Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-07 00:00:00

SMIT,IISONIAN HOTEL, BILOA',WAT,COTHer of HOUSTON-STILEHT, New Named In honour of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Established et WASHINGTON, by the U. S. CoNoases, With Funds bequeathed by James SsarstsoN, of ENGLAND. llavlog the Friendship Of the 0 FrICEa3 of the NATIONAL rNsTITUTION IS coniucted on the System of Hotels in ENGLAND. CHAS. H. SMITH. TO TEE ELECTORS OP SCOTLAND WARD. GENTLEMEN, -1 beg to return you my grate ful thanks for the honour whilh you conferred upon as yesterday in Electing me as ene of your REPRESENTATIVES o tke Town Council; and assure you that I shall ever use my best forts to merit the confidence yea have reposed in me. I am. Gentlemen, Your obliged and humble servant, JAMES CHELLIN. Benefield House, West Derby Road, 3rd Nov., lan. TO THE ELECTORS OF • EXCHANGE WARD GENTLEMEN, —It is with deep gratitude I return you my most sincere thanks for the honour you have done me in again returning me as your Representative to the Town Council My most , earnestendesvours shall be used in that body to iliszharge th• duties of my office faithful ) , and hoLestly. I ka * the honour to be, Gentlemen, Yours most obediently, T. LIMEDALE. November 3rd, p 857. TO ME 'FREE AND INDEPENDENT BUItGEtSES .OF ST. PAUL'S WARD FELLOW BURGESSES,—I taketthe earliest opportunity of returning you my sincere thanks for 'lte honour you hire conferred upon me. by ELECTING ene one of the MEMBERS of the MUNICIPAL. COUNCIL. of this BOROUGH, and for assuring you that nothing shall be waiting oa my part in the independent ant faithful diselarge of the duties which may devolve 'upon me in that capacity.—l have the honour to be, Giathinrn yours, Zdthfulty and obliged, - Bootie Castle, Sod Nov., lEri7. FINAL CLOSE OF TUE POLL. W. BARTON 7. R. WOLIFFIE WII. BIRT-ON. . 201 . MAJORITY. •.• . • ••.• • • • 7 AMUSE itIESTS, PUBLIC MEE asos, THIS DAY. Trai-TM ROYAL—Professor Anderson-7 p.m. AbiPHIVIDATILE—DranIati I PelfOrratTtee-7 p.m. Sr. if seim's HALL—The People's Cork erts-8 p.m. lborsitsit's CIRQUE VAZIRTE, Da.ls-street-7 p.m. Lirwoot. AoADMIT'S EXIIIBIT I ON, Postoffico-place. Ai sores WAYWOBK EXHIBITION -10 a.m. to 10 p.m. lioz.s.L CoLosasum —General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. a" For particulars see advertisements. TO CORRESPONDENTS. J. P. G.--recidedly not ; nor have we ever heard of sn..h a Tower since the passing of tLe Munlc pal Reform Bill. There would have to be anew election. Q i) • .11 1 , 1 - • '1°1111.")rn SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. The .first meeting of the new Council will be held on Monday. at which the Mayor for the municipal year of 1857-8 will be elected. The Tories are to put forward Mr. James Hohne, btf.; he is to be Opposed by a gentleman in every way fit and proper for the office. A caucus meeting of the Liberal Councillors was held yesterday, at the Clarendon 'Zooms, at which it was resolved to nominate Mr. Alderman Preston, for the Mayoralty. It is also stated that no Town Council Committees will be appointed until the first week in January next. In yesterday's paper we mentioned that a meet lug had been held in Glasgow, respecting the present monetary crisis, and that a deputation had teen appointed to wait upon the Government on the subject. We 110%,/ learn that the deputation will demand that the Government rescind the Bank Charter Act They hope that Liverpooland Manchester will join with them, as immediate action is necessary. The deputation will be in London on Monday morning. The members for Glasgow have written to Lord Palmerston, that the deputa tion will then wait upon him. If relief is not at once granted, all the works of public utility will be stopped; and a large body Of the labouring classes will be thrown out of work. We sincerely hope the danger in which our capitalists ere now placed, and that they will see the expediency of at once complying with the en'reaties of the Glasgow Merchants. Surety Liverpool and Manchester, seeing the dirge stake which they have in the prosperity of the Country, will not be behind hand in bringing the matter to an issue. The executive must be compelled to annul the Bank Charter— at any rate, to.suspend it fur a short period. The Bank Returns for the ten days ending November 4, being the first of the new series of returns up to the Wednesday afternoon, published in last night's Gazette, are very unfavourable indeed. The stock of bullion inthe Bank was only *497,780/, being.a decrease• of 872,014/ compared with the return of Oct. 23. There, is an increase of 500,480/ in th.a active circulation, a decrease of 134,437/ in Government securities, an increase of 5,223,710/ in other securities, and a decrease in the issue of notes of 1,030,1651, It is stated that the Lord Mayor of London is to be made a baronet. It was intended some time since that his lordship was to have the honour of knighthood conferred upon him, in . consideration of his successful exe r tio ns in originating and carrying (melte Indian Relief Fu n d ; but it is now considered that lie has so much added to his claims by his magnificent reception of his royal visitor that nothing short of the higher honour of the baronetcy will suffice. • At the banquet given to the Duke of Cambridge by the London Court of Common Council, on Wednesday evening, Earl Granville ; in the course of his .remarks, passed a number of euloguims upon his friend, Lori Canning, the Governor- General of India, and endeavaured to refute all the imputations which had been cast against him; but his defence was of a vary lame character in deed, and Lord Canning will not think much of it. Earl Granville says, that the instructions of the governor-general relative to the treatment of the mutineers, has been sanctioned .by Sir John Lawaence.