The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-02 00:00:00

THE LIBRARY COMMITTER.

The proceedings of this committee were read and con-
firmed. They acknowledged several donations from dif-
ferent persons.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTUL

The proceedings of this committee were also read and
confirmed after a few explanatory observations.

THE CONCLUDING BUSINESS.

Mr. Cooke then said, before they separated, on mein-
ding the business of the year, he wished to perform a
pleasing duty, and that was to propose a vote of thanks to
the Chairman for the able, impartial, and courtaus manner
he had discharged the office of chairman for the past
year.
Mr. Golborne had much pleasure in seconding the
motion, and, in addition, to thank the Chairman for the
hospitality he had shwn to the commissioners.
The vote of thanks having been unanimously adopted,
amidst the applause of the board,
The Chairman returned thanks, and expressed a hope,
that, whoever occupied the position he had done for the
next few years would not have more trouhle in keeping
order at the board than he had had, as ho had never expe-
rienced any difficulty.
The boarl then separated.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO MANCIIE,TEII.—The Queen, on
her visit to the Exhibition of Art Treasures at Manchester,
does, not visit the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, but
merely occupies Worseley Hall, the noble owner vacating
it during the period of her Majesty's sojourn. The Queen
will send down her own carriages, her own own horses, and
a portion of her own domestic household. It is Eupp a sed
her Majesty will visit Manchester during the first i.%eek
in July. or towards the middle of the month.--Curt

Journal.
A New VEGETABLE GREEN.—The attention of silk dyers
has of late been turned to a new kind of blueish green
imperted from China, and which produces a beautiful
effect by candle light. The composition of this green hes
tried the ingenuity of chemists, many of whom are now
engaged in seeking a substitute equal in quality, to this
Chinese produce, and offering the advantage of, a lower
price, since the original article is sold at the enormous rate
of 500 fr. per killogramme. M. de Montigny, French
consul in China, having received instructions Lorn the
Minister of Commerce to obtain information on the
subject, at length succeeded in obtaining, in 1854,
the seeds of the plant which produce this. green, and
sent them to Paris. This year the Chamber of Com-
merce, at Lyons, has received a valuable communi-
cation from Father Helot, a missionary in China,
on the cultivation of this plant, which he calls
the Rhan.has Si-nensia (ham.bi-10-za in Chinese). It is a
species of alder tree, rising to the height of from eight to
nine feet, and there is every reason to believe that the
colour in question may be obtained frora some plant of the
same family indigenous in France. 'sYith this. view the
Chamber of Commerce at Lyons has just offered a prize
of o,ooof for the discovery of a procfess by which the China
green may be produced at a cost net exceeding 100 f. per
kilogramme.
THE WINNER OF THE DERBY.—Blink Benny is a bay
mare, standing 15 hands 2!,- inches high. has a vary neat
lean head, rather wide ears, and good length of neck; is
very deep in the girth, and possesses beautiful oblique
shoulders, immense ribs, powerful quarter?, dropping a
little towards th.; tail, which is a thin "switch," with very
strong thighs, great bone, and large hocks and knees. She
has a white blaze in the fats running down towards the
nose, and one white fore fetlock joint. Her temper is
remarkably docile, and her appearance generally conveys
the idea of carrying with ease a great weight to hounds.
All sorts of insinuations were the ,wn out respecting,
Blink Bonny during the winter, and her fluctuations in
the betting at " the corner" gave rise to the belief that
she was a " safe 'ma" The true cause, however, we are
assured by her owner, WaS an attack of dentition fever,
brought on by the mare cutting her teeth." After Dot-
caster, where she was known to be a little " off," Blink
Bonny began to thrive wonderfully, and Mr. I'Anson left
her as well as possible (under the care of his son Robert,
who has always looked after her, and on most occasions
ridden her in public,) when he started to the Liverpool
Autumn Meeting last November, but on his return
from Shrewsbury, b.e found her amiss, and since
that period she had been regularly attended by twg
veterinary snrgeor.d. Previous to being brought out at
Newmarket she, could scarcely eat her corn, And „ a
matter of ccaase was in a thoroughly --
wishing to keep faith with the public, eak state, hut
-
good enough to win the Thousand, and thinkir,r her
P7ven in that condition,
Mr. I'Anson started the 14"'",—with what result our
readers are well acquainted Since then her teeth have
been rasped twice, and Bye has fed and done much better,
but even now cannot masticate a feed of corn without
considerabl9 difficulty.-.--Bell's. Life,

