The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-09 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY TIMES.

Si ,—The apathy displayed by our Town Council
Committee in reference to the above is indeed discourag-
ing to the promoters, as well as to all who desire and
advocate the system of " Horse Tramways." Improve-
ments in our "street locomotion" are much needed ; and
in this respect our " Transatlantic cousins" are certainly
"far ahead of us." It is now upwards of " four months"
since the matter was first submitted for the " considera-

tion of the authorities," and yet we are just as far from
any " satisfactory" result as we were upon the " first
day" the question was introduced to their notice. Messrs.
Busby have, therefore, " just cause to complain" of the
" unnecessary delay" which has occurred. Why should
the subject be so long and so sorely neglected ? Surely
it is worthy of some attention. How very different
would be the comparison if we contrast the manner
in which "public improvements" are patronised in
" America" towards the tardiness manifested by our
authorities. (Mr. Train must have observed this fact.)
It would appear as if our " Town Council" act upon the
principle which is frequently adopted by " Parliament,"
viz.: the bill to be laid aside, and read " that day six
Months." I have perused with pleasure your able
articles strongly advocating the introduction of "horse
railways " into Liverpool, proving the innumerable
benefits to be derived from the "new system," and
showing the "marked superiority" of street railway
cars over our clumsy and old fashioned, jolting omnibuses;
and I think by calling public attention to it much might
be done towards awaking them from their slumber, and
procuring for us the improved and more desirable mode
of conveyance. " Birkenhead," it appears, has wisely
resolved to permit Mr. Train to introduce his system
there, thus being the first to commence "a mode of
conveyance" which " larger towns and cities throughout
England will do well to imitate." Liverpool ought to
have been the first, but it seems she chooses that
"Birkenhead" shall achieve that distinction,—thus
placing her " proudly pre-eminent" in the annals of the
" American system" of horse railways in England.—
Yours, &c. " GO-A-HEAD."
Liverpool, June 6, 1860.

A German milliner in New Orleans has been married
to her eighth husband, each of her former ones having
died within a year from the time of marriage.
PARLIAMENTARY NOTICS.—Mr. Panek, to take the
sense of the House ou the question, whether there
would be any precedent for any proceeding whatever,
unless some precedent had been originally created at
some time or other, and what constitutional objection
there can possibly be to the creation of a rational prece-
dent now ?
A curiosity is exhibited in Montreal in the shape of a
horse with a buffalo's thick and shaggy hide; partaking
also of the nature of the buffalo towards the tail. The
owner is said to have procured it from a man who
brought it from the Rocky Mountains. It is quite as
probable that the animal owes his rough coat to expo-
sure to the rigour of a Canadian winter.
THE QUESTION OF THE DAY.—The New York Express
propounds the following question :—" Is it not true that
out of a huudren citizens taken at random in New York
City, not ten could tell who were their representatives in
Congress, and not five who were the members in the
State Legislature, unless you happen to stumble on a
member of one of the committees, by whom these things
are really managed ? "
LEGISLATIVE AMENITIES IN NEWFOUNDLAND.—The
following telegraphic despatch from Newfoundland is
published in the Picton Chronicle :—" In the House, on
Friday night, the colonial secretary, Kent, and Attorney-
General Hegsetts quarrelled. The Colonial Secretary
called her Majesty's Attorney-General a puppy and a
brat. The Speaker accused the Attorney-General of
being drunk. The Attorney-General called the Speaker
a liar. The scene was kept up till one o'clock Saturday

morning."
IN CASE OF ACCIDENT.—Life being notoriously inse-
cure in New York, one of the New York papers has
proposed that every citizen should have his name and
residence marked on his clothing, so that in case any-
thing should happen to him,—to use a mild expres-
sion,—whatever is found may be identified. The dis-
covery of a body stripped and sunk in the river; how-
ever, has suggested a defect in this arrangement, and it
is now proposed (need we say by the Louisville Jour-
nal ?) that every New Yorker should have his name
tattooed on his breast or some such secure place. "As
to marking the place of residence, that would be
impossible, for New Yorkers all move every May-day,
so that a full-grown man or woman would look like a
printed directory."
CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE FOROE.—The development
of muscle leads not always to the prize ring. In Troy,
the other day, John ill‘KinneY
and Patrick Kennedy
blacksmiths both, had an extraordinary trial of skill.
The former challenged the latter to compete with him
in making horse shoes for the championship. The
challenge was accepted, and the working time fixed at
ten hours. Each man with his " helper " went at the
metal. Their shops were surrounded through the day
with an interested throng, and ropes were stretched
about the forges to give sufficient space. At the expi-
ration of the ten hours Kennedy had made 240 shoes,
and M'Kinney 210. Near the close of the contest, the
"helper" of the latter fainted from fatigue. It is not
probable that an equal feat has ever been accomplished
before.

