Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-07 00:00:00

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Heat ktiCeditei;- vu Expe— ' LEB WALKER INDI A RUBE ' lyrw ar ri'lleatio(l,e4 b y post ROY MCC-MA !se r v e,-.,1.1 4 ,, ards of I.4vehv- - - * 4 below the beihg sent to the Mar 22R, PICCAI p i :l 4 4pi v ' e ' e.atii 4 el to b --- eu' 't Th, s Y. t 2 4, a, CKINGS, KNEE- I (7' 3r 4 ' l ei . p .' e tiN ee f IVIT,,:i c VERPOOI the famil for the contn D EP 0 T, 'REST. for measurement referen A.TEN T TRUSS i 1.1 Gentlemen to be the reatment of HI he - SlbC-N much ease fitting witt * et`:tr, NI 6d., and A Double T ~ and 52: MR. BRIGHT ON TAXATION & REFORM At the monthly meeting of the Birmingliatti Landlords' Association, held on Thursday even ing, the subject of the income-tax was introduced, and led to some discussion, and a resolution Was passed appointing a committee to prothote the agitation against the continuance of the impost. Letters had been received from Mr. Scholefield, M.P., and Mr. Bright, M.P. The following is the important communication of Mr. Bright : " The longer I know tke income-tax, and the more I examine it, the more I think it hateful and intolerable. Up to this point we are agreed ; but here you leave me in the dark. As one of your representatives, you expect me to do some thing, and you wished me to promise that I will oppose, at all risks, anY re-enactment of the income-tax. laws. " Now, let me usk you how it is that, with a population greatly increased, and with wealth increased even beyond the increase of population, there is so much, and, as we all feel, such just dissatisfaction with the amount and with the sys tem of our taxation ? Is it not because the na tional expenditure, rises constantly and rapidly, apparently without any regard to the real neces sities of government ? There is no department in which the expenditure has not largely in creased during the last ten years, and every year exhibits a greater contempt of _economy on the part of the administration and the parliament. The Russian war threw wide open the door of the national exchequer, and, since Ifl4, the great fund gathered from the industry of the people has been an easy prey to those who, on hollow pretences. of every kind, manage to liVe at the expense of the payers of taxes. " The House. cif Commons does nothing to check extravagance; it encourages it. Its mem bele are not so much of the tax-paying as of the tax-consuming class. They come from, and they chiefly represent, those whose families have for generations considered the taxation of the people as their lawful patrimony. The eldest of the family takes the estate in land, and the rest of y occupy their lives mainly in a scramble ided interest in that Other estate, undivi ;ed yea by the ryers of t "The House of Commons will not check the extravagance of the administration of the depart ment, and it will not levy the taxes with any that is just in the imposition of rational burdens. ce to For sixty years it has levied a heavy probate 1 property, from which land and exempt LONDON "'ettion forsE EIV 3f weakness, and swc . Postage is. led o JOHN-WHITE CAPS, & 'e made is recommended rly elastic and compressible, efficient and permanent sup of the LEGS. & drawn ox porous, ligt The Customs and Excise alone raised more than forty-two millions, collected on articles the great bulk of which is consumed by that portion of the population which has no property but its "ILY to akRMS, CREST, or PEDIGREE ila the p , labour and no income but its wages, and which, Royal Heraldic Office name and county, and as might be expected from the fact just stated, 11 will receive a correct copyof your armorial ) 41,1; 0., /1,7 - in heraldic colours. SE. has no voice in Parliament, and is who?' - wit: ordinary --••••-• OStage 6,1 MANUFACTURER, 228, PICCADILLY, LONDON. m.w.f. AL, , with the or i ginal grant of m . th! e d, the origin of the name, & ns, 10s., or tree ~ to whom : fee, 10s. lout representation in the government of the country. " The Parliament (I speak of the two Houses) is a Parliament of the rich, it has no immediate interest in economy, or in equal taxation. It is powerful enough to secure to the class which it really represents the patronage and the emolu ments which are to be disposed of, in the spend ing of the vast sums which find their way into the National Exchequer. What can Ido ? What can' any single member of Parliament do ? I can protest,—l can describe your grievance! I can denounce the wrong ! I can say that , a Govern ment so unjust will some day be overthrown. But all this, and much more, will not loosen the grasp of the insatiable hand against whose extor tion you complain. " So long as the middle classes of our popula tion will tolerate a system of mock representation, based on the coercion of county constituencies, and the corruption of the boroughs; so long as the power of the great proprietors of the soil, in the one case, and the power of Money in the other, return an overwhelming majority of the House. of Commons—so lon,g there can be no hope of any economical administration, and of a just distribution of the public burden—and so long as the millions of workmen whose toil and skill produce all the wonders of 'which our ,krz.ved wit} ttt 44 1,3 or ring Ne, nvi 4IS ' n S one Shini ng PURSE, with elastic ~L. cou~e~en a ' n(l durable, in 12 patterns : at 63 ' C / 1 11;0 11 ' 13) AM S S, \ • REET, LIVERPOOL, - "v PARKER STRF.RT rlu ttz --•-•-•--___ r)OORA W. it El O O R D HUNT, Nbi tat 8 LV STRE, AND GAS-FITTING WORKS, 2 ~.. ZLANOVER-STREET, LIVERPOOL. ti4,41,„` A.SBornient of these most essential Articles in ' 4 % 41,jt;;IIN su itable to every situation, from the Cottage 4 s. tzs?ritractor for every description of I I 7 ' INK , plPßS,fand FITTINGS, 4 , , For Home or Foreign Orders. 8,..." 