Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-01 00:00:00

MAIL NEWS.

mail steamer La Plata, from the West Indies;
4-88 ed Hurst Castle at 2.30 p.m. yesterday.

The will 11e Stock Exchangebe closed this day,
according to custom.
Several additional vessels have arrived from China
With cargoes of tea and silk.
At the meeting of the Bahia and San Francisco

'Railway yesterday, it was stated the first section of the
line would be open in June. The report was adopted.
A despatch from Thurso, dated yesterday, states that
the Laura, of Dublin, was ashore. It was blowing a
hurricane from N.E.

The following appeared in a portion of our im-
pression of yesterday :
INDIA..AND CHINA.,

INDIA.
The overland mail •has arrived with advices from
Calcutta to Sept. 22nd, and from Madras to Sept. 27.
Bombay news, five days later, was received by tele-.
graph on the 18th inst., the news by the present mail
has also been partially anticipated by telegraph.
Troops were being collected in Calcutta for despatch
to China.

The cold weather was to usher in an expedition
against the Nana and the rebels on the Oude frontier.
The sixty regiments of Bengal army have ceased to
exis. Fourteen are ye-armed. The number of officers is
unaffected.. Regimental promotion goes on in corps
which have ceased to exist.

It was reporta that Sir C. Trevelyan had recom-
mended the entire dissolution of the Madras native
army.
The discharged Europeans were leavinc, the port of
Calcutta at the rate of about 1,000. a-week. The Great
Tasmanian had taken away 1,200. The Maggie Miller,
which carried the first batch, grounded in the river.
Fortunately no lives were lost, and the men were trans-
ferred to the Inkermann without much suffering.
Her Majesty's 99th Regiment, which had been ordered
to China, was recalled at the eleventh hour. Some of
the officers had sold their horses.

At Calcutta, both import and export markets dull.
Stocks of cotton piece goods and metals accumulated ;
freights slightly improved ; but the Japanese for Liver-
pool had been taken at 255. .
Peveril of the Peak and Dunmail arrived at Calcutta;
Ladore and Mary Lee sailed from Calcutta ; Valdavia
and Vardalda arrived at Hong-Kong ; Friar Tuck
arrived at Shanghai.

CHINA.

' News from Hoag Kong, is to Sept. 12.
The _Friend of China says, it was believed the present
mail would carry to Washington the ratified American
treaty with China, but it will not.
The Emperor, when Mr. Ward got to Pekin, refused
to attach the vermillion pencil unless his Excellency
would perform the kowtow,—that is, go on his knees
and knock his head nine times on the ground ; and, as
Mr. Ward was not prepared to do this, he had to go
back to the entrance of the river Pehtang, where the
governor of the province—not the commissioner who
made the treaty—handed him a sealed paper, purport-
ing to be a ratification, in four `words—"This treaty is
useless."

According to the correspondence in the Times, the
intentions of the Chinese with regard to the tariff, and
the regulations connected with the new treaty, are
doubtful. The. British and French Ministers remain at
Shanghai, where all is quiet, although in the city and
surrounding villages there is an hostile feeling towards
foreigners, rendering it unsafe to move about as for-
merly. At Canton all was quiet.
At Hong-Kong, tea market very quiet. At Foo-
Chow, large business doing in teas for the Colonies and
America ; and for qualities suitable for these markets,
prices unchanged, supplies being ample. The better
classes of teas, hcwever, very firm. At Shanghai,
daelers firm, although arrivals of tea large. London
mail, of July 2Gth, arrived at Hong-Kong Sept. 7th.

JAPAN.
The news from J'a.pan is favourable. The currency
question had been settled.

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE UNITED STATES MAILS.—The screw steamer
City of Washington will bring the United States' mails
from New York on the 22nd October, in place of the

