The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-29 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

GEORGE WILLIAM WOODS, plumber and glazier, Har-
wood-place, High-street, and Meeting-honse-lane, Peck—
ham.

WILLIAM BLACKLOCK DAGNALT, rope manufacturer,
Wood street, City.
THOMAS EDWARD JAMES, wine merchant, Cowbridge,
Glamorganshire.
FRANCES MARE, GEORGE KEEN, and EDMUND JOHN
MARE, iroufounders, Plymouth.
ABRAHAM SCOIT, ironmonger, Manchester.
WILLIAM HINMAN, licensed victualler, Lamb's Conduit-
street.
JOHN KINTON, builder, Coventry.
RICHARD SLOCOMBE, farmer, Kentisbury, Devonshire.
MARY SEACOLE and THOMAS DAY, jun., provision
merchants, Covent Garden.
CONSTANTINE STEDDY, butcher, Deal.

ROSCOE LITERARY SOCIETY.—The ninth meeting of the
second session of this society will be held this (Wednesday)
evening, when Mr. Edward B. Williams will give a recita-
tion, and the President, Mr. John B. Penny, will read a
paper on " Enterprise and Industry, as exemplified in the
commercial progress of Liverpool."
CORONER'S COURT, YESTERDAY.—The Coroner held
inquests on the bodies of the following persons :—Edward
Bartlett, a shipwright, who was killed on board the ship
M'Leod, in the Brunswick graving dock, while pursuing
his avocation ; also, on the body of David Mitchell, who was
that day killed at the Union Foundry, Manchester-street,
from ibme iron falling upon him. In the last case a verdict
of " Accidental death" was returned.
THURSDAY LECTURES IN HOPE•HALL.—The third lecture
in this course is to be delivered tomorrow evening, at half-
pa-4 seven o'clock, by Mr. Peter Bayne, A.M., editor of the
Commonwealth, and author of The Christian Life. The
subject to be elucidated by him is " The Characteristics of
Christian Civilisation." It was a profound and just
observation of the late Dr. Chalmers, that the dissemination
of Christian truth exercises a most wholesome pervading
influence on a community, inasmuch as though it may not
effect a saving change on every individual upon whom it
operates. yet it at least produces a humanising effect on the
generality of them. Numerous are the once barbarous
nations who are now entitled to be regarded as civilised,
yet, who owe their oivilisation to the introduction, con-
tinuance, and progress of the Gospel amongst them. And
the infidel may be challenged to point out a single heathen
nation', whoa have not !embraced the Gospel, without also
having their rude manners corrected and refined, and the
useful arts improved, and more widely diffused. The
religion of Christ has won for civilisation many wonderful
triumphs in converting African and American barbarians,
and even in reformed Polynesian cannibals.

PRESENTATION.—A few gentlemen, the friends of Mr.
Jno. Pitt, paper manufacturer and stationer, Sea Brow,
presented to him, on Monday evening last, a very elegant
snuffbox, upon which was inscribed the following words, no
less appropriate than true : " Presented, by a few friends,
to Mr. Jno. Pitt, on his departure from Liverpool to White-
haven, as a token of their admiration of, and respect for his
social, moral, and intellectual worth—October 27, 1856."
The presentation was made in the house of Mr. O'Hanlor,
Sea Brow, and Mr. Pitt thus responded : Gentlemen,—Let
me assure you this expression of your kindness, this memo-
rial of your esteem, comes upon me most unexpectedly. I
was not prepared for this very neat and elegant present.
(Hear.) Let me say it is more the emanation of good and
generous feelings on your part, than the indication of merit
on mine. (No, no.) I accept it, however, as a guide to my
future conduct, rather than as a mark of my past
career. (Hear, hear.) And, although a wider sphere,
more prosperous anticipations present themselves to
my mind, yet the picture of my prospective success
would appear more beautiful were it unmiugled with regret
—a regret sincere and unfeigned—that lam about not only
leaving Liverpool, but taking a farewell of the honest and
friendly faces I see around me. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I
thank you. The memory of Liverpool, and my friends in
the good old loyal town, will be brought daily to my recol-
lection—need I say if the snuff is pungent to my nostrils—
whenever I take up this—your present. (Loud cheers.)
Again, gentlemen, I thank you,"