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

LORD BROUGHAM.

With reference to an invitation to be present at the
ceremonial on Tuesday, at Southampton, in connection
with the Hartley Institution, Lord Brougham sent the
following letter, and containing a characteristic allusion
to Mr, William Brown :

" Brougham, Dec. 22.
"My dear Palmerston,--I see by the London papers
of Wednesday that the good people of Southampton
intend inviting me for the Bth of January to meet you
on the occasion of the Hartley Mechanics' Institute, and
I greatly lament that I shall be long before that time
gone to the south until the beginning of February,
when Parliament meets. It is impossible to have a
more grateful sense of Mr. H.'s munificence, and of the
wise application of his important bequests. I only wish
that he could receive, like our excellent friend Mr.
Brown, of Liverpool, the cordial thanks of all his
countrymen. The foudation of any institution which
must so greatly promote the instruction in science and
literature of the middle classes, as well as others, is
truly a national benefit of the greatest magnitude.
"But I grieve to think that our fellow-citizens, from
the armed state of the world in these times, must com-
bine their studies with voldnteering. As in some of
the Turkish provinces, from the want of good police,
the ploughman is obliged to cultivate the ground armed
in self-defence; so our shopkeepers and agriculturists
must cultivate the field of knowledge in arms. That
they have universally come forward in obedience to this
hard necessity gives me, as it has given you, unspeak-
able satisfaction, but no surprise. The shopkeepers, as
well as the agricultural class, are quite ready to defend
, awl I tvuula
zeal of either; for if any one does, he will find the one
class (to borrow a phrase from the farm-yard) quite
ready to take the bull by the horns, and the other (to
use the language of the counter), showing the stuff they
are made of, and proving very awkward customers.
"With all the good wishes of the season, believe me,
yours sincerely, "H. BROUGHAM."

Mr. S. It. ildrnes, 3, Pembroke-place, formerly resi-
dent honorary surgeon to the Royal Westminster
Ophthalmic Hospital, was appointed, on Tuesday last,
honorary assistant-surgeon to the Liverpool Infirmary
for Children.

The pantomime at the Adelphi still continues to hold
atttattite my. Some additions have been made to it,
and if possible, it has been enhanced by these things.
The extraordinary performances of the artistes, including
G. Boleno, Cousens, Mathews, and Miss Beach as Colum-
bine, have rendered this Christmas attraction famous ; and
the crowded state of the house nightly is the best index
to the success that has attended the whole piece.
NEW JERUSALEM SOIREE.—The annual tea party in
connection with the New. Jerusalem Chapel, in Bedford-
street North, was held last etening, in the schoolroom
of the chapel. A very large and respectable congrega-
tion sat down to tea, which was served up in a very
liberal manner. After tea a handsome and well-deco-
rated Christmas tree formed the chief attraction, and
the evenings entertainment also included music and
singing. The profits arc to be applied towards the
expenses of completing the interior of the chapel.
HISTORIC SOCIETY, LITERARY SEcTio3.—A meeting
of the Literary Section of the Historic Society was held
last evening at the Free Library. Mr. Burke occupied
the chair.—Dr. Hume exhibited photographs, by Mr.
Keith, of the addresses delivered to Mr, 'William Brown
on the occasion of the opening of the Free Library, by
the Learned Societies, the Chamber of Commerce, and
the working men of Liverpool ; they are beautiful spe-
cimens of photography.—The following donations were
announced! The 23rd volume of the Transactions of the
Statistical Society ) the Ist volume of the Transactions
of the Ethnological Society ) and the 15th volume of
the Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society
of Manchester.--Mr. T. T. 'Wilkinson, F.R.S.A., deli-
vered an interesting and comprehensive paper on " The
Popular Customs and Superstitions of Lancashire.—A
vote of thanks to the lecturer brought the proceedings to
a termination.
THE LATE SIR PETER FAIRBAIRN.-011 Wednesday
the remains of Sir Peter Fairbairn were interred at
Adel, a village five miles west of Leeds. The funeral
was a public one, many of the shops in the town being
closed during the time of the ceremonial. The street in
front of Woodsley House was crowded by several thou-
sands of spectators, and a dense line of mourners occu-
pied the road for nearly a mile from the house. The
cortege was headed by about seven hundred of Sir Peter's
workmen, who walked four abreast. Then came the
hearse and seven mourning coaches, and these were suc-
ceeded by nearly ninety carriages and cabs. The Rev.
Dr. Atley, Vicar of Leeds, officiated, and there were also
present the Venerable Archdeacon Musgrave, the Rev.
John Bell, and other clergymen. The corpse was
received at the gates of the churchyard, and the coffin
from that point passed through a file of the workmen,
who were ranged on both sides of the causeway. The
sacred edifice was crowded.
FRENCH DUTIES ON OIL SEEDS.—The following is
an extract from a Marseilles letter :—" The decree which
diminishes the duty on oil seeds imported by foreign
vessels and suppresses it almost entirely, for French
bottoms, has been most favourably receivea here. For
the last two years our seed oil manufacturers have been
scarcely able to hold their ground against the English
indeed,
had who frequent our market. Several,
had bean compelled to close their establishments. The
oil-cake trade, which has assumed considerable import-
ance in :Languedoc, will now become still more extensive
owing to the abundant supplies of seed obtained from
abroad."