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BADENACH and SON, Broker •x Pilar, from Barcelon HISTORY OF THE WORKING CLASSES, Every Saturday, in the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES, Price ale Penn y AMERICAN SOLACE. 1 CHARLES TURMEAU AMERICAN SOLACE. AMERICAN SOLACE. CHARLES AMERICAN SOLACE. TURMEAIT AMERICAN SOLACE. 1 CIIARLES TURMEAU AMERICAN SOLACE. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Under no circumstances can we insert communications not accompanied by the author s real name and address, not neces sarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We hive to acknowledge the receipt of several letters from cor respondents, which want of space compels us to hold over. They shall receive our earliest attention. AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, &c.—THIS DAY ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE — Madame Celeste. HENOLER'S CIRQUE VARIETE—MiseellaneOUS Attn.CtlM THE PARISIAN GALLERY OF ANAWOMY, Paradise-street ROYAL COLLOSSEUM.—Miscellaneous Attractio. 01;k --- For particulars se( Ldvertisements on Bth page NutOttn Cium. TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1859, --.---.......,.....--- THE ASSIZES. During the Assizes, we shall publish an Evening Edition, daily, at 5 o'clock, giving the proceedings in both the , Civil and Criminal Courts up to the hour of going to _ press. The trade, in order to secure a supply of papers, must give their orders early each day. THE DAY'S NEWS In the House of Commorks last night, on the motion for the second reading of the Government rs-eiorm 13111, mora JOIIII itussen movea an amend ment to the effect " That the House is of opinion that it is neither just nor politic to interfere, in the manner proposed in this bill, with the 'freehold franchise - as hitherto exercised in the counties in England and Wales; and that no re- adjustment of ;the franchise will satisfy this House or the country which does not provide for a greater extension of the suffrage in cities and boroughs than is contem plated in the present measure." The noble lord at great length argued against the present reform bill, showing its deficiencies, and pointing out the remedies. Lord Stanley followed. He defended the ,Government, and went to show that the present administration was the only one since 1832 that had the courage to undertake the concoction of a reform bill. Several other members of the House spoke, and ultimately, on the motion of Mr. Wilson, the debate was adjourned. The County Prisons (Ireland) Bill was committed pro forma. The Savings Bank (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. The Attorney- General obtained leave to bring in a bill to regulate patent in inventions of war ; and the House adjourned at 12 35. The 'limes maintains that the adoption of Lord John Russell's resolution need not interfere with the second reading of the Goxermnent Bill. On the cecond reading of the bill Government challenges the opinion of the house on the aggregate of the principles it contains. The house, if the resolution be carried, will have pronounced an opinion unfa vourable to two of those principles, and kept silence as to the rest. Surely it cannot be intended to ask the House of Commons to reassert in general what it has already asserted in particular, and by calling upon it to negative the second reading to render the debate on the resolution absolutely superfluous x,ncl nugatory. The more reasonable and consistent course seems to be that the House of Commons having given its opinion on certain portions of the bill, will consider its vote on the second reading as qualified and saved from the imputation of incon sistency by that opinion, and will already have gone too far into the merits of the question, to render it advisable to thrbw the bill out altogether. It is therefore not only quite possible, but exceedingly probable, that unless Government determine to stand or fall by the remnant of the principle, the greater part of which they have already given up, their bill may be read a second time and passed through com mittee." There is but little of interest from the Continent. The review of the Imperial troops at Paris has - zoncluded, and Paris correspondents are not able to Fay whether any political manifestation of importance 1. As far as they can learn, the expected try of Tin occurred 1' Italie was not uttered •, and, indeed, ---., considering the present " pacific phase " of the question, A is not likely that orders should have been given for any manifestation of the kind. The absence of any important feature of the review in the hower, accounts given by the evening papers cannot, be relied upon as conclusive, because the did Emperor notto leave the ground till five o'clock, ind they Nve,A combine explosion before that hour. n of the troops in Parma, kiodena, and combined us ea but was to have come off at the ,!lose of March Count Cavour has prevented been it ; numbers have seized, nevertheless, by Austrian agency, and sent off to I,aybach and the ?risons of Tyrol. Eight hundred French soldiers are at work on .he Toulon and Marseilles strategetie line of failway. In our town edition the yesterday:, we published 13 the , 1 full summary of the news from\ America- received, Zanada. According to the advis es Postmaster-General at Washington is d Senate had ratified treaties with the "Nlaasclh.;ngTt°ll The Ind Oregon Indians, also the Cas Herram treaty b y t large majority. From Paraguay we have news that Lopez was making a ctive preparations for the w defence of the territory. The California mails arrived at New Orleans on the Bth. The minirp, accounts were favourable, and trade prospects good. Miramon was still preparing to march on %era Cruz, at which place Juarez was preparing for resistance. Later accounts by telegraph, via Halifax, state that t portion of Miramon's troops had been repulsed in An attack on Jalape. We report elsewhere the proceed :na b s. of a soma e meeting of the markets' committee, held yesterday, the business being to take into consideration several resolutions having reference to the 'management of the various markets. The resolutions were six in number, and were all prepared and proposed by Mr. Gladstone. The resolutions were all adopted, but not without considerable discussion, in which Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Woodruff took the prominent part. The Assizes opened yesterday before Mr. Justice Willes, and Mr. Justice Byles. In his opening charge Mr. Justice Willes commented at considerable length upon the recent case in connection with the chief Engineer and second engineer of the Bogota. The cases in both courts were unimportant. -4.