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

c a IIAITHSONIAN HOTEL, B ROAOWLY, Corner of TIOUSTON-STRErr, num' rou fr. Named in honour of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITCTION, Established at Wnsn 'No TON, by the U. S. CONGRESS, With Funds bequeathed by JAMES SMITHSON, of ENGLAND, lIRVIRS the Friendship of the OFFICERS of the NATIONAL Issrt rurtox Is conducted on the System of HutsLs in ENGLAND. CUAS. 11. SMITH. i; o cr. mt 'aiz ~.—<~i~is ~—~ n At the broker's sa'eroms, A therton-baildings, ailestreet, 1830 bales Wcol —H a2;',cs an, Ronald. ♦t t,,0 o'clock, at the Cott n Salesroom, 1500 blgs Wool.—rraclbnry and Cook. For partilu!ar3 See VlV:trei9 .7112nt. z...IUSE..IiT:_i - N, 1.).;r3L 1 ,0 nEEriN:n, F.C. THIS PAY. ROYAL A MPIIIVIEATEE—Drariptie Performinca-7 p.m. SIT. G z oacm's I:ALL —0 rg rerfarmances —3 pm. LtuarooL ACADEMY'S FRIIIBITION, PO , tofliCO-pI3CO. ALLSOLOS WA‘WORK EXIIIBITION-10 a m. to 10 p.m. CUITON HALL. Clayt , n-squire—Gordon Cumming-8 p.m. RoDa, CoLassatim --,Ganural Entertaintnent-6. tO p.m. Cir For partfol7ari see advertisements. WANTED, COPIE-i of tho " NOB:HIE:RN DAILY Thu.'s" of the following dates :—April 10111 and 14th, May 9th ar.d 23rd, dais , 16ta, and August &h.—Apply at the Northern Times o r ce. e -r= l “N Qi)g ,SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. The news this morning is very meagre indeed. We are now in hottry expectation of telegraphic despatches from India, and until they artive the public will be in a state of suspense regarding the condition of that part of the world. Let us hope that the next ees's will be of a more re-assuring character; but we are mush inclined to believe that the contrary will be the case. The recent additional telegraphic despatclees to the regular advices we cannot place much faith in, and the rumour that the garrison of Lucknow had made a sortie upon the mutineers before the walls of that city, we are afraid will tu.n out to be a fabrication. Even should the report prove to be the fee , ' the gallant band cooped up in the fortress would for some weeks have a most extensive and remorseless enemy to contend with, and it is indeed melancholy to even harbour the idea that they would be compelled to succumb to the overpowering 'nun bers cf rebels, but such we are afraid would be the case, seeing that the quantity of provisions was limited, and that the water had ht e't cut off. However, these is yet hop ', and should General Havelock have the good - fortune to arrive there in time, the mlnions of Neca Sahib will assuredly , feel the vengeance of those British troops who h'ave had their wives and families destroyed in the manner in which we have been called upon to record. Our impression of yesterday contained a few particulars respecting the arrival of the steamer Indus at Southampton. We are now in possession of several a iditional items of news by this steamer. It appears that all sorts of rumours were flying about at Singapore, but it was not thought that disturbances were probable. A public meeting had been held to consider the Press Licensing Act. Resolutions were adopted to the effect that its extension to the settlement was arbitrary and uncalled for by any:hing in its present situation or circumstances. 'Co save time it was resolved to petition both houses of Parlia ment, praying that the settlement be relieved from the operation of the act. A -subscription has been opened at Calcutta for the immediate relief of our countrymen and countrywomen arriving there from the interior in distress, some with nothing hut rags on them. We also learn by the Indus that the Dutch in Java are said to be alarmed at the aspect of strait's in India, as it may have an exciting effect on their population. The Duke of Norfolk has replied to Lord St. Leonard, who lead written to the metrooolitan j etoLtooe, so...eves-dug upon a pas:orat :mac(' oy Dr. Cullen, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin. Arch bishop Cullen roundly taxes the trus!ees of the Patriotic Fund with sectarian dishonesty and religious malversation. Ho says that while splendid grants have been mole to Peotestant schools and asylums, nothing has been conceded to insti:utions such as he coul 1 theologically approve ; and he more than insinuates that in the dispensation of individual relief' a Eyatem was designedly adopted calculated to repel the members of his church, or to wound their sectarian susceptibilities in the very act of receiving the d.)143-. We must spy that if halt of these charges are true, it is infinitely .discreditable, not only to those who might have prevented such abuses, but to those who, knowing them to exist, have neglected until now to expose them. Lord St. Leonara's, as Chairman o the Board of Distributior, is naturally much in, censed at impecchment of his equity in that p trti oular ; and he denies, as broadly as his most reve rend assailant asserts, that any unfairness was designed or practised at the cost of the Catholic families of those who fell in the Crimea. The Duke of Norfolk immediately comes to the Archbishop's rescue, and in a letter addressed to Lord St. Leonards, says—" I cannot allow your Lordship to continue in the belief that the arrangements of the Patriotic Fund as they now stand, satisfy all classes and every denomination of Christians. To the Roman Catholics those arrangements