The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-01 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

M. 'Thomas Batty, of Ligcard, Cheshire% WI tan
Admitted a member of the Royal E 91.140 of sUrg,eos.
A .SOHOONtit ON PIO; Ofth,Resicen.-:;-1)11 Tuesday
night the sCliOciher MariaAntointicte 11-a4da with
sugar, took fire iri We rf er, Act *a towed near to
AC *di scuttled.
A V'66ill, 11.1.1CKINGTON BANK.—The ship W.,
Wharton, which slipped her anchors on Tuesday,
and got on the Pluckington Bank, was towed off and
taken into dock yesterday, having sustained. no damage.
ACCIDENTS.—CharIes Lewis, the second mate Of the
ship W. H. Wharton, received a severe.scalp wound on
board that ship in the river ,`ttly the hitcher ',chain falling
on him; and lames H. Bowen, 'the 'steward, -astained
even bnlittsbhs of the body from the same cause:,
t'kiEs BY Mn. BitAivan.--Yegterrlhy, Mr. '','anon sold
'by auction, at the *Clarendon:oollA, Zentli John-street,
three-distinctiots-of horse', 'situated in TOxteth-park2
The attendance Wit; 'good, and the bidding generally
LOt l Roduced £380; lot 2,`£340; and lot 3,
111.0.01
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eel:46 MT AT BEBINGTON.—On. cVel!Slfig last
a concert was held in the ithooltoO6 At Bebington, in
aid of the funds for • the treCtitirl kit an • organ in the
parish church, There *k a large attendance, and the
musical effort ct tlie.artistes gave entire satisfaction.

ST. PETititYti SCHOOLROOM, ST. PETER'S-LANE.—The
fiitoa. off' the series of school lectures was delivered last
'.e`iAniing by Dr. Thomson. There was a good attendance,
and the able lecture upon " America" was listened to
for an hour and a-half by a gratified andiente. Mr.
Denny stated that, the next lectO3e knid be the last,
and deliVered by .latb Isq., subject, "Rising
front the INAS."
t-ittaTiTS OF THE FANCY BALL OF 14TH ULTIMO.—The
Committee of the Fancy Dress Ball, held in St. George's-
hall on the 14th February, have allotted the following
sums to the charities for whose benefit it was arranged
Royal Infirmary, £2OO ; Northern Hospital, £120;
Southern Hospital, £l2O i North Dispensary, £120;
South Dispensary, £l2O S National LifeAakt Institaidr,
£75. Total, C 705, When all the accounts are collected,
there will be a small farther sam to divide. The number
of petsolts admitted into the hall wia 1,417.
bMARRIAGE, dF PlCCAOitiiNl.—The .31-Wrning Star, of
yesterday, says,—"l'iteolomini is married. She sang
on Satin-ay week at the Crystal Palace, and then left
fOr Duhlit, where the knot was tied. The happy pos-
Ssr6r of the fascinating singing bird is an Italian Printe,
a Roman by birth, and a relative of one of the Cardinals.
He does not, as=in many instances., Marry for the round
sum realised by the vocalist, but is a man of some for-
tune—for Italy." ietedomini sang here, in Liverpool,
only on SatuHay,—we suppose on her way to Dublin
to be tratried.
PRINCESS. ROYAL.—This steamer, which left this
port for Glasgow about .mid-day on Monday, during the
heavy gale which then prevailed, and which continued
with little intermission all over Tuesday, nevertheless
made her passage to Greenock in nineteen hours and a
quarter. We understand this fine vessel, during the
whole of the last severe winter, has continued to make
her passages with remarkable regularity. We are also
informed the Princess Royal was the only steamer that
ventured to leave the dock on Monday.
IRON STEALING.—At the County Magistrates' Court,
yesterday, before Messrs. IV'. It. Sandbach and E.
Gibbons, John Smith and Samuel Cook, carters, were
charged with stealing 119 lbs. of iron, valued at 35.,
from the new dock works at Bootle, the property of
Messrs George Thompson and Co., contractors. 'On
Tuesday afternoon the prisoners were seen in the act of
placing the iron in their carts by a man named Hugh
Rush. A navvy gave information to the foreman at the
works, who, having identified the iron as his employer's
property, sent for a police-constable. The prisoners
pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to one month's hard
labour in the house of correction. _..
WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—The weekly
meeting of this board was held at the workhouse,Mill-lane,
yesterday. Mr. Pitts, presided; and the other members
present were Messrs. Whitby, Abrahams, Wareham, Pil
ling, Wensley, Roberts, Parkin, Roscoe, Richmond,
Wood, Balshaw, and Metcalfe. Mr. Gough, the governor
of the workhouse, reported that the number of paupers in.
the house last week, was 323 ; admitted since 11 ; born 1;
discharged 9 ; died 2 ; this week 321 ; corresponding
week of last year 309. The master of the hospital, Mi.
Hall, reported that the number of paupers in the sick
wards last week was 141 ; admitted since 15 ; dis-
charged 19 ; dead 5 ; this week 132 ; corresponding week
of last year 115 ; belonging to Toxteth-park 52. The
following- checques were ordered to be drawn for out
door relief;—Mr. Potts, £110; Mr. Robeiton, £36; Mr."
Lvthgoe, £24.
ST. PETER'S PARISH CHURCH.—The first of the
series of lectures in Lent was preached at this church
on Wednesday evening by Dr. M'Neile, the Rev. Mr..
Denny reading prayers. The church was crowded.
The subject was, " I believe in the Holy Ghost ;" and
the text John xiv, 26. The lecturer first showed the
revealed history of the Holy Ghost, then His personality
and His natural and supernatural operations, and His
common and saving influences. He dwelt much upon
the difference between revelation of a truth and
explanation of it, saying that the personality and
operations of the Holy Ghost could not be explained.—
The next lecture will be delivered on next Tuesday

evening by Dr. Baylee, of Birkenhead, subject, " The
Holy Catholic Church." _ _

if ENGLER'S CIRCUS.—Mr. Charles Hengler as a
catererer for public amusement has been so highly
spoken of by the press of Liverpool, that but little
remains for us to add ; but really he has introduced so
many fresh novelties this week that we cannot pass
them over without saying a word in their favour.
The greatest feature of the evening is the introduction
of a large troupe of dogs and monkeys, trained by Mr.
Henry Cooke, who in their performance evince so
much docility and ready instinct that they must be pro-
nounced to be performers of no ordinary merit. Miss
Emily Cooke also made her debut as an equestrienne.
artisteswitii gwr eoautl d s pirit .
occupyenumerateu r allspace the
talented ;
This lady possesses ease and grace in her performance,
combinedtTooo menutlemh
suffice it .to say that Hongler's may be visited by the
most fastidious. A morning- performance is announced
for Saturday, which will be a good opportunity for
juveniles to see the wonders of the arena.
FRAZER v. HUNT.—At the County Court, yesterday,
before J. K. Blair, Esq. Judge, an action was brought
by Mr. R. H. Frazer, printer, against Mr. Samuel Hunt,
pawnbroker of Manchester, for the recovery of £3 ss. 6d.
Mr. Grocott appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Hime for
the defendant. In the latter end of last year, plaintiff
received an order from the defendant to execute 48,000
pawn tickets. The contract was completed in January,
and the tickets were forwarded to Manchester. Mr.
Hunt discevered mistakes in the dates and the numbers,
and therefore returned the tickets, less 1,500 for which he
paid 10s. into court. The tickets were produced in
court and mistakes were found in the batches for
January and February. The greater part of the others
were correct.—Mr. Hunt, however, said that the tickets
produced in the court were not the ones returned as
useless by him.—Mr. Grocott, for the plaintiff, submitted
that it was perfectly ridiculous, to suppose that Mr.
Frazer had reset the type and struck off the tickets pro-
duced in order to defraud the plaintiff. Judgment
deferred.