-- POPULAR INSTRUCTION, THERE is no means, assuredly, more effectual for the purpose of popular instruction, than that of explanatory lectures on subjects of general interest, and of ordinary comprehension. Of course, when ever this can be directed to elucidate the works of nations in any of their particular pursuits, so much the better, because all the more practical will be the results. And in this respect great good is now being done at the Museum of Practical Geology in London, by lectures to working men, more especially in con nection with the Governinent School of Mines that has been established there, which is designed to afford scientific instruction to those who are to make mining, or metallurgy, the business of their lives a course and kind of instruction of the first impor tance in a country producing annually a larger amount of mineral wealth than the whole of Europe besides. In this school are taught all those branches of science which have a direct bearing upon mining, or any of the metallurgic operations ; and, by means of lectures, those to be engaged therein are taught chemistry, physics, metallurgy, mechanics, geo logy, mineralogy, and natural history,—all sub- jects which have more or less to do with their daily avocations. It is a most popular practical movement, as is proved by the fact, that on the occasion of each course of lectures, applications have been made by working men for tickets to three times the number that the theatre where the lectures are delivered is capable of accommodating. Every man applying for a ticket is required to prove himself an artizan. The course consists of six lectures, and for the admission to each course the fee for the ticket is sixpence. Each lecture is attended by a crowded auditory, and one than which, we believe, none more attentive could possibly be brought together ; while that the object in view is really the acquisition of knowledge, is evident from the habit that prevails of most of the men taking copious notes of the lectures, and many of them frequently corres ponding with the lecturer upon points on which they derive further information or explanation. We have been reminded of these interesting circumstances by the discussion that took place in the House of Commons, the other night, on the subject of the British Museum, in which the capabilities of that national institution tor the purpusu of conveying instruction to the people were inci dentally, yet forcibly, remarked upon. The immediate object in view was to obtain the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the accommodations now requisite for the various collections in the Museum. But occasion was taken to express regret, that these vast, interesting, and instructive collections were not explained by lectures to the middle classes and working classes, who were as anxious to obtain information in natural history as the upper classes who had the means of acquiring such information in their power. And we have no doubt whatever of this. It is impossible to con sider the thousands and tens of thousands of the humbler classes that are constantly pressing to see these collections, and not be satisfied of the interest they take in them, and the subjects connected with them. What one regrets is, that there aro not opportunities of hearing them explained—and having them made available to the practical instruction of the popular mind. Few of us, perhaps, in the provinces, have any correct idea of the growing extent and importance of the British Museum; and of the necessity that' exists for its accommodation, far beyond the re sources at present available. For instance, there is nothing like room for the archaeological collection in the museum; while as to the natural history department, the deficiency is still greater, and so crowded are the stuffed animals, it is impossible to distinguish them. Professor Owen states that this collection would require twelve acres of space. Then there is the library, which contains 600,000 volumes, and is so rapidly increasing that in a few years it will be the best in Europe. There is space, it appears, for forty years' additions to the library, and the place allotted for study there is so conveni ent and ample, that no change will be required in that department for probably many years to come. What the movement in Parliament on the subject is directed to, is the re-organisation of this immense Museum, so as to make it more thoroughly available for purposes of popular instruction. But this object will never, we are persuaded, be fully carried out, until lectures are established in connection with the various collections, in order to explain them, and make them the direct and palpable means of inform ing the mind on the subject of natural history or familiar science to which they respectively relate. Such institutions as the British Museum, and the Museum of Practical Geology, must of necessity be confined to the metropolis. But with the facilities for access thereto from all parts of the kingdom, they are not on that account so restricted in their advantages as may at first appear. At the same time, there is no doubt that much might be done in the country, by having lectures more frequently, • " ' especially in our popular towns, on those several subjects which such MuseumS so familiarly illustrate,—lectures specially adapted for the common people, to whom they would convey most interesting and valuable instruction, and thereby not only extend and correct their knowledge of nature, its laws and its productions, but enlarge and elevate their minds, and lift them above the sensual and debasing objects and pursuits to which too many of them, through besotted igno rance, are unhappily addicted. For assuredly it is still, and ever will be, the case— " Base-minded they that want intelligence." -4--- rHE NEAPOLITAN EXILES, —Yesterday, a aural: the Neapolitan exiles arrived at the Paddington Station of the Great Western Railway, from Bristol. The exiles ar rived by the quarter past eleven o'clock train, and were received by several of the directors of the Great Western Railway and a select company who had obtained admission to the station, amongst whom were the Sardinian Am bassador and several ladies ; also several gentlemen of local infliielleo The names of the refugees were as follows : —Vito Purcaro, aged 54, a lawyer ; Luigi Praino, 42, lawyer ; Vicenzo Cuzzocrea, 32, doctor; Salvatore Francitano, 50 ; Achille Argentine), 42, gentleman ; Francesco Proven zano, 40, n•_ilit<ary ; Domenico Damis, 34, gentleman ; Ovidio Serino, 43, bishop; Angelo Pelligrino, 63, lawyer; 1 32, gentleman ; G'uiseppe Pace, lair:1010 4,anr9, akgelAlemmm THE NORTHERN TIMES TUESDA\, MARCH 22, 1859 Fillippo Agresti, 63, military; Pietro