Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-14 00:00:00

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1859.

Middlehain November 14 l Warwick November 23
Shrewsbury November 15 Windsor November 28
Wellington November 21 Croydon December 2

LATEST BETTIN G.
SHIC.WSBURY AUTUMN HANDICAP.
5 to 2 against The Squire, taken.
5 to 1 against Timandra, taken.
6 to 1 against Nucleus, taken
7 to 1 against Tunstall Maid, taken.
S to 1 against Mutineer, taken.
10 to 1 against Whitewall, taken.
10 to 1 against King William, taken.
COPELAND NURSERY HANDICAP (Ar SHREWSBURY).
4 to 1 against Ben 'Webster, taken:
6 to 1 against Jim, taken.
6 to 1 against Greta, taken.
7 to 1 against Spring-wen, taken.
8 to 1 against Hand-over-Hand, taken.
THE DERBY. 1860.
8 to 1 against Umpire, taken.
12 to 1 against auceaneer, taken. -
12 to 1 against The Wizard, taken. T ~;

MAMA AGNES winner of the Liverpool Autumn Steeply
Chase, on Thursday last, is a bay mare by Cossack. HARRIET,
bred by Mr. Higgins, who thought so little of her as to dis-
pose of her for a tenner ; George Stevens, her pilot at Amtree,
subsequently becoming her owner at an advance of £,5 on the
original price, and from who u Mr. Golby, her present owner,
obtained her. CURLEW' winner of the Knowsley Nursery
'flandicap,-was also sold (with his dam, Ibis) for 50 sovs. to
Mr. Lindow, who, has -now scored six wins with him, and to
whom it 'must be a source of considerable regret that his
horse is not engaged in any of, the great three year old stakes
of 1860, nor has he any engagemc:st in the coining meeting at
Shrewsbury, where the fallowing trainers and owners of race-
horses have already engaged stabling:--Messrs Parr, Cliff,
Dover, Dwja.ewao•
tsshobncor,r
.Barber,ove Green,iS.
aa
vxoounr
favourable,
Hughes,ba nl
ed
.this meeting can scarcely be any other than an improvement
..Smßeeitiiitv'sch.,s.4ViTei.°D'eaS6whosld, Weaver,Athi
on its predecessors, especially as the added money is on an
-improved scale of liberality, and the weights appear to give
general satisfaction.
The following horses were struck out of their Liverpool
,engagements:--- . •
Oct. 20, at 9 a.m., Roneoni out of the Autumn Cup. •
:Odt. 31, at 4 p.m., Luck's All out of his Liverpool engage-
ments.
Nov. 2, at 9 a.m., North Tyne out of the Steeple Chase.
Nov. 2, at 2 a.m., Omar Pasha, Firefly, and Goldsmith out
of the Stennle Chase.

engagements this
NOT. 2, Half-Caste out of the steeple Chase.
Nov. 4, Border Chief out of all his Liverpool engagements.
Nov. 5, at 9 a.m., ITdtelvall out of all his Liverpool en-
gagements.
scratchedissyisstruck
outfor aolfl e
the ngagements this
statheiniespa?a-eetact:agre:poo.
3'e/taro-man Candle (winner of "the Liverpool July Cup in 1858),
TJTeheaueloßo
eu
has been sold to Mr. E. Hall, and is gone into Wcroleots stable
ver (3 yrs.) is struck out of all his en
Mr. Gill became the purchaser of Bourgeois, (slid ;Vs S.
Barrett of Buttercup, previously to their

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HUNTING• APPOINTMENTS.
CHESIIIRE.HOUNDS.
Monday
Mere Hall.
Wednesday ..................................................... ....Wreribury.
.Thursday
Cholmondley.
Sati
Mondayrday ( 2 ...
6i . :N...0..v. ..). ...................................... BBorrtah,:swOellbeiliisat:
,Wednesday (24rd) High Legh•
Wistaston.
'Thursday (24th)
Saturday (26th) Ravensmoor Windmill.
At Ila4:past Ten o'clock.

-•• • ' ' i• "i • COVRSING:-.
The Altear meeting (second to none ita the Kingdom) 4om-
meuee6 on Wednesday next.undcr such circumstances as leave
no doubt of a brilliant season. - Subjoined is a list of itornina..
'tors for the Gralid Champion Puppy Stakes, at Newmarket,
with the latest betting: • , .
LOrd Grey de•Wilton . Lord Stradbrolco
" Lord Grey do Wilton.. Lord Stradbrolte . .
Mr Dabede :„, j,
.7,.:.., Alr Mick
'.. 7. •Mr Gobeele ~ ' 'Mr Blick
Air .
r w.'Grou: , - -', •,Mr- Hodson
•Mr ThomaA Hill • , . Mr Bland
Afr Jones ns (Mr GriSSO) Mr T. L. Rea Li ..
Mt Dicidnson •. f - Mr Bartlett '77,,
Mr d. King . Mr W. Vigils
- '•Mr J.
RaTi-dell ' • Mr W. Price
' 'Air/IL M: Stehhensim
Mr H. Hey-wood
Mr Allison
Mr S. W. Baggs,
Mr J. L. Thomas Mr Wyles -
Mr Lucky ns Air W.Y106
f , Captain Bathurst - Air Hayhoe .
. . Mr Hall . Mr J. V. Dainiree
TIETTING• • . .
. .
- • `..100 to b agairvit Mr Biggs' nominatl).:
, 100 to 7 ar,ainst Mr Pride's
' 100 to 6 against Mi. Thomas's
20 to 1 4,ini,t Mr 131 a -I's '
2.5 to 1 against Mr 1 ,iel, 'ns:-,,l's ',o
•10 -10 ta 4- ;ft Mr _Mick,. ••,,„ ~ -
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CORRESPONDENCE.

