Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-26 00:00:00

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TARA/FLU ROYAL—Dramatiz Performance-7 p.m. FATAL Aid PlltTfit EATRE—DraMitie Performance-7 p.m. 11111.11/eu HALL, Clayt , n-square—Gordon Cumming-8 p.m. Ewer, CoLosseuar —General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. Zcincoccal. GAabaNrs—Grand and Varied Entertainments. Araser's CRYSTAL PALACE, Lime-street-10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Cr For particulars see advertisements. Etc Koctigni limps WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. Parliament has virtually concluded its labours this session. Yesterday afternoon both houses had short sittings. The only business of moment in the Lords was giving the royal assent to a number of public and private bills, including the Mersey Conservancy Bill. The House of Com mons considered the amendments of the House of Lords to the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill, and after a conference with the House of Peers, the measure now only awaits the royal assent to become the law of the land. Both houses adjourned until Friday, when the formal prorogation will take place. The local incidents of the day include the case of the Royal Oak Burial Society, which was again before the County Court yesterday, the presiding judge, in the absence of Mr. Pollock, being J. S. T. Green, Eq. Mr. Brett, barrister-at-law, appeared for the defendants, and contended that the County Court had no jurisdiction in the matter, but this Mr. Segar, who appeared for the plaintiffs, said was contrary to the spirit and Intention of the Act of Parliament. The deputy judge postponed his decision until he could con sider all the arguments raised as to the jurisdiction of the court. Truly, this contention is anything but agreeable, and must make all the parties interested in the society sick of such squabbles and contention for the mastery• The proceedings at the Assize Court yester day embraced a number of cases. They will be found reported in another column, but do not require any special notice. The Police Court proceedings yesterday were devoid of any interest if we except a little skirmishing between Mr. Mansfield and Mr. Good ere the solicitor, who protested agaillst the court permitting Mr. Clough to act as advocate before the magistrates. Mr. Mansfield took the grumbling solicitor rather short, defined his conduct in inter rupting the business of the court in anything but complimentary terms. The matter ended by the worthy Stipendiary telling Mr. Goodere that he would not hear any further complaints from him on the subject. At the meeting of the Select Vestry yesterday, Mr. Denton was particularly anxious for informa tion respecting the piggeries and the chanting of Grace before and after meat. Mr. Bairstow replied in a manner which indicates that Mr. Den ton pays but little attention to the proceedings of the Vestry. Mr. Woodruff, in moving the confir mation of the proceedings of the Finance Commit tee, took occasion to refer to the health of the town, and its freedom from cholera and fever. He also made special allusion to the crowded state of the asylums to which the Vestry were in the habit of sending their pauper lunatics, and moved a reso lution asking the visiting magistrates at Rainhill to increase the accommodation whereby a conside rable saving would be secured to the parish. The motion being seconded was carried nem con. The other local and domestic intelligence is not of any moment. The owners of the Black Ball clipper Lightning gave a grand banquet to a number of distinguished visitors and guests, on board that ship at Gravesend, on Monday. A report of the proceedings will be found in another column. Another episode has taken place in the House of Lords, on Monday night, as proxies were being taken in one of the divisions on the Divorce Bill, which eventually gave the Government a majority of ten. A curious scene occurred. Seeking, perhaps, only a cool seat oa this, one of the hottest nights in this the hottest of summers, the Earl of Suffolk had betaken himself to one of the back rows of the episcopal bench, now ren dered almost vacant by reason of the bishops being required elsewhere on diocesan duty. On his declaring himself the holder of a proxy of a lay peer, his exercise of it was prounounced by the opposition to be informal, inasmuch as a standing order of the house declared that no lay peer - should speak or vote from the episcopal bench. The Government maintained the validity of the proxy so tendered, whereupon a bristling discussion sprang up, which had a dash of the ludicrous in it from the circumstance that the peers, in obedience to another standing order, remained seated all the time. Further to compli cate matters, the venerable Marquis of Lansdowne, himself the pattern of punctilio, and