Mazella, 56, lawyer ; Luigi Parenti, 39, gentlemen. On alighting from the train; the party were conducted by Mr. Hodge to one of the refreshment saloons, where they partook of refreshments, several ladies attending to their wants: At the conclusion of the repast, Mr. Hodge presented an address to the exiles, prefaeing it with a few *orcts of warrn greeting, and intimating that the reception which awaited them in London would be a spontaneous outburst of generous sympa thy, and haie no reference to questions of party, or shades of political - opinion. After some speechifying, the Italians in the crowd rushed forward and embraced and kissed their exiled countrymen in the most affectionate manner. It seemed impossible for them to restrain their joy; and when the dabs were drawn up to convey the exiles away, the latter were lifted almost bodily from the steps to the vehicles. The harness of the horses was dressed with laurels, and the exiles were precedea by an Italia❑ band of music, who played various national airs. Banners and the Union Jack were carried in advance ; on one of the banners were the words, " Exiles !—Welcome to free England ;" on another, " The Unity and Independence of Italy," The procession moved through the streets at a slow pace, and at various stages there were repeated manifestations of popular sympathy. The route taken was the Edgeware-road, Oxford-street, Regent-street, Coventry street, to the Union Hotel, Cranbourn-street, Leicester square, where they received an ovation. They were after wards, it was understood, to repair to an hotel in Arlington street. * THE COURT, OSBORI4E, March 19.—Her Majesty's dinner party yes terday included the Duchess of Kent, Princess Alice, Lady Fanny Howard, the Hon. Mrs. A. Hardinge , and Colonel Francis Seymour. _ _ The Queen and Prince Consort, attended by the Mar chioness of Ely, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, crossed over to Gosport in the royal yacht Fairy, and visited the Prince and Princess of Leiningen. _ . March '2o.—Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, Princess Alice, Princess Helena, and Princess Louisa, attended divine service this morning at Whippingham Church, where the Rev. George Prothero officiated. We learn by telegram that at Lisbon the new ministry has been favourabi received. _ _ _ . _ On the 18th inst., the French Minister at Madrid pre sented to the Queen of Spain an autograph letter from his Imperial master. The Journal de Saone-et-Loire states that a young lady, named Martin, who resided at L' Aigle (Orne), lately died, bequeathing to M. de Lamartine a farm, and a house in the town. It is stated, in a letter in the Nord, that four of the principal manufacturers of military clothing have just received from the Minister of War orders for 500,000 uniforms. It is stated in a Paris letter in the Inde'pendanee that the French Goyernment had ordered two men-of-war, the Turenne and Duguesclin, both screws, to be fitted out immediately. On the anniversary of the birthday of the Prince Imperial of France, their Majesties gave a sum of 100 f to each child born on the same day, and whose position may render such a gift needful. The municipal council at Marseilles, which a few months ago voted 400,000 f towards the completion of the " Eglise des Reformes," has just voted a sum of 425,000 f for finish ing the new church of St. Michael. The Prince de Ligne has been appointed president, and Count L. Beauffort secretary, of the recently constituted commission of the Museum at Brussels. The commission has alreaay eutcAca on tho dioohargc of ito duties. THE AUSTRIAN LEGATION.—The Countess d'Apponyi had an assembly, on Saturday night, at the Austrian Legation, in Chandos-street, Cavendish-square. Most of the leading members of the diplomatic corps, and a numerous and fashionable company, honoured the countess by their presence at the reception. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing street. The Ministers present were---the Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Mar quis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Right Hon. Sotheron Estcourt, the Earl of Mahnesbury, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, and Lord John Manners. POLITICAL INCIDENT. - According to the New Gazette of Prussia, a political incident occurred at 'Nassau, on the occasion of the baptism of the infant prince. At a grand dinner at the Palace, after the ceremony, the Archduke Stephen, who had represented the Emperor of Austria as one of the godfathers, proposed a toast to the young prince ; and the Duke of Nassau, rising, expressed his sense of the honour done him, and declared that " if a political storm arose, he would prove his gratitude to the imperial family of Austria bydefending . it to his last man !" We understand that a grand reception has been prepared *for the Neapolitan refugees, who will arrive at the Pad dington station of the Great Western Railway to-day at half-past eleven o'clock. Several carriages have been engaged, which will proceed in processian through the metropolis, their occupants carrying flags, banners, &c., to the destination of the exiles. We have elsewhere recorded the .warm greeting- those .noble men ex perienced on landing at Bristol; and We doubt not - that their appearance on the platform at Paddington will be the signal for a display of enthusiasm and sympathy rivalling, if not exceeding, that given to them when they first set foot on:the hospitable shores of England.—London Paper. LIBERALITY OF THE PRINCE REGENT OF PRUSSIA. — We learn, from an authentic source, that his Royal High ness the Prince Regent of Prussia has lately conferred upon Mr. Raphael Picciotto, the Prussian Consul at Aleppo, a decoration of the Order of the Red Eagle, with a flattering letter, in recognition of the services rendered by him during a long tenure of his office. That gentleman is the same who, some years since, was also honoured by the Emperor of Russia with a decoration of the Order of St. Anne, with the Emperor's portrait set in diamonds, as an acknowledgment of the services rendered by him in rescuing and saving the lives of the Greek bishop, and other Chris tians from the fury of a Mussulman mob, on the occasion of a fanatical outbreak which took place at Aleppo. We are glad to recognise in this event another expression of the liberality of the Prince Regent towards Jewish merit. - - Jewish Chronicle. Ilk LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. DUCHY OF LANCASTEII..—The receipts of the Duchy of Lancaster for the year 1858, including £2,400 remaining in the hands of the Receiver-General from the accounts of the previous year were, £51,283; £27,000 were paid to the keeper of her Majesty's privy purse, and about £17,000 were absorbed by the estate. LITERARY AND PIIILOSOPIIICAL.