Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-18 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION WEDNESDAY, 9 A.M. N OILTILIIIIN TIMES 0 FFIC THE WAR. Th e tothe of political feeling in Germany continues fo et Watched w ith muc h i n t eres t. Th e putting on th: fY e Russian army corps is expected to increase . pr o ), /ir ar -agitation in Germany, and may not ma k 1) y cause it to burst into a blaze. the despa tch, l in the Advertiser says, an address of for depu ties to the Grand Duke of Baden declares th r t he Peasantry of all Germany participating in APtresent struggle. Munich there is much popular exasperation la s , t tue hesitation of government. orn COMMERCIAL. t zeh P ete stagnation prevailed to-day in the Stock kv e , f ati ge• The Funds remain firm. Numerous small ti oil nents are made by the public The closing quota those Consols were 1-16 to 1-18 per cent. above th e 0 f yesterday. An impression is entertained that Tf acti on of the Bank in raising the rate of discount h e u ur and a-half per cent. was somewhat precipitate. taiit sums of money on offer is extremely large . ; impor- Fi rst. l4 ;as are daily refused by the leading establishments. abdclass bills are readily negociated at 4 to 41, per cent., told bi e xceptional instances at lower rates. There were no /lo st , °Aerations at the Bank to-day. The £135,900 in t ake ali gn gold, by the Maidstone and Syden'iam, was eff ee ; for transmission abroad. Insurances have been tran -ed on large amounts of Russian gold, about to be i g2 -s Mitted to - this country. It is believed that the Poit t i e r Pte will reach £400,000 or £500,000. A large pro -40;41 is on account of the Russian government. The co lue " ll 4e at St. Petersburgh on London has risen, in 2 14 e queuce, from 31i d to 33 d.—Daily News City Article, I,IIY -Evening. Dt ee ,. e, Movements of the English funds to-day have been ko r , - , e lY such as have been witnessed nearly every day for 411j'an a week. Consols advanced, recebed, and finally ed to their first price. The arrivals of Australian and t93 e p rie an gold during the past ten days has amounted to fo r 4 0 00, of which the greater part has been already taken foli o a continent, and the remainder will immediately %hi I' l '. The Indian Council will not snake any specie 3i ) c 4 ,,ents to India. The total sent has been about th er :Q, o oo. In the Foreign Exchanges this afternoon % vas a slight improvement in the Austrian rates. d 4n iquar i sch was quoted lower than last post, and Amster en a v shade higher.—Daily News City Article, Tuesday eni . - t 4 ). n ew Bishopric is spoken - of for the North of England, teLereated out of the see of Durham. h e lee forty-third anniversary of the Peace Society has been to hi s Mr. &urge was to have taken the chair, but owing a unexpected death it was occupied by Mr. J. Pease. tte a ,„ lll eriea, the Times says, is weeping for her ocean postal dei,', e ts, and will not be comforted. A leading article 4 4 1‘ed to the subject shows why this department of ocean T Fatio n h as f a ll en i nto t h e h an d s o f the English. jo st e Advertiser asserts that an angry correspondence is gov er ll° W going on between the French and English go ver nments, relative to the permission granted by our lnent to Austrian vessels to take shelter under our T s il at Malta de c ii e • Phancellor of the Exchequer, although he has ( 44 Reu to postpone the collection of the hop duty, has be red that no distress during the period of collection will def a e d on slefaulters. After the collection the list of is Ituilters will be carefully examined. tr , e ,-Advertiser already shows how the present Ministry te eo ; r disposed of. If the Queen's speech contains no ttiee.tion of the expediency of party reform, an amend kir, 'slit be moved to the address affirming the necessity of Pr o llll . If not carried, a substantive resolution will be The expressing want of confidence in the Government. th e g retu rn from Kilkenny is alone wanting to complete Tipp " mils ° of Commons. Out of 6 52 member s, the Herald t : s 304 to the Ministerialists, but divides the other side Th 6 9 independent Liberals and 279 Oppositionists. The T h e total nett ministerial ouins are put down at 30 seats. B@e,Times apportions 353 to the Liberals, and 299 to the a l l 'rvatives, and gives the Ministry a nett gain of 21 LATEST TELEGRAMS. FRANCE. 4 ? /tENCTI SQUADRON BEFORE VENICE. th II IEsTE, Tuesday, May 17.—Yesterday afternoon ° F rench squadron was before Venice. Since yes terday the A u strian Lloyd's have ceased the running ot a ll their steamers. It is announced the National at * of Vienna has granted to the deputation from th B ourse of this place, an advance of 1,000,000 THE FRENCH FUNDS. i ttls, Tuesday.-11.45 a.m—Rentes commenced at 61-10 , rose to 61.15, and are now 61 . 5 . 12 ' 4 7 p.m.—The Bourse opens firm. Rentes 61.30 .2o P.m.—Rentes fell to 60.8 5 , tendency very °3 3 ' 2 5 p.m.—The Bourse closed flat. Rentes 61. oney, and 60.85 fr Account, being only a fr a . c tlonal decline since nest3rday HOLLAND. lIAMBuRGH, Tuesday.—The rate of Discount which per cent., was to-day lowered to 3to 4 \l'as 4 to 4, Ilels cent another THE WAR. The Times has received the following telegram : ROME, May 15.—The Duke of Gramont left to- d ad f °l' Genoa, by telegraphic order from the Emperor Yeste r ~ it was reported that a popular movement it ' t t aken place at Casena. Rome is tranquil." IEsTE, May 15.—A French squadron, consisting ; 4 t wo ship s o f th e line and a frigate, have captured hs °4l. Austrian merchant vessels. It was the English i ge l'eliant steamer, Douro, with the East India mails Trieste, that was boarded by the boats of a l'eneh ship of the line. ti n i4 lSS ARABELLA. GraDDIRD.—The marriage of this dis e,,*laished pianiste with Mr. J. W. Davison , one of the most Ic 4 , l4 ent musical critics this country has ever produced, has 41 recently announced. In artistic circles, where both 4, universally known and esteemed, the fact has been Z i earaed with the utmost cordiality. t te ' 3 l. 4 kLE or " HOUSEHOLD WORDS " The copyright, fl i gl e ?tYpe-plates, and stock of this valuable periodical were ey auction on Monday at the premises of Mr. Hodgson. V stock consisted of 620,000 numbers, either parts, num )4B) or volumes. The bidding was commenced at £5OO by a tla Maxwell, and was continued by Messrs. Kent, Chapman A n jlell, and Bradbury and Evans, and the property was 3 knocked duwn to Mr. Arthur Smith's bidding STEAMER LOST IN TUE ICE IN THE ARCTIC ik,j B .