Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-07 00:00:00

Oa TitURSDAY next, the 13th instant, at Twelve o'clock at the Broker's Office, 7, Exchange-chambers, About 160 Tons Fine MANGANESE, j out landed ex Guedo Bodceling, from Huelva, in Garston Dock COPY OF ANALYSIS MADE BY 3IIt. GPO. C. : "Peroxide of Manganese Ditto of Iron . . "Water " Selica and Alumina . . .... . . .19.3 to Messrs. Leech, Harrison, and Forwood, Merchants ; or FRANCIS J. EATON, Broker. Ipply to DAY nes at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Ofi: 2, Dale-street, • 6,715 BUFFALO HORNS• BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers J. R. CAMERON, CHRONOMETER MANUFACTURER AND OPTICIAN, 54, SOUTH CASTLE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. MARINE CHRONOMETERS ON SALE OR HIRE. GOLD and SILVER TrATCHES, SEXTANTS, QUADRANTS, BAROMETERS, TELESCOPES, 4.c. CHARTS FROM LATEST SURVEYS. WARM WINTER CLOTHING, THE GENTLEMAN'S OUTFITTING WAREHOUSES, 24 AND 26, BOLD-STREET , P. L. MACTAGGART INVERNESS WRAPPERS, OVER COATS. DRESSING GOWNS. DRAWERS AND VESTS FANCY FLANNEL SHIRTS. RAILWAY RUGS AND PLAIDS, MUFFLERS AND SCARFS. FLANNELS AND BLANKETS. BOYS' WINTER CLOTHING THE POPULAR HISTORY OF THE WORKING CLASSES, EVERY SATURDAY, IN TILE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES, PRICE ONE PENNY AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, &c.—THIS DAY THEATRE ROYAL—Grand Comic Pantomime. ROYAL. AMPHITHEATRE—EngIish Opera Company. ST. GEORGE'S HALL—National Scottish. Festival. ALLSOP'S WAX WORK EXHIBITION (Lime-street). LIVERPOOL SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS (Queen's Hall, Bold-street) HENGLER'S CIRQUE VARlETE—Miscellaneous Attractions. THE PARISIAN GALLERY OF ANATOMY, Paradise-street. CLAYTON HALL—Carter's Mirror of American, Scenery. TEUTONIC HALL (Lime-street)—Ascent of Mont Blanc. For particulars see advertisements on Bth page. (Tthunitrritti flies THIS DAY •On account of whom it may concern. Tius -DAY, the 7th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office; 30, Exchange-alley North, A Quantity COFFEE, .Tirmaged by sea water, per liersilia and Dolphin, from Colombo, Albert Dock.—For further particulars apply to SHAND, lIIGSON, and Co., Brokers. th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the ice, 30, Exchange-alley North, 0 Cask s t Ceylon COFFEE, 1200 Bags Tars DAY, thi Broker's OM y landed ex Dolphin, from Colombo, Albert Dock.—For particulars apply to Messrs. C. W. and F. Shand, Mei .- , or to SHAND, HIGSON, & Co., Brokers. Tills DAY, the .7th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, Chapel-street, 130 Bags Black PEPPER, 140 Bags Black I'EPPEIt, all faults, Albert Edward and Philip Laing, from Singapore.—Apply to GRIFFITII, SONS, and PALETHORPE, Brokers. THIS DAY, the 7th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' office, Chapel-street, 180 Boxes PEA.R.LSAGO, all faults, Cr Ann Nelson and Calphurnia ; in the Albert Dock warehous4 Ipply to GRIFFITH, SONS, and PALETHORPE, Brokers THIS DAN , the 7th instant, at Twelve o'clock, a t th e Brokers' Office, 10, Exchange-buildings, 133 Hogsheads Cotton Seed CAKE, x Carlyle, from New Orleans.—Apply to J. H. RAYNER and Co., Brokers THIS DA w landing 'stint, at Twelve o'clock, at 1, Oldhall-street, i5O Bales JUTE, Blackburn, from Calcutta; in Albert Dock.—Apply to HOW and BARCLAY, Brokers Tins DAY, the 7th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at 1, Oldhall-street, 1200 Bundles PIASSAVA, David Harrison, from Bahia, east side Prince's Dock.—Apply HOW and BARCLAY, Brokers. This DAY, the 7th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at 1, Oldhall-street, 250 Bales JUTE, ddin, from Calcutta, in Albert Dock.—Apply to HOW and BARCLAY, Brokers On account of whom it may concern. THIS DAY, the 7th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, Clarendon-buildings, Tithebarn-street, 5 Bales COTTON, and A Quantity of Wet PICKINGS, imaeed by sea water, ex Arno. from N 1 all faults, Apply to M lt,,rchants : or to BATESON, CHAMBRES, and Co., Brokers THIS DAY, the 7th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' •Office 13, Exchange-buildings, 250 Bales JUTE, _ _ Blackburn, from Calcutta, in Albert Dock.—Apply to Meyrs emas and John Brocklebank, Merchants ; or to T. and H. LITTLEDALE and Co., Brokers. i4aply to NEXT, WEEK MONDAY DAY next, the 10th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at thi Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 500 Cases CASSIA LIGNEA, 1,000 Bags Black PEPPER, to BROW NE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers TUESDAY. TUESDAY next, the 11th instant, at the Brokers' Office 2, Dale-street, 1,500 Bags Bombay LINSEED, 1,000 Bags Bombay RAPESEED, 800 Bags Bombay MUSTARD SEED, 300 Bags Bombay SAFFLOWER SEED. BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers TUESDAY next, the 11th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 52 Bales Long Yellow Berry Mocha COFFEE. to BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers. On TUESDAY next, the 11th inst., at Twelve o'clock, at the Broker's Office, 7, Excange-chambers, 29 Barrels TAPIOCA (all faults), stow landing ex Falcon, from Bahia.—Apply to Edward Benn, 'egg., Merchant; or to FRANCIS J. EATON, Broker. (ha TuzsDAT next, 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 Howden, from Bombay, /100 Ballots COCOANUT FIBRE, ex Dolphin, from Colombo, Albert Dozk.