Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-31 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION NORTHERN TIMES OFFICE, TUESDAY, 5 A.M. - THE WAR IN ITALY. T he P . OSITION OF GARIBALDI. t e ,_ Dally News tries to reconcile the contra ti 'Airy reports respecting Garibaldi. The despatch (1 tela,France, containing the most favourable news, th e L . ,es to the state of things on Monday, whereas If o uc'feat is alleged to have taken place on Sunday. or,aribaldi haetaken refuge in the Swiss Canton t iot 'e,ssian, he would have been disarmed, and could toe have a vanguard at Cantu, which is on the to Milan ; and a despatch or Turin, which is fat leg communication with Como, announces o,‘ Garibaldi has received reinforcements there. Gar i b aldi is e whole, the Daily News is satisfied, that s'u not only in the field, but successful. NAPLES. o jhe Pose says the proclamation of Ferdinand 11., of B cending the throne of Naples, produced a feeling wil l i n uignation. The people are told that no change of be made in the form of Government or system al u. nlinistration. The authorship of the document ite°4eribed, not to he rh te King, but to the Queen, his Pnlother, and advisers. COMMERCIAL. k o .l e upward movement in the Stock Markets to-day was / 54 t e decided than for a long time past. Its basis is still otd ; 2 Ale investments, which are stimulated by the extra- L4ary easy a. princ9a k t ," clay was in Mt 11 e 5 in stances Ito 1 per cent. The English Funds ti,eattained a fresh rise of no less than per cent. With tp s 'allk rate still at 41 per cent., first-class bills up to two til,,laa are taken at 3 per cent. The bullion operations at ttiC b tank to-day consisted of a withdrawal of about £lO,OOO T h a r 'old.—D a il g News City Article, Monday Evening. ha English Funds-have experienced a further remarka korn',lllProvement to-day. The general buoyancy in the Pk t , 111 g was attributable chiefly to numerous additional C4l.- ailway 3, whi 1 rose in es of moderate amounts by the public. There were lj jePorts that there will be no disturbahce of the at the opening of Parliament, and the tone of the 1 4 01 , f i lerital accounts was less discouraging. The Exchanges firraness and a ise of 2 per cent. in,the Austrian S e : 8 ) thi s mo'rning, at r Amsterdam, led to new surmises of 17 6 Peace arra4e 7 ments being 'contemplated through i i ` 4 4 agen c y —Times City Article, Monday Evening. etaCORN MARKETS.—According to the Daily E nglish .Yews city wheat sold slowly on Monday at Mark-lane. ty Cetion of 2s. to 4s. per quarter from the rates of Mon !, 2 3rdinst. The Times says the decline was from )f government and contractors tl epa; n °vi employed in the laboratory and military store N gent of Woolwich Arsenal amounts to nearly 10,000 A an d e boys. The number was again increased. Z4tOtoner's inquest has been held at Shorncliffe Camp, Itki e body of Lieutenant Thomas George Keogh, of the 41 oh_, ti ll f Nlilitia. Verdict returned, " That deceased destroyed n a fit of temporary insanity." 14A, 1, 0 Pllsiderabl e increase has taken place during the past the number of seamen arriving in Portsmouth, who Pcirt v oluntee r ed for the royal service at the different ` 4 'or t 4 Above 80 have arrived from Liverpool, and ,Ti: Ci s !rom Sunderland, Shields, and Hull. 'ger, Ew HOUSE OF COMMONS. —The Herald gives a tiiity prepared list of the new House of Commons, ik,44 lt divides as follows : Miuisterialists, 306 ; i r l! Libe ra l s , 65 ; P a l me r s t on i an s, 107 ; Russellites, at tl ; 'qr. Bright's followers; 28. The Herald contends that, A la e very wors t, ministers will command a majority of 20 Ttld' confidence motion. IN Run SEA TELEORA.PII.—The cabel is at this time tObly laid to P er i m, a b out 1,260 miles from Suez, and ty'eqrst section of the undertaking will be completed when I tcti l°o miles from Perim to Aden is laid. The second Ve' Will b e f rom Ad en t o K urrac hee, where the cable t once be in communication with every part of India. ETA 111 be proceeded with as soon as possible. v: . kTLA.NTIC TELEGRAPH.—The Times states that the 4 ,` lllll ent are ready to guarantee a dividend of 8 per cent. 14 1 ,04; 1 , 11 ni for twenty-five years, provided the cable is in 4r - ' 4l , operation and capable f conveying 100 words an 4 4 'also that they will pay £20,000 per annum for k Sao ° , Tl 4 p ° • The company moreover are to eontinue to enjoy 00 of the original arrangement for a payment of 'dey ;° per annum from the United States Government. iL, 4l tetl to guard, by a policy of insurance, against ;t l i j'ts or loss from the process of submerging the cable, ; e til l) l4ls that the contract for its manufacture shall he ac :*i:llied by provisions for its efficient electrical working 4 00", °44 iderable period. The new capital is to consist of in £5 preference shares. L.A.TEST TELEGRAMS. NE WAR IN ITALY. Tt SARDINIAN BULLETIN. AysMay 30th.—The Piedmontese army has '44 RlB th e Sesia in the face of the emeny who were 6 44: (1 at Palastro . 4 )24,,7 a severe conflict, our troops, under the 9 1e 4 - ` l 4 and of the King, took the village from the IlY e , and made many prisoners. T , details of the victory are still wanting. e Oli t) Emperor has to-day vi :fed the soldiers • ;e,d at the battle of Montebulio, who are now aespital of Alessandria. 'otd i • distributed money among them and spoke ti l t , of consolation. • tlo a _ Majesty subsequently departed at P.m., for Vercelli. • tilitrilt GARIBALDI'S MOVEMENTS. kb E, May 30th, (via Germany).— General r; l _te 4,,tdi, yester d ay , suffered a defeat by a superior .1 t: °I the Austrians, and has withdrawn into the 41.„_Tessin. General Garibaldi's vanguard is *at --.4,__ EMPEROR OF AU HIS . ARMY the STRIA JOINING tirMay 30th tie d'so, Yto join the army, was accompanied b . \trahlr, the Arch-Duke Charles, by the Hereditary 4 4C,,,`' Duke of Tuscany, the Arch-Duke Wilhelm ; Th`4eilerals Hess and Schlitter. Archdlike Leopold and the Emperor, the ),Y', lll ce Wilhelm, the Hereditary Prince of and General Hess, has passed through sm. Emperor 17 1 ;„ ? 