Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-09 00:00:00

jßiTlo l4 ' eli , 0 11 osr s Lich 6Ol V. tbe „ c l n • CO. "' rh I ' l ' 4 ' l4 of title ffo li6r cig e oW b. o icl the 4, dr." erPr f4`l G REAT FIRE, YE STE LWAY. e arly hour on Sunday (yesterday) morning, an Cf g and dest ruc ti ve fire broke out in the premises of I. '. Dodd, Vi ctor i a H ote l , D cc k -street, Fleetwood. 4: 4 4°11 4 is five stories in height, and faces the Fleetwood .71a Y station. We believe the fire was first dis -O`3Nl II Mr Dodd, about two o'clock in the morning, fly sh t amh ort time after h e h a d ret i re d t o rest.. S ,f l k tlii Was the p rogress o f t h e fi Imes, that inc , k , le Y) and d omest i c servants, experienced difficulty in making their escape from Iti The Fleetwoo I fire engine, alto the engine belonging to r;,ossall College, two from Fleetwood, were early at th 3 scene of the con tirti°u, but ow i ng to t h e i r small capabilitieq, and the , he ° tla nature of the fire, they were wholly unable to 1 the fl ames. A special engine was therefore de tellEd for aid to Preston : a n d, a t t wen ty m i nutes past tf °el oek, ten minutes after the receipt of information e fire, Mr. Sure intendent Marriott, of the fire With an engine and tett - , - !lve men, lef: the Preston :* l°l4 for Fleetwood, where they resehed in about half t u4' 111 ' g . By this time the roof and the wh o le of the th e had fallen in, d, with the -exception of b - ts b aEeraent story, the building was completely A little dinraity was at first experienced 14,„ e et ainirg a proper supply of eater for the stcl l et 'lie which was obliged to share with the tth, t gi , erg • nes the small quantity that-was pumped into 8. The emaller engines, therefore, teased to play, and tthe b leu who had wo.ked them assisted the Preston fire -111 their efforts to prevent the flames from spreading 4 1 " houses adjoining the hotel, the tenants of which tt quitted their homes and removed their farm tle has into the street. The engine continued to play the burning buildings until nine o'clock, when th e 'eats were got under. The destruction of property was beat, and =thing of the building itself was left te 4cli ng but the bare walls. The wines in the cellar . I t , e arlYi all but spoiled. Mr. Dodd had a sum of £BOO `gold and £3OO in balk cheques deposited in a room N e a t t he bar. After the flames wer e e x ti ngu i s h e d th e 110 : 4 wea found o n a pi ece o f t h e room fl oor i ng t h a t h a d 14 ; b een destroyed, fused into a krga lump. The cheques t t . l e burnt, but the amount of them is recoverable. The k i l i l dir g we s the property of Mr. Dodd, and it, as well i t `ge rest o f th e p ro p er ty d es t roye d, was , we t n d ers t an d, t ri tir ed• The total loss will amount to between £2.000 az - ' 0 , 4 000. The origin of the fire is unknown. AMUSENI EN FS, &c. • Neural - rem—One of the viaoet graTying result; to 8 „„ t ;i y aat of th e p u bli c , i s th e recogn i t i on o f pe tit e trifles Gch cont!uce so much to their pleasure sod c nnfort, Mr. We ston, the old, hi jhly valued, and much esteemed box I\ , e t=r of the above establishment; takes his benefit on el ucekle v uext, and from his ever evinced desire to the Itt lt tiort of the frequenters of the house, as shown by Mr. m ilt° *, he certai n ly &gems one of the most prolific " l ences cf ih; season, and, indeed, we doubt not, that 0 : In the lar ge c i rc l e o f hi s f r i en d s an d a d m i rers , h e w ill, the yeti a occasion, be well supporthd. Apart from his own e tki en'ercainments chosen are of a moat pleasing ve ried char cter. Toe .leenerisiu trage Tian, Mr. th e • ua will make his third appearance at this house in of i°3racter of Sir Efiles Overreach, in Messenger's play at r i b 4. New Way to Pay Old Deb s." In this character 'eber: s ma d e hi s d e b u t b e f ore an E n e li a l e audience at 4; 1 7 me. His rendering of the character is represented --ate given the highest satisfaction; his delivery of bje tget's fine m as culine bl an k versa s h ows b a th a ea o t e r : l tl study and keen appreciation of the author, and his the mor e imp a s s i o n e d scenes l eaves no thi ng to (s u " d • 1 ed. " The Drunb Sivoyard and his Itiankey" will l s „ th ue pr. niuced, in which th e ti me d Fl. xmore w ill p l ay Arankey, and 113.4'11e Awl d the p ert of Pepin°. ;together, we silo I'd have difficulty in peeducing a series io l prntiga.monta Latter 041/14.prl in 4 , theref are d ou b t not o the sums; o f tnis Al nue annee)e , Teto e ,, s , e • ~U rnetec Cortezars.— I.t the Philarmonie fallr b. i ' ; "l€ e vening , Mr. Thomas w commence his serie s • i S h i:d leorcerte, and from the amount and excellency t e'ent a' gaged t o serail) them, they deserve, and we e (lpt t he/ will receive, distinguished and exteneive support lforchest ra will, as usual, be led by Mr. T homas him ' and, besides him, it will ine'ude many of the most n m o ular f iveurites of the day. The vocal ' st engaged i s iT I4 I ' e n Vinning, lately and popularly knoern as the -141.4 et Sappho." The varier,brilliant, and numerous elections of music for the different concerts are at once end admirable, speaking well fo' the skill and taste f Ittr. Thomas ; while, from their admirable adap t ' 4O ll for bringi ng ou t th e t a l en t o f the diff e rent per. t : vlt terv, they cannot b e ot h er t h an hi g h), great! ing to the ttaial portion of the community. - The per.everance and gac na taste display, d by. Mr. Thomas deserve patronage, ,7d ,7 We hop e th a t will be liberally -accorded to his present nd ertakin g. h PHlLlfiamoinc FocurrY.—Our readers will observe / advertie emen t i n ano th er co l umn , that this society will fr.;- 'Pe its first concert this evening at the Concert-hall. Lord I'4l Handers oratorio of " Judas Maccabeus" „ uI , be performed, with a full band accompaniments and W i ao rns.of 100 voices . The principal performers wll be s e Riles, Miss Clara Hiles, Mr. Archibed Mann (of ~o p P leh Cathedral and the Exeter-hall concerts, London), 44 ' 4 lit Edward Cue ter of Chester Cathedral ) x, CANCINR, APPOIN7IdENTII, AND FROM ITIONS IN . TAM a % ,!L StirvicE. —Mr. Likes Rose irla has been sppo!nted ttl - arche r at Liverpool; Mr. Isaac Harris bas been pro- Ikl‘p)l€4, from 'second to firs'-class weighPr at Liverpool ; a en ' -4 - It. AuFerson has been promoted from third to ss weigher at Liverpool---Cioll Service Gazette. ACCIDZIT.—On Thursday evening, as Mr. For itrewi solicitor, of this town, was crossing Lord 'between No th an ,I South John-street, be was 4,7 e 4 ed down by a car, and picked up insensible, h . avirg o.vio!ent-concussioa on the bead. He was mime- IN e l taken into a bookseller's shop, and was conveyei 14% thence to the N)rtheru Hospital, and from there to his resideno c , where he at present remains, as we under %4, in a very precarious stale. From what we under -4 e; of the i c s a‘r. ,.not the slightest blame attributable to the Teo • IGLU'S Aw Rome.