Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-11 00:00:00

RETURNING FROM THE DERBY.

The Man Abntit ToWn his just seen Blink Bonny '
an-
nounced (a few minutes after the race has been run) as the
winner of the Derby of 4857, in the window of the news
office ; and, seeing it, he walks in to greet the publisher
with this astounding—Canard.
" • Ha! ha! Capital race, wasn't it I ex-
claimed, on entering, with an effrontery which was
intended to remove all suspicion. ' Never enjoyed
myself so much in my life. Saw hosts of people—.
glorious sport—course covered with carriages ! Saw one
man lose thirty thousand pounds with the greatest coolness
in the world, and make a good dinner after it. Wouldn't
have been absent on any account.'
Why, you don't mean to say—?'
•'' Of course I do. All London was there, and if"l
hadn't been I should have been ashamed to have looked
London in the face again.'
" But really it seems impossible that'—and the pub-
lisher consulting his watch, compared it with my own
chronometer, and arrived at a careful correctness—' that in
the time you could.'
" • Oh, am I the first back ? Ah! well, we came spanking
along the road with four famous nags in first rate style, I
assure you.'
" The road ! What, all the way from Epsom in half an
hour ?'

" Did I say the road ? Pooh ! absurd. Too slow for
me. The rail of course. Finest engine in the world, and
never stopped a minutef anybody.'
" But such a quick retarn'—
" 'For a small prophet,' I added quickly, hazarding a
feeble joke, in the vague hope of smothering the obvious
impossibily, 'seems extraordinary, but it isn't. To save
unnecessary delay, I took a return ticket.'
" ' But the first train after the race won't have brought
its passengers to London-bridge for the next half hour at
least ?' _

" Train ? Pooh ! did I say train ? Not half quick
enough. I took my return ticket by the ELECTRIC
TELEGRAPH ! ! !'

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DEFALCATIONS OF OFFICERS OF SAVINGS' BANKS.—A
return gives full particulars of defalcations discovered to
have taken place in savings-banks, since the Ist of July,
1851, with all the correspondence thereto relating. M 3.-
falcition3 h the taken place in the following banks—viz.,
in the Ongar branch of the Bamford Savings-Bank, the
Dunmow Bank, the Newport (Isle of Wight) Bank, the
Runcorn Bank, the Bradford (Wilts) B ink, the Southport
Bank, the Yoxall ant Barton Bank, the Rugby Bank, the
West London Bank, the Bromley Bank, and the Leicester
B
DEFALCATIONS OF OFFICERS OF SAVINGS' BANILS.—A
return gives full particulars of defalcations discovered to
have taken place in savings' banks since the Ist of July,
1851, with all the correspondence thereto relating. Defal-
cations have taken place in the following banks, viz , in
the Ongar branch of the Romford Savings' Bank, the
Danmow Bank, the Newport (Isle of Wight) Bank, the
Runcorn Bank, the Bradford (Wilts) Bank, the Southport
[lank, the Yoxall and Barton Bank, the Rugl:y Bank, the
West London Bank, the Bromley Bank, and the Leicester
Bank.

DEATH PROM FarGur.—On Saturday night, at a
quarter to ten, just before one of the omnibuses from Pen-
dkton reached Manchester, a man fell from the roof and
was much injured. On arriving at the office, a woman,
who was inside, was asked to give her name, that she
might be called as a witness, and she was approaching the
book-keeper for the purpose when she fell down dead.
Inquiries have been made in the neighbourhood, but it
has not yet been found who she was. She is described
as being of respectable appearance, and about thirty
years of age.
NEW KING OF DELHI.—An Oordo) letter from Delhi
mentions that Mirza Korash, the eldest eon of Bahadoor
Shah the ex-king of Delhi, has received a telegraph mas-
sage from Calcutta that the Supreme Government has
approved of the recommendation of tile Lieutenant Go-
vernor of Agra regarding his appointment as heir apparent
to the throne of Delhi. Upon this the old king has deter-
mined not to bestow the usual khclut and the title upon
his eldest son, and in case the Government forces him to d
eo, he will bring the matter to the notice of Parliamen'. --
Burkaru, April 25.
SPIRIT LICENSES IN IRICLAND.—The total number of

