Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-26 00:00:00

SMITHSONIAN HOTEL E aeAvirAT, Corner of Ilentrott-rrattr, Nnir YORK. }aimed In honour of the SXITHSONIAN INSTITOTTON, 14...:ststsReheat WASHINGTON, by tha U. S. Coteaasss, With Funds bequeathed by JAMES SILITMeN, of gstnt.astn, gaming the Friendship of the OPTICE/13 of the NATIONAL INSTLIZTION Is conducted on the System of Hotels in EN.SLAND. CHAS. H. SMITH. TO THE EL?CTORS OF ABERCROMBY WARD. GENTLEMEN, —While fully sensible of the honour conferred upsu those whom yon elect to b 3 your representatives in the CourO, I am not less keenly alive to the *wrens duties and 'responsibilities which the conscientious exercise of the trust involveb. If, therefore, I have acceded to the request of a large and important body of the Electors of the Ward to solicit your Suffrages at this Election, it has not been from personal considerations, but from motives of municipal polity, that you may have the full and fair opportunity of registering :your votes, so as to enforce your own dews. My opinio .s are well knows to many o' you. 'Resident in the wrd for 25 years, I have always gone heartily and actively with you in the struggle f r thoie great Tidy Vosges, Parliamentary and Municipal, which we noT enjoy. In council polit cs, I deprecate mere party spirit, but like fair play. 1 believe myfallow-townsmen fully entitled to every advantage that can be obtained f runs aju icions employment of the corporate fu ti—such as improvoments in our streets and -approaches, the extension of parks for recreation and exercise, the increa e of free libraries for moral and iutAle tail training, and, I may add, especially at this coujunc•ors, the free and full use and enjoyment, for domesticpurpos s, of those delicious springs which *rice were, and I trust ;coin will be, ourtoast and our delight. There are other and impOrtant uses for the wa ere of the Pike, so that, with both sources et command, the town may have an unparaileied eapply. It would be not less darogato7 to you than to me to make &personal canvass. Should you r t - entl men, think fit to confer on me the honour of being your representative, I shall consider it n y duty to advocate every economy which is consistent with efficiency, to give an earnest attation to all questions of public interest that may come before the Council. and, above all, to exercise the privilege of voting thereupon with a respectful consideration for theteclared wishes and wants of this great community.—l am, gentlemen, your obedient ssuant, JUaEPH ANDERSON. 9, Oxford-street,- Oct. 24,1857. THE COMMIT TEE for conducting the ELECTION of JOSEPH ANDERSON, Esq., sir DAI.,Y, a tie Phoenix Inn, Monnt-plen,ant GEORGE MAXWELL, Chairmin. WI ILIA M HANNAH, V es ekairman. g JOHN STUWARD, JOHN ALOIS, lion. Sets. Cu winrcul 3,1115.—Ebt4 I:JaP. At the brokers' °faze, 75 casks Lustralien Tallow.—Big and, Sor.3. El a d Jeffreys, ♦t twelve o'clock, at the commercial saleroom, Temple-court, a quan tity of Fruit.—Thomas Parry. At twelve o'cla k. at the broker's cffice, 16, Exchange-building?, $4 bags Rap,seel.—J. 11. Rayaer. and Co. ♦t twelve o'clock, at the broser's office, 13, Tempest-hey, 45 tons Cuba Fleet R At one o'clock, at the brokers' of 7. Rumford-street, a quantity of Cotton, Picking,e,&c.—Holdusheatt, Tetley and CJ. At eleven o'clo, k, at the commercial saleroom, Tenapla-court. a quan quantity of Fruit.—James Adam, Son and Co. Car For partiCul.ar3 see ftivertisementi. .i..JiUSEp.dh:STS, PUBLIC NULEVLSCii, &c. THIS PAY. TIILLTA2 OT AL —ProssN• Anderson licbs3n. —7 p• RINGLItit'E CIRQUS VARI tTL, Da 13-street —7 p.m. YILE3H.LiONIS 'Eau, Lime-strcec m. LIISMPOOL ACADE , IT'S EXEICULT ON, l'osteffl2e-place. A..zz.anr's V. , at vvosic EX3i1111.1:101C-,e, a.m. to 10 p.m. Conos.t so enerai Eatert.tionme 1 C-3" For particulars see advertisements. 1 j 0 ti - • I.A 10 ) . • 71 ) t ii v ItrAv , s NO.NDAY, OCTOBER_ 6, 1557. THE DAY'S NEWS. The most important news this morning is that received from America by the arrival of the steamer Arabia. The panic in us) money market sontinuedsfailures were occurring daily, and the value of all kinds of produce and securities was The exchanges, foreign and domestic, were deranged, and business generally was almost suspended, the community beingeengaged in the all-absorbing occupation of providing means, at ruinous sacrifices, to most impending liabilities. On the 14th inst. several of she New York Banks suspended specie payments, and on the following ramming the whole of them agreed ae stop paying spicie. The,Eoston Banks •erere.about following the example. hut as yet the gouthern institutions were very fires ; and able to meet all demands. The movement of the New York and R e ston B ,n.hg tbnilah accordnes sto a local merermtae circular, at once relieve the. business comenunitye exchange iteguciations will be very B`,Ka3 reorganised, the value of produce swill enhance immediately, and the buainess of the country resume its wanted activity. The; fell weight of ads step, however, wi'l be experienced .adversely on the country for many inentlis The Pennsylvania Legislature has passel their Relief Bill, a suraniarseof its provisions will be found isi another column. 'The othsr news by thia.arrival is not. of the least moment or im portance. We are now in hourly, expectation of telegraphic news from ludia, for it arpears that the Governor General has orders to despatch a spesial steamer to Suez with any imnortsat intelligence, and the Consul at Al x Inddespatch a steamer thence with the news. *We are new, however, so nese to the arrival of the regts!ar :mail that we shall not be likely to have anything in anticipation. But in the days of the telegraph there is no keowins whateany moment may bring forth. es In the meantime," says the Ol‘sercer, " it is diffisult to prophesy as to events not known. ;Enoush, hewevet; is know ,to enable us to expect good instead of evil tidings. Time is fighting on our side, as well as all needful preparation and watchfulness. The treacheries and atrolicics perpetrated • by the snuCneers, found us ueprepared and unsuspecting. We are now wary and re.nFereed. 