Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-25 00:00:00

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KW' For particulars see advertisements on Bth page -THIS DAY ro CORRESPONDENTS Under no circumstanc .nsert communications accompanied by the at aarily tor public L, but as a araatee of iood f Einte I . r SATURD..-11 7 , lUNE 25, 1859 , THE DAY'S NEWS., Of War News, we have little or none to lay before our readers this morning. The expected great battle has not, so far as is known in England, yet taken place, and the only topic of interest in connection with the struggle now going on , is the present attitude and future operations of Prussia. After remarking that the part which Prussia has to play just now is exceedingly complex, owing to her European 'and Germanic interests crossing each other at several points, the Daily 11Tetvs shows the import of the advance of Prussian troops to th e Rhine. The Prussian Government has announced its intention to interfere diplomatically for the restoration of peace; but it has not yet thought it ime for proposing a basis of pacification to France, The advance of a Prussian army to the Rhine, after a grave disagreement with France, such as the rejection of an offer 'of mediation., would have a seriousness which would be incontestible ; but that is not the present situation. Much *remains to be done before ;a case for the employment of Prussian troops can arise. Prussia arms in order that, when the time for mediation comes, 'she may intervene with effect. The new English ministry has lost no time in acquainting the Prussian Court with its views of Italian affairs. It is not true that a treaty had 'been concluded between Austria and Prussia with reference to this war. The Post says the mission of the Prussian Ambassador at Vienna to the Head-quarters of the Emperor Francis Joseph, is formally contradicted. The Independence Beige gives another version of the proposition which Prussia is said to have made for the re-establishment of peace, but doei not guarantee its authenticity. According to "-"mation Prussia proposes that Lombardy b e annexed to Piedmont, and that Parma, Modena, and Tuscany, be restored to their :legitimate sovereigns ; the authority of the Pope - re-established __n the, legations, Venice become independent, an d t h e four famous f ortresses of the Mincio be - annexed to the Germanic Confederation, so - presenting an aggiesive return to Lombardy on the part _of Austria, and protecting Venice from the aggrendising policy of Piedmont. The Journal des Debats, asserts that the Bavarian Government has refused to allow Prussian 'troops to pass through its territory 'until the Prussian Government -Shall have answered a series of questions as to the meaning and -purpose of the resolution it has taken. The Times' letter from the Allied camp in Italy. 'describes some remarkable feats accomplished by `Garibaldi in suprising the Austrians, making forced marches of forty-five miles in twenty hours, and. raising the country 'in favour of national inde pendence.. The Paris correspondent -of the Daily . News says that the bloody conflict at Perugia be tween the Pope's Swiss Guards and the people is . Considered in Government circles as a deplorable event, and tends to increase the difficulty of preserving the temporal dominions of the Pope. Theßomans claim the benefit of the Emperor Napoleon's Milan proclama tion, that the French army shall not interfere with the manifestation of their legitimate wishes, and unless - the Swiss shall be supported by FrenCl troops, nothing is more likely than that they will be driven out of Perugia, by an overwhelming national force. The Moniteur 'contains a note explaining the nature of the Dictatorship offered - by the whole of Italy to the King of Sardinia. Persons conclude wrongly that - Piedmont, without consulting the wishes of the different people or , the Great Powers, reckons on uniting the whole of Italy in one single State. Such conjectures have no foundation. The different people, whether delivered or abandoned, desire to make common cause against Austria. • With this intention, they have placed themselves under the protection of the King ; but . the Dictatorship is purely a temporary power, which, whilst uniting the common forces in the same hands, in no way presages combination for the future. The - basis of mediation proposed at Berlin for the termination of the war in Italy, being so certain of rejection by the Emperor Napoleon, it is con sequen tl y conc l u d e d that Prussia h as decided upon going to war. It is report e d a t P ar i s t h at the Russian Ambassador at Turin has remonstrated against the organisation of a Hungarian legation, and that the Prussian Government has declared that it will assist in putting down an insurrection in Hungary. The Vienna correspondent of the Times,. writing on Tuesday, states