Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-04 00:00:00

tammtrcial salts. THIS DAY Tins DAY, the 4th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 510 Bales JUTE. BROWNE, HUNTER, and CO., Brokers Apply to Apply to On account of whom it may concern. Tins DAY, the 4th instant, at Half-past One o'clock, at Broker's Office, Corn Exchange-buildings, Brunswick -street A quantity of Wheat FLOUR, EMPTY SACKS„Wc., and alai quantity of BURNT SACKS, suitable for Paper Manufacture being the remainder of the salvage from the late fire at Regen Mill, and now lying on the premises. —Apply to H. H. GOLDING, Broker .....,.... TO-MORROW To-monnow, the sth instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 198 Casks FISH OIL (f or soap making), 200 Casks GINGELLY OIL, 65 Casks TEEL OIL, 100 Casks CASTOR OIL, 1500 Bags MYRABOLMA.S, 50 Bales SENNA, 48 Bags Blue GALL, 130 Cwt. SABANNVOOD. B nowNE, IIUNTER, and CO., Brokers TO-MORROW, the sth instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 979 Barrels American ROSIN (various qualities), landing ex City of Washington (s.), from New York.—Apply to Messrs. A. Baruchson and Co., Merchants; or to J. H. RAYNER and CO., Brokers. To-monunw, the sth instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Bro✓ Ace, 16, Exchange-buildings, t 218 Bags GUM KAU.RIE, rne.—Apply to J. 11. RAYNER and Co., Brokers .er's O 1 At es Marco Polo, from Melboi To-monnow, the sth instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, llackin's Hey, 16 Packages fine Americani BEES' WAX, per Columbia, from New York.—Apply to SLEIGH, GASKELL, & Co., Brokers THURSDAY On TUURSDAY next, the 6th instant, at Twelve o'clock at the Brokers' Office, 30, Exchange-alley North, 1200 Double Bundles PIASSAVA, now landing ex Canadian Lass, from Bahia, Albert Dock further particulars apply to HIGSON, and CO., Brokers, On account of whom it may concern. On THURSDAY next, the 6th instant, at One o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 30, Exchange-alley - North, 8 Hogsheads SUGAR, all faults, just landed ex Tyner, from Demerara.—For further particulars apply to SHAND, HIGSON, and CO., Brokers. On account of whom it may concur On THURSDAY next, the 6th .instant, at One o'clock, at the Brokers' Office,_l3, Exchange-buildings, 50 Hogsheads St. Lucia SUGAR, all faults, ex Wanderer Apply.to T. and H. LITTLEDALE and CO., Brokers Postponed from Wednesday. 4)n THURSDAY next, the 6th inst., at Twelve o'clock, at the • Brokers' Office, 18,Ilackins-hey, 250 Bags fine new CLOVEUSEED, just landed eTha-ultia, from New York ; 500 Bags tine new CLOVERSEED, cx Wyoming, from Philadelphia.—Apply to SLEIGH, GALKELL and CO., Brokers 7 riliußsDAY next, the 6th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Broker's Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 15 Casks fine American bagged Sperm OIL, landed ex Thornton from New York. —Apply to Messrs. Maclean, Maris and Co., merchants ; or to J. H. RAYNER & CO., Brokers. F ItID AY On FRIDAY next, the ith instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' (Mee, 13, Exchange-buildings, 250 Bales JUTE, Blackburn, from Calcutta, in Albert Dock.—Apply to Messrs Dmas and Sohn Brocklebank, Merchants; or to T. and H. LITTLEDALE and CO., Brokers. On account of whom it may concern. On FRIDAY nest, .the 7th instant, at fwelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 30, Exchange-alley North, A Quantity COFFEE, Damaged by sea water, per Hersilia and Dolphin, from Colombo, Albert Dock.—For further particulars ly to SHAND, HIGSO app N, and Co., Brokers. ..i.On FRIDAY next, the 7th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the . Broker's Office, 30, Exchange-alley North, 50 Casks Ceylon COFFEE, 1200 Bags recently landed ex Dolphin, from Colombo, Albert Dock.—For further particulars apply to Messrs. C. W. and F. Shand, Mer chants, or to SHAND, lIIGSON, & Co., Brokers. Oa FRIDAY next, the 7th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 133 Hogsheads Cotton :teed CAKE, now landing ex Carlyle, from New Orleans.—Apply to J. H. RAYNER and CO., Brokers. NEXT WEEK On TUESDAY, the 11th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 30, Exchange-alley North, 70 Bales HEMP, ex Black Eagle, from Bombay, Albert Dock ; 15 Tons HEMP, per Bowden, from Bombay, SOO Ballots COCOANUT FIBRE, ex Dolphin, from Colombo, Albert Dock.—For further particu lars apply to SILAND, HIOSON and CO., Brokers. iOn TUESDAY next, the 11th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 100 Casks COCOA NUT OIL, Apply to J. H. RAYNER and CO., Brokers. lately landed. On TUESDAY next, the 11th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at th Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, About 70 'funs Southern WHALE OIL, la, from Honolulu.—Apply to J. li. RAYNELI and CO., Brokers. C 3 Antil Postponed from Wednesday, the 29th ult. %On WEDNESDAY, the 12th instant, at the Brokers' saleroom, Oldhall-street, 195 Bales Fine Mozamhigut , . OItCHELLA WEED, now landing ex Fernandez, from Lisbon.