The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-27 00:00:00

NORTHERN TIMES.--LIVERPOOL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1856

extraordinary amount, but that we shall have a steady pro-
gressive increase, even prior to the completion of our
junction with the Newry and Enniskillen line, although I
quite look forward to this being found necessary to be aCC0111.;
plished at some future day. The chairman then concluded by
moving that the report and statement of accounts be
received, adopted, and printed for circulation among the
shareholders of the company.
Mr. E. Heath seconded the motion, and in doing so
alluded to the differences between the directors of this com-
pany and the Navigation company. He remarked
that some of the shareholders might suppose the directors
were rather stiff in not coming to terms with the latter
company. That, however, was not the case. The directors
had offered to place the Navigation company upon the
same footing as any other large senders of goods, but they
had been met by the assertion of a principle, which could
not be admitted for a moment. It was urged, by the
Navigation company, that, as the directors must run their
line, every additional amount of traffic must enable them to
do so better, and therefore they must carry the goods at a
mere nett cost. To that, of course, the directors could not
assent. He expressed a high approval of the course which
the report recommended as to the balance in hand, and
remarked that if they were to divide that amount, and
proceed to borrow money on debenture, they would, in fact,
for a dividend of one per cent., have to pay six per cent.
interest on the money they borrowed. He considered that
the course recommended by the directors would create quite
as much confidence, if not more, than if they at once de-
clared a dividend.
The motion was carried unanimously.
Mr. Francis Shand, and Mr. Edward Heath, the retiring
directors, were re-elected without opposition.
The Chairman moved that Mr. John T. Fitz Adam, who
had a very large interest in the line, be elected a director
in the room of Mr. Vandeleur, who retired.
The motion was carried unanimously.

Mr. Fitz Adam moved that Mr. Joseph Wren be elected
an auditor of the company; and, in doing so, took occasion
to thank the meeting for having elected him a director.
He also expressed his sense of the debt of gratitude which
the company owed to the gentlemen who had, up to that
period, given their valuable services, as directors, gra-

Jul tously.
The motion was also carried.

Mr. Alexander Shand proposed that £l2O be given to
the directors as remuneration for the year ending the 30th
of June next.

Mr. Spalding seconded the motion which was carried
unanimously.
Mr. Fitz Adam moved that the auditors be allowed a
salary of six guineas per annum, which was also carried.
The Chairman proposed that the salary of the secretary
be increased to £75 per annum. He said he bad seen, of
course, a great deal of the secretary's labours, and could say
that he had been most assiduous, and had shown great
ability as well as great assiduity and attention. He was
extremely satisfied with him, indeed, the directors were
all deeply indebted to him, and this was only a very
moderate testimony to what his services deserved. (Hear,
hear.)

M. Heath, in seconding the motion observed, that in
addition to his services here, the secretary had several times
gone over to Ireland, and received nothing for it but his
bare travelling expenses.

The motion was unanimously carried.
The Chairman moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Lupton,
the managing director in Newry. fir his valuable services,
which was seconded by Mr. Heath, and carried unani-

monsly.
The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the
chairman.

THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN

ASSOCIATION,

The last lecture of the series in connection with this
institution was delivered last night in Hope-hall, Hope-
street, by the Rev. Dr. M'Neile. Long before the hour
fixed for the commencement of the lecture the hall was
crowded to excess, which soon manifested itself in
unseemly noise at the door, and as on the occasion of the
preceding lecture of the series, which was delivered by
the Rev. Dr. Candlish, of the Free Church of Scotland,
numbers of persons had to be refused admission at the
doors. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Dr. Raffles,
and the proceedings were opened by prayer, which was
offered up by the Rev. Mr. Wright.

