Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-06 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIIVIES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 1869

made by the defendant against himself of telling stories to
the scholars regarding his (defendant's) conduct towards
Addison.
The Court then rose.

TOXTETH BOARD OF HEALTH.
Yesterday morning, the usual monthly meeting of this
board was held in the public offices, Fark-road. Mr. H. S.
Alpass presided. The other members 'Resent were—
Messrs. Hughes, Walker, Woodhead, Sidaeley, Darsie,
Smith, and Rogers.
The minutes of the last monthly meeting were read and
confirmed..

The minutes of the executive committee were read.
The Chairman moved that they be confirmed.
Mr. Siddeley seconded the propositton.
The minutes stated that a 2s 8d rate was to be struck on
all rateable property in the borough.
The Chairman explained that this 2s 8d rate would
answer all their purposes, and they would not require a
highway rate as formerly.
Mr. Darsie asked why the ratepayers should pay for the
widenino. of Smithdown-lane, when they would not be the
only parties that would be benefited by it. He was of
opinion that the people of Liverpool should contribute.
The Chairman thought that they would never have a
better opportunity of making the improvements, as the
ground offered by the guardians was free from buildings,
and all that was to do was to construct the way. He
hoped the opportunity Would not be lost.
Mr. Darsie thought that the improvements should not be
left to be completed by the ratepayers of the rural district
of Toxteth-park.
Mr. Rogers said, they had been working hard for the
last two years to obtain land, and now that they could get
it, and only at a trifling expense, it would be, in his opinion,
a very desirable step to accept. The ratepayers of that
board were the ratepayers to the guardians, and he would
say that they should make the proposed improvements.
Mr. Smith could not see why the 'people at the
one end of the road should pay for the whole
road. They could ask power to have the contributions of
others. He had been told that, local self-government
was a very expensive thing, and they were beginning
to find it out. People might talk of generosity, but he did
not think that they could afford to be generons just then
He would say that they should write to the people who were
to be benefitted by the improvements, and see if they were
willing to bear a portion of the expense.
Mr. Darsie believed that there were not fifty of the rate-
payers of the borough that made use of Smit&lown-lane.
Mr. Woodhead said if the board did not take up the
matter, and carry out the improvements, it was only because
others would not unite with them. But he thought it very
desirable to have it made, and it was not very hard to make
the matter known at the Town-hall. He knew it was pro-
posed to advance £l,OOO to carry out some improvements
in Vauxhall road, and he thought some assistance should be
rendered to them. '

Mr. Walker could not see why the people of a rural dis-
trict were called upon to make, at a large expense, a fine
highway for the people of Liverpool. It was absurd to
think that they should make Macadamised roads, and carry
out other improvements for their convenience. They would
be looked upon by the ratepayers as a very foolish set, if
they laid a rate of 2s 8d in the pound to carry out such a
project. •
Mr. Darsie said that the proceedings of the committee, so
far as the widening of Smithdown-lane was concerned,
should not be confirmed. He would, therefore, move that
Vie widening of Smithdown-lane be postponed until the sur-
veyor had made his report, and that the sum of £l3O for
the widening of Smithdown-lane at the workhouse included
in the estimate for the general district rate be struck out.
He thought that the clerk should communicate with the
Town Clerk to know if the Council would not co-operate
with them in carrying out the improvement.
Mr. Hughes objected to making any reference to the sum
of £l3O mentioned in the record of the committees pro-
ceediN,os. It was very fine for them to be at the board,
and make themselves great with other peoples money, but
he hoped no such wedge would be put in.
It was agreed that the clause should be struck out.
Mr. Walker said in the statement of accounts which he
held in his hand, there was an item for ZlOO due to Mr.
Newlands, for his services to the board. Mr. Newlands
had been away from them for three months, and according
to the Act of Parliament they could only have his services
for six months. He thought that £l5O would be sufficient.
There was £5O additional for labourer's wages, which he
conld not understand, and would have to be accounted for,
£lO for something else, and £25 for office expenses.
Mr. Darsie did not agree with what Mr. Walker had
said. The other day he had seen a remark in one of the
papers that they were dispensing with the services of Mr.
Newlands, but he thought they were still to retain Mr.
Newlands as consulting engineer to the board,
and then they. could have his valuable advice
at any 'time. it might bo thought necessary. He movPri
that Mr. Newlands get £lOO for his services to the
board.