'We confess to a strong :feel ing of confidence in the safesy of Lusknow. As for the ' fall of Dellii,' we are not so inipatient. We have no doubt of' it in its own good time. The communications between 'Calcutta . and Allthabad are Open by the river and by the land. ,We shall learn by every psst of the errival sf troops froarheme, and we fieni'y hope to hear no lUQV3 cf the stedden arid cruel disasers inflicted upon our ,innocent and helpless women and children. Even the profes sional fash-fieders begin to see the turn of the tide, and must be fain to acknowledge the activity of Lord CAnninL): iu providing reirstoreements from every place within reach, and the prompt action of the Government in sending out Sircelin Campbell on the 'very day alter the receipt of the first news of the Delhi mutiny, and in despatehlng attes him in Trial< suceessioneevery available regiment in Eagnind• These regiments will be aisnatineed ss arriving fast in India by every future 'nail. So much for the grumblers, whose oscupation is from that moment gone. I is must satis• factory to be able to aid .that the recruiting for, the army goes bravel on, and that we shall have at the depot of every Indian•regiment, before the, spring, a most efficient and diseiplined relief." The writer gees on to say—" It may not be amiss to ' state that the alleged difcerences between Sir Colin C-nnpbell and Lord Canning are the mere coinage of the brain of those who write without any Iteowledge of the matter. Sir Colin Campbell Warted in such haste the: his e appointment Lo the Supreme Council of India was not made ouf: It followed him by the next mail---and we shall pee sengy hear of his takin g his seat' beside the Governor-General at the Counell Board. Lord Canning has written home, expressing his grati fication at the arrival of the Coaidandes-insandef, adding his conviction that the services of Sit : Cohn Campbell wily prove m3st valuable in the Council and in the field.'" The last Southannwon ship from India 11 - 3 m hr uht a Rood number• of private •letters to hand from those able to cemtnunicate their impressions of the rebellion. Borne of the letters which we have s:en contain very little that is new, bat it is evident from their contents that the European - inhabitants aye far from feeling secure anywhere, and one universal feeling seems predoninant—a conviction of the supineness of England, as proved by the cool manner in which the bf.►ir was fiast treated. The writers intimate that there was a time when the Q , teen's Ministeis would have been disgraced for the conduct they display. They express a hope that the dilatory proceedings of our Government will be taken up by some independent members during, nest Session. Mr. Barrow, MT,, aeliverod some intelligent THE NORTHERN TIMES. -LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1857. opinions on the insurrection in India, at the annual meeting of the CoHingham Farmers' Club. He evidently takes the side of humanity and justice ; and at the Cherteey agricultural dinner, Mr. Drummond delivered a political speech. The hon. aentlernac deprecated the vengeance cry, attacked Cardinal Wiseman and Archbishop Cullen, ex pressed his distrust of the French Emperor, and warned the country against neglecting home defences. away with the bulk and anticipate the balance o this doomed 1,500,0001. Should these delicate operations take so long a time, we %hall have no rate until 1860 ; but if they can be accomplished in one-half that period, then we shall have local taxation in its worst and most dreaded farm. If, in the meantime, we can get the return of the Corporation's Estates,moved for by Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE many months ago, the Burgesses may be spared the infliction of a rate. But when we shall really get this precious document remains for the independent electors of the Corporate Wards to decide at the coming election. To redeem the Dock Estate, and put the Burgesses in possession of their municipal property, are the very reasonable objects of those who oppos e the return of gentlemen who sat in the Council while the former was being plunged into irredeemable indebtedness, and the other was slyly kept as a nest egg, and as far out of sight of their constituents as possible. For this work, we repeat, new and vigourous hands must be found. If the Corruptionists will go on dock jobbing, and will not wait until the Birken head Docks are finished before they commence jobbing on the. North Shore dock extension, we want men in the Council who will go before Parliament and oppose the jobbers in their corporate capacity. Again, if the Immoveables will not supply the Burgesses with a rental of their estate within a reasonable time, we want men in the Council who will seek some legal means of compelling them to supply that which common honesty demands. And if an attempt should be made to levy a rate on the Borough before the Burgesses are allowed to know the extent and value of their estate, we shall want men who will apply for an injunction to stop them until they give the information the inhabitants have so long sought in vain. There has just been issued a parliamentary pa per, giving the detailed military and naval expen diture for the year ending in March, 1856. The total amount expended in the naval, commissariat, militia, and army departments was, in round num bers, 40,800,0001. In many items there is an excess of expenditure over the votes of the House of Commons. There will be a Winter Assizes this year for general gaol delivery in the larger counties, and where the greatest number of prisoners are to be found. These assizes will be held for criminal trials