Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-23 00:00:00

ROBERT MULLINER, (Successor to GOILST sic CO.), (Late with Wm. Home, London), - (1 ARRIAqE AVD HARNESS VNLTFACTURER, 59 aid 61, GRFAT CHARLOTTE - STREET, LIVERPOOL, AIANUFAXTCRRP. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION OF FASIIIOZTABUE CARRIAGES. Sole Agent for the Patent nipraples, for which a Prize 3ledat was 7tv.; arded at the'Great Exhibition. A Great Variety of New and Fashionable CARRIAGES always on •iew, which are ready for mmediate use. Estimates give:: for epairs. CARRIAGES TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. Good Standing on moderate terms. Carriages sold by Com Merchants supplied with Carriages for exportation on liberal erns. TOTALLY UNRESERVED SALE OF THIRTY-SEVEN FINE MODERN PAINTINGS OF THE BRITISH AND BELGIAN SCHOOL. MESSRS. THOS. WINSTNNLEY and SONS have received positive instructions from Nr. H. Wallis (in accordance with the intention expressed on his last visit to Liverpool), to SELL, without any restriction as to price, THIRTY SEVEN, out of Forty, LOTS, and to submit the other Tlzee at a price to be named in the catalogue, The Sale will take place in T. W. and Sons' Gallery, Church-street, on THURSDAY, the 2nd July next, atTwelve o'clock, and the Paintings will be open to public inspection one day prior to the sale. The selection is made principally from the summer exhibition in Postoffice-place, and will include The Trial of Elie Deans, the chef d'ceuvre of R. S. Lander, ; scene from the Bride of Lammer moor," by T. Faed ; "Scene from Romeo and Juliet," by A. Egg, A.R.A. A magnificent compositio of fruit, flowers, z. c., by Gronland, esteemed by himself as hismasterpiece, with other choice spec mens by Elmore, R.A. Herbert, R.A. Linnell, J. C. Hook, A.R.A, Beautiful figure subjects by C. Baxter, H. O'Neil, Helmsley, Knight, Hardy. Landscapes, of gr at merit, by Nasmyth, Boddington, G. Sant, Gilbert, Montague, Soper, Oakes, Hulme. "A Stable," by Herring, sea., and highly-finished Interiors by Love, Boon, and BracTielaer, of the prelent F. emish iychool of painting. Catalogues may be ha I at the Gallery a few days previous to the male. HENGLER'S GRAND CIRQUE VARIETE, DALE STREET. LIVERPOOL. By partimlar desire, there will be A GRAND RID-DAY PERFORMANCE On SATURDAY NEXT, 27th JUNE, Commencing at Half-put Two o'clock. domnierciat Apato.—Ebts 40=-1/). ►t half-past one o'clock, at Golding and Nash's saleroom, Corn Exchange, Brunswick-street, about 700 quarters Yellow Inalan Corn, and 50 barrels Flonr.—J. and M. Harnett. At twelve o'clock, at the broi;ers' office. 2, Dale-street, a quan tity of Coir Rope, Coir Yarn, Loose Ditto, and Jute.—Browne. Ranter and Co. At one o'c'ock, on the quay of the Brunswick Graving Dock, a quan tity of Beams, Stringers, Deck Planking, Pitch Pine Cuttings, &c. —Perc'val, Campbell and Ca. la - For particulars see advertisements. AIUSEAIENTS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, &e. THIS PAY. itozar. AM Pat rilEATßE—Dramatis Performance-7 p .m. HEMMER'S GRAND CIRQUE VARIETZ. Dale-street-7.30 and 7 p.m FREEMAiON'S HALL—Galery of Anatomy-11 a.m. to 10 p.m. ROYAL CoLosseum—General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. ZooLooicat. GARDENS—Grand md Varied Entertainments. far' For particulars see advertisements. -A t ‘,L ki 41 t r - rAg , A. TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1857 THE DAY'S NEWS In the House of Lords last night, in answer to a question by Lord Ravensworth, Lord Panmure stated that it was not the intention of sending out to China the large gun manufactured at Liverpool for service in the Crimea, as the expense would be enormous. Six guns manufactured in the United States had been made at his request, and imported into this country. The Lord Chancellor drew attention to the third report of the Statute Law Commission, and made seme explanations thereon. It was hoped that the whole of the statutes might be re duced to 40 or 50 volumes, and he thought it would be of great advantage to the profession and the public if they could be reduced to eight or ten. The Ministers' Money (Ireland) Bill passed through committee after some energetic opposition, and Lord Clancarthy gave notice that on the mo tion for the second reading of the Bill he should move that it be read a second day that day six months. In the House of Commons Colonel French com plained of the exclusion of members of the House from the committee appointed to sift the Rochdale Election Petition Bribery case, partly heard at the bar of the House on Friday. The Speaker said that the committee had no right or authority to exclude other members of the House not on the committee from their deliberations. On the motion of Mr. S. Fitzgerald, a clause was inserted in the Oaths Bill; which effectually prevent Jews from holding the offices of Lord High Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Com missioners of the Great Seal of Great Britaiu or Ireland, Lord Lieutenant, or Deputy, or other Governor of Ireland, or any office in the Ecclesiastical Courts in England or Ireland, or Courts of Appeal. Lord Palmerston had not intended to insert such a clause, but if it would facilitate the passing of the measure he would not object to its inser tion Ultimately, this was agreed to, and the bill, as amended, was agreed to. The house then went into committee of supply, and a large number of votes were agreed to, including £102,361 for the new Houses of Parliament, and £87,957 for salaries and expenses connected with the same establishment; £46,146 for Board of Trade salaries; £217,420 for Poor-Law Board; £6,064 for officers in Scotland ; and £6,431 for the establish ment of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The local news this morning is of a very meagre description. At the police court yesterday, ono or two stabbing cases again came before the magis trates, but in each case a discharge took place. The steamer Niagara, of the American Navy, arrived here yesterday, for the purpose of em barking a portion of the Atlantic Telegraph cable, manufactured at Birkenhead. Of domestic news, this morning, there is a variety, but it is not of much importance. Mary White, housekeeper to Mr. and Mrs Small, of Chiliingford Hatch, Essex, was, on Sunday, brutally murdered, during their absence at church. The deceased was an aged woman, and was left alone in charge of the house. The murder was discovered by her neice who arrived b e t ween eleven and twelve o'clock. In the case of the Royal British Bulk we learn that Cameron's son has been arrested. 