Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-08 00:00:00

SMITHSONIAN HOTEL, BROADWAY, Corner of HOUSTON-STEEIT, I'4'lm Yoslt.l XXD44 in hollo‘ll. of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION', istablished at WASHINGTON, by the U. S . —ONGILESS, iinal Fonds bequeathed by J•mics SMITH9ON, of ENGLAND. "kiln the Friendship of the OFFICISS Of the NATIONAL INSTITUTION, IS conducted on the System of Hotels in ENGLAND. CHAS. H. SMITH. -1-41YERPOOL INSTITUTE, %OUST STREET. 'Ths Ntxr QUARTER will CO dMENCE on THURSDAY, the 111141issbant, in ttie HIGH SCHOOL, COM RRCI AL SCHOOL, GIRLS' SCHOOL, EVENING SCHOOL, AND SCHOOL Of ART. ZronpetaSBS containing detailed statements of terms and course of sotrixtion, may be obtaned on application, either personally at the sostitute, or by letter, to ASTRUP CARESS, secret.. y. -11VEliPOOL LADIES' COLLEGF, BLACKBURN PLACE, HOPE STdEET. 1 .it TERM will C )3112ENCE on THURSDAY, Oct. 15th. Prospectus's may be obtained by apply - n{ to IllS9 Elliwn, the Prin sips/ ; or to - ASTRUP CARISS, Secretary. SCHOOL OF LIVERPOOL INSTITUTE. 11.11COCID MAST ER AR T , • Mu. Jones Firmits. • Ma. G. PUGH. LADIES' MORNING CLASSES. 'Ms arises meet on Mond sys, TnesdAys, Wednesdays, and Thurs aike s, Irma Ona to Half-past Two p.m.—Fee for attending the Classes twig's a week, L 1 per Quarter. The maxi Q tarter will COMIII93CO on Thursday, Oct. 15. ASTRUP CARI 3 ,, secretary. QUEEN'S COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL, IN CUMECTION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. President of the Senate —WM. BROWN, ESQ., M.P. Vice-Praidents. THOMAS THORNELY, P.; GEORGE HOLT, ESQ. risrgestuses of the Faculty of Arts anl Laws may be obtained by 1 1 11110og to ASTRUP CAR.I,S, Secretary, Afount-street. dalto.—Ebto Oat?. it twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Apsley-buildings, 5,535 Nara Horns.—Edward Cox and Sons. twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 16. Ecchange-buildings, $OO Cases Tallow, &c.—J. H. Rayner ana Co. At twelve o'clock. at the broker's office, 2, Exchange-building., 31 toos African Ivory.—W. W. Smith. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 18, Hackin's-hey, 361 bags Yellow Mn,tardseed, &c.—A. and S. H. Sleigh. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 2, Dale-street, 13 tens Deer sod Buffalo Homs.—Browne, Hunter and Co. fanr o'clock at the pablie saleroom, Eachatige-b Aldings, 1,400 bolus Wools.—T. and H. LictledA'e and Ca. At cos o'clock, at the brokers' office, 9, Temple-court, a quantity olThAt.—Houghton and Levy. Al oar O'clock, at the commercial sale-oom, Temple-court, a quan tity of Frait.—Oeorgeßadenach and Son. At *be tauker's saleroom, Colonial-buildings, Dale-street, 710 bales Tool--Edmund Buckley. At four o'clock, at the broker's office, Victoria-buildings, Hackin's lay, 1,451 bales Woo'.—Perkins and Robinson. At twelve o'clock, a quantity of Logwood, Sago Flour, &c.—Cox 74rothess Al twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Apsley-buildings, 7 pipes Con teat:Med Lemon Juice, and 22 chests Lac Dye.—Bower and 1620 ck. At Umbra o'clock, at the brokers' office, Sweeting-street, 21,000 South azedritsas Horns.—Arnold, Leete, Ho ,coe a .d Co. At tor Ivo o'clock, at the brokers' office, 21 ballots So ath Sea Co tton.— Assail and Clay ton. 34 twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, 16, Exchange-alley North, tie tots 3rds Brimstone.—Frederick 7. 1 aw. At hotly o'clock, at the brcker's office, Lancaster-buildings, Tithe ter& street, 400 bags Mustard and Rapeseed.—Henry Wilde. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Victoria-buildings, Hackin's /sty.„10.000 Buffalo Horns.—Corris and Co. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Exchange-place, 161 bales Gaskior.—Harpin and Co. Cr For particulars see advertisements. AMUSEitENTS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, &c. THIS DAY. Lola I. Ay PHIT nEATKß—Dramatic Performance-7 p.m. /Wm atom. GARDENS—Grand and Varied Entertainments. lasscsraos. ACADEME'S EXHIBITION, Postoffice-place. AMENDE'S WAIWORIC EXHIBITION —lO S.M. to 10 p.m. glarE•li HALL, Clayton-square—Gordon Cumming-8 p.m. CoLoss gust —G eneral Entertainment-6.30 p.m. sgr For particulars sae advertisements. WANTED, COPIES of the " NORTHERN DAILY T3MES" of the following dates :—April lOth and ar d Nay 10th and 23rd.—Anply at the Northern nmes 0 I.ortlitru THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. Yesterday, the 7th of October, w as, as the Queen, Victoria 1., commanded, observed as a day of humi liation and prayer, at least, so far as the outward foams of opening of some of the churches of the Es tablished religion went. We were sorry, however, to oliserve such an amount of drunkenness and debauchery as disgraced the streets of the " good old town," indeed the day was observed more as a feast day than &fart day. There is no doubt that the people sympathise with the sufferers in India, but they are aware that 10,000 troops will do more good in that portion of her Majesty's dominions —we really beg pardon, the country belonging to the East India Company—than a dozen of fast dap or days of humiliation and prayer. The loss to the working class alone by the observance of the day would be suffizient to pay a large bounty, and purchase the kits of a rather formidable company. We publish the outlines of several of the more important sermons delivered on the oc erlSlBl3. At the Unitarian Church, in Hope-street, Yr. Itobberds preached a most excellent sermon. Be was of opinion that the oonduct of the British is India, although not fully atrocious enough to merit the retribution that had been heaped upon the wives and families of the officers who had been OD barbarously treated in that portion of the British Colonies, were still to be palliated. To him it appeared that the very fact of the Indian atrocities wing occurred was a deep reproach to England That an army formed, trained, and officered by Britains themselves, exposed to the influence of British civilisation and example for so long a aeries of years, should now commit such fearful deeds—the very fact indicated either that there must have been some provocation rankling deeply *swag them. or at least, that our nation had been greatly wanting in the duty of elevating the moral condition of the multitudes brought under their arway. Re did not believe that large bodies of men were so gratuitously fiendish as it was common in this case to assume. If men systematically com a/lifted such atrocious deeds, it must either be ender the influence of some strong provocation, —palliating although not justifying them—or else under the infatuation of infatuated bigotry, Mr. Hugh NV Neile delivered a Roos t impressive sermon o n the occasion, at St. Paul's, i a Princes' Park. We are glad to see, ea the whole, that the minister s of the Gospel did not think it for the benefit or the furtherance of any church, sect, or religion, to preach in a tone of maudlin sympathy with murderers and traitors ; the highest laws are those of justice; the truest mieny is that which ensures protection to the in nocent; the purest pardon is that which is granted to the unconscious dupe and the delirious subor &nate after the ringleader and the instigator letee been made to pay the penalty of their crimes. There is no fear that the scattered and seditious Sepoy army will be stricken with universal retribu tion; large numbers will die under the stroke o 1 the bayonet, or at the cannons mouth, or upon the scaffold ; and it would be a mockery of all human taw were the authors and abettors of _unnatural atrocities to escape the due reward of acts so foul, so flagitious, so surpassing the limits of all former villany. But it is as much a waste of words.as an insult to the British people to plead against the employment of unnecessary torture or of indiscri minate massacre to avenge the Sepoy mutiny, with all its awful consequences. Large bands of the rebels will for the next few years be making ' their submission in the British camps, and it is an unpardonable exAggeration to suppose that they will be unmercifully given over to the hang man ; they will be received with clemency, and when the stain upon our authority has been wiped out, the severest retort we shall make on the traitors of India is, that by our conduct and example we shall prove ourselves better than they. This will be no season of humiliation and prayer, unless the public mind be concentrated upon the real causes of the calamaties we are suffering, and be brought to the conviction that India has been thrown into a state of destructive confusion, not because its natives have been cruelly wronged; not because we have confiscated the dominions of im becile sensualists ; not because we, as a European and Christian people, have succeeded the occupants of Mohammedan azd Brahminical thrones; but because, affecting to be free, we have acted like slaves, abandoned the task of government to a single class, and slumbered in insensate apathy, until we have been roused by a storm of thunder, and compelled, amidst the wail of captured cities, the groans of decimated armies, and a cry of terror throughout the lend, to assemble in our churches and petition foe deliverance from evils that have been brought upon us by our criminal fatuity We are now coefidenrly expecting, in the course of a day or two, a fortnight's later news from India. It will, of course, be by telegraph, no doubt from Consul Craig, of Trieste, and the majority of the messages either absolutely wrong or greatly exag gerated. In the meantime we perceive that a Scotch cotemporary has published the proclama tion of Sir Colin Campbell, the new Commander in-Chief in India. The Commander-in-Chief does not say anything about leading the troops to ven geance, but he speaks of rewards that will be con ferred upon faithful services, and by the blessing' of God he hopes soon to be able to restore tran quility to our Indian possessions. We have pri vate advises from Calcutta which repeat the asser tion that the Governor General and Sir Colin Campbell are at issue as to the proper measures to be taken to suppress the rebellion. Of local news there is, of course, nothing in ad dition to the ceremonies in connection with the day of humiliation and prayer. The man, Dunn, who was stabbed at Birkenhead on Sunday, is recovering. The steamer India; arrived here yesterday with four days later news from the Canadian provinces, hut it does not possess any features of importance. We regret to say that our advices are very doubtful in the expectation that the steamer Canadian, recently wrecked on the St. Lawrence, can be re covered. The Montreal papers ha'e published the details of the c"nsus accounts for the year 1856 It appears that the population of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada is now fully two millions and a half. From the Continent we have no news of the least impor'ance to-day. The process against the Neapolitan Insurgents will commence on the 28. h instant, at Salterno. A despatch from Lisbon announces that the preli minaries of marriage between the Duke of Oporto and a princess whore name is not stated are already settled. The duke is about 17 years of age. In Lisbon it is considered that a war between Brazil and Paraguay is inevitable. Tint Government Commissioners have finished their labours in Belfast. They have taken the testimony of both parties; received the thanks of each, made their bow to the people of the capital of Ulster, and retired to Dublin, to con over the evidence prior to delivering their " verdict." No investigation, private or public, has for a lengthened series created such an amount of interest. Its cause the parties interested therein—and the strange occurrences that took place, almost daily, during the inquiry —gave to the whole affair an imp'ortance that many a matter of much greater significance never attained. Any one who has paid the least attention to the evidence collected by the learned Commissioners must be struck with the apparent indifference with which the Irish Executive viewed the religious animosities and the fierce and brutal manner' each—Protestant and Roman Catholic— treated the other. These two sections of the people of Belfast—i. e., the bigoted zealots on both sides—influenced by hereditary strife, and inflamed by the counsels and harangues of political and religious