Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-17 00:00:00

AMUSEMENTS.

NEW CONCERT Room, ST. GEORGE'S HALL. —HOW is it
so few persons know anything of this elegant hall ? The
question is answered at once—the price fixed by the
Council precluded all possibility of speculation. We
perceive, however, two concerts are announced for the
21st—morning and evening—for which occasion we hear
the Council have reduced the price, in order to give the
public an opportunity of hearing some good music in this
gem of a hall. The Brousil Family, so deservedly eulo.
gised by all the press, and patronised by the Queen on
several occasions, are to favour us with their delightful
strains. To those who are not acquainted with the ability
displayed by this family, we wish to tell them all about
I'. It is a family of six—three boys and three girls—who
play different stringed instruments—violin=, violas, and
violincellos. They perform the most difficult trios, guar_
Letts, &c., of the great masters Beethoven, Haydn, and
Mozart, with the most perfect facility, and the daughter
Bertha executes solos on the violin with the mastery of
an Ernst or Tiveri. We are indebted to Mr. Hime for
this treat, and we hope he will be rewarded by full
houses. The price of admission is only 3s, and it may be
as well to state, that this is the only day upon which these
artistes can appear in Liverpool.

VISIT OF THE. KING OF THE BELGIANS

TO MANCHESTER.

The special train, with His Majesty the King of the
Belgians and suite, left Euston-square Station, on Wed-
nesday, at half-past one, for Manchester. The Marquis
of Stafford and Lord A. Paget proceeded on the royal
train to Rugby station, and Mr. Fairbairn, chairman of
the executive committee, accompanied the royal visit from
London to Manchester. The train was due at C! ewe at
5.40, and passed that station one minute after the time
stated in the special table, reaching Manchester precisely
at half-past six o'clock. A large crowd had assembled
outside the station, and a number of priviliged persons
were stationed on the platform. The reporters for the
public press obtained admission to the station yard with
considerable diffieulty, only to discover that they were
to be prevented from performing their duties by the
violence and vulgar impertinence of police officers,
whose chief aim seemed to be to give facilities to
their friends for seeing what took place at the arrival, and
to obstruct, with no little violence, those who had to per-
form au arduous task for the public benefit. One officer,
C 39, made himself particularly conspicuous in his
determination to thwart the press in their efforts to glean
information of public interest. In the matter of preserv-
ing order the police were certainly useless, and even worse
than useless, for the only result of their presence on the
platform was a scene of indescribable disorder, produced
by the physical force arguments they adopted for several
minutes, without rebuke from their superiors—we allude
to the superintendents. Owing to the above-named
causes, we ate unable to state by whom his majesty was
received, but we noticed on the platform, a few moments
before the royal train arrived, the Mayor of Manchester,
the Town-clerk, General Sir Harry Smith, with his aides
de-camp, Captain Crawley and Captain Fargo, J. C.
Deane, Esq., Edward Tootal, Esq., and Captain Palma,
chief constable. Two royal carriages, which had arrived
on the previous evening, were in the station yard to
receive the illustrious visitors, and also the Mayor's
carriage and other vehicles. The train having come to a
stand, we believe the Mayor and Town-elerk entered the
first carriage ; the King of the Belgians the Count de
Flandres, and the Princess Charlotte the second, and the
suite the third, in which order they drove to the Queen's
Hotel. We understand that the suite consists of M.
Van de Weyer, the Belgian Ambassador, the Countess de
Goe, Capt. Burnett, Major-Geueral Cust, Madame Bevie,
Colonel Moerkerke, and Dr. Rager. As the royal cortege
was leaving the station yard, a hearty cheer was raised,
which was taken up and continued along the line of route
to the Queen's Hotel. When His Majesty reached the
Queen's, the Belgian standard was hoisted at the top of
the hotel, and the royal standard appeared at the east
end. An immense crowd of spectators had assembled in
front of the Queen's, and evinced a great anxiety to see
His Majesty, who graciously gratified the curiosity of the
crowd by appearing on the balcony in front of the build-
ing. The Princess Charlotte and Count de Flandres also
appeared on the balcony, and the royal trio were received
with frequent outbursts of applause, which the royal
visitors acknowledged several times, and then retired to
their apartments. The King and suite were to leave
Manchester for London at half-past six o'clock this
morning (Friday), by special train, which will be due at
Euston-square at half-past eleven o'clock.