Mr. Rogers thought that with propeepanagement there
would be a reduction on the rate next year. About £4OO
had been spent in opposing railway companies last year.
Mr. Hughes said, there was £l7B 18s. 6d. that he wished
to know what had become of. As chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee, it was his duty to know where
it was gone, and he thought it would he well
to let the ratepayers know what was being
done with their money. He moved that the accounts be
returned back to the committee for explanation, as they
were deficient in £l7B 18s Gd of money received during the
present year, which had not. been accounted for. Then
again, there was the rate collected from St. Nicholas'
hamlet, for the purpose of sewerage, which had been applied
to another purpose. This was the way all the great crimes
had been committed with an honest intention of repaying
in the first instance. He would mention that was the way
all the great crimes were committed.
A Member : Murder ? (Laughter.)
Mr. Hughes continued to say, that the matter had never
been before the board before, and he was right in bringing
it forward. After some further observations he sat down,
concluding by moving that the accounts be sent back to the
committee.
Mr. Smith explained that Mr. Hughes had got the bank-
book, and for some reason, known only to himself, he had
commenced at the middle of the account to balance it, and
that made all the difference in the world as regarded the
result.

Mr. Woodhead was of opinion that, as a charge had
been made against some parties, the board should have a
balance sheet laid before them every year.
The Chairman said they got it.
The remainder of the business was unimportant.

AN IRISH ADVERTISEMENT.—A reward of 'LS iss-offered
for the apprehension of Patrick O'Flaherty, who last week
stole
the jackass, which same had on a pair of corduroy
breeches, with blue eyes, and smokes a short pipe ; much
given to squinting, and likewise his shoes are down at heel.
To SHIPPERS AND EXPORTERS.— A most profitable
article of export, to warm climates especially, are the Self-
cleansing Charcoal Filters, patented by Messrs. Saunders
and Co, of IG, Parker-street, Liverpool—in fact they _are
invaluable wherever there is bad water. S. and Co.- allow
a liberal discount on export and wholesale orders.
WORSE THAN EVER.—A correspondent of the Homestead
gives the following : —" It •won't do to laugh at Connecticut
any longer for wooden nutmegs. New Hampshire has beat
her, and must be the banner State for roguery. I see in
the newspaper that the Legislature of that State has been
obliged to repeal the law offering a bounty for the destruc-
tion of crows, in consequence of the practice which has
prevailed of procuring crows' eggs and hatching them under
hens, and bringing forward the brood for the bounty."
A Cunious CONSIGNMENT. -- A correspondent of the
Newcastle Chronicle writes :—"Not many days since, the
Bishop of Durham had a number of foxes conveyed to his
eitablishmeut at Bishop Auckland, from. Inverness-shire.
They were in boxes, and after they arrived at the station
one of them, not being satisfied with his confinement and
travelling expedition, gave vent to his impatience by bark-
ing. The bark attracted the attention of the bystanders,
and it took some management on the part of the railway
officials to make the sly gentleman silent. ThiS singular
consignment caused several very curious comments."
A MAN'S BRAINS KNOCKED Our, AND YET HE STILL
LIVES.—The .Eau Claire (Wis.) Telegraph narrates the
following singular case of surgery. The case is that
of braes Campbell, a labourer, in the employ of Mr.
George C. Irvine, of Dunn County, whose brains were
literally knocked out by the falling of a tree, some
six weeks ago, and, strange to say, he. is not only
still living, but has regained all n his faculties, and bids
fair to recover his usual sound health. Dr. Crocker'.
of Dunnville, the surgeon in attendance, thus de-
seribes the case :—"I found . the patient lying . in-
sensible, with a large hole broken into the left side of
the skull just over the ear - both the left frontal and
parietal bones shattered, and two pieces, one an inch
and a half by two inches square, driven completely into the
brain, and portions of the brain protruding. After remov- I
ing the framments of the bone, I then removed three-fourths
of wine-glass of brain, in conjunction with three pieces of
the tree, which had also been driven quite into his head.
From the first there was a
.copious discharge of thin
watery fluid from the ear, of course through the _Eustachian
tube. I considered the case hopeless, as for several days
after the first dressing the brain continued to ooze out, and
Pieces as large as a walnut sloughed off before the wound be-
gan to cicatrize. The case presents also a remarkable men-
tal phenomenon Which.will interest phrenologists. The pa-
tient, before the accident, was never known to sing or
whistle a tune in his life---but no sooner was he able to
speak than he began to sing with perfect correctness, and
now displays a taste for music amounting to a passion."
New York Paper.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Evening.

