Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-22 00:00:00

gommtrthx! sttt ts. THIS DAY the 22nd instant, at Three o'clock at the Saleroom, Atherton-buildings, Dale-street, Liverpool, Riles East India Donskoi 'fleece, chiefly superior combing] Superior Iceland, chiefly Northland Oporto fleece „„ Egyptiar WOOLS. Foreign and English, white and grey nails , • Cordova Laid Cheviot and white and laidaighland • Peruvian, Chili, Lisbon, Scotch, &c. —For catalogues, A c., apply to HUGHES and RONALD, Wool Brokers NEXT WEEK MONDAY Y next, the 24th instant, at Twelve o'clock, in the Commercial Saleroom, Boxes Seville China ORANGES, 1 ex Grace, 10 Chests Ditto Sour DITTO, 1 - 0 Boxes Messina DITTO, ex Express, Lca Cases Ditto LEMONS, U) Half-chests Aveiro ORANGES,) ex Aveirense, SA flat Boxes Ditto DITTO, is= Cases Naples ORANGES, 30 Ditto Ditto LEMONS, ex Taurus (s.s.), 10 Ditto Palefmo ORANGES, 53 Boxes Ditto DITTO, id Barrels NeWtOWII Pippin APPLES, Black Spanish, Bilboa, Para, and Turkey NUTS. r fr - GEORGE BADENACH and SON, Brokers IMINDAY ne Brokext, the 24th instant, at Four o'clock, at the ffice, 2, Dale-st 700 Bales East India ) WOOL. ---- tian HUNTER, and Co., Brokers 23 BROWN TUESDAY SDAT next, the 25th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 100 Tons African GROUND NUTS, 1,000 Bags Bombay LINSEED, - 500 Ditto Ditto RAPESEED. 500 Ditto Ditto MUSTARD SEED. BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers To close an account. AY next, the 25th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Broker's Office, 7, Exchange-chambers, 150 Ballots, i • Mexican FIBRE, 63 Bales FRANCIS J. EATON, Broker :SD AY next, the 25th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Broker's Office, 7, Exchange-chambers, 500 Bales Mexican FIBRE, airy vessels, from Tampico.—Apply to Messrs. Leech, n and Forwood, Merchants ; or to FRANCIS J. EATON, Broker. On account of whom it may concern MAT next, the 25th instant, at Half-east One o'clock ly, at H. H. Golding's Saleroom, Corn Exchange, Bruns- About 312 Barrels and 24 Bags FLOUR, phine, from Bahla, in Albert Dock.—For further particu frly to J. and M. lIARNEri, Brokers. WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY next, the 26th instant, at Three o'clock, 300 Bales Port Philip and Sydney WOOLS. o T. and 11. LITTLEDALE and CO., Brokers, LIVERPOOL WOOL SALES, aNTLSDAY next, the 26th instant, at Three o'clock, at the Cotton Saleroom, Exchange-buildings, Liverpool, ales German, Hungarian, and Cape Skin WOOL. Also, at Four o'clock, _es East India, Egyptian, Peruvian, Russian, &c. WOOL W. GREAME and Co., Wool Brokers. ESDAY nest, the 26th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 725. Bales GAMBIER, 250 Ditto Bombay MADDER ROOTS, 600 Bags TURMERIC. BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers. THURSDAY SDAY next, the 27th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-stree‘, 450 Cases CASSIA LIGNEA, 260 Bags Black PEPPER. BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers. ILSDAY next, the 27th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 700 Bags American RED CLOVERSEED, 500 Bags TIMOTHY SEED. J. H. RAYNER and Co., Brokers. ELSDAY next, the 27th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 113 sales RAGS, ex Deeimus, from Alexandria.—Apply to Messrs t, Brothers, and Co., Merchants ; or to J. 11. RAYNER and Co., Brokers. Tana tISD AY next, the 27th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at tha Commercial Saleroom, WA sags CURRANTS (damaged), ex Augusta, from Patras, 11,5 Boxes Muscatel RAISINS, in Layers (all faults). VIT to GEO. BADENACH and SON, Brokers. 'Sate. PATENT ASPHALTE ROOFING FELT. cheap, durable, and perfectly Waterproof Roofing. ONE PENNY PER SQUARE FOOT. And.PATENT HAIR FELT, thing Steam Boilers, &c., by which a saving of one-fourth in the consumption of fuel is effected. WM. GIBSON, Successor to W. W. POWELL. —l2, CABLE-STREET. Office and Warehouse ON SALE, 100 Tons MANURE OIL CAKE. lyids and price, apply to THOMPSON, BAGNALL, and BUTTERWORTH, Brokers, 30, Moorflelds ON SALE, to arrive, a cargo of BONE ASH and BONES, from Rio Grande, consisting of 156 Tons BONE ASH, 28 , Mixed BONES, 13,000 SHANKS. JEFFERSON and TAYLOR, Brokers, Liverpool and London Chambers. TO LANDOWNERS AND FARMERS. SHIRE PHOSPHATE COMPAN Y b are constantly ON SALE Nitrogenised BONE PHOSPHATE, ther valuable fertilisers.—Samples and prices may be had at Mice, 3, CABLE-STREET. irks: —LOWER BEBINOTON. J. R. CAMERON, ONOMETER MANUFACTURER AND OPTICIAN, 54, SOUTH CASTLE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. MARINE CHRONOMETERS ON SALE OR HIRE. GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, SEXTANTS, ZUAD.RANTS, BAROMETERS, TELESCOPES, gc CHARTS FROM LATEST SURVEYS HISTORY OF THE WORKING CLASSES, Every Saturday, in the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES, Price Else Venny. WARM TINTER C I call' NG, T /I E GENTLEMAN'S OUTFITTING WAREHOUSES, 24 AND 26, BOLD-STREET. P. L. MACTAGGART INVERNESS WRAPPERS OVER COATS. DRESSING GOWNS. DRAWERS AND VESTS. FANCY FLANNEL SHIRTS RAILWAY RUGS AND PLAIDS, MUFFLERS AND SCARFS. FLANNELS AND BLANKETS. BOYS' WINTER CLOTHING TO CORRESPONDENTS. T no circumstances can we insert communications not ampanied by the author's real name and address, not neces ily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. -THIS DAY AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, &c ROYAL—Grand Comic Pantomime AMPHITHEATRE —English Opera Company NIC lIALL (Lime-street) —Ascent of Mont Blanc ik CIRQUE VARlETz—Miscellaneous Attractions isar. ;,,.' ..WAX WORK EXHIBITION (Lime -BtTeCt). -u sit-N GALLERY OF ANATOMY, Paradise-street. 