only, as they have been for two or three years past. The plan of the commissioners for a general winter assizes must receive the sanction of Parlia ment before it is permanently adopted. The new Court for Divorce and probate will not be constituted until there is an order of the 'Queen in Council, which will enable her Majesty to fix' the opening of the court for business at any time after the Ist of January next.. The rules to be framed for the conduct of the judicial business of the court will be of the greatest importance, and will be looked for with much anxiety. Vice-Admiral Sir Maurice Berkeley bas resigned his post of first naval Lord of the Admiralty and will, it is currently reported, be raised to the peerage prior to the meeting of Parliament. In anticipation of this vacancy the seat at the Admiralty Boaa d was some time since offered to Sir G. Brooke Pechell, Bart., M.P., for Brighton, but he declined the honour, preferring to remain an independent member of the House of Commons. There is now a rumour that Sir Maurice Berkeley will be succeeded by Admiral Sir Barrington Reynolds, who is at present stationed at Ply mouth. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol is earning golden opinions by d scarding red-tapeism in his diocese. At his re, - .ent " visitation," he dispensed with the USUAL services, substituting for it " free discussion with the clergy." Above all, instead of sending his reverend brethren '' away fasting," he provided them with a good dinner. A bishop should be " given to hospitality ; and, unless in.s are wrongly informed, this Gloucestershire hint is not unnecessary. In administering the right of confirmation, he also proposes some salutary changes. Instead of gathering the young people in crowds from -distant parishes, he will meet them on Sundays, in their own nei,gtfbour hoods. With a faint touch of apostolic simplicity. the Bishop says: " The only objection . to this plan is that I should have to tax the hospitality of the clergyman or one of his neighbours, by be coming their guest from the `'aturtley evening to the Monday morning. But I trust that the ob jection will •be lessened when I assure them that the pleasure of my visit will be increased, and that I shall be relieved from the feeling that my presence is a burden to them, if they will but vceive M 3 in the same homely way in which they would entertain any brother clergymen." The telegraph brings a brief statement of a fatal shipwreck on the sands off Great Yarmouth. In the gale early on Friday morning, the Ontario, a vessel belonging to Shields, went on the sands, and all on board, save one man, were drowned. twenty-three lives have been lost by this catas trophe. It is also reported that another vesse went down during the gale which prevailed on Thursday night, with all hands lost. The Foreign news this morning is rot of much importance. Respecting the dispute beween Denmark and the Duchies, communications from Copenhagen hold out hopes of its settlement, by Denmark giving her German subjects an equal representation in the common representative body. We learn by telegraph from Berlin, that the King of Prussia was sufficiently recovered on Saturday, to consent to the appoint next of the Prince of Prussia as Regent of the Kingdom, with full powers for three months. The Water and Gas Supply are also questions which will never be settled to the satisfaction of the Ratepayers, if they neglect to strengthen the ranks of the few independent men who -have opposed the jobbers on these subjects. Cockney engineering may possibly inundate the flats of Laneashire, and so save us from any further dan ger of being poisoned by the Pike filth; but, unless the failure of strong hallucinations in hydraulics, arid a sufficient supply of cheap light be obtained from the moon and stars, we must send men into the Council who will hear of no compromise until the town is plentifully supplied with the pure water we have at hand, and the in dustrious poor are supplied with good gas at as cheap a rate as it can be bad in other large towns. And what, we would ask, have any of these vitally important subjects to do with politics ? While Corruptionists dub themselves ‘• Tories," we are constrained to call those candidates who come forward to oppose their habitual jobbery, "Liberals." The Corporate "rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Give us, par excellence, Mr. So-and-so_ with f" " upright man"—" a shipowner"—" merchant" respectable and independent tradesman"— " Dock ratepayer," with' the simple addition of "an enlightened and liberal-minded man." Where gentlemen possessing any of these recom mendations have been tried, and found wanting, as their votes will prove, they can scarcely expect to receive the support of the municipal electors. No tinge of politics or sectarianism can give them a claim to that which good common sense and unflinching honesty of purpose alone can entitle them to ask. Let us, then, once more, hope that the Burgesses will- ponder well over the magnitude of the Corporate business at present on hand, and that they will use the approaching election, as a means of giving the jobbing majority in the Council a practical proof of their disapproval of the past management of the funds, and public business of the Borough generally. In St. Peter's, and some of the other Wards, the Liberal voters are making unceasing' exertions to secure the return of the popular candidates, and sanguine hopes of success are entertained ; but much faith must not be placed on appear ances. The canvasses must be kept up with the utmost activity and determination 'not to be van quished. The stake the Burgesses have in the future good government of-. the Borough is immense. There are great wrongs to be re paired, and future burdens of injustice to be resisted. Back-sliders, and mere wordy partisans .. • are not the men to be intrusted with such 4. task. A wag was heard to ask a few days since—" why the Liverpool Corporation were all cousins," To which a bystander replied—‘` because - they have . Uncles' in the Council." What these " Uncles" really are, matters but little. The cousin-ship, whatever it may be, is what the enlightened pcirtion of the inhabitants wish to see broken up, and new and unbiassed men sent into the Council—men who will show more regard for their relatives outside the Council Chamber than for those they may find within its walls. Finally, then, we again urge the friends of Corporate economy and good local self-govern ment to renewed exertion in the good and great cause, remembering that all the sins of prodi gality must fall on that commerce without which Liverpocil would be reduced to the level of third or foarth-class town. .