The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-11 00:00:00

the moral character and social position of the
candidate, inclUding his general eligibility; as *ell
his'intellectual ability; whether secrecy should
permitted at the elections hod whether the
examinations should be solely in modern history
ancl jurisprudence, or in classics also. The case
was brought to a 'close yesterday, but judgment
was deferred.

Three persons named Poole, Ventris, and 'hap-
man, were found gusilty3 at the deattttl era-Waal
Court yesterday) 'Oh the charge of unlawfully
secreting and disposing of certain property; with
a .view to defraud the creditors of a firm of which
Poole, one of the accused, was a partner and
whiCh firm was adjudged bankrupt in August
last, the liabilities amounting to about 1120,0061
Sentence was deferred tin 'ells -day.

At the Lonon eo'ert of ilankruptcy, yesterday,
the proceedings in the great leather case were
resumed, and the examination of Mr. Lai'erice,
in the course of which some most extraordinary
additional evidence mit the sbljett of the 'etern-
modation bill system Wits eii`dittd, was continued.
A deptitatiert of publishers, consisting of Mr.
Graves, and other gentlemen connected with the
publishing trade, waited upon Sir Geo. Cornewall
• Lewis at the Home Office, on Wednesday, for the
purpose of obtaining facilitieS for stopping at the
Custom-house piracies of English engravings; and
also a more speedy and less expensive remedy
against photographers and other producers and
sellers of pirated copies_ of English copyiight
engravings.

The present severe weather has interfered with
passenger traffic on many lines of railway but,
on the other hand, the railways will derive con-
siderable benefit from the coal trade. The demand
for coal is at present extraordinarily active, and
as all the canals are frozen, the traffic will be
turned on to the railways.

It was stated last week that an Isle of Wight
packet was fired into between Portsmouth and
Cowes by persons engaged in gunnery practice.
In consequence of this the Government have pro-
hibited firing between Portsmouth and Southamp-
ton Water. It appears
.that young officers, for
the sake of frolic, have repeatedly, when engaged
in gunnery practice, tried how near they could
fire to the Isle of Wight packets without hitting
them.

A very graceful and interesting letter from
Lord Derby, in acknowledging' compliment paid
to him as a translator of two of the most cele-
brated odes of Horace, will be found elsewhere.
The admirable manner in which our excellent
stipendiary magistrate dealt yesterday with the
cases of three idle ruffians, who were found guilty
on the clearest evidence of being among the chief
ringleaders in creating the riotous disturbances
in the north end of the town on -Wednesday will
meet with the cordial approval of the commu-
nity. It is in the highest degree satisfactory
also, alike to the charitably disposed, and to
those who have been thrown out of employment
by the recent severe inclemency of the weather,
to have the assurance, on such excellent authority
as that of Mr. Raffles, that ample provision is
made• in Liverpool for the relief of the really
necessitous and deserving poor, both through the
medium of the public charities, and by the
various charitable institutions which have long
been in. operation in Liverpool. Irapdily) to all
appearance, the frost is about to take leave of
'us for the present., and we trust that in the coarse
of a few days all those persons who) together
with their families, have suffered from its long
continuance, will be able to resume their usual
occupations, But, meanwhile, it would be a great
omission on our part, not prominently to record
the fact which is so completely brought out in
the trial of theSe vagabonds yesterday, for rioting,
that—to use the language of Mr. Raffles—it was
not "poor people who were in real distress who
went about the town creating alarm, but idle
blackguards and thieves."