—Apply to Messrs. .Leech, Harrison; and Forwood, Merchants ; or to .I.WOKE, OKELL, and SPENCE, Brokers. AFTER NEXT WEEK On WEDNESDAY, the 19th instant, and following days, at the brokers'-Saleroom, 35, Dale-street, 1,000 Bales East India and other WOOLS. JOHN L. BOWES & BROTHER, Wool Brokers. Apply- to On WEDNESDAY, the 19th instant, and following days, at the Brokers' Saleroom, Atherton -buildings, Dale-street, .. 4,000 Bales East India 1,000 „ superior Russia Combing Fleece WOOLS. 600 „ y, Iceland, Egyptian, - Syria, and other low 5,600 bales Apply to For catalogues, &c., HUGHES and RONALD, Wool Brokers On THURSDAY, the. 20th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 809 Tanned East India KIPS, 752 BUFFALO HIDES. BROWNE, HUNTER, and CO., Brokers apply to On Sate. PATENT ASPIIALTE ROOFING FELT. ..A cheap, durable, and perfectly Waterproof Roofing. ONE PENNY PER SQUARE FOOT. And PATENT lIAIR FELT, For Clothing Steam Boilers, &c., by which a saving of one-fourth in the consumption of fuel iW M. s effected. GIBSON, • Successor to W. W. POWELL. Office and Warehouse-12, CABLE-STREET. CHEESE, ecc.' FOR EXPORT. 14 . 111 ). Wiltshire, Truckle, Ch e ddar, and Cheshire Cheese, _,_, '`" a ,Y s in stock, suitable for Export to A ustralia and other tuaracts.—Apply to B. CLIBBORN, 22 and 23, Harrington-street. ON SALE, 100 Tom; MANURE OIL CAKE. For analysis and price, apply to THOMPSON, BAUNALL, and BTJTTERWORTH, Brokers, 30, Moorlields ON SALE, - A Cargo of MANGANESE, •to arrive, about 160 Tons. Opy of Analpismade by fir. Geo. C. Huson, Analytical Chemist "Tested in th "ri , state it contains, "Of Peroxide o m umane , " Of water "Liverpool, 18th Dee., 18582 , .Apply to LEECH, llAititisoN, and FORWOOD, ;;', North John-street J. R. CAMERON, .CII.I2ONOMETEIi JIANUFACTCRER AND OPTICIAN, 54, SOUTH CASTLE-STREET, LIVEII3,OOL. MARINE CHRONOMETERS ON SALE OR HIRE. _ GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, SEXTANTS, QUADRANTS, BAROMETERS, TELESCOPES, cgc CHARTS FROM LATEST SURVEYS. WARM WINTER CLOTHING, T HE GENTIJMAN'S OUTF ITTING '";"11/A.REHOUSES, 24 AND 26, BOLD-STREET. MACTAGGART. INVERNESS WRAPPERS OVER COATS DRESSING GOWNS. DRAWERS AND VESTS. FANCY FLANNEL SHIRTS. 11.A,ILWAY RUGS AND PLAIDS. MUFFLERS AND SCARFS. FLA- NwELS AND BLANKETS. B M' WINTER CLOTHING, TO ADVERTISERS CIRCULATION OF THE NORTHERN TIMES LAST WEEK WAS 71,322, GIVING AN AVERAGE OF 11,887 DAILY. OFFICE: 19, SOUTH JOHN -STREET, December 13, 1858. AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, &c.—THIS DAY. THEATRE ROYAL—Grand Comic Pantomime. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE—EngIish Opera Company. ALLSOP'S Wax Wont( EXHIBITION (Lime-street). LIVERPOOL SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS (Queen's Hall, Bold-street) HENOLER'S CIRQUE VARlETE — Miscellaneous Attractions. THE PARISIAN GALLERY OF ANATOMY, Paradise-street. CLAYTON HALL—Carter's Mirror of American Scenery. For particulars see advertisements on last page. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Under no circumstances can we insert communications not accompanied by the author's real name and address, not neces sarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. ci)t) cBiirtI A TR Eintft TUESDAY, JAN UARY 4, 1859, THE DAY'S NEWS, Yesterday, the election of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board took place. .Five of the new nomi nees of the Chamber of Commerce were thrown out, and twenty-three out of the twenty-five put forward and recommended by the Ratepayers' Committee, have been elected, including four of their new nominees. The following gentlemen were elected :—Messrs. Charles Turner, Ralph Brockle bank, S. It. Graves, Joseph Hubback, J. A. Tobi n , Robert Rankin, William Inman, Thomas D. Anderson, Joseph Mondell, J ames S m ith, F ranc i s Shand, John Farnworth, S. J. Arnold, H. Segar, Eyre Evans, Robert Hutchison, William Langton, James Holme, J. K. Rounthwaite, Charles Mclver, John Lockett, William Miles Moss, Francis Boult, and Thomas Brittain Forwood, We have telegraphic advices from Melbourne to the 16th November, and from Sydney to the 11th, via Suez. A bill to increase the number of mem bers of the legislature had passed the Victoria House of Assembly, and the electric telegraph. was working between Melbourne, Sydney,. and- Adelaide. The secon d reading f the Chinese Emigration Bill had been rejected by the Upper House of New South Wales. Gold had left the colony for this country to the amount of 800,000/.. We publish late new, from India. According. to our advices, the amnesty is thinning the ranks of the enemy, and there is good reason to think that peace will be restored without much additional bloodshed. Nevertheless,, we learn that in Oud e there has been more bloodshed, as much of it as is enough to make the heart sick. The Commander in-Chief has himself fought a battle. Having, taken the field in earnest, he marched at the rate of a mile an hour for sixty hours, and , came upon a large array of rebels, under Madho • Singh, and. completely defeated them;, drawing them out of dense jungles, and pursuing, them to the Ganges with guns and. cavalry. The loss of the enem.y is described as "enormous." Many were drowned in, the Ganges. The leader of the defeated forces ,however, managed to escap e .. General Grant has also encountered. the enemy in another part of Oude. He and his.force were re crossing the Gomtee, amid the fire of rebels, but the rebels had to fly with great loss, and six of their guns were taken.. Of Tantia Topee, the reputed Nana Sahib, all we hear is • that he was supposed to have entered. Guzerat.. We regret to say that the death. of General John:Jacobs has to be reported.