Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-15 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. —The examination at this in-
stitution takes place during this week. The distribution of
prizes will be on Friday.
LIVERPOOL INSTITUTE.—The annual examinatition of the
pupils of this institute opens to-day, and will be continued
during to-morrow. The meeting for the distribution of
honours will be held to-morrow evening.
LIVERPOOL. —STAR HOTEL. —This place of amusement
has been enlarged and re-decorated, and now forms one of
the prettiest rooms in Liverpool. Harry .Tennirig,s's comic
singing is very amusing. Business good. See Era, of
Saturday.

INSPECTOR OF POLlCE.—Colonel Woodford, the govern-
ment Inspector of police, will arrive here to-day, and will
inspect a portion of the local force at two o'clock, at Rose-
hill-station, and on Thursday, at one o'clock, he will inspect
the remainder of the men at Islington-barracks.
CANADIAN MAILS.—The screw-steamer' Nova Scotian
will sail this day, with the weekly Canadian mails, and
about 200 passengers. The box at the Post-office will
close at 8.45, a.m., and finally at 9.15. The Receiving-
house on the Landing-stage will be open until the departure
of the steamer.

THE RIVER STEAMERS.—During Sunday, Monday, and
yesterday, the river steamers were completely crowded by
pleasure seekers, and the different ferrys must have shown a

very great increase in their traffic returns. The steamers
to the Floating-Light, and different parts of Wales, were
also well patronised.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.-During the holidays, Mr. Atkins
has produced several new and attractive matters at the
gardens, and the public fully appreciate the attention, for
the gardens a, e full every evening with delighted audiences.
Visitors to town will find amusement and instruction at this
delightful promenade, as there are day as well as evening
fetes, all managed in the best manner, and reflects credit
on the proprietor, as well as affording satisfaction to every-
one.

LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.—Number of patients during
the past week : New eases received advice and medicine at
'the Institution : North, 277 ; South, 177 ; total, 454. New
cases visited at their own houses and supplied with
medicine : North, 87 ; South, 70 ; total, 157. Grand
total, 611. President : Rev. Rector Campbell, A.M. ;
Vice-President of North Dispensary : Captain Bourne ;
Vice-President of South Dispensary : Mr. Charles Booth ;
Treasurer : Mr. Francis Mill ; Secretary : Mr. J. Whitby
Williams. Office Leith Offices, Moorfields.

BYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, 126, top of Mount
Pleasant.—Weekly Report.—Eye Department : New
patients admitted in the week ending June 11th,
96 ; patients prescribed for, and who ye received
surgical assistance, 381. Ear Department : New
patients admitted in the week ending June 11th,
42; patients prescribed for, and who have received sur-
gical assistance, 131. Consulting Surgeon : Hugh
'Neill, Esq. Surgeons : John Poole, Esq., Dr. R. Hibbert
Taylor, and Dr. Nevins. Assistant-surgeon : T. Bickerton,
Esq. Treasurer : J. G. Livingston, Esq.
BIRKENHEAD POLICE COURT. —Yesterday, a great
number of drunk and disorderly cases were before the
magistrates, but none of them possess any feature of interest.
Several professional pick-pockets, whose operations were
watched by the police at the Tranmere Wakes, were sent to
prison for various periods, and a fellow named Roberts, was
sent 'to the sessions on a charge of stealing a watch out of
one of the bedrooms of the Tranmere Hotel. Susan. Grey
was charged with stabbing a woman the previous evenine,c,
at the Woodside-ferry. The parties quarrelled and fought,
during which the woman Grey stabbed the other with a
knife. The injured woman, whose name is M'Mahon, was
taken to the Birkenhead Hospital. She was not able to
attend at the Police-court yesterday, and the hearing of the
case was adjourned. _

ACCIDENTAL DEATHS.—George Macay, a child five years
old, whose parents live in Cross Eldon-street, was killed by
the wheel of a cart running ovdr him. At the moment the
cart was put in motion, the child caught hold of the wheel
and was thrown down, and the wheel passing over it, killed
the poor thing on the spot.—Anne Roberts, 90 years of age,
who lived at 5, Ellesmere-street, Fairclough-lane, fell down
stairs, two or three days since, and died yesterday, from the
effects of the injuries she reoeived.—An old man, named
Sullivan, who lived at ; Roger-street, was engaged in
watching some premises ;:n Devonshire-place, Evertor*, he
fell asleep at a winder'', and. whilst so, he fell out of the
windnyf oncl wqs kißed.—ElizabetlA Ostkes, whq 1494 111
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court off Whitley-street, fell down stairs and fractured 115
skull, from the effects of which she died yesterday. It
stated that she was much addicted to drinking. Inquests
will be held in the above cases, by_ the Coroner, this day.
THE OLD SWAN RlOTERS.—Yesterday, at the Count/
Magistrates Court, the whole of the depositions in these,
cases were formally read :over. to the_ parties accused, an