-At the usual fortnightly meeting of this society, last evening, Dr. Inman in the chair, several objects of interest were exhibited, and a paper was read, by Dr. Edwards, "On the animals suitable for an aquarium to be found in the Mersey and on its shores, and the best localities in which to find them." HOPE HALL LECTURES.—Mr. Westgarth, author of " Victoria and the Gold Mines," will deliver the concluding lecture of the present course to-morrow evening, on a subject with which he is able to speak from experience, " Australia." Our highly respected collector of customs, J. Price Edwards, Esq., to occupy the chair._ _ ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAR INSTITU TION, 13, Rose Hill.—New patients entered on the' books last week, viz :-19th March, 1859 : Relieved at the institution, 159 ; relieved at their own dwellings, 45 ; total, 204. Visitors—Messrs. E. Watts, and G. Jordan. Hon. secretary and treasurer, Joseph Kitchen, Esq. THE TOXTETH PARK BOARD DOCUMENTS.—We have heard a strange and startling story of the proceedings of some of the persons connected with this board ; indeed, so strange, that we should doubt it, but the quarter from which our information is derived leaves no doubt on the subject. As the matter will probably occupy the attention of another quarter, we think it best at present not to say more than that ; the affair, as it at this moment looks, wears a serious aspect. LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.—Number of patients during the past week : New cases received advice and medicine at the Institution : North, 262 ; South, 136 ; total, 398. New cases visited at their own houses and supplied with medicine : North, 89 ; South, 47 ; total, 136. Grand total, 534. President : Rev. Rector Campbell, A.M. ; Vice-President of North Dispensary : Captain Bourne ; Vice-President of South Dispensary : Mr. Charles Booth ; Treasurer : Mc. Francis Mill ; Secretary : Mr. J. Whitby Williams. Office : Leith Offices, Moorfields. CORONER'S Couay.—Yesterday the Coroner held the following inquests. On the body of James Whittaker, a fisherman, aged 32, who, according to the evidence, was bred a draper. He was trying to reach a fishing boat, but got a fall that fractured his skull, and by this means he was drowned ; verdict accordingly. On the body of John Sullivan; aged 55, a labourer, who lived at 14, Fazakreley street. _ It was proved that the deceased was very given to drink, and that, for the last nine days of its life, he was never sober, but like a madman. His body was found in the canal, and there was hardly any moral doubt-bat that he fell in 'whilst in a state of in- Verdict c "Found drowned." On the body toxication, of Mary O'Neill, aged six years, the daughter of parents residing in a court off Burlington-street. The child was scalded by accident on Saturday, and died at the Northern Hospital on Sunday. Verdict : " Accidental death." FATAL ACCIDENTS.—Inquests will be held to-day in the following cases :---On the body of a female, who at present is unknown. She was killed on Saturday, at the Edge hill station, in consequence of a piece of wood that was sticking out of a luggage train tearing the side out of the carriage in which she was sitting. She was in appearance a countrywoman. Her'body lies ar.the Infirmary for iden tification. It is said that the case will be one of interest. A poor Jew, aged 96 years, named Isaac Mordeica, who lived in a court off Hill-street, died yesterday in the Infirmary, in consequence of injuries he received by his clothes catchins, fire. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT A PAWNSHOP.—The shop of Mr. Healing, an extensive and well-known pawnbroker, carrying on business in Vauxhall-road, was broken into and robbed of a variety of valuable property. The amount of the loss is stated to be about £5OO, but we understand that it is likely that the property will be hard to dispose of, as it is of such a character that it must be stopped, provided it is offered to honest persons for sale. The police maintain the most rigid silence on the whole affair, thinking, no doubt, this will enable them the sooner to catch the perpetrators of this serious robbery. Without entering into the notions of the police on this, or any other subject connected with their jurispru dence, we may venture to tell, for their information, that the only possible chance they have of catching the robbers is to_give_the entire the widest possible publicity; then they are sure of success, not otherwise. THE LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK.—MEETING OF SHARE HOLDERS.--Yesterday (Monday), a meeting of the share holders of the Liverpool Borough Bank (to which reporters were not admitted) was held at the offices of the Bank in Water-street. The. chair was occupied by Mr. Bristow, and it was stated that some of the shareholders had suc ceeded in obtaining an order from the Master of the Rolls for an inspection of the books of the Bank by an accountant. It was then resolved (an agreement to the effect being signed in the room by the holders of 7,000 shares) that the expenses incurred should be borne pro rata by the general body of shareholders ; that Mr. Dixon, of Edinburgh, who has been connected with the winding-up of the Western Bank of Scotland, should be appointed accountant to examine the books, and that, on the termination of his labours, another meeting of shareholders should be called to determine upon further proceedings, should any be con sidered necessary. WATER COMMITTEE.—The usual weekly meeting of this committee was held yesterday, in the Town-hall, at which Mr. Hodson presided. There were also present —Messrs. J. Holme, Bennett, Stitt, Vernon, Rae, Wagstaff, Mellor, Crellin, EadeiTarnworth, and Woodruff. Mr. .pincan, water engineer, reported that the quantity of water received from.Rivington, during the week ending 19th March, was 50,287,288 gallons. The quantity pumped from the wells was 31,418,559 gallons. Total 81,705,847 gallons. Pro portion of the Rivington to the well water 50 to 31. He also reported that the floods had not.damaged the reservoir, the water in which had risen as follows : —Roddlesworth, 5 feet 7 inches ; Anglezark, 101 inches ; Rivington, 1 1 inches ; Prescot 11 1 inches. He stated that during 4, the year the value of the water supplied to drinking foun tains and watering troughs was £849. A conversation took place with respect to the watering trough at the Hay market being very little used. Some members present thought its supply would be in more demand in Summer. As nothing could be done to make it more valuable the matter dropped. The chairman said he wished the press to make it known that should any irregularity occur in the supply of water, they had only to apply to the engineer, and it would be remedied at once. This was all the public business. SAINT PATRICK'S UNITED BROTHERS TONTINE AND FRIENDLY BURIAL SOCIETY.