The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-15 00:00:00

IarTOI3,IC SOCIETY.

The ordinary meeting of the present selsio. of this
society was held last night, in the CEand Jnrj I_':)oni, St.-
George's Hall, J. T- Dansotrin the cheir. -
The :exhibitions
_ware., very numerous., _Ain ng them
were, by Mr. Black nora' a mm.lcl rf De. Priestly, struck
in 1733, shortly after thediSCov,fy or' oxygen -gas, on one
side is -repreii.ented :the bust of, Dr: Prim .Iy, and on the
other a pneumatic trongh, and :various . pieces of
chemical apparatus;. by Mr. Beitoit,'F.R S-L:, two coins,
found at Palermo„ supposed, to, be. of Sarcenic ;
by Mx. A. Craig Gibeon an anticfne carving in wood, being
probably the lid of a chest or bank, representing in the
centre the Crucifixion;.-and-on the,border, in Awe nty four
small compartments„a series,of scenes from the, history of
our Saviour by Mr.. Mayer, a, piece of gold ring money,
found in Ireland a part of the immense quantity found last
year. This, if it be money, is Certainly the largest piece
yet found, being worth by weight, at the.preseat value of
gold, £76 12s, and according. to,the worth 'of the precious
metals at the time of its -Make; sufficient to bny a county.
Th,re were exhibited by Mr. James Boardman a cast of
the mask of Shakespeare, from the monument at Stratford,
' coloured to represent its original appearance ; a medallion
of Shakespeare; in Wedgewood ware ; a folio copy of
Shakespeare's works, entitled, "Mr. William Shakespeare's
Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies.. Pablished according
to the True Original C vies. London : Printed. by Isaac
Jaggard and Ed. Blount., , 1623."
Among the donations acknowledged as hiving been
received were— _

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From tll-1 Society of Antiquarians of Conenhagen
Antiqusnik Tidseknift," 3 vols, 1816-48, 1848-51, and
1852-54. " Memoires des Antiqua►et de.• Ncird," 1810-4-1,

184547, 48, 49.
From Edward Heath, Esq.--Financial Reform Tracts,
Nos. 33, 34. New series, Nos. 5, 14, 16: " The Cost of
the Chstoms and Excise, Annual Report," 1848 " Address
to the Council," 1849.
From the Author—" History, of the Parochial Church
of Bromley," by T. T. Wilkinson, F.R.L.S, 1856.
From, the Author—," Preston in the ,Olden Time," by
W. Dobson, 1857. Two copia=, and a' third copy from Mr.
James Reay.
From the Autlibi—ei Table Talk of the _Olden Time,"
by James BoardmariP '1556.
-- Prom the Atith6V-=1*P;181110i Sacred and Miscellaneoug,"
by Henry Graysbrook : Liverpool, 1852. " Sir Geoffery,
and other Poems," by Henry Graysbrook :.1857.
From the Committee of the Liverpool Library —Cata-

logue of the Library, complete to 1857.
From Dr. Macintyre—Laws and regulations of the
Lyceum Institution, Liverpool, 1807 ;- ditt'), 1849 ; ditto,
1856. A medal-in use many years by the members of
the Liverpool Library.
From the Translator--" Literary Fables, from the
Spanish of Don Tomas de Yriarte," by Rnbert Rockliff.
From Mr. Angue---A. photograph of the small bronze
figure of Youth, exhibited by. Joseph Clarke, 'Esq, FAA,
at the last meeting of the society.
John Angus Ward, Esq , of Rooton Lodge, was pro-
pusedlts a member of the society. He will be balloted
for next Thursday night, it being the list meeting of the
society during the, present session.
The papers for, the evening were : —" Historical Sketch
of the Liverpool Library," by Dr. P. Mscinty re ; and
"Growth of the population of Lancashire during the fifty
years, 1801-1851, by I. T. Danson, Esq., Vice-President
of the Society. -

