Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-18 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIME-8, WEDNESDAY,-.MAY 18, 1859

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—On Monday next, the Grand
May Fete takes place.
CORONER'S INQUESTS.—The Deputy-Coroner held the
following inquests, yesterday :—On the body of William
Godriff, 22 years old, who was a revenue boatman. lie
was found drowned in the Salisbury Dock. How he came
there, there was no evidence to show. Verdict, "Found
drowned." There were two inquests on children that were
overlain, and the jury found verdicts accordingly.
WEST DERBY OMNIBUSES.—SORIO of the finest gig
horses ever seen under omnibuses, were yoked to the West
Derby vehicles, yesterday. The animals attracted much
attention, and looked altogether more like the splendid
turn-out of a first-class noleman than that of a public
conveyance.

RESCUE OF A CREW BY AV AYR SHIPS—The following
is an extract of a letter from Captain Shanks, of the barque
Abbey Craig, of Ayr, at Queenstown, from Cardenas :
" I picked up the crew, seven in number, of the William
Stanley, of Liverpool, from Matanzas for Cork." This is
the second crew Captain Shanks has saved within the last
few years.

AitERICAN GRATITUDE.-At an ordinary meeting of the
Local Marine Board of the port of London, held on
Thursday, Mr. Henry Green in the chair, Captain
Colin Shearer, of the brig Mary, of Greenock, last

from Queenstown for London, attended to receive a hand-
some gold chronometer and chain, awarded by the American
Government for services rendered in saving some of the crew
of the Central American steam-ship. The following letter to
the Foreign Office from the American Minister was read :
" The undersigned, &c., has the honour to transmit to the
Earl Malmesbury, &c., a gold chronometer and chain, which
the President desires to present to Captain Colin Shearer,
of the British brig Mary, of Greenock. It has been officially
communicated to the American Government that in the
month of September, 1857, nine days after the foundering
of the steamship Central America on her voyage from.
Havanah for New York, three of? the men belonging to
that ill-fated vessel were picked up in an open boat by
Captain Shearer, were treated with great kindness and hos-
pitality, and were subsequently transferred to the Bremen
barque Laura, on board of which they were enabled
to arrive safely at New York. The undersigned
has been specially instructed to express 'to Her
Majesty's Government the high "sense entertained
by the Government, _of the United States of the
humane and generoui spirit 'exhibited. by .the conduct of
Captain Shearer, and to request that the Earl of Malmes-
bury will have the goodness to cause to be conveyed to him
the accompanying testimonials of the President's acknow-
ledgements and approbation.—(Signed) G. M. DALLAS.—
Legation of the United States, London." The Chairman,
in a few' appropriate remarks, presented the testimonial,
and Captain Shearer made a suitable reply.
COMPLIMENTARY ENTERTAINMENT. —We have great
pleasure in recording an event that seldom occurs in the
history of mankind, the commemoration of which was
celebrated on Saturday evening last, at the Sefton Arms,
Hotel, West Derby, by a few select friends, when an
exceedingly pleasant and instructive evening was spent on
the occasion; which was for the purpose of doing honour to
Mr. Alexander Murray, the foreman of the highly respect-
able firm of Messrs. Joseph Fletcher and Co., tobacco
manufacturers, Fleet-street, who the day previously had
completed his fiftieth year of servitnde in the same concern.
One of the Messrs. Fletcher kindly undertook to preside on
the occasion, and was ably supported in the vice-chair by
Mr. Sampson Moore, engineer, &c. After the usual toasts
of " The Queen and Royal Family," " Town and Trade of
Liverpool," &c., Mr. Fletcher, in a very kind, able, and
feeling manner, proposed " The Health of their worthy
Foreman," expatiating on the excellent way he had so
long fulfilled the position that he then held, and
considering him as .one of themselves, more than as a
party in their -employ. It is scarcely necessary to say that
the friends around the festive board did due honour to the
toast, which was responded to by Mr. 'Murray, in the same
spirit that it had been proposed. After several songs, glees,
toasts, &c., the party broke up in good time, being deter-
mined that the "evening's enjoyment should bear the
morning's reflections," and wended their way to their

