Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-24 00:00:00

NORTHERN DAILY TIMES

TIER MAJESTY AT ALDERSITOTT,

The Tipperary Militia formed the guard of honour
L Her Majesty's landing at Portsmouth yesterday.

The evolutions are to extend over two day

Yesterday, the programme involved the, supposition

,d received orders to

Tywb. plOgretsB Of an enemy acrvancmg on I.ofieloll

from the coast, by Farnham

skirmish, to enable the men to entrench, but during to-
day the decisive battle will be fought.

THE BUILDERS' STRIKE

The Operative Builders' Conference, yesterday, dis-
bursed about £l,OOO amongst 9,618 skilled and un-
skilled workmen. If the men were dissatisfied at the
smallness of the allowance, they kept this feeling to
themselves. The delegates endeavoured to animate
their spirits, by telling them they were sanguine of

;AL INTELLIGENCE.

LOC

BIRKENHEAD POLICE

Yesterday, a number
) before the magis-

of drunk and disorderly cases cam
trates, not one of which was of the

least interest to the

. •
public generally_
" OUR COUNTRY COUSINS." - Yesterday, a large
number of excursionists arrived by the East Lancashire,
and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways. During the
day the river steamers were crowded, and several of the
visitors were locked up in Birkenhead Bridewell—

booked for safety."

ZOOLOGICAL dARDENS.—we have pleasure in draw-
ing attention to the announcement in our advertising
columns of a grand gala, which is to take place on
Saturday in the above popular place of amusement, in
aid of the Widows' and Orphans' Fund of the Railway
Guards' Universal Friendly Society. The gala is under
the immediate patronage of Thomas B. Horsfall, Esq.,
M.P., and J. Brainley-Moore, Esq. The programme
for the day contains a pleasing variety'q, and is calculated,
independent of .any charitable conaideration, to draw a
numerous audience. _

SELECT VESTRY.—The fortnightly meeting of
hody was held yesterday,—fir. CI
the chair. The other members present Iv
Owen, Scott, Smith, Whitby, Cooke
Word, Bairstow, Critchley, Hughes, an(

ITChwardenJones it

Th 6
se Committee were read and
s of the Industrial Schools

p;oceedirgs of the lti

confirmed

were al

;ommendation to

erect two drinking fountains in the play-ground at a
:ost not exceeding .f.,q2 each, exclusive of plumber's
On the motien of Mr. Bairstow the proceedings
of the Finance Com-

mittee were then read and confirmed. The Chairman,
cconling to a notice of motion, moved that Mr. Archer
5-appointed a member of the Vestry. Since his
first appointment Mr. Archer had been unable to
attend, and the consequence was that he was dis-
qualified to act ; but on learning Mr. Archer's
willingness to attend in future, he (the chairman)
thought it would meet , with the approval of the
board, to move his re-appointment on the committee.
The motion was agreed to unanimously. The Contract
Committee was re-appointed for the purpose of prepar-
ing specifications for the usual periodical tenders. The
chairman hoped they would be so, explicit in their ten-
ders as to give all parties a chalice of tendering, and so
o prevent the possibility of trickery and fraud in any
This was all the business.

MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL
SOClETY.—Yesterday a meeting of the local committee
of this society was held in the Town-hall, William
Preston, Esq., the mayor, presiding. A conversation
took place as to the trial of reapers, which ended in the
adoption of a resolution to the effect that a trial of
reapers should take place, provided there was corn or
other crops to be obtained. The secretary was instructed
to apply to Mr. Gore, of Woolton, to ascertain whether
the crop said to be growing on his farm was to be had
for the purpose. It was also moved and agreed to that
a trial of grubbers and cultivators should take place the
day before the show. The secretary announced that
the subscriptions now received amounted to £BO7 75.,
and he said there was every possible likelihood of them
having a good and successful exhibition this year.
The entries, generally, were all very good, and he
believed that the show would be characterised with an
excellency of stock much surpassing other years ; and
as for the number of implements, he thought he might
say they would be wonderfully large ; and it would be
very interesting, indeed, to see a number of them being
worked by steam, as well as the steam engines which
would be for exhibition. The directory had a good
deal of trouble in providing room for all. The entry
was now finally closed, and no further entries would be
obtained on any terms whatever. It was suggested and
agreed to, that the children of the Blue Coat School,
and of other institutions in the town, should be admitted
to the show gratuitously. This was all the business
transacted of public interest. In reference to
the trial of reapers, we are in a position to state
that, subsequently to the meeting, the secretary,
accompanied by a member of the committee, proceeded
to Woolton, and ascertained, from the owner, that the
field in question was now being cut, and very little of
the crop was still standing. Their enquiries as to any
ether suitable field in this neighbourhood were equally
unsuccessful. There can, therefore, be no public trial
of reapers on the 26th instant. It is evident from the
above that the harvest in thi-

Leighbourhood is ca

pleted

CORRESPONDENCE.

extent, whilst, if it gives more resistance, the variation
cannot be produced with the same certainty nor quite to
the same degree.