1) DRY GAS METERS AND REGULATORS, •114v1)lied after Testing at the Public Office. RESTORING ED.ONEING, AND DACKERING. .1. WREFORD HUNT, 28, llarover-street, Three Doors • rcre Duke-sreet. GALLANT RESCUES f4.)lescl LOWESTOFT, 2nd. itt,Nra t a l ,Y morning, when it was blowing a heavy * Nt ." qa e S.S.Y. a screw steamer was seen to a - I , l , l t StSouth end of the' 1-161 m Sand. The to. 0, I frolaTon . seeing the sea to break heavily over 'ehed „Ost expenenee, knowing that no time ' 4 ]- ‘ 4 e 'l4 ° lleeted their people, and immediately 1: 4 i 0 ).1 4 4 1 4e ;h0at, which is in-connexion . with,the 1: 1 4 2 , life,h'ife-boat Institution, for their rescue. ':4ltiall'"l'erhe;°at reached the steamer, the sea was j oal b 'aallf, A lh ast-headS ; but the life-boat was pro her,44 of la anchor in the most advantageous as apcl her ; and although the sea broke .4° seas - I )° atedly -filled her, this excellent s n e ' s Waspil 4 ' h e -• buoyancy , clearing herself i' ac hat le r nth, with difficulty, enabled tO ro pes tlae t e steamer ; a communication was D 9 21 1% of th e es tablished with the wreck, _ and ork ncla the s cr ew, fourteen men, were hauledby 4 4 ' 41 04 Thi s a ea to the life-boat, and brought safe lit , do,. 3 u + had been pronounced by all the, k, t ,' 4 114 ab t r o 't a rescue from IFliipwreck as tiley ever tili'`li t ;'„ a Ptain Joachim, R.N., who was pre !' La 4 , 1 "" seen many of- these ants with life- Nt eke..,'"er saw one . conducted . with more 4 d et th u g e ; and the perilous situation of the lii tk *itt i ne e w ea hnot doubt when I tell you that, Vloth; we the Rolm Sand, with shallow water, bts p; l:t g but their cable to depend on, 4 4a N s trtl e iled) they must, to all appearance, have ,',:---o` ° h• The steamer was the Shamrock the same evening of the Same day, [l t ' t ()lN'rt- b I , t Was blowing a heavy gale from the . `k schooner was observed at anchor in 80tIcter 'ads, and in endeavouring to weigh to ° N 6 10 ,Y aft az a outtcled on a shoal about 200 yards to le N tt e l 44 , the south pier, and her boat • was 4 itt l ,kki; 4l l4 4l . t ed from her by the force "of the' sea, or t e jlt fl,`° break over her for many hours, to RS b,"e lre'llßer a the crew. The rocket and 1 ' lll k e °Pp t 4 1 0 ara Ls were used without the poor kstN ti l te-b 6 L? to avail themselves of them.. The tati ) gali, kl ,. • which is in connection with the . k 4 41 lib -4'le-boat Institution, - arrived to their i t) l 4l t o °t - midnight, but owing 'to the ti lt ,' ' ,her sllithe schooner, the violence of the itt;44l;,44cliltciv 'water which prevented their closing it • €4 4 4 t boat striking so heavily on the 840 te break her to pieces, and the men V.ll Oat, t ee Ping themselves from being washed k4 v 4V I , qe.h 4 l , l b eY were reluctantly compelled to take ,tl fl erew c'ur• The risk and exertions of the - _ industry can boast, are purposely and ded from any direct and legal election of members of Parlia so long they may and must bear a load of taxation wholly beyond their means to support. " There is something essentially mean and singularly cruel in the manner in which_the taxa tion of this country has been and is still levied. national insultingly exc in ti " Our rich class is the richest in Europe; the administration of the country is in its hands, and a greater proportion of the heaviest taxation in the world is thrown upon the class possessing no property but its labour and wages, than is the case in any other country with whose system of taxation we are acquainted. " What is the remedy ? It is to be found only in a change in the authority by which taxes are levied arid the public funds expended. The only real security for economy in government, and for fairness in the laying on of burdens, is to be found, in a House of Commons which shall honestly represent the people of the United Kingdom. " Let the householders of England, Scotland, and Ireland ; let the head§ of families; 'let those who form the nation speak through fairly chosen representatives in Parliament, and justice in raising taxes, and economy in spending them, may be hoped for. I shall do all I can in favour of this justice and this economy, but every effort will be in vain until the public purse is taken from the custody of a class, 'and placed under the safe keeping of the people. " I will thank you to convey this expression of my views to the association you represent. lam very sorry I see so little prospect of rendering them any service." THE RUSSIANS IN THE BLACK SEA.—A circumstance, attended the mission of Ethem Pasha, whose return from Russia I announced in my last letter. The Turkish corvette, on arriving at Odessa, naturally fired the customary salute.; but the compliment was not returned, and the written explanation given to the Sultan's envoy states that, in. accordance _with the spirit of the treaty of Paris, the fortifications along the coast of the Black Sea had been distaantled, and the guns-shit into the interior of the empire. It seems the Russians don't like firing with blank . cartridge when Turkey is the No ot vAigh l're not, however, lost, for having 4% 4 ,er to "ke da r k ness o f the night that the water k v „De p„ leeward of the sehnongs, object of to ; ,FIRE IN :ESTER.-NARROW ESCAPE , —About day night, a fire broke out on the in it street leading.off --• "...1G Ul '„ L a gain pu — t Oft : in a small boat, and ap '4oener in that direction, and succeeded tod and FI G 11.0.9 ,f 1 1. Turner-street. The firemen played' upon the , buriting building an hour and a half before the flames were. sub dued. As some of the men on the third storey were ff q j,ng crew, consis amidst the acclanaa_ Is. who continued un 'them, were almost 4 . of ten Several of about to leave; it gave way, and they wer to the storey, below buried, au one man was embedded n the c )they" of the r of ttie aCII. IDE duty on persor freehold property have been, and are now, " For nearly sixty years it levied a heavy egacy duty on personal property from which land and freehold property were exempt. In the 3, it pretended to correct this injustice is the legacy duty, by imposing a sue ession tax on land and freehold property ; but it did this in a