Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-16 00:00:00

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SOUTH LANCASHIRE OPEN COURSING
MEETING-SOUTHPORT.
• - SECOND DAY.—FRIDAY, JANUARY 13.
Stewards : Mr. Knowles,. Mr. Holmes. Mr. Stocker, Mr. Bate-
man, Mr. Dixon, Mr. Gregson, Mr. Rawlins, Mr. E. Booth.
Flag Steward : Mr. H. Greenwood. Judge : Mr. B. Nightingale.
Slipper : Mr. RaFer.
CROSSENS STAKES.
Derwentlake beat Hassar.
Singing Tom beat Benlomond.
Mendicant beat Calcraft.
Monk beat Satin.
Lightfoot beat Captain Jack.
Bovally beat Sardarapalus.
Kingston beat Beauty.
Chicory beat Termagant.
Aunt Sally beat Jane Lucas.
Cromwell beat Playfair.
Creeping Jane beat Summerside.
• Heliotrope beat Opera Dancer.
Thunder beat Culmore.
Harriett beat Bluecoat.
Cruiser beat Mayfly.
Black Cap beat Tyrant.
CHURCHTOWN STAKES.
SECOND TIES.
Ravensworth beat Auchinblae.
Trueboy beat Blanchither. •
Lucy beat Archer.
Isabel boat Pretty Girl.
Hylton beat Hero.
Nanteli Girl beat Comet.
Blue Ruin beat Deacon the Second,
Red Lion beat Bottlf Lass.
. -
CROSSENS STAKES.
SECOND TIES.
Derwentlake beat Singing Tom.
Mendicant beat Monk.
Lightfoot beat Bovally (late Mocking Bird).
Kingston befit Chicory.
Cromwell beat Aunt Sall'.
Heliotrope (late Trip the Daisy) beat Creeping Jane.
Thunder beat Harriet.
Cruizer beat Blackcap.
THIRD TIES.
Mendicant beat Derwentlake.
Kingston beat Lightfoot.
Heliotrope,beat Cromwell. .
Cruiser beat Thunder.
rota= TIES.
Kingston beat Mendicant.
Cruiser beat Heliotrope.
Mr. Kaye's Kingston and Mr. Bateman's Cruiser divided the
stake.

THE SCARISBRICK CUP.
SECOND TIES.
Derwentwater beat Young Go-by.
Black Tommy beat Polly.
Wildfire beat Do-it-if-you-can.
Ramathon Boy beat Shrimp Maid.
THIRD TIES.
Derwentwater beat Black Tommy.
Ramathon Boy beat Wildfire.
FOURTH TIE.
Mr. Dixon's Derwentwater beat Mr. Duncan's Ramathon
Boy, and 'won the Cup. •
THE SOUTHPORT STAKES.
SECOND TIES.
Daybreak beat Bala.mour.
Hiet:llgo beat Croweatcher.
Raw Recruit beat Creole.
Dreadnothing beat Zurich.
THIRD TIES.
Daybreak beat Hidalgo.
Raw Recruit beat Drealnothing.
Daybreak (late Fisherman) beat Raw Recruit, and won the
Stakes.

THE CHURCHTOWN STAKES.
THIRD TIES.
Ravensworth beat Trueboy.
Lucy tlate Rachael) beat Isabel.
Nautch Girl beat Hylton.
Red Lion beat Blue Ruin.

FOURTH TIES.
Lucy beat Raveneworth.-
Nautch Girl beat Red Lion.
FIFTH TIE.

Mr. Lillie's Lucy by Pugilist—Cinderella beat Mr. Nimmo's
Nautch Girl by Acrobat—Teaia, and won the Stake.
• COURSING.

The second meeting of the Altcar Club will be held on NVed
nesday and Thursday nest, the 18th and 19th inst. The Cup
will be a Piece of Plate, of the value of fifty guineas, added to
the Stakes for 32 dog*.
COURSING FIXTURES FOR MO.—JANUARY.