that the picquets of th e t wo arm i es in Italy were within sight of each other, and that scarcely a day passed without slight skirmishes. The Emperor of Austria is believed to have 280,000 soldiers under his command on the line of the Mincio. A telegram, received last night, says that Marshal Count Gyulai, ex - commander-in-chief of the Austrian army in Italy, has retired to his estates. The llioniteur, of Thursday, p u bli s h es an Imperial decree, dated Brescia, June 19th, naming M. de -Morney, President of the Legislative Corps. It is -inferred from the above, that an extraordinary Session will be held, having for its object a fresh contingent, if not also a fresh supply of the means to support it ; and it rather gives colour to the fear that the war will, before long, assume greater propor tions. If the misgiving with respect to Prussia prove well founled, some notion may be formed of any contingent required for Italy and the Rhine. On Home Politics -there are a variety of rumours and surmises passing to and fro. Lord Bury is to be opposed at Norwich, and it would appear that great exertions are required to secure the return of Mr. Gladstone for Oxford University. After all, Lord' John Russell will, in all probability, have a walk over__ in the City of London. The address of Lord Palmerston to the electors of Tiverton, does not enlighten -as much on the views of that statesman, and the nines of yesterday regrets that the - present government intends to retrench largely on the naval expenditure, thus rendering the efforts of the Derby government to give this county a fleet able to defend its shores, nugatory. We may state that the Globe of last night in alluding to the matter, says, "it has authority to state, that if orders have been given for relaxing. the naval preparations in the dockyards, they must have ' emnated from the lath Government, as no such orders have been issued _by the new Board of Admiralty. " - this in A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at Lord Palmerston's official residence. Mr. V. Smith, on being called to the Upper House, will receive the title of Lord Lybeden, which is the name of an ancient manor on his . estate. Her Majesty did not attend the Handel festival, at, the Crystal Palace yesterday, in consequence of the death of the Duchess Dowager of Saxe Wiemer, grandmother of Princq Frederick William of Prussia, but the Prince Consort, the Princess Alice, and Princess. Helena, with a numerous suite were present. The attendence was very large, the weather splendid, and the commemoration •closed with complete success. The Bank Returns of last night show an increase of £559,373 in the amount of bullion, and £230,710 in the reserve of notes. THE WAR IN ITS AGGRESSIONS. THE main question that will now arise respecting e war, will be as to its aggressions. A war of gressiou will assuredly never be tolerated by the it neutral Powers of Europe, —least of all, can a war, aggressive in its objects, upon the frontiers of Germany, be paesively submitted to by the Germanic Confederation. A people, a nation, numbering probably some se7enty- or eighty thousand souls, are not going to see their " fader land " exposed to the ruthless invasion of a foreign despot, without making a patriotic stand against it. ' Where, then, is this aggression to be said to begin ? Is the Mincio to be considered the limit beyond which the advance of the allies will be deemed aggressive ? Now this is a question which is becoming one of very great anxiety. Just in proportion, indeed, as the Austrians are driven back upon their German territory, are German fears excited, and the warlike spirit of the Tuetonic race is aroused. It is true, that supposing the Austrians to be driven from Peschiera, Verona, Mantua, and the heights of Caldiero, they may retire upon the Piave, the Tagliamento, or perhaps the Isonzo, and, with the aid of the fortresses of Palma and Gradisca, situated on either side of the latter river, make a final stand for the recovery of Lombardy. But it is also pro bable that they may be driven from their fastnesses; and the immense siege trains which the French are bringing with them, and which they expect to transport across the Mincio, are Intended for that P ur pose, Th e ver y l eas t w hi c h L ouis NAPOLEON is resolved to do, is to wrist the whole of Lombardy THE NORTHERN TIMES, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1859 from Austrian dominion. And when he has done this, his hosts must encamp, we suppose, on the boundary of Germany. What, then, will the Germans say to that ? Or rather, which is infinitely more important, what will they do with such an enemy at their very door ? fair and honest and common-sense view of the matter. It is quite possible, of course, to mystify and finess and distort the simple facts of the case, so as to make confusion worse