Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-28 00:00:00

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THEArms ROYAL—Dramatic Performin-e-7 p.m. HOTAL AM PRITMEATRE—Dramatic Performance-7 p.m. LIVIRPOOL ACADEMY'S EXHIBIT ON, Postoffice-place. ALLSOP'S WAXWORK EXHIBITION-1O a.m. to 10 . p.m. ILATTON HALL, Clayton-square—Gordon Cumming-8 p.m. Rom CoLosssan —General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. 2T. Gsoasta's HALL—Organ Performances-3 p in. iio" For particulars see advertisements. --! o'e tittatti MONDAY, SEPTEMBEI? 28, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. Wedneslay f the 7th proximo, has been settled upon as a day for national humiliation and prayer, in consequence of the deplorable state of affairs in India. The selection of a week-day for this solemn occasion, shows the serious sense entertained by the Government of the crisis which has called forth the official announcement. It is to be hoped that the occasion may be " improved"—as the modern phrase goes—to the best purpose, that is, to the relief di the sufferers from the unforeseen and unparalleled atrocities, the bare recital of which has roused and excited the warm and indignant sympathies of every person in town and country, and even of all our foreign friends and allies, who have come forward so nobly in the cause of civili zation, to express their horror of the unheard-of, and barbarous crimes whichhave been committed, upon the most helpless and innocent'of our race, We are glad to learn that Major General Have lock is to be promoted to the honour of being a Knight Commander of the Bath, for his distin guished services near Lue.know. We are now anxiously awaiting the receipt of further telegraphic news from India; and it is most likely that before we go to press we will be in possession of a telegram" from Cagliari or Trieste. It is now quite due, if not over due, and it is impossible to overrate the anxiety that is felt by the public on this all-engrossing . aubject Never, perhaps, wa r s the public mind so much excited by any passing events. The Observer, though it is told that the news by this forthcoming mail is to be bad, hopes that it will not be bad—in fact it is of a different opinion. " We were caught napping. Our representatives in India had too much confi dence in the native troops, whom they had often led to victory, but who were too highly pampered, and left with arms in their hands to butcher our innocent wives and children with the cruelty and all the treachery of Oriental barbarism. But, by this time, they are taught a severe and salutary lesson. Our troops are arriving day by day. Some days - there are five hundred—some days there are a thousand—all stout and trained men, under true and faithful leaders. This tide of conquest—cr of re-conquest--will arrive daily•for the next three months, establish the supremacy of civilisation upon a more firm basis than ever, and scatter to the winds all the evil auguries that have surged up i amongst the flood of ignoranee, of mutiny, of cruelty, and of ingratitude, such as never before unsettled, fol. a Chile; the regular march of order and good government, to the destrucion of more human life than has been heard of since fabulous times." The Bankers' Circular is in favour of the abolition 9f the chat ter to the East India Company, who, not content with the mere lase of poLtical power into their hands, seize upon all the private property of the deceased Rajah's relatives—dis lodges every tenant of the soil—deprives all classes of the means of a livelihood—and, as Mr. Norton forcibly remarks, "in a week succeeds in converting .Tanjore from the most respectful contented place in our dominions into a hotbed of sullen disaffec tion." The paper alluded to says It can Scarcely Alla doubted that if we would 'retain India under the sway of British power, our first duty is to subdue the rebellion. Bat if we neglect those higher duties which are demanded of us as a civilised nation, should it once more be.placed in our hands, revenge at some future day will again be the fate of England's sons and daughters in a-terrible form. The real friends of India must be sought for in England ; the government of India must form a prominent feature in the British parliament, where jtistiee can be meted out to it without the interf?rence of a closeted clique, whose only interest is to exact tribute from the conquered. We must have no East India Coriipauy incompetence—we must get rid of the Board of Controi—and legis late for India through the British parliatnent. We have already adverted to the sloweess of the present recruiting for the Indian army, but it seems by the Ministerial print of yesterday, that we sadly underrated the number that are joining -the army. It says that they reach 1,000 per week. We very much doubt this. The only way it s: eels at present to bring in large additions to the line, is to raise the bounty and reduce the standard. Until this is done, nothing like the .adequate force can be despatched to Indio. s. The Board of Trade returns for the month of August, have just been issued. They represent generally, a very satisfactoty condition of manu tures and trade. In the great item of national exports, large increases ate again met with. Th us the whet) value of Br - t'sh produce, which in August, 1856, had increased to £10,758,000 from £8,891 : 000 in same period of 1855, 'amounted ic. the August of .1857 to £11,038,000, an increase of about £835 000 on August, 1856, and nearly double that amount on the same month of 1855. In the eight months of the year for which the returns account the increase is stilt more striking. In the first eight months of 1855 the value of British exports was .260,154,0 , 00, in the same term of 1856 £74 689 000, and in that of the ice °sent year, £81.666,000 — being, in round nuastbers, an increase