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LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF CO\IMERCE.

The monthly meeting of the coup cil was held yesterday,
John Ton, Esq., president, in the chair.

SUPPLY OF COTTON,

The recommendations of the free labour committee on
this subject were read and adopted. It was resolved to
call a puWic meeting for Friday, the 12th instant, to adopt
means for securing a more adequate supply of cotton for
the wants of the country.

ELECTION OF DIRECTORS.

On the motion'of Mr. Made, a special committee was
appointed to consider th;?, operation of the law regulating
the electron of directors, and in what manner it c'An be
improved.

CONTEMPLATED ALTERATIONS IN THE EXCHANGB
BUILDINGS•

e President was•requested to obtain information from
the Exchange Buildiuga Committee, regarding the con-
templatedalterations, with a view to co-operation in
rendering them as suitable as possible for the large wants
and new rrquirements of the commerce of the port.

Among tile communications were letters frotia the Board
of Trade, with a present of books for the use of the library,
and offers to forward to the chamber copies of all docu-
ments relating to commerce, pnbli led by that department :
ordered to be acknowledged with thanks. From several
Chambers of C Atruerce, on the the constitution and powers
of the Board of Trade : referred to the special committee.
Also, on the laws as:regards foreign debtors, and as affects
the responsibility of common carriers : referred to the
committee on commercial law.

THE NEW NISH SECRETARY.—The Freeman's Journa
says it is probable that Mr. Herbert Will be re-elected for
Kerry without opposition, as he is universally ppnlar in
the county.

We understand that the committee for Lloyd's at London,
have ai.pointel Samuel Lapthorn, Esq, their surveyor for
the north shore of New Brunswick, t) the supervision of
the ports in Nove-Scotia, situated on the Gulf-shore, i❑ ad-
dition to his other duties in New Brunswick, We believe
this arrangement has heen rude in
,accordance with the
wishes of the agent to underwriters residing at Pictou and
some of the priThripal ahipbuiLlers at New Glasgow, and
elsewhere, so as these ports in the Galf shore can enjoy
the came faciii:ies fir surrey and classification as the ports
en the north shore of New Brinswick out of Miramichi.

THE SHEDDCN CASE:— Lord Grey has given notice that
he will, on MOnday, the Bth of June, present a petition
from Mr."'W. P. R. Shed(len,complaining, among other things,
that by a decision of the Court o'? Session in Scotland, in
1803, and of the House of Lords in 1808, obtained in tis
infancy, he has ben deprivel of bis status of a natural
born subject of this realm and as the legitimate child of his
parents, and of the means of duly investigating in any
court of law the question of such status, and causing the
same to be recognised, and praying for such relief and
redress as to the house may seem meet ; and to move to refer
the said petition to a select committee.