'N . ..CH AND SARDINIAN MOVEMENTS stated that 8,600 Sardinians are at Varese, and Preneh Corps d'Annee is expected there. FRESH INSURRECTIONS 30t (via France) insurrection _ Valteline. The population is 01) :3 . in masses to Youdairo, the centre of the !'oke n out in th - - 12 ) ISA.RMING AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS. \\i t Austrian Gensdarmes who had retired into 4 iand have been disarmed by the Swiss ori v "es, and sent by them into the interior of the 3 IDENCY OF THE SWISS FEDERAL DIET. _ ti pk - KPORT-ON-MAINE, May 30th. —B aron Kubeek ,en i definitely appointed President of the at Det. A'4-C AUTIONARY MEASURES or THE SWISS Th e COUNCIL. th; ,?wiss Federal Council has despatched troops 'rontiers of the Grisones. 4 TD._ • L A N , COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CON kTt" STANTINOPLE AND TRIESTE. e3O T E, May 30th.—From the B th of Ju ne next, 4 4t.; 414 communication between Trieste and Con lthi-TPle will be opened by the Gree k steamer t rina. , , A LW • ter c i, A. Y, Monday.— Te Argo (ss), sailed at four p.m Y afternoOn for Newfoundland and New York. PROGRESS OF THE WAR. FROM THE "TIMES" SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, AUSTRIAN HEAD-QUARTERS, GARLASCO, May 22.—The affair of Friday is considered here as rather a disaster. The full returns of killed and wounded arrived to-day, and exceed very much the number I mentioned yesterday. That number was lost by Count Stadion's own corps alone, but he had also with him one brigade of General d'Urban's corps, and this suffered more than any other. It is blamed for the excess of ardour which turned the reconnaissance into a battle. Still, too much dash is a fault, so easily forgiven in a soldier that, in spite,of all losses, the feeling here is much what it was in the Crimea after the gallant charge at Balaklava---regret for the fallen, but full cofidence that such troops can face anything. During the thickest of the fight one poor French boy deserted, riding straight at a battery of artillery which was firing, and also in the line of fire of the French guns. His horse was shot, but he got up and walked cooly on. When asked why he came over, he said he had disliked leaving home, and wanted to go back. Major Piers, a gentleman of an Irish family, in the Austrian service, was severely wounded, and lying helpless, when, I have been informed by more than one eye-witness, he was killed by a 'French Chasseur. Such an act has only to be mentioned, I am confident, to ensure such orders being given as will prevent anything of the kind happening again. Now that hostilities of another nature have commenced, the attacks on the Austrians in the newspapers will probably It is high time, when such leaders of public opinion nectator WI! those which reached us to-day, abusing Count Gyulai fo: cruelty, on account of a proclamation to Piacenza, which was never written. Now that Vercelli is in the hands of the Piedmontese, I trust that the Brisish Commissioner with their army will inquire how the, inhabitants were treated. If they report unfavourably, they arc greater hypocrites than any men I have yet had the pleasure of meeting. A French detachment forded the Sesia yesterday, and forced the advanced posts of the Austrians, but retired when the main body guarding that approach showed itself. They probably intended only to reconnoitre. The patrols on both sides show great intrepidity. A party of twelve yester day, under the command of Captain Stankovics, crossed the Po, reconnoitred Valenza, and returned without the loss of one man, although seen by the enemy, The head-quarter staff of such a large army as this is of course very numerous; 85 officers sit down to dinner often, and forage is drawn for 1,200 horses, as every field officer has a carriage and carriage horse, besides his four The orderly officers give all their horses or five chargers, plenty of work. A ride of 50 or 60 miles before a 7 o'clock breakfast falls to the lot of one of them almost daily. Their movements are the only signs of anything going on, as the utmost secresy is observed about every occurrence. I am sure that many persons in this town have no idea that at any instant some important military step may be taken. A stranger coming into the crowded court-yard or ante-room of the General might easily fancy the enemy 100. miles off, not perceiving that the boots of the officer talking to the General are dusty, that the one riding off towards the westward is accompanied by four Lancers, and not hearing the whisper of another saying where he is to be found during the next half hour. My groom, for one, remarks nothing, but talks coolly of having a horse shod to-morrow or next day. I ani not sure that this system of secresy is not better than discussing openly every movement, as English officers do ; but a medium would be still better. The imagination magnifies any calamity so much, when there is any Mystery about it, that I cannot help thinking all past events might be discussed without injury. FRANCE. PARts, Sunday Evening. —Thellioniteur gives the follow ing from Alessandria; dated yesterday : " The • Emperor, wishing to diminish, inasmuch as it depends on him, the evils which war brings with it, and to give the example of the suppression of rigours which are necessary, has decided that all the wounded prisoners should be restored . to the enemy without exchange, from the moment their condition permits them to return to their own country. Garibaldi has entered Como; the town has been illuminated. The enemy have retreated to Carmerlata. The population is arming to join Garibaldi." " LuGarro, May 28, Midday.