A HINT.—A. correspondent writes :—" At the Methodist
conference, which will shortly bold its sittings at Liver-
pool, there will attend two delegates from the American
Methodist Episcopal Church, and as, according to the
appeal from the Leeds Young Men's Anti-Slavery Society,
this church has one thousand slaveholding members, it
scams to me that the only course open to the English
Methodists to pursue, without a sacrifice of principle, is
to do as the Leeds young rpen recommend, viz , to refuse
to receive the representatives of slaveowners."
TICE LIVERPOOL DRINKING FOUNTAINS.—A respected
correspondent sends us the following—" It may perhaps
be interesting to know that, by statistics taken on the 14th
instant, at the granite fountain lately erected in Smithdown-
lane (oppositc Milner's patent safe works), the number of
persons drinking water there, between half-past five a.m.
and nine p.m., was found to be 1,679, without counting
about sixty persons who filled dinner-cans or jugs there in
the course of the day. This result proves, beyond a doubt,
the necessity of increasing the number of these fountains,
not only in the neighbourhood of the docks, but also in all
the populous outskirts of the town."
This morning, between the hours of four and five o'clock,
a fire broke out in a shed at Mr. Clantrell's Cement and
Piaster Works, situate on the Great Float, Wallasey.
The'damage was confined to a long shed and the cooperage,
where a large quantity of casks ware stowed. The
foreman's cottage also caught fire, and two children had
a narrow escape of their lives, the bed and bedding being
in flames when they were rescued. Had not the fire
engine of Messrs. Bibby and Co. promptly arrived on the
spot, and the valuable assistance rendered by their men,
and those of George Thomson and Co., Contractors,
nothing could have saved the whole of the stock and
valuable machinery, The loss is covered by insurance in
the Guardian Fire office.
THE LATE DOUGLAS JERROLD.—The members of the
Liverpool Literary and Dramatic Society, are about to make
an effort in aid of the general object to raise a fund, for
the purpose of commemorating, in some manner, the
services rendered to letters and to humanity by the late
Douglas Jerrold. An amateur • performance by the
members of this society is about to take place for the
purpose we have mentioned, in the Theatre Royal, on the
night of Wednesday, the 12th of August. The society
will produce two of Jerrold's most popular dramas,
" Time Works Wonders," and " The Rent Day." We
have hut little faith generally in the amateur performances
of any kind as objects of public display, and are not very
much inclined to bespeak popular favour for exhibitions in
regard to which criticism is supposed to be disarmed be-
cause of the unprofessional character of the performer•.
Nevertheless, we cannot help giving opt: approval to a
purpose so worthy as the present. We hope the society
may prove their effort to be fulls deserving of public
favour, and worthy to be en7:iged in such an object. And
we need hardly express Yj hope that a thorough apprecia-
tion of the object nity.7.De evinced by the public. The pen
of the late Douglas Jerrold was always employed on
behalf of e? oration, progress, and humanity. No man
ever had a higher aim in what he wrote, or kept to it
more kteadily. We must approve of every effort whirl;
tcnads to do honour to the memory of such a life:

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.

THE WEST INDIES.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY NIGHT.

The Royal Mail Steamer Orinoco, with the mails
from the West Indies, arrived here this evening.
The news is not of any importance.
She brings 022,551 dollars in specie, and 168

passengers.
Seventy cases of yellow fever occurred amongst
her crew, of which twenty-eight proved fatal.
None of the passengers were infected.
The dates by this arrival are—Greytown, June
19; Nassau, 13 , Colon, 23; Trinidad and Deme-
rara, 25; Barbadoes, 27, and Porto Rico, 29.
At St. Thomas yellow fever raged violently
amongst the shipping, and the number of deaths
unusually large.
Other islands generally healthy.
From Jamaica the mining news favourable.
The canes at Tobago were looking well for next
year's crop. Business very dull.
Yellow fever was raging amongst the shipping
at Martinique. Crops looking well.