The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-26 00:00:00

BLOOMER & CO.'S PATENT ANCHORS. —MESSRS. BLOOMER & CO. beg to inform their friends that they are now prepared to EXECUTE OR DERS for their PATENT ANCHORS to any extent ; and, referring to the circulars that have been distributed by cer tain interested parties, cautioning against the purchase of these anchors as an implied infringement on other -patents, Messrs. B. and Co. beg to say that this not an infringement on any other patent whatever, and that the are prepared to give their friends their indemnity against any law costs or otherwise connected herewith: V ~CHAINS, CABLES, COMMON ANCHORS, &c.. on the shortest notice., Apply at the offices—Liverpool : 9, Strand-street; Glas gow : 17, Gordon-street ; London : 3, Idol-lane, Tower street ; or at the works, West Bromwich. TRAVELLERS and VISITORS to LIVERPOOL will find comfort, economy, and despatch at WHITEMAN'S BRUNSWICK HOTEL. The coffee-rooms and upper dining apartments will be found retired.and convenient. Comfortable and well-aired-BEDS may be depended upon. BED AND BREAKFAST, 2s. 6d A porter in attendance all night. BILLIARDS, is. per Hour. A spacious ROOM for DINNERS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, &c., &c • Plate, knives, glass, &c., for hire. Attached is the Bruns wick Club. Refreshments moderate.—Club-rooms, Hanover-street W. E. WHITEMAN, Proprietor. Agent for the Hope Mutual Life Assurance and Honesty Guarantee Society. FEMALE PENITENTIARY, FALKNER STREET. SUBSCRIPTIONS and an increased amount of Washing and Plain Sewing for the Inmates of this Institution are respectfully solicited, in order that the heavy debt on the Establishment may be liquidated. A cart is employed to convey work to and from the Institution. Charges are very moderate, which may be known on appli cation to CATHERINE ROGERS, The Matron. Falkner Street, 13th October, 1863. INKLNERS' HOLDFAST AND FIRE-RE - • SISTING SAFES, CLOSET S, DOORS, CHE TS, BOXES, - GUNPOWDER MAGAZINES, &c. AT MILNERS' PHCENIX (212°) SAFE WORKS, WINDSOR, LIVERPOOL, (Show Rooms, 54, Lord-street.) LONDON DEPOT, 47A, MOORGATE-STREET, CITY; GREAT FIRE AT THE GUTTA PERCHA COM PANY'S WORKS, AND DEFEATED BURGLARIES. " Gutta Percha Company's Works, City Road, London, Bth June, 1853. "Sras,—We consider it only our duty to inform you of the entire preservation of all the Books and Papers,* con tained in the large Safe you recently supplied us with, although exposed during Sunday last to a fire which de stroyed the larger part of our Works--this is the more re niarkable, as the intense heat has in many parts melted the outside of the Safe. "We are of opinion, that so successful a vindication of .the merits, of your invention cannot, on public grounds, be too generally known ; and we therefore leave you at liberty to use this letter in any way you may wish. "We are, Sirs, your obedient Servants, TIM UINTA PERCHA COMPANY, " HENRY FORD BARCLAY. . . . "Messrs. Thomas Milner and Son, 47A, Moorgate-Street, City, London. * Including £5,001 of cash and bills. IRS. J. BROOKS, I (rT-il2EvOle'f-DtP;TllaStl? "5 1 5 1' ; JOHN BROOKS, Great George-street, begs respectfully to inform the nobility, gentry, and public of Liverpool, that, in consequence of the sudden and lamented death of her husband, she is making arrangements by which his long established practice may be permanently carried on, for the support of herself and chil dren, and feels assured that the talent and experience of the gentleman who will be appointed her husband's successor, will be found such as to fully justify the continuance of their favour and support ; in the meantime the practice will be carried on by the Assistant of the late Mr. Brooks. IVERPOOL SUNDAY SCHOOL INSTI -14 TUTE.—ON THURSDAY EVENING NEXT , the 27th instant, the LECTURE by the Rev. H. S. BROWN, illus trated by the Government Prize Picture, "The Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers." will be REPEATED in the Con cert Hall, Lord Nelson-street, on behalf of the Funds of the above Institution. - The Chair to be taken at half-past seven o'clock, by J. A. PicroN, Esq. • Tickets of Admission.—Body, 3d. ; Side Galleries, 6d. ; -Reserved Seats, ls. 6d. May be had of Mr. J. Harrison, 31, Islington ; Messrs. Smyth, Berry-street : Pearce and Brewer's, Church-street; Butler and Beagley's, Lime-street; Mr. Radcliffe, South Castle-street ; Mr. James Cross, Birk enhead; the _Gallery of Arts, 34, Church-street ; and at the Institution, Mount-pleasant. liNunicipal election. TO THE ELECTORS OF PITT-STREET WARD. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER GENTVEMEN,—I am rejoiced to learn that our highly esteemed townsman, John Smith, Esq., has consented to be Nominated at the ensuing Election. No one can be more satisfied than I am myself, that however willing I may be, I certainly do not possess the requisite qualifications for a Town Councillor. When nominated by our party three years ago, it was only as a choice of evils ; the committee, as it was said, being divided between myself and my friend Mr. Callis, it was thought desirable "of two evils always to choose the least," —and I was selected. Now, however, I have no alternative but at once to retire from the field, as it would be on my part the greatest pre sumption to place myself for a moment in competition with a man in every respect• so• much better qualified to be your Representative. In returning to private life, I again sincerely thank you for having for three years allowed me to enjoy the personal gratification of a seat in the Liverpool Town Council. _ I am; gentlemen, your obliged servant (but not) WALTER P. JEFFREYS. Wine Tavern, 24th October, 1853. TO THE BURGESSES OF LIME-STREET WARD. GENTLEMEN, lAccept the invitation, which I have had the . honour to receive from a numerous and influential body of. Electors of the Ward, to become a Candidate at the approaching Election, for a seat in the Town Council, as one of your Representatives. The subject - which at this period more particularly enga ges the: attention of the Council and the Inhabitants of the Borough, is, the Improvements of the Town. I believe that no part of the community is more interested in this question than yourselves ; not only from the central position of your ward, but on account of its possessing so many places of public resort, viz :—the Theatres, the Concert-hall, St. John's Market, the Railway Station, and St. George's Hall. • To this subject your Representatives have given their best attention, r and have supported those Improve ments' which, in their opinion, are first called for, and 'which will be embodied in an application to Parliament in the ensuing Session. I take this opportunity of returning my sincere thanks for the kindness and courtesy which I have received from you, during the twelve years I have been honoured with your confidence. I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant, JOHN