The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-12 00:00:00

T. B. HORSFALL, ESQ., M.P., AT HOPE HALL.

Lest evening, one of a series of winter lectures was
delivered in the Hope Hall, Hope street. The subj ct of
the lecture was How to live." The hall was well filled
by a most respectable company, amongst which we noticed
several of the non commissioned officers from the Crimea,
(one, a fine young fellow, belonging to the 97th regiment—
Capt. Vicars' regiment—was wounded at the storming of
the Redan, and of the late lamented Captain he spoke in the
highest terms), who we inderstand were speccially invited
on the occasion. M. T. B. Horsfalt, the member for
Liverpool, presided, and a number of clergymen and gentle-
men occupied seats on the platform, amongst wheat we
noticed the Rev. J. N. Miller, F. Folleete, W. R. Hunt,
Messrs. Payne, r.. M. Brodie, Blyth, Tomelin, Skerratt,
D. J. Macfie, R. flaughten. Dr. Reche, Sec., &c. After the
usual introductory prayer,
Thr President said : I have great pleasure, at the request
of our kind friend, Mr. Macfie, in taking the chair this
evening. My duty on this occasion is exceedingly light, it
being only to ask you to listen attentively to the lecture
which will be delivered by the Rev. John Baillie, of London,
and he will illustrate that lecture on the leading traits in
the life of the late Captain Hedley Vicars. Tee subject of
the lecture, as you are all probably aware, is " How
to Live," a subject of the deepest importance both
to the high and to the low, to the rich and
to the poor. When I first saw the title of the
lecture, I was reminded of the words of a faithful
Christian minister, now no more, when he said, " that he
had often heard of happy deathbeds, but he said whit he
required to hear, and what he would rather hear was, how
a man had lived, and not how a man died." (Hear, hear.)
The sithi set of this lecture, it is proposed to be illustrated
by the life of Captain Hedley Vicars—a name well known to
att of you, and I trust that I shall be excused, before I
call upon the lecturer, if I venture to mention a
little anecdote, very applicable to the occasion,
but which perhaps was not known to the rev, lecturer. I
refer to a little anecdote which was mentioned in this room
about fourteen days since, when I had the privilege of pre-
siding over the annual meeting of the Religious Tract Sootety.
On that occasion one of the speakers stated that in the month
of June he was in Plymouth, walking on the pier, and seeing
an old soldier sitting on one of the benches he sat down by
his side, and thinking that he was reading a little
work called the " Sinner's Friend," he said to the old
soldier : " You have an interesting little book there ?"
The soldier said, "Yes, I have." He then said : " Where
did you get it." The reply was " I got it out of the
jacket of a comrade who fell before Sebastopol, and this
stain here is the mark of his blood, which fell from him
when he died in his country's cause." The rev. gentleman,
seeing that he was a real Christian man, said : " My friend,
what led you to be a Christian ?" The soldier did not
answer, when the question was repeated in another form,
and said, "by what inatrumentality did you become a
Christian ?" His reply was, " Through Captain Hedley
Vicars." (Applause.) And he further said he was sta-
tioned by the side of Vicars in the Crimea, and he gave me
a little tract, entitled, " Believe and be Saved," and that
was the first thing that led me to think on the subject of
religion." I have mentioned this little anecdote, thinking
it would be interesting to you. Therefore, without making
any further observations, I shall now call on the lecturer.
(Applause.)
The Rev. J. Baillie then came forward, and, after .a few
introductory remarks, proceeded to deliver the lecture of the
evening; and, in the course of his observations, cith;t9d at
considerable laneth from the memoirs of Captain Hedley
Vicars, reviewing hie life from boyhood Until the time of
his death, showing him to have been a Christian, a hero,
a patriot and a philanthropist. He most eloquently
described his valour in the attack, when he received the
wound which caused his death, and concluded by calling on
his hearers to follow toe example he had so nobly set, and
become true Christians, and live for God alone. The
lecturer was much applauded on resuming his seat.
Dr. Roche moved a vote of thanks to the lecturer, which
was seconded by Mr. Macfie, and unanimously adopted
amidst much applause. A vote of thanks to the chairman
c oncluded the business of the evening.

EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATION.-THE
PUSEYITES.

