The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-24 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

ACCIDENT ON THE RAlLWAY.—Yesterday John Crowe
(aged 33), residing in-John Court, Chisenhale-street,
was taken to the Northern Hospital, suffering from
fractured ribs caused by hiS being crushed between two
waggons, on, the Lancashire and :Yorkshire Railway,
near 16 the Great HoWard-stibet station:
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CASE 13erixticci,--YesterdaY Mary Loftus, a girl
1.6 years of age; arid Of Weak ihtelleet, residing in No.
2 Court, Trueman-street, set fire to her Clothes hi the
absence of her parents arid was dreadfully burtied. She
Was removed to the Northern Hospital:
THE STRUGGLE FOR Exismatt.--Aast °Veiling Mr.
It. Booth delivered a, lebthre at the Hope-street Schools,
on " The Strilggle for Existence." He reviewed the
Ontlitioii of the various classes of the Community,
illustrating it with scenes from life. The andierice ivas
large and respectable. :At the close a vote of thanks
was given to the lecturer..
BIRI AocinTi.-.=-At a rneeting
of the Protestant Reformatiop soeietY held, on Thrirsday
night in the Argyle-street ScbOolrooml Birkenhead; Mr.
Parsonage delivered a most able and erudite lecture on
" The Pope in a Fix, or Popery in Danger," before a
crowded and attentive auditory.
PHILHARMONIC-HALL—Our readers will be glad to
learn that the Rev. Mr. Bellew has kindly promised to
give readings from the British poets in this ball on
Tuesday, the 11th December, and, from the. Works of
Oliver Goldsmith, together *itii...a sketch of his life,
.on
Friday, the 14t.h. The net proceeds are to assist in the
liquidation of; the debt incurred ih the alterations and
iniprovementiiri Trinity Church, St. Ann's-street.
AFRICAN MAIL DEsi,A.Ten FROM LIVERPOOL—The
African royal Mail steamship Ethiope, will lie despatched
from the Mersey this afternoon, for the west coast of
Africa, with the mails for Madeira, Tenerife, &c, The
box at the Liverpool post-office will; be dpell for the
receipt of Until 2.16 P.M. Letters and News-
papers hearing a late fee of 6d. will be received at the
post-office box on the landing-stage until 3 p.m. In
all cases the late fee must be pre-paid in stamps. The
next mail despatch from Liverpool to the west coast of
Afkiea will be on the 24th of next month.
, WONDERFUL EFFECTS OF THE FOG ON CAB-
DRIVERS.—At the Police-court, yesterday, there were
seven or eight cab-drivers brought before Mr. Raffles,
charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care
of their horses, &c. Curious enough, the defence in
each case was; that the fog had a great effect on them,
And that it Was hot the drink at all, at all j His Wor-
ship said he wotild neter let cif cab-driVeTs Who *ere
dim* it Was most dangerous to the priblib: In bales
Where the prisoneis were riot kno*ti, he fined them ss. and
belsts i but where they had been up before, he ordered
them to be reported to the Car COMT/littee,
ACCIDENT TO A WOOnSIDE VERICY BOAT.—The
Queen, Woodside ferry steamer, which left the Landing-
stage on Thursday night at ten o'clock, had proceeded
but a short distance across the river, when the crank of
her engine' broke,- and she was in a moment. utterly
disabled. The passengers were of course eohsiderably
alarmed ; but after drifting for a Ohlat distance with the
tide, the Moiik's=ibrry railway boat opportunely arrived,
and taking her iri to*, brought her in satbty to the
Landing-stage. Het passengers, were shortly after Wards
shipped on board, the. Prince; -WOddsitie fei•ry boat, acid
tohVeyed Weibsi the i‘tr. • .

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Mi. AND MRS. GERMAN REED AND MR. JOH*
PARRY.—Now that November has set in with its usual
dismnal severity, it is gratirYino• to hear that artistes at
once so intellectual and laiighter:proVOking as the Reeds
And john, ParrY:are going to give their entertainment
daring the Whole of nett iVeek--the evenings alid Aredl
Wisday morning--in the beautiful small concert-room
of St. George's-hall, where they attracted such numerous
and fashionable' audiences night after night during a
fortnight in the autumn just past. That they will again
meet with a similar flattering amount of public patronage
we do not doubt, for amongst the entertainers of the
present day, the highest rank is decidedly held by Mr.
and Mrs. German Reed and Mr. John Parry. The
entertainment is given for the first time en Monday
evening.
