Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-12 00:00:00

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CoLosssuat —General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. itir For particulars see advertisements. WANTED, COPIES of the " NoIsTIIERN DAILY Than" of the following dates :—April Ithh and 4th, May 23rd, Jaly 16th, and. August Sth.—Apply at the .ilirthers nines o rice. Elre Rottru fintn MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. We are in receipt of later news from Indite The telegraphic despatches which we publish this morn ing at the first blush appear rather more favourable than our previous acivices. It is to be hoped that the telegraphic despatch with the news from Calcutta will be more complete than the summary of intelligence from Bombay. The date from Bombay is seventeen days later, but the news from Delhi is only fourteen days later. The Bombay mail of July 30 brought news from Delhi to July 14, an interval of sixteen days ; but the present mail, according to the telegraphic despatch, has news only to the 26. h August, a period of twenty two days prior to the despatch of the mail from Bombay. General He.velack's successful attack on the rebels on the 16 h August was already known. The allusion to Lucknow is vague, and no date is given. The news from Calcutta is eleven day later, but nothing is said of the arrival of reinforcements. The strength of General Outram's force, which is said to have arrived at Allahsbad on September Ist, is not stated- So far as the Bombay despatch goes, it is to be inferred that General Havelock had remained inactive from the 16th of August, but no later dote from Cawnpore is quoted, although the telegraphic despatch by the last Calcutta mail, which arrived September 29th, brought news to August 16, and the despatch received at the Foreign Office yesterday, might be expected to have com municated later news from Cawnpore, Lucicnow, and Delhi also. The fact that several additional regiments had mutinied, is ralher discouraging; but, so far, the new rebels had not succeeded in doing much mischie- It is now seen that the Bengal army system is a complete failure, and we hope that the civil and military trust hitherto in the hinds of the natives, and who have so grossly abused that trust, will be taken from them. A sweeping revolution in the inferior branches of the civil service in India; all posts must be filled by Europeans, and a large infusion of Anglo-Saxon soldiers and civilians, is imperatively demanded. Lord Elgin had left Calcutta for Hong Kong, and the Persians have evacuated Herat. A statement has just been published, from which it appears that in Bengal, about the time of the mutiny, there were 21,068 Queen's troops ; in Madras, 1,312 ; and in Bombay, 4,239 ; besides the 16,333 European troops in the service of the East India Company. Since May there have been sent to Bengal 19,991 troops of all arms; to madras, 2,213 troops ; and to Bombay, 4,615. This estimate includes the troops ordered for service in China and at the MAuritius as "in India but not the six regiments expected from the Cape as en route. These may be estimated at about 4,000 men. Members of the House of Commons are at present making a great deal of the state of affairs in India. Within the past day or two several addresses have been delivered by them. The tone of these speeches, while firm as respects determination to support the Government in . putting down the revolt in India and restoring order, is equally emphatic against tae cry of vengeance, or the infliction of indiscriminate punishment. We gather from them that ministers will certainly be called to account when Parliament meets for their blindness and indifference to the many signs ol the coming storm which heralded the Bengal out break. Mr. Baxter, who spoke at Arbroath, and who is a general supporter of ministers, put the case very strongly against them. The Overseers of the Parish of Liverp . ool seem to be in earnest in their crusade against the existence of places of resort for courterans. They having succeeded in their prosecution against Mr Domviile, and compelled that gentleman to shut the notorious den in Lime-street, recently known ' as the " Hop," have taken it upon themselves to enter a prosecution against Mr. Stott, the proprie tor of the rooms in Great Charlotte-street, called the " Parthenon." On Saturday, application was made to Mr. Mansfield for a warrant for the apprehension of Mr. Stott, under the provisiona cf several acts of Parliament. The warrant would no doubt haVe been granted, but Mr. Nyberg found a flaw in the proceedings, as the summons served upon the Head Constable for the suppres sion of the rooms, ought to have been served upon the Parish Constable. It appears there is really such a person in Liverpool. He was appointed about forty years ago, and his whole public duty during that period, has been putting his signature to one document. Mr. Mansfield said that it would be advisable to serve a summons on that well tried public official in addition to the head con stable. The warrant was not then granted. It would appear from this that the whole proceed ings in the case of the Hop" was illegal. However, that place is closed up, and, we have no doubt, will remain so. In London, the parish authorities of St. James's, Westminster, have sue- - ceeded in their opposition to the renewal of the license for music and dancing for the Argyle-rooms, Windmill -street, Haymarket. The place was solely resorted to by " gay women," who went there to pursue their trade, and the place was a complete nuisance to the neighbourhood. The opposition to the renewal of the license for music and dancing for Cremorne Gardens, London, has failed—the magistrates, by a large majority, overruling the objections. We supply ott• readers with the details of appa rently one of the most horrible transactions that it has ever been the duty of any newspaper to report It was brought to light, on Friday, in the meet extraordinary manner, the mutilated reine:ns of tl-e unfortunate victim of the traee' l S' being diseove,red on one of the buttresses of `Waterloo -bridge, Lon don, and deposited in a carpet beg. 