--The loss of another steamer, the Volunteer, of ga'?feastle, in the ice in the Arctic Seas, was announced on tievarday at Feb She left the Tyne for Greenland on p tit 22 nd of bruary, and meeting with very bad weather of A l t aack to Shetland. The voyage was resumed on the 10th iib o , t 4 7 ll , and on the 15th the ice was made. On the 19th, toi "e p m., she was steering a course of N.N.W., and RN , at the rate of about three miles an hour, when she v ek a mass of ice with such force as to cause her to spring rsevere leak, It was soon found that nothing could Atm °lle to repair the injury; the ship was rapidly filling, tOt 11° time was to be lost in lowering. the boats. All hands Tolwaafely into them, and the ship shortly afterwards i l et - e - T r ed• The crew were picked up by the Arctic, of ruead. Captain Pert, the late master of the steamer, • 14, -°r Le that they had hardly time to save their lives. The yes, I ' 4l amount to several thousands. She was a fine 484 r Ie e - ' 4. ll Pwards of 300 tons. Sh e is stated to hare boon PROGRESS OF THE WAR. FROM THE " WIRES " CORRESPONDENT. AUSTRIAN HEAD-QUARTERS, MORTARIA, May 10' 1859.—Your correspondent at Vienna has probably kept you informed of those movements of this army which are of sufficient importance to be commum- cated by telegraph. I will, however, recapitulate briefly what has been done since the beginning, as telegraphic despatches are not famous - for either extreme accuracy or even for consistency one with The first Austrian troops crossed the Ticino on the 29th of April, five days after the French had passed the Western frontier of Sardinia. This - delay, as you know, was in deference to the wish of tlie British Cabinet, A brigade of the sth corps, under General Festi tics, had the honour of leading the way. It crossed at Pavia, and. pushed on the same day through Garlasco to the Terdoppio river, followed by the entire 3d corps, under Prince Schwarzenberg, to Gropello. - The 7th corps, under Baron Zobel, has come up from Bergamo and Brescia to Rho, intending to cross the Ticino further north, had made a demon stration at Buffalora, and then turned southward through Abbiate Grosso towards the bridge at Vigevano, which, however, it found blown up. It was, therefore, obliged to cross at Bereguardo on a pontoon bridge constructed by the engineers. This it did on the 29th, reaching Gambolo the same day. On the following day, the 30th, the sth corps, under Count Stadion, passed the same bridge, and the Bth corps, under the renowned General i3enedek, crossed at Pavia, the 7th pushing on to Mortara, and the 3rd to Garlasco. . On the Ist of May the 2nd corps, under Prince Lichtenstein, crossed at Pavia, so that it took three days for the whole five corps d'arnkee to cross the Ticino. On the night of the Ist of May the line extended along the Agona river from Vespola on the north to San Nazzaro, and thence to the eastward along the Po; the 3rd corps still keeping the centre, with the sth and 7th on its right, and the Bth and 2nd on the left. This relative position having been kept until now, I need not detail the daily marches, but will briefly say that that the line was gradually advanced and extended in this order until the day before yesterday, the Bth, when the head-quarters of the Commander-in-Chief, Gen. Gyaali, were at Vercelli, and the whole country north of the Po, as far as Biella and Craglia, on the north-west, and the Dora Baltea on the west, was - - occupied by the Austrians almost without opposition. The Piedmontese dug trenches across and other wise injured the roads, and placed batteries to defend them, but did not do so. At Vercelli they mined the magnificent railway bridge across the Sesia, but the Austrians discovered it, and withdrew the gunpowder. This non-resistance is very remark able, for the nature of the country is such that the advance of an army can be most easily impeded. The roads are in most cases artificially raised, the fields on each side being dead fiat and kept under water, for the cultieation of rice, besides which, numerous canals at several different levels, cross each other in everX,concievable way .. The chief opposition occurred at Valenza, where there were two fine bridges across the Po. The one the Piedmontese had themselves destroyed, and the other the Austrians determined to destroy for them ; so, on the 3rd and 4th they made great demonstrations as if to cross the river, both there and opposite Frassinetto, and succeeded in mining the bridge. On the 4th, also, General Benedek, the enemy's attention being drawn to the above named points, succeeded in crossing the Po at Cornale, with 40,000 men, on a bridge constructed by the Engineers, a corps which in Austria has reached a wonderful degree of efficiency. He pushed on to Voghera and reconnoitred Tortona with a powerful detachment. In retiring he blew up the railway bridge of Ponte curone, which must be a serious blow to the allies. In the night of the 4th to the sth the Po rose 15 feet, and destroyed General Benedek's bridge over the Po, thus quite isolating him. In 24 hours, however, another was constructed, over which 1 he retired on the 6th, carrying off vast stores of bread, tobacco, salt, rice, meal, corn, hay, &c., from Voghera. At Valenza the unparalleled rise of the Po filled the first mines formed, and it was not till the Bth May that the bridge was finally destroyed. At Frassinetto the intended deception was completely succeseful, Quantities of boards, &c., were ordered with great ostentation at Candia, and some hundreds of labourers. On the 3rd of May some Lancers led the way across a ford of the Sesia to an island between that river and the Po. Four companies of Grenadiers followed and half a rocket battery, the whole under Colonel Puchner. The island is thickly covered with brushwood, so the smallness of their number was concealed from the enemy, who opened a heavy fire from the southern bank of the Po. This was answered by the rocket battery and the Grenadiers, who extended themselves along the banks. As the . Piednaontese fancy they did. much mischief that day, a few accurate figures may be useful. The Austrians lost on the 3rd, before mid night, one man killed and eight wounded; of the latter, one having since died. At night, Captain Dwyer, an Irishman, led over another battalion to the island, and a noise, of hammering was kept up till morning, as if bridges for the passage of - a large army were being constructed. During the entire night the loss of the Austrians was only three men wounded. Here, too, the rapid rise of the Sesia; which took place a few hours before that of the Po, nearly caused a logs, but happily the whole force was withdrawn in safety, owing to the voluntary exertions of the Piedmontese labourers, who saved many drowning men. This circum stance clearly proves how untrue arc the state