confounded, in such a way as to do what is vulgarly called " throw dust in people's eyes," that they may be blinded to the unprincipledness of such a proceeding ; and this the hon. gentleman has taken due care to do, in a letter, written for publication, to one of the Heads of Houses at Oxford. But plain, honest people don't understand such ingenious and plausible subterfuges; nor is it desirable that they should. Prussia is evidently preparing for that resistance of further aggression on the part of the Allies, which, it is clear, any advance beyond the. Mincio will be deemed. The public the national pinion of Germany o t bviOnsly regards - iiiat river as a sacred boundary for Austria, and considers that, however unceremoniously the Franco-Piedmontese troops might cross 'the Ticino or the Adda for the purpose of driving back the' Austrian; the Mincio- should be treated with respect, anci''not passed without the permission of 'the Germanic Confederation. Now, therefore, is evidently at hand the critical moment for *German decision. Prussia has hitherto successfully restrained the Confederation from any hostile procedure. But it is more than doubtful that it will be able any longer to do so, When once the Allies have transgressed that line of demarca tion, and have set their , faces , direct for Germany itself. Then,: in the second place, as respects the great question of Reform—that question which lies at the foundation of the whole movement that has re sulted in the removal of one Ministry and the formation of another. " How he," as the Star again observes, " who only two months since, spoke with so much emphasis in defence of nomination boroughs, and gave 'his vote in favour of a Parliamentary Reform, which all Reformers, including his two most eminent colleagues in the present Adminis tration, have characterised as reactionary and re trograde, could accept office in a Ministry pledged to introduce a real measure of Reform, is naturally a mystery to plain men, and a source of suspicion to all." And undoubtedly it is so, to speak of it in the mildest and most lenient terms. But, then, why should there be any mystery, or any suspicion, in such - a case ? If there be sincerity of mind, if there be honesty of purpose, if there be any stability, any integrity of principle, why should one's conduct have to be apologised for as myste rious, or why should one pursue a course which, to say the least of it, is suspicious ? What the people of England want in their rulers, and their legisla tors, is plain, hearty good intentions, attested and illustrated by consistent, open, and intelligible conduct. And when this is found to prevail, there will never be seen the necessity for any of that chicanery, or of that casuistry, which has called forth, as we perceive, from one who evidently feels the disrepute into which it must bring public morals, as well as politics, so emphatic an appeal as this, —" In the name, then, of Oxford's greatest sons, in the cause of Church and Constitution, by every principle of truth, and honour, and uprightness, and fidelity, we call upon that University to expel Mr. GLADSTONE, at once and for ever, from that high trust which he has so often abused, from that noble confidence which he has repeatedly forfeited, and from that dignified position which only allows his perverted talents and misapplied attainments, his envious spite and astounding inconsistency the greater capacity for achieving a pernicious influence and a bad reputation at the cost of every interest which it is the special duty and privilege of our Universities to uphold and Prussia, having at length found it expedient to mobilise her army, has thought it necessary to give an explanation-of that act, in order, it would seem, to quiet the priblic mind of 'Europe. And from this explanation, although what she has done. is pro fessed to be a defensive, rather than an offensive proceeding. it is yet obvious that it may very soon assume the latter character._ almost of necessity. -" The direction," it is observed,- " which Prussia follows in her internal publfelife fbritis a sufficient guarantee for her external tendencies. And if Prussia has written on her flag the principle of the maintenance of the bases -of public European law, she will have the opportunity of showing that she does not intend to favour tendencies of oppression or violence. The Government is fully aware of the perturbation which the calling out of a - part of the Landwehr must cause in many circles of private life. But the military organisation of Prussia does not give it any choice, from the moment Prussia was obliged to intervene in the regulation of the Italian question with the influence which she is called on to exercise, and which the position of the German nation. -in Europe requires." Now language like this, though Tit: may seem somewhat anibiguous, means nothing more