—Therefore -th,ey are perfectly right, and that Lord Canning and Sir Colin Campbell were acting in harmohy. If we may judge from some of Earl Granville's remarks, he is impeseed with the belief that the alit ged discord between Lord Canning and Sir Colin CanaphelrrwltU he in a sort of a wgy contradicts) is regarded as of consequence only in Scotland ; and ' that even there, rit implies nothing more than a wincing.of national sensitive ness under a suspicion that a favourite countryman .has • been disrespectfully treated. .But according to the Daily Ileivs," Lord Grauville may rest as sured that the feeling is equally strong on both Sides of the Tweed, and that the .popular sentiment has been in favour of Sir Celia 'Campbell, and against Lord Canning. simply and solely because the former has been understood to Wee a wise, and the latter an unwise, view of what has been done in India. If Lord Granville can prove that Sir Colin has became a covert to Lord Canning, which he hes not yet proved, the consequences will be, not that Lord Canning will rise, but tleet Sir Colin will fall in public estimation." A pubic meeting on Indian Ileferm in con nection with native rights, has been held at the Friends Meetinghouse, St. Martin's-laue, Dmdon• Mr. Blaloolm Leivin, late a judge of the Sudder Court of Madras, presided, and stated that from what he knew the hatred' between the people was the cause of the revolt. It was a question between the bla , ..ks and whites. A let er lie had received from a gentleman holding a high p oe t gave a speech of a native of some sanding, who said the natives hated us, and we deserved it, an d t h e writer of the letter echoed the words " we deserve Referring to the causes of dislike of us by the natives, he said the chief one was the interferen ce . with their religious convictions. The suttee Was rightly abolished, but the qu-stion of marriage was perhaps wrongly altered. He then want at some length into the question of the natives' property, and said he saw nothing to justify any act being passed to remove the property out of ,the family. With regard to the law of adoption—of passing certain rites over the body of a Prince, either by big pop or adopted son—the Government, for reasons best 'known to themselves,' said it should not 'be carried out. That was again an interference with their religion. He then referred to the question of Oude, which he termed as a dirty spoliation. We had a subsidiary force there, and were to help the King, and he was to render us assistance, but that assistance was like the hug of a bear, it squeezed all the blood out of him The worst part of the question was this— that the King of Oude rendered us assistance when all the other princes were against us, and for that we, took his country from him; and'besides, he lent us large sums of money, which had never been paid He mentioned this much, because he felt ,that Oude was the keystone of this revolt The meeting was unanimous in advocating a rever sal of our policy towards the natives of India, and in condemning those measures of bloodshed and .retaliation which have been so loudly demanded by a portion of the public press: The success of tha meeting clearly shows that the public are pre pared to support an Indian Reform agitation. The East India Company had better prepare for the battle. The news from abroad, this morning, informs us • that there is, evidently a very serious rupture about breaking out between Denmark and the Duchies. It is denied that there is any convention between Russia and Austria on the question of the Principalities. The ministerial crisis in Belgium continues. Mr. Charles Rogier has now been en trusted with the task of forming a Ministry. Rogier is one of the most high minded liberal states men of Belgium. Letters and papers from Madrid show that the rumours of a new ministerial crisis were not altogether without foundation. The Lzreat difficulty for all the Spanish Ministers was al.ways the Queen, and this time the story seems again the same. It seems from what is reported to-day from Faris, that not merely has the French Ambassador at Constantinople refused to hold diplomatic intercourse with Redechid Pacha, but he states his reasons in a note to Ali Paella. He now holds aloof, he saye, on account of the way in which Redschid Pasha, when for me' ly Graed Vize:, countenanced the illegal prac tices of the Moldavian Kaimakan, for the pur poses of falsifying the elections. This renders the situation an extremely ticklish one. The French government, at the' time in question, did not, from the request due to the sovereign rights of the Sultan, insist on the recall of Prince Vo gorides