, should be advertised for ; and the treasurer of the pilots' committee, a lady, who has held the post for a period of twenty years, was voted an annuity of 150. A letter was read from Mr. J. B. Boyden, chairman of the Shipbuilders' Association, complaining of the utter inadequacy of the present accommodation, which was referred to the proper committee. A somewhat animated and lengthened discussion took place on the motion of Mr. Smith— " That the names of two gentlemen be substituted for those of Mr. Bold and Mr. Laird, on the par liamentary committee, the declared opinion of these gentlemen unfitting them to render any assistance in carrying out the resolution of the board on the 15th inst."—in which Messrs. Bold, Laird, Bushel, Tobin, Shand, and the Chairman took part, and, notwithstanding that Messrs. Bold and Laird voted for the motion, it was negatived by 18 to 5. At the meeting of the Workhouse Committee yesterday, only routine business was discussed. Mr. Denton created some amusement by proposing that the system of homoeopathy be tried in the house, as "it would do a great deal of good and save a vast deal of expense." The number of deaths in the workhouse last week was 28, and the total number of inmates is 2,447 against 2,743, corresponding week last year. The magistrates yesterday, were engaged in the investigation of several very serious charges against Mr. Archibald Mann, the well-known vocalist. The charges, which are of a most diabolical nature, were sufficiently proved to warrant the prisoner being committed for trial at the next assizes. MORE• IRISH FACTION, IRELAND has just furnished another illustration of the truth of the political axiom, that party is " the madness of many for the gain of a few." A public effort was to have been made this week, to arouse a spirit of patriotism in the landed interest —to awaken them to a sense of the obligations they are under to their country—to induce them to shake off their indifference to its present disorganised condition—and, most important of all, to excite them to a right hearty performance of all that is bound upon them by that great precept, that " property has its duties as well as its rights." A meeting was to have been held in Dublin yesterday with these most praiseworthy and, from party feeling it is to be feared, it has had to be abandoned. From party feeling operating in two different ways. objects in view First, because it originated with the supporters of the present Government; although one can't see what difference that could make, when the end in view was one, not of this Government or of that, but of any Government whatever, that would really act as such—that is, govern the country, enforce its laws, preserve its peace, protect the lives of the people, and give security to their property. Truly has it been said— ' " Those Governments that cure not evils, cause." No Government, therefore, that does not grapple manfully with such evils as those which now curse Ireland, can well be exonerated from the responsi bility of at least occasioning their continuance. Not that there is the slightest reason to suppose that the Government had any thing to do with the public-spirited movement we refer to —beyond, perhaps, approving of it, as calculated to strengthen their hands- Only it was suggested, it appears, by those who give them their support, as honestly endeavouring, according to the ability that it is found practicable to exert, to execute the laws, to maintain order, to give security to life and property, and to advance the country's real interests. The opponents of the Government, therefore, could not bear this. Their party feeling rose up strongly against it. Not only did they refuse to co-operate in its patriotic purpose, but they even threatened to go to the meeting, and introduce dissension, and create a disturbance. In the next place, they are a party that make political capital out of the very evils which this movement sought to . remove. Ireland tranquil, secure, and prosperous would not suit their purpose, just now, at all. They know the value, as an Opposition to the Government of the day, of the principle contained in the well-known apothegem— "The Sem will gather when the nation boils. It is this " scum" of the Irish nation that gathers under the boiling process of its political agi tators and incendiaries, with which they work out their party stratagems, and carry off their party spoils. Ireland, in skort, must be made to con tinue the " great difficulty " of any Government with which their party is not politically identified, and by which it is not personally advantaged, This is Ilat secret, then, of their aversion to any moveritient, at the present moment, the object of which was to tranquillise, and to improve Ireland. Of the factions nature of the objections to such a course as it