Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-20 00:00:00

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The usual weekly meetin

Ir. Ctiurchwarilen

Cropper in the chair. The other members present were—
Messrs: Owen, Smith, Critchley, Broome, Peck, and Melly.
From the medical officer's weekly report it appeared that
there took place sixteen deaths in the establishment during
the week. There were 574 sick patients in the hospital
last week ; new cases admitted since, 132 ; cured and
' discharged, 143 • now remaining under treatment, 547.
This number included 54 fever. 12 itch.. and 4 small-110x

cases. The master of the vagrant sheds reported that
there were 263 destitute persons relieved in this department
during the week ending 14th inst. ; of these 178 were
males, 61 females, and 24 children, shewing a nett increase
of 21 on the week, and a decrease of 35 when compared
with the' corresponding week of last year. The Goveruor's,
(Mr. Carr) return showed that there were 1,914 paupers in
the house last week ; number this week, 1,851 ; shewing a
decrease of 63 in the week. Number in the corresponding
week of last year, 2,244; shewing a decrease this year-of
330. The business was of a routine character.

WELSH LITERATURE.—On Wednesday evening a public
meeting was held in the Welsh Chapel, Burlington-street,
to hear the adjudications read, and to award the prizes foi
the best essay in the Welsh language on the three followin,

subjects :-1. The importance of a:good character, and th
necessity of forming it in youth. 2. The best means to b
employed by the working man to acquire knowledge.
The advantage of the cultivation of the Welsh language b
children of )Velsh parents in English towns
essays were sent in on each of the above subj
reverend adjudicators adjudged that of

Several
s, and the

b" to be th

best on the first ; that of "X. Y. Z" to be the best on th
second ; and that of " Rhywun" to be the best on th(
third. When the writers of the
called for it turned out that Mr. E. Roberts, of the S
house, Chapel-street, had written the three, and he wa,
awarded £6 with the usual honours. Considering: that
-he never was more than a few days at a time in the
Principality, and that he contended with some of the Welsh
literati for the three prizes, Mr. Roberts deserves great
credit for his abilities on these subjects, which are so inter-
esting to the people of Wales.
AMUSEMENTS IN LIVERPOOL.—Open from ten in the
morning until ten at night. Allsop's Wax-Work exhibition.
All the kings and queens, from and including William the
Conqueror, down to Queen Victoria ; also, princes and
princesses, dukes, duchesses, lords, eminent statesmen,
warriors, poets, divines; also all the most noted personages
of the past and present ages, &e. Allsop's sculpture galleries,
containing upwards.of 3,000 statues, selected from all parts
of the world, varying from five to twenty feet in height.
Allsop's dioramic, panoramic, cosmoramic, and stereoscopic
views of intense interest Allsop's musical prothenade.
The above attractions are now combined, forming one large
establishment, in the' immense and magnificent building
known as the Teutonic-hall, next door but one to the
County Court, Lime-street: Liverpool, and nearly opposite
the Adelphi Hotel, and is open to the public at 6d each ;
children under ten years of age, 3d each. Mr. Allsop's
exhibition has been pronounced by the press of Liverpool,
London, and elsewhere, to be the most perfect, superbly-
magnificent, and largest establishment in the world; a fact
that cannot possibly be contradicted. Be sure to observe
the name, "Allsop," at the entrance. Sole proprietor, Mr.
Wm. Allsop.
ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON. —The screw
st(