ERICSSON'S CALORIC ENGINE.—This motor is coming
into extensive use, for various purposes, in America, par-
ticularly in cases where from one to six, or eight, horses'
power may be required. The New York Weekly Tribune
in a lengthy article on this important subject, says there
are now no fewer than forty daily papers in the United
States printed with it, most of them of 24-inch, but
three or four of 12 and 18-inch cylinders. One manu-
facturing firm has turned out about 200 of these engines,
and the proprietors are enlarging their establishment in
order to meet the increasing demand. In Cuba it is
superseding the use of the ox-mill in the grinding of
sugar canes, and it is believed will, at no distant day,
supersede the steam-engine in nine-tenths of the planta-
tions.

AN ANTIDOTE FOR POISON.—The Rochester Union of
May 12 says :—" Two or three days ago a lady of Avon
took by mistake a quantity of corrosiv sublimate, suffi-
cient to have caused death had not an antidote been
speedily administered. The circumstances of the case
are about as follows :—The lady meant to taste some
maple syrup ; but a bottle of bed-bug poison had been
carelessly left where the bottle of syrup had stood, and
she took a small quantity before she discovered he;mis-
take. Fortunately, a domestic who remembered the
fatal poisoning case of Mrs. Nowlan, which occurred at
Avon a few years ago, had the presence of mind to run
to the poisoned lady with a pan of milk, who drank of
it very freely, and also took the white of eggs so as to
render the poison innocuous. She was soon out of dan-
ger. Let this antidote be remembered, and used in
similar cases.:'
OUR STATES AND TERRITORIES—GROWTH OF THE
UNION.—The Committee on Territories of the House
has reported bills organising five new territories, namely,
Idaho—whose Indian name signified "a gem of the
mountain," now known as Pike's Peak—Nevada,
Arizona, Chippewa and Dacotah. Thus the republic
grows apace. There are now thirty-three States and
five Territories in the Union ; but wherever the
American citizen goes into the Western wilder-
ness, he takes the spirit of politics along with
him ; and as its resources, either in mineral or
agricultural wealth, begin to be developed, he desires a
government for the location in which he lives, and
seeks organisation as a Territory. When these five
new Territories are organised, and Texas is divided into
four States, as was provided for at her admission, and a
new State is formed out of portions of Tennessee, Mis-
sissippi, and Kentucky, which the Tennessee Legisla-
ture decided upon at its.last session, we shall have
thirty- eight States and ten Territories in the Union.
In the course of five or ten years these Territories will
have alio become States, and then the national flag will
display no less than forty-eight stars in the corner.—
New York Herald.
THE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT.—The Montreal
Gazette gives, on the authority of an English correspon-
dent, a more particular account than we have hitherto
had of the proposed tour of the Prince of Wales upon
the American continent. According to this statement,
he will come within the United States two and perhaps
three times, meeting no doubt a most cordial reception
from his democratic cousins. the
paper says :—" The
date of
hip departure from England is to be the
middle of July—the 14tb—witb a fleet, as before pub-
lished. His first port on this side of the Atlantic
will be St. John's, Nofoundland. The Lieutenant-
Governor of that ilsgd, 'as we have already an-
nounced, has received a letter informing him of the
intention. Thence he will proceed to Halifax, and
thence cross over the country and visit St. John, N. 8.,
and Frederickton. It practicable, he will thence
cross over to Shediac, where his fleet will go round
to meet him, and proceed up the river to Quebec.
If he finds difficulty in Fettiq to Shediac, he may
cross to Portland and come ever the Grand Trunk
Railway to Quebec or Mentreal. From this he will
go to Kingston, and thence to Ottowa ; from Ottowa
to Toronto; thence across the lake to the Falls, and
back, by rail to Hamilton. He will go to Sarnia to
see the Grand Trunk works there, and travel over
the Western States incog. ; go to Washington and
be the guest of the President ; thence visit the Atlantic
cities, and have his fleet meet him at Portland ; or pro-
bably it' he comes by Portland, his departure may be
from QUebec, and hi 'may take the Grand Trunk from
Portland after the completion of his tour in the United
States. -Circumstances may alter, this programme of
proceedings, but we have good information that it has
been, obtained ,by authority in England from , persons
supposed to be most capable of giving the necessary
inforniation as to routes, who in their turn were given to
understand it would be acted upon. August will likely
be well advanced before his Royal Highness reaches
, Montreal,