—This society, although not much more than two years in existence, has attained a high and respectable position, and is daily increasing. The members held their annual dinner on St. Patrick's Day (last Thursday), at Mr. Bradshaw's Trafalgar Hotel, Waterloo Road. There were 82 respectable members pre sent on this interesting occasion. The dinner consisted of everything that the season produces in abundance, and was served up in a style that elicited the approbation of the company ; nothing was wanting. The chair was ably filled by Mr. Joseph Roddy, who is the treasurer of the society, but who was chosen to fill the office of chairman on the occasion, and a better selection could not have been made, as he discharged the duties of his office with entire satisfaction to the company. The vice chair was also ably filled by Mr. Peter Butler. Wten the good viands had been discussed and met with ample justice, the chairman gave the charter toast of the society, " The memory of Saint Patrick." He said it was not a political nor a religious, but a benevolent society, and, therefore, it was that the memory of the patron saint of the body was the first toast. This could not give offence to any one, as the body was purely or a charitable description. lie then gave a sketch of the society, its rise, working, and progress ; and also a sketch of the life and labours of St. Patrick, and was warmly applauded. The next toast was the ".Health of our Gracious Monarch Queen Victoria." He spoke in warm terms of the virtues of her Majesty; her characterin a domestic view, which even graced the mighty throne upon which she sat, and whose sway reached from pole to, pole, and may she live to hold her benign reign over her millions of loving, loyal, and zealous subjects. The toast was drunk with the utmost 'affection and respect, and with all the honours accorded to royalty. The next toast was " Prosperity to the United Brothers of Saint Patrick's Benevolent Society." The toast was prefaced by a neat speech, in which an interesting account was given of the society. The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm, and all the honours. The health of 'tlie worthy host was give* and several others, which were responded to. There were several good speeches, with excellent and appropriate songs, and, after spendixg an agreeable and pleasantl y intellectual evening, the company separated, highly gratified with the whole proceedings. MR. C. MILLWARD ON " THE SOCIAL EVIL." A lecture upon the life and writings of Thomas Hood, was delivered at the Clayton Hall last evening by Mr. C. Millward, President of the Literary and Dramatic sleiety r in aid of the library funds of the Typographical and Literary Institute. The chair was occupied by Mr. John Dignan, of the Liverpool Chronicle, and a number of vocal and recitative illustrations from the poet's works were furnished by Mr. F. M'Cabe, Mr. Crompton, and other gentlemen. The members of the Vocal 'Union diversified the proceedings by an agree able musical interlude. After referring to the humorous productions of Thomas Hood, - and - quoting largely from this department of his labours. Mr. Millward pro ceeded to review his serious writings, and to analyse the moral features of his pathethic poetry. " The song of the shirt," and "The bridge of sighs," he regarded as poetry of the highest order ; and he would recommend the study of these beautiful outpourings of rightly-directed talent to those meddling gentlemen who are hunting the " unfortu nates " of this town as so much game, and driving them from their own vile haunts to the streets and outskirts of the town. Referring to the war of opinion now raging between the stipendiary magistrate and the self-con stituted Society for the Suppression of Vice, Mr. Millward said : " Our town is at present the scene of an impu dent attempt to wrest from its legal protectors a power of discretion which they have hitherto exercised with wisdom and forbearance. The great cry against social evil has grown into a wild and demoniac howl; maw-worm has armed himself for the fight, and he has enlisted under his ragged banner the halt, the lame, and the blind, from amongst the saintly sinners of his party. He has declared a war of extermination, and if his will were law (which, thank God, it is not), he would likewise annihilate_ all those who entertain opinions contrary to his own. Let it not be supposed that I would deprecate any wise and virtuous attempt to lessen the fearful profligacy of this great town. Let it not be thought that I would ridicule the well-mean ing intentions of really good men- to remedy or check the greatest evil in the world. But I do condemn, firmly and emphatically, the unwise and abortive efforts of a vain clique, who have thrust themselves into notoriety by treacherously attempting to undermine the allegiance and discipline of those who are sworn protectors of the public. I cannot but admire the manly course adopted by the stipendiary magistrate in the vindication of his position, and if his impetuosity was,excited, the provocation be received almost warranted a stronger outburst of indignation. Public opinion will ultimately sustain him in the stand he has taken, and public scorn will ultimately drive his meddling assailants to that obscurity for which they are best fitted. The evil they would scourge is not of to-day alone, but of ages past, and the wisest legislators of ancient Greece and Rome vainly attempted to subdue it. To the great day. of judgment it will stain the earth with its foulness, and the puny opposition of vain and bic , otted men will only add fuel to the flames. This is a ° delicate subject, but I will not shrink from the expression of my opinion on that account. There are thousands of unfortunates between "The song of shirt," and " The bridge of sighs," who might be reclaimed, but they cannot be exterminated. If I might use a pun that would have shamed poor Hood, I would venture to assert that Caine, is not able to sweep the world of its refuse, otherwise, where would some of the brushes be ? Of a different nature was poor, sickly, large-hearted Tom Hood. He, too, had studied the fearful history, of vice, but he did not cast its victims from him as loathsome and, hi deous objects. He remembered that, with all their sin and and crime, they still worn the image of that Saviour who forgave the poor fallen adultress, and commanded those amongst the howling throng who were sinless themselves to be the first to cast the stone. The lecturer was repeatedly applauded, and his remarks elicited the attention and approbation of a numerous and intelligent audience. The proleedings terminated with a warm vote of thanks to Mr. Millward for hi interesting lecture, and to Mr. Dignan for his able concl4ct in,the chair. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE. OF LORDS.-MONDAY. BILLS. The Indictable Offences (Metropolitan Districts) Bill passed through committee. The Mutiny Bill, and the Marine Mutiny Bill, and the County Court Bill were read a second time. The Convict Prisons Abroad passed through committee. The House then adjourned at half-past five o'clock. HOUSE OF .COMMONS.—MONDAY. • GALWAY STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. Mr. Conyngham gave notice that to-morrow he should ask whether it is the intention of the government to grant any subvention to the Galway Steam-Packet Company. LORD CANNING'S DESPATCH. In reply to Mr. Salisbury, Lord Stanley said, that no reply had as yet been received from Lord Canning to the despatch of the 9th Decemb6r. When such reply arrived, it would be laid, as other replies of the same kind had been, upon the table of the - House. IRISH BEQUESTS ACT. In reply to Mr. Ennis, Lord Naas said, that it was the intention of the govern ment to bring in a bill during the present sesssion to amend the Irish Bequests Act. GOVERNMENT REFORM BILL. Mr. Disraeli moved the second reading of the Represen tion of the People Bill. Lord J. Russell rose to move the amendment of which he had given notice —" That this House is of opinion that it is neither just or politic to interfere in the manner pro posed in the bill with the freehold franchise as hitherto exercised the counties in England and Wales, and that no re-adjustment of the franchise will satisfy the House or the country which does not provide for a greater extension of the suffrage in cities and boroughs than is contemplated in the present measure." It behoved the House in such a matter to consider every step it took, and to take care that it did not advance in a wrong direction. He was encouraged in the course which he now pursued by knowing that two of the most eminent members of the government had re tired 'from it, as holding in many respects the opinions which he believed himself. He referred to the opening clauses of the bill, which recognised the - principle of uni formity of suffrage in counties and boroughs. To this he objected first, as a complete change in the constitution of the country, and as depriving a large class of persons of rights which they long exercised. The small freeholders placed great value on the antiquity both of their property and of their rights, and of these last they were deprived for no fault or delinquency of their own. Many of the freeholders had purchased their freehold for the express purpose of voting for the county.. In the next place, by this proceeding a character would be given to the representation of the counties different from that which it would have otherwise, depriving it of much of its liberal and commercial element. Again, by the change, a state of things was created under which the boroughs might be flooded with voters. Hitherto the £lO house holder had formed a check to the influence of the great proprietors in the boroughs ; but when the powers were given of forming 40s freeholders in the boroughs to any extent, the independence of the borough was destroyed. They might have two great owners of property creating faggot votes one against another. He looked upon this clause as virtually repealing the Reform Act, and restoring matters to the position in which they were before that measure. He instanced the borough of Liskeard, at present a small but independent town, but which, under the bill, would be sure to fall under the influence of great proprietors. Since the earliest period of our representative system, the freehold in the boroughs conferred a vote for the counties. In another point of view, the destruction of the difference of qualification between counties and boroughs was paving the way to electoral districts. The counties seeing the small boroughs put on an equality of voting with them gelves, with so much smaller a number of voters, would demand that the boroughs should be merged in the county, by which the principle of electoral districts would at once be established. If the present Conservative government desired electoral districts, at which even Mr. Bright recoiled, let them adopt the principle openly. He read ex tracts from previous speeches of Lord Derby in 1854, declaring that to create 'difference of voting in counties and boroughs would be to subvert the Constitution of the country, and asked why he had thus changed his opinions. The princi ples, he repeated, would create great dissatisfaction, increase the powers of nomination, and lead in the end to the establishment of electoral districts.. Coming to the second part of his resolution, he declared that' he did not want any violent change in the electoral principle ; but, while they respected what was old, they must provide for what was new. Since the Reform Bill a great improvement had taken place in the condition, knowledge, and social habits of the people. It was a rule with us to place power in hands fitted to hold it. This was the principle of our jury system, and it was upon this principle he was opposed to manhood suffrage. There was a part of the people liable to be led by illusions, or, being indifferent as having no stake in the country, to be subject to caprice. But, he contended, since 1831 persons occupying tenements below £lO yearly, were perfectly qualified to exercise the franchise in consequence of the growth of intelligence among the people. This was an opinion which he had long entertained, feeling that great discontent would arise, as those fitted for it were not now admitted to the privilege. It was on this account he had himself in 1851 proposed an extension of the franchise, though he would not say what that franchise should be on the present day. That was a question for the Government. He had not shrunk from expressing his opinion when in ,office. He would now say he objected to rating as a test as an uncertain one. If any change was made it should have been according to the, principle of the Reform Bill —the yearly value of occupation. He vindicated the course he had adopte d of . proceeding by resolution, He con sidered the bill noxious, injurious, and dangerous, but it had some provisions deserving support, such as the £lO occupation franchise in counties, and for that reason he did not move a direct negative to the