B. LLOYD. Exchange Alley, 20th October, 1853. TO THE ELECTORS OF PITT STREET WARD. GEN TLEMEN, N an ably dtawn Requisition, presented this day I I am called upon to allow myself to be NOMINATED As one of your Representatives in the Town Council, on,the s pecific ground that an attempt is to be made to placelhe Electors and the Elected in their only proper position. .As it is known that I am not ambitious of a seat in the Council; and have, therefore, never asked for one, I can well afford the use ormy name, if it will serve you, in fighting that battle of principle so clearly set forth in your Requisi tion to me, and in the one intended for Mr. Aikin—documents which, I hope, will be extensively read in all the Wards. Whether you win or lose, as far as the choice of a Repre sentative is concerned, the result will be of no consequence to me, individually, because as I do not offer myself, or soli cit your votes, I can neither be " defeated" by an opponent nor:;" rejected" by the constituency. But, in any event, if _the object in view be vigorously supported, the men of Pitt street Ward will make irresistible progress towards establish ing the only true principle for rendering a representative body what it ought to be ; while, should you also carry your own Candidate, your triumph will, indeed, be worthy of the best struggle that can be made—not for any man breathing, but for the cause you have evidently at heart. Since retiring from editorial life, I have declined almost all public labours ; but should your zeal for a great principle place me in a position of public duty, I will do the best I can to justify your noble and truly constitutional efforts. I remain, gentlemen, as I have always been, your inde pendent fellow -townsman and friend, JOHN SMITH. Commerce-court, Lord-street, October 22, 1853. The COMMITTEE for CONDUCTING the ELEC TION of JOHN SMITH, Esq., SITS DAILY, at No 4, Surrey-street. A Public Meeting of the ELECTORS favourable to the ELECTION of JOHN SMITH, Esq., will be held on THURSDAY EVENING NEXT, at WESTON'S, 95, Park-lane. Mr. Smith and several other gentlemen have promised to at tend. Chair to be taken at half-past Seven o'cl oc k. W Chairman. LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. I —The SEVENTH SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT will take place on TUESDAY next, the Ist of November. PRINCIPAL 'VOCALISTS : THE ENGLISH GLEE ,AND MADRIGAL UNION, Consisting of MRS. ENDERSOHN, MRS. LOCKEY, MR..LOCKEY, MR. HOBBS, MR. HENRY PHILIPS, CONDUCTOR Mr. J. Z. B ERRMANN. Mendelsohn's FIRST WALPITRGIS NIGHT, and a Se lection of GLEES and MADRIGALS, will be per formed. Tickets for Unappropriated Stalls, for ladies and strangers, 7s. 6d. each ; Galleries—Front, 455,; Back, 2s. 6d. By order, W. SUDLOW, Hon. Sec. THE STEAM-SHIP GOLDEN A GE, FOR AUSTRALIA. - Is now ON VIEW in the HUSKISSON DOCK; She is largest and most magnificently fitted steam shi in the world.—For Cards of Admission apply to MILLERS & THOMPSON, 4, Drury-lane, Liverpool. MO BE LET, a DOUBLE OFFICE, in Tower Chambers.—Apply at No. 7, in same Buildings. Conurtertfai #paTts. ON THURSDAY NEXT. On THURSDAY next, the 27th instant, in the Commercial Sale-room, Temple-court, 400 Boxes layer MUSCATELS, 100 Barrels Malaga SULTANAS, 200 Drums 500 Frails Malaga FIGS, 10 Boxes Jordan ALMONDS, • 50 Frails Jordan Shell ALMONDS, Per Idas, from Malaga ; 1000 Boxes Eleme FiGS, 1000 i-Drums Turkey FIGS 1000 i-Drums , 20 Cases Eleme FIGS, in cartoons, Per Grecian, from Smyrna.—Apply to THOMAS PARRY, Broker, 1, Temple-court. On TUURSDAY next, the 27th instant, at one o'clock, in the Commercial Sale-room, Temple-court, 31 Boxes Bunch Muscatel RAISINS, in Layers, 10 i-Boxes Ditto Do. Do. Do., 35 Boxes Bunch Muscatel RAISINS, 19 i-Bunch Do. Do. Do. 46 Frails Small Muscatel RAISINS, 200 Frails FIGS. 66 Boxes Jordan ALMONDS, Ex Despatch, from Malaga. 1000 Tapnets Faro FIGS,. 1000 Quarter Tapnets ditto, Ex Titbit, from Lisbon ; 140 Boxes Naples FIGS, 56 Boxes „ RAISINS, Ex Frankfort. Apply to JAMES ADAM, SON, & CO., Brokers. ON FRIDAY NEXT On FRIDAY next, the 28th instant, at Three o'clock, at the Brokers' Sale-room, Atherton-buildings, Dale-street, 2000 Bales East India WOOL. For catalogues, &c., apply to HUGHES & RONALD, Wool Brokers. HOUSE G E N - T g HAVING PREMISES TO LET OR SELL SHOULD ADVER T I S E IN THE DAILY TIMES NORTHER N AT A CHARGE OF SIXPENC - E. Offices-19, SOUTH JOHN STREET, LIVERPOOL; 9, PRINCESS STREET, MANCHESTER. SERVANTS WANTING SITUATIONS PERSONS WANTING SERVANTS, should Advertise in the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES, CHARGE 'SIXPENCE. Published every morning, at 19, South John-street, LiverpoOl, and 9. Princess-street, Manchester. NOTICE The Proprietors of the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES have now completed their arrangements for securing the delivery of the paper at the following places every morning, at, or before eight ,o'clock. BIRKENIIEAD I BOOTLE WOODSIDE WALT ON TRANMERE ROCK FERRY EVERTON WATERLOO FAIRFIELD S EAF 0 RTII AIGBURTII. TO CORRESPONDENTS, Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of his good faith. We cannot undertake to return rejected communications. All communications, ,Books for Review, etc., to be for warded to the Editor must be addressed to the Publisher, CHARLES WILLMER, and those from London may be sent to the care of Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 3fllittljtrit (d'Artts. WEDNESDAY,' OCTOBER 26, 1853. As nothing which, either directly or indirectly, effects the public welfare is uninteresting to us, as journalists, we proceed to offer a few remarks upon the forthcoming Municipal Election. We hope they will not be considered inopportune or unne cessary, •and that their tendency will be to arouse the public mind from its lethargic condition, and serve to " point a moral" if they do not " adorn a tale." In referring to corporate bodies the first thought that suggests itself is " turtle." For the life of us, we cannot disjoin the ideas which tlae.words " cor porate" and. " corpulent" give rise to in our minds. They are, as it were, integral parts of a great whole, and do not admit of an abstracted individuity. In like manner do the terms " municipal" and " munificent" harmonize, like the diapason in music, so that there is no distinguishing the one from the other. And, indeed, what higher ideal can be entertained of a civic functionary or town councillor, than that which includes " sumptuous living" and a princely disposal of the public money. We know with -what avidity men seek places of public trust—what extravagant protestations they make of their great regard for the " general inte rests"—what a display of long and self-denying labours are trumpeted forth into the voters' ears — how eloquently and slily they become eulogized into posts of honour—when their labours too often cease for