Ariel, American mail steamer.
ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAR INSTI-
TUTION.—ReIieved at the institution, 161 ; relieved at

their own dwellings, 53. Total, 214. Visitors—Messrs.
E. Watts and George Jordan. Honorary Secretary and
Treasurer—Joseph Kitchen, Esq.
FIRE AT THE WORKHOUSE.—Between seven and eight
o'clock yesterday morning, one of the offices belonging
to the workhouse, Brownlow-hill, was discovered to be on
fire. The fire-brigade from Seel-street was promptly
in attendance, and the fire was extinguished with very
trifling damage.
CORONER'S COURT, YESTERDAY.—At this court, the
deaths of no less than four children were reported, arising
from the negligence of their mothers, in overlaying them
during the night. It was also reported that John Allen
was hurt on board a ship on Sunday, and had since
died.
WELL-TIMED LIBERALITY.—We have been given to
understand that the late representative of Liverpool,
Lord Ravensworth, left a cheque for £5O in the hands
of Francis Shand, Esq., chairman of the Derby Ban-
quet, to be applied in aid of the charities in this town.
HENGLER'S CIRQUE VARIETE.—From our advertising
columns it will be seen that there is to be a fashionable
day performance at this popular place of amusement.
On this occasion it will be seen that the display is to
take place under the distinguished patronage and
presence of the Countess of Derby.
THE CANADIAN MAILS.—The royal mail screw steamer
Hungarian, Captain Jones, sails for Quebec and Mon-
treal to-morrow (Wednesday), with the weekly Cana-
dian mails and passengers. The box at the post-office
will dose at 10.15 a.m., and the receiving-house on the
landing-stage will be open till 11 a.m. on the payment
of a late fee of sixpence.
A MAN DROWNED AT BIRKENHEAD.—OR Saturday
afternoon, Thomas Fitzpatrick, aged 22 years, a carter
in the employ of Mr. M'Cormick, was drowned in a pit
near the Dock Cottages, Birkenhead. The deceased
took the horses into the pit for the purpose of washing
their feet, and the bottom being soft, one horse reared,
threw him off, and he was drowned. At the inquest,
yesterday, a verdict of "accidentally drowned" was
returned.
On Sunday morning last, a sermon was preached
in Holy Trinity Church, Walton-breck, by the Rev. B.
Maddock, M.A., Curate of St. George's, Liverpool, on
behalf of the schools of the district. The Worshipful
the Mayor, whose residence is contiguous to the church,
and who had kindly consented to attend, was present,
accompanied by Aldermen R. C. Gardner, T. Bramley-
Moore, W. Bennett ; and Councillors James Holme,
Robert Hutchison, 0. Holden, and W. H. Anthony;
William Shuttleworth, Esq., Town-clerk, John Weight-
man, Esq., Surveyor, Robert Topping, Esq., Solicitor,
and other members of the corporate body were also in
attendance. The church was filled by. a highly respect-
able congregation. The choral service was effectively
rendered by the excellent voluntary choir, the anthem
being that by Heyes, from Psalm cxlvii, " Praise the
Lord, 0 Jerusalem !" The sermon, a most sound and
practical one, from Ecclesiastes xi., 6, was listened to
throughout with marked attention, and the offertory at
its close amounted to the liberal sum of £42 13s. 9d.
The last Sunday but one of the mayoralty of our worthy
chief magistrate has thus been signalised by one of those
numerous acts of generosity which have distinguished
his year of office ; and he will vacate the civic chair, not
only with the respect of every member of the Town
Council, but with the esteem of every class of the com-
munity.
TOXTETH PARK LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH.—The
monthly meeting of this board was held yesterday in
the board-room of the Public Offices, Park-road. Mr.
H. S. Al ass in the chair. There were also present
Messrs. Hughes, Boult, Evans, Hill, Boult, Siddley,
Stafford, Smith. A memorial was read, signed by the
Rev. William Clementson, minister, and Messrs. Henry
Granger and John Rimmer, churchwardens of St.
Michael's Church, praying the board to refund the £lO
paid by the church for permission to drain the rain water
from the roof of the edifice into a sewer belonging
to the board. This exemption from charge, was claimed
under the 69th section of the Public Health Act of 1848,
and the 38th section of the Local Government Act.
The Law Clerk said, as in this case the minister or in-
cumbent had not been charged, but the owners of the
church, it did not come under the sections quoted, and
the board had no right to refund the money. A com-
munication to that effect was ordered to be forwarded
in reply to the memorial, on the motion of Mr.
Boult. A letter was read from the law clerk
of the Health Committee, claiming £125 as the
amount due for the formation of the Smithdown-lane
sewer.—The Chairman thought the only reply to that
was that the work had been done, and the money must
be paid.—Some conversation took place with regard to
the people of Wavertree running,' their sewers into those
of the Toxteth Board, but nothing was agreed upon, in
the absence of any communication from the Wavertree
Board.—The other business was void of public interest.