ACTION THE WATCHWORD OF SUCCESS.—" Action—:
action"—was the motto of ;Detnesthenes, and seeewhete it-
led him. Sin name is immortal_—a immortal in , history
as the classic nation of his birth. What a shining *Ample
of industry and perseverance--what a noble Model of a
self-made man ! Young man, the wide world is before you
to be conquered, not as Alexander conquered it, by a san-
guinary conflict, but a world of knowledge is to be
acquired, a reputation to be gained. You must not
depend upon your natural alsiiities to carry you through
the struggle,: though; they be brilliant;, nor must you be
discouraged if at first you, fail in intellectual efforts. It is
by hard, determined, and inflexible application that the
latent powers of mind are developed. Be undaunted in
your efforts. and unrelenting in your pursuit of knowledge.
Work—work—work !=and' suceese • must crown your
encleavours.—Hant's New York Merchants' Magazine.
CASE op MURDER IN THE COUNTY OP ,=the
night of Saturday, the 9th inst., at-a late hour, the ncieh.
b.eirhood near Lurgan was cast into great alarm, fr in a
renort being raised that a man, who who wits an inh:, b Ler. t
of the plat?, had ben shot from the house of a enan
named Cranny, fled kilted on the spot. The man, who
met so untimely an end was n tuned Francis Mills, and had
a family man of peaceable and, heluatrious habits.
An inquest was held on the body, .before Dr. Tyrrell, the
county cor. mer. 0 i the bench were Mr. Ilauctek ('he
agent of Lord Lurgan) ; Mr. Greer, Coplain Plummer,
e. Mr. Morris, of Largin, appeared for the prisoners
After the examination of several witness s, the
inquest was adjourned until Tuesday. le the
mean time, four men, inhabitants of Oraney's house,
were committed to the-Lurgan bridewell, to await the
further investigation, and. a witness,. whose testimony
wis cansidsrod very important, to the Newry bridewell,
there bring no private accommodation for him at Lurgan.
The eircemstances which led to this unhappy tr gedy
were those : —Some one of the working weavHs in Cranny's
had a quarrel on the road, to which
_kveral collecte i, on,
the night in veal len. The quarrel ended, and the men
separated. A crowd of about thirty remained talking
and :disputing opposite Craney's—no violence, either by
,deeds or words, behig offered' to Crane), or his house
when one of the party in Craney's deliberately oucrvd
the window, presented a gun under the sash,' and fired ir
into the crowd, regardless en whom it. took. effect. On
the gun being presented through !be viadow, it was
taken hold of by three persons outside, who, fearia; the
danger, endeavoured to pull it out from the hands of the
person who held it within, but did not succeed in cluing,
so. The gun was fired, an l the contents pa sad into the
abdomen of its victim, 'who died almost immediately. It
required no aim to' be taken' to effect its deadly purposl,
as the assembled persona on the road opposite were only,
two or three yards distant: The case is the mare lamen-
table as no_cause was given for so terrible an non It
graticyingte know. .partysfeelings had nothing to do with
the matter. The partisseaseembled were of every deno-
mioation.e The man killed was an Orangemsn, a; was
the maticAvho is the supposed murderer. We hope th 6
offender.pJll be brought to jus ice.—Nortkrn Whig.
'llostaercis IN MARRIED LIFE. —Now thaf.tha fair one,
who, has been for so long a time the envy a'tid occupation
of our gossiping circles, has, perfeice, take{ tier departure
-homewards, We have, of course, been buslYon the watch
for another to fill up those vacant moments which, as beine
superfluous, we are in duty bound to bestow on our neigh'
bourn. The object of attention was soon discovered, and
now every word of every conversation in every society is
mixed up with the] name of Madame de P—.
The antecedents and whole existence of this lady have been
marked with the seal of the most wondrous romance, to
which all the inventions of our modern authors seem tame
anl colourless as a nursery rhyme. Boris in obscurity,
and married early at Vienna, she attracted the
attention of one of the greatest artis's of ma
dern times; and so speedy was the wooing, that.
with the tame rapidity of execution "with which he
runs through one of his own sonatas, a divorce was con.
seated to by husband and wife. Their marriage' was
broken by mutual consent, according to the facile law
which governs all Protestant alliances in Austria, and a
new marriage entered into with the artist, all in the spec-
of six little weeks fr,m the moment when he first beheld
the lady, seated by her plebeian husband's side, upon the
beach in the Prater. For sometime no union could be
more blessed than this. With the all-devoted love no
human being glee a poet, painter, or musician ever can
experience, did the ardent pianist w.irship the idol he
-had chosen, and deck it with gems and ornaments fit for
the sovereign, of that imaginative domain of art ov r
which it had been his pleasure to bestow upon her the
entire rule. Every record of this rn fir:mat of the artist's
life gives token of this exalted affection. Every one
of his camp sitions at this period breathes of the exclusive
natare of the love which: hid, absorbed his soul.' But;
alas ! the' dream was bat of short duration. At Lisbon,
where the artist had been called to rejoice the court wi:h
the exhibition of his-unrivalled talent, it became the' lady's
fate the second time-to irrspire, the same all eensnmingrlove
she had created before--this: time net in the inflammable
bosom of an artist in SCAT oh of emotions, and yielding to
them only too gladly when found, but in the soul of a
diplomate, whose busiuess it is to fly from them with
determination, and stifle then in the birth, if by any
chance they seek to obtain the mastery. The most ex,
traordinary part of the tale is the, youth of the clipla:
mate, who, possessing every advantage both of Mind and
person—one of the mo t accomplished men of his
day, and one whose name was the most honoured in
diplomacy—yet struggled not ag tinst the- inflience
which the siren had acquired over him; sand in a short
time a third marriage was entered hate, and the lady
returned to Paris with a firer name, fleet diamonds, finer
horses, and a finer carriage than ever, as Ambassadress of a
powerful Court to that of the Tuileries ! The artist found
consolation in America, whore for some years ha travelled
in solitude, and then amid the gay and golden scenes of
California, where he took heart o'graco, and amassed a
princely fortune, and has returned !o Paris to enjty it. The
lady and her quondam spouse meet each other in the public
walks; their gaily decked lacqueys jostle each other
at the doors of the theatres; their horses rival each other
in the Bois de Boulogne ; but which of the two has either.
happiness', or oblivion—who can tell ?—Paris Correspon-
dent of Court Journal.