Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-04 00:00:00

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The ma of the thoughts are trite though stilted; and
hyperbolical narrations of how that "the land he- trod
has now become a place of pilgrimage,"

" Where dearer are the daisies of the sod
That could his song engage."

But what they are dearer than we are not told; how
the hardy sons of Scotland lighten their toils in distant
lands with his songs ; and how the arch, blue-eyed
maidens of Scotland (" arch but for love disguise," says
one of them), soften at them, and how that sister lands
have learned to love the tongue "in which such songs
were sung ; " an assertion extremely questionable.
In conclusion, we are asked (and this strange com-
position concludes with 4 suspension of the voice) :

- Doth not song
To the whole world belong ?"

As an answer to this we niay reply—Yes, translatable
songs, but not Burns's ; for they are hopelessly un-
translatable.

And now comes the unpleasant task of considering
the language; and, without going into detail, and taking
up more space, it is sufficient to say that the choice of
the language is the most infelicitous department of an ill-
considered poem. There is everywhere a doric brusque-
ness carried to the extreme of obscure harshness ; an
employment of words in a new and. totally illegitimate
sense ; a leaving out of expletives necessary to complete
the sense, and a lugging in of expletives necessary to
complete the metre (an expedient, in an irregular poem,
quite unpardonable) ; an affected employment of obsolete,
tilizabathan, words and pronunciations-in one-place, and
an artificial yoking together of unsuitable words in
another. In short, the language is rude without sim-
plicity, and artificial without elegance.
Before taking my leave of this unfortunate poem, I
am compelled to observe, with surprise, its almost utter
want of desert, together with the perfect silence of the
Press upon it; and the conviction irresistibly forces
itself upon me, that, if its three judges are our best
sample of critics, and if this poem really Was thetbest
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January 31, 1859.

The Paris correspondent of the AatTreiser says the
return of the Duke of Malakoff to his native land is now
certain. .

vv
Sir John Ramsden was on Wednesday selected as caw.-
didate for the West Riding. There is at present.no

opposition. . . .
MAIL NEws.—The mail steamer, with the heavy
portion of the India and China mails, arrived at South.-
ampton on Tuesday morning.
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and all and the Dragon"
THE GAME Chlt• THE SEASON.—Third edition of the
tchheri Times.
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the
Homeless
£12,860, rather • more than half of which is for the
Thes unis
Poor, on
on to
Field-lane Refuge, and twenty-six. other institutions have
been more or less beneGtted.
GREAT XOHTHEEN DIVIDEND.--The sum available for
dividend fbr the half-year ending, 31st Dec. is officially
stated ta be •i 147,036, which will admit a dividend at the
rate of about £6 2s 6d pet- cent., per annum, on the
original stock, and at an• equivalent rate on the A and B
stocks. conjointly.. The Daily News remarks that, con-
siderbag the late severe competition, and the unremune-
zative. fares which were so long current, this result is
regarded as highly satisfactory.
THE MIDEROR, NAPOLEON'S PLANS.—The Times
contains an article, from which it may be inferred he has
changed his views. England made no secret of her
disapprobation, and Prussia distinctly stated that she
would consider any attack upon Austria as levelled
equally at herself. This being so, the Times trusts the
Emperor of the French has found it advisable to change
his plans, and to limit the Rome projects, which were
meant for Italy, if not for Europe.
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and all useful
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LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD:
VIOLENT ASSAULT. Joseph Henrie, a foreign ;r, was
charged with having assaulted a young mail, named
James Caffey, belonging to the Marco Polo. The prisoner
is a foreigner, and it appeared that hews in a public-
house in Blundell-street, where the prosecutor and some
female Mends were taking some wine ; Caffey asked the
prisoner to sit up a. bit on a form, when he asked Caffey
to go out to the door, as he wanted to speak with him
he went out, and, on reaching
struck him a heavy blow on the head with a sling
inflicting a serious wound. in reply to his Worship, tin,
complainant said he was sailing in the ship this day.
The prisoner said he was also going in another ship to-
day. Mr. Mansfield : I question if you will, for I send
you to jail for two months, if you don't pay a fine of £5.
The prisoner was committed.
STEALING SILK. Elizabeth Griffiths, a respectable-
looking female, the wife of a coachmaker, was charged
with having stolen nineteen and a-half yards of silk,
value £4 10s., the property of Mr. Jones. Mr. Blink
prosecuted, and Mr. Cobb was for the prisoner. Mr.
Black stated that the prosecutor is a dock-gateman, and
lives at 436, Scotland-road. On Thursday he purchased
the silk, and paid £4 10s. for it. It was left in the
parlour, and on Saturday morning it was missed. The
lged in the house, and she was suspected, as
..ated she had a key that opened the parlour
These facts were proved by the complain-
ant and his wife. On cross-examination by Mr.
Cobb, it transpired that, besides the prisoner, there
lodged in the house, the aunt of Jones's wife, a sailor, and
a woman, named Smith ; and Mr.. Cobb contended that
any of these might have taken the silk, as well as the
prisoner, as they had the same access to the parlour as
she had. Every place that the prisoner had aces..
had been searched, but no silk found ; and, therefor
Mr. Cobb strongly contended that his client oug__
Aischarged. Mr. Bluek requested a remand, in order to
Make further enquiry. The prisoner was remanded.
WIFE-DEATING.—John Rennie, a person 'of respr
able appearance, who lives at 19, Talbot-stree*
charged with ill-treating his wife. Mr. Blue'

