The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-29 00:00:00

ROWING MATCH, FOR SILVER SALVER.
FOR FOUR-OARED CUTTERS, NOT OUTRIGGERS, ROWED BY

GENTLEMEN AMATEURS

6 VIM.
Flag of Name of Boat. Distinguishing
Race. Flag.
BLUR— Four-oared Sham-mit—Red Flag.,,. F. Cherry, Esq.
POTSa... Countess of Sefton.....Blue ........ Mersey Hewing Club
..sim, ii Glover .. ..,White,. ..... Bd Clint. Esq.
. ....... Light Blue.. Blaney R...

Sea Serpen

USED RIVER OR
ROWING MATCIT, FOR. FoUR-
SPECITLATION G ius.

6.30 p.m. FIRST BOAT, .£5. SECOND BOAT, £2.
Fir g Name of Boat. Distinguishing F 1 ,g. owner,
of Race.' . Jenny Lind.... White, Red. & Bine.. Henry Evei.
Ran; . • Black Joke....fted Black Ball .. .... Tomas Howard.
Wu rra and.. -. • ...Blue.. ... . .......... Thomas Culslaaw
RBI,. .. Emma ...Union Jack .......... John Tyre%
.Queen .. Red ........... ... •
.• Richard Holt.
..
ROWING MATCH, FOR PAIR OARED GIGS.
To be-Rowed for by Gentlemen Amateurs,
• FOR A SIL 7ER CUP.
Flag of Race. Name of Boat. Distinguishing Flag
BLVD AND.. NAncy ...... .. White....
NV nITE ...Belle. Dark Blu..
CHECteo. ~• Redan light Blue
. . Mystery Pink .
.. Fairy . Yellow

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M. R. C.
Robinson,Esq
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PRIZES FOR FLATS, PUNT, setiLL E RS' MA

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By order of the Committee,
WM, SIIITITLEWORTH, Town-clerk.

THE ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION TO THE NORTHERN
DAILY TIMES is TWO GUINEAS PER ANNUM.

as possible

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

But this species of Sunday desecration is
held by the Church to be both national and con-
stitutional ! We must confess, however, that we
are wholly at a loss to understand the difference
between a band's playing on the Sabbath for the
amusement of a regiment of soldiers, or a park
full of people who have but one day in the week to
devote to recreation.

The Bishops may be able to point out the dis-
tinction, and the sooner the Reverend Lords do so
the better all classes of the community will be-
capable of judgit,g of the consistency of their
theological and moral objections to military bands
playing for the public, at suitable hours, on the
Sunday, instead of a regiment. We could raise
many grave arguments against both practices, and
would, as far as we are personally concerned,
rather not have music played for amusement on
the 'Sabbath. But then we cannot shut our eyes
to what we see going on around us on that
sacred day. • Who, that looks into the
actual state of things in all our large
towns, would not adopt anything that
was not positively a heinous sin to draw men and
women, boys and girls, off from those scenes of
drunkenness and depravity of the worst description,
which we witness on each returning Sabbath
morning and evening ? The Church must forego
something to win the abandoned from the evil
tenor of their ways. Music and rational amuse-
ments have not made society in this country what
it is, and it cannot therefore be said that the
remedy suggested is the parent of the social
malady we would remove. Everything has been
tried that the Church has suggested and religion
could dictate, to bring all men to respect the
Sabbath alike. But these costly and holy efforts
have failed not for want of time or zeal. A large
portion of mankind love to feed and cast
their lot, like certain animals and birds of the
desert, among poisonous plants and pestiferious
carrion.

Whether music was first introduced into temples
devoted to Divine worship to attract the listless
multitude, we leave those who have dived deeper
into Church history than we have to decide.
But few will deny that it has its charms
in Churches, and why should it not exercise
its sublime influencess in the open air
on the Sabbath. Why should it not be
employed in these day 4 to fill the multitude with a
taste; if not 'a love, of sacred music ? Time has
added mightily to our stock of oratoricel composi-
tions. There is no lack of cheerful, heart stirring,
I and majestic passages in the works of the modern
composers of sacred music. Any musician,
acquainted with the great masters of the day,
Icould make selections for Sunday performances
which could not be said to amount to a desecra-
tion of the Lord's Day, if they were heard, in the
I open air, in the presence of the highest and most
scrupulous authorities in the land. We have not
enough of this sort of music amongst us. We
! want it to be spread far and near, as the antidote
Ito the poisonous trash which is associated with
1 vulgarity and debauchery. This popular style of
composition, if played anywhere, would desecrate
ithe Sabbath, and, we feel convinced, that if the pro-
i ductions of our great masters of oratorio music
I were encouraged, the good taste and good sense
lof the public would speedily reject any other
description of recreation, except that which all
. classes might participate in with equal delight and
advantage. The people appear resolved to have
their Sunday band-playing, and it would be well to
try the experiment of rendering their Sabbath
amusements as agreeable, harmless, and edifying

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING

There has been rather more business done in
Cotton to-day, and the sales amount to 7,000 bales,
of which 1,500 have been taken for speculation
and export. Prices are without change.

