The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-17 00:00:00

WIND AND WEATHER REPORT.—YreIERDAY.
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X C E L S I 0
A WINTER ODE.

" Thev'made a frraVen Ititarm, arid eet it hp on high •,
And there it ttands Unto this day, to witness if I lie."
Macaulay.

• Seche—Williamson-square.
Time—Any evening since Christmas.
The shadows of night were ooming down swift,
And the dazzling snow lay drift on drift,
As thro' " the Square" a figure did go.
Carrying a flag with this motto,
teilow ho

O'er a f6rehead pale came copious hair,
His nose retrousse, complexion fair ;
O'er his tightish eye an auburn lash•;
HiS chin Has cloile daven, Anil no nimistaclie;
`hello*
stealthilY looked is the Square all round,';
To see if "a peeler" was there to be found.
At the big gas lamp he made a stop,
As it he meant placing the flag on the top.
Yellow ho

As upwards he clambered, he thence did see
A number of families sitting at tea ;
He eyed the dishes and. plateS 4erY ite!;.ni
To Ice it his " Tenor' Was triefe US be seen.
Yellow hot.
.0h! don't go up," said an old woman, stop !
It's freezing 'like blazes' up there on t top,
You'll tumble off on t'other side ;" •
But the spectacled stranger loud replied—. •
" Yellow ho Pf

Oh: please don't go up such a shocklng, ;
Come Bleep on my bi3x, said a cabtie hrignt;
On his pallid ft'ebk ti tear-drop come,
But still he remarked, as he upward clomb,
Yellow ho !
Look out for the branch of that high cross-tree,
Dodge falling ice if any you see.
With that "the Party" went home to bed,
And a siriglar voice rcblicd overhead,
ello* ho I
At a qUttrter-past six that same afternoon,
An astronomer, taking a look at the moon,
Heard spoken above him, as often as twice, •
The very same words, in a very weak Voice,
Yellow ho 1
.•
When the peeler" came round at a quarter past seven,
Ile was slow in "his beat," the road,being uneven,
Found the stranger dead in the drifted snow,
Still clutching the flag with this motto—
Yellow ho I
Yes. lifeless, detain , ivghplut 04,4
Thq "lamp 0f...hi8 being' accidedl out;
On the deaf), flagstones "poor Kelly" was lying,
And 'twas no more use for him to be saying--
Yellow Butter ho

RESURGAM
All ye who lament that poor Kelly is lost,
Just call at the " Butter Place !"—look at his ghost !
He sits in the window. and looks safe and sound,
And will sell you some "Yellow" at Bd. the pound.
Yellow Butter host

Prince, claim to inherit their part of-the personal
property left by the Prince. Madame Bonaparte,
wli4. is now in Paris, was an American lady
named Paterson; and the real object of the pre-
sent suit is to re-establish the perfect legality of
her Marriage.
The death of the puke of • Sutherland was
Aninninced in several of the London papers yes-
terday, but the Globe is happy to state that there
is no truth whatever in the announcement: His

race has been suffering final serious iiiness tor
some titife.past, nut the accounts received from
trenthturr-hall yesterday morning were of a very
favourable character. .

Sir -Francis Baring has addressed a letter to
his constituents at Portsmouth on Parliamentary
Reform. He fears that the result of introducing
a bill next session will not be more successful
than in 1860, and if there is no fair prospect of
sticcess, he hopes rio attempt will be hiacie, as a
repetition of tvhat passed lost year will not be
creditable to the legislature, nor beneficial to the
'cause of reform. It is not unreasonable to
coli-
elude. that Sir Franels', tho Ugh not d member of
the present Cabinet, here speaks on its behalf.

The estimated cost of the construction of the
proposed central railway station in Finsbury
Circus, London, for the accommodation of the
Metropolitan, Eastern Counties, and other rail-
ways, is £1,200,000. It is proposed that the
Eastern Counties, Great N'orthern, Metropolitan,
Midland, Great Western, and London, Chatham)
and Dover Railway Companies should be ahtho-
rised to subscribe teik-ara the Undertaking: A
nte* street i t proposed to be made in connection
With the station from the south end of Circus-
place to the east side of Moorgate-street, which
will be a great improvement in that district of
the metropolis.
Captain Moorman, of H.M.S. Cossack, was
yesterday honourably acquitted, The court
pointed out that Isaiah Sitilth) the complainant,
had shoWn d gross disregard for trtithl. A stim-
mary of the proceedings dt the trial is given
elsewherel

Prom experiments recently carried out at the
Royal Arsenal practice range and Shoeburyness,
it appears probable that the muzzle-loading prin7
ciple will be adopted to some extent for rifled
ordnance, espeCially for heavy guns. Two experi-
mental guns, manufactured on this principle at
Sir William Armstrong's Elswiek factory, and
calculated to carry a 1001 b, shot, have been found
to answer in every respect equal to the breech-
loaders and several eminently practical officers
of Royal Artillery are decidedly favourable to
the use of muzzle-loaders, which are stated to be
less complicated, and consequently not so liable
to get out of order as breech-loading guns.
At the meeting of the Union Bank of London,
held yesterday, the chairman (Mr. P. N. Laurie)
stated, with reference to the losses that were
-Written off by the bank last year, that the
direetors .had no further communication to make
With reference to any further amounts having
been received on account of Pullinger. They
were, hoWever, still pursuing the inquiry into
the frauds of that individual, and were not with-
out hope of recovering ffirther sums. The chair-
man also informed the meeting that the Chancery
proceedings instituted by a shareholder, with
reference to that affair, had been amicably settled.
The report of the business of the bank, read to and
approved by the Meeting, *as of 'an extremely
favourable description.
Railway casualities continue to be recorded.
An engine-cleaner has been killed on the Man-
chester and Sheffield line. The tire of a wheel
came off, and the engine ran on to an embank-
ment: Two fish vans Were thrown off the rails,
and several passengers were injured Eby the shook.