Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-05 00:00:00

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holy and religions union

instead, adopting the parishioner

with an unreserie andfervour seldom expressed

and the- pteservation of

those feelings

THE NEW BRONZE COINA

—With reg

and to t

xigh. medical assistance wa;

considerably in arrear

inventive skill

,avours to draw closet' the bonds of a
havidg-no' faniily, and,

and that

ordinary traits even in a good man's life.' In conclusion,
we' must not omit to notice Sir Alexander Aciand
Hood's practical turning of the after-dinner discourse
towards the subject of 'idle clubs, thus striking out the
fire of patriotism from no flinty bosoms, No one, in
short, can peruse the fecord,'of inch proceedings without
being convinced that they tend to good— that the
labourer, in common with many of those above him, has
a common object to attain, in striving together all the

believe that it may be taken for. granted that some little
delay will arise. In the first place the design has to be
determined on—whether a public competition of en-
gravers be invited or not; and in the next a consider-
able time must be allowed for the "getting up" of a
sufficient number of dies to enable the work of coinage
to go on on a large scale, without chance of interruption.
It is not too much to ask-of the people that time be
given for the maturing of the plans of those officials
and others in whose charge the working out of the
government resolve with respect to the new coinage will
be placed. The public will grant reasonable indulgence,
no doubt, but they will not like to have valuable time
wasted ; and whilst promising the Treasury and the
Mint that it will not be expected of them to produce
bricks without straw, it must be understood that they
certainly will call down upon themselves popular oppro-
brium if, having money, material, and appliances, they
do not use diligence in turning them to proper account.
If the new coins make their appearance with the new
year, there may not be great reason for fault-finding
but beyond that time there can, we think, be
-it; -al f-- 'eying -

rational excuse tor dela, _Jen' publication. It is
whispered that the device- for the reverse of the three
denominations of coins is to be that of Britannir
scantily clad, seated uncomfortably on a ledge of rot
with shield and trident, as now seen on the e'
copper tokens. If there be truth in this whirr
we can only say that we are very sorry for it.
met preyed heavily on not, have something new ? Is there such poverty o

MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY, AND

ARTISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Preparations for the Musical Festival of the Three
Choirs, to be held next year at Worcester, are being
pushed forward. We believe the festival will be held
in the second week in September ; and when the exten-
sion of the railway system to Malvern, Stratford, and
the Warwickshire part of the diocese is considered,
there is reason to believe that the meeting of 1860 will
be the most successful one ever known in Worcester.

Preparations are being also made for the Glasgow
Musical Festival. The meeting is to take place inFe-
bruary. Glasgow, it seems, is too busy in the morning
to attend morning performances—hence, the four con-
certs are to be held on four consecutive evenings. The
committee feels itself strong enough to,bring forward a
new oratorio. " Gideon" has been written for the oc-
casion by Mr. C. E. Horsley. We have not heard who
is to be the conduetQr.
On Wednesday, the 14th of September, the last and
most effective of the great juvenile displays of choral
singing will be held in the great Handel Orchestra,
Crystal Palace, by six thousand children and other

vocalists ,'who have acquired a taste for music by means
of the Tonic-Sol-Fa system. The preparations for this
display have long been .actively proceeding, under the
direction of the Tonic-Sol-Fa committee, who are wisely
of opinion that, to maintain success
pensable

progress is indis-

Tho musical department has not been forgotten in the
arrangements for the approaching trial-trip of the Great
Eastern. Several' first-rate artists have been engaged
to form a mil-tary concert and quadrille band, under
the direction Of "Mr: GeOrge Macfarlane, professor of

The cold weather' which has visited us during the
past week has filled the London theatres to an extent
which must be -very satisfactory to the managers.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Matthews are about to return
to the United States, intending, it is said, a theatrical
tour-there. They will go by the Great Eastern.

