Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-24 00:00:00

Commariali THIS DAY. the 24th Instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 36y Barrels American rough TURPENTINE, Harvest Queen, from New York.—Apply to Messrs , en and Co., Merchants ; or to J. H. RAYNER and Co., Brokers. sma.l _ .11%—itcamst... Sita DAT, the 24th instant, at Twelie o'clock, at the Iroker's Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, Barrels American rough TURPENTINE, Harvest Queen, from New York.— Apply to Messrs ks., and Co., Merchants; or to J. H. RAYNER and Co., Brokers th 24th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Commercial Saleroom, 41) ?Aries Seville China ORANGES, t ex Grace, — ssta Ditto Sour DITTO, j rtes Messina DITTO, ex Express, •es Ditto LEMONS, If-chests Aveiro ORANGES, r ex Aveirense, t Boxes Ditto DITTO, vs Naples-ORANGES, o Ditto LEMONS, ex Taurus (s.s.), o Palermo ORANGES, Ditto DITTO, - ......s Newtown Pippin APPLES, ek Spanish, Bilboa, Para, and Turkea N N , ll Bro TS k . ers GEORGE BADENACH and s ea Barrel DAY, the 24th instant, at Four o'clock, at the? Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 700 Bales East India t WOOL. 25 Egyptian BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers , TO-MORROW. :now, the 25th instant,. at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 100 Tons African GROUND NUTS, 1,000 Bags Bombay LINSEED, 500 Ditto Ditto RAPESEED. 500 Ditto Ditto MUSTARD SEED. BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers atlllkt% To close an account. :now, tho 25th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Broker's Office, 7, Exchange-chambers, 1 6 0 3 B l39l al e lo s ta,l Mexican FIBRE, viers Back Goree.—Apply to FRANCIS J. EATON, Broker .moanow, the 25th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the ukeris Office, 7, Exchange-chambers, 500 Bales Mexican FIBRE, ;, from Tampico.—Apply to Messrs. Leech, and Forwood, Merchants; or to FRANCIS J. EATON, Broker. tant, at Half-past One o'clock precisely, Iding's Saleroom, Com Exchange, Brunswick-street, On account of whom it may concern. Irbont 312 Barrels and 24 Bags FLOUR, sziorlbeEvidne, from Bahla, in Albert Dock.—For further particu- Mosaggiy to J. and M. HARNETT, Brokers. WEDNESDAY XSTSDAT next, the 26th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 13 Tons CAMWOOD, cx Maggie Walker, from Africa, in the Albert Dock. — Mr. George F. Cornish, Merchant ; or to J. H. RAYNER and Co., Brokers. WEDNESDAY next, the 2Gth instant, at Three o'clock, 300 Bales Port Philip and Sydney WOOLS. T. and H. LITTLEDALE and CO., Brokers LIVERPOOL WOOL SALES, lirrai•ClSD AY next, the 26th instant, at Three o'clock, at the Cotton Saleroom, Exchange-buildings, Liverpool, =IC , Pikes German, Hungarian, and Cape Skin WOOL. Also, at Four o'clock, A,slilio .0.- AHOY to aes East India, Egyptian, Peruvian, Russian, &c. WOOL, W. GREAME and Co., Wool Brokers. sitsaltrsanalmss next, the 26th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the [Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, - 725 Bales GAMBIER, 250 Ditto Bombay MADDER ROOTS, 600 Bags TURMERIC. attu.'ir tip BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers. THURSDAY DAY next, the 27th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 450 Cases CASSIA LIGNEA, 260 Bags Black PEPPER. BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers. 11 0 0 1 'to IlbletratrlMDAT next, the 27th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 700 Bags American RED CLOVERSEED, 500 Bags TIMOTHY SEED. J. H. RAYNER and Co., Brokers. Atlift lib ate TirrzsDAT next, the 27th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 113 Bales RAGS, aq- ex Docimus, from Alexandria.—Apply to Messrs. lilliattuacce, Brothers, and Co., Merchants ; or to J. 11. RAYNER and Co., Brokers. *Ow TitunsDAT, the 27th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Broker's Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 500 Bags BORATE OF LIME. itir *after particulars, apply to J. 11. RAYNER & CO., Brokers, Illiallieinestuty next, the 27th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at tha Commercial Saleroom, Jiligs CURRANTS (damaged), ex Augusta, from Patras, NsBoxes Muscatel RAISINS, in Layers (all faults). GEO. BADENACH and SON, Brokers. ANYEEtr 7( TifirkSDAT next, the 27th instant, at Twelve o'clock at the Commercial Sale-room, Temple-court, 130 Tons LOCUST BEANS, Tfess - sality, and in good condition. - Apply to GEO. BADENACH and SON, Brokers. NEXT WEEK ass IIiczNESDAT, February 2nd, at the Brokers' Saleroom, Oldhall-street, Bags Angola, ORCHELLA WEED, 22 Bales Mozambiquo kma %ended, per Hoppet, from Lisbon.—Apply to Messrs. Leech, Ilitataiwn, and Forwood, Merchants ; or to ROOKE, OKELL, and SPENCER, Brokers. @II (sttie. PATENT ASPHALTE ROOFING FELT. p, durable, and perfectly Waterproof Roofing. ONE PENNY PER SQUARE FOOT. And PATENT HAIR FELT, g Steam Boilers, &c., by which a saving of one-fourth in the consumption of fuel is effected. WM. GIBSON, Successor to W. W. POWELL. —l2, CABLE-STREET. Nike and Warehouse • ON SALE, 100 Tons MANURE OIL CAKE. Ilisrma/yais and price, apply to THOMPSON, BAGNALL, and BUTTERWORTH, Brokers, 30, Moorfield: TO LANDOWNERS ANAMERS. ea.ricarnitr. PHOSPHATE COMPAND FY have R constantly ON SALE Nitrogenised BONE PHOSPHATE, aradlagleer valuable fertilisers.—Samples and prices maybe had at ttheLllsce, 3, CABLE-STREET. Wales :—Lowest BEBINGTON. J. R. CAERON, CORONOMETER MANUFA C TURER AND OPTICIAN, 54, SOUTH CASTLE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. 