Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-19 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

ON DlT.—That Mr. Joseph Livingstone, formerly
member for'Castle-street Ward, is about to be brought
forward as a candidate for the representation of one of
the Toxteth wards.

The Hon. and Rev. Baptist W. Noel is to preach this
evening in Pembroke Chapel. It is expected that he
will treat of the Irish revivals, of which he has been
lately an eye-witness.
THE HASTINGS.—Her Majesty's ship Hastings has
arrived in the Mersey from Holyhead, where she was in
attendance on Prince Albert, during his visit to the
Great Eastern.

On Monday, a man, at present unknown, was found
hanging dead on a tree in a wood near Hyde Hall,
Denton. On the previous night he had called at a
public-house in Tower-lane, and inquired his way to
Manchester. •

Mr. James Bearly, Mr. S. R. Graves, and Captain
Powell, of Liverpool, attended by Mr. J. Ewart, M.P.,
had an Interview with the Duke of Somerset on. Monday
afternoon, at the Admiralty, respecting the Conway
school frigate.
A SHIP CAPSIZED IN THE LONDON DOCKS.—The
ship Howden, recently discharged in Victoria Docks,
London, capsized on Sunday, in consequence of not
having, it is said, any ballast in the vessel. She imme-
diately filled and sank. Measures are being adopted to
raise the ship.
THE CANADIAN MAIL—The screw steamer Nova
Scotian will sail for Quebec and Montreal this forenoon,
carrying out mails and passengers. The box at the
Post-office will close at 10 15 a.m., but the Receiving
House on the Landing-stage will be open to 11 a.m., on
the payment of a late fee of 6d.
HOLYHEAD.—The uncomfortable looking fishing
village of Holyhead is full to repletion, and woe betide
the unlucky voyageur who comes down by the night
train in the expectation of getting a bed. Paltry little
dens and roadside alehouses command a price for dingy
accommodation which would make our London houses
stare.

SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. ALDERMAN BEAUMONT, OF
BRADFORD.—Mr. Thonias Beaumont, surgeon, and one
of the aldermen of Bradford, died suddenly on Sunday
evening, of disease of the heart. The deceased gentle-
man, who was sixty-four years of age, was brother to
the late Rev. Dr. Beaumont, whose death in 1855, in the
pulpit, at Hull, was equally sudden.
STOCK OF BONDED GOODS IN LIVERPOOL. - The
Collector of Customs at Liverpool, Mr. S. P. Edwards,
to whom the commercial public are indebted for much
kind assistance, has agreed to act upon a suggestion of
the chamber of Commerce, and to publish quarterly in
of Entry art alphabetical list of goods in the
bonded warehouses of this port..
A RASH LuAP.—A woman named Mary Peeling,
who resides at 3, Cheapside, jumped out of a window
in a warehouse in Temple-street, yesterday. It ap-
peared that the woman had been locked up in the ware-
house by some mistake, and as she could not get out by
the door, she took the risk of leaping out of the window.
The consequence was, that she received several con-
tusions of the body, and now remains at the Northern
Hospital under surgical treatment.
COUNTY REVISION.-The revision of the list of voters
in the Liverpool district of South Lancashire was re-
sumed yesterday in the Sessions-house, Chapel-street,
before W.. B. Brett, Esq., revising barrister. The
following is the result of the days' proceedings :
Conservatives had struck off 219, Radicals had struck
off 41 : Conservative gain 179. The Conservatives paid
for costs 155.; the Radicals £4. Total Conservative
majority up.to yesterday, 474.
STEALING A WATCH.—At the County Magistrates'
Court, yesterday, Thomas Usher and Edward Sheridan
were charged with having stolen a watch from a house
in Bootle. The watch was seen safe in the kitchen at
three'o'clock, and was missed half-an-hour after. During
that, time the prisoners had been in the kitchen, and of
course had an opportunity of taking it. One of them
subsequently offered it in pawn at the shop of Mr.
Hamper's, but was taken into custody.—The prisoners
were sent for trial.

LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.---Number of patients
during the past week :—New cases received advice and
medieime at; the institution : Northern, 295 ; Southern,
177 ; total, 472. New cases visited at their own houses
and supplied with medicine : Northern, 78 ; Southern,
58 ; total, 136. Total for the week, 608. 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.
LIVERPOOL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT CLASS.-On Monday evening
last, the usual fortnightly meeting of this class took
place ; Mr. Henry J. Silverlock in the chair. The fol-
lowing question was debated :—" Is the present Rifle
Corps agitation fo be deprecated ?" Mr. Carter leading
on the affirmative, and Mr. Orchard on the negative
side. After a most animated debate, the negative was
carried by a large majority. Several new members
were enrolled; and the meeting, which was very nume-
rously attended, wiis closed by singing the Doxology.
SAILORS' HOME.—The fourth season of winter con-
certs at this institution was successfully inaugurated
last night, by a grand miscellaneous concert. There
was a very large attendance of sailors and their friends,
and it could not but be encouraging to the committee
to find so hearty a response to their efforts for providing
an entertainment which, while refining the taste, should
be sufficiently attractive to lure seamen from the dens
of iniquity which abound in this town. The concert
was eminently successful ; and, though the performers
were all amateurs, many of them were themselves far
above the ordinary merit of such performers. We
understand that it is the intention of the committee to
continue these concerts monthly ; and we sincerely hope
their philanthropic efforts will meet with a hearty
response.
HOPE HALL LECTURES.—The second lecture of the
present course was delivered in this hall last night, by
the Rev. Robert Maguire, M.A., on the " Historical,
Scientific, Moral, and Spiritual Lessons derived from the
'Construction of a Watch." The lecture was listened to
with the greatest attention by the numerous and respec-
table audience who were present ; and, from the great
amount of historical information it contained, as well as
the moral sentiments it conveyed, could not but be in-
structing, and amply justify the favourable report which
the lecturer has earned for himself. The proceedings
terminated with a well deserved enthusiastic vote of
thanks to the lecturer. The next lecture of the course is
to be delivered by the Rev. Panton Hood. Subject :
" A Night of Hiographic Romance ;" and, from the
popularity of this gentleman, we anticipate a numerous
attendance.