Piccolomini has been . starring during the past
fortnight in Yorkshire and Lancashire, crowded audi-
ences being attracted by her performance of Violetta in

Tra7viala,

Madame Celeste will make 'her first appearance to-
night at Brighton. She will not fail to attract, and the
extreme heat of summer having subsided, good houses
may reasonably be expected.

Great Anglo-Saxon Circus, at the Royal
Alhainbra Palace, has,. in spite of the dullness of the
season and heat of the weather, been liberally patro-
nised. The scenes in the circle equal anything in the
shape of horsemanship we have ever seen. On Tuesday
the scholars belonging to the Duke of York's School
visit the 'Alhambra with their band, when an extra
entertainment will be given.

The London correspondent of the Bury Times says :
—" The long-promised Dial, the - daily joint-stock
newspaper which is to smash up the Times, is not aban-
doned. The shareholders are gradually though slowly
increasing, and there .is a prospect of its appearance
with the new year. The promoters, however, have to
contend against a difficulty of which they never dreamed
when the scheme was first broached—the penny daily
press, which is now a great fact, but which was not
then in existence." '

The .Welcome Guest having passed into the hands of
„
a new proprietary, will, we hear, shortly undergo a
change in its appearance. It will be brought out in
the same shape, and at the same price, as All the Year
Round. Mr. Robert Brougb will be the editor, and
various good hands arc mentioned as likely to be on the
staff

The Perkins-Collier Shakspearerquestion is about to
be referred to a committee of competent persons for
examination in all its bearings, with the consent of the
noble owner of the suspected volume. The Duke of
Devonshire, we understand, takes great interest in the
subject, which is the case also with Lord Ellesmere,

whOse Bridgewater Manuscripts might at the same time
be put upon their trial:
The Hon. Grantley Berkeley has sailed for America,
oti a commission from newspaper. " Our object,
and Mr. Berkeley's aim,". says that parnal, are to test
the New World in respect to its field sports and pastimes,
that he may be enabled to narrate his experience in our
columns, - and shoiv-where a deterthined and hardened
Britisher may find sport on the other side of the Atlantic,-
and of what kind it will he. . Mr. Berkeley will pene-
trate the far west, and rough it where the buffalo.rias-
tures in his native prairie ; where the moose and the (leer
(tre natural_ deni4eTis ; where, by the ';nsf '4-

nciian,

_ unerring 1L Atte,
oe guided to the haunts of
neognita to English. sports-

the. IN ild tenants of this ter

pith the angle tle lakes i'hich lie in his route;
and
.he will endeavour.to add samewhat to the stores of

I Those who never met, poor. Leigh Hunt would now,
doubtless, be glad to see a reliable:likeness of him. There
seems little chance of this, however, there being no photo-
graphic portrait of him in existence. According to the
Critic, many applications were made to him to sit to
photographers, and he had even consented to do so, but
from some cause or other, the appointments always fell
through. Undeterred by this fact, however, the illustrated
News promises, next week, "a portrait of the venerable
author." How far the pencil of our enterprising contempo-
rary will be guided by that imaginative power which every
true artist possesses we wi 11 not inquire. Meanwhile here is a
pen-and-ink sketch by a writer in the Literary Gazette:—."
In person he was rather above the middle height, slenier
in figure. and extremely prepossessinoin countenance. His
eyes were large and lustrous, and of a peculiarly rich and
deep hue. His hair, always remarkably fine, hung in
thick masses around his face in his youth, and his ad-
dress was winning and pleasant ; his voice was remark-
ably delicate and musical, and it was impossible 'to he
an hour in his company without recognising in him one
of the choicest and most genial of spirits." The Town

Talker (Mr. Peter Cunningham, to whom Leigh Hunt's
must. have been an "old familiar face") merely speaks
of him as " a noticeable man, with large black eyes." -
Lord Northwick's pictures has
.e), after realising a sum little
.estion arises, " How many

Now that the sale of
;oncluded (says the C;•

to public competi
al Gallery. ?" W(

Try to

very small ind