the public, and they begin forthem selves ! The " loaves and fishes,". in other words, the emoluments and perquisites of office, act as power ful magnets ; and we must admit that it requires no ordinary amount of virtue to withstand their baneful influences. The history of corporate and similar guilds, furnishes us with the sad facts, that public duty has been too 'often sacrificed at the shrine of base_ cupidity; and that neither the highest position nor the most sacred calling, have been entirely exempt. It is well betimes to philo sophise and reason on those matters, in order that we may derive therefrom practical wisdom and keen foresight. " _&,:perientia docet" is an old proverb, the truth of which, every day of our life, we are confirming; and all the intelligence we may by this means obtain is worse than useless, if it does not lead to some . beneficial and practical result. Men owe duties to their country as well as to their families. The one is quite as obligatory and indispensible as the other. Yet how often does it occur, that whilst they scrupulously and assiduously discharge the former, they either think not at all, or if they do, most slovenly perform the latter. By way of ex ample just let us tuke the case of Municipal Elections. The burgesses of Liverpool are called upon annually to elect a certain number of " fit THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. and proper persons" to serve in the capacityof Town Councillors. It is to be presumed, that the rate payers, as a body, have sufficient knowledge of the important trust placed in their hands, to - make them exercise Ordinary caution in the faithful dis charge of it. Will a merchant receive into his counting-house, and place in a responsible situ ation, a person of whose character and fitness for the occupation he knows nothing, and cares less ? Will he deliver to him his cash-box, and allow its contents to be appropriated, all the while evincing perfect unconcern? Then why should the Bur gesses of this great town elect as their represen tatives gentlemen of whose honour, patriotism, uprightness, and efficiency, they possess no posi tive proof ? Why permit inefficiency and impo tency to worm itself into office by means of parti zanship ? Why suffer paltry individual favouritisms to weigh one feather in the scale against the weightier matters of utility -and nationality? Is public honor a thing of straw, to be flung upon a dunghillo rot? Is national purity a lie ? Is Principle a delusion? If not, then why do we find citizens foregoing those duties which they are imperatively bound to fulfil, and which they. cannot shirk off their shoulders without bringing contumely upon themselves, and inflicting calami ties upon others ? Let the Burgesses of Liverpool but feel that.there is a solemn trust reposed in them, and that supineness which now threatens to paralyse every noble sentiment, will at once cease ; and there will be little chance of Council men disgracing their office and their town by acts which, however passable they may be in dock labourers and navvies, are highly condemnable in those who put forward the slightest pretensions to the character of " gentlemen." We have no wish to recall to the public mind instances of perfidy in those who have contrived to get them selves into honourable civic positions. Very likely some occurrences have not yet been entirely forgotten. We only hope that they will serve as a caution for the future, and that, once for all, the Burgesses of this town will elect and return those on whom they can implicitly rely. By this means, much might be done towards lightening the local taxation, which now presses like an incubus upon the public pocket, and which is mainly attribu table to very bad management and reckless ex travagance. • The RECORDER of LONDON, in his charge to the Grand Jury, on Monday, gives a most opportune exposition of the law, on the subject of trades' cone bination. At the present critical moment, when we find the employers and the working classes squabbling about a variety of subjects, in addition, to the question of wages, it is well to have the law so clearly laid down, and by so high an authority. Since " Strikes" have become matters of such frequent occurrence as they have lately, a great many de vices have been resorted to in order to make those movements as effective as possible. In nearly everylcase where " Strikes" have taken place, we find a number of the hands have shown a disposition to remain, and have actually continued in their employment. And in every instance of this kind, it appears that numerous stratagems have been tried to induce them-to " turn out." And all these acts come under the head of conspiracy on which subject the RECORDER spoke as follows : The case to which he should next direct the attention of the jury was of great importance. It was a charge against certain workmen of conspiring together to prevent another workman from being employed in the same estab lishment with them. At the present moment, when so many strikes existed and the struggle between capital and labour was attracting so much attention, cases of this nature became of the greatest possible public importance. He saw that a calculation had been made that in one limited manu facturing district wages to the amount of £20,000 a-week had been lost, thereby occasioning most serious injury both to masters and workmen, to the tradesmen of the district, to the revenues and also, no doubt, tending seriously to damage and disturb the commerce of the country. He could not refrain, therefore, from expressing his regret that some means could not be devised to reconcile these unfortu nate difference. Formerly every combination among work men for the purpose of raising wages, was illegal and ren dered the parties liable to an indictment fos misdemeanour ; but, as it was felt that this was a hardship and was in some cases productive of injustice. In 1826 an act of Parlia ment was passed which changed that state of the law and legalized combinations—either of masters to lower the rate of wages, or of workmen for the purpose of getting them raised. While, however, this act of Parliament gave both to the employers and the employed the privilege of holding meetings and taking proceedings to regulate the rate of wages, it at the same tune expressly prohib ited workmen from doing anything tending to prevent employers from taking into their service any persons they pleased, or preventing any persons from accepting such employ ment. Having thus clearly defined the law relating to conspiracy, he next proceeds to point out the lega lity and the illegality of combinations and of " strikes," in which he alludes to the " strikes" among the workmen of the several collieries and manufactories, who have complained that the wages which they received were not equal to the value of their services, and had therefore assembled together peaceably for