Only a very limited business has been done in the
Liverpool Cotton Market to-day, the sales being
5,000 bales, of which nearly one half were taken on
speculation and export. There has been no change
in prices.
The Liverpool Share Market has been very quiet,
and prices have been less firm, and in many instances
lower. The transactions were—Eastern Counties,
11 15-16 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 941,, 941 ;
London and North-Western 1-shares, 10d ; Orand
Trunk of Canada, 7 per cent Debentures 1867 cum
interest, 69.
There has been no change in the Manchester
Goods Market to-day, but only a small amount of
business was done in either goods or yarns.
The letters by the Brazilian mail were delivered
to-day. Our correspordent at Monte Video writes—
Operations in Produce have been on a very limited scale
during the month, and very little doing in the Saladeros.
The total amount of animals slaughtered this month is cal-
culated at 10,000 to 12,000. There has been some little
animation in salted ox and cow hides, and various con-
tracts have been made, prices to be arranged at the time of
delivery. Tallow : Very little in stock, for which exhor-
bitant prices are asked, Wool prices remain firm, with the
exception of unwashed wools, in which prices have some-
what declined. Hair is in demand, particularly "mestiza,"
superior clam. Freights in general are not so firm as at the
date of our last, and masters are very unwilling to leave in
ballast. The number of suitable first-class vessels disen-
gaged is very small, and if the killing during March is
heavy, present rates will be maintained, but should it prove
a dull month, a decline will very probably take place. Ex-
change has been very steady for this mail at 42d, with the
exception of a very small transaction at 411 d.
Export of Produce from Monte Video, from 25th
January to 28th February, 1859:-
17,934 salted ox and cow hides; 2,662 salted horse
hides ; 32 dry ox and cow hides ; 5 dry horse hides ; 575
pipes tallow; 1,076 bales wool; 22 bales sheep skins; 94
bales hair ; 3 cargoes bones and bone ash. From the
Uruguay 5,400 salted ox and cow hides ; 2 cargoes bones
and bone ash. Rates of freight : England : salted hides,
40s ; dry ditto, 80s ; pipes, 40s ; cases, 40s; bales, 30s ;
primage, 6 per cent. Hides, pipes, cases, per ton weight;
bales, per ton measurement.
The London Stock Market was unfavourably
affected this morning by the announcement of an
intended dissolution of Parliament, but as the day
advanced the cause operated less powerfully than
might have been expected. At noon Consols were
quoted at 95' to 951 and continued steady at that
point until the final Close.
The London Railway Share Market was affected
by the same circumstances and in the same way as
the Public Securities, and with a small business
prices were lower, finally closing as follows :
Ambergate, 6, 61; Caledonian, 811,. 82 ; Do.
pref., 100, 102 ; Eastern Counties, 594, 601 ;
East Lancashire, 92, 93 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
721, 73 • Great Northern, 1024, 1021; Ditto A, 85,
87 ; Ditto 8., 132, 133 ; Great Western,
584, 584 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,. 934, 941 ;
Brighton, 112, 113 ; North-Western, 94, 941 ;
South-Western, 92, 921 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 371, 381 ; Midland 101, 1011 ; North
British, 571, 58; Do. pref., 1081, 1091; North-Eastern
Berwick, 911, 921 ; Leeds, 461, 47 ; York, 751, 761 ;
North Stafford, 41, 41 ; South Eastern, 70, 701;
Turkish Sixes, 924, 93 ; Do. Fours, 1024, 1031 ;
Grand Trunk of Canada, 84, 9 ; Great Western of
Canada, 154, 154 ; Ditto New, 5, 44.

The steamer Parana has arrived from the West
Indies, with about £250,000 in gold and silver. The
Tyne, from Brazil, has brought £16,258 in specie.
Advices have been received by the Salsette of the
sailing from Melbourne, for England, of the ships-
Morning Star, Mermaid,. Sydenham, and Sussex, with
62,042 ounces of gold, worth about £248,000. In
addition, nine gold ships, the departure of which
from Melbourne was announced by the last mail, are
known to be still at sea, with an aggregate of about
£879,000.