himself. Does M. de Thouvenel think the time has arrived when that respect may be set aside ? The details concerning the reduction of the Austrian army, show it to be bona fide mea sure, like those resorted to already by' Russia and France. There can . be no doubt that in these three empires the state of the fieance has had a great deal to do with resolutions of this kind; but may we not ascribe it. partly also to a silent but powerful current of public opinion? The Russians, the Austrians, and the' French are well aware of their industrial inferiority, when compared with that of Great Britain, and they have begun to ascribe it to the exorbitant and fruitless efforts bestowed by their guverments on the increase of the military power. PANICS and Whiggery commenced with usury, and they both appear to be destined, to explode under the pressure of a nine per cent. commercial rate of discount. Lord MACAULAY has failed to furnish a precedent for the present state of the monetary affairs of the kingdom, or to guide his -friends out of the perils which surround them. He does not forget to record all the consequences which followed the unrestrained issue of paper money—the random inflation of the money market—the debasement of our metallic currency—and the sudden fluctuations in the value of gold. In the dry records of the earlier days of his Whig friends, and more startling realities of later times, the literary ..azu 11VVat, at/ •-• uKV uttLit,ti LUG 1111../ALS • ,11L.7.7.3 vo. great mind, and the fiery eloquence of an accom plished orator. The Whigs can never sufficiently repay their historian for the force with which he has brought out the points cn which they rely for the defence of their monetary policy ; and England, and indeed Scotland, can never forget the practical results which have followed the money quackery, or rather scheming, which he has advocated so warmly. As for England, we are so accustomed to be fleeced periodically by Whig panic -mongers, that:we think no more of it than eels do of the very simple process of skinning. But we may search history in vain to discover the time when the manufacturers and employers of labour in Scotland were constrained to hold meetings to consider the best means of averting the evils of a general banking panic, or to apply to the Imperial 'Government for that assistance which the Scotch banks could not supply. Thp present is the first time in the annals of civilised Scotland that such a thing has been recorded. However, we may safely leave Scotland to extricate herself. She know.i the exact time when PEEL took from her the money power to which she is indebted for her rapid progress, and so very early a failure of "the system of banking -monopoly which was given to her in its stead, will not be thrown away upon a ,people unusually well informed on banking :subjects. The great burden of the nine per cent. Whig panic is to fall on England's trade and commerce. We are too unenlightened and rich enough to bear it. We have been taught to think —and great care has been bestowed on this branch o 1 our education—that gold, and ,nothing, but gold, is money. If that be really so, we ' were the poorest nation, in proportion to the number of our people, ou,the face of the globe. upon the dis covery of large surface dep nits .of gold in • California and Australia. We had so little corn, or other .descriptions of food ; so few tools, clothes, and necessaries for mining, and, conse quently, they were so excessively dear ,that, if the gold deposits had been buried only one hundred feet below the surface of the earth, we could not have gone after them with the re motest hopes of raising the precious metal at a profit. Such was our impoverished con dition under the gold currency, and " cash payment' system so recently as 1830. Only seven years ago, such was our condition, that we dare not have embarked in the production of gold, under the most favourable circumstances it could be found. And yet this is the com modity on which the industry and trade of this country are left to exist. Within the last seven years we have, however, been obtaining it in Arge quantities, as the spontaneous offering of he Eurface soil—and a if Lo prose to us its utter valuelessness, as a basis even. of commercial and banking stability, the immense quantities of burthen we have received has left our stores, and . we are again the poorest nation on earth, when we take into account the almost fabu lous amount , of gold our own territories have produced, and the large supplies we have received from Foreign States. What is ten, fifteen, or twenty millions in gold, compared to , the 200,000,0001. in bills of exchange which are daily floating in our trade ? How far would 20,000,0001. in sovereigns go towirdi realising the dreani of " cash payments," where such liabilities exist ? Such a thing was never meant. Why then suffer ourselves to be ruined by a childish delusion ? No banker or merchant is supposed to be ready to pay off all his liabilities at any moment a ner vous or money-stricken public may think proper to run upon him. He must wait as the farmer does until the seasons come round, and he can bring his produce to market. But how is this to be converted into money— gold—when that