The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-14 00:00:00

HISTORIC SOCIETY

The third meeting for the session, and the first of the
literary section, was held last evening, in the grand jury
room, St.:George's Hall—Mr. Buxton in the chair.
Nine candidate members were proposed, to be ballotted
for at the second meeting in December.
James Heywood, Esq., M.P., who had retired from the
society, resumed membership by paying the fees belonging
to the period of his temporary withdrawal.
Selections from the donations were laid on the table,
comprising—from the Literary and Philosophical Society
of Manchester, Memoirs of the Society, vol. vi., second
series; Dr. Robert A. Smith's Life of Dalton, forming
vol. xiii. of the Memoirs of the Society; from the Society,
Journal of the Statistical Society of London, vol. xix., parts
2 and 3 for June and September, 1856 ; from the Author,
Genealogical Essays Illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire
Families ; and a Memoir of the Cheshire Domesday Re'l, by
George Ormerod, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S. ; from the Author,
a Pamphlet entitled The Manchester Exhibition Review.
Among the exhibitions were John Stow's Survey of London,
1598, printed 1603, a very rare book, in antique binding,
by Peter M`Quie, Esq. ; and a Chinese coin by Dr. Hume.
Dr. Hume stated that in August the Archeological
Society would meet in Chester, and the British Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science in Manchester in
1858.
The paper of the evening was by Mr. E. Cleborne, on
" The relations that exist between the United States on
the one hand, and the capital and labour of Europe on the
other." The writer contended that the material pros-
perity of the United States was owing chiefly, if not
wholly, to European capital and labour ; and that if
emigration from the old countries ceased, the development
of the resources of America would also soon cease. He
dwelt largely on the early deaths of the native born
Americans, and the speedy deterioration of the physical
powers of emigrants after settling there. The paper con-
tained many truths, but, as a whole, the views which it
propounded in regard to America and Americans, were
too exaggerated to meet with acceptance.
Dr. Hume observed that, in respect to the early deaths
of the people of the States, the paper was perfectly cor-
rect. He himself had often talked with intelligent Ameri-
can gentlemen on the subject, and they admitted the fact,
though at a loss to account for its cause. Few families in
America could be traced to the third generati.m, and
scarcely any beyond it. To the other portions of the
paper,' Dr. Hume took exception, and pointed out some
very illogical and unphilosophical deductions of the
write..

'i" he Chairman and other gentlemen present also took
exception to the views of the writer.

Loss OF MoNity.—On Tuesday last, a gentleman, resid-
ing near Stockport, either lost, or had stolen from his
pocket, a pocket book, containing three Bank of England
notes for £5, £2O, and £lOO.

Alin Catherine' Hayes concludes her engagement with
M. Jullien at the end of this week, and then commences a
series of metropolitan and provincial engagements. We
perceive that she is singing her old favourite pieces, which
she made so popular previous to leaving this country for
the United States.

