The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-10 00:00:00

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trade,
" The satisfactory result of the half-year's
'
which is in some degree owing to the increased Isr •
traffic, induced by the distnterested patriotism ° 000
Dargan, would have warranted the directors rec it:
ing a dividend of 3 per cent. for the half-year, weer'
necessary. to provide for the loss of the stall roi;
Victoria. The directors regret to say they have bee fore
to abandon all hopes of raising that vessel, and there_.
amount at which she stands at present in the cow,
books must be written off; the available balance ea,
directors to recommend the payment of a dividers
cent, for the half-year."
A dividend of 2 per cent. for the half-year was OA
to, and a resolution expressing warm thanks to tied
and entire confidence in their management was P'
nimously.
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MR. HUBER'S READINGS SC-ILFRO]!

Mr. Huber delivered the last of a series of reatioil3gs;
some of the tragedies of Schiller, at the Medical 11 prep
street,:last night, to a numerous audience. Oa the! I
night the readings consisted of scenes selected freTsep
Stuart and Piccolomini. Last night Mr. Huber ream
scenes from one of the greatest of Schiller's drwe'r;.ii(
lenstein's Tod. Mr. Huber's reading, although 6, of
but little assistance from studied elocution or dram
was given with much taste' and judicious expresst4
kept the attention of the audience fully alive r
whole of the time occupied in delivering lengtllo/
ages from each act of a play which partakes more, 0,
character than most of the modern dramas of th'is
Most readers are familiar with the plays wh ch
selected from the translations by Coleridge and Sh'
the recent publication in Bohn's Standard Lihrio,
pleasure would be afforded to an audience if
extended his reading to the noble dramas of 010
and the Jungfra von Orleans, which, although per 01;
generally read in this country, are founded 11130'0
much more familiar to most English audiences, e? 4/
in scenes of exquisite pathos alternating with Sit
o~
dignity and power, resembling the attributes of. or,
Shakspear. Mr. Huber was loudly applauded 'l'
passages of his reading.
COUNTY COURT.—YESTEADAY'
Joseph Pollock, Esq the Judge, took his se'
Court, yesterday, at ten o'clock. f.y
A great number of undefended cases were helvv,,%
posed of by his Honor,—in the course of which, -'Y
quence of some of the parties appearing after te:'
had been called over,—he expressed his deteruln,"/
future, of not hearing any such eases until the aei:, 0
day, as it was perfectly absurd for persons thus '
their own affairs by not attending at the proper tiPt,i,,
COUPON v. HIGHLAND.—The defendant did 11Y
The plaintiff, a person of foreign exterior, who ",
sented by Mr. Williams, sought to recover of thf to'
the sum of 405., for teaching him the art of euttl
ments by an improved method. He stated he w ;
his part of the agreement by teaching the defendsl.l
diet for plaintiff, who was not allowed the expe% f
day, because he did not attend the Court at -
time.
. The other cases this day were of no public inted
the exception of the- Adelphi Loan Society, in "foe
manager summoned various parties, borrowers fitbi
sureties, for the balance of accounts of money ,
Society. It appeared that the borrowers of inoneY ty.
Society rendered theniselves liable to pay fees hill
payment ofthe instalments at the appointed time.,
his Honor raised was how far the sureties were
fees, but in one case the plaintiffs produced an ar,, Oc„
which the borrower and the sureties had censentea 'Bo V
ment of the fees. In this case the verdict was gi''„tie
the plaintiff. In the next case, a similar oWe'lle'
raised by Mr. Garcott, when, after hearing t'tie
reply, his Honor in order to fully investigate, the
deferred, giving judgment until the 21st inst. esf
of the conversation his Honor expressed an opilll°V
adverse to loan societies generally, believing theY,i
injurious tendency, but complimented the Adele yo
for the manner in which their accounts were kertk
efficiency of their manager. As such cases are 0
before tb.e Court,- his Honor's decision on the 20
will be final in all future cases.

IRELAND.

(F 1033 OUR OWN coRnEsroNDENT4 ECG
DUBLIN, TUESDAY t tki;,
THE TENANT LEAGUE.-This body are to nleoe
ning in the Mechanics' Institute, when Mr. Lee,
the continuation of his " industrial" address. .`," oe
pected that any of the Northerns will attend, as rcr
cross-firing has been passing between the pr&S(oll,C'i"
and the anti-government parties, represented r7e,
the Ulster-men, and those of the other proviv
cowl'
longed to the League. part'Os°
THE FLOODS. —The following are the lost,,xt v
ceived relative to the inundation in the South eit`t,e
two bridges were swept away, and the preßner'l
of Devonshire considerably injured.
~,,`"fa'r'inino:
drowned, and serious damage doney Lin2.:`%l
all about. Shandrurh Glebe-hour, t-I°
oat:d
the
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.mcae demolition. I
Siligue. Nearly all the bridges on the ritg 50%:t
same county, were swept away. Several eo"leftw.
were also drown by it, and the small farmers °r"; welt, iti
lute beggary by the destruction of their whole 00 Al:4
and dead. In Clare, the appearance of the
,"!;
scribed as :resembling the Fens of Lincolushr 11c111
but this county has not suffered so much as t!4B, basA
William Dargan, Esq., with his usual generosity, ty
tributed £lOO towards the relief of the sufferers by
in Mallow. • Sertj
A NATIONAL GALLERY IN DUBLIN,—Great t gp„
being made by a few lovers of the fine arts, to Wi4
stitution of this sort. Amongst those who havra
most prominent interest in the matter, are the gorts,
cellor, and Lord Talbot de Malahide. Their %lost'
ever, do not promise to be very successful. It is soi
doubt, whether the Irish artists would alone be
ply such an establishment, and the Picture Ga frOt,'
Exhibition has given the public such a surfeit ot.
paintings, that nothing of a mediocre character
lished for some time.