mountebanks, made warlike preparations for bloody conflict, and continued the perpetration of deeds of atrocity for a number of weeks, during which the 1)cal authorities, and the Executive sitting in Dublin Castle, remained passive "spectators of the fight." The conse quence of these renewed riots has been loss of life and property, as well as dangerous wounds upon even harmless and well-disposed citizens. Hitherto the inhabitants of Ulster have prided themselves, and justly too, upon their love of peace, law, and order. When rebellion stalked abroad in Leinster, Munster, and Connaught, in 1848—when seditious MITCHELL and treasonable MEAGHER—when hireling scribes, who are now ashamed of disloyal deeds—and mountebank politicians, whose chief aim was to fatten on the gullibility of an innocent-minded people, inflamed the passions of a populace—when sedition, treason, and riot were the order of the day in nearly every quarter of that ancient king dom Hibernia—Ulster was free from the leprosy of disaffection, and the Government of the day had little trouble in controlling the " Cabbage garden " propensities of its green-coated " heroes." A place situated as Belfast is—inha bited by an honest, an independent, and well disposed people, should not turn rebellious. If it do so, there must be something wrong in its government and municipal regulation. Be it also observed that municipal mismanagement is not without the cognisance and indirect approval of the Executive. We have frequently alluded to the street preaching at Belfast, and also condemned the would-be clerical spouting at Liverpool, and other places in the surrounding localities. There may be those who think that such efforts to promote. " GOD'S glory" an essential and indispensable necessary. In all humility, we differ from them. Many reasons induce us to believe that street-preaching is unnecessary ; but, independent of its necessity, we have to ask ourselves the important question, Does it in any way promote the professed object which its advo cates hold forth ? The police records—not at Belfast, but Liverpool, and other places we could mention—show that such theological exhibitions do much more harm than good. Apart from these considerations, the enquiry THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1857 at Belfast has clearly proved that the municipal regulations of that town are defective. It has 1 laid bare to us the facts that in a locality' with a population of 120,000, its police guardians are only 160 strong, In a Parliamentary Borough of such extent, inhabited by such a numerical population, and gnarded by such a police force, one would certainly suppose that they who resided within its boundaries dwelled in the regions of "peace, law, and order." Recent events belie the idea. The occurrences of the last two months prove that such is not the case, and we must stigmatise the conduct of His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant as pusillanimous in the extreme. We hold the opinion that no one section of the community shall " hold forth" in the public thoroughfares to the disgust and hatred of the other. Lord CARLISLE was, no doubt, animated by the best and purest of motives. Nevertheless, he allowed a small spark to ignite and kindle into a flame. Bigotry, fiercely breaking forth into lawless violence, has made its appearance in more places than Belfast, and. where one might expect sympathy and patriotism, a portion of the Irish community rise the ludicrous cry of " Success to the Indian Sepoys ! !" From what has taken place, we confess that the Irish Executive have failed—miserably failed—in its institution of a Commission. The great misfortune of the day is that the Executive always conceive that lawyers are the only persons fit to hold an inquiry. It matters not whether the subject, or matter to be investigated, is one agricultural, commercial, criminal, educa tional, ecclesiastical, fiscal, lunatic, or electoral,' "a barrister of seven years' standing" is the man employed; so that if the celebrate I JOHNSON were now alive, and editing a fresh edition of his celebrated lexicon, he would designate "Commissioner" as one of the many and significant meanings attached to the term " lawyer." Although the two gentlemen sent down from Dublin to Belfast may be very respectable gentlemen, we believe that they have failed in their mission. They failed in the object which the Executive had in view. Their conduct was pusillanimous, and every one who looks at the conduct of the proceedings must I feel that neither " peace, law, nor order" was promoted by the inquiry. AMUSEMENTS, &e. TDB ITALIAN Omega IN PARIS.—The echoes of the enthusiastic acclamations which followed the last perform ance of Salvini in Paris had scarcely died away in this theatre when they were re-awakened by the plaudits bestowed on the favourite artistes who appeared on Thurs day, the opening night of the season, in the universally popular teTrovatore." The cast was in all respects, save one important role, the same as we had frequently beard it last season. Mario was moot warmly received on his entree as Maurice, and Graeani still more fervidly on his appearance as the Count. The voices of both were in perfect order, and the principal moree.tux produced all their wonted t ffect. We have, however, so very frequently commented on the execution of all the airs in the opera, by these exce'lent vocalists, that detail is unnecessary at , present. The two ladies, Mule. Steffenone and dime. Nantler Didiee, stand in a different position, for, though neither is quite a stranger, they can scarcely be said to have taken their proper position until Thursday night, Mme, A boni sang 'the part as she sings everything, If the season only continues as it hes begun, we shall have only reason for congratuletios.—Galignani. A GALA OPERA AT WEIMAR.