The discount market was very active yesterday, a
very large amount of bills falling due on the 4th.
The payments appear to have been made with great
punctuality. The applications at the bank were
numerous, but not pressing. In other quarters
money has " run off," but the best bills were still
taken at the bank minimum_

The amount of gold taken from the bank yester-
day for exportation was £16,000, making a total of
£lBB,OOO since the date of the last return. The
£87,800 in Australian gold, by the Copenhagen, was
also purchased for the Continent.
The Funds to-day were very inactive, and a little
heaviness prevailed. The disposition to caution is in-
creased by the unremitting armaments on the Continent,
and by the evidences of disagreement already presented in
the discussion of the preliminary conditions of the Congress.
The Discount Market was very active, a very large amount
of bills falling due on the 4th. The payments appear
to have been made with great punctuality. The best bills
were still taken at the Bank minimum. The amount of
gold taken from the Bank to-day for exportation was
£16,000. The £87,800 in Australian gold, by the Copen-
hagen, was also purchased for the Continent.—Daily News
City Article, Monday Evening.

. .
The English Fund; have been further affected to-day by
the extraordinary reports from France of the preparations
at all points for some aggressive movement, as with the
current month the season has arrived when any long pre-
meditated military plans would be likely to be actively
commenced. The distrust would be far greater but for a
fancy to which many people endeavour to cling, that all the
present demonstrations are simply to intimidate Austria and
pacify Piedmont. The heavy commercial payments due
to-day passed off well, and money was in good supply. The
Stock Exchange rate is again only to 2 per cent. Ad-
vices from Mexico to-day state that her Majesty's ship
Alert was waiting to convey to Panama £600,000 in silver,
which may be expected by the West India steamer due the
middle of the present month. The steamer now due is
expected to bring £115,000 in silver. The Russian loan
has the prospect of being seriously damaged by the present
proceedings of the Emperor Napoleon. The announcement
of the Indian loan may be looked for early next week.
Times City Article, Monday Evening.

FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
Amsterdam
Ditto, Short .
Antwerp 23 ... 124 ... 25 ... 15
Hamburgh..
Paris
Ditto, Short
Marseilles
Frankfort

- ... 117/

Vienna
Trieste
Leghorn
St. Petersburg

11 ... le ... 11 ... 25
.. ...... 29 ... 80 ... 29 ... 90
- ... 35i ... - ... 351

TRADE IN THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.
MANCHESTER, Tuesday.—The yarn market is not quite as
strong to-day as it was last week but the improved accounts
from Bombay sustain the market generally, which, on the
whole, are firmer than could have been reasonably expected
under such adverse circumstances.

LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARSET.-APRIL 5.

&c.:Colonial, The business in Sugar has been";nail, 50
}aids Jamaica only being reported at 39s 6d, and 250 bags
Dates at 41s Gd per cwt.- Nothing has occurred in Molasses
or Rum. Of 260 bags Bahia Coffee offered by auction, only
340 bags, with all faults, were sold at 38s to 46s 6d per cwt,
the sound being held for extreme prices. Nothing done in
Rice. Nothing has transpired in Dyewoods. Ashes : Pots
quoted at 29s Gd, and Pearls at 31s 6d. A fair demand for
Nitrate of Soda, at 14s 6d to 16s per cwt. Of Brimstone,
100 tons reported at £7 17s 6d per ton for best:seconds' ex
store. 20 casks G. L. and Co.'s Tartar, at 104 s ; 300 bales
Gambier, at 17s 6d ; 50 boxes small Pearl Sago, at 17s 6d
per cwt; 27 tons Valonia, at £l6 per ton, ex quay; 5 casks
concentrated Lemon Juice, at 11-16 d per degree; with small
sales of Tartaric Acid (English make), at is 92d per lb.
Oils, &c : Palm quoted at. £45 per tun ; nothing to notice
in Olive. PYC Tallow at 54s 6d per cwt. Of Rosin, 700
barrels at 6s 6d to 7s for medium ; and 200 barrels Spirits
of Turpentine sold at 41s per cwt. The market for Jute
continues fiat, and at the public sale attempted this morning
no disposition was shown to purchase at recent rates, and
the whole was withdrawn.

LIVERPOOL SCOTCH (Pio IRON) MARKET.—APRIL 5.
Our market for warrants closes without animation.
Sellers for cash at 53s 3d. No business reported.
Shipments from Glasgow last week
Do. Do. corresponding week, 18.58 15,306
Do. Do. Do. 1857
Total shipments from Glasgow from Ist Jan. 1859, to date 130,216
Same period, 1858 .135,560
• • ,•
Decrease .. •••• 5,344
0000 •••• •••• .

Price this time last year. .... ..545. Od. .

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.-APIUL 5.

