Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-02 00:00:00

SMITHSONIAN HOTEL, Baoso WAY, Corner of HOUSTON-ersesr, Ns w Yong. Mined in honour of the SHIT/190MAX INSTITUTION, EStabllshed at WASHINGTON, by Use U. S. CONGRESS, With Fonds bequeathed by JAMBS SMITHSON, of ENGLAND, grehig the Friendship of the OFFICERS of tllO NATIONAL INSTITUTION IS eonlactal on the System of Hotels in ENGLAND. CHAS. 11. SMITH. Ufa ,I:iicra 19a11.4.--Ebt4 Dip. At twelve. o'clock, at the broker's offi , e, 7, Exchange-chambers, bales Vegetable Hair.—F. J. Eaton. At twelve o'clock, at the commercial saleroom, Temple-court, a quin • tity of Frnit.—Ge). Badenach and Son. At eleven o'clock, at the commercial saleroom, Temple-court, a quan cpututity of Fruit.—James Adam, Son and Co. it 74.. For particulars sea aiveeasement.. CS, kitTiiLtO it2Ei!:l2lAtio, Ue. TUIS PAY. TERATILE ROYAL —Professor ndordon —7 nOYAL AMPHITD[EATRE—AP. Robson-7 p.m.:l: rairaLlm'S CIRQUE VARI ,Te, Dala-street-7 p.m. LIVERPOOL ACADEMY'S EXHIRITiON, Postoface-place. ArZsor' s WAXWORK EItIIBITION —lO a.m. to 10 p.m. Uoz,V, CoLlse sum —Geueral Entertainment-6.3u p.m. -Csr For particulars see advertisements. 7:- A (ti V C , 1 441:trkaril titit MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1837. THE DXY'S NEWS. To day the Municipal Elections take place. The contests in several of the wards will be close and severe. Our opinions of the respective candidates Are already known. We have, therefore, merely to urge upon the e!ectors in every ward where there is s contest, to he true to themselves, and by their• Tote, " put the right man in the right place.' By I' our o'clock we hope to see all the candidates whose principles we have advocated and recommended to the public, in the proud position of Town Councillors. The British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Arabia, sailed on Saturday morning for York direct, carrying out the usual mails and specie amounting to £201,535, besides a consider able sum in the hands of the passengers. We have alluded elsewhere to the news brought by the Niagara. The steam ship Atlantic which was to sail from New York on the 24'h ult., may be expected here on Wednesday. She will have three days' later intelligence, and from the character of the Niagara's new 3 we may hope that the Atlantic will bring favourabl.e tidings as to the monetary and comainTial panic which has been prevailing in the United States. The news by the Niagara, arrived here yester day, may be considered of a satisfactory character, compared with that previoisly received. With the exception of a few of the S , u . :hern Banks, specie payments were completely suspended. Money matters were quiet, with but little to note. The returns from the clearing house denote a gradual resumption of activity in buslness. The Banks were acting with much more liberality towards their custom3rs, and on the whAa it was anticipated that the crisis had been past, and that the mercantile community Isere on a fair way of recovorinc.); thei: lost ground. The Panic., however, was beginning' to be felt by the lower classes. Large numbers had been thrown out of employ merit ; even Walker's filibustering expedition had been compelled to bow before the vigour of the Financial Crisis; and so we learn that he has postponed his contemplated descent on Costa Rica until November Ist, and that he does not anticipate any serious, if indeed any, opposition from the government. A very serious fire had occurred at Chicago, destroying some 600,000 dolE,, worth of property, and causing a fearful loss of life. Up to the 20. h ult. eight bodies had been recovered from the debris, and it was feared that several others were yet undiscovered, as a number of persona were missing. The advices from Utah continue to reveal the utmost hostility to the in isens of thv United Sates. The affairs ofM Mexico are still a very unsettled state. icor run details of the news per the Niagara, we refer our readers to an ample sumnlrry in another column. The leading s'atesmen of the day continue to deliver their opinions and sentiments on the subject of the Indian Mutiny. Among the latest distinguished personages who have diseanted thereon, is the Earl of Shaftesbury. As Li; lord ship is known to be in constant familiar intercourse with the Prime Minister, and has latterly assumed nearly altogether the Palmerstonian colour, we may take what he says to be pretty much what Lord Palmerston wishes to be believed. The Earl was emphatic upon the Sepoy atrocities, harrowing the soul of his audience by a minute description of them, anal stirring op a spirit of vengeance and thirst for blood; and this be professed to do delibe rately and fora purpose. This made the greater por tion ofhis speech As to the revolt, " the rebels," said his lordship," had not a single w - )r.l complain of." "What grievance," he asked, " was ever put for ward? Gad knaves, there is no such thing to he laid to our charge in. our G , vernment of India." When &eau:ions like these are made by peer:4 what are we think of public men? The best comment, however, is, that after making the speech, Lord Shaftesbury urged the presentation of a memorial to the Q teen, one clause of which he described as "seeking better GovJnment in India for the future." Sir Charles Napier has again indulged the public with his view of the mutiny At Southwark, on Friday, the gallant admiral said that the last news was extremely gratifying, and the nation was under great obligation to the British soldier. He said that the Government had been fbrewarned of what would take place. He had had a gallant relative in India who had told the Government what would arise. Now, he did not say that if th late Sir Charles Napier had been alive these mutinies would net have