Place. County.
Home Park Open Middlesex
Cork Southern Club ... Ireland
Barton-epos-Humber Lincolnshire... Mr. Warwick ... 17, 18
Bishop's Castle.... Salop Mr. Warwick ... 18
. Altcar Club Lancashire ... Mr. Daizell
West Hereford '(Bred- .
wardine and Morn-
ington) Herefordshire. Mr. Warwick
Amicable Club Hamp-
ton Court) Middlesex Mr. Warwick ... 23, 24
Southminster Open ... Essex
24, 5
Courtown (Kildare)... Ireland
S.
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Chilton
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to(Cwantteriscokii)th Lancashire Yorkshire 31Mrr..
Baron Hill,Beaumaris Anglesey Mr. Warwick ... 26, 27
cardington Club

Judge.

Meeting
... 17

STEEPLE CHASE FIXTURES FOR 1860.

Aberystvith

JANtART.

~. 19, 20

PEURVARY

Carmarttenshire,7, 9 (
Derby Midland ...-23 I

24, 26-

.28 I Grand Military
(N'thampton) 29,5 a

MARCH.

•
Tenby 1 Pembroke Animal -I Coventry 14
Birmingham ...12, 13 13 I ''

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1860. ,
FEBRUARY.
LinColn Spring ...15 I I NottinghAmSpring Derby Spring ... ... 33
21

MARCH.
Liverpool Spring... 6 Coventry Spring 13 I Northampton ......
Shrewsbury Spring Warwick Spring 20 Croaton Park. .. ..
-8

Newmarket C 9 j Thirsk APRIL.
13 14 Epsom Spring'
Catterick Bridge 11 j Doncaster spring 17 I Newm'kt s.

Loan LONDESDOROEGH.—From inquiries male at Carlton
,Lpittrilveatheastragionneer ttoo
GrWeen
House•terrace, we leiirn that his lordship still lies in a very
precarious state.
Gracehus, Harwood Lee,pickin andgs Whb lowest_ weight
v3veyirs, have been
added to the list of geldings.
Mr. Robinson has purchasedfillb with T.
a rling
a All's Well, by The Cure, wl:ich hen beennamed Nectar.
Stockton.
Bilberry, 4 yrs, has been sent to Ireland • and s
Montague has been sold for a
nhouitlerr tsto
e been ut Ireland; and -1184111101,
The Gem, andCaritY queen hav b .
mgie out of trag.
Mr. Wright has sold Colossus, 1
n
Steadfast to Mr. J. Turner, and n
Rosa, who ran Isßleoantisnioeo,rierFry.ance, to live
ail‘fidr.. MWlLiTt.e,P°arrr.
w out of Wish 2
, yrs,
ght nest season
e has joined Dover's .
in the Bulmetshe Plate at Reading,colt Jack
string.
Hitcher the
nesiav, was sold to Mr. fniiowino, dad for
On Wed-
Hand-over-Hand, sold at Tattersall's`nn'„_ Y lOO Boys.
andmr hetasmgeoanveeirnbtoasEdlliisoptot'ssels_t.aob_fle‘tt_.lB
two-year
old
gone into W. liing's stable at Doncaster. Monday last; has
The spigot Lodge. stable has
second chdin of Withington, whose
A FRIEND 0 .'
ours,
F THE MAN IN THE MOON.
will be 7st 71b.—A few

Shat Sporting Advertisements will be ii;s2rterl in this column
at the rate of 6d, per line, paid in advance,

CORRESP ONDENCE.

[We do not hold oursekes responsible for the opinions of

ow correspondents.]

THE MAYOR OF LIVERPOOL AND
LORD DERBY.