are ex ceedingly unsatisfactory, and I shall feel much obliged to your Lordship it you will, in the en suing session of Parliament,move for returns upon the subject, so as to lay before the public the manner in which the large sums entrusted to the Commissioners of the Patriotic Fund have been dealt with, and thus to show how far Catholic feelings have been respected in their distribution. I feel it my duty to make this statement in ref, - rence to your Lordship's letter, and to give it publicity. At an agricultural dinner at Al.Aidstonr, Captain Vernon has given expression to opinions on the Indian revolt. He said he had a right to doubt our Indian poi which, after an exercise of a e,,ri tury, revo'ted all races,from t'ie fiery Mahommeda ► to the patient Hindoo ; a pclicy which took the crown from the heads of monarchs, confiscated kingdoms, brought down the landmarks of nations. and gave no nationality in return." The domestic news of the day is not of much oonsequence. A groat storm has been raging on the Kentish coast, and our despatches from Brigh'on, Ramsgate, and Hastings give particulars of several wrecks. We hope that we may have received the worst tidings in connection with this calamity. We have already noticed that a brutal murder of a woman lay her husband had occurred in London. The husband has been sent for trial on the capital charge, Of local affairs we have little or nothing to notice to-day. At the Coroner's Court, yesterday, the Cause of ih^ dc.C.l2 of a sailer on board a ship, wns under invc. • igation. The deceased had been in irons from time to time, from ‘ his leaving Bombay until his arrival in Liverpool. He died from ex haustion ; but the doeor of fie Northern Hosuital wils not so sue of this, arid 1:oni his evidence the jury came to the conclusion that the deceased di..d from the " viqitation of God." We to day pullish the officiel account of the loss of a P►ussian man-of,var, with some 800 hatid-3 on board. The wreck is one of the most remlukable, complete, and unforeseen calamities that ever o !- enured The admiral of the fleet describes it as an instantaneous and inexplicable loss accomplished in a few minutes and before his very eyes and the eyes of others who sailed in vessels belonging to his squadron. Ho had been ordered to leave Iltv,d for Cronsta-It with his ships, and the Lefort was one of them They had neared a place called Tuters, and the Vladimir with the commander was immediately in the tack of the Lefort. It was nizlit, and, without any warning, the Lefort sud denly became engulfed in the waves, which were tempestuOus. The ship went down within a few minutes, before the Vladimir had time 'to tack THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1857 about. The keel of the Lefort wily appeared once, and vessel and crew disappeared, not a soul being saved of more than 800 individuals who were on board to tell the tale of how the disaster could have happened. In our opinion, there has been a sort of mutiny on board, and the ship has been scuttled. The weather of late has been very boisterous in the channel, and, with the exception of the Frenah mail, we :re without our usual continental advises, Via Pat is, however, we learn that it is the Minis terial crisis of Madlid which engages the attention of rolticians on the continen'. The Nord con firms our views i❑ saying that Marshal Narvaez and hie colleagues are only waiting the nomina tion of the'r successors to return. The Epoca, ou the other hand, says that Qacen Isabella has earnestly solicited Marshal Narvaez to undertake the formation of a new ministry, and tint some of his colleagues had recommended him to remain in office. With some continental governments it is becom ing the fashion to be afraid of the dead. The Austrian authorities have refused to the Sisters of Marlin the consolation of having a funeral service performed to the memory of their brother in a church at Vebice. According to a letter from Tabriz, the distur bances which recently broke out in Pers:a have been suppressed, and the rebels severely punished disturb.lnces were created by a fanatical tribe inhabiting the s:an+l.l of Ktiouzstan, which has epeatedly evinced hostility to the reigning dystany. The Bullion in the Bank of England this week, shows a decrease of £513,397, compared with the returns cf last week. Tan Bank of England has giVen the screw another turn. On Thursday they raised the rate of discount one-half per cent., and the lowest minimum rate for first-class paper is now six per cent. For second and third. class Securities as high as from seven to eight per cent. will, no doubt, be demanded. The members of the Stock Exchange are beginning to look upon the state of monetary affairs in a very gloomy light, and fears are entertained by many that we are drifting into a monetary panic as disas trous as that of 1847. Not only in England is the Money Market tight, but throughout the whole of the chief Winking cities on the Conti nent a considerable degree of stringency is appa- rent, and five-and-a-half, six, add seven per cent. are the ruling figures. In the. United States, the panic which recently broke out still continues, and failures to a large extent have been the con iseuence. In Philadelphia, three Banks are already reported to have suspended payment, and we are told that all the monetary institutions in the Quaker City would follow the example. In Boston, New York, and other cities, the num ber of private firms which have been obliged to succumb to the pressure is truly enormous,—but how can this be prevented, when money is as high as eighteen per cent ?