ments made about the animosity of the Italians against the Austrians. I have Myself on this occasion been only three days in Piedmont, but I have already ridden 140 miles, and stopped at nearly every village, and to an Englishman the natives would not conceal their feelings. I can assure you that their anger is all against their own government, not for the war, merely, but for the whole policy of overloading them with taxes, such as our exp?oded window-tax and a tax on carriages, for the purpose of keeping up an army beyond the wants of the country. I speak of the peasantrz.. The burghers and lawyers think differently. Yesterday, most of the troops were withdrawn to the east of the Sesia, and the Head t o luarters moved to Mortara this morning. Not knowing that, I rode to Vercelli, and had to return. The Pied montese reconnoitred Vercelli in the afternoon. and some skirmishing took place, but to the west of the town. The timing of the reconnais sance proves how well informed the Vercelli people kept their friends of the Austrian movements. The head men of Vercelli were equally aware of the approaching reconnaissance, and threw every possible difficulty in the way of finding horses and carts for the transport of baggage, forage, &c., for the troops, hoping to cause a delay. The Austrians bore this very patiently. As my baggage horse was tired and lame, I had to apply for a cart to the municipality. You will hardly believe me when I say that they pretended not to have any. Now, no one can deny that I had as much right to a Pied montese conveyance as Victor Emmanuel has to Lombardy, so I procured one—how, I will never divulge but I hope no Vercelli burgher lost a brown caleche and a lage bay horse that day. 'I beg to say that I paid the driver well, and dispaissed him and his—or his master's—horse and carriage, at Robbio, the nearest village. I must postpone till to-morrow or next day some anecdotes of the cam paign. One, however, I must relate now , to p rove to you how little the Piedmontese people like this war. When the Austrians arrived at a certain town, which I must not name, the inhabitants reproached them much for not coming a. fortnight sooner. Ex lacting them, they said, they had made every vc, THE NORTHERN TIIVIEB, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 1859 cuse to dely providing their quota of the 'reserve of the army, and had the Austrians arrived they might have escaped sending it at all. By the way, the Piedmontese have carried off nearly all the horses and provisions from this part of the country. At Stroppianna they even carried off the women to work at Casale. The Austrians sent provisions for the starving inhabitants left there. STATE OF PIEDMONT TURIN, May 14.—The Sardinian Minister at Flo rence, Signor Boncompagni, addressed the following communication to the Provisional Government of Tuscany, under date of Florence, May 10 : Illustrious Sirs,—By my letter of the 3rA inst., I reserved to myself to concert with you respecting the assumption of the functions of Commissioner Extraordinary of King Victor Emmanuel during the war. All the preliminary acts being now completed that were necessary to place me in a position to assume the exercise of that office, I propose to you that the effective transmission of powers shall take place to morrow, at 10 a.m., in the Palazzo Vecchio. Before closing this letter, I cannot do less than congratulate you on all that you have done for the benefit of Tuscany while holding the provisional government, and at the same time' express to you my gratitude for your benevolence and courtesy towards myself.—l have the honour, &c., C. 130NCOMPAGNI In consequence of this letter, the result of a pre vious correspondence between the Provisional Government and Signor Boncompagui, in which the former urged the latter to relieve ;hem, as King Victor Emmanuel's representative, of the charge of government, the following decree has been published in the Monitore Toseano The Provisional government of Tuscany, wishing to carry out the declarations expressed in the proclamation of the 27th of last April, decrees The Provisional Government of Tuscany transmits all its powers into the hands of Com mendatore Carlo Boncompagni,_ already nominated by his Majesty the King of Sardinia Commlssioner Extraordinary for the Government of Tuscany during the war. —Done at Florence, May 11, 1859 CAV. UIIALDINO PERUZZI Avo. VINCENZO MALENCHINI. MAGG. ALESSANDRO DANZINI. PROBABLE DURATION OF THE STRUGGLE BIDDING FOR POPULARITY BY THE EMPEROR OPINIONS ON THE BRITISH ARMY BY A FRENCH OFFICER, I very recently had a long and interesting conver sation with a highly-intelligent and unprejudiced French officer, certainly a most favourable specimen of the body to which he Mon.'s, and who, in the confidence of a tete-d-tete, gave his opinion with great frankness on various subjects of interest at the pre- sent moment He declared his conviction that the war would be limited to the expulsion of the Austrians from Italy, and said, as his reason for this belief, that the French nation Would not stand a long war. The idea of the present contest, he added, had been highly unpopular in France until Austria sent her ultimatum to - Sardinia. But for that false step, he believed the French Emperor would not have ventured to make war, knowing how averse from it was the people he ruled. The ultimatuni, however, had changed the feelings , of,many in that respect. lt had been looked upon as a sort of defiance, if not au insult, to Napoleon ; and the people, who had placed him in his high position, resented the affront to the work of their hands. The Emperor, moreover, owed something to the army, which had ever shown itself faithful to him. He owed them the ;iidie; 7 s - dearbst reward—action, namely, and an oppor tunity of distinction and promotion .This would be afforded by a six months' campaign against Austria, which my inter locutor, although no Gaston, evidently thought would suffice to accomplish the work in hand, and achieve the independence of Italy. Another of the Emperor's stimu lants to war was, he believed, a desire of military renown, as a means of consolidating his throne and his dynasty. He has already, said my military acquaintance, shown himself a' most able politician and statesman— let him prove himself also a great commander, and his position is secure in France. If, on the other hand, he should fail, if disasters instead of triumphs await him, ma foi, said the speaker, with a significant shrug, it will be very unfortunate for him. While discussing the Emperor's character and qualities, his skill in availing himself of every advantage and means of popularity camp upon the tapis, and in proof of