—The troops of Garibaldi occupy Camerlata, and are preparing to pursue the Austrians, who are retreating on Mariano. " Garibaldi, you will see, is nearer Milau than the Emperor Napoleon, who, if he does not make haste, may be out stripped by the Italian chieftain. His Majesty, who seems to take his great uncle as his model in many things, has also imitated him in the restoration of these prisoners. The copy does not quite come up to the original. Napoleon 111. only sends back such of the prisoners as are wounded. The First Consul restored to the Emperor Paul 6,000 or 7,000 Russian prisoners taken the year before at Zurich and in Holland, without conditions of any kind, and not only that, but - clothed them in their national uniform, armed them, and gave them their officers, with ti swords. This was done with a view to completely detach eir colour and their the eccentric Paul from England. It w sity which, while it touched the heart of the Czar, cost France little, and there were no French to be exchanged for them. The courtesy was not lost on the Czar : it was one of the causes which led to the departure of the English Ambassador from St. Petershurgh. The present act, reducing the number of the prisoners, reduces the cost of keeping them, and in this case also, I believe, change. It is believed th Alilan the most strenuous effo matter AMERICAN AFFAIRS. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. THE NEXT PRESIDENCY : ITS ELECTION CAMPAIGN ENTERED UPON; DISSENSIONS TO BE MADE UP. THE NICARAGUA DISPUTE: EXERTIONS OF THE NEW BRITISH MINISTER AT WASHINGTON._ THE MORMON EW INS lONS TO THE UNITED STATES AUTHORITIES IN UTAH. THE RECENT SLAVE-TRADE TRIALS : DEFIANCE OF LAW IN THE SOUTHERN COURTS ; SYMPATHY OF THE SOUTH ERNERS WITTI THE TRADERS IN NEGROES; SUP POSED NECESSITY OF THE SLAVE-TRADE. CUBA WANTED AS A SLAVE STATE, BUT ITS ACQUISITION NOT PRACTICABLE UNDER THE PRESENT UNION. PROVISION OF DRINKING FOUNTAINS AT NEW YORK : CALL FOR BATHS ALSO. VAST INCREASE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. The present Presidential term of four years, which is the 18th since the establishment of the United States Government, commenced on the 4th of March, 1857 ; it has therefore a year and three quarters yet •to run. The election, however, will take place in the month, of November immediately preceding ; so that until the time when the next President will be chosen it wants about a year and a half,—a period considered not a bit too long to carry on with due effect the great business of electioneering. And this business of electioneering for the President, as you doubtless know, is as much a matter of party, as the election of a member of Congress is. Preparations for the campaign, as I have in several of these communications shown, have been going on for some time past. But now the contest itself is being entered upon in earnest,—with all its machinery of caucuses and cabals, and their party stratagems and intrigues—of the nature and extent of which there is but a faint idea in England. The Democratic, that is the present Government party, is so much disunited, that the other, the Republican, is in great hopes of success. But, says the 2V - etc York Herald, "the existing dissensions and divisions of the New York Democracy being all about the spoils, upon the basis of the spoils they may be composed. Not so the divisions among the opposition factions, here and elsewhere. Their divisions are upon conflicting principles, upon which there can be no accommodation. Thus we safely predict that there will be at least two oppoSition, parties iu the . field in 1860, as in 1850, and in the meantime the whole budget of our political affairs may undergo such changes and transformations as will place the democratic party of the Union in a position to recover --in a re-union upon Mr. Buchanan's sound and reliable adminis tration—all the ground they have lost in their foolish experiments to break him down. Let the hards and softs fight out their quarrels. They begin early, and thus they will have plenty of time to come to their senses before the, Charleston Convention, the upshot of which must be harmony, when the issues will simply determine the re-union or permanent dissolution of the party." They do indeed "begin early." They will keep the Union in hot water for a year arid a half ! The new British Minister at Washington has set to work in good earnest with the United States' Government on the everlasting Nicaraguan business. It appears that the amendment made to the Nicaragua treaty by the Government of that country, to the effect that the United States shall execute their neutrality laws in the same article Which Sir William Gore Ousley has admitted into his treaty ; and the British Government object, as does the U. S. Government, to any such provision, considering it a very undignified stipulation to be inserted in a treaty, that a Government shall bind itself to execute its laws. / There need not, one would think, be any great difficulty in rectifying such a mistake as this, —for a mistake it certainly is on the part of the Nicaraguan diplomatists, to treat with such suspicion the. Governments of Powers so infinitely more respectable than their own. The Mormons have again been giving the Ad ministration at Washington a great deal of trouble. The late judicial affair in Utah has been the subject of very anxious consideration. The Associate Justice (Cradlebaugh) has no doubt received their remonstrances, and their counsel, in due course, by private despatch. But with regard to the Military Command in the Territory (the head quarters of which is at Camp Floyd), it is understood that Gen. Johnston is specially instructed to hereafter await the orders of the Governor before calling out the troops to act as a posse comitatus to assist the civil authorities in enforcing the laws. The State and War Departments at Washington have also had made up their general instructions for the officials in Utah in regard to the new difficulty which has arisen there. Of course, the law is to be