or Teas than that Prussia is making ready to join the German nation in resistink the aggre sions -of Austria's Franco-Sardinian invaders, whenever they advance far enough , to rouse the nation into action. More and more is the German mind becoming exasperated, in proportion as the allied forces approach nearer and nearer to the German frontiers. It is the last feather that breaks the camel's back. And so likewise will it be, with those aggressions of the invaders of the dominions of Austria. vindicate." And now that we have looked on that picture, let us look on this —now that we have seen one whom, as a political chameleon, Lord PALMERSTON has received with open arms into his Ministry, let us just glance at another whom he has indignantly excluded. Mr. BRIGHT is the very reverse of Mr. GLADSTONE, in all that makes the latter, as an honest man, so completely out of place in such an Administration. Whilst Mr. GLADSTONE was doing all he could to prevent the formation of a Liberal Ministry, Mr. BRIGHT was labouring honestly and energetically to promote it. Whilst Mr. GLADSTONE was speaking and voting in a way which makes his presence in such a Ministry " a mockery, a delusion, and a snare," Mr. BRIGHT was speaking and voting with an honest and plain - purposed. earnestness, which entitled him to be one of the foremost in any Liberal Administration. Yet Mr. GLADSTONE is enrolled in, while Mr. BRIGHT is excluded from its ranks! And why P Hear what our Independent Liberal contemporary aforesaid has discovered to account for it : --" We asked whether it was to Court influence, or to aristocratic influence,. Mr. BRIGHT was indebted for what the country . would certainly regard as a gross indignity, though he might regard it as only an agreeable escape ? We _are now in formed, on unmistakable authority, that• it is to the latter-7that it is, in fact, on account of those very qualities by which Mr. BRIGHT has obtained the confidence of great masses of his countrymen - he is excluded from a Government formed professedly for the accomplishment of the object to which he has especially devoted his energies." This' is putting the case in its, plain and proper light. There, is no chicanery, no casuistry here. Any honest, unsophis ticated mind can readily, understand it. The very man who has done more for the cause that has triumphed, and in its most popular aspects too, than any twenty of them besides, is slighted, is thrust aside, by those who have profited by his untiring energies, while one who- has done all he could to obstruct it is put over. him into one of the highest posts of honour and distinction ! And all this, it appears, through "aristocratic influence !" They cannot endure so plain and honest a man of the people to come " between the wind and their nobility !" Theirs, it seems, is a system of Whig blandishments, in the employment of which Lords PALMERSTON and RUSSELL are quite adepts. But, it is well observed, "it is in Mr. BRIGHT'S con spicuous superiority- - - to these arts—it is in his celebrity for fearless truth-speaking, uncompromising independence, scornful indifference to favours and to frowns—it is in this the people of England recognise a type of national character, which honest opponents warmly admire and which only false friends have reason to fear. Yet it is these attributes we are called upon to acknowledge as disqualifications for office in the English Government!"—disqualifications too in the ranks of a professedly. Liberal and Reform Ministry ! Proh - pudor ! Besides, Prussia has declared that, not only as a German, but as a European question, has she mobilised her army to deal with it, as occasion may require. " That measure "—the mobilisation—she "says, " defends the independence of Europe, which would be menaced if new arrangements could be taken in Europe without the assent of the Great Powers. Prussia does not intervene for foreign interests, but for her own influence in the councils of Europe ; she intervenes for the German Father land, and for the liberty and peace of Europe." - Now, what the allied aggressors are doing, and the new arrangements. they are evidently contemplating, are not being done or contemplated with any regard whatever to ;,‘ the assent of the Great Powers." That assent, as respects Italy, was embOdied in the treaties of 1815 ; and these they have already torn to tatters and thrown in the faces of the Great Powers. Such, then, is the threatening state of things, not in Austria, but in Germany. There is only, under these circumstances of a danger that is now increasing in imminence every day, all the greater need of this country observing a careful and strict neutrality. Our insular.position happily affords opportunities of standing aloof,. ' which the Conti nental States do not, from their more approximate, situation, possess,—although we are equally interested with