Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-05 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS

William Atwells, victualler, Arundel-street, Strand.
Charles Koeber, woollen draper, Vigo-street, London.
Wm. Maynard Aylward, wine merchant, Sermon-lanes
Thomas H. Fairall and William Suter, jun., ironmon-
gers, London-road, Southwark.

William Rex, cowkeeper, Wandsworth and Putney,
Surrey.

Benjamin Gildart, brickmaker, Sutton, near Houndslo,w,
Leon Millard and Rd. Harcour, modellers and chasErs,
Birmingham.

Edward I;eatherland, victualler, Tipton, Staffordshire.
Percival Tunstall, builder, Golden-hill, Staffordshire.
Samuel Walker and Thomas Walters, cattle dealers,

Caverswell, Staffordshire.
Walter Phillips Gunnyon, clothier and outfitter, Liver-
pool.
Charles Willmer, newspaper proprietor, &c., Liverpool.
Joseph Porter, Joseph Walmsley Porter, Thomas Warns-
ley Porter, and Robert Rogers, screw-boat manufac-
turers, Salford.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED,

William Coventry Oak and Charles -Hastings Snow,
bankers, Blanford, Forum.

SHOOTING ON THE_ DUKE OF RUTLAND'S ESTATE.—
His Grace the Duke of Rutland, his Royal ilighness
the Duke of Cambridge, Sir John Thorold, and Colonel
Tyrwhitt, shot through his grace's preserves at Cheveley
Park, near Newmarket, and in one day killed 230
pheasants, 30 partridges, 100 hares, .and 17 rabbits.
During 17 days' shooting his Grace the Duke of Rut-
land and his friends—three guns per day—have killed
702 pheasants, 2,230 partridges, 634 hares, 178 rabbits,
one woodcock, and one landrail ; total, 3,740 head, and
with that shot by Lord George Manners on the outside
portion of the manor, in September, makes a total of
4,437 head.

DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL SIR H. L. BAKER.—We
regret to announce the death of Vice-Admiral Sir
Henry Lorraine Baker, Bart. The deceased, who was
the second baronet, was born at Nancy, in Lorraine, in
1787, and married, in 1820, the only daughter of Mr.
William Williams, who for a long succession of years
represented the borough of Weymouth in the House of
Commons. He succeeded his father in 1826. Having
entered the navy in 1797, he became a retired rear-
admiral in 1850. He assisted at the storming of
Sumana (St. Domingo), in 1827, and was promoted for
his conduct at the defence of Anhalt in 1811. He
served with considerable distinction at Guadaloupe in
1815. He is suceeeded in the 'baronetcy by the Rev.
H. Virillir.ms Baker, formerly of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, and now vicar of Monklands, in the diocese of
Hereford.

HONOURS TO SCIENCE AND LITERATURE.—In the
inaugural address of Sir David Brewster, the new prin-
cipal of the University of Edinburgh, he said :—" Suc-
cessive governments have to some extent competed for
the popularity of advancing literature and science, and
doing honour to their cultivators. The first step in the
great reform was taken by Henry Brougham. When
the Duke of Wellington was Minister, he recommended
to his Grace to grant the first pension ever given for
scientific attainments ; and when, in 1830, Lord
Brougham occupied the high place of Lord Chancellor of
England, he strove to advance all those intellectual in-
terests which had been neglected by men in power. On
his recommendation, William IV. conferred the honour of
knighthood on Mr. Herschel, Professor Leslie, Mr.
Charles Bell, and others ; and, in imitation of this ex-
ample, 30 titles of honour have, since the year 1830,
been conferred for intellectual services. These honorary
distinctions were followed by more substantial rewards,
and we now find on the Civil List the names of nearly
50 distinguished persons, from the Astronomer Royal
as nominal head of science, and the Poet Laureate, as
the nominal head of literature, down to more humble
though not less meritorious names. These libertarre-
forms naturally led to others. The recognition of
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lectual rights by one Cabinet, promptpd the zeal of
another, and institutions as well as individuals shared
in the generosity of the State.. Men of science found a
empire. The extension of our University system
is due also to Lord Brougham, the founder, or one
College, London.
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itgontufsed'etnitttutions in the empire. Three new colleges, consti-
tuting the Queen's University, have been liberally
endowed in Ireland, and these, with the various colleges
recently established in our colonies, may, I trust, afford
a suitable provision for suck of you as may successfully
devote yourselves to literature and science." The
Principal concluded by impressing on his youthful audi-
ence their responsibility for the right use of their talents
in whatever line of study they might be directed.