—Thanks to the Ftnpress of e - ;; 3 2 We saw the two grandest sights of Stoma to the Lte r i, es t advan age. On Monday S. Patei's was illumin tted ' F ula the pavemc-at to the cross. The right seas dark 4 te r 11111 ( 1 4 and the lamps, suspendid 430 feet in the air, 11 1 , - , e4 (4 once put out by the wind . As the bell stick nine, 11,: e 'chcli we re saddeoly lighted all round the roof, and tie e r il lei as if the great 'rile was on fire, while the bells a'seg a Peal seeme like aln'm bells rung at a pre. It difficult to get the iinfressian out of the mind that incretees was on fire, and we awoke next morning a lmost Ili g h rl t e d to as k h a d t h e rhale pile been learnt down zit the ate Ivell,' We did not see the Colleseum by moonlight, so we ly e erl a description of what is the common stcek o f , a l l t l tit le , 13 to Rome : a e saw it instead by torch-light. te i k ° clack on Saturday eveLiccr, at the discharge of a le It, the 'whole circumference of the Colleseum broke out ! aze of light. Bengal lights, bet behin , l every arch, Iht 2 ' l l ) q a glare of light which, fur a few minutes, was as etv",„ l as day, Then thick caluunus of smoke rolled up, th e ''fig the grett amphitheatre as if with a curt in—like Oar : 11 12g which once stretched across it in the days of its N a l' Then as the Pghts turned red, it seemed as if some etc)," e' niligration had happened an the city, and the A " that elbowed their way out as the Empress drove itl ti; te aled to be flying fur their lives, with the cry of fire 4 41: 11 ears. The outside was then illuminated in the e taii, /e aY as the insid e . Each story of are'les could he t he : I , I Y counted the plants that grew in the crevices of ; t1 th .allB, and even the marble slab inserted here and there e brick surface, w i th t h e name o f t h e P on tiff w h o „, le atored th e C o ll eseum , could be distinctly read. It or - glorious sight. Artificial lights set off best the works , 4 4, 411 ' Gni's two great lights alone can the works of ? a te 44 ( mountain by torch-light ridiculous—the torches i l :trht ep ell, not the mountain ; but the Colleseum by torch -IQ' off to ive—the building wee nut too vast for the 1 / I .l tinr 1 " er ''""" in University . frivazine, for THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOI„ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1857. AMERICA. to New York. The Central Railroad discharges its ,freight at Albany, from whence it is brought to. New York by the Hudson river during navi gation, and by the Hudson River and Harlem Railroads in winter, and by railrci'ad to Boston the year round. It is said that in winter the Central Rail road brings as much prodace.to Albany as the three rail roads named can conveniently take away. The Erie Railroad delivers its frieght at Piermont, from whence it costs nearly as much to bring it to the city as though it had come from Albany. We understand that it is the intention of the Erie Railroad this winter to deliver their Western frieght in Jersey city. It is the rule of the railroads, so soon as the canals close, to advance their rates of height. The employment of railroads and telegraphs are greatly relied upon to save time in the .transit of produce. For instanee, the Erie or Central roads can deliver flour in New York in- four days, while by canal the time required is from fourteen to sixteen days. As time is money, the railroads, with the telegraph lines, afford merchants great facilities for the movement and sale of produce. For instance, a commission house is instructed by his correspondent in Buffalo to sell 1,000 brls. of extra State flour, deliverable in New York in four days. The sale is immediately effected, and a despat ch returned to Buffalo advising the sale. The 11 aur is imme diately forwarded, and arrives in the time agreed upon. and the cash is paid for the same. The house then telegraphs to its friend in Buffalo that it has received the money, and requevs him to draw for it at sight. The shipper in Buffalo draws his bill and sells it for cash. The whole operation of forwarding the flour, selling it and getting the money in Buffalo, thus consumes only four or five days, while to have realised on the old system—the canals an I mails—would have ceases - sled about twenty days, making a saving of time of from tif teen to sixteen days. The rates of interest at seven per cent per month, frequently paid during the panic, would give about one fourth per cent per day, which, for the difference of time, would give a total of about three an i three-fourths to four per cent. If we suppose , the transac tion to be based on extra state flour, at 5 dols. per barrel, the sun would be 5,000 dols., the per . tentage saved on which would amount to from 187 dole. 50 cents to 200 dols. In this way the saving of time secured to business by the aid of railroads and telegraphs leads to large gains in a pecuniary point of view. The same course is pursued with regard to southern produce; the links in this case being the southern steamers and sea board tele graph lines, the operations including all s tutherts cities as far south A 3 New Orleans. Wo woutd here remark that while nearly all branches of business have suffered during the late panic, the operations over all the te:egraph lines leading out of New Yo.tk have been enormously increased. We learn that for some weeks the despatches sent from the Telegraph Building, corner of Wa!l and Broad-streets, North, E set, West, and South, have averaged about 2.000 per day. The office 43, Wall-street, connecting with New Orleans by the sea board line, has had its business; increased about 75 per cent. ; The despatches to New Orleans alone frequently averaging 100 per day, varying in cost from 2 dole 40e. up to 15 and 20 dole each. Hence the old adage of " ao ill wind, &c."—New York Herald. THE UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO LAUNCH THE GREAT EASTERN. It is unquestionably a source of considerable disappoint ment that the first attempt to launch the Great Eastern should have failed, but still there is nothing to diseoarage either the engineer or the company in the failure. In -a case of this kind, where so many hundred men were em ployed, it is not at all surprising that some few did not thoroughly un lerstand their instructions. Allowing one chain to be a little slack was the cause of all the mischief. Had it not been for this, this splendid vessel would have been now afloat. There cat' be no doubt that but for this slight mistake, the vessel would have been launched in less than an hour. instead of tekin: the two days as ryas ori ginally intended. It is all very well for persons to find fault, hut to launch her at all, or even to move such en . enormous mass without damage, was a marvellous work of engineering skill, and reflects the highest 'honour upon the engineers engaged. It was hardly to be expected that everything would have gone right in the first instance. Indeed there has scarcely been a case upon record of any eery great and novel work proving successful at the outset. Look at the failures that hive taken place with respect to the laying of the submarine electric telegraph, and yet no one doubts but that eventually the Atlantic telegraph will be laid, and . that we shall have instant communication at some future time with India. Look, again, at the Great Britain. This vessel was at the time a marvellous work. The accidents that happened to her were very disheartening, and there were not a few who prophesied that she would prove a failure; yet all difficulties were surmounted, and: she has proved herself one of the finest ships ;Abet. Tbe very accidents them. selves, as regards the case of the Great E astern, only render success more certain, because the engineer is made aware of the difficulties which he has to contend with, and will ba prepared to meet them on a future occasion. It may not have struck him that the stern of • the ship, being much heavier, as in that portion of the , ship her ponderous machinery and massive screw are placed, would, when the ship was once started, have a greater momentum than the fore part of the ship, ane pews irre. e Jgatrtso ente:ee er. 