censes granted to spirit dealers in Ireland in .the year

1855, amounted to 458, against 453 in 1854 ; 430 in 1853,
and 413 in 1352. The number of licenses granted in 1855
for the retail of spirits in quantities not greater at one
time than two quarts, not to be consumel on the premises,
was 220. The number of spirit retailers or publicans who
sold spirits and beer to be drunk on the premises in 1855
was 15,985, and the number of retail licenses granted for
the sale of beer to be drunk on the premises to persons
who had no retail or public house licenses was 405.
EMIGRATION OF GOVERNMENT ARTIZANS.--The Wool-
wich committee for promoting the emigration of the
artizans discharged from the Roy 11 Arsenal and Dockyard,
have made arrangements for the shipment of 50 families
for Canada on the 10th inst., and 200 families on the 25th
instant. In addition to these, the fund now available will
enable the committee to send out about 100 families, who
will be forwarded when the necessary arrangements are
made for their shipment. The secretary of the Woolwich
committee yesterday received an official comnaunico.tioi,
from which it appears that a sum of 43,000 will be sub-
scribed to the fund by the government.
EXTRAORDINARY AND FATAL ACCIDENT TO A YOUTH.
—On Monday an inquest was taken by Mr. W. Bahr, at
the Landon Hospital, respecting the death of James Lee,
aged 16 years. The deceased was standing, on Thnrsday
last, near the windla,s of a crane, at the steam-packet
wharf, Lower East Smithfield, when his neckerchief be-
came entangled with the machinery, whereby he sustained
extensive injury to the neck, He was removed to the
London Hospital. Mr. Luke, the eminent surgeon, per-
formed the operation of tracheotomy, by making an incision
in the throat, by which means the life of the deceased
was prolonged for several hours ; but subsequently fatal
symiroms supervened, and deceased expired on Friday.
Verdict, "accidental death."
THE LEEDS ELECTION.—A charge of personation has
been brought against a man who voted for Mr. Beecroft.
The prisoner has been taken before the magistrates, and
stands remanded. Warrants have been issued against two
other men on charges of personation. In these cases the
parties have voted for Mr. Mills, the unsuccessful can-
didate. There is some talk of presenting a petition against
the return of Mr. Beecroft. A number of the learlinz
members of the Liberal party had a meeting yesterday to
consider the propriety of doing so, and they decided to
refer a number of cases which have been brought tinder
their cognisance to a committee, with a view to ulterior
pr meedings.

SUPPRLSION OF A FAIR AT DEPTFOIID.—On Sunday
morning, some hundreds of persons assembled on s me
ground near the Deptford Station, of the Greenwich
Bit!way, with the intention of holding a fair. Superin•
t-ndent Mal'alien apprehended a man who was driving
stakes into the ground for the purpose of erecting a
marquee. In the evening a great number of vans assem-
bled on the same ground; and the police having stopped
three which were entering, were informed that they
belonged to a Mr. Manley, who had taken the wound to
hold a fair, who came up and was taken into custody.
Manley and the man who was driving in the stakes, and
who was in his employ, were brought up at the Greenwich
police-court yetrerday. A letter was produced from Mr.
Davidson, so'icitor of Soring.gardens, stating that no one
had power to ter, or bad let, the ground for the purposes of
holding a fair. The magistrate ordered Manley to find
bail in £4O, and to enter into his own recognisances in
the same amount for his good behaviour for three months.
The other prisoner was discharged.

CORONERS VOURT.-LIMPOOL.

