The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-24 00:00:00

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would therefore ask them to drink a full buraper—" Suet.
to the Collins' Company," coupling
William Brown. (Applause.)

ith it the name of Mr

Ir. Charl

Maclver, who,

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said tl:

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powerful competitors to con
lated tl em. (Hear, hear.)
to the fact, that ".Brother Jonathan" was enterpri,..„
skilful, and that while his ships were one day to be seen in
the Arctic seas, he was in the next to be seen cutting a
canal to unite two of the great oceans of the world. (Hear,
hear.) All such enterprise was net only a national benefit,
but it also benefitted the world, and he was sure there was
not one in this country who was more gratified at the suc•
dess of.the enterprise of the Cunard company, and the gen-
tlemen connected with it, than he was. (Cheers.) One
thing he regretted to see, and it was this, that the enter-
prise was not sufficiently remunerative to the Proprietors, as
the act lately passed at the instance of Lord Campbell sub-
jected them to responsibilities whic:a no man could guard
against, and which few men would be willing to incur.
(Hear, hear, hear.) He for one should be afraid to be
a steam ship proprietor under the circumstances,
but the Cunard Company were willing to incur all
those responsibilities, in promoting the comfort and pro-
sperity of their fellow subjects, and, on that account, they
deserved a large amount of success. In conclusion, he
begged to propose the health of Mr. Charles Maclver, and
trusted that he and his family might long enjoy every
prosperity, and be blessed with every comfort.
The toast was drunk in a bumper, and was acknowledged,
on the part of Mr. Maclver, by the OJ

end with, who . turn. s
They could not shut theil

Mr. and then proposed the health of _aatrman
the. lion. Joseph
Cunard. In doing so, he said he had long experience of
the energy and zeal which Mr. Charles Maclver displayed,
in working out the great interests of his company, and, in
fact, in a great measure the works which they saw around
them, on leaving the dock, had been brought into being by
his energy. (Hear, hear.) He, on all occasions, gave the
dock committee every assistance, and they, in turn, felt
justified to do their utmost to carry out his intentions, but
there was another gentleman, one who was connected with
the company even before Mr, Maclver, whom they should
not forget. He alluded to the Hon. Joseph Cunard, the
gentleman with whom the scheme of the company originated,
they should not forget

g its great success

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(Hear, hear

The toast was drunk with all the honours.
The Chairman acknowledged the toast on behalf of the
lion. Mr. Cunard.

Mr. Potter proposed the health of Messrs, Barns, and in
a brief but eulogistic address, pointed out that to their energy
too, in connection with the gentlemen with whom they were
associated, was the success of the company due.
The toast was drunk with all the honours.
The Chairman responded on behalf of the Messrs. Burns.
Mr. Harold Littledale proposed Captain Judkins' health,
which was chunk with three times three.
Captain J udkins, in appropriate terms, ackowledged the
compliment, and said that if the speed of the Persia on her
approaching trip, did not come up to expectation, it should
be remembered that she was an iron ship, and that he was
new to such vessels. Before he thought of speed, he would
secure safety, and when he had that, he would look for
speed. (Hear.) If he erred at all, he would err on the right
side. (Hear, hear, and cheers.)
The health of Captain Harrison, who is to command the
Leviathan ship, now being built by Mr. Scott Russell, was
then drank.

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I.P.,then proposed the II(

of the chaff

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) the etla

the competition bete

,
that that competition would be carried out in the spirit
which had hitherto pervaded it, and which was alike
honourable to both. (Cheers.)
The Chairman briefly acknowledged the compliment.
^ -• .1 Judkins then proposad the healths of Captain
`;'aptain West, and Captain Eldridge, the corn-
the Collins' line.

Comslock
mandcrs

vn, M P., acknowi

ged the complime

lemen to

The Chairman then proposed the health of Mr. Bannin
The toast was duly honoured.
Mr. Banning briefly acknowledged the complini it,
in doing so testified to the efficient and satisfact...., trit
in which the mail service was performed by both

companies
Mr. Bathes, of the Liverpool Times, responded to the
toast of the Press ; after which the company broke up.
The Jackall, tender, was in attendance to bring them to
the landingLstage.