THE CROWD LT THE DERBY.—There were probably
100,000 persons to be seen t;gether on the day of the
Derby. "Those wh ) witnessed that vast assemblage,"
says the Literary Gazette, " might form a more definite
idea of the number of men that were gathered on the bleak
plateau of Sebastopol during the seige. Not counting the
Russians within the wails, or on the north side, the
Englah, French, Sardinian, and Turkish armies numbered
twice as m !ny souls as th multitsde seen on Wednesday,
and it gives a vivid idea of the horrors of war to know that
the allies lost during the campaign as many us were then
assembled, while the losses of the Russians were at least
three times that amount. Thoughts like these may have
occurred to some spectators of the sports ; for here, as on
all such occasions, the people is the greatest show,' "
HAY PACKER.—We see by the Borderer that a resident
of Sackville has constructed a new machine for packing
hay. The constructor, a Mr. Willi irn King, in a letter to
our Sackville cotemporary, says—" Herewith please to
accept a specimen to show what may be done by applying
proper machinery to our staple article, hay. Tne density
is about 401bs to the cubic foot. The best American presses
giving from 10Ibs to 151bs to the cubic foot, seldom over
ten, and often not even eight. The large press 1 made a
year ago, and the one I made last fall, give from 15 to
2.01bs to the cubic foot, so that this last machine will save
at least cue half the expense in freight, which is the great
barrier in our way of getting to market with the article.
This machine is equal in power to the English hydraulic
press, and possesses the very great advantage that it may
be constructed by a common mechanic from the wool in
our fouesis, with the assistance of a little iron work,
which may be obtained in any blacksmith's shop, and at an
expense net over one half what the hydraulic presses cost,
while in working it is much more rapid, and less expen-
sive."—.New Brunswick Paper.
DISCOVERY OF A HUMAN SKELETON IN A CLERGYMAN'S
KITCGEN.—Under the brick floor of a kitchen in the
Vicarage of Egmanton, near Tuxford, occupied by the
Rev. Edward Younghusband, the vicar, has been dis-
covered the skeleton of a powerful-made man, six feet high,
laid only six inches beneath the surface. Upon an ex-
amination of the remains by Mr. Ward, a surgeon, it
appeared that the man had been murdered, for there was
a hole in the right hand side of the skull of the size of
half a crown, and one arm broken. The skeleton was
found laid on the back, with one arm under the body and
the other at the side ; and it is supposed to have been laid
there for thirty years or more. Tice vicarage was formerly
a farm-house, and was converted into the parsonage-house
about twenty years ago by its present proprietor, who has
been the occupier of it ever since. It is rather singular
that the servants who have lived with the rev. gentleman
have often told him the house was " haunted," but of course
he took little heed of their remarks. About thirty years
ago, a man from Egmanton was missed in a mysterious
manner, but no intelligence was ever gleaned on the subject,
although three men were taken into custodj at the time on
suspicion of having murdered him. Two of those men
are now dead. The missing man left home for Tuxford
fair and was never seen again, and the skeleton found
appears to be that of a man of his dimensions. The bones
were interred in the churchyard at Egmanton.
Socizax FOR THIS DIFFUSION' OF PURE LITERATURE.—
On Friday evening a conversazione, promoted by the above
society, took place at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St.
James. A fashionable company of about 500 persons
were present. The Earl of Shaftesbury presided, and
amensr those present were—Lord Polwarth, the Bishop of
Ruper's Lieu, Mr. Hanbury, M.P., Countess of Mayo,
Hon. A Kinnaird, M.P-, Mr. C. Moody, M.P., Dr.
Camming and a large number of clergymen. Addresses
upon the importance of the diffusion of cheap and pure
literature were delivered by the Earl of Shaftesbury, the
hon. secretaries, Messre. J. M'Gregor, and Mr. G. H.
Oliphant, Mr. Hanbury, M.P., the Rev. Mr. Ridley, and
otaers: Information was given respecting the greatly
increasing' circulation of useful and entertaing periodicals
(spcirnens of several cf them were freely exhibited
throughout, the rooms) ; and the company were congratu-
lated by 31'Gregor upon the conviction (brought about
by a kindred: society to their own) of a person who had,
in opposition to the law, circulated impure and immoral
publications, to the injury of all persona into whose
possession they heel unfortunately fallen. The importance
of promoting book hawking societies were also adverted
to; and the claims of the society for support having been
clearly brought before the assembly, thanks were voted
to the chairman, awl the company separated at a late
hour.