occurred, but this he would say, that if he (the late general) had now been in command of the Indian army, a very cliif.t.elt state of things would have taken place. Althoueh there had been some dilatoriness on the part of the government, yet they used the greatest diligence in sending out troops when the news arrived from India. There had been a great cry got up by some ptrties for electioneering purposes to reduce the army and navy, but government had determined to keep up the navy. Then the Chinese would emte off lighter, and it was a good job we had that quarrel, fir had we not we would not have had any troops in India. Then he came to another part of the question and that was, " who shall pay t iAitl p F6l%,ie w p !:p fgll smtil'a,t:,,caPansr-i'M ex penses. Was there a man present, or in England, that would like t 3 lose India He would tell them that there was a power not far elf, who, if we lost India, would say, " Now you have lost India. and, by God's help, we will take something also from you." Therefore, we must do our best to put down the rebel:ion, for he was sure there was plenty of pluck in the British army. If they lost India it would be a most unfortunate thing fm' th e country, tnerefore, they must do their best to show Government the nt.-.•cesaity of keeping it. Sir E N. Buxton, in addressing the members of the North Walaham Agricultural Satiety on Wednesday even ing, said that the moral effect of the capture of Delhi, without extra assistance from Europe, would be very great throughout India, and have a con siderable influence in sappressing the mutiny. Numerous atrocities, foul murders, and acts of vio lence had been committed en our countrymen and countrywomen, but the conduet of our troops would have an effect on the minds of the natives for cen unties. and he trusted that when the victory was gained some clemency would be shown to those who were not proved to have been guilty of inur• tiering their officers and committing foul indignities on our countrywomen. The late trial at the London Central. Criminal Court, connected with the Submarine Telegraph Company, continues to attract great attention. The Hon. Mr Cadogan has resigned his seat at the Board of Directors, a step which was not taken before it was required. So strong has been the feeling of gentlemen in London on the trial, that it has been determined we believe, to hold a meeting at the London Tavern, this day. It is expected that a gentleman in high office in the City will take the chair, and the intention is to memorialise the Secretary of State to obtain a remission of the sentence. We do not wonder that suoh a demonstration should take place, for, cer tainly, as the matter now stands, the poor culprits have been very harshly treated. Of local or domestic news, there is very little of interest this morning. On Saturcht;, Mr. Ouselev, the proprietor and editor of the Liverpool Herald was committed for trial for a libel on Mr. Robertson Gladstone, published in the Herall of the 17. h ult. The article in question holds up Mr. Robertson Gladstone to redicuie and contempt as a public man. Bail was accepted. Two surities of £lOO each. On Saturday, Robert T. Davis, who murdered his wife a few weeks since at Bali's Pond, London, was convicted at the Central Criminal Court, and sentenced to death, without hope or mercy. There is a variety of intelligence from the Conti nent. From Paris we learn that the deceased French General Cavaignac is to receive the honours of a public funeral, on account of his services to the Sate. This has been granted by the Go /ern naent at the request of the late General's family. As Cavaignac had repeatedly refused to take the owk of allegiance to the present head of the State, this concession is somewhat remarkable. The financial report of the Minister of Finance, an nouncing that the sinking fund would be found again in 1859 with a sum of 40 millions of francs, and that dispositions would be taken by the Go vernment with the Bank of France.and the railway companies to limit the issues of debentures (obli gations) has had a favourable effect. A-counts from Brussels state that the present Catholic ministry will not resign in cons?quenee of the decisive vi2tory of the liberals in the muni cip-21 elections, nor are they, indeed, coLsitu tionally bound to do so. But they have sent for the Kirg to advise them, as the report observes with unconscious irony. His Majesty's advice, always conciliatory, will probably lead, in the end, to a reconciliation between the people and the Glvernment, whoever the men may be who form the latter. Constantinople adviceF, of the 24e.h ult., mention that the new loan is intended to liquidate the debts of the civil list, to withdraw from circulation a part of the paper money, and to bring back the finances to a normal state. In the Wallachian assemUly three-fourths of the mej trity belong to the ultra party, to whom the commissioners of the great powers have counselled prudence and the observ ance of treaties. The Divan hes requested those engaged in commercial pursuits at Constantinople not to export munitions of war; Russia, on the contrary, sends great quantities to the Caucasus. Dehreu Bey has just loft for Brussels. In Asia .the Kurds have committed numerous cutrages ag , inst the Christians; two America n priests were put to death by them. Advices from Berlin inform us that the repre sentatives of Prussia and Austria at the Frankfort Diet are engaged in comparing their instructions with regard to the united action in the Diet in the Holstein question. In the meantime, the Frank fort journals announce that the complaint made directly by the States of Lauenbourg, relative to the constitution and rights snd situation of the duchies, was presented to the Germanic Diet by