Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-09 00:00:00

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'twelve o'clock, at th- brokers' office, Oldhall-street, 100 cases Fast Incl;a Tallow, 1,000 bags Ground Nuts, 200 bags Yellow Mustard Seed, and 658 bundles Rattans.—Gladsto e and Ser jeantson. At twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, Exchange-street East, 3 cases Bees' Was, 130 bags Turkey Gum Arabic, 4 cases Gum Tragacanth, 21 bags Gum Gedda, and 7 bales Bombay Madder Roots.—Wiliam Porter and Co. For particulars see aivertisement.. A.CISEAENTS, PCTI3L[C AIEEL'INGS, &c. THIS P.Y. L - &r AN entruzAmE—Dramatise Performance-7 p.m. EENGLER'S GRAND CIRQUE VA a.rEra. Dale-street-7 p.m. ROTAL CoLOssEUNl—Gerkeral Entertainmerwt-6.10 p.m. c , )LocticaL GARDENS—Grand and Varied Entertainmentid. FT" For particulars see advertisements. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A pressure upon our space compels us to defer the lengthy proce+ dings of the West Durby Guardians until to morrow. t I'll2o 6 THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. In the House of Commons last night, the Thames Conservany Bill was passed by 172 votes to seventy•eight. Sir J. Graham was the leading opposition spirit, on account of the composition of the Conservancy Board. On the Chancellor of the Exchequer bringing up papers by command of her M-Ijestv, asking for one million strerling for the Persian and Chinese wars, one-half for each, he moved that the papers be referred to the Com mittee of Supply. Mr Roebuck stigmatised the conduct of the government in entering upon, carrying on, and concluding a war, without giving the House of Commons any oppor tunity of discussing the policy of the proceed ing. It was unconstitutional, and it was the first time since 1640, that such a course had been taken by the Government. Same conversation ensued, in which the regularity of the motion made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer was questioned, but the Speaker deciding that the Chancellor conformed to the usages of the House, the subject dropped. The Chancellor of the Exchequer obtained leave to bring in a resolution to continue the tea and sugar duties, as fixed last year. The House then went into committee on the Industrial Schools Bill. Clause nine gave rise to some discussion, on Mr. Bowyer moving that `. The managers of the Industrial Schools should keep a book having the denominations of the children entered in it, and that that book should be open to the inspectio❑ of ministers of all persuasions, that they might, at fitting times, have access to the children, for the purpose of giving instruction to them, according to the creeds which they or their parents professed." The amendment was, however, with drawn. A division took place on clause thirteen. It provides that children shall be detained in the schools until the age of fifteen. Mr. Barrow moved that the age be lowered to twelve ; but the amend ment was lost, there being only fifty-nine for, while there were 169 against. The same gentleman moved that parents of children should not be called upon to contribute to the support of their children after they had attained the age of twelve years; but this was also unsuccessful, the votes being seventy eight for, and 16l against. The bill, after being amended in clauses five and seven, was ordered to be reported. Mr. Neate, the member for Oxford, has been unseated. In the House of Commons, last even ing, the Chairman of the Oxford Election Com mittee reported that Mr. Neate was not duly elected, he having been guilty of bribery by his agents. We suppose that the Right Hen. Edward Cardwell will step into the vacant seat. The Town Council held its adjourned meeting yesterday. The proceedings of the Finance Com mittee were confirmed. They included a recom mendation that an assistant be granted to the Recorder. Mr. Alderman Holme stated that although there were seven sessions held in Liverpool during the year, the number of prisoners at each session was rapidly increasing, and each session occupied, on the average, ten days. It was desirable that they should not occupy more than a week at a time, and that this might be carried into effect, it would be necessasy for the Recorder to have an assistant. Such assistance would cost the township £lB3 15s. per annum As intimated, the recommendation was agreed to. The report of the Special Committee on the subject of the lighting. &c., of the borough was laid before the Council. The Com mittee, owing to the enormous expenditure required, do not recommend any change in the plar•ing of the lamps in the borough, but suggest some alteration in those of the outskirts. No alteration is recommended respecting the lighting of courts and alleys. The Committee consider the scheme of fountains, in connexion with the large lamps, both practicable and desirable. Mr. Brancker, in moving the confirmation of the report, stated that, if the suggestions of the lighting inspectors had heen carried out, it would involve an outlay of £25,000 the first year, and £14,000 per annum afterwards. A lengthened conversation occurred upon Mr. Alderman Dover's moving the confirmation of the proceedings of the Health Committee. The scheme respecting the erection of Public Offices in Dale-street is already in the possession of our readers. Mr. Picton was of opinion that the Council ought to have more infor mation