it the following circumstances were adduced. After the reserve of the army was recently called out in France, it was discovered that the whole of it was not required, and accordingly a large number of soldiers, married men, and men who had only three or four months to serve, were allowed to return to their homes, In the army, or at least by those military men who are in. the habit of looking a little further than the point of their sword, this was appreciated as a most judicions move. The Government knew perfectly well beforehand what men would be required and might have at once signified the exemptions afterwards made. Bat the Emperor preferred having all called out, and then, when there was lamentation in the land, he suddenly restored those who could least be spared. "In the town (a large provincial city) where I am iu garrison," said the officer, about 300 men thus came back to families and friends who had bid them farewell with heavy doubts whether they should ever see them again. You should have seen the joy and heard the blessings on the Emperor, and yon would have judged, as I do, that by that single move, seemingly unimportant, and which would pass unnoticed elsewhere than on the spot, he won no despicable amount of popularity." I had been told at Genoa, a very few days before, that an idea prevailed among the. French .that the war with Austria was but a prelude to one with England, but the officer whose ideas I have quoted was evidently not of that opinion. He thought that if England would leave the Emperor alone, and allow him to fulfil his self-allotted task of ridding Italy of the Austrians he would then be extremely glad to revert to a state of peace, and, indeed, that it would be perilous to himself to attempt a war of conquest and aggran disement, for which. France has now no taste or desire. My acquaintance has seen a good deal of service, and had been through the whole Crimean campaign, not without wounds and honours, and he expressed himself frankly, hut very fairly, about the English army, stigmatising as "ignoble" the mal-administration at the commencement of the war, blaming the plan of giving the soldiere money in a place where nothing but drink was procurable for it, instead of taking means to supply them with nourishing food, and seeing that they ate it, and did not make away with it, ar-b tering it for spirits, as he said he had often known them to do in the Crimea. While thus criticising the faults of our system, he did full justice to the merits of our soldiers, and he made one remark which, although it has nothing to do with the circumstances of the present time, struck me so much as to induce me to repeat it here. " The English troops," he said, " are incomparable for tenacity of resist . ance. I was convinced of that at Inkermann, when the enemy were literally among their tents, and when they de fended themselves to the death, some of them with no better weapons than picks and shovels. Our men would not have done what the English did there. They would have given way. But, if you have that great military virtue, you have also one grievous military detect, which costs you many men and some reverses. You are too slow in attack. You march up at a steady pace and in perfect order, while the enemy thins your ranks. You give them time to reload, which it is our principle never to do. I believe that to have been the cause of your repulse at the Redan, but, whether it was so or not, that defect in your system of attack is one which we French are all agreed about, and which you cannot too soon amend." These remarks, proceeding from an experienced French officer, who had learnt to respect our army while fighting by its side, appear to me well worthy of attention. The main and guiding principles of French officers appear to be to render the men under their orders intelligent, self-reliant, and individually able to help themselves under all emergencies, and to obtain rapidity of movement in masses. And it is the constant attention paid to these objects that renders the French soldier so excellent a campaigner, and so formidable an opponent AUSTRIA. VIENNA,' May 14.—At eleven o'clock yesterday morning Count Buol ceased to be Minister of Foreign Affairs, but it is not yet known whether he tendered his resignation, or whether he was requested by the i Emperor to • retire from office. It is not likely that the deposition of the Austrian Minister I will produce any great sensation in England, but it is an event of the very highest importance. The assistance which .62iistria claimed from England was, that she shoubl_ declare to the French Govern ment, %1i Atl:.:iatic must be considered a strictly neutral sea. As Lord Mahnesbury declined t l l2l do th's the enemies of Count Buoy made a violent attack on him, and, succeeded in persuading the Court that as nothing was to be expected, or even hoped, from England, it would be wise to make peace with Russia. In the moment that Count Buol left office the first step towards a reconciliation was taken, and it is probable that a good understanding will soon be established between the Austrian and Russian empires. Austria will, as a matter of_ course, be obliged to make many coneessions, but the chances are that they will be at the expense of Turkey, rather than her own. If things should progress favourably between the St. Petersburgh and Vienna governments, we shall soon see the Kreuz Zeituny party in power again in Prussia, and ; when that is the case, the re-establishment of the Holy Alliance may reasonably be expected. A change like that above indicated will not be to the taste of the English Liberals, but they will do well to remember that they, by their tirades against Austria and her rule in Italy, so cowed the Tory Government, that it could not venture to offer open opposition to the policy of the Emperor of the French, which is as fraught with danger for England and Germany as it is for Austria. Much will doubtless be said and written about the dastardly conduct of Austria, but she has been forced by the other Powers to bow down before Russia. The position of Austria is one of extreme difficulty. In Italy she has to make head against France, Sardinia, and the National party; in Dalmatia and in the Vojvo dina she must be prepared to ward off the attacks of the Turkish Rayahs, Servians, and Roumans ; and she now has to place a large army in her north eastern and northern frontiers, in order to keep Russia at bay. While Austria is in this terrible dilemma, England announces that she intends to maintain an armed neutrality, and Prussia tells Germany, that the moment for action has not yet arrived. Under such circumstances is it to be wondered at that Count Bac)l