'MARINE CHRONOMETERS ON SALE OR HIRE. GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, SEXTANTS, krAILCANTS, BAROMETERS, TELESCOPES, V. CHARTS FROM LATEST SURVEYS. OF THE WORKING CLASSES, very Saturday, in the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES, Price .TORY 0111: ray WARM WINTER CLOTHING, T BE GENTLEMAN'S OUTFITTING WAREHOUSES, 26, BOLD-STREET. P. L. MACTAGGART. 24 AND INVERNESS WRAPPERS . OVER. COATS. DRESSING GOWNS DRAWERS AND VESTS. FANCY FLANNEL SHIRTS. RAILWAY RUGS AND PLAIDS MUFFLERS AND SCARFS. FLANNELS AND BLANKETS. Boys' WINTER CLOTHING TO CORRESPONDENTS. Omar no circumstances can we insert communications not ym swathed by the authors real n ame guar antee of go o d f a ith . and address, not nece sairZy for publication, but as a AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, tke.___ Tills n Moserrint ROYAL—Grand Comic Pantomime. - D . it3OEML AYPHITHEATRE—EIIgIiSh Opera COMPaRy, Inscramic HALL (Lime-street)—Ascent of Mont Blanc. Titsmv.ixa's Craurra VARlETE—Miscellaneous Attractions. xx WORK, EXHIBITION (Lime-street). Van. ?AIRMAN GALLERY OF ANATOMY, Paradise-street. irg u -- For particulars see advertisements on Bth page, dye gurOrrn MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1859. TirE DAY'S NEWS As we expected, the intelligence of the death of tea: _King of Naples turns out to be a fabrication. Iti is said, in a telegraphic despatch, dated Naples, Isday evening, that the state of the King's Nith was improving. The malady under which he labours is paralysis. The Crown Prince of Naples is still at Vienna. Of rumours of war between France and Austria there is no abatement. Great uneasiness was created on the Paris Bourse, on Saturday, in con sequence of a rumour of an alliance, offensive and defensive, between France and Sardinia, and also an account of the open preparations for war in the southern ports of France. The Paris correspondent of the Times says, that a letter received from a personage officially resident at Vienna, asserts that war between the two powers is a mere question of time, and all but inevitable sooner or later. He says that such is the opinion of the Vienna Cabinet ; that Austria has made up her mind and is preparing seriously for it ; as she will not begin ; but that she will not allow herself to be intimidated by the threats and demonstrations of France. The Economist states that information has been received from Paris, on which it places implicit reliance, that the peace party in the Emperor's Government have obtained a complete success for their views, and that a circular from Mr. Walewski is actually in preparation, assuring the various Continental Governments that war is not contemplated. The Augsburg Gazette learns from Lemberg, the capital of the Austrian province of Galicia, that robbery and murder are " the order of the day." At night, no one cam venture to go out alone, and not long ago, M. Ballaban, a Commissary of Police, was murdered by two canoneers. In the town of Tarnopol, a whole band of Hussars were arrested for highway robbery. " Two of them were shot, and the other 28 sentenced to 20 and 30 years' imprisonment in a fortress." The French government has received despatches from the commander of the forces in Cochin-China to the Bth of December, through Manilla. Military operations are not to be recommenced until the end of this month, the weather not per mitting the troops to march into the interior. The heavy rain of winter still continued to fall with great violence. The position of the allied French and Spanish forces was satisfactory, and the sickness among the men did not far exceed a fair average. The hospitals, which were estab lished on a good footing, were quite sufficient for the wants of the troops, and a. contract had been concluded at Manilla for the supply of fresh provi sions. Cattle, fish, and rice were found in the country. The expeditionary corps was well sup plied with ammunition. The artillery required had arrived from Manilla. Everything was ready to commence operations when the weather became favourable. The spirit of the troops was excellent. The Times publishes the particulars of a new Reform Bill, with which it had been furnished by a correspondent. According to this bill boroughs wholly or partially disfranchised would give 98 seats. Bradford. Bristol, Hull, Leicester, New castle, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Sheffield receive three members each ; Birmingham, Finsbury, Lambeth, Leeds, South war k, and ll'estminster, four each ; and the great populations of Liverpool, Manchester, Marylebone, and the Tower Hamlets are allotted six, each. But, while doing justice to these, it is not forgotten that there are county populations of equal size, and supporting equally the revenue of the country ; and that, moreover, the total disfranchisement of a number of bo roughs will add considerably to these constituen cies. The table gives four members to the West Riding and six to Lancashire, as Mr. Bright would, no doubt, approve; but it also gives four each to Berks, Bucks, Cambridgeshire, and Oxford s hi re , each of which has over 160,000 inhabitants. It gives five to Durham with its 390,000 inhabitants, and six each to Cheshire, Cornwall, Devonshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Kent, Lincolnshire,Norfolk, and other counties with populations varying from 350,000 to about three quarters of a million. A great Reform meeting was held in Norwich on Friday night. Lord Bury, one of the members for the city, Mr. Samuel Morley, and Mr. White hurst were among the principal speakers. Reso lutions were passed in favour of the enfranchise ment of the working classes, the vote by ballot, and a re-distribution of seats. It was further resolved that copies of the resolutions should be forwarded to Lord Derby and Mr. Bright, with an expression