'I he head, the hands. and the feet were absent. They lied, pro_ bably, been thrown iWo the liver at another point. The circumstances of the murder may he similae to those which are associated with the infamous name of Greenacre. Meanwhile, the material fer the detection of guilt is not wanting. The woman who ca - ried the carpet leag throntl - 1 the turnstile is remembered by the toll keeper, the carpet bag itself may he traced to its maker; while the mi nuteness with which the apparel of the murdered re an is described, may possilily lead to his recog nition. " So far as the facts point," says the Ob ofner, "it is probable that the - murdered man was cut off in the midst of sin, the most nee- Boilable deduction being that his life was taken in some of those low brothels which are a disgrace to the neighbourhood of the Strand and Covent garden. The position of the cuts in the garments which it is presumed were worn by him, as they were found along with the fragments of the body, corresponding with a deep incision in that part of the breast which more directly covers the heart, and in so far justifies the supposition of murder. But, while the shirts and waistcoat are pierced, the coat and outside wrapper are intact, a fact which leads to the conclusion that they were not worn by him at the moment he met his death. Then the Incision in the breast, which would appear to be of itself sufficient to produce death is on the left side, a position which suggests the idea that he was lying on his left side when the wound was inflicted. These, coupled with the additional fact—which does not seem to admit of dispute—that the heavy carpet bag containing the mangled remains was conveyed to the centre of Waterloo Bridge by a woman past the middle period of life, point to the inference that the man, whoever he may be, was probably murdered in a house of ill fame, and that the scene of the murder was not a great dis tance from the spot where the fragments of the body were discovered. There is a rumour, how ever, that that the whole affair is a hoax. There are stabs on the body with which there are cor responding holes in the clothes, but there are also other stabs on the body with which there are no corresponding holes in the clothes, and this par ticula) ly applies to wounds on the lower part of the abdomen—a personal inspection of the mutilated body, leads to the belief that the body has been cut up by no unprofessional hand, and that it may be, after all, the w irk of some medical students. The man Davis, who cut his wife's thraot in London, on Tuesday night, has had a verdict of guilty of murder returned against him, by a coro ner's jury. Aia a n has been-appr e handel on the charge of murdering a boy, at Nottingham. There is a variety of interesting news from the Continent this morning. The King of Prussia is alarmingly ill. Napoleon 111 has closed his mili tary recreations at Chalons with a distribution of medals, and with a proclamation which mingles warlike doctrines and peaceful sentiments. Eng land, France, and Russia, are, it appears, prepared to combine against the Celestial Empire. The Russian Admiral Putiatine is to go to Shanghai, and to write to the Chinese Emperor a threatening letter. Baron Gros and Lord Elgin will likewise enter into negotiations with the Court of Pekin, and if these should fail, the English and French forces will bombard Canton, and even endeavour to penetrate further into the interior of the country. According to a statement in the lndependance of Brussels, the Sovereigns of Austria and Russia decided, in their interview at Weimar, that a treaty of commerce between their States shall be con cluded on the same basis as that between Franco and Russia. From other sources in which we place greater reliance, we hear that the short conference of the Emperors at Weimar has by no means contributed to lessening the dis tance which for some years has existed be tween the Courts of Vienna and St. Peters' burgh. Count Buol, who was so suddenly taken ill before the journey of Francis Joseph, is now inclined to recover as suddenly. The news from Italy continues to be gloomy. The Sardinian Government is greatly exposed to be seduced by tear into imitating the reactionary measures of the other Italian courts. It has ordered wholesale expulsion of the refugees, who till now had found shelter under the hospitality and independence of I'iedmontese The only intelligence of interest by the Persia arrived here on Saturday is that relative to the movements in the Monetary Circles of the United States. The Presidents of the New York Banks had held a meeting, and come to the determin ation that an additional line of accommodation to the extent of three million of dollars should at once be arranged for. This had had a very beneficial effect upon commercial affairs. Money, how ever, was exceedingly difficult to procure and the American journals state that 60 per cent. per annum is not unfrequently paid. There is nothing new respecting the loss of the Central America. Upwards of 15,000 dollars had been collected for the relief of the survivors of the wreck—about 