Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-09 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

CHRISTMAS CHEER.—Families residing within five
miles of Liverpool can be supplied with Burton mild
and bitter ales of the first brand, as also London stout,
in 4,9, and 18 gallon casks, by sending their orders,
or calling at T. Bolton's, family ale and porter merchant,
110, Duke-street.

SAILING OF THE AFRICA.-The British and North.
American Royal Mail Steamship Africa sailed on Satur-
day for New York. Besides the usual. mails and a
valuable cargo, she also took oat sixty passengers. '

LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY.— Return for week
ending 7th Janeary. Admitted : In-patients, 57,;
out-patients, 29 ; surgical casualties, 41. Discharged :
Cured, 14 ; Relieved, and at own request, 6 ; .made
out-patients, 5 ; irregular, 1 ; dead, 8 remain in the
house, 172. For the ensuing weekA2Visitors :' C. B.
Robinson, Esq., Richard Brook, Esq. ; Physician, Dr.
Inman ; Surgeon, Mr. Long. House Surgeon,
Mr. T. S. Walker ; Junior House Surgeon, Mr. J.
Allen ; Chaplain, Rev. Ethvgd Poole ; Robert
Hutchison, treasurer.
LIVERPOOL ACADEMY.—The following is the result of
the drawing at the Liverpool Academy on Saturday :
Robert Russell, Manchester, prize of £5 ; E. M.
Fletcher, Sefton-street, £2O; Goorge Simpson, Bedford-
street, £lO ; Charles C. Coode, £5 ; W. H. Jones,
Fenwick-street, £5 ; William Radcliff, Cook-street, £2O;
W. J. Bishop, Netherfield-road, £lO ; W. Jackson,
Worcester, £5 ; James Leathart, Newcastle-on-Tvne,
£l5 ; Charles Moore, Water-street, £25 ; N. D. Bold,
St. James-road, £l5 ; William Johnson, Rainhill, £5 ;
H. C. Tunnicliffe, Brunswick-street, £lO ; Thos. Booch,
Oldhall-street, £5; William Barry, Exchange-buildings,
£5 ; George Rennie, Waterloo Hotel, £lO ; D. Daly,
Brunswick-street, £lO. This is the last drawing in
connection with the present exhibition.
CORONER'S COURT.—The following inquests were
held in this court on Saturday, before P. F. Curry, Esq.,
coroner. On the body of Job Valentine, a labourer in
the employment of John Fletcher, coal proprietor in
Crown-street. About five weeks ago the deceased whilst
getting off some waggons that were in motion, slipped
demon, his foot being crushed by the wheels of the wag-
gon. He was immediately removed to the Southern
Hospital, when it was found necessary to amputate the
foot. The unfortunate man lingered in great pain until
Friday last, when he died. A verdict of accidental
death was returned.—Also on the bodies of six men who
were drowned by the late boat accident on the Mersey.
Their names are J. Miller, S. Wheelon, R. Sennon,
Shipley, T. Moore, J. Brown. The facts of the case are
now well known, and the evidence was substantially the
same as that which was adduced at the inquest on the body
of the first man who was found. The jury returned a
verdict of accidentally drowned, adding, that they con-
sidered it very desirable that boats should be licensed to
carry only a certain number of passengers.
NEW Scnoor, FOR TRANMERE.—In another column is
announced a bazaar which is to be held to-morrow, and
following days, at 'Birkenhead, in aid of the funds .for
erecting new national schools at Higher Tranmere,
where they are much needed. Messrs., Jeffery and
Morrish are decorating the Argyle-rooms for the purpose,
and a most extensive collection of beautiful contributions
have been made,
.not the least interesting being some
'tasteful specimens of miniature cabinet work sent by
working men in Tranmere.
THE PEOPLE'S CONCERTS—ST. GEORGE'S-HALL.—
On Siturday night another of these most deservedly
popular entertainments was given in the above-men-
tioned place. The great English soprano, Madame
