Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-09 00:00:00

of the Wesleyan missionary operations amongst the poor
and densely-populated districts of this :country, where
ministers had- been stationed to carry on the aggressive
movement against vice and ignorance. The resolution
was adopted, and at the close a collection was made on
behalf of the funds of the home missions.

tem •' and we are credibly informed that Palmer's pump,
with half the power, will do more work in twenty-five
minutes, than the others in five honrs—and from what

we saw we believe it is beyond doubt.
EXTRAORDINARY. PRIZE FIGHT ON ITILEREB ISLAND,
—Some days ago, a steam-tug, painted green, with white
paddle-boxes, approached the Hilbree Island ; apparently
the boat came from Liverpool, and had some 200 or
more persons on board. There are only two houses on
the Island, one inhabited by Mr. Barnett, of the Trinity
House, and the other by. Mr. Hughes, belonging to the
Corporation of Liverpool, and who' manages the tele-
graph on the Island. The tide was high-flood at the
time, and the communication was thus cut off from the
main land side of the island. The party from the steamer
soon landed, as we stated, about 200 persons, and soon
began operations, that left no doubt as to what, they
were about to do namely, to have a prize fight. Mr.
Hughes, it appears, remonstrated, but to no use. A ring,
with ropes and stakes, was soon made, and the
." buffers," with their "seconds," "bottle-holders," &c.,
went. to " work." The battle lasted about three
hours, but the names of the combatants, or who they
were, we-could not ascertain. We have heard, however,
that one was from London and the other -from Dublin,
and that the " fun" was for £2OO a side ; but who won
or lost, our informant saith not. There were two men
all the time keeping 'a strong look-out, with powerful
glasses, and when the tide receded, Mr. Barnett's servant
was seat on horseback to the post-office, with and for
letters, and the pugilistic admirers imagining (as he rode
very smartly) that he was going for the police, got on
board the boat as soon as possible, and steamed away
towards Liverpool. We have heard that the " principal
operators" in this " mill" were frightfully punished—
that one had his eye actually knocked out on his cheek,
and the other got his ear knocked off in the disgraceful
affair.

MARINE DlSASTERS.—Yesterday, the schooner Eliza-
beth and Jane drifted athwart the ship R. L. Lane, at
present lying in the Slope, ready to sail for New York.
The schooner lost her foretop and mainmasts, and the
ship received some trifling damage. A letter from Port-
caul states that parts of the wreck of a vessel had been
washed ashore oh the coast, with some papers of the
India Nicolo Acamadilla, Pictou ; crew, including master,
thirteen. A despatch from Boulogne advises: us that the
water is as high inside the Jubilee (already reported
ashore) as outside. The ship is very badly a hogged,"
and the metal is washing off. The silk obtained from
'tween decks is mostly in good order, a few bales only
being wet ; 2,000 bales is all that have been landed up to
this -time, and about 500 packages of tea, partly damaged.
The weather was very fine on Monday.
WHAT THE EYE DOESN'T SEE, &c.—During the time
of the-Great Exhibition in 1851 buffalo hides and sheep
and calf skins advanced cent per cent in price. This
was caused by the great demand for jellies in the refresh-
ment rooms. Visitors then consumed jellies who never
tasted them before; and as the usual material was not
available, buffalo hides were purchased in tons, in Liver-
pool, for the purpose of making these delicacies. Size
and glue were used at first, but the hides were found to
be cheapest. tiro one knows now what he eats in English
confectionary. The natives of Java use the fresh hides
of cattle as food, nay even esteem them a dainty beyond
any other part of the animal. The first pair of buckskin
breeches seen in 'the South Sea Islands were so little
understood that the natives stuffed them with sea weed
and had them boiled for dinner.—Curiosities of Food, by
Hr. Simmonds.
CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—BENEFIT OF MR. W. P.
COLLINS.—Which of the songs of Christy's Minstrels has
become more popular than " Kiss me quick and go ?"
Everywhere you turn you hear it hummed, or sung, or
whistled : every one tries to reproduce it in something
like the style of the original. Mr. W. P. Collins is the
original, and in good truth cannot be imitated. Mr.
Collins is not only the singer of this song, but he is the
performer on the bones—the burlesque "prima donna,"
the dancer, and the comedian of Christy's versatile com-
pany. On Friday night Mr. Collins takes his benefit,
and, ' as the public have derived no greater pleasure from
any' part of the performance than from that which he
contributes, we feel assured .that the attendance that
night will be of especial magnitude. It should be added
that the stay of the company in Liverpool is now drawing
rapidly to a close.