way to charge land and freehold property not more than one fourth of the amount which is charged on all other kinds of property. This succession tax was to have raised two millions sterling a year; up to this time I believe it has not reached £BOO,OOO in any one year. "The - whole taxation of the country lust year exceeded 65 millions sterling. Of this vast s as regarc not ten millions were raised by taxes affecting only the possessors of the visible property of the country NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. THE AMERICAN MISSION TO CHINA. The China papers rgive accounts of the reception of the American nassion. at Pekin, from which we learn that while the Powhattan was anchored off Pei-tang, there arrived an Imperial edict ordering that the American . I _4linister, and suite of twenty, should be escorted with all konour to Pekin. Mr. Ward and suite accordingly landed at Pei-tang, where they were received by the escort, and conducted to Pekin with every show of respect. They first travelled forty-five miles across the country in covered carts, striking the Peiho at a village called Pei-tsang, some ten miles above Tien-isin, and thence proceeded in junks to Toong . ,- chau, distant twelve miles from Pekin, of which it is the port. There they again took carts to the capital. The entire trip occupied eight days and a-half, five of which were passed upon the river. They passed not less than six or eight barriers between Pei-tsang and Toong-chau; none of them; however, being in repair, or backed by forts. The boatmen Said they were partly to stop the English, and partly to affordshelter to junks when the ice is breaking up. The legation remained in Pekin fifteen days, during which time they were con fined to their quarters—not, however, as prisoners, for they were at liberty at any moment to walk out ; but the commissioners refused the use of horses and guides. On a day fixed, Mr. Ward, attended by only three of his party, went to the public hall, where the Imperial Commissioners met him, surrounded by a great crowd of officials of every shade of button, all dressed in their easy summer +costume. Kweiliang looked hale and vindicated the late acts of his government in respect of its plans for the exchange of the three treaties. He de clared that the Emperor had a right to obstruct the channel of his own rivers, and had done so at the mouth of the Peiho to prevent foreign ships ascending to Tien-tsin; that he would have'been blameworthy if all ingress had 'been closed, but, on the contrary, every arrangement had been made for conducting all the foreign ministers to Pekin by way of Pei-tsang. The English Envoy, however, had not gone to that place, but had tried to force his way through the barriers of Taku, even when warned of the consequences ; and that by so doing the English had broken the treaty and not the Chinese, upon whom the responsibility of the viola tion did not rest. He concluded his harangue with the remark that the hostile feelings of the English were also seen in their bringing as large, if not a larger, force to exchange their treaty than they had to make the peaceful designs of the Americans were proved by their coming in only one vessel. The Commissioners then proceeded the Emperor had a regard to the America. to do them honour by granting them an audience, ar it only remained for the parties then present upon the manner of approaching the throne that the kotow, or regular form of ol} te that, as s, he wish.e ,t, to settle Ye urged esiance, required -hoh, of envoys from tributary nations, i.e., san-kwei-ki not be ex- one kneeling and Mr. 'Ward ANOTHER TRADE OUTRAGE AT SHEFFIELD ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A HOUSE 'About six o'clock on Friday morning, Mr. Joseph Wilson, saw manufacturer, who occupies a house adjoin ing his works, at the corner of Milton and Headford streets, Sheffield, was aroused by the noise of a violent explosion, which shook the house. Mr. Wilson instantly proceeded down stairs, but found such an accumulation' of rubbish and smoke in the passage unable at first to get into the "living". that he was some little delay he succeeded in getting into the room, when he found the door blown up. In the cellar he found that a tin vessel, which had evidently contained combustibles, had been let in under the living room, and there exploded. A serious amount of damage has been done by the explo sion In the cellar there is little mischief done beyond the tearing off of a large quantity of plaster, &c explosive current passed in great violence up the cellar stairs, blowing down the shelves of crockery, &c., at the cellar bead, and tearing down the partition, partly of wood and partly of brick, which separated the passage leading from the kitchen to the cellar from the- front' passage between the rooms. The 'hearth stone and boarded floor of the " living" room, which is over that part of the cellar, where the explosion occurred, . were torn up almost the entire breadth of the room. The marble mantel-piece was broken in twain; and all the ... ornaments standing upon " three . kneelings and itine_kno - eks," woul petted ; " but,' r said the Judge, three knocks will do for a friendly power replied that, while he entertained the e for his Majesty, , and in that only f dent himself had expressed in the letter of which he was the bearer, he wished to declare, in the plainest terms,that highly as he would regard an audier ', and important as it under - the present circumstances, still he had never asked it, and the treaty said nothing about it, but he would not kneel when he came 'before the throne. He could only salute his Majesty as he did the Sovereigns of all other nations when they saw them; he knelt only as an act of worship before God, and would never do so before any man. They were subjects of the Emperor, and must obey his ritual ; but he repre sented a nation whose dignity he could not compromise by such a compliance ; and, furthermore, true respect must always proceed from