01 t Cameron was taken at Lausanne, having made his escape from Paris on Sunday week last. Mr. Simpson, Field's assistant, will bring him to Eng land to-day, if all goes well. The Camerons are in the custody of the French police on the infor mation received from Field, and are to be sent to England, as before stated. Esdaile, up to the present time, has eluded pursuit. Alderman Kennedy has just arrived in London, via Rotter dam, in custody of Inspector Field, who appre hended him as before stated. Prince Albert inaugurated the new Educational Conference, yesterday afternoon, at Willis's Rooms, London. The proceedings, which excited great interest, were attended by deputations from all parts of the country. The committees for the Mayo County, Cambridge, and Rochdale election petitions were struck yesterday by the General Committee of Selection The committees will sit on Thursday. Strangers were yesterday admitted to the room of the com mittee appointed on Friday night to inquire into the alleged offer of £5O to a witness in the Roch dale petition. Yesterday morning were published copies of correspondence with Sir John Bowring, on the subject of his application for a vote from parliament to defray the expenses of measures of precaution and defence at Hong Kong, re quired by the state of affairs in China. It appears that two despatches, respectively dated 28th January, 1857, and 12th March, 1857, were addressed by Sir John Bowring to the Rt. Hon. H. Labouchere, requesting two separate grants of X 1.0,000 for the above purposes. In reply, Mr. Labouchere states that the government will ask parliament for a vote of credit for £lO,OOO for Hong Kong, but that the second application cannot be complied with without a more satisfactory ex planation of the precise objects towards which the aid is to be applied. A return ‘‘ of all Marriages which heve taken place under the provisions of the Act 6 and 7 Will IV., c. 85, sec. 21, since the passing of the said act up to the 31st December, 1855," was issued yester day. The numbers specified during the last six years included in the return are as follows :—For the year ending 31st December, 1850, 6,207 ; 1851, 6,813; 1852. 7,100; 1853, 7,508; 1854, 7,593; 1855, 7,441. Some most valuable papers relating to the his tory and practice of vaccination have been issued by the General Board of Health in the form of a blue book. It contains a large col lection of evidence upon the effects of vac cination, a variety of statistics from many countries, with the (pinion of several learned bodies abroad, in reference to this interesting subject. Two very singular letters, extracted from a London cotemporary of yesterday, will be found elsewhere. They allude to the alleged forcible opening of letters by Sir James Graham, while that gentleman was Postmaster-General. Our Continental news is interesting. The French Elections commenced on Sunday, and the ballot boxes would be closed at four o'clock yester day evening. The result will be made known on Thursday. The working classes had taken out a far larger portion of voting tickets than usual. It is said that the Pope had eipressed a wish that the clergy should vote for the Government candidates. The g,,veremeat papers assert that the rash to the poll throughout the capital has been admirable ; that three-quarters of the inscribed electors have already deposited their vote 3 This is a manifest exaggeration, and it can hardly be anticipated that three-quarters of the inscribed voters will take part in the proceedings. The Moniteur describes an interview which has taken place between the Em peror and a deputation from the solicitors of France, who have been menaced with a reduction of their fees. Unhappily for the public, these gentlemen may now sleep in peace, for the - Emperor assured them that no such measure should be adopted. The Neufchatel question is now nearly at an end. The government of that canton has published a notice that sixty-six persons implicated in the affair of September are permitted to return home and take part in public affairs. In the Turin Chamber of Deputies, on the 17th instant, the subject of discussion was the military force of Sardinia. Count Revel complained that the army was too large. M. Pallivicina said that every good Italian must desire the war of indepen dence. The antipathies between Piedmont and Austria was on the increase, and diplomatic notes might be suspended. Would Piedmont then rely on France ? No !