The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-06 00:00:00

THE ABOLITION OP GRBgNPTICH FAIR.

A numerous meeting was held, on Wednesday. evening, in
the large room of the Greenwich Railway Terminus, for the
purpose of considering the steps that could be taken to coun-
teract a memorial that had been sent to Sir George Grey a
few days previously, for the purpose of abolishing Greenwich
Fair. The. Chairnian (Mr. Townsend) observed that the
cause of their assembling was one of vital importance to every
shopkeeper in the town, and of equal import to every workman,
who was, pent up in back attics, underground kitchens, and
workshops, and looked upon Greenwich Fair as affording them
annual relaxation froth their daily toil. During-Greenwich
Fair 100,000 persons a day came into the town, and caused
the expenditure of £20,000 a year among the shopkeepers and
others,; therefore, it behoved them to take care that their
rights wore not encroached upon. (Hear) The abolition of
Greenwich Fair would result in the ruin of many persons who
looked upon those fairs as the only time for making the money
to pay their rent and taxes. The Chairman, in conclusion,
submitted a memorial to the meeting, which stated that the
tradespeople generally considered the abolition of the fair as a
gross encroachment on their rights. Mr. Robinson proposed
the adoption of the memorial, which he believed would bear
ten times the number of signatures obtained to the one
already forwarded to S'r George Grey. Mr. Brierly seconded
the resolution. Other gentlemen present addressed the meet-
ing, and the resolution was ultimately adopted.

Paris is shortly to have two Mohammedan PrVessors'
chairs. The Turkish government is going to send there
two of its most disanguisbed scholars—Hussein Efendi and
Suleiman Erendi, who intend to lecture publicly, the first
on the Arabian and Persian languages for Mohammedans.
and the latter on the Turkish language for Chiistians.
Similar chairs, it is asserted, will be established by order
of the Sultan at London, Vienna, and Brussels.
THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIEB.—The Russian am-
bassador having put a question to The cabinet of Vienna,
relative to the Principalities, Baran de W6rner replied by
communicating to him the order given to the army,
~hich the evacuation is certainly to b 3 trmi.
need by the 30_ta Mare:), anu tae troops are to take up
their quarters at Cracow, L3mberz, Szagedin, and G-os-
wardetn. Prince liallimaki declared, in tho name of his
government, that the Porte had no interrian of sending
troops into the Principalities, unless the state of the interior
of those provinces should necessiate it.

THE VAta`;ETIC TELEGRAPH v. CUPID.—The trite remark
that modern improvements, however beneficial in the main,
are not unmixed with occasional inconvenience, is not proved
fallacious by a tale we ;have -heard. A telegraph station
has been quite recently established in the well situated,
demi•military town of Cihir, in the county Tipperary, on
the line of the Waterford and Limerick railway. On
Friday last, a very bold dragoon eloped thence with a
very handsome girl. Bet the electric flail sped aleng its
wires-more smoothly than did the course of this lore,
however true and promising. On the arrival of the train
at Waterford, policemen, forewarned by telegraphic mes-
sage, rudely placed the Crimean hero under arrest as an
absentee without leave, and emphatically announced that
he should go back to his distinguished regiment per next
train. However, the partner of his interrupted flight,
"in maiden meditation fancy free," vowed that she
would go forward, and sail she did, an hour afterwards,
for Bristol, leaving her lover a lock of polishei hair,
and an injunction to follow as soon as possible. —Kilkenny
Journal,

MR JonN MACGUEGOIL—A letter was received yesterday
from Mr. Macgregor, our late member, dated Baillogin,
Feb. 23, and addressed to ex-Bailie Macgregor, in which
Mr. Macgregor says that nothing but bodily infirmity
would have made him so long silent, and that for the last
six months his health has been greatly impaired, and that
he still suffers from severe and protracted illness. Finding
his constitution undermined, he says that he decided on
resigning his seat in parliament, and proceeded direct to
.Llndon for that purpose Mr. Macgregor farther statcs
that it was not his connection with the affair of the Royal
British Bank, bat consequence of painful infirmity,
which caused him to resign his seat in Parliament, as he
found it would be impossible for him to perform his duties,
and that, .herefore, it would have been wrong to have
deprived Glasgow of the opportunity of having an efficient
member, when in reality it ought to have three members
in addition to Mr. Hastie. Had he been able he would
have communicated with his constituents, and he is desirous
they should be informed of the position he is in.—Glasgow
Daily Mail.

TIIII LADIES AND THE DEBATE.—Ladies who attend the
debates in the H luse of Commons are not seen in the body
of the house, as they only have the privilege-of peeping
through the brass ornamental work above the galleries.
They also seem to have the privilege of conversing with as
much freedom as the lords who are below; and we are,sure
they cannot be aware bow much their sprightly and
interesting discussions interfere-wi h the labours of the
gentlemen in the reporters' gallery. Bat the lady visitors,
perhaps, will be a little" mere alarmed when we inform
them that their presence and privileges endanger the•livts
of the other sex, for on the last night of the China debate,
so great appeared to be their anxiety to witness as well as
to hear, that they broke away same of the brass work, and
in its descent it might vitainly have, seriously wounded the
heads of the reporters. We are sure that the piece of
the brass work which fell about twelve o'clock, would have
done all the damage of a claymore or an axe upon the
unfortunate cranium that might have had to sustain the
blow. This is not the first time that a caution has been
made on such a subject, and we are sure that political
ladies will not find themselves very comfortable if, for the
future, the Sergeant-at-Arnis feels it his duty'ta station an
officer to watch their movements.—London paper.
ADVENTURE WITS! A TIGER.-'The Cape Town Mail has
the following account of an adventure with a tiger :—" A
young male tiger was killed on Wednesday last, at the farm
Medburv, about ten miles from Graham's Town, but not
until two of the parties engaged in this affair were placed
In considerable jeopardy. It appears that on the morning
of the day in question, the servants brought intelligence to
Mr. Matthews, jon., that they had seen a ypung tiger, and
wounded it. Being in the field at the time, he started off
with a coloured man, unarmed, leaving directions for two
servants to follow with guns. They came to the p'ace
where the tiger was said to have been seen, and as the dogs
seemed carelessly to enter the bush, the two pursuers im-
prudently followed, and now in their turn became the
pursued :For shortly' afterwards they found the dogs
warmly
engaged with the tiger, and; being without either
stick or knif3, they retraced their steps a short distance,
that they might view the combat without incurring needless
danger. They 'earl not gone far, when they found the dogs
were giving way, and, at length, in full retreat towards
them. The coloured man at once fled, and for the other to
have remained would have been foolhardiness, for certain
'death must have ensued, so he likewise started—the dogs
and the tger gaining rapidly on them. A pretty pickle to
be in ! After running till alraoq exhausted they found that
the tiger also slackened his pace, owing to loss of blood
from the wound received in the morning. The dogs, finding
'this, kept the tiger at hay, until two armed men arrived.
One attemp•ed to fire, but was so alarmed that 'no could not
fire. The other, having a little stronger nerve, fired with
correct aim, andkilled the tiger on the spot. Two other
tigers, old ones, have been seen in the neighbourhood, and
will be ferretted out if possible.'