The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-27 00:00:00

I NORIHE;,,, Ti, POOL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1857.

CHESHIRE INTELLIGENCE.

DOME L4BOURPR'S SOCIETY.—On Monday night last,
a preliminary meeting was held in the in Crown Hotel
Hill, Oliver-street, for the purpose of forming a Friendly
Burial Society, open to the labourers engaged in the
various dock work operations. The meeting was nu-
merously attended. It was a very pleasing feature
in the proceedings to note the due sense of
the importani” of the ohj !et for which they, had
congregated. A copy of the rules for the guidance
the institution, as revised by John Tidd Pratt,
Esq , Registrar of Friendly Societies in England,
wks read, approved of, and ordered to be printed. The
g gentlemen were appointed as office-bearers, viz.,
Messrs Eiward Docherts, president; Michael Henegan,
vice-president ; Dennis Sullivan, treasurer ; and Thomas
A. Feehan, secretary We wish this movement every
meainre of success, and consider that it is a step in the
right direct7on.

-TOTAL ABSTINENCE PRESENT.—At a meeting of the free
public library, held lately, T B. Golborne, Esq., presiding,
it was resolved to convey to the Total Abstinence
Brotherhood, per R. E. French, Esq., their best acknow-
ledgments for the following volumes, presented to the
library, viz. :—" Argument against the Liquor Traffic,"
by Dr. Lee ; and " The Burnish Family ;" both of which
were remarkably chaste in binding and general finish.
To other pubiic bodies we would say, " follow the
ex-im le "

PUBLIC MEETING. —Last night, a public meeting was
held in the Argyle-street. School-room, on the questinn of
Total Abstinence. The chairman, Mr. Bro Abridge,
having stated the object of the meeting, introduced Mr.
Grooby, who, in a somewhat racy, and characteristically
unique style, remarked on the evils of intemperance, as mani-
'fest in every grade and walk of lire. He made every pointed
bit at the class of temperance aovocates who, rather than
give offence, spoke out their minds in a milk and water
fashion. Believing, as he did, that truth was powerful
and would prevail, Mr. G. held that the whole truth
should be told, no matter what might be the result.
Mr. French next addressed the meeting on the evils
of the liquor traffic, and urged that so long as the
cause of intemperance continued, just so long would the
effects be obvious, in the wretchedness, degradation,
crime, and poverty, so prevalent among the votaries of
intemperance. Mr. F. read some very startling testi-
monials of chaplains, ministers, &e., on the evil effects
resultirg to the community from the liquor traffic. Mr.
Theophilus Jones then addressed the meeting in his usual
happy styl,., and the company broke up. We may here
add that another " grand field night" will take place on
Tuesday, in the Argyle-rooms, when public discussion on
the mischievous effects of the publican's traffic will be re-
spectfully invited.

THE APPLE AND PEAR CROP.—The Exeter Gazette
says : From all the fruit-growing districts of this county
we have the most encouraging reports of the state of the
apple and pear blossom.
GOVERNMENT ARTIZ ANS AND EMIGRATION.—The Wool-
wich committee for promoting the emigration of discharged
workmen from the Arsenal and Dockyard has received the
handsome subscription of £2,000 from the Wellingto
Emigration Fund Committee. The amount now in hand
will enable the committee to provide the meats of emig-a-
tion for 800 persons, and arrangements are now in pro-
gress for sending out to Canada the first instalment of
emigrants, consisting of 450 men, women, and children.
The number of applications for free emigration received by
the committee exceeds 2,000.
SIR JOSHUA WALMSLEY.—On April 26th, a number of
emigrants from Leicester, who have become inhabitants
of Germantown, near Philadelphia, held a meeting and
decided on presenting an address to Sir Joshua Walmsley,
in which they expressed their strong emotions of regret at
the manner in which he had been deprived of his seat in
parliament, and the liberal electors and non-electors of
Leicester of one of the most 'useful, honourable, and faith-
ful representatives. A resolution was passed thanking
Mr. J. Briggs, M.P., for his conduct during the election,
in requesting the electors to sacrifice him, if necessary, to
secure Sir Joshua's return ; and also one thanking Mr.
Markham for his valuable exertions.—Leicester Mercury.