'Qr Particulars see advertisements on Bth pag SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1859. THE DAY'S NEW S. The Paris correspondent of t n he orm Alorni ng P os t on telegraphs to that journal the if sticath of the King of Naples, and ourati of the coantempo rary appears to accept the intelligence trust worthy, for it freely comments up on the cuevices of it. If, as stated, the news had reached Pans on Thursday, it is very strange that none or the correspondents in that place writing on evat evening—neither that of the Globe, nnes second edition, nor the Post (also pond edition), the Express, or the Evening Star— ve the least allusion to the news. The state ment, wants confirmation, and it is generally be lieved to be premature. Our latest advices from Naples, however, state that Bomba, was lying senously ill. `From Paris we have the intelligence that an alliance, offensive and defensive, has been con- eluded between France and Sardinia. This, however, is only what has been said any time within the last three weeks The leading article of the Times, which reached Paris on Thursday, deprecating war and pressing with severity on the supposed provocation of Piedmont, Austria offering but a passive resist ance, has attracted the usual amount of notice. The Charivari takes nearly the same view of the Italian difficulty, and, at an humble distance, follows the leading journal. It advocates the com plete suppression of that class of Europeans who speak Italian, and their removal bodily from the peninsula. The land itself ought to be kept as excellent pasture ground for cattle, and a few custodes should be left for the museums, some monks to show the churches, and some soprano to sing therein, without power to perpetuate the race. A disturbing influence, likely to keep the Con tinent and the stocks in constant alarm, would be thus removed. Every hour that elapSeS . in A the present attitude of France and her Sardinian ally is positively disastrous to the whole Austrian empire, and symptoms of renewed disaffection are manifest in Hungary as well as Gallicia, non-smoking being the seditious emblem in Magyar land as in Lombardy. The hopes that were violently crushed out by the hoof of Russia sparkle out afresh from the cinere doloso. A temperate but highly intelligent com munication from Berlin, in Le Nord, shows what little reliance is to be placed on any effective sup port from Prussia in a crusade for retaining Upper Italy under the sceptre of the Hapsburgs. There is a talk in some quarters of a private mission confided to Prince Leiningen, who is to wait on Napoleon 111. on the part of Franz Joseph, and come to some amicable settlement. The views of the French Emperor are inscrutable, and it is utter folly to suppose he had not long revolved in his own mind the projects (whatever they may be) to which the Ist of January speech gave utter ance It is ominous that a commission should be issued just at this moment from Vienna, to examine and report on the state in which the iron crown of Charlemagne, kept at Milan, now is. Napoleon I. encircled his own brow with that rusty relic before he handed over the kingship of the Lom bards to Eugene Beauharnais. From Corfu, we have intelligence of the further complication of the lonian question. Mr. Glad stone had, as we have already stated, convened a meeting of the deputies, and they, one and. all, demanded annexation with Greece, and refused to examine the proposed reforms until that question had been determined. The Fulton has arrived at Southampton with four days later news from the United States. The North American, from Liverpool, had arrived at Portland in a leaky state, having been in collision. Politically, there is nothing of importance. Con gress which assembled on the 4th inst., had passed a resolution, calling for recent correspondence between the British Government and the American Minister at London relative to the African slave trade. "It is said this correspondence will develope some startling facts, implicating the American flags with slave trade operations." Such is the infor mation conveyed to us by telegraph. We publish details of news from India. Our dates are Bombay, Dec. 25. The newspapers which we have received, add little or nothing to the telegraphic summary of the news. A great meeting has been held at Bombay to adopt measures for the establishment of a museum and gardens in that city, in honour of the assumption by the Queen of the direct sovereignty of India. Several native gentlemen took a prominent part in the meeting, and one of them, Dr. Bhawoo Dajee, delivered a speech of considerable eloquence. The Queen's proclamation was referred to in terms of admiration and hope. Lord Elphinstone, it was stated, had been requested to prolong his period of office for another year. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has addressed the following circular to the supporters of the ad ministration in the House of Commons Down ing -street, Jan. 13. Sir,—l beg to inform you that the meeting of parliament has been fixed for the 3rd of February, and as the House of Commons will immediately proceed to the consideration of business of great importance, I earnestly request your attendance at the opening of the session. I have the honour to remain, sir, your fathful and obedient servant, B. DISRAELI." A deputation from Preston respecting the Lancashire and Yorkshire and East Lancashire Railway Companies Amalgamation Bill had an interview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, at the office of the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of Mr. Grenfell, M.P. Mr. Cross, M.P., the Mayor of Preston (Mr. Alderman W. Birley), Mr. Alderman Catterall, Mr. Alderman Parker, Mr. Councillor Goodair, and Mr. Robert Ascroft (town clerk), accompanied by Mr. Newall, parlia mentary agent. Mr. S. R. Graves, of Liverpool, had an inter view with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, on Thursday at the office of the Board of Trade. A Reform meeting has just been held at Shields. Resolutions in favour of manhood suffrage, and the vote by ballot, were unanimously adopted. At Newcastle, Mr. Liddell, M.P., and Mr. Ridley, M.P., have addressed