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.
SIN—In your publication of Saturday, I read with
much pleasure that our present popular and universally-
esteemed Mayor, T. D. Anderson, Esq., has determined
to entertain the Earl of Derby, Lord Stanley, tic., at
a grand civic banquet, on Thursday next; and that the
noble ex-Premier has 'signified to, his Worship his
acceptance of this mark of civic respect. This is only
what might be expected from the head of the noble
house of Stanley, and which cannot fail to reflect im-
mortal honour upon our present excellent and worthy
Chief Magistrate, who,• since he was elected by the
enlightened Conservatives of the Town Council of this
great town, has earned for himself the respect and
esteem- of all parties and of all creeds, in the assiduity
and attention -he has evinced towards everything that
has had for its object the spread of truth and enlighten-
ment, and the amelioration and advancement of the
working classes.. In fact, sir, it has been rather a cause
of surprise and astonishment how the physical energies
of his Worship could undergo the amount of
arduous labour which has been so successfully accom-
plished during the short period he has been in office.
But, as if to inaugurate the first three months of his.
civic career with something durable, and which may be
a standing memento of him for generations to come, in
this eventful .-period in aur history, he gives an invita-
tion to England's greatest Conservative Statesman; and
that •great man at once accepts it. Such an epoch in
the civic
,career. of Liverpool's Mayor in 1860, deserves
well to be recorded in the archives of the Corporation.
We have now arrived at a great political juncture ;
and the all-absorbing
.question is, whether those
sound constitutional principles—based as they are
Upon the truth of God's word—which for centuries gone
by have been the pride, the
.glory, and the boast of Eng-
land,--the great question is, I say, whether they shall
• triumph, or that, in their stead, the people of England
and the United Kingdom generally, will adopt that
system of wild democracy and latitudinarianism so un-
blushingly advocated, even by those who pretend to sup-
port the British throne. No, sir, lam convinced that
day will never.come when free-born Britons will permit
such a system th "" -
Thursday next will prove another great day in the
annals of Liverpool ; and how auspicious too—just before
the opening of the coining Session. The Mayor and
Lord Derby, with the intelligence and wealth of the
county, meet together; and a voice shall go forth from
this great town, which will not fail, I am satisfied, to
reach the ear of Royalty itself. I say, then, through your
. excellent journal, let that voice echo and re-echo
throughout the length and breadth of the land, that the
present Palmerstoman dynasty is tattering—has come to
an end. Let it, I say, be enunciated to the world that
bribery and corruption shall never obtain the ascendancy
over truth and virtue, and that " he," and he only, " is
a free man whom the truth makes free."
Sir, I assure you, the preient civic banquet is looked, I
forward to with as great a degree of interest as was
the late great Derby one. I sincerely hope the Preis
will 'receive due attention so that the public may read
what there transpires ; and that it may be handed down
as a household word to our children's children, the great
and glorious meeting of Liverpool's Conservative Mayor,
and of England's Great Conservative Statesman.—l am,
sir, your obedient servant, VERITAS.
January 14, 1860.
[We give insertion to this communication, because it
expresses very sound Conservative sentiments; but We
must yet remind our correspondent, that the civic ban-
quet. Lord Derby is to grace with his presence, will be a
private party.—Enrrou.]

CONCERTED ACTION OF ENGLAN
FRANCE.

AND

The struggle has been along one, but, says the Times,
it is npw over. The French Emperor has taken his
eourse, and it is one which will help to reconcile him
with that great body
_of liberal-minded and reflecting
men who have watched with anxiety and regret his
recent policy. He has resolved to show to the world
that he did not make war fur empty glory, or to
strengthen a tottering throne,- or to employ a dangerous
army, Vat to give to a gifted and unfortunate people that
freedom which has been .so long denied them. Thecon-
• leen:which has thus been established bet Ween France and
England is the.guarantee for the freedom of Italy. We
believe that the mere fact of such an understanding sub-
sisting willbe enough to settle all the questions-now in dis-
pute. It is reported that when the French Emperor
determined on adopting the policy recommended by
England, he applied to our government to know
whether we were willing to stand by-him should Austria
seek to enforce the Treaty of Zurich by another appeal
to arms. It would. have been, in any case, a departure
from our established policy to enter into such an en-
gagement, but happily the thing was not necessary. To
the inquiries of the. British government Austria is said
to have answered that she had neither the will nor the
power to enter into another Ttalian campaign, and that
if France resisted the restoration of the legitimate rulers
in Italy, Austria could only protest against the injustice.
To France now belongs the settlement of Central Italy.
England will still, hold to her principle of avoiding
'actual -interference, though, no doubt, the two countries
- will join in a.common plan for recognising and assisting
the new government. We may congratulate our Country:-
men and the world that the year opens so auspiciously,
and hope that the Italian people are now at the dawn of
a long day of prosperity.

