Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-14 00:00:00

MANCHESTER & LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL

SOCIETY.

A general meeting of the members of this society was
held at the Lion Hotel, Warrington, on Thnrsday. Mr.
R. Ledger occupied the chair, and there was a numerous
attendance. Upon the motion of Mr. White, it was agreed
that the next exhibition of the society should be held in
Manchester, in the second week in September, 1858. The
Secretary read an abstract of the accounts of the year
1857, from which it appeared that the income had been
£1,0G3. 16s. ; the expenditure, £938, 163. 4d. ; leavli)g
a balance in hand of £l2l. The accounts ware received
and adopted. The following prizes were awarded by the
meeting, upon reports furni•.hed by Mr. Dixon and Mr.
Rothwell, the inspectors to the society :

SWEDISH TURNIPS,
To the owner and occupier, who shall have the beat
field or fields (or a portion of a field, if his entire crop) of
Swede turnips, not less than four acres ; Meyrick Banks,
Winstanley, near Wigan ; the society's silver medal.
To the tenant and occupier, who shall have the best
field or fields (or a portion of a field, if his entire crop) of
Swede turnips, not less than eight acres; Thomas Birch,
Netherton, £4.
To the tenant and occupier, who shall have the best
field or fields (or a portion of a field, if his entire crop) of
Swede turnips, not leis than four acres nor more than
eight; Robt. Birch, Netherton, £3.
To the tenant and occupier, who shall have the best
field or fields (or a portion of a field, if his entire crop) of
Swede turnips, not less than two acres nor more than four;
J. S. Cork, Linacre, £2.

MANGUL WURZEL.
To the tenant and occupier, who shall have the best
crop of any kind, not less than four acres; James Birch,
Sefton, Lt.

To the tenant and occupier, who shall have the best crop
of any kind, not less than two acres nor more than four ;
John Birch, Orrel, £3.

CARROTS
To the tenant and occupier. who shall hava the bast
crop nDt less than one acre ; S. R. Clarke, Lice Blundell,
£2.

THATCHED HAY STACKS.
To any member, not principally dependent on farming,
for the bast made and thatched three more hay or corn
stacks, the premium to be given to the workman or
workmen who made and thatched the same; Joseph
Gibson, £2.

To the member, principally dependent on farming, for
the best made and thatched three or more hay or corn
stacks, the premium to be givon to the workman or work-
men who made and thatched the same; Thomas Smith,
West Derby, £2.

The meeting adjourned to Thursday the 2dth inst,, for
the transaction of further business.

LEWIS & COMANY'SRanelah-street.
BOYS areAt CLOTHED fromPAges g
the of Six to Twenty Years.