—indeed, in se era! instances, as much as twenty-four per cent. per annum has been paid for accommodation by the inferior houses. Ot course, such a rate of interest cannot be made by legiti mate trade, and the consequence is that when bills become due the holders loose their money, the drawers go to the wall, and if the acceptors do not at once follow, they are almos t certain to smash under another operation. In America the rate of Exchange on London has fallen to a point below which it is profitable to ship specie to this country, and it may be that in a short time we will be under the necessity of exporting coin to the United States. This, with the demand of specie for th 6 Continent, may drain the Bank coffers of a very serious sum in the course of a month, and, added to the loan which will be made to the E ist India Company —for sooner or later that Company must obtain national aid to carry on the war—the metallic resources of the Bank may turn out- very discouraging. Even now, the extraordinary demand from almost every quarter of the globe has seriously effected the Bank, and it is under stood that the drain during the past week or two has been very great indeed. At present we cannot counteract this demand, as, according to our Monetary code, we are not only obliged to supply the entire Continent, but the Western Hemisphere. Any foreigner can purchase bullion in our own markets if he pleases to offer a small premium—some twelve shillings per hundred pounds—and he will drain us of all he may require, as there is nit enough of patriotism in our monied classes to with stand six per mille premium, as the Bank of France was recently offering. The conse quence is, that we lose a hundred . times more by this operation than if the Bank of England could itself buy up gold and pay a premium, for a tightness of money comes in due course, and the business portion of the public pay the piper, Sir ARCHIBALD ALLISON says that no amount of prudence and circumspection on the part of the merchant-or manufacturer can guard against the effects of thy, sudden stoppage of credit, and refusal of accommodation, which arises from an exportation, trifling in amount but ruinous in its consequences, of the precious metals. " A nation, possessing two hundred millions a-year of solid realised income, independent of professional income—whose capital exceeds five thousand millions sterling, finds itse:f reduced to the verge of bankruptcy by the exportation of five millions of sovereigns in exchange for food I This, too, takes place at a time when the Bank has ten millions of sovereigns still in its coffers, when trade is in an uncommonly healthy conJition, imports great, exports above fifty [now a hun d,•ed] millions, and nothing exists to derange commerce but the artificial perils with which erroneous human laws have environed the currency." This was Sir ARCINBALD's opinioa many years ago, and it would seem as if it had just been expressed, so accurate and perfect is it of our condition to-day. We are drifting in a down ward course, and until our monetary code revised, altered, and amended, we cannot per manently improve our condition. There is no longer any occasion for theoretical suggestions, speculative opinions, or abstruse arguments. On the vital subject of monetary science the thinking world has been convinced, although, strange to say, not yet converted, which is attributable to the degrading effect of the bullionist theory of money called the "Peel principle." Without any disloyalty at all, the people of Manchester would have rebelled in 1847 instead of starving; or, which is the same thing, being the prey, in their cellars, of epi_ demics, through the want of sufficient food, arising from the blasting operations of our money law, which, with no care for the lives or happi ness of the people, cares only to sustain the Bank of England in a hypocritical independence. But what prevented the revalution then is just what prevents the people now rising up against our money law, viz., that the cruel and heartless operations of the same money law has made us so artificial that, afraid of the small thread of life which it leaves us, we are afraid to kick, or we have not strength to kick. What the nation requires. says a London cotemporary, is- a domestic currency that will be freely received in all the transacians of internal commerce and every -day life. So long as it is issued in conve nient denominations—say for 11. 