the heart, and, if the out- ward ceremony was not voluntary, it hypocrisy He would bovi very low, and even nine times, would add to the solemnity in their view ; or he would stand uncovered during the whole audience, while the Emperor sat. More than this he would never willing ly perform; while this form of salutation exhibited all the respect he felt towards the President, which they must acknowledge was quite as great as he could feel towards the Emperor of China. _ _ _ The Commiisioners answered that they could not show respect —to their Sovereign otherwise than by kneeling, for anything short of that was absolutely nothing in their estimation, and would be deemed so by the Emperor. " You are a plenipotentiary," said Hwashana, turning to Mr. Ward, " and certainly have full powers to do such an act." "I am not invested with powers sufficient to enable me to change the laws and usages of my country, and cannot do anything to deo-rade it," was Mr. Ward's reply. The interview was then broken off, and it ws _ mated to the Americans that the treaty would be ex ehanged at Pei-tsang. This was accordingly done, and an English prisoner named John Powell given up. This man was an ordinary seaman on board of the Highflyer, and who, with a sapper of the name of Thomas M'Queen, had been' captured on the 25th-June; fearing for his life he had proclaimed himself to be an American. The Chinese informed Mr. Ward of this, and intimated their realiness to give him up as an American if he would demand him. This, however, the latter could not do, as he had been taken fighting under the flag of another nation. Anxious, however, to serve the poor fellow, he intimated to them that it would be a great personal favour if they. would :turn him over, an as such it was done. He is now on board of the Powhattan. Of the sapper nothing more is known than that he was wounded in the arm, was doing well, and is still a prisoner. The Chinese seemed generally anxious to know what the English would do next year CAPTAIN M'CLINTOCK, R.N. AT DUNDALK.—A meeting of the inhabitants of Dundalk and it s v i c i n ity took place on Nionday, in the grand jury-room of the Court-house, in order to present a testimonial to the dis tinguished discoverer of the relics of the Franklin ex- pedition. The testimonial consisted of a massive silver salver, and a beautifully designed claret jug of the same material. On both articles were engraved the crest of the li'Clintock family, and also the corporate arms of the town of Dundalk, and the following inscription:— "This salver and accompanying claret jug were pi esented to T..LeopoldlU‘Clintock, Esq., captain R.N., late com mander of the Fox, by his fellow-townsmen, the inhabi tants of Dundalk and its vicinity, in testimony of his gallantry, zeal, and perseverance, while in command of the ,expedition to discover tidings of the late lamented Sir John Franklin and companions, and of its success ful issue." Captain M'Clintock was warmly greeted by the assemblage, which constituted a large portion of the rank and wealth of the town and neighbourhood. MR. FAIRnAIRE STEAM EXPER;MENTS.—ME. Wm. Fairbairn, aided by his mathematical friend, Mr. Thos. Tate, has once more been performing experiments which scientific men will gladly welcome. It has long been suspected—or rather, it has long been placed beyond suspicion—that the law put forward by Dalton and. Gay-Lussac, however sound as applied ,to ordinary gaseous bodies, is not correctly applicable to steam, or, indeed, to any condensable vapours whatever, although it has formed the basis of all our standard writings on the subject. Dr. Joule and Professor W. Thomson were first led, some time since, •to notice the failure of the law in this respect, owing to discrepancies which they discovered in applying what is called the dynamical theory of heat to Carrot's law, and later Professor Rankine has one so far as to put forth new formula favouring the view of Joule and Thomson, and opposing that of Dalton and Gay-Lussac. With the question in this condition, Mr. Fairbairn has turned his attention to it, and very properly decided upon appealing to experiment for evidenc e o f th e truth. of the matter. Mr. Fairbairn and Mr. Tate express the density of the steam by means of numbers representi ng how many times the water composing it h as been expanded, and obtain some very remarkable departures from the results given by the. old formula. For example, , where the latter gave 1,005 fora temperature of 244 deg. the cape rimentgives 896 only; for a temperature of 245 deg. the formula gave 969, the experiment 890; for 257 deg. the numbers were 790 and 651 ; for 262 deg., 740 ancf 680 , for 268 deg., 680 and 633 ; for 270 deg. 660 and 604; and for 283 deg., 540 and•49o. These determinations, at pressures varying from 10 lbs. to 50 lbs. above the at mosphere, are, as Mr. Fairbairn M , , - S, not accurate re ductions from the experimental results, but Only approxi mations. They uniformly show, however, a decided deviation from the law for perfect gases, and in the direction anticipated by Professor , Thomson, the density being. uniformly greater than that indicated by the for mula., Mr. Fairbairn hopes by the time of the next meeting of the British Association, with the assistance of his friend Mr. Tate, to be e na bled to lay before the which will fully determine the section a series of value of lerheattd steam, and its d ) 500 lbs: on th sity and volumc es varyiug ;ssee of the Lyceum, that can be engaged. it were smashed to atoms. Singularly enough, the chimney A square table, left glass was not in the least - injured standing in the centre of the room, had evidently been, tossed up against the chand which it had broken, and, falling heavily o was broken into 'several pieces. In the sitting-room damage of a similar character was done. The furniture in both rooms was in the utmost disorder having evidently been tossed about in all directions, and every thing was literally coated with dust, but the damage to the