them in the promotion and maintenance of the peace of Europe. Her Majesty's late Government took an attitude towards the belligerents which gave assurance of our avoiding all risk of entanglements. Whether the different attitude which Lord PALMER STON'S proclivities towards Napoleonism may lead him to assume will still preserve our neutrality, remains to be seen. been forgotten, the present episode in the hon. gentleman's life may be quoted as an instance of his stern and uncompromising virtue,"—we could not but think how fortunate his destiny has been. Foremost among those who are now returned to their constituents, of course, is Lord JOHN RUSSELL; and he has made his bow to the Electors of the City of London after a most characteristic Whig fashion. When last *he addressed them, he said that " his advice was this country should take no part in the contest, but pursue that policy which should promote the peace of Europe and the welfare, he might say, of mankind at large." Well, it is now incontestibly shown that the late Government did most carefully and considerately pursue that policy. And yet, notwithstanding the proofs of it that are extant, Lord JOHN has been one chief means of upsetting that Government, and of establishing another in its stead, at the head of which is one in whose eyes such a policy, there is reason to fear, has no great favour. And now the Whig Lord presents himself again to their notice, with apparently all the conscious innocence of ono who had been, not a leading actor in the late disorganizing proceedings, but only an indifferent spectator. " The Queen," he coolly tells them, " having been pleased, in consequence of the vote of the House of Commons, to form a new Administration has confided to me the seals of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,"— I LOCAL INTELLIGENCE• Volunteers who procure their own uniform and rifle Volunteers who pay for their uniform but no rifle Volunteers who pay nothing. .. .. ... -.A which is a most notable instance, we cannot but think, of that double display of disingenuousness which consists in the piggestio falsi, and the sup pressio yen. For falsehood is certainly suggested when the impression is sought to be conveyed that Lord JOAN was selected by her Majesty for an office which he had bargained for, as the only terms on which he would not oppose Lord PALMERSTON in his endeavour to construct a Ministry ; and the truth is suppressed, when he thus ignores all the machi nations by which he himself succeeded in forcing upon her Majesty not only the disagreeable necessity, at such a conjuncture, of confiding to him, rather than continuing to confide to Lord MALMESBURY, " the seals of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs." And then the affected sensitiveness at the idea of his elevation to his present position, leading the novice in political manoeuvring and trickery to suppose that the office he has•himself obtained had actually been forced upon him. " The grave respon sibility," he so deprecatingly says, " which I have incurred by accepting this appointment in the present critical state of Europe, can only be lightened by the very general assent of the nation to the course of honourable neutrality which her Majesty's advisers are determined to pursue." As though it were a hardship, instead of being, as it really is, the very joy of his heart to find himself there. And then the meanness of insinuating that the late Ministers did not pursue " a course of honourable neutrality," by not frankly saying that the present Ministers meant to continue to pursue such a course. All this evinces a paltry littleness of mind, a low cunning of disposition, which is quite at variance with the character of a great Statesman. And that his plausible pretext, that " the question of further amendments in the laws regulating the representa tion of the people in Parliament, will be undertaken with a view to strengthen our institutions, and place them on a broader and stronger foundation," is as hollow as all the rest, it is impossible not to fear, when one calls to mind the various factious occur rences in which he has taken a prominent part during the last few years. Such, then, is Lord JOHN RUSSELL in his solicitation of a renewal of the confidence of the electors of the City of London. And his is a case which, mut atis mutandis, is very much that of some others of the new Ministry who are presenting themselves for re-election. There is one other case, however, that is so materially different—that is so singular, and so that we must remark upon it by itself, —we mean that of Mr. GLADSTONE. There is so much in the character of this right hon. gentleman that is noble and good, and he is possessed of such towering ability as a Parliamentary debater, that one cannot withhold from him a large measure of sincere respect. And yet is it still more