—the only thing to be done was to have a powerful army ready. Well done, Piedmont ! The Austrian Lloyds' Company is about to establish a steam-packet service between Trieste and Marseilles, calling at intermediate ports. A telegraphic despatch from Berlin announces that the Thorn steamer, belonging to the Vistula Navigation Company, blew up on the l Tth near Wiszogrod. All the persons on board were either killed or wounded. Le Nord announces that the Porte had sent the Belgian Minister his passports ; but the objection of the Turkish government is personal, and the Secretary of the Belgian Legation would romain. The Sultan left Constantinople previous to the 6th inst., for Ismed, in a steamer, accompanied by three of his ministers Letters from Rome describe the very bad feeling existing between the French soldiers and the Papal troops, which has betrayed itself in numerous and serious street fights. On a recent occasion five Frenchmen were wounded, and as many of their antagonists. At Civita Vecchia similar distur bances have taken place. THE House of Commons presented not only a singular, but most exciting, scene on Friday night. It exhibited a deplorable picture of the purity of election, and of the arts and subter fuges which are resorted to, in order to evade the election laws now in force. General THOMPSON. the member for Rochdale, presented a petition from Mr. JOHN NEWALL, parliamentary agent for the petitioners, against the return of Sir ALEXANDER RAMSAY. the present colleague of General THOMPSON. The purport of Mr. NEWALL'S petition was a complaint that efforts were being made by a person named PETER JOHNSTON, to get an important witness, ABRAHAM R )THWELL, out of the way, by offering to pay him 501. to go to New Orleans. On the petition being presented, hon. members manifested a singular alacrity to act upon the matter. We do not blame them for this. because it was their duty so to do, but would simply remark, that we should be pleased if every other petition presented met with the same attention and determination, with the view of determining the validity of their prayers, and acting there upon. Seldom, indeed, do we hear of a person being called to the bar of the House, and subjected to the scouting inquiries not only of the Speaker, but every one of the other 654 members who chooses to make an inquiry of the unfortunate individual, who happens to be escorted into the Speaker's presence, with all the pompous ceremonies set apart for such an occasion. The mace—that symb - )1 of popular power—was carried by the Sergeant -at-Arms, and with this official trophy he brought forward the witness to the bar of the House, and then immediately began the scene to which we have referred. At present we shall not attach implicit reliance on all that has been said by the celebrated JOHN LORD, because the other side, that is, PETER JOHNSTON, has to be heard, and the Select Committtee appointed to investi gate the matter have to make their report thereon ; nevertheless, there is sufficient in the case showing, as it does, the mode in which not only election contests, but election petitions, are managed. On reading the proceedings connected with this unusual affair, and the bribery and corrup tion which is alleged to have taken place at the last Rochdale Election, and that too for the purpose of unseating a gentleman, Mr. MIALL, who has been acknowledged to be a most useful member, and one whose vote was always on behalf of the people and their cause, we cannot help deploring the fact that, there should be any THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, JUNE 23. 1857 constituency in the country which would act such a part, and be seduced from the path of duty to support a course which procured a triumph by means of anti-patriotism, and a.;ts of flagrant immorality and downright illegality. By means such as we have already described did Sir ALEXANDER RAMSEY suceeed in usurping the seat so worthily held by Mr. Mum, ; at least the petition against his return alleges so ; and the fact of sending important witnesses out of the way who were to prove such averments, is indirect evidence that there must have been disreputable tricks of the kind in Rochdale in March last. The borough of Rochdale has for many years been noted for its liberal tendencies in political matters, hence it was with surprise that, we learned of Mr. INIIALL's defeat at the last election, and of Sir ALEXANDER RAMSEY'S return. But the developenient of elective rascality which has been made is a perfect, a full, and a satisfactory explanation, and speaks trumpet-tongued not only for a law: inflicting further pains and penalties against .all persons who attempt to tamper with the purity of election, and the effort to defeat its exposure before the regular tribunals of the House of Commons. It is a further proof that the present qualification for exercising the franchise is not by any means the legitimate one ; and we must trust that Lord PALIERSTON, who has promised us a new Reform Bill next session, will not omit to take this important point into his considera tion during the recess. Something must be done to purge our representative system of being influenced and swayed by bribery and intimida tion. The election petitions which are to be considered will, no doubt, now show that these disgraceful elements prevailed to a great extent at the last elections, and that the time is come for an effectual remedy for social evils so injurious to the best interests of the body politic. THE recent discussion in the House of Com_ mons on the Jew Bill, and the movement of the Roman Catholic party to procure an important alteration in the oath taken by members of that persuasion, has given rise to much comment, seeing that the attempt is made to enable the Church of Rome to make a more direct and determined attack upon the established religion of the country. Independent of the inopportune time selected for the agitation of what they term a grievance, we must not forget that when the Emancipation Act was passed, they accepted the form of oath now administered, with thank fullness, and for nearly thirty years they have used it without any appearance of dissatisfaction. Under these circumstances, it must be presumed that the oaths which they take do not offend the tenderest conscience among them ; and it was, without doubt, somewhat ungracious, and