THE FLEETWOOD NEW LIFE-BOAT BSTAELISH3IENT

—During the past week the National Life-boat Institu-
tion has sent a new life-boat and transporting carriage to
Fleet Wood. The boat rows six oars single-handed, and
is admirably adapted for this locality. She is on Peake's
design, and was built by the Messrs. Forrestt, of
Limehouse, builders to the society. She combines all the
latest improvements that have been made in the boats of
the institution. She will row fast in a seaway, will
clear herself of water, if filled by sea, in twenty-five
seconds, and she would instantly self-right if upset. A
harbour-trial of the life-boat was made at Limehouse, a
few days before-her departure for her station, when her
peculiar remarkable qualities were fully and satisfactorily
developed. She is diagonally built of well-seasoned pine,
which is the construction now adopted by the institution.
A carriage, after the design of the inspector of life-boats
to the institution, is attached to the life-boat; from which
she can be easily launched, with her crew on board, by
the aid of ropes handled by the bystanders on shore. A
new substantial house is about to be built for the
'reception of the boat and carriage, which will cost about
150. The institution has also a life-boat at Lytham,
which it sent he,.;e two or three years ago, and which
has since, on several' occasions, been instrumental in
saving shipwrecked crews. These two establishments
have cost about £5OO, the whole of which
amount, with the exception of about £2O, has
been defrayed from the funds of the National Life-
boat Institution. We believe that it ought to be the
wish of this wealthy county to provide in the most
efficient manner for the rescue of mariners shipwrecked
on its dangerous coast ; and we venture to submit
whether it is desirable that the life-boats on the Lanca-
shire coast should be left to draw, from other parts of the
kingdom, the funds necessary for the protection of its
own shores, and thus deprive this useful institution of
the funds so necessary to enable it to station additional
life-boats on some of the sixty. or seventy exposed places
on our dangerous coasts, where they are so much needed,
and where little or no funds can be collected locally to
assist the society in defraying their first cost. We do
therefore sincerely trust, that after the perusal of these
few remarks, many of the wealthy inhabitants of this
county will generously come forward to help an insti-
tution which stands so much in need of their aid, not
only to enable it to station additional life-boats on the
coast, but to assist it to maintain, in a state of thorough
efficiency, its eighty-one establishments. It should be
remembered that an average of 800 lives annually perish
from shipwrecks on the coast of the United Kingdom.
Nevertheless, it is the opinion of competent judges that a
very large proportion of that number might be saved if
the means for saving life from shipwrecks were complete
on our shores.

BRADFORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—THE SUPPLY OF
WOOL.—On Monday a general meeting of the Bradford
Chamber of Commerce was held, to consider the recom-
mendation of a Special Committee with regard to the
formation of an association for the purpose of increasing
the supply of wool. Mr. H. W. Ripley, the president,
occupied the chair. Considerable discussion took place,
one or two gentlemen opposing the proposal to form an
association, on the ground that the natural law of supply
and demand would alone regulate the present high price
of wool, by stimulating the growers to produce an
increased supply. Ultimately, a resolution was passed,
to the effect that it was desirable that the Chamber
should direct their attention to the matter of increasing
the present supply of long or combing, wool, and that a
separate fund should be formed for' the purpose of
defraying the expense of an association of gentlemen
eledted, to carry out this object iu connection with the
Chamber.