tisoner'lt

it was

the ir °see u

situations, and might at
£3OO a year, but for his vile

the door, the prisoner

►t to be

was to:

resent be in receipt of over
drunken habits. For some

years past he was in the habit of beating his wife to a
fearful extent, but she bore with it, fearing he would be
dismissed from his employment. About five years ago

he was in gaol for beatiiv'' rler, and now his conduct had
become so gross that she coald not bear it any longer.
On Saturday night he beat her in bed, and wanted to
turn her out, although her health is very bad. The '
assault was proved by the wife, her brother-in-law, and
a police offic3r. The prisoner pleaded drunkeness, and
asked to be forgiven this time, but His Worship censured
his conduct, and sent him to gaol for six months, and at
the expiration of that time, ordered him to find two
sureties, in £5O each, to keep the peace.
THE ROBBERY OF £760.—1t may be remembered,
that last week, a foreigner, named Betham Save, was,
robbed of 760/ in Bank of England notes, in Queen's-
square, and that a man and woman are at present under
remand on the charge. Yesterday, two well-known
thieves, named Barney Mitchell, alias Tully, alias
g' Chester Barney," and Robert Kelly, were brought up
by Inspector Duggan, on a charge of being concerned in,
the robbery. Mitchell used to live with the woman who
is in jail, and got away on the night of the robbery. The
Inspector said: Last night, I arrested the prisoner on
the Trafalgar dock day, on suspicion of being concerned
in robbing a foreiom gentleman of £760. From infor-
mation I received, I heard that the prisoners were about
proceeding to Dublin. I got into a car, and went to the
pier-head. He was not there at the time, and I waited
in the car until I saw him coming. He came round to
the car and looked into it, and when he saw me
he ran away. I chased him, and, at length, I
caught him. I took him into the hut, and said,
"Do you know what you are taken for ?" He
replied, " I partly guess." I cautioned him not
to say anything, as I should state it against him. I
asked him, had he any money about him ? and he replied,
a few pounds in his watch-fob. I searched that, and
found twelve sovereigns, and 10s. 6d. in silver. I then
searched him, and in a new belt around his body, inside
his shirt, I found 201 sovereigns. The other prisoner
ran away, but he was chased and arrested. There was a
sovereign and some silver found on him. Mitchell had
a ticket for Dublin, and both said they were going
to Templemore, county Tipperary, where the other
lrisoner had a brother a soldier. The gentleman who
ost the money identified the prisoner Mitchell as the
man who was with the woman in Queen-square, on the
night he was robbed of the money. Mr. Bluck was for
the prisoners, and had no objection to a remand until
Saturday, to which day the other prisoners stand re-
manded.

ILLEGAL WEIGHTS. AND MEASURES,

BEFORE MESSRS. SHEIL AND BENN.
The following persons were summoned yesterday,
by Messrs. Johnston anc

and measures, and fined in the sums attached to their
names. It may be remarked, that a. more cruel or heart-
less sort of robbery on the poor cannot be committed,
than by the use of illegal weights, scales and measures.
The only means of putting an end to this sort of public
plunder is double vigilance on the part of the officers,
(both very active and efficient persons as.they are), and
the infliction of the full fine by the mac_r;o+—f In such

