Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-28 00:00:00

AMUSEMENTS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, &c. TAIS DAT. THBATII ROYAL —Grand Comic Pantomime-7 p.m. DOTAL •NPHITI/BATlB—Equestrian Pllrforsamee-7 p.m. Qizaw's HALL, BOLD 7 STISIT —Bosco—a p.m. HINOLIB'S CI141:111 VAJLIATZ, Dale-street —7 p.m. LVrILEPIPOL ACADIMI'S EXHIBITION, Post-office-place. PELLHAamoisic HALL —Jtiilien's Christmas Concerts-8 p.m. ROYAL ADELPHI THEATZE—Grand Comic Pantomime-7 p.m. isarAL CoLossium—Geaeral Entertainment-6.30 pan. t o- For advertisements see second page. o rlintrrfal bateg.—Elati 113P.p. At twelve o'clock, at the broker's ofEee, 16, Ezchange•buildings, 11 eaaks Sperm Oil.—J. H. R t!Nua & Co. At eleven o'clock. at the Commercial Saleroom, Temple-court, a large quantity of Oranges. Lemons, Onions, Chesnuts, Apples. and Nuts. - GEO. BADINACLI & SON. At eleven o'slnck precisely, at the Commercial Saleroom, Temple court, a large quantity of oranges, Lemont, Chesnats, and Walnuts. —Jamas ADase, SoN, & CO. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Persons seeking Employment, parties requiring Servants Assistants or Clerks, and those in search of Apartments, or having Lodgings to Let, can best bring their wants under the notice of the public, by advertising in the NORTHERN Tam, and which, from its large circulation, is tho most efficient medium of 'publicity in this district. 77st cash price for this special class of advertisements is now reduced to THREEPENCE FOR TWENTY WORDS, and for every additional five words one penny. On SATURDAY NEXT, JANUARY 2, 1858 WILL BE PUBLISHED, THE NORTHERN WEEKLY TIMES WITH A SUPPLEMENT, MAKING A TWELVE PAGE, 0. 72 COLUMN NEWSPAPER, THREE HALF-PENCE. News Agents must, to prevent disappointment, give early orders. OIFICE, 19, SOUTH JOHN-ENTRUST. Ely Ratan tlitr, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1837. THE DAYS NEWS• Of local news, this morning, we have little or none to relate. Saturday was " boxing day," and all the Theatres, Concerts, and other places of amuse ment, were cramned, from the floor to the ceiling. The various proprietors,rnust have reaped a rich harvest. We publish the report of the weekly meeting of the Financial Reform Association, from which it will be seen that the Bank Act has again occupied the attention of the Council of the Association. The monopoly of the Bank of England was denounced, and the compulsory selling to it of gold at £3 178. 91 per oz—no matter what was the marketable value—come in for a full share of disapprobation. The Hudson's Bay monopoly was alluded to, and some remarks were made on the recently published Government accounts, which latter appeared to be far from, correct. We regret to say that a fight in Blake-street, in this town, oa Saturday night, has ended in the death of one man. The accused has been apprehended. Mr. Glover, late M.P. for Beverley, has been apprehended on a charge of perjury, but en Satur day was allowed out on bail, by the Bow street magistrate, on his own recognizances in £5OO, and two sureties in £250 each, to appear and answer the charge at the Central Criminal Court. The Buckinghamshire election has ended in the return of Mr. Cavendish, Liberal, over Mr. Hamil ton, Tory. The numbers at the close of the poll were—Cavendish, 1,617; Hamilton, 1,456. Majo rity, 161. We, a day or two ago, announced that the Government had come to a decision to deal with the East India question. The Observer, of yester day, says that the difficulty, no doubt, will be mat with in a bold and comprehensive manner. " The difficulties and anomalies of a double Government have long been notorious; but the present Indian war has brought them out in a stronger light than ever. Mr. Vernon Smith, in the House of Commons, stated that he had not the power, per se, to write even an official letter to India without its first going to the East India Company ; and, he further alleged, with respect to the conduct of the East India Company, that it was like a horse, upon whose neck he had thrown the reins, and had had to plunge his spurs into its sides to urge it on to increased exertion. To this not ♦ery dignified simile,lColonel Sykes, on the part of the Company, replied that when an investigation took place, it would be found that it was Mr. Vernon Smith and his department that required the spur, and that the East India Company rather required to be restrained than urged on. This statement and counter-statement very aptly show the necessity for one direct government, responsible for everything. Tho bill of Lord Palmerston will, therefore, in the first place abolish the East India Company as a controlling body altogether, and vest the power in a board especially to be formed for that purpose, which will act directly under the Crown, and be responsible to Parliament. There will be a new Secretary of State for India, who will be assisted by a board constituted somewhat similarly to the Board of Admiralty. The great difficulty, however, will be in finding a man of sufficient high political standing to take the office for the first time. That the bill will meet with great opposition there can be but little doubt ; but that it will eyeaturilly pass there can be no ques tion, although, perhaps, not this session. The East India Company is a body of immense power and influence. Many of the high aristocratic families of this country are intimately mixed up with it, and would deprecate any alteration of a system which affords so convenient a provision for the junior branches of their families. At the same time those constituting what is called the Manches ter Schoul arc to a man in favour of a radical Indian reform " Four of the ringleaders of the rioters