Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-24 00:00:00

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NAMES OF THE STREETS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.
Sin,—Observing in the Daily Post, of to-day, a note
from a citizen respecting the orthography of the streets,
I deem it necessary to make a few remarks relative to
the alteration of the names of the streets. Some few
weeks ago King-street-lane, out of Islington, was altered
to King's-street-lane, Soho, .and I. believe many other
names of streets were altered, without the Health Coni-
mittee giving public notice 9f the alteration. When our
worthy Postmaster considers it judicious to place strange
deliverers on the beat sometimes twice 'a week, it would
puzzle any man to know his. rendezvous. Thus I have
had my Scotch letters delivered at 11 a.m., instead of
8 a.m. ; thus by my leavino• for 'town, and not returning
till six in the evening, I miss answering my communi-
cations until late in the evening ; when, as the Scotch
mail leaves Liverpool at 1.20, I am delayed with my
answers one day, which is a most important difference,
especially in a Scotch interior town. In referring
to the repetition of names of streets, the thing,
is most absurd, that we should thus be obliged to
give the most explicit address of, let me say—Bedford-
streetthere is Bedford-street North and South, via
Abercromby-square ; there is Bedford-Street North and
Sduth, Toxteth-park. How many Duke-streets, King-.
streets, Lord-streets, Church-streets, Boundary-streets,
and many others, have we not in Liverpool? Surely it
would not cost much to, have the streets dissstn4ar in
titles. Even oar American friends, rather than put up
with this, number their streets,' and call them 15th street,
or 20th street; or'if avenue, 20th avenue, or 21st ditto;
then (excusing at the same time the length of my note)
let me propose that, a committee of inventive genii ba
organised to bring our street under a compatible regime,
so that we Liverpudlians may not be the laughing-stock
of our country cousins, especially on this subject: I
would be most happy. to show my friends many samples
of bad orthography in Liverpool, streets, viz., Falkner-
street west end-1 aulkuer-street„ east ; or; waslately.=
Yours, truly, - CITIZHN THE SECOND.

SUBSTITUTES IN THE ENGLISH ANT)
FRENCH. ARMIES. • •

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMBS.
SIR,--r beg to enclose You a copy of the Daily Post,'
in which appears a letter from a Frenchman, which un-
replied to,,givcs a very unfair account of the. matter he
writes about.
I replied to the Editor of the'Daily Post, and as they
do, not think my letter worth inserting, I trust that
your spirit of fairness will Place 'my reply before the '
yEolEunprreormitisosrio.nzir
wDeuAlir
m'raokseTa.
public.—Yours truly, A. LOVER or Jusiidr.
T7o
tThil
in few re-
marks in reply to a Frenchman's' letter youi to-day's
paper. He takes umbrage at your CoMpariug the low
price paid in England for a substitute 'to the army, viz.,
405., to the high price paid in 'France, viz., £5O. HI
am right; I understand you drew the comparison to-day;
but the Frenchman adroitly replies by saying, if it now
costs £5O in France to obtain a substitute, it cost in the
time of the great Napoleon in England £6O, £BO, and
£lOO each for the same thing. With due respect to the.
Frenchman's mode of reasoning, I think such compari-
sons are most unfair. We, must either compare thq,
price of substitutes in both countries during thd time
of the great Napolebn' Or now; but as he forgets
that comparison, , I supply it :7-During Napoleon's
"time in France, the conscription was a terror, and'
,the price of substitutes most enormous.; previous
to his campaign to Russia, in 1812, the value,l
Of a substitute, was £450. When his army was anni-
hilated, on,his return to Paris another fearful conscrip-
tion Was ordered, when three hundred thousand men
were imniediatel7 wanting, to resist the numerous•
enemies'noW closing on France.
No' language can describe the appalling effect this
had on that countrwoe
,grief, misery; and prices of
substitutes instantly
,abanced to £1,500: Many
families ruined themselves in trying to save some dear
son or sons from the army; indeed, many men would'
not go for any money, as the losses of the French army.
at that day were so frightful, in Spain, Germany,
Russia, everywhere, that if a Man went iito the army
he never came: out, and the substitnte' looked on
,himself' as going to certain death. What at that day
was the feeling in England, quite the reverse, a
burning desire to serve,: the country full of volunteers,
and the price of substitutes to the line, a mere nominal
thing, , certainly not more than £3O. (Alison,
the great historian, is my authority.) I don't wish to
hurt the Frenchman's feelings, but write this infairness,
As I belieVe his 'country, without exception, 'to bithe

