The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-08 00:00:00

VINANCE COlNlfttt

MT: MOREtItOiT, chairmari of the ritirtnce Committee
submitted the estimates for the ensuing year, from which
it appeared that the amount required for the purposes of
the township would be £1,120, which it was proposed
to obtain by levying a general district rate of 9d in the
pound. The rateable value of the property in the town-
ship was £33,930, and 9d in the pound would give
about £l,lBO.

Mr.LIVERSIDGE seconded the adoption of the estimates,
and eipreSsed pleasure to find that the forebodings of
some of their neighbours that the rates of that board
would be something like lOd in the pound would not be
realised.

The estimates were agreed to; and, having disposed
of some formal business, the board adjourned.

LIST Or PASSENGERS PER NOVA SCOTIAN.—Mr. and
Mrs. Gilman, Mr. and Mrs. Harris, ?Jr. Gillespie, Mr.
Gillespie, jun., Mrs. Acheson and child, Mrs. and Miss
Maxwell, Master Maxwell, Miss Stanton, Capt. Robin-
son, Capt. Grant, Sisters St. Clarence and Josephine,
Mr. and Miss Medworth, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, Mrs.
Watts, Miss Dooley, Mr. Orkney, Mr. Buckley, Mr.
Megone, Mr. Newbury, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Edmon.
stone, Mr. Bacot, Mr. Doughty, Mr. Stinson, Mr.
Betley, Mr. Mathieson, Mr. Smith, Mr. Frazer, Mr.
Smith, Mr. Talbot, Mr. Calvert, Mr. St. John, Mr.
Turpin, Mr. Barker, Mr. Hickey, Mr. Rayner, Mr,
Tyson, and 64 steerage passengers.
SELECT VEsznY.--The fortnightly meeting of this
board was held yesterday, in the board-room of the
Workhouse, Brownlow-hill. Mr. Churchwarden Cropper
presided, and the other members present were Messrs,
Churchwarden Smith, Owen, Scott, Satchell, Cook,
Bairstow, Hughes, Peck, A. Byford, Byford, Light-
bound, F. L. Jones, Syred, Hand, Luff, and Whitby.
The minutes of the Workhouse Committee were read
and confirmed, as were also the proceedings of the
Industrial Schools Committee. The next business was
to select five medical officers for the several districts
intd which the parish is now divided. There were ten
applicants who obtained votes as follows :--Ayrton 11,
Brown 8, Steele 13, Russell 8, Baxter 3, Samuels 5,
Graham 11, Sinclair 13, Prytheck 11, Irving 7, The
successful candidates were therefore Messrs. Sinclair,
Graham, Ayrton, Steele, and Prytheck. This was all
the business of any interest.
Suspicious CASE.—We observe by a Dublin paper
that at the Capel-street police court on Saturday, a man
who gave his name as George Woods, of Low Hill,
Liverpool, publican add jobbing gardeneT, was brought
up in custody of Acting-Inspector Fox, of theG division,
charged with having in his possession, and offering for
pawn on the 3rd instant, at Mr. Redmond's office,
Abbey-street, a gold lever watch, valued at LlO, and for
which he could not satisfactorily account. It appeared
that the prisoner had arrived in Dublin that morning
by the Liverpool boat, and being questioned as to the
watch, told various contradictory stories about it. At first
he said it had been in his family for twenty years, and
that he got it about nine about years ago from his sister,
now deceased. Subsequently, however, he stated that
he got it from her only six months ago, that she died
about that time, and that she kept the Haymarket Inn,
at Oxford-street, Liverpool. He refused to tell what
business brought him to Dublin, but said that he
intended to return that night.—He was remanded.
The Lieutenant-Governor and Executive Council of
New Brunswick have appointed the Honourable Joseph
Cunard, of Liverpool, a commissioner in the United
Kingdem and other parts of her Majesty's dominions,
and in the United States of America, to take affidavits
and acknowledgments of deeds and other instruments
relating to matters in that province.
FEMALE COURAGE.—In 1833 I was at the capture of
Oporto. An English merchant's wife displayed much
courage and presence of mind on the day we took the
place. I called on het about purchasing the horse of
an English captain who' commanded a frigate. On
entering the room -she remarked, Sir, we must go to
this corner, as the enemy from the other side of the
Douro have fired several shots in a diagonal direction
through the windows of this room, but in this part we
shall be safe." And whilst with her two balls actually
passed through the apartment in the direction she men-
ioned.—Colonel Hamilton's Reminiscences of a Sports-
man.

The re-organisation of the Prussian army having now
been completed, the total of the peace footing is 180,000
men, instead of 14.5,000, as formerly. In the event of
war breaking out, this number can, within a week, be
raised to 550,000 men, all of them trained soldiers, who
have undergone three years' service in the line, and are
annually assembled for three weeks' presence at the
manoeuvres. The second class of the Landwehr, con-
sisting of about 200,000 more trained soldiers, between
the ages of thirty and forty, is not included in the above.
SCENES IN CALA:iItIA.—We crossed incredible pre-
cipices ; we skirted horrible abysses, creeping along
while the ground crumbled like salt beneath our feet ;
we slid down declivities almost perpendicular; thickets
we pierced, cutting through briars and brushwood ; we
traversed torrents foaming like champagne, beautiful
fields and meadows like the landscapes of Claude, fruit-
bearing vineyards and olive-trees the sizeof oak's. Who
can tell the dangers, the escapes, the ravishing sights,
the ecstasies of that fifteen hours' ride ? I myself was
half intoxicated. My horse slid like a skater, climbed
like a cat, made himself little, picked himself up, elon-
' gated himself when necesssary, and passed along raths
narrow as threads of silk, and winding by the sides of
precipices 500 to 600 feet below.--" Cornhill Afogazino"
for August.