Tuszox, Jan. 9.—The arrival of the Sultan has al•-
layed some serious fears for her safety, which had begun
to dain ground. The Due de Nemours, a relative of the
royal family of Portugal, being on board, there was no
cassation to the telegrams which were sent in all
directions to inquire after the missing steamer, The
Due de Nemours was received yesterday at the Arsenal
by Don Fernando, and conveyed in one of the royal
arriages, attended by a guard of honour, to the palace
of Necessidades. •

LIPa-BOAT EXPENSES.-During the year which has
just dosed, the. National Life-boat Institution has in-
curred the following expenses on either alditional new
life-boat• stations, or the replacing of old boats, transport-
ing carriages and boat-houses by new ones :-Berwick-
. on-Tweed, £149.55.' sd. ; Gullercoats, £254 10s.; Mid-
dlesborough,4ll4 10s. 9d.; Redear, £l4B 10s. ; Great
Yarmouth, £lBO ; Isle of Wight (two boats, Brooke
and Grange), £406 19s. ; Exmouth, £237 4s. 7d. ;
Fowey, £333; Lizard, £314 9s. 7d. ;. Braunton, £59
18s. ; Porthcawl,. £323195. ;
_Carmarthen Bay, £375 9s.
6d.; Aberdovey, £146 15s. ld. ; Barmouth and Portma-
doc, £409 19s: 2d; Rhoscolyn (Anglesea), £l4B Os. id.;
Fleetwood, £l74' 18s. 6d. Silloth (Cumberland), £291
19s. 6d. ; Thurso, £203 19s. ; Lossiemouth, £lBO 15s,
6d. ; St.. Andrew's, £261 ; Elie, £203 9s. 6d. ; North
Berwick, £203 9s. 6d. ; Ayr, £259 14s. Bd. ;
Portrush, £203 19s. ; Dundalk, £ll7 13s. 6d. ;
Carnsore, £124 10s. ; Dungarvan £l3O 2s. The
Institution has also expended on thei repairs, stores,
alterations and inspection of its numerous life-boats,
boat •houses, and transporting-carriages, £3,476 16s. 2d.,
and £1,510 for exeroising the crews of its life-boats;
making altogether a total of £10,940 Bs. 9d. The
Life-boat Institution has also granted during the
same period £l,lOB 15s. 3d., for saving by its life-boats
and other means 498 persons from a large number of
- shipwrecks on our coasts. A most satisfactory result,
and clearly showing how much has been accomplished by
the well-directed efforts which the Institution has
brought to bear on this humane cause. This great
and national work has, however, only been accom-
plished by the society incurring liabilities to the extent
of £3,834. With so sacred an object in view as the
rescue of our fellow creatures from an appaling death
by shipwreck, it might be 'supposed that the National
thiswould grea maritimt
may hope, will be the case as its
country. Such, we
operations become more generally known and appreci-
ated, and thus an abundant harvest, not only of popular
'Yolpathy, but of general pecuniary support, be the
permanent result. The support of the public is,there-
fore, most earnestly solicited in aid of the benevolent
objects of the National Life-boat Institution. We
feel assured that their help
extraordinary
was never more needed than
at the present time when, through the
exertions the 'within the past few
, society has made
managrs, it has
ement, for w
ninety-six life-boats mider its
the
state of thorough fs • maintenance -of which,in a
income is absol4ei
c'eneY, a large permanent annual
to be perpetuated, Y needed, if its humane mission is

LLVERP-60L POLICE CUURT.-SATDBEAY..

(Before Mr. S. HoDa.)
S6BAULTING A POLICEMAN.—Jamei Philips, mate of
the _American ship A. C. Winthrop, lying in the Queen's
Doak, was brought up on the charge of assulting
Police-
constable 763. It appears that, on Friday afternoon,
the prisoner was intoxicated, and very disorderly on
board. The police-officer was called to take him into
custody, which he resisted, and, after striking the
officer, palled out a loaded pistol, and presented
it at him. The • officer, however, wrested it out
of his hand, and ultimately lodged him in Bridewell.
Mr. Holme said if the prisoner had simply been
drunk and disorderly, he would only have indicted
a small penalty for that and assaulting the officer; but
the presenting of a loaded pistol was too great an aggrava-
tion of the offence to be passed over lightly. He ordered
the prisoner to pay a fine of or or to go to prison for
two months.