„ Telegraphic despatches from Constantinople to the Ist inst., give some idea as to the feeling of the Sublime Porte about the revolution in Servia. In structions are forwaraed to Kabouli Rifeudi, who, it will be remembered, has no official position in Servia at all, but is merely " inspector of Turkish fortresses at B.elgrade," to the effect that the Sultan does not recognise in the representative body, Skuptschina, the right of deposing th e sovereign on, his refusal to abdicate. The Porte proposes a " red tape " proceeding in this •form : A. " Caimacan," or provisional ruler is to be fixed on in the person of the President of the Senate (a body rather favourable to the deposed. Prince), and this Senate would then propose the wishes of the Servians, whereupon the " precedent "• of what took place when Obrennovitch was. got rid of in 1839 would be strictly followed.. In all this, there is a visible attempt to ignore the Skupstehina i .as the exponent. of the country's wishes ; and, in point of fact, the, drift of it all is, a wish to stifle the idea of " depu tation " or " representation," in which efforts there is no difficulty in tracing the finger of Austria. The guns of the Turkish fortress at Belgrade are double-shotted.—and on the opposite bank Austrian artillery and 8,000 fresh troops.are in readiness, to act if a chance offer. But the officers of the Servian army had, on the nth, December, plucked from their shakos the initials of P.A., and Stephen Michaelovitch had been appointed Commander-in- Chief by the Skuptschina. A. deputation of thirty six members, all armed to the teeth, had gone to Bucharest, to escort the now prince to the throne, to which the nation, by their delegates, have called him. A Vienna Telegram announces the subsidence of the popular Anti-Austrian feeling in Milan, but that announcement must be taken with more than a grain or two of salt, At the New Year's-day receptions at the Tuileries, some persons will have it that the Emperor spoke a few words to the- Austrian Ambassador, of a character and in a tone which bodes no good for the continuance of friendly relations between the Courts of Vienna and Paris. But other accounts aver that the Emperor said absolutely nothing boxing any poli tical significance. At the levee on, Saturday, the Emperor Napoleon is reported to have told the Austrian Minister, M. Hubner, that he regretted their relations, were so bad, but that his personal sentiments for the Emperor of Austria were the• same as ever. A rumour circulates, also, that Marshal Vaillant, Minister of War, -went up subsequently to M. Hubner, and said to him, "I suppose I must give you my hand after that". Our - advices from Mobile state that the Govern ment, after consulting the Chambers of Commerce in the principal cities, has determined upon levy ing a duty of 8 reals the fanega upon foreign w heat in Spanish bottoms, and 10 reals the fanega when brought in foreign bottoms ; and it adds, that this half measure will probably neither con tent the Protectionists nor their adversaries. ' Letters from Valencia still complain of the audacity of thieves. One of the last attempts, and which had produced no small emotion in the city, was an assault on the nunnery of Balen, which is situated at a short distance from Valencia. A party of robbers attempted in the middle of a stormy night to force one of the convent gates ; but, being heard by a nun who was at her mid night prayers, she rang the convent bell, and thus alarmed the neighbourhood. The robbers , as usual, escape d. An alarming accident took place on the North London Railway on Saturday. A passenger train came into collision with a heifer which had strayed on to the line. The train was hurled down the embankment, but fortunately no injuries more serious than contusions and bruises were sustained by any of the passengers, According to a London contemporary, ministers are all out o f town, but they are summoned to be in t own at whiel l , th e day a Cabi.-det by Monday a Council will probably held, o ; ba a b n ly d b o o n that o .7nd announced in liam,- ay for the meeting of Par ..at, will be fixed,afterwa r d s confirm(' the usual way. and afterw rumour that Lord Derby There is a Parliament to wishes Parli meet earlier than Februa, The Central Criminal and Wm. Glad inning was sentengPA. r C y o . urt opened. Ytectstztabrye, ../ choices for them: one is to aim at a reasonable THE NORTHVIIN TIMES, TUESDAY; JANUARY 4,18 N months imprisonment for uttering a forged cheque, with intent to defraud the Union Bank of London. THE lonian question, as it developes its different features, shows to us, more and more forcibly, how important it was to select a statesman of ability and energy to investigate it upon the spot, and how wise a selection her Majesty's Government made in the appointment of Mr. GLADSTONE for so difficult a duty. The Islands, as our readers are aware, are seven in number. The largest of