The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-05 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Prince Alfred left ffttlererg• burn —Palace yesterday
afternoon for Portsmouth, to joie tht Enryalue, which
procecaliimmediateiy to the Cape of dctoe
The correspondent of the Daily iyi,:;?s, a't' Malta,
says, that an outbreak has occurred ,on -board n.si.a.
James Watt, and a court of inquiry was sitting. Dis-
cipline had been completely restored.
The Times observes that the real question decided last
night, is not whethCr we are to have a reform in the
representation, bat whether it is to be this session or
some future one, as, under ordinary circumstances, there
must and will be a party for Reform of some kind or
ether.
Rverza-niix.--At the`annual meeting of proprietors
a dividend of three per cent. was declared, and a resolu-
tion was also carried, with, only one dissentient, "That
the directors should take immediate steps for making
better staircases and entrances to the large hall."
FIRE AT LUIERICX.—A destructive fire broke out at
Limerick, at two o'clock yesterday morning, in the
extensive seed and oil concern of Messrs. J. S. and G.
Boyd, in William-street. The premises and stock have
been entirely destroyed. Origin of the fire at present
unknown. No person injured.
CURIOUS MURDER.—A strange affair occurred three
days ago, at Violaines, near Valenoiennes. A peasant
woman, named Danssonville, was heard to raise loud
cries, and when some of her neighbours hastened to her
cottage they found her daughter, aged two years and a
half, writhing in great agony. The woman said she
had poisoned the child with vitriol, because she (the child)
was Protestant, 'not Catholic. Medical assistance was
procured, but the little oreature died. The mother is
supposed to be insane; she was, however, arrested.
RISE IN THE PRICE or HORSE-KEEP.---A meeting of
hotel and innkeepers of the parishes of Redcliff, Temple,
and St. Thomas. was held at the Queen's Head Inn,
.Redcliff-street, Bristol, on Thursday evening, to take
into uonsideratien the present very great advance in the
price of hay and straw, which, it was stated, caused the
charges now made for the standing of horses at the
various stable yards to result in a considerable loss to
the retailers. A resolution was accordingly agreed to
fixing the charge for standing and hay at 9d. instead of
ed. per day for each horse, so long as the present high
prices continue, a reduction to be made in proportion
with the fall of the markets ; and 2s. per head to be
the charge for night houses.

A LORD-LIEUTENANT AT THE TARGET. - A very
appropriate instance of the application and assiduity of
the Earl Ducie, lord-lieutenant of the county, in carrying
out all that comes under his official observation, was
strikingly illustrated on Wednesday afternoon last, when
the noble lord, having presided over a meeting for the
formation of a book-hawking association, held at the
Literary and Philosophical Institution, accompanied by
several officers of the local rifle volunteer corps, paid a
visit to the practice ground at Southern. His lordship,
during his stay on the ground, tried his aim at the
target, and " proved himself so good a marksman as,
three or four times in succession, to hit the bull's-eye,"
an example to all volunteers who are aspiring to distinc-
tion with the rifle.—Cheltothasn Examiner.

THE LONDON ANI) NORTII-WESTERN:RAILWAY.—An
adjourned meeting of the proprietors of this company
was held on Thursday, at the Euston-square Station.
The meeting was an adjournment from the one convened
on the 4th of last month, in accordance with the standing
orders of ,the House of Lords, for the purpose of con-
sidering certain bills submitted to Parliament, and now
pending before that House.—The Marquis of Chandoe,
the chairman of the Board of Directors, who presided,
stated that as none of the bills, in reEpect of which the
meeting was convened, were ready for consideration, the
meeting would stand still further adjourned to Thursday,
the 17th inst.—The meeting was declared adjourned
accordingly, and the proceedings, which only occupied
a few minutes, terminated.

THE METROPOLITAN SLDTEHHANEIN RAILWAY.—
Since Monday, an additional number of men have been
engaged, upon the above
,line, between King's-cross and
the %tended station near the Great Western Railway
Terminus, Paddington, the effect of which has been that
the execution of the works has considerably advanced.
Between that distance more than two-thirds of the line
is in process of excavation, and in many parts to a very
great depth. In Marylebone-road, opposite Matylebone
Worklion-se, three shafts have been sunk. -At the bot-
tom of two of them a stream of water was met with,
and in consequence several men were obliged to be em-
ployed in pumping. At King's-cross, where the railway