commodity is in great demand abroad, and has left our coffers ? " Making gold dear," or demanding usury for its use in trade, as it is called, is the Whig practice resorted to, and it has the desired effect; but not until our mendicancy is aggravated and exposed by the sacrifice of all our native productions, which must be sold ten or twenty per cent. below cost price, and filling our poorhouses with our hardy producers, who can no longer obtain a day's wages for their honest toil. This is the desperate sacrifice we make to ill-disguised •Whiggery , in monetary affairs—these are the terrible sacrifices our gold-worshipping brings on us regardless of the inclemency of winter. or the fickle nature of our sowing and harvest sea sons. Our wealth in land, houses, ships, rail ways, navigable rivers, machinery, and human skill and labour is real. Our wealth in gold is but a fable, and must from its very nature, ever remain so. It would be well for the Hebrews that they had never known the " least'variable metal," and shall we never be warned of the danger of the political idolatry of the Whigs ? Lord PALMERSTON'S stern reserve at a crisis such as the present, shows how he prizes the traditional policy of the politic school to which he belongs. To regain possession of five or six millions of sovereigns, which have left us mone tarily, in the ordinary course of trade, the Premier would allow fifty or sixty millions of the com mercial substance of the nation to be sacrificed by depreciated markets. No, statesman capa ble of co.nprehending the wide spread distruction of property which follows• times like these could remain motionless while the power of giving instant relief was in his hands. Lord PALMERSTON has this power at his disposal as Lard JOHN RUSSELL had in 1847, and he must use it pronaptly if he hopes to re- __ oo U. Ca, G Lord MACAULIY from universal ridicule, which by the way is almost impossible. The public are by no means at a loss to know the real originators of these frightful commer cial revulsions. We may b 3 told that PEEL was a Tory, and latterly a Conservative, but all this matters not. The modern Whigs have identified themselves with the ancient Whig monetary policy of this realm, as revived by PECL, and as the nation is doomed to be commercially desolated every five, seven, or ten years', by usury, which is the beginning and end of Whig gold worship, they must be held politically responsible for the calamities which are forced upon our commerce and the State. With regard to the position of the latter, where, we ask, is there another European Power in the same lamentable condition as this Empire is in at the present moment, with its entire social fabric crumbling to pieces, its substance passing away, into the hands of others at less than it cost us, and a fierce armed struggle raging in one of the most distant parts of our possessions ! Her Majesty's Government cannot, surely, be aware of the character of the crisis of November, 1857. They cannot see it in all its 'desperate phases ; but the time has gone by for palliating dangers present and to come. If the Government are not prepared to meet them, our commercial men must act for themselves, as their long-tried experience prompts them. Practically, " cash payments" are suspended. The country cannot command sufficient gold to meet its engagements, and it is most unfair to allow ten uut of every hundred of our most respectable firms in the North to be broken up, and the whole of our mercantile community cut to pieces in detail. The embarrassments of the day are universal, as all social derangements must be, when their origin can be traced to the crochets of factions and compromise of parties. The followers of PEEL betrayed the country to the Whigs, and we may ask both Whigs and Tories what they think of their handy work ? The response will be the old cant—Libertas et natale soluni. But this is not the laaguage of commerce; and we wait impatiently to hear what reply Her Majesty's Ministers will give to Scotland, and what relief they will afford to the maritime and manufactur ing districts of the North of England. AT the conference which took place at Man chester, on Wednesday last, respecting the dock affairs of Liverpool, our interests were gratui tously represented by Mr. HA.I3,OLD • LITTLEDA.LE and Mr. Jo air LAIRD. The part these gentle• men have played in the manipulation of Par liamentary. Dock Bills is best known to the Cor poration, and what that body has done in reality remains to be told to the public. " The Dock THE NORTHERN TIME SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1857 Estate Inundation Bill," of last session, gives the Dock Trustees extraordinary poW - ers of raising money. But the representatives of the Birkenhead interests, Messrs. LITTLEDALE and LAIRD, appear to be apprehensive that the money will not be forthcoming to the extent anticipated by the promoters of the bill; and it does appear strange-that after the facilities that were. given by . both houses of 'Parliament of opposing and throwing out that measure, that , they should now be - alnrmed at what it is likely to produce. The new Conservancy Commission is bound to complete the Birkenhead docks within a definite period of time. What