the purpose of consulting and de termining upon the rates of wages they should re quire, and in having entered into an agreement for the purpose of fixing the rates of wages, the RE- . CORDER states that " they have done no more than the law allows." And he further adds that, "a com bination for that purpose and to that extent (if, indeed, it is to be called by that name) is no more than is recognized as legal by the Statute 6th of George IV., by which statute, also, exactly the same rate of combination, to the same extent and no further, is given to the masters when met toge ther, if they are of opinion that the rate of wages is too high." But while the law here sanctions combinations, or rather meetings, to regulate the remuneration of labour, it wisely provides the fullest protection for both the employers and employed who choose to act on their own discretion upon the same point. The denial of this right is met by the strongest legal objections, while we are bound morally and politically to denounce it as despotic and tyrannical in the highest degree; and the RECORDER is per— fectly right when he says that such a " flagrant violation of the law must be put down, and in all cases where guilt is established, by a proper mea sure of punishment." In the meantime we cannot forget that we are now alluding to a subject immediately connected with two classes of men—the English, employer and the English workman, both of whom have long occupied the highest and most meritorious posi tions in the great circle of civilisation, and we cannot help feeling the deepest humiliation when we find the former indulging in expressions of un justifiable temper, and when we see the latter placing themselves in the position of criminals, by resorting to acts which are beneath the dignity which British industry has won for itself. In all matters of trade men should be guided by the most inflexible integrity, and should never give unjustly, nor take improperly; and as foi the employment of brute force and dastardly intimidation, it is so un English that we need scarcely do more than pro test against it, on the part of every working man. That labour is the real capital of nations is cer tain, and that the working-classes should be as jealous of their rights, and as watchful of their interests as any other portion of the community, are nothing more than sequences in social econo my; but when the elements of political and cir cumstantial conditions are not carefully weighed, the most erroneous ideas may be formed, and the most impracticable means adopted. And it is only i n seasons such as the present, or when a victim is dragged up to the 'bar of justice, that the folly of the one and the danger of the other is discovered. It behoves . us then, as an . organ of Trade, and as a warm -and sincere advocate of Industry, to warn both the working-man and the employer when we see danger impending. A season is, in fact, ap proaching, when we believe it will be as difficult to find remunerative employment for captital as it is at present to decide the actual value of labour. Meanwhile the two contending interests will lose nothing by giving a little attention to the law, as it is laid down in extenso in another column, under the head •of " The Recorder of London on Strikes and Combinations." THE STEAM SHIP GREAT BRITAIN.—The steam ship Great Britain, hence for Australia, was spoken on the 7th ult., in lat. 4. 00. S., long. 27. 00. W., by the lanthe, which arrived at Cork, from Buenos Ayres on Monday. She had no steam up, but was making way under canvass. BANKRUPTCY COURT.—DAGNALL AND FAIRCLOUGH. —ln this case the bankrupt Fairclough passed his examina tion before Mr. Commissionor Stevens, yesterday. Last evening a meeting of shipwright's appren tices was held in the Assembly-rooms, Circus-street. The meeting was held with closed doors. • • THE WIGAN STRIKE.—At the New Bailey Ses sions, at Manchester on Monday, Capt. Woodford, the head of the Lancashire constabulary, informed the magi strates that he had reason to believe that the striJe of colliers at Wigan would soon end, by arrangement between the masters and the men. • ARRIVAL OF MRS. T. F. MEAGHER—Mrs. T. F. Meagher, wife of the Irish rebel, accompanied by her father in-law,' Mr. Meagher, M.P. for Waterford, arrived in Liver pool on Saturday night, by the America. Mrs ; Meagher, has been ordered to Europe in consequence of the delicate state of her health. Messrs. R. Benn, G. H. Laurence, James.Mellor, S. H; Thompson W. R. Sandbach, William Lowe, John Mather, and Matthew Gregson, were appointed by the magistrates to supply the vacancies under the income and property tax. MR. H. BOLENO'S BENEFIT.—This celebrated Clown took his farewell benefit last night, in the Amphi theatre, previous to his departure for London. The house was crowded to excess, and the performance, which were admirably rendered, were enthusiastically received. BRUTAL TREATMENT OF A Bov.—Yesterday morn ing, about two o'clock, a boy, named John Reilly, called at the police office, and stated that he had been beaten in 'a house where he was lodging, in Thomas-street. It appeared that he was in bed, when a row having taken place in the house, some of the other lodgers in the place violently as saulted him. The police had him taken to the Northern Hospital,. where it was found that some of his ribs were broken, and his lip dreadfully torn. ATTEMPTND SUICIDE.—On Monday night, about 12 o'clock. a married woman named Amelia Titherington, about 48 years of age, living at No. 4 Court, Brownlow Hill, jumped into the canal, near Burlington Bridge, with the attention of committing suicide. She was taken out by a man passing by, who gave her in charge to the police, by whom she was conveyed to the Northern Hospital, in a very exhausted state. DARING GAROTTE ROBBERY LAST NIGHT.—An old than from Wales, named Peter Roberts, was - passing thiwn Water street last night, about: quarter to eight o'clock, when he was accosted by a woman, who asked him for a glass of ale. Immediately afterwards, one man and two women came up, when the man struck him in the ear and knocked him down and half strangled him, whilst the party robbed him of his watch and 2s. 4d. The poor old man was lame and blind of one eye. ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL MARINE BOARD.—Yesterday, the following gentlemen were elected members of the Local Marine Board, by the rate-payers : Messrs. John Palmer Palmer, Wm. Mann, S. R. Graves, W. J. Tomlinson, James Bazley, and Joseph Mandell. Four additional members are to be nominated by govern ment but the names' of the gentlemen selected have not yet transpired._ MEETING OF THE PROPRIETORS OF THE LIVERPOOL HIDE, SKIN, AND FAT MARKET COMPANY.