upheld ; but it is justly considered most desirable that, at the same time, no pretext should be given for resistance either to the judicial or any other of the authorities. It is remarked, I observe, and only with too much truth, by the anti-slavery portion of the public press, that the result of slave-trade cases which have recently been before the law courts, in some of the Southern States, clearly shows that the Federal Government is unable to punish offences against the laws which prohibit the traffic in negroes in its own Courts in those States. "We do not say," one of the more respectable of the papers observes, " that it cannot prevent the revival of,the slave-trade, for it is yet in its power to intercept slavers and even to bring them to justice in this part of the Union. It now seems certain, however, that if the trader can escape the cruisers upon the African coast and upon our own—and the vigilance of those cruisers is not always sleepless - he can land his cargo in the United States, can dispose of it and take his guilty profits with impunity: the hand of the law is powerless to punish him ; his vessel may be seized and sold, but that is no worse than if lie had voluntarily scuttled or burned her on the Cuban coast, as is so often done ; and a recent eLmple shows that even a naterial 1 to the actual and avowed owner of the condemned vessel." All this has been shown to be the case, at the recent trials. The statement is fully substantiated by the facts of these cases. For example,—The brig Wanderer landed a cargo of slaves upon the southern coast, and she, it is more than suspected, was not the only vessel which has done so within twelve months past; her cargo is sold and distributed abroad ; the owner does not scruple to avow his interest in the adventure, nor his determination to repeat- it in defiance of the federal officers ; the vessel is sold, but he purchases her at a nominal price, and assaults with impunity the man who dares to bid against him, and whoever utters his violent and unlawful act does it withou. upport from public opinion A-Arl } ,t as soon as the French enter of England and Prussia will be turned to effecting some arrangement between the Powers to put an end to the war. The Empress, from feelings of humanity---MM. Walewski, Fould, and other influential persons, partly from humanity and partly for )ther reasons---will give their best support in the Prince Jerome, too, is said to be well-disposed, though perhaps he differs from his son in this respect. The first condition, however, is the triumphial entry of the French into the capital of Lombardy, and this doubtless they do not consider put off to the Greek Calends. I sup pose it would make no difference if Garibaldi won the race. matter By that time the immediate object of the Emperor ou be attained There is, of course, a good deal t before the Austrians are reduced to suc however, talked of; and it shows, at any rate, disappr one else expects his conviction ; while the crew of another vessel, taken before the completion of their P L -L- n vra Aaccs 0 ~ • war to a conclusion as soon as possible. A letter from cupidity making their guilt 'clear and indisputable, Toulon of the 27th inst., informs us that the greatest are only indicted after repeated efforts of the activity prevails in that port, Admiral Bonet Willaumei, Onvernment officers, and then only to be acquitted by aju historyof of that their case. Again, inthe Echo S Such i c is, in brief, casethe —there who has been appointed to the command of the flotilla true laden with siege artillery, is expected to sail daily. The was the same denial of justice, the same Minister of Marine has appointed a commissioner to the determination to resist any attempt to make it a port of Leghorn, for the regulation of the naval service, penal offence ; although, subsequently, it had not .Major Ducasse, who edited the correspondence of Joseph similar defiant accompaniments to those of , the Bonaparte with his brother the Emperor, has left Paris for 'Wanderer. Nor is this lamentable state of things to st a b t e e s the to thetria trial judicialio the officers Eho of the j. United d the head quarters of Prince Napoleon„ to whose staff he isa y se any room uge attached. The Director. General of Public Instruction in Egypt Wayne does not seem to have left the in c l. arrived in Paris yesterday. It is said that his object is to to doubt, as to either the construction or the make himself aNnainted with - the organisation of the constitutionality of the statute. Both Judge French Institute, with.a view to the establishment of one Wayne and Judge Campbell,_ of the Alabama and in Egypt for the development of literature, science , and Louisiana circuit, have laid down in strong terms, arts , in charges to the grand jury, the o to- laws against the slave trade, their humane objects, . , and the necessity of enforcing them. But the fact The Times publishes a letter from M. Kossuth, statinc, is, the juries won't do their duty, —they won't that he never g ave express i on t o the views attributed tO convict. The law, therefore, is a dead letter. Not, him in a leading article of Friday last. it is contended, that the public sentiment of the PADDYISM. —‘‘ Faith,", said an Irishman, who could not get into his cabin- at Ballifigarry, his wife having turned South is favourable to the re-opening of the slave .." . said his compa n i on ; the key u p on him ; "faith, but I' m re gularly looked in I" trade,—though this I very much doubt ; but that , I inthe , "in where ?" " Wh .y, ' they who object to it, and who claim to he in a street?' majority, two so supine and negligent es to leave )ligation THE NORTHERN TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 31 185 9 their opponents to give the tone to public opinion, and enable the slave-trader to meet a jury which does not simply disagree but unani mously acquits him. Their - conduct is