more can our Cheshire friends desire ? Can they be afraid that money lenders, when they know the true condition of the Liverpool Dock Estate, will refuse to lend more upon it, and that in this way the completion of the Birkenhead docks may be deferred for an indefinite number of y ears. The New Commission will enter on their duties under difficulties of a peculiarly delicate nature. Their predecessors had, only a small balance of about 100,0001. at the close of the last half-year, and this, with what they have since received, has, in all probability, been reduced to nil by current expenditure. Commencing business With an empty till will be found exceedingly awkward. The first sum required will be about 1,200,0001. for the payment of dock bonds falling due, and about 350,0001. to be paid the Corporation, on account of the Town Dues. Then will come Manchester for the expenses of its parliamentary opposition to the Town Dues ; .Birkenhead will urge a similar demand, and by the time all the ready-money claimants are satisfied the Conservancy Commission will find that it has got through somewhere about 1,700,0001. Before one sixpence has been ex pended on the Birkenhead' Docks it will find that a sum of 1,550,0001. annually will be required to pay off Dock Bonds and the instalments of the compensatidn due to the Corporation. Manchester must have her -Par liamentary expenses paid, for all her agitators have done has been " for the benefit of Commerce."—What a glaring imposture! Birkenhead must also be paid her Parliamentary expenses, but, certainly, with:some more cogent reason ; but that Liverpool can have more docks on this side of the river, until the Commission is allowed to feel its way and satisfy itself that it is immersed in debt up to the chin, is altogether out of the question ; and this, we regret to say, the Dock Committee's long list of memorialists will find to be the case. The present Dock Trust will expire on the first of January next ; the powers they now possess will pass into other hands ; and is it to be supposed that 'Parliament will sanction projects devised by a defunct body ? No such thing. - Enere wilt be no Parliamentary cam paign, then, next session. The Members of the Commission have to be elected by the Dock ratepayers; and just at the time, we might suppose, they were beginning to feel their whereabouts they are to go to Parliament to revise or reconstruct their own constitution. Here, then, two sessions must pass over before we shall hii've any dock authorites so constituted as to project plans and carry them through'Parliament. This is the precise position in which our dock affairs are placed at this moment. We can't go back to the old regime, and how we are to get forward, with anything more than the comple tion of the Birkenhead Docks, as sanctioned last session, must be a profound puzzle to all who know anything of the subject. The Chairman of the Dock Committee does not appear to be master of the situation ; and those, who wish for more than can be granted, would do well to seek other counsel before they think of appearing before Parliament this session to ask for 8G6,000/., as it would only lead to their being "snubbed " a second time. IT is .rumoured in circles likely to be well informed that Mr. JAMES HOLME. acting on his own conscientious impression of what is just and right, does not intend to put himself forward in opposition to his colleague, Alderman PRESTON, for the Mayoralty, although it is said that several of the extreme Tory party in Council are re solved to put him in nomination, even if against his own inclination. We should not be at all surprised if both rumours proved correct. We are aware that Mr. HOLME, if he acted on his own convictions, would shrink from any act savouring of personal bitterness to a political opponent. and that his own refined and well matured judgment would suffice to indicate that the proper, the dignified, course for him to pursue, under the circumstances, would be voluntarily to withdraw his claims in favour of one who has an acknowledged priority to the honours of the next Mayoralty, For Mr. HOLM S's own sake we should rejoice that this should be his present determination, and that he will adhere to it on the day of election. How ever much we may differ with Mr. HOLME in politics, we are bound in justice to respect him as a citizen. And we should certainly regret if we were not placed in a position to congratulate his accession to the civic chair, when his turn comes fairly and honourably for filling that office. And we are much mistaken of these sentiments are not participated in by his sincerest and most ardent friends in the Council. But on the other hand' there is no doubt that there is , a party in the Council blind to any consideration I save that of faction. This party are utterly in- I capable of generous impulses, and, will, no doubt, exert their endeavours to drag Mr. HOLME for ward, even against his inclination, for no other object than to gratify their own relentless rabid spirit of partisanship. Should this party succeed in inducing Mr. HoLME to oppose the election of Alderman PRESTON we trust that the more moderate and consistent portion of the Conservative members will give them that rebuke they