of thanks to the latter gentleman for his efforts on behalf of Reform. The mention of Mr. Bright's name evoked great enthusiasm. Successful Reform meetings have also been held at Cardiff, Port Glasgow, Pudsey, and Whitworth. At a banquet given to Sir James Anderson, M.P. for the Stirlingshire burghs, that gentleman de livered a speech strongly in favour of Parliamen tary Reform. He said that as far as he had examined Mr. Bright's schedules they met with his approval. Professor Thompson, so distinguished by his connection with the laying of the Atlantic Tele graph Cable, has been entertained to a banquet at Glagow. We publish a report of the proceedi ngs . In the course of an able address, he detailed most graphically the mishaps ana anxieties which attended the execution of the noblest enterprise of modern times—the attempt to bring still closer together the two great branches of the Anglo- Saxon race. There was issued on Saturday morning an account of the public income and expenditure on the years ending March 31, 1857 and 1858. The total income from Customs and Excise was in 1857, 41,782,302/. ; in 1858, 41,186,357/. ; from stamps, in 1857, 7,396,6851. ; in 1858, 7,470,6271 ; from assessed and laud taxes in 1857, 3,114,4451; in 1858, 3,150,762/. ; from property and income tax in 1857, 16,050,670/. ; in 1858, 11,396,435/. ; from the Post-office in 1857, 2,909,1311. ; in 1858, 3,038,113/. ; from crown lands in 1857, 443,478/. ; in 1858, 417,909/. ; from other ordinary revenue and other resources in 1857, 1,098,174/. ; in 1858, 1,596,887/. The total income in 1857 was 72,794,8851. and the total "ordinary expenditure 76,042,7501., the excess of expenditure over income being 3,247,8651. The total income in. 1858 was 68,257,0901., and the total ordinary expenditure 70,612,5531., the excess of expenditure being 2,355,4631. An address from the Bar of Ireland to Baron Pennefather, on his retiring from the Bench, was deposited at the library of the Four Courts, Dublin, on Saturday, where it will lie for the signature of the members of the Bar. According to Iferapath's Journal, the dividend on the London and North Western Railway is ex pected to be at the rate of 41 per cent. The Mid land, it is said, will show a disposable balance equal to 51 per cent. per annum, with a respectable balance over. It is, however, doubtful whether they will divide to this extent, as there are some old out-standing debts still to be settled. The Lancashire and Yorkshire dividend will be at the rate of 4 per cent. The Caledonian will show a good 41- per cent., but it is not certain such will be recommended, as the expenses of the Hawick Bill of last session have not yet been settled. The Berwick dividend is spoken of as not being less than 41 per cent. Well-informed parties say the dividend on the North British will be 31 per cent. The South Western dividend will be at the rate of 51 per cent. The Eastern Counties will admit of a 7s. 6d. dividend. The Gazette announces a dividend of 20s. in the pound on the estate of Fox, Henderson, and Co., engineers. At the Police Court, on Saturday, Edmund Thompson, described as a surgeon and ,a scripture reader, in the employ of the Church of England Scripture Readers' Society, was brought before Mr. Mansfield, on a charge of receiving various sums of money from his son, James Thompson, a lad thirteen years of age, an office boy to Mr. Firth, fruit broker, knowing the same to have been stolen ; and the younger prisoner, charged with robbing his employer of various sums of money, by breaking open money letters, and appropriating their contents. The prisoners were remanded. THE WAR QUESTION THE political atmosphere of Continental Europe already looks somewhat less stormy than it did even a week ago. France and Austria have each "made a sign" of Peace,—France in the shape 'of a semi-official article in one of the Government organs of the press, intimating the termination of the diplomatic difficulty with Austria ; and Austria by a communication of the relinquishment of her project in Servia, which has occasioned that difficulty. And thus, as another of the Paris papers has remarked, " the solution of this question, at which we rejoice, deprives the smaller number of French journals, which are so anxious for war, of a subject, and compels them to seek for some other diplomatic difference sufficiently important and ripe to allow them to hope for a speedy rupture. Italy remains to them, also the agitation in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, the desires attributed to Piedmont, and the various manifestations of the Piedmontese Government." The only warlike notes now heard, therefore, are those of Sardinia ; and they are no sooner sounded from the Throne, than they are, even more loudly, echoed back by the Chamber. Their Sovereign's voice, they declare to him, is " influential and respected among all civilised nations, magnani mously expressing pity for the woes of Italy, and will certainly revive the memory of the solemn promises which have as yet remained without fulfilment ; and at the same time will tend to calm down blind impatience, and will uphold among the populations a firm confidence in the irresistible force of civilisation and the power of public opinion. If these conciliatory thoughts and this appeal to public reason," they add, " were to draw down perils or menaces on your sacred head, the nation—which venerates in you its sincere and straightforward prince, and looks on you as the powerful interceder with the various European Cabinets for the cause of liberty—which beholds all the anger of factions give way before the great example of your fidelity—which knows that in you and by you at last has been