— riliS evening (Oct. 1) there was, as usual on these occasions, a gala opera, for which all the great world of Weimer and the neighbouring towns and principalities have been straggling for some days past to get tickets. It was the same sceae over again that I lately described to you at Stuttgardt, only on a smaller scale, and with a less ext€nt of county pretension, and was only in a very sma'l degree to be called splendid. The ho•ise, small as it is, was toe large to be occupied by the court only, and even the first tier of b.mea c•eutained a number of persons not attached to the court, and not even in full dress. The Empress of Russia sat in the centre with the Dowager Queen of Holland and the Dowage; Grand Duchess of Weimar, her husband's aunts on eithe r hand, one of whom was if inked on the right by the Em peror of Austria and the Grand Duke of Weimar ; and the other on the left by the Emperor of Russia, the Grana Duchess of Weimar, and Prince Alexander of Hesse. There was nothing of that beauty of toilet and splendour of ornament that was visible at Stuttgardt ; but, on the other hand, there was a total absence of that restraint oa the part of the Russian Imperial couple which was evident at Stuttgardt in the presence of Louis Napoleon. We had the renowned Liszt toconduct,an 1 the much talked of opera by Richard Wagner, Tannlsauser, to listen to. The great folks bore this for two acts, probably on account of their curiosity to hear this dawn of a new school of music, and to see the very splendid manner is which it has been put. en the stage. The story of the contest of the singers co the Wartburg being one of historical and local interest to this Grand Duchy, the opera has nowhere been treated so well as here. Nevertheless, no amount of care and splen dour in the getting up can save such a production as a dramatic composition, constructed on the principle of anti. climax, like an inverted pyramid, with the apex of interest vested in the beginning, and languishing rapidly into insipidity as it proceeds. As a musical work, possessing stray claims to admiration by sporadic passages of beauty, but on the whole a wild screaming jumble of inharmonious instrumentation, snatches of melody that never amount to a tune, and a constantly recurring a recession of forced modulations, interrupted c adences, diminished sevenths, and fearfully impressive passages for the whole orchestra in unison, all about nothing—it may be true that this is the rnu,ie of the future, but the more remote we calculate that future the more correct will be our judgment ; and it may also be true, as Wagner's admirers say, that this music will be heard with delight when that of Mozart and Beethoven is forgotten, bat it certainly will not be before. Tee Cemmittee of the Theatre Frarc tin, Paris, unani mously received on Saturday a five act comedy in proses by MM. Scribe and E. Logoave, entitled " Les Deights de F 6 a" The Marseilles journals state that an improvement has taken place in the health of Mdlle. ' , Rachel. Her relatives, who had been summoned to see her, have found so great difference in her atate that they have not hesitated to take their departurf., M. Raphael Felix, her brjther' who was p'aying in the "Fits de la Nuit," at Toulouse' has returned to his post. The Nouvelliate announces that Prince Napoleon paid a visit to Mdle. Rachel. The Revue des Theatres publishes a letter from M. Gustave Matz, which gives some curious detail. concerning the fourth act of the music of the " Favorite," by Deni zetti—" M. Alphonse Royer and myself were charged to prepare the libretto, and being naturallj anxious to come to an understanding with Dmizatti on the subject, we asked him what his views were on the point. 4 1 have written,' said he, the sore of many an opera in Italy, but, on account of the censorship, I never was able to carry out an idea which formerly occurred t 3 me, bat which I can do now. Write me any libretto you like, provided you place in the last act a nunnery religions chants, and great affliction' This last act, con sequently was our starting point, and in place of seeking for the denouement of a story, we had to invent a story to suit the denonemeat named to tv. I may add, that the admirable music of the fourth act was almost an impro visation on the Tart of Danizetti, for the whole of it was written by him in a single night. M. Royer and I delivered him the words of the fourth act one evening, and the next moraing th 3 composer gave the whole of the music to be copied—c h oruses, scenes of recitative, romance duo, and finale, all were c , mposed during the single night " Already we hear some gossip about the London Op era Season of 1858. Mr. Oye's new and splendid temple of the lyric drama will be reedy in April, when the sea son will commence with a renewal of those grand perfortri,- ances, which made the Royal Italian Opera the great lyric theatre of Euro?e. There is some talk of Her Majesty' s Theatre opening in January, instead of the regular time and Mr. Lumley is said to have engaged, as conductor, in place of Signor Binetti, Signor Arliti; who, the Musical World tells us, is well known is Constantinople and New York. From the same authority, we learn that Drury lane will be the scene of Jullien'e series of concerts this winter. EnRATI7II.—The name of Captain Stouffer, in our report of the launch at Preston, shoul I have been G. C., and not J. C., as it appeared in Monday's paper. Tun lina.n OF RUGBY SCHOOL.—Amorg the - essadidates for this office are found the name of the Rev. Dawson W. Turner, M.A., head master of the R .yal Institution School, Liverpool. CHAYGE RINGIvG.—LIVERPOOL.-03 Tuesday, the 6th inst., the United Societies of St. Luke's and St. Peter's, ascended the tower of St. Luke's aLd rang in a masterly s yle Mr. Thursto.i's peal of Steadman Triples, consisting a' 5,040 changes in three hours and two minute*. The ringers were placed as follows, viz : Robert Thomas, trebly ; John Heron, jun., second ; James Heron, third ; George Kelsby, fourth; George Crute, fifth ; Richard Williams, sixth; William Worthington, seventh. John Pearson, tenor. Conducted by John Heron, jun. Weight of tenor 16 cwt.; in the key of F. PASSINGER9 per Scraw Steamer Indian, Captain Thomas Jones, from Quebec to Liverpool.—Captain Wardell, Mrs. Wardell and two children, Messre. M'Callum, David Thomson, Cruise, Cornish, Simpson, Miss Steele, Mrs. Travers and child, Messrs. Kippen, G. Leighton, Thomas Reeki', Watts, Captain M‘Gliie, Mr. T eacy, Mrs. Wil t liams, child, and servant, Messrs. S. S. Thomson, C owley, Henry T. Dawson, John stone, W. R. Pym, Gognon, Shuter, Bally, Mrs. Pa'terso i and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Rothwell, Messrs. John Curly, G. H. Smith, John Cerro', F. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Barlow and three children, M. R Gimrie and daughter, Messrs. F. Salmon, W. Parse, John Wilson, II- nry Flood-50 cabin and 115 steerage pat e gers. IMBULA MRS IN mg STREETS —Several complaints have been made of the abuse of perambulators in the streets, and we have received some letters on the subject from persons who have been subj , cted not only to incon venience but injury, in consequence of the manner these vehicles are driven by servant mails in Church, Lord, Bold, and other streets, where the flag-ways are not wide enough to afford room for pedestrians, without being blocked up by "blessed babies" and their little carriages. If parents knew the risk their children run, whilst strapped up in these silly inventions, they would certainly not trust the lives of their offspring either in the machine nor the keeping of the nurse, for the "little darlings" too often rue the chance of being momentarily made the subj_ct of coroner's inquests. One cJrr,sp.mdent suggests the necessity of putting the law in force as it was at Bath, where, he says, they fined the drivers of such vehicles, which put a s'op to them in that town. We should not like to see such stringent measures reearted to in Liverpool, but something ought to be done to avoid the danger to which the public and the children are exposed. Wheelbarrows and trucks should be, by the police, at once prevented from obstructing the foo:paths, as allowed to do at present. The Belgian free-traders have commercsd their winter campaign under the most favourable auspices. They held in Brussels two meetings last week, which were followed by a banquet. All these gatherings were attended by great numbere, comprising delegates from almost every important town on the evitinint, and the -epresentatives of the various Chambers of Commerea throughout Bel gium. AGAINST TOBACCO.—Oae of the elargyrne) at a recent camp-meeting in Tolland County, Connecticut, according to the Rockville Gazette, was opposed to the use of tobacco as incompatible with true piety. Speakieg of the raising of tob cco in the Connecticut River Valley, as eonnec' d with the worship of mammln, ho " wished that God Almighty would send a hail-storm and destroy the whole crop on the river." THE RaPUBLICAN CAPITOL—The capitol at Washington when completed, will have cost ten millions of dollars. Originally the grounds and the old building—and a very il-contrived and poorly built one it is—cost about three millions. The extension now in progress will cost five and a half millions ; and the new dome to the old building a million and a half more at least. Congress has already appropriated 4,325,000 doll. to the extension, and,it is estimated that about 21,200,000 more will be necessa-y CASE OF BONA FIDE INS &NIT T. —Q BEN VIC TORIA CHARGED WITLt BREACH OF PRO MISR. —An insane man has been, lately, in the habit of annoying a certain firm in this city by presenting to them for payment bills f r two an 1 three hundred thousand dollars, semi-weekly. A. man who would do an act like that, in the present crisis, deserves a straight jacket and bread and ,va'er. We saw the poor unfortunate this morning, and had a conversation with him. He alleges that Queen Victoria promised to marry him, but broke off the en 6 agement. A MYSTERY OF PARIS —The bodies., of a young man and a young female tied together rou-d the waist were the day before yesterday taken out of the Marne, at a place called Le Mailloret. From the advanced state of decain pisition of the bodies, it is supposed that they must have ben in the water for some time. Every inquiry has been made in the neighbourhood, but as no intelligence of any missing parties has been obtained, it is supposed that they must have come from a distance to effect their purpose, or tat the bodies have been brought down by the current to the p'ace where they were fours'. Some time ago a very large sum,.m.ore than £lO.OOO, was subscribed for the establishment of a commercial academy in Vienna; but the whole affair is likely to fall to the ground because the Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs insists on apaointing a Roman Catholic director and pro fes-ors. The principal subscribers were Jews and Protestants, an I, as they mide it a condition sine qua non that Jews and Protestants should enjoy the same privileges as Roman Catholics, they are abo it to withdraw their subscriptions. Whenever the Austrians attempt to do anything they invariably feel the Concordat galling their withers. SCENE AT AN ExEcumN —A horrible scene (says the Weser Cafette) took place at Hanover a few days ago, on the occasion of an execution. Not only did a large crowd, many of them carrying bottles of brandy, assemble and compel gross excesses, but a number of individuals sub ject to epilepsy rushed to the scaffold at the moment the criminal's head felt to drink the blood, the popular belief being that it is a cure for epilepsy, and the cx.-:eutdmer readily gave it to them ! This frightful scene has caused an immense sensation in Hanover, and petitions to the government praying that executions may no longer be public have boon numerously signed. JOLLY Jinn-at .—The hotel bill of the jury impan nelled in the recant trial of Gentles and Reid at the S irlinr Circuit Court of Justiciary was within a trifle of £7O. This fact may help to dispel the popular belief that jury_ man, during the process of a trial, are doomed to subsist on such commonplace fare as bread and water. Considering the number of days over which the trial ex' ended, perhaps t le score run up at the Golden Lion is not very unreasona ble—which is more than can be said for a jury at Aberdeen, who run up a bill of £l7 between the hours of seven in the evening and ten in the morning following—or of a jury at Inverness, whose bill for toddy alone, for one night, was .£B.—Alloy Advertiser. A GREEK SAILOR IN A. SQUALL.