furnished them before coming to a discus sion on such an important question. Mr. Alderman Dover did not think that it would be to the public advantage to divulge anything additional to that already known, respecting the intentions of the Committee on this subject. The sum of £27,000 was all that would be required from the rat-payers. This sum would be borrowed, and paid off in nine years, by a borough rate of id in the pound. Mr. Piston was not content, and moved the postponement of the scheme for the present, which Mr. Fernihough seconded. Mr. James Holme entered into explana tions showing the desirability of carrying out the committee's plans. Mr. J. R. Jeffery was much opposed to the scheme, one of his reasons being that the property of Lord Dceby, and that of Mr. Cross, of Shaw-hall, would be much benefitted thereby. Some further conversation ensued, and ultimately the Committee's proceedings were con firmed by a vote of 21 to 20. The treatment by the government of Mr. Newlands, and other sanitary officers of Liverpool, who proceeded to the Crimea, was brought under the notice of the Council, but nothing came of it further than the subject being referred back to the Health Committee. Mr. Woodruff read a return in reference to the supply of water. From this return, it appears that the total supply of water for the last four weeks was 293 million gallons against 177 million gallons in the corresponding period of last year. The proportion of Rivington water and well water is nearly about equal. It was stated that the complaints - of want of water the last month were 112 less than in the same month of last year. Mr. Brown, M P., is getting disgusted at the lethargy exhibited by the Liverpool Town Council respecting the Public Library and Museum. A letter was read from that gentleman, asking the Mayor what new obstacle had got in the way. Mr Picton defended the Library and Museum Com mittee, and laid all the blame on the shoulders of the Council at large, who had had the plans put into his hands. And he had been so busily en gaged with important matters, that he bad not had a moment's time to devote to the subject. Finally, the letter of Mr. Brown was referred to the com mittee, and the subject dropped. Last evening, the Hon. Neal Dow, of Maine Liquor Law celebrity, attracted a meeting of the United Kingdom Alliance, for the suppression of the Liquor Traffic, held at the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson-street. The hon. gentleman, with great power and ability, advocated the cause of forced temperance. A full report of his speech will be found in another column. Henry Bliss, Esq., Q C., has been appointed Attorney-General of the County Palatine of Lan caster, in the place of J. L. Knowles, Esq., Q.C., resigned. A grand review and field-day took place at Aldershott yesterday. The Queen, accompanied by various distinguished personages, was in attendance. The number of troops on the ground was somewhere about 11,000 The French supplementary elections seem to be not more favourable in the departments, to the Government, than they were at Paris. At Angers the democratic candidate has beaten the govern ment candidate, by three votes to one. The sus pension of the AssenVilee Nationale for an article du the elections is, we presume, an evidence of how bitterly the government feels its defeat. The Spanish Cortes have voted, by a large majority, a press law, which will put an end to the liberty, and, still more, to the commercial success of journalism in Spain. The news from Constantinople is gloomy. Once more have the four powers, Russia, France, Prussia, and Sardinia, protested against the acts of the Moldavian Kamaikan. This time they declare the Sultan the responsible party. The latest of the Bank schemes, that of M. Baltazzi, is meeting with no more favour than the rest. Private letters from Genoa and Leghorn give fresh details of the late Mazzini outbreak. Miss Jessie Meriton White, who has been lending her influence and personal efforts to that arch-con spirator, has been expelled from Genoa, according to the Courriere Mercantile of that town. Fresh discoveries of muskets and munitions have been made in Genoa, as likewise large quantities of mining powder, evidently intended for blowing up public buildings. The preliminary examination of the prisoners has commenced. They are 52 in num ber, of whom 32 are from Genoa and the neigh bourhood, 19 from other States of Italy, including seven Lombardo-Venetians, and one Frenchman. The prisoners belong almost exclusively to the lower classes ; forty-two are workmen, tailors, shoemakers, &c., two are servants, two aro stu dents, three are clerks, two are " rentiers," and one is a journalist. The Cagliari steamer, which was captured by two Neapolitan frigates, after having been deserted by the insurgents, has been taken into Gaeta. Nothing has been heard of the column of insurgents which landed at Saprie, and was said to have been driven into the mountains. As far as the decisions of the Election Com mittees of the House of Commons have been declared, they do not afford much encourage ment that the late Act of Parliament will afford increased facilities for unseating members of Parliament, who have obtained seats by means quite inconsistent with those rules which regulate and enforce the morals of the people. Up to the present time, every attempt to unseat members has proved a failure, and the enforcement