a ragged-school meeting. The establishment of ragged schools, in that locality, has exercised a happy influence in the reformation of the juvenile criminal population. A deputation from the Sunday League has had an interview with the Bishop of London, with a view to obtain his support to the proposedopening of the various national institutions on Sundays. The Bishop received the deputation with great courtesy, and talked about the question in a very friendly way, without apparently committing him -self to any definite opinion. Ot the nine men charged with participation in the game law murder at Bishop Burton, seven are committed for trial, and two discharged. Our local intelligence will be found reported at full length. Yesterday, a London serjeant of police, and the wife of another serjeant, were apprehended on board a ship bound for New York. The male prisoner had absconded with some money belonging to the Metropolitan Police Commis sioners, and the wife with some £BO, the property of her husband. They were despatched to London last night. In the Bankruptcy Court, yesterday, Mr. Com missioner Perry gave judgment* in re John Col beck, in which he stated he would suspend the certificate for nine months, and that it should only be a third-class one. ALL apprehension about the abolition of what were called the State Services of the Established Church, or, as we see them also called, the Politi cal Services, is now at an end. The addresses of both Houses of Parliament to the Queen, voted in the last session, praying Her Majesty to take the subject of these Services into consideration, with a view to their discontinuance, has at last been responded to. Lord DERBY has very judiciously advised his Royal Mistress to give effect to those addresses ; and the Gazette has just published a warrant issued by the Queen, under Her Majesty's sign manual for that purpose. There were four such Services—the first, to be used on the Fifth of November, " for the happy deliverance of King JAMES 1., and the Three Estates of England, from the most traitorous and blooded-intended massacre by gunpowder, and also for the happy arrival of His Majesty King WILLIAM on this day, for the Deliverance of our Church and Nation,"—the second, to be used on the Thirtieth of January, " Being the Day of the Martyrdom of the Blessed King CHARLES the FI RST , to implore the mercy of God, that neither the guilt of that sacred and innocent blood, nor those ,other sins by which God was provoked to deliver up both us and our King into the hands of cruel and unreasonable men, may at any time kft THE NORTHERN TIM hereafter be visited upon us or our posterity,"— the third, as a " Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for having put an end to the Great Rebellion by the Restitution of the King and Royal Family, and the Restoration of the Govern ment after many years' interruption ; which unspeakable mercies were wonderfully com pleted upon the Twenty-ninth Day of May, in the year 1660," and the fourth, " to be used in all Churches and Chapels within this realm, every year, upon the Twentieth Day of June, being the Day on which Her Majesty began her happy reign We have given the titles of the whole Four Forms of Prayer, or Services, in order that the true character of them, respectively, may be brought to mind, ere those now abolished are for ever forgotten--which are the first three; the Service for the Queen's Accession being excepted from the others. Any one reading the titles of these three Ser vices must, upon the slightest reflection, one would think, perceive, not only their unsuitableness for the altered times on which we have fallen, but their positive contradiction one of another. With what consistency could there be a Thanksgiving, at one and the same time, for the deliverance of the House of STUART from traitors, and for the "happy arrival" of him who came to put an extin guisher on that Royal House for ever ? There was also, in the same Services, the fallacy of sup posing that WILLIAM, who was a Presbyterian, really came to deliver the Established Church, of which, as a Presbyterian, he was not, of coarse, and could not be, a member. Then the regicidal act of the 30th of January was, as a political pro ceeding, virtually concurred in at the revolution of 1688, through the " happy arrival " aforesaid. And " the Restoration of the King and Royal Family," on the 29th of May, was also altogether ignored, as an occasion of Thanxsgiving, by the same aforesaid "happy arrival" of WILLIAM, to exclude that Royal Family from the Throne of England for eves Twenty-ninth of May, ! In one of the Prayers for the all loyal and dutiful elle- giance" was solemnly promised before God—not to King CHARLES STUART alone, but, "to his heirs after him ;" whilst, on the Fifth of November, God was thanked "for giving his late Majesty, King WILLIAM, a safe arrival, and for making all oppc- sition fall before him, until he became our King and governor,"—which he did to the subversion of the House of STUART, and the exclusion from the Throne of those very " heirs after him," to whom in all loyal and dutiful the Restoration Service allegiance," as we have just seen, was promised before God ! Such are some of the gross, the pro fane contradictions of those three State Services which, for our part, under all the circumstances, we are most thankful are no longer to be used. It is desirable, we really think, if only for the sake of historical truth and correctness, that it should be properly known and remembered, that these contradictory and most fallacious State Ser- vices were altogether matters of State,—that the Church herself had, as a Church, nothing whatever to do with them. She did not either prepare, or approve, or adopt them. They were foisted into her Prayer Book by the State. " Our will and pleasure is, that these Forms of Prayer and Ser vice be annexed to the Book of Common Prayer and Liturgy of the United