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eoitONR'S lisiewEstS.reaterclay the Coroner held
`the following inquests .—On the body of Denis Moran,
45 Yealt of age, a tailor who resided at 4, Carlton-street.:
It appeared that on the 21st instant the deceased was ,
crossing Oldhall-street
.Bridge, when he was caught
between a lorry and some 'cotton bales, and got so much
crushed ' that he died in consequence of the injury.
there was no blame attached to any one and the jury
rettirned a Verdict of accidental death,—On the body of
George Wilistanley, a voting man who died in conse-
quence of- injuries reeeived by a piete Of timer falling
on him at the Sand-hills Station, a the Lancashire
hallway, The Unfortunate Mit was purely an acci-
dent, and 'the jury ibilirned a verdict of accidental death.
iAv ATENTS. Thomas Blakeley, of Liverpool,
t'improvements in rotatory engines."—George Bartho-
lomew, of Linlithgow,' " improvements in shoes for the
feet. of 7hoises and other animals."—W.:T ShaW, of
London, "improvements in thainitatropes and plenakis-
tocopes."—l. A, Manning, of the Inner Temple, Lon-
don) "improvements in the treatment, application, and
use of sewage matters, and the general wastes of towns
and factories."—James Rabin, of Ramsgate, " improve-
ments in quadrants, sextants, or other similar instru-
ments, to which artificial horizons are applicable."—
,T. S. Truss, of London and. Plaistow, "improvements
in apparatus for the traction and.i)ropulsion of boats and
other nautical vessels."—T. M. Richardson, of the State
of Maine, U.S., " a ne* and iisetlll improved steering
apparatus for navigable VesSelo--e'ommunicated front
the clAaes fOi. obtaining Patents for Inventions, Xo. 4,
douton-tiqUare,
NVHERE SHALL WE DINE ?—This is a question easily
asked and as easily answered. The restaurant in Pekin-
buildings, Harrington-street, between Castle-street and
North John-street, is to be opened on*Monday next; b!),
Mr. Robert Child, so long and -§6 ratoilrably known as
the manager of the Merchants' Dining-rooms. It would
be superfilidus on our part to say a word in favour of
Mr. Child as a public caterer. He has a reputation
which he has earned in the management of most of our
local public gatherings at St. George's Hall, the
Knowsley Review, .and elsewhere, and we canna do
better than commend his new tstablishnicht to all those
who dine or. lunch lit town. Its new restaurant is
fitted up in magnificent style, and we feel confident the
department of the cusinc will be found second to none in
the town. A lengthened servitude in the management
of the Merchants' and the Liverpool and London Cafe
will entitle him to. the extended patronage of those who
take delight in the gastronomic art.
SALE OF VESSELS, YESTERDAY.—A sale of new
British built ships was held bb: publid auction yesterday
in the salerooms of Messrs. Tonge and Co., the well-
known ship atietioneers and Admiralty brokers, in
itumford-street. The vessels offered for sale were the
splendid new ship Maiden Queen (pro tem.), 858 tons:,
0.51., 814 tons register, built at Harrington, CUrnberl
lan, just launched and classed fourteen years ; the Lord
Clyde, 556 tons 0.m.) SCI tons N.N.M., built at Bridport
under special survey of Lloyd's surveyors, and classed
A 1 with asterisk for thirteen years ; and the new A 1
round-sterned schooner Ocean Spray, 110 tons 0.m., 70
tons per register, classed A 1 at Lloyd's for nine years,
and built under special survey. The sale was attended
by a large number of respectable purchasers and ship,
owners, and the proceedings throughout were tharat-.
terised by spirited bidding and considerable competition.
The sale resulted in the splendid ship Maiden Queen
being knocked down to the well-kno*n shipowners of
this town, Messrs. T. and d. brocklebank, for the slim
of £14,000. The other fine vessels, Lord Clyde and
Ocean. Spray, were not disposed` of at the auction, but
the brokers are sangtiine in the expectation of effecting
a speedy.sale. •
ALLEGED ACCIDENT AT HENGLER'S CIRCUS.