'sem et, •H- F ey i Nis satisfied with the resu't. Ills only fear was to starting her. Having now ascertained that he can do so, all fears for the ultimate resit' t are at an end. Con siderable apprehension was at first felt that the vessel, having been moved from her old bed. would, by her im mense weight, cause that portion of the launch upon which she now rests to sink. It has slightly done so to the extent of about six inches. This was during the first nicht after the attempted launch, but she has not sunk more since, nor is she likely to do so, because she has not got beyond the bed of concrete originally laid down for her. Had she gone twelve, or even ten, feet further, there theta would hove been considerable groundi for apprehension. An accident of a somewhat similar character occurred three years since at Tilbury, at the launch of the Tilbury railway pontoon, an inorneale iron structure There were several steam tugs to tow her down the ways, and a massive windlass at each end to- check her °nurse. As soon as she began to move the motion at one end was more rapid ' than at the other ; the consequence was, as in the case of the great Eastern, that the windlass at one end overcame the men, who wire thrown from it, but fortunately without injury. The ways at the end where the motion was m , st rapid partially gave way, and the monster rolled down. Attempts were then made to pull the other end to a parallel, but all attempts failed, and the launch was post ponel for a fort n;ght. Then with additional machinery, she was at length got into the`,.w leer. This is nearly a para lel case with the Great Eastern, and there is little doubt that a similar result will ensue. It is erroneous to suppose that the ship, even when she is launched, will be ready for sea, or even nearly fie:shed. It will require the outlay of considerably more than another £lOO,OOO before that desired end can be obtained. Several alterations and additions have been made—some think them anything but improvements—by Mr. Brunel since he has had the mangement of her, and these will not only occasion a largely increased outlay of capital, but also great delay, and there are a good many who fully expect that she will not be ready to make her first voyage uetil the spring of 18b9 The directors are naturally most anxious t'at she should be in the water, since that has been regarded as one of the greatest practical difficulties, and has induced many capitalists to hold back, and even to allow many of their shares to be declared forfeited. They think, however, that when once the" monster of the deep" is fairly afloat, they will have but little dilLculy in raising the necessary capital to complete her. But for the unfortunate death of Mr. Geach, the former chairman, the vessel would have been all at more than twelve months since; as, with the lerg9 capital ne had at command, and the great interest he had at stake, he would have pushed her forward to com pletion, and would thus have been enabled to have reaped a rich harvest by the cmveyance of troops to India. The directors see this now', but it is too late, and the only course they can adopt in order to get a return for their capital, is to make any sacrifice to prepare her for sea as quickly as possible. The next trial to get her off will in all probability be on the 2nd or 3rd of next month, but it is quite possible that an earlier essay will be made, if the requisite machinery can be got ready.— Obseever. A letter from N iples states that the Princess Dolra Maria, qster or the K; g, and aFe of Dun Sebastian of Spain, had becom) so ill, that the last sacraments had been administe. ei to her PARTS, Saturday Morning —lt is announced that the Bank of France has not increased its rate of discount, hoping to find other means of self protecti 3n. There is some question as to the right of exporting gold. FRENCIE ST? USERS ON THE DANU:SE 1 tier from Pest!), of the 27th u't , says : —" The first French stesmer. the 1110 gene, has just moored ( if the quay °foil. to.; n. Sne was, in the 6 s' instance, at Trieste, and after an ex :ursi , no iz the Black SJa, she steamed up the en' ire length of the Danube. It is evi !era that a new era has dawned for the nar;gatiol of this river, and that sdrious competition is abilat to commerce. Tuts GtanT DOG. —A som-vlitt presentation was made to her filltj.sty, at Windsor Castle, ca Wednes day last. Mr. E. Wider, of Nem York, hal the h• - tnenr of introducing his remarkably floe American dog •‘ Prince" to her Majesty and the C mrt, in the quadrang e. This dog was horn in Pennsylvaeia, an 1 resernh',es in colour some• what the coach d g of other d rys. lie is remarkably docile, yet possesses unusual courage and strength. WISE MEN or THE k:Asr.—A deputati n of Muphtis. Khedis, Ulenass, Tolbis, Imans, and native professors of icier Cc and law, lately waited upon M. Latour Mtv.vay, the Preset of Algiers, still a flittering address, in which they slid that tti,eir ti.nvies were " too short to srals the praises of the Emperor." The pref-ict was much tictil-d with the Szure of sp eel), and promising to tell the Em peror cf it, recommended the wise men of the E ► t in pros tr to in their splendid mosques arid pr .y for his Majisti, whose grOtttsc d 4 idhl W4l 10 accept ill; homage of aiscere hearts. FORGERY. At ' T At the Lendon, on Warder, 'Wiliam Wilcox was bre ght before the Lord Mayor, in custody of Funnel, the detective officer, charg d with having forged a check for £2OO, with intent to def and 51es3rs. Coutta, the b. nkers. Mr. E. J. Mellnsh, cle.k to Messrs. Coutts, said : The order produced for a check-book was pre - ented to me on the sth inst. It purports is be signed by H. and S. R. Lewin, who keep an aceonnt at our bank. The prisoner pre sented it, and I gave him a check-heok marked and numbered F. D. 9,651 to 9,800. The che.:k produced has boon taken from that bock, and a purports to be slue 1 by Messre. Lewin.al paid it in a ...-6200 bank n Its and .4'50 in gold. Mr. M.J. R. Adams I am one of the principals of the Issie Department of. the! Bank lief Eng land. My attention was yesterday called to:th s £lOO note ',re duced. It is endorsed Thomas Brown,3 105, Oxford-street' I reforrei the Directory, and net finding the name of Brown to that address I asked the prisoner if he lived there Ile said hs dii not, and that a man had given :him the; note in the street.