The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-21 00:00:00

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TIOST, on Saturday, a Gentleman's DIAMOND
RING. Whoever finds the same, and will bring it
to the Albion newspaper office, will be rewarded.

BANQUET IN ST. GEOIiG,o,'S HALL—
All Persons havinz CLAIMS against the Committee
of Management, are requested to send in the same to Mr. Weight-
man's office. Town,j3ali.

THE Members of. the Medical ProfesSion, who
aro desirous of attending the FUNERAL of the Late
ROBERT BICKERSTETtI, ESQ , are invited to wsernble
at the Medical liatitation, Mon it pleasant, To-atoaaow
(Wednesday), the 22nd inotant, at 9.10. •
April 21, 1857. J. CAMERON. M.D., Hon. Sec.

ARISH OF LIVERPOOL

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Polling upon the Motions
and Amendments, which were proposed at the Annual General Vestry
on Easter Tuesday last, was CLOSED at a Quarter to Three
o'clock This Afternoon, no Vote having been tendered during the
previous half-hour, the following being the result of the poll :
Majority for
the motions.

For the following Motions. Per. VoteS. Per. Votes.
Mr. Thomas Smith, as overseer 1488..2978 558..1125
Win. Taylor, as select vestryman 1493..90 5 5 3.. 1197
S. Richardson, as select vestryman 1496.. 3915 581.. 1210
A- Jas. Chesney, as select vestryman 1495.. 3)12 574.. 1193
John M. Syers, as sel et vestryman 14 t 6.. 3016 576 1218
Ed. Williams, as select vestryman 1492.. 3004 563..1185

For the following Amendments. Per. Votes
T. IL Satchell, as overseer, instead of Mr. Smith ....930.. 1853
R. Holmes, as select vestryman instead of Mr. Taylor 920 .. 1818
George Nicksoo, as select vestryman instead of Mr.
Eicharson
Edward Byford, as select vestryman instead of Mr.
Chesnev....• •— . .
Alfred Whittle, as select vestryman- instead of Mr.
..920.. 1808
Thomas Smith, as select vestryman instead of Mr.
Edward Williams 923..1819
CHARLES HART, Vestry Clerk.

Liverpool, April 20. 1857

TIIVERP9OI, SUNDAY . SCHOOL AND
• LITERARY INSTITUTE.
MR. J. GADSBY,
Author of '• Wanderings in the East," who has recently returned
from his Fourth Tour in Egypt, &c., will deliver his highly
interesting and instructive
COURSE OF LECTURES
" ON

"EGYPT AND THE BIBLE,"
IN THE LECTURE ROOll OF THE
LIVERPOOL INSTITUTE, MOUNT STREET,

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TUESDAY Evening, APRIL 21st, at Half-past Seven,
Rev. T. DAFFLICS, D D., L.L D., in the Chair.
WEDNESDAY Evening, APRIL 22, at Half-past Seven.
C.. ROB satsost, Eso., in the Chair.
The course.of these Lectin es will be illustrated by upwards of
twenty persons. who will be dretsel in Eastern costume, (includi. g
Turks and Egyptians, niale and female, the Bedouins of the Desert,
&c.,) and the garments, ornaments, &c., captained as they b.ar
relation to the Bible.

The Lectures will also be entire :eci by a variety of anecdotes and
recitals, and the exhibition of a number of w,rlike arms, implements,
palm fabrics, fragments of mammies, bot,les. sandals, t.otsherds,
gods, tablets, lattices, sackcloth, agricultural productions, Pharaonic
and other Egyptian bricks, and many other curiosities, ancient and
modern illustrating the manners and customs of the Orientals, and
throwing light on some seemingly ambiguous passages of the
Sacred Word.

Practical Illustrations will also be given of the Duties of the
Oriental Slave; the Easterni Bowing to the harth ; Patting on the
Neck; the Bastinado; Sitting in Presence of a Superior; Taking up
the Bei ; Arabs at Meals ; Washing before Eating; Pouring Water ;
Grinding Corn—the Upper and Nether Millstones; Frilling tie
Bosom; Waiting at the Thresho'd; Whirling and Howling Der-
vishes,&c., &c..; afforoing aMusemtwit as well as instruction.
• Everything Sectarian is strictly excluded.
Tickets may be obtained at Messrs. Smyth, Bold street, and Berry
street; Mr A. Reid, Ranelagh street; and Mr. Gabriel Thompson.
London-road.

Admission—Reserved Seats, 1.., Unreserved Seats, 6d. each Lee-
tule ; or 2s. for the Course. Children under fifteen, Ha,f-price.
Members of the Sunday Schoal aril Literary Institute and
Llve,pcol Institute admitted Free. Checks to be obtained trom the
Secretaries.

JAMES PERKINS, Secretary.

March 26, 1857.

A T a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the
lA_ LIVERPOOL SHIPOWNERS' ASSOCIATION,
held the 17th day of April, 1857,

PRERENT.
S. R. GRAVES, ESQ., IN THE CHAIN.,
81c., &c.,
The following Report of Mr. MONDEL, a Member of the Associa-
tion, nominated by that bscly to the Commit•,€e appointed by the
Board of Trade to frame a New Cole of Signals to be used at Sea,
was read,—and Mr MONDEL, who Lttencle.d, fully explained the
New Systrm.