Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-27 00:00:00

SMITHSONIAN HOTEL BEOIEWAY, COMPS Of Hous:kosAtszor, Nay/ Yogi. /Tuned In honour -of the Slstionsomsts Irosurorrors, Batablished at by the U. S. CONGRESS, With Funds bequestboVby JAMES SMITIISAN, Of ENGLAND, Riving tho Friendship of the OFFICERS of the NATIONAL INSTITUTION Is condadted IlielSystem of Hotels in ENGLAND. CHAS. H. SMITH. <_., AMUSEStIENTS, PUBLIC MEETINGd, &c. THIS DAY. 1101A1. ArafarrnEATßE—Dramati; Performince-7 p.m. Marrai.sa's CragueiVaal ETA, Dale-itreet.-7 p.m. LIVE:SPOOL ACADEMY'S ExamiTiox, PostotEce-place. Row, CoLosszum—General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. ice' For advertisements sae secoad page. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Pesons seeking Employment, parties requiring Servants, Assistants orClerks, and those in search of Apartments, or having Lodgings to Let, can best bring their wants under the notice of the, public, by advertising in the ITORTHE&N TIMM, and which, from its large circulation, is the ;nose efficient medium of puMi::ity in thi district. The cash price for this special class of advertisements is now reduced to. THREEPENCE FOR TWENTY WORDS, and for every additional five worils on penny. Che .. 7 0ortOrn fimeo iRIDAL NOVEAfBER 27, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. The Dock Conamittee held their weekly meeting yesterday—but the proceedings were of a most routine character, no business of the least impor tance having been entered upon. We are sorry to say that the Health of the Town is in a most unsatisfactory state. The deaths last week were e2eSS, being 31 more than in the previous week, and 41 more than the averageof the same week in the preceding nine years corrected for increase of population. We should like the Health Officer to answer one question. Cannot this exeessiye mortality be traced to the Pike Water? Another question we should like to put to the Water Committee. Now the 'Pike Water is served to the inhabitants of Liverpool. Flow is it that the olenizens -of. -Ev:rton hays not enough of it 1' We would be glad to be enlightened upon the subject. At the weekly meeting, of the Toxteth Board of Guardians yesterday, it. was stated that the plans for the New Workhouse would be ready by next Thursday. A rather singular case was brought beforethe the County ,'Court Judge yesterday. Mr. Greer, of the "Anti-Vermin" office, Brownlow hill, sup plied Mr. Scott, a baker, of Liverpool and New Brighton, with a lotion to destroy ants, with which, Mr.' Scott was sorely pestered. This lotion was not to be used near a candle. On Mr. Scott applying the lotion to where the ants were, an explosion took • place, the' I:ght being behind him at .the -time. Mr. Scott was ;severely burnt, and damage - to the extent of some 10/. was caused. Mr. Scott sued Mr. Greer for 141 1.25. Gl—viz damage to his premises, 101., price of the lotion' 'l4s. Gd., and doctor's bill for attendance, 3/. 18s. .judgment was deferred. Last evening a meeting of the ratepayers of the rural district of Toxteth Park was held in the Lark-lane School House. The object of the meeting was to consider the desirability of incor poratingthat part of the township with the borough of Liverpool. The report of the committee 'ao pointedlo inquire into.the subject was submitted, The reedit pointy out the extent of Toxteth Park, the area - of,the reraldistrict, and the rates to which the inhabitants :are subjected, from which it appeari that • they now - pay something like 3d in the round more rates than the inhabitants 'of Liverpool. The committee consequently think that a 1 - 4iSitied advaotage wonld accrue to he rate payers through an amalgamat ion with the borough of LiverpoOle. Mr. Boult moved that the opinions of the '-committee should .:be. adopted, but , Mr. Gregson, at great length, opposed thamotioh, and, on the recommendation of Me.-Ceas.Willmer, it was agreed that the meeting _should be adjournrd to another day. Our London cotemporaries. generally e look upon the news from India as 'satisfactory: • The . Times says that " the only real source o f anxiety which we can discover in this arrival is the fact that a large ~umber' of our .countrymen and 'country women areahut :up in the fort at Saugor e Unless relief is speedily afforded to those ttho have sought refuge .withiu. ,Walls,--abeve a ehoUsand in number,—fears are - - entertained lest our feelings should be shocked by a repetition of the savage atrocities committed -at Cawnpore ; but we trust that the energetic measures taken, to send troops up the country will avail to rescue those whose condition excites. so, much alarm :from their perilous position When we add that a commission has been issued for the trial 'of:the King of. Delhi, whose life doer~ not appear to have been unconditionally spared, that two more of his sons were to. be shot, that .the fall of 'Delhi had . had a wonderful effectsin making defaulters to the reverree pay up their arrears, that loyalty was ' the order of thaday is the north western provinees, and that "all was quiet in Scinde, Bombay, Madras, and the Nizsm's dominions,' we do not know that any expressions of Our own can add•to the deep satisfaction and 'relief with which this Indian : intelligence must be received by the -country at large." The Daily Arews thinks that it is by far the most cheering news that has been received since the outbreak of the mutiny ; and the Sun, that it is the most satiefaetory one received since the. commencement of the disturlianee, with the single exception of that which gave the glad tidings of the capture of Delhi, an the relief of Lueknow, et the very neck ,of •tirne. The Star— organ of the peace partys---is, however, not of the same mind. .It" silys :—" The ‘coeiking' process is again going forward, and it will not leer till after the lapse ofthree orfoundays, that we shill get at the real truth of matters. The public:may rely- upon it that Mknisters are breaking the fact of unpleasant intelligence, and Lind it difficult to accomplish the task, though their failure in this respect arises not from the want of practice." Yesterday, we announced the fact' that the East India .Company .would, in all likelihood, greet 'a pension to ,the widow of General Neill. . To-day we learn that it is the intention, also, of the Court of Direc`ors of the East India Company to propose the graht of, : an annuity of 1,0004 a year to Gen'eral Sir Archdale Wilson, of. Delhi, and 'also-to grant a pension of 5001. to the nearest surviving relative of the late General Nicholson. In the case of Gene: a' Nichoreop'; we believe the 'pension will - accrue to his mother- We confidently trust, eve a London paper, that government are prepared to propose a pension of 1,0001. a year to General Sir Henry Havelock, of Lueknow, who is a Queen's officer. Goneral Wilson, as also Generals Nicholson and Neill, were Company's officers. We report to-day the facts of a trial at the Old Bailey, London. It is of considerable interest to the commercial world. Joha. Marks, Samuel Marks, and Abraham Simmonds, well kr:own as coachalakers, were tried on a charge of having defrauded the creditors of the first named of a large amount of property after he had been ad ju.dgei a bankrupt. The charge of conspiracy and fraud was made out to the satisfaction of the jury, and, to the astonishment of the prisoners, the judge sentenced each of them to eight years' penal servitude. A meeting of the Manchester Chartists, in support of the movement for Parliamentary Reform, has just been held. An unsuccessful attempt was made by one of their number to dissuade them from joining the movement, and to go for nothing less than the "six point" but the common sense of the meeting prevailed, and resolutions were agreed to, approving the receut reform zeetaifeeto, , THE NORTHER TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 1857. while still vindicating the wider objects of the Charter: Next Thursday Parliament meets for the- des patch of " urgent business." We are now inform e d that it is likely that the address on the Royal Speech will be moved in the Commons by Mr. Wykeham Martin, member fer West Kent, and seconded by Mr. Ackroyd, member for Hudders field. A ministerial paper of yesterday says that the statements that have recently appeared in Conti nental Journals, to the effect that English agents were recruiting in various parts of the Continent, are false and groundless. In the London Bankruptcy Court yesterday, the hearing of the Royal British Bank case was adjourned for the result of the trials of the Directors in February next. Mr. Linklater made a statement of the present position of the Bank ruptcy affairs, which holds out considerable hope of the shareholders being shortly relieved of their liabilities, at the same time that the creditors will be satisfied. The continental news does not contain any items of interest. It is announced that the Wallachian Divan has declare its incompetency to solve the question of the internal organisation of the pro vince, and had resolved to demand to send a repre sentative to the Paris Conference. The internal organisation of the province was the only question the Divan was elected to solve, as laid down in the Treaty of Paris. Our Paris advises announce that M. Dupin is to he installed as Procureur-General of the Court of Cessation to morrow (Saturday.) The speech. which, according to usage, he will pronounce on that occasion, will be looked forward to with con siderable interest. IL Daubigny, the government candidate, has been elected in the Sarthe by an enormous majority. He polled 18,000 votes against 4,000 given to M. Jules Favre, who did not, how ever make any personal canvass The despatch does not state the number of votes given to M. Richer l'Eveque, the candidate denounced by the Prefect's letter. THE first French Empire was based upon land. The second, which is now before us, is based upon gold. The former fell with Assignats ; the latter awaits the sad fatality which attends Bri tish commerce. As land fluctuated in value, the currency which represented it became depre ciated. Frenchmen knew full well that the entire dead (veight- of the State could not be borne by any one portion of the national wealth. They saw that Government prodigality would lead to the reconfiscation of land. This fear converted the friends of the Assignat scheme into its most determined enemies, and the currency it produced was abandoned as worthless, by com mon consent. The Bullionists' hoax, as deve loped in the present condition of Great Britain, is equally valueless, and the French of 1857 can= not support it except by violating its leading principles. The Bank of France, when pressed for gold. buy it at a premiipn of 4. or per cent, They do this to avoid the industrial and commer cial, consequences of advancing the rates of dis count, of throwing labour out of employment, and causing " a fall generally in the prices of all commodities." But, by pursuing this course, they lose those profits which alone render our bul lion basis tolerable, even to such inventive mortals as JONES LLOYD. They miss, first of all, the advance in the rate of discount ; secondly, they forfeit ths.