Church of England and Ireland,". '—such was the Sovereign's own indepen- dent and, we trust it is no longer treason to say arbitrary fiat---without any consultation with, or concurrence in by, the Church. Conscientious and consistent Churchmen, indeed, never recognised, let alone used them. The Clergy were prohibited from doing so by their solemn engagement to " conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England as it is now by law established,"—the State Services According to not being "by law established." BURNS' Ecclesiastical Law, directed in the Book of Common Prayer shall be used in the Church, and no other." And as well as -this statute law, there is the canon law of the Church, equally binding, which strictly prohibits, as regards the Services provided in the Prayer Book itself, the " adding anything in ?he matter or form thereof." " the form of worship And as well as all this, the State had long since ceased to be in a condition to make it expedient, or even equitable, to bind the nation to the princi ples which those Services involved. A system of religious toleration had come to be adopted, with which they were at variance. The State religion they illustrated and perpetuated, was not only out of date, but out of character. Englishmen have lived to appreciate more thoroughly than their forefathers apparently did, the deliberate assurance of the Divine Founder of Christianity Himself 31g is not of this world ; and on this ground, were there no other, they cannot, upon reflection, but be glad that a set of Services which, in their character, ran counter to that Heavenly precept, have now been withdrawn from their national branch of His Church. THE article, copied from a London contemporary, that appeared in our columns a day or two since, entitled " Life in London," while it illustrated that course of infamy into, which young and showy girls, as times go, are so apt to be entrapped, affords also a very significant instance of the eagerness with which the world comes forth to be charitable and humane when there is any thing romantic, or even fashionable,• in the particular object of its interest and benevolence. Here was a ballet dancer who had suddenly disappeared, to the apparent grief of her mother whom she contributed to support. This was the sum and substance of the case, as it came before the public through one of the Police Courts, to which the mother applied for assistance in the recovery of her daughter. It was rather romantic, —the lost one being a ballet girl, and, it was stated, a sort of "pet of the ballet "—having been described, moreover, as only in her teens, rather pretty, and of " a very graceful figure :" all this made it attractive, and engaging, and thereby excited certain people's sympathies, where mere hum-drum virtue in distress would probably have failed to do so. They sent in their money with a liberal hand to the Police Magistrate, for the relief of the disconsolate mother, and to aid in the discovery of the unhappy girl; and there had S SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1859 accumulated quite a fund for them, lucky pair that they seemed likely to be, when the girl turned up, as happy as it was possible for a light-hearted fine de joie to be,—for such, it has been ascertained, was her character and position ; and her mother was found to have been mainly troubled, because her daughter's incognito deprived her, for the time being, of any participation in the wages of her infamy ! The girl had simply gone to spend a few days, without her mother's knowledge, at a house of ill-fame of the more " respectable other and politel; terms, to be the guest of a fashionable lady who " received the visits " of class,—in still more fashionable " gentlemen,"—a sort of procuress, or bawd, in whose hands such a girl can always be turned to profitable, • however abominable account. Of course, all this iniquity having been brought to light, all this infamy having been found to attach to the case, the Magistrate very properly withheld the money that had been sent to him far the relief of the mother and daughter ; and he awaits the directions of the donors as to its disposal. Now, there are reflections very naturally arise, in contemplating such a case as this, which have a very important bearing not only upon the objects of " social science," but upon the interests of morality and virtue. In the first place, one cannot reflect upon it without asking, how a case, having little or nothing but its dash of romance, and its connection with a naughty ballet girl, to recommend it to serious attention, could draw forth such a golden stream of sympathy, whilst there are so many hundreds of real instances of most virtuous suffering which these very persons can pass un heeded by ? Take the laudable efforts that are being made to arrest the progress of prostitution to rescue some few, at least, of the thousands and tens of thousands who infest the streets of London from their infamous course of life—to provide for them places of refuge from its vices, and its miseries, and its vilenesses,—such persons will not allow themselves to take any interest in these truly charitable objects, will not be prevailed upon to contribute to their promotion, but rather, it may be feared, would discourage, perhaps ridicule them. Yet no sooner do they hear of the mother of a ballet girl being in trouble about her daughter, whose character for either virtue or chastity there was no reason whatever to take for granted, but rather the reverse, than their deepest feelings appear to be aroused, and their utmost liberality is immediately exerted. Then, in the next place, there is the reflection of a girl like this, of but some seventeen years old, found as familiar with a life of infamy as if she had been a prostitute of mature years. And there is, besides, those revolting considerations which such a fact involves, of seduction, and procuration, and systematic