The coroner held the following inquests yesterday :
On the body of Mary Gorman, who was killed at the
sair-mills of Mr." Gorden, Great Howard-street, under the
circumstances stated in our paper of yesterday. The jury
found a verdict of "Accidental Death," but at the same
time recommend that the portion of the machinery should
be more guarded in future. Mr. Gorden said it was well
guarded, and all persons were prohibited from going near
the place where the decea4ed met her death.
On the body -of John Tyrer, who was killed at the corn
mills of Mr. Jump, Vauxhall-road.. The farts of this case
were reported in our paper of yesterday. The jury found
a verdict of " Accidental Death," at the same time stating
that a person named Falters was much to blame for his
incautiousness in letting the sack fall.
On the body of J. T. Crighton, aged 40, a clerk, who
resided in Chapel-place, Brunswick-road. The deceased
left his office, at Mr. Summers, veterinary surgeon, in
Naylor-street, on Tuesday evening, in company with ano-
ther person, and on the way home he fell down in the
street, and very soon expired. He was subject to'pains in
the chest, giddiness in , the bead, and fainting fits. The
jury returned a verdict of " Died from natural causes."
On the body of Bridget Sixsmith, that was lotmdin the
canal. She was the wife of a painter, and was 46 years of
age. It appeared, from-the evidence of her husband, that
she was a very' drunken person, And that they separated
early in 1851, and since that he has married another
woman. He did not see her for the last three years, nor
did he knew what had become of her. She was seen in
the evening before her body was found in the canal, in the
neighbourhood of where her husband lived, in Edge-lull.
She was then drunk. That' was all the evidence, and the
jury found a verdict of " Found drowned ;" at the 'UM
time censuring in strong terms of disapprobation the
unfeeling conduct of her husband.