unreasonable, to make it an excuse for opposing a proposed concession to another portion of her Majesty's subjects. As to the oath itself, of which Mr. DEASY made such loud and bitter complaints, what is its nature and objects It contains, inter alia, a promise to maintain, support, and defend, the Protestant succession to the Crown, and a disclaimer as to any desire or intention to disturb or weaken the present Church etsablishment, the Protestant religion, or Protestadt government of the United Kingdom. We are among those who believe that there is not very much reliance upon promissary oaths of any kind. Neverthe less, it is impossible not to think that the mani festation of an earnest desire to evade pledges in opposition to a certain line of conduct, is rather remarkable, particularly when it is an acknow ledged fact that the pledged party is induced to pursue that line of conduct by sectarian preju dice, and, we might almost add, the dictates of conscience. Considering the tenets of the Roman Catholic faith, it is a notorious fact that every sincere member of that religion has an ardent and earnest desire to disturb and weaken what in the religious world is termed Protestantism. He looks upon the systems of LUTHER and CALVIN as antagonistic to GOD'S Word, and their existence dangerous to mankind at large. If, therefore, such a man should agree tp forego active hostility to Protestantism in consideration of a certain gain to himself ; although not taxing him with a wilful violation of his pledge, we must deem the manifestation of an earnest desire to be relieved from it as an evidence that it curbs his action in a course which it is his desire he should direct it. Viewed in this light, the conduct of Mr. DEASY and his supporters, on Monday week, was not only ungracious but somewhat suspicious, and particularly when we look at the time selected for such a political exhibition. The history of the times already demonstrate that where the Romish Church has the power either in influence or numbers, it never fails to attack and weaken Protestantism. If we look to what is passing in France, and also Belgium, we find that there is a system of priestly aggression being carried on which is antagonistic to civil and religious liberty. In the latter country, riot, almost bordering on rebellion, was caused by the Romish priesthood in their attempt to crush all freedom of thought, and to usurp all power, civil and ecclesiastical into their own hands. The Paris journals back up the attempt, and everywhere we read of indications of a simultaneous rising of Ultramontane Romanism against the very existence of Protestantism ; and there is no form of Protestantism which they detest more than that displayed by the people of Belgium, who protest against the spoilation of their dying relatives for pious uses, while at the same time they accept with humility and perfect submis sion the whole creed of the Church. Instances innumerable could be adduced to prove this position. One—and that a recent one, too — presents itself to our mind at the present moment. It is the case of RICE V. M'MAHON, which was before the Court of Queen's Bench a few days ago. The plaintiff applied for a criminal information against the defendant, who is his parish priest. The cause of action arose out of certain libellous language delivered from the altar against Mr. RICE, whose only fault was his firm determinati3n to resist certain innovations and pecuniary impositions which the Reverend defendant had made up his mind to enforce. On the occasion in question, Mr. RICE was denounced before the congregation, and in the presence of his own friends and relatives, as a " besotted wretch," a "libertine," an " infidel," a " fellow wallowing in the mire and guilt of sin," a " drunken ruffian," &c., &c. Such unseemly and illegal conduct is part of the system adopted by the priesthood to maintain spiritual, aye, and temporal supremacy over the members of their flock ; and the efforts of Mr. DEASY is also another of the schemes whereby they may turn every thing to the advantage of Mother Church, and the queetiona ble purposes of her avaricious ministers. NEW ZEALAND.—The following extract from a letter dated, New Zealand, 3rd March, 1357, to a friend in Liverpcol, will, no doubt, be acceptable to our readers. The writer has been a resident above ten years in Auckland I am exceedingly fond of this country, and think thousands and tens of thousands of ir.dustrious men from the mother country would have reason for thankfulness if they found themselves located in this beautiful and healthy colony, where every one who works may eat the bread of cheerfulness, beneath his own vine and fig tree. It is a good country for all, but especially for the labouring classos. I cannot help thinking that it is not at all understood at home. Hoping, for the good of mankind at home, and also for the benefit of this colony, a short time may throw some light upo❑ its manifold advantages. I rest satisfied time will work great changes, and soon." A DFFEAT BETTER THAN A VICTORY. —The church in Ireland (ever to be distinguished froM the church of Ireland) being in embarrassed circumstances, to the extent of £11,500 a-year, the amount of the odious and uncollect able ministers' money, it is simply and naturally proposed by the government that the difficulty should be got over by the help of the accummulation of church property in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In other words it is thought proper that the establishment should bear her own burthens, having funds for the purpose, for which it is impossible for the mind of man, at least of lay man, to imagine a more becoming appropriation. The church is not asked to pay £11,500 a year to the public poor-box ; the intended subscription is exclusively