The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-07 00:00:00

SPORTISO INTELLIGE,YC.E.

WOLVERHAMPTON RACES.-TUESDAY.
ANNUAL STEEPLE CHASE.

Topsy

Seven ran.
SELLING STEEPLE CHASE.

Tulip
Sir Philip
HURDLE RACE

Half and Half
Colt, by Drayton
Eighteen ran.

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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS OF FLLNTSIIIRE.—We understand that
a :Mr. Williams, clerk to Mr.- T. W. Eyton, the county-
treasurer of Flintsbire, has been found a defaulter to the,
extent of several hundred pounds.
ROBBERY AT. PRESTWICIL—Mr. W. Wright, Prestwich,
formenly a mechanic, but latterly practising as a dentist
the town of which he bears the name, has been committed)

for trial for receiving certain watches, stolen on
.the occasion
of the marriage of the Earl of Wilton's daughter in Octo
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ARRIVAL OF THE RIPON.-The Oriental . conipim 'IP
steamer, Ripon, arrived at Southampton yesterday morniil
with the heavy portion of the India and China mails.; thr,
cargo consisted of 39 parcels of gum; 95 bales of 'wool, 81
bales flax, 65 barrels of dates,l6 packages elephants' tusks, 2
barrels mother-of-pearl, 2 cases tortoiseshell, 580 bundles
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raw silk, 240 cases general merchandise, and a small amount
of specie. At Alexandria, labourers were very scarce, on
account of the war with Russia. ,
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE QUAY.—About midnight on
' is
Fridao, when the fog which then over.spread the city, 0
very dense the , private watchmann over..
board -lolfn 'V 1
lying near the RecesS Ferry stair, south side, heaid ibh ' vy
plunge in the water, and immediately apprised the Policr._
man on the beat, who, with five other officers, procured the
life hook and dragged the river, but without success. No
thing was seen bloating in the water but a blue cloth cap.
The. person supposed to be drowned, was one of the hands
on board .the schooner Hope, of Wexford, as he has been':
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Missing, and when last seen was the worse of liquor. 'Up
to last night the body had not been recovered.—Noath

