Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-29 00:00:00

But it

ip 'railway or boat trip too

often only exposes the excursions.

to a greater

expense than lie anticipated, or is well able to bear_
To remedy this, you will have to address the hotel—
keepers in the places visitedand, a word to the
excursionists themselves would. not be thrown away
as I think the following will, to some extent, show.:—

Happening to be the agent for an excursion steam
boat (the Manchester), r brought under the notice of

soveral of my acquaintance, the trips it was proposed:,
to make. Having commenced, complaints very sevni
reached me. One gentleman writes : " Your fares, ao-

commodation, and arrangements generally, are evev-
thing I could desire ; but no sooner was I on shore,
than I came under imposition, and what ought
to have cost me about ss. to Gs. cost over 125., &c."
As the Blanchester has extensive cabin acs
commodation, her after-cabin being capable or
dinint7o•, comfortably from fifty to sixty persons at
one tune, while the fore cabin. Is little inferior‘
I determined upon an experiment ; and, accord-
inolv, invited a most respectable restaurant pro-
prietor to supply, on board, everything tha:h.
could reasonably be required, at Liverpool prices.
He not only did this, but he went further. giv-

uig a good dinner, three kinds of cold meat, fvitlt
green peas; new potatoes, &c., for ls, 6d. each. But,
though we have carried a very considerable number
of passengers, I regret to say he has found only small
encouragement, your excursionists preferring to pay
3s. 6d., 45., and 4s. 6d. for little more than the sighs
of a dinner, brought on the table just before the:
boat's bell rings to leave. Railway companies have,

no doubt, something to learn ; hotel-keepers, I think;
have something to . learn ; and the excursionist an&
tourist, with all fAespect, be it said, may profit by a.
note.-4 am, &c., MARTIN. SMITH.
45, Oldhallstr&t, July 28, 1859.

I ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE

We are glad to find that the new Bishop of Bangor has-
given much satisfaction by the efficient manner in which ha

Bangor

'We -understand that the Bishop of Gloucester has con-
ferred upon Mr. C. J. Monk, M.P., the office of Chancellor
of the Consistory Court of Gloucester, vacated by the death
of the Rev. E. T. M. Phillips, rector of Hathern, Leicester-.
shire.

It appears that the expenses attendant on divine service
in Louth church are now defrayed on the voluntary prin—
ciple. The contributions received for the year ending Easter
last amounted to £96, and the expenditure exceeded this
amount by about £2.

The Dean and Chapter of Llandaff, in making their
annual report of the continued work of restoration in their
cathedral, state that during the year steady progress has
been made. The ruin is now a rum no longer; and it is
hoped that the subscriptions already promised may suffice to►
,ecure the elocution of the essential portions of the work
in be needed to com—
plete the restoration.

The ancient custom of
vived in the chi, r.,‘l

t)a
1 of St.

athig the sexes was lately re:-
latthias, Stoke Newington-
_

Some of the c

the incumbent (.
in which he st

.ation having objected to the alteration,
C. J. Le Geyt) has just issued a circular,
that he proposes, with the consent of

the churchwardens; to confine'the separation of the sexes to
the nave of the church, leaving the seats in the north and.
south aisles for the use of families desiring to be seated
together. - -