THE MURDER OF A WIFE AT BATH

On Monday night the inquest upon the body of Eliza
Howell, who was brutally murdered by her husband on
the Saturday night preceding (as reported in yesterday's
NOIIIIIEIOI TIMES), was commenced before Mr. English,
the coroner, and a respectable jury. From the evidence,
additional to that given before the magistrates, it appeared
that Howell, after inflicting the injuries on his wife, ran
off to the midwife who had previously been engaged to
attend the deceased, and said she must come directly, or
his wife would be dead before she got there. When near
near the house Howell wished the midwife to go on by
herself, but she refused, and ho then accompanied her.
She found four or five people in the room NI ith deceased,
and, upoa seeing the dreadful condition of the latter,
declined to have anything to do with her without medical
assistance. Two medical men were almost immediately
in attendance. but, their aid was useless. After deceased's
death they delivered her by the Caesarian operation of a
healthy male child. It showed no signs of life, but had
not long been dead, and would 'probably have been alive
if the deceas d had been delivered half an hour earlier.
Mr. Cox and Mr. Barrett deposed to the injuries sustained
by!deceased, which might have resulted from a kick, but
bore rather the appearance of having been produced by
the heel of a person's boot stamping upon deceased after
she was down.

There was no furniture found in the room
against which she could have fallen so as to produce the
injuries, excepting a chair, against which it would be
possible for her to have fallen, but not probable. The
inquest was then adjourned.

Letters received at Berlin, from St. Petersburg,
announce that orders were sent off, on the 18th, to
General Gortschakoff to suspend hostilities. The return
of the General from the Crimea is expected; he is to be
appointed Governor of Poland.
The London Post says :—We believe that intelli-
gence has been received from St. Petersburg, that on
the 18th instant the Emperor despatched an order to the
Russian Generals in the Crimea to suspend hostilities.
This important public step argues the sincerity of
Russia's desire for peace— a desire which we hope may
soon be gratified on meet and sufficient conditions. At
the same time, it is but right to observe that the
acceptance by Russia of the Austrian ultimatum does
not justify us in yet :suspending hostilities. We must
ourselves sign preliminaries of peace before we can
abstain from acts of war. It is also but fair to remark,
that at the present season of the year, an order to suspend
hostilities, where none can go forward amounts to a
mere formality.

he was courteous and gentlemanly, but, at the same time,
he was not the less firm in requiring that whatever was
necessary for the efficiency of the ship should be done.
(Hear, hear.) He believed tat no officer in England bad
fitted oat so many ships as Captain Bevis, nor had any
officer done so much for the transport service as he, had
done. (Cheers.) He begged, then, to propose the health
of Captain Bevis.
The toast was drunk with all the honours.

Captain Schomberg, in tha absence of Captain Bevis,
acknowledged the toast, expressing his pleasure at a brothe-
officer being sa highly lauded for the strict and faithfo
performance of his duty.
The Chairman then called for a bumper to ha
toast which I

e, namely, the "Health
not say, their allies, on

ships. (Hear, hear.) They knew a
lines, and symmetry of build ; and, in a word, be did rot.
know whether the Persia would have been floating in the
Mersey that day had it not been for the.existerice of the
Collins' line. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) In that lay the
advantage of competition—that it developed not only enter-
prise, but mechanical skill, in making it a necessary ele-
ment of success. (Hear, hear.,) That enterprise and skill
had been shown in the Collins' line, and it would be their
pride that day to drink its success (cheers); in connec-
tion with the toast, he begged to couple with it the name of
Mr. William Brown, whose energy and perseverance had
rained for him the pre-eminence he now enjoyed, and whose
esy, and urbanity, had earned for him the respect of all.
rs.) The same respect which he had earned for him-

The toast was drunk standing, and with all the honours.
Mr. W. Brown, M.P., responded to the toast. He said he felt
great pleasure in his name being coupled with it, and that
if he was an owner, instead of being as he was the mere
agent of the company, the manner in which it was proposed,
and received, could not have been more pleasing or flatter-
ing to him. (Cheers.) He was merely the agent of the
line, but no words could adequately describe the feeling of
good fellowship, and mutual kindness, which characterised
the intercourse hetw,P,", -
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