-. increased value given to gold by the depreciation of produce, and every other description of property. Add to these their loss of ors per cent. on every '-14/. wohh of gold bought, and what remains as the foundation of the second Empire ? Is France prepared- for the cri , is which England has gone through under our Duiliou IwposLure alie bids higher. for gold than other nations; but, as if to expose the false doctrine preached by the London Times, she . cannot get as much as she wants.of the precious. .metal. She may have a balance of trade in her favour, and so have we, particularly ,with the gold-producing countries ; yet experience sho•wS" us that we cannot command gold to secure con tinuous employment and stability to trade. In commerce, gold has a universal, but not a fixed value. It must not be said, therefore, that it is a universal standard of value. Its market price must at all times vary according to the functions, which those nations who uses it at all, assign to it. For instance, if one State demands that 80,000,000/. of taxation 'shall be paid in gold, and that taxation shall take precedence o every other demand on the subject as England does, and another State provides a domestic currency in paper, or p ter—as in Germany— gold must be worth just 80,0000001. more where it is required to pay taxes. The British legislative have tried hard to give.the " chosen metal" unnatural value, and it has "succeeded by the depreciation of mercantile stocks, houses, Ships; agricultural produce, and land itself, and reducing all to a state of bankruptcy. This .nation has - lost filly 50,000,000/. within the last month, by depreciation in the value of its ,substance; and hence_ we find that the value of gold must be measured by the functions it has to discharge, not on commerce alone, but on the political organisltioris of States. In the'hands of absolute rulers, whether Bourbons or Bona- partes, who think poverty of mind and body the happiest order of things, such a system as ours may be the best that could be. devised. For if they were to attempt to make taxation or any other element of their political existence, the basis of currency, it would be too much to expect them not to abuse it, and clavert that which would be a blessing to a Constitutional people, into a scourge for themselves, and their peace seeking neighbours. But in a State politically and socially constituted as we are, we can make any one of our national necessities or obligations the basis of a currency, which in all domestic .ransactions, shall discharge the functions of gold. • • We have a representative Parliament whom he Sovereign or people can dismiss at pleasure. We are consequently in a position to select any money we please for the payment of taxes, so long as the use of that money would not enfeeble the State, or, inflict loss on the public creditor. Thes e evils may be avoided, .as they are in the present Bank of England, by making our taxation money, legal tender. What, then, shall he the basis of this legal tender ? and what shall be its amount ? Certainly not the labour which has not yet been employed, the wheat that has not yet been sown, the spindle that has not been moved, the capital which remains to be turned, or the ship that has yet to be launched. There is something that must go before the hungry man and the enterprising capitalist. The wants of the State are in reality the first to be consi dered, but they are the last, in fact, which 'can be realised. Here we have the truth culminating on the two opposite poles, while we are left to ponder over the huge mass of indebtedness which establishes the correctness of both allegations. Fortunately, however, the intrinsic value our money—gold —possesses is measured by the stability it gives to the Empire and commerce. Now, this value is merely conventional, and the stability it gives is purely comparative, after all ; and we need only point to the present political and social condition of the United Kingdom to prove the dangerous character of our financial stipulations, and the unenviable place in which comparison would leave our credit and general prospects in trade. We have entered into a covenant among ourselves, or rather Parliament has for us, which we cannot fulfil, and we cannot pay other countries for the produce we have received from them, and this must have come to pass if all had gone on smoothly abroad. Excessive taxation, such as must necessarily follow wars, conquest, and the spreading, of Empire, added to the high prices produced by a natural increase in demand, have exhausted our conventional means; and as these causes cannot be removed by artifical nostrums, similar to those we now live under, and which render all trading and mercantile pursuits so many traps, snares, and delusions, we must at once alter our conventional compacts as regards money. We must infuse new life into the State, by allowing it to use the credit to which it is entitled. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will require 80,000,0001., or very near it, within the next twelve months. This we should be sorry - to hear Sir CORNEWALL LEWIS " promise to pay on demand." But there can be no valid objection to his issuing Exchequer notes for one pound, and any larger, sums, containing a promise to receive them again, in payment of taxes and duties. These notes, as a matter of course, would be made legal tender, and at the end of each fiscal quarter of a year, the public would find themselves in possession of the amount of taxation demanded from them, instead of having to go abroad to sacrifice their hard-earned sub stance, in order to find a foreign product, gold, to pay taxes: Some people call this socialism, chartist doctrine, and a thiusand other absurd names ; but who ever heard of a nation's destroy_ ing its own commerce, throwing its entire population into idlen * ess and want, and then calling itself sound, safe, and strong, in a social or political !sense ? It is easy to coin names and to indulge in childish suspicions and invectives, but we are BU,UUU,UUW. short of the money we require to carry.on. ,the production and trade -of the country ; and- until-some-niore rational Fain can be sUi , o - eited - the mercantile classes will look to Parliament to make taxation the basis of our • • . and worthless of powers on the roll of European nations, with beggared resources, and scarcely a line of battle-ship fit for service. Whatever may be said of the administrative talents of the President of the Mexican Republic, it is certain he has endeavoured to carry on the goveinment of the country with a view to the social and political amelioration of his couutrymen, and the advancement of civil and religious liberty. While he was so acting from truly patriotic views, we find the emissaries of Spain in the island of Cuba plotting and scheming how they could best make an effectual invasion of Mexican territory, thereby compelling the authorities at the capital to erect fortresses at Vera Cruz. It should be further observed that the Spanish fortresses in Cuba were organised for a campaign, all the munitions of war were provided, sham sieges were performed, and everything put in train for a grand coup d'etat at Vera Cruz and the States of MONTEZUMA. The Cubans are fond of vaunt ing that they have a reserve fund of four millions of dollars to defray the expenses of the projected campaign. Now, it strikes us, that the character of these extenders of Spanish territory would act much more pleasing to GOD and man were they, with this " reserve fund," to pay the claims upon their decrepid and worn-out mother country in Europe; and if the capitalists in Cuba are desir ous of subscribing for the purpose of aggrandis ing Spain, and extending her colonial possessions, it would be much more suitable to relieve the Government of Spain from the degrading stigma of uncertificated bankrupts. Our advice to these Cubans is to put aside their military designs upon Mexico; but, if they despise the warning, then we tell them that should ever SANTA ANNA be sent as Viceroy to the QUEEN of Spain in Mexico, they must be prepared for the most seri ous of consequences- In such a state of things we gather from some of the most influential journals in the United States that that Government would undoubtedly profit by Spanish infatuation, for it is much more than probable that the American Government would feel itself compelled, from a perfect weariness of the faithlessness of Spain, and the weakness of Mexico, will resolve to terminate the lengthy account of mutual jealousy between both coun tries, and annex Mexico as one of the United States. If Mexico, on the other hand, cannot govern herself, and if Spain cannot reftain from her aggressive designs, it is but natural that the United States should step in between the two, and prevent. them from establishing a policy of unity .and civilisation on the great American Continent. Seeing Spain in all :her ,attributes as a monarchy, we say she is unfitted for the risk of conque . st or territorial extension, so that we cannot, for the life of us, understand upon what ground they can justify an invasion of Mexico. We regret to see that in the strug gle now going on in Mexico, the priesthood' has set itself against the'authorities, • only on par with what is going on just now in Belgium. In both countries it is simply a duel between the- inolpie or ferotious and corrupt ecclestas . tical despotism on the one hand, and liberal self government on the other. It is the duty of England to watch with earnestness and constancy the turn of affairs in Mexico, because, it cannot eventuate in any manner that will not' interest Great Britain. As matters look at present, Spain is placed in a very delicate position. It will not do in the nineteenth centuryjto tolerate piratical aggression. THE MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY'S DINNER TO HER TRNNANTRY.--The annual rent-day dinner of Lady Lon donderry took place at Winyard a few days ago. In the morning`g - there was a numerous exhibition of stock to com pete for the liberal prizes offered by her ladyship and Earl Vane. The dinner took place in a spacions coach house, which. had been fitted up expreisly for the occasion. The interior was beautifully decorated with f.stoons and other devices, and a profusion of variegated lamps and Chinese lanterns gore to the whole a very charming effect. The Marchioness took her seat at the head of the table, and was supported by Earl Vine, the Duke, and Duchess of Marl borough, Sir W. Eden, Bart.e&c. The proceedings were of a strictly privata nature. - Tip LAND QuesrroN AND THE MONEY CRISIS.