harlotry—all of which, it is but too painfully evident, the world regards with sad indifference, and will not lift a finger to suppress ; but, on the contrary, will be eager to show its sympathy with those who are the most ready to yield to such debasing influences, provided only there is a bit of romance in the way, to give a stimulus to their morbid sensibilities. There is actually no small amusement in it for the world ; and heartless witlings can have no difficulty, in their own way, in being humorous upon it. There are many other considerations. One cannot but think that something ought to be done for the detection and punishment of those who seduce poor and often unprotected girls into the paths of vice and infamy, and initiate them into a life of vileness and wretchedness ; and, when their short-lived attraction is gone, leave them to become the inmates of our hospitals or our Some more vigorous effort might be made, also, one would imagine, to protect such girls, in their, maiden innocency and purity, from prisons becoming the victims of the various temptations which beset them to embrace such lives of shame and misery,—by looking after their proper educa tion and training, by finding them suitable and profitable employment, and by guarding them against the wiles of those who, under so many plausible pretences, are seeking to lead them astray. Were there but the same eagerness in the world to grapple with these social evils in some such ways as these, as there is to sympathise with the escapades, actual or apprehended, of a ballet dancer, one might have hope for their alleviation, if not for their cure. But the worst of it is that, while, in the one case, as we have seen, money, at least, " is no object "—and money as the represen tative of sympathy—in the other, there is only either the_most heartless prudery, or the coldest unconcern,—or even, it may be, an almost fiendish merriment and mockery ! LOCA_L INTELLIGENCE. Mn. R. E. PINKEY exhibited, yesterday, at the News rooms, an improved Compass, and, according to the best judges, it is well calculated to answer the purpose intended. CRESCENT CHAPEL LITERARY SOCIETY.---This society held its usual weekly meeting on Wenesday evening last, in the school room, William Henry-street, where Mr. J. Labouchere read his second paper, entitled " The Aristocracy." Tut - WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.--A cor respondent informs us that efforts are being made to secure at the next election of members, the return of a retired and respected shipbroker as one of the board. The presence of such a man is likely to place a barrier on the disgraceful personal discussions reported weekly at that board. Althouo'h,, it is the month of January, 1859, most people admit we are living in hard times, hence it should be the study of every one to ask themselves the question, " How can I save my money ?" We reply, without hesitation, buy your steel pens, and other sta tionery, at E. T. Hall's wholesale steel pen warehouse, 23, South John-street. Joseph Gillett's, Thomas Lowe's, G. W. Hughes, and other maker's pens at is per gross. Good Pen Holders 2d per dozen. SOUTHERN HOSPITAL.—WeekIy Report.— Admitted : Accidents and urgent cases, 54 ; medical and surgical cases upon recommendation, 15 ; total, 69. Discharged : Cured, 4 ; relieved, 3 ; irregular, 1 ; died, 1 ; total 9. Attending as out patients, 35 ; remaining in the hos pital, 73. Treasurer, James Houghton, Esq. Visitors, W. Mountfield, Esq., and S. Hendley, Esq. Honorary chaplain, Rev. W. Leveson Physician and surgeon for the ensuing week, Dr. Cameron and Mr. Hamilton. House surgeons, Mr. John M. Bateson and Mr. C. Pemberton. RENGLER'S CIRQUE. —ln addition to the wonderfully attractive and popular entertainment of " Cinderella," the manager has introduced many now and pleasing va rieties, during the last week, which have been quite , successful ; indeed, we may almost say, without precedent. To mention the excellence of the performance at the oirque, in detail, would be an extensive notice ; but, when we say Mr. Hengler lacks nothing of his former energy, with an amount of variety heretofore unknown, it will bp, saying enoush, The grand morning pedorrnlloo l aid the splendid evening exhibitions, are the admiration of all, and attract truly delighted and crowded houses every evening. SPRING CIRCUIT OF TII E JUDGES FOR 18 59 . Northern Circuit.—Judges : Mr. Justice Willes and Mr. Justice Byles : At Durham, Newcastle _ and town, Carlisle, Appleby, York, Lancaster, and Liverpool.— Chester County and City : Judges : Mr. Baron Bramwell and Mr. Justice Hugh Hill. Mr. Justice Vaughan Williams remains in town as the vacation judge. ROBERT BURNS. One of the most appropriate and elegant tributes to the memory of Robert Burns which the present season has called forth, is the fine lithograph produced by Messrs. MacClure said MacDonald, of Liverpool, The engraving has in the centre a noble likeness of the poet himself ; and enclosing it around, as in a setting, are a number of small engravings of scenes associated with the memory and the genius of Burns, or of passages from some of his most celebrated poems. The taste and appreciation displayed in the conception and arrangement are fully equalled by the mechanical skill displayed in the produc tion of this engraving, which is as fine a specimen of the lithovr„ apher's art as we have ever seen. NEW STEAMERS.--Messrs. Martin Samuelson and Co., iron ship-builders, of this town, have commenced the construction of two large steamers for the Atlantic Royal Mail Company, which, from their dimensions alone, will far surpass any vessels of the kind ever constructed in Hull. They are of equal .size, the length being 330 feet ; beam, 38 feet ; depth, 24 feet ; and of a nomi nal horse power of 600. They will be constructed on the paddle principle, and no labour will be spared to make them models of perfect workmanship. Messrs. Samuelson guarantee a speed of 20 miles per hour in still water. We may also add that Messrs. Earle are building a screw steamer of 1,000 tons burthen, for the Baltic trade, and two small steam-tugs for the Liverpool and Leeds Steam Navigation Company.