— We were here over taken by a severe equal'. At this time we were towing the Greek boat, one of the crew being in it, and the other on board the Ariel. The former was much surprised when the storm came on, and after staring about in an idiotic manner, for some time, threw himself on his knees, and prayed fervently for same minutes ; fi .ding, however, that things were not looking much better, he disconti ied his devotions, and commenc,d cursing and swearing till he foamed at the mouth ; and on perceiving that this also was of no material advantage, he threw himself down in the boat and subbed like a child. His companion, who was comfortably settled on board the yacht, and who had been watching the proceedings of his comrade with placid satisfaction, now took compassion on him, clambered down into the boat and cut her adrift. They soon dis appeared itt the driving mist.—Fraser') Magaaine, for October, THE DAY OF HUMILIATION AND PRAYER. Yesterday being appointed as the day of general fast, prayer, and humiliation, by a proclamation of the Queen, all business was suspended. Divine service was per formed in the several churches through town, and the congregations were large and respectable, such as are in the habit of attending on Sabbath days. In THE TOWN, the shops were all closed, but so far as the appearance of the streets went, it seemed more a holiday for amusement than of prayer and humiliation, The docks were all closed, as well as the banks, the Custom-house, and all public and private offices. The suburban 'buses were crowded to excess during the forenoon, by well•dressed persons, going to the country. Both the landing stages were crowded by all sorts of people in holiday attire, and the ferry boats were quite plethoric during the day with people rushing into Cheshire to " shake off the dus'.'t Public-houses were closed, the same as on Sundays. By the trains that came in at the different stations, consi. derable numbers of country people came to town. THE MILITIA, tilw in town, and doing duty at the Islington Barracks, attended Divine worship yesterday at St. Simon's Church, Gloucester-street. THE FORM OF PRAYER The following was the form of prayer read in those churches iu the town that were open to public worship : FOR T FIR MORNING SEIM CI. The first lesson was from Daniel ix, verse 1 to 19, the second lesson from Acts ail, verse 1 to 17. The collect of the day was as follows :- 0 Lord, raise up, we pray Thee, Thy power, and come amongst us, and with great might succour us ; that we, who are justly punished for our offences, may be mercifully delivered by Thy goodness, for the glory of Thy name, through Jesus Christ our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Hoy Ghost, ever one Gad, world without end. Amen. Instead of the usual prayers read at tho time of war, Bcl., the following were substituted : O Lord God Almighty, who orderest all things both in heaven and earth, look down, we beseech Thee, on us Thy unworthy servants, who turn to Thee in this our time of trouble, when evil and misguided men have risen up against the government which they were bound to defend, and have brought wasting and destruction upon our Eastern dominions. We confess, 0 Lord, that in many things we have deserved Thy chastening, and have failed to :make that return which Thou mightest have justly required at our hauls when Thou hadst granted success to our arms. and increased our wealth and power. But 0 Thou who hast revealed Thyself as a God or giving iniquity, transgressioa, arid sin, we pray Thee enter not into judgment with Thy servant s who now humble themselves - before Thee. Let us fall into Thy hands, and not into the hands of men. Defend, we beseech Thee, our countrymen from the malice and treachery of the sons of -violence who have risen up against them : rebuke the madness of the people, and stay the hand of the destroyer. Cast Thy shield, 0 Lord, over any of our brethern who may even now be in peril of death, and let their live 3 be precious in Thy sight. Direct the counsels of those who rule in this honr of danger. Teach the natives of British India to prize the benefits which Thy good providence has given them through the t upromacy of this Christian land ; and enable us to show mere and more, both by word and good example, the blessings of Thy holy religion. May those who are now the slaves of a hateful and cruel supersti tion be brought to lay aside their vain traditions, and turn to Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. And so, if it be Thy good pleasure, establish our empire in that distant land on a surer foundation: than heretofore, that we Thy people, and sheep of Thy pasture, may give . ; the thanks for ever and show forth Thy praise from generation to generation. These and all other mercies, we humbly beg, not for our own worthiness, but for Thy love, and through the merits and mediation of Thy blessed Son our Lord, to whom with Thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory for ever and eve:. Amen. O God, our refuge and strength in every time of trouble, mercifully receive these our prayers and inter cessions for our armies now engaged in defence of their Sovereign's rights, and of the lives of their brethern, who are in peril through violence and treachery. Be with them, we beseech Thee, in all their trials and privations. Let them enter into battle with hearts full of repentance towards Thee, and of fath in the Lord Jesus Christ ; and crown with success their courage i❑ their country's cause Preserve them alike from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and from the arrow that flieth by daT. Relieve the aLk and wounded with the consolations of Thy Blesse I Spirit, and support the fatherless and widows in their affliction. Grant that all the sorrows and trials which are endured may work together for the everlasting welfare of those who suffer them Hear us, 0 Heavenly Father, for the sake of Thy dear Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. After the Communion Service, instead of the Prayer for the whole state of Christ's Church, the following was used : O Almighty God, we beseech Thee of Thy great good ness to receive these our prayers which we offer unto Thy Divine Majesty in this day of necessity and peril. Mercifully forgive the sins whereby we have