The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-09 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS:

A QuestioN.—What is the first thing a young lady
fotks. for in ehurch i—The hints.
How should tore come to the door ?—Certainly with
a' ring, but ftoi fi out a rap.
On Friday afteriioot a great demonstration against
the Sunday Trading Was- held in the Britannia
It it mil:mimed that the court will visit Scotland at a
far earlier 064 this year than usual, as her Majesty
does not intend to' go to Osborne at the emstomary
summer season.

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The traffic returns of railways in the United Kingdoni
for the weekending March 31st, amounted to £474,460,
and for the corresponding week of 18‘al; to £434,650,
showing an iticreme of .£39,810.
tMiss f'anny says she really is surprised at the ridicu-
lous complaints which men keep making about crinotine,
for they nate admit that the petticoats cover but two
feet !
The Emperor of the French has offfteel the Empress-
Dowager of Russia a guard of honour to replace the
Piedmontese soldiers at the Villa de Orestie, and her
Majesty accepted the offer at once.
The weather on Friday was extremely favourable to
the holiday makers, and every place of public resort
was thronged with ordinary and well-dressed crowds.
The number of visitors to the Crystal Palace was 37,000.
The weather on Saturday was again fine.

The protest is published of the Duchess of Parma,
against what she calls the pretended popular wishes
issued illegally on the 11th and 12th of March, and the
usurpation of the same States consummated by their
annexation to a neighbouring State.
MARRIAGE or MR. MACREADT.—This eminent trage-
dian, Who till recently has resided at Sherborne, has
been united in marriage at the church of St. John,
Durdhain Down, Clifton. to Miss Cecile Louise F.
Spencer, granddaughter of the late Sir Wm. Beechey.
Mr. Bowyer, M.P., has written to the Times to
correct the mistake likely to arise from the Papal excom-
munication being signed by two officers incorrectly
signed " cursers." 'I he proper title of those officers is
cursor, a Latin term signifying an officer who serves
processes, &c.
The Bank return for the week ending Wednesday
evening last shows a decrease of £388,604 in the stock
of coin and bullion. The notes in reserve decreased in
the same period to the extent of £1,240,860. There
are other indications in the return attesting the severity
of the pressure for money.
The Times contains a letter from the late Lord
Macaulay, addressed in May, 1857, to Mr. H. S. Ran-
dells, of New York, expressing an opinion that institu-
tions purely democratic must sooner or later destroy
*liberty or civilisation, or both, and that the United
States will not prove an exemption.

OPVI.A.—We are informed that there is no foundation
whatever for the report which has been circulated that
Mr. Gye contemplates the establishment of an English
opera, after the cmclusion of the present season of
Italian opera. Mr. Gye has no intention of interfering
with the arrangements of the Harrison and Pyne com-
pany, or entering into competition with any English
operatic engagements. •

MONSTER —FLOATING DOCK. Messrs. Rennie,
engineers, of Blackfriars, are about to construot at their
works at Greenwich a monster iron floating dock for the
Spanish Government an a scale of sufficient magnitude
to admit the largest line of battle ships. The dock will
be 335 feet long,. 110 feet wide, 45 feet deep, and 4,000
tons of iron will be used in its construction. When
completed the dock will be forwarded. to Cadiz in sections,
add Wilf then be fitted together for 113 E. It will be con-
structed en the tubular system, so that it may be sunk
in the water, ed by the introduction of air be, enabled
to lift ships of large GiZe..

THE Monet E.—Whenever am at Paris I am dragged
by invisible force into the Morgue. I never want to go
there, but am always pulled there. One Christmas Day,
when I would rather have been anywhere eke, I was
attracted in to see an old grey man lying all alone on
his cold bed, with a tap of water turned on over his grey
hair, and running drip, drip, drip, down his wretched
face Until it got to the corner of his mouth, where it'
took a turn and made him look sly. One New Year's
morning_ (by the same token, the sun was shining out..
side, 'and there was a mountebank balancing a feather
on his nose within a yard of the gate) I was pulled in
again, to look at a flaxen-haired boy of eighteen, with a
heart hanging on his breast—" from his mother," was
engraven on at—who had come into the net across the
river, with a bullet wound in his fair forehead, and his
hands cut with a knife, but whence or how was a blank
mystery. This time I was forced into the same dread
place to see a large dark man, whose disfigurement by
water was in a frightful manner comic, and whose
expreision was that of a prize-fighter who had closed his
eyelids under a heavy blow, but was going immediately
to open them, shake his head, and " come up smiling."
0 what this large dark man cost me in that bright city.
A MELANCHOLY STORY.--A mournful story is told
in connexion with the recent loss of the steamer Hunga-
rian. Last year a Spanish gentleman, M. Marino de
Samaniego, visited the metropolis for the purpose of
perfecting his studies in the musical profession, before
proceeding to the far South, and he there meta young lady
by whose charms be was captivated. The attachment
became mutual, and after a few months was consummated
by a marriage. The happy pair prepared to depart for
-their future home, intending to sail by one of the
Cunard steamers. While these preparations wore in
progress, the bride wrote a letter to a friend in
America, in which she said, " I am preparing for my
voyager this is, indeed, a fearful trial, but lessened in
some degree by feeling that I am leaving my home, my
friends, and my country with one who will do all in
his power to soften itiy sorrows. We propose leav-
ing Liverpool in the Persia, fur New York, on the 26tli,
and we intend (rev.) visiting the Falls of Niagara.
Could you not manage to meet us there:
But I am sure you will arrange to come if you can."
Unfortunately the intention to proceed in the Persia
was not carried out, the delay incident to preparation,
and the time occupied in bidding adieu to friends,
having prevented them leaving as arranged. On the
26th January the bride wrote to her American friend,
naming the Hungarian as the vessel in which they in-
tended to sail. She added, "lam so delighted to hear that
you will he able to meet us at the .Falls. I cannot tell
you how ;lad I shall be to sec you. But oh !---, lam
sure the meeting will be a sad one, as I feel sure you
will be the last- of all my friends I shall ever sec for
Years ! I dare not think of parting from my mamma,
but should it' please God to spare us all, I hope to return to
her in a few years. We purpose (n.v.) leaving Liver-
pool for Portland on IV ednesday, the Bth February
in the Hungarian, and direct on by rail to the Falls
. . . . I long for you to see my husband ; he is
most devoted and affectionate, and I look forward
for a happy Plan." Three weeks after these joyful
anticipations of a happy future ended, as far as
this world is concerned, in the wreck of the ill-fated
ship, and the loss of all on board. It may be easily
imagined how the news was received by her friends
—with hopeful doubts of its truth ; with some lingering,
despairing wish that there might be some mistake • that
she might not be on board ; or might have missed the
ship; but hope was vain. The sad news was confirmed
by the publication of the list of passengers by the doomed
vessel ; and au already widowed mother still weeps for
the loss of an only child, her last hope being that they
may meet in heaven.—Canadian Paper.