'ADVBbi4EURBS OF I SET OF TBETH.—A gentleman
well known. ii Liverpool, being. a great local politician,
lost his filieset of geld-Monnted teeth the other evening,
under the following strange circumstances. He was a
guest at:a wedding supper, and as the hour of midnight
approached! he got rather elevated, and his splendid set
of false teeth, gold-mounted; fell from his mouth. A
friend of.his secured them, and on the following morning
• pledgedithern at a pawnbroker's shop for two guineas.
He detenmined to have a pod supper on the proceeds ;
and, toaadd insult to injury, the gentleman who had lost
his dental ornaments, was asked to share it. He &II so ;
and itzw.as not until all were ready to depart, that he
discovered he was the unconscious provider of the feast.
He did not say much at the. time, but yesterday he for-
wardedian attorney's letterto the perpetrator of the joke,
demanding full restitution: of his goods and chaOtels.
RDBBERY OF £4OO IN. MANCHESTER.—At the Man-
chester sessions, on Monday, Mary Ann M‘liinsey, a
dressmaker, and John Sparks, brushmaker, were charged
with stealing ; and Brimi M'Guinness, hawker, and
Walmsley, mechanic, with receiving a pocket-
book, containing £4Ol las., the property of Ms. William
Griffiths, plumber, Thomas-street, Manchester. It
appeared that on the afternoon of the ?3id Septem-
ber, Mr. Griffiths obtained £4Ol 13s. from Mr. Cun-
lie, attorney, the money consisting, of a cheque
h3r £226, Bank of England notes foe £lOO, £5O,
and £2O, and gold and silver. Mr. Griffiths placed
• the money in a pocket-book, which he put into the
breast-pocket of Itis coat, and returned to his place of
business in Thomas-street. Ile remained there till about
nine o'clock, when he went out to go to his home in
Elizabeth-street, Cheetham ; but as lie was going down
Bradshaw-street, he met the woman, Margaret M'Kinsey,
who spoke to Urn. As a means of getting rid of her, he
treated her to, some spirits, at the Mountain Dew vaults,
near Charter-street, but when leaving she still followed
him across Ducie Bridge; and along the Chectham Hill
Road, to Carnarvon-street, where Mr. Griffiths requested
her to leaVe him, stating that he lived near there. He
went down Carnarvon-street, and turned into a side
street, but the woman still followed, and several times
caught hold of his arm. In a few minutes the prisoner
Sparksnud a man (who has since turned approver), named
Robt. M'Kinsey, came up, and Sparks said, "What are you
doing with that young woman ?," The woman went
away immediately, and the two men followed. Mr.
Griffiths then found that his pocket
,book and money
were missing, and gave information to a policeman,
whom he soon afterwards met. Robert M'Kinsey was
afterwards apprehended at his mother's house, in Liver-
pool,, where the woman, Margaret M'Kinsey, was living
with him, and he made a confession to the police, from
which it appeared that at the time of the robbery he and
. the woman M'Kinsey were living in a house in Charter-
street, Manchester, and that Sparks lived in the cellar
of' the same house. On the evening when the robbery
was committed, Robert M'Kinsey and Sparks saw the
woman M'Kinsey and Mr. Griffiths going into +he Moun-
tain Dew vaults, and they afterwards followed them to
Carnarvon-street. When the woman ran away from
Mr. Griffiths, the men followed her, and went to their
house in Charter-street. The woman there produced a .
£2O and a £5O note ; and the cheque for £226 was de-
stroyed with the pocket book, the men not being able to
understand it. Robert M'Kiusey and Sparks took the
£2O note to M'Guinness, an innkeeper, and asked if he
could change it. M•Guinness gave thorn £l6 for it.
They then went to Walmsley, who keeps a beer-
house in the same vicinity, and asked him if he
could " do" a £5O note ; and Walmsley gave them
£35 for it. They returned to the cellar in Charter-
street, where the woman M'Kinsey pulled from her
boSom a £l4O note. Robert M'Kinsey and Spark took
this also to M'Guinness, who promised to give £6O for
it ; but said lie should be obliged to go to London to
change it. The £6O was afterwards paid to them ; and
a division of the money took place. On the same day,
Robert M'Kinsey went to his mother's, at Liverpool,
where Margaret M'Kinsey afterwards also went. They
were both apprehended there, and the other prisoners
were apprehended in Manchester, in consequence of the
statement which Robeit M'Kinsey then made.—The
jury acquitted Walmsley, but found the other prisoners
guilty.
,Margaret M'Kinsey was sentenced to four
years' penal servitude, Sparkes to four. years' penal
servitude, 'and M‘Guinness to seven years' penal servi-
tude. The trial lasted all day.

THE HISTORIC SOCIETY or LANCASHIRE
AND CHESHIRE.

Last night, the annual general meeting of this society
was held in the Grand Jury Room, St. George's-hall,—
to receive the report of the retiring council, to receive
the treasurer's statement of accounts, and to elect officers
and sectional members of the council for the ensuing
session.

WM. BROWN, Esq., one of the vice-presidents, was
called to the chair.

Mr. J. 11. GENN, the acting secretary, read the report,
as follows :
It is the pleasing duty of the council to report, at the close
of theif year of office, that the 11th session of the so3iety's
labours has been marked by satisfactory progress, both in the
number and character of the papers submitted to the members.
These are given more or less in detail in the volume of Trans-
actions which is now nearly ready for delivery, and they con-
fidently anticipate that, like its predecessors, it will meet with
the approval of the members.
During the past year no event has occurred in relation to the
society requiring special motice ; the usual duties have all been
performed, and the accustomed intercourse with other societies
maintained. The library has also been open to members from
five to seven o'clock on the evenings of meeting.
The treasurer's balance-sheet shows that, in addition to a
balance of £lO ss. 2d. remaining over from the previous year,
the sum of £373 12s. led. had been received, and £369 Is. sd.
paid. The working expenses have remained much as usual,
and there is a balance in hand of £14165. 7d.