Loss OF A RUSSIAN STEA.MER.—Advises have been
.eceived from St Petersburgh of the loss of the Russian
steamer Kouba, of 100 horsy power, in the Caspian. The
steamer was driven on a reef in a violent storm, and out
ef a crew of 75, the commander, two lieutenants, a sub-
lieutenant, and 18 men perished.
THE GRAIN TRADE IN LEITH.—We understand that
application has been male by some merchants in Leith to
have two of the:tea store-houses in the docks set apart for
the housing of grain, of which the accumulation has,
within the las'. few months, become so large that there is
no room for further supplies in any of the regular ware-
houses.—Edinburgh Express.
RUSSIAN TROPHY FOR CA.RNARVON CASTLE.-0110 of
the guns Captured from the Russians at Sebastopol has
been presented by Lord Panmura to the town of Carnarvon,
and has been most appropriately placed in front of the
main entrance to the celebrated castle. It is a twenty-
four plunder, eight feet in length, and weighs upwards of
two tons; the carriage is new, having been made at
Woolwich. Application is to be made for the gift of
another gun, so that one may be mounted on each side of
the bridge leading to the gateway.
ECLIPSES IN 1858.—During the year 1858, there will be
two eclipses of the sun and two of the moon, all of which
will be visible in Whitehaven. The first, an annular
eclipse-of the sun, will take place on the 15;h March, and
will begin on the earth 31 minutes past 9 ann., and end
39 minutes past 2 p.m. There will be a total eclipse of
the sun, Sept. 7, 1858. It will begin on the earth 33
minutes past 11 a,m., and end 41 minutes past 4 p.m.
There will be two partial eclipses s..f the moon visible
hsre—the one on Feb. 27, and the other on Aug. 28.
M. Costs, member of the French Institute, and so well
known for his experiments relative to pisciculture., has just
left Perth, in Scotland, to which country he had been sent
by the Emperor Napoleon to inquire into the state of the
salmon and trout fisheries. The learned gentleman has
visited the different streams in that part of the country and
paid special attention to the establishment at Stormont-
field, on the Tav, for the artificial producion of fish. U.
Coste also, during stay, made very miatite inquiries
into the nature of the present state of the legislative
enactments relative to the breeding of salmon in Scotland
and their preservation.
CURIOUS MODE .OF DISPOSING OF DEBTS.—At the
hearing of the insolvent cases, on Monday, at the
Manchester County Court, before Mr. R. Brant, R.
Bowker, who described himself as a "corn aril flour
dealer and operative joiner and cabinetmaker," came up
for hearing, and was opposed. No assets appeared in his
schedule; but the insolvent admitted that hs had sold
debts amounting to £l3O to a Mr. Crowther, described as
an agent, for £2O. The learned couns,l soon elicited from
the insolvent that debts amounting to £l6O had been
included in the sale, and was proceeding to add to this
amount, when he was stopped by the judge, who said he
was perfectly satisfied with the nature of the transaction
between the insolvent and Crowther, and at once dismissed
the petilion.—Manekester Guarchan.
Suaxsrerta A Mietrisares. The name " William
Shakspere" occurs in a certificate of the names and arms
of trained seldiers—in the hundred of Birlich way, in the
comfy of Warwick—uneLr the hand of Sir Faulk Greville
(" Friend to Sir Phillip Sydney"),'Sir Edward Greville
and Thomas Spencer. Was our William Shakspere a
soldier? Why not? Johnson was a soldier, and had
slain his man. Donne had served in the Low Countries ?
Why not Shakspere iu arms ? At all events here is a
field for inquiry and speculation. The date is Sept. 22,
1605, the year of the Gunpowder Plat, and the lists were
possibly prspared through instructions issued by Cecil in
consequence of secret information as to the working of the
plot in Warwickshire—the proposed head-quarters of the
insurrectien.—State Papers, edited by Mary A 2121 Everett
Green.
WHAT Loan PALMERST3N DIDN'T SAY AT THE
BANQUET.—The matter on whieli the public would really
have cared to hear Lord Palmerston at this juncture, is
precisely that on which he didn't let fall a syllable, viz.,
the commercial distress and monetary disorganisation. Oa
that head, the public could ttst the worth of his words,
for the state of the case is petent to all. But he took care to
preserve a complete silence, though at the moment many
of the city hearers, and probably he himself, were well
aware that the knowledge was speeding through the land
of the failure of the ,Western Bank of Scotland, the
premonitory symptoms of similar collapses in various
other quarters, and in itself indicating something below
the surface perhaps more alarming than anything else that
has hitherto appeared.—Birminghant Journal.
PUNISHMENT OP A CARELESS POINTSMAN.—In the
Edinburgh Curt of Justiciary, on Tuesday, John
Litto, the pointsman on the Peebles Rtilway, who had
been convicted on the previous day of culpable violation of
his duty, by signalling to the driver of a train on the 31st
July to advance, while he had neglected to shift the paints,
by which a number of the passengers were cut and
injured, was brought up for sentence. The Lord Justice
Clerk, after pointing. out the responsibility resting upon
individuals is Latto's situation, and the consequent aggra-
vation of any neglect of duty by them, stated that hat for
the excellent character which he had previously borne he
would have felt it his duty to sentence him to a long
period of penal servitude ; and even taking that favour-
ab'e circumstance into consideration, the lightest sentence
which the court felt it its duty to pronounce was imprison-
ment for two years.

E B aOID ERY FOR ITII E WeDDING OF TIIE PRINCESS
ROYAL. —The Shanballytnore Female Industrial School,
which was established about the time of the agricultural
distress by 11:1s. Welstead, of Ballytownreche, his received
a special mark of royal favour, Mrs. Weistead having been
honoured by her Majesty with a command to supply two
collars and two pairs of embroidered sleeves for the
approaching wedding- of the Princess Royal. The school,
of which Mrs. Weletoad is the patron, has conferred con-
siderable benedt on many of the families of the neighbour-
hood, and has assumed a high position among such
establishments for the superior taste sand originality of
the patterns, as well as the exquisite fi iish of the work.
It is understood that her MPjesty some time since saw at
court some of the embroidered work produced in the
Shanlialls more school, and was so high!y pleased with the
design and workmanship that she immediately ordered a
supply for the nuptials cf the Princess Royal. 'I his is
no small honour to the Shanbaltymore school, and has
created a great degree of commendable pride and gratula-
tion amongst the poor girls, the produce of whose fingers
has received so high a compliment. —Cork Constitution.

BOYS' CLOTHING MArE Wing GREAT TAITE AT LEWIS and
aIIPANY'S,
_Rang4,4ll street.