these is Cephalonia —the next largest Corfu, the latter being not much more than half the size of the former ; whilst of the rest, three of them are more than half the size of Corfu, and the other two are very much smaller. Corfu is the seat of Govern ment, the capital of the federate union. And Corfu is the Island that is .the most attached to British • connection,—partly, perhaps, from the British influence that has prevailed there more than in the other Islands ; and partly, it may be, from its peculiar position and circum stances. Here it was that Mr. GLADSTONE made his first appearance in his capacity of Plenipo tentiary ; and here his reception appeared to be most gratifying and encouraging. But auspicious as was the opening of his mission at Cosfii, it has net, we regret to say, been the augury of success elsewhere. The great difficulty in the way of satiAring and contenting the majority of the Islands, is their natural yearning for an incorporation with Grease., They are, in fact, the Isles of Greece. It is their national connection. The people consider them , selves Greeks. It is not unnatural, therefore, that they should. wish to abolish the present British Protectorate, and get themselves, instead of it, incorporated with the Greek nation. At Zante, the selection of the Greek Archbishop to , present a petition to the Lord High Commissioner Extraor dinary, for its• union with Greece e was a significant indication of the kind of inflttences that are at work, —the municipality of • the place having separately addressed to him , a declara tion in which it was set forth —" - Now that the most gracious Queen-of your Excellency is desirtms of procuring, the happiness of this people, she cer tainly cannot satisfy that Christian ditty withent giving in its emancipation as soon as it can only find its real happiness in its. annexation' with free Greece, with whichdtforms one family." At Santa Maura, there is evidently an equally strong Grecian prejudice and predilection, since the ostensible' representatives. of the. Island could declme to • his Excellency—" Your arrival in. Grecian land, and the love. for Greece which. adorns your illustriouti antecedents, are of good augury - for the deliverance of the lonians and the accomillishment of their legitimatenvishes, for• which the_Leucadians hope for the assistance of the Queen. High Protector, and in which lie the sole remedy for the sufferings of the lonian people, and . the source of glory for her Majesty,and of honour for the:-English nation.." A_ party representing ; Paxo, . state to him, that, " repeating,the assertion of right:which they pyt forward in the Chambers on the 20th of June, 1857, and.previously tothat day, they again declare that the sole desire and will of the inhabitants of Paxo have been and will always be, their union. with free. Greece." The deputies of Ithaca, again, whilst begging him to bo assured." that the popu lation of these Islands entertains the most profound respect for the English nation, which deserves it on all. accounts ; that it only feels grati- - tude for all the goodwhich the British Govern- - mcnt has done for the country.; and that , it. forgets all the evils, which its officials may have done, misunderstanding their mission , emphatically declare,,that " belonging to the same family which inhabits enfranchisPd Greece, the lonians form the most ardent wish to behold their yet fate united to that of the kingdom of Greece, to share good and bad with our national family." But to all this Mr. GLADSTONE has a ready and a most conclusive answer. H. shows them that what they desire it is not in, the power oft her Majesty's Government to grant, were it ever so desirous of such a consummation ; and that there fore they sought what was impracticable. lonian people," he told the : Greek Archbishop at Zante, when, he stopped him. from presenting; the petition,. " have not the power to select either annexation or reform, or the actual state or status quo, became annexation, being under: present circumstances impossible,, there remain. only two liberal,process ; the other to maintain the existing, political and administrative system. Those who. clamour for the impossible exclude the possible. Those who clamoUr for annexation," which, is impossible, and exclude the reforms which I should like to render possible, leave no, eheicP,. They exclude reforms, ; annexation =hides itself ; thence there remains nothing but the status, quo. I do not mean. to. say," he added,,, 's that this. is the object, but I positively affirm, ad let it be well understood., that it will be the- end and result of having substituted, before me,, the vote for annex ation for the exposure of grievances and sugges tions for improvements which, might be made in the actual conditidn of the country. This is whsit, I want you clearly to understand from me." If, then, they had, not before understood it, as 'Mr. GLADSTONE thus represented the case to, them, they may chance, when they come to reflect upon it, deem it wise, as undoubtedly under the circumstances it would be, to pursue a different course,—to make the best' of their present position, and to aid, rather than obstruct, her Majesty's Lord High Commissioner