The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-26 00:00:00

GENERAL NEWS.

The Comrnissionership of 'Audit, vacant' by the death
of Mr. C. Goss, will not be filled up.
IH.M.S.'Havannali, 19, at bevonport, is to be sent to
the Committee of the Ragged Industrial School at Cardiff,
for a training ship.
The length of the land wires and submarine telegraph,
cables, which connect the eastern end -of Java with
Moreton Bay, in Eastern Australia, will be about 3,500
miles. .. •-•
The-Globe's Paris correspondent remarks that the-
annexation of Savoy by France irrevocably binds the
French Empire to uphold the new territorial arrange-
ment in Italy... • '
The Secretary of State for War has issued a circular,
by which it appears that the period of service to entitle
the well-conducted soldier to tbe first grant of good
condnct pay shall be three years instead of five years.
The ReV.- J. C. M.' Bellew, S.C.L., has consented to
deliver a lecture on " Milton," his Times and Worki,
at St. Martin's-hall, on Monday. evening the 2nd of
April next, the proceeds arising therefrom being devoted
to. the support of the "Caxton Pensioner" of the
Printers' Pension Society. • - •
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR TAE PROMOTION 'OF
SOCIAL SCIgNCE IN GLASGOW.—It is' arranged that
Monday, the 25th September, shall be the first day of
meeting.
A LATE 'HARVEST. —We may mention, says the
Strathdon -correspondent of the Banfiltire J6(zwiial, that
the harvest of 1859 lies unfinished in several places in
the upper glens of this district.'
MUNICIPAL FESTIVALS IN FRANCE.—The inhabitants I
of Chartres, two days back, gave a grand historical
cavalcade, representing the entrance of Henry IV.,
when he came to be oreiined ling :of France at that
town.

FRENCH EXIIIBITION.—The gallery of the French
Exhibition. Pall-mall, has opened at an unusually early
period in the-season, but we think it would be well for
English art if such an exhibition as the present were
permanently established.
At the interview which the Savoy deputation had
with the Emperor, his Majesty is said to have asked the
envoys whether they had good barracks in Savoy, and
said: that be would send :troops there, whose presence
always ,gives life and animation to a country,
A ship of the line to be, plated with steel has been
laid down in • the dockyard of Cherbourg.. She is to
be 300 feet in length, with an iron spur 30 feet long, to
be supplied• with an engine of 1,200 horse power; and
to be called the Napoleon I.
• 4 DRUNKEN CAEHAN AT CHARLES DICKENS'S.—
John WoOd; a cab-driver, was charged with being
drunk in his employment as cab-driver, and making use
of insulting language at Mr. Charlei Dickens's hoUse.
He was tined 10S. or 14
_days.
WANTED—An act of Parliament, indicting heavy
plies orpeoltips on all persons who throw orange-Teel
on the pavenient. Will no member who is in -the
habit of tripping, or who is clever in breaking down at,
every step he takes, propose it ?—Purtelt.
DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OP A VOLUNTEER.—Four
persons, dressed in the. uniform of a rifle corps, were
practising on Wandsworth Common ; one of them
aimed at and shot a very 1141010 m dog belonging to a
lady little sit! ryas Close to the dog at the time.
The volnnteers then rqn of.
CENTRAL AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES.—Some remark-
able ruins bail been' 'discovered near • the river Pecos,
ninety miles above Fort Stanton,, New Mexico. They.
are situated,: on a plain, and are massive 'relies of a
people who have -pa'ised:away. The city appears- to
have been built by a warlike rate.
A few days ago the Commandant of Comorn com-
mitted suididp. The deceased was always renowned for
his pufietnality, and•shortly before he shot himself he
"reported!' to his superior of Ice', that being tired of
:life h ns, tilt to, ?lit ' end to it.ama ens led, „says the correspondent q the .4.eed#
erci4, from private and an undoubted source; tO, Pyt
you in possession Of 'a pike ot news ',Thigh will Interest
niany ; it is OW the Princess Frederick William (our
Princess Royal) expects an increase of family in two or
three months.
SHEUTZ'S CALCULATING MACHINE.—The, ingenious
calculating machine invented by Mr. Babbage has been
heard of, probably, by every person in this country who
ever ,reads a newspaper ;:but the still more ingenious
and complicated engine, constructed by the Messrs.
Sheutz has by no means earned the high reputation
deserves.