first military power on the earth ; and no people but the
French could have achieved such mighty victories as
they did at the beginning of this century, and it required
the united e.forts of almost all Europe to ultimately
subdue them.—Yours, &c., AN IRISHMAN.
Nov. 19, 1859.
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DISTRESS OF THE MOROWTEEN JEWS.
"He that Lath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the
Lord."—PROVERBS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY MIES.
Sia.—Annexed, I respectfully beg to hand• you dupli-
cate of a letter forwarded to a metropolitan avail, the
insertion of which in your next issue will much oblige
the writer. The appeal of the Gibraltar Relief Com-
mittee is so urgent, the counter appeal of the Board of
Deputies of British Jews so pressing., on behalf of the
helpless young, thd old, and feeble ; the ease is so
warmly recommended by the gallant Col. Maberley as
being one of real distress, and endorsed by the late Cri-
mean hero, Sir William Codrintorl, the highest func-
tionary at Gibraltar; and their agonies, as described by
eye-witnesses, are such—that will elicit the commisera-
tion of every generous heart, irrespective of creed, espe-
cially when the fact is known that the calamity that
has befallen this helpless people is none of their own
seeking, contributions will be readily accorded.
Apologising for the length of this communication,
I am, &c., L. F.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE " JEWISH CHRONICLE."
SlR,—Born at Gibraltar, I shall venture to offer a
suggestion in reference to the Moroqueen Jews, now
encamped at the north end of 'my native town. The
Jewish inhabitants of the fortress are, to a great extent,
engaged in trade as retailers, who are (since many of
the old rich families left the garrison) the chief sup-
porters of their many excellent institutions. This,class,
though highly taxed, hive most worthily raised from
3,000 to 4,000 dollars, at a period when business is in
a state of stagnation, to relieve the immediate wants of
the houseless refugees from Tangier ; and, upon this
point I desire to be explicit, since it is going the
rounds that the Gibraltar Jews are the claimants for
our charity in England; whereas they appeal• to us,
in • the sacred name of humanity, for the sufferings
.of their unfortunate brethren in utter distress. As per
latest files, there seems to be tipwards of twenty men-
of-war ships in the bay, who must necessarily require
fresh provisions daily for their large crews, the supplies
being meagrd and, irregular in coming, keeps food
at an' enormous high rate, consequently fears are
entertained of the dire results which will ensue, and
which I regret to hear aro being felt severely ; there-
fore, the sooner Alderman Salomon's scheme for re-
moving these unfortunate refugees to Algiers the greater
the benefit for them and the population of Gibraltar.
So far so good, as regards the Tangerin Jews ; but
there is a considerably large population round
the sea coast of Morocco, numbering tens of thousands,
professing the same religion, still more oppressively treated
--e'ean in time of peace and order—who, less fortunate
than their Tangerian brethren, have no charitable
Gibraltarians, nor humane Codringtons, to appeal to for
sympathy and protection. It is to this class of trodden-
down, unhappy individuals to whom I would •parti-
cularly call attention. The graphic pen of your
Rebat correspondent (Her Majesty's Vice-Consul)
deals amply with their pitiable career. I consider
this the most opportune time to raise them in the
scale of civilisation. The subscriptions now pouring
in might be made to serve two benevolent purposes :
one to supply their. immediate want; the other to place
them in a position that they may supply their own
wants; to achieve this, let a portion of the Relief Fund,
or a new fund be raised for the purpose of emigration;
and, as British subjects, where can we better recom-
mend them to emigrate than to our own dependencies ?
Tasmania wants population ; Australia requires hardy
emigrants to make her richer; and Barbary Jews are
the men, hardy, persevering, and frugal. The lan-
guage and habits of the colonists is an obstacle,
but which can be surmounted, as they 'Would
emigrate in masses, and make settlements of their
own ; beside% they can all murder Queen Isabella's
Spanish, and this will suffice to make themselves
understood ; and, doubtless, the Australians, hearing
of their distressed condition, will take the females
into the bosoms of their families as domestics, whilst
the men will readily get work (if only for the
sake of sympathy, at first) as Mechanics, porters, aad
labourers—a class of operatives which Mr. Mackay
(the . great shipowner, who has recently returned
from the Colony) informs us is in great demand.
Of course it is the young, robust, and industrious portion
of the Morocco Jews that would be adopted for such a
promising country, whilst arrangements might be made
with the French Government to give shelter to the old and
incapacitated Hebrews, during hostilities. I trust these
,observations may meet the.keen eye of some benevolent
individual who will espouse and expand them ; by so
doing, a large number of our people may be benefitted
—the interest of cur kinsmen in the Colonies studied
—whilst" we would stimulate a desire in the
breasts of the oppressed Jews of Europe to join their
Moroqueen nation in a country where their faith is res-
pected and their rights as citizens accorded. But to
revert to Gibraltar : when the policy of other generals
is contrasted with that of Sir W. Codrington's
it makes the heart of every Gibraltarian beat with joy
at the unparalleled humanity evinced by this great hero
during the late emergency ; his kindness, charity, and
exertion to alleviate misery, will ever endear him to the
friends of, humanity and civilisation, and gain for his
deeds at Gibraltar a golden tablet in the conspituous
annals of his free country. L. T.
Liverpool, 23rd Nov., 1859.