M. Goldschmidt, an advocate in Frankfort, on the 29.11 inst. Of course the States of Lauenbourg could not in this case avail themselves of their legal representative at the Diet, the Danish Minister, and have therefore applied to that body, as to a legal forum, by counsel. receive more produce for gold when at a pre mium abroad—the circulation of our legal tender money is contracted, and the increased supplies we have on hand of all the other riches of tht earth, are inconvertible into cash, and a panic ensues. THE Municipal polling day has arrived ! The warmth of discussion must now give place to a manly determination to fulfil those promises which have been given tc the Liberal candidates. We scorn to ask, with the crozier in one hand, and the bludgeon in the other, any enlightened and independent Burgess for his vote. We of Liverpool, the return of men to the Corpora tion who will show to the Imperial Parliament, and the country at large, that the second town, and the " greatest seaport in the Empire," can appreciate ssise, economic, and, we may add, hon est, local self-government. That we despise toadyism, abhor bare-faced jobbery and will, by every constitutional means, resist unnecessary, and, therefore, extortionate local taxation. We would blush to make battle about straws. We would rather pension Aldermen on turtle, and Dock Committee-men on outelons and cham pagne—give them a perpetual feast, regardless of all bodily consequences, sooner than they should be employed about affairs which time has shown they do not understand, or the Ratepayers pestered with men whom they cannot make understand the firA principles of commercial success, or the simplest rudiment of Corporate • economy. Council, whose rank they hope to swell by the polling of to-day. But what reply have they made to our charge ? they call us "Radicals." They tell us, regardless of the decency of so ciety, that we are " liars," they proclaim us " emissaries of the Pope," (save the mark), and that we seek to undermine Her Majesty's throne— kick over the Church, and put, an extinguisher on the State. These might do very well for Bed lam, but we mistake commercial Liverpool if these ravens of the tap-tub will turn the mercantile mind from figures. They may be too vulgar for the enlightened and refined opposition Press, and too contemptible for the high minded and sot disant Corruptionists candidates, whose return to the Council they so ably advocate ; and they may, therefore, think them wholly un worthy of notice ; but we again tell the Bur gesses, who are about to vote, that if they desire to raise Liverpool from the swamp of debt and difficulty into which she has been dragged, they must sink all fanaticism in religion and politics, and send representatives into the Council Cham ber, who will not vote for men who seek power for emolument, and make taxation the sole object of place. The new race has already commenced. At the last meeting of the Council, the small point of the wedge was introduced. The Dock Coln mittees having been "snubbed" by Parliament, and thinking it useless to attempt another Dock scheme next Session ; and the Corporation having had the Town Dues and all interference with the Dock Estate taken out of their hands, serious apprehensions were entertained with regard to the fingering of the coming Municipal year. It was therefore proposed to levy a Borough Rate of a halfpenny—only a halfpenny !—in the pound, for town improvements, for which a bill was to be presented to parliament, and another v_ssional campaign would follow, at the Bur gesses' expense, as a matter of course. This s enough to show us what is looming in the We must again, then, invoke the common sense of the Ratepayers. and exhort them not to be duped by cant or hypocrisy. If the Corporate Electors think that the town and trade of Liverpool can bear a few millions more of additional debt, they will vote for men who will support the prodigal majority, in spite of all that reason can dictate. But if they are convinced that it is time to check the extravagance of the Council, and free our port of the injurious im posts waste has thrown on our trade, they will give their suffrages to those candidates who are pledged to compel the Corporation to furnish their constituents with a rental of the Borough Estate, and oppose jobbery in every form which it may present itself. The Voters who wish to see these rational objects attained, should be early at the poll, and devote a few hours of the day to the service of their friends. Such gentlemen are in their own way, and still more in the way of an enlightened com munity. The greatest novice at figures, and the veriest tyro in finance. could scarcely show us a worse balance-sheet than that of the Liverpool Corporation at this moment. The existing grand total of our Municipal debt is startling enough, but when we add to it the growing liabilities of the Council and Dock Estate, 20,000,000/, will be the amount of their joint debts. Now, we see no insurmountable obstacle to the Vandalism, of modern pigmy dimensions; which accompanies the idea of incorporating the territory of 150,000,000 of Pagans, with all their Brahminism, love of false prophets, cow's tails, and filthy idolatry, with a Christian Empire ; but we are puzzled to conceive how this ruunicina.lity can be tolerated as an integral part of this Free Trade nation, who are pledged not to suffer any unnecessary burdens to be thrown upon indus: ry, trade, and commerce. We are either rational or headless and irresponsible beings, when we take upon ourselves to record our votes at public elections. If we lay claim to be the former, it behoves us to remember that many millions of the public money are staked on the part we are about to play. If .we seek the unenviable