The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-07 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Press.
THE GRENADIER GVARDS.—The present year being
the 200th anniversary of the formation of the let (or
Grenadier) Regiment of Guards, raised by Charles 11.,
after the restoration in 1660, as his own Royal Regiment
of Guards, it is intended to commemorate the event by
a grand entertainment. At a meeting of the officers,
held a few days ago, comprising Colonel the Hon. James
Lindsay, Colonel Hamilton, C. 8., Colonel J. Lambert,
Colonel Lambert, Lieutenant-Colonel Wynyard,
Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Bradford, Bradford, Colonel Conway, C. 13., Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Ponsenby, trc. ;it was arranged to
celebrate the event by a dinner of the officers nu* con-
nected with the distinguished corps, and all those who
have at any time served in the regiment. His Reya
Highness the Prince Consort, who has been colonel of
the regiment since the death of the Duke of Wellington,
was solicited, and has consented to preside on the occa-
sion. It is propose atd th His Royal Highness the Du
the
ke
of Cambridge, as general-commanding-in-chief,
Secretary of State for War, the superior officers, and
gentlemen connected with the military administration
of the country ; also, that the colonels and lieutenant-
colonels of the Household Cavalry, of the Coldstream,
and Scots
endive Fusilier Guards shll be invited. A dinner
is also to b gn to the non-acommissioned officers and
soldiers of the regiment. The officers' banquet is to
take place on Saturday, the 16th proximo. Her Majesty
has been graciously pleased to place at the disposal of
the committee of officers formed to carry out the pro-
ceedings the Banqueting-hall of St. James's Palace.
SUICIDE or A SOLDIER.—A letter from Fermoy, dated
says Never has it been my lot to witness a
Sunday,
sight so revolting as that presented to my view this day.
I went to the general hospital here to see the
soldier i body n
her
of a
soldier named Charles:Chapman, a private
Majesty's 68th Regiment, who committed self-destruc-
tion. Yesterday, a party of soldiers, amongst whom
was the deceased, went out to the rifle practice ground,
on Cairn-hill, for the purpose of perfecting themselves
in the use of the. Enfield rifle. It is the custom of the
troops-in wet or very hot weather
ose to fire from under
cover of sheds erected for that purp by the Govern-
ment. The party above referred to had loaded, and were
about beginning to fire, when the deceased, under some
pretence, got leave to fall out, and rifle in hand, went to
the rear of the shed. He there took off his right boot,
rested .his chin on the muzzle of his rifle, and with his
great toe (the stocking
nd over which was
the twinkling torn or cut for
of tan
he
purpose) pressed the trigger, ain
eye the unhappy man was a corpse. The ball broke
the lower jaw bone, tore away the tongue, the front
portion of the upper jaw, and the cartilage of the nose,
and with the force of the powder burst the skall open in
in a most fearful manner, tearing away a great portion
of it and the scalp, and scattering them with the brains
and tongue a considerable distance from where he was
found lying. The unfortunate man had in his forage
cap a heavy, well-whetted razor, with which, it is sup-
posed, to cut his throat in case the bullet did not prove
fatal."
POWERFUL PREACHERS.—Not that I have any curiosity
to hear powerful preachers. Time was when I was
dragged by the hair of my head, as one may say, to hear
too many. On summer evenings, when every flower,
and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft
young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm
of a female hand by the crown, have been violently
scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a
purification for the Temple, and have then been carried
off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be
steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the
powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until
what small mind I had was quite steamed out of me.
In which pitiable plight I have been hauled out of the
place of meeting, at the conclusion of the exercises, and
catechised respecting Boanerges Boiler, his fifthly, his
sixthly, and his seveuthly, until I have regarded that
reverend person in the light of a :most dismal and
oppressive charade. Tim, was when I was carried off
to platform assemblages at which no human chile' ' '
whether of wrath or grace, could possibly keep its eyes
discovered,until be
open, and when I felt the 'fatal sleep stealing, stealing
over me, and when I gradually heard the orator in pos-
sessionroli ed,collapsed,spinning andaod
tu e3bhummingledl over,ike a
angdrealttop,
to
my burning shame and fear, that as to that last stage it
was not he, but I. I nave sat under Boanerges when he
has specifically addressed himself to us—us, the infants
—lumbering
and at this present writing I hear his
jocularity (which never'
er amused us, though we basely
pretended that it did). and. I behold his big
round face,
and I look up the inside of his outstretched coat-sleeve
as if it were a teleswpe with the stopper on,and
hate him with an unwholesome hatred for two I
hours.
Through such means (hi it come pass that I to
powerful preacher from beginning to end, knew the
all over and
all through, while I vas very young, and I left him
b • ehind at an early period of life. Peace be with
me.—.D •
More peace than he brought to me.—Dickens's 41
Boacnd the roar.