has been sacrificed in order to propitiate Prince Gortschakoff, who has repeatedly declared that a reconciliation between Russia and Austria is impossible, "as long as the man who congratulated Louis Napoleon on the taking of Sebastopol, is one of the official advisers of His Majesty the Emperor Francis Joseph ? " Count Buol-Sehauenstein has ceased to be a man of in fluence in Austria, but he will still enjoy the respect and esteem of all parties, for he is a strictly honourable man. He is said to be haughty and passionate, but some of his bitterest ene mies have declared that "he is every inch a gentleman." Count von Rechberg, the Presi dent of the German Diet has been summoned from Frankfort, and it is believed that he will he placed at the head of the Foreign Office. The Russians would certainly prefer Count Fritz Thun, who is one of their ardent partisans, and he would probably be more agreeable to the Prussians than Count Rechberg, who was Imperial Comm is sary at the time that the recontre took place between the Austrian and Prussian troops at Bron zell in 1850. Prince. Windischgratz is generally believed to have had something to do with the removal of Count Buol from office. RUSSIA. The Nord publishes the following telegram : The Russian Government has given orders for the I st , 2nd, , 3rd, sth , , and Otis corps d' armde to be placed im mediately on a war footing, with the whole, of the artillery and cavalry belonging to each. The reserves are to be called in, and all soldiers on furlough to rejoin their colours, to be ready to march within three months. SUICIDE OP A NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR.—The Chel tenham Examiner announces the death, by suicide of Mr. William lia.dley, son of Mrs Hadley, of Queen's-buildings, and proprietor of the Cheltenham Journal. The melanchoy occurrence took place on Saturday night in a bedroom attached to that in which deceased had been in the habit of sleeping, where he was found by his distressed and horror stricken mother suspended by a cord from the bed rail. Sir .Tamsetjee Jejecbhoy died at Bombay on the 14th of April, aged 76. He was at the head of the native mercantile body of India, and was created a baronet by the British government. DEA.TII OF MR. W. T. PAGAN, M.P.—We regret to annonnce the demise of Mr. W. Trant Fagan, M.P. He was a merchant of. great repute in his native city, Cork, which he was elected representative for in the House of Commons in 1847. In April, 1851, he resigned his seat, but was re-elected in 1852, and had sat in that assembly ever since, and was returned at the recent general election. The deceased gentleman was an advanced Liberal, but was generally respected for his political consistency by all parties in the Rouse of Commons. The hon. gentleman was in his 59th year. APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE rumoured that a marriage is on the tapis between Augustus Saville, Esq., and Lady Evelyn Stanhope, only daughter of Lord Chesterfield. The marriage of the daughter of Lord Sudeley was announced to take place at St. George's, Hanover-square, on the 17th inst. There is a marriage on the tapis between Henage - Dearing, Esq., and Lady Chatterton. We hear that a marriage is on the tapis between George Allanson Cayley, Esq., the eldest son of Sir Digby Cayley, of Brompton, and Miss Worsley, of Hovingham. It is said that the Hon. Francis Byng is about to marry one of the daughters of Sir Win. Miles and Lady Miles. The marriage of R. Ferguson, Esq , M.P., and Miss Emma E. Mandeville will shortly be celebrated at All Saints', Knightsbridge.— Cinol Journal ~ DARING ESCAPE OF A CONVICT FROM THE MODEL PRISON. —On Saturday afternoon, between two and three o'clock, a convict numed Henry Edmonds made his escape from the Model Prison, Pentonville, in a way that •has ex cited considerable surprise. The prisoner is an American by birth, bat he has been a resident in this country many years, and once lived a respectable life as a commercial traveller. He, however, fell into bad habits, committed various acts of robbery at hotels, and in 1856 he was con victed at the Chester sessions of robbing a tavern in that city, and sentenced to six years' penal servitude. He was sent up to London to serve a portion of his time at the Model Prison, and was learning the tailoring trade. It appeared that his general condnct was good and which may in some way account for the officials not, perhaps, having such a watchful eye over him as other prisoners, and for his thereby having the opportunity of making a jacket and a pair of trousers out of the sheet or coverlid to his bed, by which he was enabled so successfully to make his escape. It is stated that he was not in good health, and on Saturday afternoon, the day being very fine, he was engaged, with a few other convicts, in performing some light duty in one of she gardens of the prison. By some means he managed to tteal away to the south boundary wall of the gaol, fronting the North London Railway, and he then commenced his perilous task of escape. Having possessed himself of a rope, he secured the end of it to a piece of iron hoop, which he'formed into a kind of a hook, and which he suc ceeded in getting over the top of the wall, which is some twenty-five feet or more in height. He then . got two or three garden rakes or hoes, which he placed against the wall, and, having divested himself of his mask and prison garb, and assumed his new dress, he mounted the wall, and, apparently without much difficulty, reached the top. Here occurs what appears a remarkable part of the case. The point where he got over is not more than 20 or 30 yards from the Caledonian-road, and he had to drop into a side road along which persons are always passing and children playing about. He was seen by several persons when he came above the wall, but, being dressed in white, he was thought to be some bricklayer or white washer employed in the gaol. It seemed that he had some difficulty in getting the rope over the wall ; and, to make short work of it he dropped down a distance, per, haps of 15 or 20 feet, and falling on his hands, lacerated them, and they bled much. For a moment or so he appeared to have been stunned by the fall , he, however, hastily got up and walked down the road by the side of the wall into the Caledonian-road. He then hailed a cab ; and telling the driver that he had some dispute with his mates, and had got the worst of it, directed him to drive fast towards London. The driver states that he had no suspicion that the man, either by his dress or mariner, had escaped out of prison. As they got nearer town, he directed the driver to proceed to Greek-street, Soho ; and at a pawn broker's