The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-10 00:00:00

London.

EXTRAORDINARY PASSAGE. The Empress Eugenie
Captain Rickarby, which arrived here on Saturday last, in
twenty-three days, from Antigua, brings the largest cargo
ever shipped from any of the West India Islands, viz:-
920 hhds. sugar, and 370 puns. molasses, nearly the avole
of which is consigned to Messrs. C. W. and F. Shand,
Exchange-alley.
LIVERPOOL CENTRAL BAND OF HOPE SOCIETY.—The
annual meeting and tea party of this society was held
last night in Hope Hall, Hope-street. The attendance
was most numerous. The chair was occupied by
Dr. Roache• After tea, addresses were delivered by
the chairman and other gentlemen, descriptive of the
wide-spreading evils resulting from drunkenness, and
exhorting their hearers to stedfastly persevere in the
noble and Christian-like task to which they had devoted
themselves, namely, the inculeation of temperance by
precept and example. Many instances of once happy
homes made miserable by the father and mother, or
both, being addicted to the use of intoxicating drinks,
were enumerated ; and it was demonstrated from the
circumstances attending the career of such parties, that
the only guarantee for a sober and prosperous manhood,
and an honoured old age, lay in a temperate youth.
This fact being one which all experience went to prove,
the Christian public were called on to give to it its due
importance, and to aid the society by every means in
their power, to train up the young. and rising generation
in habits of temperance and self-respect. In the intervals
between the addresses, the "Ca mpanalegian Band''
performed on their bells, and largely contributed to the
pleasures of the evening.
AN ELOPEMENT FR'J.II MANCIIESTER.—CURIOUS CASE.—
Snme time ago, Mrs. Mary Anne Hoile, the wife of a
public= residing at No. 42, Renell-street-, Salford, forget-
ful of certain promises once made to her husband, took it
into her head to absent herself from home—in fact, she
eloped with another man. She is described as very good
looking, and about twenty-severs years of ago. She, it has
been told us, took a good deal of property and money with
her at the time. All enquiry as to her whereabouts failed,
and she was nearly forgotten. However, the vigilance of
one Mr. John Scott, an active detective, was not slackened
for one moment, and on Saturday he made a discovery, the
result of which was, that he was visited on Sunday by Mr.
Haile, from Salford. On Sunday, the officer, along, with
the gentleman alluded to, proceeded to a house, No. 9,
Richmond-row, where resided a gentleman named Joseph
French, who, it appears, is a clerk in a brewery. Scott
left Mr. Hoile outside. and entered himself, and asked for
Mrs. French, when a lady said, " Here I am, what
do you want ?" " Where is Mr. French ?" en-
quired the officar. "In bed, reading the newspaper,"
wee the reply. This was correct. " Are you sure you
are Mrs. French ?" asked Scott. The lady, of course,
became indignant. Scott gave a signal, and Mr. Hoile
thereon made his appearance. "Do you know this gentle-
man ?" asked Scott, as he handed in Mr. Hoile. The lady,
of course, fainted —for, alas ! it was no other than the real
Mrs. Hone. Mr, French got out of bed ; there was a
breeze for a while, but it puffed itself out. The house was
searched ; but, as there was no property belonging to Mr.
Hoile in it, of coarse no charge could be preferred against
Mr. French. Messrs. Scott, French, and Hoile then
betook themselves to work—Sabbath though it was—and
packed up all the things belonging to Mrs. French, alias
Hoile ; and, having done this, took their departure for
Manchester—the latter taking with him, as well as his wife,
a fine quarter of lamb, that had been just put to the fire for
dinner, which the lady said was purchased with her own
money, and, therefore, Mr. Iloilo claimed itt saying it
would do for supper when he got home. He expressed the
greatest delight at having his wife restored to him once
more ! If the remainder of the report be true, as told" to
us, Mr. French's dinner was not " done brown," and he had
to resort to a tavern. He has a wife and some children, we
were told, in Manchester, and is about the same age as the
faithless Mrs. Hoile.