MISCELLANEOUS.

The lady whose name has been before the public in
connection with an elopement with her servant has left
the man at last, and thoroughly penitent, it is said, but
she has given him a pension of £999 for life.

A marriage is arranged, and will shortly take place,
between the Hon. Dayrolles Blakeney De Moleyns, eldest
son of Lord Yentry, and Miss Fanny Wauchope, daughter
of Mr. Wauchope, of Niddrie, Midlothian.
Two women have been recently " found drowned" at
New York, one no doubt murdered, as she was moored

to a barrel of pitch. Their bodies were viewed by
persons representing no fewer than thirty females who
had "mysteriously disappeared."
MARRIAGE OF MDLLE. MIRES.—The marriage of
Mdlle. Mires with Prince Alphonse de Polignac was
celebrated on Tuesday, at the Madeleine, the Bishop of
Marseilles, who came to Paris expressly for the purpose,
officiating at the high altar.
The New Orleans Bulletin says :—" In connection
with the Clay Statue, our attention is drawn to the
singular coincidence of the fate attending the statues
of Messrs. Calhoun, Webster, and Clay. Mr. Calhoun's
statue, ordered for Charleston, was lost in a shipwreck
off Fire Island, but finally recovered with an arm
broken, which was subsequently replaced by Mr.
Powers, the sculptor. The bronze statue of Mr. Web-
ster was lost at sea, and never recovered ; but a second
was cast from the same model, and is now in the State
House Yard at Boston. The first model for the statue
of Mr. Clay was also lost at sea.
THE SUMMER ASSIZES.—THE NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—
The learned judges, Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Justice
Wilde, who have elected to take the northern circuit, at
the ensuing summer assizes, have fixed the following
days for the opening of the commission at the under-
mentioned cities and towns :—York, Monday, July 9 ;
Durham, Saturday, July 21; Newcastle, Thursday,
July 26; Appleby, Friday, August 3; Lancaster, Satur-
day, August 4 ; Liverpool, Wednesday, August 8.
Not long since, it was stated that at a " Charivari"
party, or mock serenade, given to a newly-married
couple at Harrisonburg, Va., the brother of the bride
went from the house to remonstrate, and was shot dead.
On the night of the 15th, as a boat was taking in cotton
at a station on the Mississippi River, a man deliberately
walked overboard and drowned himself. His name was
not known, but it was supposed to be the person who
committed the murder above alluded to, he having
disappeared immediately after the deed. His name was
Smallwood.

ELOPEMENT OF SIR ROWLAND HILL'S DAUGHTER.—
An event has just occurred at Hampstead which is caus-
ing no little excitement, and promises to be a nine days'
wonder. One day last week, as it appears, Miss Clara
Hill, the daughter of Sir Rowland Hill, the worthy
Secretary to the Post-office, was nowhere to be found.
She had been In the habit of taking riding lessons from
a master of the equestrian art at St. John's Wood ; and
on the servant repairing to the lady's room she found a
note addressed to her papa, informing him that he need
not expect her back, as, before he could read it, she
would have become Mrs. —, which the registrar of
marriages at a neighbouring church proved too truly to
be fact. Sir Rowland and Lady Hill are inconsolable.
A Salem (Mass.) correspondent writes to the Boston
Herald that two young men of that city made a wager
on the late prize fight, the terms of which_were that the
loser should wheel the winner in an ordinary wheelbar-
row from Buffom's-corner to Neckgate, a distance of over
two miles—Mr. George Kimball backing Sayers, and
Joshua Doust the Benicia Boy. Each put up $3 as for-
feit. On Saturday evening, Mr. Kimball, convinced
that the Boy had fairly won the fight, brought out his
barrow, and Mr. Doust seating himself therein, was
borne along by the loser, amid the cheers of a large
crowd of bystanders. When they reached the Market-
house a halt was made, and the crowd gathered so
thickly that the police were obliged to clear the way for
them to proceed. Mr. Kimball pursued his Journey,
completing the distance in forty minutes.

