The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-02 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE

BrINKRUPTS.—HENRY FIELD, Staverton-row, Wal-
worth-road, tea dealer and grocer. Jour/. SHOOLBRED,
Jermyn-street, tailor and surgical bandage maker. JAMES
LOMAX, Warrington, Lancashire, licensed victualler. Tilos.
HESLINGTON, Birmingham, straw and meal dealer.
FREDERICK ROBERTS, Drwyham, Denbighshire, flour and
provision dealer. EDGAR CROWE, Colchester, boot and
shoe maker. CHARLES WILLIAMS, Wilby-terrace,
Mile
End, tea dealer and grocer. GEORGE FOSSEY, and JAMES
STEELE, Norway-wharf, Millwall, Middlesex, timber
merchants; and of Trinity-street, Rotherhithe, Surrey,
lightermen. RICHARD GILL, and HENRY EDE, builders.
SAMUEL I3A YLEY, Pdaeclrsfield, Cheshire, cotton spinner and
manufacturer. JOSEPH NIXON SEWELL, and THOMAS
RATTINSON, .Newcastle-upon. Tyne, chemists and druggists.

Qum( DESPATCH.—The new iron clipper ship Mary
Stanhouse, from Akyab, 'owned by Edward Bates, Esq.,
having on board 22,511 bags rice, was discharged, and
cargo warehoused in the transit shed, No. 2, Prince's-
doth, under the usual regulations in 29 hours, by Messrs.
John and James Mullins, stevedores.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On the 31st ult.. John Curry, aged
28, a dock labourer, who was at work in the Waterloo-
dock, o❑ board the ship Plymouth Rock, was accident-
ally hurt and died yesterday in the Northern Hospital
from the effects of the injuries he had received. An
inquest will be held on the body this day.
LECTURES ON CELTIC CIVILISATION.—We perceive by an
advertisement in another part of our paper, that Mr.
M'Carthy is to deliver a course of lectures on the Civilisa.
tion of the Celtic Race, in the Hall of the Catholic Insti-
tute, Hope-stree', and from the great interest excited by his
dissertation on lush History, which appeared in the Nation
newspaper a few years since, we have reason to believe that
the public will enjoy a correct and proper estimate of the
real condition of the Celtic people in those early times.

MONTHLY REPORT.—EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, No. 90,
To' OF MOUNT PLEASANT.—Surgeons : Hugh Neill, Esq.,
John Poole, E,q., and Dr. R. }ltbbert Taylor. Assistant
surgeon, Dr. Nevins; - treasurer, William Langton, Esq.
Eye department : new patients admitted in the month of
January, 344. Patients prescribed for, and who have
received surgical assistance during the month of January,
1356. Ear department : Patients prescribed for, and who
have received -surgical assistance during the month of
January, 389.

THE GOSPEL IN NEW ZEALAND.—Last night, a meet-
ing of the subscribers and friends of the Church
Missionary Society was held in Hope-hall, Hope-street,
to hear statements from the Rev. Richard Taylor, mis-
sionary in New Zealarrl, and Hipango, a native chief,
iu reference to the progress of the Gospel for the last
twenty years in that important colony. The Rev. Mr.
Taylor acted as interpreter to Hipango, and gave also
himself most interesting details iu connection with the
New 'Zealand mission.

MR. JAMES CHEETHAM'S AFFAIRS.---At a meeting on
Thursday of the creditors of Mr. James Cheetham, spin-
ner and manufacturer, summoned by Mr. William Sale,
solicitor, a resolution to the following effect was unani-
mously adopted :—" That Mr. Cheetham's offer of lOs
in the pound, payable in five 'yearly instalments of 2s
each, be accepted ; that as these instalments are un-
guaranteed, the business shall be carried on until they
are paid, under the inspection of Mr. Henry Bury,
banker; Mr. John Platt, machine maker; and Mr.
Joseph Simpson, spinner and manufacturer."

The Duke of Newcastle made his appearance on Thurs-
day, in the House of Lords, with a well-developed
( rimean beard, as,An evidence of his ;recent tour in the
East.

THE COLONIES.—A parliamentary return, printed yester-
day morning, shows that the expenditure of Great Britain,
on account of her colonies, in the year 1853.4, was
£3,288,338.
The Prase contradicts the rumour that the Indepentlance
Beige had been sold to some foreign bankers. That jour-
nal will, it :says, remain in the hands of the present
proprietors.
The Spanish government has given orders to its agents
in Africa to come to an understanding with the Emperor
of Morocco for establishing on his territory a lighthouse,
at the south-western extremity of the Straits of Gibraltar.
The following are the new rates of pay to captains in
commission :—The first 70 are to receive £7Ol 2s. Id. per
annum ; the next 100, £574 17s. 6d.; all others, £450 3s.
4d. Commodores, whose pendants are now flying, will
not, however, benefit by this arrangement:until the Ist of
April next.
A bitter altercation took place in the Spanish cortes
on the 23d Jan, between M.Orense and Marshal O'Donnell,
leading to arrangements fur a hostile meeting. The gene-
rals in the cortes promptly met and signed a declaration
that the marshal ought not to fight, and thus the matter
is, for the present at least, disposed of.
PARLIAMENTARY PETITIONS. —The total amount of
money paid for printing and folding the reports, appendices,
and indices on public petitions to Parliament, was
in 1854-55. 1,7451., against 1.7921. in 1854, and 2,4481.
in 1852-53, the average of the three years having been
1,9951.
Fifty-eight autagraoh M.S. compositions by Mozart,
several of which have never been published, are now
being exhibited at Berlin. They consist of " Apollo
and Hyacinthus," the three-act opera " Mitridate,"
(composed by Mozart in his fourteenth year for the
Milan Opera House), and the two-act dramatic cantata "II
Re Pastore." •

THE STRIKE AT Afareenesnat.—On Thursday evening
a meeting of the self-acting minders and piecers on strike
was held at the People's Institute, Heyrod-street. The
attendance was about the same as at previous meetings.
The Secretary said that their position at present demanded
their cairn and serious attention. They were now suffering
for their own neglect of duty. When they went to the country
districts to look for assistance, the trades in those districts
knew very well the number of males at work in Manches-
ter; and their delegates had to be deaf, dumb, and blind,
when they were asked what Manchester men were doing.
The fact was, that, with the exception Of two or three
shops, the men of Manchester were not paying anything
like what they ought to pay. Notwithstanding all the
difficulties they had to contend with, with starvation staring
many of them in the face, and with their masters being
more tyrannical than they had been for many years,thinking
now the men were beaten, they would find that the
hands were not half beaten, if those on strike and those in
work only acted in concert. if the men did not want to
work for nothing, or to be crushed for ever beneath the iron
hoof of oppression, they should attend those shops that
were working and tell tha hands there that they must pay,
If they did that, he could pledge himself for the country
districts that they would not be behind. The country
delegates, notwithstandirg the apathy of Manchester, were
not willing that they should lose the struggle at the eleventh
hour, and they had put an extra lid ou themselves for a
fortnight. He would again urgo those on strike to attend the
shops that were working, and rouse the hands there.
If each minder and piecer at work would pay Is per
minder and 8d per piecer, it would bring in more in one
week than all that had been got yet since the strike com-
menced. It was suggested by different speakers that
some means should be taken to disabuse the public mind
of the false notion that prevailed in some quarters town, that the strike was at an end.
A. vo of the
te of thanks
was passed to the ballad-singers, and another vote to that
portion of the public who had sympathised with the bal-
lad-singers. After one of the strike songs :had been sung,
the meeting separated until next Wednesday evening, at , :
the same place .