was proposed to pursue, some idea may be formed from what has been furnished in a communication to the originators of the move ment, to the effect, that although there really was a band of treason-mongers, and common disturbers, in the country, yet as they were in a minority, and therefore could not accomplish their mischievous objects, they might safely be left to carry on their seditious, and often sanguinary designs, unmo lested ! " There is, in almost all countries, a portion of the people which, either from natural temperament or other causes, is disaffected to the Government, and desirous of change.; and that such' a class, rapidly, however, diminishing both in numbers and in moral and intellectual weight, exists in Ire'land, no one can deny." Such are the very words of the communication we refer to ; and they amount to an admission that there is a body of the people of Ireland bent on the most incendiary mischief. Still more explicitly is this acknowledged in what follows, in the same docu ment :—" Political revolution, not agrarian out rage, is the end aimed at by those societies, the members of which have been lately arrested by the. orders of the Government ; and, as I have already endeavoured to show that for such purposes they are entirely powerless, I think they may be safely left to the ordinary operation of the law." We say nothing of the writer's Sir-Oracle style of treating such a subject ; but it is quite evident, that a view like this of so serious a question is not one that dm be taken by any patriotic mind, but only by a sinister-souled, popularity-hunting, and party politician. The object, however, of the movement is likely to be attained, in part at least, notwithstanding it has been found expedient to abandon the intended meeting. The Committee, we learn, having received hundreds of letters containing expressions of approval and support from .all parts of the country, a deputation, consisting of the secretaries and two other members of the Committee, on Saturday had an interview with his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, at the Castle, of a most satisfac tory nature ; and the real objects of the contem plated meeting having been virtually obtained, the Committee have determined to substitute an address to his Excellency instead. This address is to embody the. Resolutions which were to have been proposed to the public meeting, and which were as follow,— 1. Acknowledging as we do the earnest desire and the activity displayed by her Majesty's Government for the suppression of illegal societies, yet, from the impunity which has for several years attended the most atrocious agrarian crimes in the country, and the recent revival of Ribbon and other illegal associations, this meeting con siders it right to press earnestly upon the consideration of the Government the feeling of insecurity for life arid property which pervades the minds of many of her Majesty's most loyal and peaceful subjects ; and to ex press their readiness to support the Executive in their endeavours to preserve the peace of the country. 2. While we are anxious to see the laws repressing crime made more effective, we are not unmindful of the necessity of improving the social condition and habits of the humbler classes The improvement of the dwellings of the labouring population of the farmers of Ireland are matters of vital importance, and an association of persons interested in property, would feel it their duty as well,as interest to give their best consideration to questions bearing so immediately on the means that may promote the suppression of those secret societies, which have hitherto counteracted every effort towards amelioration. . There is nothing whatever of a party character about this—nothing but what is patriotic and proper—but everything in which all classes of the people, save the evil-disposed, are deeply inte rested. The spirit of the Address, therefore, if not the letter, can scarcely fail to be concurred in by all who would seek their country's prosperity and happiness. THE NORTHERN TIMES FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1859 JOINT STOCK BANKS MUCH has been done, within the last few years, to bring the Joint Stock Banking system into dis repute in this country. Doubtless it is a system which, in knavish hands, may be turned to very mischievous account, in so far, more particularly, as the shareholders are concerned. Their having been individually liable for all deficiencies, how ever it may have protected the public, has, in too many instances, made sad havoc with the fortunes of those who were but, as it were, the sleeping partners in the Companies ; and unconscious, in the simplicity of their hearts, if not in the disin terestedness of their minis, of anything but what was straightforward and right. They might often know that