The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-11 00:00:00

bitants. In the remarks I have made, Ido not wish to
be understood to speak disparagingly of erecting magni-
ficent edifices to beautify our town when we have funds
at our disposal, much less would I advocate the principle
of not fairly remunerating an efficient servant. But we
do not require the buildings proposed, nor does our
financial position justify such a procedure.
Mr. ROBERTSON said that the proposal to remove the
Public-offices had never received the slightest sanction
from himself. On the contrary, he had given it his
most decided opposition, and he thought the extent to
which it was now proposed to go was perfectly ridicu-
lous. (Hear, hear.) He could assure them, as far as
his vote and influence went, the present plans would
have his most strenuous opposition.
Mr. SMITH characterised the proposal as a wilful and
gross expenditure of the rate-payers' money.

- Mr. ~COURFIELD thought they should totally oppose
the removal of the Public-offices, and liave no compro-

Mr. S. R. GRAVES here entered the room, and was
received with applause. , He stated that he was greatly
interested in the subject of the widening of Park-lane.
He was afraid, however, that smile misapprehension
was existing on that particular point in the minds of
the meeting. An idea had got abroad that it was not

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intended Co include the widening of the residue of
Park-lane in the improvements that were going to be
submitted to the Council. Now, no such intention
existed, he was glad to say. The
.widening of the
whole of Park-lane was one of those subjects which had
been already discussed and settled, by the, Council. The
Council stood pledged to it, and he trusted in a
very. few years to see the whole of the promises fulfilled.
(Hear, hear.) He had seen the Town-clerk that morn-
ing, and he had authority for stating that it was the
intention of the committee to include in any bill for '
town improvements the widening of Park-lane. At
present they had the poWer, by consent, to widen the
' whole of it; and the only alteration required would be
to seek powers to take property by compulsion. lie
Would, therefore, suggest that the word " priority"
should be attached to•that part of the resolution refer-
ring to the improvements- in Park-lane. As to the re-
moval of the Public Offices, he had at first opposed the
measure;' but, after the deliberate vote of the Muriel!,
and mature consideration, he had come to the conclu-
sion that it would be advantageous to centralise the
Public Offices.

The motion, embracing the suggestion made by !dr.
Graves, was put to the meeting, and agreed to unani-
mously.

Votes of thanks to Mr. Robertson, Mr. Graves, and
he Chairman, terminated the proceedings.

BANKRUPTS.

George Oldfield, Robert Oldfield, and lolAtt Clark, Lich-
field, millers and corn dealers.
Francis John Fowler and Henry Hunter, late of Water-
lane, City, but now of Hatchani, Surrey, and Rood-
lane, City, oil and soap and general merchants and
manufacturers.
Elizabeth Aydon and Thomas William Ferguson, New-
castle-on-Tyne, grocers and tea dealers.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived b town
yesterday afternoon.
We are sorry to learn that Lord Valentia has lately
received severe injuries by a fall from his horse.
THE GOLDSMITH STATUE.—Tier Majesty the Queen
and the Prince Consort have recently contributed £lOO
as their joint subscription to this undertaking.
The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada's traffic returns
for the week ending 17th ult., as compared with those
for the corresponding week last year, are £14,.571 14s 3d,
miles open 970, against .£9,773 14s Bd, miles open 880.
Increase £4,797 19s 6d, allies open 90.
Lord and Lady Chelmsford and the Hon. Miss Thesiger
left town on Monday on a visit to the Earl and Countess
of Shrewsbury and Talbot, at Alton Towers, to participate
in the festivities which are to take place this week in
celebration of the noble earl succeeding to the large
domains of the noble house in that part of Staffordshire.
AN EASTERN GENERAL'S NOTION Or CANISTER.—
There is a good story told of Meolraj, a native East
Indian general. His followers took from the English a
lot of hermetically-sealed provisions in tin cases, and
not seeing the like before, he mistook them for canister
shot, and fired nothing from liis guns for three days but
fresh lobsters, pickled salmon, and other delicacies,
supplying the .British camp, which he was trying to
starve into a surrender with a shower of the freshest
English provisions:
FEARFUL FALL INTO THE SEA AT SCARBOROUGH.--
A most appalling accident (which has not terminated
fatally, as might have been expected) has just occurred
here. A private of a detachment of the 45th Regiment,
now stationed at the Castle, while walking near the edge
of the cliff in the castle-yard, was either blown or fell
over into the shallow water among the rocks, the 401
rising here to the height of 305 feet. The poor faiii-•
moans were heard by the crew of a fishing-bo^' - S
who
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pulled ashore and found him laid iu a spa" --al
was removed to the barracks, wile,- state. Re
had received fractOteo of tlii, -.1 it was found he
0,. .; ribs and dislocation o
the hip. He is of
manehoin. wsiywir.
~arse, in a precarious state.-
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_o2k JOKE.—A rather amusing scene oc-
.o a reverend gentleman who is a popular
_ocher. He went to have his likeness taken at a pho-
tographer's, and put on his surplice in an ante-room.
When ushered into the manipulating room, he wan not a
little; disconcerted on seeing a Circassian beauty, in full
costume, chained and on her knees, her countenanoe,es-
, pressing the pleadings of a broken-hearted girl ail:being
dragged before the llfussulman proprietor of a happy
harem family. The rev. gentleman, as soon as he had
recovered from his surprise, took an interest in the high-
art proceeding, and ventured to suggest that the veil
fell too much across the face. " Would you kindly show
me what you mean ?" The rev. gentleman was kind
enough to do so. The flash of electricity was wickedly
employed; for to his horror it.may be related, if he sees
this anecdote, that the popular preacher has bead taken
in dramatic attitude, with a Circassian slave appealing to
him to release her from her thraldom. This is a pri-
vate studio joke, and will, doubtless, never go further.
—Court Journal.
MELANCHOLY BOAT ACCIDENT AT .YORK.---A very
melancholy accident has occurred on the river Ouse,
near York. A young woman, named Clara Hampson,
whose parents reside in Manchester, and who has acted
I as shopwoman in the wholesale millinery establishment
of Mr. Purdy, of York ; Jabez Davies, a clerk to Mr.
McCulloch, coal agent to the Great Northern Railway;
and Jonas Smith, in the service of the North-Eastern
Railway Company, hired a boat at King's Staith, for
the purpose of proceeding up the river. Davies
took the oars, Miss Hampson sat near the stern of the
boat, and Smith sat behind her for the purpose of steer-
ing. After the party had reached the curve of the river
near the Waterworks, about a mile and a half from the
place where they had started, Smith, at the request of
Davies, rose for the purpose of having a turn at the
oars. As he was passing up the boat his foot caught
in Miss Hampson's dress. The young lady imme-
diately arose to her feet, when the boat becoming
suddenly overbalanced, Smith fell backwards in the
water, followed by Miss Hampson. The latter in
her struggles in the water seized the former by the
throat, and they went to the bottom together. Smith,
however, by some means liberated himself, and, on
rising to the surface a second time, was saved by Davies.
'Miss Hampson was only_seen once after she first sank,
and, abOut tuilio-ur afterwards, was taken out a corpse.
At the inquest, it was stated that only a few minutes
before the fatal occurrence, whilst joking. with her com-
panions, Miss Hampson had remarked,' " If I should
fall overboard I should not drown on account of my
crinoline." A verdict of " accidental death by drown-
ing" was returned.