Taking, iberefore, the resistance of the fault, and

would biin

Valenti;

the fault to about 263 statute miles from

As I have no information of the return current due

have been observed and tabulated during, the paying-out
of the cable, it is impossible to check the resistance

Comparing it, however, with the return current.on the
Cagliari and Malta and. Corfu cables, and making,
roughly, allowance for the increased size of the gutta
percha in the Atlantic cable, I find it to be about wha
is due to the supposed distance of the fault.
I also made. experiments on the return current with a
wire leading to earth from the cable, and by placing
resistances in circuit in this wire, I could represent a
fault close at hand, and a varying resistance.

aa. ,s v J
I found that, in such an arrangement, when the arti-
ficial fault gave a ,resistance of .300 miles, the return
current was only reduced about 22 per cent.
If the real fault, therefore, was close at hand, the
return current of the whole length of perfect cable
beyond the fault would be only reduced about 22 per
cent. also. _ _ _ .

I am of opinion that the observed return current is
much less than 78 per cent. of the return current due to
the whole cable, as it would be if the fault were close at
hand, and of a resistance of about 300 miles, and that it
coincides as nearly as I can judge with that due to the
length shown by the resistance.
Again, when the artificial fault was made to represent
a resistance of 260 miles, and then increased to 580,
the return current only increased about seventeen per
whereas when the real fault is increased to the

_ )me time, the return current increases about eighty
per cent. This shows also that the return current is
more influenced by the partial healing of the fault than
it would be if the fault was a small one, near at hand ;
and consequently tends also to confirm the supposition
that the fault is distant, and offers, when at its minimum,
little resistance. _ _ _

I am of opinion, therefore, that a serious fault exists
at about 263 statute miles frem Valencia, measured
along the cable, and that the cable between that spot
and this shore is comparatively perfect.
No tests from here can now decide whether the cable
is mechanically severed, since all attempts to detect the
reception of the most intense currents from the opposite
shore have long since proved fruitless.
Still, from the various circumstances attendant on the
decline of the insulation' as there is every reason to believe
that the continuity both of the cable and the conductor
is perfect.
Whether any other faults exist, beyond the one
alluded to, it is impossible to ascertain by tests from
Valencia. _ _ _

The fact that the signals received at Valencia were
always better than those received at Newfoundland
proves, undoubtedly, that the worst insulation has
always been near Valencia, and therefore it seems
probable that if the fault which exists on this coast—
and which, very likely, forms the principal cause of
leakage—could be removed, the insulation would be
so far improved as to render the cable again available
for signalling, provided the fault which is said (by those
who have tested from Newfoundland) to exist in Trinity
Bay was also repaired.—l have the honour to be, gen-
tlemen, your obedient servant, F. C. WEBB.

COURT AND OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales appears to
be making the most of his time in the Scottish metropolis
and its vicinity. Besides visiting most of the localities
of interest, he is also making a round of inspection of
the different manufactures connected with art situated
in Edinburgh. In the course of last week he visited
the stained-glass works of Messrs. Ballautine & Allan,
the various processes employed in which were explained
by Mr. Ballantine. His Royal Highness also visited the
flint-glass works of Mr. Ford.
The Duke of Somerset and the Lords of the Ad-
miralty have left town on an official visit of inspection
to Chatham and Sheerness.
It is generally stated in military circles that Major-
General Thomas S. Pratt, C. 8., is selected to succeed
Major-General Edward Macarthur, C. 8., as major-
general on the staff at Melbourne, Australia.

Sir E. Bulwer Lytton has left England for a tour on
the Continent.

A letter from Ostend, of the 18th, states that the
King of the Belgians and the Count de Flandre dined,
on that day, with the Grand Duchess Helen of Russia,
who is staying there for the benefit of sea-bathing.

