Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-12 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

ACCIDENT TO A PORTUGAL STRAMER.—The screw steamer
Miuho, from Liverpool for Oporto, has put into Queenstown
with machinery damaged.
ACCIDENT TO THE GALWAY STEAMER PRINCE ALBERT.—
This screw steamer, which sailed from Galway for New
York, on Saturday morning, with 370 passengers, put back
to Galway yesterday forenoon, making water.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT TRANMERE. —At the Birkenhead
Police-court, yesterday, Patrick M'Dermot and James
M'Keon were charged with robbing Patrick Lynch of
£7 Os 6d on the beach at Tranmere, on Monday last. The
prisoners were remanded.
NARROW ESCAPE.—On Saturday evening, a mechanic's
wife was visiting Wombwell's managerie, now in Birken-
head, and went rather close to the lion's den, when the
animal made a slight blow at her, and tore a large portion
of the front of her dress.
ROBBERY AT BROMBOROUGH Howick was
brought up at the Birkenhead Police Court, yesterday,
charged with stealing two boxes of wax candles from
Price's Patent Candle Company's Works, Bromborough
Pool. He was remanded.
ELECTION OF GUARDIANS FOR THE TOWNSHIP OF TRAN-
MERE.—The scrutiny of the voting papers connected with
the above was finished yesterday, and the following gentle-
men have been returned :—Messrs. E. S. Willoughby,
Thomas Evans, J. Highton, and S. Reeves.
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SUDDEN DEATH.—On Sunday, Thomas Dobson, 36 years
of age, a boarding-house keeper, living at 6, olf-street,
died suddenly. It appears that he had been drinking freely
on Saturday, and it is supposed that this caused his death.
An inquest will be held on the body to-day.
DEATH PROM )3URNlNG.—Yesterday, Patrick Grant, who
lived at 1, New Hall-street, died in the Southern Hospital.
On the 24th of last mouth he was on board the ship
Evangaline, and fell into a fire there. He was very much
burnt, and remained in the hospital until he died. An in-
quest will be held this day on the body. _

DEATTI OF AN OLD LIVERPOOL OFFlClAL.—Yesterday
morning, John D. Case, Esq., at one time treasurer to the Liver-
pool Corporation, and recently a magistrate for the county of
Chester, died at his residence, Poulton-hey, Bebbington,
Cheshire, at an advanced age. Mr. Case discharged the
duties of corporation treasurer, in this town, with th great-
est satisfaction to his employers, and the public generally,
and his conduct on the bench has notbeen surpasd by any
of his-late coadjutors.

CHARGE AGAINST A TAX COLLECTOR. Yesterday, at
the second police-court, before Messrs. Chilton and C.
Turner, Henry Roberts, a tax collqctor, was summoned by
the authorities of the select vestry, on two charges; one for
not having accounted for the money collected by him, in his
capacity as collector, and the other for not having delivered
up the money he had collected. Mr. Bremner appeared for
the defendant, who was not present, and asked for a post-
ponement of the case, but it was refused, and a warrant was
issued for the arrest of Mr. Roberts.

LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.—Number of patients during
the past week : New cases received advice and medicine at
the Institution : North, 238 ; South, 166 ; total, 404. New
cases visited at their own . houses and supplied with
medicine : North, 85 ; South, 61;
.total, 144. Grand
total, 550. 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.
Ldss or A STEAMEIL—The total loss of the Preston
steamer, from Bordeaux, with a valuable cargo, is reported.
She was making her way up the St. George's Channel for
the Mersey, when she struck on a reef a few miles the east-
ward of the South Stack. The ship rapidly filled, her hull
having been rent open by her working on the reef., In
half-an-hour or so the funnel and masts went, and the ill-
fated vessel broke in two, and for miles the beach was
strewed with her cargo. The loss will involve a consider-
ame sum. She is reported to have been insured.
EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, 126, top of Mount
Pleasant.—Weekly Report.—Eye Department : New
patients admitted in the week' ending April 9th,
100 ; patients prescribed for, and who have received
surgical- assistance, 410. Ear Department : New
patients admitted in the week ending April 9th,
30 ; patients prescribed for, and who have received sur-
giCal assistance, 129. Consultinc, Surgeon : Hugh
Neill, Esq. Surgeons : John Poole, Esq., Dr. R. Hibbert
Taylor, and Dr. Nevins. Assistant-Surgeon : Thomas
Bickerton, Esq. Treasurer : J. G. Livingston, Esq.
SERIOUS CHARGE OF ASSAULT IN THE RIVER —Yester-
day, two young men, dock labourers by trade, were brought
up at the Birkenhead police-court before S. B. Jackson,
Esq., M.P., charged with assaulting, beating, and wounding
Thomas Purdie, cook on board the Manhattan, lying in the
river, and inflicting upon him grievous bodily harm on
Thursday last. The wounded man is lying in the Birken-

