Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-17 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S MARINE EXCURSION

The Queen passed Friday night on board the royal
yacht at anchor in Yarmouth Roads, proceetd on Sa-
turday morning to Jersey, twice landed on the island,
landed at Guernsey on Sunday, and on Monday morn-
ing returned to Osborne.

The Council of India will receive tenders on the 19th
and 23rd instant, for the hire of ships to take about
4,709 troops from the United Kingdom to India.
The Daily News city article describes yesterday's
Mark Lane Market as firm at the rates of the previous
Monday. The Times city article reports a dull market
at these rates.

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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAR INSTI-
TUTION.—ReIieved at the institution, 223 ; relieved at
their own dwellings, 55. Total, 278. Visitors—Messrs.
E. Watts and George Jordan. Honorary Secretary and
Treasurer—Joseph Kitchen, Esq.
THE STAR HoTEL.—r-We understand that the concert-
roam in connection with this well-known hotel is
nightly crowded with admiring audiences. The manager,
Mr. Simmons, appears to do all in his power to bring
the best talent to his aid, to render the entertainment at
this house well worthy of patronage. Messrs. E. and M.
Braham, the proprietors of this well-conducted concern,
deserve all the support which they are now receiving.
OXFORD MIDDLE-CLASS EXAMINATION.—We under-
stand that the Liverpool Coliegiate Institution has
obtained the following, successes at- the recent examina-
tion held in June, viz.:—Senior candidates : Section
A, second division, Elliot, Ramsay. Section B, second
division, Pughe, Ramsay. Section C, second division,
Pughe, Lobley. Section D, first division, Lobley.
Section D, second division, Elliot.—Junior candidates :
Second divison, Boadle, Browne, Johnston ; third divi-

sion, M‘Dowell, Nicholls,

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS COMMITTEE.-Mr. Bairstow
occupied the chair at the usual weekly meeting .of this
committee, held yesterday. The other members present
were—Messrs. Cook, Turner, and Whitby. The gover-
nor, Mr. Coates, reported that the number of children in
the schools, on Monday last, was 810, of whom 422 were
boys and 388 girls. Of these, 34 boys and 48 girls were
sick and in the hospital. The number in the schools in
the corresponding week of last year was 904, of whom
447 were boys and 403 girls. The number in the hos-
pital at that period was 54. Of this number 23 were
boys and 31 girls. In reply to the chairman, Mr. Coates
said he could not give any reason for the large increase
of cases in the hospital as compared with last year. The
clerk was directed to make a memorandum, for the pur-
pose of having Mr. Parker, the surgeon, in attendance at
the next meeting, to state what his opinion on the subject
was. The business transacted was not of an interesting

character

CLARE MOUNT SCHOOL, WALLASEY.—The success of
this school in the recent Oxford local examination has
been remarkable. Nine candidates have passed, of
whom one has taken a high double first class ; two
others have obtained the second place in fit

:lasses,
The

while not one ranks lower than a second class,

following statement will show the position of thi
candidates :

SENIORS
CLASS. RANK.

SUBJECT

Samuel

English literature

3 Language

Maiquis (jim.)

Mathematics.
2 Physics.
English literature,
Mathematics.
English literature.
Mathematics.

Crosbie
Buchanan
Davenport
Hall

JUNIORS

Aggregate of subjects.

Alicholls

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Mozley 2
It will be remembered that this school carried off Lord
Derby's prize for the best senior candidate last year.
A Goon EXAMPLE.—There is probably no bay in
the seas of the British Isles more dangerous than Car-
marthen Bay, in South Wales. In its vicinity are situ-
ated some fearful quick-sand banks. One of these, called
Cefn Sidan Sands, has been celebrated for ages for its
dangers and terrors to the mariner ; many a ship having
struck on it, in the course of a tempestuous night, has
been engulplicd within it ere the morning's dawn.'
Last winter two dreadful shipwrecks took place on Cefn
Sidan Sands. The crew of one of them had a narrow
and providential escape of their lives ; but those of the
other vessel, unhappily, perished before succour could
possibly reach them. The National Life-boat Institu-
tion is now making an effort to establish in the vicinity
of these dangerous sands a life-boat. The honorary
;ary of the Carmarthen Bay branch of the society
g, amongst others, applied to Mr. R. Parnall, the
extensive wholesale clother of Bishopsgate-street, who
is a native of the neighbourhood, for his assistance, he
I to him the following reply;—
"London, August Bth, 1859.