The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-09 00:00:00

THE RECENT HURRICANE

From information which in a confused form has reached
us, we learn that the tremendous storm which visited us
on Wednesday night last was not confined to our locality.
A. hurried despatch from Glasgow (which we published
yesterday in our Evening Edition) is the latest news we
have received. It is, however, sufficiently alarming in its
outiiae of the catastrophes which ensued in the North
British mercantile metropolis. We learn from it that the
storm commenced at nine o'clock in the evening of Wed-
nesday, and continued without intermission until three
o'clock on Thursday morning. It describes the destruc-

tion of property as tremendous, and instances the total
demolition of the extensive building sheds, erected
at a cost of thirty thousand pounds belonging to
Messrs. Todd and M'Grigor ; the destruction of the now
church in course of construction in the New Park; the
rupture of the electric telegraph wires; the extensive
damage from twisting of a large iron steamer in course of
construction, to say nothing of the extensive damage
arising from the blowing down of chimney stacks in all
directions, and in all parts of the town. In the Clyde
near Greenock, ships were:driven on shore, and at Bowling
Island: a number of steamers (laid up for the season),
were thrown ashore, twisted, and some sunk. A large
iron screw steamer was carried away by the violence of
the hurricane from Greenock quay, and thrown, keel up,
on Greenock point. On the railways the stations at
Carstairs junction, at Paisley, and at Johnstown, were
blown down but in no instance amidst this vast devasta
tion have we heard of any loss of life. The destruction of
property has no doubt been extensive; the Clyde rose
above the quays from the violence of the storm, and the
flooding of the stores and sheds was the natural conse-
quence, involving serious damage, if not absolute destruc-
tion to the stocks deposited in the different sheds and
stores. At Edinburgh, and on the east coast, considerable
damage has been done, but:to what extent we are, as yet,
without information.

MR. EYRE EVANS AND THE MARKET

COMMITTEE

TO MR. ALDERMAN COOPER.
Sir,—You,'with other members of the market com-
mittee, are reported to have denied, in council, the cor-
rectness of the statement in my letter to the mayor, of
the pecuniary logs resulting from the destruction of the
stalls, &c., in St. John's Market. • To this I reply, that
as my statements are from official authority, and not,
therefore, to be disputed, you and your brother members
have placed yourselves in the situation of either
showing inexcusable ignorance of the affairs of the de-
partment entrusted to your management, or of having
to serve a momentary emergency, asserted what you may
have known to be untrue. No answer has been• at-
tempted by yourself or other members to the facts con-
tained in my letter, showing a loss to St. John's Market,
by the de=traction of 43 stalls, two-thirds of which were
occupied. and which, with tables, &c., up to the time of
their demolition, produced £536 per annum. The whis-
per industriously circulated. that this loss is compensated
far by the transfer of tenants from the destroyed to other
unoccupied stalls in other parts of the market, is true to
the extent of only three stalls, which happened at the time
to be vacant, their rental being 361. per annum. At the
present time there are none vacant.

gly speak of an empty space which you
prudently filled up by the wholesale trade, as if you found
it empty, and had not made it empty by previously having
destroyed its covering of stalls, &c.

You cunn

The remainder of your speech may be replied to by
asking, who ever desired, as you insinuate, to confine the
trade of Liverpool to one market, or denied the right of
the public to cheap shops out of doors? We have five
markets besides St. John's, and the number, if required,
may be increased. Of shops "out of doors'' there is an
unrestricted number. The coexistence of markets and
shops, the one auxiliary to the other, is beneficial to the
public ; if not so, competition will decide the question in
time. It is not the markets, however, which desire to put
down private shops; but the latter, which are desirous of
getting the field to themselves, are trying to destroy the
markets.

I forbear any detailed criticism of the speech of your
fellow-member, Mr. Johnson, which consists of little else
than unwarrantable assertions, as they will doubtless be
proved to be.

Enough has been shown that " new lights," as you so
humorously styled Messrs. Gladstone and Sheil, have:been
long wanted in a committee who have elected you for
chairman, and seem to have forgotten that their appoint-
ment is to preserve, not to destroy, markets.
I will not part with you without some notice of your
attempting to divert attention from yourself and St.
John's to Gill-street market, and the share which I had
in creating it. If I failed in obtaining the success I
wished for in that direction, perhaps the share which I
took in obtaining dock warehouses, to which you were
opposed, will do something more than balance my
account with Liverpool. But what, may I ask, is there
to your credit ? What service have you ever rendered
to the old borough of which a party intrigue has made
you an alderman ?—I am, sir, your obedient servant,
EYRE EVANS.