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It appears that the extraordinary flow of specie to India
and China receives large additions direct from the gold,
fields. During the month of March the totals sent from
Melbourne included £32,000 to India and £45,500 to
China.
NOTHING AND NOBODY.—In a sportsman's opinion
,Nothing Is more delightful than a- day's hunting or shoot-
ing. With a literary man, nothing is morfacherming than
a book. f'NOthing is higher than the summit of the highest
mountain. Nothing is deeper than the uttermost depths
of the ocean. Nothing broader than the real horizon.
Nobody precedes the King. Nobody is higher in law than
the Lord Chancellor. In the Church, Nobody is higher
than the Archbishop of Canterbury.. Nobody has disco-
vered !perpetual motion. Nobody has found out the longi-
tude. Nobody has leaped over the moon. And Nobody
is' reater than our most gracious sovereign. ,
• IMPERIAL PENSIONERS.—On March 20, 1811, the muni-
cipal council of Paris voted an annual pension of 10.000 k.
to the bearer of the intelligence of the King of Rome's
birth. That pension was accordingly enjoyed by M. Van
Heteren, one of the Emperor's pages, until 1814, when he
became a Dutch subject, and the pension was stopped.
This gentleman who is at present a member of the States-
General, has, since the 3rd of April, 1855, preferred a
claim to the city of Paris for the revival of his pension ;
admitting the justice of the motives which may have
prompted the city to interrupt the payment during the
subsequent reigns, but contending that, now that the
French people have recalled the dynasty of Napoleon to
the throne, and that " Providence has sanctioned that act
by the birth of a prince," the city of Paris is bound to.
recognise his (M. Van Heteren's) claims. Last year the
Municipal Council voted an elegant silver service and a
panoply, to Commandant Fave, who announced the birth
of the Prince Imperial to that body.
MORE TROUBLE IN INDIA. —A friend has favoured Us
with a number of the Delhi Gazette, a postscript of which,
dated April 16, contains the following :—" We regret to
be informed by telegraph that, bad symptoms hare 'mani-
fested themselves at Umballa. The native troops have
been ordered to fire what they consider the objectionablo
cartridges tc-morrow. The empty European barracks were
burnt down at nine last night, and the native infantry
hospital, a mile distant, three hours after." We are afraid
the Government is acting foolishly. They know the
objection of the Hindoo to the cartridge, and yet they
persevere in insisting on the use of it. It is a superstition
to be sure, but we need not go to India to learn the
strength of a superstision, and it would be be!ter to -respect
the feelings of the troops in these things than in others in
which cruelty mingled with fanaticism, but in which we
did not until lately interfere with them. It will be a
serious thing if, through the obstinacy of Government. the
troops on which we rely for the maintenance of our Indian
empire are driven to dissatisf iction.—Cork Constitution.
MR. SPURGEON DONE BY A PICKLE-SELLING TARTUFIE.
—Most persons have observed in the newspapers, and on
the walls of the metropolis, announcements of a reward
for the apprehension of Mr. John Gregory, an oil and
pickle merchant in the Borough, who has not surrendered
to his bankruptcy, but has left the country in company
with, it is said, his governess. It may not be known that
in Mr. Gregory we have to add another to the unhappily
long list of persons who have traded on religion, or, rather,
a hypocritical assumption of true religion, for the purpose
of deluding the world in general. Mr. Gregory, who was
accustomed to wear a white neckcloth, among his other
personal adornments, was treasurer of the funds in process
of colketion for the new chapel about to be erected for Mr.
Spurgeon, by whose teaching, it would seem, he has
profited but little, and has absconded, it is said, with over
£2,000 of the pepular young Baptist's money. A warrant
is issued for his apprehension ; indeed, it is rumoured that
he has been captured already, and, if so, he will find
himself in a "pickle" much more "pretty" than his own
olives, cabbages, and cucumbers,
FRACzICAL HOAX AT DERBY.—During the past week a
report, the origin of which, perhaps, it would be difficult
to trace, was circulated its Derby, that a wife was to be
sold by her husband, in the Market-place, about noon on
Friday last, and the rumour having been very widely
spread, a great mass of people assembled on that day, and
at the time mentioned, for the purpose of seeing the
" slght." Gradually the Market-place became filled, and
at twelve o'clock such was the c nsh of the crowd
that business avocations had to be suspended, and
in some instsnces the owners of stalls had their nro-
perty cleared away in a manner the reverse of agreeable;
the business done was rather roughly, and how-
ever brisk some of the articles exposed might
move off, the vender was net in the beet possible
humour at the celerity with which his wares were disposed
of. One cabman was upset twice, having a sudden down-
ward tendency, which they in no way deserved. These
little divertisements occupied the crowd for half an hour,
when neither men, woman, nor halter appearing, the
thoroughfares were cleared gradually of the assembled
throne of persons, some of whom candidly admitted that
they had beets hoaxed, whilst others, of a highly imagina-
tive turn, asserted subsecriently that they bad seen the
woman sold. Her name and price were also mentioned ;
but as the former differed according to the narration of
the relator, and as the prices ranged from as low as 7/1
to as high as is 9d, we need not enter any further par-
ticulars on this head.—Nottingham Review.
A WORKHOUSE OF FIDDLERS.— Certain Poor-law
Guardians, considering it expedient to augment the num-
ber of vagrant fiddlers, who ou the occasion of births,
deaths, andl marriages, races, fairs, " stations," and Sunday
boozings, make silence excruciatingly eloquent in pleasant
Tipperary, advertised the other day for teachers of the
violin and bagpipes, in order to furnish the inmates of the
workhouse with a knowledge of the divine art. But they
did not anticipate the effect of their benevolent course of
action. At the next meeting of their board a batch of
sightless persons presented themselves for admission into
the projected 'Musical Academy. In fact, the Tipperary
establishment has suddenly become quite a popular
institution, in consequence of its high-art tendencies.
The pupils having been admitted, the tenders sent in by
the competing instructors were opened. One who de-
teribed himself as a " mueicianer," offered to discharge
the duty four clays a week, "to the aattsfacthun of the
girjans," compitint jedge of rnueick, for half-a-
crown without rations." This was considered
o perr
diem,
ie armyna
cheap—not more than the chaplain got, and beneath the
doctor. A Mr. Cleary, however, feared that 'he "
indus-
trious blind" would come from the four wilds as soon as
(sic)
~observed that if the guardians had fiddles and
the. Guardians get well into the scrape, whereupon Mr.
Bury (sic) taught, it would relieve the ratepayers of £lOOO
a year. He was aware that blind men in the village
of Colleen earned £1 a week." The Clonmel chronicle
reports the ciisc iss:on ensued as to the morality of
blind fiddlers and the respectability of the musical
profess)rs who usually operate at the wakes of Cul-
leen. Ultimetely, however, the consideration of the
tenders was postp fled sine die. The ratepayers, therefore,
have for the present loet, their chance of being relieved of
£t,ooo a yoar, and there is a widespread lamentation among
the musiciatters of Tipperary. We hale not yet got under
the influence of the Dog-star. There consequently,
some little hope that the guardians may recover their
vagabond senses before the fetal climax of the year arrives.
A little homoeopathic, treatmen'—strictly confined to the
principle of like to like—ought to be useful in protecting
them from a deplorable ca'astrophe. We would pat them
into a moderate-sized apartment, say their own board.
room—as good a place as any—and having assembled all
the blind pipers and fiddlers in the shire, bid the artistes
in classic phrase—Play on. We guarantee such a cure u
Hahnemann never achieved.—Dublin Mail.