head HOSpital, and yesterday a certificate Was received from
the surgeon, stating that he was not able to be removed

to the police-court-for the purpose of giving evidence. The
inquiry was accordingly remanded until Thursday next.
The names of the two men in custody are William Harpin
and Thomas Corrigan.
WATER ComnirrEE.—The weekly meeting of the water
committee was held yesterday. T. L. Hodson Esq., chair-
man, presiding ; the other members present were—Messrs.
Wagstaff, Farnworth, Rae, Vernon, Riley, Crellin, Earle,
Woodruff, and Bennett. From the engineer's report it
appeared that the quantity of water received from Riving-
ton, in the week ending April 9th, was 52,834,474 gallons,
from the wells 31,929,559 gallons ; proportion of Rivington
to well water as 52 to 31. The state of the reservoirs was
as follow :—Roddlesworth, fall, 1 foot 3 inches ; Anglerark,
fall, 6+ inches ; Rivington, fall, 21 inches The leak at
the Millstone-goit continued as before. There was no
other business.before the committee.
Ma. MASON JONES, To-NIGHT.—We have only space
to call attention to the fact, that Mr. Mason Jones delivers
the opening lecture of his present course, in Hope Hall,
to-night. The subject is, " The Life and the Genius of
Henry Grattan." No-reader needs to be told that Henry
Grattan formed the central figure in a space of Irish
history, the most important in its events, and the most

fruitful in genius. Mr. .Tones will find a 'congenial theme
for admiration and for eloquent eulogy in the manly
character and the deep, strong thinking, and forceful oratory
of Grattan. This is one of the lectures which stirred up so
much sensation among even fashionable and West-end
audiences in London ; and it can hardly fail to meet with
full appreciation in ..Liverpool.
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HOPE HALL LECTURES. -Yesterday evening, this popular
hall was filled by . a large and respectable audience, in conse-
quence of it having been previously announced that the Rev.
G. K. Lewis, of Bayswater, London, was to deliver
a lecture on the " Pilgrim's Progress, illustrated."
The Reverend Hugh Stowell Brown occupied
the chair. The object which the lecturer seemed to
have in view was to embrace the whole of the
matter contained in the somewhat tedious volume
which formed the title of his subject into a lecture.
The illustrations consisted of dissolving views, and
brought before the minds of the audience in a very
foroible manner what the lecturer intended to convey.
Such lectures as the one delivered by Mr. Lewis last night,
are calculated to make a deep impression on the minds of
an audience.

BOAT ACCIDENT IN THE MERSEY. —GA LLANT CONDUCT.
--THREE LIVES SAVED.—On Saturday afternoon last, be-
tween two and three o'clock, three youths, named Walter
Holden, of Egremont ; Dennis Ryan, and Thomas Jones,
of Seacombe, were sculling a small punt close to the Sea-
combe Ferry stage, when, from some cause or other, the
punt upset, precipitating all three into the river. A young
man, named Roger Fishwick, who was standing on the
north end of the river wall at Seacombe at the time of the
accident, descended the wall by means of a rope, into a
boat which was moored thereto, and put off to where the
youths were struggling for life, and gallantly succeeded in
rescuing all three from drowning. The promptness and
intrepidity of Fishwick are beyond all praise, and his
gallant conduct was the admiration of hundreds of persons
who witnessed the accident and the rescue. These make in
all eleven lives he has saved from a watery grave.
THE AMPHITHEATRE.—Mr. M'Kean Buchanan made his
appearance at this theatre last night for the first time, in
the character of Hamlet. Mr. Buchanan received, during
his recent performances in London, no inconsiderable share
of critical eulogism. We are compelled to say that we can-
not eeho the praises. Mr. Buchanan is yet very
far away from that degree, even of cultivation in
his profession, which with any character of natural
ability can render an attempt at Hamlet successful.
Monotony was the general tone of the performance ;
the only relief being an occasional burst of heavily-marked
and unshaded vehemence. Some passages were repeated
with intelligence and good expression, but these were not
sufficient to compensate for the general sense of deficiency,
and even of more positive defects. The " grave scene," in
particular, we thought heavy and inert, where it should be
full of force and passion ; vehement where pathos should
have been the prevailing emotion. The audience was not
large, and was not enthusiastic.