provoked Thy chastisements, and grant, that the judgments which Thou hast sent may work in our hearts a more lively faith, a more entire obedience, a more constant endeavour to conform to thy goodness in maintaining tranquility at home, in preserving us from intestine commotions, and in granting a plentiful return to the labours of our husband men. Look with an eye of pity And compassion upon those who have been suddenly thrown into affliction by the calamities of their friends and relatives. Visit the fatherless and widows with the consolations of Thy Holy Spirit, and enable them, under the burdens which they have been called to bear, to lift up their hearts towards that heavenly kingdom where pain and sorrow, and war and hatred, shall be no more. And as Thou bast com manded us to love our enemies, and to pray for them that despitefully use us, have mercy, we beseech Thee, even on those who have shown no mercy, and whose malice and cruelty have turned to sorrow and mourning the homes of many families in this land. Deliver them from the blind. ness of that idolatry and superstition which have,encou raged their murderous rebellion. Tur❑ them from the gross darkness which now covers them, to the light of the everlasting Gospel, that so our present calamities may be overruled to the promotion of Thy glory and the ad vancement of Thy kingdom. Hear us, 0 Lord our God, for Thy goodness is great ; and according to the multitude of Thy mercies receive these our petitions, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Tho following was chosen for the Epistle and the Gospel : FOR THE EPISTLE. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Stand in the gate of the Lord's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all ye of Judah that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, are these, for if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings ; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt; then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your lathers, for ever and ever. THE GOSPEL. There were present at that season some that told him of the Gallileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Gallileans were sinners above all the Gallileans, because they suffered such things ? I tell you. Nay; but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish. Of those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sin ners above all m-n that dwelt in Jerusalem ? I tell you, Nay ; but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish. THE UNITARIIAN CHAPEL, HOPE-STREET. A service took place in this chapel, at which a sermon was preached by the Rev. John Robberds. The preacher selected as his text, the eighth verse of the ninth chapter of the book of Daniel—" Oh Lord, to us belongeth con-, fusion of faith, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against Thee." In open ing his discourse, the rev. gentleman explained that he appeared before the congregation solely in compliance with the imperative conviction of their own minister (the Rev. W. 11. Channing), Ithat the appropriate lessons of that day should be prompted by an English conscience, and uttered by an English voice. The sins for which they were humbling themselves, and the consequences of which they were bitterly deploring, were sins of the British nation ; and, however much they might have preferred listening to an impartial judgment of their shortcomings from a Transatlantic point of view, expressed with what awakening force and heart-stirring eloquence, he needed not to say, their minister preremp torily refused to be the leader of a confession which he could not share, and to utter admonitions which he not address to himself. The reacher thee Pr ocee c e to say that upon former occasions, P when a day of liti f li ; tion was appointed by Royal proclamation, he yr ` - ,: i r ° l able to assent to the principle on which th e !, , e or proclaimed. It did not appear to him that it pestilence were traceable to the sins for which 14 ' 0 assumed that they were visited upon us, falling, top, they did with the greatest severity upon those P least to do with the sins. In the instance a the war, the nation had professed to engage in it deliberate act of a solemn and imperative duty' -b4te , seemed to him, therefore, to be no appropriateeoes 10 ' eo deploring it as a visitation from God. Bu t on the occasion he could not but grea tly fear tha t the hctiiol and atrocities in India were, to some exten t, the retribution 643 for a long train of national on:110°5 0o misdeeds—a retribution which it became them 05 313 $O , / to ponder well with humble repentance fo r the P a r s : o: 1 ' with the dearly-bought wisdom of experience in • if s ee t e ns . and aspirations for the future. If, indeed, Oleo required ired to admit that the present calamity wa s 3 : o P tlle sl immediate visitation from God, it might occur to object that:the East India Company were the P t. 3 on whom the guilt must primarily and mainlY t p h a e stmisdeeds, while the penalty fell most heal 3 l c iee innocent, including tender women and hell/les:o4 dren ; and that the doers of the deeds, the 1351/13°1- e the havoc, could by no means be regarded, 35 g : 11 0 01 angels, a appointed ministers of the righteou s t wi g s de eaven. But in the inscrutable workings of G° cl'3 , ; eb lB ' an n d c i e n , deeds which appeared mysterious and inesP"'t themselves admitting of no iustificatioct 1/3tl/1 subserve important ends in the working ( ) t it °' 'es i eternal laws, and be over-ruled by him for the slues' eternal good of his creatures, and might suggest fitting 153,5°;e0 rebuke and admonition to those against Whom 111e;ie perpetrated. The tone of national humiliation W il l ' l lO faredopted by unanimous consent that day seer 3" t 1? more befitting the occasion than the sag cttel'9, v o e n ngeance which had lately resounded throug h that point he heartily agreed with what had bil g e if; r , by one of their statesmen upon a recent occasion' -c) at consistent it was to talk of fasts and numiliathil the same to announce, that in the conduct of 1 ' 0 ' 1' 0; they were to find the model for their own. 11°131:1-tiestl t against meeting atrocities by atrocities. Ile 