Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-31 00:00:00

REPORT.

" It is now a year since the present committee undertook
the task of re-organising the then existing. school, for poor
foreign children in Liverpool. The circumstances which led
them to undertake this task were fully entered into in the
preliminary report which they issued in April last, and need
not be here recapitulated. Suffice it to say that they
were at once enabled by the liberal donations they received
to pay elf the debt on the school. The subscriptions,
however; for the last year wets_td not have been sufficient to
meet thecurrent expenses, bad= it not been for a grant of
£2O from tile society for friends of foreigners IA" distress.
It will be seen that the donatins last year amounted to
X5B Os Bd, inetadinm the above named grant, and the sub-
l'scriptions to .E 56.145. It is hoped that this year tl latter
';may be raised to £lOO at least, which sum the committee
inamed alreadyilt.tbeir preliminary report as requisite for the
efficient working-of the school, atuPsubsequent experience
'Aas since proved' itxcorrectness. Among other things caling
far additional expenditure, they are most anxious to be in
a position to increase the salary of their teacher, Mr.
Scherra, as they feel that the salarythey are at present
able to give himisnot adequate to his ntscrits. • They take
this opportunity of expressing their high •sense of his effi,-
ciency. The number of children on the books of the school
when it first came into the hands of the present committee,
was 28, namely, 16 boys, and 12 girls. Since they have
had the management the numbers have Mien increased by
14 boys, and 22 girls. Whilst 14 children-have left them,
of which 4 went to America; 6 have gone tvEnglish schools;
2 have left on account of their age being—over 15, and
have died, leaving at present 19 boys, and ";-)'I 'girls on the
books, or nearly double the number attendiofra year.ago.
" In order to encourage a proper spirit cf independent
feeling amor, the parents -of • the children, it is
.-
that those attending shall pay 2d per week. The payment
is, however, remitted where it is known • that' the parents
really cannot afford to pay it. A female teacher has been
engaged, since January last; to, attend, two evenings in the
week, to teach the girls sewing and knitting. The com-
mittee keep steadily in view their object of making the
school an instrument of fitting the children of peor foreign
parents for a more -profitable attendance, by-anci‘bye, at.
English schools. This being • their object, they appeal
confidently to all friends of Kincation, whether English or
foreign, to aid them. They- wish to make, the-children
good and useful citizens of the adopted land of theirparents.
Let; therefore, the first practical lesson they recee of its
institutions be, that one of them .early,took them by the
hand, instructed them in the language, and taught them to
appreciate the rights and privileges, and perform the duties
of English citizens."
It was moved by Mr. IL Stolterfoht, "That the report and.
abstract of accounts be passed' and adopted, and that the
same be printed and circulated."
This was agreed to, and also the following resolutions:—
" That Mr. Charles Stress berequested to continue to act
as president, Mr. N. Stolterfoht•us treasurer; and that the
following be requested to act on the committee :—H. Stol-
terfoht, T. Prange, G. IV C: .- Pickering, J.
Samuelson, Percy Dove; Thomas Bduch, and the- Revi A.
Steienthal."

" That the best thanks be given to the officers and
members of the committee, and also to Mr. llartmann; the
secretary, and Mr. Scherra, the master of the school; for
the zealous performance of their•duties.
The proceedings concluded with .a •vote of 'thanks to the
chairman.