—The fifth general annual meeting of the above company was held yesterday evening, -at 6 o'clock, Mr. James Hall, chairman. The meeting proceeded to pass the accounts of the company and to elect five directors and one auditor. The cash account of the company was very satisfactory, and a dividend of 12 per cent. was announced, and paid by the secretary. The „directors' report was unanimously passed and confirms 1, and reference to the accounts was a very excellent proof of the stability of their undertaking. _ _ _ ACCIDENTS YESTERDAY.—A man named John Butcher, a labourer on' the Lancashire . and Yorkshire Rail way, got his leg severely crushed yesterday between two waggons, near the station in Tithebarn-street.—A boy named William Dirking, an apprentice on board the ship Hibernia, fell off the galley on the deck, and broke his leg. —A brass finisher ' named Graham M'Cormack, whilst work ing, at Mr. Foster's foundry, in Paisley-street, fell through a trap to the floor below,•therebyprodUcing a severe concussion of the spike.—Yesterday afternoon, a labourer named Edward Noble, was working in the hold of the ship Andrew Foster, at present lying in the Bramley Moor dock, when a bale of goods fell upon him from the main deck, by which he was seriously injured. THE PILGRIM FATHERS.—Last evening the Rev. H. S. Brown delivered his lecture on the " Pilgrim Fathers," in illustration of the grand Historical Painting now exhibit ing in Church-street. Blackburn, Esq. presided, and opened the proceedings in an eloquent speech. We noticed on the platform, C. Robertson, Esq. ; James Stitt, Es 9. ; John Houghton, Esq. ; J. It. Jeffery, Esq. ; John Harrison, Esq. and others. We understand that Mr. Brown has kindly consented to re-deliver his lecture on Thursday evening, in connection with the Sunday School Institute, and from the crowded state of the hall last evening, and the numbers who went away, we anticipate, a full attendance. THE LATE SCENE AT ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH.— In our report of the scene which occurred' on Sunday last, during divine service in St. Michael's Church, Pitt-street there were, we regret to say, one or two mis-statements, arising, not from any fault on our part, for we applied to what we considered to be the proper quarter for our infor mation, and were refused it, and consequently had to get it as best we could from parties who had witnessed the scene. Mr. Alderman Laurence was not in the church, as we were led to believe, when the occurrence referred to took place, nor has he taken any part in the affairs of St. Michael's Church one way' or the other for some years past. The worthy Alderman's identity was mistaken ; confounded with his brother who was present. The curate of St. .Mark's should have been the curate of St. Martin's. DEATH FROM THE INCAUTIOUS USE OF PAREGORIC.-- On Sunday morning a child of eight weeks old . , I named William Henry Holden ' son of Joseph Holden, painter, of Alcock's-buildings, Morley-street, Kirkdale, died, having been during the night before in a state of apoplectic sleep. It appeared that on the previous evening, the mother of the child, Agnes Holden, sent a person named Harriet Woods to the shop of Mr. Baskerville, druggist, of 55, Kirkdale road, for two pennyworth of tincture of rhubarb and pare goric, and the mother first remarked that she did not think the messenger had brought back the right stuff, because it was too bitter. The messenger- returned to the shop of Mr. Baskerville, who would not look at the mixture—but told. the woman it was all right; the mother then gave a table spoonful of the mixture to the child, mixed with some sugar and water, and then, at a little after eight she went out to market ; when she returned, 'she found the child ill, and sent for Dr. Parker, who used every means that skill could devise, but the child died on Sunday morning. At the coroner's inquest yesterday, the druggist gave evidence to the effect. that he had on Saturday night sold two penny. worth of tincture of rhubarb and paregoric in equal quanti ties, to Harriet Woods, and that he had frequently sold her the same quantity before ; she did not say whether it wes for a grown person or child. He had sold large quantities of this mixture, lately . for diarrhoea, and did not think it necessary to ask Who it was for. There was a grain of opium in half an ounce of paregoric, and he said further, that there would be sufficient 'opium in a tea spoonful of de mixture, to cause the death 'of so young 'a child. The jut) , in returning' the verdict, said that they thought there wis negligence on the part of the druggist in not inquiring fr whom the mixture was intended. The coroner said that the only difference between "chance medley" and manslaughter was that the negligence that sets up one, must be gross negligence to set up the other. It would have been in every way . better for tlie drugOst to have made this very necessary inquiry. To make it in every case ; could in to way injure his business, but instead of that, might increase it by increasing public confidence, The verdict was " chanso medley." THE GRAND ORCHESTRAL UNION OF LONDON 'gam a grand Concert last evening, in the Philharmonic Hall. FURTHER PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—At the Privy Council held at Windsor Castle on Monday, Par liament was ordered to be further prorogued, from Thursday next, the 27th instant, until the 29th of November. Despatches were received at the Colonial Ofhe yesterday morning from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. It is said that when the Emperor of Russia 70,- fused the cushion offered to him at Olmutz to kneel on at the religious service, he said : " I am dust like other man, and I shall return to dust. Before God and the church ill men are equal." Captain Julius Roberts, of the Royal Marine Artillery, is announced in opposition to General Buckley for the vacant seat of Salisbury . , Ceptain Roberts comes for ward on "independent" principles. JUSTICE TO SCOTLAND.—The Earl of Eglinton has consented to preside over a public meeting which is to be held in the Music-hall, Edinburgh, on the evening of Wad nesday, Navember 2, for the vindication of Scottish rigits. —Scotsman. DR. NE WMAN'S LECTURE. The fourth lecture of the series was delivered last night, the attendance being quite as numerous as on any of the previous occasions. The rev. gentleman commenced the lecture by pointing out the great facilities which the Turks had to penetrate into India, and likened their attempt to do so to our not far' distant incursion into Affghanistan. He observed that climate and country did not always civilise a people, and instanced the vast difference existing between the Turks and Turkomans in illustration and evidence of this. This, however, might be accounted for by the fact, that while the Turkomans never took hold of the country, but continued to wander about, the Turks, on the other hand, settled down in the lands of which they became possessed, and remained there as conquerors and conquered. After being conquerors in their new lands for