The Liverpool Share Market has been active,
and a good business has been done at gradually
improving prices. The closing quotations were
Aberdeen, 13* 131. Chester and Birkenhead, 151
16. Caledonian, 30i 31. Chester and Holyhead,
15116. Eastern Counties, 10* 101-. East Lanca-
shire, 191 20. Great Northern, 231 241. Ditto A,
914101: Great Western, 60* 61*. Lancashire and
Yorkshire Stock, 934 93*. Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport, 171 17*. London and North Western
Stock, 1021 103. Manchester Sheffield, and Lin-
coln, 29129 f Ditto Pref., 11a 111. Ditto New 6
per cent. Pref., I Hp. Midland Stock, 79* 791.
North British, 81 BZ-i. North Staffordshire, 6 51d.
South Eastern and Dover, 211 218. York, New-
castle, and Berwick, 20-a 208. York and North
Midland, 298 30*. Leeds Capital Stock, 171 18.
Buffalo and Lake Huron, 1 la. Dutch Rhenish,
1 9-16 lap. Great Western of Canada, 26* 261.
Ditto New Shares, 3* 31p. Ditto 2nd issue, al 3ap.
Great Luxembourg, 8* 70.

The Hogue, which arrived from New South
Wales yesterday, is now ascertained to bring
76,000 sovereigns, coined in the Sydney Mint, and
2,000 ounces of gold. A large amount is also
brought by private hand.
The rates charged for the negociation of three
months' bills on the principal cities of the Conti-
nent yesterday afternoon ruled firm. As the
course of exchange at New York on London will
yield a profit on shipments of the precious metals
to England, further supplies from that quarter
may be expected, and as the arrivals of gold from
Australia are large, and likely to continue so, a
speedy and material augmentation in the stock of
bullion held by the Bank of England may be
expected. These circumstances, together with the
limited demand now current for discount accomo-
modation, and the abundant supply of capital,
have given rise to the impression that a reduction
in the course of a week or two will be made in the
minimum terms now current in Threadneedle-
street.

Letters from Paris mention that the great
national undertaking to drain the agricultural
lands of the country is under the consideration of
the Council of State, and likely to receive their
sanction. To this project the government are to
lend 100 million francs, and that they are to
empower the company to drain such lands as are
necessary. The subscribers to the loan are to be
reimbursed in twenty years, at the average of
annuities, with the option of selling out in three,
four, six, and eight years, and with the interest
at the rates of three and four per cent. It is
calculated that the expense of draining one
hectare will be about 230 f. ; that each hectare thus
drained will produce more than s:x hectolitres of
wheat; and that when all the lands in France are
drained, it will add from four to five millions hec-
tolitres of wheat.

No public sales of colonial produce have been
advertised for to-day or to-morrow, and business
in all departments, in conseqnence of the Epsom
Races, is quiet.
Notice has been given that the Scrip Certificates
for the deposit on the loan for 5,000,000/. were
obtainable this morning at 11 o'clock.
The security Markets continue to show a steady
upward tendency, owing to the improved aspect of
monetary affairs. The Funds experienced a fresh
rise of 14 per cent to-dad•, and closed k per cent
higher than yesterday. The final quotations were
954 to 958. In the Discount market the supply of
money continued large, and the current rates are
below those of the Bank. In the Stock Exchange
also money continues easy. At • Paris to-day the 3
per Cent Rentes closed a trifle lower than yesterday.
Any tendency towards improvement is checked by
the report that a new loan is near at hand. The
gold brought by the Roxburgh Castle was to-day
purchased by the Bank. At a general meeting
held to-day of the proprietors of the National Bank;
previously known as the National Bank of Ireland,
a very satisfactory report was read and adopted,
and a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, together
with a bonus of 10s per share, was declared. The
Railway Share Market to day was decidedly
buoyant, and prices, at the close, were
quoted as follows :—Caledonian, 611 614. Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 60 62. Eastern Counties,
10 10i. East Lancashire, 77 79. Great Northern,
95? 96. Ditto A, 79 80. Great Western, 611
611. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 921 93. London
and North Western, 1024 1021. Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 294 30. Midland
Stock, 79 791. North Thitish, 35 36. South
Eastern and Dover, 724 73. York, Newcastle,
and Berwick, 59 60. York and North Midland,
59 60.