• A Lyonsjournal, in announcing the arrival in that states th , lt, the object of his mission there is to announce.to the Pope, in the name of the Burmese P.lnaperor, that the Catholic missions will not only be toterated,but even encouraged and aided througl3- .. , nt the dominions of the Burman empire. -General d'Orgoni's adopted sovereign has, it appears, not only built public schools, but . has allotted funds for the endowment of European profeSsors. He also proposes to found a Catholic hospital, to be managed by sisters of charity, and has promised to build ohurshes wherever a congregation may be found desirous to have them. With such a pro gramme General d'Ory,oni may \yell ask any favour of the Popc, and preface . his demands with the wards Ego et Rex 2i39.t5. letter frsnt Constantinople stales that the Porte considers that treaties have been violated by the recent appearance o, a Russian ship , of-war, near itusehuelf, and itlias accordingly demanded explanations from the RasSian ambassador at Constantinople. The British and - North American Royal Mail Steam-ship Canada, Captain Cling, sailed on Satur day f or Boston, via .Al3lifax, • .carrying out 161 passengers, including lien.. Carl Form is, and the usual United States and 'British North American mails. She also took out specie to the amount of :2211,000 sterling. THE Burgesses of Liverpool are beginning to open their eyes. They find that their senses have deceived them for many years. Every spef.,ie-s of clap-trap has Wen resorted to, to keep them .herded together in litt!e groups of confiding and generous believers.' There is a euliniaating point, however, in a career of error, which cannot be escaped. It must be encountered, and the 1: 4 000,000/. of Dock and Corporation debts, present and prospective, is .our great municipal' difficulty, Special apologists say that, " the great bulk of this debt has been very cleverly thrown on the commerce of the port of Liverpool, and not on the town. Manchester . will have ;o pay the ii•m's share of the old and new charges her Towo Dues abolitionist.. have caused to be created and thrown on the trade of the Mersey." We were the first to make this very interesting and. important discovery, • and. we must therefore admit that it is quite true. But what, we would ask. is to become of Liver pool• if we scare away the commerce of our port lacy encouraging interminable prodigality and squandering away of money- by the Corruptionist side of the Corporation ? The advent of a municipal election is a fit time for those who are responsible for their votes, to weigh these matters carefully: The object of all who seek to send new' men into the Council, is to alter the prodigal course which has led to such a monstrous ac cumulation of local debts, and they ask the Burg szes to help them in the necessary work of Corporate Reform, without reference to politics. To wipe away all the consequences of past follies is impossible, but there are dangers leo - ming in the future which may be guarded agdiu.st: As long as the Town Dues compensation fund lasts we shall not, in all probability, hear a whisper of a Borough rate. It may take two years to make slow in appreciating. After a remark from Mr. GRAVES, to the effect that he hoped as much of the well water as could be pumped into the mains was being supplied to the inhabitants, and a reply in the affirmative from the engineer, the meeting terminated, not a word being said which could indicate the future policy of the Committee, or rather of the individual members thereof. Probably, under the peculiar circumstances in which they find themselves placed, this was the most discreet course which could have been pursued. For our own part, we have no desire to prolong this most unpleasant, if not unprofit able, discussion, but we cannot permit the ljesuitical resolutions of the Water Committee, sanctioned as they were at the last Council meeting, to lull the inhabitants into the belief that they were ever intended for anything save a mere blind to serve the purposes of Pikeists. At the first blush the resolutions in question appear straightforward and above board. If the Com mittee order their engineer to supply all the spring water which is available, it may be asked, with some show of reason, what more can ,they do ? or what more would the advocates of the home supply have them to do under the circum stances ? Now we, who happen to be too well conversant with the mysteries of Pike legerdemain, are not to be imposed on by this flimsey piece of jugglery. If the Water Committee had ordered an immediate return to the home supply, and, in the event of that proving inadequate to the requirements of the town, that means should instantly be taken to increase the same, we should then have given the Committee credit for sincerity of purpose. But we here repeat our conviction, so often previously expressed, that the well supply, if honestly given to the inhabitants, is even at present ample for every purpose. Have we not the admission of the Water Committee that the wells in the aggregate yield 4-5,000,000 gallons of water