TO T. B. HORSFALL, AND J. C. EWART,

ESQRS.

Gentlemen,—All matters which affect the honour
of your town and the. welfare of your townsmen,
meet, no doubt, with your ready and earnest consi-
deration. The fact that the subject I now address
you upon does nearly concern these must be my
apology for thus trespassing on your time and
atf;ntion.
ou are aware that we ore not a little prond of the
progress of this, our modern Tyre,,and frequently
take -occasion to congratulate ourselves on the
princely -merchants, its, noble, shipping, its many
instances of great wealth rightly and generously
applied—but, with all thinking men, our vanity has
recently received a severe shock, one cause for con-
gratulation considerably checked, as we have seen
from time to time, exposed in one of our local
papers, an amount of ignorance and licentiousness
prevalent in the midst of us that is truly humbling
to think of. •
'Now; I am not one of those (if such there are)-
ivllo suppose that a great city can exist entireTy
freefrem vice,-and be a perfect model of all that id
good and commendable. Some such things as are
exposed in "Liverpool Life," every inhabitant of a
large city must expect; but the monstrous prac-
tices detailed in that publication, and the various
iniquities revealed by it, surpass even what might
have been anticipated. I need not recount all the
immoralities that are exposed to us, but we are told
of places where to audiences of "bakers, carters,
shoemakers, and sailors," nearly naked men and

Women exhibit themselves in disgusting postures
—and, coming a step higher in the scale of society,
places where all that lewdness and sensuality can
suggest is practiced by a glittering throng of pros=
titutes, with a company of " merchants' sons, clerks,
shopkeepers' assistants, and elderly men ;" places
Where even passages front Holy Writ form the
Subject of exhibitions detestably obscene—places
Where the vilest of human passions are indulged
without restraint, and where horrid blas-
Pherny, wretched prostitutes, and impious
profanity, form an orgie of which - even
Liverpool Life" presents but a faint picture
to the public. And for all this the authorities are
in passession of .no-remedy, or they are unwilling
-use that remedy.- Admitting, as'we -mtist• do,
'that these thingsexercise a eon taminating influence
ijit all i'anki of society (reaching higher than some
people imagine), surely it is an astonishing thing
that we can devise no paeans for their suppression ;
but that in an age of progress, as we proudly call
it—in a town, too, that boasts itself of its progress
—they must go on accumulating wickedness on

wickedness until it seems probable that the name

of the modern Gomorrah will suit us as well as that

of the modern Tyre. The old proverb, " Where
there is a will there is a way," applies in this case,
I think, as it does in many oth'n.s ; and in spite of
the- aksertions* that we can do nothing. without
interfering with the liberty of the subject—with
this or that interest—l believe, were the matter
taken in hand in, a serious spirit, it would not
be harder to find a remedy for these things
than for others equally difficult on which we
no* legislate. If a man_ does anything' in his
business, or anywher6 elSe, that is considered
to -do a 'thousandth part of the injury to - the
Public- health, that such things as are revealed in
``Liverpool Life" do to the public morals, he is
bicrughtUp bythe Health Comm4tee and, deservedly
Punished for.,it; and no one coMplains that the
liberty of the subject .has been invaded, but every

sensible man rejoices that it has been protected.
We compel people .also•ta observe certain beneficial
regnlations in their .dwellingS. WC- allow no
accumulations of what inay spread disease amongit!
us, and why should .we permit that which spreads;
deadly moral distempers to go unchecked ?
Ldo:not.offe'r the following as a plan, but simply
suggest tb' yon 'that. 'soudething of the kind might
be.devisecl,by:.whtch"the uucurbed. wickedness of
'lliese"Casinos,"44l-frips," and such' places, might be
put an end to. COuld not .a Wdy.resembling our
Health Committee ("ealLtliem a Public Amusements
Ccimniittee, if you likeihe-invested with powers to
grant licanses to every building devoted to pnbliC
amusement, and have that license dependant upon
the observance of certain rules imposed by the
committee, such as the building being closed at
bi V, certain hour. In fixing this the committee could
be guided by"the character of the entertainments
t to be held in it