in enabling them to do so. His mission is one of peace and good-will— his object is, within the limits of their situation, to remedy their grievances, by improving their condition. This - is possible; and Mr. GLADSTONE has the ability, as well as the authority, to do it. But, as he tells them, "those who clamour for the impossible, exclude the possible." They who are thus clamouring, therefore, are doing their utmost to thwart his benevolent purposes, and thereby fix and perpetuate the evils of which they complain. It is worthy of note, that theirs is an instance of apeople a republic, seeking to be placed lonian Isleads, have, they decla re, "the most under a forming They, the republicans of these monarchy. * Saturdaat _Review ardent desire to behold their fate united to that of the kingdom of Greece." It is not improbaNe buted materially to the stability and the perpe- that it is the very republicanism of their present system that so aggravates their case, that they seek for admission into a monarchy as a refuge from a state of republican restlessness of which they have become weary. At any rate, the circumstance is not without deep significancy. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM is admitted on all hands to be the question of questions, at the present moment,— such a Reform as will extend the franchise to thousands and tens of thousands who are now, with gross injustice and impolicy, ex cluded from it; and by such an extension there is not a constituency in the United Kingdom that will not be improved, as well as enlarged, if only by the introduction of other and wholesomer influences than those which now so generally pre- The present Ten Pound class of electors are found, in too many instances, to be but slightly if at all, embued, with that honest and indepen dent working-class element which it is so desirable as well as so fair, should have the opportunity of being admitted into any national system of Parlia mentary Representation.. To prevent the admis- sion of such an element, or, at any rate, to restrict it- r -as, for instance, Mr. DBAGHT's parochial rating scheme• must do—would make any measure of Reform a most partial, and therefore a most imperfect one; and it may mot unreasonably be concluded,. that the fact of the' member for Bir mingham belonging to a school of political econo mists which is , apt to treat working men, and working women: too, as mere machines; will account for the' little store he really sets by so meritorious a class of the comnamity, in the re-adjustment of such a question as' that of Reform in the representation of the people in Par itament. The Republican -, principles Which Mr: Butonir so' ardently professes,. are not, in their . practical: operation, as people are apt to suppose, very favettrable to the industrials classes. They arc principles which give' far . more weight antLimpor:- tance . to the idle than: to the' industrious They require; indeed, a career• of agitation, and of scheming, in orier to , make tliom available in , the case of 'any particular interest,. which industry - can never afford to pursue.. It is said that— "The'scum will gather when the nation boils.!' And when a course of rowdy republican excite ment has , had the effect of making the nation boil, it is the scum which thenigathersthat becomes the most potently influential in the- political move ments of the country.. In, the-United States of America this is most strikingly evidenced in , all directions.... It is. a system which is , described, .we see, in a letter from one: of those States, Rhode Island, that has been going the round of the papers, ,as having "just the effect. of turning- the world upside down, putting the lowest people in the highestplace." And the writer of this Ameri can letter of caution does not hesitate to add,— "If anyona- would come out here who is thus deluded, he- would soon: be. thoroughly convinced that. there is more real liberty in England, with hen limited,. monarchy, her. hereditary House of Lords, her sufficiently democratie }Muse of Com mons, than in America. with all its paraphernalia of mpublicanism." We quoted the other day some pertinent and powerful animadversions upon Mr. BRlcirr's recent course of proceeding as an advocate for the Americanising our political institutions, in connec tion. with. Parliamentary, Reform; and we would now adduce some fizrther testimony in its con demnation,, from the-sane quarter. " Theenemies of Reform.,,," it is observed,. " rejoice that. the hostile forces shoulil have heen confides to the care, of such a gneral. The Cathaginians pre pared:with good hoart for battle on the day when they knew that it - was -the tura of VARRQ., to com mand:. The friends of Reform perceive with alermAhat their hopes area imperilled by the folly ands the violence, of the man who pats himself forward as theil-representative. They, see. plainly enough that to. allow themselves to. he. identified with. Mr. BRIG= is, to court disaster. It is for this reason that. we. fin& the intelligent portion of the Liberal press,. with , a prudent earnestness, disclaiming the principles and disowning the spirit of tho Birmingham agitator.. No sensible man can doubt. that( the five speeches . which Mr. BRIGHT has delivered; in the last. six, weeks have done more inischietto. the causeof, Reform than all the arts o its, insidious enemies,,and_ all the hosti lity of its. avowed: opponent ; , could ever have.., effected.." 