--Dr. B , gg,'in a letter to the people of Scotland, says —One, and perhaps the most important, lesson to be learnt from what has happened, is, the necessity of providing a more simple form 'of solid investment for the earnings of the people, by opening up the whole soil of Scotland to fair competition on the principal of " Free trade in land." The railway system presents in the meantime a form of invest ment which, at all events, is free from .unlimited liability, and which will probably c )ntinue to improve with the progress of the country. Bat, along with this, all the fetters which bind up the land of Scotland, or hinder its transference, ought to be struck off.; and land should be and easily might be, bought or sold like, any other commo dity in the Stock Exchange. This would go to the root of many of our evils, would immensely increase the wealth of the kingdom, the prosperity of railways, the comfort of the people ; it would diminish pauperism and taxation, and supersede the necessity of any emigration for at least a century to come. It is laudable but comparatively easy for our great noblemen, with wh)le counties in absolu'e possession, holding no bank shares, or if they do, shielded from all real risk by the law of entail, to stand amidst the wrecks of the present system and cry up its excellence, without saying a word of the social mischiefs t) which we alluded. In one sense, we do do not dispute the great benefits which our bsnking system has conferred upon Scotland. On the contrary, we rejoice and glory in it, but the people will, by-and-hyo, discover that, especially for the investments of small capitalists, " the best bank is a bank of earth. " POSITION OF SHAREHOLDERS 01' JOINT-STOCK BANKS.— There is an attempt being made just now, through motives the very revers) of those professed, to excite public - sympathy on behalf of the shareliolders of those banks whose past managemeit the present monetary crisis has proved to he defective. Wa feel very deeply for many of these unfortunate persons, and yield to none in repro bating the reckless speculation and mismanagement by which their money has been squandered, and themselves in too many cases brought to the verge of beggary and ruin. Bat we must not allow our sympathy to run away with our reason. It will not ,do to create a distinction between bank shareholders and partners in other business ,': speculations, when really there is none ; and if banking investments and other trade investments are of the same class, they should have the same principles applied to them. Now, in trade it is a very well understood general law that great profits mean "great riske, and if we ind that the banke which have proves unsound in their mange ment were paying their shareholders large dividends as compared with those paid by other well-conducted estab lishments, we are driven to the conclusion, that in the less which has overtaken them now, the shareholders arc simply being called to account for former inordinate profits. Looking back at the quotations in the Edinburgh share list a couple of years ago, what do we find? Taking the British Linen Company's Bank on the one hand, as the model of an establishment conducting a sound trade: as money lender, &e., and the Western Bank as its opposite in this respect, we find the law we have mentioned fully borne out by the figures placed opposite the names of thes e establishments. A £lOO share of the British Linen Com pany's Bank, the price of which is stated at £223, paid a dividend of £9 to its holder ; two shares of the Western, of £5O each, and changing hands at the price of £76 each , or £152 for the two, paid a dividend of ..E8 to the proprietor of them. Why is this ? Here we have, in the case of the British Linen Company, an investment of £223 purchasing an annual interne of £9, while an investment in the Western of only £152 purchased an annual income of £8 If the profits of both banks had been equal the Western should have been able to pay only a little more than £6 annually t) the person who invested £152 in the purchase of stock, instead of £B, its declared dividend. Is it not wonderful, with such handsome profits accruing, that all the shareholders of the British Linen did not sell out and buy Western stock ? It certainly is, if we are now to condole with the shareholders of the Western as mere victims, and to rail against the management of their bank as a matter in which they had neither participation ❑or profit. But this will not do. The man who purchased Western stock knew very well, or should have known very well, what he was doing. It must have been well understood in the share-market that only speculative and hazardous management could enable the Western Bank to pay the dividend it was paying; and the low pice of the stock, as compared with the amount of dividend, was •ccasioned by the very calculation of the greater risk thus arising. Whin, therefore, any one invested his money in 'Western stock he knew that he bought a large dividend and a large risk. If he wanted a big return for a lit In money, and was nct afraid of the risk that implied, he joined the Western in speculation. If, on the other hand, he wished to have his capital safely laid up, and was not greedy of gain, he invested in the British Linen Compa ny's, or some other safely conducted bank. While then, it is very lamentable that ruin should threaten so many persons through the failure of the Western, it is only just to remember that the chance of that ruin gave them hitherto a good income for a comparatively small sum of money. They cannot fairly complain buause the event has come which they knew very well might come, and the probable, perhaps sodden, occurrence of which was an element in their money-making calculations.—Ethnburgb Daily ExpreS3, THE COURT &e. Wrticson, Wednesday. —The Earl and Countess of Clarendon arrived yesterday on a visit, and dined with Her Majesty in the evening. There were also at the dinner the Princess Royal and Prince Frederick William of Prussi9, and the Earl of St. Germans. The Queen and Prince Consirt, accompanied by Prince Frederick William of Prussia, rode on hcrseback this morning. The Earl of St. Germans left the Castle in the forenoon. 