Aet EXTRAORDI,NAM SWINDLER. —At the Leek petty
sessions, on Wednesday, Thomas Fox, of Watford, late
a soldier in the Dist regiment, was charged with a series
of frauds of an exlaoselinary character. He had found
his way to Leek last October, lodged with ;he wife of a
mason named Gould, gave his name as Walter Graham,
represented himself as the son of a rich man at Waiver-
hampt,m, and stated that he had an annuity of £lB4,
besides £l,OOO io the beak. He was to be married to a
Miss. Rogers ' • aed, with Geuld's assistance, secured
a hense for himself and hie bride, employing a Mr. Need-
ham to repair it. He had a pew fitted up in the Primative
Methodist chapel; bought,goods at a furniture shop, with
Rooney furnished him by Mrs. Gould ; and proceeded to
Manchester, a few days after, in that lady's company, Mrs.
Gould lending him £l2 10s, for the purpose. Arrived
here, the prisoner purchased a gold ring and other
articles ; and at a shop in Piccadilly, bought caskets,
glass, paper macho, and other ,ornaments—in all, to the
value of £205 14e. They were ordered to be packed up
and addressed " Walter Graham, Esq., Rosebank,
Leek" In Oldham-street he ordeml goods to the tune
of £2B, and carpeting, &C., in Market-street, to the
amount of £2O 18s, paying a deposit of £4 lent by his
gullible landlady. A bride cake weighing 421 b was ordered
in the same street. Oa his retutru to Leek, a cabinet
maker got an order for furniture to the value of £250.
TAors, spirit dealers, cigar dealers, and numerous others,
he tonoured with his patronage, and, in many instances,
the goods were unhesitatingly forwarded without they pay-
ment. of rash. His discovery was thus brought about. He
bid gone to Wolverhampton, in company with a Leek
resident, under pretence of fetching his bride, and getting
big' money from the hank. In the streets of Wolvmhampton,
a -tolice constable pounced upon him, as a person he had
been seeking for some time, ou a charge of felony. On
iliart' charge he was committed, tried, and punished, his
seiirronce expi,ing on Monday last. On his release fro
Stanford gaol he was at once apprehended, to answer for
hi,PLeek proceedings. The depositions of M. Gould,
and the various parties swindled by him, having been
completed, he was forreelty committed for r i al. It may
be stated that, a1the7.71.. sundry Manchester shopkeepers
were persuaded into teeing such large orders from a total
stranger, their goods were not actually forwarded, infor-
mation having reached them from Leek in time to expose
the swindle.

THE LIVERPOOL BURIAL BOARD.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Burial Board took
place in the Board-room of the workhouse, at half-past
ten o'clock yesterday. Mr. J. R. Jeffery presided, and the
other members present were Messrs. Woodruff, Jackson,
Thornby, Corbally, and Bairs.tow.
The proceedings of the Lands' Committee contained the
following letter :

North John.street, 19th May, 1857.

My Daar Sir,—Mr. LACe has made me a proposition that, for the
future, this burial ground shall be placed under the management of
a committee of ten members :-
5 to be proprietors and graveowners, chosen by the proprietors.
3 to be graveowners, chosen by the Liverpool Burial Board,
1 the chairman of the Liverpool Burial Board.
1 the Deputy-Chainuan.

The committee for thi3 year will be ehoien by the committee I ra-

present.

Mr. Luc assures me there is n) legal obstacle. to the formation of
this committee so far as the Necropolis Company are concerned, and
I wish to have the like assurance from you, thst there is no legal
difficulty as far as the Liverpool Burial Bari is concerned.

We should stipulate that the Chairman and Deouty-Chairman of
the Burial Board should hold the like offices in the committee. I
have not yet submitted this proposal to my committee, as I don't wish
to trouble them with anything that cannot be legally carried out.
The freehold of the land would still remain vested in the trustees.
We hive, in flct, no legal power to co-n;:el as altera,tim of the trust
but feel that, if SOlll3 independent parties can be introduced into t' e
management, there will be no fear of any recurrence of the past in •
decency.