160 in all. At Havannah the slave trade is as rife as ever it was, and the authorities of the island seem to connive at the introdue.ion of Africans. At St. Domingo the war was nearly ended. THE question of Reform is beginning to assume distinct and important proportions. Statesmen of all classes deem it their duty to propound various schemes, so that hardly a day passes without Lord PALmErtsTorr and his colleagues being reminded of their duty, and what the nation expects of them as a Government. There is not any excuse for delay. Indeed, we have the declaration of Lord JOHN RUSSELL that the time has come for taking up the question, and Lord PALMERSTON has pledged himself to bring forward a measure for improving and extending the representation of the people. In all quarters of the country anxiety is evinced as to the nature and tendency of the expected measure. The Premier has to watch the move ment of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, for there cannot be a doubt that, should there be any hesitation on the part of the Ministry, the noble lord the Member for London would eagerly snatch the opportunity, and make political capital out of the affair. lie is most anxious to regain his position in public estimation, and jealous should he be compelled to lower his standard of 1832, and play second fiddle to the Premier. There is also much pressure on the Government by the inde pendent members of the House, and the Man chester politicians have started a project for the purpose of stimulating the cause of Reform. Among the latest and most important state ments on the subject is that Mr. BAXTER, the Member for the Montrose Burghs. From this gentleman's speech it is quite clear that no plan of Parliamentary representation will be accepted unless there be a re-distribution of the constituen cies, and a complete extirpation of rotten boroughs. It is most unjust that populous places, such as Birkenhead, should not have a representative in Parliament, while towns like Ripon send two representatives. No system of representation can be good which does not make population a main basis. We hope, therefore, that whoever may draw the new Reform Bill, this important consideration will not be overlooked. All classes of the community have a right to be represented. The tax-payer is interested in the proper expenditure of the revenues of the country, and we have no doubt that a 5/. fran chise would make a more intelligent and inde pendent constituency than we have at present. With reduced franchise, and improved education among the people, the constituencies throughout the country would take good care not to send any man to Parliament who would not act for the advantage of the entire community. To secure purity of election, and to prevent bribery and intimidation, the new Reform Bill must adopt the ballot. Unfortunately for many a constituency, the landlord influence is exercised to the-disadvantage of the humble voter. Dur ing the last general election, innumerable cases of the kind occurred. Such undue tampering with the rights and privileges of the voter should not be tolerated in a free country like Great Britain. They who would do so will, no doubt, try their hand at opposing any measure which may be put forward, but we have no fear that their opposition will have any other effect than uniting the Reformers together, and thereby gaining a complete and beneficial victory. Hints are being thrown out to the.effect that the Minis try will try to postpone the subject, on the plea that the mutiny in India will be a question requiring a more full and immediate examination and consideration than that of the representation The Government could not commit a greater error than attempt anything of the kind. Before we settle the Indian question, we should have a new and a reformed Parliament. The country should most undoubtedly pronounce its opinion upon the manner we have governed the millions of Hindostan. When the cause of the mutiny comes to be thoroughly probed, we shall see that the conduct of the East India Company has been perfectly reprehensible, and such as to goad on the brutal and murderous Sepoys. The cost of subduing them will be a heavy item, so that the public at large should pronounce its verdict, and by their votes dictate our future policy in India. THE Pike is, at last, in a state of articulo mortis—it has reached the last stage of collapse, and its most ardent supporters have given it up in despair. At the meeting of the Water Com mittee, on Saturday last, there was a very meagre attendance of members.—only one-third of the Committee being present—namely, Messrs. EARLE, BENNETT, FARNWORTII, WOODRUFF, and _LIVINGSTON ; the Chairman, and others of the more influential members, not thinking it worth while to attend, although matters of considerable importance had to be taken into consideration —a significant fact, and one of itself sufficient to indicate the state of feeling on the subject on the part of the Committee. The Pike advocates or apologists are, at last, hearti'y sick and disgusted with the whole affair, and shrink from all further attempts a:, bolstering it up as utterly hopeless. The Ratepayers will rejoice to learn that a resolution was confirmed, directing that as much of the well water should -be raised as was practi cable; and that for the present, at least, no more of the bog-wash should be supplied than what was absolutely necessary to make up any defi ciency. This is, certainly, a large stride in the right direction, and, so far we are grateful to the Committee for the boon. We only regret that the resolution did not go one step further, and direct that