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

AUSICAL DRAMATIC,- iITERARY; 'AND CORRESPONDENCE.
ARTISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP, _ . .

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Among other of the cot fig pleitures for the Crystal
Palace, during the season, is announced g Contest of
Brass Bands. News. has drifted pp from Yorkshire thttt
some of the companies *ho took part in tit; village trial
of skill at Lofthouse, last year, intend' to present tii;2ll"
selves on the occasion. •

Our cOrPtept..:

OR6'
THE LATE FIRE AT THE

JWME.

7Q THE EDITOR O

Extensive preparations are being made at the lloyall
-rdens the whole undergoing a total revision,
gtinry -ements, including a panorama, a
itith Settial , theatre for ballet and
large platforni, a eitette,
ow opened with
other performances. The Oarden4
s?
" The African Operatic Troupe" of se/eadez under
the direction of Mr. henry Templeton.
There is a volunteer corps, we learn, of artists, painters,
and musicians, that desires to have a band of its own,
not of fifes and sax-tubas, With janissary music, but of
singers, for which part-songs of march and parade are
to be written by authors of renown for our best men to
set.

Sra,' 'While yoluntarilly assisting at the fire in the
Sailors' Home, on the
.29th ultimo, I receited a con-
tused scalp wotindi besides other slight injuries, froth
which lam at present 6:rl eying. About one o'clock in
the morning of the above date, F assisted three sailors
in effecting their escape down the ladders at the south
sic of the building. I al;o assisted two semen in
bringing the hose and branches pu to the third' flat.
Here we were order6d by Mr. Hewitt to tiZ flat above.
We here continued our labtiurs with unabated crei.tionE,
and succeeded in gaining admittance to an adjoining
room at the west end. It was here, in obedience to
orders of the superintendent Mr. Hewitt, that I was
about to proceed further, when a portion of the burning
ruins fell upon me and inflicted the wounds above stated
in the presence of Mr. Hewitt. Afterwards I assisted
in releasing James Clark, who died in the Southern
Hospital. I applied for and obtained medical relief at the
North Dispensary, and continued a patient until Friday,
the 4th instant. In the meantime I applied to Major
Greig for recompense f* damage to my clothes. I was
rewarded with the amount of 2s. 6d.
I obtained a note of admittance to the Royal Infir-
mary, but owing to the number of patients I was
unable to gain admittance. I received a recommenda-
tion to the Workhouse Hospital. I was here refused
admission until I was examined by the parish doctor.
I was examined by the surgeon, and received a note to
adniit me to the Workhouse Hospital. When I arrived
at the hospital, at 3 p.m., on the sth instant, I was
informed it was too late. I enquired for Mr. Peard, but
no one would tell me where he lived. _ _

It is quite true (says the Critic), as has been reported,
that a season of English opera is projected by Mr.
Smith at Drury-lane Theatre; but we fear that the
further rumour that Madame Catherine Hayes is to
be the prima donna is not so well founded. We say
" fear," because, as that accomplished songstress is
still in the very zenith of her powers, it would be good
news for the musical world to bear that she was about
to appear in English opera.- Let us hope, however, that,
if this vague promise is not destined to be fulfilled,
we shall find Madame Hayes's name more frequently
in the concert and oratorio bills of this season than we
did in those of the last. It is, indeed, not less extraor-
dinary than true that, whilst she is received with the
utmost enthusiasm throughout the provinces—whilst
Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow welcome her with
thorough appreciation and warmest applause—in the
metropolis only this great national singer is kept studi-
ously in the background, and treated with studied
neglect.. To what petty cabals and despicable jealousies
this crying injustice is due we do not intend now to
explain; but we are not quite sure whether it would
not be the more honest course to lay bare before the
public the intrigues, the back-stairs influence, and the
critical venality employed to deceive them into applaud-
ing pretty little Italian nobodies and pianoforte playing
automatons, whilst really great artists are left compara-

Now, Sir, as I am ,a stranger in Liverpool (a native
of Manchester), will you be good enough to inform
me if there are any rules in the Liverpool Workhouse
Hospital to prevent a man accidentally injured,
as I have been, to be admitted without all this
circumlocution. Itad I been at home, or had I
the means of sustenance, I would not have applied to
the parish of Liverpool for medical relief.
By inserting the above in your widely-circulated
jouTuat, you will oblige yours. &c., HENRY NE.
67, Peter-street, Whitechapel,
May 6, 1860.

tively unheard.
Mr. Fry, of Bristol, who is well known for his ex-
tensive and valuable collection of c0...1y English Bibles,
is engaged, we (Critic) understand, in pteparing an edi-
tion of Tyndale's New Testament, printed at Worms in
the year 1525, from the copy preserved in the Baptist
Museum, at Bristol. It is to be an exact transcript of
the original, which will be first traced, page by page,
and then lithographed in fac-simile. Of this publica-
tion only a limited number of copies \yin be issued,
some few of which- will be printed on large paper, and
tlitee of four on vellum.
Chevalier Bunsen, ive are informed, is going to leave
Heidelberg, and will take up his future abode at Bonn,
in order to pursue the literary labours which he has in