at Middle borough, were on Thursday committed for trial on the charge of felony, having obtained property from various parties by intimidation. The offence is a transportable one. They were transferred to York jail for trial at the Assizerii. At Ashton-under-Lynn great distress prevails, yet not more than could naturally be expected. At Oldham a public meeting has been hold for the relief of the unemployed, at which it was resolved to memoriali se the Mayor to hold a town's meeting on the aubjeet. Another rate collector has disap peared from North Shields, with upwards of X2OO of the rate-payers' money. The man calling himself John Thompson, but whose real name appears to be Peter Walker, has been convicted, at Glasgow, by th e unani mous verdict of the jury, of the murder of Agnes Montgomery, at Eaglesham, on the 13th S ep t , b y administering to her prussic acid. The criminal was sentenced to be hanged on the 14th of next month. Beale, the L'igh Woods murderer, whose exe cution is fixed for the 12th January, has, it is said, confessed his guilt. The annual meeting of the Commercial TrayOlen' Association was held in London on Saturday, when the usual banquet came off at the THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1857. London Tavern. Mr. William Thackery presided on the occasion. There is a variety of interesting news from tlae Continent this morning. In a Paris paper we find an article absolutely affirming that a reconciliation has taken place between Reschid Pasha and M. de Thouvenel. We have a report of an attack by the Turks on a body of 4,000 Christians at a place called Trebigno, in Albania, but what the oloject or motive, or with what result, the telegraph does not state. Reports from the Caucasus by way of St. Peters burgh bring details of several successes of the Russian troops over the hardy mountaineers. A document has just been published connected with the question of the Russians in Circassia. It is a petition of the Circassian chiefs, addressed to all the great European Powers. The petition sets forth that the Circassians never agreed to the cession of their country to Russia by the treaty of Adrianople, and that Russia only obtained a footing in it by fighting; that when the war broke out in 1853 the Russians destroyed and abandoned the forts they had held on the coasts ; that the Treaty of Paris established the neutrality of the Bla k Sea, but that Russia, in ♦iolation theredf,las closed the Circaasion ports, on the plea of the absence of customs and quarantine regulations The petition prays that Europe may interfere and re-establish the rights of which the Circassians have bean unjustly deprived by force, and on the part of the chiefs a promise is made to keep the ports on the eastern coast of the Euxine open to commerce, with the proper customs and quarantine establishments. The petition also requests that European consuls may be stationed in these ports There is yet another phase of the complicated Turco-Russian question—that in relation to the Island of Perim, a small rocky islet which stands nearly in the centre of the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, the southern entrance to the Red Sea. The island commands the passage, and may be erected, in the hands of England, into another Gibraltar. The Island of Perim is claimed by the Sultan as a part of the Ottoman Empire, a claim which England of course contests. Thu Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, has just delivered to the Porte, a note on the part of his Government, declaring that the occupation of Perim by the English is a viola of the integrity of the Turkish Empire. At Tualesh, the Russians had killed 14 Turkish merchants, and carried off a quantity of gunpowder, but a signal retribution at once took place. The boat in which the powder was, in returning to the Russian cruiser, blew up, and 80 soldiers were either killed or drowned, The epidemic at Lisbon is reported to have ceased. It is said that there will be another and more important reduction of the Austrian army in the spring, should no clouds appear in the political horizon. We publish a condensed, though sufficiently ample, report of the proceedings in the case of the Queen v. Robinson, for perjury. The Jury dis agreed, and they were discharged. Tho Times of Friday says :—The abominable case of " The Queen v. Robinson" has been brought to a very appropriate conelasion by the refusal of the jury to decide upon which side there was perjury, or the preponderance of perjury. Six jurors took one view of the cast, and six another, upon each of the issues which had been left by Lord Campbell for their consideration. Six jurors were for Robinson, six for Evans, upon the general merits. Under these circumstances they were discharged, with an expression of hope upon Lord Campbell's part that the question might be submitted to the consideration of another jury. In that hope we cannot concur. We doubt if the parties will obtain any other result if they multiply proceedings ad infinitum, and is the name of the public we protest against any further raking up of this iniquity. We have had a full surfeit of filth. A STRANGE and unusual Memorial has been presented to Lord PALMERSTON, and from the influential personages by whom it is signed, there is no doubt but it will exercise great weight with his lordship in dealing with the New Reform Bill. The document to which we allude, is that which urges upon the Premier the expe diency of granting an educational franebise, so that those classes who have had the advantage of a liberal education, may enjoy a substantive voice in the legislature. Although the memorial does not enter into any details of the scheme pro posed, 'we are enabled