The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-30 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE HOLIDAYS.—The town was again full of excur-
sionists yesterday.
ROYAL OAK DAY.—Yesterday was the anniversary of
Charles the Second in the oak, and according to custom

many of the omnibuses, cart and lorry horses were deco-
rated with oak boughs, in memory of the occasion.
The opening cruise of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club
is announced to take place to-morrow morning, when
the yachts are to assemble off New Brighton, at ten
o'clock.

The Matthew Henry memorial is now approaching
its completion. The foundation has already been laid
in St. Bridget's churchyard, in which parish the com-

mentator resided when he *rote his commentary. There
still exists a deficiency of £40.--Chesliire Observer.
ACCIDENTS.—WiIIiam Jackson, a boy, aged fourteen

years, residing in Luton-street, sustained severe con-
tusions of the body by the .waggons knocting him down

at the new north docks. John Cowell, a clerk, residing
in Radcliffe-street, Everton, fell out of No. 2 room of a

wareheuse in Harrington-street, and received severe

contused back.

PAINFUL SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning Mr. Thomas
Russell, a gentleman well known and respected in
Liverpool, as a wholesale watch manufacturer, put an
end to his existence by hanging himself at his residence,
Marine-crescent, Waterloo. The unfortunate gentleman
is said to have been afflicted with a brain disease for
some months past.
TILE MISSION TO CENTRAL AFRICA.—The Ven.
Archdeacon Mackenzie, bishop designate of the Oxford,
Cambridge, and Dublin mission to Central Africa, pro-
poses to leave England early in October. The mission
will comprise the bishop and his two sisters, six clergy-
men, a medical man, and a body of officers and
labourers. About £lO,OOO has been raised to prosecute

the work, but double that amount is required.
THE GREAT EASTERN.—The departure of the Great
Eastern for New York will, it is stated, positively take
place on Saturday week, the day appointed. There still
appears much work to be got through, but little doubt
is entertained that this can be accomplished within the
appointed time. The list of passengers is not yet filled,
although a fair number of berths have been engaged.
Many intending passengers by her have booked through
the agents here in Liverpool.

STEAM ICE.—On Monday and yesterday an oppor-
tunity was afforded the general public of witnessing the
mode in which ice was formed by the aid of steam power
at the works of the Liverpool Ice Company (limited),
Boundary-street. Special invitations for to-day and to-
morrow haVe, we understand, been sent out to a number
of scientific gentlemen, medical wen, clergymen, &c.,
connected with the town and neighbottrhoo'd, when the
very ingenious process will be minutely explained and
opinions expressed as to its suitability.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR LIVERPOOL.—ShortIy aftet
two o'clock on Monday, the engine of a passenger train,-
when opposite the Satidliills Station (en route to South-
port,) went off the line in rounding a curt.* and, after
dragging two of the carriages with it, overturned. One
of the carriages was broken, but, fortunately, no pas-
sengers were injured. The fireman, however, it is feared
is badly hurt. The traffic was delayed for some time, as
trains could not pass ; and passengers were compelled
to change carriages at Sandhills, and proceed by special
trains.

MR. SPENCE, THE SCULPTOR.—A letter from Rome
of the 19th says :—" Mr. B. Spence is now casting a
statue, of which he hai recently completed the model-
ling, representing ' The Lady of the Lake This
beautiful figlire is for the Queen, and is intended as a
Companion to Mr. Spence's eminently successful statue
of = nighlarid Mary,' which is already id her Majesty's
possession. The chieffai's daughter is represented as
pausing in mute attention, oar iii Mind, listening to the
thrilling notes of that eventful horn which ttad Hach
an influence on her destiny. A drawing of the statue
has already been forwarded to the Queen, whose gracious
approbation, and that of the Prince Consort, have been
recently signified by letter to the sculptor."
SCENE IN THE INTERIOR OF THE HUNGARIAN.—MT.
Sheridan, diver, has tettirded: to Halifax from Cape
Sable. He descended several tithes into the interior of
the wrecked' steamer. It is stated—" The scene that
presented itself was appalling in the extreme ;• for,
although there were no corpses in the interior of the
ship, there were nearly twenty bodies discovered
'entangled in the wreck alongside and in the gullies close
by. These ftightfal remnants of poor humanity exhi-
bited all the stages of dismemberment, sans heads, arms,
legs, &c., and all more or lessen a state of decomposi-
tion. Those seen appear to have been tip and dressed,
or partly so, as some of them were evidently in: the act
of putting on their shoes, stockings, or other clothing,
when the king of terrors put a stop to their toilet for

ever."

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION —The
second quarterly general meeting of the superintendents
and teachers of the Sunday schools in connection with
this association, for conference on matters relating to
the work in which they are engaged, took place yester-
day evening in Hope Hall. F. T. Fletcher, Eiq ,
chairman of the board of management, occupied the
chair, and there was a numerous attendance of ladies
and gentlemen. The company having partaken of tea
and cake, the Rev. W. R. Hunt, A. 8., incumbent of St.
Columba's Church, react an interesting paper on "The
requisite qualification foi Sunday-school teaching." A
general conversation followed, after which the proceed-
ings were brought to a close.