—For further particu ars apply to SHAND, HIGSON and Co., Brokers. glo-Tussnity next, the 11th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, IGO Casks COCOA NUT OIL, Addy land6cl.—Apply to J. 11. RAYNER and Co., Brokers. On TUESDAY next, the 11th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, About 70 Tuns Southern WHALE OIL, ats Antilla, from Honolulu.—Apply to J. 11. RAYNER and Co., Brokers. WEDNESDAY 3a WEDNESDAY next, the 12th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the ..Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 50O'Bags Bombay•SALTPETRI 390 Bags Ditto DITTO, 49 Bales East India SENNA. BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers oil damaged, Postponed from Wednesday, the 29th nit Apply to On WEDNESDAY nest, the 12th instant, - at the Brokers' saleroom, Oldhall-street, 195 Bales Fine Mozambique ORCHELLA WEED, 2017 landing ex Fernandez, from Lisbon.—Apply to kessrs, Leech, Harrison, and Forwood, Merchants; or to ROOKE, OKELL, and SPENCE, Brokers. THURSDAY FRIDAY On FRIDAY next, the 14th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 125 Bales Bombay HEMP, 34 Bales Ditto DITTO, 38 Bales JUTE, 32 Bales RAGS. spiv to BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., 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 On WEDNESDAY, the 19th instant, and following days, at the lrokers' Saleroom, Atherton-building4, Dale-street, 0 Bales East India superior Russia Combing Fleece WOOLS. Iceland, Egyptian, and other low -For catalogues, &c., HUGHES and RONALD, Wool Broker 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 2,ait. PATENT ASPIIALTE ROOFING FELT. A cheap, durable, and perfectly Waterproof Roofing. ONE FExxv PER SQUARE FOOT. And PATENT HAIR FELT,' For ttotbing Steam Boilers, &c., by which a saving of one-fourth consumption of fuel is effected. WM. GIBSON, Successor to W. W. POWELL. )use —l2, CABLE -STREET. Office and War ON SALB, 100 Tons MANURE OIL CARE. .Iyids and price, apply to THOMPSON, BAGNALL, and BUTTERWORTH, Brokers, 30, Moorfields ON SALE, to of MANGANESE, to arrive, about 160 Tons A Carh of Analysis made by Mr. co.G C. Frisson, Analytical Chemist Tested in the dry state it contains, "Of Peroxide of M " Of water "Liverpool, 18th Dec., 1858 Apply to LEECH, HARRISON, and FORWOOD, 37, North John-street TO LANDOWNERS AND FARMERS. CHEST -LIRE PHOSPHATE COMPANY have constantly ON SALE Nitrogenised BONE PHOSPHATE, aid other valuable fertilisers.--Samples and prices may be had at tithe Office, 3, CABLE-STREET. Works :—Cowes Ili, --------- (*- TO ADVERTISERS. THE CIRCUL ATION OF THE NORTHERN TIMES LAST WBSK w it s 71,322, GIVING AN ATIMAGE OF 11,88 7 DAILY. OFFICE : 19, SOUTH JOHN-STREET Decunber 13, 1858. 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. "A BRITISH SAILOR."—We cannot allow our columns to be made the medium of a personal attack. Therefore, the letter signed as abOve cannot be inserted. FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1859. THE DAY'S NEWS. The news of most importance this. morning is that respecting the relations betwe en . F rance an d Austria. The uneasy feeling engendered by the remarks of the Emperor Napoleon to the Austrian Ambassador at Paris, on New Year's D a y, d oes not abate. The Stock Exchange here has been in fluenced by the state of affairs, but not to any such extent as in Paris. The news that the Austrian garrisons in Italy are strengthened will not allay the excitement, but it is announced.that the true reason for this is not international. The agitation in Italy increases, and because of that Austria does not withdraw her troops, but rather reinforces them. We learn, too, that a council of war is immediately to assemble in Venice to ,deliberate On this dangerous state of things, and Gialay, one of the Austrian generals has arrived there for the pur pose. But perhaps the most alarming, statement, for Austria,. should it prove true,, is to the effect that in Milan, when the populace, passing by the barracks raised the shout of " Long live Italy," the Austrian soldiers inside then. took it up, and sent back a similar cry. The Paris correspondence of the Express says, that there is. a. rumour that Milan is in a state of siege.. The news seems highly probable, for the few words addressed to M. de Hubner by the Emperer,,must have driven people in Italy nearly wild. The impression that France and Austria are in the eve of war gains ground—" I can now assure you. beyond a doubt,, that whatever turn events may subsequently take,, the French army of Italy is at this moment, ready to march on paper.' The Commander-in- Chief, the generals, the aide-de-camp, the staff, the regiments, the artillery, the engineering corps, are all fixed upon, and the tele graph might in half an hour send them on their way across the Alps to-morrow. " The miter however, adds My own personal opinion is,,that a great war is scarcely upon the cards. The Emperor is not strong enough internally to. risk the tremendous discontent which would be engen dered in France by the catastrophes, the desolation, which would be produced by a war of any long duration. The national vanity is great, and doubt less the news that the hi-coloured flag was waving in_ Lombardy would for a time silence many hostile parties. If Napoleon 111. could see his way to a grand military demonstration, ending in a triumph, without any serious opposition, there