The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-19 00:00:00

--LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.

MIDDLETON BUILDINGS

REARING DINNER

Our readers will, no doubt, have noticed the various piles
of buildings which have been elected, and are in the course of
erection, in Water-steret. Amongst these is a range called
Middleton Buildings, the mason-work of which has just been
finished. Mr. Picton is the architect, and he, with his usual
liberality, determine) to give a " Rearing Dinner" on the occa-
sion of the cornice having been completed. Accordingly, upwards
of one hundred invitations:were issued to attend at the Lamb
Hotel, Wavertree, at six o'clock, yesterday evening, and
celebrate the completion of the exterior work of the building.
About one hundred and twenty sat down to an excellent

The cloth having been removed, the Chairman proceeded to
dispose of the toasts of the evening. The first on the list was
that of " Her Majesty the Queen." lie called upon them to
charge their glasses and give three times three in honour of
their Queen. It was drank with all the honours, after which
the healths of Prince Albert and the Royal Family were dis-
posed of. The Chairman then addressed the company. He
should like to say a word to them regarding the object for
which they met that evening. The passing of such an evening,
where master and man met en an equality, would go far to
cement that friendship and good feeling which it was essentially
necessary should exist for the benefit of all concerned. He
was proud to acknowledge that all engaged in the construction
of the building had given every satisfaction to both the owners
and himself—Dr. Scholfield and lady, of Middleton. And the
rapidity with which the building was run up did honour to Mr.
Saunders, the stonemason. The contract was taken in February
last, possession was not given until Match, and the cornicas were
put on by the middle of Seep., a shorter time than any building
the sin of the one to which be alluded, had ever before been
erected in Liverpool. Mr. Saunders had undertaken to finish
his portion of the contract by the Ist of October, and it was
done a fortnight earlier than the stipulated time. He

gave

Mr. Saunders all praise for this, the more
very often the 'case that contracts Were an punctually per-
'formed. As to the evening's recreation, he hoped that they
were all pleased with it, for he could assure them that all he
could do, and all that the owners could do, to make every
thing comfortable, had been done. Dr. Scholfield gave him a
cart blanche to do every thing that was requisite, and if
anything went wrong it was not the fault of the owners. He
would therefore give them the health of Dr. Scholfield and
lady.

so as it was not

After the toast had been drunk with great. edit,
The Chairman rose, and, in a very eulogetit manner, pro-
posed the health of Mr. Jump, of the firm of Jones and Junip,
who had taken tho carpentery and joinering work of the
building.

Mr. Jump, in a neat speech, returned thanks, and, in a
few very appropriate words, proposed the health of their worthy
chairman, who was so distinguished for his efforts towards
advancing► the interest of the working► classes.

The Chairman replied : He was much gratified 'at the
manner in which they had drank his health, and for their
approbation, he returned his sincere thanks. They had said ho
was a" jolly good fellow," he could not say much about that ;
but this he would say, that be would yield to no man in his
sympathies for the working man. He had been brought up
among them ; first as a joiner, and subsequently through all
the trades of the building business. Taking the artificers of
the country at large, there was no body of men more
intelligent, more upright, or more honourable, than those
engaged in that trade. Mr. Jump had alluded to his (air.
Picton's) exertions in favour of the working classes, and
all he would say on that subject was, that if he
had been the means of inducing them to look after
themselves, and promote their own interests, ho had
been amply repaid for all the trouble he had gone to on their
behalf. He again thanked them for acknowledging the toast
with such heartiness, and sat down amid loud and long con•

tinned cheering.
Several other toasts were then proposed and repotuled to,
and the proceedings terminated about eleven o'clock, each and
all of those present expressing satisfaction at the manner in
which the evening had been passed.

LOSS OF THE GEORGE A. HOPLEY.

PoRTRUSH, Tuesday, Sept. 16.—0 n Monday there were
strong expectations that the noble stranded ship would be got
off that evening. I had a conversation with the captain of the
Conqueror, of Glasgow, a tug of great power, and he felt strong
hopes that they would be able to get her afloat that evening.
This conversation took plate about the middle of the day—the
tugs, which were in the harbour, were preparing to start. All
was at that time calm and tranquil, and promised to be favour-
able to the enterprise. The tugs accordingly proceeded about
four o'clock, but a gale so sudden and so violent sprang up,
that by the time they reached Port-Stewart bay, it was
impossible for them to approach the wreck. We may
here mention that from that time until the time I write,
six o'clock, the shore, from the promontory of the Causeway
to the embouchure of the Bann, which are visible from this
place and Port-Stewart, has presented a scene of sublimity and
grantteur which we never witnessed of the kind. The " white
horses" in Portrush bay and on the Skerries were so splendid
that all the visitors were out to see them ; and the whole shore,
from this to Port-Stewart, was not less magnificent.' But, alas,
that whibh excited so much admiration was destined to the
destruction of the fated ship, and she now lies deep in the sand,
irrevocably lost, with the waves washing over her, and break-
ing her up, sending her fragments scattered on the strand. I
went over this day to see her, and it was an impressive and
melancholy sight. There she lay, broadside to the shore,
having been turned round by the waves. The mid• ships was
little above the water; the stern had sunk lower than the
forepart, of which, however, only three or four feet was to be
seen. When the danger seemed approaching, Wm. Wilson
Campbell, Esq., who is ever ready to give his services when
required, brought together a gallant party of Port-Stewart
fishermen, the same who had taken off a number of the crew
when the ship went ashore, and now performed the same duly
to those on the wreck. Some of the men made their way on
land by leaping from the wreck from the stern, the ship not
having at this time turned ; but a respectable and much
esteemed young man belonging to this place, and named.
Archibald .Neill, trusting to his good swimming, leaped off the
bow and was drowned. His body has not been yet found.
Lord R. Montague, and Thomas Bennett, Esq., exerted
themselves in the most creditable manner. The hull of the
ship will•soon be level with the sand, and I do not think any
portion of the remaining part of the cargo, which is said to
have been worth £70,000, can be recovered.—Correspendent.