he pledged some false teeth (which he wore) for 7s, paying the cabman 3s for , his trouble. Edmonds then dis appeared, and nothing has been heard of him since, Within a short time after he had escaped, he was missed by the officers of the prison, and on hearing what had been seen of ' his flight over the wall, active members of the police were ' sent out in all directions in q uest of him ; but u o p t yesterday afternoon no trace h ad been heard of him. Re is represented to be 33 years of age, 3 feet 8 inehe4 r height, alAil of swarthy conieexiM SHOCKING MURDER AT HORNEY. On Saturday, Samuel Adams, aged 35 .a ferocious look ing man, with club feet, described on the charge sheet as a shoemaker, residing in Mary-street, Kingslaud-road, was placed at the bar of the Clerkenwell Police-court, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, on remand, charged with maliciously cutting and wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily harm to Martha Page, his sister-in-law, at Howard-road, Hornsey. The poor woman being now dead, the charge resolved itself into one of wilful murder The charge was first brought under the notice of the magistrate on the 6th instant, but, although sim was then in a dying state, her deposition has not been taken. The facts-connected with thin distressing case, as tar as they have yet been collected, show that the prisoner not only contemplated' the murder of his- sister-in law, but that of.his wife also:. It would appear that, in consequence of the lazy, dissolute character of the prisoner, the wife, who is a hard-working, respectable woman, was compelled some months since to leave him, and keep herself. This seems to have very much annoyed the prisoner, and he has several times since said he would be revenged, "it he swung for it." On the morning of the sth, the prisoner was seen by a female, who resides, in' the same house as the prisoner, sharpening a shoemaker-'s knife, and he then stated that before the day was out,. he would do something desparate. He was then persuaded not to do so, but he said he would, and placing the sharp, part of the knife in a cork, so that he should not cut himself, proceeded out.. According to the facts, as ascertained by Insp ec t or L ang d o n of the N division, it would appear that the prisoner at once proceeded to the place where the deceased was en g aged nursing a relative who was lately confined, and on knocking at the door, was informed that ho could not see his sister in-law. Some time afterwards the poor woman left the house, in company with a female, when the prisoner followed for a few yards, and then on running in front, plunged the knife into the lower part of the deceased's person. The deceased, who was in her twenty-fourth year, and in a weakly state of health, was conveyed to the German Hospital, Dalston, when it was found by the resident medical officer that she was suffering from a severe wound in the lower part of her person, extending through the skin and muscle. Some neighbours having detained the prisoner until the arrival of the police, the prisoner was taken before Mr. Tyrwhitt on the 6th instant, when he was very callous about the matter, and was remanded. On Friday, when he was brought up pro forma, and was told tha' perhaps while he was there the woman was dead, and that then he would be charged with the capital offence, he merely said, " Well, a good job, too." The deceased, who maintained her senses to the last, died in the German Hospital while the prisoner was at the court. The following is the evidence already taken: Police-constable Bolton, 466 N, said that on the after noon of the sth of this month he was in the Howard road, when he heard a cry of "Police" and " Murder," and was called to take the prisoner into custody for stabbing a young woman. The female was in a fainting state, and said she was wounded in the side. When he took the prisoner into custody he was told the charge, and said nothing. He searched the prisoner, and found upon him a sham knife, such as are generally used by shoe- The knife had blood upon it. The knife, which was concealed, had apparently been lately sharpened. The prisoner, in an impudent manner, said he did not wish to ask the witness any questions. Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds, 96, West-street, Bermondsey, said, on the sth of this month she went to visit a friend at Kingsland, at the house of whoM the injured woman was acting in the capacity of nurse. She (witness) asked her the way to Abney-park, and she offered to show her the way. Before they started the prisoner came to the door, saw the injured woman, detained her some time, and bad some very angry words with her. She •(witness) left the house with Mrs. Page, and proceeded but a very short distance when the prisoner came up, made use of violent and disgusting language to the deceased, and made three stabs at her with a sharp shoemaker's knife. Alter he had done this the prisoner said with an oath, that he would murder her, if riot now at some other time. The prisoner wanted the injured woman to tell him where his wife was, but she refused, saying, " lie was a very bad man, that he had been parted from her for some time, and that makers - he was continually getting drunk." After he was taken into custody he again threatened her, and said he wanted his wife. The prisoner, who treated the matter with the greatest indifference, and declined to say anything in his defence or to ask the witnesses any questions was remanded until Saturday next. GENERAL PEEL AND SIR JAMES GRAHAM. The following correspondence is published : War Office, May 14. Dear Sir James Graham —I have waited in hope that you would have contradicted a statement reported to have been made by you in your speech at Carlisle, on Monday last, to the effect, "That, in order to influence the elections, the War Department, by an act of prerogative, Parliament not sitting, had increased the allowance to publicans for s oldiers billited on them from lid to 4d." Now, this is not only untrue, but, if you stated it, I must leave you to explain how it it was possible for you not to have known that it was not true. In addition to your long Parliamentary experience and knowledge of everything connected with the army, you, when First Lord of the Admiralty, must have brought in the Marine Mutiny Bill, and must have known that the allowance to publicans for soldiers and marines billeted on them is fixed by the Mutiny bill. You must also have known that last session a parliamentary committee inquired into the billeting system, and recommended in their report that the allowance should be raised from lt-d to from 4d to 6cl; that I was asked publicly in the