A CRY OF ANGUISH FROM IRELAND.—The.DubIin
Nation, speaking of. the renewed stream of emigration
setting out from Ireland, exclaim's :—" And, God of
Justice ! this goes on—this most mournful spectacle of
all modern times—proceeds without a voice being raised
in Europe, where crowned gamblers load the dice, and
play, and heat with Italy's cry of anguish' on their lips.
What grief has Italy to compare with this ? What testi-
mony, of oppression has ever been seen upon her plains to
compare with this exodus of a whole race ? It is one
of the penalties of misfortune that the lazy beggar
may mimic by his whine the cry of actual suffering, and
parody the words of its petition. So Ireland, while
her hard-working, patient, faithful people prove daily
the depth of their anguish and the reality, of their
oppression, must hearken to the indolent compounds
of half beggar half highwayman, who, calling them-
selves Italy,' shout to Europe about their cry of
anguish' Anguish! In one hour upon our quays
during the past week more anguish might be seen, the
result of heartless misgovernment, than in Italy during
half a century. And this steady disappearance of a
whole people, this flight without a parallel in the records
of oppression, goes on beneath the hand of England—
England that meanwhile swaggers in Naples as a monitor
of rulers—a friend of suffering subjects ! Is there no
Sovereign in Europe with humanity enough left to raise
a voice for a brave and virtuous nation perishing--dis-
appearing for ever from their own land—while the power
that sways their destinies with brazen hypocrisy struts
abroad as a firebrand revolutionist, inflaming populations.
against their legitimate and paternal native rulers ! Is
there no Sovereign in Europe with chivalry left to tell
this false-faced incendiary to look at her own shores--
to look upon her own subjects flying heartwrung and
despairing from a land which it is to them all but death
to leave ? Will no humane king tell her to listen to
the cries, to mark the tear's, of those poor emigrants,
and account before God and man why it is that they
Must quit for ever the land of 'their fathers ? Is there,
oh ! Europe, no one of all your Princes to hearken to
'lreland's cry of anguish ?'
SUBsTITUTO Felt COTTON.—The annual report of the
Secretary of State on Foreign Commerce, for 1859_, con-
tains a despatch from F. s: Cliatori,-Our consul it MO;
cow, in relation to the economical use in Russia of a
fibrous plant as a substitute for cotton in the manufac-
ture of coarse cloths. This plant, whose botanical name
is Ascelepias Cornuti, he states, is said to be a native
of Canada, to grow wild and without cultivation,
and, after undergoing a process, as yet a secret,
to be in every way suitable for manufacturing purposes.
The sample of the cloth T have seen, and of which a
specimen is promised me, compared favourably with
cotton goods, Nos. 50 to 60 "picks" to the inch. It is
represented as a hardy plant, withstanding well the
climate or this latitude, and is propagated fison'
seed sown in May and maturing in September`;
it is then cut and dried in the open air, or water-
rotted, like lump,
to ,Lbe afterwards broken .`and
husked in the same manner.
Its subsequent treatment
is the secret of the inventor, who has the sole privjlege in
Russia for ten years, 'which he has disposed of at a large
price, and which he Foposes ,securing by patent in
England and Fraffee. , The estimate put upon the value
of this process for the United States is extravagant, con-
sidering the price of cotton and its probable deprecia-
tion, in case all that is claimed for the invention is
realised. I think the secret may be purchased by a
little management for 2,000 or 2,500 roubles. The
inventor admits that to manufacture wholly from this
material will involve some changes in the "speeders and
spinners," but asserts that, mixed in equal proportions
with ordinary cotton, no change will be necessary. lie
estimates the cost, all labour,. &c, included, at four
(kopecks per lb.---one hundred copecks equals one rouble,
States Economist,
one rouble seventy-five cents.— United