bail offered and accepted in each case. -
VISITORS Is Tow N.— busing the past day or two, vari°l S
excursion trains have arrived in Liveol, freiotted
great numbers of our country cousins whi seem
themselves with no little relish, both in town and on toe
About 15,000 persons arrived here during McmdaY

and Tuesday.
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Tows NUISANEE.—In another column we
copy of a memorial, to be presented to the health l,
We
mittee, touching a nuisance in Great Howard-street, have
understand the parties presenting this memorial d s
already had several interviews with the authorities, al°8!
ot
prosecution will probably be instituted, providing 0,1
medical testimony is obtained to substantiate the matte
there set forth. the
It is a well known maxim that "time is money''-'We
terms are relative ;so to save one is to save the other. ood
save both time, and economise patience, and present g4i..
tempers, when we have a good PEN—a bad one upsets P 0
enee and temper. Preserve all, then, by purchasing ,Pie,
steel pens and other stationery, at E. T. Hall's
sale steel pen warehouse. 23, outh John-street.
p
oho
Gillott's, Thomas Lowe's, G. W. Hughes, and other ins4e'd
dens at is per gross. Good Pen Holders' 2d per dozen-
Mr. C. P. MellY. of Liverpool writes to a coteron
rary :—" Observing that a paragraph is making the resolloo
c.)f the papers, in which it is stated that-I have spent X 2,
the. erection of public drinking fountains, I shall be mu s
obliged to you if yon will allow me, through your CO
to contradict this report, and to state that the forty four to
to
I have erected here, together with the few I have se,F:hat
other towns, have not cost me more than one-fourth 0.1
sum. My reason for troubling you on the subject is not
merely to disclaim a liberality to which I can mate Relic

tension, but because I think it important that the
should know that the expense' of erecting granite drilliolci
fountains, of plain but useful designs, is really very 111

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less than might be otherwise supposed.—Express. oh Jill
FALL OF A HousE IN EVERTON. —Last evening, 5
after seven o'clock, the foundations of the house

Egerton, gave way

No. 5, Gregson-terrae(
portion of the gable, abuttin

round betiCe,e
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Duckworth-street, and Gregion-street
the house in question was left by the tenant, 3.e'
morning (Mrs. Blackwood), particularly so, as the Pc),,r
of the house which has given way was connected with
kitchen and lower rooms of the house, where cookiliff,

general household requirements are usi
At the time of the catastrophe, a laboure

ET being c

was engaged in wheeling a;vap some clay, the accain.

of sortie excavations, making fo'r the purpose of erecting
buildings on the Duckworth-street side, when just

him he observed the gable wall to bulge." an" .cart
barely time to get out of the way before the untl it,
gave way with a fearful crash. The was

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question is the evening resort for ainusemen6 tter
the youth of the neighbourhood, and it is a ma boob
satisfaction that they were all. "out of range," alt
hundredi were playing about. The occupants th!fazeljeat

. .
bouring houses in Gregson-terrace were'in a
state 01 Fos,
trepidation, lest the catastrophe should reach to tb•t
doors. Inspector Penlington, with officer 7