so richly merit, and prove by their votes, if called upon on Monday, that the day has gone past when the Chief Magistrate of Liverpool is to be raised to his exalted position (that ought to be) by tha machinations of a clique. Both the great political parties in the town are ostensibly agreed on one point, namely, that mere party politics ought to be totally ignored in the Council Chamber. None were louder in professing this doctrine than those Conservative members who were the successful candidates at the late elec tions. Monday will test the sincerity of these professions should the question of the Mayorality have (as we trust it will not) to be decided by a vote of the Council. If those gentlemen were really in earnest and meant to give proofs of their determivatim to act up to their promises, they will be under no difficulty in deciding as to who is entitled— justly entitled—to their suffrages. The eyes of their Constituents—of the whole town, are upon them, and we trust that we shall not have to record further instances of those moral delinquincies which have, but too frequently, defaced the escutcheons of too many of our Municipal Legislators. We hold the opinions now we have ever ex pressed that whoever fills the civic chair ought to be the Mayor elect of the Council, and not the mere nominee of a faction, as Mr. lloLmn would undoubtedly be, if his friends persist in forcing him into that position, which, for the present, we believe he does not himself ambition. I should like 'to know what our bankers, merchant princes, brokers, and tradesmen are about ? Are they prepared to stand by and see the town engulphed in certain ruin, with Out making an effort ? Why don't they at once follow, if they cannot lead, 'the men of Glasgow and. Manchester, both of which towns have sent, deputa tions to tke Bank of England ? By Parliament suspending the late Sir Robert Peel's Bank Act of 18-14, instant relief and confidence would be given, as in 1847. Again, I ask, when will the commercial community of Liverpool move? Instant action is necessary. A deputation should wait upon the Government and the Bank of England Directors F. G. E. at once. Trrs M niErARY CRlil3 , —&t far as Belfast is concerned our merchants and manufacturers appear, up to the present, to have been only slightly involved in the effects of the crisis, which is producing such wide-spread dismay in other localities. Yesterday was settling day, and we have full assurance for the statement, that for the past six months there has not been a fourth which passed off more satisfactorily. The " run" on the Banks has ceased in Belfast ; and confidence appear. to have been completely . restored, even among the farming classes, who were the principal parties to entertain apprehension. We LLiat a %_,outiLy ',own nrm, con nected with our staple trade, is announced to have suspended payment. The liabilities are to the amount of £22,009, and the assets are slid to be likely to turn out amply sufficient, if they could be obtained, for their realization. A small house in Belfast is also reported to have succumbed to the pressure, but it is so trifling, only to the amount of £1,390, that it has received very little attention —Befae t Mercury. THE IMPERIAL ME ECT INGS. —Theinvalide Russe favoers us with its win explanation of the leading mo ive which impelled the Emperor to the two Imperial metings at Stuttgardt and Weimar :—" Universal peace—that was the object of the Emperor Alexander H.'s journey. People who want to unriddle the rencontre in Stuttgardt will find the answer in the meeting at Weimar. At both places the object was not the formatioa of new alliances, but the alainm3nt of personal approximation. Alli.nces are generally formed for some special definite object. Tb; great mistake of the Holy Alliance was, that it was not based on any positive idea. This alliance, in spite of its -magniloquent programme, declared no war against Belgium when it separated itself fron 111,11x:id ; it entered on no conflict with the Revolution of Ids', and still less with that of February. The late meeting of the Emperor of Russia with the E aperor of the French steows mast con vincingly that the Holy Alliance which had taken upcn itself by forgone conclusions to prescribe a path to history, was a mere airy fabric of the brain, devoid of all practical applicability. The Holy Alliance has bequeathed to the after-world the conviction that monarchs and nations by no moons stand in need of the creation of special obligations to be able to live q 'jetty and peaceably together, and strive together for the development of civilisation. It is not till some one State or oth.-r, led astray by passion or by some falss'combination, seems about to encroach on the rights or the existence of other Powers, that a more intimate union among other Stutes, which find their advantage in combin ing their efforts to avert the danger, shows itself to be a necessity. And when this proximate object is attained this special league blends into that general alliance which is so absolutely necessary for the interests and the development of civilisation in all the nations of Europe." AMUSEMENTS, &c. TfIEATRE ROTAL—PROFESIOR ANDERI3OI/.