7 21., and 31. — and that it be kept within sufficient iimits, and received in payment of taxation and every national demand, so long will it circulate freely from hand to hand, and possess the purchasing power which is all that is required. The bullion in the Bank of England on the 2nd instant, according to the returns gazetted last night, amounted to 10,662,692/., being a decrease of 613,3061. as compared with the returns of the previous week. THE First of November draws on apace, and already certain gentlemen, anxious to retain their seats in Council, or aspiring to attain municipal honours for the first time, have favoured rh,-; constituencies with expositions of their views on such subjects as are likely to occupy the atten tion of the Council, and prove interesting to the electors. The first and most important—namely, the Water question—is one on which the most perfect unanimity of opinion seems to prevail amongst the candidates, whether Whig, Radical, or Tory. In fact, a more complete fusi.m of parties on this vital subject could not possibly exist ; and it forms the very best commentary on the soundness of the views we, in common with nearly all our fellow townsmen, have ever held on the Rivington Pike Water Scheme. What was the language held by the promoters of that scheme towards those who honestly and concientiously differed from them some years ago ? Let their speeches n f.... , th, y not denounced as ignorant agitators, as factioni.sts and clamourers, in order to serve their own sordid purpose? In short; the opponents of this dis astrous job were characterised as everything that was disgraceful. " Wait," said the Pike hirelings, " until the Riving - ton streams are flowing throughout the town, and then we shall find that the public, who have been led away by these selfish, agitating demagogues—when they have discovered the deceptiln which.has ben practised upon them—will thank us and bless us for our considerate care in affording- - them an abundant supply of the purest water, Tnen woe unto those who have been our adversaries." Well, the water has now been nearly twelve months flowing through our town, and do the people bless those who were instrumental •in bringing it to them ? Not so. Bless them, indeed ? Ask the senti ments of every one, rich or poor, and they will tell you that, in place of blessings, the very opposite ought to be the re.'ard -of those who have been guilty of polluting with their abomin able wash that pure water once the delight and boast of all. What says the Conservative can. didate, in his address to the electors of St. Paul's Ward ? Why. that, if returned to the Council, he will vote for the immediate restoration of the well-water, which he eulogises as infinitely superior to the Pike. Then, we have the declaration of his Radical opponent, the present member, that he will do likewise, if re-elected. In St. Anne's Ward, we have the frank confession of Mr. KITCHEN that he supported the Pike scheme from prudential motives, never dreaming that the water was to turn out the abominable stuff it has proved to be ; and he gives ',LS his personal experience of what he saw himself at the Pike. Mr. KITC.HEN very praperly resolved to go to the works, to see and judge by the evidence of his own senses, and he very properly invited a number of his fellow-Councillors to accompany him, and they did so. He informed his constituents that, while he admired the extent of the works, he was, nevertheless, grie vously disappointed with the quality of the water—that the fluid stored in the great Angie zark Reservoir was totally unfit for human use— the very opinion, in almost the very words, of our own report published a fortnight ago. Upon reading those truthful declarations, so unreserved, and, apparently, so candidly made, a disinterested spectator might reasonably ask how a Town Councillor, holding such strong opinions, could for nine months silently sit in the Council Chamber, and permit others to com pel 400.000 people daily to drink a liquid which he declares to be unfit for human use. Truly, there seems some littla discrepancy between Mr. KITCUEN'S opinions, as declared to the electors of St, Anne's Ward, and his votes as recorded in the Council Chamber. When we compare the one with the- other, we cannot avoid arriving at the conclusion that the worthy Councillor has fallen far short of his duty as a representative. Holding the opinions he now enunciates, it was his duty long since to have stood up in the Council Chamber, and moved such a resolution a. , 1 would have restored to the people of Liverpool the wholesome supply of pure water, of which they have, for a time, been so shamefully deprived. If Mr. KITCLTBN would have us believe in his sincerity now, he must take such a step at the next Council meeting ; and, failing to do so, will certainly exercise a very strong preju dicial influence upon his character, or it may even have the effect of defeating his election. Then we have our friend Dr. HonsoN com pelled to admit that the water is very turgid— Does he not mean turbid ?—and that it is not relished for domestic purposes ; but then he argues that the works are not yet consolidated; but that when they are so the " hog wash" will be much improved —a result which, we fear much, the worthy Doctor will not live to see realized. In short, the sentiments we have thus briefly alluded to show clearly the feeling of the town on the subject, and prove, moreover, that not withstanding assertions to the contrary, the public are intensely in earnest about the restora tion of their well water. If that should be doubted let some candidate come forward on the Pike interest and try his chance of success. We say that, irrespective of any other considera tion, every elector ought to insist on a distinct pledge from the candidate soliciting his suffrages, that he will support any motion which may be made for the restoration of the well water, forthwith. The Water Committee meet to-day to arrange their report for the C)uncil on. Wednesday. They have