The Rev. Lecturer, after the burst of applause with
which he was received had subsided, thus commenced his
discourse : My Christian friends and brethren : I stand
up among you with the Bible in my hand. I honour the
Bible. We all honour the Bible. Our country honours the
Bible. Whatever her faults or deficiencies may be ; how-
ever short she may be of what she ought to be for her
opportunities ; whatever traitors to her best interests,
she may harbour within her maternal protection, and
with a generosity, let me add, so magnanimous, that
even the consciousness of their betrayal, cannot provoke
her to withdraw it ; however, the traitors may endeav-
our to drive her into antagonism to her God, still England
as a country, a great country, a free country, a protest-
ant country, honours the Bible. (Applause). Yes, sir,
we honour the Bible as the word, the very word of our
God, of whatever period, by whatever human instru-
mentalities it has been communicated, still His word,
His law, His light, His truth, living and abiding for ever,
enlightening the understanding, and sanctifying the heart
of man—our defence, too, as well as our support, our
antidote against every poison, whether derived from
medieval corruption, or from philosophy, falsely
so called. The rev. gentleman then proceeded
to the immediate subject of his lecture, " The History,
Character, and Testimony of John the Baptist." Having
sketched the life of John, the rev. gentleman dwelt for
some time on his character, and held out the fearless,
outspoken, direct, and simply truthful style of the Baptist's
preaching as the model for all Christian clergymen. We
wanted, he said, such a testimony—we needed such a voice
in those days, when commercial integrity was being
shaken to its centre, by fraud and forgery in high places,
and when the whole social system was being eaten into by
evils which loudly called for a remedy. He then proceeded
to treat of the " testimony of John." This part of the
discourse was purely of a scriptural character. At the
outset of the lecture, the rev. lecturer was frequently in-
terrupted by the unseemly noise of a number of persons
who were endeavouring to !crush their way into the hall,
notwithstanding that those within it, were packed as close
as they could sit or stand.

Dr. MiNeile requested them to have consideration for
the audience and retire quietly ; but the noise still con-
tinuing he said that if there were emissaries of the priests
of anti-Christ at the door, they (the audience) ought to
have policemen to pro•ect them. They were free-born
and would not endure to be persecuted in such a manner.
(Cheers.) . _

A gentleman at the door replied that the noise arose
from the anxiety of those without to get in to hear the
two most eminent divines in Liverpool—the rev. lecturer
and the chairman.
The noise still continuing,
Dr. 111'lleile said : If they were real friends of Scrip-
tural education they would have yielded at once to the
necessity of the case and have gone quietly away when
they found they could not get in, and therefore I fear that
this is another of those exhibitions of the impatience and
intolerance of those who, having themselves no stomachs
for such;'subjeats, envy the enjoyment of an English
audience, and, by their conduct, make the country feel the
intolerable nuisance that we are keeping within our
bosoms. The liberty of Englishmen is abused by those
that are not Englishmen attempting to disturb the
privileges of Englishmen. (Hear, hear, and applause.)
The noise soon after ceased, and the rev. lecturer con-
tinued his :discourse amid the attentive silence of his
auditors. At the conclusion of the lecture the thanks of
the assembly were voted by acclamation to the rev.
lecturer.

The proceedings closed with the singing of the Doxology

MATMA, FEB. 19.—His Excellency the Governor of Malts
has granted a pardon to Lieutenant Montgomery, of the 7th
Fusiliers, lately sentenced to three months' imprisonment,
for mis-behaviour in the cathedral atCivita Vecchia and
resisting the police. The elder offender, Lieutenant Hod-
son, R.A., committed to four months' imprisonment, has
not been included in this act of clemency.

The trial of the Swiss femme de chandzi re Dufey, for an
attempt to murder her mistress, an English lady, Ifrs.
Brock, has just occurred at Pau. Mrs. Brock, an infirm
lady, bad, it appears, 4S gold pieces stitched in her corset,
which attracted the cupidity of her maid, who wanted to
rejoin some man with whom she was on terms of intimacy.
One morning she attempted to smother her mistress, and
would have succeeded, had not the latter's cries alarmed a
servant, who brought in the landlord of the house in time to
renal the lady, who lay senseless, to life. The jury found
the woman guilty, and the court sentenced her to 20 years
imprisonment, with hard labour,
THE CONVICT CouitioArr.--In the case of this wretched
convict, whose execution for the murder of his wife was
fixed for Monday morning, Sir George Grey, the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, after much anxious
consideration and discussion with the learned judge who
presided on the trial, has arrived at the conclusion that
public justice does not call for the infliction of the extreme
sentence of the law. The suddenness of the act, the entire
absence of any evidence of premeditation, or of any positive
motive for it, coupled with his uniform kindness end good
conduct towards his wife, distinguish this case from all those
which have previously occurred, and in which the senter oe
jof death has been carried out, The ury,. upon further
reflection, expressed in a memorial their opinion that the
prisoner, at the time of committing the act, had been
deprived of the use of his reason, and Mr. Justice 'Wight-
man inclined to the same view of the case. The safety of
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