LIVERPOOL VESSELS WRECKED DURING JANUARY.—
During the month of January, the number of shipwrecks
reported was 177. The following is a list of the Liver-
pool ships which have been lost : Aurora, from Demerara
for Liverpool, was stranded in Carnarvon Bay, January
18th ; has since been sold - crew saved. The
Franklin, of Liverpool, from Pensacola for Queens-
town, was fallen in with January 10th, in
lat. 44 N., lon. 65 W., waferlogged, decks swept and
dismasted, by the Manhattan, which took off the captain
(Young), officers, and crew, and landed them at New
York. Good Intent, for Frodsham, sunk, Jan. 6, about
20 miles from the N.W. lightship, after being in contact
with the Eliza, from Harbor Grace ; crew saved. Meroo,
from Calcutta for Liverpool, was burned at sea, Nov. 28,
in lat. 14 N. ; crew saved. Pannonia (Austrian), Steinfl,
from Alexandria for Liverpool, got on shore near Tunis
previous to Jan. 15th, and became a wreck. The Queen,
Captain Batchelor, sailed from Porto Plata Oct. 3rd, and
has not since been heard of. The Vision, Captain Kidd,
from Liverpool for Africa, has been abandoned, crew
landed at Valparaiso, _

STATISTICS OF THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL—The value
of British and Irish goods exported during the month of
January was £5,261,789, against £3,458,117 in the
corresponding month last year, showing an increase of
£1,803,672. £4,198,028 was exported in British ships,
and £1,063,761 in foreign ships. The exports last month
were to the following countries :—United States,
£1,117,354 ; North America and the West Indies,
£59,618 ; South America, £573,648 ; Australia and New
Zealand, £217,366; Asia and Africa, £1,303,978 ;
France, South of Europe, Mediterranean, and
the Western Islands, £926,064. The customs
duty received in the port of Liverpool, daring
the month of January, was £305,530—viz., from
coffee, £4,798; corn, meal, and flour, £5,458 ; molasses,
£8,624 ; sugar, £77,812 ; spirits, £42,867 ; tea, £39,118 ;
tobacco, £93,485 ; wine, £12,125 ; other goods, £21,240.
It will be seen that the greatest amount is on tobacco,
sugar, spirits and tea being. the other chief
articles of consumption. The imports of sugar
into Liverpool, during the year ending December. 31,
1858, were 1,720,617 cwt, viz., Brazil, 537,035 cwt. ;
British West Indies, 391,309 cwt; East Indies,
517,583 cwt; Foreign West Indies and North American,
68,362 cwt ; Cuba, 42,803 cwt; China, 11,403 cwt ;
and from France, 152,086 cwt. . .

THE OMNIBUS DUTY.—It appears that the duty on
omnibuses (stage carriages) in the year ended the 31st of
March last, was £118,561.
M. Meyerbeer's Dinorah has entered into another stage
of preparatory progress, its orchestral rehearsals having
commenced. The opera may therefore be looked for some
time after Easter.

A letter from Naples says :—" Signor Verdi left us a
few days since for Rome, where he will bring out his new
ope entitled La Vendetta dei _Domino. It was intended
ra,
for Naples, but was prohibited, I hear."
THE NEGRO IMMIGRATION SCHEME.-The Paris
correspondent of the Times says the Commissioners of
Enquiry were unanimous in favour of the continued
engagement of negroes on the African coast.