— \ Ir. H. Lewin : I am a sorcitor at 32, Sonthampten-street , Strand. The order prodacel for a check-hook is not in my writing, nor was it *toed by my antharity. I did not sign the check pro duced for £2 .0, and which purp ,rts to have my signature attached to it. E I yard Fennell, the detect ve office-, said: f saw the prisoner at the Bank of England yestard•ae attorao in, reed asked him who he received the £230 note from. He replied that a man hal given it to him in the street. I asked him if he knew the man. He said he dil not, but that he met him near Ludgate-hill. 1 asked him how much he had been promised for getting the note cashed, and he repl ed £l. He added that he was to meet the mm in St. Paul's Churchyard. I asked him to give me his own name and address, and he wrote on spices of paper. " William Wilcox, 76, Hatton-garden," and said he Iva; e'erk to Mr. King, 19, Maddox-street. At t re station-house he took from his pl. ket a handful of sever_ igns. I asked him where he got them from, and he repfie I, " From the man who gave me the note to' et cashed." I a,ked him if he had been to Coital's ?..; Ile rpl ed, " I may as w3ll tall you the truth," as-d after wards sail that the man who had given him the not, had g ven him a cheek for £251, which he tock to Coutts'e and got callad in a £3OO note and at 50 In god I. I timid 20 sovereigns en him, and he told me that the rem :tiring £3O he had given to the man who had entrusted him with . the check. Tee prisoner wss filly committed fur trial upon the tw ,f3'd charge of forging the ern': for £250, and ferging the order for the eel-vere of the check book. TEE BANE OF ENGLAND IS. HER MONETARY SYSTEM. What a spectacle does England present to the 'world at this moment ! England, with her wealth, her industry, and har intelligence, stands tottering upon the brink of 'a precipice ! There is a deadly struggle between commerce and the moneyed power, which must end in the defeat of one or the other. We would fain drive away from our pre sence all tearl about the result of this contest, if we, felt convinced by facts that there was the least ray of hope for brighter prospects. But why should we build our hopes upon a, rotten - foundation, that must crumble to pieces at the first gale thit conies upon us, and reiterate that nauseating language which seeks to hide the real position of the country `from the public view I England, miehty England, whose forefathers delivered, themselves from the tyranny of Princes, has now become chained in golden fetters. Her honour, her industry, her religioneher :strength, ore humbled before the image of gold. The bine of England is her monetary system. If any , demonstration of this assertion be required, we reply, that the daily f..tcts which come betoro the public are sufficient to prove_it. Yet it is lamentable to find that they are ignored by a very powerful and influential class of men. One of the most extraordinary felts 'of the age is found in a monetary system that has power to derange the commerce and finances of the whole world. Whether we look to America, or to our own country, this truth is equally apparent The system of credit, built upon gold, without the meane of obtaining it, is the greatest fallecy of the age in which We live; and yet •it is submitted to with as much eomposure, except in the time of some . 'national eonvulsion, as if it were revealed from hea yen. It is not necessary to go into the monetary system of America, except so far as to show that it 'contains the tame dangerous elements ns our own. The principle of demanding esery payment to he gide.in specie, no matter in what the deposits are mule to a bank, is fraught with the greatest danger; because a banking system founded upon such law is -utterly impracticable, whenever any pressure takes place of an extraordinary nature. The law of banking in America has, to a ter. taro extent, been made free as a business; but the same error with regard to specie payment per vades the system. In the case of the American banks, the evil has fallen upon themselves; for they have discovered that the payment of all • their liabilities -in 'specie is wholly impossible, in tiny great. emergency; there is, then, .nothing but the forbearance of the depositors to secure them at any time against a suspension of specie payments. While this strengw anomaly- is allowed'' to exist, monetary panics must always ensue, and- the trade of the country become. paralyzed •by the suspension of credit. Eugland in this respect is .in pucisely the same situition as America. .She has.rnade it lawful for every man who holds deposits in a bank to claim them at any time in specie, Whether they were made in paper or gold. What, may we ask, would 'be the effect of any motetary . convulsion, such as hes odeurred in Amerien (and this is not beyond the range of pos sibility), were it to take place in L)nden ? How could the banks meet the demands upon them even in notes, much less in gold .2 The Times has strangely enough pointed. to the Ant of 1844 es the only safe course to be adopted in the future system of banking in America. It would, indeed, be an extraordinary change to see_ such an absurdity ventured upon in that land offreedom. It remains new to be seen whether England can maintain her credit , upon the same foundation. Already some of ?pier most powerful manufacturers and merchants are falling before the storm; and unless some sffort be made to render eff ictive aid to this class, thousands of ertiz ins and labourers will cease to have employment. There are, we are aware, some who can look on and see nothing in this state of things, but simply an advance in the rave of dis count. to 9 per cent ; but such calmness is more the ' result of a heartless indifference to the actual ' condition of the country than of any patriotic views. The nation has become a complete slave to that money power which daringly. defies and over-ride) every other interest of the kingdom. This is ..not only . the cal() in England, but in almost every country is Europe and America. The time has now arrived when it must be either under which the country now :*roans is a piece of machinery unmatched in the world for its iniquitous opprersion, and for the extent of injury t has power to inflict upon every clasi of society. To assert that universal alarm and anxiety should pervade the wealthiest community in the world, at a time when an abundance surrounds us on all sides, it is the strongest proof that can be adduced, that our difficulties are created . by our own folly, and by a blind adherence to the prdildl.cee of a bye gone age. S.) long as England makes gold her idol, she must make up her mind to sacrifice all the noblest attributes of our rase.—Bankers' Circular. ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC. Th( United States roan' steamer, Atlantic, Captain Eldridge, arrived here about noon on Saturday with 15 passengers. Her advices are to the 27th October. The steamer Baltic had arrived at New York. The news by this mail is, politically, not of the lcast moment. We learn that the vessels arriving at New York were reporting having experienced very heavy gales. A New York paper of the 27th ult. says : The ship Patrick Henry arrived here yesterday from London, haring on board the captain and sixteen men belonging to the British barque Athenian, which vessel she found in a sinking condition. The brig General Williams brought in the Captain and 'five men of the schooner John Harris, which was wrecked on the 21st init., while on the passage from Philadelphia for Boston. An unknown schooner was reported ashore off the High lands yesterday afternoon. The wind yesterday from the north east was very heavy at intervals, and the vessels at anchor: in the north river and at Quarantine dragred their anchors, but without receiving any damage. The tide, in consequence of the north east wind, was unusually high, flooding a number of the piers ou the east side of the city. A quantity of filar on pier No. 7 was consider ably injured by the rain, and many of the cellars were filled with water. We