of the provisions of the Corrupt Practices Bill has been entirely " Quixotic." Petition after petition has been dismissed, with a verdict in favour of the sitting member; and although the public generally, are led to believe that the Act of Parliament regulating the election of a member of Parliament gave increased facilities for the presentation and prosecution of petitions, what has taken place this session shows the utter delusion of such an idea, and demonstrates that the morality and justice of Parliament, with respect to electioneer ing corruptions, was seldom so lax as when the law has assumed what was regarded a stern, a decisive, and a wholesome degree of vigour. Peculiar circumstances connected with contested elections render the administration of election law different from almost every other depart ment of our jurisprudence. Moreover, the very framers of the law, which aims at putting an end to bribery, corruption, and intimidation, are judges who carry out the law, and, in more instances than one, are the parties who have been charged with a breach of its provisions. We have long thought that a Committee of the House of Commons is the most undesirable tribunal which could possibly exist for trying the merits of an election petition. One of our Scottish cotemporaries wisely remarks in stating that “the legislature that makes the law against bribery, intimidation, and other improper practices, is also the judges that executes the law, and may even be said, in most cases, to be the accused party upon whom the law is admi nistered;" and continues our sagacious cotem porary, "It is held to be quite monstrous, by writers on constitutional principles, to allow judges to make laws, or law makers to sit on the judicial bench ; but one has only to imagine the class of persons whu are usually brought into the dock, on criminal charges of one kind or another, having the power not only to make the laws by which they are tried, but to pass sentences on themselves, in order to perceive what a strange place is an Election Committee of the House of Commons. These consideration s at once suggest the idea that, considering the constitution of human nature, nothing is more likely than that Parlia ment, for the purpose of appearing true, just, and moral, particularly as regards corruption and intimidation at elections, should enter tain petitions, and wade through the Committee's evidence, when it had made up its mind to give a decision in favour of the sitting member. To illustrate our position, we have only to refer to one petition—that from Rochdale. Bribery, we know, is that which the House itself visits with the most complete indignation, and repudiates in the most emphatic manner. Hon. gentlemen would not buy votes as they do a THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, JULY 9., 1857, carcase in the cattle market, They love their country and their Sovereign too well to do, as some would say, a " trick;" yet, let us look at Rochdale. Bribery, one of the foulest crimes, in the eyes of the House, has certainly been perpe trated in this borough. The Committee say, " It appears that ABRAHAM ROTHWELL, RICHARD HUGHES, and MARTIN DALY were bribed by various sums of money given or offered to them ; but there was no evidence to show that the aforesaid acts of bribery committed were with the consent or knowledge of the sitting member or his agents." What is the meaning of this declaration on the part of the Rochdale Com mittee ? Simply this—that no bribe can be in point of law a bribe, unless some one hears it jingle ad it drops out of the hand of the sitting member, or his authorised agent or agents, into the avaricious palm of the corruptible elector. We have alluded to the nefarious intimidations practised in Mayo. The corrupt practices at Cambridge, Rochdale, and other places, show that, legislate as Farliament may for the purifica tion of election, nothing can or will save us from all the horrors of priestly intimidation, corrup tion, and undue influence, but the adoption of the Ballot. SOME short time ago, a deputation of gentle men waited on the Premier, to urge the expediency of permitting the emigration of free labourers from Africa to supply the want which is now experienced in our West India colonies ; and on last Friday evening, a petition from Demerara was presented by Mr. T. BARING, in the House of Commons, embodying the same request. Cotton and Sugar are dear at present ; and the West India interest having an eye t') its own and the nation's good, strongly argues for this view of the case. We ought not to be dependent, say they on America for our chief supply of Cotton. Free African labourers would make us able to compete with America. And as it has often and again been proved, both theoreti cally and practically, that slave labour is dearer in the end than the work of free men, it follows that the proposed arrangement would be the most effectual mode of putting down slavery and the slave trade—a result which has not been attained by armed squadrons hovering round the coast of Africa. Then the horrors of the middle passage would be avoided. There would be no cramming of miserable human beings together like sheep in a pen, only with less provision for air and cleanliness ; for the trade would be legitimate ; good ships would be sent out with comfortable accommodation, to receive those Africans who chose to volunteer to go to a more lucrative