113 ; 1 ; 01 ' ings said and seen things written of late w hic- ,' o t i f make one almost suppose that the relieion of a P C) jj ey , the people of England had undergone solo° change, and that instead of bowing bfore tticlihP Jesus, they were preparing to revive the w °r ; i : i94ll 11Ioloch. Accounts had been received of P 11° ; 1111 : having been inflicted already upon some of the ni-t1 : 4 " such as he could not think compatible with the which should characterise a Christian tr ibe 3s l '; cO r merely had they been put to death, butpre (1 0 : pelled by tortures to pollu' e themselves P hY ‘s° , l forac ding to their own creel, would destroy' te' ir i ever. He urged that the infliction i of Pr a ° l f ° o 3 ' 4 li e a s l , o °l studied tortures or degradations, martyrdom in the sufferers, and syin as 'n the spectators. In the present P ease it wa s P :, needle;s to cry out for vengeance. Th ,mornent attended the efforts of our reinforced tra°ll°‘. fearful and relentless retribution must too e sc re i li i P et Bat would that undo what had been done 7 W °3'- A it Srd pensate for the terror, the agony, the shame , °e i:l/ rP' endured by the innocent and helpless ? WOO back the dead ? Would it not stir up races hereafter to be made subject to our 9°l' 11 0 .8 , °' would burst out with greater virulence than e ver ,: s tf r t an opportunity occur? Ha fully admitted tha t ta ti) went of desperate offenders was a subject of 31°11 5 0 ' 0 culty, and that we might be entitled to taken 011113109j' as might seem best calculated to put a Pe ed , / i Pi r o h such revolting crimes, and prevent their rePet`t"tc)pet; fresh liatre;itlri, e urged that they should be guided through°ll;;iet the spirit of revenge and the burning thirst for te ' C, ; ,; but by the spirit of Christ and Christian •ustic°' they say that the crimes, atrocious ast j heY ` v i e e i; been altogether unprovoked ? Did they 3citj '• t h er i ' explanation ? No other explanation than a i d e' irl. .f him of wanton ferocity in the Sepoys theensiri imit appeared that the very fact of the Indiaa Te r) having occurred was a deep reproach to Eng la ta nd' army formed, trained, and officered by 13 ' :i . in t 9 'l4 05 selves, exposed to the influence of British Clf 1115' ep9' } example for se long a series of years, should n el h rt', such fearful deeds—the very fact indicated cit.ejA there must have been some provocation raOk among them. or at least, that our nation had b ee° ! ' ti‘ °' .' wanting in the duty of elevating the moral c°lljciiii the multitudes brought under their sway% believe that large bodies of men were so e tti li " fiendish as it was common in this case to assu nle 'l systematically committed such atrocious deeds;lc, either be under the MI ience of some stron g P r° :, palliating although not justifying them, or el se m il d infatuation of fanatical bigotry. Ile ve 33 r , j l /3 e ( congregation what a powerful element the 131° 0 4 ' 1 ea rl' urging to the commission of cruelties, end 1 it existed among Mahommedans and IliadOs' 04 themselves under the sway of a people vrh °Pl i sidered infidels. If British rulers been true to their Christian profession s, 0 altP its practical and benignant infleeneheo 31 in , would have made greater way than it r ce among the native population. A selfish an "e " e e el e flo ti policy had, he feared, been allowed to re i ° government of India. So far from making t lie 4 .t. object to elevate and Christianise the t° 35 : 5 '9, people, the time had been when British rul er- t j f gain from the horrible rites of Indian id °l3 e Ct e °lll. at the present day, there was every reason to " el' oe i rl , the people were left with supine indifference t°,, tion and degradation. The effort a ared t°h;co', to levy the utmost amount of taxation PPe W he e - ; wrung out of an impoverished l -rile tiCII° people by 110 oppression. He alluded to the rule of Wi tte i% and referred to the revolting details üblishei":e%i4i'ei) of f onths since, of the systematic practices P r f 't enforcing the payment of taxation by th e T a d ' 4° I; and abominable tortures inflicted upon Men ' 11 4 9 1 0' The feeling in the public mind when - these a''.l6(ll native population must be to submit e c ' t ? such infamous oppression. The whole 1113 ; r e f e li°l ' conquest tor and possession of British India I, '" y of insidious fraud and unprincipled aggre3hf 041' very u province of Bengal had been obtainc°l 1),:e/11 nblushing perfidy, perjury, and forgery °3;lo'lo;tldir Clive and his coadjutors, who seemed t 0 tl.fr$11;10.1 dealing with India they were absolved fr°ll.es°,4tr ws. Those refl.:alone, he urged, should OP - r Alth ° ,st l° ii; nation valuable lessons for the future. the past misgovernment was the doing of t he n e 31)1 0 1 ; the responsibility. still the nation could not escaP° Swlffo°,!' responsibility. He hoped to see the g °f'. India, for the future , one more directly r 3 , 1) : 115 °f 4 the Sovereign of this country, ai n i i d st tha t t . past would guide future Lei proselytism, which tendered to 'exasperate'administration example of temperance, justice, and brceh er :i ! 1 1) 3 the spirit of Christianity be gradually diff de e- s o loc :r r y Freedom, equal rights in the eye of the 10 : ie ' e enlightened promotion of the prosperitY °C t ri"tir) classes, and an endeavour to govern the cSi i :l r i h ti t t e benefit of its people—such was the Nvis a e t `:o l "i policy on which alone they might hope ati d would grant them his blessing. The rev. est76e,tf theaddressed the congregation on behalf of th ° er e t ii present calamities, appealing to the g erl i i e I° l 7 sympathy of all who heard him, to a lci t i t i st° , movement which was being made to a '', - „ 8 9 0 5 ", of distresses, and supply some portion of their ty li id After the sermon a collection was pi ° I object referred to. ST. PAUL'S, . I°-All' 4 1 ' PRINCE'S This church was densecrowded at 13(Iti)Itii6e";'' In y hissermoo a t ljtoitt, evening service. and service text the last verse of the third chapter of t 3l i3 lO ; '„:* of the fourth chapter in thebooic a rc iv t" Jeremiah :—" We lie down in our shatne fill'f,oril'ad covereth us, for we have sinned agalast.the.""