do not bear of any damage received by vessels at the wharves. From ii - ansas we learn that great excitement existed in that portion of the union. A despatch, dated St. Louis, Oct. 26, is to the following effect : A pretest, signed by several prominent citizens of Kansas, was filed on the 15th inst., against the fraudulent returns from Oxford precinct, Johnsten county ; and in reply to it, after a personal examination, Messrs. Walker and Stanton publish s proclamation in the Herald of Free dom, of the 20• h, in which they express a determination to reject the entire vote of Oxford, and to give certificates to the free State candidates. The proclamation produced intense excitement among the extreme pro-slavery men. and threats of vengeance against Gov. Walker and Sicretiiry Stanton were made. On the 19th inst. a protest was made against assembling the Constitutional Convention, by a mass conviution of the people at Lseomp'on. We have also news" from the Salt Lake City. A St. Louis paper publishes a discourse delivered by Rebe C. Kimball, at Salt Lake City, August 30, in which strong grounds are taken against the United States government , and a determination is expressed to resist their troops to the last extremity. The Mormon " children" are called upon to arm themselves, and people generally are exhorted to lay up grain and otherwise prepare for the conflict. During the discourse Kimball says:—" We are the kingdom of God and the State of Deseret, and will have Brigham Young for Governor just as long as he lives." Young made a speech equally bold in its declarations of hostility against the United States. Respecting monetary affairs, we extract the following rorn the New, Fork Herald, of the 27th ult.:— The stock market, much to the surprise of speculators generally; was rather' buoyant this morning. A very small amount of business was transacted, but the sales were in most instances at better prices. At the first hoard Ohio State 6's advanced I per cent. ; Tennessee 6's, 2 ; Virginia 6'e, ; New York Central Railroad 7's, 2 ; Illiuoie Central bonds, 3; Reading Railroad, 3 ; Michi gan Southern Railroad, preferred, 2; Illinois Central Railroad, ; Cleveland and P.ttshurg, i; Cleveland and Toledo, Michigan 6's fell off I per cent.: New York Central Railroad, le ; Erie, i. There was no moveneent of consequence is any leading stock security, and the operations were principally for cash.' The European advices appear to have had very little effect upon our finances, one way or the other. The feeling in the street was so much better than generally anticipated that the market actually improved under the favourable inflaence. We hear of orders from Eurepe to purchase our stocks, limited at prices considerably above those now current. The repeated assertions in the London papers that the panic here would be a very temporary affair, and that it was got up by few stock jobbers solely for the purpose of depressing prices for speculative purposes, no doubt induced many capitalists in London and on the Continent to send out new orders for purchasing, so as to take full advantage of the depression. This will only add to the financial embarrassments tof Europe, while it will materially help us. The London papers have not fore shadowed this revulsion. They have not anticipated it one hour ; and even up to the la•est dates, with all the facts before them, they would not believe in a general collapte of credit systems either at home or abroad. The London Times, surrounded by a clique of railroad financers and bankers, has been deceived as to the actual state of things on this side of the Atlantic, and induced investments in our railroad securities up to the very kit Wes' or' int yam. VP ?Penn e the t e hrpv , tee sn9 ~e he purchase our railroad stocks. There is a. clique of bankers and financiers in London who hold the same position in regard to American stocks, particularly of railroad companies of the present day, that the old United States bank did during the last great revulsion in regard to the stock securities of that day, and the pro bability is that similar results will mark the p-esent revulsion. The amount involved is now much greater, and the danger to those involved more imminent. The great depreciation in the value of public stocks during the revulsion of 1@37, and the utter impossibility of negotiating them, saddled the bank at that time with a load which, with other losses and entanglements, completely used up its thirty-five millions of capital and bankrupted the entire concern. Individuals now are engaged in bolstering up and carrying vast amounts of railroad bonds and stocks, involving an immense aggre gate value, upon a capital considerably smaller than that wielded by the United States Bank, and we do not see how they can escape• the same fate during the present panic The Anglo-American banking houses of London, backed up by the London Times, will, we fear, find themselves unrqual to the emergency for the concentration of our railroad bonds and stocks (which to-day are not on an average fifty cents on the dollar) in the London market is to the extent of tens upon tens of millions of dollars. Most of these securities will for a, long time be a dead , weight in the houses of this clique of capitalists. The European money markets will not be in a condition for many months to afford any aid or relief to the holders of these securities, and the market has, therefore, been com pletely destroyed. We have seen on this side of the Atlantic house after house, known a short time since to have been in the possession of large capitali and large avai!able resources, go down one after another, solely on account of the utter unavailability of the piles of railroad securities in their possession. Under the circumstances. they were worth no more than so much brown paper. The same class of houses in London will, we fear, find it diffi cult to avoid the same results. The Bank of England must cat ff supplies upon all such securi'les. Capital in London will not come to the aid of this data of bankers t here any more than. here, and we may look for similar disasters. CONAIERCI AL. NEW YORK, Ont. 27. There were no sales of cotton reported 3 estriay, while prices were nominal. the only movement consisted of shipments to Liverpool on owner's account. Four c:osed heavy without change of moment in prices. Tne sales were to a fair extent, both to the local and Eastern trade, while some purchases were male for export. There was a good export demand for wheat, and sales were pretty freely made, closing firm for prime to choice lots of S ern white and led, while common grades of Western, in cluding Chicago spring, wero easier. Corn was less buoyant and active, and sales of Western mixed were made at .68e. to 69c. for sound. Pork continued to be held with firmness, and small sales of mess were made at 20 dollars 7Sc. to 21 dollars. The sales of sugars were confined to about 200 to 300 hhdq., at steady prices. Coffee was quiet. Freights were firmer, with more offering for English parts. To Liverpool about 40.000 bushels of wheat were engaged in balk and bags at 7d. to Bd., Kith 11 mr at 23. 