is no doubt that the movement would be popular. But the tug' of real war I am sure the nation would have no stomach to stand. There is no doubt, however, that a French army might sweep the Austrians from Italy like chaff before the wind, if no oppos ing elements came into operation to . check their onward course. There is no knowing how far France might be committed by a first, and possibly, too sanguine a step." In the Spanish Cortes there has been a demon stration in opposition to the declared designs of the United States on Cuba. Marshal O'Donnell spoke very warmly. He said that Spain had a full sense of her national dignity...and honour, and was well prepared to defend both, as well as the inte grity of her territory ; and he expressed astonish ment at the language of the Message of President Buchanan. The Cortes unanimously resolved to sustain the Government in the attitude defined by Marshal O'Donnell. There has been considerable excitement at Con stantinople at the news of the Servian resolution. The Sultan, acting on the advice of the Austrian envoy, was at first inclined to oppose the patriotic resolves of the Skuptschina, but the insistance of the other Ambassadors, and especially of Sir H. Bulwer, caused the Porte to change its intention. The troubles still continued in Candia. Mr. Gladstone, we learn, has sent home his report on the lonian question. While he was in Athens the manifestations of popular desire for a union with Greece became quite general. And it is said that if England refuses to give up the protectorate, the representatives of the lonian people will appeal to the Powers which signed the Treaty of 1816. The Mersey Dock Board held their first meeting this year, yesterday. Mr. Charles Turner was unanimously re.-elected Chairman f or th e ensu i ng year. Some discussion took pl ace as to the forma tion of the sub - committees for the y ear , and after a special committee being appointed to arrange them, both as to the number of persons on each, and their names, the meeting separated. At the meeting of the Health Committee yester day, the medical officer reported that the deaths last week were 306, being 50 more than the cor rected average for the corresponding week in the previous ten years. The deaths last week included fourteen from fever, seven from diarrhoea, and five from small-pox. At the Police Court, a number of dishonest shopkeepers and tradesmen were fined in sums varying from 108 to £3 and costs, for having illegal weights and measures. A number of mer chants and brokers were summoned, for not having removed their goods and merchandise from the dock quays, after having been landed 48 hours. The magistrates did not fine in any case, but intimated that in charges of a like nature they would henceforth inflict the penalty. _ The proceedings at th e mee ti ng o f th e T oxteth Board of Guardians, yesterday, will amuse some of our readers and disgust others. The guardians " The arms are fair, When the.intent of bearing thaw is just." evidently do not know - how to conduct the,business of the township ; but they will, perhaps, mend by and by. After several very unseemly interrup tions, yesterday, a Mr. Williams was elected relieving officer, he having obtained eight votes and Mr. Corrol seven. From the proceedings it would seem that Corrol is the far superior man ; but a charge of belonging to an Orange Society defeated his application. We should like to know is it not imperative under the Poor Law Act to advertise for a relieving_ officer A lengthened investigation into alleged tamper ing with the religion of some of the girls in the Workhouse, by a Roman Catholic lady visitor, Miss Gillow, took place at the meeting of the Workhouse Committee yesterday. From what has transpired, it would appear that Miss Gillow had catechised a girl, named Catherine Foley, upon her religion, and insisted that she (Foley) was a Roman Catholic ; that she had turned. Protes tant ; and that if she continued as such, she would be " damned to all eternity." This was corroborated by one or two other young girls, and Miss Gillow acknowledged that she had asked the girl if she had not been a Roman Catholic, but distinctly denies having used the objectionable expression alluded to above. The result of the affair was, that Mr. Melly moved a resolation to the effect, that a copy of the documents which had been read, Miss Kennan's letter, and the girls statement, be forwarded, with a copy of the rules, to Miss Gillow, and that she be requested, in accordance with rule 7, respectfully to send in her resignation to the committee, which, after some remarks from several members of the committee, it was agreed to. Roper, the Greenwich corn merchant, was tried at the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, on a charge of arson and fraud,. the theory of the pro secution being that he had set fire to his own house, thereby causing the death of two of his children, and that he had inserted in his claim on the insurance company, property which he had removed before the fire. The case. occupied the whole of the day. The cross-examination of several of the witnesses for the prosecution gave a turn to the evidence favourable to the prisoner. Mr. Serjeant Ballantine delivered a, very forcible address on behalf of the prisoner, and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The Brazil mails have arrived at Southampton. A short telegraphic