A great meeting of the mayors of Irish cities and towns
is to take place at Cork, to concert measures for the putting
an end to ministers' money. The impost in dispute has
been condemned by several Protestant clergymen, the chief
portion of whose income was derived from this source, and
the only regret is that when the legislature did interfere,
with a view of correcting the grievance, some less objection-
able plan was not hit upon than that which has merely
served to resuscitate the embers of religious discord.
DEPARTURE OF THE SIAILA.—The European and Aus.
tralian chartered mail packet Simla, Captain Cooper, left
Southampton on Wednesday, with the mails for Sydney,
Melbourne, Adelaide, Van Diemen's Land, Launceston,
Geelong, Auckland, Wellington, and King George's Sound.
The mails consisted of about 160 bags, four-fifths of the
number containing newspapers, and one-fifth letters. She
is to touch at St. Vincent, which place she is expected to
reach in eight days. She started from the stream, a small
steamer having taken out her mails to her from the docks.
Just after she started, Captain Cooper was heard hailing the
small steamer. A four-oared boat was despatched to the
Simla to know what was the matter, when it was found that
a rough-looking fellow had just been discovered concealed
in the coal bunkers. He had evidently thought of getting
a free passage to Australia. He was bundled into the boat,
and taken ashore. The Simla has been chartered by the
European and Australian Mail Company of the Peninsular
Company for two years.
APPREHENSION OF AN ESCAPED CON VICT . —At the
Guildhall, York, Omar Shamgar, alias George Woodcock,
was charged with being found at large in York without
being able to give some reasonable excuse, be having been
sentenced to ten years' penal servitude at Derby, on the 3rd
of June, 1854. The prisoner had been in custody for several
days, on a charge of committing a burglary at Micklefield,
near Church Fenton, but the police have failed to prove the
charge. During his detention, it was found that he
answered the description of an escaped convict from Dart-
moor prison. On Monday the chief warden of Dartmoor
prison attended before the magistrates, and identified the
prisoner as a person who was convicted at Derby, on Juno
3, 1854, under the name of George Woodcock, and
sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. He was received
into Dartmoor Prison on the 25th of September, but con-
trived to make his escape through a drain nearly a mile
long on Angust 25, 1855. The authorities traced him for
four days, and then lost sight of him. The magistrates
committed him to Exeter gaol to take his trial at the next
Devonshire assizos. The prisoner, who has spent his whole
life in thieving, has been convicted of different offences at
Aylesbury, Durham, Leicester, Northampton, Retford,
Bedford, any several other places.
LONDON PAUPERS. —A return has been issued of the
number of paupers admitted into the metropolitan
workhouses during the last twelve months. The numbers
are :—Greenwich, 1,246 ; Lewisham, 521 ; Bethnal green,
2,336; Chelsea, 1,917 ; Clerkenwell, 1,627 ; Fulham, 728
St. George-in-the-East, Workhouse, 2,471 ; St. George-in.
the_East, Plashet School, 907 ; St. George, Hanover
square, 1.049 ; St. Giles and St. George, Bloomsbury,
6,156 ; Hackney, 614 ; Hampstead, 249 ; Holborn, 2,285 ;
Islington, 1,707 ; St. James, Westminster, 1,339 ;
Kensington, 1,033 ; City of London, 1,746 ; 'East London,
2,082; West London, 1,415; St. Luke, 1,785; St.
Margaret and St. John, Westminster (Petty France), 2,382;
St. Margaret and St. John, Kensington, 7,747 ; St. Martin-
in-the-Fields, 1,122 ; St. Marylebone, 5,098; Paddington,
438, Poplar, 987; Shoreditch, 2,798; Stepney, Ratcliff
Workhouse, 424 ; do., Mile End, 881 ; do., Wapping,
1,490; do., Limehouse, 1,221 ; Strand, 1,807 ; Whitechapel,
3,73,5 ; Bermondsey, 1,391 ; Camberwell, 552 ; St. George,
Southwark, 1,828 ; Lambeth, 4,821; St, Mary, Newington,
1,577 ; St. Olave's, 800 ; Rotherhithe, 335; St. Saviour's,
1,103; Wandsworth and Clapham, 2,031. Notwithstanding
repeated applications have been made for this information,
the officers of St. Pancras have failed to make a return.-
THE BONA FIDE TRAVELLER QUESTION AGAIN.—At the
Borough Police Court, Doncaster, on Monday last, Mr.
William Scales, the landlord of the Lord Nelson Inn, in
that town, was charged with allowing drinking in his house
between the hours of three and five on Sunday the 2nd inst.
Mr. Manatt, solicitor, was for the defendant. It appears,
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from a statement of sergeant of police, that he went to
the house, at about twenty minutes to four o'clock, when he
found Mr. Topliff, a farmer, near Doncaster, a medical
gentleman of the town, and the landlord sat in one of the
rooms with three glasses of wine before them. Mr. Manatt.
for the defence, contended that the summons ought to be
dismissed, as there was no proof of the wine having been
supplied between the hours of three and five. In order,
moreover, to convict, they must prove that wine or fomented
liquor was supplied to some person not being a lodger or
traveller. Now, the fact was, that Mr. Topliff had been
remaining in the house since Saturday ; and, in con-
sequence of suffering from toothache, be had sent for the
medical gentleman in question to draw his tooth. After
the operation they had dined together, and were then
partaking of a glass of wine. The extracted tooth was
produced in court. Mr. Manatt called Mrs. Scales, the
wife of the landlord, to substantiate the defence. She
stated that the wine was paid for by Mr. Topliff. Mr.
Jackson, one of the magistrates, said the bench did not
consichN,Mr. Topliff was either a traveller or lodger, and
they shAtld convict the defendant in a fine of 20s. and
costs. It appeared, on reference to the books, he had been
before the magistrates previously for allowing drunkenness
in his house.