THE HOPE-HALL LECTURE to-night will.be delivered
by the Rev. J. B. Owen, of London. His subject Will
be " Old School Affectations." From his well-known
ability and humour, we doubt not but that he will have
a crowded audience.

Mr. John Sharpies Hallowes; of the Old Swan, ne:r
this town, having undergone the necessary examination
for the diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons,
London, was admitted a member of that College on
Friday last.
I Wilts.—Between the hours of one and two o'clock this
morning, a fire broke out in the offices of Messrs. H.
Smith and Co., 6, New-quay, Prince's Dock. The fire
being immediately discovered, was extinguished without
calling into requisition the services of the engines, which
were soon in attendance. The origin of the fire seems
to have been the overheating of a flue. It was fortu-
nate that the fire was discovered in time, as guider the
offices were stored large quantities of ship stores and
other inflammable materials.
LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.--Number of patients
during the past week :—New cases received advice and
medicine at the institution : Northern, 254 ; SOuthern,
159: total, 413. New cases visited at their own houses
and supplied with medicine : Northern, 79 ; Southern,
94 : total, 173. Total for the week, 586. Rev. Rector
Campbell, A.M., president. Captain Bourne, vice-presi-
dent of North Dispensary. Mr. Charles Booth, vice-
president of South 'Dispensary. Mr. Francis Mill, trea-
surer. Mr. F. H. Langley, secretary. Office : Leith-
offices, Moorfields.

