Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-29 00:00:00

cI),f.ITHSONIAN HOTEL 43 IV RoLxirAY,Corxer of,goorrox-entEsT, Nsw Yos IC. 2litsintni kit honour of the SNITIISONIAN INSTITUTION, I.stablished at IgAsurararoN, by the U. S. Corr.:minas, With Funds beqtpeathad by Jamas SMITHION, of EN;LAND, gaviligthe Friendship of the 0 rrrczas of the NATIONAL INSTITUTIOIt, conducted on the EIIZOPEAN PLAN, CHAS. H. SMITH. Fou AD, on the Old Chester Road, a BLACK and WHITE DOG, of the Sp iniel Mee 1. The •wner can have him, by describing him (and iiiyng ex 7 ,enses), at the Northern Tines office. if not claimed within five days will be sold to defray expsnses. UEEN'S COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL. SENTLEIIEN WISHING to JOIN any of the CL ASSES in i/UEE 'VS COLIAG el are reqnested to apply to the Secretary for Cards of .'admission. Attendant- will be given at the Colllv on the evenings of Septem ber Ist, 2o i, 3rd, and 4:11, from 7.3) to 9, to give explanations and to carol t named of applicants. Mount-s•reet, August, 1857. ASTRUP CARISq, Secretary. AMUSEAIENT3, PUBLIC NIEEEINGS, &c. THIS P.Y. Tusimaz ROTAL Dram ath Performsn e-7 p.m. ROYAL AM ?RITE' 3ATltEl—Draralti3 Per;OralAnC6-7 p.m. gr-.4..r0is HALL, Clayt n-square—Gordon Cumming-8 p.m. CoLosssum—Gen3ral Entertainment-6.30 p.m. %teLoaLcal. GARDEN 3—Grand .nd Varied Entertainments. Azasor's CZISTAL PALACe, Lima-street-10 a.m. to 10 p.m. L',"" For particulars see advertisements. ~~,- ~. SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. In another part of tc-day's paper will be found the Queen's speech, delivered yesterday (by proxy) on the occa3on of the prorogation of the lrst sessou of the present parliament. It is a ♦ery commonplace document, and does not add anything to our stock of knowledge on the etate of affairs generally. The mutinies in India have occasioned to her Majesty extreme concern, and the barbarities which have been inflicted on her subjects in Indio, have filled her heart with the deepest concern, but her Majesty b.as much con solation in the fact, that the conduct of the civil and military officers in Indio, has excited her wartntst admiration. She thanks the Commons for their assurances of their readiness to support her government in any measures necessary for complete restoration of peace in those territories. That house is also congratulated upon the fact that the Sound Dues question has been settled without adding to the national debt. My Lords and gentlemen are thanked for the provision which they have made for her beloved daughter the Princess Royal, on her approaching marriage with his Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia. The Divorce Bill is alluded to as an Act which will remedy evils which have long been felt. Th's is very questionable. Such are the salient points of the Queen's speech delivered to the Lords and Commons, and Parliament was then prorogued to the tith of November next. Her Majesty took her departuro for Scotland at eight o'clock this morning. We will no doubt be enabled to furnish our readers with full de:ails of the Indian news in our next publication. The mails arrived of Paris last night, and would at once be forwarded on to London. They are of a most interesting character. We give to-day a speech by Mr. Layard, at Aylesbury, on the occasion of his being pre sented with a testimonial by the inhabitants of that town. He looks upon the present state of India with the greatest dismay, and proceeds to enlighten his late constituents on his reasons for so doing. He evidently has no faith in the present government in India, and Mr. Denby Seymour comes in for no small share of condem nation. While on the subject of India. we may mention that Mr. Byng has arrived in London, and has issued his address to the electors of Middlesex. eee k;.., ~,ic 4.et ••• oncary Re former, and in favour of the vote by ballot. ee itn regard to India, he would quell existing disturb ances, punish the guilty, and re-establish our autho rity upon a firmer and more endurable basis. He does not inform us what that basis is to be; he says nothing of enquiry into the real causes of the muti nies, or of the redrese of well-known grievances. The ceremony of commencing a new line of railway, the East Durham and Lancashire Union, the other day. brought several public gen tlemen together, and although the topic at the dinner table was exclusively one in connexion with commerce, the speakers very naturally made refer ence to the exciting scenes going on in India. The Duke of Cleveland, who turned the first sod, and presided over the party, declared his belief that the mutiny would be put down, but the climate, he stated, was against us, and he remarked that what might happen it was alarming to contemplate. We regret to have to announce the untimely death of Mr. James Platt, the member for Oldham, who was accidentally shot on Thursday by a friend. The circumstances attending the fatal occurrence are of a very distressing character. It