of ten millions on last year, and of twenty.four and a half milliettS on the present one. We may thus calcu late that the national exports of the year 1857 will reach the unexampled value of £130,000,000 In the important commodities comprising the articles entered for home consumption there is a general in crease ; and the navigation returns also exhibit - progressive activity. In every respegt the returns .may be regarded with unalloyed gratification. The Sheffield people h eve given a great public reception to Lord John Russell. A vast multitude assembled at the railway station to welcome him with their plaudits. The Town Council presented him -- - erltth a highly compPmentary address. The wor ki n g classes addressed him as the great advo cate of Parliamentary Reform, and urged the justice of a large extension of the franchise to the n on- e l 3eteral portion of the community. The Jews also addressed the noble Lord as the champion of their emancipation. To these various addresses,Llrd John returned appropriate replies He more particularly claimed to be the friend of the working man, His Lordship presided at a Ragged School Meeting, and delivered a speech on the educational question. He insisted upon the desirability of depriving the schools of the poor ge far as possible of their charitable character, and respecting that feeling of independence which is inherent in the English character. The domestic news this morning is devoid of any interest or importance. We give the fullest and latest particulars of the late railway accident, the murder at Bristol, and several other matters. Locally, ws are very dull, nothing of moment occurring. We are in the receipt of four days later news from the United States, by the arrival of the Asia. The conditions on which the American and New Granadian governments have settled the dispute have bsen published, and they will be found in our regular summary of the news. A very severe hurricane bad swept over the Southern coast, and many vessels had been lost, and much damage done to property in North Carolina and Southern Virginia. Several railroad acci dents are announced, resulting in serious loss of life. The American papers publish the address of the Free State men of Kansas to the people of the United States, prepared by a com mittee appointed at the recent convention held at Grasshopper Falls, at which it was determined to participate in the approaching election for dele gate to Congress and for members of the territorial legislature. The address deserves to be carefully read. It is a dispassionate document, presenting with force and perspicuity the reasons why the people have thus far refrained from voting, and why they have now adopted another course. It shows what faint grounds they have to hope for fair play, and exposes the iniquity (fitly charac terised in the earnest language of the address ,by a strong expletive) of the apportionment of the legislature, whereby sixteen counties, strongly free-state, containing nearly one-half the entire population of the territory, are not allowed a single representative in either branch ; and ten out of thirteen members of the council, and twenty-nine out of thirty-nine members cf the House of Repre sentatives, are to be chosen by districts bordering on the Mis3ouri line. How abominable is this inequality ! Of Continental news there is not much this morning. The Emperor of the French has arrived at Stuttgard+. The French papers continue to be anxious for the safety of English possessions. The Speetateur of Paris proposes that a French garrison shall be sent to the Mauritius to protect the Europeans against the Indian immigrants. Our intelligence from Vienna is that the resolu tion of Francis Joseph to meet the Emperor Alex ander, has crated a ministerial crisis, and that, perhaps, Count Apponyi will succeed Count Buol in the Premiership. The evacuation of Herat by the Persian troops is denied. A telegraphic despatch from Constan tinople, of date September 13, states that Mr. Murray had addressed a remonstrance on the sub ject to the Persian Court. It does not augur well for the internal peace of the Scandinavian Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, that the States of Sweden have not been prevailed upon to come to a unanimous decision on the nomination of the Regent. Only the clergy and the nobility were in favor of the proposition of the government. According to the Swedish con stitution, the four assemblies of which the Parlia ment consists will have to elect corninittes which will form a General Committee to treat on the question. We may safely predict that the States of Sweden will not concede to the Regent the same fullness of power which the States of Norway have entrusted to him. The gentlemen accused of commercial frauds in France, in connection with the Northern Railway, have been adjudged, with the exception of one of them who is aeculitted, to terms of imprisonment for eight and five years. They are also required to restore those railway shares which they fraudulently took possession of. THE people of the British Empire—aye, and all who entertain respect and regard for the supremacy of England—are nobly doing their duty by subscribing liberally towards the fund for Ore relief of the sufferers by the Indian rebelliOn, and its attendant barbarities. Even the Sultan himself, for motives of state policy, has sent his donation of 1.0001., and has, at the same time, expressed his sympathy with th e British cause, and struck a blow at the Mahom medan conspiracy against British power. In such a state of things the chief matter for inquiry now is, not only at home but at the seat of the troubles in India, whether the action of the Government - has been, or now is, equal to the emergency. The public discussion o f such a subject is-not only necessary but perfectly legitimate. Most of our