—Hull Herald. THE AMERICAN COASTING TRADE.—It is known that, with that acuteness which approaches dishonesty, and is characteristic of all American politicians, when the United States were admitted to the full enjoyment of free trade with us in shipping, they excluded us from the most valuable portion of thir shipping business, by debarring us from all trade between the States and California, on the pretence that it was part of their coasting trade. • Thus, a vessel sailing many thousands of miles round Cape Horn, and by a coast on which the States have no territory, is held to be making a coasting voyage. This is just as reasonable as if we were to declare the trade to Australia or India part of our coasting trade, and by way of bringing the Yankee tricksters to their senses, and holding up their meanness to the ridicule it deserves, it would be well to tell them that we cannot admit their ships to our coasting voyages between. Liverpool and Melbourne, or London and Bombay.—Dundee Advertiser. LANCASHIRE AS IT WOULD• BE AFFECTED BY MR. BRIGHT'S BILL—The county now sends four represen tatives to Parliament, two for North and two for South Lancashire. Mr. Bright would give three members to North Lancashire, and four to South Lancashire, which he would separate into two divisions. As to the existing boroughs, he would leave Warrington and Clitheroe one member each ; and Blackburn, Lancaster, and Wigan, two each, as at present. To boroughs now represented by one member, he would. give an additional member to Ashton, Bury, and Rochdale ; and to Salford three members. To boroughs now having two members, he would give three each to Bolton, Oldham, and Preston ; and to Liverpool and Manchester six each, dividing them into two wards, each ward represented by three members. Then he would give to Lancashire two new boroughs, each represented by one member, viz. : Burnley and Staleybridge. The total number of county and borough members at present is 26 ; he _would increase it to 47. A SUDDEN AND MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.—The habitues of a well known restaurant, not one hundred miles removed from Covent Garden, have been for the last few days in a state of perplexity, from the fact of the strange and mysterious disappearance of one of the oldest and most respected frequenters of the establishment, and one whose portly figure and happy countenance carried dignity with his presence. His absence from the social board was productive of much speculation and conjecture; but it will be a matter of satisfaction to his numerous friends, of whom he has an almost unlimited number, to know that he is in almost perfect health ; the only reason for his non-appearance being a slight accident, which the care and attention of Mr. Evan Thomas will soon set to rights, and in which he did not come off with the " flying colours" his namesake did with Goliah. Thus the dependence upon a Reid (liable at any time to be shaken by the wind) ; but the friends of the gentleman in question may soon look for his reappearance in renewed health and spirits, and we say " the sooner the better." SERIOUS CHARGE. —On Monday last, at the instance of the underwriters in London and elsewhere, Captain George Lang, of the barque Mary Worrall, of and from Liverpool, with a general cargo, bound for Belize, was charged by the crew, before the Falmouth magistrates, with an attempt to induce them to scuttle the vessel during a heavy gale of wind on the 23rd of December last, in which she sustained damage, and was obliged to bear up and put into Falmouth on the 29th following. It appeared by the evidence of the mate and seamen that the master was in a state of intoxication for several days, and, while so intoxicated, had offered one of the seamen two gold watches and a handful of sovereigns to scuttle the barque with the cook's axe, which was, of course, rejected, and the master was placed in irons by the men for two days. The evidence was deemed by the bench sufficient to commit for trial at the next county assizes, with leave to bail—the prisoner in his personal security for £2OO, and two others in £7O each • The master had no evidence to rebut the statement of the crew, who subscribed in the regular way to the protest after ar riving at Falmouth, saying nothing of the circumstances which have since come out until they were discharged from the vessel, and no entry whatever was made by the mate in the logbook, of the circumstances above de scribed On recovering from his intoxication the master was permitted to resume the command of the vessel. CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—We observe that these extra ordinary talented Minstrels are again shortly to visit Liverpool, after one of the most successful tours in Scotland and Ireland that we ever remember to have heard of. Our able cotemporary, the Cork Constitution, says :—" Amongst them are voices of rare beauty and admirable cultivation ; but it is when they sing in concert that they are most effective. Indeed it would be impossible to exaggerate by any description the exquisite perfection even of their simplest choruses. Anything more delightful than the harmony which they produce, or the finish and delicacy with which each beautiful ballad is executed, it would be impossible to imagine. Not only are their voices well matched, and several of them of the finest quality, but they sing with marvellous precision and the most perfect taste. In fact, one might hear them night after night for a month, with almost equal pleasure ; for music, when it is of a character to satisfy the taste and touch the feelings, instead of palling on the ear, becomes even the more delightful by a longer acquaintance