notoriety of the latter, the only sufferers who have a right to complain are the few who appear to see the past folly and impending danger, and would have it otherwise. This is precisely what we are suffering from at this hour. The movements of gold do not carry away our lands, houses, stores, railways, ships, or the many millions' worth of home, foreign, and colonial produce with which the United Kingdom is always teeming. It does not shake the stability of the State, or endanger the dividends of the fundholder. It only depre ciates every description of transferable or saleable property; and as soon as that depreciation brings the whole of the nation's substances down to the level at which it can be converted into money, within the limit of our currency as sanctioned by Parliament, the lost balance is again re. covered, and we are allowed to carry on a commercial existence in comparative ease. We have unfortunately been overtaken in one of these political whirlwinds which devastate the whole commercial world in something like periodical order. But why such occurrences should cause any wide-spread alarm we are at a loss to conceive. As long as Parliament will persist in allowing seasons of depreciation being forced on the country, -panics, which are always f ollowed, as experience has shown us, by excessive activity and high prices, we must submit patiently to the Lombard blindness of the Legis lature, and by our own commercial foresight and prudence prevent Liverpoor . s becoming another Venice in the hands of maritime destroyers. To-day legal tender may be scarce, and all that belongs to ships, colonies, and commerce may be depreciated in value—the Shylocks of the Stock Exchange may have their "pound of flesh"—the gold worshippers in Parliament may be prostrated at the shrine of Mammon—our Overstones may swagger in select committees, and our Bullionists may stand by with their nets to fish in the flowing fragments of their country's substance, shipwrecked by panic ; but if the Merchants, Traders, and Bankers of Liverpool stand by each other in the fulness and integrity of a true commercial spirit, they will not be fleeced by the wrecker, nor be sacrificed by a want of recriprocal confidence. Few men aspiring to the rank of a merchant, or an intelligent tradesman, can be ignorant of the evil working of our Monetary laws ; and as they must be aware of the difficulties they bring upon all classes of the community periodically, they should adopt universal accommodation and leniency towards all persons in trade, and show her Majesty's Ministers and Parliament that, bad as our money laws are, the commercial property of England is safe in the hands of those whose integrity, enterprise, and industry has called it distance. THE Monetary panic has lost much of its momentary intensity. Serious alarm has given place to that cool reflection which we have at all times a right to expect from a commercial peo ple. The Liverpool public begin to see that the evils with which they have to contend are organic; and, while they cautiously refrain from all rash ness which could in any way give intensity to the crisis, they submit their fortunes to that disas trous phase of our social organisation which time and sober discussion alone can repair, or alter with safety. We fear, however, that there are many narrow-minded and selfish men even in the commercial world, who forget that Banks are the depositories of the national wealth, the hus banders of the merchant's integrity, and the industry of the people, and that one of these institutions cannot be tampered with or stopped without doing a grievous injustice and injury to the country at large. Any precipitancy that the public may show in their conluct towards our Banks, must, therefore, arise from forgetfulness or ignorance of the heavy debt of gratitude they owe to those institutions, and their almost ina lienable connection with the best interests of society. Banks are, in fact, so essential to the Success of our present artificial state of existence, that it becomes the duty of every good citizen to hurry to their assistance in moments of trial and danger, instead of hastening to exhaust their cof fers regardless of the consequences to himself and the wh >le of the community. True it is, that there are few situations in which the multitude can be placed,where so many difficulties and dangers rush at once upon the mind, as in moments of monetary derangements. Many persons use banking hougeg without waiting to inquire what their functions really are, or what they really profess to do. The law pretends to regulate the former, while long established usage directs the latter. For exam ple—the legislature measures the wants of trade, guarantees sufficient money to keep the spring s of industry in action, and to supply the incidental requirements of the realm at all times, and under all circumstances. But, unfortunately for all classes of its subjects, they have failed in their attempt at measuring the quantity of money required ; and have so far lost their way in de ciding the quality of our currency, that it be comes utterly impossible for our banks, though positively suffering from a repletion of wealth, to discharge their functions and fulfil the 'obli gations for which they were originally designed. The quality of money being confined to gold of a standard fineness and price, leaves us, like all other commodities when dear, and returns to us when cheap. Our paper, or legal tender money, is regulated in quantity by the stock we possess of this ever moving metal, notwithstanding that we The Prodigals—men who never consider what debt is, or how it is to be paid, many of whom are this day seeking the Burgesses suffrages— have had ample time and opportunity since this election contest commenced to rebut our assertion, that the trade of the port has been plunged into irredeemable debt, and that a Borough rate must be levied on the inhabitants to meet the extra vagance and waste of the majority of the Town THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1857 AMUSEM 3NTS. THEATRia ROYAL.