The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-08 00:00:00

CHARITABLE TRUSTS

Mr. ATIIERTON got leave to bring in a bill to amend the
law relating to the conveyance of lands for charitable uses,

DISSE STERS MARRIAGES.

Mr. PELLLTT obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the
provisions of the marriage acts relating to Dissenters.

The House of Commove Bill was read a second time. The
Metropolitan Police Bill went through committee, and the
House adjourned at a quarter past twelve o'clock.

A ROARING TRADE !—A person who, about three months
ago, entered into business in this town, has succeeded in
swindling tea and provision dealers, drapers, tobacconists,
&c., out of some £5OO worth of goods. About £7O worth
of the property has been traced to an adjoining city. The
person levanted on Saturday night, but it is expected he
will be captured.
MYSTERIGUS,—A young lady of very prepossessing
appearance, and elegantly attired, whose name was put
down on the sheet as Elizabeth Blasket, and described
as " highly respectable," was brought tip on a charge of
having stolen £5 fkoni a gentleman, whose name was
not stated. The complainant did not appear, and it was
alleged that he preferred losing the money to coming
forward to explain the "mystery" and thus get his
name into the papers. There being therefore no one to
ustain the charge, the prisoner was set at liberty.

HISTORIC SOCIETY. —The third meeting of the Archaeo-
logical section of this society, was held in the Grand Jury-
room, St. George's-hall, last night, the Rev. Dr. Thom in
the chair. Among the donations announced by the secre-
tary, the Rev. Dr. Hume, as having been received were—
From la Societe Archeologique de l'Orleanais. —Mem oires,
tome 3, 1855 ; Bulletin de la Societe, Nos. 1 to 15
(1851.53) ; Nos. 16 to 21 (1854.55). From the Essex
Arcl,w )logical Society—the Proceedings of the society for
the years 1852, 1853, and 1854 (vol. 1, part 1). From Mr.
Paris—four antique high-backed oak chairs, and small oak
table, for the rooms of the society. Mr. Danson exhibited
a tobacco-box, of tortoise-shell, handsomely mounted with
silver, and bearing the crest and initials of its original
owner, as a specimen of the description of box commonly
carried by gentlemen, about the middle of the last century.
Mr. Graz ,brook exhibited the prospectus of a " Roil of
Cloyne," 13th and 14th century, to be published in facsimile
with illustrations by Richard Caulfield, Esq., of Cork. Mr.
Ja^ob exhibited a book of prayers, in Greek, for the use of
the Modern Greek Church, procured at the church of
Balaclava ; History and Description of the City of Jerusa-
lem, and of the Holy Places, folio, Venice, 1728, taken
from the bishop's house at Balaclava; a Russian 'quare
medallion, used as a religious charm, to be worn on the
person—subject, the Virgin and child. It was found at
Inkerman. Mr. G. R. Berry exhibited Antiquarian
Gleanings in the north of 'England, drawn and sketched
by William B. Scott. Dr. Thom exhibited a large Declara-
tion, concerning the late tumults in Scotland, from the first
original, by the king : London, 1639. Recueil d'Antiquites
Egyptiennes, Etrueques, Grecques et Rornaines Paris, 1752.
A volume containing nine Liverpool pamphlets, of great
local interest. Mr. March, author of the paper to be read,
exhibited, in illustration of it, two well-executed prints,
which he is about to present to the society. Dr. Hume
exhibited, on the part of the Misses Cart, of ?Kirkby in
Walton, four beautiful ivory earrings. The subjects of
them were described as being St. Dominic, the Scourging of
Christ, Hercules and Omphale, and St. Sebastian, Mr. H.
A. Bright exhibited a curious and ancient Sclavonia prayer-
book, taken at Kertch. A small green stone, or bead
perforated, and with a white spiral snake, curling round it.
The Welsh call these stones " Glatu Neidr," or snake-
stones. They were worn by the different orders of bards,
each having its appropriate colour. The blue belonged to
the presiding bards, the white to the druids, the green to
the ovates, and the three colours blended to the disciples.
The notion of their rare virtues was universal, in all places
where the bardic religion was taught. An autograph of the
Empress Maria Theresa, written shortly before her death.
Mr. Bright also called attention to the monument to Roscoe,
just placed in Renshaw street Chapel, and to the valuable
library contained there. The paper of the evening was-
" A history of the Botelier Grammar School, at Warrington,
by John F. March, Esq., Town-clerk of Warrington.

The Times has received despatches from its corres-
pondents in the Crimea, dated January 26. On the
23rd the news reached the camp of the probability of
peace, and few contemplated with satisfaction the pros-
pect of a cessation of hostilities. Conjecture was busy
as to how long the army would remain in the Crimea.
The official accounts published on Wednesday, show th it
in the year ending 31st December, 285.5, the public
income of the United Kingdom amounted to £63,000,000,
and the publ. c expenditure to £84,000,000, leaving a
deficiency of £21,000,000. This has been met by the
£16,000,000 and the issue of exchequer bills and bonds,
which enabled the Chancellor of the Exchequer to com-
mence the year with a balance in hand exceeding
£3,000,000.
ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.—On Wednesday last the
Right Hon. M. T. Baines was unanimously re-elected for
the Borough of Leeds, on the vacancy created by the
acceptance of the office of the Duchy of Lancaster. On
Tuesday the Rt. Hon. Henry Labouchere, Secretary of State
for the Colonial department was re-elected for the Borough
of Taunton, and on the same day Mr. Ridley was elected a
representative for Newcastle-on-Tyne, in the room of Mr.
Blackett, who had retired from parliamentary 'life by.
accepting the Stewardship of the Chittern Hundreds:
A LOTTERY SCHEME.—The Journal du Loiret relates
the following scheme resorted to by a Young damsel in order
to procure a husband,—" A young lady,- pretty and well educated, residing in the arrondissement of Pithiviers, has conceived the idea ofputting herself up to lottery. There are
to be 300 tickets at I,ooof. each, and to the fortunate
and
winner she will give herself the 299,000 f. as a dowry.
The lady has attached
She
me very prudent conditions to the
purchase of ticketisn.k
we will only sell them to persons
whom she may th
suit her, and in order to ascertain
that point she exacts will suit
an hour's tete-a. tete with each
applicant. There is no limit of age imposed, but more than
one ticket may be taken by one person. The lottery will
be drawn on the 25th of November next, at the mairie at
Pithiviers. No married men are allowed to take tickets. It
is said that a number of Englishmen have already become
purchasers, and applications are coming in from all
quarters,"