The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-18 00:00:00

THE PRESERVATION OF WHEAT.

"Agricola," writing to the editor of the Times, says :
—I refer to the principle of "windrowing." A
number of sheaves are placed upright on the ground,
forming a circular base, with a diameter of four yards.
and on these are built successive courses, gradually
forming a top, the " butts" of one course reaching to
the " bonds" of that below. In this manner, taking
care to keep the middle filled up, from one to two
waggonloads of sheaves are speedily secured and
are safe from injury by rain, as each course of
sheaves runs the water from off those below it.
I adopted this plan in the beginning of this harvest,
and with six to eight men followed the work of nine
scythes, and each day secured the wheat that was cut,
taking care only to have it cut while straw-dry. In
this gay 1 placed in comparative security thirty acres of
white wheat, and had them covered with a little thatch
on the top. They still stand and will remain till the
end of the harvest, and will then be readily moved to a
rick. Some I have already moved; no corn is injured,
and the sample is even better than that in the field, as
it has dried slower.

THE QUEEN'S JOURNEY SOUTH.

EDINBURGH, Saturday Evening.

The Queen, the Prince Consort, with the Princes
Arthur and Leopold, and the Princesses Alice, Helena,
and Louisa, arrived at Holyrood this evening from Bal-
moral. The train was due at St. Margaret's station at
6-48, but it anticipated its time by about six minutes.
On alighting, her Majesty graciously bowed to the
magistrates and officers present, and the Prince
Consort most cordially shook hands with Mr. Sheriff
Gordon. Although darkness was then rapidly falling,
the Royal party entered a procession of open carriages
to drive to Holyrood. The band of the 13th Light
Dragoons and an escort of the regiment were in waiting
at the station. The route to Holyrood was lined by the
13th Dragoons, the Royal Artillery from Leith Fort, the
78th Highlanders, the Mid-Lothian Coast Volunteer
Artillery, and the City of Edinburgh Volunteer Artillery.
There were several thousand spectators in the park. At
Holyrood the band and a guard of honour of the 78th
were stationed to receive Her Majesty. On the Queen's
arrival at Holyrood the guard of honour presented arms,
the band played the National Anthem, and, by signal,
the guns of the Castle fired a Royal salute. The Royal
party reached the Palace a few minutes before seven
o'clock.

MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY, AND
ARTISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Madame Czillag has gone to America for six months.
Hood's works have been translated into German by
Mr. H. Harrys, of Hanover.

Herr Rubenstein's opera, " the Child of the Moors," is
shortly forthcoming at Vienna.

Mr. E. Glover, the well-known manager of the
Glasgow Theatre Royal, is dangerously ill.
Signora Galetti, an Italian lady with a magnificent
voice, has, it is stated, been secured by Mr. Lumley.
A new work by Mr. David Urquhart, entitled " The
Lebanon and its Life : a History and a Diary," is
promised.

The late Mr. R. Brough's novel, " Miss Brown," has
been published in a collective form from the Welton'
Guest.

Mr. Smiles, the biographer of George Stephenson,
is collecting materials for a biography of Sir Hugh
Myddelton.

M. Victor Hugo's great epic novel, " Les Miserables,"
formerly announced in our columns, may, we hear, be
soon expected. .

Mr. Wilkie Collins's " Woman in Whits," has just
been added by Tauchnitz, of Leipzic, to his copyright
collection of English classics.

Signor Braga is engaged on a new opera, to be sung
by Madame Borgi-hiamo at Bologna or Milan, during
her engagement there.

It is stated that new blood will shortly be infused
into the Cornhill. The " Hogarth " papers will be
concluded in the October number. •

The Worcester Musical Festival was wound up by
the customary ball, on Friday night. It is believed
that the available surplus will amount to £1,200.
Mr. Kingley's latest contribution to literature is a
sermon preached in Eversley Church on the 26th ult.
It is entitled " Why should we pray for fair weather ?"

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The books of the past week include Mr. Fordyce's
elaborate contribution to the literature of industrialism,
his " History of Coal and of the Iron Manufacture."
" Colleen Bawn," Mr. Dion Bourcicault's adaptation
of Gerald Griffin's novel, " The Collegians," has proved
a great hit at the Adelphi Theatre, London.
The anniversary of Goethe's birthday was the other
day celebrated at Berlin by a performance of " Faust,"
with the music in part by Prince Radzivill, in part by
Lindpaintner.

The Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte appears again
in authorship, as the translator into French of a Corsican
legend (" Sampiero") which he had formerly published
in Italian.

We hear that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
have purchased the splendid model of Blake designed by
Mr. Baily, with a view to its being placed in Greenwich
Hospital.

Madame Pfeiffer, the celebrated traveller, has left, in
manuscript, an autobiography, and an acconnt of her
last voyage to Madagascar, which is about to lie pub-
lished by her son, at Vienna.
Messrs. Hurst and Blackett are preparing for imme-
diate publication a work with an attractive title " Traits
of Character ; being Twenty-five Years' Literary and
Personal Recollections, by a Contemporary."
Mr. Thackeray is said to have in contemplation a
magnum opus—a history of that Anna Augusta whom
Dr. Johnson remembered as a "stately lady in black
velvet and diamonds," and who touched him for the evil.
A company of young men, called Rossignols, or the
" Blackbird Club," has been created in Paris to hiss at
the theatres new pieces which are bad. This club has
been organised as a protest against the " claque."