bill. This, - how ever, was not the real principle of the bill ; that principle was to be found in the uniformity of franchise, and he de manded that the house should mark its sense of that principle before proceeding to the second reading of the bill. He reprobated the proposal of letting a bill of so much importance go into committee, and then proposing a mass of amendments, as unworthy the Government, degrad ing- to the dignity of the house, and likely to produce a bill injurious to the interests of the country. He protested against their being frightened by a threat of dissolution in a. matter which vitally affected themselves and their des cendants. For his part he would not be afraid. Let them hold up their bill upon every hustings_ in England; but if an unexpected agitation shonld arise out of such a movement, let the responsibility rest upon Her Majesty's Government. As for the declaration that the preservation of peace depended upon the tenure of the foreign office by Lord Malmesbury, he wondered who could be the dupes who would believe it. He defended himself from the charge of being actuated by party motives. Since 1829 he had taken a deep interest in the representation of the people, and he might still be privileged to do so by his deep con victions. The Reform Act had been productive of the greatest benefit to the country. He enumerated the impor tant measures which had followed that measure, thus falsifying the adverse predictions which were made against it. Upon these grounds he should oppose the present measure, careless if any imputation should be made against him. He had defended reform when he was young, and he would not desert it now that he was old. Lord Stanley objected to Lord John Russell's resolution, brought forward in 1835, against the Irish Tithes Bill, introduced by.the then government—a resolution which had the effect of defeating the ministry, but the principle upon which the resolution was founded, was then suffered to drop, and an attempt was made by the noble lord to enforce it. At present the time was peculiarly fitted for the discussion of a moderate reform bill, and the house ought to think twice before they took a course which would inevitably postpone it, at least for the present, and further the views of the agitators, who desire that the question should continue unsettled. lla referred to the numerous attempts made to introduce a measure on the subject, and after eight years of promises, the present government had for the first time since 1832, asked the house to agree to a reform bill. He reviewed the objections to the bill - that it did not provide for a sufficient extell3ion of the franchise, that it did not deal properly with the small boroughs, and that it proposed identity of suffrages. He objected to the Molution of Lord J, Russell. that it-did not permit the _ nottsr - tcr express - a - direct- opinion, and was ingeallo, framed so as to obtain an unjust verdict from those iv 110„,,, particular objections to certain parts of the bill. tos question now was not whether the bill should el s lu law, .but whether political powers should pass into other_, hands. Last year it was true they adopted the plot; proceeding by resolution in respect of the India 8i11 , ,,, t o that bill was an exceptional one. The principle coiau o f now be adopted, and the acceptance of the resolution,, Lord John Russell by the House would be regarded hi!, Government as fatal to the bill. He contended that 3 laded class of the working men wou ld be incared in the provisions of the- bill. Ho eeril thi l in this respect the present bill with , e of 1854, contending that the former was the more liberPtt, the two in many respects. The objectio ns taken t°_,ce savings' bank qualification, that a depos itor might rel' iti re , his money, applied equally to all qualifications. NC or. gard to the question of small boroughs of disfranchisement had been proposed ' , it would hi v qoll duced an amount of opposition which would ha ve !I I fatal to the bill. The question of enfranchising'. °_.01,4 larger scale would then be raised, which would incl,po the question in great difficulty. He defended the pi? the of identity of suffra on the ground that without lt Ig o would always be a. dissatisfied' class, who would el P t oil that their rights were overlooked, and that they wer eil ' 0 treated. If they were creating the franchise for the d i r time, they would never have established these arbitrloiott if any large me to . tinctions. By . establishing identity of suffrage, the e,l e es fot of new and resin towns from returning representVio the themselves was greatly lessened. With regal .° to tbe transfer of the 40s. freeholders from 'the c ount) . „ p oi borough, he regretted that the amendment to be Pr h v c 0 by Mr. Disraeli was not introduced originally iot ° . t ' o f . J O But he contended on the principle that the P0w. e. , 1 ;,d 7 voter was greatly increased by the transfer, as the IT' ~l a o vote had more weight in the county than in the b°r'arir He denied that the bill would give' any power t the por tocracy, maintaining that it gave an incre,ased P re - Atif deranee to the middle -classes. f Vital Mr. H. G. Start protested against the sacr ifice rights by any portion of the community. ° b e a t to , what the people in this country had done °b eat should not be trusted? At home and ah $ had conducted themselves admirably. Alt- 10 4 Conservative he should support extension of the . d ew believing that a large portion of the working el its '74e lw well fitted to use it ; but he should vote against the, ql tite tion which would only defer all reform. It v rouldZ' i se possible in committee to move any resolution wh ic r o 5113 be thought necessary. The Government had hither - A be itself willing to meet its opponents half was, 311- r oolPi; not see why the bill should not be transformed ill,"aanis tee into a sufficient measure. Lord John Russe ll ' - to ?t a dexterons party move, which he must decline fit- The noble lord would have much difficulty in dealiSteß his own supporters, if he succeeded, who would tl°' demand the ballot from him. Lord Bury admired the sentiments of the h° 1 , 1 ,; 0 1 .. , ° :"; who had just sat down, but dissented from his C O 111,4' When a Government was in a sorry case, it als s , l i e col' e ' i l the cry of faction. The present Government ha" ri atice k in power by the expectation that they would Pr" to ,' efficient reform bill, and if they failed th e the they could not complain if they lost '"govr i , port of their supporters on that side of t ll , B The true object of reform was to admit the N ori-no ie.': to their share of power; the middle classes Icc re „:col l ; provided for. The present bill