now had ample time to digest the various plans which have been laid before them, and we trust they will no longer be trifling with this matter in the way they have done. The various filtering schemes , —the scheme for a double line of pipes—and' all other schemes, are matters which can lay in abeyance without any detriment to the public interest. Not so , the main question. TEM COURT. BALMOR IL, Oe. 7. Her Majesty the 4teen, with their Roy.a Hii•hnessesthe Princess Royal and Princess Alice rode yesterday to the Fa-chooit, t his Royal Highness the Prince Cors , :qt. ParNca V GORIDE C')NritIBUTION TO THE INDTAN . B,T MEP FUND —The Lord Mayer has receire I a cornrau— niciti)a Llyn the Prince Vogorides, the Caiancan or temporary llesp >dal- of Moldavia, of which the follewinz is a trmsla ion:—" I send yoo. 500 ducats (about £233 staling) in favour of the victims of the muliey in India• Ttis sum will be remitted to you by Messrs. Mire; Semen, and (;0., of Lo )d) o. It is but a feeble tes imony of my deep syraoa!hy with the English people, and of my interest in everythin; which effects your great nation." THE LIVERPOOL ACAD - 3111Y'S EXHIBITION. THIRD NOTIC.C. Mr. Solomon exhibits this year a work of larger scope acid nobler subject than any we recollect to have seen from his pencil. Ile has turned to good account the h ppy facility he possesses of expressing character and emotion without extravigtnce or unnatural effect. " Waiting for the Verdict" is a p:cture of singular and homely meaning, telling its story with touchingness and arcafneeed pathos. No petty sentimentalism, no elaborate mysticism hide and disfigure its plain tale. A group of humble people awaits, in thessg my of tortured expectancy, the decision of a jury, which is to effect, we must euppeee, thedife of acme dearly-loved being. An old man, with bowel figure, Fits covering his forehead and eyes with his hand, every nrssele and vein expressing the anguish of a forced patience struggling with terror, and perhaps same tantalising hops A young woman, with nervously clenching fingers, colour lees cheek, and wet, wild eyes, sits facing the spectator, striving to keep down the emotions which are becen4ing too keen and biter for scppression. A child, tired with waiting, has fallen asleep at her knees, holding still to the skirts of her dress. A nurse holds any infant, who is quite delighted with the novelty of the place, and is evidently crowing r'ght lustily ; and near the old man a dog is crouching. One of the doors leading into the court opens to admit a barrister in wig an I gown, and within we can catch a glimpse of the crowd and the crimson-robed figure of the judge One ftncies he cart almost hear the sleepy hum and suppressed, buzz of conversation which are murmuring through a crowded court while the jury are msidering their verdict. There is nothing theatric about the scene, nor, on the other hand, do the figures seem fixed in the defined, immovable attitudes which tell one that the painter only thought of, the present position of the group he drew, and gave us no reference to what might have been a few minutes before, or would be a few minutes hence. The figures here do not see as if they hid dropped down in the attitudes hey exhibit, and were magically fixed there for ever. Oee can in expectation hear the rustling and deep drawn breathings of the crowd when the jury enter the b ; can anticipate the sudden movement among the little group of expectants in the foreground. That usher will presently call out for eileeee ; and the verdict will be followed by that thrill with which a crowd evinces its symyathy or its pain. Every one who has ever sat in a court, awaiting with strained expectation that indesirable sound of suppressed exelametion which makes known even to those who cannot see it, that the jury are entering their box to announce their decision, can recognise the full reality, the deep pathos of this fine p'cture. It is enough to say of its details that they are in true keeping with the artistic spirit which arranged the group and the surrounding accessories. The effect which the whole produce upon the mind is enough to make the gavr feel satisfied that no deficiency and no unreality anywhere exists. Those who believe that the power of imagination is most evinced in the creatien of ideas and objects above the level of human life or in fantastic and extra natural conceptions, may perhaps consider this pic'ure hunible in subject and commonplace in its tone. But they who believe that painter and poet must, whether they will or not, be content to receive all their ideas, even the most unreal and extravagant, in some form from retire around them will think that a simple story, such as this which Mr. Solomon has chosen, may be made the means of expressing the ideal no less than the real, as truly as the vaguest, dreamiest conception of a mind, straining itself vainly, to teach the hidden and the unat tainable. On the screen in the central room is a painting of a graceful and poetic character—" The Fall of the Lost Pieiad," by Mr. J. R. Read. The principal figures are well painted, with distinctness enough to make them pic turesque, and impressive to the eye, but not with the heavy fleshy colour which make the angels, seraphs, and goddesses of so many painters so very earthly, and unfitted for the skies. We not unfrequently see angels