ninety years, they were subjugated by the Saracens, who came up with the enthusiasm of a new and false religion from Arabia, and im pelled by it, conquered whe rever th e y wen t. Thi s , however,. did not stop the descent of the tribes of the Turks from the North, though they had not then, as in the earlier times, the same motives of inducement ; for they came no- longer as conquerors. ' If they found they could not get employ ment in Sogdiana, they went on to Batavia, offering them selves as mercenaries, and so extending, until they pene trated to Bagdad, where. the Caliphs, having removed from Damascus, then were.. • The lecturer then proceeded to say that he had stated that the Tartars had changed very much in person and manners since the period of their first incur sions. He had -described the Tartars as some of the ugliest of the human race, - but though the Turks were Tartar in their origin, yet hi the space 'of 90 years, during which they held their new possessions, they have become a very.differ ent sort of people. .Sa much so that they were recommended by their masters, the Saracens, for their shape and personal beauty, both for the purposes . of regal show and of- war. And so remarkable, still further, was this change in their persons, that Timour reproached them for it, observing that their " minds were as narrow as their eyes," meaning that• they were not so far distant from each other in the head as those of the Tartars—a circumstance which he considered a very great disfigurement. The Turks still continued to re commend theniselves to their masters by these qualities, un til at length Haroun Al Raschid, whose fame is not unwor thily preserved in that favorite of our youth, " The Arabian Nights' Entertainments," took 50,000 of them into hispay and then into his body guard. It was not difficult to prophecy what the result of this thoughtless step would be—that it' .would be disastrous to the Caliphs, and glorious to the Turks • for though the Saracen empire was not then declin ing, the Turks were young and daily growing into might. A modern writer compared the Turks to the Romans. Such Comparisons were often fanciful, but if they might take it as.a sort of impression of their character, he would complete the picture, by saying if the Turks were to be compared to the Romans, the Saracens and the Persians were to be com pared to lithe Greeks. The Persians were poets, and the Saracens were philosophers, excelling in astronomy, mathe matics, and botany, and being in addition, the creators of the science of chemistry. The Turks on the other hand, though having a literature to some extent, still looking at them in the whole, they were not an intellectual people— but they were men of business. They had something of that talent which the Romans had, in conquering and govern ing the world. In that way they might be likened to the English ; for they had the perseverance, the practical tact, and resolution that made a great-empire, in a way very few races had been able to make an empire. Another point of re semblance between the Turks and the Romans compared with the Saracens as contrasted with the Greeks, was this : under Alexander, the Greek empire rose in a brief space . of time, but it lasted not many years. In like manner the Saracens, who came with a brilliant and unchequered success from Arabia, founded a great empire in a short time, but lost it again in a few hundred years. On the other hand the Romans grew slowly, century by century, until they compassed thd known world : and in the same way the Turks rose by a series of reverses ; frequently were they lost or. whelmecl in the great ocean of nations, but they came as often to the surface, until they obtained their power. The Rev. .gentleman then narrated how the Turkish guards mutinied in Bagdad,' and having deposed and mur d ere d th ree caliphs, were risen against by the enraged people, and in their turn for a time subdued. But the plan adopted to crush their power served but to strengthen and perpetuate it. They were dispersed in the provinces, and thus were laid the seed of future and greater revolutions. The tenth century had now arrived, and• though very little was heard of the Turks during it, they were, nevertheless, slowly growing into that, however, which was eventually to obtain for them mastership over their race. The lecturer then gave a brief outline of the growth of the Turks in the quarters whither they had been for the time forced, and then an ecually brief, but highly interesting sketch of the life of Mairaoud, the greatest of his dynasty. To him was first applied the peculiar title, " Sultan," and having crossed the Indus, to add to his vast territories Hindoostan, he was called " Ghazan.," or the conqueror. He then de scribed his wealth, increased to an almost'incredible amount .on the taking of the temple of Ghuzzarat, for the safety of which ten millions of money was offered by the priests—a circumstance not to be wondered at, for the wealth of the temple, famous through- India, not less for its profligacy than its riches, was hid in the truly precious image. It was not remarkable, then, that avarice should have been Mahmoud's greatest vice, but his last moments were scarcely by ythe growing less imbit p te e r , e , d er b a y na gr p ie r f esp fo e r tit his y t,y we h a i l s th,than merce naries, the Turks on the confines of his dominions. They had now arrived at the turning point of Turkish his- • tory. The Turks had got into 'Persia, then spread into Hindostan, and formed a large empire there, but not con tent with that they came down and formed an empire in Sogdiana, after having cut off the Sultan Mahmoud in Hindostan. He had commenced their history that night at the beginning of the seventh century, and they were now at the beginning of the eleventh. It was the turning point of their history, because when they got there they might have turned either to the east or to the west. Many years ago, the reverend lecturer said, he had heard a celebrated professor of geology observe, in speaking of the river Thames, that if a portion of it had been blocked up it would have run out into the Wash, in Lincolnshire, and the whole history of En land would have been changed. In a similar manner the whole history, not only of Europe, but of the world, might have been changed if the Turks had turned to the east instead of the west. Had they turned to the east they would never have been heard of in Constair. tinople, and might have been found now perhaps upon the throne of Delhi. • But they turned to the west, because their kindred, the Turks of Sultan Mahmoud, had got possession of the east.