PAPAL RECRUITING IN IRELAND.—This illegal busi-
ness has assumed a formidable appearance. The police
notice, or proclamation, is treated as waste paper. The
Cork Constitution says :—" Enlistment for the Papal
army is going on rapidly in this neighbourhood. On
Monday a number of recruits left Youghal for this city
by train, amidst the lamentations of their relatives who
accompanied them to the station. They will leave for
Bristol, by the Sabrina." The Cork Herald states
that this detachment consisted of 200' young men,
and that 500 more will leave the same port next week,
for the same destination. Sir Thomas Ross, of the
county Meath, attempted to arrest a servant man of his,
who had taken the Pope's shilling, or whatever coin his
reverend serjeants use for their purpose, but without
success. A correspondent, writing from Drogheda, states
that as the steamer for Liverpool was about to sail, Sir
Thomas Ross, J.P., with a party of constabulary, went
on board with a warrant to arrest the volunteer, but
without success. The vessel sailed without him; but,
according to report, he boarded her a short way 'down
the river, and so evaded arrest. Sir Thomas was hooted
by the crowd. [Could not the recruits be stopped on
landing in England ?]
PALL OT METEORIC STONES IN OHIO.—An extra-
ordinary ptienomenon occurred on Tuesday, about noon,
which has been noticed in many counties in Eastern Ohio.
This occurrence, although it may be incredible to some,
was certainly noticed by many in different localities
about the same time. In this city the explosion or
noise was distinctly heard. At New Concord, sixteen
miles east, a gentleman who was out in his field
heard a large crash, similar to sharp thunder, a suc-
cession of which lasted half-a-minute, and then died
away like the sound of a receding train of cars.
On looking up he observed an object descending with
great rapidity in an .angular direction, and on
marking where it touched the earth, he there found a
stone embedded in the earth, and somewhat warm;
weighing 52 pounds. Another was found of 66 pounds,
one of 40, and one 36 poands in weight, all within the
circumference of a few miles. A small portion of one
of these we have in our sanctum. At Bellair the con-
cussion was so strong as to force open the large doors of
car house. At Malaga some of the inhabitants were
frightened, thinking it an earthquake. The shock at
Barnesville seemed to jar the buildings to their founda-
tions. Some boys were out in the woods near McCon-
nelsville, which is perhaps thirty miles from Concord,
and observed what they termed a large red ball descend-
ing to the earth with a fiery tail to it, but were so
frightened as immediately to return home.—Zaflesvillt
Courier.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE OWESTRY AND GOBOWEN
BRANCH RAILWAY..—An accident of a serious nature,
but which happily was not attended with fatal results,
occurred on Wednesday morning, soon after eleven
o'clock. An engine, pushing a lot of empty cattle
trucks up the line towards Owestry Station, came
to a standstill about fifty yards below the rail-
way bridge over the Whittington-road, and the
passenger train from Gobowen Junction being
due, the guard in charge of the trucks ran down the line
with a clinger flag, but too late to prevent a collision ;
for just at the same moment a train came up, and the
sharp curve at that particular spot prevented the driver
from seeing his danger until he was close upon the
post, and
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down. A
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thrown offthe
a shock that the partitions were broken and the roof
damaged. Being Oswestry fair-day the
swept
there were considerably
more than the usual number of passengers, and it is mar-
venous that some fatality did
not
occur
; but it providen-
tially happened that in the two carriages overturned there
were comparatively few passengers.Mr. Fisher, station
master, was on the spot immediately, and sent for an om-
nibus to convey those hurt to a
wh
place of safety. Two medi-
cal men were also sent for, o promptly arrived. The
injuries received may be characterised as general con-
tusions, which, however, proved nearly all of a. slight
character. Amongst those
who were injured,
Kwiiehbelidervee
were the following :—A. M Owen,
Master Owen, Miss Herring, Mr. Horssciall, Llansaint-
ffrAid ; Mrs. Croft, Preeshenlie ; Miss Edwards, Prees-
henlle ; Mrs. Williams, Rhos ; Richard Kiddie, stoker.
A number of others were injured, but not so seriously as
to require surgical attention.—Oswestry Advertiser.

