The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-22 00:00:00

MISMANAGEMENT AT THE CONCERT
HALL. .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

I have the misfortune to remain,
Your very obedient servant,
ONE OF THE CRUSHED

THE POLICE AND PROSTITUTION

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.
Liverpool, Dec_ 20, 1853.
SIR—I am happy to find that, through; the
,me-
Ilium of your very valuable paper, you are exposing
some of the immoralities which exist in this town
to a most alarming extent, namely, "police regula-
tions and prostitution." •
It is my duty, in order to attend my employment,
to pass through the streets at 12 o'clock at night,
and sometimes at a very early hour in the morning.
But, I can _say, that during the whole of the last
three months, I have never passed, but one mprn-
ing, without seeing one or more of the police-of-
ficers, who should have been on their duty at the
time, inside of public houses, drinking ; and this,
Mr. Editor, is the way that the public are protected.
The houses into which they principally retire, too,
are houses of very inferior description, many of
which are the •abodes.of prostitutes of the rather
better-dressed kind. And it is from these unfortu-
nate persons that they.principally get what they
call their allowance ! But, Mr. Editor, what I should ,
call it, is a licence to steal, given to those W omen.
It is a well-known fact, that if they would not give
the police their fee or allowance, they would n9t,be
allowed to walk on their "round." In fact, they
are encouraged by the police of this town, who will
for a small sum keep the whole of their round for
that unfortunate being who fees them ; and this,
sir, I have from their own words and from expe-
rience, for. I have, to obtain information, gone, into
the company of many of these unfortunates, includ-
ing some of the most well-dressed and.s'ome of the
most wretched, some drunken and: some sober.
For, sir, there are some sober persons even amongst
the most wretched-beings under the *canopy of hea-
ven ; and these are the most to be pitied of their
most miserable class. I have not sought the com-
pany of these despised and most wretched beings
for any evil purpose, but simply to find where the
real truth of their fall lies ! •

If you think fit, Mr. Editor, I will send you some
of their statements, which, when brought to light
before the public, I am sure will help to release
those miserables from utter reprobation.
Trusting that ,I. have_not ,taken up too much of
your valuable time, and-hoping that you will insert
this in your paper, making some allowance for mis-
takes, it being from a working man, with not much
time to spare, but wishing to reform some of these
wretched beings who have fallen through man's
craft,—l remain, Sir, yours,
A WORKING MAN OF LIVERPOOL.
[We shall be glad to hear again from the
" Working Man of Liverpool." He has manifestly
a kind heart, and a judgment beyond.his opportu-
nities. If we could lay the communication as-it
has reached us before the public, it would at once
be made clear that the writer is what he calls him-
self. But with men so valuable among the working
classes, we should not despair of freeing this town
frOm the enormities to which his letter refers.]

THE " CITY OF SYDNEY."—The sailing of this steamer
for Australia is delayed in consequence of being fitted with
a boomerang instead of the screw-propeller she had already
shipped. She is to sail on the 3rd January, and Sir Thomas
Mitchel the inventor of the boomerang goes out in her.
GLASGOW POST-OFFICE.—The Provost of Glasgow has an-.
nounced that he has had letters from Lord Canning and
Sir C. Trevelyan, promising that the foundation of a new
post-office for that city would be laid on the. 25th March,
1854. So much for agitation.
On Saturday last, a desperate attack was made on the
police at Belfast, when on entering a victualler's house after
hours to put out the guests, they were assailed with great
violence.