--Th3 Wizard lacks nothing of his wonted ablity in " Wonder World," ho rather increases, not only in skill, but in the amazing acility with which he presents to the astonished gaze, the things that our weak philosophy cannot comprehend. There is a fascination ab ut all the Professor's great per:or .. mances, that make all othlaim, "eat such , things be, and overcome us, like a summer cloud, without our special wonder ?" and yet so it is, and we are pleased with the bargaia. His stay in Liverpool will be short, and those who have not yet seen him, ought nc , t to loose the hint, HENGLER'S, aws•STltEET.—Amongst the novelties of the week, and very at ractive these have been—is the very excit ing and fine piece of Equestrian skill, called the " Great Liverpool Steep!e Chase." From the local attraction of this piece, and the wonderful dexterity shown in it, the honse has been filled. At the morning performance this day, it cannot fail to attract a fashianeble house, and wa promise the highest gratification will be the results MR. E. W. THOMAS'S CONCERTS. Concurrent with the opening of the new civic year, Mr. E. W. Thomas will commance a series of shilling concerts in the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, bat they will only last for one fortnight, and we trust will be properly. supported, for Mr Thomas is well deserving. Ilikconcerts in previous years have been first-rate of their kind, in fact we fear only too good for the ganeral public of Liverpool. Wi h all their pretence of the love for music, they are very disinclined to' pay adequately for it. We hear of "recreative societies" being forzcd, yet when recreation of the most gratifying an I intellectual characte r Let the is provided, little or no notice is taken of i t. tile movers of this " recreative society," hold a meeting in d Philarmonic Hall, on Monday night, and ha vin g listen°, to the recreative strain which Mr. Thomas has provided for them, pay him handsomely to continue his exer tin f for the public gratification and his own private ' He has engaged a first-rate band, and a highly bend, deservedly distinguished vocalist, Miss Loulia Vie ning. He has put forth a bill of fare including almost everythi4e good and new that could be performed in the tim.):---s lections from all the p .puler operas ; favouri te overturegt by distinguished composers of foreign clime s, and 11e1.,,,„ overtures written expressly for these concerts, by Pwcival and Mr. C. E. Horsley. Arrangement s of nati°l3lll: airs ; dance music, new and old; and for the lovers of t o highest class, wo hear he will produce Beethoven's ger, " Sinfonia Evoica." There will bt two morn Satur ing 0 0• formances in each week, on Wednesdays and dien ce We hope the weather will be propitious, and hi s au numerous. dey ADDRE33 DELIVERED AT THE INTERMEA-NTT Or. THE LATE JOHN FINCH, ESQ yy At the Ancient Chapel of Taricth F.rk, Hoe. 4,1.857 f John liobberds, 13. A., Minister. , a tie My Christian Friends, —An occasion like the Pr ell .4 one that peculiarly needs an implicit trust in the providence of a wise and gracious G. No season ° f d. is exempt from the icy touch of Death's interposing It so happens that, this very week, I have been ca lled °, 4 to officiate here at the interment, first. of a young whose departure into the gracious arms of its Ileso-es Father, deeply as it was felt by those who loved it, he.. 5101 the extinction of earthly hops and promise rat her realised existence ; next, of an aged person, whose ful release, after years of much suffering and in6r° , 4 could net but be aquieseed in as a merciful aPP-rly, ment, and in the regular course of natural 'lee'lls, But now we have to lament the sulden and pram 5:0 withdrawal from earthly intercourse, in the matu ritY°' powers an I the full vigour of his life--of a V11 0 ° 11 : 5 . 11 1* exemplary brother, a constant and trustworthy' f c l e : " e s diligent and enterprising man of business, a incl'eiarie adviser and most efficient worker in public aff , ''' s ' b et plans of social beneficence, a steady and consistent'. of temperate and charitable promoter of the n s ' l %gst pr'gress and reform, without an enemy even aver Of his opponents ; a univcrselly respected nio nbe h r the vast and important commucity with w ll-10 : rde has been identified through life ; not a men of ma n y ": f er• or oetentatieas parade, but of quiet energy, calm P er3 i 'on anee, practical usefelnese with n unea ;y per onal a re—t ad —care'ess as to gaining due ere lit for hin l.Blf %sid' steadily pur uing the general good It could not b e 5 0f in relation to him, that " party" was " the tundlie.ity? many for the gain of a few." With him q-rthe was an seeociation of honourable men f, ° A t t promotion of the welfare of mankind. I may t"' i ,ten t in It's earnest and systematic firtherance of the in3P 4 ). i to ends f r which he laboured, he always strictly adV'gaea pure and legitimate means, never resorting to en/ %of or device which could afterwar Is raise a blush of si*- an emotion of regret, esn Such a man, to our humble, human appeehensiont itiol be spared from amongst us. We would have reteine'os; long e. wide us ; he had not finished his usef ul lab ba ne there was more work for him to do ; and he W onid olt done it, had his life been spared. We can only