they were in the hands of clever men, but they were unwilling to suspect that they were likely to be the victims of cunning ones. They had no objections to good fat dividends — nay, they eagerly sought to secure them ; and this, too generally, without much scruple about the modus operandi. They little thought—perhaps they did not wish to think—how frequently it happened that the very cunning which they admired as prinaoting their interests as share holders, was a quality that also exerted itself for private and selfish aims, and that stuck at nothing to' make them succeed. Nor did these shrewd and scheming operators themselves, we dare say, very often remember that, as a close observer of human nature has described it, " worldly men, in haste to be rich, have over-run the only means to it,—and for want of laying their contrivances with proper skill, or managing them with proper secrecy and advantage, have lost for ever what they might have certainly secured with honesty and plain-dealing." How many have lived to find out this truth, —how many have found it out through the very means we are here referring to ! And, what was far the worst of it, how many innocent, unsuspecting parties, did they not precipitate, along .with themselves, into an abyss of ruin ! Still, the Joint Stock Banking system is an admirable one, notwithstanding all such perversion and abuse of it, - and one that may be profitable and secure to the shareholders, while it is safe and convenient to the public, There have been some very notable evidences of this in London during the last fortnight. The half-yearly meetings of several of such Banks have been held, and have furnished proofs of the signal success of the sys tem, which cannot possibly be questioned, For instance—as we find the broad results reviewed by one of our metropolitan contemporaries : First in order of time comes the Union Bank of Lon don, the paid-up capital of which amounts to £600,000, raised upon 60,000 shares. Daring the past half-year the profits of this thriving institution amounted to £67,540, including the sum of £7,495 brought from the previous half-year. The directors have declared a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, and a bonus of 21 per cent. on the paid-up capital, being together at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum, clear - of income-tax, and have earned forward for appropriation next July, a balance of £22,540 undivided profit. The paid-up capital of the Commercial Bank of Lon don, which is next in rotation, amounts to £300,000, raised upon 15,000 shares. The balance-sheet for the half-year showed a net profit of £13,822 (including the undivided profits of the half-year preceding), and a divi dend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, was declared, leaving £1,401 to be carried to the next account. The City Bank, which is only six years old, has a paid up capital of £300,000, raised upon 6,000 shares. The directors here have declared a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, leaving £6,982 to be carried forward to the new profit and loss account. The net half-yearly profits of the London and West minster Bank (the paid-up capital of which amounts to £1,000,000) exceed £86,000. The directors have declared a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, and a bonus of 6 per cent. on capital; that is to say, 9 per cent. on the current business. This, added to the 8 per cent. previously distributed, makes a total of 17 per cent. for the entire year 1858. The undivided profits amount to more than £12,000. The paid-npcapital of the London Joint Stock Bank amounts to £600,000, on 60,000 shares, Here the amount available for distribution on the 31st of December last being £107,000, allowed a dividend at the rate of 121 per cent. per annum, together with a bonus of £1 per share, making a total payment of 27 1 per cent. - for the entire year, free of income-tax, and giving £10,200 to the guarantee fund. The gross profit of the Bank of London, with a paid-up capital of £300,000, amounted to £24,139, which, after a deduction for rebate on bills not due, and provision for doubtful debt, gave a devisable amount of £11,891, out of which a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free of income-tax, was declared, and £4,391 carried to new account. here, in all, these instances, we see the complete success of the system. The Banks must surely be profitable, when they can pay bona fide dividends of eight, ten, and even fifteen per cent. ; and they cannot but be safe when, after appropriating such dividends, they can carry over heavy balances, and provide large guarantee funds. As our contemporary, from whom we have borrowed the above enumeration, observes, " the public look to the directors to see that they are men of character ; and it is on the