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ROYAL CHARTBR.—Aanwctr, Nov. 20.—Picked up
a mile at sea the body of a woman,. supposed to be a
married lady, stout, well made, middle age and
height ; on her ring fingei two gold rings, one much
worn wedding-ring, the other contains eight supposed
Irish diamonds with green emerald :in the centre, set
in silver ; black silk body of dress, black crape at the
elbows, stays with steel slips, laced. behind; knitted
worsted flannel, no chemise or night dress, black
jean boota, laced at the sides, patent leather toes
white cotton stockings, patent' elastiC garter on the
left leg, with brass clasp.; on the other, black tape
garter ; no marks on body or dress to identify. Nov.
21---A. male body, legs gone, say.s ft. 6in. high, flannel
singlet, with white buttons, shirt, coloured cloth waist-
coat ; in the pocket was found,
,ja.gold Geneva watch,
Albert Curb chain; key' with a swivel seal in one end,
plain; one side blood-stone, the. other- white ; watch
.marked on the back inside " 13 jewels, No. 9,746,
Hi Perregaul, Geneve ;" two sovereigns, a crown,
and two half-crowns, and ono. threepenny- piece, one
nugget, and one black (supposed coal), with a bit of
gold stuck On to it, a piece of paper with " Rev. J. B.
Went, 42, Gower-place, Gower-street ; 40, Hunting-
. don-Street, Barnsbury-park." .Picked up last week—A
!hit of a flannel shirt with-the marks. P;, 8 ;"
, good flannel, marked Tith red marking thread, supposed
to helong to a man buried at Amlwch last week ; but
the flannel was not discovered until to-day.

‘p.artitr4 4ntettigeurt.

NviTrfaiiit AND LEAMLNGTOINT STEEPLE
;it T CHASES:
11'1 "wEDNSDAY._
Tho GRAND OPEN STEEPLE CHASE of 20 sovLeaoll; with
. • 100 added; about 4 miles.
9 7 Goldsmith . . ............. 1
10 5 ,Aboi-el-Kader . 2
9 4 New Broom
The IWRDLE RACE HANDICAP of 5 sous each, with

Wadded ;
9 n orivade . 1
.......
8 9 scylla ........ . ................................................. 2
THE HUNT CUP STEEPLE CHASE, by subs of 10 soya each.
'Three miles.
51a5her............ .... ........ ... . ........................................... 1
Crick• .................. . . ...... . • ... . ......... 2
Miss Somerville pass:..,d, the post first, but was disqualified.
MATCH 200 sovs each, p.p. Four miles. Owners ap.
Captain RobertsOn's Jack Barber (13st ltb.) beat Captaia Duff's
Coos Robin (10st 71b.).
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MATCH £5O a side.
12st. Mr. Formby's Chippenham beat Mr. Jones's Cliff Pigeon.

COU'RSING,
The Crosby Hall meeting takes place this day under very
• 'favourable circumstances. ' :The entries being unusually gam,,sport
is anticipated.
RAIIBIT COURSING.. • ~
A match; has been made between Mr. Young's Silk {Liver-
pool); and Mr. Ascroft's Nettle (Wavertree), the best of 21
and hares reported to be very strong, a first rate day's
courses, 60 yards'. law; to come off on Monday, within three
miles of Liverpool; ground not fixed. This is likely to be a
very interesting mate), as-both parties'are very confident, and
willing to back their opinion.
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As will be seen from the-following challenge, Mr. King, the
crack imported shot'from Indiana will find no lack of cus-
tomers in this country : :.
CRALLYNGE TO Ma. Kurd.--A, young Officer of the army,
aged 21, will shoot a match wit bin ing, the " American,"
for £5O or £lOO, on the followiug,.terMs :.--50 birds (pigeons),
25 yards rise, 5 traps, 14 bore guns, the ttse of both barrels, or
H and T traps, and each to pull his own strings.' Or he will
shoot at 50 double rises, at five traps, OA the same terms, aid
stake £l5O to .€lOO.