thus apologised for, by an anti-slavery journal,—" Afore than once the sounder portion of the Southern people, environed by difficulties which we understand and acknowledge, have suffered , their more noisy opponents to carry out measures, in opposition to their better judgment and sound sense, but yet with their acquiescence. It is for this, portion of that people now to say, whether they will again be over ruled and forced to consent to the breach of laws which they approve, the humane purpose of which they admit. The inhabitants of other parts of the Union may deplore, for the sake of humanity, that such offences are suffered to escape justice ; may be indignant that the law of the general Government is openly defied ; but it is with shame as well as indignation, that the Southern people should see' the unpunished revival of this iniquity." It is evident, however, that there is no such " shame and indigna tion " manifest in the South, in any section of the community. The fact is, that under the system of slavery, the slave-trade cannot very well be entirely dispensed with. Apropos of this question of the slave-trade, I may adduce the recently recorded opinion of one of the leading organs of the slaveholders, and most zealous advocates of their system (the Charleston Mercury) which said,—" We have opposed the hypocrisy of buying Cuba at the present time as impracticable nonsense and humbuggery. The South needs Cuba, and ought to have her, but never can have her a slave State in this Union." The present Southern agitation of the slave-trade is not only impracticable, but mischievous nonsense, because uselessly dividing and distracting the counsels of the South. It may be highly expedient that the South should have the African slave-trade re-opened, but it never can be legally done in this Union." This is the Southern feeling. They are sick of contesting the question with the Northern Boston States. They will in the meantime defeat the law which they cannot annul. But they evidently contemplate a time when " this Union" will be dissolved ; and then, but not till then, it " can be legally done." The rage for public Drinking Fountains has extended to the United States. Some of the cities already had such a provision, though to no great extent. But, as respects New York, it is with only too much truth observed, that although it "is the best watered city in the world, where the weather is generally dry, the heat often oppressive, and the dust always choking, there is not a public drinking fountain supplied with a cup, where the stranger may clear his throat and slake his thirst, from the High Bridge to the Battery. There are a few ornamental fountains, but they are carefully railed round, so that they cannot be approached, and the jet throws up its sparkling column of liquid brilliants in the centre of a stone basin, to which access is denied by the public authorities." It is now, however, about to be freed from this reproach. The tion oto the city have already taken up the matte/ It is urged by the Press, that " there should be at least a thousand drinking fountains scattered over the city, supplied with cups for the use of the way faring public • and these fountains," it is added, " which should be mostly mural and small, might be rendered at a very trifling expense highly orna mental, and in the highest degree beneficial." Whether or not they will be provided to that extent remains to be seen. I should think, myself, that half the number might more than suffice. corpora- There is another great desideratum discovered in New York, at the same time. " The absence of Public Drinking Fountains in our streets," it is observed, " is as strange an anomaly as the lack of bathing places on the river-fronts of the City. With the salt water flowing all around us, and fresh water running through all our streets, there is not a place where one of our dirty, thirsty and wearied citizens can either bathe his person or quench his thirst free of charge." This matter is also being argued with great earnestness upon the City Fathers New York is assuming a degree of magnitude and importance as a City, which makes it more and more expedient to carry out such improvements ; and the means of doing so are, of course, increasing in proportion to its progress. The population of the City (independently of the populous suburbs on both sides of it, over the river) has in fifty years increased more than tenfold, and in the last ten years nearly doubled. The total value of real and personal estate in this city in 1832 was $144,902,328 ; in 1857 it was $521,175,252 ; so that in a period of twenty-fivo years it has nearly quadrupled in value, while in a period of thirty years the increase in tonnage to this port was nearly tenfold (in 1821 171,963, and in 1851 1,624,052), the increase in the American tonnage being more than sevenfold, and the increase in foreign tonnage being nearly thirtyfold. This is certainly far beyond any thing that even London can boast of, as to progress. The population of New York, with its suburbs of Brooklyn, Williams burgh, Jersey City, and Hoboken--which are all closely connected -is computed to be now about a million and a-half. THE COURT. The Prince Consort rode on horseback on Saturday, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Ponsonby. Her Royal Highness the Princess Frederick William, Wended by Count and Countess Perioncher, went to the Exhibition of Painters in Water Colours, in Pall Mall East, and also inspected the Gallery of the New Society of Painters in Water C flours, in Pall Mall Frederic Beaufort, the The Queen and Prince Consort, the Princes William; E Athole, C, d Princess Alic ',Mess Perponcher, Lord Charles Fitzro3 ied by the Duch Lieutenant-Colonel Ponsonby, went in the afternoon t Richmond, and visited the Countess de Neuilly The Princess Helena visited the Duch The Queen had a dinner p in the even )mpany included t :heir