Enderssohn, the celebrated Miss M. Wells, and the
eminent Belgian tenor, M. Depret, with the talented
bass, Mr. J. G. Patey, immensely delighted the very
large audience ; but of course the special attractions
consisted of Meddle. Sophie Humler, on her magical
violin, and that extraordinary drummer Corporal Wood-
house. Mr. Berger on the piano-forte, and as con-
ductor, highly merited the often-repeated pliudits
bestowed on him. Altogether we have no hesitation in
saying that these are the very best and cheapest
" People's Concerts" ever given in Liverpool.- We
were glad to see the " reserved seats" so well filled by
a very numerous and highly respectable audience.
ARRIVAL OF THE MERMAID.—We are glad to record
the announced fact that the magnificent "White Star"
clipper Mermaid, Captain White, has arrived at Auck-
land, in New Zealand. She had a pleasant and pros-
perous voyage, and landed her 349 passengers all well
and in high spirits. The whole of the passengers ex-
pressed the most lively gratitude for the kind and con-
siderate attention, which, under direction of Messrs.
H, T. Wilson and Chambers, they had experienced on
the voyage from Captain White, his officers, and crew.
The trade, particularly the passenger trade, to New
Zealand, appears to be prospering in the hands of the
enterprising firm which owns the "White Star" fleet,
and we are glad to know that their fine clipper Red
Jacket, which sails for Melbourne and Auckland in a
day or two, has already a large complement of passen-
gers and cargo.
EMPLOYERS AND THE EMPL-OYED.—One of those
happy and convivial entertainments which annually take
place between the. employers and. the employed took
place on Satuiday evening, at the Star and Garter
Hotel, Queen-square, when Messrs. Irving, Son, and
Jones entertained about sixty of their workmen to a
a most substantial supper. The supper was served up
Mr. Chalk's best style, and one of the firm presided.
Supper being over and the cloth removed, the usual
loyal' toasts were drink amid enthusiastic plaudit& Mr.
Kensington, foreman of the rice-mills, Limekiln-lane,
prop?sed as a toast The gentlemen who Compose the
firm." This was drank amyl loud cheers. Then fol-
lowed in succession "The Health of the Foreman and
the Employes," which was enthusiastically drank.
" The Health of Mr. and Mrs. Chalk, and Success to
the Star and Garter. Hotel," was also given,. and duly
responded to by Mr. Chalk. Many enlivening songs
were sung, and the clock having struck eleven, the party
broke up after giving three -hearty cers forof the
ir
employers, and wishing many " happy returns
season" to them and to each other.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The traffic returns of railways
in the United Kingdom for the week ending Dec. 31,
amounted to £465,110, And for the corresponding week
of 1858 to £425;080, showing an increase of £40,030.
The gross receipts of the eight railways having their
termmi in the metropolis amounted to £202,251, and for
the corresponding week of last year to £183,293, show-
ing an increase of £18,958. The increase on the Eastern
Counties Railway amounted to £1,823 ; on the Great
Northern Railway to £5,074 ; on the Great Western to
£1,182; on the London and North Western to £6,860;
on the London and Blatkwall to £77 ; on the London,
Brighton, and South Coast to £1,821; on the London
' and South •Western to £1;218 ; and on the South
Eastern to £903; total, £18,958. The receipts on the
other lines in the United KingdoM amounted to
£262,859; and for the corresponding week of last year
to £241,787, showing an increase of £21,072, which,
added to the increase en the metropolitan lines, makes
the total increase £40,030 as compared with the cor-
responding week of 1868.

