The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-15 00:00:00

THE BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, Dec. 14.
The dJloniteur publishes the usual monthli
return of the Bank of France, which shows the
following results as compared with the November.
return :—Decrease : Cash in hand, 2 3-5 millions
bills discounted not due, 23 8-9 millions ; advances'
61 millions ; Bank notes, 91 millions ; current ac"
counts, 191 millions. Increase : Treasury balancer
3/ millions.

CIIEIVIISTS' ASSOCIATION CONVERSAZIONE.—A con'
versazione in connection with the Chemists' Association
will be held on Thursday evening next, in the Royal
Institution, Colquitt-street. The programme is very
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extensive and varied. Tickets are selling rapidly;
a iarge assembly of the " learned" and the fair is con'
fidently expected.
CONCERT AND BALL AT BIRKENHEAD.—The fifth
anniversary of the Canada Works Literary Institute was
celebrated by a concert and ball, which was held in the
Craven-rooms, Birkenhead, last night. The programme
consisted of a judicious selection of music from some of
the best composers, and was performed by a number of
gentlemen amateurs. At the conclusion of the concert
dancing began, and was kept up with spirit to an early
hour next morning, to the inspiring strains of an efficient
quadrille band, assisted by the band of the First Cheshire
Artillery Volunteers. The attendance was very good. g
THE REV. MR. BELLEW'S READINGS AT 1.1.1:1
PHILHARMONIC-HALL.—Last night the Rev. J. C. rA.
Bellew gave readings from the works of Oliver Go'''.
smith, with a sketch of his life. The audience wel
very numerous, and all seemed to highly appreciate an
enjoy the richly intellectual and, we might say, artist
entertainment presented. The masterly style in whit,
the character and writings of honest, gentle, sirapl
and charitable Noll were reviewed, elicited fregir
applause. He justly pronounced the "Vicar of Iv a'eci
field" as a masterpiece of simplicity and purity; ena
`The Deserted Village" he, with equal truth, set dew
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as Goldsmith's greatest poem. The course of Oliver:!
warm, devoted, and constant love was most feelingly
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and touchingly described; and we have seldom listeil4,
to anything finer than the picture drawn of
dying scene. The incidental and yet copiori
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allusions to the great names of Goldsmith's
and associates enabled all to realise a most life-.,t:
picture of the times in which that immortal but It
starred genius lived and wrote. The audience, as of
were for the hour, were carried back the streaf
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time a hundred years, and moved about with and
to the illustrious dead—such as Edmund Burke,4t;
Joshua Reynolds, Johnson, Boswell, Garrick, &e•
selections read were not less judiciously chosena,,6
they were splendidly and most effectively spoken. _`,ve
Hermit " was a most choice morsel, and so was the %et
from " The Deserted Tillage." At many of
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passages one might
ht have heard even a p
breathlessly absorbed were the audience in the read'
An organ piece between the two parts was well recea
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applauded. We are much mistaken if every one pe
did not regret the conclusion of the entertainment;. an
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the earnest wish of all must, have been that oppor.tir
night soon be afforded the public of again spend'u
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evening with this talented and eloquent gentlemanld the
Rev. Mr. Bellew withdrew from the platform
warmest and volt enthusiastic applause.