appears that the honourable gentleman, who recently returned to Werneth Park from the discharge of his parliamentary duties, went out on Thursday forenoon, about eleven o'clock, to have a day's shooting. He was accompanied by his intimate friend Josiah Radcliffe, Esq , the Mayor of Old ham; Joshua Radcliffe, Esq. ; Jelin Radcliffe, Esq. ; and other gentlemen. After they had been shooting about two hours the party came, in the pursuit of sport, to a gully in the moors, which the deceased gentleman was the first to cross. Mr Josiah Radcliffe, the mayor, was following about six yards distant, carrying his gun in a horizental position. In taking the leap over the gully he stumbled a little, and the trigger caught his leg, causing the gun to go cff, and the contents to lodge in the calf of Mr. Platt's right leg. The wound was immediately bandaged by one of the party, and the unfortunate deceased gentleman was car ried into the gamekeeper's house, which was not a very great distance, at Ashway Gip. But he never rallied ; the shock was too great for his weakly constitution ; and although there was little loss of blood from the wound, and the bandage was as efficient as could have been put on by the most skilful of the profession, Mr. Platt died at about half-past two o'clock. The lamentable fatality has thrown a gloom over Oldham, and plunged many of the leading families of that district in the deepest distress. The Alanchester Efoniner of yesterday, in chronicling the death of this gentleman, says : —" The worth of the deceased is best known where it has been most dis played ; and the friends of all that concerns the prosperity of the town and people of "Oldham, will regret, with the friends of progress generally, the cutting down, at the early age of thirty-four, of a gentleman, whose amiable disposition, energy of character, and public usefulness, had gained for him tna high position which he he'd." A London paper of last night earnestly hopes that the Radieel party in Oldham will not fail to place Mr. W. J. Fox in the vacant seat, and thereby render an act of justice to an old and well-tried servant, while they confer honour upon the borough. The Surrey Gardens C mipany has made its second appearance in the Court of Bankruptcy. The shareholders, or at least a large portion of them, appear to be of opinion that the Gardens may still be carried on at a profit, and that, heavy as are the losses, there ie, alter all, no need for the company to be wound up, or to be declared bankrupt. So the Commissioner has given the shareholders time to make up their minds on this point ; and we hope they will be able to extricate themselves from their present difficulties A metropolitan cotemporary says :—" Mr. Coppock took part in the proceedings yesterday, and complained bitterly of the manner in which he and his brother directors had been assailed. When these gentlemen have successfully vindicated their management they may, perhaps, be justified in. comp.& lining of the old English epithets with which Ora, y have been pretty freely .pelted." The North of England Unitarian) . Association have held their anntral'meeting this- wen )k at New castle. At the close of the morning.% 'nice, the Rev. George Harris read portions of la 3 reports, from which it appears-that the assceintiea I projects more extensive operations in different to wns and villages in the north of. England. There an a nuna, her of lay preachers belonging to the. as elation. The Earl . of Carlisle having granted pen fission to the members to visit Castle Howes -d, in Yorkshire, and view the interior of that magnificent mansion and the beautiful gretunds eontigious, it was determined that the adjou'rnect meeting should be held in the village of Wel burn, close by. A painful incident must lie re ferred to here. The young minister of Welborn and Melton, the Rev. H. Dunkerton, who had assisted in making the arrangements for this visit to welcome the friends from Newcastle, was sud denly taken ill, and died on Saturday. He was interred on Tuesday, the last of these anniversary services, at Melton. The ministers and a few of the friends from Newcastle left Welburn in the morning to be present at the funeral. At the Assizes yesterday several trials of interest took place. A gentleman recovered £l5 damages from a schoolmaster for the expulsion of his (the plaintiff's) son from school. Two libel cases ended in 40s damages and costs in each, and an action brought against the Lou lon and North Western Railway Company by a travelling post-office clerk for injuries received in an accident on that railway, ended in a verdict of £450 damages. A meeting of the Magnetic Telegraph Company was held yesterday, at which a resolution for the company to be wound-up voluntarily, under the provisions of the JGint-Stock Companies Act, was agreed to. From a statement made by the chairman, it appears that the income during the first half year of 1857 was £34,000, and the exeenditure £lB,OOO, leaving a large