16' The exclusion, as far as practicable/ of im-
.,proper 'characters, which would operate :against
such large assemblages of prostitutes.
The adthission of the officers of the committee,
oi'our ordinary poliee,-who might visit the place at
any time, and.report upon the proceedings:
A penalty right be stipulated; ror, and where
the officers reported the tenor of the licence had
been btoleen the committee might sue for it before
a Maiikrate, _anti recover either it, or a sum not
exceeding it, according to the flagrancy of the case.
Where.a c.enviction Was obtained,. the licence might
be retewed or not, at the discretion of the com-
mittee.

::''This may seem to place a great. deal of-power
ihp hands of a body of :men whO night -use it
-amiss.. I have, however, simply suggested,- ,that
something like the foregoing might be devised, and
how far this evil could be guarded against, would
have to be considered I
.would just remark, that
if constituted like the Health Committee, the -fact
that -Ewalt titated periods- they would have to come
beforiiittl‘eir -constituents;• would'operate' against „.
very arbitrary conduct, in office.
I shall be-told, no doubt, that the-result of su
a plan ,would, be that ,a number of unlicensed
houses would spring up, where greater immorality
Viould'be Tirablised than in those-we'now complain
of. - I dolloc-think so much need be apprehended
on this score. It would be difficult to find greater
-immorality-than-is- detailed in Liverpool_ Life."
(Besides,-sufficient vigilance can now be exercised
to prevent unlicensed PlaceS for the,sale of liquors
springing itp to a very serious extent, and the vigilance
of the police mi ght as easily preVent unlicensed places
for amusement springing up to a serious extent.
It is true tliat some there might -be which would
spri:ez up.in ipite_,of,the wisest precautions ; but if
a committee, such as I ha:e spoken of, -exercised a
moderate amount of vigilance and discretion, these
wouldhe but few, and theevils resulting frOm them
°Ornparativeiy liMited. .They would•be 'known Only
to the initiated—to the h3ardenedio
ini-
quity.: •'lll-te'y would not- stand, Its they, do now,
sN'eatling !heir snares in the' very path of...youth ;
butilia-condealment to which they would.be com-
pelled-to result, world banish them from the paths
of-hundreds whom they now.ruin.:
-But whether what I have suggested is feasible.
or not,
.the necessity there is for adopting some-
means for `the suppression Of such evils, must be
obvious to you ; and .if the authorities have no
remedy to apply, or have not theright one, it rests
with our legislature, in which., you,.are our reprQ-
sentatives, to fintl- it for them. - •
One of you, especially, has on more than of
occasion manifested his interest- in the youth of
this- town. I need+ not remind you of that with
vvhiCh.:You must
,be well 'acquainted—the deadly
ruin these this work amongst them. yotty
own ekper4nace -as • magistrat, ;:tnu4t7 have
shown-you too 'Many instances 'of it. It would
be a noble record; gentlemen, of your politi-
cal career, 'if by your, efforts some of those
fatal stumbling-blocks, whereon so many of
the;-young and proreisiag fall-- to---utter-ruin
were rerricred, front,their path—every. home in
England, as it' sent; torthits "hope" to fight life's
battle in some great city, not without his. tenipta-
tions; doubtless, but with that fiery ordealuomewthat
lessened, wotild remember your exertions; anti they
would live in many a
parents' heart, when actions
that have been blazoned forth as famous are
forgotten by the. world. ALMA.

THE HARVEST.--The provincial papers speak most 1
favourable 4f the forthcoming crops.
THE CROPs.—The weather for the
past week has be n
most fagonrable for growing Crops. A great quantity ct
rain has fallen' during that period, and the result is that
there is at present a superabundance of grass. The
crop is •most healthy looking. Potatoes in an equally
satisfactory condition. Wheat is almost too luxuriant
and-- in-some—places rather rank. Vegetation, on the
whole, 18 Dow making rapid progress, favoured chiefly by
she heat which accompanies the genial showers.--=-Mme/
Chronicle.