for her own distress; and she is objecting, or her noble but most mistaken friends are objecting for her, to the application of her own resources, or rather superfluities, to her own special uses and ocsasions. As to ministers' money, there is no use of talking of it; the people of the towns liable to it will pay it no more, and the peace of Ireland and the empire is not to be disturbed by a vain attempt to compel them. Something must, therefore, be done, or the ministers will soon come to have no money to support them. Either the public, or the church herself must pay, and when this alternative is stated, the matter Is disposed of. The rashest of Statesmen—by which ex pression we mean Lord Derby—never did so rash a thing as to resist the proposed settlement of this financially trifling, but, socially and politically roost important ques tion. It he were to take office to-morrow, he would have the same difficulty to deal with, and he could not by any possibility deal with it any way substantially different from the plan of the present government. He might indeed pay the £11,500 a-year out of his private coffers, but were he the most popular minister that ever ruled England, and were he ten times more eloquent than he is, not one shilling of the money would he ever coax out of the pockets of the people of this country. Lord Derby's opposition is therefore factious in the extreme, and he is deeply indebted to the minority of five who saved him on Thursday from a victory which could not possibly have resulted in anything but embarrassment and fresh discredit to his party. Lord Ellenborough acted well in voting for the second reading of the bill, " for the sake of religious peace," and the Duke of Newcastle judiciously observed that "it was the duty of statesmen to foresee when concession was inevitable, and to concede before agitation made its appear ance." His imputation, however, upon the Lord Lieute nant, that he had encouraged the corporations to resist the tax, was utterly groundless. There is no occasion for re sorting to any far-fetched theory to explain such resistance, the towns subject to ministers' money being those where the Roma❑ Catholics form the bulk of the inhab'tants, and the corporations being naturally and n:cessarily in unison with the popular feeling, especially upon such a subject. It is to be regretted, for the sake of' the Church herself, that the only Irish bishop who took a part in the debate should have thrown his weight into the rong side of the scale. The question being one between peace and good will on one side, and a few thousand a year on the other, It would have become a Christian bishop to have avoided another demonstration of the preference of pelf to the moral and religious considerations. It might have been especially prudent, in a bishop of the race of Beresford, to have been less prominent on the side of Mammon. Should the funds of the Ecclesiastical Commission not suffice for the purposes of the bill, we feel inclined to suggest a reference to those of the bishopric of Gilmore to supply the deficiency. The population returns of the Commis sioners of Public Instruction tells us, that in 1835 there were only 80,998 members of the established church in the three sees (Kilmore, Elphin, and Ardagh) constituting that diocese, while the Catholic population amounted to 746,471, a proportion of nine to one against the reason and justice of the institution which endows the shrines of the few with the wealth of the many. We learn from the same authority that there were at the period mentioned no fewer than eighty-eight pari - les in the three sees con' dining severally less than twenty members of the estab_ lishment. Surely the Right Reverend Marcus Beresford, this ecclesiastical Cerberus with three mitred heads, and the patron (as " Dot's Peerage" assures us) of eighty-two livings, ought to be careful he harks either in England or Ireland on the money side of a church question.— Examiner. THE MINSTER BLUE BOOK MANUFACTORY.—Whatever may be the condition of our Lancashire cotton spinners. it is evident that the manufacturers of blue books at West minster are working full time, with a full supply of hands, and with no fear of any failure of the raw material. Accor ding to Mr. Bouverie, of the five hundred members of the Commons available for such labours, a full moiety is already engaged on thase committees whenca the blue books emirate. The Upper House, no doubt, are also doing their part in this truly witienal manufacture, and as John Ball has money enough to pay his printers, and there are tens of thousands only too anxious to vgici Ott some com. mittee their one-sided evidence on their own pet grievance• there seems little chance of a failure in the annual crop of blue books, three-fourths of which find their way to the second hand book-stall and the waste-paper shop. Nay, so promising is the crop of the session that Mr. Bouverie cannot find hands to manufacture another little blue book, though on so interesting a question as the equalisation of the poor rates of modern Babylon. Mr. Bouverie's excuse, however fair a looking one on the face of it, after all was nothing more than an excuse for shelving a troublesome question for this sessioa at least. Ninety members are working on private bills in eighteen committees, one hundred and fifty more are shut no in twelve committee rooms on public matters, and sixty-four more are serving on standing orders committees, whilst two score of election tribunals are waiting for the services of two hundred more legislators. Was there ever such a hard-worked House of Commons ? Was there ever such a fortunate consumption of its working men, at the very moment when inquiry into the present inequality of poor rates in the metropolis would be specially inconvenient to the Cabinet ? The liberality with which members have been crowded on public committees now looks somewhat suspicious, seeing that this demand for inquiry into the London poor-rates question, if not postponed to suit Mr. Bouverie himself, would have ta'een precedence of several other inquiries the concession of which is now used as an argument for refusing this investigation.