Qv N's 17.41nR11,5' P4TEFq.—lrthyliotAse 0 Gum-
mons,. Baines the report a the select
committee which has sat fur:two sessioUs ou the Queen's
Printers' patent for printing the Bible. The report
recommends that the patent be not renewed, and that
no exclusive .privilege of printing the scriptures be
allowed henceforth to exist.

THE CASE OF THE REV. JAMES BONWELL.—Surprise
has been expressed in connection with the abandonment,
or at -all events suspension of the proceedings on the
charge of adultery, against the. Rev. James Donwell
the rector of St. Philip's Church, SCeptiey, 'against
Wrte tinle siTl4b the Bishop of Lohtion-issued a
comniisiion,
Tut YENETIANS AND THEIR RULERS.—Among the-
pigeohs which generally congregate in the Pia7,4a.St:
Marco, one came with a large tricolor cockade tied round
its 'wk. At reward first 'Of 'lof. arid afterwards for
expedition's' sake, _o4eted, 'for 'the arrest of
,
the delinqhent:•'ll4 was taken by nnnger, rylieu he was
pitilessly executed.
1 THE 04ni„istir 00FPIN MYSTERY.—The _Paisley
lierulc, says In reference to 'the death of the child
whose body was discovered some time since in a coffin
enclosed in a box at Carlisle, addressed to Mrs. Loudon,
and which has since been traced to Greenock, we under-
stand that, on an analysis of a portion of the stomach,
poison has been found."
Li:TABARes pAogrEers.—lbis voca-
tion Ts. netv becoming one of skilled labour ; and his
qualifications and his wages must both rise. Eor clod-
poles we shall henceforth- have agricultural operatives,
working by machinery, and paid according to their
intelligence and skill. We see this happening. already,
atrd more and mofQ extetisiTcly t;vry'ytar:
Ttx•E 40E14 16v•olor BILL AND THE CORK
LOrd John Russell's bill were law, how
would the late Cork election have ended Would not
the late Attorney. General have been turned out to make
room for a stranger,
,whom the electors would have
"spontaneously" chosen, under the dictation of their
174e844! Wlicl will atW4s the 01mA:iv' of the most
ignOrnnt of t.W people
PQRTVNATN UReOVERY OF GOLD.—Some time after
the arrival of a railway train two.days ago, at Dunkirk,
when the controller of the station, named Brahant, was ,
visiting the different carriages, he found ina first-class
-one-a bag containing 31:1,6,60f. in gold. Heimmediately •
hnded it over tO the chief of the station, by whom it
wig. afterwai-ds deliVered to its owner a merchant of the
fevin.i•LO4lignani. " ' • •
'ROYAL BOTANIC, ICIMTT or TicknictN.--,The exhibi-
tion of Wednesday • was altogether successful. It was
fully kltkal to that of last year, which, taking into consi-
deration the.,long duration this year of severely cold and
winterlyoweather, may. be regarded as eqUivalent to a
considerable improvement. All the plants which graced
the exhibition last year had their representatiye
yesterday's show ; and there were, not a lb* 'novelties. •
A Rogue in,tIOUGUT FROM TUB ANTIFODES.—About
Ina' minas ago a
,man, rienied Luntman,
Oseonded froni-Ettingiliill, with between £5OO and £6OOO ,
prOperty.of his employers, and sailed fo Autstraha, !
whither- he was followed by Sergeant Baker, of the
county police, anti apprehenaied shortly after 'his arrival ,
there. ge was brought hack in the Essex, and now
lies in the. Bilston lock-up awaiting aq examination
blero4 the inegistrate4:
' PE4, OQ-VER, ANA eaeOA FOR THE SICK.—A great
deal too much against tea is said by wise people, and a
great deal too much of tea is given to the sick by foolish
people.. When you see the natural and almost universal
craving in English sick for their " tea," 'yon cannot but
feel that nature .knoWs what abOut• Bat a little
tett• or coffee restores then) quite as much as, a great deal,
and 4 B'o4 0414 tea, anCesperlially of coffee, impairs
tbe'littlisPower of. digestiOn_they have.
AN ENGLISH LADY ON THE SULTAN.--an steps into