the Rivington water should at once be be applied to all such purposes as it was suited for. This done, the well supply would be ample for the domestic requirements of the inhnh;tanta. But the Water Committee are not engineers, and, unfortunately, with one or two exceptions, the members are unacquainted with the practical part of the subject, and hence they are entirely in the hands of their own servants, some of whom may have crochets of their own, which they desire to carry out, without proper regard to the public welfare. But for this, there can be little doubt that the Committee would, long ere now, have complied with the wishes of the inhabitants, and restored their well water in its integrity and entirety, and not by instalments. Some of the Committee still cling to the hope —the vain hope—that some process of filtration may yet be discovered which may render the Pike water less objectionable for domestic purposes than it is at present. This hope is carefully fos tered by parties who have clearly private advan tages to attain by the prosecution of experiments in reference to the purification of the Pike water, hence the resolution of the Committee, directing their Engineer to proceed with certain additional experiments, in order to test the practicability of discolouring the water by passing it through animal or vegetable charcoal. The water thus treated is (if the colouring matter be removed) to be submitted to two eminent chemists—we believe Professors CLARKE and BRANDT-for analysis. We do not object to such experiments on account of the cost, but we do protest against their in any way diverting the attention of th 3 Council or the public from the main question, namely, the resto ration of the well water, unmixed without any portion :f the Anglezark bog-wash whatever. Assuming it were to be possible, by an enor mous outlay, to improve the colour• of the Pike water, which we very much doubt, it would still be vapid bog-water notwithstanding, and as such no substitute for our brisk spark ling spring supply. We attach no importance whatever to the plan pro • posed by the Engineer to construct filter beds on the tops of the various reservoirs. We recognise in such a project only another job, and a further needless waste of time and money. As it is, however, highly desirable that the Rivington water should be made as extensively available as it is possible to make it, for such purposes as it is really well suited, then we say let the expe • r•iments have regard to this object solely. At present the Pike water is so foul as to be totally unsuited for the supply of the public Baths, even when diluted with half its volume of well water. Now, as these establishments consume a very large quantity of water, we would recommend that at the very outset the experiments should be confined to attempts to render the water so pure in colour at least as to be applicable for their use. If this can be done it will be a great point gained, and a conclusive proof that more may be accomplished. If, on the other hand, it is shown that there are no commensurate good results from the supposed plan of filtration, then let them forthwith be abandoned. It would be an easy matter to put this plan to the test, parti cularly at the Cornwallis-street establishment . It would entail no very formidable outlay. Let filtering tanks be constructed Sufficiently capa cious to filter the supply necessary for these baths, only let these tanks be charged with the various filtering materials which have been suggested, and let the effect of these be fairly tested on the unmixed Rivington water. There is no practical difficulty whatever in carrying out this plan. There is ample space in the yard in Duke-street for the construction of the tanks, which way be elevated to any necessary height, and made of any requisite capacity. The idea is pne worthy of consideration, and the cost ought to be •no hindrance to a fair trial of it. A concise and very satisfactory report was presented to the Committee from the Town Clerk, who gives it as his opinion that there are no legal ini i ;,liii - usnts la the way of the Council supplying the well water for dietetic purposes, and the Rivington water for sanatory and such other general purposes as it may be adapted for. It is most satisfactory to find that the Town Clerk expresses his views with so much frankness, under existing circumstances, seeing that throng out we could not help recognising in him a strong feeling in favour of the Pike—a feeling no doubt prompted on his part, like that of others, by an honest conviction that the scheme would prove, when completed, what its pro moters had represented it, and not what it has turned out to be. However, the time has now come when the past must be ignored, and when all, in whatever capacity they may move, who are really actuated by a desire to promote the peace and welfare of the town, must sink their differ ences, and unite to make the best they can out of past disasters. The Pike scheme has wrought its own con demnation, and it would now only be a waste of words to say anything further against it. Nor is it at all desirable even to insinuate reproaches against those who were its most honest and zealous advocates, for none have ever dared to impugn the sincerity or purity of their motives; and it is, assuredly, matter more for regret than triumph, that their fondly cherished anticipa tions have been doomed to such bitter disappoint ment. The public look forward with much interest to the meeting of the Council on Wed nesday next, and we trust the various members will be at their posts, resolved honestly and fearlessly to perform their