Will you favour me with an early reply?-
To Enoch Harvey, Esq.

'—l ours tral;,
FRED. S. HULL

Nor .h John-street, 27th May, 1857.

Dear Sir,—We are v.ry anxious to k❑ow if the Chairman and
Deputy-Chairman of your Board will consent to act as two of the
committee for the regulation of this burial ground —Yours truly,
To Enoch Harvey, Esq. FLETCHER & HuLL.
Some conversation arose in reference to this letter. Mr.
Jackson and other members conceiving that there might
be an objection to haviag the chairman and deputy-chair-
man of the Burial Board, bound to act in such a capacity
to the Necropolis Committee. Mr. Jackson finally pro-
posed the following resolution :
"That this board agree to the application communicated by Messrs
Fletcher and Hall, if the same be altered as follows, via.:—The three
graveowners elected by this board not to bo proprietors, and instead
of the chairman and deputy chairman of this board occupying the
likeoffice in the proposed committee, two mambers of this board to
be chosen by this board, be mambers of the proposed committee."

Mr. Bairstow seconded the resolution, which iTas agre;cl
to.

Mr. Jackson moved that the ordnance map of Liverpool
be procured for the use of the board, which was seconded
by Mr. Woodruff, and agreed to.
The Clerk, Hr. llarvey, mentioned that Mr. flollaad
the government inspector, had stated during his recent
visit, hat is was art erroneous idea to suppose cemeteries
necessarily anhealthy. On the contrary, he stated that a
cemetery properly laid out and kept under judicious
regulations, would be a very great improvement to a
neighbourhood, and a vary soitablo adjunct to a public
park. It was mentioned to Mr. Holland that there was a
piece of land purchased by the corporation of Liverpool,
three or four miles fro:n the town, for the purpose of
making a public park, and which was not yet laid oat.
On hearing this, Mr. Holland .suggested that if the Burial
Board could get, say 100 acres at the furthest end from
Liverpool, and have 50 acres laid out for immediate burials,
and the other 50 as a park, it would be a very desirable
and advantageons arrangement.
Mr. Jackson stid such a thing was done in other pits
of the kingdom.

Mr. Weo—drnff urged the commLtee to bear in mind, in
the selection of a site, that most of the churchyards, and
nearly ail the burial grounds attached to chapels were now
closed. If the new ground were taken at a great distance
it would be a very serious burihen upon the middle
classes of the community, upon clerks and others
having only small salaries, to have to pay the ex-
pense of going five or six miles out of the town. He
thought it rather unfair, that when on the score of public
health all the local burial places for the public were closed,
the very classes who required these places more than any
other should be forced into heavy additional expense.
He thought the town ought to bear in som•: way, out of
some public fund, a portion of the expense thus entailed on
the poorer classes.

Air. Jackson : We can do so. I can show you scales of
charge where nothing at all is charged to the poorest.
The Chairman : It is quite a question of detail.
The ordinary business having been disposed of, the board
adjourned.

YORKSHIRE AssizEs.—A commission has been for smne
time sitting in London, to inquire into, and determine, what
course should be adopted in reference to the application,
that instead of the whole of the Yorkshire assizes being
held at York, the West Riding ceases, being the largest
number of those tried at the assizes, should be heard
More the judges on the northern circuit, either at Leeds
or Wak€field. More recently the town of Hull has made
a claim for a portion of the Last Riding and Lincolnshire
cases to be tried in Hull, and had these suggestions been
accede 4 to, the assizes in the city of York would virtually
have been abolished. It is rumoured, however, that owing
to the representation which has been made on the subject,
there is little, if any, probability of the present arrange.
ment being interfered with.