surplus, out of which they had been enabled to declare a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. The weekly meeting of the Toxteth Park Board of Guardians was held on Thursday. No business of importance was transacted. The relieving officer was appointed. Out of sixty-eight applicants. Mr. Heath, late of Nantwich, was selected for the office. The foreign news does not possess much interest or importance this moraing. The Paris Pays, alluding to doubts thrown by some London journals upon the accuracy of its account of the strength of Delhi, affirms that it has never published any Indian news except upon sure information, and that none of its statements have ever been contra dicted. We have already mentioned that the Pays' exclusive London news is supposed to be furnished by the French Embassy, but how does is account for Lord Palmerston's contradiction of the story it told the other day about an applicivion to the Pacha of Egypt for leave to send troops across the Isthmus of Suez ? The Courrier de Paris says that Prince Gregory Ghilca committed suicide, on Tuesday evening, at a chateau, which he had lately pur chased near Melan. He shot himself with a fowling piece. The reason for the act has not transpired. PARLIAMENT has been prorogued—the Royal Speech has been delivered—and the 'people of the United Kingdom have before them the senti ments, aye, and wishes of the Sovereign. Our readers do not require to be reminded that Royal orations are—as far as the politics of the world are concerned—good for nothing. We have the Royal Speech before us, and for the sake of curiosity shall divide it into its legitimate parts, and appeal an observation or two thereon. Here we may remark, en passant. that the " Queen's Speech" is of a divisable character, and that the number of parts therein are neither more nor less than five. Like all other fulsome eulogies, the words put into her Majesty's mouth, but which, by the way, she deliverd by proxy, commences with a series of congratula tions that the state of public business enables the monarch to dispense with the further services of the Lords, and her faithful Commons. Affairs in Europe we are told are satisfactory. This is an assertion without a proof, and should be re ceived with caution. Regret is expressed that the Treaty of Paris is not yet fully executed. Whose fault is this ? The people of the United King dom, who pay the taxes, require an answer, no matter who may be the suffrer by a clear and unreserved declaration now. We are glad to learn that her Majesty's heart has felt for the state of affairs in India. Had royal feeling been much earlier alive to what was coming, the present lamentable crisis would not have taken place. Glad indeed shall we be that her Majesty's promise will be performed to the letter, and that "no measure calculated to quell these grave disorders" shall be omitted. It is sail that " money is the root of all evil." On this point we find her Majesty quite earnest, aye, and energetic. She thanks the Commons, as in all conscience she ought, for the provision made for her beloved daughter the Princess Royal. What right the nation had to contribute one farthing to this royal daughter of Victoria we are at a loss to conjecture. A pauper could do nothing less than Queen VICTORIA, in returning thanks _for an unwarranted dowry of 70,0001. The Queen, at the instance of her Ministers, extols the doing of Parliament during the ses sion; and dwells with peculiar emphasis upon the Bill relating to the efficient jurisdiction for the proving of wills in England and Ireland. The other matters are jumbled together in a continuous list, without note or comment—a fact which proves that Ministers have little to say respecting them; and that they did not con tain provisions of essential importance to the welfare and happiness of the people. With these remarks, we dismiss Parliament for the present. Since it met in May, little—very little—has been done for the improvement and elevation of the masses. The Government seems only bent in keeping the '• stools of office." It remains with the Reformers of the United Kingdom to say if such a state of things shall exist. THE case of MR. BE RTOLACC I, in connection with the affairs of the Duchy of Lancaster still continues to attract much public attention. We have already alluded to the matter and endeavour ed to show that not only were the duchy's affairs grossly mismanaged, but that an injustice of a most glaring character was heaped upon MR. BE R TOLACCI simply because bt sought to discharge his duties as Auditor with fidelity to the Crown, and uproot a system of management that was repre hensible in every sense of the word. Our readers are aware that a Select Committee of the House of Commons was appointed to investigate the allegations contained in MR. BERTOLACCI'S peti tion and that they collected a variety of evidence upon the subject and made a report thereon to the House. From the first sitting of this Committee it was evident that each