- In another respect also their west ward move might be called, emphatically and most seriously, the turning point of their history. It was their moral turn- • ing point. The Mahomodan religion stood between Paganism and Christianity. Any one imbued with the doc trines of Mahomet held a far higher station, than the Pagan, although far below the Christian. A Turk at that moment stood between the Pagans in the east, and the Christians in west. Had they gone to theeast they would have fallen in with Pagan superstitions, and might have been regarded in some degree as the champions of truth. As they went to the east, they came into collision, with Christianity, and of course became forthwith the prosecutors of great truths. More happy was the poor Sultan Mahmoud, whose mission it was to destroy idols, and upon whose tomb the sandal gates remained for 800 years, representing him in a certain sense as the champion of truth, and seeming . to plead for him. • But those most unhappy Turks, owing to the face of circumstances, turned • to- the west, and hence became • known in history, as the greatest persecuting race which the church had ever known, the persecutors of Christi anity for 800 years. The year 1048 , was marked by chronologists, :as the year in which'the Turks set off for the west—the year in which they bletv as it were the trumpet of the woe 'coming' to Christendom. A great band of the Turks were famOus in history as the Seljukian Turks, from Seljuk, Who was!the founder of the' dynasty. Seljuk having become a convert to Mahumedanism, had to leave his country and crossed into Sogdiana, were he shewed his zeal for the creed, he had adopted by turning a furious enemy to Pagans, and died in battle at the wonderful age of 107. His son also died in battle, but at an early age, and they were called martyrs, because in Mahomedanism where the soldier is the missionary, the soldier is also the martyr. It was one of this family who made the promises of soldiers to the Sultan Mahmond which he had related, and it was this family which descended upon Christendom, having first con quered Sogdiana, and then turned upon Persia, which was the first act of their turning to the west. When they once did so, they had the materialkfor the most rapid and brilliant successes, for they had the aids of their kindred, who were for centuries scattered throughout Persia and the other Saracenic dominions; they had the Turcomans, and an in definite reserve of the wild Turks at their back, coming down to their support from Turkestan In the short space of forty years, they had conquered the whole of the west of Asia, had had taken Jerusalem and threatened Constantinople. They had three 'monarchs; the first of whom succeeded in obtaining the power of the Caliph, by whom he was sent a deputy into many countries to put dowh the Caliph's foes, and he began the fearful war against Christianity. The second monarch reigned bid a short time, although he:extended his success in conquest which his predecessor had begun. He came into conflict with the Greek emperor of that day, having been attracted by the fame the shrine of the great St. Basil ! , in Cappadocia, which he adorned with jewels and precious stones. The third and last of the sovereigns, as fre quently happens in dynasties, was the greatest, and with him ended the power of the Seljukian Turks. Twenty theyears P a p f e t e o r f the first th eo great r these e at St. Sultans Gregory started e Seventh, that almost miraculous prescience which he possessed, saw westward, with and denounced the coming evil. None who contemplated the deeds of that illustrious saint. even those who had no sort of inclination towards Catholicism, could help being overcome by the gigantic force of his mind. At that time, although he had to contend against the Sings of the world and 'even with :his own people,althou,.,ol engaged in the most arduous and perilous contest the church had ever seen, although surrounded by bad bishops, bad priests, and bad laymen, 'although he had to smite, to tear up, to pull down and to root up, and to do such work as never had been done from the beginning of Christianity up to the pre sent day, although in the', midst of that dreadful conflict, enveloped by evils, surrounded by foes, although he was driven out From Rome, and died an exile in Avignon, yet he still found time to look over Persia and Syria, great as was the &tang() from Italy, and to prepare an army of 60,000 men to march against the enemies of Christ. This he noticed to show how solicitous the fEw been for all her children. This great war all the church, If any member of the whole he suffered, and although engaged in that had been described, he still could feel for the who had been massacred and mar' heard and wept to hear it, how the Jerusalem and how the Patriarch had been altar andthrown into a dungeon—how, and a peaceful jourer ne abl y e from to the H the l e ff e cts of Land we injuries they had sustained to reachthe eL their effects. He saw that the Turks were upon Constantinople, and likely to overw helm he therefore gave that signal: which was out by that series of holy wars called the plause.) The crusades had been called a, these savages, coming downlipon Europe of forty years done such acts, had taken stantinople : and if their course had been • 300 years, he would put aside the question a I the object of the Crusades for the present, broader view of the subject say, that when present word, collected that immense force, threw of the barbarians, crushed them, and broke alone was an object worthy the efforts 9f (Applause.) .The rev. lecturer at this pan t lecture amid prolonged acclamation. The Rev. Mr. Nugent announced that Dr, deliver his fifth lecture on Thursday e‘ kindly consented to deliver it ui a large ra ° ' lecture would therefore take place in the Cal Nelson-street, where a much larger number modated, and an opportunity of hearing would be afforded to the poorer Roman Cat pool, who felt as high' an anxiety, and as as any other class, to listen to the discourse (Loud applause.) ' i _ Itelfroi;urf;ted:ll;w:ear:lithrTdliorurhthisi:inetsltee.bocvlsoiiSo:(,:-': ,A., ~.4 4f: t 1 1, 0rile,• l i ad been drag`c t i i I• OD Low pilgrinisS.' ' • rti r and were 011', - a ,i - :As of confule',l' .Id the end of the,. i ; . k 1 ,, 1 irks d ° a e u w i p beeri e rse a noe r etde t s p w i h sijoee h e : rn e ah re c C i h e a,f l 3 afteri dfar r: ii ,a nj o 3 : oure 'i: 4l etai. .0.:1`1' : 1 1, 4. . : 4 l e, ,1 e : 1 i rti: • e e, e , lie r ph i aa : l a l' threw back ' 1 d id broke the% 4.11 ei efforts of the -, 4 will EpOoFwroOrea:t:,, :11%:41:1 this point CO P '''4 tit I[3:stplianhtneli)lersrt.lll4eo.l,3: ,N trtl i i trs . . rsday eyenal. , 4 'y I) large roarrt , NI in the ConceP,l,' ~I L Y, r number esalut 4 fr c leering the r e ; `trol l , nnan Catholio ii and as gr, t liseourse of Dr,' 4:‘,14e ---•"' / ii: b aw a d t h t i l ic e nh t vii : ec f , . ' kt 'ti, , 0 - 1 11s. k t ‘ a / ,1131,, 1 , . t , PftEsro:4l t there was 55 1 kke e : i ohn sAi;OO , IL ' 4 05 I I 11-known f 4 .f' 4- (1 been palili, ~,' ' l lits iloyers i n orr -ti lati, nstances, tli e ,/ 1, to F .n advance !ii 1 ' 1 ) , lisposal