or fays sporting among clouds, whose good condition would indi cate substantial earthly feeding, and whose specific gravity would seem to augur a difficulty in walking on the ground, not to speak of gambolling in the air. But the Pleiad sis ters are serial enough, and thair gauzy drapery vague enough for the element in which they that. One of the faces :•enm to have somewhat of a vacuous and unspiritual expre-sion, and the attitude of the falling sister s lass graceful than that of the other figures in the group. Notwithstanding these defects, however, and notwithstand ing that the painting belongs to a school whose gradual extinction we are delights I to watch—that of the modern, Or mock • classic—it is a picture full of a quiet beauty, not without much poetic suggestiveness. The Lone Church by the Bea More," (250), is a painting by an artist in whose productions we take much delight, notwithstanding that they have usually some peculiar defects—Mr. Mark Anthony. This picture of the " Lone Church " is free from some disfiguring man nerisms which belong to others of this artist's works, and does not seem to have been produced in obedience to the dictates of any particular school of art, except that great one which was open long before Raphaelitism, or pre- Raphaelitism, were talked of, and will be open, we should think, when those opposing schools are talked of no more. The "Lone Church" is exquisitely painted. Its name is hardly a suitable one. It conveys an idea of a dryer and waste strand, with a dismal edifice dropped down some where gloomily, amid blank loneliness all around, and the picture itself does not in the least realize such sombre ideas. The- motto, selected from Mrs. Hemans, " What hidcst thou in thy desert e meg and cells, Thou ever-sounding and mysterious main ?" is even less arproptiate, seeing that very little of the mysterious main is visible at all, and that it forms too unimportant a feet ure in the p%inting to induce the spectator to enter into any speculations upon the question put by the poetess. Another question, however, which one na'ght ask is, why do artists, when they use quotations as mottoes, generally select them so very unappropriately, and from authors of the•second, third, fourth, or fifth class ? " Tartuffe at Supper." In this instance the artist has not taken his theme, or his motto, from a secondt.ciaes author, We cannot, however, think the painting at all equal to the subject: The scene here depicted does not, we need scarcely inform the reader, take plac3 in " Tartuffe." at all, but is described by Dorire to Orlon Whether the artist was embarrassed by the difficulty of embodying an incident thus received, as it were, at second-hand, we do not know ; but it does not appear to us that there is much in the three figures represented in this picture characteristic of Moliere's conception. Tartzfffe is unctuous and rosy enough but Moliere conceived a c' aracter having in it greater depths of hypocrisy, than are:suggested in a merely sleek and rabi cnd visage. Madaiqc is vary unattractive ; indeed, with_ so unwinning an exterior we can hardly see how the catastrophe which unveils the hypocrite could have bsen brought about • Dorine is vulgar and shrewish looking, and nothing more. The accessories and details , of the picture ore well and carefully painted; bat the whole effect seems to•us by no means in keeping - with the cha•acter of the great master of satrical comedy, whose most remarkable production it endeavours to illustrate. No. 100 1 —" Kitty of Coleraine"—is cne of M. Erskine Nicoll's piquant and characteristic Irieh sketches. This artist is thoroughly filled with the hnmcnr which h 3 Faints, and is curiously happy in his mereels of Irish life. In this instance. however, he has fallen into something of a topo graphical error, by giving to "lively Kitty" and her admirer the garb and outward manner of the peastantry of the south of Ireland. " The Tatting of the Shrew," by Mr, Robert B. Mar tineau, is an instance, among many others in this Exhibi tion, of elab)rate and minute treatment of details, and general failure of the whole efilict. There is vary much of careful and admirab'e execution in thi3 picture, but the spectator who believes that the female figureis in the least like Shakvere's _Katherine, or the gentleman with his bank to thA Pnf rtinhin, rso that thooo io the slightest gleam of genuine humour in either figure, is a more con tented critic than most artists are happy enough to have. AMUSEMENTS. THELITRE iI3YA.L.-At this theatre, which has been closed during the week, the English National Opera , Company will make their first appearance next Monday evenirg. The company includes Miss Lucy Escott, Miss Lanza, Me. Ila'gh, Mr. Durand, and many other well known artistes. Wneeever the National Opera Company has made its appearance it has been favourably received ; and we think we may anticipate for it a success in Liverpool The operas announced are " Trovatore," which , will be performed on Monday night ; "Der Freischutz," " Traviata," "Masaniello," and " Maritana." TUC ASIrtIITRE&TREC.—Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wiliarns continue their brilliant successes in this theatre. Last night Mrs.. Williams took her benefit,. and the house was crowded to overflowing. It is long since any actors head had co complete a popularity in Liverpool as these original and inimitable performers. HENCILERS' CIRQUE ROYAL, DAL"-3TREET.