Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-23 00:00:00

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The usual Saturday performance at the. Crystal Palace
enjoyed the attraction of Madame Lemmens Sherrington
and an extraordinary family of infant violinists, Juliette
Delepierre, eight years old, Jules, six, and Julia, four,
whose performances throughout the Continent. have been
the theme of general admiration.
A hiatus valde defienduc in the world of amusement was
felt on one evening last week. The throngs of visitors
who pressed forward to Willis's Rooms to hear Mr. Mason
Jones orate (why have we not the word?)- on ;Sheridan
were met by provoking placards which told of his sudden
The oration was postponed. May the
clever orator soon be himself again.
regent ball given by the Wizard Anderson in Sydney
at failure: There ware scarcely.PO persons
present, and the most of them were of equivocal character.
The ball wound up.with a fight between Anderson and
Collins. who fOrmerlT had the Victoria Theaae. Anderson
ollins whose height
is about four feet nothing, jumped at Anderson, and seining
him by the throat nearly stranded him, anditfterwards rent.

indisposition

Droved a

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his coat from the skirt to the
Riflemen.form, painters disperse! says the Athencetem.
consequence of tlbe unsettled state of Europe, the jury of
English artists (Messrs. alvid Roberts, W. P. Frith, Thos.
Creswick, A. Elmore, and J. C. Horsley, acting with M. E.
Gambert, as director), have resolved not., to send pictures to
Paris this year. This resolution,. sanctioned at a meeting of
artists, over which Sir Charles Eastlake presided, has been
forwardedi within these few days to the. Minister of State, M.
Achille Foul)/ A reply has not been received. Meantime,
artists in the country are requested not to send up any more
works.

Mr. Fitzpatrick seal the .Athenoaem a curious cutting
from an old paper :—‘6 Kilmacud Manor, Dublin.—l find.
the fol6wing curious. paragraph among a number of news-
paper cuttings which r made a year or two ago: A letter,
written by Humboldt, was lately•read in one ofthe Prussian.
law courts. It excited some sensation from its containing
the declaration that 'My deatk.will take place in 1859,' and
that it would be. better to postpone a certain publication of
his. work till then.' The manner in which llumboldt's
presentiment has been verilled is, to say the least, a very
remarkable coincidence. -Wira4A3l JOHN FITZ,PATRICR:
Gossipin.,, on the literary event of tl#e week the Town
Talker of the Illustratsd• News says : 'The result is, what?
--that Hvusehold Words merged from that very moment
into Aa the Year Sound; conducted by Mr. Dickens.
And at that very moment a new periodical was announced.
by Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, with the somewhat
rival title of Once: a, Week. Mr. Dickens is understood
to carry his whole Household" brigade into his new
periodical; and Messrs. Bradbury and Evans will be mainly
supported by the staff of Punch, Mr. Leech conducting'
the artists, I\ir. T.....ucas, of the It controlling the authors.
Thus—thanks to private differences,ns rich
Master of the Rolls—what was Household. TVords will be
rolled into two publications, and the public will gain largely
by a private.
Ifeud and a private sorrow..

A. NEvi
WAY OF ENFORCING CIIURCH ItATEs.--We are
informed that at Lord Pomfret's rent audit, at Toweester,_
last week, his lordship's agent brought with him a list of
all those tenants who had obleeted to pay their church-
rates, on the ground of its illegality, and demanded pay-
ment of the amount of their rates in addition to the rent !
He also told them that he was ordered to say that a refusal
would be worse for them, as their rents would he raised to
an amouutcovering the rate. M the greater pArt of the
town belongs to Lord Pomfret; the tenants had no alterna-
tive hit §Altb.Mii*At