—The Wizard of the North has been displaying his wonders with increasing success during the week. We have not space to do mare than to remark the fact, that the erowdei audiences he draws together suffi ciently show that his p2rformanc3s are favoured by the public. MR Dakica's BE BEFIT,—We hope it is scarcely n ces sa y to call at'e itioa to tha foot, th :t this chief favourite of our local actors takes his bnefit on Friday night next. No provin&al theatre, we feel confident - , can boast of the services•of so rouine and talent d a comedian, and few metropolitan houses possess any oue who can equal him ill the cuss, cf-clatracters he generally assumes. It is not too much to expect that the public of Liverpool, who are indebted to hin for so much enjr.yraent, will not fail, upon such an occasion as this, to mark, unmistakeably, their appreciation of him. HENGLEECS CIRQUE.—The week has been one of triumph at the Cirque, and, instead of being satisfied, the public appetite seems to grow mote eager on what it feeds. The charms that are ever to be found about well regulated equestrian establishments, are very much augmented by the superiority of the artistes engsgad at the Cirque. It is no misnomer to call Madlle. Josephine the " Sylph of the Circle ;" and as for our admired friends, Le Petite Romeo and Louis, they are unsurpassable in their comic scenes. We have already referred, in terms of admiration, to the astonishing ev lations of Mr. J. M. Hengler, on the elastic rope, and wo hardly think his equal can be had in the world. Besides the wonderful, daring, and graceful acts of equestrianism performed individually and collec tively by the troupe, the fetes of gymnasium are marvellously astonishing. The clowns are none of your old 'CI oe M ller," jog-trot gentlemen, whose highest hit amounted to a "Here we is ."' Genuine wit, of the right stamp and current time, flows freely without an effort, and the house is kept in'a state of good humour by genuine wit, and in a state of amazement at the daring performance . ROYAL COLOSSEUM, PARIDESE-STREET.—The extensive and costly a'terations and additions going on at this house a-e rapidly drawing to a close, and bo has regards external appearance, and internal arrangements, for comfort, &c., there will be few h 'uses in Liverpool to boast of anything better. Mr. Heath has lately produced a variety of excel lent entertainments, and the public support which he experiences, is the bast proof that he caters in the right line. The present company at this house is attractive. TIIe PiZ )PLE'S CortcenTs —The secJnd Saturday even irg concert of the season, took place at George's Hall, on Saturday. Notwith , t aiding the excellent prog'amme, and the established reputation of the artistes, there was only a moderate attendance, but this was, no doubt, owing t') the multiplicity of the amusements open in Liverpool just now. Eiery hing passed off in a satisfactory manner. The third concert will take place on Saturday next, when Mrs. Fur:der:and and Mr. 11. Fhillips will appear. These two distinguished vocalists should alone " cram" the hall in eve7y part. PASSENZGERS per R M. S. Niagara, John G. 'Wickman Commander, from Bos•oi to Halifax and Liverpo)l. Mr. James and three Misses J tines ; Mr. and Mrs. Cramhie, Mrs. Crowninehields and two daughters, Captain Lobinreid and lady, Messrs. Joha Cribb and Wynne, Commodore Satnall Messrs. Paul &anal!, T. M Clure, Matthew Hunt, Thomas Mott, and C. W. Wharten ; Mrs. Alibione and Miss Allityme, Mrs. E. Caldwell, Me, R. C. Winthrop, jun., and lady, Messrs R. Manson, AExander Kennedy, Jona M‘Gann, and John Walsh and 12,dy, Misses Robertson aad Cooke, Messrs. James Dale Firhirotr, White, S. H. Smith, James Goo !man, D. Rarniltoa, and George B. Reid ; Mrs. S. Hirst ; Messrs. B. Smith, J. Baxter, and William Roy ; Miss Bain, Mr. Job Dale, Mrs. Pollock, Miss Fraser, Capt. Carpenter, Mr. Wilson and lady, Mr. Miles, Capt. Carter, Mr. Hale, Rey. Mr. Mathewson and lady, Messrs. W. Keating, E !ward Reid, and White ; Mrs. Gilts ) Messrt. Denolfa and Crcoks-64 passengers. MUNICIPAL ELECTION. The annual election for Town Councillors will take place this day, when the Burgesses will be called upon to elect one Councillor for each ward to serve for three years. The following are the gentlemen who go out . of office : Everton Ward Mr. Daniel Crosthwaite. Scotland Ward ........Mr. Archibald Charles Stewart. Vauxhall Ward Mr. Edward Bradley. St. Paul's Ward Mr. John R3wland .M‘Guffie _ _ • Exchange Ward Mr. Thomas Littledale. Castle Street Ward Mr. Hugh Hamby. Saint Peter's Ward .... Mr. Harmood Banner. Pitt Street Ward Mr. Samuel Robert Graves. Great George Ward ...Mr. Thomas Wagstaff. Rodney S:rect Ward ..Mr. Charles Mozley. Abercromby Ward Mr. John Abraham Tinue. Lime Street Ward Mr. James Johnson. St. Anne Street Ward Mr. Joseph Kitchen. West Derby Ward ......Mr. Richard Mitchell Beckwith. South Toxteth Ward ...Mr. John Stewart- North Toxteth Ward ...Mr. Bullard Hall. There will be opposition in the following wards, the candidates being :—Everton : Mr. D. Crosthwaite and Mr. G. Melley. Scotland : Mr. J. Crellin and Mr. Liver sedge. Vauxhall : Mr. Corbally and Mr. J. C. Savage. St. Paul's : Mr. M`GuMe and Mr. Barton. St. Peter's : Mr. 11. Banner and Mr. C. T. Bowring. Abercromby : Mr. Hutchison and Dr. Anderson. ,St. Anne w Mr. Kitchen and Mr. Clegg. North Toxteth : Mr. Avisoll and Mr. Vernon. In each of the above wards a spirited contest is