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ANOTHER CASE OF STABBING.—A man named jobn
Rocker, a labourer, about 40 years of age, was remanded on
a charge of stabbing no less than three persons. It appears
that all the parties were engaged in a row in Oriel-street,
and that the prisoner who is said to be the companion,of
the man who stabbed the policeman in the same -street&
short time since, cried Oid fhat fie would'sta it amen I
and suffer like his friend. One of tbe wdriCen; howeikr,
there being two of them stabbed, stated that the prisdher
was not the party who used the knife, but a man of the
name of John Lynch, who escaped from the police-officer
who went to arrest him, through a sky-light. 5
A PILGRIMAGE.—The quay at Marseilles, a few dttys
since, presented a very picturesque and singular appearance',
from the presence of a large body of Mussulrnan pilgrims,
who had returned from Mecca and landed from the steam-
packet Louqsor. They had pitched their tents during-t4e
night on the quay, and remained there wrapped,up only in
their burnouses, and in the morning proceeded to their rtr
ligious cermonies, and prepared and took their morning
meal of cuscoussou. The calmness with which they went
about, their occupations contrasted in a singular, paper
with the bustle which prevailed on the quays, but
not prevent , them from tranquilly sipping their MOcha add
smoking their chibouks. Among tlie efiraVan' was only one
woman, who was of an advanced
~age, but , was care-
fully.concealed by the Arabs from the gaze of the Chris-
tians. The party, the majority of whom are fromlt Oro ,
have left by a steamer for Algiers ' '
BIRKENHEAD TEMPERANCE SOClETY.—Lastiiiilit A
soiree was held in the school-room of the 'United Prekt*
Church, Grange-lane, Birkenhead. pie school-roorWiitts
tastefully decorated for the occasion, 'and after a veriw
cellent tea, at which about 400 ladies and gentlemen partook,
L. Heyworth, Esq., was requested to
,preside. The, chair-
man, in the course of his observatory, expressed te, deep
regret he felt, and lie had no doubt but that the meeting
equally regretted the absence of the president of the society,
Smith Ilarnson, Esq., and the minister Of the Presbyteri4n
church, the Rev. James Towers; both of whom were -pre-
vented from attending through indisposition. The present
movement he said was one ;:f the' greatest importer:L-6AF.
mankind generally, as its ifis:;he total stipretion
`of the use of intoxicating li gnat,' acknowledg, e b'v
the judges of the land, the chaplains ot the bridewells, and
a large number of the medical profesSion, to be the cause
of most of the crime, the misery, the poverty, and disease
that prevailed, and that at least 60,000 persons died annu-
ally from its use. Lately there had been a revolution in
China, owing to the attempt to prevent the use of opium
amongst the Chinese ; but while the present government
knew that intoxicating drinks were equally destructive to
life in England, yet no steps were taken by them to endea-
vour to prevent its use. He had been a total abstainer for
the last twenty years, and had at first hpeome so for the
sake Of example to others ; and he could recommend as a
beverage the pure water that flowed from the spring. Having
pointed out the benefits which would arise from the general
adoption of the teetotal precepts, which were daily becoming
more popular, and included in its lists men of all colors,
amongst whom were the king and queen of Sweden; the
former of whom expressed his intention of doing something
to curtail the use of grain, in making intoxicating drinks,
which tended to undermine the best feelings:of the' popa-
lation, he said that he expected more good results would
accrue from the present committee of the house of commons,
on the licensing system, concluded an able address, of which
the foregoing, for want of space, is but a brief summary,
by hoping to see these principles fully ' developed.
The meeting was subsequently addressed, in a very eloqut
' speech, by Mr. J. E. Littleboy, of Wrexham, Mr. M'Carthv
and other gentlemen. The 'Chairman having been.coinpellea
to retire, the chair was taken by Mr. R. C. Rawlings, and
after a most pleasant and agreeable evening, the meeting
separated.
THE LrvEnrooL WArrEns.—The waiters of Liverpool—.
not the "waiters upon Providence "—but on dinner, and
other parties have memorialised the borough council of
Liverpool, complaining of an infringement of their " privi-
leges.; By whatever term it may be proper to designate
the matter of which they complain, a simple statement of it
will convince every considerate person that it is a grievance.
There are a number of persons in the employment of the
corporation of Liverpool, both at the Town-hall and the
other public offices, who act as waiters at corporate banqnetS,
and other public celebrations of a convivial nature, and who
are permanently employed, and at fixed salaries, payable
from the borough fund, very many of them—if not all of
them—are in the habit of hiring themselves out to attend
companies, not on dining corporate interest, and theie ordif
narily obtain a preference, as will be easily understood, offer
those humble, but useful, men who are solely dependent iii
such engagements for a livelihood. It is against this the
" waiters' c omplain in their memorial ; and we think with
justice. They complain of a favoured, a " protected."
class, who, being, in part, maintained by public funds, ont'of
rates, too, to which the complainants contribute, enter into
competition with their less-fortunate brethren, upon terms
which leave the latter no more than the gleanings of that
field over which the others sweep without restraint. The
" public waiters" have, in fact, no chance against the
" Town-hall waiters." Now, if the latter are not paid well
enough, let us discuss their case ; but as long as the former
conduct themselves honestly, civilly, and actively, let us.irlott
subsidjr others to
enikilVVAT- ENT BRICKMAKING AfICHINE. A machine has
recently been invented and patented by Mr. Clayton, which
undertakes to bring solid bricks within the range of machine
power. The improvement consists in the construction of
moulding orifices or dies, having floating sides formed by
vertical rollers, instead of the fixed sides used hereto-
fore, the rollers rotating while the clay is delivered
through the die, and thus producing a sharpness and
neatness in tho edges of the brink which had previously
been found unattainaVit, in manufacture of bricks
through dies. The machine pugs of prepares the
clay and makes the bricks at ono and the =ea..
time. One of the leading features observed is a
continuous delivery. The action of the blades as or-
dinarily set can produce only an intermittent delivery; but
in this case there is an arrrngement of blades by which
the clay is subjected to a continuous lateral thrust, effected
on either side of the die through the moulding orifices. The
machine seen in operation yesterday was worked by ono
horse, a man to feed the machine, and two boys to clear off
the bricks at the sides. Four or five revolutions were per-
formed in a minute, and in that time sufficient clay was
given out to make 25 bricks. In the London district, which
in brickmaking, as in so many other processes, appears to
take the lead, a pallet moulder will turn out 5,000 bricks in
a day, in doing which he requires the assistance of a' clot
moulder and five other hands, and also that of a horse. In
the country districts, where the clot moulder is dispensed
with, 3,000 is the average. Assuming 25 a minute as the
average production of the machine, the multiplication of
that number by 60, and of the product again by 60, will
give 15,000 in ten hours; but from this will probably have to
be deducted two or three thousand for unavoidable stop-
pages, leaving, perhaps, a general average of 12,000 a day.
Such is the inventor's estimate, The cost of a machine of
one-horse power is stated to be about 1001. The machine
also turns off hollow bricks and tiles.

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BIRTHS

At Grosvenor-square, the wife of William Brougham, Esq., of a
son.
At Conway-street, Everton, the wife of Mr. Thomas W. Lee, of a
daughter.

MARRIAGES.
At Christ-church, Everton, by the Rev. W. H. Wright, Mr. Thos.
Boylan& engineer, to Miss Anne smith
At Antony, Cornwall, Henry Maxwell Lefroy, Esq., of Fremantle,
Western Australia, to Annette, daughter of the late David Fryar Bate,
Esq., of Torpoint.

DEATHS.
At Glasgow, aged 52. Mr. James Seruton, son of Mr. Scruton,
Professor of Music, of this town, and formerly of the Theatre Royal,
under the management of the celebrated ewts.
At Southampton, in her 66th year, Jane. relict of William Amor
Esq.
At Chester, in his 49th year, Joshua Coddington, Captain Royal
Engineers.