setter of pre cedents, "rose" to dispute the supposed standing order, and was immediately told to sit down again The contention about this single vote was as fierce as if the voices of a hundred peers were in dispute, and the committee actually divided as to whether the proxy should be admitted or not. It happened that just as many voted for the admission of the proxy as for its rejection; and, in accordance with another standing order provided in such a case, the proxy was recorded, and the government and their supporters gained their point. It is currently reported in the metropolis that in the event of a vacancy occurring in the repre sentation of the metropolitan county by the ele vation of Lord Robert Grosovenor to the peerage, Mr. Wakley, who so long represented Finsbury, may be induced to become a candidate on the Liberal interest. In some other quarters Sir Wm. Clay , Bart., the lee representative of the Tower Hamlets, is said to ba a likely person to present himself as a candidate. With respe;jiO - ih; contemplated peerage cre ations we take the following. from a Landon contemporary of yesterday :—" Lard R. Grosveno is named, by common rumour, for this elevation,' and Lord Harry Vane., and the Hon. C. C. Caven dish, Even Lard John Russell's name has gone all over the City, and the talk is that his lordship might be induced to bury himself in the Lords upon condition that is made a Duke This would be one of the happiest coups ever managed by Lord Palmerston, and that which induces city gentlemen to believe in its possibility is the remembrance of the late speech of Lord John Russell on the ballot, his lordship having concluded by the most solemn asservation that as long as he had a seat in the Commons his vote would be given against that measure. In another House he would be able to redeem himself, and preserve his consistency by advocating the ballot; that is to say, if by any possibility a Duke could be induced to advocate the ballot It will be batter news, we apprehend, to be informed that Lord John Russell has declined the honour of being made a peer, and that the services of such men as Sir Benjamin Hall and Mr. Hayter have been rewarded by making them vessels of honour to ornament the House of Lords " Ths citizens of Dublin are making great prepa rations for tha approaching meeting of the British Association to be held in that City an interesting and successful synod of savans in the Irish Metropolis is anticipated. Respecting the Indian Mails, London advices of last night inform us that eleven days have elapsed since the mail steamer Nubia arrived at Suez from Calcutta with news to the 21st of July If the steamer from Bombay had come in at the same time, the mails would have reached Marseielles in time for the letters to have been delivered in London on Monday. It is probable that the Bom bay mail had not even arrived at Suez on the 16th, two days after the Nubia The despatches from Bombay will bring news from Delhi later than that received at Calcutta to July 21st, as the com munications are less interesting. The arrival of both the Calcutta and Bombay mails at Marseilles, may, however, now be expected every hour. We have not much continental or foreign news of moment. The continental papers are as much occupied in dealing with the Sepoy revolt as we are ourselves, but they do not appear so much astonished that it should have occurred. The German papers continue to indulge in comments concerning the Osborne conference, and some of them deny the statement of a correspondent of the Star, that the union of the Principalities is a point that has been conceded and settled in England. We certoinly thought it our duty to publish that announcement upon the authority of another, but without pledging ourselves to its accuracy. Of one point we can speak with greater certainty, having received the most direct information, that if the new elections in Moldavia are allowed to be free, no doubt can be entertained that there will be a majority in favour of the union. The people of Moldavia are nearly at one with the people of Wallachia in desiring a united government and an independent country ; and their own explanation of the diplomatic diversity of opinion on the point is, that if Russia says one thing England will say the opposite, and that Russia is sure to decide for that which England disapprove 2. In the Princi palities there is only one serious political point, and it is a point which all the native inhabitants have embraced, namely, " Leave us alone, and we will manage our own affairs in our own way, with out European intervention or interference." From Paris we learn that Admiral Trehourat has been ordered to proceed with the experimental squadron to Tunis. The Pays learns by a letter from London, that permission has been definitely granted for the passage of English troops across the Isthmus