--This, celebrated EqueA.ian establishment,. second to none in the empire, reopens on Monday :evening, not only with its former far mrite artistes, but with, addidons that are Ain more attractive. The public are aware of the great variety of entert.iiuments given by Mr. Hengler, at the circus , during an. unprecedented run of EUCC:'33 in the spring and summer of this year ; and we believe he now comes with greater attractions, which will be welcomed by the people of Liverpool. He brins, old fay.puritv, as will as those new f ices, who, n doubt, will soon he classed arnougst the former. We are glad to fill that Mr. Fr inc:s, the active and urbine manager returns with the company in:his usual position. With inch a superior stud of the hest train, d horses in the world—a company of unrivalled .artistes, a manager kind and courteous—the re-opening of the cirque cannot fail to the signal flr renewed public patronage, to the best and in ,st pleasing entertainment of the sort in Europe. CLAYTON HALL —0603130 N CUMMING —Few entertain ments of any class his held such a lengthened sway in Livirpool as that of Mr. Cumming. He. has had an un precedented inn of success in public estimation, and his entertainment deserves all the patronage bestowed on it. If it were not • belonging to a elas that the public- are fond of, namely—intellectual and instructive—it would not have bieo patronised so long, and so well. On the opening we prognosticated that it would " tell,"and we are glad to find public taste run in the right direction. Lastly,. some new and interesting scenes, descriptions, and illustrations: have been arlded, and to those who have even frequ A - 1' 1y visited the hall heretofore, these cannot fail to impart still new interest. The prices for admiz,Siou are now within th e roach of all, and , none should miss this fine treat. FREENIAS )N'S H I. —Ol Wednesday, we gave the public our opiLim of Mr. Ewart's performance. are always glad to have it in our power to say something pleasing of those 1.v'20 seek public favour, as performers or professors of this, that, or the other art. Oa further acquaiLtarce with Mr. Ewart, orr good opinion is im proved, and it would be impossible to speni a couple of hours with a more agreeable and amusing companion than he is. As a cdcbrat Al friend says, be "does everything, an'. a great deal more into the bargain !" and although h.s is ;:ot liko the celebrated Sir Boyl e Roohe's bird---n two places at once —yet hi s vo i ce i s in "two-and-forty place,," in a space called" No ti me I" 01 , ,ver as a ventriloquest, and one o r the best imitators of the lower animals we have heard, he it also a necromancer, of class Al. Go and spend r n evsning with him, and y)u endorse our opinion. ST. GEORGE'S CONCERT Rooms.—At this place of amuse ment, Mr. Ben Williams, the favourite comic singer, with the other talented artistes, have nightly caused a large assemblage, who have, by their applause, expressed the pleasure they felt at such an evening's entertainment, and their thanks to the spirited proprietor of the rooms. TELEGRAPHIC NE‘O' By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph' THE PRINCIPALITIES• A despatch from Jassy states that the Dig° for Moldavia opened on the 4th instint' FRANCE. The Parig Three per Cents closed Ye' (Friday) at 671. 60c., a decline of only 1 ° 64 the compared with Thursday, notwithstand ing ee a ll unfavourable return of the Bank of F ran- i ; the raising of the rate of discount by the of England. b oo HORRIBLE DISCOVERY ON W A TT BRIDGE, LONDON. fn et t it Yesterday mcrning, two men disewered /Pet s oft resting on tha abutments of the bridge, to wil le .is " e d. was. attached. It contained the trank, an d I/ 7, human being—the head, hauls, and feet were g 3ll '' s i th s Punter, suzaon, who examined the remain s bees police station, stated, that the man had evidently pp murdered, as he had been eawel as- the fle sll _' llt , ll od if from the body, and the remains pickled ;. there sy 3 ° - 1 0 flesh left on the trunk to glow seven gashes, and gio he also discovered on the abiomen. There- wore cti 7 ff il) the carpet bog, and cuts in them correspon ding the stabs. SINGULAR . PROCEEDING- BY THE x $ 1 6 . CONSUL AT CORK. The Cork Reporter mtkes the following ex tfaer - bf statement respeAing a step said to. have been 'ileti Mr. Keenan, United States Consul at' Cork :—" I t a i s itea remembered that when our magistrates at Passage ""0:10. to investigate the particulars of the unfortunate f 03 ', 11 use harsherterrns, of the barque which WttS run df olt Western Star, an American ship —a'though the d et4s , bi ef 'that occurrence, as deposed to, were such as shenl4,o' stirred every civilised man to forward the incini t ld American Consul persisted in attempting to stop th e gation. The allegation was that a whole crewhad be ar/ i ll / A tonly allowed to parish when they might have be en and yet, upon some crotchet of International law, it W-- b i e ek sisted that not a word should be said upon the °j e ts, because the consul decreed that they were answer to him-and his superiors alone; so that we hare n e f L g otalt que3tion them if they committed murder on our ` - at tof The magistrates most properly thought that this wag r the "too much of a good thing," and they dissented f r ~i g b strange proposition. Bat the consul thinks tha t it gto "to bind and loose," for, not satided with endeevouril/Ito set these men free, he has lately issued his nXille Passage Bench to imprison one Themes Palater,.