Royal Cambrit the Princess Frederick William ice, the Duke of Cambrid the Duchess of Manchester, th Duke of Prussian Minister, and Countess Bernstorff, , the Marquis of Exeter, the Earl and Countess of Derby, and Lady Emma Stanley ; the Earl of Malmesbary, the Earl an d Countes Granville, the ,Lady-in-Waiting to the Duchess of Cam bridge, Count and Countess Perponcheri Lord and Lady Churchill, the Equerry-in-Waiting Duchess of Cambridge, and tho Equerry-in-Waiting to the Duke of The band of the Grenadier C a attendance Her Majesty's private band after- played during dinner wards per formed in the drawing-room On Sunday the Queen and Prince Consort, the Prince& Frederick William, the Prim Louisa, the. Ladies and Gen domestic household, attended Divin, chapel, Thickir ;ham Palau Dean of Windsor officiated ,es Alice, He men of the Court, and the service in the private The Hon. and 'ery Rev. the THR PRINCIISS FREDERICK WILLIAM Nothing exceed the pleasure manifested by the Princess Frederick William at revisiting the scenes of her childhood and youth at Osborne ts, every alteration, ;ions recognitions, were tainlv thinner than when she left lv well in health and truly TAR DUcurss OF KF,NT.—We regret to learn that the Duchess of Kent continues to suffer severely from the affec tion which has recently occasioned so much anxiety in the public mind. .Her Royal Highness was stated to be a little better on Saturday, and yesterday passed over without a relapse. Sir Benjamin Brodie, Sir James Clark, and Mr. Brown, of Windsor, are in (dose attendance on the illus.., trious duchesq MR. ROEBUCK OX POLITICS AND THE WAR, At a dinner given on the occasion of the inauguration of a new line of steam - ships from Milfo rdhaven, on Saturday, Mr. Roebuck, in speaking to the toast of " The House of Commons," said : We haze to ehoose•npon the rth of Tune whether we shall have Lord Palmerston or Lord Derby for Prime Minister. That-is the question which the House of Commons will have to decide. I see before me the members for Galwav and MerthynTydvil, who will be found in the Opposition camp when that decision is come to. And I, in what camp shall I be? I shall be in the camp of the people of England, and that camp I sincerely believe to be opposed to Lord Palmerston. (Cheers and cries of " Bravo.") Oh there is no " bravo "'in it. (A laugh.) It is a miserable! contingency—it is like the , war in Italy—whichever side is uppermost mischief must come. (Cheers and laughter.) What am Itodo ? lam a poor independent member, and have to choose between one side or the other, and I say" that the least mischief , may come from not changing the Administration, and, what is more, I believe that we shall succeed in preventing that change. (Cheers.) I know that there has.. been a combination. I ' ;one down to Pembrol that the ladies have met. (A laugh.) I know tl has been made, but England has been forgotten. consideration which is regarded is that of th The only themselves; but, as anindependnnt member, my considera tion is England, and for England's sake I say for God's sake---don't choose Lord Palmerston. (Cheers.) I know well what I shall encounter by saying this. I knowperfectly well there is no party:so admirable in the use of calumny as the Whio• party, and everything. that calumny can devise, or that lying can supply, will be adopted by that party. (Cheers.) I full well understand the case, and the words I am employing, and I believe that the result will be as I now predict, that the House of Commons Will not change the uresent Administration for that hurried compact which !tided to be made between Lord John Russell ) Lord John Russell ?,d himself as to take he has is now pr and Lor advice from me, but upon the' present o carefully abstained from that course, and not one word have I 'heard either from him or his followers of the new compact made at Cambridge-house. I have found that Lord Palmerston is false and hollow, and that as to his being a Liberal,. what his own Solicitor- General, Mr. Stuart Wortley, said at the late West Riding election, when some person called him a Liberal, "Don't be too sure of that,'.' applied. to that noble lord. (A laugh.) I was sure of it once, I am , now dispossessed of that belief, and I am convinced that the great enemy of the Liberal party is now to be found in Lord Palmerston, and upon that ground I will oppose hiin. I opposed and, God willing, we shall be successful. (Cheers.) Time will show, it runs apace, and the 7th of June will rapidly en your• friend and• the member for Merthyr come. an Tydvil will have an c tunity of showing what he thin o will properly conduct the be enabled to say w of Lord Palmerston. I he believes he is a• Minister affairs of England in the interests of the country, whether he believes the combint John Russell is oris not a men break up the power of I of European d present in Ital tion Between him an . d. Lord calculated to ism Eurol at- the pi Think wh low trot would occur at the ;nt moment we get rid of out any power to govern or control this country, we should be answerable, not only to the people of England of the p'r( but I belie ill follow. (Cheer ‘re will be the tour for every Mischief fy object is to vindicate wha the House of Commons. cannot believe that that House will so far forget its duty and forfeit its power over the people of England as to return into the council for the Government of this country one so utterly inefficient as Lord Palmerston. I was told by very high authority, before I left London, that Lord John. Russell and Lord Palmerston had made up their differ ences, that Lord Palmerston was to be Prime Minister, and that Lord John Russell was to , serve under him. In the present condition of things. I think that would be a great mischief. Lord Palmerston's appearance as First Minister of the Crown would. he throughout the whole Continent a torch of war. (Cheers, and cries of " Oh, oh." War I object to, and I believe that England cannot gain by going tio war with any Power °tithe Con tinent. Our great interest is peace. Let others tear them selves to pieces; let France and Austria fight as long as they please ; but England to, look on quietly if they wish to destroy themselves, and should only be opposed to any Power which may be thoroughly victorious. Suppose Austria was to be the conqueror, what would be the result ? Why, that. Italy would be what she has, been ever since the world began—at the feet of some other power. Look back either into ancient or modern Italy, and there was not to be found the sian of any self- government in any part of that no doubt flourished in the middle ages. Italy ler people made• t the people were always great, country. A was great wonderful intellec her great, ,bat the differen and prevented united action and government. 