summary of the news will be found- in another column. IT. has been said that " war• is an expansive lincury." Whether it is a luxury at all or not, however, would be the first point to settle in considering such a saying ; and whatever may have been the sense or the degree of the enjoyment of such a , pastime as war in days gone by—more especially in "ancient barbarous, times"—we. of the present day and generation have the happiness to live in too enlightened an age to find any such vicious sentiment anywhere prevailing—among• ourselves, at least—in any quarter where the slightest influence can be exerted to give effect to it. The •utmost that will now be conceded, is the sentiment which has been thus forcibly expressed,-- And this very often involves matters of opir ion. in which the wisest men will differ. About the expensiveness -of war, however, there can be bait one opinion.;. and whatever improvements there may have been in the art of war, there has apparently been none at all hilts cost. It was, the remark of EDMUND BURNS. that " from the first dawnings of policy to this day, the invention of men has been sharpening and improving_ the mystery of murder ; from the first rude essay of olubs and staves, to the present pvfection of gunnery, etuinoneering, bombarding, and mining." And all this, whilst perfecting, the means, has only been increasing the expense of the warfare ;: until now, with' all the extra appliances for equipping, transporting, and provisioning our armies, war is probably, a more costly affair than ever. We find., for example, that the year of mutiny, 1857 2 58 i in India, has cost the empire„ in, round numbers, some nine and half millions, sterling. The Indian revenue has been found,, it seems, wonderfully, almost magically, adaptable to so extraordinary an outlay. The Friend of India expresses surprise andsatisfaction at the indication of strength in theiz revenue system which the case has afforded. "- In a comculsion," it observes, "- such as has seldom been recorded, in history, with the north-west provinces actually lost,' the revenue declined by a sum less than sevenper cent. upon the gross income of the state, less by hun dreds of thousands than the revenue loss. roduced in England by the recent monetary panie. The fact is a pleasant one for the holders of Indian funds, The revenue which passed unscathed through 1857 will scarcely be affected by anything short of our expulsion." Pleasant, no doubt, it is as to the productiveness of the revenue; but how infinitely more pleasant still had it not been wasted on anything' so sanguinary and desolating ! Nor is the amount stated as already expended anything like what it will be, before all is done. "We lost, last year" says the same authority, " nine and a half millions. This year we have as much to lose, minus the cash stolen, but plus the pay of about 70,000 new levies and police, plus some 700 new staff appointments, plus the rehabilitation of nearly exhausted arsenals. There is ten more millions added to the former. Add at least five millions for property to be renewed, for compensation, and for accounts left unadjusted, and the mutiny, even if it ends this cold weather, has added twenty-five millions to the debt." Such is the cost of war. In this case, fortunately, Indian resources, not English, must be drawn upon to provide for it. And now let us, for a moment look at home, and see how a people's means are saved, when there is a transition from war to peace. That the recent war with Russia was a costly affair, we have negative evidence in the Revenue Tables lately published. In the statement of Increase and Decrease, in the year ended December 31, 1858, as compared with the corresponding period of the preceding year, we find one item of upwards of seven millions and a half : it is Property-tax decreased by having been reduced, as no longer necessary for the Crimean war. Thus in one single subject of taxation so large a remission can be made, by cessation from war within comparatively contracted limits,—a remis sion of taxation to about an eighth of the whole amount. Seven millions and a half saved to the country. It is a large sum to be left in the pockets of our upper and middle classes,— let us hope to be expended for much worthier purposes at home. A rather unreasonable impatience, we cannot but think, has been shown by a portion of the P r ess with respect to the prosecution which the we are now convinced is theirs, not ours THE NORTIIERN TIMES, FRIDAY, JANUA_RY 7, 1859 Irish Government, have - 1:);en under the necessity of instituting against a number of persons, charged not only with being members of an unlawful confederation, but with conspiring together for no less treasonable a purpose than that of favouring a foreign invasion. The project was, no doubt, a very foolish as well as a very wicked one ; yet was it not on that account any less the duty of the Government to take cognisance of it. Many very weak and foolish things prove very mischievous, — sometimes lead to most serious consequences— even to loss of life. A Government, therefore, receiving information of treasonable doings, however silly and absurd they may appear to be, is bound to act upon it. And this is what the Irish Government has- done. But then the impatiences is, to know all the ins and outs of the conspiracy, which it has not been tbOught prudent to disclose at present.. The law