During the past year the council acted on the recommenda-
tion of their predecessors in submitting to the society the
names of certain defaulters, who after due notice were erased
from the roll of the society in accordance with Law XII.
They recommend that the accumulation of arrears be prevented
as much as possible, and, with that object, that Law XII be
strictly enforced. The apparent and actual revenue will then
be identical, and all arrangements for the benefit of the society
can be made with much greater definiteness.
It has been thought desirable to diminish the price of the
early volumes of the proceedings and transactions until the
stock is reduced to a limited number of copies, and the
amended scale of prices will accompany the volume about to
be issued. . _ _

The society's excursion this year was made to the town of
Bolton, and to the waterworks of t'Ae corporation of Liverpool
at Rivington Pike. A brief account of it will be found in the
appendix to volume 11.
The ballotting list required by the laws have been prepared
and forwarded. It will be noticed that the council have sug-
gested some slight changes in the honorary officers. The gen-
tlemen nominated to take the places o tho3c who retire, as
well as those named for the customary vacancies in the sec-
tions, are willing to serve if elected, and are all known as
valuable members of the society.

Mr. RYDER moved a vote of thanks to the honorary
officers for the past year, which was duly seconded and
carried.
On the motion of Mr. Samuel Hill, seconded by the
Rev. R. R. Moore, a very complimentary vote of
thanks was also passed to Mr. Joseph Mayer, for his
general services to the society, but more especially for
his gift of eight illustrations to the new volume of the
Transactions, which, it is aunotmeed, will be ready
within aJew days.

The society then proceeded to the election by ballot
of officers for the ensuing year. The following gentle-
men were elected : _ _ .

President :I—Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward
Cust, K.C.11., D.C.L., F.R.S.
Vice-Presidents Brown, Esq., Rev. J. S.
Howson, M.A., Joseph Mayer, F.S.A., &c.
Librarian :—David Buxton, F.R. S. L.
Curato r:—A. Craig Gibson, Esq.
Treasurer :—Thomas Avison, F.S.A.
Secretary :—Rev. A. Hume, D.C.L., &c.
The various sectional officers were next ballotted for,
with the following result. The council for the next
session will be constituted in the various departments,
as follows :
.Archceotogy.--J. A. Forrest, Esq. ; John G. Jacob,
Esq.; Peter It. M'Quic, Esq. ; John Robson, M.D. ;
Thomas Dawson, Esq.; Henry Gerard, Esq.
Literature.—H. A. Bright, B.A. • William Burke,
Esq. ; C. Corey, Esq. ; Rev. A. Ramsay, M.A. ; Rev.
T. Moore, M.A. ; F. W. Bloxham, Esq.
Science.—G. M. Browne, Esq. ;J. Harting), F.R.A.S. ;
T. Sansom, A.L.S. ; J. T. Towson, F.R.G.S. • Rev. H.
H. Higgins, M.A. ; Thomas Duncan, Esq., C.E.
The Rev. Dr. HUME, the formal business being over,
announced that the forthcoming volume was almost
ready. They had also for the ensuing session a very
reasonable offer of papers.
A vote of thanks to Mr. Win. Brown, as president of
the evening, was passed by acclamation ; and
The Rev. Dr. HUME then announced that they should
probably have at their next meeting a papFr from the
President of the society, on those curious animals called
chimeras, Assyrian bulls, cherubim and seraphim, &C.
The meeting then adjourned,

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RAILWAY BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.

TO THE EDITOR OPTILE NORTIVERN DAILY TIMES.
shall feel obliged if you will allow me space for
one or two remarks, in reference to the meeting held at
the Waterloo Statioulast evening, and briefly reported in
your paper of this day, and which is a matter of interest
to your railway readers.
I am reported as, saying that F had no wish that the
Benevolent Institution should take upon itself the
liabilities of the General Benefit Society. This is correct.
But it should be added that I stated this, in answer to
a question whether I proposed this course—l did not
propose it. I had no authority to propose it, or not
to propose it; nor do I even know that this Benefit
Society has any liabilities. lam not yet a member of
either institutions.
With regard to the resolution moved by me, and the
amendments, I wish to say that, if either amendment had
been brought forward as a resolution, it would have been.
carried almost, or quite unanimously, the meeting being
strongly in favour of the objects for which I proposed—.
the bringing together, in friendly conference, the
whichmanag erswaosf thethe two institutions,itohof
organisations.principal one
Respectfully yours, MARTIN SMITH.
of
Agent, G. N., and M. S. L. Cos.
45, Old Hall-street, Oct. 18, 1859.
local the