the caique, from which the canopy has heen rihove;'
puts on his gloies, clistoTta his lace u Ipoking nck,
the sun, and do doing exhibits, his tabaccostalhed teet,h*.
iThile his plain, unuttke4ing countenance assumes a_
1116§t disagreeable expreasion. 'This, then, is the man
who is called *R s gbAciow on the J4arth," and who
miles with uhiollite sway over the lives and happiness
of 35,000,000 of human
,beings! I have seen many
crowned heads, but none who seem to me so devoid of
dignity, so devoid of anything remarkable as this
" Shadow of God on Earth."
PEW BENTS.--In the /lonse of Commons on Thurs-,
day, Mr. Turner presented a petition from iikohaeladers•
and inhabitants of Manchesters; chiefly Working Men,
statiug that there 'Wea about %00I:1,000 of free sittings
attached to the National Church of England and Wales;
that it was aatagonistio to the feelings of the great body
of honest working men to appear" as paupers in their
own parish churches (hence, in a great measure, their
non=attendance on public worship) ; that their weei-iy
earnings did not enable them to pay nigh' pew rent's;
but that if one half Ole free sittings were offered
to be let to the irofkingtlasSeSs ; with 'the Privilege of
furiiishing their own sittings with cushions, hassocks,
and' other conveniences, part at ls. and part at ;s 6,3.
Per annum, a. sum' would be raised whiPh would go far
towards forming ail equivalent 'for church rates, and
qraying the Ilona o, typotnti emmittee to in uire
into the EOM allegation,
SINGULAR RECOVERY of LOST MONEY.—On Tues-
day morning a respectable woman, somewhat advanced
in life, and living in Wolverhampton, left the queen-
street Railway Station' to go by the Stour Valley Rail-
way to a station near Birmingham to attend a sale of
furniture. To-Make the necessary purchases she took
with her between £5O slid ap in nom and gold, ands
wrapping the money in a paper paieel placid it in her
pocket. " 'Non gettineto, the station' where she had to
alight, Ole' Vas much distressed to And that her money
was gotta. She took the first train baek to Wolver-
hampton] where she had reason to believe that she bad
.dropped her money. As the return train entered the
station she was observed to look out of the window
with great eagerness, leap cart of the carriage before the
train had well stopped, and run round to the depart*
side. There she jumped from the platicß, 9,n to: t'lio
line and picked up her parcel of money, which her
anions eyp had peyceiTediy'fiti upon the space between
the, platform and the nearest lines a metals.— Wolver-
hampton chro4ic4..
LOVE7MARING IN ROTTEN-ROW.—" Now, Mrs. Bar-
ber, I must beg of you to direct your attention to the
incidents that occurred before your marriage with Mr,
Barber. You met him, I believe, for the first time in
the ride in Hyde-park olres I was riding there
one morning, -when -Mr. Barber tame up to me, and
said be. hoped mamma and papa -were quite well."
',,Did Mr. Barber run by the side of your horse, or ace
We to take it, •madam, that Mr. Barber was oq horse,
back, too ?" " Yes. I was', a, good deal astonished ;
but I supposed he knew the family ; so I said that
mamma's cold was better—Aut that poor papa had
.soinething with a Gyeek name which made him very
uncomfortable, especially after dinner, and 31r. Tiarber
said be ought to be cupped every day at four o'clock,
and if that did not answer, the Only thing was to try
the Spa waters, lie then proposed to me to .Inive a
canter ; and when we were going at full speed he asked
me if I believed in first love, and the union of souls
and I was so confused, because My net had fallen off,
and my back hair was streaming out, that I don't know
what I answered ; but I remember he said that it was
wonderful!' and from that moment forward he would
Confine himself to four cigars a-day, and devote himself
to-nay hzippiness."—From Divorce a Vinculo, in Once a
Week,