duties to the town on this one great quesion. The Water Committee must now find them selves in a most painful position. and it is the duty of the Council to relieve them from it at once. The Committee are in no way responsible (or the Pike disaster. They were merely ap pointed to carry out the views of a majority of the Council, which they have done to the best of their ability, and with the most perfect single ness of purpose ; for the total failure of the scheme they are in no way responsible. Of their honesty, zeal, and devotion to the discharge of their duties, there cannot be two opinions. They fulfilled the mission entrusted to them, and they will best consult their own dignity, and the future good of the town, by confiding to other hands the carrying out of a system of water supply diametrically opposed to that which fell to their ministration. The Economist observes that the most important cause of monetary disturbance at the present moment is the condition of things iu the United States. It is estimated that in this country American railway and cther similar securities are held to an amount of between eighty and one hundred millions sterling. "No doubt these are held chiefly as investments, and beymd the gloom and anxiety which the state of those securities are now in, they well not, probably, create much effect upon our market here ; and as it is probable that the greater portion will revive after the present panic, there may not be much ultimate loss occasioned by them. But it is certain that those who in this eountry are connected with the trade of the Unite I States, will be induced to dispose of securities which they hold in this market, in order to sustain the demand upon them from the other side of the Atlantic, and which will be less or more permanent according as that crisis continues for a shorter or longer period. It is imposs:ble to look at these three causes of demand upon our financial resources without feeling that, independent of any temporary causes which may affect the Bulk returns, and which may counsel a further rise in the rate of Bank discount, there are sufficiently grave considerations of a more permanent character, to induce us to apprehend a farther pressure in our money market." The Press betrays considerable annoyance at the late speech of Major .Beresford at Ileadinghara. It regrets much to fled that Mr. Beresford has ' joined that clique which, professing to prefer their country to their party, prove at once that they are ignorant of the tree interests of their country, and entirely misconceive the character of their party. We confess that we are surprised, and as grieved as surprised, to learn that Mr. Beresford considers that in order to be a true patriot, he must cease to be a faithful conservative. No leader of that great connexion, nor even its humblest member, has ever given occasion to its opponents to impute to it that unscrupulous partisanship which is willing to realise "political capital' out of the sufferings and disasters of their country. We recommend Mr. Beresford to read again the sentiments of those eminent men upon whose sagacity and integrity the conservatives of the kingdcm repose with loyal confidence; and we are sure that the regret he will feel at the injustice which he has done to them, will in no way be compensated by the approbation of the ministry or the adulation of their journals." The Saturday Review continues to urge the permanent and general establishment of volunteer corps. " There would be no d.fficulty," our cotemporary thinks, " and no very embarrassing expense, in keeping such a force em bodied for a month in the year, either continuously or from time to time, as the convenience of the members of the corps and the nature of their occupations might re quire. In many regiments a whole month's continuous embodiment would probably be very easy. A large pro portion, indeed, of the more affluent classes of society would greatly enjoy such a variation on the established autumnal holiday, and a few weeks' encampment at Alder shott or on Dartmoor would quicken the circulation and toughen the muscles not much less effectually than a Swiss or Scotch tour. The habits of that section of the community from which such a force would be recruited are anything but effeminate. Indeed, we doubt whether they are not to the full as hardy as those of soldiers in barracks. Country gentlemen, the better kind of tenant farmers, and a very large proportion of the younger mem bers of the mercantile and professional classes, would be only too glad to join in such a scheme ; and they would, we do not at all doubt, form a force which, though it might not come up to the full standard of military criticism, would oppose a very formidable obstacle to any invader, and on an emergency set the whole of the regular army at liberty for foreign operations." The United Service Gazette says : "Fifteen years ago, the Affghans massacred, in the depth of winter, some 13,000 British soldiers, sepoys, and camp followers. An army of retribution was immediately formed, and meeting were held all over the country, to raise subscriptions for the prisoners and families of the victims. The excellent Bishop of Calcutta, Dr. Wilson, either presided at the principal meetir g, or attended to support a resolution. What was the exclamation when the cruelties of the Affghans had been vividly portrayed The troops are assembling to take vengeance on these Affghans—only let us get at 'em V Here was a simple question of ven geance ; there was nothing to fear from sparing an Affghan as there is from showing mercy to a Sepoy, yet the pious bishop —one of the most amiable of