" Hamlet" said he was only "mad North-North-West,
when the wind was southerly ; " but what peculiar species
of insanity was induced by the wind of last Monday night
and Tuesday morning, deponent sayeth not. Yesterday,
just before Mr. Mansfield rose at the police court, a gentle-
man
rushed into the office, in a state of breathless haste,
and said he wanted a warrant as quick as possible. On
being asked for whom, or upon what matter, he required
the document, he made the following strange statement :
I came from London on Monday night by the mail train,
and arrived in Lime street at three o'clock. There was no one
in the ladies' waiting room, and so I told the guard I would
wait there, as I was J— S—, of Ormskirk. " (h," says the
guard, "you may stop there till four o'clock if you like." " I
fell asleep. At five o'cicck a charwoman came— well ! Good !
Then two persons came, and policeman 301. Excellent !
Ile said he was acquainted with their names, and recognised
one of them. " 1 hey took," he continued, "meto a coffee
house that I knew before. I did not ask for bread and
better—not a bit, because I had plenty of biscuit that I
brought from London. There were two pieces of bread and
butter on the plate. Good ! I took up one piece, and began
to eat it. Oh, dear,' says I, What very nasty butter.'
' I gave sixteen-pence a pound for it,' says he. Good.
That may be true,' says I, but I don't believe
it.' Well, the fellow was a suspected Irish-
man, and I suspected he had been purchasing Irish
butter. Then he wanted me to drink a gallon of whiskey,
but I would't. About half past six Mrs. Johnson came in,
and then they went away. At twenty five minutes to seven
a little girl came in, and she proposed to dust out the house,
and then they told nie about a soldier that lost twenty seven
sovereigns. That was it exactly. What do you think 1
did then ? Why, I went to the East Lancashire railway,
and I got some coffee and three eggs, and then I felt very
stiff in the calf of my leg. I then told Mrs. (his
wife) to get me some water and tartaric acid, and I took it
in an effereseing state, and it done me a power
of good. The pains in my back and legs got better, so. I
want you to give me a warrant, and call on the parties to
explain their conduct." Mr. Mansfield : Ilave you been to
a medical man about the pains ? Applicant : I called on
one, and saw him, but he was out at the time ! Mr.
Clough said the gentleman had applied to.him on the sub-
ject, but he feared the nature of the offence was such as the
police could not take hold of. The applicant said there had
been ten attempts made on his life before by the Puieyites.
The parish where he lived was sadly overrun by Puseyite
parties, and he had several times gone up the country to
000se them, but they were getting worse every day. Mr.
Mansfield said he did not think the parties, whoever they
were, came within his jurisdiction, and he could not, there-
fore, grant the warrant.

The Montreal Herald gives a carefully compled table of
the imports to Montreal. for the quarter ending October
10, 1856, from which we learn that the total value of
imports was, in round numbers, a million and a half for the
quarter, agiiust a million for the same (patter last year,
making an increase of fifty per cent. The comparative
increase of consumption has, however, been still greater,
for the amount left in bond is only Z 147,063, against
£338,454 last year.
MOLTEN IRON AND RED HOT SHOT.—The body of officers
composing the select committee of Woolwich Arsenol
assembled on Tuesday morning at the practising range in
the Arsenal marshes, for the purpose of directing some
experiments which then took place, tending to prove the
important advantage to be obtained by the substitution of
liquid iron in the uses to which red hot shot has been
hitherto applied. Lord Panmure, who expressed his inten-
tion of being present, arrived punctually at eleven, and took
particular interest in the prosecution of the various tests
which were carried out. The experiments consisted in firing
a number of Martin's shells, filled with about 30 lbs. of
molten iron, at a bulkhead, near which were erected some
wooden sheds. These latter were occasionally the butt, and
were speedily ignited by the contact occasioning the sudden
explosion of the shell and the expansion of the liquid fire.
The result was proved to be considerably more certain and
effectual than that produced by hot shot, and the supply
furnished with much more readiness and facility from a
melting crucible than from the beating furnace. The
experl meats were ordered to be repeated.
CIRCLE SAIL.—A very singular looking craft, hearing
this name (to designate its peculiarity), has been cruising
around the harbour for several days past, and next week
will be anchored off the battery, for closer inspection. She
has what is termed " S. R. Parkhurst's improved rigging."
The whole plan is quite original, the mast and yards being
constructed so as to revolve with the circular platform to
which they are attached by means of a small windlass. But
a more striking feature is the arrangement of the sails,
which form a complete circle, divided into quarters, and
extended upon a circular iron tube. The mast is also a
tube, but this can be made of wood, if desired. Mr. Park-
hurst says In this new rigging the mast is a derrick,
thus combining the greatest strength with the least
material. Hence the rigging can be made lighter, stronger,
and with less expense than the present rigging ; the sails
can be more quickly hoisted and lowered, and the ship can
be navigated with fewer men and less exposure—for the
sails can be all hoisted and lowered, a•_:d even furled,without
going aloft. Shipowners may apply one of these circles
either at the bow or stern of their ships, by removing a
portion of the present rigging, and thus, without any
risk, test the new rigging side by side with the old." The
yacht Circle Sail is a vessel of about twenty two tons.—
New York Journal of Commerce,