officers of Ireland, who know, of course, the whole case, considered that it would tend to defeat the ends of justice if the information on which they had to act were now to be divulged. They have there- fore made the preliminary inquiry a private one. The accused were allowed the privilege of having their legal advisers present, to watch the investi gation on their behalf. But in other respects the Magistrates have had the examination conducted privately ; and the result of it has been, as our readers know, the committal of most of the arrested parties for trial at the Assizes-, when privacy will be no longer either needful or practicable. It is enough, then,. fOr the present, to know that the prisoners lie under a charge of conspiring to disturb the lawful authority of her MAJESII6; some treasonable design;,--no doubt a 'very silly one, yet calculated to be very mischievous to- all concerned in it, as well mss-violating the public peace,. and defying the law. And this for no reasonable or practicable , purpose whatever, but apparently only from sheer love of mischief, and in a spirit of disloyalty and disaffection. There is no pretext for such a wanton and angerous device as it is sworn tha - .7 they were engaged in. Their country is at present undergoing w very marked and most beneficial improvement, and one in which all classes of the people must largely participate. It is on this account we learn• with so much sath • - faction, that" the evidence•f&af such a character as, without prejudging the' accused, leaves little doubt but there will be• a conviction at the Assizes ;" and that this, a•the same communica tion avers, "will, no doubt, go far to break up the existing secret societies in Ireland, as none of the- members cam depend for a moment on the others,"—since, "-when a brother turns round and becomes an approver in order to save himselfi. knowing well at the time that his evidence- will go to convict his own two. brothers—the sons of the• same parents—surely, those who are total strangers can have no confi;.- deuce in' each. other." One of the public journals of the very place' where this alleged conspiracy was being hatched— the Northern. Daily W7tiA a paper, as its name implies, in the liberal interest—reviewing the• com mercial history of the past year, thus remarks.upon the financial prosperity of the country year's Day,. 1859, has aome into existence• with brightened,prospects as•compared with those which greeted the advent of the past year. The chronic disease which then affected the whole system of commerce,. and, parallsed the circulation et capital, entered into almost every place of business, and prostrated the energies of the most enterprising. Ireland:S finance was well supported throughout all the• transitions, of the malady which had made such havoc in the sister country ; not a single bank showed the slightest weakness ; and,, although a partial want of confidence was felt in; the cases of two, or three• of those institutions, the. day of struggle passed over without leaving. any trace of its influence, save that of narrowing very much the circulation of notes, and to. soma extent decreasing the amount of gold reserve." The general progress of commerce in the town that was the head quarters of the treasonable folly for which ‘New- so many have just got into trouble, is then summarily noticed thus—" The imparts and exports of this town, which had amounted to £11,800,000 in 1851, jointly reached £17,500,000 in 1856. Next year, the total fell short of the previous one ; and, during the past twelve months, from the causes just noted, a further decrease took place. This, however, was to have been anticipated; but now that the corner has been turned, there can be little doubt of 1859 being the most successful of the past ten years." It was at such a moment as this, then, when there are such undeniable evidences of progress and prosperity, that a party of weak yet mischievous malignants could band themselves together, for the purpose of creating a disturbance in the country, which might have undone, for some time at least, all the good results that have arisen under the altered state of things of the last eight or ten years, and have thrown the public interests back again into their former condition of confusion and depression. The reflections of the London Times, with which it winds up an able article on this subject, are exuedingly apposite and forcible, when it says : " The return, after so many years' intermission, to Riband Societies, to a course of agrarian crime, to treasonable oaths and secret conspiracies, is certainly a bitter disappointment to our bright and sanguine hopes. We had dreamt of another future for Ireland, and can scarcely prevail upon ourselves to awake and look in the face our present disappointnients,—to admit how deeprooted are the evils with which we have striven to contend, and how ill the race in whose destiny we are so deeply interested profits by the opportunities of prosperity or the teaching of adversity. Time was when England, in the plenitude of ignorant generosity, was willing to take upon herself the blame of spendthrift land lords and barbarous peasants, of the recklessness, the extravagance, and the folly of centuries. We are proof against such reproaches now., If the Irish cannot be content with their lot, the fault and we must adhere to the system we have adopt ed until some better ream than the discontent of a poop whom adversity Scums unable to teach and pros- perity to humanize can be adduced for changing THE PROPOSED PARK AND BOITLi:VARD.