M. Daussy, the celebrated astronomer, and one of to
first Napoleon's savants, has just died at an advanced
age. There are, just now, no less than three vacancies
in the French Academie des Sciences.

A Berlin letter announces the death of the poet Bur-
chart, anther of the tragedy " Jane Grey," in ene of
the hospitals of that city. Burchart was about 40 years
of age, and has been for some time in indigent circum-
stances.

The Cottonian Library at Plymouth has lately re-
ceived a valuable addition in the shape of several auto-
graph letters and other MSS. of Sir Joshua Reynolds,
together with his pocket-book of the year 1755, which
contains the names of his sitters and the entries of his
engagements, &c.
Messrs. Cassell, Potter, and Galpin announce " Our
Exemplars, Poor and Rich :" a series of biographical
sketches of men and women Who have, by an extraor-
dinary use of their opportunities, benefitted their fellow-
creatures. This work is edited by Mr. Recorder Hill :
and Lord Brougham writes a preface for it.
An "Annual Register of Bookselling, Printing,
Paper-making," &c., has been projected in France. It
will include a complete list of the publishers, book-
sellers, and printers of Paris, of the departments, and of
the French colonies, with the dates of their establish-
ment in business, the names of their predecessors,
agents, &c.
A handsome edifice of white marble, designed with
much architectural taste, is to be opened in Broadway,
New York, in October next, as an Institute of Fine
• Arts. The cost of this undertaking is estimated at
$200,000. The claims of natural history are, moreover,
being duly recognised in the same busy city, 4500,000
having been devoted to the estaMishment of a Zoologica
Garden in the Central Park.
A monument on a magnificent scale to Luther is to
be erected at Worms. It is from a design by the sculp-
tor Rietschel. The whole sum required for this monu-
ment is £17,000, of which £12,000 has been already
collected. Germany has contributed the greater pert of
this sum ; but all the other countries of Europe, and
beyond Europe, North America, the Brazils, &c., have
lent a hand to this work. England alone has not done
so, says a circular issued by a committee of Englishmen,
who propose to remedy the defect.
The English opera seasons are about to commence

forthwith,--that of Miss Pyne and Mr. Harrison on the
Ist, that of Mr. Smith on the Sth, of next month. It is
Row fixed that the first opera to be given. at Her
Majesty's Theatre is to be the "Rubin Hood " of Mr.
Macfarren. Among the ladies of the company (the
principal gentlemen having been mentioned) will be
Madame Lemmens Sherrington, Mdlle. Parepa, and
Miss Alexander, who has sung, we are informed, is
continental opera-houses. On the "off-nights," Italim
operas are to be given, conducted by Signor Arditi.
An attempt is being made to revive the discussion as
to the authorship of "Adam Bede," and the claims of
Mr. Liggius, of Nuneaton, are again put forward. The
grounds for the claim are that Mi. Liggins was known
to be writing a series of stories such as were published
`Repentance" actually occurred in
"scenes of Clerical Life" that the adventures of the
Liggins is resident; that the thheerotionwenowf jr:iii‘ek;
so-
called " George Eliot," tholigh T:
denying
authorship, never denied his acquaintance ; and that
Liggins himself, though so prominently alluded to, has
avoided any public statement. The Liggins partisans
would now have it that.he ae.tually supplies the original
matter, which is revised and improved by Miss Evans.

DEsTERATE QUARREL ABOUT A WomAic.—At a
public ball on the Boulevard Rochechouart, a few even-
ings since, t,wo men got into a violent quarrel about a
young woman with whom they both wanted to dance,
and they made such a noise that they were turned out.
On the boulevard they continued the quarrel, and after
a while began fighting. Some persons took part for one
of them, named Charles L.---, an engraver, of the
Rue Oudinot, and attacked his adversary, Antoine 6—,
of the Boulevard Montparnasse, with such violence that
they broke his left wrist ! Notwithstanding the pain
the man endured, he driw forth airnife and stabbed the
other deeply in the thigh. Both men were conveyed to
the hospital, and one of the assailants of Antoine WU
arrested.

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BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.

„ .
IRE WATER COMMITTEE of the COUNCIL of the
BOROUGH of LIVERPOOL require the Service.; of a
GENTLEMAN fully competent to undertake the duties of
ASSISTANT SECRETARY in the Engineer's Department.
The salary will be £250 per annum. The gentleman
appointed will be required to devote his whole time and
attention to the duties of the office.

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Written applications with testimonials, tadressed to the
Chairman of the Sub-Financial Committee, and 'endorsed
Application for the office of Assistant Secretary," must be
sent to the Town-Clerk's Office, Town-hall, not later than
19th September instant. order,
WM. SIIUTTLEWORTII, Town-clerk.
Town-hall, Liverpool, Sept. 7, 1860.