found the secret, lost for so many centuries, of Italian concord—the nation, we say, will to a man range themselves' round your person, and show that they have again learned the art of uniting the obedience of the soldier with the liberty of the citizen." Now this language certainly smells of gunpowder. They could not suppose a necessity to "range them selves round his person," with any thoughts but those of hostile resistance to his adversaries-- when he has any ; nor would there be any occasion to " learn the art of uniting the obedience of the soldier with the liberty of the citizen," but for warlike objects. And the case is peculiar. It is not the ordinary one of a ruler dragging his subjects into the conflict, but the unusual one of the subjects inciting their ruler to call them to arms,—and to do so, not for their own protection, but in defence of " the cause of liberty " generally among the neighbouring nations. But then, in such a case, the why and the wherefore must be carefully sought and considered. What is it that has thus excited so warlike a spirit in Sardinia ? Now, there is a great deal more in all this echo of hostile protestations than meets the eye. "No special information is needed," observes a well-informed contemporary, "to assure us that the speech of the King of SARDINIA was revised at Paris. Nowhere but in the country of TALLEYRAND do people represent themselves as ' awaiting with firmness the decrees of Providence,' when they are actively preparing to make an unprovoked attack upon their neigh bours. We know too well that, when modern manifestos talk of Providence, we are to expect some great stroke of violence or fraud. Prince NAPOLEON is also awaiting the decrees of Provi dence, which ordain that he shall marry a Sardi nian Princess as a pledge, at this crisis, of the moderate and pacific intentions of France." Here, then, we begin to get enlightened as to all the bluster in the Sardinian Chamber. It is France blowing its ominous blast through the Sardinian trumpet Now there is no doubt that, to use the words of the writer we have just quoted, " the King of SARDINIA might well appeal, on any other occa sion, to the sympathies which his country excites. The sympathies of England, at least, she has had, and has, in unstinted measure. Rising, as it were, from the grave of European freedom to prove the undying energy of the constitutional principle, how could she fail to be an object of enthusiastic interest to all to whom that principle is dear ? Any attack upon the liberties of Sardinia would have been resented by Englishmen as an attack upon their own ; nor is it so long since Sardinian statesmen acknowledged their moral alliance with a great constitutional country by assiduously cultivating the English connexion. But the case is totally changed when Sardinia abandons the task of internal development to make herself the instrument and accomplice of a great military despotism in the path of conquest, and threatens to involve the European community in the worst of calamities—not in self-defence, but from ambi tion." This is, we are inclined to believe, the solution of the question that is at present at issue. NAPOLEON may find it answer his purpose to make a cat's-paw of Sardinia ; and Sardinia may be glad of the job, if only in the hope of, by a popular foreign war, repressing dangerous demo cratic movements at home. But the sympathy of England will never go along with any such reckless projects of a vaulting ambition on the one hand, and a desperate perplexity on the other. For the present, however, as we have said, the spirit that is prompting them seems somewhat allayed. Should it revive, England must watch, but she cannot encourage it. THE NORTHERN TIMES MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1859 THE MAGDALENE INSTITUTION, AFTER the occasions that have lately come before us, and of which we have humbly endea voured to take advantage, of exposing some of the enormities of that dire Social Evil, which is one of society's greatest curses, and urging their miti gation, it would be an unpardonable neglect on our part, if we did not devote some attention, in this portion of our columns, •to that excellent sheltery or reformatory institution for fallen women, of which our own town, to its honour and credit, can boast, and the proceedings of whose anniver sary meeting we reported a day or two since--we mean the Liverpool Magdalene Institution. The success of this charitable institution, accord ing to its means, affords most conclusive evidence, not only of the need of such humane and charitable efforts for rescuing from infamy and degradation the abandoned women that infest our streets, but of the practicability of so considerate and truly Christian an object. These poor prostitutes are often such from the want of any opportunity of escaping from their most miserable and degraded position. As the worthy Chairman of the meeting truly said, " bad as many of them appeared to be, they were not altogether hardened and seared. Many of them were visited with uneasy consciences ; they were haunted by the memory of the respecta bility, the comfort, and the endearments of home, which they had lost ; many of them were so wearied and disgusted with their sinful lives that they would be only too glad to escape, if they knew how. It was to women in that state of mind that institutions such as this proved to be a source of mercy and blessing ; and it was a very peculiar and admirable feature of this institution that it afforded such easy access to those who wished to enter it." It is, in fact, a house of refuge. Its doors are opened at all times—" every day in the week, and every hour in the day, so that any