prelates— could not restrain the expreosion of his hope of inflicting retributive punishment, Only let us get at ' em!' —We should like to Ees that passage inscribed on every banner until the whole of the offending native army of Bengal has fallen beneath the fire and steel of the English soldier." The Loader has heard of the departure for India of twenty-nine ladies, in one packet, and observes :—" The more women go out, the more soldiers must follow to protect them ; so serious is the inconvenience, that it is by no means an arbitrary act to issue a positive order against the embarkation of woman for India during disturbances. When a woman fought a gun in Rodney's flagship, he told her she was a fine creature, but a great nuisance. Fine creatures and—par 'on us—great nuisances, are the ladies who now go out to Bombay, Madras, or Calcutta. We doubt whether Queen Durghutti herself, of the Hindoo kingdom of Gurrah, would be welcomed in the camp of Havelock, although she was a brave champion of the Hin deos against their Mohammedan invaders, wore armour, shook a burnished lance, plucked arrows from her bosom without fainting, and at last died in the field. But the young girls bound for the East are not D arghuttis or Maids of Saragossa. They carry to India only S 3 many forms of grace, bloom, and delicacy, within cool circles of crinoline ; and at, a glimpse of their white throats the knives of a hundred Nana Sahibs would be sharpened for another licentious butchery. Let them think of the worst that might happen." The John BO regrets that so many statesmen of mark, should, at such a moment as this, be shut out of the government. "If Lord Derby, Lord Grey, Mr. Gladstone, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord John Rus sell, Mr. Disraeli, Lord Etlenbarough, and others whom we could name, were all of the same politics, we might regret their being among the Outs, but presume that the Ins bad men of equal calibre to cope with them. But these names are the flower of Whig and Tory . , and it cannot therefore be a healthy state of things which debars the Queen and the country of their services. We acknowledge the advantages of government by party ; but if you have for a time no party, you cannot have government by party. The principles which draw men into parties will always exist, but the line of party demarcation often becomes from accidental circumstances confused or obliterated. Then is the time, wbgan U. propping danger calls for it, that ga r asataa atatoa men may fairly be asked to abandon their jealousies, and to give up to mankind what party has usually exacted." THE MGR PRIC 3 Or MEAT.—A week or two since, occasion was taken in The Observer to advert to the unseemingly and unjust practices resorted to for the purpose of keeping up the price of bread, and the success which had attended the efforts of the speculators, who, with corn some thirty shillings a quarter lower, have still been able to keep up the price of the 41b. loaf at 81. and Bd. The failure of the potato crop was not then generally known, therefore it may be relied on that this will now be tu-ned to account, and that the price of bread will be kept up at its present heig'et, if not increased. But there is a fur ther class of speculators who operate, and most sucessfully too, in the other principal and staple commodity of human food, viz , meat. For the last four years the price of meat has ruled enormously high, and without any reason whatever , except that a combination of capitalists have been enabled so to regulate the supply as to keep up the ptice. About seven years ago the large `breeders of cattle had almost overdone themselves ; they were overstocked, and the prices they then obtained scarcely repaid them, considering the risks the ran of the failure of the green crops, always a subject of much anxiety, owing to the variable character of the climate of this country. They, therefore, determined to limit their operations, and not breed so many head for a year or two. In many instances they restricted them selves too much, and after a short time there was as great a scarcity of good cattle as previously there had been a superabundance. Prices accordingly want up fully twenty five per cent , f nd at that figure they have remained ever since, notwithstanding the breeders are now annually rearing quite as many, if not more, head of cattle than they did on the first occasion referred to. In addition to this the importation of cattle has largely increased We have now weekly large consignments of horned cattle from Germaay, from Denmark, 2paia, and Portu gal. It is true that there has been a certain amount of disease ; and that pleuro-pneumonia has been rather prevalent; but still these causes are insufficient to account for the present high prices, prime joints of meat cannot now be bought even at a second-class butcher's under 81 - dt Di and 10d per pound. At first-sass butcher's the prices range from Dtd to a shilling a-pound. How then is it pos sible for the working classes to pay suck exorbitant prices ? The manner in which these high rates are kept up is stated to be by the speculation of a class of middlemen who operate between the breeder and the salesmen. These men, principally Jews, have amassed enormous wealth, and, like the Greek firms in the late war, are enabled to buy up very large quantities of stock while they are still in the pastures of the breeders. They operate together, especially as re spects the London market, which requires many thousand head of cattle a week ; and by their large purchases are enabled in a great measure to regulate the supply so that there shall always be a regular