house on the 7th of February, this year,' whether it was the intention of the government to carry this recommendation into effect, and that I answered that it was their intention to raise it • to 4d, but that it could not be done until the Mutiny bill was brought in ; that again on the 7th of March, on the army estimates, I made the same statement,, and that parliament voted the extra sum required for the payment of it, and that on bringing in the Mutiny bill I pointed out that the only material alteration in it was the increased allowance to the publicans. The Mutiny bill passed before there was any idea of a dissolution, and the 'War-office circular, directing the payment of the additional allowance, was issued previous to the dissolution. Your statement about the castle or barracks at Berwick is equally incorrect, but, although you made it, I think you admitted that you could not say that it could be proved. I am not inclined to criticise too narrowly election speeches, but when charges of this nature are made against a public department, it is necessary that they should be publicly contradicted, and I shall be glad to accompany the publication of this letter with any explanation you may have, to offer on the contents of it.—Believe me, yours, very , truly, J. PEEL. Netherby, May 15. Dear General Peel,—Until I received your letter this morning, I was not . aware that the increase of billet money had been specified and sanctioned in the Mutiny Act ; or that provision had been made for this increase in the vote on occouut in the Army Estimates. The statemenent, therefore, _ in the speech to which you refer, respecting act of prerogative, Parliament not sitting,' is an inaccuracy. You blame my i gnora nce. I acknowledge it. A mis-statement made b y me has been the consequence. I am sorry for it, and you can give to this acknowledgment the publicity which you desire. The fact remains that a large increase of billet money has been made at the instance of. the government, and was. announced on the eve of a general election. With respect to an- alleged promise of an outlay of public money at Berwick, I said that I could not speak with any certainty, and that I did not know whether the allegation could be proved. I have been since informed that it was not the restoration of the old castle which was contemplated; but the reparation and the re-occupation of the old barracks at that place.—l am yours ß very GRAVAM faithfully, J. .G. . Major-General the Right Hon. J. Peel. AmrsEmEN - rs IN LIVERPOOL. Open front ten in the morning until ten at night. Allsop's Wax-Work exhib ition. All the kings and queens, from and inclndisng, William the Conqueror, down to Queen Victoria ; also, princes and princesses, dukes, duchesses, lords, eminent statesmen, warriors, poets, divines ; also all the most noted personages of the past and present ages, &c. Allsop's sculpture galleries, containing upwards of 3,000 statues, selected from all parts of the world, varying from fire to twenty feet in height. Allsop's dioramic, panoramic, cosmoramic, and stereoscopic views of intense interest Allsop's musical promenade, The above attractions are now combined, forming one large establishment, in the immense. and magnificent building known as the Teutonic-hall, next door but one to the County Court, Lime-street, Liverpool, and nearly opposite the Adelphi Rotel, and is open to the publio at 6d eaoh ; children under ten years of age, 3d each. Mr. Allsop's exhibition has been pronounced by the press of Liverpool, London, and elsewhere, to be the moat perfect, superbl y - wrnitlcent, awl largest establishmetxt in the world ; a fact In *Ai cannot possibly be contradiOed. Be sure to ob e r ,, i the name, ".Mlsop, ' at the cAtrauce. Sole )I'ourietof - 1 — ITna. Allsop.—..eldvi 1, r. LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE. - YlisTmeDAt. BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD. VIOLENT ASSAULT.—lnspector Tomilson brought up s person named John Crogan, on a charge of having violently assaulted a young man named Win. Smyth, a compositor. Mr. Black defended. It appeared that on Sunday afternoon tho prisoner, without any provocation, struck the prosecutor some Mows with a sling shot on the head, inflicted serious, but happily not dangerous wounds. The case was Droved by three or four wit nesses, and, although Mr. Muck aid all be . could to get the prisoner off for a fine, his Worship thought it too serious a case to d i spose of, and sent the prisoner for trial at sessions. : lisp eli enee kß r GE of o r r azo ß r o s :ar m ni a a de A no e t litolNshESae . Arthur Carney, a but to sell) knives, stockings and the like, about th e docks was charged with , having robbed a Chinese, named John Frances;wie of i fB. Mr. Black woo , for the defence. Margaret Benso n , irl at Hughes's public house, Waterloo-roact, stated talTaf. prosecutor,. the prisoner, and a femal e entered' the the shop, and had some drink at a tat:le outside th e counter, when she saw the prisoner take ti..e watch out of Mr. Chinamanis pocket. She went round and took the watch from him and restore& it to the owner--the prisoner saying, at the time, that he had the watch for seven days, having got it mended for the prosecutor. They went away, and, in about an hour after, the prisoutr returned and took away a bag that he had previously left. Soon after the prosecutor called ,nndsaid the prisoner had robbed him of £B. The man was not drunk, but was near it. The prose .. _ _ _ cutor was examined,. and ou cross-examination by Mr. Black, he denied that he was drunk, and he could not swear positively that the prisoner took the money;- he, however, said there was no one else to take it. He admitted that be 3FIA , the prisouerrin the cabin of the ship, and that he had , given him a watch to get repaired. Mr. Bluck contended tbat• there was nor a particle of evi— dence against the prisoner s and his Worship, agreeing with him, discharged the priso ner . A BAD BOY.—Henry - Davis, a boy abed- sixteen years of age, was charged with having stolen £ll, the money` of his aunt, Isabella Jones, the wife of a baher in Rose-valt-. The prosecutrix said; she took the prisoner into her house' out of charity, and the gratitude he showed , her was, to run away with the money. £lO Gs. was recovard. The pri soner was sent for trial. BEFORI MR. DIXON UNWHOLESOME VEAL.