expected. The voting will commence at nine o'clock, and the poll will be kept open until four o'clock i❑ the afternoon. MURDER AT WOOLTON. Yesterday afternoon, the village of Wootton was alarmed by it being rumoured that a woman had been murdered. On investigation, the report turned out to be correct. A =la, named O'Brien, said to be a publican in Hanover-street, of this town, had been staying at Wootton along with his mother-in-law in lodgings. The people who owned the house where:he lodged were at chapel, and during their absence, he murdered his relative by strangulation and other violence. It would appear that the man O'Brien had been drinking, and that he was in a state of mini am mnting almost to madness- The appearance of the murdered woman was quite shocking, and O'Brien, who is in custody, was covered with blood. The oldest inhabitant never recollects a murder in the village before. Full details of this melancholy affair, will be obtained at the inquest this day. THE SUB NIARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY. The Honourable Mr. Cadogan, in consequence of the recent trial, has deemed it advisable to retire from the deputy chairmanship of the Submarine Telegraph Company, and the following communication has been forwarkled for publication : ‘. TO rum EDITOR " Submarine Telegraph Caracany, between Great Britain and the Continent of Europe, 30, Cornhill, Oct. 30. " Srit,—l think it my duty to forward you immediately the enclosed letter from Mr Cadogan. I quite concur in the step taken by him. and this honourable conduct on his part fully confirms the high opinion and confidence which have always bee❑ entertained of him by his co-directors. —I am, sir, yours faithfully, "J. R. CARMICHAEL." (Enclosure.) " 72, South Audlev•street, Oct. 30. "llr DEAR CAnmictrAEL,—Notwithstanding the result of the verdict in my tavour, showing the falsity of the charges brought forward at the late trial, I consider it due to our board and to the shareholders in general to place my seat. at their disposal. I made the admission that I had speculated in the broadest terms compatible with truth, in order that no one could accuse me of the slightest attempt at concealment. " My statements appear to have conveyed an impres sion very far beyond that warranted by the strict facts of the case. I therefore feel that this admission might possibly be prejudicial to the interests of the company, and I have determined to adopt this course, and leave my future re-election in the hands of the proprietors.—Very sincerely yours. FRED CADOGAN. " Sir James Carmichael, B trt.' COMPLETION OF THE MEDITERR &NEAN TELEGRPA H. We have received the following message, announcing the completion of the Mediterranean Telegraph, giving a complete vne or eoultuouleaLiuu between London and Paris to Algiers:— t.Paris, Oct. 30. " Mr. Craig has sent a despatch from Cagliari, stating that the cable has been successfully landed at Spartivento. Communication with Africa complete. Despatch for warded to his Majesty the Emperor of the French." " Cagliari, Friday, October 30, 1857. " I have to-day finished the cable between Bona and Spartivento. Splendid weather. All well. " R. S. NEWELL." SCRIPTURE READERS' SOCIETY. TO TIIC EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES . Sir,—With your permission, and in j istice to the above society, I feel called upon to correct a misrepresentation of a Mr. Walker, made at a meeting of the friends of Mr. Melly, on Friday evening, in reference to me :—" Mr. Bennett is a Scripture reader, and takes the Bible as a thing to get a livelihood." I beg to inform that gentle• man that lam not a Scripture reader, in the sense he applies the term, nor " a pensioner" of any kind ; nor do I take the Bible as a thing to gain a livelihood, but I take the Bible simply with the view to my eternal interest, and strive to maintain my family respectably by my labour, and can boast of being as independent an elector as Mr. Walker, or any other voter in the ward.—l am, yours, Ecc , JOHN BENNETT. October 31, 1857. LEWIS AND COMPANY'S NEW E.TABLISHMENT FOR Boys' rLortusa.—Number of boys clothed fur week ending Saturday, October 31st, 538; corresponding week last year, 326, increase, 212 boys. COUR', OF PassAcia.-0 i Siturlay, Mr. Edward Jame!, Q.C., the Assessor, resu ned the business of this court. Aft -r disposing of some cases of minor importance, and not of the slightest pubic icterest, the business was brought to a conclusion, and the court adjourned. LIVERPOOL GArtatcx CLUB —Tae members of this new, but already fl urishir.g, society.are about to inangnrate th , ir first winter session with a private per'ormance, which we understand is wily preparatory to a public one, for the benefit of one (Sour most popular local charities. ROBBEEti IN THE OCTSEIRTS OF LIVERPOOL.—On Friday night, a gentlemsn on top of the omnibus. to Wavertree, heard two persons, which ho took to be of the sort above, state that this will b- a geol season. as the pe aple will have so much money at their houses," and it struck him that this sort of cc •p 1.3 would readily congregate in large numbers iu the on takir s, " Wherever the carcase is, t .ere will the eagles be gathered together," and thinks it well to give this hint, so that people may be on their guard. IMPORTANT I'ASE AFFILIATION.—At the police-court on Saturday, before Ales re. S. 