per diem. This of itself is equal to a supply of sixteen gallons per head per diem for each inhabitant young and old in the Bo rough, allowing the population to number 400,000. This of itself is more, much more, than ample for every purpose. But what be comes of this supply ? We will give one instance of the manner in which this extraordinary quantity of water, said to be necessary for the supply of the town, is disposed of—and as the facts are known to more than one member of the Water Committee, if our statement is in any way exaggerated, it will be an easy matter to put the public right. In one establishment, not I a hundred miles from Riehmond Row, we were shown receptacles for the supply of water. These consists of casks containing upwards of 200 gallons, ample for a. week's supply ; since, however, the Pike bog-wash has been supplied, it has been.neeessary to - empty these every morn ing; not only so, but the taps are kept running for hours together, in the vain hope of getting rid of thf! In Cant 0... bc, doubt, LILAC In this one establishment some thousands of gallons of water are daily wasted. We instance this only as an illustration of what is daily occurring in scores—aye, we May safely say in hundreds— of places throughout the Borough. Small won der, then, that eighty millions of gallons of water were got rid of weekly during the past summer. Why, it follows that had that been doubled, or even quadrupled, the supply would still have proved inadequate to the demand. With some hundreds of taps in the lower levels running constantly into the sewers, it would only be an act of madness to attempt to assign any limit to the quantity of water which could thus be got rid of. But we would ask, is this an honest mode of supplying water ? assuredly not —it only proves, if proving were necessary, the total absence of all proper surveillance in regard to the water distribution. BY; there can be no good reason, why this state of things should be suffered to endure—let the well water be once restored to the inhabitants in its original purity, and let all be appealed to, to guard against waste such as we have described, and we venture to predict, that the present supply would prove ample for ;dl purposes. • But, in the interim, why should not the Water authorities apply themselves to the extension of the home supply ? One and all admit that the Rivington bog-wash is totally unfit for human use. The most unscrupulous partisans of the scheme acknowledge such, but in order to escape as far as possible from public odium, they cling to the fallacy that some magical system of filtra tion may yet be discovered to make it pass mus , ter. But while these emperical experiments are being made, we would fain hope that the oppo nents of the scheme will not relax in their efforts to augment the supply from the wells. To Mr. Alderman .BENNETf perseverance, the town are mainly indebted for the supplementary engine at Green-lane, which added so largely to the supply from the wells during the summer of 1856. Let it be borne in mind that, by a trifling outlay at the Green-lane Station alone, the yield has been raised from its. original of one-and-a-quartek.mil lions to three-and-a-quarter millions of gallons per diem ; and that the actual cost of boring for this largely augmented supply did not exceed one hundred pounds. With the experience of the past to guide us, who can doubt that, by a very small expenditure in the judicious extension of AT the meeting of the Water CComittee, on the existing works, that a very great increase Saturday last, the business transacted wus purely could be procured from these Works before the of a routine character. The usual compNrnents end of next spring. But so long as the Water of the season being duly passed to the Chairman Committee and the Council suffer themselves to and Deputy-Chairman for, their very valuahle be deluded by a parcel of visionaries, who, in the 1 services during their year of office—services ' plenitude of their ignorance, pretend that the y which, we fear, the general public will be rather can perform impossibilities, so long will the pub- l ic be baulked of their just rights, and made the sport of those interested persons who flourish by their misfortunes . 1 TIE LAST OVERLAND MAIL:-It will be recollected that the last Bombay mail arrived at Suez on the 2nd inst., three days before the Calcutta mail. Great efforts were made to convey this mail rapidly through Egypt, but owing to the obstacles thrown in the way by the Egyptian authorities, a considerable delay took place. In conse quence of this delay there was only just time to put the mail on board her Majesty's ship Caradoc, waiting at Alexandria for the Siamese Princes. The conduct of the Egyptian authorities is to be brought to the notice of the English Government. The Pacha of Egypt happened to be at Suez when the Bombay mail arrived there. As it happened the Calcutta news arrived in England vi a Trieste almost as soon as the Bombay news arrived via Cagliari, and the Calcutta and Bombay mails reached Marseilles nearly together. A considerable saving of time might have been effected if a steamer had been ready at Alexandria on the 3rd inst., to start far Malta and Cagliari, and the Bombay mail had not been delayed in Egypt. LIVERPIOL DOCK TRUST.