with it. So much for the melodies of these minstrels. Of their fun, and caricature, and extravagance, it is an excellent thing, let the pullers of long faces say what they please to the contrary. The quiz of Jullien and his band is much better than the rest. A more pleasant and good-natured caricature of the great maestro, who glories in novelty as in noise, could not be imagined ; and the band, including the lady " star," are as well hit off. The whole thing is replete with talent and comicality, and must be seen—and heard, too—in order to be understood. We conclude, as we began, by cordially recommending the Minstrels to our readers —those of them who are sufficiently within reach of the Cork Athenaeum to enjoy a really agreeable entertainment. THE COURT, &c. WINDSOR, Jan. 20. The Duchess of Kent dined with her Majesty yesterday, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Miss Victoria Wortley. The Earl of Malmesbury arrived on a visit in the afternoon, and also dined with the Queen. The band of the Grenadier Guards was in attendance, and played during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the drawing-room. The Queen, with Princess Helena, drove to the Flemish farm In an open eariage, attended by Lord Colville. The Prince Consort rode out on horseback, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Ponsonby. Princess Alice rode on horseback. Prince Leopold and Princess Louisa took a carriage drive. . THE PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM.-...A letter from Berlin of the 17th, says : —" The festival of the corona tion of the Prussian chivalry, which was suspended last year, was yesterday celebrated at Berlin with unusual splendour ; and orders, and decorations innumerable were then dispensed to all who could advance any claim for such distinctions. All the royal family, with the excep tion of the Princess Frederick Wiliiam, took part in the proceedings of the day, and though--(from her Royal Highness having taken an airing through a great portion of the city on the previous day, when the most hearty acclamations greeted her on every side)—the health of the Princess is known to be excellent, the arrival of Sir James Clark shows that it has become prudent that her Royal Highness shoP!,d not be exposed to unnecessary fatigue and excitore.ent, and sufficiently accounts for her absence on that - great occasion." MI7.tRIAGE OF PRINCE NAPOLEON.—Under date of Tur . in, Jan. 18th, the Paris newspaper which said that the emicailles of Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilde were to take place yesterday was rather premature in its announcement. I can assure you that, up to this morning, the official demand is marriage had not e been made. It is not to be inferred from this til lit o event is uncertain ; at least, from all I learn, I can be no moral doubt of its coming to pr o • rd il King is said to have made his consent Ell te d to that of his daughter, but this is exp ec be obtained. If necessary, a little persuas . o n probably. be employed, and young ladl es , Is sixteen are apt to be pliant in such lari. g i . e d, report has got about that the Princess his test ir sion to the match, and has shed tears and been 0° but this is possibly a mere piece of obtained the readier currency by reason of - the bation with which most people here regard the P ul " union. In my rather hastily written letter of es date, I informed you of the unpopularity of t ~ and to-day, after seeing many persons and g,atbl opinions of various classes, I can more than COO I then wrote. People do not scruple to say a young Princess is a sacrifice. The numerous a n t body of emigrants, natives of other parts of DAVI here, whose efforts have powerfully contributed to the recent agitation, and propagate the idea of a COl° )ssip, vl oliberation, are greatly satisfied at the marri u they look upon as a step to the realistion o f ti buethe loyal Piedmontese, affectionately attac, House of Savoy, and taki warm interest young Princess, dislike the marriage for he moreover seem by no means flattered by the y. an alliance between their ancient Royar family at Imperial house of Buonaparte.. Among the of the country , who are generally proud and P io the marriage rs particularly unpopular, so much apprehensions were entertained of a very unfn j reception being given to Prince Napoleon at th e Royal on Sunday night. It was; even reportet i , would be hissed, or received with coldness. The P i the King, however, parried the danger, and,. NN-ith tb of applause that greeted the popular Sovereig n first appearance in public since he spoke at the 1 _ . ts the Prince wa at liberty .11 that there were mingled welcome and' congratcl him.. And of course many of those persons,; reasons for desiring-the marriage and courting Emperor, made a point of attending to cheer the' Moreover, I am assured that a portion of tilto Ilthough not pleased at th the aristocracy, which here, much mor bardy, maintains a broad line of demarcation the noble and the roturier. The Maharajah D'auleep Sing, well known 1 11 fashionable circles, has, according to 'a Vienna , the German Journal of Frankfort, chosen unto a bride at Pesth. The marriage, the letter stt take place at Galatz, and after the ceremony tb couple will proceed to India. QUA:KW' An t MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. — amount of stir was on Wednesday raornine vicinity of the Society of Friends' Bull-street, in connection with a mania known was about being 'carror ,4 ; pair kept dashing up, filled chiefly with nun,. asses, sisters or - friends of the bride, aid so 1 ' sight caused the assemblage of crowds of Pe either side of the street.. The bridegroom , I out, was no other than Mr lineton, M.P. for South Durham, and Henry Peas, member of the Society of Friends. The about to• marry was the eldest daughter of 3 1 Lloyd, of the Old Park Iron Works, Wedr therefore connected closely with 'o respected kcal families past ten, by which time the hand was filled, fully one-half the cong strangers. couples, sat The bridal party, numbering- tea, near the upper end of the cL.912,,e'0,i, cenfre.Of one of the sides of the square which Old was occupied by the bride and bridegroom. Ten 00 ' minutes having been spent in the silent worslq to the sect, prayer was offered up by one of f o 'ol gentlemen who occupied a raised platform. Aft.,1,4 interval of deep silence, Mr. Pease and Miss denly rose of their own accord, and, having c 13 . 