—Morning Herald. NEW ZEALAND FLAX.—The general government had recently given effect to a resolution of the House of Repre sentatives with regard to flax. The house voted £4,000 as a reward or rewards for the discovery of efficient means for rendering flax and other fibrous plants of New Zealand available as articles of export. £2,000 is offered to the person who shall by some process of his own invention first produce from a plant indegenous to New Zealand, 100 tons of merchandise; £l,OOO t ) any person other than the person entitled in the first reward, who shall next produce from a fibrous plant indegenous to New Zealand, 100 tons of merchandise. The merehandise must be saleable as an article of export from the colony of New Zealand, and have been produced at a cost not exceeding 75 per cent. of its value at the port of entry where it is exported. Copies of the Government Gazette, containing the notice, have been sent to London, Leeds, Manchester, &c., for publica tion there. GENERAL WALKER AT THE SOUTH.—The terms in which the New Orleans press speaks of Walker and his advent in that city create some doubt in our minds whether the editors have gone " demented," or English words and phrases bear the same meaning on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico as further North. Any one who his read the article in the Delta, and is aware that New Orleans is the first city in the South, must feel some pardonable hesitation in deciding whether the piece of fustian was a bad carica ture, or he had been grossly imposed upon in the recent accounts of Walker's doings in Nicaragua. When one hears of enthusiastic crowds waiting on the quays of a great city to welcome a small man with " blue-grey eyes," and proclaimed by the local newspapers " the champion of Isthmian Republicanism," the hero," " the brave warrior," " the unassuming, mild-looking, light-complexioned man," " the impersonation of as glorious and daring a chivalry as these latter days of ours have seen," " the man of destiny," " he of the blue-gray eyes," " a man destined to face the boldestl daugars unappaled," "he whose name has become a household word in the South, and whose deeds have been the subject of American and European conversation, comparatively speaking, as much as any of the great captains of modern times," one naturally ex pects to hear, if not of a good man, at least of a great one. If we don't expect to hear of the gospel preached, of the naked clothed, of the hungry filled, of hospitals endowed, churches built, aqueducts made, laws codified, and cookery improved, we at least expect to hear of great battles fought, of rapid and successful campaigns, of large armies overthrown, powerful fortresses captured, of kingdoms subdued, and dynasties extinguished. If you do not look for a Colbert or a De L'Hopitat, you look for a Turenne or a Napolean. With such an in tolerable deal of sack you can never be content with a half-penny worth of bread. If you compare a man, as the New Orleans Delta c Jmpares Walker, to Napoleon on his return from Elba, the comparison is worth little, if you cannot tell of his Lodi, his Arcola, his Marengo, his Wagram and Austerlitz, his convention of Campo Formio, his treaty of Tilsit : if you cannot tell of a genius which baffled all men, and overcame all things, which was proof against the cowardice of some, the apathy of others, and the treachery of many and which wrung victory from the most adverse fate with the most unpromising mate rials, your encomiums only bring ridicule on yourself and contempt on those who accept you as their organ. To say that a man is as much talked of in Europe and America, comparatively speaking, as any captain of modern times, is to say very little for either his abilities or his reputation. The phrase "comparatively speaking " plays fearful havoc with the compliment, bad as it is at best. Comparatively speaking, Barnam has been as much talked of in Europe as Wellington, and we venture to say Busteed has been as familiar in the mouths of those Frenchmen who know anything of America as any warrior we have produced since Washington. A. man need neither be brave, nor wise, nor good, to be talked about. Fame follows on the heels of the swindler, or murderer, or burglar, with as much impartiality as on those of the hero or philanthropist. The place she awards them is, in history, doubtless not the same, but the amount of public notoriety she deals out to each is tolerably fairly balanced. To call General Walker's doings in Nicaragua "a war," is about as absurd as toe conduct of the Brahmin whose sad mishap Macaulay relates so feelingly, who, being in search of a sheep for sacrifice, was persuaded, by the united testimony of some scoundrels, into taking a deceased dog for the animal of which he was in search. The people of New Orleans are very much in the position of the unhappy Brahmin. For the benefit of those who may ba disposed to deduce from the follies of the New Orleans zealots the conclusion that the people of this country are afflicted with such obliquity of moral vision as to take Walker for a great hero, and his filibusters for soldiers, we have only to say that the disease, like the yellow fever, is local.—New York Times. CANADA.