as been commenced, this is going on in a way very
satisfactory to the contractor. It is not intended to
tunnel, but to dig out the earth, to arch the line over,
and to fill up the space between the top of the arch end
tlte surface of the road. This course, it is expected,
wilt enable the contractor to complete the line in a
shorter time than if a tunnel were formed. •
AN EIGHT-WHEELED ENGINE.---Our readers will
remember that we called their attention a short time
ago to a new kind of engine about to,be made on the
South Durbam and Lancashire Railway. An engine of
a similar build, viz., with eight wheels (so as to take
the curves easily), has recently been constructed by
Messrs. Kitson a Co., of Leeds. It is intesded to be
be used on one of the South American railways, and
was tried the ether day for the first time. The trial
trip was from Leeds to Harrogate and back. She has
around the frame a beautiful hand-tailing, mounted
with brass, io that the driver can walk round the foot-
plate with perfect safety. In the front there will be
fixed a "cow-catcher." The trial of the engine was
f,erfectly satisfactory. —You:cc/sec Chronicle.

IRISII PROSPECIS.—The Cork Exepainer, referring to
the rapid progress of emigration, describes the persons
emigrating as belonging to the most valuable class in
Ireland—young men and young women, full of life,
health and energy, who are formed to give vigour to a
race. " Labour," continues the Examiner, "is every-
where scarce; and is daily becoming less available. So
much the better, it may be thought, for those who are
left behind, as they are secured better wages. They are
indeed secured a higher rate of pay, but unfortunately
the larger sum is not now so valuable as le was ;
for production, instead of having gone for Ward, as in the
natural order of things it ought, has actually retro-
graded, and the necessaries of life have risen so
high as to more than counterbalance any money
increase. If we are to judge by the exodus of pro-
ducers from our shores, it is not too gloomy an
anticipation to look forward not merely to a eonti-
nnance, but to an increase in the startling deficit of
to our knowledge, wiser
last year. Some landlords,
than their fellows, have begun to see that a wil-
derness of pasture and turnip fields is not so profitable
a substitute as they once imagined, for populous farm
steadings. Nay, they have even thought it necessary
to. do -now what, had they and their fellows done
it at first, would have saved Ireland much of the
misery it has gone through—that is, they have re-let
their land, and on fair terms. This, however, is
not the rule. Farms are put up to let throughout
the county of Cork, after a system bases on the known
anxiety of the Irish peasantry to obtain land. Back
rents are still asked from farmers, even though 'the
rate of wages for labour has, during the last ten years,
more than doubled. These lands are let without
adequate buildings or capabilities : the tenant is left to
make a half-starved struggle to pay the exorbitant rent,
without due means to work his farm; and he must at
his own expense make the improvements, with the pro-
bability that as soon as they are completed ho will be
thrust out of their enjoyment, or the already high rent
will be made still higher by the value his investments
have added to the land."
CITY OF LONDON Citvacires.—ln the course of my
pilgrimages I came upon one obscure church which had
broken out in the melodramatic style, and was got up
with various tawdry decorations, much after the manner
of the extinct London maypoles. These attractions
had induced several young priests or deacons in black
bibs for waistcoats, and several young ladies interested
in that holy order (the proportion being, as I estimated,
seventeen young ladies to a deacon), to come into
the city as a new and odd excitement. It was
wonderful to see how these young people played
out their little play in the heart of the city, all
among themselves, without the deserted city's knowing
anything about it. It was as if you should take an
empty counting-house on a Sunday, and act one of the
old mysteries there. They had impressed a small school
(from what neighbourhood I don't know) to assist in
the performances, and it was, pleasant to notice frantic
garlands of inscription on the walls, especially addressing
those poor innocents id Chlracteri impossible for them
-to-decipher.• There was a remarkably -agreeable sinell
df. poinatum in -this ' congregation. But, in other
cases. rot Rl4 mildEW , and dead citizens formed
the ,uppermost scent, while, infus.ed, into it in a
dreamy way not at all distil easing, was the staple,
character of the neighbourhood. In the churcheS
about Mark-lane for example, there was a dry whiff
of wheat ; . and I accidentally . struck a . sample
of barley out of an aged hassock in one of them. From
' Rood-lane to Tower-street, and thereabbuts, there was
often a subtle flavour of wine : sotnetimes of tea. One
church near Mincing-lane smelt like a druggist's drawer.
BOW the Monument,: the service had a flavour of
damaged oranges, which, a little further down towards
the ricer, tempered into 'herrings, anal gradually toned
into a -costriopolitan blast of fish. •In one church, the
exact counterpart of tlanchnrch in . the Rake's Progress
where the hero is being married to the horrible old lady,
there was no speciality of atmosphere, untfl the organ
Shook a perfume of hide's all olier us from some adjacent
warehouse.---Diavria, All the Year Reu;W.

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