furniture is not extensive. The fan-light over the it door was completE y blown o ,om, and was ;cupied by two children; no d to the.plaster and moulding. except Wilson slept over the s ,ely —t something more t ,n a mos' Tweed friend S. C. Hal of the kind, is siren the theatre will be handsomely re-decorated opened on , the 28th of November. Mr. Walter expected to be the stage manager, and Mr. William and re- Lacy is Bennett the treasurer, with the most powerful company Mr. Thackeray is to bring out his magazine on New Year's Day. His plans are already laid down not going, he says, to set the Thames on fire, or regene rate society—only to do his best to please and amuse the town. He proposes to seek an audience of gentlemen and gentlewomen for his sermon, and to take care that er, one of the glasses of all the m " ,ter to which he shall lend the sanction of his gentleman name and popularity' shall be st,,, might Write and another may read. The Publishers' • Circular will issue its illustrated Rumber on the 15th instant. It will, we hear, be more than usually comprehensive and more widely circulated than the numbers of former years. It will, as hitherto, be beautifully printed by Clay, whose mode of doing woodcuts is well known to the trade. Booksellers can not dUbetter, in making their investments in Christmas h as or and new year books, than examine closely the engravings d deseiiptions to be given in next Pub lan and Ball.promi EC. Wills, who h a volum Circular I,ssays, hitherto been n known as sub-editor of Household Words, and brother in-law of the Edinburgh Chambers, than as an author. Id Words has been prolific in crops for the press this being the fourth or fifth of the season. We are beginning to learn who was who in that charming periodical; and we now learn that Mr. Wills has been asteful sub- " Peerage titles are easily obtained, Talker of the Illustrated ' gossips the Tow fames for y yesterday by mid in our hearing onl wat." " What, then,' continues r Berwick-upon- "is to be the title of Thackeray's new What t titles have been s hey are we cannot of course betray the door - of t bstoned with a chain bolt. This bolt was off the staple by the violence of the explosive currem, against Ile door, a ad was thrown acros the room on a to which 'he outer walls of the hot the explosion oceurre are, however, damaged to a serious In addition to several minor dis . crevice from one to two inches in breadth has been made extent Ltions, a in the gable wall of tl room, apparently ex- tending ,he ground almost six in number; of the inmat Happily, the who have escaped without the slightest personal it the motive of this abominable o ion has for a - period of fourteen years steadily to employ union men, For two or three year lson has had in his employ two saw grind( who had been appr 1-- - - .s been several t Wilson st the men, wi n his employ, endeavo s that I to If Men, remarking, le him to employ unio rn't, they will happen be shooting he employed non-union men, he did not employ a laic number of apprentices, like another man, whose name he mentioned. The reply was, "He will be popped off 12 three men thi4 winter you'll se On lc Relliwell, who, it will be recoil' injured by an explosion of gunpowder, _ glazing stone, at the Tower Wheel, about seventeen days ago. About the time be set on Helliwell, a little more than three weeks ago, Mr. Wilson received by post a letter, of which the following is a copy : ,en, was seriously placed under his DEAR S] that you are tri the plac ---I take this opportunity of Just r( veing on a Dangerous game you nother person Whose name 44- ,t neede tc 1 as it woule It will save your Life if you do no', you to Become the next game and In 'that case it upon your days beieng numbered , you may treat mind way to the fullist measure:: igned) TANTIA TOPE. The man referred to in this letter is supposed to be Linley, who joined the union 'during last month, and is now " on the box," i.e. in receipt of pay from the union funds. The outrage upon Haliwell was committed about a week after the receipt of this letter by Mr. Wilson, and now the threat has been carried out in regard to Mr. Wilson himself The u( I have eithertoo all that I have promiest in t] rpetrators of the outrage appear to have escaped observe FLOODS AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY IN THE —The late severe snow storm in Banffshire was succeeded by floods of an extraordinary character. Wednesday and Thursday were days to whicia, it may be said, there have been few parallels in that district within the last half century, and Friday night and part of Saturday the storm was scarcely less severe. More rain may have fallen, and the rivers may have risen higher in the August floods of 1829, but, as a tempest of wind and rain and stormy seas com bined, the past week is scarcely equalled. Nor are the consequences less extraordinary. We have ac accounts, from all parts of the north, many of them of a mournful character. Some damage was done to the Strathisla Railway, some portions of the line having NORTI been entirely under water ; but 111 r. B. Blyth, C.E., was over the whole line on Saturday, and found that the only injuries of consequence were those sustained by the bridges. The Deveron rose very high and flooded some of the low-lying houses in Banff. Some injury was done to the f-'' -rn still in g+- the bank fields of col— - °cook of this river, and at Cullen some bridges were destroyed. Two boats belonging to Fortgordon were driven ashore in the course of Friday night. The crews got off with the greatest difficulty. The floods were more severe in the Buchan, Formartine, and Garioch districts than any where else, and several bridges and corn-stacks were swept away. A man named Gavin perished through cold and exhaustion on his way home from Old Deer market, on Thursday night. In Inch, Culsamond, Fyvie, Forgue, Huntly, Rhynie, Towie, &c., the -floods „ were very heavy, several houses and mills being inun dated with water. A good many beats were wrecked at, Nairn. A young woman, named. Christian Allver per ished at Culloden from the severity of the weather. The storm was severely felt in Inverness and Ross shires.