poor woman who really wished to turn away from a life of sin and to betake herself to better things had only to knock at the door." And within that refuge, those who have become the wretched outcasts, cut off from all human sym pathy, excluded from all virtuous association, but left to sink lower and lower in the depths of degeneracy and defilement, without one friendly hand stretched forth to save them, are kindly received, as returning penitents ever ought to be— there they breathe a new and purifying moral atmosphere ; all that surrounds them there tells of virtue and charity and respectability ; and they find all their good resolutions immediately encou raged and strengthened. As the Report of the Committee sets forth, "it is shown that the disci pline of the institution imparts a knowledge of work, a habit of industry, and a strength of character which enable those who have only par tially received its benefits, to withstand the temp tations and inducements which would otherwise have led them back again to their former life." And what greater practical good could be put in their way than this, introductory, as it is, to their full restoration to the inestimable blessings of Christian life and character ? That there should be difficulties to be encoun tered, in such a course of moral reformation, were the most natural thing in the world. "In truth," as the Report observes, " the work is full of difficulty ; many a disappointment has been felt, many a hopeless case has failed. It is generally found that these poor girls, even when free from everything like confirmed depravity, have con tracted from their past lives such a weakness and infirmity of moral character that they have little or no aptitude to receive or retain good impres- They may be, and very often are, sincere, grateful, obedient, and willing to work; but, on the other hand, they are in general sadly deficient in temper, in thoughtfulness, in firmness of pur pose, and in the power of resolving and acting as if they were bent on recovering their lost position in society. Hence," as it is sensibly and encou ragingly added, " the necessity for a sound system of industrial and moral discipline, accompanied by such religious teaching as may, by God's blessing, lead them to true repentance, subdue their evil propensities, develope their good qualities, and lead them to look up to Him who can impart strength to the weakest of His servants, and work in them both to will and to do of His good pleasure.'" Now, surely, an institution in our midst so. truly Christian in its character, and so eminently calcu lated to promote the highest interests of society, as this is, one might expect, in so large and wealthy a town as Liverpool, and where its ope rations, as is seen on every hand, are so urgently needed, would receive such general and such liberal support as to enable it to meet, in some degree, the growing necessities of the case. And yet the very reverse, it is sad to think, is the fact. Its funds amount to only hundreds of pounds, where they ought at least to be thousands. Its means of usefulness, therefore, are most grievously limited. And the Report, as a matter of course, has again to complain, " that the number of women refused admittance during the past year has been large, and had the house been twice the size it could have readily been filled,"—the Committee feelingly adding, that "it is lamentable to think how many lead this life of sin, and that Liver pool holds a sad pre-eminence in this respect over other large towns ; and they especially regret to state, on public authority, that a large increase of this unhappy and de graded class has taken place in the last year." This is certainly to be deplored—in a Christian community it is indeed to be wondered at also : nay, even in a moral and social point of view, to go no further, it is astonishing that the importance of such a reformatory institution is not more generally recognised, and its object more liberally supported. The appeal with which the Report winds up ought to find a response in every reflecting mind, at any rate, when it declares,— " This trade in human• souls is shocking, and calculated to arouse all Christian people to exert themselves to suppress it ; and though the Com mittee cannot hold out to themselves the hope of contributing much to this great end, yet they have the satisfaction of knowing that their institution has proved a shelter to not a few real penitents, who could not otherwise have escaped from their state of bondage; and they can, with the confidence arising out of experience, ask the continued support of their present subscribers, while they would, at the same time, solicit the sympathy and aid of all benevolent persons to a work of mercy which is commended to us by the precepts and example of the Saviour of Sinners." FOOD ADULTERATIONS OUR Manchester neighbours have set us an example which we might forthwith set about following, with manifest advantage to those industrious classes of our population who, by reason of the circumstances in which they are placed, are more than all others exposed to frauds and fatalities, We have set Manchester a good example, over and over again ; and now, there fore, that it has set us one, and so good a one, in return, it behoves us to pay all due respect to it. A public meeting has been held, convened by the Mayor, in compliance with a requisition, to con sider the propriety of urging the Government to introduce a bill to Parliament, for the purpose of preventing the sale of adulterated ?ood and medi cines ; and after some discussion, resolutions in favour of the object were passed, and a petition in accordance with them was readily adopted. We quite agree