This mornino:;;marieT;;;lmt thinly attended ; as
regards the trade generally, seldom has there been a more
listless day. We cannot quote any alteration in the value
of any one article : had offers been made some small partial
concession in price might have been submitted to, but the.

BRIGHT 1. AND " THE " BUTTERMAN ! !
(Air—" Villikins and his Dinah.")
Oh ! 'tis of a famed merchant who in Liverpool does dwell,
Who supply folks with Butter who want it to sell ;
His name it is Kelly, you scarce need be told,
Whose Butter is worth all your silver and gold.
Singin' er- li—Butt But ter-li-day.
As Kelly was weighing out Butter one day,
In walks REFORM BRIGHT, and to him did say,
Come leave youz shop Kelly, and with me away,
And I'll find you a place with no work and licod pay. •
Singue—Butter-li—Butter-h—Butter-li-day.
Oh ! no, my brave BRIGHT, that wont suit my mind,
" For to" cut my " old place" I do not feel inclined,
So to you the good pay I will gladly make o'er,
To serve England with Butter a year or two more.
Singin'—Butter-h—Butter-li—Butter-li-day.
That's a good noble Kelly—then. John Bright replied,
You're a " Brick," my "old buck," and not to be bribed;
So, in order your Butter to put to the test,
Send me weekly, henceforward a ton of your best.
Singin'—Butter-li—Butter-li—Butter-li-day.
MORAL.

Now all you who want butter, you know where to buy it,
So never don't by no means be persuaded to " shy" it.
And as all want full value for their "tin," and quite right,
Think of Kelly the Butterman, and Reformer John Bright.

No SHIP SHOULD GO TO SEA without one of Saunders
and Co.'s Patent Self-cleansing Charcoal Filters, cased and
fitted-up expressly for use on board ship. Note the address,
SAUNDERS & Co., 16, Parker-street, Liverpool.
YANKEE BULL.—A physician in New York, who recently
conducted the post nwrtem examination in a case of
infanticide, reported that he was " unable to discover
whether tie child was alive or not at the time of its death."
That was probably the same doctor who advertised his
having removed "from the place where he now resides." .
POOR LITTLE FELLOW !—" But did I tell yon what a
time I had with my. little Joe ?" " No, what was it ?"
" Why, I was showing him the picture of the martyrs
thrown to the lions, and was talking very solemnly to him,
trying to make him feel what a terrible thing it was.
' Ma!' said he, all at once, Oh, ma! just look at that
poor little lion, away behind there ; he won't get any !' "
—New York Paper.
SHERIDAN. —Sheridan once went to a hair-dresser's to
order a wig. On being measured, the barber, who was a
liberal soul, invited the orator to take some refreshment in
an -inner room. Here he showed him so much genuine
hospitality that Sheridan's heart was touched. When they
rose from the table, and were separating, the latter, looking
the barber full in the face, said : -" On reflection, I don't
intend that you shall make my *wig." Astoniehed, and
with a blank visage, the other exclaimed—" Gracious ! Mr.
Sheridan, how can I have displeased you ?" "Why, look
you," said Sheridan, " you are an honest fellow ; I repeat
it,
.you shan't make the wig, for I never intended to pay
for it. I'll go to another less worthy son of the craft."
TILE MATRIMONIAL SCRUPLES OF PIUS vii.—Three days
pre% i nis to the coronation, the Pope, having ascertained that
Napoleon had been only married to Josephine by the civil
authorities, and that no religious sanction had subsequently
ratified their union, formally required that they should be
united before the altar, alleging that he could not otherwise
conscientiously officiate at the forthcoming ceremony. His
wish was complied with ; and the august couple received
the nuptial benediction from Cardinal Fesch at midnight,
in the chapel of the Tuileries, and in the presence of a
limited number of witnesses, among whom were the Prince
Eugene and Marshal Duroc. When the marriage of
Marie Louise to the Emperor was first proposed, she caused
an enquiry to be made of Josephine, whither shb had, or
had not, been married at the altar; declaring that, in the
former case, she would never consent to a union which she
should regard as a sacrilege. 'To this question, Josephine
replied by referring her to the Moniteur, thus evading the
trntli, without betraying it, as she was well aware that
Napoleon would never allow the official journal to publish
the fact of so tardy a ceremony ; and to this circumstance
must be attributed the assertion made by the Duke de Rovigo
in his memoirs, that the first marriage of the Emperor had
never received the sanction of the church. —Episodes at
French History by Miss Pardee,