—The Governor-General had announced his intention of proroguing Parliament on the 10th. Trade throughout Canada and the West was depressed, and likely to be so until the Fall. The grain crops were promising. The port of Quebec was inundated with tonnage. The St. Lawrence Dock and Warehouse Com pany were about to commence their works on the south side, which will afford accommodation for their steamers in connection with the Grand Trunk Railway, having a depth of 36 feet at low water. The mail steamers, in con sequence of the loss of the Canadian, will in future stop at Quebec. The weekly line to Quebec will commence next year, and bi-monthly to Pout • i during winter. The Governor-General is expected home by the North American, appointed to sail on the 20th inst. -I. ne esti mate for the completion of the Victoria Bridge is under £70u,000 ; the extension to London from St. Mary's, £lBO,OOO ; extra rolling stock, stations, &0., £3 )O,OA, or about £1,200,000 of the £2,000,009 Preference Bond; authorised to be raised last year by the Grand Trunk R a ilway Company. This, with the gilt of the Government subscriplon, places Vat) company in an easy financial position, as all further extensions are postponed until 1860, when the completion of the bridge will constitute an unbroken line for the transit of goods. The Steam Boat Companies complain of being obliged to run, even at a ruinous loss, against the railway, which has been so largely aided by public money, anti a further sabsiily to the ocean steamers, they have petitioned for the abolition of the canal tolls. PARIS, Sunday.—An electioneering manifesto, by Ledra, Rollin, dated London, June 15, is circulating private'y iu Paris. It contains the following passages :—Whitt we want, above all things, is to make a breech, Let us not forget the banquets of 1847, so timidly commenced, and their triumphant issue ; let tis 114vO in eaeh arrondisse ment one and one only legal and constitutional candidate, the one whose name offers the greatest chance of success, and let us vote for him as one man. All hops of a fusion of the two different opposition lists is abandoned. An angry correspondence is published between the rival demo cratic candidate in the fourth circumscription. THE AMPHITHEATRE. The Amphitheatre presented last night an unusual and very remarkable combination of talent—Mr. B. Webster, Mr. Wright, and Mr. Paul Bedford appeared together for the first time, we believe, in Liverpool. Several local causes, including some annual public festivities, interfered to prevent the opening night of this engagement from attracting as crowded an audience as under other circum stances it would certainly have done ; and the house, although well filled, had not the overflowing benches one might have e x pected t o se e. Each of the principal performers r e c e i ve d, h owever , th a t en th us i a stic greeting which their merits could not fail to call forth, Ile performance for the night was Janet Pride, a play which may be considered as successfuly established on our wage, and which, although morbid and melodramatic to a considerable extent, is filled with the striking incidents and " moral purpose" scenes and objects which seldom fail to secure popularity for a drama of the modern domestic school. About a year since, Janet Pride was produced in Liverpool, with Mr. Webster as the leading character. It had then the great advantage of Madame Celeste's impersoation of Janet the mother in the first act, and Janet the daughter in the concluding portion ; but, on the present occasion, the appearance of Mr Paul Bedford as Black Tack, and Mr. Wright as Dickey Trotter, formed a most valuable addition, and something of a compensating attraction. Mr. Webster's own acting must secure success for this drama under any circumstances., It seems almost a waste of power to give such artistic and finished elaboration to such a part. A. more perfect piece of acting cannot be seen on our stage at present. In the first act, the weak and good-for-nothing husband, made selfish by intemper ance, but not wholly without glimpses of better feeling—in the second the escaped convict, raised by the character of his violent and dangerous career, to something of the dignity of the bravo—in the third, the vulgarized and depraved ruffian, in whose breast age, selfishness, and drink have extinguished every spark of feeling —in all these degrees of ruin Mr. Webster was equally truthful to his part, painfully life-like in every look, gesture, and word. If Mr. Webster's Richard Pride, be an inferior performance to his Tartu e, the inferiority lies in the subject, not in the artistic rendering which the actor gives. Mr. Bedford, as the low, vulgar, London outcast, made up of slang and coarseness, was as effective as Mr. Wright, appeared in the character of the soft- hearted, blundering, honest C )ckney apprentice. Of Miss Page's performance we can speak, on this occasion, with unmingled praise. It is not saying too much when we pay her the tribute of admi , ting that the absence of Madame Celeste was far less felt than one might have expected with any substitute. Mr. Wright and Mr. Bedford appeared in a screaming" farce called " The Terrible Tragedy in Seven Diets," and succeeded in drowning, amid over flowing laughter, any painful impressions caused by the incidents of the drama which preceeded. Janet Pride will be repeated to-night. NEW ZEALAND...-. 'TNT E RTAINMENT T.) THE NATIVE CHIEFS. —By a letter from Wellington, lately rec-ived, we learn that Captain Muldle, of the Oliver Lang, gave an enter tainment to the native chiefs, about forty in number, resident in the Wellington district. They offered as their part towards the amusement of the company to go through the war dance, adding to it some of their old warrior songs, Many of those chiefs, who formerly were a terror to Europeans, are now practising the arts of peace and civi liz ition, and several of their sons are leading merchants and traders in Wellington and Nelson, with good balances to their credit at the banks. It is a remarkable fact that near'y three-fourths of the native population of New Zealand can read and write. (?) CRICKET.