4. Or any A Ministry unfriendly to Zoform would be only too glad to, take advantage of. this., But it would, not appear• to luxe had any-effect in deterring Lord DERATIrom going on with the preparation of his promised n;ensure. It is said, that the Premier is sketching it out with hi&own hand,—which ; i$ not, he it remembered, an inexperienced one,, his lordship ' , when Lc STANLEY, having had occasion to apply it to, a similar work,, more than a quarter of a century ago, when the Reform Bill, of which he was ona a the authors, WEI,S introduced into Parliament,. and became an - Aet which has had the effect of bringing about more, reformation, in the various, departments of the State, tha,4 probably oaky other single measure has, done since the Revolution of 1688. TIM remarks of Lord CARLISLE, at the opening of the new Mechanic' Hall, at Holb,eck, which have been going the round of the papers during the last few days, are not the less forcibly true of the aristocracy of our country because they are those of a member of that body. His object was to show, that although the aristocracy is, of neces sity a privileged class of the community, yet it is one which, in this kingdom, is open to theadmis sion of anyone who may have emerged even from the lowest class, provided he can work his way— which hundreds of the humbler classes have done —to the proper position from which the entrance is to be made. The aristocratic system may be right or wrong ; we are not now going to argue that question. It has existed in this country for many centuries, and most of our great masters of politi cal philosophy have maintained that it has eontri- "Honour and shame from na.Ggnclition rise ; Act well,paiir part—there all.the honour lie tuity of our free institutions. It is the remark of EDMUND BURKE, that ‘! though hereditary wealth the rank that goes with it, are too much idolised by creeping sycophants, and the blind, abject admirers of power, they are too rashly slighted in shallow speculations of the petulant, assuming, short-sighted coxcombs of philosophy." Had these words been uttered at the present time, one would have thought that they were aimed at one who is now busy agitating the country for radical reform, to whom the expression, " shallow speculations of the petulant " has so remarkably forcible an application. But though they had directly reference to a former age, they will apply with equal fitness and force to all ages, in which there may happen to be, as undoubtedly there are now, shallow and petulant speculators and schemers, among the noisiest and plausiblest of our politicians. To return, however, to Lord CARLISLE. The position he took up was—and we consider it an impregnable one : that nothing can stay the pro gress of an intelligent people under liberal and enlightened institutions such as ours. " There was no rank or class," he contended, " however exalted in position, however exclusive they might some- however;.•" it observes, times be represented to them to be in their feeling; nay, not their gracious , Queen upon her throne, not the nobles in their ancestral halls, not the clergy in- their venerable cathedrals and stalls, not the gentry in their genial and hearty easy life, who grudged to the great body of their countrymen any competition, any advance, any superiority, which-they might make good-by their own talents, or deserve by their conduct .r And we are inclined to believe-it.. But whether such advance,. or such superiority,: may be grudged or not, it cannot now be resisted. And this is the great point.• " Let the working,elass," Lord CAuLISLE• continued, " let any class,, make proof by their intelligence, by their industry, by their love-olorder,,by, their honesty, by their sobriety, that they, were worthy of any trust or privilege, and it was-his belief-that such trust and-privilege would not long. be denied to them. They would rise higher-and higher- in the social scale, if they so conducted-themselves-- not that the upper classes would sink lower, for the more enlarged was the area, the more honour rhle was the service ;_ the more general the com petition, the keener would be the relish.!! And it. is-by this means.-that-there is continually going ,on, not only a course- of accession to the aristocracy, but- an infusion- of- fresh, ay and- plebeian. blood, into the veins. -of some of the oldest and_ most aristooratie families in the land. In the ranks both-of the nobility and the gentry, we see it constantly taking place. We. have in our eye, at this moment, Peers of the Realm.whose fathers or grandfathers fillPd the humblest places in. society were working men or. small tradesmen ; but who " by their intelligence, by their industry, by, their love of order,.,by their honesty, by their sobriety," advanced themselves some degrees higher up . the social scale, and were enabled. to put their sons. in positions to rise to the highest stations,—to -be Lords or Baronets; and thus to-hold up their heruls with the proudest and