field of labour in a new country. Then they would be better and safer in a British colony, and under British law, than in their own country. The island of Mauritius affords a splen did example of the benefit of free labourers. There, a hundred thousand coolies from India have raised themselves, by their own labour, to comfort and independence. Many of them become rich enough to return to their own native land, after having realised a competence. A free, legitimate, and unrestricted trade in Africans would, then, benefit this country, by increasing the amount of the products we need—especially Sugar and Cotton ; would benefit the negro himself, by transferring him to a better field of labour; would affect advantageously the policy of the Southern States of America; and, in short, would end in the overthrow of Slavery. Such is the case for the West Indian interest; and this policy is endorsed by no less a philanthropist than Lord SHAFTESBURY. On the other side it is contended that, how ever it may be placently presented and guarded, yet this scheme might in the end prove a revival of the slave trade under a new name. But the people of this country will never consent to restore the accursed traffic, under any name or any pretence. We have paid dearly enough already in our feelings of humanity, and in twenty millions of money, and long political agitation, to suffer ourselves to be imposed on by any pretence however plausible. Sugar and Cotton are good things in their places, the one in our tea, the other in our wardrobe ; hut humanity, morality, religious principle, are higher things still. Doubtless free labour is cheaper than slave labour ; and this is the effectual guarantee written in the decrees of Providence, and the laws of human nature, that the slave system cannot be perpetual. But before committing ourselves to the approval of a scheme which is yet so imperfectly :deve loped and understood ; let us think of possible consequences in carrying out what sounds so benevolently. In putting an end to the horrors of the middle passage, could we also put an end to the war and kidnapping that might precede the Africans showing themselves at the coast ready for transportation. The case would be quite different from that of an Irish emigration to America. No power can steal and force the Irish to ship themselves off to AmeriCa. They go voluntarily in a sense, even if compelled by poverty, they' go to seek new homes in a new world, and so to better their physical condition. And if it can be shown that no more constraint would be put on the African than on the Irish man, then so far the cases are parallel—andithe plan might be defensible. But it is known that at this moment war is proceeding in Africa, to procure slaves for Cuba, &c. ; the native chiefs will sell their unhappy subjects to the trader for rum, or gunpowder, or some worthless bauble. We ask, therefore, what provision the scheme makes to prevent this atrocity ? Might not the unintentional result be even to increase it ? Prove to us that the negro is as free as our own countryman to emigrate, and we surrender our objection. Then,lmoreover, we need a guarantee that he shall be free to work or to decline work, when he arrives in the British colony. An enforced apprenticeship for tan years; ten months, or ten days, is only slavery a little modified. We have other objections to this plan ; but on this alone we shall be content to rest our opposition till it is shown how the difficulty is to be surmounted. Whatever France may do, we are sure that the people of this country will never lend themselves in any shape or measure to be instrumental in reviving a traffic which they made such sacrifices to extinguish in their own dominions, and which they have so perseveringly striven, by peaceful treaty as well as by armed force, to put down everywhere over the whole world. There was no surplus of ectual revenue over the actual expenditure of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the year ended the 31st day of March, 1857; consequently, the Commissioners fur the reduction of the National DJbt have given notice that no sum will be applied by them on accoant of the Sinking Fund. Since the Hon. East India Company reduced the exchanges for bills drawn upon the Presidencies, the opera. Lions in silver have become vary limited, and few orders for supplies are now sent to the Continent. If the rates in India and China are reported lower by the next advises he drain, which has latterly assumed serious dimensions, will be reduced to a point which could no longer excite uneasiness. During the short period since the inquiry became lessened the distribution of the precious metals has been most favourable to this coun try, and instead of many gold remittances of import ance being immediately purchased on its arrival, the greater part is dis,aosed of to the Bank, as a ready market cannot be found elsewhere, Thus the American and Aus tralasian receipts are causing an accumulation in the Bank vaults. Of the £131,400 brought by the Champion a the Seas, about £BO,OOO has already passed into the pos session of the authorities, and the remainder, as well as the amount announced to day by the Canada, will no doubt be similiarly appropriated. It is calculated that the stock of bullion must now exceed £120,000,000.