—We adverted a few days since to the formation of the new Mersey Conservancy Board, and the importance of the subject is a sufficient apology to our reacbra for again bringing it before them. After the successful efforts of our citizens, in the reform of the control of the Liverpool decks, it would not do, at the moment when the result of those efforts is about to be accomplished, to watch silently the election of members for the new constituted board, who will have under their care so extended a property, in which are interested not only the bondholders in the vast debt, and the inhabitants of Liverpool, but also the commercial interests of this city. It is understood to be the intention of the dock ratepayers is Liverpool to endeavour to elect into the new trust all the members of the present dock committee. To this course we would offer no opposition, as the committee is composed of gentlemen eminently qualified, both by their experience and commercial standing, to superintend the dock estate ; but as the new board will require more members to compose it than are required under the present arrangement, let us hope that in the selection of the new members some attention will be given to the export trade, a trade the largest of all others in the port, one that is entirely unprecedented at present ; and we trust that this state of things will last no longer, but that we shall see at the new board some members connected with this branch of commerce, who will, in a measure, be the representatives of the manufacturing districts that use Liverpool as their ship ping port, and which ought ere this to have had a voice in a trust that may be almost called a national one, to which they are the largest contributors. Manchester Examiner. ANIUSEMENTS, &c. THEATRE ROYAL.—PROFESSOR ANDERSON.— To-night the world-famous " Wizard" reveals the arcane of his magic to popular eyes in the Theatre Royal. Professor Anderson's name is too well known, and the mysteries of his craft too marvellous in their attraction to need any remark from us. Space in which to contain his audiences, is the desideratum he most; frequently misses—not audi ences to fill the space to which he exhibits his wonders. Tue AMPHITHEATRE.—Mn. ROB3ON.— There can be little doubt that if the play-going public of London were called on to name the man who has:;made himself most remarkable and successful on the stage during the last four or five years, the name of Mr. Robson would be the one only answer ?given. gAlmost immediately after his first appearance in; London, which took place at the Olympic in 18.33. he established a reputation peculiar in itself, unrivalled, sand even beyond cavil. During the many years that he was distinguished as one of the most irresistible of broad comedians at a minor theatre in Dublin, probably no one suspected what a pecu liar vein of strange fantastic humour lay within that odd, amusing exterior. It was only, we believe, after his first appearance; in London that this comedian exhibited the singular dramatic power which leaves him now in his own line not only without a rival, but without even an imitator. His style cannot, indeed, be imitated. He is, as we have said, irresistible as a low comedian, and even as a fern Beggs or a burlesque Masanietlo would have a popularity equal to that of any other comic actor. But the marvellous union of the ludicrous and the pathetic; the grotesque mixture of comic exterior, manner, tone, and words, with sudden bursts and flashes of wild almost unearthly vehemence and tragic Passion ; the laughable and the terrible so running into each other, that the beholder at times scarcely knows whether to explode in me Tirnent or to start in horror ; all this forms something which ca❑ only be seen in Mr. Robson's impersonations, and only in a few of them, and which is worthy of deeper attention than the passing emotions of the spectators. Per haps one of the: most singular features in these astonishing diplays is that they aro rendered with the reality of very life. Nothing can pessib'y be more :spontaneous, authentic, and natu ral. No man living has more thoroughly flung away stage fermatas and traditionary models. The source of his power lies in the 'humour, which is wholly his own, and the keen observation which looks at life and nature for itself without reference to arbitrary limits and theatric ways. The short stay which Mr. Robson can make in Liverpool will, no doubt, be availed of eagerly by the public. When he visited this town, about four years ago, we do not recollect thac he had then exhibited to its full extent the singular vein of original and bizarre dramatic genius which has established' his fame in London. - PEOPLE'S CONCERTi, ST. GEORGE'S HALL,—Oa Satur day night, the first trial of anothe; experiment to make St. George's Hall available for cheap popular concerts took place. Previous failures in similar attempts, where success might have been reasonably anticipated, render us cautious in predicting too boldly a favourable issue to the present undertaking ; but this inneh may at least be said that the experiment of Saturday night exhibited. every promise of brilliant and permanent results. The present series of concerts is originated by Messrs.-11133e and Son, of Church-street, and conducted under emir _management. The scale of prices is fixed at as low a rate as the greatest advocate of cheapness and popularity could desire—one shilling-for each reserved,seat being the "maximum, and sixpence the p r i ce for the gallery and body of the hall. To avoid crowding and inconvenience, the holders of tickets; obtained before the opening of the concert, were admitted by a separate entrance, an arrangement which ;was found highly satisfactory. At eight o'clock the hall and galleries were ccrowded in every part, even the reserved seats being all filled, and many of the an Bence having to stand. round the doors. The character of the perform Ince was ono very happily adapted to the great size of the hall— iastrucaental music ant choral songs, forming the - leading features: - The celebrated Distin family were engaged specially for the occasion. Miss Stabbach and the Orpheus Glee Union were the vocalists. The Orpheus .Glee Union consists of eight male singers —Messrs. W. J. Fielding, W. S. Davies, Williams, E. Ball, T. Cooke, A. E Fagan, -T. Distin, and W. Distin. 