readers will, no dotibt, have been, like ourselves, much struck with the different versions of the disasters which have taken place in India, and the discrepancy that exists between the positive statements contained in the letters of private correspondents, and those views of the state of things there which have been circulated in this country 'for the purpose of cheering and encouraging the public mind. There is no doubt that the official accounts of the occurrences in India are prepared and forwarded by and under the auspices , of persons whose position compels them in a great measure to confine themselves to events which -, have already happened. It is, no doubt, con trary to their interest, as well as antagonistic to their official pride, to allude to the tuture, much less to draw legitimate inferences from the facts before them. On the other hand, the private letters which reach us contain the feelings, opinions, and, not unfrequently, exagge rated apprehensions of those who have already encountered the savage atrocities of the mutinous sepovs, or at every moment fear a visitation of horrible brutalities. It is only by a careful and unprejudiced comparison of these various versions of the Indian news that we can possibly arrive at a fair estimate of the truth. And here we are forced to confess that the local government of India appears in an unsatisfac tory light. Taken as a whole, the accounts by the last two or three overland mails clearly show that the ruling authorities in India have been much too prone to wait on events, and have doled out the somewhat limited means at their command to the more pressing wants of the hour, while private individuals, instigated by that dread which such a fearful occasion engen ders, exercised a foresight and precaution not always reliable, and have in general anticipated the evils which, unfortunately, in the vast majority of instances, time and circumstances have realised. But while there are these significant points of discrepancy between the public and the private advices from Tndia, there is, we are glad to say, one matter upon which each and all are firmly agreed. The strong and the faintest-hearted— ' military and civlAans—officers burning With nu THE NORTHERN insatiable desire to annihilate their fiendish foe s —women trembling in the agonies of someth ing worse than fear, for their honour and their lives —the man of commerce quailing before the approaching storm, which is to hurl at him, with the destructive , velocity of a thunderbolt, bank ruptcy and ruin, if not mutiny and rivers of blood at the very seat and stronghold of the Government itself,—each and all express their conviction that the local authorities at Calcutta have proved, aye, and will continue to prove themselvesanequal to the frightful emergencY with which they have to deal, and to dis Charge the serious task imposed upon them. • In proof of this opinion we need only quote the remarks of the Indian fugitives who arrived at Southampton on Thursday. They deliberately state that Calcutta and the upper provinces of India were in a frightful state. Besides this, some of the latest letters from gentlemen in Calcutta, which have been received in Liverpool, go far to prefer specific and categorical charges against the Government, that we cannot avoid thinking that, although too highly pictured, they are not without foundation. Indeed, we are told that one writer, in the depths of his despair —or, it may more probably • be, the extreme of his indignation—has been heard to suggest, that unless Lord CANNING be instantly recalled or change his tactics, we will, in all probability, shortly hear of the establishment in Chlcutta of a Vigilance Committee, a la California ! or, what would be . still more deplorable, a mutiny among the European troops ! ! No doubt these threats are at present of very little moment, and should be estimated at their real worth.' Nevertheless, they are not without significanoe, indicating as they unquestionably do the state of feeling among the inhabitants of Calcutta, and of the absolute and imperative necessity which exists for a change of tactics. We are further strengthened in these views from the fact that the opinions and conduct of the Indian Government have had their influence and sway upon the authorities at home. Just as at the outset of the Crimean campaign, time has been lost, and opportunities overlooked or neglected. At present, we are all bustle and confusion, in despatching military reinforcements to India; but it is impossible to close our eyes to the indisputable fact, that at the outset of the rebellion there was an almost total indif• ference to the higher responsibilities of states manship, and what would have only been a partial and local enzeute has been s'uffered to be come a national rebellion. The maxim of all Eng land's greatest , generals, including WELLINGTON, NAPIER, GOUGH, &c., that in military 'operations time is every thing, was disregarded, thereby enabling the savage mutineers to plan their ope rations, and prosecute their unchristian deeds of brutal infamy upon the lives of innocent women and children, not to speak of their bloody doings upon every English soldier who falls into their hands. We have seen in the columns of one of our weekly cotemporaries a communication, which,' certainly, merits some attention at the hands of the Government. The letter relates to the speediest mode.of transmitting troops from this country to India. It will be recollected that before the prorocation of Parliament, when questioned as to the desirability of sending out troops by the Overland _ Rmte, the Ministry denied "Its practicability, on the ground .that there was- a want of ships of adequate size to convey the troops' from Suez to India If the communication in .the Liverpool Courier can be relied upon, the difficulty . tiiged by the' Gov ernment