successful essays were

.amer City of Washington which sailed from New York
on the 7th instant, arrived here on yesterday morning with
upwards of 300 passengers. A summary of her news,
telegraphed from Queenstown, has been published already.
The following is a list of her cabin passengers —Mr. and
Mrs. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. W. Brown, Mr. N. D. Durand
and lady, Mr. and Mrs. W. Elliott, three children, infant, and
nurse, Mr. A. M'Andrew and lady, Colonel Canty, Dr.
Cunningham, Dr. Smith, Mr. C. Lewis and Miss Lewis,
Anna Sherly, E. Alexander and nurse, Mrs. Moore
and servant, Rev. E. Rockwell and lady, Mr. W. E
A. M'lntosh and lady, Mr. C H. Soar and lady, Mr. James
Horsey and lady, Mr. E. D. Hall, Mr. H. Bent, Mr, A. H.
Strong, Mr. H. Schmidt, Mr. O. Schmidt, Mr. G. S. Harker,
Mr. B. M'lnness, Mr. E. Drey, Mr. M'Dougal, .Mr. J.
M'Millan, Mr. J. H. Mulford, Mr. W. T. Townsend, Mr.
R. Duncan, Mr. A. Ebbs, Mr. J. L Hassell, Mr. AL G. H.
Blake, Mr. M'Faden, Mr. G. de Cordero, Mr. M. Montinez,
Mr. J. C. Royston, Mr. J; Young, Mr. C. D. Jordon, Mr.
C. James, Misses Sandford, Knight, Turnbull, M. Young,
Bedford, Mrs. Stokes and two children, Mrs. de Codora, two
children, and nurse, Mrs. Middleton, Mrs. White and child,
Mrs. Shields, Mrs. M. A. Stevenson, Mrs. M'Dagall, Mrs.
Drummond, Mrs. Pratt, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Halpine and friend,
Mrs. M'Neill and child, Mr. M.Kay, Mrs. GOuldbourne,
Mr. Child and lady, Mr. J. D. Nairme, lady, and
.infant;i
Miss M. A. Marklew, Capt. Britton, Mr. R. M. Pratt, Mr.
R. Simpson, Mr. J. Fowler, Mr. T. Bacon, Mr. A. P. J.
Powell, Mr. L. Martin, Mr. A. Frankfield, Mr. E. Marklew,
Mr. H. J. Julian, Mr. R. Montez de Oca, Mr. T. Ferguson,
Mr. M. M'Colgan, Mr. R Howard, Mr. J. Benson, Mr. A.
Smith, Mr. L. E. Week, Mr. L. D. Stibbins, Mr. R. L.
Crook, Mr. J. Loeffler, Mr. J. Barry, Mr. Turnbull, Mr.
W. Atterbury, Mr. J. Leo, Mr. S. Getty, Mr. J. Garvin,
Mrs. E. L. Grcnnills, child and nurse ; Mr. J. Kirkpatrick,
Mr. Wm. Plumer, Mr. M'Kibbon.
RosA. BoxnEutt's PAINTINGS.-Two paintings by Rosa
Bonheur are at present on exhibition in Mr. Grundy's
Repository of Arts, Church-street. One is entitled
"Landais Peasants going to Market :" the other, " Morn-
ing in the Highlands." These are the latest productions,
of the extraordinary woman whose peculiar celebrity they
at least sustain, if they cannot advance. The first is a scene
in the French Landes, a market cart drawn by oxen, with
a woman seated in the cart and a man trudging on stilts by
the wheel. A flock of sheep follow the cart, and still
farther back, another male figure is seen stalking likewise
on his stilts. A fine stretch of country, covered with furze
heath and other underwoods, spreads away to a far distance
under a clear sky, only dotted with some fleecy cloud-balls
here and there. Nothinn• 11well he simmer +
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more beautiful than the whole. It is a noble plctu're in its
general effect ; and every figure, every bunch of heath, may
be studied by itself for its own truthfulness and vigor.
The other picture represents a glen among Highland hills
and a group of cattle. During the visit of Rosa Bonheur
to Scotland, we are told that, while enjoying a summer
morning's walk, near Loch Etive, whilst yet the dew
lingered upon the heather, and every object was indistinct
in the moist air, a group of cattle arrested her attention.
The invigorating sea breezes, blowing freely up those glens,
whose streams all run westward, her matin exercise, the
influence of the scenery, all combined to call forth her
utmost powers. Five cattle comprised the group ; at a
distance other cattle, wanderers from some other herd, were
seen cautiously approaching. Upon the latter the former
group were fixin,f, their gaze, their expression evidencing
fear, caution, and curiosity. Struck with the picturesque
effect; she rapidly studied and sketched in their attitudes,—
the trained hand and practised eye at once mastering
their strong points and characteristics, indelibly fixing
upon her mind the charm of the whole

and with inimitable skill transferring it to the canvass.
They who can judge of the skill of the artist as a painter of
cattle, will observe the singular fidelity with which she has
made every characteristic of her group to live again on her
canvas. Our attention was called to the fact that the age of
each animal may be observed from the proportionate
development and firmness of its limbs ; and many other
points, evincing equal mastery of the subject will no doubt
strike those better competent than we are to appreciate
them. On the other hand, they who look at this group
merely as a picture, must be especially delighted with its
background of purple hills, just lighted by the meriting
sun—its lake and its incomparable mountain heather, No
truer, healthier artist than Rosa_llonheur now liws. It is
refreshing, in an age of pictorial symbolisira, and weak,
morslltirpoo aantime4 rigAtires, to look 'upon works of