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WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—The Weed; raeetl'i°
501/
board was held yesterday, Mr. Joseph Bart',tit:
chair. The following members were also Pres,,,e," 11,f.,
Rev. W. Badnall, and Messrs. Roskell, Mcui.V
Harrison, Abrahams„ Mountfield, Wensley, Sanii, Pi
Owen, Lunt, Carter, Craig, Metcalf, and Bite, Y
peared from the books that the balance in the lot
treasurer was £242 18s. 7d. "Cheques for out ~,t)
were granted to the relieving officers, viz. to to,
£65 ; Mr. Potts, £B5 • Mr. Olney, £22 - and ,111 il
goe £2B. On the motion' of the Rev. W. Baeies ,
resolved that the tenders of Messrs Wood saL` or'
for alterations of the hospital; he accepted.—The Al 1
before the board a correspondence between hi tee
Barnett. one of the relieving officers for the To!trict
district, and Mr. Alfred Stephens, one of the clif, .4
eons in the Park, from which it appeared that "Pi; 10
ens had refused to attend professionally apatite i''
chargeable to the union, named Mary Clare. •10,
assigned by Mr. Stephens for his non-attend-gni',
patient was that Mr. Barnett, who had given hielii,
attend upon her, was not connected with the sable 0
relieving officer, as Mr. Stephens himself was ill "" bco .lt
of the surgeon.—Mr. Barnett explained to the 00,
on his representation of the case to Mr. StePljvi
gentleman gave the patient an order to go into the 0
but she refused to go there, as she got one shillinto,i,
pence a week allowed from the union for six nieted,ei
Clerk stated that Mr. Stephens was bound to n""0/111
the patient, no matter from whatever relieviap I
received the notice.—Mr. McGee remarked'
wages Mr. Stephens seemed to want, and not in, 0:1;
Chairman had heard of similiar cases of negk'oi-4„,
Stephens' part on a previous occasion.—After soraeofofw
the Clerk was ordered to write to Mr. Stephens tivioli'
him that the pauper was still chargeable to the „et
that it was his duty to attend upon hen—An, toole
the goal at Kirkdale appeared before the board e,,
that a prisoner in the goal whose period of Be,roctle
ended, was seriously indisposed, and he wished te„,ret 01,
mission for him into the hospital. It appeared t'efety,
son's wife and family resided in Paul street, li-v•pg 0
under those circumstances the board considerlijoi!)4
would be unjust to force him on the West Derby A ci,
because he had been imprisoned in Kirkdale gliorlti
the officer to take him before the parochial all of
Liverpool, to which parish he belonged. —A nid.se V
crease the salary of Mr. Bamber, workhouse 10r sos'of
from £52 to £62 per annum. was rejected, aftee se,
mission, by a mority of 9to 6.—ln accords.° 0110;
commendation olthe Poor Law Commissioners/ r.
that they did not recognize any such officer, as
.0, ti
recently appointed "bookkeeper" to the hog°, •', ',hi
pointed to the office of 6; assistant to the matroliieo 51',.
Lary of £3O per annum.—Mr. McGee gave 11°thstnuil
the next meeting of the board he should Laoliewe sll;
lary of the tailor and the shoemaker, at the h,„' gs r
increased from the guinea to twenty five shillings i 1)'
.0.1
each. The board was then adjourned. .t q"--_,,,/
A BITTER DISPUTE.—We thought1 tis'l
enough, that owing to the pressure of the timed it r
had a difficulty in procuring their bit o' bread ; r bittel
that we are now about to be deprived ot on, upoo,o
For the brewers of Burton-on-Trent, determined, tie v
the public their butt, have issued a decree rac'er, tise,o4
of their ale 6s. per barrel. We would, hesven of ftfilli4
worthies to know, that since the introdoeti:d are Tv tivi
the economical ideas which we have iraVb Whoa the P"
the imbibing of expensive liquors; so that_, soy
begins to brood over extortions such as the-
price of Ale will assuredly be meet with a h'
—Diegenes.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 10, 1"-

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