(Before Messrs. HoLME and HoroturoN.)
CHARGE OF STEALING Boars.—Jane Monkhouse, a
young and rather respectable-looking woman, residing
in Clarence-street, was charged with stealing a pair of
boots from the shop of Mr. CoHinson, Bold-street. Mr.
Bluck appeared for the priSoner: The prosecutor stated
he was going up Leece-street, on Saturday last when
he noticed a pair 'of boots in the shop window of Mr.
R. Smith, which he recognised as his own make. He
went into the shop and made enquiry regarding; them of
Mr. Smith, who said hehad purchased them from a woman
who had on a former occasion offered some for sale.
About one o'clock on Monday, the prisoner came to Mr.
Collinson's shop and told him she knew the woman who
had sold the boots to Mr. Smith, but she had sailed for
Australia on Thursday last. Mr. • Collinson sus-
pected that she herself was the party, and accordingly
took her to Mr. Smith, who identified her as the person
who sold him the boots. Mr. Bluck contended that the
prisoner's previous good character should have some
weight on the decision of the magistrates. She had gone
voluntarily to Mr. Collinson's and told him the story,
and it was only because the person had gone away from
the country that she was unable to produce her.—The
magistrates said the evidence was so strong against the'
prisoner, that however painful it might be to their per-.
sonal feelings, public daty_allawed them no other course
than to cammit the prisoner for trial.
• POCKET PICKING.—Two &iris, named M'Cluskie and
Tudor, were charged with picking the pocket of Eliza-
beth Stewart in Great- Charlotte-street. Mr. Cobb
appeared for M'Cluskie and Mr. Bluck for Tudor. • It
appeared that the prosecutrix was looking a'. a " happy
family of animals," in the street in question, M'Cluskie
being on one side of her and Tudor on the other. The
former was seen by a butcher, who appeared, to insert
her hand in prosecutriz's pocket, and take out her purse.
He immediately informed a policeman, who took them
into custody, when Tudor threw the purse on the street.
—The prisoners were committed for trial.

OXFORD MIDDLE-CLASS EXAMINATIONS

The-delegacy appointed to conduct-the middle-class
examinations has made its- second report. The number
of candidates examined were 299 seniors and 597 juniors.
Of these, 101 seniors and 167 juniors obtained honours;
150 seniors and 165 juniors passed without honours ;
and 148 seniors and 265 juniors failed. The work
done this year is in several respects satisfactory as
compared with that of 1858 ; almost all the examiners
agree in saying that the average character of the papers
were decidedly higher, and in the best way—that
is, in showing, not more brilliant, but sounder attain-
ments. This improvement was particularly observable
in the preliminary examination, in which, in 1858, nearly
one-half, while in 1859 not more than one-third of
the candidates failed. k decided improvement is per-
ceptible in accuracy, in clearness, and in power of using
knowledge; but in orthography and handwriting too
few even of the senior candidates were qualified to pass
from the examination room to the merchant's desk or
lawyer's office. Of the*seniors who failed in their pre-
liminary work, 22 failed in analysis, 34 in arithmetic, 15
in geography, 33 in history, 30 in orthography, and 2
in handwriting. Of the juniors who were also plucked
in preliminary, 46 failed in analysis, 17 in arithmetic,
61 in composition, 85 in geography, 116 in history,
,39
in orthography, and 7in handwriting. The papers in
geography and history showed a marked improvement
on those sent in last year, but the examiners suggest that
perhaps better work would be obtained in geography
by restricting the examination' to some quarter of the
globe, or even to the geography of the British do-
minions. In law and political economy there were some
very creditable papers; and the examiner in English
literature reports that the papers in his subject were
" far better than he expected, and that three were admi-
rable." Both in Greek and Latin there is decided
improvement :- but the Greek of the juniors still con-
tinues to exhibit extraordinary deficiencies in parsing and
grammar. Much knowledge of Greek, however, cannot
be expected from boys tif that age. Among the seniors
several acquitted themselves really well in Greek,- but
their Latin. was in several instances far below what might
have been reasonably expected of them. The French and
German translations into English are often creditable, but
in many cases so literal as to be hardly English at all. The-
parsing and grammar are not equal to the translations.
In the whole of the language sections there are indica-
tions that the candidates are pushed on too fast. "It is
not by_reading and half Understanding hard books, but
by, thoroughly mastering easy books, that sound scholar-
ship in any language is attained." The average of the
mathematical work was equal to that of last yeef ; two
or three boys amongst the seniors, one especially, showed
remarkable proficiency, both ails) accuracy of work and
.extent of reading; and most of those 'who passed in
mathematies acquitted themselves creditably in 'other
subjects. -The physical science papers show a very,
slight, but still perceptible improvement, and it is sug
gested,that papils should have opportunities of= consult-
ing arranged collections of natural objects, and of em-
ploying the instruments of experimental research. The
drawing also-shows improvement,• bat not the music.