character of the directors and on prudent management that the safety of a Bank must mainly depend." And not the public only, but the shareholders also. When the liability is unlimited, they are first and above all concerned in the prudent management and safety of the Bank. In how many cases might the utter ruin, not of individuals only, but of families, have been prevented, had there but been prudent management and safety,—had the shareholders been more particular to see that their directors were really .men of such, character as would reasonably have guaranteed it. In a more general point of view, the results we have adduced are interesting and important, as indicating a recovery from the disastrous influences of the late financial panic. _Banks could scarcely prosper as these have done, during the last six months, if there had not been a healthier state of commercial credit, and altogether a higher condition of commercial sta- bility, than there was but a year ago. There is another reflection, as regards the con duct of one of the Banks, that is pleasing and oncouraging. The London and Westminster Bank, desirous that they who, even in subordinate positions, contribute to its efficient business work ing, should participate in its success and its profits, and that they should feel an interest in its healthfulness and prosperity, has generously and wisely presented its staff of clerks with a gratuity of ten per cent. on their salaries. Such liberality as this is as prudent as it is noble ; and it will have its reward. The shareholders, and all concerned, will receive it back again fourfold. It is an exemplary act which deserves to be not only publicly recorded, but warmly commended. Let us hope that it may find in such, and indeed in other prosperous institutions, many that are deter mined to go and do likewise. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM-SHIP PRINCE ALBERT sailed from here for Galway this day, to take her berth on the sth February, with the Newfoundland mails. ERRATUM. —ln yesterday's paper, we represented St. Chrysostom's schools as having obtained two second-class Queen's scholarships. This statement does less than justice to the schools in question. We should have said that two of St. Chrysostom's scholars had been successful in the recent examination, one girl obtaining a first-class and the other a second-class scholarship. QUICK SAILING.—The brig Belle, 276 tons o. u., built by Messrs. Cato, Miller and Co , f this port, and the property of Messrs. Ridley, Sons and Co., sailed from Newfoundland to Pernambuco, discharged her cargo there, loaded another, and arrived at Liverpool in sixty five days from date of leaving Newfoundland. This is the most rapid run yet made, and fully establishes the superior speed of this beautiful clipper. SUDDEN DEATHS. —Yesterday, a man, at present un known, fell dead in Gregson-street. He died instantly. The body is at the dead-house at present for identification. Some time ago, a woman, named Elizabeth Craven, had a compound fracture of the leg, by a fall in Roscommon street, and she died in the Northern Hospital yesterday. Hannah Siddell died in the Southern Hospital, yesterday, in consequence of injuries received some time ago. 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 reply, 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. " ROSINA," UNDER DIFFICULTIES. —At the Amphi theatre, whilst the above pretty little opera was b e i ng per formed, the storm of Tuesday evening was raging in its utmost severity, and some of the slates on the roof having become suddenly displaced by the high wind, the rain came in upon the audience in the pit, several of whom suddenly " hoisted" their umbrellas, presenting a highly amusing and picturesque scene. However novel may be the appearance of the French National Guard at drill, on a wet day, with the inflated army of umbrellas, yet, we did not conceive it added at all to the effect of the opera, to hear the artistes sing " When the rosy morn' appearing," under a deluge of rain upon the stage. To MASTER PRINTERS.—Wanted, a situation by a practical printer, who is competent to take charge of any department in a printing and publishing house. Would accept a professorship in any of the academies. Has no objection to teach ornamental painting and penmanship, geometry, trigonometry, and many other sciences. Is particularly suited to act as pastor to a small evangelical church, or as a local preacher. He would have no oZ , ..iection to form a small but select class of interesting you1: 0. ladies, to instruct in the highest branches. To a dentist or chiropodist he would be invaluable, as he can do almost anything. Would board with a family, if decidedly pt'‘'us. For further particulars inquire of Col. Buffalo, at Browns Saloon, Boston. CLAREMONT ;INDEPENDENT CHAPEL, CLAREMONT GROVE, KIRRDALE.