impossible to deny, that on this occasion he has placed himself in a false position. As the declaration that has been issued against his re-election for Oxford very truly states,—" By his vote on the late division, Mr. GLADSTONE expressed his confidence in the Adminis tration of Lord DERBY. By accepting office he now expresses his confidence in the Administration of Lord DERBY'S opponent and successor." And, there fore, it is considered fit and proper that, " under these circumstances, the electors of the University should have an opportunity of declaring, by a new vote, whether Mr. GLADSTONE still represents their opinions or possesses their confidence." The conse quence is, that a very formidable opposition has been got up against his re-election. The Marquis of CIIANDOS is brought forward as a candidate to dis pute the seat with him ; and we understand there is a fair prospect of this opposition being successful. One can scarcely, under the circumstances of the case, with all- one's respect for Mr. GLADSTONE, refuse assent to 'the reasonable statement of the Standard, that " it is quite time that the University of Oxford should declare that it prefers sound con sistency to brilliant eccentricity, and that it should have a representative on whose votes it can rely, and whose political opinions it can hope to fathom." For it is only too apparent, that "at present Mr. GLAD STONE is about the most impracticable and least understood of our leading public men.- If it is possible for him to record a vote in diametrical opposition to the general tendencies of those whose interests and wishes he is specially bound to consult, he is 'sure to be found, in the enemy's, ranks. If he can at any time render signal service to the cause with which he is, by public estimation, most nearly allied, it may be regarded as a certainty that he will studiously neglect the opportunity." Now these are no party strictures. His eccentricity, his ambiguity, can be traced to occasions when one party and the other have mutually felt the adverse effect of his conduct. That in the U n i vers it y minor. of Oxford, therefore, th ere s h ou ld b e History 1 . Shaw. 2. H owart h , m i nor. great dissatis- Geography l. Shaw. 2. Quirk. faction with one who thus acts, can excite Commended: Kenyon, Wills, Barnes. surprise whatever. Dmvring ....1. Wills, minor. 2. Gatis. Writing .. rmb . J F o o n y. There are other features in th e new El ec tions that Commended: 2. Robinson. • d: Lees, Wills, minor, Lees, minor' are worthy of note, under the present critical Recitation ...... Jones. circumstances of the country. These, however, that _ Certificate : Wills. Fr ench... • .. ........ 1. Wills. 2. Tues. we have now adduced, must for the present suffice. Commended : Shaw, Gatis. We shall probably have occasion to return to the HENGLER'S CIRCUS.—We may call attention to the fa ct subject ; f or it i s one w hi c h, at so anxious a mom en t , th at to-night's performances will close the stay of H e ngler_ss is of vital i n t eres t i n it s bearings upon the char. : d er Equestrian Company in our town. Theo rtunity . should not be lost by those who desire an evening of varied and of the Reform Ministry. meant entertainment. enigmatical COLLEGIATE HONOURS.—At the distribution of prizes on Friday, the 17th inst., the annual class list had not been obtained from Trinity College, Cambridge. The classes are now published; and it appears that pupils of the Collegiate Institution have distinguished themselves in each of the three academical years. In the third year, Shaw an d Wainwright have obtained Greek Testament prizes ; in 01 second year, Edwards is in the first class ; and in the firs' year, Sinker and Wilson are in the first class. The classes are alphabetical, but from private information it is known that Sinker is third in a class of twenty-one. Shaw is 4 5° first among the Greek Testament prizemen. GREEBA CASTLE ACADEMY, ISLE OF MAN.-This is the most delightful and beautiful spot any where to be found oe the lovely island, and is universally acknowledged to be the healthiest. Few schools can offer so many advantages ° f situation and comfort as the above. It will be found in every respect suitable for the residence and education o f the sons of the gentry. First-class masters provided for ea ch branch of instruction. Prospectuses, with copper-pla,t e e engraving of the c as tl e , may b e h a d on application. If midsummer vacation will terminate on the 30th July Pupils conducted to and from Liverpool by one of the masters, and to their residences, if required. tts EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST A D EAD MAN ! —Stran ge as th e h ea di ng of this appears, it is a ra et —a dead man char ge d w ith mur d er !