of Suez. These troops will take the railway, and will find at Suez boats, taken up at Calcutta by the East India Company, waiting for them. According to arrangement made by agents of the company, these ships were to be in the Red Sea by the end of August at the latest. The authorisation granted by the Viceroy of Egypt does not extend to the future; it is only temporary, and special for the existing occasion. In noticing the progress of events in India, the Debats dis cusses, the probability of the rumoured intrigues of Russia in British India, and comes to the con clusion that the Government of St Petersburg is innocent of the charge, less perhaps from want of will than from absence of available means. From St. Petersburg wo learn that the Russian Government, after the war, published an order for the organisation of the fleet in the Pacific Ocean, which was to assume the title of the Squadron of Siberia. The Government appears now to have decided on increasing the strength of this fleet a ukase of the 20th July having added fourteen superior officers to it, who have already left for their destination, and a similar number will, from Ist January, 1858, be _ added annually. This measure is connected with the Efforts which Russia is fusing to:strengthen her position on the Pacific. According to late letters from Tunis, we learn that the statements published about the disturb ances in the capital of the regency have been greatly exaggerated. After the attack upon the Jew, some further violences were committed against other Jews and Christians in the streets, who had to defend themselves with sticks and even arms against the sabres of some fanatics ; but no one was killed, and only a few slight wounds and con tusions were given and received. There was some alarm in the town on account of a rumour to the effect that two powerful tribes of Arabs had re volted, refusing to pay tribute to the Bey, and fears were entertained that they might take advantage of the disturbance and attack the town ; but the riot having been put down by the Bey's troops, there was nothing further to be feared for the residents. The steam ship Hydaspos arrived at Southamp ton from the Brazils yesterday morning. IN a day or two the curtain will fall upon the first session of Parliament of 1857. About Friday, "My Lords and Gentlemen" will be dismissed from their legislative duties, and the country left in suspense, as to the future inten tions of Government, not only respecting the state of affairs in India, but also what steps will be taken respecting the new Reform Bill next session. We cannot allow the prorogation to take place without briefly reviewing the legis lative business transacted since the meeting of the new Parliament. After the general election it was considered that Lord PALMERSTON would have little or no trouble in carrying every really practicable and useful measure, not only in the Commons but also through the House of Lords. Immediately after the assembling of the new Parliament, there was not much business brought forward. Indeed, the speech from the throne, on the opening of the session, gave little hope that the business to be transacted would embrace many or new important matters. The first announce ment of the Ministerial intentions were indicated in the notices given by Mr. HATTER, for leave to bring in a Jew Bill, a Bill to regulate the Sav ings' Banks of the United Kingdom, also Bills to regulate Insurance and Joint Companies, and extend the powers of the Board of Health. In the Peers, the Lord Chancellor lost no time in introducing the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill. This has been a standing dish of debate from the beginning to the end of the session. With regard to the measures indicated above it is only necessary to remark that the Jew Bill, after passing the House of Commons by a large and emphatic majority, was, as usual, cast out by the Lords temporal and spiritual—the latter manifesting an amount of ferocious bigotry that ill becomes the expouncLri of a 1; Jpal, the main principle of which is the cultivation of peace and good-will towards men. After Lord PALMERSTON'S Bill had been rejected, Lord JOHN RUSSELL had recourse to attempts to authorise Baron ROTHSCHILD to take his seat for the City of London. His attempts were futile, and the measure has been shelved for another Session. Let us hope that when this reasonable and long delayed act of justice is again intro duced, it will meet with that success which it eminently deserves. The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill has THE NORTHERN" TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26. 