failed in this gr e ' ril co , tion, and he must therefore oppose it. IV _ _ 0!". unsettled everything and settled ii b othine . o f t he Mr. Tier Seymer, admitting the great su ccess a c ieo 4 `,4 Reform Bill, attacked the working classes as Tbef g+ political knowledge ' sbundness, and prudence . too often actuated by narrow and selfish Y ie d regretted the clause in the bill which deprive but freeholders in boroughs of their county votes, l i t approved of the other provisions of the measure. too , r i Mr. Alderman Salomons supported the res°lns' did must refuse his support to any measure Nflal e " recognise the claims of the working classes. urs sa Mr. Liddell said that the Government ha d skill in reconciling the opinions of their oval ' o oo' i s with the provisions of a measure, which fotlyt content the sincerest advocate of moderate rceid the other side of the house. He con ten t io the bill enfranchised the most deserving of the ing classes. He defended the principle of the 131 , s. e , which a man voted where his property was sittla'afliciePol theless, he feared that the measure was no t sn itte e settle the question ' and he should support in c otooi Ma amendment which tended to that end. f the ec Sir C. Wood objected to the main principle ,°,,,,y1r01 which he considered so obnoxious, that he _ i sP, l " 10, 4 0 having no bill at all to its adoption, which W ow ' ft7sl 4 of necessity to the creation' of electoral distric ts. . vri a y fact one of the most revolutionary and danger° ll '„tth e ; „.ir, ever submitted to that house. The adoption ho le franchise, as was in counties, would throw the 1r,110!,,, 1 ence into the hands of the landed proprie d 41 . thus create any number of voters h I as ° ' tey p e 0 . f similar result would follow the creation of the 4 '.isr °, 4 13 tore , - 01 Vs in the boroughs. On the other hand, the tra i . l : s 'rot present 40s borough voters from the CO '0; deprive these last of one-fifth of their constiteelc (l a 10 the most independent portion. The worst fea t .o system which prevailed before the Reform Bil''doetoo. restored by the present measure. If the houeec'essill' resolution, it would be competent for the g° 1118 to include it in their bill. bts c re Mr Horsman said that he had previous d°tl ft/0 propriety of the resolution, and those doubts Iver.; fl ee by the speech they had just ' heard. Their esP e o f,,,! - s. av el success of abstract resolutions was not e ncourae,"; a do t , ,, bill ,was as represented ; 'why was it net met "" s ts, "„,"01 negative ? He pledged himself to his constitl saP the forthcoming bill was a good one, he wo l-I , A •ii, he i? without regard to its parentage; if it was a bad " l id s 10 0 0 endeavour to amend it in committee, but he Nc ° . o a o ,lo: 3 in any party move against it. The subject w 3 i l o s o' st e t could only be settled by the honest co -oper, l , P r e sides of the house. Opportunity was advalrn i ol s is? settlement of the question ; the Liberal party wes to fo ol majority in their favour, and it was in thei r p? 0 o f t , it what they pleased in committee. The ques ti n ° f ' had long been kept dangling before the eye„', o ll7sl,,, ° try, and it was dangerous to wait till the n atl— soal l V were excited. Was the opposition to the 1941,000.600 i n ,„ 11 131 , e ssa any unanimity of opinion or common basis °' 't t o !O s , them pause before they did what was eq aiva le mary rejection of the bill. He blamed the NA; ro 17' 1 ; been laid down, exceptionally, on parliamentlilisllP that it was not to be dealt with g r 3 at once and for ever. The questioa, .beral be settled without the ballot. Three 05erf,ite2 ministrations had tried and failed, and not an s Administration brought forward a measore;.,seo,eooA' them to amend it in committee. It was so "nipre" could be made a more liberal, popular, and co socethe measure than any which had been proposea„ i s no t o sals By a few short and simple amendments he C° t; tbe, c soo; fore think that they could excuse themselves,c sic'," re for throwing it into that confusion s which tw' nr r t 01; oo this measure would entail. He could not sal t o t thud t lution, as he did not believe that they poiate eat d blot in the bill i ose neither did he believe that the i l a tbo t o , be amended n committee. It might be oleo would have sufficient unanimity to carry th in committee, if so, how cou ld they be exPee„ted by • at out the present Government t o carry an of their own ? _ the j e ; C Mr. A. Mills thought that by adopting. "„ t of " . o f,ft;j they would be trifling with the great subJ e ' oe tbe te 1 He believed that there was a general wis h ;Ol t the country to allow this bill to 0 ju t° ° 0 1 4 not to delay the measure till succeeding Mr. R. Hugessou said, that no Rele r : L F fir satisfactory to the country which did rie r e•Y I extension of the franchise, and a re•distribtincither tro He opposed the present measure,e h did rti°ll .4 bo tually. Rather than accept the .miseo uLe 0 ref ° .4 presented to them, he would prefer top ostpon a" 0 1 gether for the present. M. Newdegate said that the governineat,:ciepree of 5/44 their own difficulty , by , adhering. to this Prcl the Crcl formity of suffrage. He had himself arr he tives to propose a measure of reform, an ; s oils I, l 6 elltif supported any measure not containing 'r °v " bl - objectionable. But he could not vote for ov a c a provision which would be fatal to 04r . ioa s , t „ ° e ser ( t i: tion, as it had already been inJullst ,tenser oe o _,, r e of France and America. He protested ag 3li the de ffr3o tive government forcing upon its followersality of . 00 , principle. How could they adopt eV res ct Pti o d'il without going further towards equality reP lo use o l' entreated the government not to fetter th e isio , O a party by maintaining an arbitrary pro' thA t A on both sides of the house. e doetr iae ' 60 1 ;ei Lord Robert Cecil protested against th , be u e influence of property in elections cough' lt i n g 4 0 1, destroyed. It was absurd to talk of ade l !' ;0•1• -ton orders to a share of power. It was a clue' not, a + to ', d e on the part of those who now possessed it et igh" for - 0 It had been publicly declared by those wil° d beea lie t the confidence of both, that an a lliano, ll .. a sse ll. ° fon t ; between John Bright and Lord John D,.` sne li an °a house seriously Consider the consequence 01 sal On the motion of Mr. Wilson, the debate " O a I The County Prisons (Ireland) Bill BILLS 05 000 11/3 forma. $ The Savings Bank (Ire B' llwas 11 3 re' time. The A p tt a o t r e n n e t y i ti Ge i n n e v r e a n l ti obtained ° The remaining business wx 3 disp adjourned at 12,35. of l a ea vo regulate to brine, of, 3 a the I 11