WRECK OF THE ROYAL CHARTER

BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY.
This inquiry, which was adjourned from Thursday
Crown Court.

was
St. Geor

in th

-hall, before J. S. Mans

Esq.

stipen-

diary magistrate -of this town,, and Captain Harris:
RN., assessor to the Board of Trade. The legal gen-
tlemen, who were in attendance before the adjournment,

were again present yegtercial
Mr.
on Mr

ss Ca,

O'Dowd banding him a paper; he said
was the depositions of John Bradbury,
who' was a passenger on board the Royal. Charter,
froM Melbourne. The questions were those written by
Captain Harris, and the answers were as follow :=-The
state of the barometer was noted ever• four hours, but

that i

during changeable weather it was noted more frequently.
The lait time that he wrote up the captain's leg was on
Saturday, the 22nd of October. I was engaged on
Monday and Tuesday up to noon in writing extracts of
the log, and passencrers' lists for the Liverpool naners.

and yariow other writings.
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The.barometer was noted

.not say what were ti

on that day at thidnight. I
figures then registered, but, believe, between'twent

made tome by any one on th

baromet

nor in my heath.

25th, as to t

I never took the height

of the barometer myself. The officers always did that.
I believe there were three barometers on board—ono in
the captain's room, one in Mr. Stevens, the chief officer's,
room, and the other I do not know where it was placed.
This evidence was taken before Mr. Smith, at Moelfra,
on the 22nd 'inst., as Receiver of Wrecks. Aftother
paper was handed in, which had been addressed to Mr.
Morgan, lighthouse keeper, from the Board of Trade,
requesting meteorological information from him. Mr.
&pith said he had called upon Mr. Morgan in reference
to the subject on Sunday morning last. Mr. Smith
then read a paper on wind and weather observations,
handed to him by Mr. O'Dowd,' which stated that on
the 25th October, at 9 p.m., the wind was south-east,

and a strong breeze blowing ; weather dull and gloomy.
At 10 p,ni. freshening gale, with rain; wind E.N.E.
At 11 a heavy gale, and rainy weather till midnight;
from midnight to 4 o'clock on tha morning of the 26th
very heavy gale, and the wind veered round to
north. A table of the direct pressure of the

wind on the 25th and 2Gth October was handed in
accompanied by a letter from Mr. Hart

Mr. Smith then stated, in reply

he had been'at the wreck since his

rivets of the ship,

fro

To Mi

serving
Withers

ais town

Mr. O'Dowd, thA

termer examination,

at difficulty in

had it not been for M

ight and Company's a

was with t

r saw a stro

difficulty

lder, but he had seen a great number o
And had a good deal of oppor
them. He had s

;hat was picked up, and Ws 'wat

.ot observe at what time, it

was, fine ; but about; hal

a;kind of haze,came

cross froth the other side, andlay% half-past fi

.ee reef

Len we took in our third reef we

Huai

ship had cow

ongSide of us that night we could not. have
.boarded

her. When we saw the blue light, and the rocket we

were on our own station waiting for the arrival of the
vessel. We were lying to, on the starboard tack.

would not have expe6

ed that any vessel would have

I swear we could not-have
We observed the barometer about

wind was at the time

boarded the

o'cloc

;k, aril it had fallen to 29. Between midnight

acid four o'clock in the morning it fell tj 28.70. Fre-
quently with a north wind the barometer rises. At
midnight we reckoned ourselves about twelve or four-
teen miles to the N.E. of Point Lyn* and at eleven
o'clock the next day we found ourselves W.S.W., havhig
lost about seven or eight miles.

Ur. Patterson was r

t, who was

ready to give any

intormation respecting the strength of the ship ; but it
seemed that Mr. O'Dowd wished him to call Mr. Pat-
terson. He thought it'Would be better for Mr. O'Dowd
to ask any question 116 chose, and then he (Mr. Aspina

Mr. O'Dowd

said he had. come now

as to what the

ship was, and it had been found that she broke up in a
very sudden manner. He had made out a prins4 facie
case; he considered, and it would be for Mr. Aspinall to
show that this sudden breaking up did not arise from

any inherent weaknes

Mr. Mansfield thoughf, as Mr. Aspinall appeared for
Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., in order to furnish any

information that might be required, it was not for him

to examine the witness

It was agreed that Mr. Patterson should state to the

court what he knew of the vessel

Wm. Patterson being, sworn, said, I am a ship-builder,
both of wood and iron. The ship, Royal Charter, was
built in April, 1855. The ship was contracted for by
Messrs. Charles Moore & Co., by George Cram of
Chester. Messrs. Gibbs, Bright & Co.,purchased the
ship from Messrs. Moore, and I then became the in-

spector. for them. I carry on my business in Bristol.
The beam's' were up, and-part of the plating. At
this time MeSsrs: Cram- failed. That failure 'would