CHURCH RATE GRANTED AT GREENWICH. On
Fridoy evening, ,a crowded vestry meeting of the rate-
payers, of the parish.. utl Oreenwich, was held at the
Roan-street schoolroom for the purpose of making a
church rate. The-res4t was For the rate 64
.)
against, 54.
LA.w OF MASTER AND SERVANT.—At the Sheriff's
Court, -on Friday, before Mr. Kerr, a claim 'for com-
pensation was made by a forewoman, on her master,
Mr. Mitchell, for illegal dismissal. It seemed that the
plaintifr•had received a message from the defendant,
stating that, trade being slack, she had better keep away
for a week or two, and he would send for-her when he
wanted her. She was then paid for the. pending week.
She presented herself at the warehouse on three occa-
sions afterwards, and was at last told by the defendant
he should not employ her again. Mr. Buchannan, for
.the defendant, "urged the hardship of manufacturers
being compelled to pay their servants when the'y stopped
away by permission. ' The plaintiff had" in fact dis-
charged herself. His Honour decided that-the plaintiff
was entitled to £l, in addition to 10s. previously paid
into court.

THE ENGLISH CHURCH IN PARIS.—The Paris cor-
respondent of the Times writes :—" I understand that
permission has been granted to the Rev. Mr. Gurney to
perform divine service on Sunday next in the chapel,
which, as I informed you, on Sunday last was, in so
summary a manner, ordered to be closed. Though it is
for Sunday next only that permission is accorded for the
English service, yet there 14 reason to suppose that it
will be continual,' and that the matter of the evening
service in French will be reserved for future deliberation.
The memorial addressed to the Emperor by the incum-
bent prays that, if Frenchmen professing. the doctrines
of the Anglican church ask for that service to be con-
tinued it shall be accorded.' Very few indeed doubt
that the Emperor will be much more liberal than his
minister."

A FRENCH VOLUNTEER IN THE BRITISH ARMY.--On
Monday evening last, a French soldier, dressed in the
uniform of the Ist Regiment of the Line, wearing
a Crimean medal, with his knapsack on- his back, en-
tered the Chatham barracks. As he could not speak
English it was difficult to find out what he wanted ;
and recourse was had to an interpreter, when it was
ascertained that he was on his road for London,
but on his arriving at Gravesend he heard that the
31st was at Chatham, and having known a non-com-
missioned officer in that corps when he was in the
Crimea, he had come to see him. The corporal, who
was employed in the Ist Depilt Battalion, was produced,
when it was ascertained that this foreigner was desirous
to enlist, and the next morning he was taken before
Colonel H. Jervii, and has subsequently teen enlisted in
the 31st Regiment. He was in full uniform, and is a
very good-looking man of about twenty-eight years of
age. lie has enlisted under the truly Britannic name of
Smith, an alias once before adopted by a much more
illustrious French exile.— United Serxice:Azzette.