with the Manchester Guardian, that " the adulteration of food is one of those social evils which, pressing upon the poor with all the weight of terrible calamities, cause the rest of the world no great anxiety, because they are known to it only in their least gross, and therefore least injurious, forms." Were the evil more gene rally diffused throughout society, it would be more likely to be remedied, because it would affect classes of the community personally who would not long endure it. But confined, as it is, in a great measure at least, to the poor, it is merged in their too common accumulation of suffering : being one of many evils which unhappily attach to their condition, it fails to attract the attention which from its enormity it ought to do. The state of the case is thus described ; and it is one which, it is to be feared, prevails, though not perhaps quite as extensively, in Liverpool as in Manchester,—" It is, unfortunately be yond dispute, that in the poorer quarters of our large towns, the most pernicious kind of adulteration of food prevails. Where there is so much ignorance on this as on other subjects, it is inevitable that rogues should take advantage of it. The custom, which is a necessity to the poor, of making purchases in small quantities from day to day, not only enables the retail dealer to charge a higher price for his goods, but gives him facilities for adulterating them with very slight risk of detection. And, as the food of the poor is at the best but of second rate quality, while that of the very poor is what we should call refuse, it follows that, in order to adulteration profitable, the vilest and filthiest trash must be mixed with the meat and drink of the people. So that the very class which the Legislature ought to consider itself chiefly bound to protect is exposed, by a combination of circumstances, to be plundered and poisoned with impunity." Here, then, is an operation of cause and effect which, wherever there are the poor to work upon with it, will be found, it is to be feared, more or less, to prevail. The very ingenuity of the age keeps ministering to its 'success, and its extension. The times, too, are those of keenest competition, to carry out which with profitable effect necessitates the adoption of a cheapening process,—and in order to make things cheap, they must be adulterated, and even imitated. " Even as regards the daily bread of the poor," as our Manchester contemporary goes on to remark, make " the consequences of this state of things are fearful to contemplate ; and it was well said at the meeting that this kind of adulteration of food may be regarded as a nuisance, which ought to be removed, if only as a measure of sanitary and social reform." It is, however, something infini tely worse than a nuisance. It is a fearful curse to the poor, and through them to the community generally, thus to have the requirements of health and strength, nay, the very sources of their vitality itself, infected and polluted. As an act of protection to the poor—of justice and charity to them—as well as, in a more general point of view, a matter "of sanitary and social reform," it certainly demands legislative attention, Then there is the subject of medicine again, it is to be feared, the poor are often most cruelly victimized. Not they only, indeed, but all of us, are liable to be sacrificed to ignorance or carelessness, as well as to fraud and deception. Our respectable Chemists and Druggists are not, of course, to be objects of suspicion in this wise. But there are those, in certain low quarters of most of our populous towns, who adopt the cheapening process even in the sale of medicine ; and who have often those about them that are unqualified to meddle in matters involving the issues of life or death. Truly is it therefore observed, that "it is impossible to allow a system to go on by which any number of lives may be daily sacrificed ; and, if the Legislature provide that in future no one shall be allowed to begin business as a Chemist and Druggist who has not a certificate of competency, it will have done its part ; and upon the public will depend the responsibility of calling to account those who defy the law. The regulation, together with a more extended inspection of articles of food, and heavier punishments for offenders, would at all events mitigate the severity of the evil." • That it is an evil which urgently needs, not to be mitigated merely, but reformed altogether, there cannot surely be two opinions. And if the Legislature is to be influenced to take it up by any such " pressure from without " as that which is being so laudably exerted at Manchester, it Here, must proceed, not from one, but from all the large towns where it prevails. There must be " a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether ;" and Liverpool ought not to delay one moment in taking part in it with all its might. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. ST. ANNE'S STANLEY WORKING MEN'S ASSOCIATION. —On Wednesday last, the usual weekly lecture, in the National School-room, was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Hume, who selected " Self-Improvement" for his sub ject. The effects of self-improvement were considered in their intellectual, moral, and spiritual aspects, and fully dwelt upon in a very interesting manner. A nu merous audience testified their applause, at the close of the meeting cordially passing a vote of thanks to the rev. lecturer. It is gratifying, on these occasions, to see so many of the working men present, the attendance of the members of the association being numerous. The Rev. T. Gardner occupied the chair. Next week Mr. J. Bailey Browne lectures on personal experience in " Aus tralia and the Gold Diggings." MANDER'S ROYAL MiNAGtERIE, SHAW'S BROW —This great exhibition of wild beast's, &c., was opened on Saturday, and fully realised public expectation. It is the choicest collection of animals to be met with. The lions, tigers, leopards, &c., young and old, are the best speci mens of these beasts we have seen. Their training is of a high order, and must have cost a world, of labour, patience, skill, and courage, on the part of the teaoher,but Ile must be wore thou repaid by the success that has attended his exertions. The daring fetes performed by the' Lion Hunter, SABO MACOMO, a native of Africa, in the cage with the animals/ are truly frightful, yet, anomalous enough, the beholder is pleased beyond description at witnessing the triumph of man over all other creatures, no matter how savage and fierce by nature. . The lion and tiger hunt is illus . trative of that so called "sport" in Africa, India, and other places, and is well worth seeing by every one. Th e largest and best selected cage of monkeys we have ever wit' nessed is here, and we defy the gravest minded person Rho visits the exhibition, to refrain from hearty fits of laughter at their gambols, and the excellence with which "they take off" many leading features in the human species--- these creatures, in fact, lack only our speech, tomake theta, four-footed little men. Their training is inimitable, and if nothing else was to be seen, this extensive cage would ( afford ample amusement and instruction for the price 0 admission. Wolves, bears, jackalls, and other aninris are numerous ; and there is a fine and extensive collecuo? of rare and beautiful birds, the plumage of which Is most attractive. There are elks, moor deer, el& phants, camels, and a variety of all known wild animals—some being very rarely seen _la this country. There is an instructive short' lee' ture with explanations, of the nature and habits of the animals; given about every hour ; and then the "tame?' exhibits his surprising abilities to the wonder and delight of all. The most delicate person need not be afraid t ° visit this rare collection of zoology, as it is the cleanest and best regulated exhibition to be met with, and per fectly fre e f rom an y unp l easan t o d our , - which we have found in other places of the kind. THE WEATHER has changed again. Saturday wa s quite fine, like a spring day, but a gale set in during the night, and towards morning rain came down in t o rrents , and continued all day, with a heavy cold atmosphere. THE LATE DAVID LLOYD, ESQUlRE.—NOtWithgalla' ing the lamented death of David Lloyd, Esq., o f Rood; lane, London, and Ca rs h a lt on , i n S urre y, th e usiness 01 the firm will be continued as heretofore, and the executor s have requested the representative in this district to COo' tinue his services as usual. This notice is for the p u rpose, of contradicting reports a l rea dy ma d e by in t er ested parties, that the firm would not be continued as hereto' fore. —Old Swan, January 20, 1859 EVANS'S, UPPER DAWSON-STREET.—The exceedilli t crowded state of these rooms, nightly, clearly proves t the pleasure-seeking public are seldom backward in tb e appreciation of stirling talent. The artistes are unques„" tionably highly talent e d, an d man y o f th em of we'!" earned reputation, as will be seen by an advertisement 111, another column. Mr. Blamphin, an harpist of loco' celebrity, it appears, has been engaged for a few evenings' CHARGE AGAINST A VOCALIST.—For the last few der 3 there has been all sorts of rumours going about in reference to one or more charges, said to have been prefer, : a against A _Wan, who has lately b een b e f or e the pub' c as a singer, and who has gained some local celebritY• Our rule is not to notice such rumours, particularly wit!! cases are still sub judice. Howeve r , OA Satu r day, tu" matter assumed a very notorious aspect, consequent on the appearance of an injudicious paragraph in s a cotemporary, which enraged every . vocalist—male a% female—in Liverpool. We were in possession of w facts on Thursday last, but until the case assumed soul , tangible legal form we forbore to mention anything aboof it. On Friday a warrant was granted for the arrest 4) f the person alluded to, and pl a ced i n th e h an d s of one the detective officers, but we were informed that th e arrest of the accused was not made. ST. SILAS' WOAKING MEN'S ASSOCIATION.—SATIO V i DAY EVENING . CONCEUTS.—On Saturday evening, one ° 8 these concerts was given, .i n th e rooms of tb e t association, Oake-street. Amongst the gentlemen presen t were —J. Bramley-Moore, Esq., who presided ; the Mr. Moore, Messrs. Abrahams, Jackson, Grimley, Dlo`' inson, Bramley-Moore, jun., R. Hutchison, R. Jone s ' and others. 'the vocalists were Mrs. George Holden , Miss Williams, Messrs. Sadler, Armstrong and .; Holden. The Chairman briefly addressed the meetifif at the commencement and termination of the conqf; There was a very large attendance, the room boot densely crowded, who repeatedly manifested their apPl 9 / bation by applauding the singers. At the conclusion ~ 1 the concert, a cordial vote of thanks was accorded to t", chairman. On Saturday next, Mr. J. Broadhurst, t, l ' bandmaster of the association, will perform several 8 1 .': on the cornet-a-piston and flagiolet, and Miss Morr": Mr. E. Hilton, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Sadler, and Mr. Ke 11 ruish will appear as vocalists, and Mr. J. Macrae nreside on that occasion. MYSTERIOUS ASSAULT UPON A POLICEMAN, YRSTS IV DAY.