THE FIRST BRITISH MERCHANT STEAMER AT ST.
PETERSBULIG.—We learn that the first British merchant
steamer that has ascended the Neva beyond Cronstadt
(where it is usual for such vessels to discharge their
cargoes into lighters is the Spurn, 700 tons burthen,
which has arrived at St. Petersburg city, and is discharg-
ing her cargo there. The Spurn was built to ply between
Grimsby and the Baltic by Messrs. Martin Samuelson
and Co., of Hull, and has been able to ascend the Neva by
reason of an exceedingly light draught of water in pro-
portion to her tonnage. The builders of this steamer are
developing the same principle of construction with
advantage in the nine vessels built and building by
them for the Anglo-French steamship company for the
navigation between Grimsby and the Seine at Rouen,
and the other shallow rivers of France.

TRAGIC EVENT IN THE TYROL.--The Revenue Franco-
Italienne reports a terrible event as having occurred
recently at Bolzano, in the Italian Tyrol. A schoolboy
of the town-school threw a stone at a peacock belonging
to the masters and killed it. The father of the child,
when he heard of the circumstance, came forward
voluntarily to pay the value of the bird. But the two
masters, who were priests, determined that the child
must, nevertheless, receive exemplary chastisement. At
a moment when all the other scholars went out for a
walk, the " murderer " of the peacock was detained and
beaten till his back was broken. He died on the spot.
The father, who was sent for by people who heard the
cries of the child, came at once to the school, and seeing
his infant dead, fell upon the two priests and killed them
by repeated stabs with a knife.

EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE ON LoNDON-BRIDGE.—
On Tuesday morning, at half-past three o'clock, consider-
able sensation was created on London-bridge, in conse-
quence of a wide-spread report that a respectably-dressed
female, name unknown, had been thrown over London-
bridge, and that the alleged murderer had been appre-
hended. Upon inquiry this turns out to be too true, and
the particulars are nearly as follow :—A police constable
was on duty on London-bridge, at half-past three o'clock
yesterday morning. He observed a man and woman
loitering on the bridge for some length of time. They
presently got on one of the recesses. A person who
was passing saw the man push the woman over the
bridge. In falling she struck against the abutments,
and tell into the water. Wheeler, police constable 5h7,
instantly raised an alarm, when the Royal Humane
Society's boats and drags were quickly put in requisition,
but the body was not found. The man, when arrested,
attempted to commit suicide. Upon arriving at the
station, the inspector asked him his name. He answered,
I William Mayes. billiard-marker, aced 26 years, and that
he resided at Three Tons-court, 'Borough. The acting
inspector entered the charge against the prisoner as
follows:—Charged with attempting suicide and also
pushing a woman over the parapet of London-bridge.
Later in the afternoon the man was placed at the bar,
before Sir R. Carden, at the Mansion-house, charged with
the above offence. He was remanded for a week.
DOMESTIC AFFLICTION TO LORD BROUGHAM.—We re-
gret to announce the death of the only sister of Lor,l
Brougham, which took place on the 25th instant. The
mournful event has happened at a moment when his
lordship is far from well ; although to the last moment
assiduous in the discharge of his parliamentary duties,
both judicial and political. The following letter from
his lordship was read on Tuesday evening by the Lord
Chancellor in the House of Lords :—" My dear Lord
Chancellor,—l am sorry I must trouble you to take
charge of the Carlisle petition and of my bills, as I am
unable to attend, being very unwell ; but besides, I find
that seventeen years since my afflictions in 1839 have,
broth by the length of time and the work, left me
unable to struggle as I then did, and I may per-
haps venture to hope that I have earned a title
to some rest under the present distress. Two of the
bills are in their last stage; but by far the most impor-
tant (the Judicial Statistics) is not, and I earnestly
recommend it to your care. The prints are delivered
today, and the numerous schedules, elaborately and
most carefully prepared, really exhaust the whole sub-
ject, and give a complete system of judicial statistics,
civil and criminal, general and local. As I shall almost
immediately leave town, I hope you may receive this so
as to act upon it before I go." Lord Brougham will,
we believe, quit town immediately, either for Strat-
fieldsaye or Westmorland.