Tii.E DINNER TO THE SCRIPTURE.
READERS' SOCIETY. •

,
The following more detailed account of the dinner to
the Scripture-readers' Society, by Mr. Radley, of the
Adelphi -Hotel, a brief notice of which appeared in our,
impression of Saturday, has been supplied by one who
was present :—Dinner was served at six o'clock, when
the chair was taken by Mr. Radley, as host of the
evening. He was supported by the Revs. T. C. Cowan,
J. Bardsley, Arthur Gore, J. W. Twist, J. J. Butler,
and J. M. Bannerman. To mention the name-of the host
is sufficiently to describe the character of' the entertain-
ment provided. It was everything that could be desired;
and full justice was done to it by the assembled
guests, the familiar Christmas dishes—turkey, fowls,
ham, roast beef, plum' pudding, &c.,. rapidly , dis-
appeared. Dessert was then placed upon the table, and
wine, as much as the guests chose to partake of. After
the usual loyal toasts,
," Prosperity to the • Adelphi
Hotel" was proposed by a Scripture Reader, who ex-
pressed in forcible, terms the sense entertained by himself
and fellow-labourers of the kind mark of sympathy and
hospitality extended to them. Mr. Radley returned
thanks. He could not lay claim to any particular merit
in the, idea which had suggested itself to him of enter-
taining the scripture readers. The idea was certainly,
original, as far as it went. It had occurred to him
that the scripture readers having an irksome and
laborious task to pursue in some of the worst quarters
of the town, deserved and demanded the countenance,
support, and sympathy of their fellow Christians at large..,
Having made enquirits of the clergy and others as to
the _nature of the work, their efficiency, and g,eneral
acceptablenes.s, he was happy. to say that he had heard
but one opinion. That opinion, he endeavoured to
embody in the entertainment he had provided.
It was his own peculiar way, and the best he could de-
vise, of wishing them a happy new year. The meeting
was afterwards addressed by the Revs. T. C. Cowan,
Bardsley, Butler, J. W. Twist, • A. Gore, J. M. Banner-
man, and several of the scripture readers, who gave most
interesting details of the work in their several spheres-
of labour. Tea and coffee were served at nine o'clock,
and the meeting soon after separated. "It has been a
jotnmitasyetoennedlutsoioon,pe'n' itthreatehyeersopoefnms oanney' "inliTue6hato
jape,
most delightful meeting," Mr. Radley was heard to say
soethyeers.
laymen of the town, both to its spiritual necessities,and
also to the great good which be done by following
the following
the example which Mr. Radley has so worthily set. -