-It is satis factory to find that the recommendation of the Finance Committee of the Town Council, to sell a por on of the Newsham House estate, has not been adopted. The land in question is likely-to be required for important public improvement", which all classes of our townsmen are more or less interested in. Whatever reason there may hitherto have been for selling the land, now that it is thought of for such a purpose as a public park, which would be so great an ornament and advantage to the town, it would be most inexpedient to part with it. We quite believe, with Mr. Picton, that " a large portion of the inhabitants are under the idea that it was the intention of the Council to lay out part of the estate as a public park ; and that if any steps be taken which would either nearly or remotely tend to prevent that, it would give great dissatisfaction." The possession of such a piece of land, in so desirable a situation, affords an opportunity to• the Town Council to promote so desirable an object as that of a park, *hick it would have been most reprehensible to throw away, as was proposed. A public park, which would be so valuable a place of recreation for the working classes; is, of course, the first great necessity to be' attended to, in suburban improve ments of the kind suggested... , Yet there is' iro reason why a boulevard may not be a part of the plan:. A boulevard and a park are quite• compatible objects—the former constituting the boundary of the latter. Mi.: Robertson Gladstone's remark, that "until lately he never attached much importance to the' formation of boulevards ; but, like many other people, tallng the opportunity sf seeing those boulevards made so• much use of by tie poorer classes in Paris, he had come to quite a different conclusions." shows that people only want' to be enlightened upon the subject,. in order to appreciate the importance• of such an appendage to a . town' like Liverpool. The idea of building villa residences' along the line of boulevards is, we .00nsider, quite praetiiable, without at air interfering with , the object in view, as-one of public advantage—one in the 'benefits and pleasuros of which all classes, even the humblest, would be at_liberty to participate:. THE TOXTETZI GUARDIANS AND THE WAY THEY DO THEIR BUSINESS.-It would be doing the Toxteth Guardians an injustice to say that they have yet arrived'at a correct method".of doing business_ It would be hard to. charge them with jobbery; but there is a dominant cliqueism, an unexplained way or coming at results, through the agency of some unknown committee, and' irregularities in the conduct of public business, which would startle many a less bombastic and conceited body. It was only last week that a medical gentleman stated in a note to the Guardians, that they were half starving a poor woman who wets suffering from Illness; yet we may constantly hear, in-the relief cases, the tender-hearted and considerate Mr John Wilson, telhug old men of 65, who are blind, and tottering with weakness, that they should go and seek work, and not come there to ask the Guardians to. keep them in idleness. To a deerepid old tailor.- with defective sight, that merciful guardian will say, "Why don't you go. and get work at t'ie tailors' shops ?- there is plenty of itir The old man will murmur—" I hove tried, but can't, sir ; the young hands leave no chance." And generally the guardian in question shows an utter abnegation of. all those kindly feelings which he Is known to possess. But, apart froin the pleasant manner in which relief is administered, there is room to say a word or two about the election of a relieving officer. Usually, Boards oc,Guardians adver tise the vacancy, with an intimation that "canvassing the guardians will not be allowed." Not so at Toxteth Park, however ; the guardians almost. boasted of having been canvassed, and entered upon the.consideration of the question before them, with their minds fully made up as to who should be successful, so. far as they were address, testimonials, or general eviance of fitness. At the meeting of the Board on the previous week, it seemed to have been understood, that the election was to take place then—(for- the Guardians dodged advertising, Mr. Moss having suggested that they could put into their speeches, whiclt would be reported, all that was necessary) —and candidates were then in attendance. Some of, the Guardians. had had interviews with those candidates,, and were prepared to speak of their fitness, and it was. acknowledged that the most eligNe of them was Mr, Correll, but; for some reason —no, doubt one of profound policy—Mr. Moss had, or his party had, the matter postponed.. Questions were asked as to why there should be a postponement, but no satisfactory reply was given. The postponement takes place, and the question comes on again, with the result stated, in the report. There is an awful discovery ! A conspirator, probably—a dangerous man is in the field; and we are treated with an amiable and edif:iug little discussion on. Orange Lodges ! The. thing is almost too silly for conament ; but it will show the "measure of mind" that prevails at the Toxteth Board. A. candidate had been decided on by Moss and, Co. (and a guardian alleged that Mr. Moss had tried to persuade him to his way of thinking), and he was carried against the dangerous individual, who, no doubt, would have been carried had the election taken place last week. To say nothing of not advertising, adjourning 'Without cause, guardians allowing, themselves to he canvassed and themselves canvassing, there is one matter of serious complaint. In their eagerness to fight their respective views on the great Orange question, the Guardians threw overboard the applications of the rest of the fifteen can didates, and did not do them either the courtesy of seeing or hearing their applications. But the affair was fore-doomed, and the anti-Orange party has triumphed. CRINOLINE CLIPPINGS.