and every member was bent, not in. eliciting the truth or fallacy of the auditor's petition but to shield the delinquencies of those occupying high and dignified official stations. The very mode in which the Committee was .struck,—its composition, and the studied exclusion of every member of the House who were at all friendly to BERTOLACCI'S claims, showed that the government had perpetrated a job—that it was their object to cloak the mismanagement of the affairs of the duchy, and to deny that the auditor should meet justice at the hands of the House. Under these circumstances we need not be sur prised that every point was strained to make it appear that the auditor was in error, and that the officials of the duchy, from the Chancellor down to the lowest servant, were animated by a praiseworthy desire of managing the revenues of the duchy, so as to yield the greatest possible amount to the Crown. One would have thought a Committee appointed to investigate such an important and delicate matter would have been desirous to conduct their proceedings so as to be above suspicion, and that in awarding their ver dict it should be formed according to the evidence upon which it pretended to be based. Contrary to all precedent, the Committee after collecting evidence made their report to the House, but at the same time withheld the wit nesses' testimony. What is the character of the Report ? As a whole it is favourable to Mr. BERTOLACCI. It eulogises him as an able, pains• taking and zealous officer, and the committee are constrained to express a desire that " nothing which has happened should be permitted to di minish his claims to promotion." This we regard a complete vindication of Mr. BERTOLACCI'S peti tion, and a confirmation of the, course he deemed it his duty to pursue as auditor of the duchy. But notwithstanding this eulogy of his character, the Committee vindicate and justify the act of the Chancellor of the duchy- in dismissing him from the situation of auditor, as he had shown himself so perverse and obstinate as to refuse to audit the accounts. Now we ask cart the de- cision or opinion of a committee be more in consistent than is exemplified in the two par ticulars just noticed ? First, Mr. BERTOLACCI is the model of a public official, able, indus trious and honest ; so much so that he merits promotion in the civil service, 'Nevertheless., he loses his situation because his tem per will not permit him to perform his duty. Evidcuay Chu Committee found thornaolves on the horns of a dilemma. It was their desire to whitewash the higher officials of the duchy. To do so would have been a denial of the truth of Mr. BERTOLACCI'S allegations, and disbe lieve the very evidence on which their report was founded. Anything more glaring and one sided we have never heard. The Committee's procedure throughout the whole investigation have shown the cloven foot. Government in fluence has been brought to bear upon them, Hence they manufactured their report to please all parties, but which reminds us of the fable of the old man and his ass, who in attempting to "please everybody pleased nobody, and lost his ass into the bargain." The Committee may depend that neither Parliament nor the public will be satisfied at such double dealing. Either Mr. BERTOLACCI has been unjustly de prived of his office of auditor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and thereby entailed pecuniary loss, or he has not. How can the public know - which of the positions is the correct one. The Committees report being so glaringly inconsistent and contradictory, cannot be relied upon. The only means of arriving at a correct judgement of the case is, a perusal of the evidence. But this has been withheld, and has not yet made its appearance, nor from private advices in our possession we fear that it will not be published by the Committee of the House of Commons before the prorogation of Parliament, after which all the members will have left their town residences, where it will be left for them. This we pronounce unfair, and inexcusable in the extreme, inasmuch as the evidence was in print before the R.-port of the Select Committee although the latter has been some weeks since freely circulated among the Members of the House. On finding what was going on Mr. BARTOLACCI wrote to the Chairman of the Committee, protesting against the nonpublication of the evidence, as on it he relied for a refutation of the charge made against him, for want of temper. The Chairman replied that if he were dissatisfied he could appeal to the House of Commons. But this was only adding insult to injury, inasmuch as Mr. BERTOLAC C I could not appeal against the Committee's report without having the evidence to substantiate the position he took up. Independent of the injustice inflicted on Mr. BERTOLACCI personally, this matter is one of deep importance to the public at large. It cannot be permitted to a Committee of Parlia ment to present a :eport and keep back the evidence upon which that report