- —On Wednesday evening last, the twenty-ninth anniversan , of the Sunday Schools in con nection with this place 'of worship was celebrated by a tea meeting., held in the school-room. The room was decorated for the occasion with evergreens, and was well tilled .by the members of the eenebgation and their friends. The report f:;,r the year ending 31st December, \ FOREIGN DUE 1858, was read-, and showed that an active body of teachers wern engaged in instructing the children of the neigba;ourhood, and that the schools were in a very pros perous condition. The meeting was addressed by Rev. W. C. Preston, of Claremont Chapel; Rev. W. C. Stally brass, of Wavertree ; Mr. Thos. Snape, and several other teachers AMERICAN MAILS.—The screw steamer Indian sailed from Liverpool on Wednesday, with the Canadian mails and thirty-seven passengers, for Portland, Maine. To-morrow (Saturday), the North American mails will be taken out by the Cunard steamer America, which sails on that day for Boston and Halifax. The Post-office box at Liver pool will close on that day at 1 p.m., with late fees at 2 p.m., and on the landing stage at 3 p.m. THE MANCHESTER ATHEN2EU3I.—The annual meeting of the members, on Wednesday evening, proved rather a stormy one. An amendment to the adoption of the report was carried, which declared that the directors had abus,ed their authority in all the proceedings relating to the appointment of tie secretary. A vote of thanks to the retiring directors was proposed, but it was negatived. The election of the new board was to take place yesterday evening. ST. ANNE'S STANLEY WORKING MEN'S ASSOCIATION.— On Wednesday evening the usual weekly lecture was delivered in St. Ann's School-room, Old Swan, by Mr. J. Bailey Brown, on "Personal experience in Australia and the gold-diggings." The title very correctly repre sents Mr. Brown's lecture, as, excepting some geogra phical accounts of Australia, he confined himself almost entirely to personal adventures. In the second part of his address the lecturer appeared wearing a costume in use at the diggings, which had the advantage of being very picturesque, if not comfortable. Many vicissitudes in colonial life were described, showing that numerous individuals, without experience, who emigrate would find staying in their own country, and making the best of advantages already possessed, decidedly better than ° seekinc , forimprovement without any fixed end or pur pose. The room was full, and the lecturer received a hearty vote of thanks. TOXTETH BOARD OF GUARDIANS. —The weekly meeting of this Board was held yesterday. The guardians present were—Messrs. T. Urquhart (chairman), John Moss, John Wilson, Henry Layland, Joseph Wilson, Joseph Har rison, J. B. Hughes, W. Leyland, A. Grindrod, S. Sid deley, W. Baynes, W. Johnson, and A. Miller. The governor reported that the number of paupers in the house last week was 397 ; this week, 381; and the cor- responding week last year, 445. It was ordered that a call be made upon the overseers for £l,OOO. A letter was read from the Poor-law Board, in reference to the notice of dismissal which had been given to the medical officers, and advising the Board to state the facts of the case to their legal adviser for his opinion. Mr. Moss moved that the case be stated to Mr. Archbold for his opinion, and the motion was seconded by Mr. John Wilson, and oarried. The chairman stated that the owners of pro perty in the Park, if they entered their names before the 31st of January, were entitled to vote in the election of members of the Board. TnEA.TiticAL MORALITY.—A great deal has lately been said and preached of the immorality of actors and actresses, and managers of theatres in general have been condemned as forming a part of a school whose interest it was to uphold the vice, or that their productions on the stage are of that voluptuous class as to lead to evil. Our Liverpool manager has come in for no small share of the vituperation attendant on the " wholesale condemnation," although it strikes us that, if there is blame, he will be found more free from the " deadly sin" than " many who have gone before." We remember, a few evenings since, at the Amphitheatre, that two gentlemen, by some over sight of the door-keepers, succeeded in obtaining ad mission to the " sacred precincts" of the stage, where their strange appearance naturally excited much curiosity amongst the ladies and gentlemen of the opera. How ever, in a short time, having been previously fortified with a few glasses of sherry, these " gentlemen" com menced whispering their " soft nothings" to a distin guished member of the corps, who repulsed them with p roper disdain, and Mr. Villiers, the manager in chef, having been sent for from his dressing-room, the strangers were desired to withdraw, which they reluctantly complied with, at the same time taking with them more exalted notions of the propriety of conduct of actresses than they had previously any conception of. WORKHOUSE COMMITTEE.