Lady Emily ITesketh has issues Cards yards for a ball on
Wednesday, the 30th inst.
Glare eom-
The Norwich, Londonderry, anfl county of •
C
reittees will be chosen on the 4th of lure nexi. ,
Mr. Scholefield intends to ask the President of {hr,
' of Trade to-day when he intends to idio4nce
" on trade marks.
nrize of 200,000f1. (1,20,000).
'lnk lottery at Vienna,

the pinOiKet4
The *hi itte hm.s
in the last drawing of the cfoitt
wags cook on board a Lloyd gtomieK
Aeteuifs.tioria the Liban announce the assaSsitiailon
of Father ithanaSins,, President of the Basilian Monks.
He was found strangled' in bed. No trace has been
discovered of the authors of this crime.
Mr. Peter Guthrie Tait, Professor of Mathematics,
Queen's College, Belfast, has been sleeted Professor of
.philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, in
room of hofessor Forbes, resigned.
Admiral Duty:or:the to-night win ask the President of
the Board 6; Trade if Mt government bare come to any
decision relative t. harbotits 6f refuge, and if any grant
of money is to be proved for that purpose duripg the
present session.
On going into committee on the Rept4lerttation of
the People Bill, Mr, Bevill will move, " That house
is not prepared to sanction the depriving of twentf-Ve
boroughs of one member each, on the sole ground 'that
their population was less than 7,000 in the year 1851."
His Excellency Senor Don Juan de Francisco Martin,
Envoy Extraordinary from the Republics of New Gre-
nada and-Guatemala to the Courts of St. James and the
Tuileries, is recovering from the severe illness which
recently attacked him in Paris.
Early in the atittftnn a monument in honour of the
Indian hero, Havelock, will lib Publicly inaugurated at
Sunderland. His Royal Highness- the General Com-
manding-in-Chief will ,he invited on' this occasion, and
hopes are entertained that Lord Clyde will also be
present.
Mr. Mackinnon, on going into committee on Repre-
sentation of the People Bill, will, move that, in order to
obtain a safe and effective reform, it would be inexpe-
dient and unjust to proceed further with the proposed
legislative measure for the representation of the people
until the house has before it the results of the census
authorised by the bill now under its consideration.
A young lady who can have male friends, as well as
friends of her own sex, is not usually pressing and secret
in her confidence, possibly bemuse such a young lady is •
not always nursing batty-passions. and does not require
her sex's coddling and posseting to keep them alive.
With Rose love *in be full grown when it is once
avowed, and will know where to go to be nourished.—
Once a Week.

We understand that the Iktediteranean Extension
Telegraphpropose repairing their damaged cable between
Malta and Corfu about July next. The distance between
these tiftipoints is 300 miles, and the fracture is situated
about twenty‘fotr miles from Corfu. The cable ceased
working in August lust, and has not been in use since.
The company naturally wish to avoid expense, and to
wait for the setting-in of favourable weather in the
Mediterranean. The operations will hly conducted by
Messrs. Newell & Co.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the monthly
meeting of this society it was stated, among other things,
that on Easter Monday 17,727 persons -visited the
gardens, being the greatest number of visitors on any,
Easter Monday since their opening in 1828. The total
number of visitors during the year had amounted to
74.604, exceeding the same period of last year-by nearly
16,000. Several interesting additions to the menagerie
by presentation and purchase were also announced.
At a period when the Shaksperian drama was in vogne
among the play-going classes, it became necessary to
withdraw "King Lear" from the stage. The unhappy
condition to which the then Sovereign of this country
was reduced, wade it objectionable to present upon the
boards a British king in a state of mental aberration.
The play was set aside. Upon one occasion, when the
Prince Regent was likely to iisit Covent-garden, there
was a discussion in the manager's roam as to the per-
formance the Princo would like. Hook was present.
"He leaves it to yourself," said Theodore. " How do
you mean ?" " Why, the Court has given you a ((mg,:
de Lear."—Once a Week.

ANOTHER CHILD BURNT TO DEATH. —The other
evening, between the hours of six and seven o'clock, a;
distressing accident occurred at the residence of Mr.
Barrow, 1, Prince's-place, Commercial-road, Lambeth,
which unhappily ended hi the death of his child, a little
girl, aged one year and four months. It appears that
Mrs. Barrow went out for a few minutes, and left the
child lying on the bed. When she returned she found
the child (who had been pliyinz with a box of lucifers)
enveloped in a mass of flame. The child's clothes were
soon extinguished, but not before the accident had proved
fatal, and the poor little sufferer expired shortly after.
A coroner's inquest will be held.
A letter from Rome in the Monde says : " The general
subject of conversation here is the extraordinary honour
accorded by the holy father to Mme. de Lamoriciere.
After granting her a long audience, the Pope deigned to
act as her guide in a visit to the galleries and libraries of
the Vatican ; and the Marquise de Vignacourt, cousin
of Mme. do Lamorici.e.re. shared the same favour. The
Pope, having one lady on his right, and the other on bis
left, explained to them the different objects in the gal-
leries, and on reaching the library he caused them to
sit down, remarking to Mine. do Lamoriciere, Yon are
now, madam, sated on a chair which I lately offered to