—On Saturday last, a match was played be tween the first elevens of the Rockferry and Bumboro' Pool Cricket Clubs, on the ground of the latter, with the following result : Rockferry—First Innings Do. Second do Buml)oro'—First Innings no ... 61 Second do., with nine wickets 1 35 to fall • • 96 By previous arrangement, the match, not being played out, was decided by the first innings, the Rockferry Club were therefore declared winners, although, when the wickets were drawn, the Bemboro' Pool Club had but fourteen runs to make, and only one man out. AN ASSAULT BY AN ATTORNEY.—Yesterday, Mr. S. H. Goodere, an attorney, practising in the Police-court, was summoned before Messrs Stitt and Sands, upon a charge of having committed an assault upon a man named Buckley. The witnesses having been ordered out of court, the complainant stated that on Wednesday last he was standing in Exchange -street West, when the defendant came up to him and said, " You d—d villian, I will have you locked up there very soon," (pointing to the bridewell), and then he struck him a violent blow in the side. Mr. Goodere : How often have you been bound over to keep the peace? Winces : I object to answer that. Are yon not now under bond to keep the peace at Cheshire ? Witness : That has nothing to do with the question. Mr. Wyeergh : But you are on your oath, and you must answer. The Witness: Well, then, I am. Mr. Goodere : His conduct to me and other attorneys practising in this court, has been of a most pro voking character, and I admit that I did strike him, but it was such a blow that would not have cracked a flea. (Laughter) James Richardson was next called, to corroborate the complainant's statement. Mr. Gooelere: You see what sort of a fellow ha is, and I will not occupy your time about it, but leave it in your hands. Toe coat plainant : I kept the pe ice, or I could have taken him up and whipped his bottom with a birch rod. (Laughter.) The bench inflicted a fine of 103 and ceste it bring clearly proved and admitted that an assault had been committed. AUSTRALIAN SHIPS IN PRINCE'S DOCK.—At present there ati no less than three leviathan ships in this dock, almost filled and filing for Australia. The John Linn, belong in.e to Mr. Thompson's Mersey Line of Packets, is adver tised to sail on the 25th. She is a very handsome ship, with first-rate accommodation for passengers, and of which she is, we believe, nearly full, the berths being engaged with rapid eagerness, consequent on her character and that of the will-known line to which she belongs. The next i s the Albion, belonging to the old-established and favourite house of Tapscott and Co. She is advertised for the 10th July, and no doubt will be punctual in her sailing. The more seen of this really handsome and attractive clipper, the more she must necessarily be admired. For the last few days she his been iiisnec7ed by hundreds, and there has not been the slightest difference of oeinioa on all points connected with her. She is, undoabtedly, amongst the foremast vessels that have left this port, in all respects—lofty in cabins, perfect in ventilation and light, and improved (compered with former ships) in every way condusive to the health, con venience, and comfort of passengers. A visit will amply bear out these remarks. She is a most desirable ship for passenger'.—The next is the Florence Nightingale, blonging to the "Eagle Line" of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Ca. Of this vessel we have spoken recently in detail. She is set down for the 15th of July. Little need be added to what has already been said regarding her, except that she seems to be filling very fast, and seems to be as great a favaurite as the splendid ships of that line have always proved to be with the public. Any NTURES OP LADY FRANKLIN'S BOAT:--About fourteen mouths ago, Mr. Cunard, of Cunard, Munn, and C )., of Liverpool, sold by auction the Sir John Franklin expeditionary steamer Isabel, the conditions of sale being tie . vithdrawing learn the transaction a small mahogany built ice -boat, which was laid down years ago under the instructions of Sir John Franklin, which accompanied the exoedition, and was with the party who found the Fnnklin relics, aul which was much prized o n th ose ac counts by Lade Franklin. That baat was not included in the s tl.o, but by slaw omission 't remained on board the Is ,bet, and was taken away by the purchaser of that vessel, and ultimately all clue to her whereabouts was lost. In the meaatime Lady Psanklin, with a devotion unparal leled, embarks the raineant of her f trtune in a final expe dition in search of her husband, whom she still believes may be rescued, and directs that this favourite boat shall agai ). take parr in the exphr Miens. Another effort to find it was or dered to be made. The matter was placed in the hands of Inspector Bates, of Liverpool, who, after search ing isquiiies, obtains informatien from an old fisherman, which leads him, accompanied by Mr. Johnson, a gentle men who can identify the missing boat, to a place called L'anaubeira:i, about seven miles inland on the Welsh coast, and about sixteen miles from Carnarvon. There, in enelosere something like a pinfold, and covered with dirt and filth, they found the little boat, in the possession of a landsman who bad been left in charge, but who, on having the case explained to him, made ne attempt to resist the servant of the law. A cart was procured, and the b at was taken to Men,i, where it was shipped in the next steamer for Liverpool, at which latter place it arrived on Wednesday, and was on Th x ursr d ia j y n. forwarded by rail to Aberdeen, in time to join the e petio