most honoured in the land. It is not enough to say that " such trust and. privilege will not long be denied them." It would be idle and-vain to attempt to deny it to_. them. They are able to achieve it ; and their achievement is irresistible. They gain possession of positions, to which they have fought their way,..and from which they could compel a surrender of. the fortress in which such trust and privilege" was enclosed, and effect the removal of every barrier to their admission. And we agree with Lord CARLISLE, that it is • important to society—most important, in such an age as this, for the greater stability and per manency of our institutions—" to train the public mindof our countrymen in that direction, to win themfrom what is grovelling, to stimulate them to what is excellent 2! There is no surer preventive of disaffection, we may depend upon it, than this. Not that all are to be advanced to the aristocracy,. large proportion of them ; for the prizes of wealth, and rank,. and honour, are necessarily limited, in any well-adjusted social system, though: they may; as far as. they go, be alien to all. And it is thus, when, contemplating the rise and pm, p'ess of our aristocracy, that we may find a happy. practical illustration of the wellknown and mast. applicable lines.of the poet,— WE had. occasion, not very; long since, to, notice with our humble but h.eaxty approval,. the operations, of the Royal, National Life Boat Institution., for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck ; and it is most satisfactory to find that it has since been directing further attention to the Irish Coast, and. providing Life Boats, for several additional stations, which now makes: the number of pia.ces in Ireland. where it has its boats and carriages, thoroughly equipped and ready for instantaneous service, thirteen. And we learn that this humane and important work has involved ale expenditure o upwards of 44,000, nearly the of which has been defrayed from the funds of the institution ; indeed, it is a fact, that the society has, been compelled to sell out a considera ble portion of its small funded capital, which is so essential to its permanency, to meet this heavy expenditure. This is certainly anything but satisfactory; or any thing but creditable to the country. The Institution, let it be known and remembered, has now upwards of eighty establish ments on various parts of the coast of the British Isles, under its management, to maintain which, in a state of thorough efficiency, requires a large permanent annual income ; and such an income ought to be secured to it,—and so wealthy a town and port as Liverpool, so deeply interested in such an object as it cannot but be, ought to be ammg the foremost _and the largest contributors to it. The rescue of shipwrecked persons from drowning is a work of mercy and humanity Whi c h c l a i m s, indeed, the sympathy and the support of all classes of persons in a maritime and commercial country like ours ; whilst it has an especial claini upon the generous support of a community like that . of Liverpool, so intimately and so extensively connected, as it is,. with maritime commerce. But the National Life Boat Institution is likely to render another kind of service, in futherance of the same work of mercy and humanity, by its attention to the subject of the rescue of giving passengers and crews in our ocean steamers, in cases of fatal disasters at sea. In its Journal for January,—a periodical publication in furtherance of its objects, with a copy of which we have just been favoured,—with special reference to the recent burning of the emigrant steam-ship Austria, having .528 persons on board, of whom it will be remembered, no less than 471 were, drowned, suffocated, or burned to death, the question of Life Boats on board passenger ships is very forcibly discussed, and a plan f©r their provision and employment is very ably drawn out. In the case of that ill-fated vessel, England was not responsible for so terrible a saerifles of human life, from whatever cause it may have arisen,. since it was not an English ship, but one' belonging. to a Hamburg Company. "The question# " must occur to many it thinking Englishman—Are our own passenger ships any better prepared to meet such a terrible visitation tom- destruction by fire,. or may we expect after a while to have our feelings shocked by the account of some English Austria presenting the same deplorable spectacle of panie f destruction of boats, and loss• of all on board but some small portion whom accident may have led to• ar lx boat, or to one more fortunately managed-than. the others ?" Nothing is more likely than 04, it is to , be feared, in the present condition of tc inane' of our ocean steamers and.. emigrant ships, unless some better system of precaution is enforeea.than that which now too generally prevails. But the Life Boat does , not content itself with lamenting, the evil—it seeks• to apply to it a practical remedy. It proposes one,. at once. Thera are reqNkirements, it shows, t whieh might be advantageously defined, and.: ligarously insisted upon, the exact character of which it thus explains 1. That there should be a sufficient , nuralisr of boats to carry every