wov 'se anufacturers give ' i tii l masters tol i N tia t ° fford to m ice v , , 'Led bad; but ' i i `; a of. ters of Prest°l/ , the a advance of er dvised the kill pi s. Th ere ,t al aall o th e rs il l 11 , aw• i be " bon° , '37 1 P the under ea' portunity o f : `, be truly sa iu 'lll. AGGREGATE MEETING OF . SPINNERS. (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER•? PRESTO S This afternoon, at three o'clock, there Was gathering of the operative cotton spinners minders in the .Orchard; Mr. John About 6000 people were present. The CHAIR3iAN said it was a well-known of the manufacturers, of Preston had been 30 per .cent. lower wages than employers (Hear, hear.) Under these circumstances, Preston had entered the field for an advant they were determined to fight the battle believed the funds placed at their disposal creasing, and that eventually the manilla( (Cheers.) Mr. R. GREENOUGH said their masters was bad, and that they could not afford to advance. Perhaps trade might be bad ; in Preston, must it not be equally bad in ham, and the surrounding districts, which to 40 per cent. more than the masters of they sOlicited their employers for an advance thirds of the masters of Preston advised the to bring up the under-paid shops. There masters who paid lower wages than others Those masters who pretended to be "he advised the operatives to bring up the but they did not allow them an opportunity they closed their mills. It might be truly these manufacturers, that the counting-11 01 . 15 6. church, the ledger their Bible, and money their, t , hear.) The speaker concluded by moving resolution : " That it is the unanimous determination of t 1 stand firm and united for the ten. per cent., and herence to our union." - Mr. J. SMITH briefly seconded the resolutioal supported by Mr. GALLAGHER, who said that they had tba enabled to pay the operative cotton spmners, minders, now out ,of employment, 7s. per he e l , week he had no donbt they should be in a P° s '' them Bs. (Cheers.) There was a delegate Manchester, on Sunday last, at which it was re'', levy of ls. 6d. per week should be made upoi l , vidual in this district, who followed a hand iv!. were 6,000 members in the Union, which l e l northern districts, and each of these was cal l is. 6d. per week for the support of Preston. t. Mr. ECCLES remarked that the ten per 011 , 1 1 began in Presto n , an d he, hoped that though , of this town might be th e l ast i n ga i ning their "I should not eventually be less victorious than t li other towns. The masters said that if they D the ten per cent. a year or two ago, theY got it. Why, eighteen months, or near l 9 o had elapsed since they made their first re(l advance. And how were they used then ? men who presented the memorial-were dischageu, situations. (Hear, hear.) He listened to the Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, of Mr. Segar, and of ti le during the hearing of the appeal cases at the ii: Saturday la s t, an d h e h ope d t h e opera tives V oll o l v peaceable demeanour, continue to merit the go that was given them on that occasion. Let e able but determined, and he had no doubt t able to beat the masters entirely out of the fiel 1 The resolution having been adopted, theolf ° to the chairman, and the meeting separated' NEWM,4KKET Sweepstakes of 10 sous. C. C. Guy Mannering ... ... ..• Farmer ' s Boy ... .. ••• 1001. Plate. D.I. Cleveland ... . . ... ••• Protest Stonehenge Five ran. Handicap Sweepstakes, T.Y.C. Six ran. Sweepstakes of 200 sous. Physalis f. Ortolano . Sweepstakes, 10 sovs, three yrs "and upwards. • sold for 801. Puritan lonic Ten ran. Sweepstakes .10 sovs, for two yrs olds, winne r for 2001. Strutaway. .. .. .. Mysterious Lady .. The Cambridgeshire Stakes. Little David . . .. .. Nabob • • . Hunca Munca ... ... . . Thirty-nine ran. Won in a eanter.c £5O Plate. Last three miles. 13. Bracken .. El Dorado.. Fifteen ran. COMPARATIVE SALUBRITY OF DIFFERS Truss IN EUROPE.—The - following comparativ e salubrity of the different countrin in Europe sixth annual report of the Registrar-General : deaths annually to 1,000 living; France, 24; Austria, 30 ; and Russia, 36. FOREIGN CHEESE.—The Customs' St having received application from extensive wb the waterside, requesting that the official lancl of a quantity of foreign cheese imported into London, and entered for exportation only, Ll. O according to an average weight, and that genet may be granted for the, same course to be ad ( future similar importations. The Board have request with regard to this and any future ini) cheese for -exportation only. PUPLIC-HOUSES.—The report from the mittee of the House of Commons on PubE Monday published, with the evidence, in blue-book. The 'committee merely repot made progress in:the inquiry which related of public-houses, theatres, and the regulatir and they suggest the reappointment of pursue the subject in the next session. Th, tends to nearly 800 folio pageS. THE FORTHCOMING; MiCHAELM. Monday, on the termination of the long v of the common law courts exhibited the "as called, for the forthcoming Michaelmas ten Wednesday week, the 2ud November. TI term aro meanly nominal. In Michaelmas from the revising barristers are to be brougl of Common Pleas, and days to be appointed argued. STRANGE STORY..—A son of Geo: composer, has had a narrow escape. He Dalhousie to take his passage for Sydney, bi ing taken a prejudice to that ship, she urges to give up his desire of going in her, that, only, he consented She visited the Da, with her son, hoping to _overcome her Jill On the occasion of hor last visit a gentle= the cabin, seeing her besetation, said, •`Mak rate ship, I have 40,0001. on board, and r think well or the Dalhousie before I wool' her." Much more he argued to persuad , Linley left, and immediately went to the Sr secured a berth for her. son. THE NEW ALDERMEN.—It iS rum , warm friends of. Mr. Thomas Bold are malol have him elected an alderman, in place of 1. 74' man John Holmes. „It is said that the f o lloW 0 0. 1 are to be proposed in lieu of those who retir . : 4 : o o c 4 l ' November :—Mr. Thomas Littledale, Mr. ;A i , Mr. J. B. Lloyd, Mr. J. A. Tobin, Mr. Mr. Jos. Cooper, and Mr. James Parker. l ' a o ' ,' a proposition will be made to substitute the i r fe , Robertson Gladstone and Mr. George 0 0 " Mr. Parker and Mr. Cooper. -Jr o4g.: ,! a8 St' rqtli s t. /4. ". 1 ktst to tl 14 e Ella; trai r, on tabbt .Nor It Cr L 8 t Btai .14. 1 41 11] of r (-) f tb u or ..I r t ibt t tit, I 4 Co• 14 u i''` . et, t ,,,. Val 7 generaJ,l 64 , jur )e ado? 'e cc haven Vie w re in)P v .4 be the St d ` if th P ; de gr a r 11 1 a t ort 3d to t ll 4 tti n ions of , t a a f a coi; a te t r A m s , The e ` i iff vacati° l ''o 4 e;; Lrreare; , The a rr as ter o oo ;ht bef„ d for tP" tie • t kai )rge es / liaa but b i° { llc d hi° ,at th .„1 alhotW e v# s io u pert Lan adatnt re St ild trost her 7 ., ado 300 0 A. 4 kor - 00 rt"');,