'feline and Bann, co-n -siderable interost prevailed, and the court was crowded to excess by the guardians and a host of other people, who come, either out of curiosity or business, to hear the details of a charge preferred by a female named Margaret Clarke, again't Mr. Edward Gough, the governor of the West Derby Union w nkhouse, for the support of a child, of which the defendant was stated to be the father. No cruse of the sort ever brought into this court seemed to excite such dep ieterest. Mr. Block appeared for the cern p'a:nant, and Mr. Conway, (birri ter) in the absence of Mr. Aupinall, instruc'el by Mr. ['olden, appeared for the defendant. Mr. Buck said ho was only recently instructed in the case, and he f and that he could not proceed in the absence of certain witnesses, and he would therefore apply for an adjournment of the hearing to another day. lifter a brief discussion the case was postponed to Tuesday at ten o'clock. AN ENDEMIC iv ESSEX. --That formils.ble disease, diptherite, which is now endunic in smno, parts of France, and which, ever and anon, breaks oat there epidemically, and p. over fatal to a largo number of the population, ap pears to have lodged itself temporarily in Essex. For same time past " a peculiar kind of putrid sore-throat" has been very prevalent and vary fatal in the Rochford Hundred. Lately it has excited much alarm. It is said to kill in 21 boars, sometimes less. In one house five pets , :ms died from its attack. We shall publish fuller details of the character and progress of the disease.--The Lancet. Our readers (says the Lea ler) will be glad to hear that Messrs. Chapman and Hall have in preparation a complete library ()Mimi of Mr. Dickens's works. The volamea will be handsomely printed, and issued at a moderate price, and the edition will include everything which Mr. Dickens has hitherto published, arrangements having been made with Messrs. Bradbury and Evans to that effect. The same pub lishers make another announcement that will be eagerly welcomed, not only in England and Anarics, but on the Chntinent als)—the issue, early next spring, of the first two volumes of Carlyle's long-promised and long expected life of Frederick the Great. The work is to be c)mpleted in four volumes, and the two latter will follow at no distant interval. TELEGRAPHIC NE‘lrs LATEST FROM NEW YORK. BY TZLBORAPH• NEW YORK, Ocr. 22ND, EvoSIOLI ose tto' Our money market continues in a very state, and wears a more stringent character. the OA. considerable decline has taken plane °ll . ti . e o St o ck Exchange, in every descrip tion of sectirl-te f The Cotton Market is much i n the same eta prices being quite of a nominal character. w heat Flour . has an inclination to declin but st , a tendency to rises and corn wears a fi rm 11114 ante. bad 0 b' cl The news brought out by the Eu ro p a effect upon all our markets hele. N T th S t " The Kangaroo from Liverpool, and -..4r from Southampton, has arrived. E 00' NEW ORLEANS, o cT , 21, -- c- ' 1 Monetary affairs have a dull aspe ct, but 10°11 whole things are no worse. , ii the Cotton has somewhat declined, and tolY at gio sales reached nearly 8,000 bales, rive pal to 10c for middling descriptions. ees • are° ie Thomas Fuller Rae on, convicted of a dmintateral,rsovei to his mother at Stamford, was on Wednerlei " from Lincoln Castle to Milibank Prison, uader ea penal servitude for life. ~e tee I°,l' THE CAPE CoLONY EMIGRATION —An st a r e Jai gration to tee Cape is abcrrt to commence. 1,-,2,catiea aseenets from the colony we learn that the e el e : ' s bee % offices have 'been filled. The sum of £55,0 00 'lOO voted to derray the passage of emigrants frone Great tile to the Cepe.—Civil Service Gazette. ,i 0 The Morning Post says that the various grauirlv OP; suite of the Siamese embassy appear to he gerl era i d ses )); cated by the head-dress. Thus the " eldest 0, 4 ' f eotelv the first king " wears a conic hat, with a briya of seven incises wide, while the brims of the hats servitors gradually diminish, until, in the lowest Cla pdt find none at all. s be • ' l l " The square of the temple at Paris," saYs " will very shortly be completely finished. / 13 ; r,• t ; the formally expressed in entions of the EalP e e ' ' of 1 ". Municipal Council intends erecting a bronze stet t ;:',,,, fro' unfortunwe monarch who underwent, in the ba which the square takes its 'same, such a e ee l 031 ' under the reige of terror." • fiPr iar Lola Moates lectured on " Beautiful W e raen ° I n d, sft , e r A field. She was in New Haven the other veeek i t rets'i n the lecture was over, the gentlemen whe 13- 0-00 estre" with their ladies formed a la Am l co l umn from the the hall to the street, where the carriage of the fai r ° e t IV was in waiting, and stood with hats off, gi Tiag b wildest round of applause as she passed dove . ,pe Ur, tll t o Tire new church which is abaut to be Censtreef,""„e3,ll4-11 Russian embassy and the Russians residing . - fjoef;,; he in the Rue tie la Croix, in the Faubourg eelie The expense is estimated at 1,009,0001 r., towarserente" the Emperor of Russia has subscribed 20%"0-0,00'''' Dowager Empress, 100,000 fr., the Holy Syno d, The balance will be made up by private subsetW',;'s COLLIERY Centimes/ie.—At WolverhaeoPt-r Veit Sessions, Perry, the proprietor of a coal -pit c a d, te e d with, and Evans, owner of a pit at Lane b t as te C° o severally fined £5 each, for offences aesis s ' t ess oe Mines Inspeetim Act. In the first case 0010100 st suffi ient skip for the men to descend ; and soleoe, ) , o br:o a boy was killed in consequence. In the seca aw- e was provided for the winding gear ; and Evan s sal 90 too poor to buy one ! asii h , t MANSLAUGHTER AT WeLvilitHAMpToNT.--0,) l'"";s4t,P;ed inquest washeld before Mr. 