The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-17 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

Ebert Lambley, tailor, Charles street, Soho-sauare.
Robert Edw. Martin, surgeon and apothecary, trighton.
Moses Moses, merchant and commission agent, Devon-
shire-square.
Alfred Silvister, photographic artist, New Dorset-place
(not Dorset-street), Clapham, Surrey.
Frank Adams, lighterman, Chancellor's-wharf, Hammer-

smith.
Joseph Matthews, innkeeper and brewer, Holywe

Flintshire.
fohu Turner, grocer, Halifax, Yorkshire.
John RowbottOm and James
,Shaw, picture dealers and

booksellerq Winchester.
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Walter Lawrence, cowkeeper, and late flour merchant,
Budock, Cornwall.
Henry Edgar Morgan, confectioner and biscuit dealer,
Oxford-street.
William John Cox, grocer, Fetter-lane.

MR. WILLIAM BROWN AND THE LIVERPOOL PHILO.
MATiIIC SOCIETY.—This society, which has from the
first shown as high an appreciation of the munificence
of the founder of the Free Public Library, as any other
of our local literary associations, has elected Mr. Brown
an honorary member. There is one fact which renders
the compliment more emphatic and gratifying—the
fact that this society has always been very chary indeed
in elections to honorary membership, while in some
other literary societies honorary members are as plentiful
as blackberries. During the thirty-six years of its
existence, for, with the exception of the Literary and
Philosophical Society, the Philomathic is the oldest of
our literary and learned bodies, it has not paid the
compliment of honorary membership to mere than half
a dozen individuals. The Philomathic Society was one
of those which presented addresses to Mr. Brown on the
occasion of his founding the Free Public Library.
ALLEGED CRUELTY BY A STEPFATHER.—Yesterday,
at the County Magistrates' Court, a man named Richard
Boyse, residing in Cherry-lane, -Walton, was charged
with cruelty to a little boy, three years and three months
old, an illegitimate son of his wife before their marriage.
Mr. Lythgoe, relieving officer, said that, a police-serjeant
bad brought the child to him, as it was said to be much
neglected and ill-treated by its stepfather. It was dis-
coloured on its back in two or three places, and had a
black eye. He took the child to the Workhouse, and
the guardians had ordered that the prisoner should be
proceeded against. The child had not wanted for food,
as its grandmother lived near it.—Ellen Baker, the
grandmother, was called, and said that for the last four
or five months she had observed at different times that
the child was a mass of bruises from the head to the
heel. She had warned the mother that if she saw it in
such a state again she would give it to a police-officer.
—The prisoner here interposed, and said the bruises
were caused by the child falling down stairs.—Joseph
Townrow said in July he heard the child crying bitterly,
and on going to the place found it in the doorway,
tethered with a cord to a table, or something of that
kind. There was no one in the house. The prisoner
said he had tied it there because it had been wading in
a pit. and be was afraid it would get drowned.—Thos.
Balmer said the child had been locked up in a shippon
about a fortnight ago.—A variety of other evidence was
called, but none of which seemed to bring home the
charge to the prisoner. The child was too young to
give any account of the affair, but, when questioned
about his bruises, simply said that " daddy did it." The
magistrate expressed himself satisfied that the prisoner
had used the child with great severity, and ordered him
to be imprisoned for seven days.
THE PORT OF ROTTERDAM—:' •e Chamber of
the States-General of Holland has just had laid before
it a bill for the improvement of the navigable passage
from Rotterdam to the sea.
STATUE OF FRANCIS I.—The Municipal Council of
Cognac have just voted a sum of 20,0001'. for the erection
of a statue of Francis I. on one of the public squares in
that town.
THE RAILWAYS AND THE GOVERNMENT IN AUS•

THIA.—The directors of all the Austrian railways held
at Vienna, a few days ago, a meeting to deliberate on
the means to be adopted in common to prevent the loss
occasioned by the conveyance of troops. The Govern-
ment pays so little for that set-vice that the sum does not
cover the cost, and the ordinary passenger and goods
traffic of the companies also suffers inconvenience. It
is said that the directors resolved to send in a note to
the Government, demanding a larger allowance for
carrying troops and war material.
BISHOP CCEUR.S DEATH.—The death of Mgr. Cann.,
Bishop of ,Troyes, was caused by an attack of paralysis.
The venerable prelate had gone to Charpont to spent a
few days with M. de Truchy. On the day of hith
he had gone to his own apartment before aintier, having
asked' Mine. de Truchy for a certain book which 'he
wished to look at. On her return with it, she found the
bishop lying on the ground, with his head supported On
a chair, his mouth drawn on one side, and his voice
almost gone. Medical aid was sent for, hut it was of
no avail. The bishop was able, thought with difficulty,
to confess, and after receiving extreme unction became
I 'speechless, and in a few hours after expired.