3d. to 23 6d., 100 tierces of new beef, and 5(,) do. old at ss. Rates to Landon exhibited more firmness. The receipts of bread.stuffs for the forty eight hours ending yesterday morning indicated an increase compared with those for the same period a week ago; and proved that produce was in Motion. The receipts by the Hudaditriver embraced about 2:7,000 brls. flour, 98,000 bushels wheat, 28,000 bushels corn, and 11,000 bushels barley. About 4,000 to 5,000 brls. !bur canto over the Erie Railroad. THE TRLNSIT OF PRODUCE FROM THE WEST 70 NEW YORK. We learn from reliable" authority that the fee on the transportation of produce from tha West to New York varies with the season. In the summer months the rates rule the lowest. They begin to advance in the autumn, and continue to rise to the close of the canals. The following were the current sates at the close of last week : FR'M OSWXGO BY CANAL AND HUDSON nrvim. Four, per barrel ...... Wheat, per bu3hel C trn . _ 350 to 40c 120 to 14c, 12c to 15c. Time occupied in the transit. 10 to 14 days. Buffalo and Erie Cenrral and Erie Canal. Railroads. Flour, per barrel 60c . 60c Wheat, per bushel l7c to 183 Car'd only in bags. Corn Pork, per barrel _ . Live stock comes almost exclusively by the railroads from the far West, and the transportation is charged so much p►ir car load. Slaughtered an'mals in cold weather usually cost about 40 c. to 50 c. per 100 pounds. Time by railroad, four ‘ days. The freight from Chicago to Buffalo and Oswego approximates that from those places A MISCREANT HUSBAND. At the Ww-ship-street Police-court, on Friday, Wiliam Button, a surly an 1 di.sip stet,' lo ,king man, 'described as a journeyman hatter, wan charged before Mr. Harnmiil, with having cruelly maltreated his wife and chili. The prison r's wife, a care•worn emaciated woman, in the last stage of pregnancy, and who exhibited sech extreme personal stiffarlng that she was a lowed to . be seated whl a giving her evidence, said—For the last nine months ray husband has dote no work whatever, but I have cheerfully sapported him with the assistance our three children, by toiling day and night in making up paler bags for the grocers. I supP'y him with as mach money as I can out of the tat% we earn, but he spends it in drintr, leavin4 us all in a starving stste, and beating me unevircifully, when there is not enough left to furnish him with Lod besides. Between seven and eight o'clock last night be came home Intoxicated as usual, and began abasing ma is the most dreadful language, because there was no supper rea'y foe bin. .I told him I had not a farthing of money to get it with, but he only answered me with a blow, as he &ways does, an 1 after has eking me down twice, as he st.ll insisted upon having Lis supper, I stripped ,off some of my under clothing, and went out to pawn it for him. The article was so worthless, however, that no one would lend me any thing upon it, axd oat iratnralng ;back toatell'him so, with the tears in my eye;, he knocked me down again, and taking up a troteei commenced beating me with it ab nit the hea* chest, and peer, part of my per3oa until I was covered with bruises, and alarist lost my senses. Wade ha was 111:using me in this wa:, one of my daagh era got bstw,te us, and wrs e edeavouring to protect me, when he treated her in the same manner, and kept on be ding a; both until he was tired out. and left off from exhausti .m. We managed at last to es cape fr , rn him, and got into the street, wh;re we ware spoken to by a policeman, who afterwards toots him into custody. Emily Batton, an intelligent little girl, 13 years of a3e, who cried bitterly while giving her evidence, fatly corroborated her mo ther's testimony, and added, that whi'e attempting to shield the latter from farther ill usage, she was herself brataCy attacked by her unnatural father, who blackened her eyes as they now ap pea-ed. Cu being called upon for his deenee, tee prisoner sullenly replied teat his wife and child Lad exaggerated what had taken place, bet as they had it all their own way way, is would be useless fo:him to say a aythiag. Mr. Haniaalll severely anim idverted pee tne cruel and coward y conduct of the prisoner, and having characterised the case as one of the worst of the kind that had ever bona brought before him, ordered him to be coamitte i to hard ,about for the ceasecutive terms of six months and three moths The magistrate also dire tel one of the otlleers to provide the unfor tunate complainant and her daughter, who appeared to be in a famishing coalition, wile some nourishing for', and p - esentad then with 10a from the poor bor. dt-,e4 COURT OF EXCIIRQUER.-9.tir., Nov. 7. BENLEY V. THE ST. VELEN'S CANAL ♦VD RAILWAY COMPANY.— rhis was a case trial befors, Baron Caanne!Fat toe Stanrner Assizes at Liverpool. it was an a.: tan broug:it by tip ‘vido w of a man who lost hicli 0, as it was allegsl, by ttsa n wiigeace of the defendants' senrsuts, having fallen into their canal at a place where a highway crosses it by means of a bridg ), on a d..rk night, when the bridge had been (vane I for the psibage of the bee?. A verdict was given for the plaintiff for £751 dam 'gee, applrtioned between the widow and her child. Mr. Monk nsw moved for a rife nisi to set aside that verdict, a - d enter it far the defendant, on several polls's, the principal of which w.,s t'sat nn ler the act bygauthority of which the canal WAS made, the persons in command of the boats were all swecl to open the bridges, all were subject to renalties far neglecting to re-c'ose them; and, therefore, the action was not maintainable as agaiuA the c3mpanr.—Rule grante 1. BRUTAL OUTRAGE, t the Guildhall, London, on Friday, ?,tkh iel M'Donough, who hat been remanded for a vera' weeks upon the charge of assaulting Wiliam Erenlell in the West Lo idon Union, was brought up for further esarninalon relative to that charge. William Brendell having, i t coins nence of ties assault, been confined to the hospital for the last three or four weeks, atten e I cid dly and stated—l was in the Wes; London Union on Monday, the 2)n of lac month. I was picking ()akin, and the prisoner was sit ting opposle to me en the same table. rf'e se . zod ho'd f my work, and upon my telling him net to take it, he said. " I will let yea knew, I will take the work whenever I think proper." I toll him ha should n thing of the kind, and I was in the act of taking the woic b ck when ho jumped np in a dreadful passim and aim ad a violent blow at my head, across the tab'e, but ha only knocked o/ my ha'. He then cauf-d held of me by the hair of my h-a I, and began pinching me with his fist in the face with al his power, ant continued doing so an berg as he was able. I callet for essistance, and a'thongh here we e olivirs standing by, not one came to help me. I felt his knuckles enter my eye; and I thought thin my eye had been bunt by the blow. I mad, nay way to Mr. Phil lips, the mas'cr, ant I was soon after taken to the Union, where I have remained until to day. Sir Pater La-trle —How long have yea been in the Union ? Witiess—kbout two years. Sir. Sir P ,ter Laurie • And how long has the prisoner been an inmate of the Union ? Prisoner—Se •en years. ',in S;r Pale •• Laurie —What have you to say to this ? Pris oner—lle .s race me with ' a stick :fi st. Wi's ness —I never di I anything of the kind. Hobert Squires said—l was an inmate of the Union, bat I did not see the assault cons mitted. I ,aw the prisoner rise from the table in a crest passion, and krnwing what sort of a man he was, I ran Into the yard to get so ne of the other paupers to come in and assist in keeping him quiet. When I returnel I found tha complainant bleeding mob about