The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-25 00:00:00

COAT STEALING.

Police-officer Barrow, 7, brought up.a young fellow, named
John Edwards, on a charge of having stolen two coats. The
Qfficer said, for some days past.up wards of forty coats had been
stolen from ships in the docks. He got the prisoner going out
with two good coats on his arm. lie had got no owner for
them, and asked for a remand until he could mate inquiry
about them. The prisoner was remanded.

MARKETS COMMITTEK—Mr. Alderman Woodruff
presided at the weekly meeting of this committee
yesterday ; the other members present were—Messrs.
Hickson, Shimmin, Ridley, Kitchen, Barton, Johnson,
J. B. Lloyd, and Rogers. From the weekly return of
cash it appeared that. the amount received in the
markets up to the 20th September, 1860, was £1,169
15s.- 10d., the amount paid for wages being £132 9s id:
in the same period of last year the receipts were £1,030
16s 4d, and the expenses £ll2 17s. Id. The inspector
reported '10,956 lbs of unwholesome fish, and 5,965 lbs
of meat were seized: There was no other business of
any.interest.
CORONER'S INQUESTS.—Yesterday the COroner held
►won.,^" in " I*. -1' oral a
abourer, who died the Northern I ospit I. Val
Saturday the deceased was engaged carting some goods
on the Regent Road, when a pack of goods fell on him
and he was so much injured that he died in consequence.
Verdict—Accidental Death. On the body of Robert
Graham, a labourer, who lost his life at one of the rail-
way arches, near Tithebarn-street, where he was engaged
scraping an arch preparatory to painting. The affair
was purely accidental, and the jury found accordingly.
[The deceased was a man much respected in his position,
and has left five children, the youngest three months
old, totally unprovided for.]-0n the body of a child
named Martha Simon, eleven weeks old, that was over-
lain in bed. Verdict, Accidentally suffocated.
THE LATE COLLISION ON THE SHREWSBURY AND
HERErORD RAILWAY.—Shrewsbury, Saturday.—The
ad passenger who was kilted on
journed inquest on the
this line was resumed to-day by the coroner, and . has
resulted in a verdict which strongly reflects on the
management of the line by the officers engaged. The
circumstances were of a melancholy character, and have
caused deep regret amongst all parties. It bas.-been
old that " Accidents will happen in the
truly said of
best regulated families," and the Great 'Western officials
have not escaped, though it is universally admitted that
that line is, par exeellence, the best regulated of the
railway fatuity, and is served by the.best railway talent
in existenee. Few lines can boast of such experienced
men as Mr. Kelly and Mr. Patchett : and there can be
but one opinion on the excitsablz- mistakes in reading
a„telegraphic despatch which led, to such unfortunate
results.

DARING SHIP ROBRERY.—At the County Magis-
trates' Court, yesterday, before Mr. It. Brocklebank,
three men, named respectively Robert Wilman, William
Frank, and Henry Vichorst, were brought up 071
charge of stealing from two • vessels in. the Garston
Docks. The facts as they appeared, in evidence were
briefly these :—On Sunday night, James Conway-
cap-
tain of the Tees Packet, went to bed in his vessel, and
,eioek
left. his watch hang at in up. He awoke five
0
next morning and found his watch gone.
John Ken-
in his ship
dall, captain of the Eliza Hanson,
also
slept
he found his
on Sunday night, and when he awoke
trousers had been stolen, together with £2 3s. 6d., a
cork-screw, knife, and other articles. He afterwards
found his trousers on the quay side, and the purse there
also. Captain Conway gave_ information to the police,
and Serjeant Moss and Police-constable Groupie mime-
diately went
z mbarth, where they saw the three
prisoners goinglat towards Liverpool. They were brought.
back and searched, when a watch and some money were
found
Frank.o.u'iidupon Wilman, and a cork-screw, knife,
&c., upon
Vichorst had no property in his possession ; he
belonged to a vessel in the Garston Dock, but he took
his clothes and left her yesterday morning to accompany
the other two prisonerS. The prisoners were all sent
for trial,

MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY, AND
ARTISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Mr. Blanchard Jerrold is said to be engaged on
"A History of Industrial Exhibitions."
Mr. Hans Busk is at present engaged in lecturing in
different towns in England.
The statement that-Mn Dickens is engaged on a new
serial story is contradicted.
The guarantee fund to the International Exhibition
of 1862, now amounts to X 362,600. - -
Report hints that we may expect before long a rival
to the Cornkill, to be called the Temple Bar Magazine,
and edited by Mr. Sala.