'These performers execute music somewhat in the style which the Celogng Choral Union made so popular in this country ; an l even with the wonderful performances of that celebrated body: . of singers freshly kept in mem3ry the singing . of the Orpheus Glee- Union, cannot be said to have suffered disadvantage. Nothing could be more erroisitely effec tive than the perfect blending of sound with which the voices in the loudest swelling tones and softest notes, fell upon the ears of the listeners. Especial attention was, however, sometimes attracted by the marvellous alto voice of Mr. Fielding. Miss Stabbach sung several pieces, among which may be mentioned the well-known air from "Der Freischutz," popularised in English as - "Before those Eeys beheld him," and the ballad, " There is in -the lone, lone seas." The audience signified by cordial applause, and demands for an encore, their full appreciation of the-singer. Of the performances of the Distin Family, whose name is famous everywhere, we need not speak. The reputation those performers have so long sustained was sever better merited than ou Saturday ,nigh t, Land . .thCiudisace.:; were enthusiastic in their applause. Mr. W. T. Best presided at the grand organ, and played as no other organist we h ave ever heard can perform. We have only briefly indicated the general :character of a performance, which, judged upon its own merits, could compare advantageous l y many ofjthe most expensiie concerts ; and which, view in relation to its popular object, must be looked 11013- with interest and favour by every one. That this effort to, place :such musical attractions within the rea ch of the' poorest classes, and under the roof of such a build ing ' has our earnest wishes for its success, we need hardlya say ; and so far as we may venture a judgmen t, founds. upon the results of the opening night, as reg ards pot], audience and entertainment, we can feel little h esitation in expressing a sanguine hope that the wish es of t .118 spirited and well-qualified projectors of this undertaking will be fully realised. Arrangements are made, w e understand, by Messrs. Hime, to render the coneetts which will take place next Saturday night, fully equ al ill every respect to the attractions of the first. LEWIS AND COMPANY'S NEW ESTABLISHMENT FOR 8c 1 . 1 . 6 , raoguierca—Number of boys clothed for week Wir?, Saturday, October 24th, 475; corresponding week last ye 280, which was the first week this establishme nt Age opened ; increase, 195 boys. Lif er ' CHARITABLE BEQUESTS .-- Mrs. Catharine Parr, of i g pool, has left legacies to the following institutions o 3 the town, viz., the Northern Hospital, the Infirmary, ao" Flue Coat Schools, £lOO each, and to the Deaf and Dais and Female Orphan Asylums, £5O each. Mr. R. G. Williams, M.A., of the London Unior' s it o l ; and formerly a distinguished pupil in the Lowe: " thi 4 Higher Schools of the Mecheniesqlnstitution, or. town, has commenced his professional career as a barrister' having on Tees lay last, at the borough sessions, h eld a' first brief. The clipper ship Herald, belonging to Edmund Tholes son & Co.'s Mersey Line, is new in the river, and saa a to-morrow, for Mrlbourne, with 300 passengers and a 'a r g ot and valuable carge on board. The beautiful new aliP o P e i t ship Occanica, a sister vessel to the King of Algeria (*li s l e ship we -have before alluded to), will be the 25th Nove e2a packet. STABBING —Yesterday, two sailors, named James . s and Thomas Croft, fell out on board a ship in the Vieta ri fie . Dock, when the former stabbed the latter with a "n o s under the shonleler. The wounded man was taken to the Northern Hospital, and his assailant was locked uP l e te a Main Bridewell. He will be taken before the magis tra te at the police court to answer the charge. MUTINIES TJA.OIO IN INDIA —DREADFUL MASSACRE OF - or , AND CHILDREN BY NANA SAHIB.—A full-length aad, c- se rect Likeness of the Above Monster is now addr. o . Allsop's Royal Wax-work Exhibition, Lime-street, pool, together with upwards of 1000 wax figures, stet° views, &c., &c., attended by a good quadrille band. A till ig i s , sion 61 each. Children under ten years of age, hill ... Pr- - from ten am. to ten p.m. v' Two new stam-tugs, the Retriever and Rover, belooe,ha to the New Steam=Tug Co pa t y (Limited). arrived irl s t ter river yesterday evening, the former one from Renfrew: e l ' ees boat to the Resolute, whose extraordinary performallter have bren many times recorded in our columns; the 1 4 l itis from Paisley, which is fit' ed ail h every accommodation retier, site for a tender, This fleet now consists of the most P A by ful boats in the world. Tre Retriever is commands of Captain William Edwards, fer many years commande the steam-tugs Independence and Universe ; the Ro ve : f i s ts Copt-in Brewster, for some years captain of the Br and North American steam tender Jack all. AFFILIATION CASE.-G,crge Aehbu r ster, Esq., deser iet as a gentleman of independent fortune (a bachelor) , res at irg Nethertaa, Maghull, was summ o ned on Saturd a l'bi eie police cffice before Messrs. Crosthwaite and liest l3 „ . Harriet Arris, for the support of a child, of which h a , a nt, ib the reputed father. Mr. Snewball was for the defentlsbs The plaintiff was honsc-keeper to defendant, an the alleged that an intimacy grew ute between them, a n " bat result was the present action. She swore positive!) , t ae defendant was the father of the babe, whilst he sw ar %at positively that he was not. It was, however, elicited t he gave her 10s, bet he alleged it was out of chartq' t he she complained of being badly off. He stoutly denie d allegation, but their Worships made an order for the m ent of 2s 64 a week and costs. 