—G/obe. The new French Legislative B )dy contains three mem• berg of the Jewish persuasion—MAL Kce ligswarter, G)ud chaux, and Leopold Javal. The Univers Israelite expresses its satisfaction at this success, which it terms exceedingly honourable for the Jews of France, and for the noble spirit of tolerance which animates the country." A letter from Rome, in the Constitutionnel, says . Prince Annibal Siaionetti has put an end to his existence by throwing himself out of a window of his palace at Ancona. As he was in possession of a considerable fortune, and surrounded by everything to render life agreeable, the cause which led him to commit the rash act at present remains a mystery. Prince Simouetti had been called by Pius IX to the ministry of finance during the constitu tional regime. He was the first secular minister, and succeeded the Prelate Morichini, who is now cardinal. The prince, on resigning his post, was replaced by Count Rossi." Sir JJhn Potter, Mr. John Cheetham, and Mr. J. Aspinall Turner, had an interview with Lord Stanley of Alderley, on Tuesday, at the Board of Trade. Mr. Augustus Smith had also an interview with the noble lord on Tuesday. THE COURT, &c. WEDNESDAY, JULY B.—The Duchess of Kent visited the Q teen yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The Prince Consort, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, and the Ffince of Hohenzollern rode on horseback yesterday morning to Wormwood Scrubbs, to be present at a Cavalry Brigade Field-day. In attendance were Captain the Hon. D. de Ros, B iron de Moltke, and Baron Alven leben. The royal party returned to Buckingham Palace shortly before one o'clock in the afternoon. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal, the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, and the Princess Helena, took a drive in an open carriag►e and four in the afternoon. Lord Alfred Paget and Lord Charles Fitzroy attended on horseback. The Prince Consort, with Prince Frederick William of Prussia, visited the British Institution in the afternoon. Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa took a drive yesterday morning in an open carriage and four. The Queen, the King of the Belgians, and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Princess Royal, the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, Prince Frederick William of Prussia, and the Count de Flandres, honoured the Princess's Theatre with their presence last evening. The royal suite consisted of Viscountess Jocelyn, Countess d'Yve, the Hon. Louisa Gordon, Lord Byron, Count de Moerkerke, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Captain the Hon. de Itos, Baroi de Moltke, Captain Burnell, and Dr. Koepi ; The Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday, at her residence, in St. James's Palace. The Count de Flandres visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday; at Clarence-house, St. James's. GRAND REvIE AND FIELD DAY AT ALDERSHOTT, BEFORE HER MAJESTY, &C.—Her Majesty having ap pointed yesterday for a review and field-day of the forcs encamped at Aidershott, the troops were under arms at their respective private parades, at nine o'clock. The line was formed by the following regiments:—viz., Ist Royal Dragoon Guards, 6th Dragoons (f nniskil- Hogs), 7th Royal Hussars, 15th ditto, Ist bat talion Coldstream Guards, 15th Foot, 20th ditto, 22nd ditto, 54th ditto, 66 h ditto, 96th ditto, 97th ditto, 98th ditto, Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade, and Ist and 6th battaltons of the Military Train. Batteries et Field and Royal Horse Artillery were posted in the centre and on the right and left flanks. The number of troops on the ground exclusive of the camp guards and vidette on duty, exceeded 11,000. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, with a brilliant staff, and accompanied by several distinguished general and staff officers, arrived early, and was received with the usual honours. On the ground were numerous equ'pages of the aristocracy, and the corps diplomatique. Shortly after ten o'clock her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Con sort, accompanied by the Princess Royal, his Royal Highness • the Count of Flanders, the Princess C sarlotte of Belgium and the other distinguished visitors, and accompanied by a numerous suite, arrived, the artillery announcing the fact by firing a royal salute, the line presenting arms, and the several bands playing the National Anthem. Her Majesty and the august party having inspected the lines, sub-divisions were formed by the right, and the immense body of troops marched past in slow and quick time, after which the whole of the field evolutions were performed with admirable precision. The line having been again formed, a royal salute was fired, the royal party retired, and the troops marched to their respective quarters. PRINCE NAP , LEON IN CORNWALL-At Falmouth, on Tuesday, the French war steam yacht Reine Hortense landed here this morning his Royal Highness Prince Napoleon and suite, The party at once proceeded to the mining districts, accompanied by Alfred Fox, and tc-iight will meet the royal yacht at St. Ives, thence to proceed to Dublin. SUDDEN DEATII —On Tuesday night a man, named Joseph Delany, died on board the steamer Windsor, on her passage from Dublin to this port. An inquest will be; held on the body this day. THE INSURRECTIONARY MOVEM ENT. NAPLES, JULY 2 Intelligence of the late movement was first re ceived in Naples on Sunday night, at half-past eleven o'clock, by telegraphic