to form an estimate of the intentions of the memorialists, from what ap pears in an explanatory pamphlet which has been forwarded to Lord PALMERSTON. It is pro posed to enrol all the literati of the United Kingdom into seventy districts, and to add a member for each of these to the House of Com mons. It is also proposed that this literait franchise shall be conferred upon certain mem- bers incorporated or registered professions, clerical, medical, legal, artistical, and learned. It is not stated by what mode these literati freemen are to be placed on the franchise roll. There must be obstacles on this point were it only the learned professions, the law, the gospel , and medicine—the mere holding of a University diploma would be a sufficient test of qualification , but when we descend to mere scholarship, and artistic ability, there is a difficulty of fixing the proper standard, and ordaining the tribuna which shall issue the certificate of competency. Looking at the names appended to the memorial, it is evident that the claims to be put forward for literary qualification may extend itself to the clown in the circus, or the scene painter in a penny theatre. The schenae, as now propounded, is beset with difficulties, and has much vagueness and uncertainty in its character. Should Lord PALMERSTON take the subject matter of this memorial into his serious consi deration, the preliminary difficulties to which we have referred will call for a remedy at the hands of the authors of the literate franchise. But, independent of the impracticable character of the proposal, it should be borne in mind that at the present time there are very few, if at all any' of those who would obtain the proposed franchise that are not entitled to vote for members of Parliament under the present law. The exceptions are so insignificant that it is more than question able whether the country would reap the smallest advantage of the proposed change. Moreover, we are by no means certain that the creation of party, purely literary, would tend much to secure good legislation in the House of Commons. Indeed, if we take France into our consideration, and call to mind the fate of the encyclopm.lists of the first French revolution, and that of the journalists and literatsurs of the days of the barricades, there is little to encourage the pro ject to which our remarks refer. The history of the Celestial Empire is preg nant with facts and arguments respecting' the practical working of the educational franchise in China. These appointments and promotions, from the mastership of an elementary school to a peacock's feather, is within the reach of a Chinaman who has had the advantage of a liberal education. But, notwithstanding all this, civilisation has not advanced, and the people of that vast Empire are still the slaves of bigotry, and a religious system which is degrading in its forms, and tyrannical in its requirements. We do not wish it to be understood that in any new laws regulating and improving the representative system of the United Kingdom, we object to education being one of the qualifica tions for obtaining the franchise. We desire that every man entitled to vote should be required to be able not only to read the declara tion of an elector intelligibly, but also to sign his name to the declaration. This, we think, is imperatively called for, and were it adopted, we might hope that the days of bribery and corrup tion would soon pass away. Then might we hope that political charletans would find less favour in the eyes of certain ignorant political cliques, and every man would find it not only an imperative duty, but a pleasing task, to see that his sons were duly prepared to exercise, when they arrived at manhood, their first of duties as citizens of a free State. If Lord PALMERTON engrafts such a principle in his forthcoming Reform Bill, he will do much good, and render himself popular with the country. The scheme proposed by the Memorialists, with the Archbishop of Canterbury at their head, is not, however, suitable to the wants and desires of British subjects. The creation of a literary franchise would not im prove the character of our legislation, nor secure to us more eminent and painstaking statesmen than those of the present day. We see in the scheme new broached much that is faulty and impracticable, and _which would more than counterbalance any good it could confer on the public. On these grounds, we object to the plan as it now stands, AR?: Poor-Law officers under the control of Boards of Guardians ? One would scarcely have thought it necessary to raise this question in these days. The public, however, find that it is necessary to do so, and that they have a vast stake in its prompt solution. All who have read the proceedings of the weekly meeting of the Toxteth-Park Board of Guardians, of last Thurs- . day, must have been perfectly disgusted at the revolting disclosures the Board made with regard to the conduct of one of their servants, Mr. BAR-; NETT, the relieving officer, whose refusal to bury an out-door pauper until all the decencies of civil ised life had been violated, and the public health endangered, was so loudly condemned ; but who appears to be the beau ideal of a parish lawyer. He evidently knew what was right for him to do in the case before us.. The serict letter of the law was uppermost in hiS thoughts. The order of the Chairman of the Board to bury the sickening spectacle complained of, was in his hand. The officers of the Health Committee were at his heels entreating and threatening the legal-minded official. But there stood the Auditor in the distance, ready to mulct Mr. BARNETT of the cost of burying a recognised pauper at the public expense. These