could have been easily overcome. As' they are difficulties suggested by the- imagina tion,- inasmuch as it is a positiVe :fact that a regiment of English soldiers cdn, without any difficulty, be conveye4 : from Alexandria to Cairo in seven hours. From, that ,point the railway exteridS 'nearly fifty miles across the desert to Suez, leaving little more than twenty five miles of marching. So that the entire dis-j tance from Alexandria to Suez :could be easily accomplished, the marching included, in about three days. The more we come to learn of the proceedings of the Home Government and the autliorities at Calcutta, the more we are convinced that there has been gross mismanagement of the Indian war, and that much of the miseries and murders which have taken place must be attri buted to official mismanagement and goveinment routine. The Saturday Review thinks that there is an inherent vitality in railway undertakings which nothing but the grossest mismanagement could have depressed to its present feeble condition. Had a tenth part of the pru,.. denee and intelligence which are displayed in the ordinary commercial business of the country been exhibited by the directors of railway companies, shareholders would have had as much reason as the travelling public to congratu late themselves on the resells of the bold speeulatioa which so rapidly covered the country with its network of rails. The tables; which show the progress of traffic - and the amount of dividend for the last ten years, prove beyond all question that, but for the flagrant extrava gance practised by every ,board in the early days of the railway movement s a ten per cent. dividend, instead of being an unheard of thing, would have bee❑ the rule with the majority of companies. The average cost of the lines now in existence appears, by-Captain G repor! - , to have been about ,435,000 per mile, while the lines which have been opened since 1848 have been constructed at an expense of less that. , 210,030 par mile. There is no reason to believe that the more recent lines have been freer from engineering difficulties than' those which were thought the most promising at the coanmencement of the great experiment; and it seems to be fair inference, that the two-thirds of the capital sunk by the existing companies have been recklessly squandered, and that the average ra'n of interest realised, iticluding that upon loans and preference shares, as well as upon ordinarly stock, is not more than one third of what it would have bee: if a rea_ sonable thrift had taken place of the wild prodigaLity with which the money of railway companies has been expended. The Preis says—" The Conservative:party suffers even -TIME S.---LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER - 28. 1857 now from the strategy, or to speak more qxactly, the want of strategy, of the Conservative leaders in 1830-1-2. Their mode of dealing with Catholic Emancipation' had placed them in difficulties on Reform,' which they had not anticipated. The rapidity with which they struck their protestant colours to O'Connell and the Clare electors in 1829, while at the same time they pertinaciously resisted every moderate meastre of reform, was the worst course that they could have adopted. Their own Parlia ment did not follow them. They were deserted on Sir H. Parnell's motion for Financial Reform. But if the Tories were in difficulties about reform in 1830, it is very unsa_ tisfactory for us to know that the Whigs are in still greater difficulties about reform in 1858. There was a certain agreement and distinct understanding in 1832, to which the Whig ministry was a contracting party, which cannot be overlooked in 1858. Lord Palmerston knows all about it ; so does Lord John Russell; so do other still living members of Lord Grey's cabinet. On another occasion we shall have to allude to that agreement, and we shall take care that its binding force be maintained foi the preservation of the 'Rights of Conservatives.' " The Economist points out that our statesmen in India have—what so rarely falls to the lot of statesmen—carte blanche—a fair field. The Bengal army is gone, passed away into history, with all its defects, all its obligations, all its claims. It might have been very difficult to reform it—it will be comparatively easy to - re-construct it. The moment the principle on which its re-creation is to proceed his teen determined on, the moment we have satisfied ourselves as to those errors in its former constitution which rendered possible its late crimes and dissolution, we are free to act as on the first day of our imperial existence ; there are no ruins to interfere with the new edifice we choose to build, no embarrassing legacies of the past to hamper or control our action: If we are not successful now—if we do not create a new army, perfect at all points, adequate to our necessities, and specially adapted to our circumstances—we can plead no want of means, or expe rience, or golden opportunity, in extenuation of our failure. Never did rulers set to work with more unfettered hands. Thera is yet another jewel" of inestimable price to be found in this " venemous and ugly" visitation if we have but the wisdom to extract it, It will surely compel us— we shall be very senseless and very guilty if it do not compel us—to study thoroughly and to determine distinctly and deliberately the principles on which oar entire government of Hindostan shall in fature be conducted, so that all our measures shall be consistent with each other and convergent to one point, and so that for once and in one quarter of the world British policy shall be systematic, unlorm, and persistent. We can no longer, without wilful folly, act a little on one plan ani a little on another; hesitate between two opposing theories and end by borrowing something from both, or trying timidly and inefficiently each