[W do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of
orw correspondents.]

THE EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.

Will our assistants, tradesmen, and apprentices make good
use of leisure hours
I adopted the early closing plan myself, and hare a large
number of persons in my employ. Not only do I suffer no
loss from closing earlier, but I find that my assistants are snore
steady and more attentive to their business.---Jlr. Bchoolbred,
of Tottenham-court Road.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.
.SIR,—We concluded our last communication on the
above subject, by giving our opinion why the desire for
intellectual improvement was not more visibly evinced by
our assistant tradesmen at the present time ; and in the
further consideration of the subject, we would give
more reasons for answering the heading of this letter in
the affirMative.
Firstly, we live in an age of real progressive improve-
ment ; the natural tendency of everything human is to
keep pace with the age; knowledge of every kind—
whether rudimentary, theoretical, or practical—is found
to be the keystone to individual, as well as national,
progress.
Secondly, the nation is, in a word, divided into classes,
and, consequently, each community into divisions of the
social scale, each division having its rights, privileges,
and status, 'and holding the sate by virtue of their keep-
ing a-head of those Wriii-iociAly are a' step behind, and
by improvement and progression so advancing as to
cyder the one a step before them.
Tho very fact, then, of they, the assistant tradesmen,
being enabled to hold their status only by virtue of their
capacities, attainments, and knowledge is of itself suffi-
cient to emdlate them to make good and profitable use
of the.leisure hours they have or may obtain.
And again,, the knowledge they have by observation
of some one or two brother assistants (more fortunate
than themselves in' obtaining leisure hours) taking a
high positiOn in their employers' good books, and being
more useful in the establishment, by virtue of the cul-
tivation of their intellectual faculties, tends to prove to
them that "knowledge is power," that it adds to the
value of their services, and, as the Right Hon. Benjamin
BiSraeli said recently at Manchester, "is the secret of
success in getting on in the world."
These very circumstances alone, however slight our
knowledge of human nature may be, are sufficient to prove
to us, that by far the largest proportion of our assistant
tradesmen would make good use of the leisure hours
permitted them.
And mark, we do not say all, will thus appreciate the
boon; but this, mark you, is no argument against
allowing it, for we may 'ask what does all the assistant
tradesmen,, who now leave off work at nine and ten
o'clock at night, do from. that time till they are obliged
to be indoori ? for, mind you, and we would strongly
urge this, and have it impressed. on all minds, that then
all places of an intellectual kind are over, are closed,
and that none other but those of an immoral and
dangerous character are opened. Do they visit these
places now, or do they not ? If they do, then it is the
fault of the employers or of the public, one Or both" of
them, and the sin rests on their. heads.
Give the assistants opportunities, by early shopping
and closing, then' the great educational appliances of
the age, with their inviting prospectuses,' will be eagerly
availed of; and many a young brother, fresh from a
country home, unisphisticated in town- life and city
snares, will be saved from what we fear is now too fre-
quently the case, being shipwrecked on the shores of
immorality, with the freight of immortality aboard ;
and, more, many a spark of latent genius and talent
will be kindled to a flame, and our country the better
and wiser for it, if such is not the case. But why do
we thus write? Our faith in them is firm, and we hope
fcr the be;t; then the fault is not ours but their
own, and the responsibility rests on their shoulders.
But why do sonic tradesmen urge that they will not
make good use of time given them ? It is allowed that

the leading movers in the early closing movement are

the most efficient assistants in the establishments they
are engaged. And further, they ask for leisure hours,
solely for their social, mental, and spiritual improve-
ment. We have before us a circular to their employers,
issued by one of the district committees; and one clause
reads -thus :—"Your assistants feel assured that you will
perceive, from the late hour of closing in this district,
that we are totally precluded by the present system
from every means of physical recreation, and mental
and religious improvement." And they further ask
their employers, by adopting the principle of early
closing, to enable them to enjoy "the joys of friendship,
the happiness of the domestic hearth, an opportunity for the
culture of their mind, and the improvement of their intel-
lect." Another district " counts on the assistance of all who
have at heart the moral, social, and religious advancement
of those in their employ," and again another district writes
in their circular, " especially do we recognise the im-

portance of the employed, making such rational use of
that increased leisure, as to show themselves worthy of
its possession."
All the above extracts emanate from the assistant
tradesmen themselves, and proves beyond a doubt that
they want time for the purpose, and the great purpose
of improving themselves socially, morally and mentally,
therefore those who doubt their sincerity, must allow
that they are the most consummate and accomplished
hypocrites going.
But we do not fear that this will be proved of them :
in the metropolis, we have the authority of many em-
ployers testifying to the good use their assistants make of
spare time.
Also in the neighbourhood of large establishments in
the metropolis evening classes have been established,
and are almost wholly attended by the assistant trades-
men, who can leave work at seven o'clock from the es-
tablishments at hand.
And, further, we may point with satisfaction to the
fact, that the principal workers in the late Liverpool
Early Closing Association are now amongst our leading

men, and most respected tradesmen.
What, then, does all this prove—if not that the assist-
ant tradesmen will make good use of leisure hours ?
and if they will, then, in the name of all that is wise—
in the name of all that is philanthropic—in the name of
all that is even profitable—in the name of all that is
moral ; but, above all, in the name of all that is holy—
let our public never keep up the present bad system of
late shopping, but break it down, discard, decry it, by
f ater six o'clock;
never shoppingand, ye employers, do
we pray you, for your own interests, and as your bro-
ther's keeper, adopt the principle of early Closing.—
B. H. G.
Yours, obediently,