KENTISH FIRE, OR PLATFORM FREEDOM

TO THE EDITOR OF THE,NORTHERN
Sir,—Permit me a brief space in your well-
conducted NORTHERN -TIMES ; and, as a strangers
and a recently located inhabitant in your town,
accept my compliments for your excellently.elaborate,
and thoroughly impartial report of the Working'
Men's Reform Meeting, convened in the Concert-hall,
on the 25th instant. As one • associating with the
conveners of that meeting, I think I may say that
my compliments include the heart-felt thanks of-the
Working Men's Committee.
" Kentish fire" seems to be an institution peculiar
to the town of Liverpool.. During a long career as
a public lecturer, I -have. visited numerous towns
The " fire " is revolthig-, -senseless, atih luitia:auy
fanatical.
Does the institution redound to the welfare, the
credit, the dignity of Liverpool ? Are its results
instructive to the young, refining to the matured,
pleasing to the old ? The largest sea-port,-boastful
of its commerce, its wealth, its free libraries,
tolerates a disgusting 'rival to the " cat-calls"• of a
" penny gaff."
But there is a grave question involved in the ex-
hibition of " Kentish fire"—it assails the right{ of
public meeting, the national freedom of the platform.
The platform is the instrument through which the
public reason, investigate, pass judgment, and register
desires. 'Tis a facile instrument, equally convenient
for the rich as well as for the poor. Destroy the
platform, the public become an intellectual nonentity,
having brains, but without the great opportunity for
using the brains for national progress.
The subject is not one of party nor of sect, but of
national right, of national instruction, of national
convenience. Working men go to a
,public
.meeting-
to hear a national topic gravely stated and honestly
debated ; and the object is frustrated by a per-
manent organisation of barbarism ,and idlotcy, in-
spired by knavery, and hypocrisy. Gentlemen of the
middle classes desire to address the public, and. their
attempt is frustrated by the. rude insults and atro-
cious noise of "Kentish fire."' This intolerable
nuisance, assailing the using of an Englishman's
brains for national benefit, must be at once and for
ever crushed:. It must inspire all men
.with pro-
found disgust and unmitigated contempt, no matter
the nature- of their polities or the peculiarities of
their creeds..
I urge upon all parties, the necessity for an imme-
diate organisation, esiteeially arranged,• earnestly
active, and permanently continued, for.the .resisting-
of knavish and barbarous combinations. againl the
liberty-of the platform, so that Kitthesil re t
can
assis ance
be completely annihanted.. I solicit
of amok) e, et so laudable,
soof fret -Piinsesg,safoodr
stoheaerecaesslisaiing y.
And, lastly, for Liver-
pool: to present a groat of manly dignity on the
pl
to be assailed by ignorance
compactly
brutishness, nor by knavish
aor m , nevertrain eici:. ofreorn
bigotry and hypocritical fanaticism in the mantle
of religion.—Yotiers truly, AVALTpi..Whi. BROOM.
Chadwick's Tpinperance Hotel, Cases,-street,
Liverpool.,

LOVE AT FlE.fa SIGHT.—An apt illustration of the fact
that love cannot be gained by tuition, but " comes pop upon
ye all at once,' occurred the other day on the cliff.
smart young fellow of the 11th lussars, stationed in.
Brighton, was taking a walk and enjoying the sea-breeze,
when ho met a very pretty young lady, who seemed to
linger u histon gaze, ar:sl appeared fiAed in about the same
way as the basilisk fascinates his prey. In this situation,
Mars—soldiers never let such an opportunity slip—spoke to
Veuus,, and the result is a conjungtion I Tho young lady is
possessedhast
yo fL
marriage
40 0 0
ro
iil, We e informed, anything but her own right ; and this unexpected
and
pleasant, as yet, t 5 her disemrielato "parients."---Brzghton
BP2 miner:

A MAIDEN RPEEcn.—During the Reform debate in the
House of Commons, Mr, G. Sturt, the member for Dorset—
shire,
in tho short space of a quarter of an hour,
delivered from the back row in the Ministerial benches
some of the smartest hits against the bucolic minds of
country members in general, and against the Government
Bill in particular, amidst the laughter and the cheers of the
Opposition, filling his own friends with dismay, and making
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in an audible whisper, as
he eyed the honourable gentleman through his glass, eitt.l:!,
of clever
with consternation " He's surely mad." This, it is btrenl
is the makka speech of Mr. Sturt, although he
member of the House since 1847.
young and good-looking, with a play
mischief -about the eye and mouth.
in the Peers' gallery, seemed 41
raciness of the escapade whiech
Pexturbable countenance of
stn. he isr
1 who was
oLil,hiy to enjoy the
disconcerted even the im—
chancellor of the Exchuer,
in any degree restore by
whose equanimity did
.not
the Speaker's COR declaration, that he should vote
cludtna
for the second reading,
Bill.--
I fullnoreaipee7o;n:nasre
a' the cieYcPillent Reform
Patriot.

THE SPRING ASSIZES.
CROWN COURT- YEsTExDAT.

BEFORE MR. JUSTICE WILLES

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till Saturday sight, but between Wednesday and Saturday
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THE NORTHERN TIMES THURSDAI , Mi.4.RCH 31, 1859

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE—YzerBADATI
BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.