in turn ; allo w one goveraor-general to upset or neutralise the proceedings- of a predecessor, 'his antipodes in opinion and temperament ; in a word, leave one of the grandest empires ever entrusted to a nation at the mercy of that feeble vacillation which is the invariabl e result of half-knowledge and half convictions. The Dispatch has the following : -" Amicus Plato, sed majits arnica veritas, He best loves England who will not suffer his patriotism to ignore his sense of truth, and to lower the tone of public principle It seems now to be universally admitted that we can trust only to British troops to govern India, and that W 3 must totally disarm the native population. It is really believed that a territory of nearly 2,000 miles square, inhabited by myriads of semi civilised subjects, can be he.d in subjection by 50,000 or 100,000 Europeans, in defiance of chrmiic disaffec. tion, habitual fear, and the despairing disloyalty induced by imperious domination. Sepoys, we are assured; are as good as English troops if led. by English officers. It consists with our certain knowledge that Russian and other Earopean officers are at this moment flocking to Hindostan to command the revolted Sap oys. Thi s upeising has betrayed to the Czar and the other autocra'; s of Europe the fatalsecret that the people of India are prepared to receive an army of liberation with open arms; and let us bank the fact as we easy, that willtencefarth.be a perpetual source of weakness to us in the a ljustment of Earopean p eli_ tics. We have habitually speculated on the probability of a Russian invasion of India. Oa : ablest military authorities have considered it perfec`ly pealtic able. It is quite p ti c able, by co operation with the native princes and indepen dent native states, to draw thither unobserved all the notes nary muniments of an army. There are seventy millions of Flindoos the subjects uf independent native sovereigns all adjoining to, several surrounded by, our dominions. How can we prevent these states from organising large sanding armies, cffieered ant taught by Europeans, and filling arsenals with. the _necessary equipments_for war ? We are coolly told that these states must be annexe], by hook or by crook, so that England alone shall reign in Hindoitan . HeVe'aie not enoug's on our hands- already ? The more we take, the more we have to hold, to garrison, to overawe ; if thi,i be our polipy, hoW is our -pepulation' to stand the drain of troops, the drain of our exchequer-? = When is the income-tae to end? How high will the poundage reach ?'' . • The Leader has 'Especially refr duel, upon all occa sions, from reckless invective against mut wh ), like Lord Canning, occupy, responsible positions in times of confusion and ,calamity. and whose duties have to be psrfarnie d in the midst of i sudden aiaiins, and even actual dangers. Bat it is impossible to resist the canelasion that, as Gover nor-General of India, Lord Canning stands convicted of indifference or incapacity. The case against him _ rests not upon . suspicion, - but upon absOltitie e7idence Overrating himself and underrating the dangers of the country, what guarantee have we that Lord Canning is the man to whom should be entraste d the conduct of that gigantic struggle by which, if by anything, the English are to regain the stipremacy of India ? Th.) curse of the nation is that no guarantee is required from men -in responsible situations. We insist as little upon qualifications as upon guarantees. General Anson was an ensign with the bag gage guard at Walerloo, and we made him :Commander-in chief in India. Fame gathered by field days in Hyde park has been permitted to supersede great Indian reputations —Outram and Lawrence are no competitors of Anson . and Canning. The favourites may break dawn, it is true; but British nepotism is ingenious. To sati fy the public ( which is easily satisfied), a board of old Peninselars will sit, and whitewash every one concerned. But we are anticipating. We have net yet made head against the rebellion and if the feeb'e government at Calcutta should bend to the blast, it may at length be thought necessary by the nation at hor43 the' personal vanity should give way to imperial interests; and that_lndia should be saved; even at the risk of offehee to Viscount Canning and M . Vernon Smith." The Illiesl,reed News, on the other hand, remarks that " opinions differ as to the length of time and the amount of sacrifice by which the final v;otory of Great Britain will be achieved ; but there is no difference of opinion on the main fact, that we are fated to conquer, and that the loss of India by this country would be a calamity to the'world. The only exceptions, to the unanimity of feeling are pecu liar. They all spring from one source—the hostility of the Ultraliontane ani Ultra Popish party. They are not influenced by reasons of state, bat by reasons of religion. A few rabid Irishmen—and they no Ay be counted by units, not by hundreds —gloat over the dis tresses of Protestant Eogland. Cardinal Wiseman mani fests a lukewarm and jesuitical sympathy with the country of which he claims to be a native, but not until ha has been roughly called to account for passages in his pnb: lished sermon which might warrant a different interpeta tion ; and the French Roman Catholic journals—which would restore Franca, if it were in , their power, to the darkness of the middle ages, when St. Louis was the type alike of manhood, of royalty, and of Christianity— express doubts as to our ultimate triumph, and a very strong conviction that, if we—heretics as we are— should be the winners, it will be a misfortune t o Europe and the Church of Rome. One or two who only hate England Orlean s. Print" of Perla, because the present Emperor established the Anglo-French alliance —a feat of statesmanship which Louis Philippe had neither the talent