The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-03 00:00:00

~ 39,051,110
. 21,761,368
. 14,112,000

74,924,478

4,361,700
13,882,865
6,084,750
24,329,315

Quantity of water in store, week ending
-hole 23, 1860
Do. do. June 30, 1860

Washing out mains, sewers, &e
Watering streets

Delivered at Bootle unmixed
50 mixed ....

98,295,146
2,500,000
653,520
-- 3,153,520

95,141,626
2,500,000
92,641,626

95,141,626 gallons.
Proportion of Rivington to well water as 37 to 12.
Mr. BENNETT said it was a very satisfactory report.
The Financial business was then proceeded with.
Mr. WAGSTAFF said, at their last meeting Mr. Jef-
fery had stated that he had received information that a
report, as to the tire which took place in Grafton-street,
as first entered in the book, had not been considered
satisfactory by the engineer, and that a leaf had been
torn out of it and another substituted. This remark
had been much talked about out of doors, and it had
subjected their engineer to much annoyance. He wished
therefore to state that at the meeting, after the reporters
had retired, the book was produced, and it was found
entire ; every page was succesively numbered, and no
leaf had been torn out. The information of Mr. Jeffery
was therefore totally unfounded. He thought it his
duty to make this statement in justice to the engineer.
This was the whole of the public business.

THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

Yesterday morning Wimbledon, large as is its area, was
literally covered with people, who assembled for the
double purpose of witnessing the contest for the prizes
offered by the National Rifle Association, and the
arrival of the Queen. The inner circle, in which her
Majesty received the address, was filled with distin-
guished visitors.
Her Majesty and the Prince Consort arrived at
Wimbledon shortly before four o'clock. The Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert presented an address to her Majesty
from the Council of the National Rifle Association.
The address stated that the association hoped, by
establishing rifle shooting as a national pastime, to
make the rifle what the bow was in the days of the
Plantagenets—the familiar weapon of those who stood
forth in the defence of their country.
Her Majesty's reply contained the following :
"I assure you, that I, together with my Royal Con-
sort, have glady given encouragement to a body whose
object it is to render permanent an armed force
limited exclusively to defensive purposes, and founded
upon voluntary exertions. I have witnessed with
pleasure the manner in which the ancient fondness of
the English people for manly and sylvean sport has been
converted by our associations to more important ends,
and ha. Lcea made an QuNii;.., iust.ltk,.4 uitumm-
ing inviolable the safety of our common country."
An address was next presented to the Prince Consort.
In his reply, his Royal Highness, referring to the prize
he had offered olnu, to the competition of. all nations,
said :

‘ I am convinced the result will be to show that, as
the British manufacturer is already second to none in
the fabrication of the arm itself, so the people of this
country are not to be surpassed by any in the knowledge
how to use it."

The proceedings were then formally inaugurated.

The manuscript volume of Dr. John Bull's compo-
sitions, which was said to contain, the original of " God
.Save the ling," has been recently offered for sale to the
trustees of the British Museum. Upon examination,
that portion of the manuscript which contains the "ayre"
upon which the claim for Dr. Bull to the composition of
our National Anthem was based is found by Sir Fred-
eric Madden to be in a much more moder❑ hand than
the rest of the volume, and is, therefore, of no authority
whatever.

DREADFUL FIRE AT RRADFDAD.—On Sunday morn-
ing, an eating,bouse, occupied by Mr. William Carver,
in Westgate, Bradford, was destroyed by fire. The fire
was discovered at seven o'clock, and an alarm was
immediately given. There were no fewer than nine or
ten persons asleep in the house. Two of them had to
be rescued from the windows of the top storey by
ladders, the others with difficulty escaped by the stair-
case. Mr. Carver, who remained behind a few minutes
to endeavour to recover a bag of money, in one of the
upper rooms, was rather severely burnt.
Loki Socrrriu.-44r. Tidd Pratt bas made up the
,
annual abstract of the accounts oti loan societies, which
are among the devices of mOdern da3,:l: Optr\e idei ray
be formed" of the extent o( the eyatept Nxe state
that loans were rivide in 1841 (in FRoglanCl and Wales)
to no, ess, than A, 142 persons that tie tiMountt
culated in the year was £5400937 ; RAd the gam of
£26,119 was paid fox inters{ by borrOwers or their

sureties. With regard to the capital of the societies the
accounts might 'have been clearer; all that is stated is
that the amount actually advanced and paid by depositors
or shareholders in 1859 was £102,997, but the sums in
borrowers'. hands .at the close of the year amounted
to £293,005. The grois proAtic Oeing
~the mount
received from hpyrowers and £7,509 for f6,tm,s"Of
cation and for inquiry) amounted ta 4.44,RA out of
which there was paid 11, tl or eXPeaSeS of manage-
meat and £17,402 for interest to depositors and share.
, holders, leaving a "net profit" of £4,071. 9 841
summonses were issued, and 866 distress warrants ; the
summonses were for the recovery of £20,386, and the
amount " recovered" was £15,078, showing, apparently, a
loss of £5,308, which would absorb the net, profit. The
appiications rejected appear to haye. been only 1;,663.
VOLUNTEERING. FY4.Olt THEEll,lyr.tn.mq Lpiz.
Mr. Sidney 4v.rtqt Announces; in a circular to officers
coranmucliAg militia regiments, that the regulations at
present in force for carrying on volunteering from the
militia to the line, will be modified in the following
manner :—" Stringent orders have been issued pro.'
hibiting any line or other recruiting parties from
attempting in future in any way to induce ru,ilimr to
leave their respective regypVta, order to enlistl
in her:MAesy's regular forces or marines; militiamen
haVink no more right. to SO so than men, of one liAe
regiment have to 'enliit 'in another wiche4 the consent
of their conimandins officer. Such a proceeding on
theVpatt t‘mounts to desertion, and will expose them'
to, the perralties attached to that' offence, a liability
which every opportunity should be taken to make
known, Volunteers, therefore, who may be anxious
to enlist in the regular army, should apply for
permission to their commanding officers, who, will
exercise their di,cretion as to granting their
request, teaiine in mind the! policy of granting
conditional releases to men who are'
lz,en on enlist-
ing, twic\ over -Whose mO\,eineiita, except 44ing one
month training, thei have little ar. na Faaical
control. n such cases shall: he .prepaTed) on your
recommendation, to give you a covering authority for
the release of any such men to whom you may think it
right to grant the indulgence. But it is to be clearly
understood.that in all such cases the men will be re-
quired to refund'lBs. 6d. to cover the bounty and other
expenses' incurred on their enrolment ;' also any balance
of bounty they may have received in advance on.,
account of %d .: first *.engagement, if le-aireskea for
a second. The net iinc'ter the temiierary etubodi-
nieut of the,militia has been sanctioned will expire on
the 25th of March next, and the entire force will
then revert to its normal and constitutional state as a
Teseryp.**t,r, to, be annually trained, but not to, be
PlbOdiea except in time, of national danger and there
is every reason to hope that, by a carefal observance on
the part of the Government of the principles pit whieli
the militia force is founded, the disorganisation of the
regiments of which it is composed will be prevented, and
commanding officers will be enabled to reap the fruits of
their unremitting exertions to maintain the efficiency of
their corps,"