[PARISH MEETING AT BEBINGTON. —A meeting of the
parishioners of Bebington was held last night, in the
church schools, Lower Bebington, the Rev. R. M. Feilden
in the chair. The attendance was numerous. The
Chairman explained that the township of Higher Bebing-
ton, in the parish of Bebington, had agreed to adopt th%
Local Government Act, and had sent up the necessary
papers to the Home Secretary, who, however, drew
attention to the 14th clause of the act, which set forth
that no separate township in a parish could adopt the act,
before the parish, as a whole, had refused to adopt the
act. Now, it would be very advantageous in a sanitary
point of view for Rock Ferry, which was in the township
of Higher Bebington, to adopt the act ; but it would not
be to the advantage of the parish of Bebington, which
contained several agricultural townships, to adopt, as a
whole, this act. Mr. Woodburn, attorney, having explained
the Act of Parliament, said the meeting was called for
the purpose of enabling the parish of Bebington to reject
the adoption of the act, in order that Rock Ferry, or
rather the township of Higher Bebington, might adopt
the act for its own governance. The' Chairman, in
accordance with the act, then formally moved that the
Local Government Act of 1858 be adopted by the parish
of Bebington. This was negatived by a unanimous vote ;
and the object for which the meeting was convened having
been obtained, the Chairman declared the meeting closed.
After a cordial vote of thanks had been passed to the
chairman, the meeting broke up, the proceedings having
lasted precisely ten minutes. _ _

Mi. Wigan having for the present relinquished the
idea of entering upon management, has, with Mrs.
Wigan, accepted an engagement at the new Adelphi
Theatre, whet e they will make their appearance on the
28th instant.

PAISIER'S PATENT PUMP

•TILE ISAAC WRIGHT

In our notice of the pumping out of the Isaac Wright,
by Palmer's pump, there were two mistakes which we
wish to correct. time occupied in the operation was
56 minutes, and not 26 minutes, and the pumping out of
the vessel was, of course, down to the cargo. Yesterday,
the operation was again gone through, as a great deal of
the cargo had been got out, and, of course, the tide had
again filled the hull with water. About two o'clock a
steamer went over to the vessel, and carried the
following gentlemen to see the working of the pump:—
The Min. Joseph Cunard, Commodore Jones, Capt.
Funk, of the David Clinton, Capt. Griffiths (of Sand
Sandbatthes), Capt. Allen, Capt. Grant, Capt. Beverly
(Guyon's), Capt. Murphy, Capt. Turk, Mr. Gray (board
of trade), Mr. Peter Maddox, Mr. Alexander (Inman's),
Mr. Tonick, Mr. John Swift, Mr. Robert T. Hill, Mr.
Ward, Mr. Wilson. (C.E.), Mr. Lockwood, Mr.
James Sykes, Mr.. Christopher Bell, Mr. W. Swift,
Mr. James Livingston, 111 r. Charles Wise, Mr.
Livesay, Mr. Miller, Mr. Clare, Mr. Kirkby, and
about fifty others, whose names we could not ascertain.
There was upwards of two feet of mud collected on the
remaining cargo, and the whole was filled with water.
In about a quarter of an hour, the latter was again
pumped out to the cargo, and then the men, before the
tide returned, got out about seventy tons of cargo. The
operation astonished all present, and the spectators
expressed themselves in the strongest terms of ap-
probation at the complete success of the pump,
without which none of the cargo would have
ever been recovered. The pumping will be con-
tinued to-day, and probably to-morrow, until the
entire cargo is taken out, as the underwriters are
resolved to take out all the cargo on the place where
the vessel lies, before removing her, as the operation has
proved so successful. Any one desirous of seeing this
pump at work, this day after two o'clock, can do so by
going over by the Rock-ferry boat, which will put them
within a short distance of the ship. The operation
is well worth seeing, and all the scientific authorities
declare it
day. We may em
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pumps at some of the naval do.A-vards, on the old sys-

EXPORTING HORSES FROM GERMANY.—The Trertzbarg
Gazette states that the subject of prohibiting the export
of horses is now under consideration by aft the Govern-
ments of the Zollverein, and expresses a hope that a
timely decision will be come to on the subject.
_ _

THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.2LRecentIy the
following portraits have been added : William Harvey,
the discoverer of the circulation of the blood; George
Cohnan the elder, the dramatist, the connoisseur, and the
translator of Terence, by Gainsborough ; and John Keats,
painted at Rome by the poet's friend, Severn.
A RIIHOURED FRENCH WAR.—A rumour is circulating
in the financial world, and obtaining considerable cre-
dence, -respecting an intention on the part of the French
Government, which, if carried out, cannot be regarded as
anything short of a declaration of war. It is positively
declared that a new loan is to be raised almost immedi-
ately by public subscription.
STRIKING MORTALITY.—John Stewart, gamekeeper,
Idvies, Arbroath, who lost his wife and two children a
fortnight ago, has since then been bereaved of other two
children by the same fever. He is now stripped of the
whole. The funeral company has assembled at his house
four times since this year began, and on one of the occa-
sions the mother and a child were carried to the grave
together.—Arbroath Guide.
LOVE AND STEAM.—Our fair readers in this county
will, no doubt, be glad to hear that a two-fold source of
satisfaction will henceforth be associated with the 14th of
February, on which, the anniversary of St. Valentine, it
is expected that King Steam, Direct from Dublin, vi 4
Dundalk, with his iron engine and shrill whistle, will
pay his first visit to Enniskillen. Under such favourable
circumstances for his entrée we augur a prosperous
career for him.—Fermanagh

THE LATE MR. FARLEI'. —So many years have elapsed
since the late Mr: C. Farley's retirement from the stage
that, although he was to the last an object of respect
among the elder members of the profession, his name
probably appeared strange to playgoers of the present
generation when his death was recently recorded. His
theatrical life began in 1782, when he first came out as a
child at Covent-garden Theatre, and when he died the
other day, he was more than 80 years of age.
The famous cantatrice, Madame Bosio, was hissed the
other night at the Italian Theatre, St. Petersburgh, for
having, a few nights before, caused the performance to
be changed on pretext that she was ill, and yet gone to a
grand party in the house of a princess, and sang there
as charmingly as ever. The hissing was remarkable for
two reasons--first, because no prima donna ever before
received such a castigation ; secondly, because Madame
Bosio had previously been highly esteemed by the Peters-
burghers.
ANECDOTE OF HALLAM. —A story of Hallam's love of
contradiction may be new to our readers. After a night
of contradiction at Holland House with "My Lady,"
Luttrell, Sam Rogers, and Sydney Smith, Hallam
returned to his house, No. 67, Wimpole-street, his tongue
still tipped with ready contradiction. It was late, and
the historian not in full health. A watchman went by.
" Past one o'clock," cried the watchman, loudly, with
a yawn. " No," cried Hallam, tartly an 4 loud, throwing
up the sash of his bedroom window, watch in hand ; it
wants three minutes."

Two MEN KILLED.— On Saturday afternoon, while
a man, named Peter Duncan, who resided in Rumford-
street, Bridgeton, was having a cart loaded with coals
weighed at Mr. Graham's machine, near the Monkland
Canal Basin, Townhead, the horse under his charge sud-
denly started off, and having been, as is conjectured,
knocked down by one of the trams, a wheel of the cart
passed over his head and killed him. The unfortunate
man was at the time the worse of drink. He was married,
and has left a widow and family. The same day, while a
labourer at Messrs. Stewart and Co.'s foundry, Charles-
street, Townhead, was engaged in guiding a metal pipe
or box from a furnace along a railway, a portion of the
pipe came in contact with a wooden erection in the work,
overbalanced, and, falling upon him, crushed him in such
a dreadful manner about the chest, that he expired within
a few minutes. Deceased, who resided at Middleton-
place, Garngad-road, was 22 years of age, and is said to
have left a widow and one child.—Glasgow Mail.

THE NORTHERN TIMES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1859

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

INDIA.

The following telegram,• from Mr. Acting
Consul-General Green, was received at the Foreign
Office yesterday morning at 3.10
ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 2nd, 1859.
The steamer Nemesis arrived at Suez on the
30th January. Dates :—Calcutta, 9th January ;
Madras, 13th January; Hong Kong, 30th Decem-
ber. The following telegram is dated