THE FIRST dUARREL MADE UP.—He only stood still
at the top of the stairs, arid said, "Maggie, you're to
come down." But she rushed to him, and clung round
his neck, sobbing, "0 Tom, please forgive nie—l can't
bear it—l will always be good—always remember
things—do love me, please, dear Tom." We learn to
restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when
we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred
phrases, and in this way preserve a dignified alienation,
showing =tell firmness on one side, and swallowing
much grief on the other. We no longer approximate
in our behaviour to the mere inipulsiveness of the lower
animals, but conduct ourselves in every respect like
members of a highly civilised society. Maggie and Tom
were still very much like young animals, and so she
could rub her cheek against his, and kiss his .ear in a
random sobbing way; and there were tender fibres in
the lad that had been used to answer to Maggie's fond-
ling; sn that he behaved with a weakness quite incon-
sistent with his resolution to punish her as much as she
deserved ; he actually begat to kiss her in return, and
say, "Don't cry, then, Maggie=here, Cat a bit o' cake."
Maggie's sobs began to subside, and she pta (Art her
mouth for the cake and bit a piece, and then Tom bit a
piece, just, for company, and they ate together, and
rubbed each other's cheeks and brows and noses together
while they ate, with a humiliating resemblance to two
friendly ponies.—The Mill on the Floss.
A BUSINESS QUAKER.—The Quakers are, in the main,
as everyone knows, a thrifty, kind-hearted, and undoubt-
edly honest people; but in some of them, even as among
the "world's honest people," love of filthy lucre will
predominate. In one of their farming communities
lived friend Benjamin and his son. It was their custom
to boy up cattle to fatten for sale. One day, Benjamin,
junior. had selected a choice portion of stock from a
passing drove, and was about to buy, when Benjamin,
senior, came along. "Father, I am about to buy these
cattle. What lost thee think of them?" "What does
he ask ?" " So much." " I guess thee'll get them for less.
Offer him $5OO, and wait till morning, if he don't trade."
Filial Benjamin assented—made an offer in vain—went
home with the old gentleman—slept—and next morning
after caring for the stook, mounted his horse to try again
to buy the cattle. But on the way he met Benjamin,
senior, returning home with the whole herd in question.
Benjamin, senior, was wealthy as well as smart ; he had
taken an early start and bought the lot. "Thee will
let me me have my ' portion,' will thee not ?" asked
filial Ben. "No, sonny, of course not ; I've bought the
whole; .want 'em all." Isn't that a hard
trick to play thy son P and I trusted to thee!" "Ah,
tenny," said paterfamilias, reprovingly, "thee must
be sharp and wide aut2t. • fruit Nobody. Benjamin ;
watch everybody; watch thy father, Benjamin; watch
thy father !" Quite likely for young Benjamin—the
admonition was needless thenceforward.—Philadelphia

hand.
Three thousand pounds have been collected, chiefly
from men of letters and their friends, in aid of the me-
morial church of George Herbert, the poet, at Berner-
ton. This sum includes donations from Lord Stanhope,
Lord Macaulay, Deans Milman and Trench, Sir Bulwer
Lytton, Mr. Alfred Tennyson, Mr. Longfellow, and
many other literary celebrities. About £l,OOO are still
needed to complete the work. subscriptions are received
by the Hon. Mr. Herbert, Belgrave-square..
On this day will be sold at Christie's collection
(Mr. Arrowsmith's) of pictures by the old masters,
chiefly Dutch and Flemish; on Saturday next, three
good collections of English pictures—that of Mr.
Briscoe for one. On Tuesday evening next, Messrs.
Southgate and Barrett commence their eleven days' (or
evenings') sale of Mr. Baxter's stock of oil-colonr prints,
including plates, blocks, and the patentee's entire plant.
There is a report that Government intends to adopt
Captain Fowke's plan for altering the National Gallery
in Trafalgar-square, first published id the Cimaill
.11-agazine, one of the main featnies of Which is supposed
to be that tire present building will become large enough
for the national pictures without turning out the Royal

Academy.
The Guarantee Fund for the International Exhibition
of, 1862 is in a fair way of rapid completion. The
amount now reaches £207,000. An inspection of the
list which has been afforded us (Athe,tzmum) at the

rooms of the Society of Arts, shows that 59 names have

been added to it since the last announcement, making a
total of 191 names, of which, it appears, that 158 are
those of members of the Society of Arts.

i'tr. H. J. Atkinson, chairman of the shipping coin-
mittee of the Hull Chamber of Commerce, gave evidence
before the special committee of the House of Commons,
last week, to the effect that he had no doubt vrhatever
but that British shipping would benefit if supposing the
government of this country were to give notice that on
and after a fixed period, say the Ist of January, 1861,
all nations which did not place British ships in their
respective ports on precisely the same footing as their
notional vessels should henceforth be excluded from
English colonial trade.