is founded. We are glad to perceive that Mr. CONINGHAM has given notice that he will call the attention of the House to the matter early next session. The" subject is one that cannot fail to claim the support of both sections 'of the House; in the meantime we hope the people at large will take the matter up, and urge with determination the necessity of considering this question and deciding it in favour of a useful public servant, who has been unjustly persecuted for the fair and honourable discharge of the duties of his office. The news from India must be regarded in a two fold light; a distinction should be drawn between the dangers to individuals scattered over the North-west Provinces, in the midst of the muti neers, and the progress of General Havelock's flying brigade, which has driven Nena Sahib from Cawnpore. That this European force can drive before them any native army that may appear in the open field, no- person questions ; still it is doubtful whether he can relieve Lucknow or Agra, so as to establish communiattions with Delhi. As to the subjugation of the mutineers, as soon as the reinforeetteents now on their way arrive, they will not only be subdued, but totally and speedily extinguivhed. In the mean time, let us hope that we have heard the worst of the horrible violations and butcheries that have been perpetrated upon defenceless women 'and children; still, we must remember that we are engaged in a war of extermination—no quarter is given or taken ; and " as we sow so shall we reap," that ie. perfectly clear. It will, there Fore, never answer to place the Commander-in-Chief ander the Governor-General, as heretofore, if the North- West Provinces are to be held by England. Mill. Lary rule is the only one suitable to the condition of the people.—From a Correspondent. THEATRE ROYAL, Miss Cushman's last appearance in Europe, prior to her visit to America, took place in the Theatre Royal last nie.t. The house was better filled than on the pre cediag evening, but there was by no meant so large an attendance as it might have been thought the parting performance of one of the few great actresses living might have occasioned. Miss Cushman appeared as Lady Macbeth, and received an enthusiastic greeting when she eame on the stage. We have ;on more than one occasion already noticed Miss Cushman's performance of this cha racter, and need not enter into renewed criticism. It is enough to say that it is a performance which cannot, now, at least, be surpassed upon the stage. But:it must be allowed that Miss Cushman played at mach disadvantage last night. Ia the firer place, Mr. Ryder was the Macbeth, and we are compelled to say, was utterly incompetent to tb, very difficult task he undertook. In the next place, the play was put on the stage with the accessories which of late years are called a" revival" of Shakspere—comprehending , among other astonishing ornaments, the introduction of a, vast display of singing and witch-performance which Shakspere never thought of. We feel much regret that managers should be taken with the mania for these exhibi tions, which has originated with one actor and manager, who, being himself incapable of worthily representing any great Shaksperian character, may be excused if he endea vours to distract the attention of his spectators by dioramic illusion and tinsel gorgeousness. We cannot at all con cede that the use the world is to derive from Shakspere's dramas is to make them into exhibitions for childish wonder, or to convert them into machines for illustrating archterlogioal studies. In the particular instance of which we now speak, there is much which can hardly be defended from any point of vier-. The lights in the banquet-hall, for example, being of inevitable necessity turned off, in order that the dioramic ghost may be seen, shining now through a curtain, and now through a pillar, must make one fully appreciate the wonder of Macbeth at the stolidity of his guests, who persist in not being in the least surprised when total darkness enshrouds them. Other instances equally absurd might be pointed out, when sense and poetry and truth are sacrificed to the merest stage effects. Managers might recollect Horace's opinion as to the happy position the drama has reached, when the splendid dress and the showy scene make the genius of the actor a subordinate attraction. These exhibitions, as we have said, are called " ShaksPerial revivals." But for certain immovable laws the name might be well applied, for surely such per formances might otherwise call up the ghost of Shak speare from the grave to anathematise it fitting language, such preposterous °Torts at cavering his refined gold with vulgarest pinchbeck. We need hardly add, that Miss Cushman was called before the curtain at the close, and was received with the most cordial and vehement applause. Miss Cushman also appeared in the farce of " Simpson and Co„" and gave by her spirited and thoroughly comic acting, another proof that genius is rarely of