32ft AMUSEMENTS. ST. GEORGE'S-HALL PEOPLE'S CONCERTS. Oa Saturday evening the admirers of glee music will have a great treat, in the performance of the Orpheus Glee Union at St. George's Hall. Eight well-trained male voices accustomed to sing together, constantly furnish the best exponents of that peculiar class of music for which the English people have been long celebrated. Whether it originated in England or in Germany we cannot say, but the four-part songs of the latter are simi lar in character, and very numerous. A publication of them is included under the title of " Orpheus," from which the Orpheus Glee Union has taken its name. They will appear for a second time at St. George's on Saturday, having ;proved a gnat success at the first " People's Cincert" given by Mr. Hime. Mr. Theodore Disti will also play a solo ou the Acid horn, a German cousin of the bugle horn, we suppose. Mr. Best wil execute two fantasias on the org in, and Mis; Barwick will take part in the concert as solo vocalist. KALODzY's BUNGA.RIAN BAND. On Wnday, Mr. Hime will give two performances, by Kalotlzy's Hungarian Band, mustering thirteen' per formers, under the direction of Mr. Kalodzy hiniself• The first of these will take place in the small Concert Room, at two o'clock ; the second in the evening, in the large hall. Very attractive programmes have been issued' comprising overtures, quadrilles, polkas, waltzes, aid songs and duets by Miss Armstrong, who made such a successful debut at Mr. E. IV. Thomas's concerts about two years ago; Miss Ludlow and her sister, Mrs. Mott. The music will be brilliant an popular in character, and it is to be hoped will prove popular in fact, an I remunerate Mr. Rime fo: his enterprise in brin;ing this celebrated band here. They have never been here before, but a fele of the band appeared at the late Conc:rt Hall in Bold street, without attracting 61.3 attention they deserved. MISS KATE SAXON AND MR, MALONE RAYMOND. CONCERT HALL, LORD NELSON-STREET, The House was crowded last night, as the bills announced Miss Kate Saxon would appear for the second time, after her " indisposition," and many persons carnet() hear her. On her appearance she was very well received, after the minner an English audience al ways receive a p:etty and interesting woman. Her portion of the Entertainment, last night, consisted a the reading —apparently from a bound M.S. of a very prosy, and, we regret to say it, a very uninteresting desertation on the life, manners, customs, pursuits. and personal character of " John Bull." The thing, no doubt, was vary agreeable to our transaklantic brethren, but for the life of us we could not discover a single ray that redeems, in our estimation, that portion of the entertainment. Fur the lady's sake we regret this, because we believe her capable of portraying more amusing and instructive characters. In saying this, we by no masns despise the character of our noble friend and fellow.subject, " John Bull," who, thanks be to goodness, governs more than half the universe; but we should like to see him as he is—not to look on him two or three centuries ay. History tells us enough of our ancestors at that period, and there is not a school boy, at any of our charity or other educational estabishments in the United Kingdom, who is not possessed of (by rote) as much information and more anecdote illustrative of, and in reference to, the several points of " John Bull " than Miss Saxon favoured the audience with last night. As a " reader," we think Miss Saxon, in manner, has few equals : the matter was lamentably below her fine ability and natural genius. Only think of the South Sea bubble of 1720 coming up to enlighten the people of 1857, and then a desperate leap to the Railway Mania of 1845 6, and then a bound back ward to the Witches of the time of James I. We could g ) into detail on the whole portion of this part, but we think we have said enough to show the narcotic sort of thing set down for delivery by an exceedingly able - woman. We would advise her author, or authors, to be more careful about figures—these are edged tools. In stating the number of witches put to death in the first eight years of the 17th century, she said there were upwards of 500 persons a year sacrificed, and these in the time (eight years) amounted to 40,000: We can only repeat that any sixpenny history of England, or sixpenny geography, will convey as much information to us (and more) than did this otherwise talented lady, to her audieuca last evening. We were glad to see, however, that the true spirit of John Bull gave the lady—as a l ad / —several hearty cheers when she concluded her reading -- which was tolerated only because it was read by her. 111 : r • Malone Raymond then came on, and was greeted Intl ! : unbounded applause. He proceeded to give his portion of the entertainment, and was, as usual, successful, and the whole closed with loud cheers. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. By British find Irish Magnetic Telegraph. AUSTRALIA. THE MISSING MAILS. Telegraphic advices have been received, annoll°' cing the arrival of the Simla at Suez from Aus tralia' with £299,338 in specie, and the missing 'n ails belonging to the Emue. The two passeng ers ' Admiralty agent, &c., had also safely arrived. FRANCE. The Bank of France has lowered the rate interest 1 per cent. f So LEWIS AND COMTANY'S NEW ESTABLISIIMENT FOR vo CLOTHING.—Number of boys clothed for the week etit'sl't Saturday, November 21st, 675 ; corresponding wee k year, 395 ; increase, 280. ACClDENT.