— Abridged from the _Banff Journal. SERIOUS FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE .AT ROCHDALE.— On Friday evening a fire of a very serious character broke out, about twenty minutes past five o'clock, in the shop of Mr. Swift, Cheetham-street, Rochdale. Shortly before that time, a young man named Edward Clayton, aged about twenty-seven years, was, it is said, in the act of bringing into the shop a small cask of naphtha upon his head, When the bottom went in, and the whole of the naphtha saturated his clothes and ran upon the floor of the shop. Mr. Swift is engaged in the cotton waste trade, and, it is supposed, was at his warehouse. The young man, Clayton,, instead of im mediately changing his dress, sent th boy to tell Mr. Swift, and got a brush with the intention of sweeping away the naphtha. How the flames from the gas jets ignited the naphtha is at present unknown, but 'soon fire was discovered, and the shop was speedily enveloped in . flames, Clayton being inside. 'The alarm' was imme diately given. The door of the shop was found to be closed, and by some it is thought an explosion of naphtha took place, closing the door. At all dents the young man was seen enveloped in flames, standing with his back to wards the counter, immediately behind the door, from which position he fell on his back upon the floor. Police constable Wild seized Clayton by the thigh, and quickly as possible dragged hip upon - the 'doorstep. A number of men then carried him into a cellar opposite, and they state that at that time th e poor f e ll ow was dead. Many parts of his body are burnt to. a cinder. Meanwhile the fire raged in the shop, which, in the course of three 'quarters of an hour was completely gutted. Somo delay took place in getting the water to play upon the burning mass, but by seven o'clock the fire was extinguished. The building belongs to the firm of Messrs. E. and H. Howard, and we believe is insured in the Royal Insur ance office.. Mr. Swift is insured' in the' Equitable to the extent of £5OO, but this will' not cover his loss, which may be from .C6OO to £l,OOO. There are various rumours afloat as to the cause of the accident. ,Some sa.v deceased was lighting the_gas with a naphtha lamp, exploded, and set on fire, a shop,. thereby causing door, and prevented the t , - confused ---- f ask of naiihtha in ti in 'which closed ti Other which MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY AitTISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP, AND M. Empis retires from the direction of the Theatre Frangais, being called, it is announced, to superior func tions, having raised the theatre by his enlightened management to a height of prosperity greater than had been known for a long series of years. The gentleman appointed to succeed him, M. E. Thierry, has long been known to the public as one of the most eminent of our dramatic critics. The actresses of the Theatre Royal at Berlin are in a die Erector having interdicted them to wear crinoline on the state of great agitation just now in cons€ stage, because it is inconvenient, he decl sitting, and embracing. s, in walking, A critic of one of the journals suggests that the manager would render a far greater service to the public by 'interdicting the female part of ;he audience from wearing crinoline, as they thereby take up too much room Madame Celeste having signed with Mr. Arnold, for, of years, as . the future 1 Mr. IN :h -bett a persiste 00,000, of w 51, few or Lricamt )001. a a pares; his cony no place of w( :ommg more ana m here were .e and upwards, ;owns, in villages, and ever active in promoting something about the foUndation of Phan children of an institution for provi, g for rites that, left to themielv Mr. Hall lstituted asylums in which the orphans or their mem qed, and prepared for the bers may be sustained, instx battle of life, the profession that most especially requires ature of their: children when leprives them of a guide and of the kind have con roes of adding another to the many ben tions of the metropc is a talk among Mists of forming themselves into a ♦olunteer body for the defence of country. Number 2 company of the Marylebone Rifle Corps is to ao reliable means xist for comparing the religious phenomena of the present day with those of halt a century or a century ago ; but, in answer to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rev. Dr. Hume, the populous and poor, in Liver )re the committee, expressed on, founded on long experience and observa e masses of the population who attend p whatever arc in danger of being lost arch, but to religion altogether. The country, always on the increase, is be wn population. In 1851 000,000 living in towns of 10,000 and only 8,000,000 in smaller in rural districts. Dr. Hume ap lose of the present century 70 per cent: of the gross population will be located in large ting himself to bring towns ; and, therefore, he s, practical heat architects, and engravers, and _ tool, the scale, and the bur Enfield weapon and the sword bavone a are to be laid as desiinate,s the prolonged abiding of 3 larochetti's ri the gardens. of Apslei douse as " t chastisement of p taste.: ' Recapitulating - the extraordinary circumstances which attended the so-called competition, our contem porary sees reasons to apprehend that Mr. Steven's model, which was selected in defiance alike of taste, common sense, and the express stipulations of the com petition, will be set aside in favour of the Baron's. This will be to supersede a bad job by a worse, and we have no doubt that the lesson thus inculcated will not be thrown away upon British artists. WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—The will of Sir Wi Norris, formerly of Barrow Green House, Oxted, but late of Ashurst Lodge, Sunninghill, Berks, was was proved in London by Lady