early on the spot, and took 'the neces

ry Precauti°Ps

m the Surveil

the of die puic. Mr. Hunter, . 01'
Office,safety was also in prompt attendance, and, after a siir„osa
,
the premises, deemed it quite critical, and unsafe for u;falls
life, to attempt to temporarily strengthen it, as the
givehave given way in several places, and any attempttrkei,
them strength by "groping" them might, and
the artier to
would, pull down the entire of the building upon •Alt
operating. A good watch was kept during the ince $
keep parties off the ground in the vicinity ; as, bernil
waste, it has been resorted to as a bye-road, and etist°'6oo
used. The property in question belongs to Mr.
Roberts, of Radcliffe-street, Everton, he was present shor
after the disaster, rendering every assistance in his le.'
EDUCATION OF YOUTHS FOR THE MERCHANT SEaSI-eged
Of all the maritime nations, none can be so deePlYiintLeitz-best,
in all that tends to develope the best energies and ono
qualities of those who are hereafter to officer and eoni;ell,
her magnificent ships as England. It would be rope
then, did the public show a direct interest in the iolP;bers
went of our merchant service, to the skill of whose to,en'such
is committed lives innumerable, and property en fool,
immense value. To the profession in liv,eloage
assisted by her most eminent shipowners, 'e its
most
the credit of initiating an institution having fo.rh no
object the preparing of youths for the career than w11,1c„00-
other embraces so high and so varied an amount of L'iate
ledge. Even in its narrowest limits there is an a u—olny,
necessity for an acquaintance with geography, estlsoo
mathematics to a certain point, the law of storms, an t.itios
insight into mercantile law—while increasing c°lnP„editioa
has made a higher standard of acquirements *the eon •11 be
of success in the profession. In another column wihael-
found all the information required respecting whichse boa
frigate Conway, now lying in the Mersey, and hee
h ve
been established for the above purpose. itherto lads have
unable to receive a fitting education, from tue
early age at which it has been thought necessary WI sea
the
to sea. This bar is happily needless. is 0114 A tbe
imposed, and in ridding ourselves of it we renov-vety
greatest difficulty in the way of obtaining for the future aroper
superior class of. officers. None can deny that the Piot
conduct and efficient management of our large wertcseera
ships demand as good seamanship and as cultivated :° line;
as the Royal Navy, with a thorough system of disci') feil
but actual education on board them, with soar board
honourable exceptions, is a pure myth. The lads on such
make voyage after voyage, and are permitted to obtain best
an empirical smattering of their profession
can, and the result is seen in the number of gold-1190,
young gentlemen lounging around ours docks and w 3 I
our streets, their attainments confined to the • ,iciPa
taking a " tally," and their accomplishments to the sra bat
an unlimited number of cigars. It is a startling fact'tioll
one well ascertained, that of all the lads of good conne?ears,
who have entered on a sea life, darin, the last fifteen 3tid a
very few have risen in their profession to eonlsl:43ece
ship. This can only be explained by the ciretrol "t a
withot to
that the lads have entered upon a sea life
as they dea

power u►

s duties. It behoves r-- who:—
guard against such a result for those of their children' it is
tastes may lead them to adopt the sailor's career ; an for
to such institutions as the Conway they must look to
different order of things in the future. We hoPe hers
school-frigate will be the forerunner and model of °too,
to be established in each large port of the United 10Ig

THE FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY vast'
ST. GEORGE'S HALL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—Your quotations, this morning, from the " circula'„l
of the Festival Choral Society, announcing their reas?iPte
of changing from St. George's Hall to the Collegn
Institute, no doubt appear to the public as /e,./1.
amusing,—something like " sour g P S." Its ye"
like a person having
and then wanting them gfoorodlolsveerrraitrs:
reduction is refused, they are discarded, and a bad nan!et
given. Certainly the logic of the " circular" is the
sefbut because
or some tireef
original that I ever read. The society admits the "
wish to attend concerts at St. George's-hall," and surely
this there is nothing very wonderful, but indeed a lee dl
laudable desire ; then they say that they " const.rucrattion
spacious orchestra," but they never took into conside
whether their " spacious orchestra," and the Pnsi not
in which their solo singers were placed, did
injure the sound to the audience, and tend rather to, the
detriment of the " acoustic defects" of the building. ."6"00.
the " beauty and magnificence " of the hall, there lsa to,
question whatever that there is not a building in Engian
be compared to it, either for one or the other. 01!
But the fact is, the Festival Choral Society have,ne.
discovered all this when their expenses exceed their in,,r the
I think, rather, the society should consider whether it its
nature of their own productions, or the " acoustic del's°
of the hall that has been the cause of it. -ate,
However,, there is one thing quite certain, Mr- for
that the Festival Choral Society of Liverpool will n0t1...t,
the future, whatever they may have been in years e's
be looked upon as THE Sir Oracle, either as to St Georg-.
Hall, or as to what will satisfy public taste.—Yours, e(x"'
Liverpool, Tuesday, June 14, 1859.

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LIVERPOOL FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY'S 60th The
FORMANCE AT THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.. ;ate
" Creation" was performed last night, at the Colleg'ol
Institution, as we announced yesterday, by the Thorp d,
Festival Choral Society, assisted by Mrs. Sunderlol3_oo
Mons. Napoleon Nono, and Mr. E. Cuzner. Mr. AmbrYst,
Lee, leader. Mr. Charles W. Smith was the org,foliest
and Mr. James Sanders conducted, with very g;.9,6
ability. The choruses had decidedly the adl3,,ni.
over the solo singers ; perhaps some of this inigThice
the result
of the hall in which the
took place being so dilTerent from St. George's they
in which the singers were accustomed to sin&'•
more
improved as the evening advanced, either from beiM Too
aware of the peouliarities of the building, o,l`
warming up to their work. The boxes werebly
filled; bkt the body was thinly atteß44, perfor

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SECOND EDITION.

NORTHERN TIMES OFFICE, WEDNESDAY, 9 A.M.