5 r e l other's right hand, the former said in a dist i ':; o o " Friends, I take this my friend Mary Lloyd, Ll be my wife, promising, through Divine assistar' - ', ? unto her a faithful and affectionate husband til,„f please the Lord by death to separate us.' 0 0 Mary Lloyd, jun.," repeated this vow and be in more subdued tones, and then she and. o 0 band resumed their seats. Five minutes' ti3O, appropriate discourse by a brother of the br a _ 1 „1:; another interval of quietness, another „ mon, and then one of the office-bearers of tn i stepped forward with a parchment, the con which he read. This document recited t hat, Pease and Mary Lloyd, junior, have decl intention to take each other in marriage before spective monthly meetings of the Sodiety commonly called Quakers, and have the case ° said meetings, and of parents, &c., had anPe 3l that morning and had taken the above and Mrs. Pease then signed this instrument, I N Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. John +- others. This done, the ceremony was at an et mingham, Post. The Nord states that the treaty of con° navigation between Russia and Great. Britai n, I been negotiated at St. Petersburgh, betro c Gortchakoff and Sir John Crampton, was the 12th. The Belfast Whig, taking occasion from the T'G straction of papers from the Exchange, reS merchants a lesson upon morality. It is rig' editor of the Whig should know that the gen t pocketed the newspaper is an Irishmar A semi-official journal at Madrid, the t_ Autografa, says that the orders have been P I Andalusian authorities not to "render "offici 3 . to the Count de Paris," but "to confine th en' the social a n d p o liti ca l attentions due to the high and misfortunes of the young prince." ROBBERY OF £27.—On Tuesday evening from the neighbourhood of Kilsyth, was r e l , pocket-book cont a i n i ng £27, e ith er w hile on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Station/ in a public -house into which he had entered minutes, and where there was a female, of rho some suspicion. Glasgow Mail. A joint meeting of the College of Physician' Society of Arts was held on Th urs d a y, a t the the Society of Arts, in the Adelphi, at w hich 1 silver cup, value £lOO, and containing gold c 4 same value, was awarded, under the will of George Swiney, to Dr. Alfred S work on Medical Jurisprudence. by C. -Wentworth Dilke, Esq. PROBABLY THE LAST OF THE IRISH VOL Died, at Corbally, on the 10th instant, James Esq., at the advanced age of 113. He vol s re oi member of the volunteer corps, and wasl e 0.0 Dungannon at the great meeting. of 1782. J'u fg ii from his own place to Rathfriland, a distance 0 4 01 a few days before his death. His death is just'l by all who knew him.—Banner of Ulster. 1 A Paris letter in the Emancip a ti on o f Brusse l s " Notwithstanding the rupture of diplomat ic , / between Piedmont and Austria, the reignii l °o of the two countries, who are related, have p amicable communi ca ti ons . I n consuence t tnA Clotilda wrote, it is said, w ith th e y nthoronot King her father, to the Emperor of Austria, tt ) f w her approaching marriage with the Prince and it is added that the Emperor re t u rned tionate reply of congratulations." trbi —Goa tine Tay?' The chair SHOCKING ACCIDENT TO A CLERQYMAN. --- '7; Professor Watson, of the Theological College; 0 0 , street, Hackney, London, was on Friday on Lewisham. On returning home about hal f "'",' o'clock, and when nea r L on d on -b r id ge, h e vf3s ;011 the mouth by the ironw or k o f th e po l e o f au „ o pt which entirely ca rr i e d away hi s nose an d the ;o0 4 „ tion of his mouth. He was picked up by some and conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, whet*e surgeons and medical staff rendered every assit" s lit from the severe nature of the injury, n ot n i l hopes are entertained of the rev. gentleman's!b 1 ' It is positively staied, -;: ;;;11;77;;;;e 4 i " that a project, which has been many time' o f r relative to the centralisation and the workiog,tio o ; provincial theat res by one private adminis b l l s r just been sent t o th e Mi n i ster o f S tate an d 'tor commission. According to the terms, of tbi sl "tl4, artistes will n o t on l y b e proper l y paid, be"„al have a reti r i ng pension secure d to them eq-10P third of th e i r sa l ar i es. T wo - t hi r d s o f the Peoff duced by the working of the theatres will be t be!, paid into a fund for the assistance of all be musicians, and other persons employed, to them over and above the pensions which , receive." t , o d rj The Queen of Prussia and many distingui s- fe" attended the Propaganda College at Romet,. l l ago, to hear the speeches of the various puPir t io, memoration of the Epiphany. These con - 41 4 , recited in Hebrew, literal and vulgar Chal e „" literal and vulgar Armenian, Arabic, Pers' 3 ' o ll 7 ,l Bengalese, Turkish, Coptish of Thebes, 31 01 N10.4 Soudan, Hindostanee, Chinese, the variou s 0 . ‘7„,0 languages, and, finally, one of those of Islands ; making in all forty-one differe ll ,oo, l l Amongst the scholars who figured on this , o , e s,,bo': r ; Mr. Alexander Chisholm, son of the Mrs. 1 -' l- 00 0 11 famous for her benevolent effort' in favour n ° ,l e lict t o to Australia. This youth recited an ode in t 7 , 0 0 01 itlg to the St ar i n th e E as t which guided til a e n dt 9 birthplace of the Saviour, and invite 4 801- 04 its ancient religious creed.