INQUIRY AT ST. JAMES'S CHURCH.—At this inquiry,
regarding several serious charges brought against the
clerk and sexton, by the Rev. Mr. Thomas, incumbent,
several pew owners assembled. A question arose as to
the accuser's right of occupying the chair. Mr. Thomas
quoted Cripps, on the law of the parish, as his authority
for claiming this privilege. Mr. Hughes disputed the
right of theincuinbent to occupy the position of accuser
and chairman, and in substantiation of this he quoted
Toulin Smith, in accordance with which he contended
that the conduct of Mr. Thomas had been anything but
in accordance with law or common sense. At the end
of the proceedings, which were of a very desultory
character, Mr. Thomas declared the meeting to be dis-
solved, and, at the same time, gave notice that he in-
tended to bring the matter before another court. This
was all that:transpired.
The following -Patents, amongst others, passed the
Great Seal during the week ending the 28th October :
N. J. Holmes, for " Improvements in electric telegraphs,
and apparatus connected therewith."—W. Winstanley
and J. Kelly, for " Improvements in pumps and gearing,
and appliances for working the same."—E. Francis, for
" Improved apparatus applicable to the treatment of tea,
and other useful purposes."—W. Gossage, for "Im-
provements in the manufacture of caustic soda, and car-
bonate of soda, from certain alkaline liquors and salts."
—W. 0. Bourne, for "Improvements in the means of,
and apparatus for, separating metals, ores, and other
substances of different specific gravities."—T. R. Oswald,
for " Improvements in building ships and other vessels."
—W. H. Gravely, for " Improvements in apparatuses
for purifying and aerating sea-water, parts of which
may be employed for cooking and baking purposes."—
John Davies, for " A new or improved self-adjusting
and ventilating apparatus."—Communicated from John
T. King, British and Foreign Patent Ofices, 4, Clayton-
square, Liverpool.
LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. The
opening session of this society was brilliantly inaugurated
last night, by -a conversazione and soiree held at the
Royal Institution, Colquitt-street. The attendance,
though but moderate, embraced many _of the leading
scientific men of Liverpool, all of whom examined, with
great interest, the various mechanical models exhibited
in the different rooms. In the course of the evening Mr.
31‘.Ardle's model of a submarine tunnel across the
Mersey was exhibited, and appeared to attract considera-
ble attention. In the upper rooms of the museum some
exceedingly minute microscopic photographs were ex-
hibited, which were justly regarded with great curiosity
and interest by all present. Towards the close of the
evening, Dr. Edwards delivered an interesting and in-
strutive lecture, in the hall of the Institute, on " The
progress of electricity." The lecture was illustrated by
numerous electrical experiments, most of which, favoured
by the superior instruments possessed by the Institute,
were on a scale of more comprehensive and instructive
magnitude than usual. The lecture having closed, the
proceedings terminated, and the company separated
shortly after ten o'clock.
CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE, FAIRFIELD.—
At the last meeting of the choir of the above church for
practice, a handsome gold pencil-case, accompanied by
an address bearing the names of the subscribers, was
presented by the members of the choir to John B. Cooper,
Esq., of Fairfield, in token of their appreciation of the
part he has taken in assisting to bring the musical ser-
vices of the church to their present satisfactory state.
Mr. Cooper, who has for some years been a member of
the choir, has spent a very large portion of- his leisure
hours in lithographing a collection of chants, &c.,
which he has generously presented to the choir and to
each pew-holder in the church. Whether regarded as a
work of art, as a collection of music, or as a valuable
aid to those who wish to take their proper part in the
services of the church, this book reflects very great
credit upon Mr. Cooper, who has set an example, which,
if imitated by able and influential persons in other con-
grations, would go far towards effecting a great improve-
ment in the -present generally unsatisfactory state of
church music in Liverpool.
ST. GEORGE'S HALL.—The concert at St. George's
Hall on Saturday night, passed off with great success to
a very full house. The vocal performers were Madame
(formerly Miss) Louisa- Vinning, Miss Fanny Huddart,
Mr. Wilbye Cooper, and Mr. Allan Irving. Mr.
Osborne Williams acted as accompanyist, and Mr.
Remenyi was the solo violinist. The concert opened
with Bishop's well-known glee " The Winds whistle
cold," very well sung by the four vocalists. Mr.
Irving's voice was displayed to great advantage in
"The White Squall," by Barker, which he sung
with great taste, and also in Dibdin's very pretty
song " The Lads of the Village." In the second
part, Madame Louisa Vinning showed great facility
of execution in Verdi's "Ernani Involangi," and
in her other songs " Where the Bee Sucks," and
" Tripping down the Lane," fully sustained her reputa-
tion. Miss Fanny Huddart sung "Il segreto" as well
as she has always been accustomed to do ; and Mr.
Wilbye Cooper gained well-merited applause for his
singing of " Good bye, Sweetheart," and Hullah's song
" A Doubting Heart," composed expressly for him.
The "lion of the evening," however, was undoubtedly
Mr. Remenyi, who, in his violin solo "11 pirata" dis-
played not only a wonderful mastery over the difficulties
of the instrument, but a purity of tone and breadth of
expression such as we have rarely heard equalled. His
" Carnival of Venice" also was a remarkable exhibition
of difficulties, and was enthusiastically redemanded.
We have great pleasure in congratulating Mr. Hime on
the success of his concert, a success which he has well
deserved; and as long as he continues to present us with
such very excellent entertainments, at such very moderate
prices, we feel assured that he will always meet with
the same encouragement which the public have hitherto
given him, and which he in every respect so well
merits.

MUNICIPAL ELECTION.

CASTLE-STREET WARD.

A meeting of a number of the friends and supporters
of Mr. Stearns was held last night in the Royal Hotel,
Dale-street; Mr. Crosfield presided. After a few pre-
liminary remarks from the Chairman Mr. Steains rose,
and said, that he believed he was speaking to
friends ; he had believed so three years ago in the same
circumstances, but nevertheless many whom he held to
be his friends then, had turned against him • for what
reason he did not know, unless it might be that
he had refused to be the go-between of the
Council and the Law Society. There had been an
undercurrent report, that it was his intention to resign,
but the only way he could account for it arising, was,
that on being asked several times, whether he was going
back to the Council, had replied, he did not know, as
yet he had never been asked. In reference to his con-
duct in the Council he could freely say, that no vote had
been given by him, until he had made himself master of
the subject at issue, and given it his most sincere con-
sideration. It had been said by a newspaper, which
has been usually called the " parson's paper," that he
ought to resign on account of his age and infirmities,
but he was not older than a considerable number of the
most influential gentlemen in the Council, of the
opposite party in politics. Many of his Conservative
friends had expressed to him their displeasure of
what had been so disrespectfully said of him. One
had even offered him his vote if he required it, but
he would have nothing to do with it. He told him to
vote for Mr. Woodburn. He refused this vote on prin-
ciple for he would not under any circumstances influence
a vote although his election depended upon it; and,

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