On Saturday the steam war ship Le Corse arrived in
the Leith docks. It is understood she has been sent

north for the protection of the French fishermen, and

to see that they comply with the French laws reiative
to the herring fishing.—Scotsman.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN HALL, THE
AERONAUT.—The inquest on the body of the late
Captain Hall, the aeronaut, has resulted in a verdict

of accidental death. The medical evidence attributed
death to asphyxia, produced by pressure on the spinal
cord. The Coroner recommended the destitute con-

dition of the widow, who is almost penniless, to the
notice of the public.

THE WIDOW OF Louis PHILIPPE.—A few days
since Mr. Le Blond, of Budge-row, residing at Kingston,
was strolling in his garden in the evening, when he

heard from the adjoining highway a sound of alarm.
A carriage containing some ladies was brought to a
stop by the falling of one of the horses. Mr. Le Blond
assisted in extricating the postillion and in starting the
ladies on their journey, offering them, while the car-
riage was readjusted, the hospitalities of his house.
altogether in ignorance of the quality of the lad: a„.'
The next morning he was agreeably surprised at•-..pee.r
ing, as a present to this wife,'' a handsome goldi" "?-
who was one of the occupants of the carriage.
accompanied with a letter expressing
thanks of her Majesty the ex-Queer of '
the 111),
th gracious
thanks French,
The
accident happily was not attend by
any serious disaster.
—City Press.

DISGRACEFUL RELIGT"
-OUS RIOT.—A riot of a most
infamous character t'.,ok place on Sunday afternoon, in
the parish chtlrel-d of St. George-in-the-East, London,
which may b" attributed to that course of religious
excitement which it appears to be the object of certain
persojis who are opposed to the distinctive principles of
the Esiablished Church, to create and keep up. On
occasion, one immediate cause of it apparently
arose from the unfortunate circumstance of the vestry
having appointed, as afternoon lecturer, a clergyman
who is decidedly opposed to the rector, the Rev. Bryan
King, in his church views, and who, on this occasion,
took the opportunity, in his sermon, most injudiciously
to allude in an insinuating manner to clergymen who
he considered did not preach the Gospel, interlarded
with allusions to the Pope of Rome, and insinuations
tending to produce the idea that the religious teaching
of the rector and his curates was of a Romish
character. All this had the effect of greatly
exciting the minds of many persons present, who
were notoriously inimical to their parish priest.
At the close of this service, the churchwardens endea-
voured to clear the church, in order that preparations
might be made for the ordinary four o'clock service, but
upwards of one hundred persons refused to leave, and
crowded round the altar. At five minutes before four
o'clock, the doors of the church were thrown open, and
an excited and riotous mob rushed in, shrieking and
howling, towards the altar. In a few moments after-
wards a clergyman came from the vestry, and was
accompanied by six or eight choristers, habited, as
usual, in surplices. The clergyman was stated to be
the Rev. Mr. Jennings, the curate of Stepney.
' He,wore the Oxford master's hood and his stole. As
soon as he appeared in church there was a great uproar,
cries of " Oh, oh," and hisses. The rev. gentleman,
who appeared to be quite unmoved,
Litany was proceeded with the
choirsters to the usual lace. The
the priest, and the responpses were made by the choirsters ;
but while they sung others read them in the usual plain
said by
style, with very strong voices, in order to spoil the
effect of the choir, while another set of people
vociferated most improper remarks, and jeered the
clergyman by imitating the noises of a goat. At
the close of the Litany service the clergyman rose
and retired, at which time nearly the whole of the
congregation hissed, yelled, and indulged iu the most
hideous noises. A gentleman who was present, and who
appeared to have been worked up to an exttaordinary
pitch of excitement, shouted at the top of his voice,
" Pray don't tear down the altar," an indirect invita-
tion which would have been forthwith acted upon had
not the churchwarden stood at the gate and guarded the
entrance. At the close of the service hundreds of per-
sons assembled in the church-yard for the purpose of
hooting the clergyman as he left the church; but he
disappointed them by getting out by a more private way.

NEW YORK MARKETS, AUGUST 11.
Flour moderate ; State and Western heavy, unsettled,
and 10 to 15 cents lower ; sales Western 7,000 bbls ;
super State $4 15 a 4.45 ; extra State 4.50 a 4.80,
round hoop Ohio, 4.75 a 5.20 ; common to good extra
Western $4.50 a 5.00. Soutlaern dull and lower; sales
1,500 bbls ; $4.90 a 5.25 for mixed to good, and $5.25
and 6.75 for fancy and extra. Canadian, super and
extra nominal.