—Yesterday, a poor fellow, named Will ill33s ' a ship carpenter, fell from a ship in the docks, at i ' W o e seriously injured. He was taken to the Norther SesP where ho received every attention, tl lB STANLEY VILLAGE LECTIMES.The s:cond lecture°. to season was delivered in St. Anne's National School very on Tuesday evening, by Mr. William Thomas, to a te l numerous and attentive audience. The suer et s elec ri was " The Last of the Stuarts." The lecturer gar° a cs interesting and full account of the various vicissitau - 1 the life of Charles Stuart, the Pretender, and the 11 , 1 ;v thrilling events attendant thereon. At the close 0 ' , e , lecture a cordial vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Th° ll / 4r , the audience appearing much gratified. The Rev' ,j 3 l Gardiner occupied the chair, as usual. Next lit e l g ie evening a lecture is to be delivered upon Liveool." Coe rp oseß'S INQUESTS. —Yesterday, the Coroner held tM ego following inquests:—On the body of Margaret Hogan , 7 - est death was reported in yesterday's paper. It apeeare-,:bi she was a great drunkard. and that death was cause: l , o f excessive Lrnkine. Verdict accordingly. On the bles a child, named Mtchael Mearin, aged three months. 01; facts were these. More than a week ago, the child tea, ill with bronchitis, and medicine that relieved it was o` t he and then the medicine was stopped. Some days a,. el e e f` es ' t child was attacked with diarrhoea, and the mother thin' 'i A it the medicine that done it service before, would bee t :ag again, she gave it several doses, but instead of `4- the child it accelerated death. Verdict " chance 1 116/ rt ACTION FOR DELAY IN TRANSI T .—At th e Countrld. on Wednesday, an action was brought by Messrs. ice , fiths, Bettison, and Co., of Liverpool, to recover Sl2 Bd. from Messrs. J. O'Lever, of the W es t o f Ireland Ste3w, packet Company, for the non-delivery of g oods within of reasonable time. Mt. Griffiths stated that a etiati titi ilis guano was delivered at the wharf of the defendants e g a d, 7th of May, to be forwarded to Westport, in Ir el and Inquiry was made about a fortnight aft e r the delivery , lee the goods were still on the wharf, but a promise Was g l ee that they should be forwarded in a wee k by the n t r let steamer ; however, the guano was not delivered t c ' hi er consignee until the 29th of June, when the po rch refused to take it, being too late to be used upon his - ,it A verdict was given for the plaintiffs, for the a W°- claimed without cos f s.—Mancheder Examiner. ,yr. INTERESTING SCENE AT COMPTON HOUSE, CIIURCII.SI7OO —lf the monetary crisis affects imports and exports, C e ' it banks, and puts the lords of creation to their wits' Wino will be gratifying to know that the pressure does not W o e to have reached the fairer portion of our com munityea° de l animated scene witnessed at Compton House yes e el proves. It was, however, a consequence of the gl t erf effect of the times that caused this, for Messrs. Je and Co. had purchased the stock of Edward Shall'.eit bankrupt, at Hull, to the extent of about £3,5 00, they displayed yesterday for the attention of the la w .) and c rtainly the la'ter came forward in great t in g l e ecti to inspect and purchase the beautiful and attractive ' 3 " t of laid before them. It may be mentioned, that a discouri,e 41i- per cant. was taken off the above sum, s° that ; P e g goods were offered at little more than half what th e • o pt value was, and this added considerably to the vest crowd.. and the scene witnessed during the day by the qui te of ladies who thronged the large establishment was animated. The stock consisted of black gros and g i l e r, ce silks, flounced silk robes, coloured and black silk e s, fancy robes, dresses, balzerine, plaids, carmelites, ( 1 9 , 3 0 10 &s , shawls in all sorts, mantles, and ribbons. The a ieg , were of the finest quality, and of all shades. Can ibi g ed attreeti fancy ties, scarfs, and all sorts of hosiery, gloves , of millinery ; a variety of furs, s'ays, and a vast quentei t l ec e all the articles to be found i n an ex c ess i v e stove. anxiety prevailed amongst the ladies to procure ° l a ve articles ; and, no doubt, if the same anxiety Pr ec • o e, which cannot fail whilst the tempting articles are on f l o e the whole will soon disappear. Compton House i 4 t he worth a visit from the ladies and housekeepers during present show. na Sire d ; EXPLOKON OF A ST!A M CA RR IAG E BOILER.-- nesday morning a most fri g htf u l acc ident took Pt o ilis the terminus of the Greenwich Railway, to an e loi o driver, aged 30 years. It appears the unfortuna te the had just taken his station for the purpose of bringing or o carriages up to London, when a tremendous exploso n hid heard, followed by a shock of less violence, knocking down and scalding him in a frightful manner. The affairs of Morocco are again beginning to ° a f our diplomatic gossips, and mu c h anx e ty i 3 exoerl - 5 08 3 lest this " secmd Gibraltar"—so call e d from its n u ric o be position, which might be rend ere d i m p regna ble—sho al made over to England. What grounds for this aeve",l„o t t possibly exist we are no t aware o f ; we s i mp ly men% die as among the subjects; of quarrel and discussion i d oce drawing-rooms and cafes of Paris.—Paris correspon of the couet Journal. 