From Germany we are greeted by an elaborate bio-
graphy of Sir Walter Scott (" Walter Scott, ein Lebens-
bild ") by Professor Eberty.
Messrs. Routledge'S " Christmas Book" for 1861 is
to consist of the " Collected Poems of Eliza Cook," and
will he illustrated by Gilbert.

Messrs. Sampson, Low, and Son announce the " Mount
Vernon Papers," by Edward Everett ; and Captain
R. B. Marcey's "Prairie and Overland Traveller."
The SomersetAiire gentlemen who have carried out
the plan of placing Blake in the Shire Hall at Taunton,
have resolved to have a companion bust of Locke.
The New York Ereninq Post informs us that "J. C.
Bancroft Davis does American for the London Times at
twelve or fifteen hundred dollars a-year."
A new edition of Mr. M'Culloch's Commercial Dic-
tionary, comprehending the extensive changes induced
by the commercial treaty with France, is announced.
M. Chacornac, of Paris, has discovered, in the con-
stellation of the Whale, another new planet, of the
ninth or tenth magnitude, the fifty-ninth of the group
of the asteroids.

The second- edition of Mr. Poole's " Genesis of the
Earth and of Man" is greatly increased in bulk. About
a third Of the matter is new, bringing down the story
of ethnological awl philological research since the date
of the first edition.

" A Life of Edward Forbes, the Naturalist," by
George Wilson ; and a work "On the Origin and Suc-
cession of Life on the Earth," by John Phillips, reader
in geology at the University of Cambridge, are preparing
by Alessri Macmillan and Co.
A catalogue is being made, by authority, of all the
objects of art in the numerous French museums and
palaces. The number already reached amounts to 40,000.
A second catalogue is to follow of the paintings and
sculptures in the public buildings of France—churches,
convents, hospitals, town-halls,le.
Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co. have announced a
translation of Von Wieland's satirical romance, "The
Abderites," by the Rev. Henry Christmas. The work
will have the additional title of " The Republic of Fools,"
and will be followed by an investigation into philoso-
phical romance from the time (if Plato to that of Sir
E. Bulwer Lytton.

Kohl's volumes of Travels in Canada, Pennsylvania,
and New York, are, we believe, about to be issued by
Mr. Manwaring, under the anthor's express sanction,
with an additional chapter, including the Grand Trunk
Railway, and bringing down the information to the
present mament, the work of translation being confided
to Mrs. Percy Sinnett,

Among the earlier novelties of the Pyne and Harrison
manag,ement this season will he the new opera by Mr.
Balfe. " The Libretto," it. is understood, is founded on
Monk Lewis's " Rugantino." Wagner's " Tanahauser"
will he given during the season in an English dress.
The Christmas pantomime will he served up by Mr.
.T. V. Bridgeman.

. .
Mr. Davis, who for four years past has been employed,
by order of the English Government, in excavating the
the remains of Carthage, has returned to this country.
Mr. Davis has made mangeninnts' we understand, with
Mr. Bentley, for his work. " Carthage and her Remains ;
being an Account of the Excavations and Researches on
the Site of the Phoenician Metropolis in Africa anal
other adjacent. Places?'

Mr. Bentley is preparing for immediate publication a
second series of the veteran Mr. John Timbs's useful
and unpretending "Anecdote Biography of English
Worthies." The new volume will be devoted to Eng-
lish artists, and include memoirs of flogarth, Sir Joshua
Reynolds, Friseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Gainsborough,
and Turner. Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. are sirailarly
occupied with "Over the Cliffs," a novel by a ladv, Mrs„
Chantrev, who reckons among her claims to attention
that of king a sister of the two Kingaleys.
The Mon teens communicates several letters from the
correspondence of Napoleon the First, which the present
Emperor has collected and will have published. The
letters from this collection, now printed by the Moniteur,
are from the year 1798. They refer to the Egyptian
expedition, and are meant to prove that General Bonaparte-
undertook the expedition not in the sense of a conquest:
only, but that he looked at it, or, at least, wished others:
to look at it, in the light of an act of civilisation.
The Preach papers have published the programme of
the great Paris Art Exhibition, to be held in 1861. The
exhibition is to take place from the Ist of May to the Ist
of July, and artists of all nations—painters, sculptors,
architects, engravers—are admitted. No artist, how-
ever, is allowed to exhibit more than four works. The
objects for exhibition must be sent between the 20th of
March and the Ist of Aprii, 1861. Besides a great
medal of 4,0001., smaller medals of 1,5001., 500 f., and
250 f. will be awarded. Painting alone is to be honoured
with twenty-one modals.

Sporting Aultiligcnce.