Several of Sir W. Armstrong's guns having been.
fully proved before the Ordnance select committee, and
packed for transit by the overland route, were, on Fri-
day conveyed down the river and shipped on board the
Himalaya steam-ship, for Alexandria.
. THE WEATHER AROUND WINDERMERE.--For some
days back we have had nothing but dark, rainy, boister-
ous weather, melting the thick-laid snow of Bowfell,
Langdale Pikes, and Fairfield ; and the surrounding
rills have beconie noisy currents, the becks maddened
streams, the rivers headlong torrents, the Brathay and
the Rothay more than bank full, vieing with each ether
in rapidity, while the gully from the Pikes appears at a
distance like rolling snow, till all lose their angry im-
petitosity In the profound depths of Lake Windermere.
Its waters are now swollen to an enormous extent, cover-
ing many acres of meadow land at different places, and
affording a most magnificent sight from any elevated
position.— Westmoreland Gazette. •
Sir Henry Havelock writes to the Times contradict-
ing the statement that the long delay which has taken
place in. the erection of a monument to the late General
Havelock, in India, 4as arisen from the negligence of
Major Crommelin, chief engineer in Oude. Sir Henry
says the' responsibility of the delay rests entirely wit
himself, and that the causes are of a purely private
nature. He adds, " I will not intrude the causes on
you,
content,
as I am, to await with confidence the
knowledge
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DARING ROBBERY AT A :BOND W.A.REHOUSE.—OR
Friday morning it was discovered that a robbery,
accompanied by all the indications of the utmost delibe-
ration in its, perpetrators, had been "committed during
the preceding night in Stokes's bond warehouse, in the
Close. The custom-house officers, on going to the
warehouse about eight in the morning, discovered that
the Queen's and merchants' locks had been forcibly
wrenched, and on entering the building found a number
of tea-chest cards scattered about the floor. it was
sufficiently evident that thieyes had been at work; and
on a search being made, suspicion was abundantly con-
firmed by the discovery that tea to the value of
from £3O to £4O had been abstracted. The article
appeared to have been transferred from the chests to
sacks for convenience of transport, and the thieves, on
leaving the premises, would appear to have taken their
way by the long stairs, as a large quantity of the tea was
discovered in a court adjoining these stairsrwhere it had
probably been thrown by the depredators on some sudden
alarm. The premises in which the robbery was com-
mitted are adjacefit to a large court which opens into
the Close by one gate and the river side by another,
which is on the property occupied by Hoyle, Robson,
and Co. This latter gate, it appears, has been allowed
to get so much out of repair, that it might as well be
wanting, and thus the thieves, approaching from the
river, had no difficulty in effecting an entrance to the
yard.—Northern Daily Express._ .
MURDER, AND. ATTEMPT AT WHOLESALE BLIUGH-
TER.—A young man named Joseph Webb, a notorious
fighter, was at work for William Kear, of the Cherry
Orchard Cider-house, Lower-means, St. Briavels, Glou-
cestershire, on Wednesday, and during the day drank
four pints of cider. He was .no doubt slightly affected
with the drink, but he was not drunk. In the afternoon
he commenced a (inane]. with Mr. Kear's boy, who is
about twelve years old, and threatened to strike him
with his spade. Some one told him not to strike the
child, and he then flew into a violent passion, and com-
menced an outrageous assault on all who remained, but
several, knowing him to be a most desperate character,
ran away. During the onslaught he struck a man named
John Hughes, inflicting two large wounds on his
head of which Hughes died the same night, Jane
Howells received a severe cut on the forehead, and
the flesh fell over her -eyes ; Ann, the wife of William
Bear, had a severe cut on the head and other injuries ;
'Richard Km?, father of William Kear, had his arm
broken and received a severe wound on the head;
Esther, daughter of William Bear' had her shoulder
dislocated ; the child, who was first attacked, receiyed
some injuries ; and• the desperado threw a stone at
William Kear with Pucl force, that had he not avoided
it, he too would have been seriously injured. While
Webb was committing these outrages none of the parties
could close up with him' and, as an illustration of the'
desperation with Which he carried out the attack, we
may mention that the spade which he used was broken,
and the iron bent in several directions. He was appre-
hended the saihe evening by Police-constable Lord, but
not without offering violent resistance. The inquest on
the body of the deceased was held'on SaturdaV.
A NEW ELECTRIC PILE.—A curious combination of
elements for a galvanic pile has just been communicated
to the French Academy of Sciences by M. Marie Davy..
It had hitherto been believed that, in order to obtain a
regular and powerful current, the ,substance intended to
absorb the hydrogen and to furnish the zinc with the acid
which is to dissolve it, must be soluble also.' M. Marie
Davy shows that this need not be the case, and that it is
only requisite that the substance in question be a kood con-
ductor and reducible at the same time. With, this view
he selects sulphate and chloride of lead, the former
being quite insoluble in water, and' the latter nearly
so. Sulphate of lead is not much used in manufac-
tures, and yet is produced on a large scare for the pre-
paration of the acetate of alumina, which is used in dye-
ing. Hence, it may be had cheap.. Now, 33 kilogram-
mes of zinc, costing 25fr.rwill reduce in the pile 144
kilogrammes of sulphate of lead, and' thus produce 104
kilogrammes of lead, value 65fr.' There is; therefore, a
difference of 40fr., which will nearly cover the cost of the
• sulphate, so that the expense of this pile would be very
inconsiderable. Its electro-motive power is not inferior to
that of Daniel's battery. Chloride of lead is dearer than
the sulphate, but is preferable in other respects, being a
'conductor, and yielding a Much stronger current. The
arrangement of M: Davy's pile, is the primitive one
in columns. Every element consists of a tinned' iron
dish, having a dish 'of zinc soldered to the bottom out-
side; the inside is covered with a coating of sulphate of
lead of the thickness of several millimetres. When in
use, each dish is filled with water, its zinc bottom being
immersed in the water of the dish immediately below.
A column composed of forty elements thus disposed will
form a column of about one, metre in height. When
the chloride is to he used instead of the sulphate, it
should be previously cast into thin lamina!, and then
broken into fragments, by which means the cleaning of
the pile is easier to effect. A pile of,this description is
actually in use at the Central Telegraph-office, and has
been in operation since the 9th.

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