a queen!'"
The Wine Licenses Bill has been the subject of a
public meeting in Manchester. The meeting was con-
vened by the Mayor, in compliance with a numerously-
signed requisition, and the large room of the Town'-hall
was partially filled with the requisitionists and those
interested in the question. A resolution was proposed,
strongly condemnatory of the provisions of the bill, in
consequence, as it was expressed, of their affording
increased temptations to intemperance, and as a conse-
quence tending to the increase of "immorality, pau-
perism, and crime." An amendment was proposed,
supporting the bill as a free-trade measure, calculated to
promote sobriety, arid to improve the social condition of
the people of this country. The resolution was carried
by a very large majority.
CITY Cue/sm.—There are few more striking indica-
tions of change of manners and customs that two or
three hundred years have brought about, than these
deserted churches. Many of them are handsome and
costly structures, several of them were designed by
Wren, many of them arose from the ashes of the great
fire, others of them outlived the plague and the fire too,
to die a slow death in these later days. No one can be
sure of the coming time ; but it is not tee much to say
of it that it has no sign in its outsetting tides of the
reflux to these churches of their congregations and uses.
They remain, like the tombs of the old citizens who lie
beneath them, and around them, monuments of another
age. They are worth a Sunday-exploration now and
then, for they yet echo, not unharmoniously, to the time
when the city of London really was London ; when the
'Prentices and Trained Bands were of mark in the
State ; when even the Lord Mayor himself was a reality
—not a fiction conventionally be-puffed on one day in
the year by illustrious friends, who no less coventionally
laugh at him on the remaining three hundred and
sixty-four days.—Diekens's All the Yerr .Rwead.
CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY. —The annual meet-
ing of this society was held in St. James's Hall, Picca-
dilly; the Bight Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury in the
chair. The Secretary read the report, from which it
appeared that during the past year forty-three grants
made by the society had lapsed or become vacant, and
fifty-five new grants had been made. The number in
each lass at the present was 400 clergymen and 167 lay
assistants, making a total of 557. Additional pastoral
supervision was now provided for upwards of three
millions and a quarter of the population. The total
income of the year was L 41,475 18s. 9d., being £2,380
16s. 6d. less than the preceding year. The expenditure
was £41,036 12s. sd. The chairman, after suggesting
that the report should be published as a blue book, and
that the members of both houses should be compelled to
read it, expressed his surprise that there should be a
diminution in the society's receipts. He had the greatest
respect for nonconformists, yet the Church of England
should take the lead in religions enterprises. The
church had money enough to do what was required, and
he hoped they would all join in the prayer that there
might soon might be a fold for every sheep and a shep-
herd for every fold. The Bishop of Ripon said Resistance.
was very much needed at present. Other gentlemen
spoke, and a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the
proceedings.
CRINOLINE AND HOOPED PETTICOATS. —The far-
thingale of the time of Elizabeth answers to the hooped
petticoat of the days of Queen Anne and to the crinoline
of Queen Victoria. Against the farthingale, the great
master, Philip Stubbes, inveighed with thundering
eloquence. "When they have all their goodly robes
upon them," says he, "women seem to be the smallest
part of themselves, not natural women, but artificial
women ; not women of flesh and blood, but rather
puppets, or marmots, consisting of rags and clouts
compact together :" The Queen herself condemned the
fashion, and passed laws to put down such extravagance.
The wits assailed it, and what was the result ? the
farthingale expanded, and under James I. became as
remarkable for ugliness as for •discomfort. Hooped
petticoats came into fashion again in the time of Queen
Anne ; and Addison's keen satire was directed against
them. In the Spectator, No. 272, appears an advertise_
ment, dated from the parish vestry, Jan. 9, 1711-12
" AlI ladies who crime. to church in the new- fashioned
hoops, are desired to be there before. Divine service
begins, lest they divert the attention of the congrega-
tion." Gay took up the subject,.aud handled it very
roughly ; more polite wits averred that these hoops only
kept the men at a proper distance; the caricaturists
represented a fashionably-attired lady as a donkey
carrying two panuiers; and. Hogarth pictured the incon-
venience of a full-dressed belle entering a sedan-chair.
What the wits and caricaturists did in Queen Bess's
time and Queen Anne's, has been done over aging in
Queen Victoria's,-17:4 Ladies' t'r'easury.