conflicting influences told forcibly on the relieving officer. The Board of Guardians had neglected to make a definite and unmistakeable provision for the burial of out-door paupers. Obsolete usuage, Poor Law Union Acts, and popular ideas, with regard to the burial of the helpless poor, were suffered in turn to decide when, how, and by whom, paupers of ELIZABETH HUGHES'S class were to be buried. It appears from Mr. BARNETT'S statements to the officers of health, that the poor-law auditor had set al l three of these superior powers at nought, and had refused to allow him the cost of interring the poor under circumstances similar to the present. What then was Mr. BARNETT to do ? The course he selected was that complained of in an Irish Stipendary Magistrate, who would neither refuse nor obey the orders of those in power over him. Whether Mr. BARNETT was right or wrong in the selection of this line of conduct, is a matter of very trivial, importance to the public. The Board of Guardians are responsible to the Rate payers and community at large, for the prompt discharge of those sanitary duties which belong to parochial management, They are the guar dians of the poor, and they ought to be held responsible for any. injury done to the public health, by their laxity in providing for the burial of the destitute poor under any and all circumstances. It has become the prevailing fashion of the day t© shift all responsibility from the shoulders of those in power on to those of their servants. The Chairman of the Toxtetk Board did, it is true, order Mr. BARNETT to bury the corpse in ques- tion, without delay. But then Mr. BARNETT had a perfect right to see that he would be reimbursed the cost of a pauper burial. If there is no positive provision made for this purpose that is obviously the fault of Poor Law Commissioners or the Local Board. If the latter order the interment of a pauper, and the former will not allow its cost in the audit of the Board's accounts, how can it be expected that relieving officers will undertake to interfere until they are compelled by the pressure of public indignation ? We have no wish to screen Mr. BARNETT. The order from the Chairman of his Board ought to have been enough for him in the present instance, as it made its author personally liable for the expenses that might have been incurred by Mr. BARNETT. This is evidently- what Mr. HORSFILL meant. His object was to see decency respected, regardless of all considerations as to where the cost was to fall eventually. But this is not the way in which such matters ought to be managed. The early stages of decomposition are much more to be dreaded, in a sanitary point of view, than the later process of decay when the gases peculiar to the diseases which actually cause death, have passed away. Had the poor woman in question died of cholera, fever, or any other infectious disease, leaving the body exposed after death might have produced, in the close and densely populated neighbourhood in which she died, the most terrible consequences• The public, therefore, have a right to demand that relieving officers shall no longer be left a pretext for refusing to obey the orders of guar dians. The practical remedy for all the anoma lies brought to light in this affair, lies between the Puor Law Commissioners and the Local Boards of Guardians, and it is to them the Rate payers must look for safety and redress. In the meantime Mr. BARNZTT must remember that the Toxteth Board's thanking their chairman for what he had done, was tantamount to passing a vote of censure on those who did not act up to the spirit and letter of the chairman's directions. LEWIS AND COMPANY'S NEW ESTABLISHMENT FOR BOY'S CLOTHING.—Number of boys clothed for the week ending Saturday, December 26th, 1,016 ; corresponding week last year, 517—increase, 469. DBIINKINNESS.—The -hunk and disorderly cases in the Main Bridewell last night amoanted to 133-1 far greater number than usual. How is this to be reconciled with the reported general want of labour I SUDDEN DEATHS —Maurice Williams died suddenly on Saturday, in the Southern Hospital, where he had been since the 12th instant. Eliza Berry, aged 74 years, died suddenly on Christmas day, in a house in Berlin; ton street, where she had called to visit her married daughter. Several accidents, but none of them of a serious character, were received at the hospitals during Saturday and last night; Very few of them bad their origin in drunkenness, but a great many cases of such were booked at the bride wells. DREADFUL Acenenrer.—On Saturday afternoon, a fright ful accident happened on New Quay. A respectable look ing person wee passing under the stores, where some men were lowering sugar, whin a cask fell on him and smashed him into pieces. His remains were taken to the dead louse. THE WRECK OF THE WALLIOE. Five of the poor fellows who Lwere saved from the wreck of the above unfortunate vessel, are at present in the Southern H >spite!, where every attention is being paid to their case ; but it is feared that two of them will locse their feet, and one his hands, from mortification. Fine, LAST NIGHT.—Last night a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. Donnelly, provision dealer, Great Howard street. The reels front Temple -court and Collingwood Dock stations were promptly on the spot, and the fire was soon extinguished: The damage was trifling. Cause of the Are unknown. ALLEGED ROBBSY or £62l—A day or two ago, a clerk in one of the banks of this town, got notes in another bank fora check, for the above amount. He put the notes in an inside pocket and buttoned his coat. He proceeded to a third bank to transact some business, and, as he says, when he opened his coat, the notes were gone. The body of the woman found floating in the river on Christmas evening, has been recognised as that of Mary Woods, of Martin's-lane, Liscard. She was 66 years old, and was in the habit of walking in her sleep. It is su p • posed that she got out of bed in one of her somnambulistic fits, and went down to the rive , , where she lost her life. FATAL ACCIDENT.