'l'. M. phoups COroa e ;a inure Green, Wolverhamptcn, on the body of a chi' Sarah Ann M'Cloud, aced two years and for .itega,;lo3 whose death was occasioned in the felloveieg Aol'es manner :—A married woman, of a violent tereP et e 'pr pet previously been the cause of the death of alle t 7 te et, ! d i a day or two ago, drove her husbend into the S m ' o il then threw at him an iron poker. The sfe a P; •ed ( "0 him, but rebounding, the sharp end of it P s i o °r ° ,;edr nostril .of the deceased as she sat on the " es' ultimate riuly:o ell n eighbouring house. Violent hemorrhage and the child died. Toe jury commit te d the f it charge of manslaughter. I i ii THE E eat OF Danny AND THE PIOSTn°....4t de s Cot:teem—Tile LATE . T.iPPAGF: OF THE R° l- ,„ 1,10 1 be recollected that a few weeks ago one of th e ssrfol daily journals made some severe rernsrks 111 3 ° 11 t iii 0 1 ,,019 Derby, for having, through his agent, s e naporlt r- e toProo a poi Lion of Lancaster Road, in Preston, to ve tt ed The council addressed a letter to his lorcishil: 00'0 subject, who, in reply, states that he was Lot e! 010 the matter, and regrets that'any naisunderstenliai'ot. eti; have arisen between the council and his 10 1 1 0 lordship suggested an interview, and a deell';' ° eoel" awaited upon him, it was settled that the roaL s e ,/ declared a highway. This was done on Thars'isier°:ibe THE BURGLARY AT BLACXLANDS, PIRO d 9 `Brown.The two men, Boghurst and `Brown. in sans boif charge of being the perpetrators of this aucleco;ite seiT ll eGJ and attempt to murder, have undergone another e i t :g eit c os but without any new evidence of importance bet hie s . They have been egain remanded. The .N.V 2 l ii s s tr lc , ° 6 l. , of Thursday says that the police are enableortir tr o t tit., prisoners to a public-house not more 0 01 1„ 5 i ° miles from Me Braddon's residence. Th e ';: ti lf rill e ) s l elit their having come here the Ondine tete 4le is e ca el eil believed, turn out to be c orrect. Mr. B add °°); of 1 1:0 ing as favoerably as can be expected. Tee si i ; j t erli ; o o. eye is ire coverably lost. Mr. B- n was (u. the t of the Calcutta S;idder Dewanni, "A the ° high est °' t itle () ; pany's courts in lneal. „ e re e le r f Th ; Atheneum of this day describes, uni'''' t ,a ' " The latest Indian Mission," a journey '; d e i st°,:e r : taken by the Messrs. Sahlaginvv j eite at fie e%,; ° o6e the i Chevalier Bunsen ; after showing with 113 4e11 t ',; d nary powers and extraordinary pay the 3 e r ot, were favoured by the East India CeeepanY, tb rary winds up with the positive assersi • oil tT i t s l s j 'i e t tj tf claimed as discoveries were all known to • . 67 6 InFet before the German travellers set f tot `„:„ 1 84 ' 6 ", 0 6 51 mission was a jib at first ; an accession to t" - fi nitli pot-, an august personage a; Berlin ; and it hes t i e ,' " ~`"' e tra protendens which arc riliculsus ant disgrse e ie ' , oo " t says that this expedition has ahead r co st P g ia ° that th 3 Prussian travellers have app died to e le ,, i ed ts Company for allowances on a similar scale t° el f& eublishint their results. te t REFUSING A CHURCH RATE.—A chur ch orl l 4 e l) been refused at Sadbure, at a most storeoY f e e h , t W e ) ie.: the incumbent of St. George's Church in t" , f Rev. J. W. H. Medi nenx, has resolved t 0 :;e 113 , ° e chuech, that being the only way to get th e 'be ▪ r t . ' 11 '4 requisite repairs. Mr. Molyneux stated to the beri at present the condition of his church vi - ' s f • bg Pt) could not continue the services there ; the re;) examined and part of the lead taken up, an d i the r°l ot ° sr so that p ref e tee that the beams were absolu' el rotten of the church was dangerou', and in 'order t ,, ‘" lti b al pe e r i e j iti ti accident it must be shut up. The vestry 14 ,., 9 - t i th e ;ele e 'es Failed six weeks previously had not neenY toilers been absent • but from that day th e ieeiee` e s r oa d' be discontinued till the roof was put is f t'O e sil s "f Nothing more should he done than the rerlildb°o re' 15 , nue as soon as this was done the church 47,i1.'iate,`V Tbt till which tile services would bo (Dee — Standard Dolr.„ ° THE PARISH PRIEST THE P a nts etc' lY be country parson or his wife was forme r s tow nis t t bs apothecary. If both were degeieut t,a,,,yrn 3a Wi e st numbers it among the duties of the ei e loas e 0 0), I t el should keep a yours; praeitioner in th e Os c se`jet benefit of the parish. Se scantily was To4'ooolo profession supplied i a those Jays, that Kli en b ieet P e at Kidderminster, there was not the "Tare s i:°.g of ' O O 4 to that calling in elandae, though there i s ioa k in, hundred families, a probable li° 2ll bre 3. 4oAti thousand persens. Art epidemic pletutsY,as nor and co doctor residing within reach, Li e u ! e seP le. o‘, l l says, to practise to save the lives of t" pet p ee* continued to =Ash him when the crisis leit h js ice ttl eir i five or six years his door as daily er° ll ,. - his a for t e bd from the town and neighbourhoe d • h i s preLc .- . I' v e, s he tiven gratis, he f ound that bodily ailmenta made them far rea dier a h is a it spiritual admonitions, but the inroad el/ 10 ° s oo r the anxiety he suffered lest his tr eat io Pl o p ia e si a injudicious, drove him finally to retir e to set 0 ;$ 11 4 4 regular physician, whem be persuedA d ead, a t j e atAel (. stead. No man had greater rename t ° f e at° f erliPfelli medicine. In his life of himself he give s a " 09 ' t (I ' d " s eo er e of his own disorders, of the errtniotl! e.ot ,tsy, oi etpr them by the successive members of the ' t n o h he,. Ger ti ell prodigious quantity ef injurious druget"o'rk of Y o e 0 0:: at their bidding. At last he read in s 11 I d s that a gold bullet had effected a recove r . l a I sit was similar to his own. living 181 " P r sel ef e t o se! °° e? In knew not," he says, ' ehow to be delivers co L t 'he ci n ls° A: in vain for three weeks he cheek — 0 00 e t lye" rid of an obstruction which proved w^r s t hen s et o- b tirs h e as* • AI it was intended to care. His neigh this 'ea` day to fast and pray for him, and "' ho d so removal of the hue metal pill he etatshar. swallowed.—Quarterly TOW •ia