The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-21 00:00:00

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Notwithstanding the severity of the weather—which,
We regret, to say, has thrown many persons, particularly
such as are engaged In the building line, out of employ-
ment—the festivities appear to have commenced. We
have prepared, as usual, a full description of the town,
the markets, and every other object of interest, which
shall appear in due course. The description of the
markets, with their ample contents, will be found in our
publication of to-morrow.

The Mentraal Ocean Steamship North American
sailed fforn the Mersey, yesterday, for Portland. She
took £1,777 10s. iti specie. _

THE HISTORIC SOCIETY.—Thu scientific section of
the above society met last night in St. George's-hall.
There was a large attendance of members, and several
donations were received. Various articles of interest
were exhibited. The paper for the evening was "On
the Commercial Estimation of Alcohol in Wines," by
X. Mercer, EC:S.:
ANNUAL TEA AftETINO AI ST. MATTHIAS'S CHURCH.
—The annual cougiegatiounl tea patty in connection
with St. Matthias's Church was held last evening, The
Rev. P. Rains occupied the chair, and addresses were
delivered by hint and by various other clergymen and
gentlemeni, amongst whom were the Rev. S. B. Sutton,
Rev. J. Crtirtip, and Rev. H. Stephens, Councillor
Aspinall, and Mr. W. Jebb. The schoolroom was deco-
rated pleasingly ; and the fine music of the 51st Albert
Rifle Volunteer band, and the services of the choir,
tended to increase the pleasant nature of the evening's
praeeedings.—Mrs. Milbourne, of St. Anne-street, sup-
plied the refreshments.
LIVERPOOL COLLEUIATE INSTITUTION.—The half-
yearly performance of the pupils of the vocal music
classes of this institution, took place in the Lecture Hall
last evening, under the direction of Richard Crowe,
Esq., teacher of vocal music in the Collegiate Institution,
and was very well attended. His Worship the Mayor,
S. R. Graves Esq., had kindly signified his intention of
being present on the occasion, but was unavoidably
prevented from attending. The conductor of the mili-
tary bend was Mr. G. A. L. Riingeling. Mr. R. W.
Crowe, organist of the institution, assisted at the organ
and grand piano-forte. The proceeds of the concert are
to be devoted to the maintenance of the military band.
The programme was both lengthy, varied, and popular,
and the youthful artistes distinguished themselves in a
most successful manner.
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CORONER'S INCAURSTS, Yesterday John Wybergh,
Esq., held the following inquests :—On the body of
William Bradford, fifteen years of age, who was engaged
as a machine boy at Messrs. Marples, printers, Lord.
street. On last Saturday the lad got his arm and hand
amongst the machinery, and was so much injured that
death followed. Verdict : Accidental death.—On the
body of a boy named William M'Carthy, sixteen years
of age, Who' lived in Midgehall-street. It appeared
that about six weeks ago, some lads going from school,
rolled a barrel from at caoperage in Leeds-street, where
the deceased was engaged. He ran after and struck one
of them named Farrell, and after some time the latter
struck deceased on the head with a stcme, inflicting a
wound that ultimately caused death. The jury returned
a verdict of Misadventure.—On the body of Mary Anne
Aspinall, fifty years of age, who died in the Southern
Hospital in consequence of injuries received by burning.
The details of the case were published a few days ago.
It appeared that the deceased, and several other per-
sons, got drittik in Lower Harrington-street, when she fell
out with another woMan. She was lying on some shavings
which were set fire to by another woman, and the
clothes of deceased caught fire, and she was so injured
that she died. There is a woman named Mary Heenan
in ctistody on the charge, and on Monday she was before
the magistrates when we published the whole of the
cast. After a full enquiry, the jury returned a verdict
of Murder against the woniati Heenan.
ST. PETER'S TEA PARTY.—The annual tea meeting
of the congregation of this church was held on Wednes-
day night, in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street. A
very large and most respectable company sat down to
tea ; indeed, so numerous was the attendance that there
was some little difficulty in providing accommodation
for all. After tea the Rev. S. B. Sutton, 8.A., took the
chair, and the platform was well filled by a niiniber of
clergymen and gentlemen, among whom were the Rev.
J. P. Haim, the Rev. Dr. Hume,. the Rev. R. Moore,
and T. Moore. The chairman, in a very humourons
speech, expressed his pleasure at meeting them once
more on this the .occasion of their annual tea party.
The Rev. J. P. Hams succeeded, and after congratulat-
ing the chairman upon the success which had attended
his ministrations, and upon the present excellent state
of the schools attached to St. Peter's Church, proceeded
to descant upon the rapid progress which has been made
in the last few years in national education. He believed
that in general ignorance was the father of crime ; he
believed that when intelligence and education took the
place of ignorance infidelity would have no existence.
The chairman, in introducing Dr. Hume to the meeting,
descanted upon that gentleman's kindness, and expressed
his philosophic conviction that he believed an Irishman
could be as honest as any other man. After Dr. Hume's
address Mr. Sharp, Mr. Lunt, and Master Lunt, sang
an appropriate air, and the proceedings, which were
throughout of a most harmonious nature, were brought
to a close at a late hour in the evening.