---00 Saturday, a seaman, of the name of Robert Kearns, was killed in Bath-street, by a hogshead of sugar falling on him. He was passing along the street, and when just under the warehouse into which the hogs le,ad was being hoisted, it slipped from the slings, and, falling ea him, killed him on the spot. We have not heard that blame is attributable to any party, but if there be, the circomstance will, no doubt, transpi re on th e inquest which will be held on the body this day. ".THE Imes EXPRESS."—The provincial press has had an addition in the above named paper, the first number of which was issued oa Saturday. It is a large sized weekly journal of independent liberal politics. The premier number is turned out most creditably in all respects—th e matter, original and selected, is varied and interesting, and local affairs are ably treated. Ia an artistic point of view, the paper does credit to Leeds, and no doubt, from present appearances, it will become a valuable organ in that wealthy locality. It is a sign of progress, and we wish our young cotemporory every success and prosperous new year. 'ln the past seven years—from the rise' ef the Pee- Raphaelite heresy to the .present time—the Liverpool Academy has bestowed its prizes in the following manner : —Win, Holman Hunt, " Valentine Rescuing Silvia from Proteuv, and reproaching him for his falsity," 1851. J. E. Millais, "A Hugenot, on St. B ar th o l omew ' s d ay, refacing to shield himself from Danger by wearing the Roman Catholic Badge," 1852. W. Holman Hunt, "Claudio deliberating i,he Terms of the Pardon offered to him through his Sister Isabella," pleasure for Measure, Act 3, cc. 1), 1853. Mark Antony, " Nature's Mirror," 1854. Augustus L. Egg, " The Life and Death of Buckingham," 1856. Ford Mados Brown, " Christ Washing Peter's Feet," 1856. J. E. Millais, " Blind Girl," 1857. Six Pre-Rephaelite pictures crowned in seven years, and only one picture of the natural School ! —.eltkenceum. A MAN KILLED re BLAKE-STREZE.—On Saturday evening another victim of intemperance came to an untimely end, in Blake-street, Copperas-hill. His name was John I]onard, and it appears that on Saturday evening he was making merry with some companions in a public-house in the street above mentioned. Their merriment was too noisy to last, and soon a quarrel arose between Leonard and one of his companions, named Humphrey Blincorn. The landlord, not wishing to hive his house disturbed by their altercation, turned them out of doors, and the fight was continaed in the street. Leonard was knocked down, and when down Blincorn kicked him and jumped on him. When Leonard was picked up it was found that he had ceased to live. Blincoru was arrested on the spot by Inspector Kelsy, and lodged in bridewell. He will be brought up at the Pelice-offiee this morning. The prisoner who is married, is twenty years of age, and lives in Sidne street. CLOSIC OP ALLSOP'S ROYAL WAX-WORK EXRIBITION, Lauc-sraErr, Livxnroon, —The above splendid establish ment will positively close on the 25th of January, 1858, wi hout fail. Mr. Allsop respectfully announc.o that he has just added full-length figures (correct likenesres) of the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon and General Havelock, and a number of other beautiful figures, as an addition for the Christmas holidays. Mr. A. respectfully begs to inform his friends and the public that he is going to travel with his Wax work Figures; therefore, after the close of his Exhibition, the proprietor has given instructions to Mr. Branch to sell by auction the whole of the splendid Statuary in the Sculpture Galleries,-all the plate looking-glasses, twelve gas ehindeliers, a number of single bracketq, a great variety of choice busts, and the whole of the timbe r i n th e Sculpture Galleries. Mr. A. would be willing to come to satisfactory terms with the next incoming tenant to let the galleries stand. FORTUNATE ESCAPE OF A ►SHIP,—BRAVE CONDUCT OF THE Citrew.—Captain Thomas Wright, of the ship Rowantree, 1,000 tons, arrived here on Saturday, with a cargo of timber, from St. John's, reported to the Underwriters, that on Thursday night, when between the Mull of Can tyre and Rathlin Island, he was overtaken by the fiercest tempest he had ever experienced. The ship was in a very perilous position, and dashed about by the fury of the wind and water. Had ho sea room he would not have been alarmed, but the place where he was, caused the most serious apprehensions. However, he called oa his brave crew to second his efforts to save the ship, and be says he cannot find words to express his feelings towards the fine fellows, who exerted themselves, one and all, in a manner almost superhuman, and after a night and day of incessant toil, they were fertunate . enough to get the vessel clear from her dangerous position, and got safe up the channekl, but the men were dreadfully exhausted. The captain says, under providence his men saved the ship, which for many hours he considered it almost impossible to do. He says she is a new ship, on her first voyage, and, had she not been built of the best materials, and firm as a rock, she would have gone to pieces. She made the passage, under very adverse circumstances, in nineteen days, an , ' is consigned to Messrs Holderness and Chilton, of this town. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, FRANCE. PARIS, Dec. 25. A letter from Naples of the Bith inst. announces that the seconds of Count Cataneo, who was killed in a duel with Captain Froidefont, of the Guides, have received notice not to return to Naples, where principals and seconds in a duel are punished by hard labour at the galleys. It may be recolleeted that the duel was fought in the wood of Vincennes. It is said that Count Cataneo being the party insulted, had the choice of weapons, and selected pistols, but at the sugges tion of Captain Froidefont's seconds, accept, d swords. A. letter from Bordeaux states that on Tuesda y night last a fire broke out in a house in the Rue des Faussets, occupied by a druggist and other lodgers, which was attended with loss of life. The fire made such rapid progress that when the inmates awoke they found themselves in the midst of the flames, and no mode of escape except through the windows. The proprietor of the house and his two daughters were burnt to death, notwithstand ing the efforts of the firemen to save them. Two females, who threw themselves from the windows, were taken up with fractured limbs, and have since died. One of the fireman was severely injured. A telegraph received in Paris this morning from Lisbon announces that the epidemic which had so long prevailed there had ceased—that is, that no fresh case of foyer had declared itself for some days. The following have likewise been received : TRIESTZ, Dee. 24. The Constantinople mail brings sows of the 17th instant. The note addressed by M. de Bentenieff to the Porte declares that the occupation of the island of Perim by the English is contrary to the maintenance of the integrity of the Turkish territory. MADRID, Dee. 24. The Government has not yet declared who its candidates are for the presidencies of the Congress and of the Senate. All that the journals say on that subject are inex. act. The reports current of a Ministerial crisis are likewise unfounded. BERLIN, Dec 24. The Dowager Empress of Russia is expected at Berlin in February. Count Chreptowitch retires into private life. It has been decided that all the branch houses of the Bank of Prussia shall take the notes of the private Prussian banks, and that some exceptions shall be made as regards the prohibition to take foreign notes. VIENNA, Dee. 24. The Oesterreichische Correspondenz states that, according to news from Dalmatia of the 23rd, 4 000 Christians had been attacked by the Turks near Trebigue. The combat was sanguinary, but the result is not known. The affair of the Presse newspaper came on yes terday before the Tribunal of Correctional Police. M. Rouy, responsible editor (gerant) of the journal, called on the tribunal to declare that M. Millaud, and what is called the council of interested parties, had not the right, by the statutes of the company to which the paper belongs, to dismiss him from hie place as they wanted to do, the whole bo,iy of shareholders alone possessing such power. Ho also called on the tribunal to dismiss an action which M. Millaud had brought against him to recover 200.000 f. damages for the wrong done to the share holders of the Presse by his allowing an article of such an objectionable character to be inserted that the Government had suspended the journal for two months. M. Rouy based this demand on the ground that he had not considered the article cal culated to call down the disapprobation of the Government, and that, besides, suspension is a consequence of the risks which newspapers now have to run. On the part of the council of share holders, it was contended that they, in conjunction with M. Millaud, had, by art. 1856 of the Civil Code, the power of dismissing M. Rouy, and also that he ought to be made to pay 200,000 f. damages for having caused the suspension of the Presse. M. Millaud maintained that as ho had purchased 40 of the 100 shares of the Presse from M. de Girardin for 825,000 f., he had, therefore, become commercial manager and principal editor of the journal, and that, consequently, M. Rouy was labouring under a great hallucination in sup posing that he, M. Millaud, had not the power to dismiss him. He also demanded the condemnation of M. Rouy to 200,000 f. damages. The tribunal announced that it would deliver judgment on Monday. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 16. The interest about the proceedings in the Danu bian Principalities, which had somewhat subsided by the conviction that the Governments had come to an agreement, is again awakened by the question —what is to be done if the Divan of Wallachia maintains its present attitude, and refuses to answer any questions which the Commission might put about internal administrative matters ? You are aware that, after discussing and adopting the report of the Committee on the Four Points, the majority of the Wallachian Divan has expressed the opinion that it should be prorogued until the Congress of Paris should have pronounced on those four cardinal points. On this the European Commission has addressed a note to the Divan, asking whether it persists in this opinion. The probability is that it will, although no news of it has as yet arrived. The note has been referred to a select committee, and we are waiting for the decision of the Divan on the report of the latter. If the Wallachian Divan should refuse to enter into administrative questions the general impres sion of the European Commission seems to be that the Divan should be dissolved and not prorogued. But even in the case of an understanding in the Commission, the question always remains—Who should take whatever steps are to be taken. As the whole affair of the P, incipalities was a kind of logical tournament, in which all parties tried to run down each