1857. had many and very narrow escapes from being Burked. It now only awaits the Royal Assent to become the law of the land. Since its intro duction by the Lord CHANCELLOR, it has undergone several alterations. Taken as a whole, we believe it will confer many salutary advantages upon the entire community. We must here do the Government the credit of saying that they deserve the best thanks of the country for the spirit and determination they displayed with regard to this particular Act. Although the Savings' Bank question was a matter which interested a large class or the community, it has been placed among the dropped measures. The Bank Charter, and the Hudson's Bay Company's Charter were referred to Select Committees, but without any profitable result. The question of Education was left un touched, as well as several other matters of equal interest to the people. The Opposition was quite tame, and although Mr. DISRAELI made a set motion on the affairs of India, he was defeated in his object—indirect censure of the Government for their conduct in regard to the emeute. The Persian expedition was noticed, but nothing tangible resulted from the debate. These and other questions connected with the foreign policy, although discussed, did not induce any departure from the established policy of the Government. Although mooted on more than one of the election hustings, the Church Rates are left over until next session. Bills for Regulating the sale of poison, and punishing the traffic in obscene publications, are among the new enact ments which have become law. In the financial department, we have to observe that the House of Commons has been liberal to the Princess Royal, in granting her a marriage dowry of 70,000/. The usual supplies were voted without much debate, and taxation confirmed upon its former basis. These are about the chief items of legislation, if we except the Mersey Conser vancy Bill, which received the royal assent last night. Of this measure and its results we have already spoken frequently. A short time may serve to convince its promoters that they have gained but little by the changes which they have been so instrumental in producing. The experience of the past session, short though it be, has convinced us that the present opposi tion are weak and disunited, and that until fresh blood is infused into it, Ministers will take matters easy, and legislate for the people as they please. Everything considered, the electors of the United Kingdom have as yet little cause to feel proud of the present parliament, seeing the measures of good and necessary reform have been so few in number, and poor in quality. THE vindication of the law should never par take of harshness and severity. By doing so, the ends of justice are oftentimes defeated, and the security and safety of society imperilled. Again, the law, when it acquits a prisoner of any felonious charge, virtually pronounces him inno cent, and admits him or her, de novo, to all the rights and privileges of an unblemished citizen. Under such circumstances, it is not only impo litic, but positively unfair, to hunt down an accused delinquent after the jury returns a ver dict cf not guilty. We have been led to make these remarks on hearing that JAMES SPOLLEN, he of whom we wrote last week—the man accused, but acquitted of the murder of Mr. LITTLE, at Dublin—has been re-arrested and committed to gaol, for the robbery of 5/. and upwards, the moneys belonging to the Midland and Great Western Railway Company. What the nature of the fresh evidence is whereon the new charge is to be sustained we have not yet learned. New testimony there must be else the case will fail; for if the former wit nesses are to be called, there must be a verdict of acquittal. The great object of the former prosecution was to connect SPOLLEN with the money stolen from Mr. LITTLE'S office, and thereby prove him guilty of the murder. This the Crown failed to do, and hence the jury's verdict of " Not guilty." It is acknowledged that they who robbed Mr. LITTLE were cognisant of and privy to the murder in question. If, then, the robbery with which SPOLLEN is now charged should lead to a conviction, what can we think of the capabilities of the Irish law officers of the Crown ? Simply that they have blundered from first to last in this affair, and now seek to wreak out a spirit of revenge upon the unfortunate man. Because his counsel has managed to clear him of the capital offence, they now hunt him from post to pillar, prefer a fresh charge—robbery-- against him, and once more incarcerate him in one of the Dublin bridewells until the next Commission, when he must go through the ordeal of another trial, less serious in its results should conviction follow, but of sufficient magnitude to deprive him of liberty for life, and keep him working as a galley slave, in chains, during the remainder of his days. We are no sympathisers of SPOLLEN ;. nor do we agree with the verdict which the jury awarded in the murder case. They erred on the side of mercy, and thereby deprived the gallows of a full-fledged culprit. We regret