respective homes, artier spending one of the most pleasant
and agreeable evenings imaginable. The fact of a party
occupying a prominent position in one establishment, for the
lengthened' period of 50 years, with credit to himself, and
to the satisfaction of his employers, as well as of his fellow
labourers, is an event that so-seldom occurs, that no apology
need be required for publicly reporting it.
MACHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SbCIETY.—
The local committee appointed for the purpose of raising a
fund for the giving of handsome special prizes, and other-
wise aiding the society at its forthcoming exhibition of live
stock, &c., in this town in September next, again met
yesterday, in the Town-halt, in the Mayor's parlour. His
Worslip, William Preston, Esq., presided. The meeting
was convened principally for the purpose of receiving
further donations, either received or promised. These,
after the usual preliminary business, were read to the
meeting by the honorary secretary, Mr. T. B. Ryder, and
amounted to £64 17s, a sum which included donations from
the Earl of Ellesmere, the Marquis of Salisbury, John
Shaw Leigh, Esq., Thomas Weld Blundell, Esq., John
Knowles, jun., Esq., and others. This amount, added to
the donatins previously announced, gave a total of £558 16s
as the sum subscribed up to the present time.
Various points as to future proceedings, and especially
as to the necessity for continued exertions, were discussed,
and it was resolved, with reference to many parties who had
not yet subscribed, and from whom it was thought subscrip-
tions and returns might reasonably be expected, should now
be respectfully invited to give their countenance and
support. It was stated that each donor would receive two
show-yard admission tickets, and be entiled to other con-
siderable privileges. It was determined that the- subscrip-
tions hitherto should be advertised in certain local'
papers. The name's of Mr. William- Roscoe, of Kirkby,
and Mr. William Brown, of Temple-court, were added to
the committee of management. The next meeting was then
fixed for Wednesday, the 15th June next, in the hope that
that day would prove convenient for the attendance' of
members generally, and that by then a considerable increase
would he made to the list of subscriptions.
' LIVEPIEJOL PHILHARMONIC SOCrETY.—The eighth concert
of this session of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, being
their second undress concert, took place last night, and
was, on the who'e, very successful. Miss Hiles, Miss C.
Hiles, Mr. Mason, and Mr. Armstrong were the principal
singers. A very varied programme had been arranged,
commencing with "Spring," the first part of Haydn's
Seasons, of which the latter part was very well given.
Then followed "A Serenade" for eight wind instruments,
by Mozart, which was very characteristic of the master,
and though very difficult, very well played. The performers
were Messrs. Jennings and Pim upon the oboe, Grosse and
Stubbs on the clarionet, Walters and Farmer on the
bassoon, and Wickets and Edwards on the horn.
Mr. Mason then sung a song by Beethoven, "0 !
beauteous daughter of the starry race." . A chorus
from Handel's Alexander's feast, " The many rend the
skies," followed; and the band concluded the first part by
performing Mendelssohn's overture to the Midsummer
Night's Dream. The second part opened with Bethoven's
overture to Leonora. Miss Hiles then sung Bishop's " Bid
me discburse" 'so well, that she elicited an enthusiastic
encore. The chorus sang Mefidelssohn's four-part song,
' Now morning advancing." Miss Hiles and Mr. Mason
snag the beautiful duet from Spohi's Jessonda, " Fairest
Maiden," in which Miss Hiles achieved a great triumph,
throwing a soul into the music, and manifesting a power of
dramatic expression which hitherto has been the only defect
in her singing. She has now a great opening before her. The
fine tone and great power of her voice afford her every
opportunity for the display of any amount of expression,
and she has only to give full vent to her feeling
to become a fine singer. She has also a very
good shape. Mr. Mason was not sufficiently
brilliant in either quality of voice and style of execution to
keep up to the level of his fair companion in the duet. It
would otherwise have been the gem of the evening. Mr.
Thomas and Mr. Streather then played Labarre and
De Beriot's duet concertante for harp and.violin, on themes
from Masaniello, by Auber. Both performers did justice
to their parts, which were very brilliant, especially the last
movement for the harp. Weber's quartett from Oberon,
" Over the dark blue waters," and the overture to La Nozze
di Figaro concluded an excellent concert, which was scarcely
as well attended as it should have been

BARON DE CAMIN'S LECTURE.—Yesterday Baron de Camin
delivered one of a course of lectures in the Teutonic Hall,
Lime-street, the subject for last evening being the "Jesuits."
The attendance in the body of the hall was very limited,
Ibut the gallery was pretty well filled. The lecturer came on
the platform and commenced by saying that before he en-
: tered on the lecture he wished to say a word in regard
to his past lectures. Some men had, in the public
prints, taken the liberty of criticising his language, but
he. would give a challenge to the editors of those
very papers to go with him to London, and deliver a lecture
tu.500 or 600 Frenchmen in their own language, and give
them satisfaction, and then he would give the editors full
liberty to criticise his English. But he did not come to
England to wage war with Papists, but with the system.
He hated the system, and he could not do otherwise, for the
priests of Rome were a corporate body of villains. He would
prove that to be a fact, and challenge any priest to meet
him on the platform, which he had never been able to get
during his six and a-half years as a lecturer, and if any
priest would prove that what he said was not true, he would
allow them to take him before any tribunal, and treat him
as a scoundrel. The Pope of Rome was an incarnate devil,
and the church of Rome could not be the church of Christ.
If a Roman Catholic had plenty of money the priest called
him a very good citizen, and when he died be would pray
for his release from purgatory, but if he had no money he
might go to the devil. The Jesuits were spies for the Pope
and of the present Napoleon, which he would call " Napoleon
the Little." The confession-box was an electric machine,
that spread from the women who entered it to their hus-
bands and their children; and, he said, Englishmen were
wrong in granting L 30,000 to educate a den of vipers,
which they had done in the grant to Maynooth. He defied
any papist to prove that he was baptised, that he was con-
firmed, that he was married, or any priest that he was
ordained, or consecrated, 'or that the Host was
consecrated. He then went through a long form
of oath which, he said, was taken by all Jesuits, in
which they agreed to commit all manner of abominations
and murder, if necessary, for the advancement of the cause.
He went on to denounce Cardinal. Wiseman and the
Emperor of France in the strongest language at his com-
mand, and enpassant cautioned Ills audience against trusting
to Liberal journals, as tlie proprietors, editors, and
reporters were all Jesuits 'k.?). Some police-officers were
posted outside the dour to prevent disturbance.