'take the other side of the picture. Suppose France victorious, what would you have ? You would have Frenchmen governing Etruria, Romagna, Naples, and Savoy. I know that Kossuth ; who has but one idea, says that the victory of Austria would be injurious to the other nations of the world. But what have other nations done for the world compared with that which England has achieved ?' England is now at the very apex of civilisation—she is- the torch of liberty. All that is great and liberal'in, the: government of mankind has emanated from England, and I cannot but think that the victory of France over Austria would, by being detrimenal to the interests of England, be injurious to the best interests of the world. I' know that Kossuth, with his wonderful eloquence, an& others of his friends, will say that I am wrong, but time will show that lam right. Time has shown. that over and over again in my past life. When I began, life, men said I was mad • they join me now. (Cheers.) Now I turn to the locality in which we are assembled, and I say that the navy of this country is that which can , alone pre serve her successfully from the attacks of hostile Powers. England depends upon her fleet. The liberty- of the world is maintained by the power of England, aid that rower mainly resides iu her fleets. (Cheers.) I. hope you will 'give me for introducing tt a politician all my life, I I have e now, and I cannot id as the political' topic I look to En cl to her welfal nein.. 1 would 1p speaking. what I think reat sun of my exister. THE LATE Shall I 1 All the new arrangeni, xs, and the most accorded to all the members of the Royal household Royal Highness is cer England, but looks remall fice my existence the pleasure young gent of woman at a ball: said the young DIPILTH for the c lena IT Is it right look litmo warm Belcher kerchiefs, and __Jekerchiefs about their throats. Now they go, )out in the coldest. weather with the "dog-collar," or the all-rounder," and a thin stripe of silk, which gives no. xarmth, and leaves the throat exposed. Contemporaneously. with this fashion has.been• th , e new complaint diphtheria, and bronchitis in many severe shapes. The last generation may have mufflecti themselves up too much, but we suspect tly account )onnets in e little warmth or- protection to the head, distressing in their years ago stout silk our young men itave•f ato an opposite extrem, is fiziating King Frost with very tine( ie fashionsblt " do - Rot a rounder " is the origin of diphtheria, , but we this name, may be traced to ti ;p et that —Town n .I}KE LSE OT COFFEE IN TURKEY.—The use, of coffee and cafes in Turkey is mentioned by Lora Bacon at the beginning of the seventeeth century, but in a way to show that both were then regarded as exotics in Europe. " They have in Turkey," says he, " a drink called: coffee, made of a berry of the same name, as black as soot meant, of course, after roasting—" and of a strong scent, but not aromatical, which they take, beaten into powder, in water, as hot as they can drink it ; and they take it, and sit at it in their coffee-houses, which are like our taverns." " This I,n or - I,IQ g‘enTnforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion —a matter considered of no minor importance in Austria, and which has, doubtless, had its full share in contributing to the universal prevalence of the place deriving its name therefrom. Cafes, however, have attained to a tar more extended use than the mere decoction and discussion of that beverage. Acorn-Gingty, Ann breakfast at their cafe, read their papers there, there play at billiards, there take their coffee after dinner, and there iee a little later, and last, but not least there smoke their pip while they play at cards and talk of everything religion end politics. In short, all but dining and al they live there, and especially the military, whose ordinary day life seems to be composed of throe constituentS dinner, drill, and cafe. —A Tour in Dalmatia t 4 . m onia ' and Montenegro. By TV. F. Wingfield, except 'TENSIVE FRAUDS UPON FRIENDLY -- AND LOAN SOCIETIES. A. warrant is now in the hands of the Leeds police for the apprehension of George Terry, brazier and tinner, Woodhouse-lane, Leeds, and Grand Master of the Grand United Otder of Oddfellows, who absconded on Sunday moaning iitst. He is charged with frauds to the amount of 000, and the manner in wi,;,a, 'fled less .r 7ilianons, nor the init. than those hr0,..1,4:' h. M age, his trustw trades with the Grind Ord anparcntity sincere ppoint society he was, in 1839 _ that capacity became also treas for the Leeds d e connected nd by Lis own local lod S of the :T . ; and in of the Widow and Orr' nearly fifty lodges treasurer in society, bearinT mected , pointed verythin It was the con great was IMPORTATI of your company for th a pretty 11 not well ed. IRORAI I and leav society was left er ) carry on his nefarious pra fear of detection. A few yea n. and engraved at the cap of respect. Numbers- of h the police courts of Great Britain as a g hension. About 15 wears sin( for tho