—of course the offenc e was committed before the man died !! On the 28th of .Iqty , in this ye ar , t wo men, name d C ornel i us Sullivan and /°"11 Jones, quarrelled about money or drink, or both. Sullivan struck Jones a heavy blow on the head with a stick, inflict ing a dangerous and as it has turned out a fatal wound on him. The injured man was taken to the Royal Infirin ill nri. - : where he died o n Th urs d ay n i g h t. I n the meant i me btu van was watching a house in Everton, and on Sunday w eek, he fell to sleep at a n o p en window, and whilst in that state, he fell out and was killed on the spot. Now the questil will arise, how the charge of murder can be sns taine against a dead man. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The many attractions which this place of rational amusement presents to the public , has been so often mentioned in our columns t h a t it is hardly necessary to say more th an r e m ind our re aders that they will, in all probability, be more delighted than err, on their next visit s if they have not already seen Little Bo Peep." Agai n we wou ld call attention to the manly exercises that are afforded to young men. Everyone know! the value of gymnastics as a means of increasing physical power, and imparting vigour to the frame, and nowhere can these exercises be better practised than in that portion of the gardens set apart for this purpose. We understand that the arrangements that are being made for the great July fetes, and to which we have already referred, are rapidly progressing. The committee of management have already received the encouragement of the local nobility and gentry, and, from th e novelty to b e presented, i t is anticipated t h a t these fe t ea will surpass anything ever seen in this quarter of the kingdom. MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL, Great Crosby. Mid summer Examination, 1859.—The Rev. Charles Scott, M.A., Examiner. —The following is a list of the prises delivered at the above school, at the examination an Mar s " day last, June 23 : Monteliore Prize Shaw, Conduct Divinity 2. Jones THE VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS.—We are not in position to give our readers any very encouraging accounts of the prosperity of the above company, which, we ara sorry to say, has not yet even reached an embryo sta te ' Thursday, it was intended to open a recruiting office at the Council •room of the Town-hall. It was thought at on e time that St. George's Hall would not be large enough t ° accommodate the would-be Volunteer Riflemen, but the originators were somewhat cooled down. The office wag opened. Clerks, with newly cut quills and sharply pointed pens, awaited to take down the names of the numberless young men who would offer to serve their country and she!, their blood in the maintenance of English liberty Ra u freedom of the soil; but, alas ! they were deceived, chaaP; pointed, and aggrieved —not one volunteer appeared, Lo u after waiting two hours, the clerks closed their books, went home in chagrin, and postponed the recruiting to a future period. The result of the Volunteer Rifle CorP s movement in Liverpo 11 is thus forwarded t o u s by a military correspondent : Grand total of Volunteer Rift:mien in Liverpool... 000 By-the-bye, we may add that Bristol has a large Volunteer Corps. They appeared in parade the other day, but the Western Daily Press laments that they had neither uniforrl . or rifles. FLOWER SHOW AND FANCY FAIR.—A grand floral and horticultural exhibition, poultry show, and Parisian WI fair, is to be held at th e Zoological Gardens, at the end of July, under very distinguished patronage. A considerabl e amount will be awarded in prizes to the successful exhibitoer and in the fancy fair a large space will be allotted for the benefit of the local charities. HENGLER'S CIRQUE.--This evening, as may be seen bY advertisement, will be the last that the talented compall now performing in Dale-street, under Mr. Hengler, Can, appear in Liverpool for so me ti me . Th ose w h o have 1104 already availed themselves of the opportunity of witnessing the performance during their present stay, would do well to pay a visit to-night. BANKRUPTCY COURT, YESTERDAY.—Before Mr. Regie trar Yate Lee.—ln re Thomas Hedgcock.—The bankrupt+ who was a plumber and glazier, at St. Helen's, came up for his last examination. Mr. Bretherton, for the assignees' did not oppose. The Registrar, having examined the balance sheet, allowed the bankrupt to pass. The certificate sitting was fixed for the 29th July. LIST OF PASSENGERS per Annie Wilson, from Melbourne. —Mr. W. E. Milnes, wife, and two child ren • M r. F. De Bisson and child, Mr. and Mrs. Desmond, Mr. A. Carter, wife, and two children, Mrs. Smith and child, Mr. H. Wren, Mr. W. Nield, Mr. H. Keys, Mr. S. Filzy, Mr. Patrick Murphy, Mr. J. A rno ld, M r. J . Sh annon, Mr. P. Rainshali, Mr. J. Sutton, Mr. E. Handy, Mr. T. Brackwell. THE AMPHITHEATRE.