limited range, and tha+, a great tragedian will seldom fail even in the lower walk of slight comedy. THE QUEEN'S HALL, BOLD-STREET. We perceive, this fashionable salle is to be occupied by Miss Jura Pastrana, the cElebratA "Nondescript," who has created such a furore amongst the nobility and the medical and scientific world in London during the season. She is said to be the greatest novelty yet intro duced to the British pubic, and hzs already been patronised by her Majesty the Queen and most of the crowned heads of Europe. We look with some curiosity to the introduc tion of such a novelty as she is represented to be. She is announced for the 31st instant, bat we sea by our adver tising columns that she will appear on the 7in of Sept., at the Queen's Hal), Bo:d-street. THE COURT, &c. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, FRIDAY.—The Queen and the Prince Consort, with the Princess Royal, Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, and the Princesses Helena and Louisa, artivel at Buckingham Palace, at five minutes to two o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Osborne. Her Majesty left o,,borne at ten o'clock, crossed in the royal yacht Fairy to Gosport, and proceeded by a special train on the South Western Railway to the private station at Vauxhall, where four of her Majesty's carriages and an escort of Light Cavalry were in waiting to convey the royal party to the Palace. The Queen and the Prince Consort, with Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, and the Lades and Gentlemen in Waiting, cruised in the Victoria and Albert can Wednesday afternoon, and returned to Osborne at half-past seven o'clock. DEATH OF Mr. WILLIAM RAWSON.—We regret to announce the decease of this gentleman, which took place at his residence, the Polyrn, Crumpsall, near Manchester, on Wednesday, at midnight. •We are infarnaed that Mr. Rawson was in his seventieth year. There seems no doubt that his death reiulted from the accident which recently bele Line. THE LIMITNING.—DESPATCH OF TROOPS. —On Thursday morning whole of the men of the 7th Hussars, and drafts from the various regiments, to the number in all of 654 men, with thirty officers, emba-ked from Tilbury on board the celebrated clipper Lightning. At seven o'clock on Thursday evening she was towed down the river by the Resolute, one of the two tugs recently built at Liverpool, and the largest and most powerful ever constructed. MANCHESTER, SHFITI ELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE, AND LOND 'N AND NORTH- W ESTE N RA ILWAYS. —A pamphlet of forty pages has ju.t been published by the Minchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Company, relative to the dispates between these two companies. It consists of P . " Summary of the case in reference to the London '4 ll d North-Western Company's Breach of their A 'greervents of July, 1854, with the Sheffield Company, and s- a b se repudiation of, and refusal of reference, nod% r two pent traffic agreements with the Sheffield and other C',,, ro p an i es, ,, and of a report of the meeting of the Manch , eter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Com?any, bald at Manchester on ' Tilly Bth. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. Despatches were received this morning at the French Foreign-office from M. Soulanges-Bodin, Consul at Naples. They announce that the Royal Court of Salerno was about to make its report concerning the late landing of itsuNents, and it was expected that the captain and orvw of the Cagliari would be acquitted of partici pation in the attempt, and that the difficulty with the Sardinian Government would thus be arranged. There is hardly anything worth notice to core municate from this city to-day. It is supposed that some difficulties still remain with regard to the Principalities, as the Moniteur speaks of an early resumption of diplomatic relations. Another report, however, says that M. de Thouvonel is to be received this very day by the Sultan. A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor presided, was held yesterday at the Tuileries. Sir Fitzroy Kelly has arrived in Paris. Djersiil Bey, the Turkish Ambassador, had an audience this morning of the Emperor. M. de Rayneval's application to return to Rome could not be granted, and he will doubtless go to St. Peters burg, M. de Moustier remaining at Berlin.. A French offiler is to be sent to Tzarke-Selo, where some manoeuvres of Russian troops are to take place this year. The Cent Gardes have been de spatched to Chalons The Count and Countess Walewski are going to Biarritz, where Prince Napoleon is also expected to go after his visit to the Piedmontese frontier and interview with King Victor Emanuel, said to be fired for the 31st inst. The Emperor has approved the works now in pro gress in the forest of Vincennes. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Augne 26 —Our excellent fire bri g ade, sent over in'time by rail to Magdeburg, h as hap pily succeeded in putting a stop to the spread o the conflagration, by which the whole of this ancient city for some time appeared to be menaced. The damage occasioned by the fire is, however, very considerable, and some of our insurance companies will incur heavy losses. About twenty six private houses, each occupied by numbers of families, have been destroyed, but a very great pecuniary loss arises from the destruction of the contents of the government storehouses, which, as it seems, the large Fire Insurance Company, called Aix la Chapelle-Munich, will have to bear. The same office had likewise undertaUen the insurance of the wooden railway bridge, which fell a prey to the flemea. - . - The destruction of this bridge, though so well insured, will nevertheless cause ci nsiderablo loss to the Magdeburg-Wittenborge Railway Com pany. which will now for some time be pre vented from bringing passengers and goods up to the city terminus, and which has the river Elbe for its competitor in the goods traffic between Magdeburg and Hamburg, and the Hanoverian railways on one side and the Berlin railways• on the other for competitors in the pas senger traffic. The latter, however, may be retained by means of transitory appliances for the trans port of persons between the city and the line of rails, from which it has-so abruptly been separated, the municipal authorities of Magdeburg have isgued an appeal to the benevolent to render assistance to the needy, as the families who have suffered by the conflagration, belong mostly to the working classes, and have, in many cases, omitted to insure their furniture. Their was a rise in all public securities at our Bourse to day, owing to a , greater ease of the money market.. ITALY.' The Opinione of Turin gives an account of the reception at Genoa of the splendid piece of ord nance sent by the citizens of Boston to the people of Piedmont, for the walls of Alessandria. Gen. Durando, commandant of the division at Genoa, and the civic authorities pr;:ceeded in state to the gates of the port, where the gun was solemnly delivered to them. It was then conveyed to the Piazza Nuova, accompanied by a band of music and by a detachment of soldiers. It remained there until the Monday following, to be viewed by the population, and was then sent off to Turin. The Independente of Turin states on the night of the 24th several houses were searched and some persons arrested simultaneouslp both at Turin and Genoa, for political purposes. _ _ A letter from Rome states that their will be great rejoicings there on the Pope's return. Four triumphal arches are to be erected ; one at the Ponte Molle, two miles from Rome, another at the Porta, del Popolo, a third on the Corso, and a fourth on the Piazza San Pietro. The Capitol is to be decorated, and a cantata is to be sung there by the Philharmonic Academy. RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg says : A recent measure of the Emperor Alexander has created a certain sensation here. When crown prince he had conceived the idea of writing an authentic history of the events which attended'the accession to the throne, en the 26th December. 1825, of his father the Emperor Nicholas. With the consent of the late Emperor, Baron de Korff was charged to draw up this history. He was furnished, not only with official documents depo sited in the secret archives, but also with auto graph observations written by the late Emperor for his family; likewise with the journal of the En2preas Dowager, the papers of the late Grand Dukes Constantine and Michael, brothers of the Emperor, the private letters of other members of the Imperial family, and the wriVen observations of eye witnesses of the affairs of the 20'h Decem ber, 1825. The Emperor Alexander, it may be remembered, pardoned the leaders in .that con spiracy, who had been banished for life to Siberia. Only twenty-five copies of this work were printed for the members of the Imperial family, and were kept secret; but the Emperor has now resolved to share the secret with th►e people, and has ordered the publication of this curious work, which the Imperial Library sells for two roubles each. ROBBERY OF NUGGETS AT WOLVERHAMPTON. At the Wolverhampton P lice Court, Reuben Cole and Samuel Meson were charged with having robbed James Cole, of the Lye Waste, rear Stourbridge, of 1,000 gold nuggets, a watch, and £2O in maney. The prisoner Cole is a brother of the prosecutor, and Mason is James's news. Mr. Bartleet appeared for the prisoners. The facts elicited were that the prosecutor and his wire had, some twenty years ago, been. sent to Australia at the charge of the Consolidated Pend, and than the prisoner Reuben Cole bud 'visited Neiw South Wales under similar circumstance-. Tw o years ago the prosecutor, after realising some money at " tho diggings" in Ans . r lia , returned to his dative place, Lye' Waste, near Stourbridge; but the previous Friday he and his wife set out for Liverpool, with a view to revisit the El Dorado, spending the night at Wolv-thempten, The