—At the usual weekly meeting of this committee, held yesterday, Mr. Churchwarden Cropper occupied the chair. The other gentlemen present were—Messrs. Smith, Critchley, Cafferata, Byford, Broome, Williams, Steele, and Peck. The medical officer reported that the number of deaths during the week ending 25th inst., was 28 ; of whom 12 were men, 8 women, ?children above two years' old, and 6 infants. The number of patients under treatment last week, was 648 ; new cases admitted since, 167 ; cured and discharged, 124; now remaining under treatment, 663 ; of wham 57 were fever, 15 itch, and 8 small-pox cases. The governor's return showed that the number of inmates in the establishment last week, was 2,445 ; number this week, 2,447 ; number in the corresponding week last year, 2,743, showing a decrease of 296 on the year. The master of the vagrant sheds reported that there were relieved in this department during the week ending 22nd inst., 138 male paupers, 77 females, and 11 children : total, 226, showing an increase over 1- week, in males of 21; females, 24 ; and 1 child total increase, 46. When compared with the corresponding week of last year, there was a decrease of 109. On the time-book being read, it was remarked that there was a great improvement in the attendance of the medical officers, which was attributed to some remarks made at the previous meeting. Mr. Denton observed that he would like the committee to try the homoeopathy. He thought it would do a great deal of good (laughter), and be a great saving of expense. The chairman said they would have to ask the liberty of the Poor-Law Board first. Mr. Critchley : Homoeopathy is all a:humbug ; I have seen both tried. Mr. Denton : I speak conscien tiously. The subject then dropped. There was no other matter before the board possessing any public interest. DISCONTINUANCE OF MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. —A meeting was held in , the Town Hall, at half-past eleven o'clock yesterday, for the purpose of nominating and appointing a local committee, and officers to take the necessary steps, and make the proper arrangements, for the holding of the society's next annual show in Liverpool. Amorig those present were—His Worship the Mayor, Mr. T. B. Ryder, hon. secretary to the society, Mr. George Holt, Mr. John Torr, Mr. J. Pemberton Heywood, 1?r. R. Ledger, Mr. John Birch, Mr. G. Halsall, Mr. Owen, Mr. John Ellis, Mr. Thomas Atherton, Mr. John Lathbury, Mr. G. C. Hale, and Mr. Joseph Hindson. The Mayor introduced the business in a few words, in which he expressed his perfect concurrence in the object proposed to be attained, and his readiness to lend every assistanee in his power. Mr. Ryder explained the objects of the meeting, and briefly glanced at the history and progress of the society during the past ten years. For the purpose of making the necessary . preliminary arrangements for holding the next meeting in Liverpool, he stated that it would be requisite to appoint a local committee to collect subscrip tions, and to determine as to the prizes. Mr. Heywood moved a resolution, declaring it desirable that a local committee should be formed, to make the necessary arrannmente for the meeting to be held on the Bth and 9th September next. Mr. Torr seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. Holt moved the second resolution, naming a committee with forty-four members, and Mr. Torr as chairman, and with power to add to their number. Mr. Hale seconded the resolution, which was also carried. Mr. Ryder was requested to act as hon. secretary and treasurer to the local body. Thanks were voted to the Mayor, and the meeting separated. It may be mentioned that, before the conclusion of the proceedings, the following subscriptions were announced: Mr. Heywood, 20 guineas; the Mayor , 10 guineas; Mr. Harold, Littledale, 10 guineas ; Mr. J. B. Horsfall, 10 guineas ; Mr. J. B. Moss, 5 guineas ; Mr. Charles Turner, 10 guineas ; Messrs. Mawdsley and Son, Castle-street, 5 guineas ; Mr. Holt, 5 guineas ; Mr. Torr, 5 guineas. LLIGENO. THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT AND Tg ITALIAN DIFFICULTY. The Independence Beige publishes a sta d e resee it to the effect that the British Cabinet has ad the French, Austrian, and other governme n t with the object of reviving a project propeTl by Austria herself in 1848 to L C) is Palmerston for satisfying the requiren. . of the Italians. This scheme establisnic' the administrative separation of the Lorabarq; Venetian provinces from the other parts of monarchy, and in eonsideratian of certain finalac i r o conditions, assures them a quase independenc e 5 ; „, self government based upon constitutional Prl ciples. The Independence adds that Russia allt France are willing to accede to this proposal ; a reply has not, as yet, been received from Vieul33' THE NEGRO IMMIGRATION SCHEME t he The .3loniteur de la Colonisation publishes - following decree : "To THE GOVERNOR OF LA REUNION.