demand. This practice is so well known that, to stop the system, the corporation of the city of London hate framed bye laws for the regulation of the market, under which it is enacted that there shall be no re-sale of cattle in the market on the same day ; laws aimed directly against the middlemen. These bye-laws are, howeter, continually evaded by the operatians carried on long before the market opens. When the price of meat is high, the public too often urjustly blame the butchers ; but the blame really rests elsewhere, inasmuch as before they can despoil the public they have been despoiled them sel es. In these days of high prices one is induced to long for the return of those good old times when the law of fore ateliers and regraters punished those who for 'the sake of gain, unjustly enhanced the food of the people. There is a case on record, where Lord Chief Justice Kenyon thus strongly expressed himself in passing sentence on a man convicted of this system of forestalling the price of food. kg ° " If," said the judge, " the defendant went to oar the purpose of making his purchases in the Air cos 700 dealing, with the view of afterwards dispersing th e t he modity in proportion to the wants and convenience el. public, whatever profit accrued to him from the trio a t ie no blame is imputable to him. On the contra* ;$0 whole of his conduct shows plainly that he did not d o c h a i r s rie p d ur o c n hm in e o s rd wi er th to , to deprive the people of their ordinary 0 11351 no, n or itu el l e e e ? c , o , m p4 4 3 n l d t h i e n m p t r o o opfutrhchataeteheit judge r ote! oid, who can deny that this is an offence of the tehhishavniceewt,hebuptrietheaotf his the co tr tn ai ii tioste sj ow ; he fined the defendant £5OO. It would, indeed, hs "e l s blessing if some score of the speculators in the m oA people could be similarly punished. It would hal l ° per. A ace wholesome effect, especially if to pecuniary boa added the terror of imprisonment. A society hsof tbt formed for the purpose of promoting the inOrsstsd led trading trading community, and this unfair and underbso t ie is proposed to be dealt with by that body. I r ' 3 . lY prs,, minded person must wish them success in the cor e; worthy undertaking. Their self-allotted task 'gm' o of rri be no sinecure, and the difficulties, an these da d s et trade, will be very great ; but the object is so gc° port such importance to the public, especially th e ier tso classes, that they deserve to succeed in their and And so we wish them good speed!—Observer. • tea stra e . Tame SHIPBUILDING.—The model of a vessel eir'n 01 0 on an upon Mr. John Clare's patent principle is feci c t i vi rb h ita it ti o t t :;: : it. 4 tion at Lloyd's. NAVAL PROMOTION.—Captain Thomas Ogiteris, formerly of Preston, now of Garth -y-Don, ne3l/"" promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral. The steamer Borussia, Captain Trantmann , halnt e / this port, consigned to Messrs. Leech, Harris on, s e iete ! d er wood, to repair her propeller, to enable her to Oa' h r A lsw Al voyage to New York. She left Hamburgh number of passengers and cargo, on the let icl; bore' back on the sth to Greenoak, and then ca me -11 There is no damage expected to the hull or c ergn• o f I , MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—Yesterday, es R SOEIS SP „ t eto ship John Bright was passing through Denison-s"0 1 , was struck in the bead with a poker by a you n ge ill , ps e u d of the residents in the street. So severe was rtbet i inflicted, that the man had to be removed to th e At", Hospital, where he now lies. The party wbb blow was at once arrested, and will be brought ti r ete i police court this morning. Pea f e ri• FIRE AT HALE.—On Friday evening afire we--„ view in the rick yard on the farm oecapied by Mr. EL;',ela,', nary surgeon, of Hale Bank. Before assietance ' to t procured, the flames had gained such ground, or, large corn stack was totally destroyed. Tha ~0154 t: great that the flames were seen for miles, alio i o large assemblage of the neighbours, who reada"' Thelo assistance they could to save the other propertf• „ A i is estimated at a large amount, at b, we u ndo Ellis was fully insured. est.; CONSECRATION OF ST. PAUL'S CIFORCIII, On Saturday, this sacred eii6ce, which has been 7,0,1 public worship about two years, was duly eent-oltild? the Lord Bishop of the Diocese. The cereino n l'eo il 'fi a' eleven o'clock, but long before that hour the n , V II , was filled by a most respectable congregation' '4,1110 Bishop of Chester, with the incumbent, the Retaillf e link, assisted by about a dozen of the clergy be'°-e-odsh the neighbourhood, performed the usual sole lna ;bed ," posing prayers, afTer which his Lordship 10, 1 / l erof sermon. A collection was then made, and libervi fieto:9% del to, the proceeds being devoted to the buildigatol' 4 , CORONER'S COURT.—The Coroner held the no L-quests en Saturday :—On the body of Christ°P r Oai, tersby, aged 40, who was killed at the Union - Ictircle," Friday, by a piece of timber falling on hici• s ests i g t" Accidental death." On the body of Georg ° ,ol lr d i s aged 44, who cut his throat on Friday, the d e :jslett;i o l published in our paper of Saturday. It appeare: f to. oB unfortunate man was insane, and the jury 00,10;1 to that effect. On the body of a woman won" „," a i r saYi Coenoly, who lived in Grafton-street. It sPP - 0.41 she was insane from drink, and whilst in th e - ar o hung herself with a clothes line. Verdict, " 8 " 0 0 , 4 fe 1‘ i usanity." accreinrs.