Norris, the relict, Chas. Norris Wilde and William Norris Nicholson, Esqrs the texecutors. Personalty, £30,000. He has beq to his wife a life interest in all his property, real an personal, and after her decease, to-those entitled under the statute of distribution. The will bears date the 29th June, 1853. The will and two codicils of the Rev. Sir Chas. Francis Farnaby, Bart., of Wickham Court, Kent, was proved in London by the executors, William John Campion, Esq., the Rev. John Thos. Austen, 8.D., and Wm. F. Holcroft, Esq. The personalty is £40,000. The family estates are under strict settlement. The wife takes a life interest, to whom he has bequeathed an immediate i ,,oathect legacy of £l,OOO and a life interesi in all his personalTio perty, which, at her:d ecease, he leaves in certain proportions to his nephews and nieces ; the surplus to his nephew, John Farnaby Cator. He bequeaths his diamonds, pearls, family jewels, plate, &c., to his wife, for her life, and at her decease the right of purchase by the next en titled to the settled estates. There are the following bequests :—XI,OOO to the said Rev. J. T. _Austen, the rector of West Wickham ; £lOO to each of his ex ecutors; £5OO to John Longley, his modson; liberal annuities to his servants—his butler, coachman, gardener, responding week of 1858 HE CONGRESS.--- La T satl b .—g e tob r A e nate i o s n t l o v:it b h e a congress, and England is to take part in it. Upon what conditions the British Minister is to enter the congress, we do not know, and apparently no formal agreement' upon this subject has yet been arrived at. A day or two more is Emperorexpected confidence of o a n s td e h t et pleasurel e F arlelnFrench h thatto is is a ns a i s d t e il a l t r o l u y n lookdeci meetingdf o e forward a raodni(.lwttihhthee congress at Brussels. * * The course for the British cabinet is clear. If the treaty of Zara is to heZiii7 sidered as final, and not open to review, then Great Britain should take no paxt in the congress, and should Br treatiese l f l t s i e f, t a soo of 1815, b x tyl he a Bse _ upon_ l le t :0 that h i wts a t htabhi t ece r Ehh e ao a urvi t ret y eonspaiis t e t o ahmanie t iehdcae, Britishont congress, l ot e gi v rnd e ee l s spc o la, afteh toeo everything p GovernmentEe nulryoabat supplant.noet SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS.—It is often desirable to impart i leenftteropbeonl,di the hardness of oak to doors, shutters, &c., made of soft 1 w ereas . th,e Emperors of France and Austria make a wood. This is easily done by giving them a first coat ing of common grey paint, and then siftincr some very . reservation of the rights of the deposed Princes, fine sand over it. , When, dry, ft second coating of paint :: emphasis. c “ x v v y 0 heriohts of the Italian is laid on, after which the surfacc becomes so hard that .B. _ people.—Tress. ngland still more emphatically makes a reservation of it will resist the influence of the sun and rain for years, • m g a a n l, s w w ho ort h h ad sp f o e o as n t , ed so his l without undergoing the slightest alteration. Dr. Marcet, throw , the mazy dance, at last ejaculated with great of Westminster Hospital, announces that oxide of zinc eyes urn a lady's graceful form, and followed her . is an excellent remtdy against the disastrous effects with her." On the conclusion of the of alcohol on- the system, such as hallucinations, deli set,estshe gentleman's self-introduction ran as follows : rium tremens, &c. He administers the oxide in powder, „ Miss, will you dance with me i" On the young lady's ia doses of two grains twice a day, an hour after declining, he exclaimed, " Well, 'you are not so hand each meal, and generally •increases the dose by two some but you might; and if you have got a friendor grains every third day, until the patient takes between brother in the room, I'll whip him, by '" And t great spirit up to a six and eight grains a day. A cure is generally effected ern- I'll dance another ball, whiel jn. i ' h : in the course of six weeks.—Dr. Hetet, professor of a certain • time of night, - the School of Medicine at Toulon, has discovered that Juleps had had th • and fair pa!tners and mint. their effect upon the disciples of Davy the ailanthus glandulosii, or Japan varnish-tree, is a Crockett-- specific a,gainst the tape-worm. He uses the leaves in ' The pipers loud and louder blew, powder, the alcoholic as well of the watery extracts of i The dancers quick and quicker flew, the bark, and the resin, hut the latter has seldom pro- , the nod suddenly rushed in amongst the dancers, ex duced satisfactory results.. The dose of the powder is claiming, " Gentlemen, the ball is broke, Captain fifty centigrammes per day, and may be gradually H arr 4 has kissed my wife." Of course a regular com increased ; the watery extract may be administerod at motion took place; and soft speeches were foregone first in doses of 25 centigrammes.—MM. Itier and P.. for hurried draughts of cocktail, slings, &c., as a general Gervas haVe announced the discovery of a fossil hedge- search took place for muffs, boas, and tippets, and a ll hog in the soil of the island of Ratenneau, n ea r M ar - thought of taking themselves Off when the injured seilles. This is the first instance of t t hi l s . Inimal husband suddenly made his reappearance, and, t a ki ng having been found in a fossil state. Thi s specimen in taking up a po s itio n in the • middle of the room, called question ,is larger by about one-third than .any of the . out,; " Gentlemen, the ball may go on again, Captain largest species now ... hving in Af r i ca and India:.. whence ria,44. b.. 1„,i...,vpa . like a ffentlem.,, .'l._ , gamekeeper— and legacies to all his othe 4ervan £2OO to each of he following institutions :—The Society for Promoting Chrtian KnoWlndge, for the Pronazation of the Gosnel in Forpicrn Partc fnr Prn_ viding - Additional Curates in PoiUlous Piaces , for Promoting the Enlargeinent, Building, and Repairing of Churches, ;and the Orphan