the face. Charles Ranter sail -I did not witne.s the whole of the assault, but I saw the prisoner strike Rrenleil in the eye wi h great bi Bence, and I alto saw the letter leave the room with the blond pouring from his bet •ye. Mr. Wakefield said —1 am hence sn-geon at St. inartholmraw's Remit a. The prisoner was a imit'ed nn Mon day, the 20th October last, ant on examining him I found the eye was so inja ed that the sight was comp'etely gone. Sir Peter Lanris —in the inj•aq to the eye such as might have been inflicted by a blow from the fist? Witness—it is, Sir Pater. cir 'eter Lanrie—This is a very brutal wanit, and I sh til titer afore send the case for trial at the ensting Se alone of the Central - 2rianinal Court. The prisoner was then co imitted fur trial. DIS IRCRFITL ATTACK BY THE MILITIA ARTILLERY, AT SUNDERLAND. —This co-ps, after being on a mon h's at tiv barracks, wire dise nb- died last week, and dueng the time they have been in the to mn they have committed numerous excess's. On &inlay mordng week a number of gunnels were so dis- r lerly in a house of bad eh irawer that one of the g'rle ran off to the barracks to give inf .r- Illation, and she had a bucket of water tlrovvu over her from the guardroom. The police having cleared the mei irons the house, they were ordered by Superi itenden' Ginrd to follow them slang the Low-stre.it, keeping a distance behind. On the officers turning up the Pottery Bank, in the neighb iurhool of the barracks, they were assailed by the artillerymen with a shower of atmes, some of t'!em weighinz 31b or 41b. Mr. Gifford was hit r n the head in two places, and a policeman namel Rog ers was afrack in the taw., end nearly a I his teeth knoced on'. Mr. Francis, u rg. o , who was called in to examine him, found the man so didgired, that altly , tigh he In ‘w him, he had difficulty in recognising him—consi ?erable concus sion of the brain ensued, and although he is nisw out of danger, he is didigured for life. Alexander Rots, a born bar'ier, and John Black, a gunner. who, were identified as ringleade's. have been c , mmi:ted for trial at the next ass;zes. Toe respectsfJe lohabitauts are glad to bs rid of so wild and unruly a corps; and it is hoped they will Lever again be Drought to fitinderlande THE RISE IN THE B 4.NK RATE OF DISCOUNT. The knowledge for some days past that, no-- withstandieg the Egli rate to which the Bank had raised the rate of discount, bullion has still been leaving this count!), both fur the Continent and the United States; the somewhat less favourable aceoanta which the lest arrivals from America have brought ; the feet that in some places on the Continent, d especially at Ilinaburgb, the rate of discount had reached nine per cent. ; and the certainty that at lust for some time to tome the drain of silver to the East, producing indirectly a demand for gold here, wcu:d continue unabated, had prepared the public for the further. rise of one per cent. which was made on Thursday in the minimum rate of Bank discount ; and which now stands at nine per cent. The highest rate ever before known in modern times was eight per cent., at which it stood for four weeks, from the 23rd of October, 1847, until the 30th of November, when it was reduced to swan per cent. In that year, through the whole"of •the months of August and September, and up to the middle of October, the ra'c of disco Int was only 5- per cent ; and when it is remembered how much more severe was he pressure at that time than now, and how much more detrimental and destructive to pri va te interests, we havea striking example of the fact that it is not a high rate of interest that creates panics and distrust, though it may arise out of them. There is no more reas m why a rate of discount of nine r cent. should derange a trade otherwise sound, however it may for the time somewhat diminish its profits, than there is why a very high price of grain for a a ason should ruin a nation otherwise wealthy, though it may somewhat redu,e th,it wealth. Beth must (-Tully be regarded as an xceptional state of things, as evils less or more to sufflred, but not to be evaded by aey tampering with the laws of free supply and demand, without the greatest risk, nay the certain•y, of aggravating them. We are glad to see that the money-dealers in Lombard-street and the joint-stock banks, who have assumed the important p,sition of holders of the spare floating capital of the aottutry seeking employment, and who Lace thus become the agents between the portion of the public who are lenders and the portion who are h Trow,rs, have acted promptly, and have (some to the resolution of allowing 8 per cent. for " mow!, at cell" This step is much mare important than at first sight may be apparent. A Ilse in the rate of discount leads to a fall in the price of se - urities —and a fall in the price of securities aft' )rds a new inducement for persons whose money is lying '• at call" and availlble for trade purposes, to withdraw it and invest it in securities. We have heard mush of late of the public being free buyers of Consols. But as it rarely happens that any money is ae,tuAlly held in private hoaris in this country, but is either placed wiih bankers or with matey dealers, the purchase of securi ties means the withdrawal from those channels of temporary investment. It is true that the mere purchase of securities absorbs no capi tal in the fist instance. If there is a buyer who pays his money, there is also a seller who reeeives his money, and, so far, the eff. et upon the money market should be nil. But at times like the present, it frequently happens that the seller of securities operates with .s now to sending hie capital abroad,. either to .meet the demands, of correspondents, ,or more frequently to profit by investment on favourable terms in foreign stocks- In that case the indirect effect of the pubic with drewingaheir money froth bankeis and' money dealers, in order to invest in Consols, is to enable sales to be made here for the purpose of investment abroad—transactions which lead directly to an export .of gold. The only legitimate check which can be put upon such operations, fair in themselves, is that the inducement to continue to keep mosey in the hands of bankers and money dealers should be maintained by a rate of interest preportionate to the real value of money in the market. We believe it would be very difficult to estimate the full advantage which the country has derived froth its comparatively new practice of allowing a rate of interest ou "meney at call," fluc tuating with, but always closely approximating to, the bank rate By it large masses of capital are retained in channels of trade, which would other_ wise, and especially at such moments as the pre sent, seek permanent investments in firer securities at home or abroad. The old fallacy is again revived, as it always is at such moments, of a further issue of paper money. This fallacy era now, hare worn itself out, but for the unhappy encouragementgiveh by the unspund theory upon which the Bank Act of 1.844 attempted to base a sound rule of practice for the Beek to follow. Every one whose opinion is worth anything, now admits that the Bork hes n a power to increase its circulation of notes, so - beg es they are redeemable in gold—the strongest advocates of the act of 1844 tell us, and tell us truly, that if the B ink had the free power of issue at this moment, they could