CORONATION BANQUET AT Moscow. —A letter from St.
Petersburg gives the following bill of fare of the grand
dinner given by the Czar to 200,000 peasants at the gates
of Moscow :-240 sheep roasted whole, 480 tarts, 28,800
litres of broth, 480 dishes of jelly, 7,200 fowls, 1,000
turkeys, 1,000 ducks, 24,000 loaves of white bread, 9,600
loaves of brown bread, 9,600 hams, 46,000 apples, 46,000
pears, 46,000 plums, 4,000 pails of beer, 4,000 pails of
mead, and 2,800 pails of white and red wine. At the head of
every table there was a sheep roasted whole, the horns gilt,
and the nose tipped with silver. All the fruits were hung
upon Christmas trees.

LONDON AND MERCANTILE LIPS ASSURANCE COMPANY.
—The. report of the official manager to the Court of
Chancery on the way in which this company was carried
on, states that it was started with a nominal capital of
100,000 shares, of £2 each. About 26,.540 shares were
subscribed for or allotted at the date of registration, but
the deposit of Ss was paid on only 8,745 shares, for
which the deed of settlement was executed, but no pay-
ment whatever appears to have been made on the remain-
ing 17,645 shares. The capital for which the deed was
subscribed amounted to £60,670, but the total amount
paid up was only £2,831, being Ss per share on 11,325
shares, leaving a balance of £4,752 in respect of deposit
on 19,010 shares, and £53,086 as the amount of capital
still uncalled. The affairs becoming embarrassed in
1855, the business was transferred for the sum of £5OO
to the East of England Lite Assurance Company, and a
petition was presented to have the outstanding affairs
and liabilities of the London and Mercantile Company
wound up, and this by means of a call of 5s per share
on the shareholders is now being effected.
FORGED BANS. NOTES.—A. CAUTlON.—PostmasterB
holding money order offices are advised at the present time
to be more than ordinarily careful in taking bank notes. A
female, attired as a respectable servant, called at the post
office, Egham, on Monday afternoon, Sept. 8, and presented
an envelope addressed to the postmaster, containing what
appeared to be a Bank of. England note for £lO, and awell
written requisition in a lady's hand, as follows—" Knowl-
hill, Sept. 8, 1856.—Miss Elizabeth Day will thank the
postmaster of Egham to send per bearer 5s worth of postage
stamps, also a P.O. order for £5 12s, payable to Mr. Curtis,
!Strand, London." The note was a forgery, but was so well
executed that it was not discovered till two days after, when
it was taken with other notes and moneys to the Egham
Bank, by another tradesman, who had given the postmaster
change for it. On the discovery, the postmaster went to
the Strand office to prevent the money order being cashed,
but this modest looking girl, or her accomplices, had had
the audacity to present the order and obtain the amount the
day before, Every effort has been made to trace the guilty
party, but at present those efforts have been fruitless. The
loss is a very serious one, inasmuch as the whole of it
devolves on the Egham postmaster whose annual stipend is
less than the pretended value of this forged note.

A MAN KILLED IN A STONE QUARRY.—On Tuesday,
Mr. M. Myres, Coroner, held an inquest at Parbold, near
Burscough, on the body of a quarryman. named Daniel
Forshaw, who was killed on the Friday previous. The
deceased and four other men were employed in blasting
at the stone quarry belonging to Mr. Peter Barton, of
Parbold. The situation of the stone they were engaged
with being rather perilous, it was deemed advisable to
put two men to watch, while the others bored the neces-
sary holes for blasting. The men had blasted five times,
but, while they were preparing for the sixth blast. the
stone, weighing several tons, fell upon the deceased, and
almost crushed him to pieces, and severely injured the
shoulder of another workman. There was no other
means of bringing down the stone than by blasting, and
this process had been done in the usual manner. The
deceased was 23 years of age. Verdict "Accidental
Death."