despatch from Gaeta. Many of the officers and other enzployes were in the theatre, so that the whole city was thrown into a state of immense disquietude. As I have already informed you, the rappel was beaten in the arsenal, and all hands set to w -rk. As far as I can learn, two steamers left Naples on Monday morning to replace those which had left Gaeta on the 30th ; two left for Salerno to embark troops, with a view to cut off the march of the insurgents; and on the same day the Roberti, whi,;ii was in readiness to carry the ministers to a meeting of the council, was employed to take up ammunition and stores. On July 1, another steamer went out into the offing, under orders. A battalion has orders to march from Noceta and Avellino to replace the troops which had been withdrawn from Salerno. The King was at Capua yesterday reviewing troops,.and report speaks of several regiments which are ex pected to march. The Count of Trapani was to have left for Florence to-day, but his departure has been deferred. The Count of Aguila, it was reported, was to leave last night for the provinces, and the Count of Syracuse, I am informed, will return in a few days. Directions has been given to put the whole naval force in course of preparation, so that there can be little doubt but that the movement is of a most serious character. Tue public mind is now in such an excited and exaggerated state that it is very difficult to get at precise details, so that I must beg you to regard my statements rather as approximations to truth. South of Tor raea no exact information can have been received, as the electric telegraph had been cut at that point, but a movement is spoken of at Lecce ; another at Reggio, where, it is added, the Intendente had been killed. Certain points in Calabria are disturbed, and Basilicata is much agitated. According to some, another landing had been effected in Cirelli, and an at tempt in the Adriatic was feared as the govern ment had given corresponding orders to the above• named steamers. Whilst such is the disturbed state of the country, the Neapolitan army cannot be depended upon, and the Swiss have manifested some indisposition to be scattered and separated The 13th, which is a mixed foreign regiment, especially has manifested such a feeling, I am told. A"g6neral officer, speaking to a friend of mine to day, himself declared that the army could no longer be depended upon, so utterly corrupted had it been by scrutinies and severities, and thus un c insciously and unwillingly made to feel an interest in political matters. A desertion in the Ist regiment of Dragoons is much spoken of— slight, in point of fact—but very widely extended as far as intentions went. The revelations of an accomplice, however. very much reduced the evil. Amongst the names mentioned were those of many whose family traditions were almost exclusively military. You will be prepared to believe that the most intense anxiety exists here to know the result of the movement, which by some is called a filibustering effort, and by others is spoken of as having been suppressed by the gens d'armes and the urban guard. The Official Journal published late last night has the following note :—" We have received tele graphic information that the insurgents, of whom we spoke yesterday, having been attacked by the gendarmerie and the urban guard, have been de feated, and have dispersed, or given themselves up. The usual tranquility continues in those places and everywhere ; and the aversion of the population for the guilty and mad attempt manifests itself more and more widely." ARRESTS AT GENOA. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 4th states that the number of persons arrested at Genoa is fifty two, including thirty-two Piedmontse subjects— viz ,' twenty-three Genoese, six natives of La Spezia, one of G-hiavari, one of Alessandria and one of Mortara. The remaining twentycomprise one Frenchman, five Parm ese, seven Lombards, six from Romagna, and one from Modena. Forty-two belong to various trades, two are servants, and there are besides two landowners, a journalist, a secretary, a clerk, and two students. To these particulars the Opinione of Turin adds the fdllowing :—" On the Ist several armed men were discovered concealed in a coach-house. They had been there since the preceding day, but had not dared to stir, having learnt that the authorities were on the alert. Mazzini has certainly been at Genoa, and was seen at Albano about the 30th ult, Miss White, an English lady, who, according to the Armenia of Turin, had been ordered away from Genoa, is still there." The Cattoheo of Genoa states that several arrests have been made among the Piedmontese navy ; that the surgeon of the regiment of Savoy stationed at Genoa has corn mitteed suicide by taking poison ; and that there has been an attempt at disturbance at La Spezia. A supplement to the Italia e Popolo the Mazzi nian journal published at Genoa, and whose chief editor has been arrested, was seized on the 3rd. On the subject of Mazzini the Gazetta del Popolo of Turin says—" It is stated that Mazzini was concealed at Genoa, and that he was to appear at the head of a Praetorian guard as soon as the attempt had succeeded ; he was then to have established a provisional government in the ducal palace. He is said, however, to have been much astonished on being informed of the small number of persons prepared for the movement; while be had been told that several thousands were ready. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING The triumph, by—on an average—more than 1,000 votes each, of all three of the opposition can didates at the second elections for Paris, has as much surprised the victors as it has disappointed the government. Yesterday afternoon the issue of the struggle was considered most doubtful, the republican committee, knowing the im mense influence that was brought to bear against them, were resigned to defeat ; but the most sanguine did not venture to hope for the election of more than two out of the three of their men. Paris has given its " lesson to government." Out of the eight seats allotted by the Constitution to intramural Paris, five are now filled by opposition members. Even includ ing the banlieue as part of the city, one-half of the entire population has pronounced for the republicans. The names of Cavaignac, Carnot, Goudchaux, 011ivier, and Darimon—elected by the rich quarters of the Banque and the Boule vards, the traders and manufacturers of the Rues Montmartre, St. Denis, and the corresponding faubourgs, and the bourgeoisie and the opera tives of the quarters of the Temple, Faubourgh St Antoine, and Faubourg St. Marc mu—protest loudly against the opinion that Paris is resigned to the loss of political liberty. The victory has been achieved in spite of a serious division among the leaders of a democratic party, which at one time threatened to make the movement abortive —in spite of the objections of many liberals to vote for men who they assume will be deterred by the oath from taking their seats—in spite of the entire influence of the executive power con centrated at these second elections upon the three circumscriptions of Paris alone—in spite of alarm ing and furious articles of the government press de nouncing the opposition candidates and their sup porters asrebels and socialists, notwithstanding the entire absence of public meetings and electionering speeches to excite the population—and notwith standing the degree of apathy necessarily result ing from the consciousness that no immediate practical result was to he expected from success Who shall say now, when English journalists express their doubts as they are wont to do, at long intervals, and with moderation and reserve, whether the present despotic system is calculateci t9_ 10kat long in France—that they meddle with matters of which they know nothing, and insult France by criticising institutions with which Frenchmen are content? Hereafter when the Emperor takes his drive in the capital it will be impossible for the accounts of his enthusiastic reception in the Moniieur to chase from his mind this thought— that at least every other man he sees has voted against him, and that a vast proportion of the others are functionaries, government purveyors, de pendents, or emploges, whose support is only to be relied upon so far as their immediate pecuniary in terests are concerned. So far as I can hear, how ever, there is not the least intention of accepting the lesson. The task of governing Paris by the votes of the ignorant masses of the peasantry will be persevered in with new ardour, and it is more than probable that the press, whose short saturnalia of liberty has produced such an unlooked-for result, will be subjected to new restrictions. The Estafette has received a warning for an article of yesterday, and has not appeared this evening. lam not sure whether the warning is not a third one, which may be accompanied with suspension. You will remember that simultaneously with the second elections in the departments there were to be three others in the departments—namely, in the Maine and Loire, Somme and Mayenne. No complete or positive news of the results have been received. I hear it said that M. Delamarre, the editor of the Patrie, who was the government can didate in the Somme, has been thrown out in favour of M de Morgan, and I think the news probable. In the town of Angers (Maine and Loire) M. Bordillon, the opposition candidate, polled 4,222 votes against 1,700, given to M. Dubois, the government candidate. The government evening papers cannot find a word to say about the issue of the Paris elections. The Presse asks what the Constitationne/ and Patrie now think of the tactics which they have so obstinately pursued, of giving a sinister sig nification to the opposition candidatures. Will they now respect the constitutionally elected representatives of universal suffrage whom they yesterday insulted. The Courrier de Paris says : The electoral period has thus terminated by a result completely at variance with the fears or hopes of the abstentioais , s. The partisans of universal suffrage have reason to rejoice at the calm with which this solemn demonstration has been accomplished. The agitation, scarcely perceptible, has been legal, regular pacific, and the population of Paris has, by its dignified attitude, worthily responded to the slanders of its habitual ac cusers. M. BERNNGER. The following bulletin of the health of Beranger was published in Paris : _ Tuesday, July 7, 7 a.m. M. Beranger is not 89 well to-day. He has pasted an a , Yitated night. His state is still very serious. The Physicians TROUSSEAU, C. BERNARD, JABIN, PAUL DIVOI. _ _ M. Beranger is constantly attended by M. Per rotin, his publisher, and old friend. His door is crowded all day by eminent authors and people of all ranks