—Mrs. Charles Young has added other impersonations to her successful performances at the Amphitheatre, and seems to become a very decided favourite' If not of the highest class of artists, Mr. Young may clap to hold a good place among those who rank next to the, highest, and may expect a welcome at the hands of t l'audience w ith w h om i n t e lli gence, grace, ease, humour, an" feeling find appreciation. SUNDAY EXCURSIONS —Our readers will see by adver tisement that the steamer " Manchester" will make her usual trip to Beaumaris, Bangor, and Menai-bridge, on Sunday next. These trips appear to be thoroughly appce" ciated by the public, the number of passengers o n Sunday , last being about 300. W e b e li eve the i nconvenience of landing in boats will now be obviated, the proprietors of the "Manchester" having obtained pier accommodation. SOUTHERN HOSPITAL—WeekIy Report, June 22, 1859 ,- ; Admitted : Accidents and urgen t cases, 56 ; med i ca l and surgical cases upon recommendation, 11; total, 67. I ) , charged: Cured; 14 re li eve d, 3 ; i rregu l ar, 1; died, 0 ; tot 4 18. Attending as out-patients, 30. Remaining in th e hospital, 56. Treas urer : James Houghton, Esq. Visitors' D. Clarke, and B. Platt, Esq rs . H onorary c h a plain Rev. IV. Leveson. Physician and surgeon for O . ' ensuing week : Dr. Cameron and Mr. Higginso!: House surgeons : M r . J o h n M . B ateson and M r . C' Pemberton. MR. GLADSTONE & MR. BRIGHT. THERE is nothing in the whole case of the new Ministry that is more calculated to shake the people's confidence in its character and its objects, than the fact of its including Mr. GLADSTONE and excluding Mr. BRIGHT. The circumstances of the extraordinary occurrence have a political signifi cance which, at a moment like the present, more especially; it is most important, very carefully to consider. Let it be borne in mind that, first, the present Ministry is one which it was solemnly promised should contain "an adequate representation of the whole Liberal party;" and, second, that it was to be, par excellence, a Reform Ministry. Now, Mr. GLADSTONE could scarcely be said to belong, of late, to the Liberal party at all. He was, to all intents and purposes, of the Conservative party—in most respects, indeed, a gradually ex panding Derbyite. The very last vote he gave in the House of Commons was one of confidence in Lord DERBY'S Administration. Whilst all those with whom he has now cast in his lot voted that they had not, he voted that he had confidence in Lord DERBY, and therefore implied, of course, that the change of Ministry was not called for. "It was assumed," says the Star, " and surely with some justification, that as Mr. GLADSTONE voted confi dence in Lord Derby, he felt it, and that as he felt confidence in Lord DERBY, he approved of Lord DERBY'S policy and shared his predilections. This, we say, was the light in which persons who pretend to no more than the possession of common sense saw the position of the right hon. member for Oxford University. The grounds of the vote which over threw Lord DERBY'S Government really involved a condemnation of that noble lord's poly, and that being so, the men who have assumed its place stand pledged to pursue a policy different from his. If this be not so, if the policy to be pursued is the same, or differs ealy in non-essentials, what was the vote of last Saturday week but a factions means of replacing one set of moo for another ?" This is a THE NEW ELECTIONS THE new . elections which the change of Ministry has rendered necessary are likely, some of them, to present certain rather striking indications of dissatisfaction and displeasure among the con stituencies that are to be appoaled to. Nor is this to be wondered at,--wherever, that is to say, there is a spirit of independence pervading them. It cannot but disgust an ingenuous and independent mind, to see the gross party and personal ends which the recent conflicts, on the hustings, and in the House of Commons, have been made to serve. And when we read, as the well -meant consolation which ono of our contemporaries furnishes for Mr. BRIGHT, under the ungrateful treatment he Las received, in being passed over, that by his thereby being saved from re-election, he has escaped many annoyances, which is more, probably, than many of his more fortunate competitors will be able to boast,—and that "some day perhaps, when the overtures and acceptances of to-day have Stamper, minor, 1. Shaw Certificate : Barnes. 1. Thomas. 2. Shaw 1. Shaw 2. Sumner. 3. Stamper: Stamper, minor. 5. Barnes. Certificates: Thomas, Gillmor, Formby. Commended: A. Lees, minor, Day, B irch. Euclid and Algebra...l. Shaw. 2. Sumner. 3. Wills, minor. Certificate : Stamper. 1. Gatis. 2. Gillmor. 3. Quirk. Certificates : Shaw, Saul, minor. Commended : Summer, Lees, minor, stamper, - • Arithmetic Iteec th e Des F re The rep, the Ch u ekr( tuft] a 1 Dice 10,,. °ow offei *4l kte t er ,