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WEST DERBY LOCAL BOARD.

The following are the names and addresses of the
recently elected members of the West Derby Local
Board :
William Owen, Norris-green, West Derby.
Richard Bennett, Breck-lane, West Derby.
John Pemberton Heywood, Norris-green, West Derby.
Reuben Ledger, Grove House, West Derby.
William Hollis Anthony, Summerfield, Mill-bank, West
Derby.
Gustavus Christian Schwabe, Handstyle House, West
Derby.
Ralph Lyon Jump, New Hall, Club Moor, West Derby•
William Taylor, Laurel-road, West Derby.
John Stewart, Sand&ld-park, West Derby.
Benjamin Heywood Jones, Lark-hill, West Derby.
Richard Charles Lowndes, Club Moor, West Derby.
Richard Barker, Lark-hill-lane.
Samuel James Arnold, Sand&ld-park, West Derby.
Richard Radcliffe, Derwent-road, West Derby.
Thomas Crosby, Mill-lane, West Derby.
James Crellin, West Derby-road, West Derby.
William Honner Fitzpatrick, Prescot-road, Knotty Ash.
Joseph Bispham Leatherbarrow, Green-lane, Tue Brook,
West Derby.
Robert Wilson Ronald, The Elms, Edge-lane.
Thomas Gardner, Stanley.
Nicholas Smith Glazebrook, Hayman's-green, West
Derby.

A writer in the Philadelphia Bulletin says that after
a year's trial of Dr. Sanders's method of making water-
gas at the city works in Philadelphia, the chief func-
tionary of the works, approved of an investment of some
thousands of dollars in the patent. This gas is about to
be introduced into the Girard House.

A pretty but weak girl of 17, the daughter of a widow
in Rockford, Illinois, recently advertised for a husband
"just for the romance of the thing." She obtained, not
a husband, but a seducer in the person of a gambler
named Moore, who had returned from Pike's Peak for
the winter. He started recently to return to the dig-
gings, taking her (it is supposed) along; and the next
thing known of her by her friends is the discovery, near
Ottumwa, lowa, of her dead body, bearing incontestable
marks of murder.

THE FESTIVAL OF THE ORPHEONISTS OF FRANCE.—
Upwards of 3,000 members of the Orphion of France,
an amateur choral association of very great extent, will
give a performance of choral music at the Crystal Palace
ou the 25th, 26th, and 28th of June, headed by their
founder and conductor, Mons. Eugene Delnporte. The
association from whom we are to receive this numerous
deputation is on a very much larger scale than auy
similar institution in this country. Its members num-
ber more than 30,000, and there is hardly a commercial
or manufacturing town in France that has not some
Societe MaBlcale or Ceicle Choral in union with it.
These are mainly composed of the commercial classes—
shopkeepers, superintendents, clerks, intelligent artisans,
&c. •

A DESERTED SLAVER FOUND.—The schooner Abbie
Forrest, from Aux Cayes, arrived at New York on Mon-
day, and reported that she spoke on the 16th ultimo the
schooner Walter Irving, of Provincetown. The Walter
Irving reported that about April 18th the whaling
schooner Rienzi, of Provincetown, fell in with, on the
south side of Porto Rico, a brig of about three hundred
tons, abandoned, with all sail set, having on board a
large quantity of provisions and rum, and otherwise
fitted for a slaver. Bullet holes were found in the doors
of the cabin. The cabin was much disfigured, as if au
affray had taken place. She had no papers, colours, or
anything on board whereby she could be identified ; she
was taken in charge by the officers of the schooner, and
will be brought to the United States.

,Sporting Jutelligucc,

ASCOT RACES.-YESTEKDAY.

QUEEN'S PLATE.

Three ran.
SECOND WOKINGHAM STAKES.

Twelve ran.
ENGLEMERE STAKES

PLATE.

STAND PLATE.