- A young man, named John R. Gibbon, employed in the
establishment of Mr. Boyd, Mary-street, Dublin, killed him-
self on Friday morning last, by taking au over-dose of
laudanum, 35 drops.
PREACHING AND PRACTICE.—A man who lately carried
off a prize for an essay on total abstinence from a temperance
society in a large town in the west, was seen the other
day dragged to the police-office between two constables, as
merry as Bacchus, without any of the jolly god's classical
associations. A daguerreotype of the scene would form a
capital frontispiece to the next edition of his essay, which
would thereby be rendered doubly valuable.—N. B. Mail.
UNIVERS= RErousr.--University reform to be made a
Qovernment measure, and to form one of the topics of the
ueen's speech. The question was thus to be taken out of
the hands of the university, and submitted to the wisdom of
parliament. The government are anxious in the meantime
to know what the university has done, or propose to do, on
the four leading points, to which attention was drawn by
Lord John Russell in his speech in the house in April last,
viz.:-1. The constitution of the university-2. Its .exten-
Bien, by the admission of persons to its teaching otherwise
than belonging to, and residing in colleges.-3. The removal
of restrictions, upon fellowships ; and 4'. The application of
some parts or Lao; .sf" nAIiPPSS to the payment of
professors and other cognate purposes.
:flow TO CHOOSE A HtTSnAND.—If a man wipes his feet
on the door-mat before coming into the room you may be
sure he will make a good domestic husband. If a man, in
snuffing the candles, snuffs them out, you may be sure he
will make a stupid husband. If a man puts his handkerchief
on his knees whilst taking his tea, you may be sure he will
make a prudent husband. In the same way, always Mis-
trust the man who will not take the last piece of toast or
Sally Lunn, but prefers waiting for the next warm batch.
It is not unlikely that he gr
will make a eedy, . selfish hus-
band, with whom you will enjoy no " brown ' at dinner, no
crust at tea, no peace whatever at home. The man, my
dears, who wears goloshes, and is careful about wrapping
himself up well before venturing into the night air, not
unfrequently makes a good invalid husband that mostly
stops at home, and is easily comforted with slops. The
man who watches the kettle and pFevents it boiling over,
will not fail, my dears, in his married state, in exercising
the same care in always keeping the pot boiling. The man
who doesn't take tea, ill-treats the cat, takes snuff, and
stands with his back to the fire, is a brute whom I would
not advise you, my dears, to marry upon any consideration,
either for love or money, but most decidedly not for love.
But the man who, when the tea is over, is discovered to
have had none, is sure to make the best husband. Patience
like his deserves being rewarded with the best of wives and
the best of mothers-in-law. My dears, when you meeewith
such a man, do your utmost to marry him; In the severest
winter he would not mind going to bed first. —Punch's
Pocket-book.

WOLVERHAMPTON COAL AND IRON TRADE.—On account
of the proximity of Christmas, great anxiety is felt by ironmon,
gers and the people generalli.to get in a stock of coal for their
immediate wants; the demand is therefore very great, and
far in excess of the supply. Large tracts of thick coal still
lies immersed in water, at Tipton Green, the Moat ColliCry,
and-the Deepfields, and there seems no probability at present
of a release on account of the disagreement which exists
amongst the proprietors, as to the expense of erecting water
engines and other necessaries. The Iron trade still maintains
unabated vigour, and the ironmasters will not remain satisfied,
it appears, till there is another rise declared of 20s. per ton
upon manufactured iron, which will bring it up to the stan-
dard it was at the commencement of the year, viz :—Bars, £l.l,
hoops, £l2, and plates, £l3 per ton. Some, of, the makers
state, as a justification for this step, that the'raw material has
note attainedibeprice it was when iron fetched the above rates.
We would caution the ironmasters against any precipitate act
tha,t, will again bring down the price, and ultimately end in
discomfiture.-- FolverliamolZfralffit •
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friendly squeeze is no doubt well enough
in ids way, but to be " ramm'd, and jamm'd, and
• cramm'd," as were her Majesty's lieges, Without
and within the Concert-hall on last Friday night,
is a matter not to be laughed at, much less paid for.
Who the gentlemen are that perpetrate the arrange-
ments for temperance demonstrations in that edi-
fice, I don't know; but it is certain that their per-
ceptions of the nature of "pressure from without,"
are exceeding obtuse, and I. for oue would rejoice
to see them forced to take their first step in the
march Of humanity adorned each with a pair of
fashionable stays ; or, better still, the straps and
lacings of a straight waistcoat. It is really much too
bad that an audience bent upon enjoying the intel-
lectual feast which one of Gough's orations un-,
questionably supplies, should have their thoughts,
distracted by reminiscences of the black hole of
Calcutta, and an involuntary craving for fresh air
and cold water. Why, in the name of common
sense and common honesty, does not the " direr
tory" limit the issue of tickets to such a number
as the hall can comfortably 'accommodate, and,:
above all, eschew the discreditable trick of allowing
favorites easy access to choice 'locations in the in-'
terior, by the door of the newsroom, before the.
door of the hall itself is opened. A ticket for a'
seat, one would imagine, should secure a seat to
the holder, and anywhere else would do so, but in,
the hands df these sapient Managers it ,becomes
" a mockery, a delusion, and a snare."
Trusting, Mr. Editor, that your sympathy with
crushed humanity will induce you to let these
delinquents feel the power of the press, hydraulic,
if you will.