In a few days Scutari and England will be :connected
by direct telegraphic communication.
A LONG IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.—On Wednesday last
there died in the Queen's Bench Prison Mr. Defries, a
gentleman who has been incarcerated there for the last 44
years.

FRANKFORT, THURSDAY.—The proposals of Austria on
the Eastern question were proposed to the Diet in this
day's sitting. They were referred to a committee to
report on without general discussion.
General Codrington has communicated to the armies
Russia's acceptance of the peace proposals ; but, as the
telegraph wire is still severed, there is much doubt
among the troops. Several magazines of powder have
exploded at Kamiesch.

In case of the rejection by the House of Commons, on
Tuesday next, of Sir Josh. Walmsley's motion in favour of
opening the British Museum and National Gallery on Sun-
days, Mr. V. Scully will move " That all the London club-
houses be closed durinz the whole of Sundays."
It is stated that 60,000 copies of Mr. Caird's sermon on
" Religion in Common Life," (published by command of
Her Majesty,) have been sold; that Mr. Caird has received
£7OO from the publisher ; and that it is his intention to
apply the whole sum to the endowment of the Errol
Females' Industrial School.
TIIE CRIMEAN COMMISSIONERS' REPORT.--This report
occupies a large blue book of 432 pages, of which
the larger portion is tilled with the evidence taken by the
tcommissioners There is also an "appendix" of statis-
public.
Robertson,
span other details, forming a second blue book of
200 pages. These books were yesterday issued to the
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or
NeVnigtacgiesd.—oCnamrpteadin. nesday at the office of Messrs Willis and Co of Crosby-
Josephinesquare, examining
Robertsoneri
the surviving.i seamen of" the hip
Willis, relative to loss. At the close of
that inuiry, Cptain
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tuunadtertood to have
repotted to tho board h!
which the commissioner could interfere, it was a case in
The Spectator has the following
It has remained for
the civil s,rvice of this country to receive among its regular
servants one of the fair sex. The Master of the Rolls
has
led the way in this novel experiment of introducing female
tabour to a service generally accepted only by the other
ex. Sir John has, we understand, actually appointed a
female clerk in the State Paper-office ! It is rather
remarkable, that while rules are established excluding
male clerks above a certain ege from entering the
public service, the new lady clerk is a married lady with
four children."
A singular occurrence took place on Wednesday morning in
Rosoman-street, Clerkenwall. It appears that as the congre-
gation of the Roman Catholic Chapel in the above street
were leaving the chapel, many were observed by the passers-
by to be marked with a black cross on their forehead, which
prooncerneduced
dm. erry observations at the expense of the parties
c It is supposed that seine one must have intro-
duced stealthily, into the vessel containing the holy water,
some black liquid, with which the parties had unconsciously
crossed themselves.

NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1856.

IMPERIAL PARLIAM ENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY

Tho LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at
five o'clock.

EDUCATION BOARD.
Earl GRANVILLE, in bringing up a bill for the creation of a
Vice-President of a Board of Education, explained that it was
intended that this new office should be filled by a member of
the House of Commons, whose functions and responsibilities
woTulhde bill
eel wasxpla readine a first don arsft imutturee.occasion.

THE WENSLEYDALE PEERAGE.
Lord CAMPBELL made reference to the decision of their
lordships on the previous night in the Wensleydale peerage
case, and suggested that instead of the matter being referred to
the committee of privilego, an address should be presented to
her Majesty, praying her Majesty to issue letters patent mak-
ing the peerage hereditary.
The Earl of DERBY, while agreeing in the abstract with this
suggestion, could not undertake to declare the manner in
which the vote of the house should be followed up.
Their lordships then rose at a quarter to six o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY.
The house met at four o'clock.

NEW MEMBER .P.
Mr. S. Warren took the oaths and his seat for Midhur
Lord Raynham took the oaths and his seat for Tamworth.

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS REFORM.
Mr. COLLIER brought in his bill on the subject of jurisdic.
tion of the ecclesiastical courts, and it was read a first time,