—Market Inspector Jones,- charged Henry Jones, of St. Martin's Market, for having, on-the 7th instant, exhibited 80Ibs. of bad veal for sale. The same inspector charged Wm. Thwaites, of Scotland-road, for having, on the 12th instant, exhibited 701bs: of bad-veal for sale. Fined £l, and 4s. 6d. costs in each case. MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY . AN ITALIAN Yesterday, at the Police Court, before Mr. Mansfield, au. Italian, named Charles Arred, was brought up by detective officers Laycock and Patrick on a charge of having com— mitted a murderous assault on a Russian mate named Edward Penzelius. It appeared that on Saturday night the injured man was goin along. Park-lane ; in company with. two females. The prisoner went up to him and asked him where he was going. The man said he did not want to have any conversation witli him,_ when the prisoner drew a dagger and stabbed the Russian in no less th - an seven places. But for a pocket-book that the injured man had in his left side pocket, the dagger would have entered his heart. It cut right through the clothes, book, &c , entering the chest, and, as well as the other stabs, inflicted a dangerous wound. The man was taken to a hoase , in Rotham.street, where he at present lies in a state of great danger so much so, that he cannot be removed. The police were informed'Of the fact, and went in search of the-prisoner, but found he had sailed in a vessel called the Delhi, for Gibraltar. Layeock then communicated with the Russian consul, and that gentleman directed him to 'get a steam-tug and follow the ship. Having procured the- boat Reliance, the officers proceeded after the Delhi, and' Overtook her beyond Great Olrinshead, where they boarded her and'arrested the prisoner, whom they of course brought back.. These were the facts, as stated before Mr. Mansfield, and the prisoner was re— manded in order to see how the injured-man's wounds will progress. It was subsequently stated that the man can hardly recover. LIVERPOOL BOIi . OTJGII SESSIONS The Quarter Sessions for the borough of Liverpool were opened yesterday morning, in the Ckown Court, St- George's Hall, before Gilbert Henderson, Esq,, Recorder. The calendar contains the names of 94 prisoners for trial. Of these one only was of superior education, two could read and write well, forty-six could read, and write imper— fectly, twenty could read only,. and. twenty-two could: neither read nor write. The following gentlemen were sworn as a GItA.N D • d 1J RY John Tomlinson, merchant, 14, Brunswick-street, foreman,. Thomas Alexander Bentley, metal broker, 14, York Build— ings, Sweeting-street. • - JOhn Bolingbrooke Cooper, broker, 7, Rumford-street. John Leigh Clare, broker, 11, Exchange-buildings. Francis Pentland Colley, merchant, 6, Old-churchyard: William Hughes Daunt,.merchant, 3, Cook-street. Launcelot Dixon, merchant, 5, India Buildings. Wm. Rathbone , Thincan, merchant, 26, Exchange-court Peter Garrett, shipbuilder, &c., 11, Dundee-street. Alfred Graham,. gentleman, 12,.Rumford-place. Edward Jones, gentleman, 1, Falkner.sqnare. P. Vance, broker, 9, Exchange-alley, Exchange-street, Wm. H. Waddington, broker, 1, Chapel -street. John Schofield, h oker, 2, ExCha'nge-tiuilding Geo. Schofield, merchant, 2, Eichange-alley,north. Alfred Thornley, merchant, 12, Rumford-place. After the usual proclamation against vice, immorality, was read, The learned Recorder delivered his charge, and , said , : Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,—"foirhave on this occasion to deal with a calendar which contains the names of 71' persons charged with felony, and 23 charged with misde meanours ; and it is probable- that a few subsequent commitments will raise the number to 11)5; Now this number has accumulated in the course of six weeks, and large as- it may appear, it is a manifest improvement on the average of• last year, during which 1,266 persons wero sent for trial at the sessions, being at the rate of 105 every calendar month. lam informed by the governor of the gaol that the number of prisoners- in custody last night was 968, whereas during the whole of last year the number in custody never fell lower than 984. Therefore though there is much to deplore, there is nothing to alarm, in the present state of the calendar or of the gaol. In a vast community like this, demands upon those who f like yourselves, assist in the administration of justice, must necessarily be made. There is one case of embezzlement, and some.others, which may occupy a considerable time investigation, but the character of the offences generally is light. The stringent course pursued by the magistrates during the last eighteen months has probably broken, up many dangerous combinations--housebreakers, plunderers, and other most mischievous offenders. At present, stealing from the person is probably the- most promment offence in the calendar. There are a good many cases of violence — several against the police. But on looking through the whole of the depositions, L find no case which will involve any difficulty, or require any special diroetion to you. in the discharge of your duty. rna ro , ni r o dis, w t petty' soon jury was sworn, The 'Grand Jfdy business- 'to their on af i t r e pro , ceeded with. MUSIC IN, THE STREETS, TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN 'MMES. Sir, —Why are the German bands allowed to play in the streets, when our own English musicians (as by order of the magistrates) are not permitted to play a note in the town It is very hard to, suffer from such deprivation.. The town musicians feel it greatljy.—YOur's, &c., MUSICIAN. RIFLEMEN - FORIVL TO THE EIOTOR, OF TIM NOURERN TIMES, _ . Sir,—Such is the cry of statesmen,. merchants, no others ; but, unfortunately, one aad . all of *gni cr foret that we (the y . ouxig . men of Liverpool) 'w ou ld like' to know something about the financial affairs. Trusting this hint may soon, be replied to,,i am. your's, &c.,—ONE mr.H.O Has, LONG WIWRLD 10-10 IN A RIFLE CORPS, ILL'I LS, NOT ONPR-BIIRDENET), WjTil MONET, Tnn, MOEll.Oll'B, TENT. —The tent intended for, the use of thoEraperor Nap o l eon i n Italy is made of strong canvass, striped blue and White, and lined. It is about five metres. in height, suPParted by two poles only, and decorated out side with two small flags. Inside it is divifled into three compartments, a saloon, s bed-room, and, dressing-room. The hangi leave a door for each ream, and there are window -like openings for ventilation. An iron bedstead, cam t"staas small tables, and a washing-stand, compose the unature. Its wood-work and al.l, the farnitive can be reacliky, taken to pieces, and packedin cases of small size tie and 'very light, carriage, The tent was made f Czii:nean campaign, but never wed. Part 4 !Ie i t . i r eas foni t T a r d e gas memorable historie associations. ',tae iron n u s . The Was used by Napoleon 1, in nearly all I),k e l toilet'utensils and droaising-case, all 44vcrx , lov''• - ', 7' 7 Ito that great capfAlin, Giali?natai., ainpliA-belonfrea