ANOTHER HOAX.—If people do not resort to the usual,
suicidal means of cutting throats, hanging; or drowning
theniselves in the foggy weather of dreary dark Novem-
ber, they must have some other Mart of recreative atntise,
ment ; and although it May he eorisidbred a very inno-
cent thing to hoax A newspaper, we think the hoaxer
would prove his wisdom more conclusively by garotting
himself into eternity, than deceiving a public journal,
and misleading the public. Ortb of our diurnal co-
temporaries has been made the victim of some
scalpel knife or other, who ?elated in his pages a circum-
stantial account a an alleged terrible accident at
Hengler's Circus, committed by that wonderful animal,
"Ajax," the great performing elephant. There was an-
important point, however, forgotten—that the: account
wanted one thin namely Truth We have it on the
best authority that the story was a regular hoax. anq
that the "frightful accident," conslste'd ti
having rubbed his trunk rA_ther against some
one who annOyed Min. How such a story got into
circulation tan he accounted for only on the ground that
some One besides "Ajax" had a look into the bucket of
shwey I In repeating that the story was an emanation
from the heat-oppressed brain, we would caution people
against trying such dangerous hoaxes, as some fine morn-
ing, perhaps, one or other of such gentlemen may find
themselves in one of two pluees--,-,eithei in a court of
law for a libel, or in Constantinople on the way to—
" Hong Hong
MIDNIGHT MEETINGS FOR THE REFORMATION OF
I FALLEN Womzm.The benevolent and truly philan-
thropic objects contemplated by the society for the
reformation of those
.poor outcasts who nightly flaunt
their sin and misery in our streets And thoroitghfares
are, we feel convinced) such AS Will enlist the sympathy
and support of ofety Christian and virtue-loving person.
The project was, as our readers are doubtless aware, first •
mooted in the great metropolis, and soon evoked the
kind co-operation of many excellent clergyman and
others interested in the dissemination of Moral add reli-
gious principles amongst this hitherto-despised class of
the community. Centributions to a large amount were
freely given, and the movement became so thoroughly
organised, that midnight meetings, night after night
were held, at which many estimable clergyinen (whose
piety and well-known character were an indubitable cre-
dential for the purity of the motives that influenced
them in engaging in this novel mission,) attended
and addressed large • audiences of " iinfortti-
nates" in words of fond and apostolic endearment,
and pointed out to thud, in vivid and startling colours,
the wickedness,
sinfulness, and misery, both in a spiri-
tual and corporeal sense, they were subjecting them-
selves to, in leading so disreputable a life. Entreaty,
eloquence, pursuasive, and soothing—words of comfort,
of warning, and of gentle reproach ; kind inducements,
and glowing pictures of the happy and holy joys they
could partake of ow earth, and Df the angelip and
unspeakable bliss that would form their portion in, the
heavenly home, if they turned fromthe broad path that
leads to destrUction;
in line, everything that the bene-
ficent spirit of christian charity, whose love is measure-
less, could suggest, was done to convert our fallen and
depraved sisters from vice and crime, and reinstate
them in the ranks of. the virtuous and good. , • Divine
aid was no less freely extended to the movement than
the aid of man. Mortal efforts were seconded:
by the blessings of the Holy Spirit. .which breathed
into the wicked ones, and softened their callous
hearts. A large number of them abandoned,their sinful
ways and sought peace with God, refuge from a repeti-
tion of their crimes, in the homes, asylums, and peni-
tentiaries that the generosity of a charitable and muni-
ficent public had provided for them. This great move-
ment, which has been productive of so much good in
London, has, we are happy to state, communicated its
influence to Liverpool, which we are grieved to say is
fearfully stained with this foul blot on our moral status
as a nation. It 'is the intention
,of the committee
appointed for the purpose to follow the same plan that
was found to work so beneficially in London ; and
accordingly a series of midnight meetings, similar to
those that. have taken place in the city, will be held, to
which these • unfortunate girls will be invited. Cards
have been already issued to them ; and we are informed
that the first meeting will take place on Monday or
, Tuesday next.