that this was so ; but once the jury acquitted him of the larger offence, we hold it to be pure spite, and illegal petty male volence to arrest him on the minor charge — robbery. Moreover, if such a principle is recognised, there is a serious sapping of the foundations of the liberty of the subject, The ingenuity of Crown prosecutors can torment from clay to day, month to month, aye, and year to year, anii thus convert a criminal investi gation into something like the interminab!e and never ending chancery suits, for which both Ireland and England have become famous. The unfortunate victim is made the object of perpetual prosecution, and left withont a single friend in the world to aid or advise him in the hour of difficUlty and danger. Personal liberty, as well as life itself, is dear to every human being, hence it is that the constitution hedges it round on all sides with safeguards, lest undue interference should be taken with it. In the case of SPOLLEN this principle has been over ridden, and the accused is again put on his trial for the second phase of the same offence. This we hold to be too bad. SPOLLEN may be, nay is, a bad man, and as such is not fit to associate with his fellow countrymen and countrywomen. It does not, however, follow, that we are to disregard the principles of the Constitution, and so torture and worry the man until insanity, or some other dire calamity to which the human flesh is heir to, sends him forth—a character similar to that of CAlN—with a mark upon him, wandering as a " fugitive and a vagabond," and exclaiming—" My punishment is greater than I can bear." We object then to this second prosecution, because, in the event of a conviction, it will demonstrate that there was gross mismanage ment in the trial for murder, and will rouse feelings of indignation that a murderer of such magnitude should have escaped from the punish ment due to such a heinous misdeed. And, on the other hand, should another verdict of acquittal be returned, the tide of public sym pathy may be turned in favour of the accused, and he wilt be regarded as a martyr of the unfeeling vindictiveness of the Crown officials. Either result is most undesirable, and would directly or indirectly tend to pollute the fountains of public justice. With all SPOLLEN'S faults, and they are many and heinous, we think he has been hardly dealt with, and that unless some strange and startling revelations are made at the second trial, the Crown prosecutors may attain some fresh notoriety, but not add any thing to their reputation as lawyers, nor elevate their character in the public estimation as gentlemen of humanity and feeling. Until the trial takes place we must defer further observations. ALREADY there are symptoms of the approaching Municipal Elections. The various wards are in motion, The antipikeists have taken the field. They are determined that, despite the contumacious conduct of the Water Committee, and their total disregard and indiffer ence to the express desires of the ratepayers, their voice shall be heard ; and that in the exercise of their Municipal rights and privileges, they who made will unmake, on the Ist of November ensuing, a certain number of councillors, whose advocacy of the Pike project has been unceasing, and in open defiance of the expressed opinions of their respective constituents. We are not among that class which glories in, and studies how, they can foment a contested election—Parliamentary or Municipal. Generally speaking, contested elections do more harm than good ; but there are occasions when it becomes the bounden duty of every elector of principle and independent feeling, to unite heart and hand to defeat the pretensions of aspiring candidates, whether it be for a seat in the House of Commons, or in our local Parliament—the Town Council. The approaching Municipal Election is an occasion of the kind, and we tak s early opportunity of calling attention to the matter, so that all necessary arrangements and preparations may be made in due time, and every pro-Pike candi date compelled to beat a speedy retreat from the field, and his place filled up by a gentleman of sterling worth and independent principles, but, above all, pledged to a removal of the Pike nuisance. In justification of the course we now suggest, and earnestly recommend, we plead as follows First—Because the people of Liverpool have been inflicted with a social curse, by being compelled to use, for dietetic purposes, the contaminated, impure, and unhealthy water from the Rivington hills. Second—Because the use of this water is unnecessary, inasmuch as there is not any lack of pure and wholesome spring water in the red sandstone wells, if proper appliances were used to procure the required supplies. Third—Because the Water Com mittee, and a majority of the Town Council, as at present constituted, have acted in open defiance to the