THE MAN THAT WAS NOT HAPPY WITH EITHER —Two
young women, named Sarah M'Keima and Mary Anne
Ellis, apparently belonging to the better mechanical class of
society, were brought up by officer 559, on a charge of
fighting in Scotland-road the previous night. It appeared
that one of the ladies fell about nine feet deep in love, with
a certain young man, whose name she would not mention
for diamond dust, nor any other dross of that sort. The
previous cvening she 'was going along The road, to have a
stolen interview with her "darling," when she met with the
other. "Sally," says she, "you don't intend to defraud me of
that young man ?' "Well," says Sally, "if that young man
falls In love. with me, that's his own affair' and I can't help
it." " You're no better than you amid be," says Mary
to Sally. Now, Sally thought she was very much better
than that, and she told her opponent in affection, towards
the nameless young man, what she thought of her. Some
interesting discussion followed, in which certain words of
uncertain meanings were exchanged. At last, it was agreed
to try who was to have the young man by a trial of arms,
and the victor was to have the sole right and title to
him from that time henceforward, and 'to it
they went like a pair ,of furious elephants. The
officer said, when he came u -
stripped, fghting like men. r.
fact, and said it was all about t _
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MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Evening.
The Liverpool Cotton market continues active,
and to-day a, large business has been done at full
prices, the sales reaching 10,000 bales, of which.3,ooo
have been taken for speculation and export.
The amount of business done to-day in the Liver-
pool Stock Exchange has been very small, as will
be seen by the following, which comprise all the
transactions : --Lancashire and Yorkshire, 94%, 941,
94a ; Lancaster and. Carlisle, Kendal and Winder-
mere, 9:4; London and North-Western, 947,c, 95 ;
Grand Trunk of Canada, g 15-16 c ; St. Helen's
Railway and Canal 4% per cent. D, 98c.
There has been no great amount of business done
in London-in the Public Securities to-day, and the
fluctuations in prices have been quite unimportant.
Consols opened a shade under the closing prices of
yesterday, and at noon stood at 95% to 951, and sub-
sequently became a little firmer, finally closing at
95-r, to 951.
The London Share Market was dull all day,
and, with a very small amount of business, prices
were rather lower. The final closing prices
were :-Ambergate, 6, 61 ; Caledonian, 841, 841 ;
Do. pref., 103, 105; Eastern Counties, 591, 601 ;
East Lancashire, 92, 93 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
72, 73 ; Great Northern, 102%, 103 ; Ditto A, 86,
88 ; Ditto 8., 132, 133 ; Great Western,
581, 581 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 941, 941;
Brighton, 112, 113 ; North-Western, • 941, 95 ;
South-Western, 921, 921 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 38, 381 ; Midland 101, 1011 ; North
British, 60, 60%; Ditto pref., 111, 113 ; North-Eastern
Berwick, 92%, 921; Leeds, 461, 471 ; York, 761, 76%
North Stafford, 441, 41 ; South Eastern, 701, 701;
Turkish Sixes, 921, 931 ; Do. Fours, 103, 103.1;
Great Western of Canada, 151, 16 ; Ditto New, 4%, 4%;
Grand Trunk of Canada, 8%, 9.
The Railway Traffic Returns of the London and
North Western Railway, issued to-day, show the
receipts for the week to have been 63,5441., being
an increase of 3,347/. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
, being an increase of 2,460/. ; and Man-
-9,0901., being an increase of

The Traffic Return of the Grand Trunk Railway
Company of Canada, week ending sth March, 1859,
and corresponding week, 1858, show the receipts to
to have been 8,9801. 45., against 8,9421. 17s. 9d. last
year.

The Committee of the Stock Exchange have passed
the following resolution : —" That new Lombardo-
Venetian Railway shares, with a certificate for the
accruing dividend, may be delivered as old shares."
The proprietors of the London and North Western
Railway, who were invited to a special general
meeting, to be held on the Ist April, to approve a
score of bills, some of which involve a considerable
extension of the company's system, have just been
informed by a supplemental circular that the only
bill which will be submitted on that day will be that
" For authorising working and traffic arrangements
between the London and North Western, Great
Northern, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire Railway Companies, and for other purposes,"
and that the other nineteen bills will stand over for
consideration at a future date, " according to the
progress made with the same respectively in Parlia-
ment," Another special meeting is now called for
the 16th of April, to confirm the heads of arrange-
ments entered into with the Great Northern and
Manchester and Sheffield Companies
A special
Western Railway Company

the London and South-
is called for the 7th

of bills pending in Par-

furids;

mother huthorisesan amalgamation with, or

The half-yearly report of the' directors of the
Ottoman Railway Company was read and adopted at
the meeting to-day, when the chairman, Sir M.

Stephenson,-stated. that the directors had met with
every encouragement from the Turkish government,
who wished to see a systematic railway communica-
tion established in the Turkish dominion. The works
between Smyrna and Ephsus were proceeding with
vigour, and it was hoped thst this portion of the
line would be completed by the autumn. The

cordial vote of thank was passed tolhe_di,r_ectoy,,,,,„
and San Francisco Railway Company is called for
the 20th April. The half-yearly interest at the rate
of 7 per cent. per annum will be payable on the 14th
April.

The annual meeting of the Royal Mail Steam
Packet Company is called for the 27th April, and
that of the Oriental Bank Corporation for the 28th
April.