COMMUNICATION BETWEEN IRELAND AND ENGLAND.—
Seventy-five Irish members of the Imperial Parliament
•I waited," on Wednesday on the Premier, for the purpose
of urging action on the government, in carrying out pro-
posed improvements in the postal communication between
'London and Dublin. This farce has been going on a little
too long ; and we are really getting tired of it. About
the defects of the imperial postal service, in all its relations
to this country, the representatives of Ireland are perfectly
agreed. They are unanimous in the opinion that one of
the very first things that ought to be done for Ireland is
to remedy the evils of too slow and too economical a
postal service between the two islands, and within Ireland.
Bat they are content with deputations ; they never give
the Treasury to understand that what they want done
must be done, if their votes on general questions are
desired. To the maundering M.r.'s, on Wednesday, Lord
Palmerston " expressed his sense of 'the high importance
of improving the communication, both on- postal
and commercial grounds, and referred the de-
putation to Mr. Wilson the Secretary to the
Treasury, who was:in attendance, for explanation as to
the present position of the question." Of course, he had
a " sense" of the importance of the matter ; which he
evinced by referring the Irish public to Mr. James
Wilson, at whose feet it has long implored, with a
reverence which only a financial secretary of the Treasury
could evoke. And what did Mr. Wilson say ?—" After
entering upon some details respecting the negotiations
during the last two years, Mr. Wilson stated, that a pro-
psoition had been submitted to the companies within the
last few days, which was now under consideration." After
" two years" circumlocution, something is still under con-
sideration !—Arorthern Whig.
COMMENCEMENT or A STANDING ARMy.—Charles 11. and
his ministers had no intention of governing without a de •
fensive force, only they sought to embody one on which
they could more safely rely than the citizens and soldiers
of the commonwealth. For this purpose the Guards were
established, formed partly out of the most reliable troops
of Oliver, and partly from the creation of new regiments.
To General Monk's regiment were added two more, forming
the Coldstream Foot Guards. In 1661 the Life Guards
were raised, composed and treated like the Gardes du Corps
of the French king, being principedly gentlemen of 'fortune,
who themselves, or fathers had fought in the civil war, To
these were added the Blues, the Old Buffs, the Queen's,
the Scotch Fusiliers, and the King's Own. Altogether, a
force of 5,000 men was oronised, and which, in the next
reign, was augmented to 30,000. Parliament, however,
never sanctioned the enrolment of this large standing army,
nor did it vote the money required for its maintenance.
They were embodied by the crown only, and were paid
for either out of the civil list, or by diverting the supplies
granted for other eurposes. Both Charles and James II
relied strongly on this unconstitutional force for the estab-
lishment of their arbitrary scheme of government, but
, which James lived to find, as the Bourbons did at a later
period, a broken reed.--Wade.
ST. JAMEi'S PARK.—The water, such as it is, suppliod
by the water companies to the parks, has hitherto cost
government £1,600 a year, but a discovery has been made
during the recent alterations, which, it is supposed, will
effect a saving of one half this sum. In that island,
surrounded by the ornamental waters of St. James's Park,
which the " Merry Monarch" named Duck Island, and of
which he once appointed St. Evremont, governor, there
was found to exist a powerful spring, yielding pure water
in sufficient abundance to supply the whole lake, and. per-
haps to prove available for other purposes. From a well
of 10 feet wide, sank to a depth of 26 feat, s,oootgallons
of water a minute are now obtained, and it is anticipated
that a still larger supply will be attainable. The water
evidently comes from the Thames, being filtered on its
passage through a bed of sand two thirds of a mile in
thickness.—Ohser. ver.

NEW SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTI3T3.—A. society has
been set on foot by a. few active and beneficent persons,
with the object of collecting the works of female artists
into an exhibition for sale. The exhibition will open on
the Ist of June, and will comprise, along with the pro-
ductions of painters by profession, some contributions from
amateurs, not a few of which are understood to possess
distinguished merit. It is nowise intended as a rival
exhibition to those already before the public, nor do the
female artists wish to imply that they consider themselves
unfairly treated by the older socities. Into these a fair
number of female exhibitors have always been admitted,
and the works (which, indeed, have ranked confessedly
among the gems of the collection) adequately commended:
But a society framed by men, for their own advantage,
and necessarily limited in numbers, cannot open its doors
to the applications of female painters without prejudice to
the very design of the institution. Nor, again, can the
Royal Academy exhibition serve the purpose of a sale
room for water-colour drawings, which are naturally
eclipsed by their more powerful neighbours in oil. if it
be objected that the effect of a Female Artists' Society
will be to swell the amount of mediocrity which 13
annually thrown upon the town in the shape of drawings
and paintings, we would reply that in all departments of
art, gradations 9f talent must exist ; that the exhibitions
actually open, such as the Royal Academy. and the Society
of British Artists in Suffolk-street, contain no small pro.
portion of
inferior specimens of painting in various
branches; and that., Supposing the Female Artists' Society
to produce
rip greater amount of mediocrity, compared
with W°llll of merit, than the old societies, no partisan
t12P!:1,3+ of entering the field of honvinta* commit',
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of the stronger sex need grudge to the weaker an o -
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