School for the Children of Clergymen in Regent's Park.; and an annuity of £3O to the National Schools of West Wickham. The will is dated May 11, 1852 ; the :codicils, August, 1858, and June, 1859. aas giyAn me ample satisfaction, !, he haS given ineitre rshal 4ollars." We were told of a man' being seen writhing made on the ground, as if in aomiulsions, the while. thrusting [seer- his thumbs furiously into 'the - Sand; On being asked hb was • pr—actising rally Arkarias r than the handles, onll over tb 1:/t1101lain. it it is propOSl to cat chief aPothcary to the army in I „,_ _ Vaillant an account.of a ser i es of experiments h( has. sent Le late war, With a view 4e `vat Prevalence of wens Victory" RELIGIOUS STATISTICS The evideifce taken before the Lord's Committee on church rates gives some very interesting statistics on oe i t o r.f an.ont6fhotefh carefully peg t I ,re rro e soscs senp to m.puapopulationlodaret,ipopulation;o tln a i : 12e, orseol aa divided a:tr2hdela44t7 t4s i n ho64fe t 0 66 oatire ligionss2hresce4pus:redistrirarpeetc`aesedrep,dcbc.tatsoi:l: Accordin. to calculations based upon actual church-going men of the Church of England, nominal Churchmen, but practically of no church, or : fi 29 t e h64ldB6eof operation of her clergy, ministerial and missionary, - On the other hand, the chapel in England amount to 610,786, or 31 per cent. of the whole p o p u l a ti on ; the chapel-going Baptists (six different kinds) t o 457,181, ,or 21 per cent. ; the chapel-going In dependents are. 1,297,861, or 74 per cent.; the chapel-going Wesleyan Methodists (seven different kinds) are 2,264,321, or 13 per cent. ; and all other ." Protestant" Dissenters, including in the number Jews and Mormons, are estimated at 1,256,946, or 6 per cent. The total of worshipping or bond fide Protestant Dissenters is 5,303,609, or 291 per cent. of the gross population. Again, there is, an alarming picture pre sented of the irreligion in which large masses of the population are Steeped. For example, in Southwark there are 68 per cent. , of the people who attend no place of worship ; in Lambeth, 601; in Sheffield, 62; in Oldham, 611; in Gateshead, 60 ; in Preston, 59 i in Brighton, 54; in the Tower Hamlets, 531; in Fins bury, 53 ; in Salford, 52; in South Shields, 52 ; in Manchester, 511 ; in Bolton, 511; in - Stoke, 511; in Westminster, 50 ; and in Coventry, 50. So that in all those places; except the two last-named cities, the odds are on the side of those who habitually absent them selves from every religious service whatever. Of 34 of the great towns of England, embracing an aggregate ;7, 2,197,388, or 52} per cent. wholly non-worshipping. But community at largc going ROman Catholics population of Of the commuttity this is, )eyond question, to some extent attributable to the want of church accommodation ; for the evidence goes to show that the sitting accommodation provided by the Church of England and Nonconformists together is only 57 per cent. of the whole population, and of this 27 is furnished by the Dissenters-12 per cent. by the Wesleyans, who alone, during the last twelve months, have spent about £lOO,OOO in chapel building. sum expended annually in the repairs of the fabrics - the church service is nearly £250,000 is raised by al census before the miintenanec only about s, if our large towns are henism must inevitably THE COINAGE —The total coinage at the Royal Mint daring the last fifteen years has been no less than £78,499,868. Of this £73,772,613 was gold, £4,540,388 silver, and £186,867 copper. The amount coined each Thus, in 1850 the total 1853, 12,664,125. Last - amount was £1,621,380, an, year the amount coined again fell to £1,690,359. The gold coined reached its maximxm in 1853, and its the silver coinage was greatest in 3, and smallest in 1848 ; and the copper coinage was only £448, in 1850, while it was £61,538 in 1854. ANOTHER MONSTER BREWERY AT BURTON-UPON TRENT:—For some weeks past inquiries have been going on between the agents of the Marquis of Anglesea and an eminent brewing firm of metropolitan notoriety, which will in all probability result in the securing of a inimum in ble site it Burton-on-Trent, for the erection of another leviathan establishment for the manufacture of the celebrated bitter hter. That another establishment of this kind will find plenty of scope for the exercise of their abilities in this line is evident to all who are aware of the dearth of this class of liquor at an early period of the summer, just at a period when the demand is usually• the greatest ; and this is the case when the carriage account of one firm for the year amounts to nearly £50,000, and is very closely followed up in extent by another firm of almost equal celebrity. A stimulus has been , of late given to trade in the neigh bourhood, by the sale of ground by the Marquis of Ang,lesea, which has heretofore been obtainable only on lease, at a very high_ ground rent. very elig . . RAILWAY Tnkrric.=-The traffic returns of railways in the United Kingdom for the week ending October 29, amounted to £496,500, and for the corresponding week of last yea? to £465,500, showing an increase of £31,000. The gross receipts of the eight railways having their termini in the'metropolis amounted, for the week ,ending Bove, to £216,646, and for the corresponding week .st year to £203,911, showing an increase of '35: The increase on the - Eastern Counties Rail way amounted to £42 ; on the Great Northern to £1,410 ; on the Great Western to £1,387 ; on the Lon don and North-Western to £8,238; on the London and Blackwall to £170; on the London, Brighton, and South Coast, to £57 ; on the London and South-Western to £700; and on the South-Eastern to £731 • total, £12,736. The receipts on the other lines in the 'United .dom amounted to 4279,854 ,nd for the cor- responding period of 1858, to ,61,589, showing an in- 'of £18,265 in the receipts of these lines, which, the increase on the metropolitan lines, makes the total increase £31,000, as compared with the cor-