other with logic, it would be but fair to the Turks to have their go too, and as it is a Turkish firman which convoked the Divans it should be likewise a Turkish finnan which should dissolve them. But, as usual in polities, logic will scarcely be right this time either, for there remains the necessary consideration for the Congress of Paris. It is the latter which was the prime mover for the convocation of the Divans, so it is thought it ought to be consulted whether it has obtained the wishes of the Principalities, or whether it will decide about the Four Points and then let the Divans go en again. The latter solution would be, undoubtedly, the more practical, for the chronic disease in this affair seems to be that people never know their own meaning, and all the complications have invariably arisen from the fact that one Party attached to some expression one and the other another meaning ; so, if anything be done without first referring to the Congress, it may likewise be found that one party has had one and the other another idea of the wishes of the Principalities which ought to be elicited. I wrote to you lately about the change of Rus sian policy in the Caucasus, and about the com plaints of Turks and Circassians of the impediments and restrictions thrown by the Russians in the way of commerce on the Circassian coast. I send you to-day a petition which has lately arrived from those parts, signed by ten of the most prominent Circassian chiefs, demanding the intervention of the European Powers to carry out the provi sions of the Treaty of Paris with respect to the liberty and neutrality of the Black Sea. There are six originals in T u rki s h, f or eac h o f t h e Powers, with the exception of Russia ; one has been already deposited with the Turkish Government, and the others have been sent off to Europe. In order to explain this unusual unity of action among the Circassian tribes, I must remind your readers that when the war broke out, and the Rus sians retired from the coast, the Turks sent Sefer Pasha, a Circassian, who had been for some time in Constantinople, to Anapa, in order to bring about a combination between the Circassian tribes on the Black Sea (to be distinguished from the Lesghis under Sehautyl, in Daghistan). He was only partly successful, for Emin Bey, the Naib or Lieutenant of Schamyl, who had come over to the Circassians from Daghistan, had already long before begun his religious and political agitation in a rather diffe rent sense. While Sefer Pasha's object was to work in the interest of the Sultan and the chief s , the Naib was working for himself, religion, and the freemen. It was this division which ° A P bated to paralyze any a c ti v ity which oth uh ; might have beea shown in the war. AbsdP re Karetshai, in the heart of the Caucasus , fl e the Naib. Among the more northern those on the coast, whore the power of th e c i s l taias has been kept up more efficiently, threagh the intercourse with Stamboul, the rather democratic agitation dial not find „re supporters, and Safer Pasha, who came tm - 00 the opposite interest, succeeded in rallying him that part of the mountain. Ile ° gn i' after the conclusion of the peace, and been continuing to work in the same direciw ii ii I tli tt In spite of the watchfulness of fifteen ib cruisers, the communication of the mountain, the Stamboul has not been inter ru pted, sa d is news from them up to the end of O e tober. n dit chief points relate to a daily-growing underits„Bo among the tribes, who hold meetings and / 11/c i j o elected a member for a kind of Council, at dog head is Safer Pasha. There has been sexe s 00 tory fighting, as usual, on the spurs of the Cn u n ts towards the Kuban river, and frequent dese B :oi , the Russians at different points of the coant" , 0 0$ Turkish coasters. The more remarkable 0 these are one some time ago at Gelindji;l'bil another lately at Taabsh, in both of tl the Russians are said to hav e hast e " a gritish flag, aid put fez caps etz d oo heads of their soldiers to dec e i v e the - 0 taineers and make them believe that thelo Russian vessels with Turkish soldiers. Thel, o ff at Tuabsh 14 Turkish merchants and carris: o quantity of gunpowder, but in returning " If g cruiser a boat with 80 soldiers and a gun h ie n it There is an intention of sending a eoCi‘ protest likewise to the Congre s s of P ar is. V o l remarkable thing connected w ith thi s doe n ",ll the information which seem s t o ex i s t abou t is going on is Europe. As there has been:o respondence about the restrictions imposed d 'ol Russian Government on the trade of the eirttlt coast, this protest of the Circassians, in whi c- 1 ,0, promise to help instead of opposing theme e ) . o ll the establishment of sanitary and maritime a r • t r'gulations, and ask even for the establishu i t ' o p" Consulates on the coast, will afford an oPP ° ,, r n c for answering the Russian arguments for tailing of the Treaty of Paris. All the Orli w:nt is to have freedom of commerce on the Sea; as for the land side they will take 0 0 themselves. PETITION OF VIE CIRCASSIAN CEIIEFS TO THE GOlf il il d or ENGLAND, FRANCE, A USTRIA , P RUSSIA , TVIL'" SARDINIA. Mazga Kaleh, 3rd Reb ul 17.) (21st October, lucor At the time of the peace of Adrianople the rac ie Russia demanded from the Sultan the coasts ofd v 38 1 0,, on the Black Sea, and he obtained th en ; and lend " had the Russians a claim to this coast, nor Sultan make the cession of Ci rcass i a , ov er ri posgessed only a religious suPerainte. i bitr .4 s We Circassians have never recognised this cession made in the Treaty of Adrianople, a ll ; e tte l succeeded only after some desp era t e fi g hti ng pc some points on our coast. When the war of 