Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-15 00:00:00

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THE TOXTETH GUARDIANS, AND THE
ELECTION OF WORKHOUSE OFFICERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.

Sir,—Will you be kind enough to insert the
following letter in your valuable paper :
The Toxteth Park Board of Guardians will, I
believe, shortly app .int persons, to fill the vacancies
at present occurring in the New Workhouse, Smith-
down-lane. It is generally the rule, in cases of this
sort, to advertise for employees, and. submit their
testimonials, recommendations, &c., to the board for
their decision, as to who have the appointments.
It is currently reported, and I know it for a fact,
that a gentleman who formerly held the office of
Master in the West Derby Workhouse, and whose
character is generally well known, has been inspect-
ing the Smithdown-lane Workhouse, and likewise
has had several interviews with the Chairman, which
means that he is to have the mastership of that
establishment.

Now, I protest against that sort of underhand
proceeding, and wish to impress on the minds of the
ratepayers, that unless-they are alive to these tricke—
ries, the leading officer of their workhouse will be a
man who enjoys little or no esteem of the public.
By all means choose a competent person, but let that
choosing be conducted "above board;" and give every
man who applies a fair and impartial hearing, &c.
I am, sir, yours respectfully, A RAIEPATER.
June 14th, 1859

The wife of a guard on the London and South Western
Railway was on Wednesday safely delivered, of two boys
and one girl, who are all doing well.
LADY CORRESPONDENTS:—The Bury. Times• contains the
following mysterious advertisement, symptomatic, we pre-

same, ora tender correspondence with of matrimonial
tendencies :-" C's fair correspondent will find a letter for
her at the Post-office, Bury. C. hopes that the ladies who
replied to his advertisement last week will overlook any
apparent negligence--in the promptness of replies, as they
are so numerous. They will receive-due attention."
AMUSEMENTS IN LIVERPOOL. Open from ten in the
morning until ten at night. Allsop'S Wax-Work exhibition.
All the kings and queens, from and inclndingTharn the
Conqueror, dawn to Queen Vietoria ; also, princes and
princesses, dukes, duchesses, lords, eminent statesmen,
warriors, poets; divines ; also all the most noted personages
of the past and present ages, &c. Allsop's sculpture galleries,
containing upwards of 3,000 statues. selected from all parts
of the world, varying from five to twenty feet in height.
Allsop's diorainie, panoramic, cosmeramic, andlstereoscopic
views of intense • interest Allsop*s musical promenade.
The above attractions are now combined, forming one large
establishment, in the immense and magnificent building
known as the Teutonic-ball, next door hut one to thee
County Court, Lime-street; Liverpool, and nearly opposite
the Adelphi Hotel, and is open to the puhlin at 6d each ;
children under ten years of ago, 3d each. Mr. Allsop's
exhibition has been pronounced by the press of Liverpool,
London, and elsewhere, to be the most perfect, superbly--
magnificent, and largest establishment in the world; a fact,
that cannot possibly be contradicted. Be sure to observe
the name, "Allsop,"' at the entrance. Sole proprietor,
dMr
Wm. Allsop.
SINGICLAR TRIAIL AT•BERLIN.—A casewhich has excited.;
'lnterest at Berlin, has just been, decided. In the
course of a discussion in :he Chamber of Deputies,_ in
February last. the minister of public works;, M. Bethinana-
Honing, declared that for the future the ssrveillance of the
police over the religious meetings of dissenting sects should.
be reduced to the narrowest,proportions, and that the-rneme
bets of those sects, insteadiof sending their children t© the,
public schools to receive religious instruction, mig'at:eause
such instructions to be given to them by special professors..
Eight elders of a church,thought fit to publish a protest in
the Kreuzzeztuv, against these contessions, but; it was

couched in such offmsite terms, that the public prosecutor
deemed it his duty to.itistitute em prosecution agamst theta
on the charge of insulting the &gent, exciting- one clazs of
citizens to-hatred and contempt of another, and publicly
insulting the minister of worship in the exercise of his
functions.;: he also.included rn the prosecution: the respon-
sible editor of the. journal, M. Herniae. The trial took
place on Saturday, before the Criminal Tribunal., One of
the accused elders proved that he had neither read nor
signed, the protest, and he-wius discharged;,. two others said
that they had: authorised their names tob be. put to it, but

had not read and they also were dischtrged, Of the five
other-elders, one, M. de Sehierstadt, who had drawn up the.
protest, was. sentenced to two months'- imprisonment, and,
the four others each to six weeks. he, to the responsible
ator of the journal, he was fined 50‘,thalers.
SIINDAZI IN THE MArRITIUS.— It happended to. he a
Sunday morning when I landed in, the Mauritius. Every
i traveller fresh from England, whoJands on the same. del,
will speedily be reminded that this.colony, though laomiy_s_l_i_Y
I;Englie,h, is essentially French in. all its habits end cu"°
Ho will find open canteens and; arrack shops, less gorg e:1;
Is
than, the gin palaces of London, but doing their work with
the same deadly effect. He will be jostlsel by gangs of
drunken sailors spending their Sunday on. shore, and irn.
parting to the heathen Coolie from Hindustan his. first idea
of the Christian character. If he pass near the baaaar, he
will have to thread his-way among groups of Indians that
have been long enough in the colony to profit by their.
Christian brother's example, and to imbibe a taste .for the
poison sold
in the canteens. He will: meat vvehiclesvehiclesof all
kinds, from the luxurious o
carriage +a
,the rellinF oarriole,
filled with the citizens of the better class hurrying to the
country to spend the Sabha%
ht D
arrivtileMOUSSOS He will
find the shops open, and their goo:as-exposed for sale ; the
bazaar thronged by brA,
-TY Purdrasers ; and every place of
public resort attracting
"s sheir„: of attention save the house
of God, the visitors_H ,4 zo. Ivid'eh seem to be few and far
I between.
p '''l"' oellit the clang of the blacksmith's
hammer, and all the otle sounds of labour that are hushed
e
and silent on an Itn re
.sh Sabbath; and if it be the sugar
5,ea.„."11,1; and PrkeS are rising, he will see the smoke
-'--nulng firoul k)'..e mills, and the bands of Coolies cutting
down the owes in the fields. At first, he may flattey
himself- that, Sabbath labour is confined to the French
Creoles, This delusion will speedily vanish.— Cre,o4e: °,4,,-.
v.; or Five Years its Mauritius, by Me 4'
Aselee.is X A.