At an adjourned meeting of the London Assurance
Corporation, held yesterday, a dividend of 35s per
share, free of income tax, was declared for the half-
year ending Lady-day, 1859.
At the 49th annual meeting of the North British
Insurance Company, held this month at Edinburgh,
the directors' report stated the amount of fire pre-
miums received during the year 1858 at £30,345,
and the amount of new life assurances effected at
£377,425, being a considerable increase over the
business of any former year, and 100,4941 over that
of the year 1857. The claims by death were 79,9571.
The profit, amounting to 136,6291, realised since last
septennial investigation, allowed the directors, after
setting aside one-tenth as .the proprietors' guarantee
fund, to declare a bonus addition of 115 s per cent per
annum on every policy opened with the company
on the participating scale prior to the 31st of
December, 1858. The accumulated fund

undivided profits was reported, at the 31st Decem-
ber, 1858, to amount to 88,145/ Gs 10'd, out of which
Si per share was carried over to the proprietors'
capital stock account, making the paid-up capital
amount to 125,0001, leaving the sum of 63,14516310 d
as the accumulated fund, out of which the directors
recommended the usual dividend of 8 per cent,
leaving 53,145/ 6s 10d to be carried to the rest for
the next year.

Vice-Chancellor Sir R. T. Kindersley, who is
11 .the winding up of the Security Life
...ed on the contributories a
) for every

b each
contributory, by way of premium in respect of the
assurance effected with the said society," payable by
the 14th April.

lan Five per Cent. Loan of
1829, who may wish to exchange their bonds for
New Five per Cent. Bonds redeemable in 20 year
must give notice to this effect by to-morrol ,
default of which their bonds will be subject to re-
demption at par on F '

Transactions are recorded in the Stock Exchange
semi-weekly list in the Indian Government Five per
Cent. Promissory Notes at is 101 d to is 10ad per
rupee.

Yesterday was " making-up day" in the railway
share market. The supply of London and North
Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire stocks has
increased, but Great Western. and North British
were wanted for the settlement, and on the latter I
per cent. " backwardation" was paid. The" continua-
tion" on Lancashire and Yorkshire stock advanced
in the afternoon, however, to 5-16 per cent.
The rate of discount for choice bills is maintained
at the Bank minimum, but the demand yesterday
was not by any means pressing. At the Bank only
a moderate amount of business was done. A large
mass of bills will arrive at maturity next week.

Letters from St. Petersburg announce that the
price fixed by the Russian Government for the new
Three per Cent. Loan of seventy-five millions of
oubles was 68 per cent. It is, therefore, possible
rthat there may be some inaccuracy in the telegram
quoted a day or two ago, which stated 67 as the
price, although that telegram was dated a week later
than the letters now received. It appears, however,
to be certain that the arrangement has been
definitely concluded between the government and-
Messrs. Thomson, Bonar and Co., in comb rano-
tion with the house of Magnus, of Berlin,
and other capitalists. We believe we may state
that the arrangement has received the signature of
the Emperor. Mr. Charles 8011, of the firm of
Thompson, Bonar and Co., who has conducted the
negotiation at St. Petersburg, is understood to be
now on his way home. Further particulars are
awaited with much interest.

Great inactivity prevailed in the Stock Exchange, but
notwithstanding the continued decline on the Paris Bourse,
the prices of nearly all securities were well suppor'ed.
Consols left off about s per pent, higher than yesterday.

About £32,000 in bar gold ,was this day taken from the
Bank for exportation to the Continent in payment for silver,
the imports of which continue on an extraordinary active
scale. . Since Saturday, upwards of £350,000 worth is
known to have reached the Thames from Rotterdam, Ant-
werp, and Hamburgh. Notwithstanding these large
imports, the Continental Exchanges this afternoon pre-
sented, in several instances, a partial recovery. The
principal improvement was in bills on Hamburgh and-
Belgium. The Copenhagen, at sea ninety-four daysr and
the Water Nymph and Royal Bride, each eighty-six days,
have on freight £236,000 in gold from Melbourne. The
£76,000 in gold brought by tie Australian mail to Suez is
expected on Thursday. Daily Hews City Article, Tuesday
Evening.
The English Funds opened without alteration, and have
subsequently shewn steadiness. The £30,000 Consols
purchased on account of the Court of Chancery having
to-day been paid for, the supply of money was thus
rendered abundant. The fall on the Paris Bourse, which
has now been interrupted for several days, would tend in a
much greater degree to revive political distrust, but for a
surmise that many of the sales effected may be in anticipa-
tion of an early loan. It is stated that the capital of the
new Credit Mobilier, in process Df concoction under the
auspices of Count de Morny, will be one million six hundred
thousand pounds, in 80,000 shares of £2O each. Times
City Article, Tuesday Evening.
THE NEW FRENCH LOAN.—The Herald speaks of the
probability of a loan of £8,000,000, to cover a deficiency
to that amount, and that the resources of the Bank of
France having been already resorted to, it will be necessary
to apply elsewhere. The Herald adds that the circum-
stance that a variety of loan transactions may be concluded
if hostilities shall be prevented, induces capitalists to
exercise greater reserve than would otherwise be the case.
MAIL NEWS.—The heavy portion of the Australian mail
is expected to reach Southampton on Thursday.
The Spirit of the Age has arrived from China, with
866,000 lbs. of tea.