remonstrances of the Ratepayers, and treated their Memorial with contempt and disregard, preferring to perpetuate a scheme which was concocted, matured, and carried out by a species of Corporation juggling unequalled in the history of municipalities. Fourth—Because for all these reasons combined, the remodelling of the Liverpool Town Council is essential to the peace and welfare of the Borough. These are among the chief reasons why we advocate a contested election in every Ward where a pro-Pike candidate may offer himself for election. It is time that the Town Council be taught that the Ratepayers are masters of the Town-hall ; and that no man, no matter how high his position, great his talents, or command ing his influence, shall be permitted to have a seat in_ the Council Chamber, if his conduct thtrein is antagonistic to the well-being of the community, and the constituency who elects him. A gentleman, when elected to rein•esent a does not certain Ward in the Council Chamber, go there to urge and advocate his own peculiar, and, it may be, crude and unintelligible ideas. He is there as the delegate of the Ward, and his duty is to reflect by his speeches and his votes the opinions and the wishes of the Burgesses who elect him. It is no representation when a member of the Town Council votes and speaks in complete opposition to :his constituency. The moment he is placed in the disagreeable position of adopting a line of conduct opposed to those who return him to the Council, that moment honour and honesty, should compel him to resign his trust. If he does not do so, the electors have a duty to perform, and that is to reject his services on the first opportunity which presents itself. Already there are no less than seven or eight of the Town Council who retire on the Ist of November, ‘` spotted" for their advocacy of the Pike project, and on every occasion using their influence not only to perpetuate the job, but to heap contumely and scorn upon that portion of the community which has deemed it a bounden duty to remonstrate against the whole affair, The names of these gentlemen we have already given in the NORTHERN TIMES, and justified their non-return to the Council after the next municipal election. Independent of being Pike advocates, they lent themselves to the objectionable course of elevating a number of " outsiders" to the Council Chamber as aldermen without being subject to an election by the people. These gentlemen may have forgotten their votes of the 10th of November last. We have not, and when the proper time arrives we shall have more to say respecting them, Mean time, from what has taken place since last November, we are fully confirmed in the sound ness of the views we then urged. Now, more than ever, are we prepared to advocate the expulsion of the Pike adherents—now are we prepared to urge, day by day, the sound duty which devolves upon each elector, and show that he will basely betray his own and his neighbours' interests if he neglects to contribute his share of exertion towards rendering the next Town Council powerfully anti-Pikeist in its principles and practices. We only regret that the municipal tenure of certain aldermen—who have for several years past rendered them selves obnoxious to the ratepayers by their repeated prattle upon the excellence of the Pike water—is so long. Gladly should we send them home to rusticate, or, it might be, meander upon the banks of some continental river, and there reflect that a municipal councillor is the servant of his constituents, and subject, as such, to their discretion and control. Tin MURDER ON THZ HIGH SEAS.—The Belfast Mercury in the course of some remarks upon the recent trial in Liverpool, says :—"As long as capital punishment is in- Meted, it ought surely to be inflicted for such a cool, system atic, torturing murder as the Captain and his mates perpetra ted. There is not a single extenuating circumstance in thei r favour ; and when we consider the fearful crimes committed by Captains on the high seas, it is full time that a terrible example should be made. Let, then, the law take its course, or abolish capital punishment altogether. Da not let us have a gross mockery of justice." THE COURT,,ecc. OSBORN; Aug. 24.—The Queen and Prince Consort, Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, and Princess Helena, at tended Divine service at Whippingham yesterday. The Rev. G. Prothero officiated. Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta of Saxe Cobourg attended the Roman Catholic Chapel at West Cowes. AMUSEMENTS, &c. CLAYTON HALL.—MR. GORDON CllMMlNG.