VICISSITUDES IN THE LIFE OF A BALLET GlRL.—Last
week an inquest was held, before Mr. C. J. Carttar,
coroner, at the Druid's Arms, Greenwich, on the body
of Alfred Arthur Langdon, aged two years. From the
evidence given, it appeared that the mother of the
deceased, a young woman, nineteen years of age, was a
native of Madrid, and followed the occupation of a ballets
dancer at the London theatres. Sbe had placed the
deceased and another child, now eight months old, to
nurse with a woman at Greenwich in December last,
and kept up her payments with tolerable punctuality
until Easter last, when her engagement at the meths-
politan theatre ceasing, she was deprived of the usual
means of support for herself and children. On Thurs-
day week, the nurse, named Thinell, the wife of a
Greenwich pensioner, was compelled, in order to obtain
proper nourishment for the deceased and the other child,
to have recourse to the relieving officer. Oa the follow-
ing day (Friday) the mother sent a Post-office order to
the nurse for 10s., being the whole amount she had been
able to obtain during a period of four weeks. On the
Sunday, while being fed, the deceased, as was thought,
was taken in a fit and almost instantly expired. A pet
mortem examination of the body, which presented a very
emaciated appearance, and weighed scarcely more than
101 b., was ordered by the coroner ; and the evidence of
Mr. HollingswOrth, surgeon, proved that death had
resulted from snffocation, the deceased having, it is sup-
posed, from a long want of proper nourishment, been so
voracious in its swallowing that, from its weakly and
debilitated state, it bad not sufficient power to relieve
itself of food placed in its mouth, which, with the stomach,
was found full after death. The other child was also in
so emaciated a condition that it was at once taken to the
Greenwich Union, where it now remains. The mother,
who was in the inquest-room, was ieterrogated by the
coroner, and stated that the father of the child now
living was a medical student at the London rniversity
Hospital, but had not contributed towards its support.
The father of the deceased, who was a person in a
" respgctable" position in life, had not furnished her
with any means towards its support during the last twelve
months. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with
the medical testimony.
THE VOLUNTARY-SYSTEM.—The Essex County Court,
sitting at Colchester, has been occupied with a curious
case, in which a Dissenting minister sought to recover a
sum of £l4 155., balance of salary alleged to be due to him,
at the rate of 255. a week. The correspondence under
which the plaintiff was engaged was as follows.—
" Colchester, Jan. 3, 1859. My dear Brother,—At a
church held on the 2nd of January, it was agreed alinost
unanimously to invite you, if disengaged, to supply our
pulpit for three months, in view to the.pastorate, under
the consideration that you can stipulate the conditions
under which yeti would undertake such a call. You
are somewhat aware of the disadvantages we have been
in under the failing of supplies of temporals. The hope
is that under a change and a more settled state there
would be no doubt but this would increase. We wish
you fully to state your own views in the matter, and
also when you could commence your labours among us.
If your way appears providentially clear, I have no
doubt the friends would do all their power to make you
comfortable. We are provided next Sabbath only,
therefore should be glad to hear from you as early as
convenient. lam not aware of the slightest obstacle in
your way, but, of course, am not in a position to say
more on the subject till we have •your mind upon it.
With Christian love, we are, truly yours, in Christian
bonds, S. OHISWELL. P.S. You will understand me
when I say 'almost unanimously.' One weak brother
stated he thought we were not in a position to support
this. We did not entertain it, but I like to be as correct
as I can."—The plaintiff replied :—"Jan. 10, 1859.
My dear Brother,—l was not at home when your letter
arrived,'so I answer it as soon as possible. I hope it
finds you and family and all the friends well. I do
accept of your invitation, feeling, under the providence
of God, that it is the way lam to take. If the salary
will suit you as a people, I was thinking about £7O
a-year, to .be paid monthly or quarterly, which the
friends think best ; also, after all other expense is paid,
give me the surplus if the congregation increase ; but if
you think that the church cannot raise the above sum
named, send me word, stating what sum they can raise.
Also, will the church bear the expense of removing my
goods to Colchester, which is a regular practice among
the churches? Also, if the friends can furnish me with
money for the first quarter, I pay back £5 each quarter
till the amount is returned. Let rile know by Lord's
Day next ; it so, I shall be among you, if the Lord will,
the first Lord's Day in February. I hope the union
formed will be a lasting one as long as life lasts. I do
need the prayers of the Lord's people of Colchester; be
assured they have got mine for every covenant blessing
to rest upon them.—Yours truly to serve in the gospel
of Christ, C. E. MERRITT." Ihe "union," however,
was, after all, cut short by the " failing of supplies of
temporals," which the "weak brother" seems to have
foremen.

not hold our;eir6s. responsible for the opinions of
-^ndents.]