of society, who call to make inquiries, and subscribe their names. The Constitutionnel contains the following : The Empress, on hearing of the illneqs which placed the life of Beranger in danger, sent M. Damas-Hinard, her private secretary, to express her sympathy for the sufferer. Notwithstanding his serious state, Beranger signified his desire to receive her Majesty's secretary. Extended on a sofa, his face pale and shrunken, his eyes half closed, Beranger raised his hand to take that of M. Damas-Hinard, who told him in whose name he had come to condole with him in his sufferings. " Her Majesty is very good," said Beranger, i❑ a feeble voice. "It was very natural," replied M. Damas-Hinard ) " that the Empress should send to you. You were one of the delights of her youth, and to her admiration of the poet are united esteem and affection for the man." While M. Damas-Hinard was speaking, the countenance of Beranger brightened up, and he said, " The Empress is very kind. She has passed nobly through the different phases of her life, and now in the exalted station in which she is placed, she gives proof of an excellent heart. "Do not fail," added Beranger , " to express to her all my gratitude." SPAIN. The Paris Pays says :—" We yesterday announced that troubles, promptly repressed, had broken out in the south of Spain. We believe the fact to be that a band of twenty-five men stationed in the defiles of Sierra Morena (Andalusia), stopped the mail, and burned all the letters. But this band was energetically pursued, and nothing more is to be_, apprehended in that quarter. It appears, how ever, that seditious pamphlets against the Queen are circulating privately. The Cabinet is resolved to discover and punish the authors of these odious manifestations. The sitting of the Cortes will soon be forcibly suspended, the number of deputies now present in Madrid not being sufficient to insure a house. THE WEST AFRICAN MAIL, PLYMOUTH, TURSDAY.—The Candace, African mail steamer, Captain Hawkes, arrived here this evening from the West Coast of Africa, with mails and fitty passengers, including those of the missing steamer, the Niger, the rumour of the loss of which is confirmed. The Niger was wrecked near Santa Cruz, but the whole of the crew, passengers, and mails were taken to Teneriffe, and thence brought on in the Candace. There is no news of political or mercantile interest from the coast. At Sierra Leone an officer of a West India regiment had shot another through jealousy. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, July 7.—APPOINTMENT —Lieu tenan!s J. M. Jackson (1846), to the Impregnable, 104, flag-ship, at Devonport; and 11. S. Hamilton (1817), to the Ganges, 84, at Sheerness. Surgeon T. M. Costello (1851), to the Atholl, 4, receiving ship, at Greenrck. The Admiralty have ordered the President to be paid off at Chatham on Saturday next. The Admiralty have also ordered the Cossack to be paid off at Sheerness on Monday next, when she is to be placed in the Ist division of the steam squadron of reserve. COURT-MARTIAL.—On Tuesday, a naval court-martial assembled on board the flagship Waterloo, Captain Henry Harvey, C. 8., &c., at Sheerness, to try Captain Henry Spratt, of the Royal Marines, serving on board her Majesty's ship President, on the charge of saying to Captain Charles Frederick, his commanding officer, on the quarter-deck of the said ship, that h e h a d ac t e d un j us tly, and of repeating that assertion although warned. The prisoner's remarks had reference to some punishment that had been inflicted on one of the marines. The court sat in deliberation for about half-an-hour, when it was again opened, and Mr. W. W. Hayward, the Deputy Judge Ad vocate, read the sentence of the court, which was to the following effect :—" That they considered the charge fully proved, and that the prisoner be reprimanded and lose one year's time. IRISH PEAT COMPANY.—A special meeting , of this com pany was held yesterday, at the offices in Old Jewry. Captain Ingram took the chair, when a discussion took place on the affairs of the company, an d a p ro p os i t i on w as / laid before the meeting by :Ur. Hills, a chemist, for the more economical management of the company's works, SO as ultimately to leive a profit to the shareholders. The terms and means necessary to carry out this gentleman's views were agreed to be left to a committee of five share holders, who would consult with the directors on the subject and report to the shareholders. This was the only business. A vote of thanks was passed to the Chair-. man for presiding. FIRE AT BERMONDSEY.—On Tuesday morning, a fire took place in Bermondsey. The scene of the fire wil e Tyers-gateway, on which stood the premises belonging to Mr. W. Fish, tanner and leather-seller. Owing to the inflammable nature of the stock-in-trade the fire spread with great rapidit y , an d spee dil y t h e ent i re range o f both - buildings was on fire. In spite cf the exertions of the firemen the flames seized upon 1,2, 3, and 4, in Canal: place, the inmates of which were compelled to rush ou t into the court w ith t h e i r c hild ren i n their arm s , carrying: with them any portable article they could lay their hand s upou. The engine-house and bark stores were burnt ou t ,' and the four houses in Candall-plane severely damage d ' The loss, it is believed, will fall upon the Anchor Fir e * office. The origin of the fire is unknown.