—Notwith standing the many attractions that have been presented to the people for the last week, the entertainment of Mr. Cumming continues to draw respectable and delighted audiences every evening. We have already spoken of the ingredients of which the instructive entertainment is compose—we have given extracts from the thrilling viva voce narrative of the damltie lecturer (Nlr. Cumming), and also some from his highly interesting work on Africa —alai with the other portions of the entertainment— tlie pictorial illustrations, the panoramic views, and appropriate musical accompaniments—all could not fail to form an entertainment diversified and instructive. We have now to notice another ingredient—Ale that we are the advocates of—the reduction of the prices of admission, so as to afford the respectable artizan and other working classeslan opportunity of witnessing the most rational pieces perhaps ever presented to a public audience, anti since this boon has been granted, the public have duly appreciated it by crowded houses every evening, whose applause testify th:ir approval. Thus all classes can now enjoy the treat at Clayton nail. Hau MAJESTY'S THE tTRE.—The admirers of Piccolomini and Giuglini will have another opportunity of hearing these delightful artists, in the ensuing month, when "La Traviata" and " Don Giovanni" will be performed, with the same usprecedented cast as represented during the season of the opera. DRURY LANE THEATRE.—This theatre is to re-open for dramatic performances on the 7th of September, when Mr. Roberts, an American tragedian, of whom fame speaks favourably, will make his first appearance before n London audience. Mdllr. Rachel, whom some of the theatrical papers have sent to the south, is still in Paris, b ut ter are no hopes of her glorious talent being added to the attractions of the Frarcais this winter. Mr. T. P. Cooke, it is said, finds himself so regenerated by his performances at the Haymarke, that he, has con sented to play at the Melphi, on the termination of his present engagement. SURREY TIMATRIL—The opera eoir.pany haring left this theatre, the management have e,ngage‘t the celebratEd C:lristy Minstrels, who will give their exceedingly clever entertainments every evening during the week. The fa vourite dramatic piece of " Extremely Peculiar," will be introduced between the Amrsrican perforniances. SADLER'S WELLS.—T I ,,is theatre will re-open, under the management of Messy', Phelps and Greenwood, early in the month of Septeml',er, OLYMPIC,.3Y,ir. Tom Taylor is writing a drama for the Olympic, f ins WEATRCE., since our last notice, has continued unprecedentedly fine, and at a very high temperature, with a brightness of sun not observed for many years. It has been most propitious for the harvest work, ani by the end of this week, there will be little corn left standing— if indeed any. It has been an early harvest, and so far ae we can collect, we are happy to add, a good one, AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE (S.S.) INDIAN• The royal mail screw steam ship Indian , C sl) t., l' Jones, which sailed from Quebec on the ] sth 111 . d entered the Mersey about two o'clock this me rni u ° :; having an excellent passage of little more ten days and a half from port to port. e 0 The Indian brings a large number of passeog to and a full cargo of Canadian produce, but 12 1 ) the hour of going to press we have not reac if details of the news. TELEGRAPHIC NEO [By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.] FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY NO A. despatch received to-day from Constant ly o r o announces that the Porte has accepted the cond iti arranged at Osborne, and has consented to nullifl ty o Moldavian elections. The new elections were to , 4 place after an interval of 15 days. The Three per L" Rentes experienced a decline, closing at 66f 90c. SPAIN. MADRID, AvG. 95. 4 The rumour of a secret:treaty between Mexico 3 04 '1 United States, has caused a great sensation. A frel o piratical attempt had been made by the ruffians on t o Moorish coast, on the Betty, of London, which had I her reckoning, and stranded. INCREASE AND PROMOTIONS IN THE A: (From last night's Gazette.) WAR OFFICE, Ana. 2501 The London - Gazette - of this evening, contains appointments, of field officers, captains, and subalteras'.l the additional battalions to the 2nd and 3rd Regimen tj f Foot; 2nd Foot—Lieut. Col. R. Bruce, from ha lf-Y" 1 unattached, to be Lieut. Colonel; Major Rose, i tc) :o Depot Battalion, to be Major ; Major Weerge, from P i o pay unattached, to be Major; 3rd Foot—Lieut. Colo nel F. Faude, C. 8., from half-pay unattached, to be l' i°ll l, Colonel. To be Majors—Major Somerville, ivlaP r o . Burke, anl Major K. N. Sargent, all from half-pal' attached. 