Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-27 00:00:00

manner.

If, then, the " Liverpool Recreative Company"
can, by the project which they put forward,
improve these serious social evils, it merits
public patronage and commendation. The
prospectus informs us that the means proposed
to effect the objects in view are a covered play-
ground for gymnastic exercises, and other
suitable physical amusements; a concert and
lecture-room, for musical and intellectual
exercises ; and reading, refreshment, and
smoking-rooms, together with an abundant
supply of water, soap, and towels.
As to the practicability of the plan, much,
of course, must depend upon the manner in
which the undertaking is encouraged by the
public. And, looking at this part of the matter,
we think that the managers have shown much
tact in making the shares 71., which may be
paid by monthly instalments of half-a-crown
each. In this way the whole people of Liver-
pool can join the good cause, and thereby give
their countenance to a project which aims at the
eradication of alarming social evils, and supply-
ing in their stead true mental, moral, and
physical enjoyments, all of which will render the
recipients abler and better regulated members of
the great human family.
It may be objected that the starting of such
a company is an interference with the public
generally, and depriving those now in the habit
of supplying popular amusements, of a means of
carrying on their trade, We should be the very
last to advocate the establishment of a company
such as that now projected, if we could for a
moment believe that it was intended that the
shareholders should make it a means of personal
pecuniary gain. But if the well-being of the
whole community is the end and aim of the
founders of the company, and if they can effect
their purposes, then we declare that the good of
the many must be considered, although it may
interfere with a very small fraction of those
engaged in public and beer-house duties. As a
further inducement that the project is a genuine
one, the list of consulting directors, and of the
actual managers, is amply sufficient. The
former are all gentlemen who have the people's
good at heart, and the business character of the
latter encourage the confident hope that every
promise made will be faithfully performed and
carried out.

TIIE SHIP OCEAN BEIDE .—ln the Quebec Morning Chronicle, of the
29th May, appears the following complimentary address to Captain
William Atkins, and the officers of the ship Ocean Bride. This fine
ship, 1,300 tons bur then, the property of Messrs. Henry Milvain and
Sons, of Newcastle,F, sailed from Liverpool on the 3rd of May last,
with 395 passengers, and arrived at Quebec without a single casunltY,
on the 27th of the same month. She is reported to have passed
eighty ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The following is the
address :—" To Captain Atkins, of the Ocean Bride.—The under-
sign!ol, cabin passengers by the Ocean Bride, from Liverpool to
Quebec, beg thus publicly to express their grateful thanks to Captain
Atkins and officers, and Mr. David Shannon, surgeon of the ship, for
their uniform kindness and civility shown to them and the whole of
the passengers during the voyage, and, at the same time, earnestly to
recommend intending emigrants to avail themselves of any future
opportunity that may occur of taking passage in the same vessel.—
Frank Griffiths, Birmingham; Simon Powell, Ross, Herefor,lshire
Edward W. Colley, Birmingham; John Ballendon, Orkney; Henry
Hanff, Christiania, Norway ; Robert Wurr, Norwich ; John Dryar,
London ; Thomas Garwood, Woodrising, Norfolk; William Parsons,
Ross, Herefordshire ; John Pastilow, Woiverhampton; Robert Wil-
liams, Liverpool ; Thomas Ewen, Leith ; Samuel Sugden, Keighley ;
George Luck, London; Henry James Brill, Brighton, Sussex; James
Chethem, Manchester; A. Barton, C romer, Norfolk: Edward Dawes,
Lond,n; Edmund Nixon, Liverpool; Benjamin Chilton, Bristol ;
John Nicholson, Horsham, Sussex; Jonas Hanah, Dorset; Charles
McCauley, Dablin ; John Calcheth, Northampton; Wm. Emerson,
Jams Mar.in, Birmingham—cabin passengers. Quebec, 29th May.
1857." The ship and her commander are well knows in this port,
and duly appreciated.

A CANADIAN Sratsre.—As is usual in the spring of the year, we
have had lately very extensive conflagrations in the woods, more par-
ticularly al)ng the different lines of railroad. Between Richmond
and Quebec all travelling was obstructed by the fire. The passengers
and mails had to be conveyed by a circuitous route through the
woods, and placed in a freight train waiting to receive them at a point
beyond the fire. Near Becancour some eighteen buildings were
burned, besides a large quantity of lumber and about 5,000 cords of
firewood. Eetween Montreal and Richmond another large fire raged,
delaying the train for some hours. A woad shed at the Acton depot,
with about 3,000 cords of firewood, was destroyed. Similar fires pre-
vailed about the same time between this and Cornwall, and a quan-
tity of fencing and wood was burned on the line of the Grand Trunk.
On the Og lensbnrg Road a large portion of the track had to be relaid
from damage received by the fire. These " burns" in the spring are
looked upon an a matter of course, and are expected as regularly as
the shadfiles, which I am glad to see have again made their appear-
ance, notwithstanding they are somewhat of a nuisance from their
immense numbers, although perfectly harmless. Their arrival, how
ever, heralds the advent of that most excellent river fish the shad,
which are now finding their way to market in large numbers, and
will help to keep down market prices, which this year are high indeed,
although nothing compared with what prevails in Western Canada.
We shall also soon have abundant supplies of salmon from the Lower
St. Lawrence. w hat a vast amount of piscine wealth there is in that
immense basin, awaiting there to be properly exploiter, as the French
would say.—Toronto Correspondent.

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Tan GREAT EArrsaN.—The announcement which was made a
short time bark of of the successful negotiations entered into between
the Directors of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada and the Eastern
Steam Navigation company, according te Which the Great F,t,ltont

will make her first trip to Portland, State Maine, has excited consider..
able attention, not only amongst those persons who are interested in
Canada, but amongst the public genera'ly. Of course, in so novel
as well as so great an undertaking, it is a matter of some uncertainty
when the " leviathan of the seas " will be finally ready for the
voyage; but there is the fullest reason for believing that It will take
place early next spring. Our readers are already familiar with the
details of the elaborate preparations making for the comfort and
accommodation of the passengers of the Great Eastern, of whom
it is calculated that she will be able to take out no less than one
thousand first class, two thousand second class, and three thousand
third, at very reasonable fares. The duration of the voyage from the
port of embark Ition, wherever It msy be decided upon, to Portland
will not be more than seven days, and her speed, at full power, it is
estimated, will be at least 18 knots an hour. Arrangements, it is
said, are in progress to issue Tourists' Tickets, for whom the Great
Eastern will remain sev:ral weeks at Portland, affording a most
favourable opportunity, which will no doubt be extensively acted
upon, for persons desiroas of paying a visit to the U nited States and
Canada. Such an opportunity of visi ing the western continent,
with the slightest possible personal inconvenience, may per. ape
never occur again. No doub. the Great Eastern will be a great object
of attraction to our American cousins during her stay at Portland, and
although we may often have been indeb'ed to them fir valuable hints
in naval matters, still it must be almitted that the bola Lies of the
"mammoth ship" and its successful realisation, wi 1 eclipse the pro-
verbial go-a-bead propensities even of Brother Jonathan himself.—
Canadian Netcs.