—As a poli c e- s e rg eant was ma ki ng hi s round bj the Bramrey-Moore Dock yesterday afternoon, he fall% police-constable No. 547 (Willi am H un t), lyi n g UP ° , the ground insen s ible,' a n d bl ee di ng f rom a serious se al wound, and a cut acro s s th e th um b o f hi s r i g ht ban a The officer's hat had fallen off, and was near him, ° I from the nature of th e woun d s i t seemed cert3n ; that they had been inflicted by the knife, but 11 °V, or by whom, is not k nown . Th e o ffi cer nitt.„ s " o no doubt, have been suddenly set upon b y so w ruffian or ruffians, or he must have been attempting take some person into custody when he received t" severe wounds from which he is suffering. The serjes ti, " on finding the unfortunate man in such a dangerous c 011 h ; dition, took means to have him at once conveyed to 1p Northern Hospital, where his wounds were immediat e ,; attended to and dressed; but the man continued .to remain so far insensible as to be unable to glc„t any. account of the way in which he _ had wee with his wounds. Towards evening he was sent to, e , home, at Eldon-pl ace , it b e i ng su pp ose d th a t h e w as ° l .t ' coming' better • but he had only been at home a 51° 0 1 time, whe n h e became so much worse that a surgeon ii t to be sent for ; and at a late hour last evening the P 1 fellow was i n a very precar i ous state, ser i ous dou b ts be 1Y .4 entertained as to his recovery. Every, advisable inclin was made by the police to discover some information,' to the assault, b ut h a d not up to last even i ng succee dea• THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. Our readers may cell member that som e mont h s ago t h e capta i n of the ee'lo. brated American clipper Flying Scud, then lying in ° O . harbour, offered a wa ger t o " a ll and sun d ry " the c",'or tains then in port, that hi s s hi p wou ld ma k e a passage to England than either of theirs, and that t hey wager, offered in a very " Will-any-one-tread-on-n coat" sort of style, was taken u p b y a pu bli c - s pirte d correspondent of ours, signing himself " A Son of tnne," who declared he w a s rea dy an d w illi ng to back old Dutch ship, call e d th e S em i ram i s, b u i lt in 1818,. thee,' loading, again s t the Flyi ng S cu d , " f rom p i lot to pilot , for any reasonable amount. The American's bile "r 4 a few" by this u nex p ec t e d rep l y t o hi s c h a llen9 which at first he treated with disdain, as he considered t 2 derogatory to the dignity of a "clipper " to coniPe o witli" an old Dutch tub." Subsequently, however,. hbelieve, a sum of mone y was s t a k e d, th oug h some hi t o afterwards occurred ; b u t, b e thi s as it may , it 11 3 41 undoubted fact that, the old D u t c h man h as prov ed ' o g winner, baying performed the passage to England in l o f days, while the Flying Scud occ u p ie d 114. Th e Sou tor Neptune " bas proved himself a k now i ng h an d, , 1 , 0 certainly if ever a ship was entitled to the appellation 0 rum 'un to look at," it was th e S em i ram i s, which 11„d also, however, proved "a, good 'un to go.—Bove Gazette. [The Semiramis beat th e Flying I §'cud thirteL days to Falmouth, where she was bound for orders. our advertising columns, it will be seen that this it tl tical ship is now loading in this port for Bombay.' . N. T.] MR. FRANK HO WARD ' S L ECTURES . —Mr. vi Howard has just returned from the opposite side of ' 0 island, Deptford and Streatha m , w hith er h e h a d h e il e d summoned to deliver lectures on " The p resen t s tate 3 0 prospects of th e Fi ne A r t s ," an d on St a i ne d Gl as s ? . 4 which subjects there is no one more capa bl e of gitir information. He treated the Fine Arts from the o f origin,. picture-writing, through the various additios s ., s charming composition or arrang emen t, h arm onit ) " colouring and effecti ve c hi ar - oscure—to the most coto ci : plete combination of these qualities in Lionardo da Vi n r e Titian, and Rubens. H e s h owe d th a t th e fi ns ar t s O bi introduced to this country, in their highest state- o ) Rubens and Vandyk e , under the unfortunate Charles I. ~, which time they declined, through Sir Peter Lely and b it Godfrey Kneller, to the most washy insipidity. Up to t i . o time foreigners chiefly had been employed. Some et 9. at revival had been made by H ogar th an d Si r R. Til°ro, hill, and others of nam es compara ti ve l y unknooool and under Sir Joshua Rey no ld s th e t rue English s cn- c was established on the t rues t b as i s , f rom w hi c h t' 11 1 1 .,; until the death of Si r Th omas L awrence , t h e ar ts P. gressed. From so me cause , which need not be inve , e j gated in the lectu re , th e arts have subsequently dee lll3 ,o to Pre-Raffaellitism and Ruskin. H e s h owe d that '., td arts had only attained maturity through the succl o , experiences of v ar i ous ar ti s t s d uring t h e l ast 3,00 0 Yetbe or more, and the decline was to be attributed to o f characteristic feature of the present day - rejectio n et experience, as an old w ife' s t a l e , o f necess i ty, blun tb e and absurdity. Th e l ec t urer was li s t ene d to w ith . 0. greatest attention, and loudly appl au d e d a t th e conclus, l o t In the lecture on Stained glass, M r . H owar d pinto o r, the peculiar beauty of glass—its je we l-lik e transpart e r however rich the colour—and insisted on the 11 _,,,- city of windows admitting li g ht, which en'P-aile. painted glass would not d o b e i ng 01 33 , 1 `,' He described the mode of c ons t ruc ti on , an d ma design of a subject before the audience, showing 11 011 ' le composition was inevitably dependent upon the fr i ao t he material of which the wind ow was composed, 911(1001 method of connecting the var i ous parts , every C O.'esi being of a separate piece. This NOVO was also suet ful in the highest degree,