s ej oite is the will of God ; let Him do what seerneth to best." a 04 With regard to our friend himself, however, I."i confidently say, that if, as we devoutly dare to b'3`Geed, through faith in fee Providence of a wise and 0 /(1 . the who created not man in vain, and in Jesus Christ, of fuller and clearer manifestation of the nature an d tote our heavenly Father—if there indeed be a life 0' e : g oo glsrious development and more perfect reward f u selP p 3 the upright an far hid ch LIM of Cbd—et hell ' O f there can be no better reparation for th it fatnre Sca en extstene3 than a steady career of quiet, useful earth. The exemplary ornaments of our race, w h i a tr as lights amidst this world's difficult duties 811 u el e must he best fitted to be received among the .inst perfect" in the next. e ee to While, then, we cannot but mourn for our6i: taking leave of the departed, let us rejoice in 11013e;ij-e he e With him, at 'east, all is now for ever peace . I cif done with the cares, the anxieties, the harrassing 41-rretice this bury and tumnitous world, which must at ti!,- a nd to troubled even his firm and composed spirit. I n re ' °4 aod . ` / him, to then, let us strive to submit without repin in g geed pleasure, and yield him u p with perfect colo-dellcote lee ° His everlasting arms. And with regard to ourselves, let us nerve 491.1 r rge f ne ° to bear the present dispensation, and to meet . 3173 i i ; g ve burden or duty that may be im?osed upon 1 . 15 do se lid few remaining years of earthly life, in the bra e a tranquil spirit which distinguished him w h° , i n s of Ili° Our best memorial of him will be the realisat'e" to it charactristic excellences in ourselves I ve nture eg rlte elude myself with you, for he wag, dur:rg ms i de acquaintance with these walis, and ' so long Pe i :o 6-41 f ; is this neighbourhood, an active member of the °lone tion worshipping within them ; and I have ever re p to cherish, in connection with him, most friend's` niscences and regards. 3 It is solemn and affecting to take le ive, °l3si, another, of valued and honoured friends and as °if Let us ever be reminded by these events to ii°l`i ss ° d - ati e ; heavenly hope, and to be faithful in our ear ttul When called upon to suffer bereavement by the joi gill e.- God, let us commit the keeping of our souls to doing, as unto a faithful Creator —Let us pray' Fea LEWIS AND OIMPANY'S NEW ETTABLISIIIJEN' e 0 orr CLOTHING. —Number of boys clothed for ° re f, 1 3 0 Satur lay, Oetob 311, 533 ; correapoading Ot e- Os 326, incre Ise, 212 boys. o erl ,to AMMICAN Mans.—The Niagara, with the At a 13° t be C median mails, sails this eay for Halifax e l/ no coi k e f e ee The letter-b , xat the G neral Post-office will 1 % - wit',ll be usual course till el =vela o'clock, rind up to twe 5°,. ift"' . 0 0 for late htere. The box on the Landing" of i e open io one o'clock, with an additional fe e letters. in DEATH Paoli SCALDING.— A cbi'd, name d unto , ' twelve years of age. was scalded on the 3 °;,/ers" ; D or e. house in No. 6 Cowt, L twtor-street, ' l/I Z,earYt f r og injured. She was taken to the Royal InufTercig„ be y every thing was done for her, bat she di,d lbe: bail the effects of the injuries. An inquest will • tg i elce bely this day. oe w 1 ) .; - tiaS HOLYEEAD NEW MAIL SeRVICE.---Ile g2tlPl",3ber, to be provided ftr 'the improved mail e es - too 4 between Rol:head and D tblin are to be fourf 1, 70 0 t ot each being not less than 300 feet long, an d measurement. The voyages will be four dlb Loo dof, l ,, of from each port, and the average time between, oo C a l"the Kingstown will be reduced to 11 hours . an A th e t Dublin Company will perf o rm this new ser he v l ' o ' i an' , requisite capital is to be raised b2tweeny. den t London and North-Western Railway ComPalLsor o f Quasre Vac-roma AND HER A UNT , " c°l : e n isce oce 4k g : the Parilan Recorder gives the following reit' A fter t`. , ooty ‘isit to Ihe house of the Dr. Refills of ntsti f took us into his study and showed us his lit” ./02 , ol : , 0 autograph letters. We saw a later of C' 0 01 10 0 Q teen - of Scot tzl Cram well—letters of ever)! oc et 00 0 ' Europe, from Henry VII, to Victoria, and do r 0 s oft dated ' Windsor Castle, 1839,' addressed 011 . at iove, r her birthday,' wishing her many returns of t h o ls i .inghltV and beggi lg to lay at her feet the aceorePaiiton'Oettor and p ectrait of nays It,' concluding with a ,,P: er a tfe richest of Heaven's bless:no, nd en P ra Y ° , deitt ll ; - 0 ate niece, Vicroria R.'" to be P i hoP Mademoiselle Rachel, who was thought „ t a l A pe door some months ago, is cot only still alivetug"ect roolol• of saving her are not abandoned. P‘oliovikger 31. adviser, Dr. B rgonnier, bets a ddressed the 4 , 6 00 0 00 letin to a Marseilles journal C ,.. an „jth 1114 :reat h l Silica the 27th, Madera Aselle R fella" u e , 59 and beis' improved —she coughs and expeetanttes f or fret% 14 0 easier. Her pulse is at 96. Her appetite 1e .. .., to as good as could be wished, but her state se"- dangerous than it was," I'EL 44°t ic 1 11 th e pi kd oti th 11 : 116 ) b, . 41 Porti Th e 4 elti the qu kr t , e , tt p t heir G en ., ‘ili tary it4 ir; AA , 4 41. ' will ~ the u i t : t: • i z t is rfere n rreven 1 th o as