SnnewitEcns.----"Holyhead, Monday Night : The
American :barque Robert Mills, in hauling round the
end of the breakwater, while running in towards the
new harbour for shelter this morning, luffed too close,
got her sails aback, and then, from lack of hands or
Other-Causes, did , not succeed in getting out of irons,
and drifted across' the bay with all her sails aback. She
dropped her anchors after having drifted a. considerable
distance. After her sails were furled her anchors held
her ; butshe was dangerously close to the Auglosey
shore. The life-boat belonging to the Royal National
Life-boat Institution was away with a celerity
that does credit to her crew, and soon got alongside the
bark and offered assistance, which was refused in terms
the reverse of complimentary, the vessel not being more
than a quarter of a mile from the breakers, blowing
a strong gale from the S.W. The life-boat returned;
but at 3 p.m. the bark was observed again to start, when
the lifo-boat was a second time despatched and has not
yet returned. In the meantime the Robert Mills is ashore
and has lost her masts, and the boat is returning—why ?
Perhaps I may be able to state in a P.S. P.S., 6 p.m., the
life-boat has returned; could not get near the ship, as she
is driven in amongst the rocks at Penrhyn Point, and
is surrounded by a boiling surf. As the tide ebbs the
crew will get ashore without difficulty ; but I fear the
wreck will be total, a disaster which might have been
prevented had the captain accepted the proffered services
of the coxswain of the life-boat on his first trip. He
was perfectly competent to have slipped and run the
vessel on to the sheltered beach of Penrhyn, where
she would have been comparatively uninjured.
MAJOR WALTER'S LECTURE AT ST. GEORGE'S-HALL,
LAST NIGHT.--Major Walter, of the Fourth Division of
Artillery Volunteers, delivered a lecture at St. George's-
hall, last night, entitled " The British Volunteer of
yesterday, to-day, to-morrow, Europe's peace-bulwark."
The event was availed of as an ovation in favour of the
volunteer movement; and music was brought into
requisition to give éclat to the occasion. Mr. W. T.
Best performed on the grand organ an allegretto from
the military symphony by Haydn, and a military
overture by Mendelssohn. The Fourth Division of
Artillery Volunteers, about six hundred strong, under
Lieutenant-Colonel Bourne, dressed in their military
uniform, entered the hall shortly before the commence-
ment of the lecture, the band of the regiment preceding
them, and playing appropriate marches. His Worship
the Mayor, T. D. Anderson, Esq., presided; and on
the platform were—Capt. Faulkner, Capt. Mends, R.N.,
Major
• Greig (head constable), Capts. Gladstone, Bous-
field, Melly, &c., Alderman J. H. Turner, J. W.
Cropper, Alderman Parker, &c.—The Chairman briefly
introduced the lecturer, commending him for having
done so much for the volunteer movement, and for
having raised the splendid artillery corps which they
now saw around them. His worship was sure
that the lecture would show that the movement
was not to be considered as made merely against
any apprehended attack, but it was intended
to inaugurate a permanent institution, to place
this country in a situation of security, that her councils
might maintain their wonted weight among the nations
of the world. (Applause.) Major Walters then pro-
ceeded with his lecture. He chose the early archers-as
a type of the volunteers of yesterday ; lauded their sur-
prising skill and vigilance, and gave a graphic descrip-
tion of their success in the battles of Cressy, Agincourt,
and Poictiers. He concluded this portion of his discourse
by arguing that it was essential that the artillery and
rifle practice should be carried on with the same steady
perseverance which characterised the archers of the ast.
With such an institution, permanent, not to pop
we might always be sure of peace to preserve oar
trade
and commerce. He then went on to allude to the volun-
teer of to-day, making an eloquent appeal on behalf of
the volunteer movement—calling upon every one to
render our land secure by presenting to the world a
formidable army of British volunteers. A warm tribute
was paid to the memory of Wellington, and pointed
allusion was made to the caution of the Iron Duke, when
he rebuked the country for neglecting its national
defences. He enforced the necessity and duty of sup-
porting the volunteer movement, and his fervid advocacy
of the cause drew down frequent and enthusiastic
plaudits. A vote of thanks leaving been passed to the
lecturer by acclamation, the National Anthem was sung
by Miss Hiles, Miss Clara Hiles, Mr. Foulkes, and
Mr. Hughes, who had kindly volunteered their services
for the purpose, and the proceedings then terminated.