65th Regiment—Major-General Coles to be Col°lol' THE BRAZILIAN MAILS. SOTJTHAMPTON, Toss The European and American Company's steanie r: t y daspes, Captain Brown, arrived this morning froo Brazils. She left Rio July 17th ; Bahia, 22nd ; 25th; St. Vincent, August sth; Madeira, 12th ; Lisbon, 18th. (1 /4 She has 47 passengers, 8,987 bags of coffee, a e packages of sundries. Strong head winds from Lit'b°4l The Calcutta, belonging to the same campany , 01 ;0 at Perrambuco from Southampton about noon on th e July. All well. to The steam-ship Oneida was at St. Vincent on her trom Australia, waiting for coal. Exchanged signals, July 28, with her Majesty 15dolvillo, 0t.0.1.16 0.0. W., in lat. I 1 S., lon. 29 S N o Aug. 18, with English steamer Aloe, in lat. 27 151 28 W. The Genoese steamer Conte di Cavour had arrive Bahia from Genoa, July 22. 11 ,'H ‘di t ItIt)! .1 -ter Majesty's ship Ink _fatigable was a, .4 1 11' Rifleman had left for England ; the Harrier at .17. about to proceed to Rio. the '°'°° The Hydaspea brings no later advices than l ot / Being engaged for the transport service, the 01 will proceed tolWoolwich to embark troops. Lisbon advices are anticipated by the Eumine• 0?) GRAND CRICKET MATCH AT LIVERPOOL,-..-V , m li f ilty stand that the cricketing world here are poking ";diß a it with much interest to a match which is to be PlaY ef l week by the Liverpool club against "The trn' f l o itri Englsnd Eleven." This is the first time " The B ce have appeared in Liverpool, and from the- world-w"'„cli) brity they have gained, a display of 'rte cricket, 6: is seldom witnessed, may be expected. The matcb.; s 4 be seen from our advertising columns, will eo•taei e ,,,d o ; mid day to-morrow, and continae on Friday and Sili g - t and should the weather continue as. favourable 8 i sent, there will, no doubt, be a large assemblage ° d rop tators to withers the game. The- Liverpool cricket I'd is one of the finest in the kingdom, the most direct s9' re being from the railway bridge over the Wavertreeir '• The Eleven" will consist of the following naive!' Wisden, Lockyer, Martingell; Goffyn, Mortloelfilr Griffith, Grundy, Lilly white, Wright, and F. 12 : Esq. ) THE Two EMPERORS.---It may be considers,. Cer ;a that the Emperor of Russia will be at Berlin an c'urae of the next month, but it is by no men ng P t ' a that the Emperor of the French will go there , - 6 him. The Kreue Zeitung has learned that 1 p r, Monarchs are lively to have an ir,terview " at soniva i o,, in the south-west of GarmAny, but it is ev ident, P has no great confidence in the sauce from intelligence wes derived. OP d THE VINTAGE.--A correspondent writing frail c irld says :—" There are no ki n d s of p or t wine whiel i purchased for less than 160 dollars per pipe, seci.t? Y miserable quality. Ordinary wines are selling f°„ 250 dollars per pipe. Old Tawney wines are ve r JO o l and worth from 350 to 600 dollars per piec• i „iis o l!! wines are sold at prices varying from 5 to 10 ""olfr* dozer. There are no wines in the ki t :viol: o 44 description that can be bought for less than 160 c w o fe jf i. pipe, and anything under 200 dollars per pipe i 6 poor quality. The disease of the vine is still P"oly, and I fear that there will be very little wine 0 year. Thousands of vines have died, and 135 t l / 1 rooted up, Tits AMIENaND POISONS BILL. --The bill for cu",,, it tritr i i indiscriminate sale of poisons, having been ror pe into a practicable form by the Select Comln, it rtill l t ' l House of Lords, has been laid upon the shel f d ittrai session. The list of poisonous substances enuni e 'd by been very much curtailed. It includes arsenic 9 00 9 0 i 1 i bride of mercu r y, hyd roc y an i c ac id, c y an id e of P.l 0 0 7 , 3 1, and oil of bitter almond s ; chl or ofo r m, o xa lic ge l opinm, cantha r id e s. c oc a i n a, i n di ces , t ar tar c .. ` - o tigi doi vomica, and the formidable array of the pnis ° ;(1 1 : 0 loids. Poisons are to be sold onlj to adults bill 0, presence of an adult witness ; and after the 19 ebo 'nto force none but m e di c al men are to suP h r e ' l OOl these poisonous substances, except under restrictions. Bat there is a clause added 0111 ,:ad°,, / il l l poisons to he served to parsons known to the :",$ "of seems now an acknowledged principle in paol f3 Lsiv ° v il any sort always to make it twice as compre lj ' e eq ; thus providing a broad margin for tb iloo g t ) ,d cornmi.tees, with "ample room and verg° f t isP A c t a ) them I citations of members who think they roev 4 fulfil their parliame n ta r y d u ti es by mov ing t heir on every subj. ct intr o duc e d by any party btl' ica re As it is evident Mr. Cowper must, have been 3 viel' o ti oljections to ihe firs? bill proposed equally °pole) c)rnmi:tee of the House of L o rds, it is very troad , that the present modified m e asure was not to 1 first. If dearly-bought experience is to be; o f r guide, this delay of a hill restricting the sa' a c itbe r t i will assuredly he accompanied by the death, the dental or intentional, of many who , e passing of the measure might have saved. nl.) 0 0 W H A T in is stant COMING t o LIVERP Chj f j t P—Why, WO' THE GREATER NOVELTY IN Ta r ", ~ WHERE 18 IT TO BE SEB'l ' THAI'S THE QUESTION.