nor the honesty to achieve—affect to believe that England must be bea'en out of India ; but with these slight exceptions Europe and the world are with us. The fact is cheering, and will not only have its weight in the councils of this great empire, but in the ranks of our armies. It is better to fight with the appro bation of mankind than without it ; and that the world approves of what we have done and are doing in India is clear to demonstration. Even the Russians know that we shall win. They may lament the fact, bat they lack the assurance to deny it. The United Service Gazette has the following : Emphatically we say, then, let the idea of resuscitating the native army be altogether discarded. It has been an excresence for the past eight years—it has been a curse and a scourge for the past six months. We are convinced that Englishmen can always be found in sufficient num_ bers to keep up a force of 80,000 bayonets and sabres, provided that pains be taken to cherish the force by not needlessly exposing it to irksome duties under a powerful sun. A couple of hundred low caste natives might be attached- to every regiment, as the gun Lascars are to the Artillery, to perform all the fatigue work of the corps, such as mounting guard in the heat of the day, escorting prisoners, stores, and treasure, protect ing baggage, keeping clean the barracks, the arms, and the accoutrements of the Europeans, pitching tents, &c. This was their duty in the last century—the conversion of them into regular soldiers was an idle concession to their pride, which we have lived to repent. They are only fit to do the work of slaves—they are unworthy of a higher occupation." THE BAHIANA.—This fins steamer sails to-day for Ports mouth, where .she will at owe embark troops, and sail direct for Indi THE WEATHER, up to Saturday, in the past week, was very file and warm—a sort of second surnm , r. There was a change early yeot rday morning, wren the wind altered, as the moon got into its first quarter about that time. Very heavy rain f .11 during the day. Thera has been ,no indication of the equinosiAl gales ❑p to the present. BODY OF A FEMALE FOUND. —Yesterday roczaing, the holy of a wall dressed female, who appea , ted to be about 35 years of age, was found floa log in the T. yeeth D )ck, by the dock-gateman. There was a small EMI) of money found in her pocket, brit at p-esent thore is no•hiag to in licate her identity. The body lies at the dead-house. ACCIDENT.—The Old Swan 'bus, that leaves at nine in the morning, when turning from London-road to Lime street, on Saturday, met with an accident, by the falling of the centre horse, which caused some alarm amongst the passengers, as it was supposed the 'bus was jeopardised. Fartanetely, no damage (except the fright) was sustained by all one. MR. AND MRS. BARNI.Y WILLIAM..—We are glad to he able to say that these performers appear at the Theatre Royal fer six nights more. Mr, Williams is one of the truest representatives of Irish comic humour the stage has seen for many years ; and the equally peculiar acting of his wife e serves admirable to set off his admirable delineations. The success which follows the Irish B iy and Yankee Girl eve-vwhere has been nowhere mere brilliant than in Liver po 1 _ STREET ACCIDENTS.--On Saturday, an accident, which was near being attendel.by serious emsequenc)s, occurred in Lord-street. A car, belonging to Mr. Bruinby was stand ing near Great Charlotte-street, when the horse suddenly started off, aid ran through Clayton-square into Lord street, where it was fortunately. stopped; not, however, until it had received some consderable damage. The driver was thrown off, and received a severe contusion 'on the temples. On the same day, a donkey and car', the latter fi led with vegetables, raminfo the sewer now being constructed in the London-road, at the corn' r of Seymour street.. The woman who had the case of the c art was much injured, and bad to be conveyed to the Dis2ensiry. PASSENGERS per R.M.S Asia, E. G. Lott Commander, froni New York—Mrs. Purcell, Professor Icelland, Mr. Boninjer, and Mrs. J G. Lohmenn ; Messrs. Brand, Walter M'Gee, John Gaunt, George Berlow, Captain S. Goodhue ' Chevalier Manthuer, Daniel leases, G.. H Newhall, A. G. Findlay, D. S. Jackson, Bowrier, W. H. Lewis, Lewis Hope, Bristow, Adolphus Johns, Julius Hess, John Frazer, S. M. Burritt, W.A. Dewar ; Mrs. Miller and child, Maria Peekhem ; Miss Ann Baxter ; Ray. * M. Theocleire.; Me. R. Meagher, John Needham, James Gray, James E. Miller, Rev T. Eetchnaann, M. Galtier, Me. M A. lienssella, Mr. J. D. Orange, and Mrs. Charles Bernhard and three infants, • Mrs. Johnson and child, Mr Hackett. THE lATZI MAJOR NIACDONIALD.—A correspondent at Rock Ferry writes:—Perhaps you are not aware that the IVLijor Macdonald noticed in tee Non-ruses Times of this day (Saturd I), was, •ie: net actual'y a native of the place, very oLosely connec:ei with i% ; His father was for many Seas 'coniin inder of one of the quarantine ships fortnerly moored off Rock Ferry. A 'brother, who is a captain in the East India Conpan)'s service, resides here now with his famly ; &se two or three sisters, one of which i 3 the wife of Doctor Roper, of St. Paul's R •ad, • Rock Perry. jur tegiruent mutinied, shortly after the event named in your paper, murdering himself and wife, together With 'all its officets, &c. Teree children belonging to Major Mee lonald were saved by the servant, and are now on their way home. CORONER'S legineere —Thu coroner held the folio-vine incre3ts on Saturday: ---eO.l the b dy Ora chilli, named Robert C irry, six weeks old, the soa of Mr. Corry, 60; Myrtle-street. , It appeared that the servant girl had the chill in her arena, %El was currying a basin, whin, by some accident, she fell end broke the besin, a pieCe of which stuck in toe child's neck, and caused 'death. Verdict, "Accidental death:" On the bie ly of a chiP,about a fortnight old, that was overlain in bed in the Wo'rkhouse. Verdice, " Accidentally suffocated." On the body f Wm. Aldridge, a man who was working on board the steamer Badger, on the 24th, and was hurt by a fall, from the results of which he died in the Sorthern iospital. Verdie, " Accidental death." • RAPID PASSAGE.