--- - V i t: ° : HIBITION OE ALL RECRUTING OF IMMIGIa:,p ON THE EASTERN COAST OF AFRICA I N MADAGASCAR " PARIS, Jan. 6, 1559• "M. le Governeur,--On receiving the pre despatch, you will take the most rigorous meaSlP,: d for prohibiting all recruiting of labourers, eltu a ;., on the eastern coast of Africa, or at Madagas.c' ti , or at . the Comores, and also the introduction It t a Reunion of immigrants from those provinces , from Sainte Marie, Mayotte, and Nassi-Bee have written to this effect to Lieut.-Colonel Mor e ' t "In acknowledging the receipt of the prese, li e communication, you will acquaint me with i t' te number, the particulars, importance, and the a s ,. of authorisation of such recruiting operations ".; 1 ; with the assent of your administration, may 13 ?,„, 1 1 course-of execution at the moment of the arr_ i t' of the despatch. and which will, on that ace° be the only ones excepted from my decision. AL , " You will render me an account of n" e arrangements which you adopt, to assure 1 7, strict execution of my directions in this respect' Receive, 8.7 c., Of " The Prince charged with the Ministrf Algeria and the Colonies, " NAPOLEON VEROOP " P.S.--I enjoin upon you the strict and prol ii r' execution of this order." COOLIE IMMIGRATION, a d A deputation of the Anti-Slavery Society b 0 an interview with Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, , 13 0 Tuesday, at the Colonial-office, and presentec!eh memorial against immigration to the West Ind i o and against the Emigration Bill recently PO 0 . by the Jamaica legislature. The deputation O ra l sisted of the Hon. A. Kinnaird, M.P., GO' e l Thompson, M.P., Mr. C. Gilpin, M.P., Mr. San l° 4 Gurney, M.P. Rev. Dr. Carlile,'Rev. H. Rich a if Rev. D. J. East (Jamaica), Rev. J. Kenn edy Messrs. J. Sturge, James Cooper, W. A. der, John Moreland, Josiah Foster, W. Miles , ft , Sterry, Dr. Norton Shaw, G. L. Neighbour. J., e l. Burchett, S. Bourne, C. B. Warner, T. 11. stone, and L. A. Chamerovzow. The following . is the memorial referred to : Your memorialists have bad their attention dirti o o to the objectionable character of the New Immig . , 11 „ 0 11 Bill, recently passed by the Jamaica legislature, and awaiting the sanction of her Majesty's government, 10 therefore beg respectfully to submit to you the rent; which, in their opinion, justify them in praying O r disallowance. First. Because the measure is not required- „ e ii demand for "immigrants" is founded upon an at-l e : 0 , scarcity of available native labour, whereas your 111 e rialists possess evidence that the supply is n ot sufficient to keep up the present extent of cane-cult' tion, but considerably to extend agricultural opera tio Secondly. Because the introduction of " immigrallf under indentures to serve for a term of years, espec',4 in colonies, such as Jamaica, where labour is air, e ' r e in excess, and at a rate of wages fixed arbitrarily bcO ti o hand by the employers, is a gross violation of $ll economic laws which regulate the price of labour 0 !. 0 0 free countries, and involves a disturbance of the rela.', l o between the employer and the labouring classes, 1u detrimental to the interests of the latter. ofir Thirdly. Because, under the actual system of " iminiced tion," the colonies into which immigrants are introa tl • lerabl , ' the eqef nave to sustain a consic proportion of t the which falls upon the very classes whose labour i s superseded. The contemplated measure affords e : t ioo tinent illustration of this fact. It fixes the prell e ' o til to be borne by the planters, who alone are to bell iv; by the foreign labour, at two-thirds of the cost 01 t he importation ; but the remaining third, together Ivit h ae tis salaries of the officials employed to carry out the sY - 0 0 in Jamaica, and in the countries whence the iniraig r i s 1. 4 are to be exported, will fall upon the people. tie the more unjust and oppressive because the conilne o o l they consume are already subject to an import ad fa' e r duty of 12 per cent., the proceeds of which are ehroO, priated to pay the interest on a debt of 43 0 v ," incurred for previous immigration schemes. ill be Fourthly. Because, as the effect of the measure w, s; a is to reduce the present inadequate rate of wages r", o st the native labourers, it is calculated to provoke the rogr hostile feelings on the part of the peasantry of the is' the and to lead to their permanent estrangement fron l or class to whom their labour is indispensable for the e vation of their estates. Fifthly. Because the introduction of h or des of P 4 and idolaters is likely to be vastly injurious t° t ilt and the religious interests of all classes tot community, but will especially retard the advanceTd of the masses, and that developement of the advai l ,'W of freedom so longed for by the philanthropist an d Christian Sixthly. Because "immigrants" cannot be 0 0 t 3 b 1P oe w , indiscriminately from Africa otherwise than by pur,ci a bot in the same manner as slaves are bought for the u c eS, market; nor from India and China in too many Wt.'''