MR. HART'S MAGIC AND MYSTERY AT HER MAJESTY'S
CONCERT-ROOM, HANOVER-SQUARE.—We have lately seen
the London press teeming with notices respecting the per-
formance of a young magician, who, front what we can
understand, far outshines all competitors, either English or
foreign, that has ever appeared in England, and who, we
also hear, is a fellow townsman of ours, and intends shortly
to appear in Liverpool. We extract the following from the
Standard and Morning Herald, March 24, 1859:—" That
Mr. Hart is a perfect master of magic and mystery no one
who has seen him can doubt ; and the clever manner in
which he performed several astonishing feats during the
evening, more especially that of the column and glove,'
brought down shouts of applause. Having seen so much of
the mysterious' in days gone by, from Monsieur Philipe,

we must co;ifece6s, ;o,Bti
Mr. Jacobs Jacobs, Mr. Anderson, and others,
those professors, but we .w
anticipated somewhat of a repetition of the magical 1"
finding that Professor. Hart had chalked out for th, e r
tertainment of his audiences an original path, and WO augur
for him a decided and deserved success.' r ibis'
ere agreeably disappoint
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finding
COMMITTEE.—The fortnightly meetings An,
committee was held yesterday in the Town Hall; MJ°l',.
son, chairman of the committee, presided ; and the. '
members present, were—Messrs. Woodruff, S red
Holden, Ridley, and Haydock. Mr. Woodruff renal:,
that, in consequence of the resignation of some meal The
they did not now require so many to form a Tornio.
serve
Town-clerk :No • the -committee now consists 'as
members. Mr. golden asked how it happened that.lo4
numbers of the committee were increase at their Teri
appointment ? He considered a large committee a_ A
objectionable thing in many respects. The Chairinr,st
the number might possibly be allowed to re ben guar cod"
the future. Mr. Holden hoped that would 50- eke%
plaint was heard against a tenant of one of the
In
roof
named Priddon, of having used coarse and iniP biol•
language to a female who was purchasing mutton fremssioss,
The tenant did not deny that he had used the eire,ifing
but stated that he was provoked by the purchaser jerell
him great trouble at a very busy moment. lie missssbite
reprimanded, and told that in the event of a si 001
being proved against him, the forfeiture of the t rot
would follow. A resolution of the council
requesting the several committees to furnish sca'sient °f
the accommodation they would require in the 0%10! dot
offices. The Town-clerk was directed to rePlY,.statiereliggi,
the commitee would. require a room for their Illubile.
1 There was no other business of any interest to the Pv „She
" ADAM AND EVE," BY CLAUDE MARIE Dicn,tl-;,d the
remarkable illustration of the " Temptation l'ot on
at pose lace,
" Fall," painted by Dubufe in 1857, are
exhibition, in the Academy Rooms, Old post-offlelterisl
Church-street. These pictures differ in ra3ll !nes, bc
points from the original " Adam and. Eve '' peieetibFbite
isDubufe ; indeed, the subject of the second, o°`,ll the tire
. altogether different from that of the secjil- e mailer
originally produced. Those .OOl are 5 ad
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womanhood—fair, bright, but not voluptn.llLtvillici
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the least skilful—perhaps the only unskilful cp-ori°l/ei°l.
tahree picture. Perhaps both the scenes have bee.eucsre .t
dently painted with a view to exhibition effects' '-,oritrlsi
many points too fancifully charged with elaboratli :11., ifi4
ing and theatre features. This peculiarity, helelosbteu:;(
takes away from theirmerely artiatic value, will an t-boti:feD
add to their attractiveness in the eyes of a ca3'fitif_.:lll,-0
spectators. Of their kind, and for the purp'eAiele
they aim, it would be difficult to imagine pictures 7,5ti01l of
more skilfulness of design and effectiveness of eleCpe-6140
CHAMBER, OF COMMERCE.—The monthly n1,2-,,borw%, :
held yesterday, Charles 1"..," 11114
United .Iringda'"

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