Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-17 00:00:00

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~ssiottersi and ether. gentlemen.
to the Commissioners, was
deputed to present the testituonial;;- and, in doing so; he
alluded to the fact of sir. Golborne having been a can
missionr? since the , year 18.48, during the. -whole of
Which' time, by straightforward and gentlemanly.,
,nduct, he had. wen the affections and esteem of all
'c With whom Ise had been- assoeiked. In 1848,,
Golborne first became a, commisioner, the
dancial- c.ondition of the township was at its lowest
ebb, but- he . had stuck to it, and struggled
along with it througia all' its- diffieultks; and it
was only now ; when, after the _ ardnkns exertions,
those difiiculiies had been overcome,- that Mr: Golborne
had left the- fort-e. He regretted the circumstances
which had competed Mr.
.Golijorne to resign '
and conclatkrr mr,.

presenting

the testim,

office,
th(

expression a-FM; TiP s t wishes, oix his-own behalf
commissicineri, for t

-on_the Rarr of t

heath and

long life'a Ifil.G-ollorne and his family.
The-testinzOniai Trove the following inset..
" Presented : tt), Tkoinias Boydefl Golborne;,
officers and employe-ay of tb e B'rkenhead In
Commissioners, as, a token of r36peet on lii-retimment

from the bJarci
Mr. GOLBO

ing; term

serving of th.€
towards
monr of their.

'mowleg,medthe compliment iE
that he felt wnc

:ompliment tvhii haaNbeeicmaniiisTeet
le thanked. the= all for the .kind
aped, *hiell was-evinced ni the

monial just preented to him

_ —Atbers..of the police-fotre,-:-huviiig..-.'
neen chairman of the Lighting and Watch Gommikee,
period. they-.all knew. he MS- a,
.nan of few wortrs--,:.130at his heart_ was in the right:
He thanked. thom,from the bottom of his heert:for the:
handsOme piece of plate with vtitinh they hed*resentadi

ze thanlec} the• mm

for a lengthene

THE BRITISH ASSADCIATIO:

. The Thurstlar,A proceedings of. the great mectii of
this association.atAherdeen, NvEre a-s

1. Sectional. Meetings
2. Archaeological, Photographies, and Hortieldturall E
hibitions; Pttblic InstituEOns,..l4lanufaetories,.
3. Conversazione.,(lllusie-hall),. iu.,Evening Dress,. .

The following, gentlemen were elected presidents and
secretaries of the carious sec`
Section A. —Mathematic
President : the Earl; of Rosa Secretai
elly, H. J. s`. Smith, Esq.; J. P. HCILUSW, ES(
Professor• Maxwell

and Physiaal. Science:
Prolessor

Section D.—Chemical Science. President: Dr. Lyon
Playfaii. Secretaries : Dr., Gladstone, Dr. Ming; G.
D. Liveing, M.A., J. S. Brazier, Esq.
Section C.--. Geology. President : Six:Charles ',jell.
Secretaries : Professor Harkness, H. C.: Sorby,
Rev.: Dr.. Longmuir.

Section auaotany, including Physiology.
President : Sir 'W. Jardine,,Bart. Secretatie,s Dr. Lan-
kester, Professor Dickie, Dr. Ogilvio, Secretary for
Sub-section of Physiology : Dr. Redtrn.

Section E.--Geography arid Ethnology.. President :
Rear-Admiral Sir J, C, Ross, Secretaries : Dr. Norton
Shaw, Dr. Cull, Professor Geddes.

Section P.—Economic Science and-Statistics. Presi-
dent : Colonel Sykes, M.P. Scoretarie.: .➢r. Strang,
11. A. Smith, Esq.

Section G.—Mechanical Science. President: Robert
Stephenson, Esq., M.P. Secretaries: H. Wright, Esq.,
Peter Le Nave Foster, Esq., R. Abernethy, Esq.
The General Treasurer's report, read at the meeting
on Wednesday evening, stated that there was a balance
at the commencement of last year's meeting at Leeds of
£238 13s. 3d., the whole money available after the Leeds
meeting having been £2,.62.7 17s. Bd. The grants for
the year amounted to £142.75. The maintenance of Xew
Establishment amounted to MOO, and a like sunk had
been invested in the Three per Cent. Consols. The
balance at present, after expending several "small_ sums,
was £199 7s. led,

._ At the conclusion of the Prince Consert'a opening
address on Wednesday evening, the Lord Provost
made the formal request for permission to have it
printed and published ; to -which Professor Phillips
replied,—l am, by permission of his Royal Highness,
enabled to state to you, that your wish that the address
to which we have listened with so much gratification
printed, is printed--(cheers and laughter)—
and that there are copies, not enough certainly to gratify
on this occasion the just desire of all who are here
assembled ; but, though we are able to distribute to-
night, by permission of his Royal Highness, a thousand
copies, we hope to be able to distribute in a few days at
least another thousand copies, and yet another ; but on
the present occasion, we will first give to the members
of the press as many copies as will gratify their just
expectations. (Cheers and laughter.)
His Royal Highness's admirable address, therefore,
has already obtained an extensive circulation.

HOUSEKEEPERS.--The Coffee sold by Thompson
Brothers, 5, Elliott-street, at ls. 4d., is better than you
pay ls. Bd. for at any other establishment.
LORD SANDON ON PUBLIC AFPAIRS,—Lord Sandon
was present at the annual dinner of the Staffordshire
Agricultural Society on Wednesday. In the course of
one of his speeches, his lordship spoke of the impor-
tance of co-operation between class and class. It was, he
said, of vast importance at the present day, because there
were some who said they wanted great and important
changes, and that the country was in so sickly a condition
that they must alter many of those ancient forms under
which they had flourished and grown up. He did not intend
to pronounce any opinion upon that subject, but when
he went to the cottage of the labourer and found him
better housed, better clad and fed, and with better
prrsapaedri tsy
fur-
niture in his dwelling ; when he went to our towns and
signssoafwhatandesianmneumahearpablferaata,of
and broad
trienettshpwincrease
looked outside these towns and saw beautiful; when
and
gardens of great beauty springing up on every
side ; and when he regarded the strike which
now existed in the metropolis of this country,
and saw how the men were behaving with a
moderation worthy of those much above them ; when
he saw such things as these, could he for a moment
believe, as some one would have them believe, that the
whole constitution of the country was rotten ? (Loud
cheers.) Were these the signs of a falling State, when_
everything and every class of society seemed to have
improved materially and morally ? (Cheers.) He
would not pursue the subject, although it was one that
forced itself upon them every time they met on such
occasions as that ; because they, as Englishmen, were
bound together by the closest links of friendship and
mutual interest. (Cheers.)