person on board a ship,' eaek fitted as life boat, cf the size and description. as. per given standard, heisted to davits at the vessels' sides, fitted with Cliffordts 'or other sanctioned improved', lowering apparatus, and =having always in her 'such, articles of c equipment as should. be defined by law% • 2. That every - such boat should hre•paintedl on her exterior, in legi,ble and conspicuous characters, the number of persons. she was legally authorised to , carry ;, in order that every; passenger, or other person. on hoard, could, at any timei. by adding the total , numbers to gether, satisfy himself' that there was life-boat accommo dation for all. It-:would also be a manifest- advantage that every boat should. be of corresponding size; so , a s to take an equal number: of persons on Leant. Thus, if each was authorised4o•canrry thirty persons r it would be readily calculated that each ten boats would carry 300, and the number would . be so familiar to every, one,, that hi the hurry of taking:to, the boats, the regulated., safe cargo of each would. be more certainly known and less likely to be departed •front. That on leaving port, and at ,certhinz intervals airing every long voyage, the captain of the - ship , shOxild muster all hands, and , call . over the names. of 7the-oftleer to•take charge, the crew - to work, and the passengers to embark in each boat individually specified. 4. That the boats .of every passenger shipf,should be specially and carefullfinspected and reported. oniby the Government Inspectors previous to each voyage.. At pment, the inspection.of ships' life-boats. is of no, ser vice, as there is no fixed standard, and it is nctorious. that the generality of those in passenger ships, and,nearly or quite all of those in our• coast passenger stc mere sham, unentitrulto the name of life-beats :men,, are a These, we are persuaded, wouleif:;, lie , found valuable provisions:for any such fearful •emergencY as that which thc-y, contemplate Thenappeni us to be plain and , practicable, —easy adoption, and effectual for their object,—alwa supposing, - - of course, that they were kept in n proper- state for immediate Application, and that the discipline was maintained that is indispensalle., to the suc- cessful carrying out of any means - kr: the , preser aration of life nader • circumstances at - sudden emer- gency and imminent peril Thera' axe doubtless difficulties in the way of this, as. there. Would be )f any plan, for such a purpc€e There are obstacles to "be overcome and one . of the most formidable of these would in an:probebility be the expenso-of providing a suflitient number of life-boats for-every ship. This, however, ought to be altogether:a , secondary question it might, in fact, be bome by the passengers..themsdyes ; who, as is well observed, "by a small , addition to their passage money, would, after ai few voyages, have paid for the whole cost of the •, boats, of a ship that, in this way, there need_be no, difficulty what:. ever upon. that score The subject is one of verz. anxious interest,. and very pressing importance, No one that has..beca to sea, even in the best regulated of our- ocean steamers, but, if he has been in anywise obsepsrant, mia6t- have been stru.ek with the generaW,-inade- quote• means of rescue. that are at hand to be available for the fait necessities of the ease,, shOuld any accident occur in mid-ocean which, rendered the vessel no longer:habitable. And it is a neces sity, the interest, and importance of which is constantly increasing, since our intercourse by steamers with distant countries is still increasing, Let us hope the subject will now secure tl prompt and practical attention which it so impora-- tively, demands. ----- MELANCHOLY DEATH OF THE HON. 111R.S. A/cog FROM .POISON.—A coroner's inquest was held at. Eekton Hall, near Moultan, in Northamptonshire, on Friday, on view of the body of the hon. Mrs. Anson, the widow of the late General Anson, Commander-in-chief of India, who met with her death under the most distressing: cir cumstances. After the facts had been fully gone into, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased lady died from the accidental administration of laudnum, in mistaking it fora draught. A FELON PROHIBITED FROM HOVHLNO A BEERHouSH LICENSE. —At the Bradford Borough Court, on Saturday, Samuel Ward, keeper of the Ship beerhonse, Bradford, was charged with selling beer without a license, whereby he had rendered himself liable to the penalty of £2O. The information was laid at the instance of the Board of Inland Revenue. On the 27th August last, the defendant applied for a beer license at Bradford, and it was granted under the 4th and sth William IV. c. 85, sec. 17. At that time, however, the defendant was a convicted felon, having been convicted of a felony, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment, whereby his licence became forfetied. The defendant had been recently warned by the police, but continued to sell beer notwithstanding. The magis trates, having no alternative, imposed the :mitigated penalty of £5 and expenses, recommending that the Board of Inland Revenue be asked to commute the penalty, on the ground that the defendant had acted in ignorance,