I guard; preSent of a gold lever watch and, five '•e of thirti most of ney was chairman, a book, with an entry or the sum in the books of the soL,, discovery, he regularly paid tl interest - at the rite Of 5 pc, -_ amount, he. alleged, the society Was makir number of painful cases, For years had a middle lye Inay me money, to be r becotries a wid :13 , in case of r , and the hard. safety and ink the loan comforted the I;idov of the man in wh prived of her al ion, by Grand Master seen £2,000 an business. It i and restored, Terry has bo parliament, ;what is due from the TIFF EXTRAORDI.2I _HOLZ C Yesterday forenoon, coroner for'West Middlesex, az: Castle Tavern, Holloway, for t r touching the ged twenty-t‘ stnden t rim commi under eireuniqar very remark nature. The p interest, and the jury coon Mr. Lewis, of Ely-plat relatives of the deceased street, City, was also present Saturday, the Coroner havi the public from the imp tained connected with the case teraay r was taken, which may be b On Thursday morning last young gentleman named Arkall liollOwa . y, the property given to the p Mr. Mitchell W the body, mid h inner in which he obtained enough in his capacity of the loan society. A depo- to enter In order to avoid depositors their this being the irnong,st a the following save a little by the wife North ern 400 for two chil- defrauded a great al lodge, ristung .covered, George ICIDE AT Wakley, ssembled at the he purpose of resuming the Ir. Andrew Hooper Huddle (son of Dr. Iluddleston), a medical Acid, at eleven o'clock, Mr. le and lamentable created the most intense vas crowded to excess: Wended on behalf of the mother solicitor, of Coleman tb first meeting on the press-tutd nuthing could be ob- evidence taied as to'llovrs : .bout eleven o'clock a ng a field is when he dis- ;ed. _ Information was made a post iortent, when it was ascertained beyond doubt that death. resulted from taking 'large quantities of prussic acid. A bottle containing some quantity of the poison in question was found upon the person of the deceased, and; also a letter, in the hand Writing of the deceased, but the contents did not transpire in. court during the morning. The Coroner here named to the jury that he had re ceived a letter from 111 t. Pagett, surgeon of St. Bartholo mew's Hospital, who lied been, appointed to make an ana lysis, but that gentleman had not done so up to the present time, owing to his unavoidable absence from town. A vast quantity of evidence is to be 'brought forward in relation to the circumstances which led' to the commission of the rash act, which is more - The inquiry- a family matt( was going reporter left -We understand that recently gave birth to trough Sir C. Phipps, •se of her Male;tir to his friends at In the dead body street., v.,. Hey= an un- the prisoner some hesita- ipperas into ha done as was. was he er long, time without likeness v order, as engraving ire, at th bout £ Terry After staying a C, £3,000 VAR.} 9 TVA _"; y mita recently, the. admirers Int many of the ributed through the eider watch and made him a Dn . when. •tt THREE C HTI Mrs. M‘Laren, tho.minees wife, who three boys in P C. 8., three sovc ei~ns:f GERA.RD, the lion-kill( A.rrEmr )N A FA tic servant to Mrs lam, was breuAt befoi perem I RT 11. - e an extraordinary stor vltich he killed a few d .wer than seven balls with which k on pvevious occasions. it prisoner had prepared told tt was.quite sure.she did not wish. Riley, doi INOtaile mann (b+ poison hermistr( few days pre children., 3 usual colour uspiewns w as to what sh tion aho ackn Mrs. KII/J iny.ofrthent to die, but explain why she put the poison,ia the gruel. The prisoner was then remanded until thiS,day,, lin order that further evidence may be procured. 3r.T.B.ZIORDINARY WA LIUNG FEAT BY AN. OLD MAN.-- A. fONY days ago as P.C. Cairns was on. his " beat," he met an old man trudging along New Ely of ea accosted Mit and come and whither he was ice he had. replied that was very tired; havilk loam since the previous mom dedand. • lie rer pocket to get Liqig '.way to Sun- ltea tt had no money in his us humanely took him ' or supper of sge, and. to the stitiion * and a shillia gate him a portion of lelonged tp. Sundei that one o his sons ago, liearing had arrived in. Londor Nilo was a saldier,. 1 where he hat; , ecia engaged Metro- polis and found hint lost bath a leg and Military II having Irm in hi ry:s service. left his s son, au shillingi oss Siit— teriand ; but Ind to his lay u, two in London, I and wits a sovereign, in a purse loosa in his Rocket;Th 4, to take he government train f on putting his hand into his pock( dismay that his purse was gone. anxious to _ ___,, 7,., winking at the get t m h et in t e th a e s re sPc'e lv d- a i s l3' no possibility o f raising the required sum to pay his railway fare, he resolved to walk to Sunderland; nor did he retied upon the nature of the step he had determined upon until he had got fairly on his way, and then, a 4 he said, "he did uot like the ' idea of turning back agaiu." He subsisted on the five shillings which had been lePa in his pocket., as long as he possibly Could make it eke ot4, and then he sold his over-coat for eight shillings, and by husbandi ng his resources and oNasionally begging when necessity drove him to it, he managed to :Falk from London to Durham, a distance of 258 miles, bwyhothwe in about three weeks. On hearing his story, the policemen. were present offered to pay his fare to Sunderland well,atifit he nigh midday but beforehaving li e rascertainedeach ed h home by this means, he determined, having . walke . d .ili s s o cif fa that he would walk it out, and 1 : k avin z ?: re t s h te l t t i 11 W .t o ra U v ld ekarie r and deter set off to Sunderland, between four and five This feat Shows an amount of physical en tain.r,,, tyears, as inination in an old man of four score and a_purhant, remarkable as anything we ever i t itrivert4er. ow . , rinorning.