. save by deception and fraud. at Seventhly. Because the. "immigrants" will not be 0 liberty to choo se th e i r ow n masters, the kind of laborithei which they shall engage, to fix the rates of wage s shall receive, the localities they shall inhabit, th e they shall eat, nor quit the colony at their option. c ol , Eighthly.. Because experience teaches your men r oi' ists to anticipate a g r eat mortality amongst the "9, grants," not only during their voyage to the is ce ll' but after their arrival and before th e y become ,1 0 6 0 mated. In Jamaica this mortality has amounted " t ll e per cent. of the resident immigrants, during their tbe of sojourn, exclusive of the numbers who perished 0 way. .inthly. Because in the new bill sufficient 1 „ as not made for the protection of the "immigrant> >of for his obtaining legal redress in all cases of an eff the authority conferred on hi s em pl oyers . Fa irth 0 because the local agent, a s tip en di ary ma gistvlb e t t ioll invested with almost unlimited p ower i n th e a djud'cl $ ll of alleged offences, which powe r , i n th e h a nds °, o ot unscrupulons individual, may be convert e d to the " uses. Lastly. Because the measure is not wished for - ( led masses ; and because, after Great Britain has esl3%s,e it £20,000,000 to emancipate the sl aves i n h er co10 111 "„ 0 11 is not to be tolerated that a s y s t em a ki n t o s laverh; o o , bearing another name, should b e re - es t a bli s h e d in t " t hot Your memorialists have authoritative testinioni o r the bill was passed with precipitate ha s t e , an d no °P; 3 oll tunity afforded for the p eo pl e t o express an op i n ion 11 ,c ia ti it. They are firmly i m p resse d w ith th e conv i c tion, "p i r if it should unfortunately receive the assent of the i o d - penal Governm en t, th e consequences w ill b e most fronl trous to the colony, and plunge it in difficulties ve il. which lit will perhaps never succeed in extricating 1 01 In praying, therefore, for its disallowance, they eo l i o ny, that they are promoting the best interests of the ° i d and of its i n h a bit an ts, and venture to express thehe that you will suffer your decision to be guided by broad principles of humanity and justice. le bOY' DEATH FROM EATING HOLLYBE RR I ES .—A , or named Fuller, the son of a labouring man at Nor thi rea died a few days since from th e e ff ec t s of eating the,ao berries of the holly. His p aren t s a pp ear n ot to 0 0 4 known the poisonous nature of the berry, and all o ,o' the child to eat about twenty or thirty before it li'°„ i d covered by a neighbour. Though he was very i fi l' e d vomitted during the night, medical aid was not cfw b iyl• till the morning, when it was t oo l a t e t o save the c, Mr. Harris, a surg eon , sa id th e b err i es h a d prod ll o. violent inflammation of the intestines, and caused fr i s ol The jury at the inquest returned a verdict of from inflammation of the stomach caused by ea' vegetable irritant." THE COURT WINDSOR, Jan. 26.—The Duchess of Bent dined with her Majesty yesterday, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Miss Victoria Wortley. The Princess Alice also dined with the Queen. The party included the Duke and Duchess of Richmond and Lady Cecilia Gordon Lennox, and Lord and Lady Colchester. The Berlin correspondent of the Nord, writing on Sunday, says —" Her- Royal Highness the Princess Frederick William drove out again to-day in her carriage. She appears marvellously well. Her face looks fresh and ruddy. A good story is told of the Regent relative to the anticipated event. The colonel of artillery, who received the prince's orders as to. the number of salvos to be fired on the occasion, appeared to hesitate before he withdrew. ' Well,' said the Regent, You seem to have something on your mind," Why -- yes —your royal highness. I know how many salvos are to be fired for a prince, and how many for a princess; but if her royal highness should give birth to a prince and princess ? ' 'Then,' repPed the Regent, we will remain faithful to our motto—Suum Cuique.'" BIRTH OF A PRINCE OF PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Thursday Evening.—At three o'clock, to-day, the Princess Frederick William was safely delivered of 4 MOtiker ancl child are as wyll as possible. eve pla an(