not increase the circulation of paper by a single five pound note. An evening cotemporary says, and says -truly, If the B tnk ; of England were per suaded to extend its issues instead of raising its rate of discount, what weuld be 'Abe - effect ? Not a single five-pound note the more would there be in the country. The only difftrence would be that the gold would go out of the island. to Europe and Arneric,- with an increasing impetus." Now, this is, np doubt, per fectly true. But then if the bank cannot increase the circulation, what is the value of the restriction upon which the whole theory hangs? It cannot lie said that Mein order to prevent the exportation of g )Id, because the hank is left with full discretion to discount as much paper as it pief,sesi and at whatever rate it pleases, and thus to place bullion at the command of exporters to any extent it pleases. In these transactions it has only the discretion of the directors to guide it, and that that discretion has been exercised, for the public benefit no one will deny. But how has this been done ? By the only true method of correcting adverse exchanges, and preventing an undue abstraction of capital— raising its price so as to take away the inducement to export. Agreeing so much as we do, with the general 'objects of thole who framed the net of 1844, we cannot but re gr et that the theory adopted is so much calculated to give an importer ee to Bank notes which they do not possess, and thus to encourage the dangerous fallacy, that .a pressure tor capital can be alleviated by additional issues of paper. Any one who is aequainted with he oper t tions of the Bank of England,- must know • that an enormous amount of notes flow out every day, but flew back again in the shape o; depo sits of bankers or others ; and it must be plain to the commonest observer that if the transac tions of the country really requite more than are at pre sent in circulation, that additional quantity' would be retained by the public to whom they are advanced. What is really wanted at such a time as the present is bullion, and not paper. Of what service would bank no es be to those who wish to make payments in New York or on the Continent, except that they could ex change them for gold ? But if the bank is pre pared to part with its gold on terms that w:11 suit the remitter, it can as well be obtained direct, without the intervention of bank notes; and to that the law offers no impediment. We do not deny, on the contrary we have often urged, the great economy which might be effected in the circulation of the country by well-secured notes of a lower deromination. Such - notes would perform the same service as is now done by gold, and to whatever extent they could be usefully and safely rendered effective R 3 capital fer all the piirp'oses oil trade abroad and at home. But let it never be lost sight of, that at this moment the s:ruggle which is really going on is one between different countries for the possession of the precious metals, in order to tide over a period when the us eel chan nels of credit are deranged by extraordinary and temporary events. That this country is intrin sically better off al regards its obligations and financial position than almost any other, we believe there can be no doubt ; and the real ques tion for us to determine is this—shall we allow others, in order to aid ti:eir ne7eseities, to outbid ua in outs own market for our own money, and perMit ourselves to be drained until our com merce is placed in tree same jeopardy and danger as that of serne other countries which have been less prudent or less fortuna`e ourselves? The pressure 'which has already - been placed upon the Bank, even at the high rate of 'discount now charged, is best shown by the fact that the advances upon private securities have increased in eleven days by the large sum of £2,080,107. — Economist. THE A CCID , NT AT TILE ATTEMPTED I ATINCIL -- John D.movan, one of the four men so severely hurt at the windlass, on Tuesday last, died on Friday morning, of his in juriz s ME MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN BEYEA , ILTM. Friday's Inde pendance says, we are in a position to announce ihat M. Charles Roger ham been this day sent for, and had an interview with His Majesty. TEnTco um , oro UNION OF EUROPE AND A F RICA. —The llfoniteur contains an announcement lhat from the 3rd of November telegraphic despa'ches may be sent direct from France to Africa, by the Submarine Mediterranean tele gr ph. - _ _ soldi' is belonging to the Prince Royal's Regi ment, in garrison at Munich, ries, rtizal in the night of Oct. 19. It was f ared that a miitary cocsoiracy must exist, for many deftitlons have lot lr taken pl..ce situ :ltareously in towns wide apartaparr from each other. Mr. Jai.. P,,wer, tie reprcserrati , e o! the Med . terranean Submarine Tol , grap'i C inpany in Paris, unces in the Presse that private dosp itches for Algi rs and 311 towns in Algeria wi 1 row be roc-iv dat the offle,si f the company, and re wanted iturae,ii , itely to Th-2ir dosination. Some VRax OLD cotempoiary, ►t - t'• d2scrib ing the [nattily in Bengal as " thv hydra, rising, in point of fact, of he whole regular native armj of Bengal, an army consicing at the moment of ,eventy-f , ur regiments of infin , ry, ten re4itwnts of cavalry, nine .battiliona of foe', and three bricades of horse artillery," goes on to s'a'e : " It was the res,dutionary outbreak, in print of tact, of a hundred thousand 11 , d veterans—the Bengal Seooys—tho men, the very Itien under the ban - era of Porus, co :'ended, now two thousini years ago, with the w rriors of Alex rider. It is hi. De VA I^z, n who ape ki--' Co soot los hommes,' he exl'aims ( n his ni,ns wont L-s Anglaie et l'lnde,' p. 98), les reeves hommos qui, sou; lee drapeaux du Rol Portia, combattaient it y a deaux mille ane, lee gu rriere o'.ilaxtridre.'" If th, Mutineer are " the very men" who fought against Al xandi r two thoneand rears age, old Parr was a j .ke to them. In that Clq9 the travels of the ingenious Mr. Gu liver are no fiction, for here we hove an army of Strut brigs. Escape or Two CoNy era FROM A ItArtwAv About one e'cloCk on Tuesday morning, as a number of convicts were b..ing conveyed from Glasgow to Londoo by the mail tr.in which loft the former city about twelve minutes prat eight on Monday evening, during the re . * moments the train, stopped at the Penri , .h sts'ion, on the Lilncoster and Cleiale Ra 7w i y, a bout th e time framed, two of their number, t lthough chAined and guarded in the ordirary way, manag d to escap) by jumping out of the carriage iu which they wer e c onfined on the offside of the railway. Ia a veond or two afterwards, just before the train . was aga'n s art e d, the perstrs in cbarge of the missel the two renega&s, and instantly gave the alarm. Several p e r sons we e & N ip/robed in di f f erent directions in search t, f the mr n, while otters made a minute examinati,n o f the premises at the stat i on , during which they found, not the c nviets, but the. chains by which they had been pinioned t , geth r. Desdtte the most vigllant search during the day, nothing was either seen or hea-d of the missing convicts . We are informed, o n authority, that several of the other con victs became dis gusted at their position, and of erwarda attempted to follow their self-liberated companions, but fortunately they were pronated by the authorities.