°/',4 says at some time, or place unknown, conducted 13°1 ,4 in an irniroper ant insubordinate manner on bea r ir refused - to do duty or obey orders.' Whether the u d i o l quent was guilty of the-heinous offence in the R' C 9 t o ott or Cove of Cork does net appear, or whether he ti es- p er his cap'ain's life, or merely wished the cook's eye t nt dition, ii not disc'osed ;but upon thin vague intivoic%stti, he did something somewhere that was wrong' , th ee- 3 0 'respectfully requests the magistrate to impriso n tu ' e A oe' until it is found expedient to release him.' As tr i : -(1 0 0 nin prove,we agivce a uri!sciotypytoofthiotseinwhfuollE:_re Constitution, will of the United States of America at Cork, leels,na4 tember 30, 1857. To the authorities at PaSgag S." Cork. Gentlemen, Thomas Palmsr, seaman, one ° l ie ;;, crew of the American barque G. W. Hall, of Provids-00.0 United States, whereof Charles E. Mowey 111 , 41 00 recently arrived in this port from Newport, Wale* 146 conducted himself in an improper and insuborain ets nor on board, having refused to do duty or obey 01'0;k have the honour to recnost that you will cause said il person to be brought ashore. and imprisone I 4 jit expedient to release him.—Respactf u lly thine, IL United States Consul, at Cork, Ireland." • BkNKRUPTS; ,1 By British a.:d Irish ,Itagrietic Telegrap h ' Jahn Wakefield, 11l store, baker. F•edtirick Ryder, Misineial-street, stationer. iv •4.1, Mathew Townsend, Leicester, manufacter holl'sititv John Catt . and Arthur W4lington Callen, L9 3 ' er well, beer and bottle merchants. , • Junes 503 re Piltjn, Devon-hire, timber dealer. keel )e ' r Francesco Yerruan, Leiceste--scare, 1 i 0n3 3 William Smith ; 131 th, hotel keeper.. r ' William Clayton, Watling-street, Lambeth ; Per.° !c met o Philip Nifilledom, Mark-lane, manure and cora del' William Cox, Halifax, builder. Joseph Hal'urd, Cheltenh lronmongor. - ./ Th ., / , 0 0 0 GoIINTT COUTIT--RPSIGNATION OP MR We state, with much regret, that we un dersta;o4, Pollock will preside in the County C.Airt for the 15 sot. on Monday nex'. He will cl.liver judgement e, t i i. cases, the decision of whleh his stool over for se r after which he will ceunto officiate in this conrt. , FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday, amen named Cbr lf ire: Battersby, a carter, in the. emp}syment of Jamet(l oe mater carter, was killed on the. quay of the 13 ,21 ` . 1e5e; It appears that he was assis'ing pu-. a large p e p "• ( t timber on a lorry, when it canted ck;er, fell 00 fallow's head, and killed him en the spo'. An ire beelfl on the body this dey. arty r r e THE' B^LTON NITIIIDETtED.—Aaron Mellor,.ta , e -13 or o t of Ms wife at Bolton, on the let instant, has 8 ' ) o ° o * caverEd from the wound be inflict e d on his ea r ,i„, after he had co nmitted the fatal d ee d on hi; enable tle polos to remove him from the Ktrkdale by the 3.20 p.m. train on Thursday 51te At there to await his vial at the Liverpool Ass:sPe• , ' A of PIM CaI.PTION mat WIDOW 11CGRES. AND FAlt ir r . eaLf ! have been rat - tested to direct the attention of ot t ` gt o.r . ,ll to the adveriaernent wh'eh app e ars in our col:1 10 '001,4 ntima.ting the closing cf the sub s c r ipti on li s t. Ty e a t , of the Mercantile M trice B,rvi r e As iec i n ti o n Ntll, eaegeatt next meeting, take into con,id eva ti on t h e best :,:af disposing of the fund for the p e r manen t ben- 1 " family. 00°, CAUTIOI‘k TO BUTCTIERS AND FISII DEALOSI be.°o% Brunton, a hatcher, in Park-hill, was strtrel e ,. the mag . strates yesterday, by Inspector Lloyd,l°`fia la o d " blown meat" expose{ for sale. The uric duct, cad grovel, and their worships censured such e_.,n n r c ,.t,t,,"bfi fined the deftn ;ant 93 6d. —Mary Arne w,, r4 ; r geaji. keepe• of a fish-stall in St. John's Market, wa'„ e ",:for Inspector Tyrrell with Exposing unwholesome " 0 She Wal fined ss. She The ft C ß an o d n a n c y e August s s t te 2 a 3 m rd e , r an ha i s Ge a i r r r e iyed at a 4 0 f b lssr 3 ' s e ptet: l2 ..4 - r c a p, touching at the usual i n t erme di a t e por ts. J 5 -4 1 e i Tll n ah. : sge l 10.1.7 river Trident e t s r epbaamr gewuroae puncheonspalm wAs dagrsewv snereoydf oilLiverpool, unhealthy- ihv a i elnerdp helpingo2o l 3 t l oTt o s h z it re et r if r ocs 5 1 5 off the Dimba. The Calabar had been totally Wr ofe the bar ; cargo nearly all saved. q d 6 ,; 11 Flt GLITFUI, Yes sy, a man a- Me h is -- for Shimmins, of 7, Rock-street, Browalaw bill, cat " - 1. b is with a razor in a top bedroom of his it'fl t h 3e : 6o S t a re minutes before, his wife went out, leasing ". ‘ - ,110 wag - 00- _A dinner. He was for4-five years old, an' d houseman at M sirs. Carrie & of 17, R llll3- c i r ret`,fir He went to work in the morning as usual, al to kis t ot home '0 his dinner at twelve. He cornplein.k t piogosto of being tightened at the thunder and the lig' bog 1 "01' took place in the morning. He did not apr ar n ' o ly a f „tha to be out of his usual state. His wife Was d dea momenta away, and on her return, found him fiest At bed-room where be had cut his throat, An hell on the body this day,