0 , 4 St'' AN EXCITING SCENE AT THE GREAT LANDING a e.,01 Yesterday, as the steam-ship Blenheim, which sailed 0:0or Belfast on Saturday evening, was landing her cattle earible a sheep fell overboard, and at once proceeded 0 01 0 Mersey, the tide at the time flowi ng i n . The poor an b i e b made excellent swimming, and braved the danger° vi The' surrounded it with the greatest determinatio n. , os eat appearance of the animal in the water collects a, , T w att crowds on the stage. One of the Blenheim's 13 3 1 " - 0 S the lowered, and another started from the north en n ' e l. stage, whilst a third was sent from the so uth ea as they rano of the boats was a truly spirited one ; an d n,;, o raing . respectively neared the poor sheep, which wAe o ,r,,heinf e g . quite exhausted, after a desperate effort, the -Di e- , anal . boat was the first to get hold of " sheepy s horn s ' ' a the' amidst the applause of the spectators, they rescue rys animal, hauled it info the boat, and bore it 0 0 tc3 s rlor steamer. We need hardly say that the men in the r jor boats were merely disappointed, and seemed to (API activity and determineeion of their successful rivals: . 0 PREiENTATION TO MIL BLAIR —OD Saturday evel l os t „se; few of the numerous workmen employed by Messrs. l' os eil and-Co., builder', met at M s. H trtley's, Feaz !S, s ;ide a Islington, where there was an excellent supper pr',ol for the oec :sion, which did great credit to the toll hostess. Atter supper Mr. Blair was presented f':iber elegant e petent skeleton watch (by Reskel!) and a golor n oa (valued in all, £l4), Th e f o ll ow i ng i s t h e i ng criSti e ; v lol the watch : -" Pre sentel by the workmen in the o e ; r lat e of M- SerF. Haigh a nd C o „ to Mr. Thomas Blair, ta c ,i s . o foreman, as a trifling testim on y c f t h e hi g h es'iin g ,'; r absfr which he is held by th em . Li verpoo l , 22 n d SeP,'s s erf 1857." After accepting the above, he replied l e f the, strong terms eulogleins on -the cond uc t an d ability c oca men towards his late employers and himself, and e l l j o r relle' a hype that they would hen ce f ort h carry ou t the `a ir ' b 9 199 After narrating upon va i ons topics, he con elu- ; tse l° thanking them f o r t h e highly prtz-d testimony at l a 'Lost held by them, and resumed his seat amid load c l e aslit The remainder bf the evening was spent very harmoli and all company separated shortly after eleven. k , r ert o A NQ1131.13 EXTFRCTED FROM A MAN'S STOMA.c S T. r ordi: NORTHERN HOSPITAL —Yesterday morning a n e a ,,%- r ata' nary. circumstance took place at the Northern ist as i .:" s of A man named M °heel Haelly, arrived in tows by ;gel: the Dublin beets, and presented himself at the k°s `ps ia stating that daring the night he felt a dreadful eliellegle.- ie the pit of his stomach, like the pricking 01. 0 1 ; Mr. D ivis, one of the house surgeons, examined t" of and observed what turned out to be thread sticking ;dna the flesh. This he concluded to roceed from the 11 .. - e etiP needle, and he was cerrect, for en dravries it 011t '0 1 ' 5 ' he also drew a la-ge eSze I sewing needle from the n th e stow cab ! The only aceaant the man could give circumstence was as :—He it on b t o- b e. to Australis, end when leavi ng 1- e l an d a few dais a s tha t wit some d:ink when praline. with his friends, els!' f e whilst in a state of drunkenness lie kissed s' )sle ; ) br' relative, an•l that oper a tio n th e nee dl e droaPe“ 0" mouth from part of her. clothes! 1 B 3 this cerreet is tee the nee Ile was di s l o d ge d f rom i ts nove l ease, ad ) for H telly went on hi s wa y re j o i c i ng. H e s tarts t0".,,50f the land of gold, whe'e ne doubt he will be able to e " , as-redline; else than "steel." 2 31. a 01IAMB411 OF ew l m"c l c. — Our columns of td e ra itteer instant, contained the p rocee di ngs o f t h e Dock C o ,' l ayt ll ; • in which is recorded a strong reaolarion passseb.,„ o Council the Chamber of Con - inure° upon the s „Ver h 3 l deck exten6ioi, and yet, strange to say, the Cha"' al brie not theught it worth their while to give their usll' a , the note oc their proceedings to the pablio. Howev er, ba r e P c : ; subject o! dock extension is so important rir e tlf te irja°C.. gleaned some particulars of that meeting. " t he w s a very full one, and among those present wo r p e j ,.ker, Bultell, in the char ; Messr s . T. Bunch, 0 B . p tis ° "' S. R. Graves, L. Rayner, Cooke, Rissliaat oos balli' W. Tomlinson, Lampert, T. B. F orwoo .l, and U T' 10 111°- The dise uesiou upon the Shipewners' Associe t, " t „ly the rial was anim a t e d an d rather discursive, but alli tli o tl i s la ~1 )145. adopted,, u mnimously, the resolution W i "by appeared in our columns, and which was preP t g, ( gie roa d Fo andtseconded by Mr. Boult. Atr• spe et.- i° :erne important suggestions as to dock facilities, te'eoubs which we have no particulars, but we hive no , a a ll e a . n : gleanings so far will be icteresting, and shay / `" es is nected with our port, that the Chamber of Canime.oa bet-I' • favour of prompt extene'.on of dock accoramodaion sides of the Mer se y. a raOh th at e Rug ON THE BANKS. —A mischievous p- y-as -- in - appeared in a local p ager , d es i gn i mg to create stars' tha t 3 meads O g of the un'hinkin.s tuu:titude—to the e ff W e d 1 ` )( run for gold had taken place on the bank; Ma e say that no " run," properly so called, has been, eas erfig e gold. At Arm rgh, on 'Paesday, a demand above ta o a ll O at was made, rot on any bank in particular, but 7 0 . els; branches in thet town ; but there was no oause a that i „ whatever. Lade d, it wag shrewdly susp ecte a % real,° de ,; " run," slight as it w as , and wholly devoid d able appr e h e nsi on , was caused by some peril's w a fevoufable oppertunit firpassing off ~110% mere " light gold." It would y be absurd to treat thi are o one of any gravity. No institutions in the enViieng.cons sounder and saf er b as i s t h an 13 our Belfast ,flik.,..sighteis Panics; and the people of Ulster are far too eie and alive t o their own interests to be huzbagkedlo;ell4s• pan:e. the effects of which NyJuld only recoil on to - -Belfast Mercury. ALE k; "trs t k i of till k tk NI 1, a] 41,, 414, k t i liikt el. Itq Pi. tkri