The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-22 00:00:00

HISTORIC SOCIETY.

The clo.ing meeting of the society for the present
session was h-ld last night, in the Grand Jury Room, St.
George's Hall—M-. Thomas Sansom, A.L.S , in the chair.
There was a very large attendance of members.
The following gentlemen were balloted for, and de-
elated duly elected members of the society :—E lward
Bean, Esq., Revenue Buildings; John Cheathat,, M.P.,
Eastwood ; Francis A Clint, Eq , 2, Beech Terrace ; tue
Hon. Sir C. Cresswell. 21, Prince's Ga,e, L )radon ; Ch.rl-
- R. Hall, Esq , 40, Evarton Terrace ; Francis Haywood,
Esq.. Edge Lane Hall; Robert Heath, Esq., Hefferstone
Grange; Lewis Hornblower, Ezq., Clarendon Buildings;
Hamilton Hume, Esq., Cooma, New South Wales ; James
Redcliffe Jeffery, E- q.. 11, Lodge Lane ; Joseph Kitchen,
E-q , Exchange Street East ; Charles Niozley, Esq , 125,
Mount Pleasant ; David Hudson M'Nicoll, E-q ,
Southport; A. C. Stewart, Esq., Union Buildings; John
Angus Ward, Esq., Hooton Lodge; and Samuel Hill,
Esq., Lower Castle Street.
Anu,,ng the donations acknowledged as having been re-
ceived were—From the society, Proceedings of the Royal
Society, Vol. VIII., No. 25 ; from the society, Proceedings
of the Royal Geographical Society, No. VIII., March,
1857 ; Journal' of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol.
XXVII., 1856. From the society, the Quarterly
Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. XII., Part
IV., 1856; from the society, Journal of the Geolo-
gical Society of Dublin, Vol. VII., Part 111., 1850.
From the society, Transactions of the Cambridge Philo-
sophical Society, Vol. IX , Part IV. From the Town
Council of Liverpool, Report on the Police Establishment
and the state of crime in Liverpool, with tabular retarns
for the first nine months of 1856-57. From the ',Society,
Transactions of the Dublin University 72-hilosophical
Society. From T. T. Wilkinson, ESs., The Ladies and
Gentlemen's Diary, or Poetical and Mathematical Alma-
nick, for 1857 ; on the Origin and. Investigation of Porisms,
by Mr. John Playfai F.R.S., Edinburgh, From Mr. Herd.
man, Ancient Liverpl, Part 111. From Mr. Keith, Five
Photographs, commemorative of the laying of the founda-
tion stone of the New Free Public Library. Proceedings
of the Liverpool Architectural and Archaeological Society,
Vol. 11., Part IL ; and Report of the Liverpool Royal
Institution; 1857.
Mr. Joseph Mayer, F.S.A., exhibited a gold ring found
under the roots of a plum tree at Hoy lake. It belongs to
the period of Queen Elizabeth, and is of the usual form of
four leaves in the centre, on the apex of which is set a
diamond, which is cut in the style of the period, having
four plain sides terminating in a point. Inside the ring
under the head are engraved these letters—S. T. D. /K—
-in the style of writing at the period.
Mr. Robert Benn exhibited some articles of interest.

Mr. George Grazebrook, P.B A., exhibited two inami..
nated missals, one of early XV, and the other eurt of same
century, end several o,her objects of interest.
"
Miss Head, of Merton-road, Boole ill Age, rent for
exhibition an old work, Huweil's Ristory of the Bible,
printed at Manchester in riVi. It was interesting
mainly on account of the plates
Mr. Henderson, of Chinch street, sent for exhibition a
copy of the Bible in Spmnish- 1569, a presentation copy
from the trAnslator Cassiodonus Reimiea, of 1588
he papers for the evening were-L-By Mr. J T. Towson,
" A visit to the tomb of Theodor° Palealogue." By Mr.
James S.onehouse—‘, Comparison between Shakespeare's
Miebeth and P2,ehard the Third." By the Rev T. C.
Kirkman—& mathematical paper. By the Rev. Dr.
Hume—Concluding address on the close of the third tri-
ennial period of the existence of the Histo-ic Society.
At the conclusion of the meeting, Mr. Keith presented a
slip of glass, 3 inches by 11 inch, on wh.ch was photo-
graphed an exact copy of a paper read at the last meeting
of the Photographic Society, and occupying biz pages of
otter paper.

BRADFORD, WAKEFIFLD, AND LEEDI RAILWAY.—The
re tart of this railway wino' .-ces that the line c ,nnot he
opened at the time stat d in the last report, and it is not
said when the opening will take place. Mr. Ilawksh3w,
the engineer, reporting on the ISth inst., states that a
considerable quantity of earthwork . emained to be done,
besides some tunnelling, and the cJustruction ..f <^l miles
of permanent way. Mr. Ilawkshew went with t c con-
tractor over the railway on the 16th inst., an I urged the
necessity of completing the works without furtt r delay.
With the exception of the delay in th., Opening, ti p affairs
of the company are said to be satisfactory. The balance
sheet up to the cull of the quarter shows the receipt;
all sources to be £163.151 12:, 7i. Of this the receipts
from calls amount to £92,439, and from loans to £60,000.
The expenditure up to the same period amoun, s to
£164,60217, 11d. Of this parliamentary Expenses has
swallowed £11,467 • laud and corapermuon, £29,608 ;
and works, £116,23,3. Tho balance due to the company's
bankers is £ 1,451 56 4d,