—The add] ship, Azatha - Maria; arrived here on t.e 240 inst., from Amsterdali, hts made the passage . irom that pert to the Mersey in the extraordinary short piee of four days. She sailed from Amsterdam a little after one o'clock on Sunday last, the 20th inst., and at two o'clock on Thursday she. was at anchor_ ii our rifler. S'ae is quite a new vessel, having been launched only two months back, and is destined for the Java trade.' This is' the second Dutch c'ippar at oar port within the last fortnight. The Willem Krouprius (fez. Nederlanden, a vessel equal in every respect to the gatha and Maria, having been reported 11.-re on Ills 10th inst., this latter vessel has_ made a very rapid .pass ige from Rotte:•clarn. Both ships are quite new, and it is anticipated that they will mike the fastest runs out to Batavi I Ole destination of b )th ship) that hive ever yet been made. The, Lincoln Mercury says :—lt is definitely stated that there will bd one day's race for. Lincoln, and that the con test wail come, off on Thursday, the 22nd October, There are, it is announced, to be six races and it is stated that the adc'e I money will amount to fu'ly £2OO. LONDON 001' OF TOWN.— [8 it really . ? wha went to the Crystal Palace list Saturday moneing, and saw 19,000 persons in . the midst of,v,vnriders of art, listening to such a cane rt for a s'ailling as would have gratified the most - faStidi Nis, or who had tri4d to take, places for the opera at, her Majesty's The ttre that night, and - could't get theria ; or who saw the - Surrey Music-halt on "Sunday morning packed full of wor , hippors, or. got mixed up with the str,tam t of lie that filled the New-road in the evening of that same day o! rest—might reasonably doubt the asser tion. Nevertheless , it is true, comparatively "speaking, Griosvenor-scpare, .13,1gravii, and Tvbarnia ars desolate, and a m member or other of ere y houeeliold, Smith, Jones, and Robinson, has fli . ted, far or near, to unbend for a while, and get fresh alt.—The Builder. Intelligence has been received in Penrith of the safety of Captain Harrison, his lady, and family. He was in Command of the 2nd Nizam Cavalry, a division of the Gwalior Contingent, which mutinied almost to a man. The dangers; hair-breadth escapes, and privations to which be and his family have been sulject during a ten days' and nights' wandering in a hostile country—unfet, unrested, scorched by day, and drenched by night, impeded in their flight by impassable rivers, harassed by swarms of fiends, thirsting for victims and intent on plunder—all this and more, which may be -imagined, but cannot be described. All will rejoice to know that so gallant an officer is sill spared to defend the honour of the British arms, sad we (Carlisle Patriot) hope he will long be preserved to be a comfort to his aged father, Col. Harrison. lsrEw SOUNDING INSTILUMCNT.—Copt. C. F. Brown, of Warren, It. 1., has invented an explosive sounding instru mane, which is entitled to notice in connection with the various appliances brought into requisition to insure the success of the proposed Atlantic telegraph. It is thus described. " The invention consists in attaching to a spindle a long spberoidaribamber ' containiug some gu :- powderlvithin the lower part, and having underneath the chamber a needle operate I by a spring, which is forced against a cap on a nipple, and thereby igniting the charge of powder when. the lower end of the spindle strikes the bottom , and the time that elapses from the period the instrument is dropped until the sound is heard, or concus sion felt, is noted and depth determined upon positive data to form proper conclusions." The inventor is a practical navigator. • TELEGRAPHIC NEB, By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph' INDIA. . ~ it 011 v No news has arrived from India, thong - -- dog hourly expected ; yet it is quite possible that 0 two may elapse before it arrives. THE.ROYAL INTERVIEW. A despatch from Stuttgardt, dated yesterdai , 01 that the Emperor of Russia had taken the initiati first visiting the Emperor Napoleon. a l oe The French 3 per cents. experienced another derable rise,closing at 68f yesterday. BELFAST RIOTS. COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY• Ty Brit'ish_aiul Irish Magnetic Telegrap h ' va pid • BELFAST, Saturday t The Commissioners took their seats this dili„adot o clock. A witness yesterday having stated that ' Town Clerk had an office adjoining the TowP.Ahl; .11"- ' s o Lindsay, chief constable, came forward to-u_ll, contradicted this. Mr. James Speeres, a Presbyterian clergYn in o' that from the first Sunday in January to the c ° 7 ls / 1 meet of the riots, hs preached regularly every 13es S fi l ti , the open air, and he never encountered any 01 3 ,;.,:ter Mr. Ramsey, Primitive Wesleyan Methodist 1"00 complained of being attacked with stones while rcts), from in in-door service on the 'evening of tho 13t 0 1 July, in the Romish districts.—Mr. Hirst, minister ,i 0 same denomination, also complained of a simil ar on the same evening, and in the same place. Mr. Givynn, a solicitor in Antrim, and a membe",°,oo Orange Society since 1843, handed to the Conarnissejet! documentary evidence containing the rules of t he ; ° ,,,eP and the certificate given at that time by the Bon' ":;04 Napier, Q.C., M.P., as to the legality of the soch 4l its re organisation in 1849. cie t !i Lord Enniskillen, Grand Master of the Orang e -3 og; came forward and explained the rules of the so oiet' c ietJ ei, contradicted reports to the ' effect that the so, secret signs and passports,"and stated his rea se° ,,e applying to the Hon. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , cure arms for the Orange Society, at the thus el O'Brien's rebellion. et: l° 'r Two witnesses, named McConnell and 0 4 , deposed to having seen Protestants attacked vii th ; t° o' while passing the Romish districts, both in I L '' September. Thomas Ward, a member of the Oran e Soo let!: 0 1 0#, that on the morning of the 12th of July, g members of the lodge, to the number of 80 or o.° o l the evening to the number of 200, walked wi tl3°°t emblems to church, and met with no opposition• a r Captain-Dyer, a post-captain in the navy , $13 0 ,J 0 Englishman, gave a description of a riot that occnro, the 6:h of September, in High-street, while a fn a p. ef ,tDoL it passing. He said he was present when a Roman v ' 111 priest officiated at the Custom-house in Dibl i° uP 'c , presence of a great number of Protestants, and sition or riot took place. The court then adjsuened till this day (Mond 3ll 'o , BELFAS r, sto ri iro,,°' Mr. Mailer, ex-Licentiate of the Presbyterian "lir preached to-day five times in different districts ° , l O Ol l town to very numerous and attentive cong e , g , d , There was riot the slightest attempt at disturb?" one of the services upwards of one thousand were preresnt. SOLEMN FAST FOR INDIA., ON WEDSO' OCTOBER 7. er s In close connection with the subject of the st , '" tb ~r India, the public will learn, with great satisfac tio i t a day of national humiliation has been appolvt e4 h l) Queen in Council, at Balmoral, for Wednesdai , of October. The following is a _copy of the Pra- tion : ( The London Gazette Leraordinar y. S e P tG s ) "By the Queen. A Proclamation for a Dai °` Fast, Humiliation, and Prayer. 0 cr, " VICTORIA R: We, taking into our most , s erieu l sideration the grievious mutiny and disturban ces 05 1! have broken out in India, and putting Ou r tr v il/ , , Almighty God that Fie will graciously bless Our , 0 0'' ‘f fer the restoration of lawful authority In that f o ' have resolved and do, by and with the advic e ° 11J Privy Council, hereby command, th a t a Publ i „ of, Solemn Fast, Humiliation, and P ra yer, be 0 e.. ; af(4 throughout — those parts o f our Unitedfe9; called England and Ireland, on W e d nes day, the Seed day of October next, that so both We and OJr pro may humble Ourselves befor e Almighty GA , to obtain pard'on of OUr . sins, and in the most elc v ; c ej solemn manner send up Our Prayers and SaPP l i - ff to the Divine Majesty, for . imploring His Bt ess f -9 0 1 ; Assistance on Our arms for the Restoration e- 1 1 0 ! 1 quility : And We do strictly charge and come 3e A ' ve j the said day be reverently and devoutly observ e- 17 ',4 Our loving subjects - in : England and Ireland , ° bet, tender the favour of Almighty God. And for th e giF and more orderly solemnising the same, We 111 ` .° 0 r ,} directions to the Most Reverend the Archbis tle i r' lt t the Right Reverend' the Bishop of England an d 'ie e o' ) to compose a Form of. Prayer suitable to this occ s :iej be used in all Churches, Chapels, and Places °` sQe Worship, and to take care the same be timely throughout their respective Dioceses. 4 6 "Given at Our Court at Balmoral, this tWel l " th ° 3?ptemb , ' ,he o. ..?ptember, in the year of our Lord, eight hundred and fifty-seven, and in the t`/' year of Our reign. —GOD save tfie QUEEN. o f d A similar document has been prepared for 3 ts j, l t t solemn fast, humiliation, and prayer for SOL I "' 0 1 otderrug Proelamitioa of the same to be Wad e usual way, at the Market Cross of Edinburgh. THE NORTHERN RAILWAY ROBBER 15 , 5 1 . 1 4 eS IvAr ter At the sitting of the Court of Assizes.Y G ai, the public prosecutor addressed the jury il l o i 'leP t y of the indictment. M. L ac h au d a f terwa rds pot 01 for Carpentier, rep resen ti ng himas a viet l 7,o l V 'passion for gold . and for St oc k E xc h an ge g: g cl': l j which characterises the epoch. He depl°';o"o 4 at the early age of 25,-the " fearful . resPc' n 'iVill of the post of cashier of a great eriterpris e „ i • t oi Northern Railway had been imposed on l i had at first only taken sh ares i n .the b e ' o ft", i f by the use,of them he mi g ht r e ali se a large' ti ” e 0 and his firm intenti on h a d b een to re ster i 43 o fl i f f The learned advocat e passed in review al l regarding the prisoner, representing al e ;1' 1 "P favourable a light as:Possible, and cf:, - .y..1 by imploring the indulgence of the J u de o ff the course of his speech the learned g e- r oA fi , made some sharp observations on the is which -the advocates employed by ri d 6 d' tier in the T.Tnited States had. acted, t , i ; of 9 { that their:" wretched subtleties" and In ° ";13 0 ,1)? vocacy has so disgusted the prisoner , dil l :, of o, resolved to give himself up to the jils li , i et ' 6 el country. During a ll the ti me the n_ °ain't:oo'lV speaking Carpentier wept bitterly. M. v;;,, pleaded for G re ll e t, an d d we lt fol g i hi 9 fact, as an ext enua ti ng circumstance , in - a O. that . he had mid e th e f u ll es t disedosu r ';,ol,,,,it 4 Dufaure th en p rocee d e d to a dd res s th°,; l B V Pared, and he had. n o t co n cl u d e d wherl3l" rose. :O f' d DEPARTURE CP M. CEI,HOLM ANSON . ": ert i t ol o 4 KONG.—Mr. T. Cliisoim .A., , s , ey, our a'torn6sl: 9 ow . r t ! having been absent about seventeen Mantbs, pr„ro, his second leave of absence—in this i n stal l bio„q: r months, we understani—and having sold off s' to P ;pb , : t tare and given up his how, he left for Calc i t t lo g ioY* o Lancefield. Mr. Henry Kingsrnill, the youngr 'cl o t o i of the bar, succeed, as acting attorney-gene ra " t int general impression that Mr. Anstey does 0° O r return here, but to settle in India,— Hong" li g Register, ,•ft.,........