Grain—Wheat unchanged; sales 4,000 bush.: Web'
tern red $1 10 ; choice new white Kentucky, $,,
48.
Corn firmer, sales 12,000 bush. ; mixed Westr_,rn-78c
for old, and 80 a 81c for new ; round yellow,
80c. Oats
unchanged; sales southern and Jersey
c...0c a 36c, Nor-
thern, and Western 35 a 41c.

mall ; Mess $13.90 a
Lard quiet ; sales small

Provisions—Pork dull, sales A-
-14.00, Prime $10.12 a 10.25.

at 10Ic

Stocks dull. Money
on call firm at GI a 7 and short
first class paper at a 8 ~

dIPPING INTELLIGENCE,

QUEBEC, AUGUST 12

X. 41.1"
.CERED FOR LOADING, August 12.—Ottaway, 1049,
E'''Jrt Glasgow ; Belle, 316, Padstow ; Rolla, 309, New-
castle-on-Tyne.

CLEARED, August 12.—Anglo Saxon, Ballantine, for
Liverpool ; Britannia, Willcoeks, Greenock ; Bannock-
burn, 111'Laren, Greenock ; Ben Nevis, Heron, Liver-

pool ; Franklin, Benzin, West Hartlepool ; Osprey,
M'Allan, London ; Lord Seaforth, M'Kenzie,
Richibucto, &c.

EXPORTS, AUG. 12.—Per s-s Anglo-Saxon, Ballan-
tine, for Liverpool-7,500 std pine deals ; one trunk,
containing express packages, by B. and A. Express Co.;
319 bbls pot ashes, 116 brls pearl ashes, 2,000 bbls
flour, 65 kegs butter, 180 bxs I. R. goods, 3 bales I. R.
hose, 3,000 pun staves, shipped at Montreal.
Per ship Britannia, Willcocks, for Greenock-1 ton
oak, 80 do. elm, 385 do. white pine, 1 do. birch, 85 do.
ash, 420 std. spruce deals, 21m. W. I. staves, lm. pipe
do. by D. Patton & Co.
Per ship Bannockburn, McLaren, for Greenock-140
tons elm, 70 do. ash, 10 do. basswood, 2 do. maple, 56
do. tamarac, 34 do. red pine, 780 do. white pine, 2m.
pinepipe dsetalayse,s4sl7..MWePhLeedo&"
Per ship Ben Nevis, Herron, for Liverpool-1570
CBoe.orls lathwood, 480 std.
tons white pine, 4m 1 3 7 std staves, 2m 1 0 15 W I
W 0 do, 2838 std pine deals, by A. Gilmour & Co.
Per bark Franklin, Benzin, for West Hartlepool-5,
638 std pine deals, 420 do. deal ends, by Henry Burstall.
Per brigt Osprey, McAllan, for London-3,580 std
pine deals, 3m W I staves, lm pipe do. by C. E. Levey
and Co. .

Per steamer Lord Seaforth, McKenzie, for Richi-
bucto, Shedica and Pictou-100 bbls. flour, by IL J.
Noad and Co., 50 do. do. by G. B. Symes and Co. 1
digging machine, by G. T. Railroad Co.

PASSENGERS.---From Quebec :—Mr. Cannop, Mr. C.
G. Nightengale. From Montreal :—N. Woods, Jos.
Hunter, Rev. Mr. Shea, Mr. Ulguero, Jas. D. Adams,
Geo. Templeton, Sarah Ann Wright. From Toronto :
Mr. Turner and wife, Mrs. Platt, Mr. Parkin, Mrs.
Wallace, Mr. Abraham and wife, W. Ramsay, F. Brodie.
From St. Catherines :—Hon. H. Merritt, H. U. Merritt.
From Southern States : Thomas M. Cage. From
France :—Claresse Vermond, Jules Vermond. 23 cabin
and 41 steerage, total 64 passengers.

THE SLAVE TRADE.—A cargo of 600 Africans has
been landed on the coast of Florida, near Tampico. As
soon as the landing was effected, the vessel was fired and
abandoned. This statement is made on the anthority of
United States Marshal Blackburn.
PROGRESS OF THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.—Over
five hundred men, says the Montreal Commercial
Advertiser, of the 9th inst., are now employed on the
Three Rivers and Arthabaska branch of the Grand
Trunk Railway ; several miles are already graded.
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.—The following
special question has been proposed for the consideration
of the fifth section'or'department of the National Asso
ciation for the Promotion of Social Science, at
.the
annual meeting to be held at Bradford in October :—_
" How far and in what way can the national census of
1861 be made available for procuring information on
the moral, material, and social condition of the
country ? "