EMIGRATION FROM SWEEDEN. —About a month ago fen
railway carriages, filled with between three and four hun-
dred Swedish and Norwegian emigrants, arrived at the
Retford station en route from Grimsby for Liverpool,
thence per ship for America; and on Sunday morning last,
the same number of carriages, with about the same number
of occupants, arrived agaiu at Retford, on the same route
and the same errand. On both these occasions the emi-
grants were accompanied by the mates of the vessels in
which they had respectively sailed from their fatherland to
England, also a custom-house officer, and four overseers
or overlookera. The emigrants themselves, by their dress,
were apparently of a better class than usually amongst
emigrants, and we cannot help thinking that there must
" something rotten in the state of Sweden, &a.," when
families like these are compelled by necessity to leave the
land of their birth to seek for an asylum and a home in a
far distant land, where they are unknown, bat where, with
industry, they will earn a comfortable subsistence, which
it would appear they were unable to obtain at home.
Nottingham Journal.

FINS BY DEGREES AND BEAUTIFULLY LESS.—The report
of the board of inland revenue upon the Chancellor's pet
tax, the paper duty, fairly chuckles over its revenue from
the picketed mills of the United Kingdom. The ease with
which their oracge is sucked is pleasant to their taste, and
they especially rejoice that a duty, varying from 10 to 100
per cent., imposes no burden on the trade. Yet they
publish a most damning piece of evidence against them-
selves, in the number of licences yearly taken out for a
long series of years by paper makers. Taking these for
&gland during the last twenty years, we find that in
1835, there were 521 licences, and in 1840, 374. The
number had further declined in 1846 to 368, and in 1850
to 335 ; while in the last year the number had fallen to
321. Two hundred mills " snuffed out" in just twenty
years. Macaulay's New Zealander coming to the site of
the Royal Exchange, could not have realised a more deso-
late and striking change, than is implied in these silenced
wheels and ruined manufactories. The same hand has
struck down mills in Scotland and Ireland, especially in
the latter, the licences being 94 in 18.35, *gaunt 28 in
18551 We defy any man to take any of oar manufactures,
not under the garotte of the inland revenue, and say of it
that its statistics are even stationary, far less actually
showing a decline.
THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT INCE.—Two other deaths
have occurred from the explosion on Tuesday, viz., Samuel
Yates and John Jollie, both boys. There are, thus far,
seven deaths in all from this disaster. The number of
colliers employed at the time of the explosion was consi-
derably below the average, in consequence of " Wigan
Pleasure Fair" having been held on the previous day.
The inquest was held on Thursday, but only one witness
was examined, John Nuttall, a collier, who said that no
gas had been observed in the pit for along time ; and on
the day of the explosion he noticed notihng different from
usual. The fire appeared to occur about 400 yards from
the pit mouth. Mr. Iligson, the inspector, had been busy
making an inspection of the mine at the request of the
coroner. On Thursday evening, inquests were held
on the bodies of Yates and Jollie, which were also
adjourned. Both the firemen were on duty at the
time of the explosion. The general arrangements
of the colliery are said to be excellent, and all the
pits belonging to the Sirkless Hall Company are remark-
able for their freedom from serious accidents. A man
named George Ellison, of Factory Fold, had the presence
of mind to throw himself flat on his face, and so escaped
serious injury. The violence of the explosion forced him
along, and so produced an abrasion of the skin, but beyond
this he is but slightly injured. It is remarkable, also, that
in the case of the men killed, they are all "blown," but not
"burned." A collier named Rosbottam,
whose place of
work is situated in that part of the mine where the effects
of ,!'he explosion were most powerful, was absent from his
employment under singular circumstances. He had
renaested.a fellow workman to call him in the morning,
and on boos so called, said he should not go to work that
inghad come across his mind that he had
therefore remained at home, and by
means of this rev'," presentiment escaped almost certain
betterda for
nos°t7tF i thing
death.