—Crinoline Tolled : At the toll gate between St. Anthony's and Pity-me, near Newcastle, the other day, a fair landlady, extremely hooped, was brought to a stand, being unable to force her way through the turnstile. Though used to stand at the bar, she was not disposed to be detained on this occasion, and de manded to have the gate open, upon which the toll-keeper told her that if she had the gate opened she must pay 2d., the same as horses. We believe, however, his gallantry eventually prevailed, and the fair cavalcade moved on.—Kelso Mail. The Crinoline .11fania : A Templemore correspondent informs us that the young lady who had her crinoline dilapidated at the station near that town, while striving to insinuate herself into a railway carriage, intends to treat the company to an action for damages, in conse quence of the injuries she suffered from the neglect of the company in not having doors of the dimensions required to admit ladies who indulge in the present inflated fashion of under garments. Our corres pondent further states that a number of young ladies, companions of the injured fair one already alluded to, have a memorial in course of signa ture, which is to be intrusted to G. E. Ilberry, Esq., for presentation to the directors of the Great Southern and Western Railway at their next meeting. The petition impresses on the directors the imperative necessity of keeping one carriage, at least, attached to each train, with folding doors, which is to be set apart solely for ladies who patronise the present style of fashionable circumlotatory circumgestation— said carriage to be designated the " Crinoline Caravansera."—Leinste r Express. THE CONVICT WIIITWORTIL-It is satisfactory to know that this unhappy man continues in the same state of mind as he did last week. Ho daily reads the Scrip tures and other religious books, and is quite resigned to his fate. The Rev. J. E. AL Young and the Rev. James Parkes daily visit the culprit, and there is reason to hope that, before his death, ho will make a more detailed con fession of his guilt. Up to the present time he has merely acknowledged in general term; the justice of WI senteneks,-..:Leccts Mercuq, FOREIGN INTELLIGENC BRAZILS SOUTHAMPTON, ThUXSCIig The Tyne has arrived with the South M can mails. She left Rio December 11th, Lisbon the 2nd instant. Amongst her cal specie to the value of about £55,000. All O her passengers is his Excellency Mr. Christie,) seventeen of the crew of the ship Meroo, ' O4 was burnt at sea. The federal government of Parana and J3' Ayres are still at variance Troops are en • from Parana for the province of St. Ivan. Urquiza is at Entre Rios, The American squadron is at Monte Video• From Lisbon we learn that it is likely that French minister there will shortly be replace another, on accout of the affair of the Charle Georges. THE. lONIAN ISLANDS Corattf, I Mr. Gfaxlstone has sent home his report expects instructions before the openist-g of lonian Parliament. If England refuses her consent to the lid the lonian Republic with Greece, the reFre? tives of the people will communicate the Nci-4f the nation to the Powers which signed the Treaty LOCAL INTELLIGENCE The Earl and Corntess of Derby,. and Ladyl Stanley, purpose lea-ling Knowsley Hall for to Months/Jr next. Enatit.Tem.—ln our - report of the' proceedings Toxtetli) Audit, in yesterday's pope* the name auditor, Mr. Rees, was erreneously given as " 31r.! REV.- HUGH STOWELL BROWN'S' LECTti I HOGARTIS.—Lsst night, the Rev Hugh Stowell F again delivered his lecture on " llogarth and tures," ins Hope Hall. Mr. J. A. Pieton presidt there was a very large audience. AcciDENtr.—A man named Thoinas relshaw, r e at 81, Whitechapel, commenced wresttiig in3l", space of ground inGreatyOmer-strk -ItIL rho- re 51,1", Men, whilst in a state of intoxicatio that he fell Awn, and broke-his leg. into the Northern Hospital. C THE FATAL. AOCIDENT AT 1. THE OrYTaCtlfs l inquest on the body of Emma Pike, who-lost in the accident on Monday last, at the Polyt'echui c tion, was opened yesterday before Mr.. coroner for Middlesex, at the Middlesex ilospt after some preliminaries, was adjourned fora--we:;", THE BURN'S , ' CENTENARY ATI' ST. GEORC.VS On the eYeningTof the 25th inst. a grand clew° ~*"' will take place - in commemoration of the coon Burns. The praceedings will open with a littradi to be followed by a grand promonadc concert, sad elude with a bait The whole of the rooms ill' will be thrown open on the occasion. RETURN OF ALL SCHOLEFIELD,• M.P.-137 - W which arrived in the Mersey on Saturday last,O f : member. for Birmingham, Mr. William Scholefle:; returned to England, in, we are happy to sa4• health. Durinq his stay in America, Mr. Sowf visited, we bcheTe, all the chief_ cities of. ill ; Mr. Scholefield has placed in err - hands z212__,,i 0 subscription to the funds of the Birmingham Association.