1833 broke out between the p d Russians, just at the moment when the consbi tz „v o ta u ! entered the Bosphorous, the Russia ns withdreir'; h elw territory, and destroyed the fortificati ons which held. t sos In defiance of the neutrality of the Bl ac k Sea, e s by the Treaty of Paris, the Russian governmect.rtot, the navigation of our coasts, ander th e pretePslw Circassians are opposed to the organisatiou a police, and of sanitary regulations. Trea t y Considering that articles 11 and 12 of the Tree-a,bi forbid hostilities in the Black Sea, a n d declare, `Oll merce free and the Circassian ports open to al l Stij l we beg of your excellency to insist on this rig.iorm use your influence with the Russian governmeo t i e d that the said treaty should in f u t ure be mainta in ed ,`J force. Si As regards the organisation of a maritime 0(1,60 police, we pledge ourselves to establish and to it according to European usages. e 041 Lastly, we beg of your Excellency to send -°„( • i our ports, who should uphold the interests ~,- , 10 countrymen and assist us with their advice, ell tl s' o ro the ways of civilisation as they exist in the states. SRecommending our just cause to the kind s. your Excellency, We have th e h ono ur, `';: c i, Lord Stratford left here, as he prop 06 "01; Saturday, the 12th inst., for Trieste, on hi is England. The Turkish Government had Pi o special war steamer at his disposal, which l fi l accepted, and the Ambassador left in the AP: t Lloyd steamer Jupiter. He even Wished tb ° o o customary salute of 10 guns should be cusp with. AUSTRIA. gC. "1 VIENNA, D tif 0 The States lying on th e D a nube • tf cl B . O Austria, Bavaria, and W ur t em b urg ) positivf o loti the right of the Pari s C on f erence e ither 'OO I' or confirm their Convention relative to navigation of the Danube. an St s On the 31st of March, 1831, the River" - fle° . of the Rhine—Baden, Bavaria, Franc e ' Sea' d Darmstadt, Nassau, the kingdom of tile )4 e X lands,And Prussia—sig ne d a C onven tion ot,6 ° , B l oer 0 " for the navigati on o f th e Rhi ne l° which was based on the 32 Articles of t he of t i Act of Congress conc ern i ng th e navigat'";oB o o river. The first articl e o f th e Mayen" vc t of v was copied liter a lly f rom t h e Vi enna Ac" gross, and runs as follows : e toi The navigation along th e w h o l e course of tlid°°lllLji from the point at which it becomes navigab_ le ,stl e the sea—as well with as against the stres%or tb,'l entirely free, and cannot in respect to c 0 l ag t ! t ibl i f inhibited (etre interdict) to any one confor m o f r e el ) regulations of the police for the maintenas ce t heP r security, and to the s tip u l at i ons conta i ne d 10 io regulation (reglement). j o e , no There are no fewe r th an 109 art i c l e s 0°- sP t to the Mayence treaty, but in neither of then l , i s Op that the right of cab o t age ( coast i ng trade/Selo be enjoyed by n on -Ri ver i an St a t e s • fe o Convention which was signed here a,. tiro° since reserves for the Ri ver i an St a tes too' cabotage, and this reaervation appears to fit of . vo tg violation of that article of the Vienna . 11 '''ef 11 00 grass, which says, " that the navigati e z ?.ol o ', o o: which separate or traverse different Stat it be inhibited to any one." It is urged tm th e r tb e English, or Russian merchants may eni. e .„' erit' a of sabotage by ente r i ng i nto partnershirbat s o subjects of any of the Riverian Powers' ~t at le# ternational questio n o f th e hi g h est inaP°' d ale issue, and the European Powers are bou li t iee. e dn e 3 , tain intact the principle of the free navie o e al"; Danube. The contents of the Conv oo ,atiter: by the Danubian States have no t , t he ";,111 11 / carefully kept from the knowledge o' eivv o oa for the press, but they have not even be e Ar e die communicated to the European Powers' 004, 0 0 0 1 who has had an opportunity of f r t o ters o y° ) numerous protocols of th e Ri ver ain Oa states that the Austrian Commissioner t i 4 ofs the greatest possible liberality " o ceP lefi e f ea , matter of cabotage." Th e d ues to L' e t . Ere ore vessels passing up and d own the ri f6 ti f a e I trifling, and the " non-Riverain" are to P o p] tiler is than the river -bord er i ng S ta t es . 50 0 fo l It is whispered th a t th ere w ill 19° s o sf„peA; more important reducti on o f t h e Alla, k tf ii i ti ti f i r t the spring of 1858, if no new c l ou ds s'i" oo in the political h or i zon . Th e con viatl Credit Bank must r ea li ze a l arge s um ° f f the 0; the sale of the p re f erence s h ar es ° v ary f and Western Railroads has led to ai or es ° wer, derable advance in the price of the s uare,, e tile d / institution. A few days since Cred i t to -da-Yditia' t hardly to be disposed of at 190, sa u fico ed e t are in great request at 207. In the a" te als° so il , of the Times of the 19th inst., the IltalarYl3°tlierg Miss Nightingale is attending the 131 , 1 ,. l i n gsla io ec` 3 ; at Vienna is refuted. Of Miss Nigi'"„ to poaL„ has never been any mention in nay O f e ` wa s 1 "OP The English lady who for some ti ns v os General (Civil) Hospital of Vienna y e a of Stewart. for-. ri s A. joint-stock company has b e en 1, mil!l°spio; Verona and Milan, with a capital 0 f e . to si l ‘ g li s fi , lire ( 200 ,0001.), for making advance s of its oOrj ners, dealers, and brokers Two -t hir dly T he °lll O will be advanced on all silk depositor an ota t 've pany is to receive six per cent P e Ol af t , d l)° one and a-half per cent - Dace - d ot / sleuths. n a - 'ter- e ar This has been a March rath windwith a Del day, for there has been a fresh The ther m o m eter rain and sunshine. noon , hail's scale) was at 02,25 a tprovision