The Northern Daily Times. — 1857-05-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE RECENT ARREST OF STREET PREACHERS AT CHESTER RACES.  PUBLIC MEETING AT CHESTER.  On Monday evening a public meeting was held in the Music-hall, Chester, for the purpose of expressing syni.. pithy with Mr, Reginald Radcliffe and the missionaries from Liverpool, Alio were arrested and incarcerated in bridewell at Chester, by order of Major French, one of the kcal magistretes, for preaching in the streets during the time the races were going forward. It may be stated in explanation, that after the arrest of Mr. Radcliffe and his friends, Itlejer French went to the bridewell and desired to liberate them, but Mr. Radcliffe refused to b 3 diFehargrd, except in open caurt. Hereupon he and his friends were ejected, and when the Case came before the magistrate the following morning it was dismissed. The large Music-hall, which is capable of accommodating between tw.) and three thousand persons, was filled to overflowing with a highly respectable and influential audience. The platform was also entirely filled with clergy anl laymen, not only residents in Chester, but gentlemen from Liverpool and other places surronnding..  Mr. William Titherington, of the firm of Titberington a- d Gill, cotton brokers, of Liverpool, and also chairman of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction RAlway Company, presided. The proceedings were opened with prayer, and Mr. Titherington at great length explained the proceedings of the missionaries at Chester, and also the movements of the Chester in igistrates. lie alluded to the paragraph that had been inserted in the papers, to the effect that his partner, Mr. Gill, of this town, had won a largo sum of many at the races. lie (the Chain-air) deeply regretted it, bat he could tell the meeting that his partner was as sorry as himself, and he was in a position to say that he was quite sure his partner would never again be seen on a race course. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) After some further remarks, the chairmen resumed his seat amidst much cheering. A number of gentlemen then addressed the meeting, and several resolutions sympathising with the gengemen who had been incarterated in the lock-up, and condemning the unaccountable conduct of the magistrates, were passed with great unanimity, after which the meetir:g separated.  A clever trick is reported to have been played off on the King of Naples. Some one sent him his passplrt for the Argentine Republic, with the signatures of the ministers, and which were real ones.  TIIE BISHOPRIC OF StritaF, Limiz.—The Sfar says there is some reason to believe that a gentleman of colour will be appoitted to the episcopal supervision of the above see, in succession to Bishop Weeks. MALTA, May 13. —Admiral Lord Lyons will, it is repined, pay a visit with the reduced squadron under his orders, to the King and Queen of Greece. who lately sent an aide-de-camp to meet him at Syra, to signify their hops that he would visit Athens.  The Journal des Dehats is piqued at the speech of Lord Napier, in which he called it the community cf origin and of interests which exist between the two nations, and promised the empire of the world to the Anglo-Saxon race. The Debats is not pleased with this cordiality. It calla attention to the difficulties of the States with New Granada, and shows how very much at variance are the Cabinets of Washington and St. James's. Minato, May 11.—Narvaez opposed an amendment reflecting el,. the Vicalvaribts, declaring the intentions of the Queen ti be concilivory and for an oblivion of past political diffsrences, in which feeling the cabinet shared. The amendment was negatived without a division. The government has pre:ent the law relating to the press. Caution money to the amount of 15,000 duros is required. The jury for the trial of press offences is to consist of primary judges. Newspaper articles are to bear the signatares of their writers. THE _MURDER BY A