—Birmainqham Post THE ►SCOTTISH MUSICAL FI HALL.—A lame audience TAL AT ST. welcomed t 13.0 " Scotia's sons ? " nightly performing at the &AO' of' ficent hall, which has almost taken the positi€ arty wifl on that the .performances of this , in Liverpool for two more evenings, . on Saturdg. for the benefit of Mrs. and Mr. Reynolds, the el of the " Saturday Evening Concerts " PLEASANT ADVENTURE OF Ai. STREET- 3flY poor boy, who has lost the use of his legs, but n accomplished musician and plays with admirable skill upon the accordion, has been for several yea° a livelihood by street playing, in:Liverpool. 1- nLo summer evenings, crowds of delighted listeners" accustomed to gather in a cirelearenna almost entranced by his beautifttlAnd expressise improvisations. We learn. with pleasure,. tip Burdett Coutts has taken the youth under her intends to promotahis fortunes. THE BEGGAR'S OPERA.-70h11 Gay, the autll cg. opera, now nightly, being performed, by the,, Opera Company, at the Amphitheatre, was Exeter in the year-1488.. He was bred a . n tDrl i Strand, which occupation he quitted as a degr o / his talents. But the pursuit of poetry, for 10 3 , 1L iii seems to have brought him neither. much much profit; fog- his. fi r st ce l e br a t e d p a duct* Fables, did not appear until 1726. This. was 0 1 in 1727-8, by "The. Beg gar ' s Op era ," w hie? di gave him wealth and re p u t a ti on . Hi s na t ura l 1 0 , 4 and an unfortunate speculation in the Sough Seal diminished his littl e f or t une ; y et it i s said- be al possession of several thousands. His death took 1732 ; and he was interred in Westminster A l) that particular spot called Poets' C orner , ain°' relics and the monuments of genius.. CHRISTMA ‘ S• TREES, ST. GEORGE'S 11A.Li eluding meeting 4th instant, Rev the general comnittc Mr. Maynard in the St. Georp.m!'s I thanks were passed to th for general considerateness ; for to Major Greig ; to Mr. P. W. 'Promoli to '7o T. Best, to Mr. J. Armstrong, and the menibe.T choir; to the committee of ladies, whose tasten rations attracted so much admiration ; to Mes sl. ;;l Brancker and Co. ; to the noble and honourable especially to the Earl of Derby, for the two trefi to the Earl of Sefton for a donation of £5 and a Mr. Alderman J. H. Turner, Mr. George Pop John Williams, T. R Arnott, Esq., and "gr" Esq., for contributions; to Mr. Owen Lewis, two small trees, and ten others ; to the me mber s I working committee; viz :----Revs. J. M. Lister“ Thomas Wilfred Leveson, T. Holland Pain, an, Barton, R. Tucker, Esq., W. M. Mackenzie, J especially to John Branoker, Esq., chairman ; Pc Stolterfoht, Esq., treasurer ; also Rev. A. . secretary ; to the board of the Blue C o at SehooL ei , band; and to Mr. T. Wood. The clergy wp requested to express to the teachers and pupa the satisfaction with which the committee o j their careful management of the children, pleasure which the admirable conduct of tlae ; o f has occasioned to all who witnessed the pre c d The committee could not separate without elr o 'J o gratitude for the great enco uragemen t w hi c h bestowed, and the humble hope th a t thi s mo veri le d promote the great cause of Christian civilitv o t binding together more closely the va r ious eco society, by increasing the desire for domestic and by suggesting useful and agreeable pursul t6 o ! young, whereby latent talent and ingenuity ol developed, and so the dignity and power of a gre s may be further augmented to th e glory of God. THE COMET AT THE CAPE.—A comet, no & Il e ' : one seen in Europe about three months sift e d attracted great interest at the Cape. When first; 01 presented the appearance of a luminous head Wit h like tail, of about twenty degrees, slightly cm-'j The Banf Journal, speaking of the grain trau'il North, says :—" There is an advance this wee price of grain in some districts. Deale rs will s 4 acknowledge a rise, yet there are a good few i, 11 : 0 in which they have given more money f or gr ain t L4 week, where they could not get quantities sum former prices." A new movement has been originated in Russi ° li , great loss of the f armers o f th e sp i r it d ut i es , b, u pt e delight of all phil an th ro pi s t s . I n K owno , peasantry have been greatly addicted to intempe7p endeavour was made to introduce the sy s tem of Mathew, and they were urged to appear a t the churches and "take the pledge." This requ i e ° o almost without a dissentient complied with, - ence has become so general that the sale of sP I 'A been entirely stopped, and the working of all th e leries in that neighbourhood has been far som e altogether abandoned. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE LANCASO II IO YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.---011 Wednesday mor n . frightful accident occurred on the Lancashlto Yorkshire Railway, near Failsworth, in the ; Cutting. It appears that the platelayers 'oleo commencing work shortly aft er seven o'clock, It to' of them, named John Peers went on the up lin e , for his spad e . Th e morning was dark andfA r g,g l e 'V was warned of the appr oac h of the train from . 11 ' it to Oldham, but failed to get out of the way beforp Upon him, He was literally cut to pieces. lie wife and children tq mourn his untimely end.