9istrates, c_
persons as may be convicted. The magistrates who pre-
sided yesterday, spoke in strong terms of condemnation
of the dishonesty of the persons who were brought
before them, but our humble opinion is, that a fine of
L 3 in each case would have had (for:the future) a more
salutary and honest-producing effect. If a wretched old
-man or woman, driven by th force of hunger to beg, in
the streets, is brought up before the magistrates, he
or she is sent to jail for a month with hard labour.
If a starving girl or boy enters a baker's shop,
and, in the desperation of the moment, runs
off with a loaf, value twopence, the sentence will be a
month also ; and if they are tempted .to do worse-- to
Commit what the law calls larceny, the sentence will be
Ire or six fold that. And yet here are numerous
tradesmen—provision dealers, grocers, coal-sellers,, and
others, who sell articles to these very poor, but who rob
them in the most flagrant manner. It is to be hoped
that the next batch of offending traders brought before
the magistrates for such dishonesty, will be properly
punished, so as to be a warning and an example to others.
The following were disposed of :
John March, baker, Vauxhall-road, was charged•with
having light weights and 'scales. Fined 53.
John . Lee, provision dealer, Greenwood-street, with
having a false scale, was fined 103 and costs.
Alexander Buttersby, provision dealer, Blenheim-
street, with having a false weighing machine. Fined
£1 4s. 6d.

William Jones, grocer, Ormond-street, was charged
with having a false scale. Fined Ms 6d.

Henry Butler, provision dealer, St. Anne-street, was
charged with having a false scale. Fined 9s 6d.
Alice Carter, provision dealer, Lichfield-street, was
charged on two informations with having a false scale
and weight. Fined 10s. _ . . .

He was

Georg; Lewis, grocer and provision dealer, I
street, was charged with having false weights. .
fined previously. Fined L 1 4s 6d.
James Smith, Scotland-mad, provision dealer, was
charged with having a false scale. Fined 10s and
cosfr.

Anthony Cartman, coal dealer, Boundary-street, for
a false scale. Fined 9s 6d. '

John Feark, 10, Virgil-street, marine storeslealer, was
charged with having a false scale and weights. Fined
198.

'William Williams, iron founder, was charged by
Inspector Jones, with obstructing the officer in the dis-
eharge of his duty ; and for having twelve light weights.
The defendant alleged that it was out of a vindictive
feeling the charge was made. This was denied by the
inspector. Pined (on th
costs. e charge of obstruction) Zs and

LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.
BEFORE MR. coluutssloNlat PERRY.
In re ROBERT WILLIAMS---This bankrupt, late joiner
and builder, in this town, applied for his certificate. Mr.
Almond applied on the part of the assignees, and after ex-
aex-
amining the bankrupt, observed that the bankrupt was not
justified, with so small a capital as he had ientering
into such extensive transaction, as appeared d by 11'
balance sheet ; with regard to the books, he admitted that
perhaps some allowance might be made on account of
the limited knowledge of bookkeeping possessed
by the bankrupt, yet they were not in such a
state as they might have been. With these observations
-be should leave the matter to the Court. Mr. Evans,
who appeared in support of the appellant, said that, no
.doubt, the creditors may have had some grounds of com-
plaint, but the cause arose entirely from the increase of
property transactions, which the bankrupt appeared not
to bd.able to control. The bankrupt had satisfactorily
accounted for everything. His Honour said that, after
takiug all the circumstances of the case into consideration,
he thought the bankrupt entitled to au immediate
oertificate, and to be of the second class.

-YESTERDAY

The English Funds opened this morning without alte-
raLtion, and have strewn unmitigated dulness throughout
tue day, all persons being unwilling to enter into fresh
transactions unttl the Queen's speech. Notwithstanding
the approach of the 4th of the month, choice paper was
negotiated to-day at 2to 21. There' was no bullion
onrations at the n 1444 to.4a7,—riitio iirtiele

RAGGED SCHOOL UNION.
vg of the subscribers to the Ragged
held yesterday, in the Charitable
]sir. Heath. occupied the

The annual meetir

School Union

Institution House, Slater-

NIL •
The Chairman, in the absence of Mr. Butt, the hon

;retary, read the following

ANNUAL: REPORT.

" The committee have usually commenced their annual
report with a tabular statement of the number of schools
in connection with the union, and the number of scholars
in attendance ; and this system they again adopt, rejoic-
ing in having once more to congratulate the subscribers
on a gratifying increase in both the one and,the other—
Attendance. Teachers.
29 Evening schools 3379 ..... .273
11 Sabbath schools - 1515...... ..120
11 Day schools
2 Industrial schools .. 210 10

1859 —53 Scheols
1858 47

6582 423
5822 393

30 Increase.

The foregoing table, whilst presentin

end Children

an increase of both

xhibits also an apparent increa

t of thirty

Your. committee

apparent increase, arising solely
some of the old tried
_--vis Raving been led to give attendance
hools than one, rather than leave the additional
children l'ocking, to the schools without the

instruction

In fact, so much