00 8e' By order of the Emper or , s u b scr ipti ons h a ve CO a! for the victims o f the gunpowder magazine at I ‘ l3 'gife l/ throught the Austrian em pi re . Tn e E mpero r hle ;Olt' 2,000 florins. The clergy. are to lend their ce-oP er t oOd t In the sitting of the Seco e d Cumber_ of Hesse al l it th e on Saturday, the P r e s id en t expresse d a h o p t" b - iterly Ge•minic Confederation would indeinnify the ibh 3 for their lose. As the magazine belonged net to taB ve d to but to the confederation, th e mun i c i pa li ty h as reso le call on the Diet to make g oa d th e d amage. n the THE FRENeH IN Rome —A letter from Rini' e D`'c Diri/o says :—" All eves are now turned towards t' l ieer 3 de Cleamment, the French ambassador. Sone of ° le d to t B c i party have had access to him, and find him dispose to fia t claire into the true state of matters. He hopes o,°lll le gs et some efficicious remedy. Th e c l os i ng o f the 1 / I ;O e ' e French priests, called F. ,:res de la Doctrine Chr t t o t h ' continues to create excite men t. The address self terle o Pope by upwards of a hu n d re d f am ili e z, i n b e half be d O a sons whom they used to send to the College, ha, B t .t result. The fath er s o f t h ese c hi l d ren want to sea' 00;4 Piedmont, Switzerland, or France, rather th' l3 ,,,,plr''' them to the Jesuits, but th e police refused theta the and the Jesuits triumph." a io ARAB PLUCK. - Two cond emne d A ra b s , confia u e „ ri self os fort in the Ile Ste. Ma rguer i te, near T ou l on, let ['wise sad down the rampart thr ee n i g h t , ago b y means 0' a—the Prot then fastening their effects, which they had taken e eeeu le caution of carrying with them on their shoulders, to swim to a becalmed fishing boat, lying at a C° „, I1 „ - bef 4 ; distance. But on their reaching it, the men " - e a f fearing that they had some evil intention, refil.s, fat tbe admission ; they then swam to another boat snit 0 10 3 off, but the crew, instead of giving them ll as g : e6Y e seized them, bound them hand and foot, and ;h e ro te them back to the fort. Strange to say, one 0 1 ' 0 to rare found, in spite of the strength with which he s " t he r a re dreadfully injured in one of his legs, owing o w 1 ,5 with which he let hi mse lf d own f rom t h e raraPa t art i, 1413 broken at a consid era bl e h e i g h t f rom the gf° - causing him to fall heavily. dso e, h a° el' THE NEW HOU SES o f PA;;LIAmENT.— e, .- - f i nis -e p ,rtieo erected over th e L or d' s entrance i s e ntirell doo e A few yards from it a stone beach has been laid oro dr a the convenienc e o f p eers t o di smount w ho may a at reae to the House on horseb ac k ; b e t ween it anti the ove r t handioneefearriage- way ha, been constructed , an 3 ar e 9° o portico four m , gnificant lamps, handsomely gwi tie goad being placed. In the entrance to the loOt of le olle of C minions two frescoes are just cem • T bl the execution of Montrose, for his zeal and fiat a f t er ts ce Sovereign ,• and the other the escape of Charles, of All 0 *WI lir) , to to Battle of Worcester, through the instru neata il Y b oe 04 0 , Lee, the daughter of Sir Henry Lee. Bo th ar tist of executed by Ward, who appears to be the 001 Y ifoasO t if ployed during the recess in adorning the ne w :a , eicic. o Parliament. The interior of both Houses rents, the same, nor have any otaer alterations take° P l at those just described. paper-currency. AFFAIRS in MeXico have assumed a- most extraordinary character. According 'to the latest news, that country, after being restored to corn . - -partitive tranquillity, by the granting of a new . and enlarged Constit u ti on , i s once more in the deadly struggle of a civil war. The Church, which conspires with Spanish agents, has attacked the President of the Republic, the law of .the land has been, for a time, suspended, and the national party have consented to a dictatorship in the person of General COMONFORT. This state of things, although England is by•no means disposed to interfere in the affairs of Mexico, is a point of very considerable 'importance, even - when considered from'aii•Euiopeari pbiiit of view. It must not be regarded as a question 'between a generation of mongrel Spaniards on the one side, and a band of United States adventurers on the other. The supremacy of an extensive continent on the other side of the Atlantic is at stake, and it is a scheme of piracy on the part of Spain that has caused_America to prick its ears, and quicked the annexing energies of its people. We look upon the " telegraph" which the. Persia brought on Saturday, as the precursor to des patches announcing many very important events in that quarter of the New World. As yet the main point of the new rebellion in Mexico is undefined. Nevertheless, it will not be out of place to glance, in a general way, at the relations of Mexico with the respec tive governments of Spain and the United States. The latter, Spain, has been for some time past grumbling, "in no small degree, but without, in our opinion, any real semblance of jus tice of the annexing designs of the United States upon Cuba. Be this as it may, we have nothing of Spanish proceedings in the " far West," but what stamps her as the patron of persecution, a slave-hunter. and a freebooter. The Spanish 1 11inistries have made many and urgent appeals when there was any suspected danger of the loss of the last jewel of Queen Isabella's Crown in 'the West India Islands. What, we ask, has been the movements of the authorities in Cuba, with regard to the somewhat extensive and independent Republic of Mexico r Her project is to annex Mexico as a colony of the Spanish Kingdom —although it is a notorious fact that she rant z.mong the most insignificant ;kl, 'I? 4: , ATE 11 (1 tr li • Clt O n u $.,G.Y°2lllt on] tis e and t itib °rl36 al At t o k„, no, eat da t AirlY then tbcite all yel e _ o w eed bY t: 40 , an( k, slid 1:`1 ti a4 cl re ql 114 41 . , L 1 Poor d ° g the t he bo a] 'l3')ard ° th, 's.t i keeti ' t , ,,;„ 1113°11 I On : :'1 , 1 1 11 . - dt : "86d : 4 ! e ve , 14 aides :, 45 d! to best kit IJ t e .4. 6 n f ti Rhbou r ‘k tie 4 u ' ki.'ted to fit• 1 4 „. uncl e! 'R it host k lt 'was 4ted to , its, 43 the - `4-1. -Pt ti 4 t () tell 11 4.. Nal r, 'it fr 4 arnb e , z%. t , °I 5., 'au t he t In i 1134 'it, t otl'i l ritira ir e klt ol 1‘ 0 11 , 11 % ) in the tti t , tv e c 5 , 1 4 ,, t e th e sNtlet