-1 dock messenger named Ma r led! nigh, aged 15, residing in Naylor-street , roc o' Saturday, while standing in Brunswick-street, atea,ort kick in the arm from his horse. The arm wa s br as Vfo above the elbow, aid the poor lad novt l ie ' !t i e cl a s 'e [leering in the Northern Hospital. On th o the Vol man named William Fagan, in the employ "rir ela, shire anl Yorkshire Railway Company, fe" otst'oi ' high level" on to the dock quay, whil e ja %OP intoxication. So severe was the fall that he reb°,ll e lo r ot fell from the quay into a flat lying in t b „ e " c t ' snr sustained severe contusions, and now lies i n " state FAT i A n L the AC N C o m rt z h N e T rn O H N o T se;: l tal C p . ntursill it 01 94. Ralawsv.--On Thursday afternenn a. ns'eot accident occurred on the above line, by which %re Henry Stokes, a plate layer. met his death. It al'ec" the deceased, with several other working ti' e ci l e os io l engaged in repairing the line near Tranoter e 'wer e to train from Chester arrived. The signal was fta Kos all the men excepting the deceased left the rail, ' l ,', to he could get out of the way, the buffer belong'cl'hitoti, eagine struck him with sucl force that it bni e , 0 1 0 1 ; considerable distance, and he was most s everau; o olTAkti He was taken to the Birkenhead hospital, wherei).a fr'" o 3 time, death put an end to his su ff erings. "0 01 4' evening an inquest was held on the body of the by H. Churton, Esq., the coroner , and a verlirr, °' jl ot dental death." was returned. MUsICAL Togas.—Another company of arti s i - n ie °e d i if hen formed by Mr. Bale for the purpose of of Operas in the provinces —some in English tal jos Italian—commencing hers on the 19:11 leading members of the troupe w ill u Jklidarne Borchardt, Mr. Sims R eeves , e -e a nd nt g , r , sr„ ;( 1,, guished artistes, whilst the Operas in W hich t" i 'eti'Y perform will be "La Soanambala," " The 13eber a ,ifil i ' to ‘ a ‘ n L d a ,, T l r i av T i r a o t v a , ,'; o ' re 'L .,, irci i a l d e i , L is s it nim of er3a r o n ot . , s " ira Ve o e ei fi ro Newcastle daring the present tour, recalls to 03 ' - e llohis that it was at the theatre in that town he 10 3 7, st i :„o appearance believe he has not performed there, excepting t ii ,,teir i. o since that time. His voice eyes then considers" such parts being allotted to him as Covit flocl°,l4 " Sonnambula," ant Dandini in " Ceneiello t° ,;(o,l is ll that period he has rapidly progressed in his P e re visiting Italy and assiduously cultivating the P° l ; e lf n,ture had given him—until he has placed Itini;pito.'i ri "head and front" of those English artists W l ' ° highest rank in the lyric world. It must be gr, - ,, ll serle, our readers to have an oppo.tenity of h e aring , ,,estglq the most popular Operas, English and Italian, ti'ertiO baritone now transformed into the first tenor l i el rd'd e a l ß i a el s aetv o ee f ns l t, a sd t p e oou y ib e i tt i i r io s nn p ta r hn o e d d u m c ai e en d qati t si ro a e n fm d aena s yt l s i p o e u wr l s d eo t n l i there f a iry o"~ their attention to the fo!lovvilz er'ordq, whit jlre some time since in the Musical World: L.." ou, i '1:1 1 , 11 now in the prime of life and the meridian of 4 ' 1 ,00, ri in public and respected in private. Nature hall " i or; i j ilt a l" ataeaWfameoptsvntaperhdra.pdreaalaaßemtlrm:tn.laialete:oinnhdev;Geaehlanspiari'ai patronage, Is i toit s iir , a leeoit s ta re hnhh i aeafoen d angntrgEhleeotalt: F u„arttiaront e ipissiiad r saprn t ototr u ifnmhesf ri s totevhe e haireeogeenfi h eadtasp: a orhtn s :inmlee f envas e nipimf v riatr o drweboite u rnsE,h, r r:euuog, e nra d bt;tll.3s:eit l o s taian i stro c s i .::: o - iejitel.i g etet,orrbo s reo.h,:cene i_ 4lo : ,:_i:ooolii;i:,:ioi. v iii ) :;: cient to state that, in addition to her distineti ";e of , been prevailed ul.on to sign an eagagenva" , r a j season in Rome. as ° l LIST OF PASSENGERS raft R.M.S. Feature YORK.—Mr. J. A. Novello, Mr. Hugh Di%.,,, (111 '/I. Mrs. Young. child, and nurse, Mr. and Mrs. .7 1 0 110 1r j , jun , Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Pancrast, Mr. itn,foo i t i t all i s Magnin, Me. and Mrs. Louis Althof, Mr. Pl 4, ' 7 Mr. E. Agnes, Madame De Montholme, Mr- P . litc' Mr. G. W. Fenwick, Mr. Theo. Brocklem e9 ' Marshall, Mr. D. H. Meeks, Mr. H. M. D"' l ,: 7 11 -. 4 .3 4' ) '! Hickey, Mr. Powell, Mr. Robert Rodg e r we d ' McKenzie, Mrs. Thos. D Johnston, Mr. Sa l t a t 45 7 B M i r il . in D g o , g 2a ni r n, J ll o l h r a . ATaFomreads,m3eine,. Jos.Mr. P A e . tkr ~V t a e r s . S a t "o - 6 b l Mr. aed Mrs. S. C. Joao, two child ren , et 40 1 and Mrs. inirre.r. Woodbury aHmansd. dBO. uecgrko, s : L .argnj a :a n . g inumi do A n iud , ntrds c .e h r irrd i vs l . d ao dsnn , 4 e: a 3a n i. ifs t1,10: 1 146 ,, ;: e s !tve 0 : 0 " M F W mpw s l nr yn s . . e . n cessHe. , c,, ° l3mu • Miss Hannah Fethergill, M i ss jti j r• g Mr, and Mrs. Fanshawe, three children t _g - n ieret.ii , ro An a Mr. H., Stewart, rJtm,ohrm.n Ramon a . w.m D o. a n u ß b ivio le o d uthr a n y wo , ize 7 k, r 3 . l3llr W .r. .Z ioc iir_ oba e o L efor e;:fi Hasche, Mr. S. E. Waste, Mr. and Mrs,. `: - Vir a ,, fr ; Paterson, Mr. Moore, L. Rosenfall, - 131 Pep' ley, Colonel Bell, R.A., Mr. al 3. Witilsl.lc. /4° Newbegin, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Winchester, ,0 Mr. Goodyear's maid-servant, Mr. G. W 119°13 13e te servants, Mrs Langdon's maid• ser vant, '/t, Paul Brandt, Mr, Urban Hewitt, Mr. an d oeff",,eol,lo Mrs. Frances Wood, Mr. Langdon's lutt l 2, Ottir:d Jareslaw, Mr. John Robertson, Mr. 4:°! )- C. B. Smith, Mr. Robert B Johnston, Mr. James Mayor, Mr. John Norton, Mr` and Mr. Patrick Mc Glenchay. THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1857