prisoners accompanied them to Wolverhampton, and after taking farewell glasses together to such an ext , nt as to get very decidedly intoxicated. these latter returned to Lye Waste, and soon after Mrs. Cele, who had kept the property which the prisoners were charged with stealing, and who had herself indulged ha the glass very freely, missed a besk.,t which had contained the nuggets, watch, and money. elei-- geant Brookes end the prosecutor followed the prisoners,and Lund them het the Lee Weere, in the house of Mason, the younger I , :,risoner, in which they also discovered the basket which lad contained the propert srid to be stolen, tege:i:her with some braces, and a handkerchief, which the prosecutor and his wifo identified as having been in the ;gasket with the money, and nuggets, and watch. The prosecutor sail he did not wish to press the charge, and both he and his wife appeared to give their evidence with reluctance; but the magistrate did not feel justified in dismissing the case, For the defence witnesses were cell -d, who disp ited the identity of the basket. and handkerchief swore to by the prosecutor and his wife. The prisoners were committed to the sessions fur trial.— Worcestershire Chronicle. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS• [By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.] SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, AUG. 26. The King has returned to the capital ill better health than was anticipated. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, AUG. 27. There is a project for the cession of Luxery bourg .to Prussia. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURGII, AUG. 21. The Sultan of Turkey has clnferred on Prince Gortschakoff the order of IVtedjidie, of the first class. MANCHESTER UNITY OF ODD-FELLOWS. FItAUD3 ON THE ORDER. James Charles Cox, the lee grand master of the Aran. ehester Unity r.f C) d Fellows, who is now in Southamptott Gaol as a defaulter with regard to the funds of the order? will be arrested, as soon as his term of irnorisonment expires, on a c'uarge of embezzling the Odd Ivellove funds ; and, if convicted, the punishment will be transportation. It is now ascevained that Cox haft misappropriated nearly £3OO of the funds of the, order, a iarge portion of which helonted to the sacred fund set apart f(q. the relief of the Odd rellnxvs' widows, and orphans. What is ta.ch regretted is the a tt em pt of the chief officia'a of the order to screen Cox from punish ment. Had it not 13= en for the courage and de'ermina tion of the local' officers, many of whom are hard work ing men, one of the grearest rascals that was ever entrusted with poor metier savings would have escaped punishment. Public confidence in the South of England bas Been mach shaken in the stability of the Manchester Unity, through the malpractices of C. x, and the leniency with which they have been viemed by some of the chief members of the order, and great t umbers nre expected to le-ave the order in consequence. Ccx contrived by some means or other to get e'tcted a member of the Southampton-Town Council and a guardian of the poor, and through his , s ocial position unbounded confident „ was felt in his integrity by the Otid'Fellowo. S eps will be taken to exp e l him• from the Southas'pton Town Council.—Express. DEATH OF .T6lll - E9 ESQ:, ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. We regret to have to record the death of Mr. Jame) Platt, the hon. member for Oldham, by accident, on Thursday afternoon, whilst on a shooting excursion, on the moors in Saddleworth. On Thursday. morning, about seven o'eleak, Mr. Platt, with a shooting path, amongst whom were Jo iah RaOaffe. El., mat or, and Joshaa Radcliffe, Esq , left Ashciay Gip, Mr. Platt's bunting-bog —which is situated about two miles from the Greenfield Rail way-station—f ir a shooting excursion. About a quarter p st one o'clock, the party were proceeding throne' a gully, Mr. Platt b log foremost, and Mr. Josiah Radcliffe - about six yards behind him. when the latter unfortunately shambled, and his zun went of, the shot b.-in s ; discharged into the calf of Mr. Platt's right leg. The wound waif immediately bandaged, and the unfortunate gentleman was conveyed to his house at Ashway Gap, bat he never rallied from the sh , ck, and, although he b:ed hat little, he expired between two and three o'clock. This shocking occurrence has thrown the p;incipil families in Oldham' and the neighbourhood into the de- pest grief, and has cast' a gloom over the general population of the borough, 5 1 whom the deceased gentleman was justly respected. Redschid Pacha has been named Minister of War in. the place of J iamai Bey. Baron Proke'ch Osten has proposal a collective demand, - on the part of the Powers, that England should restore, the Island of Perim. Tnizerg, Thursday.—The negviations opened by Lord Stratford de Rode'al to obtain the consent of the Porte to the passage of theßritish army through Egypt en route to India have failed. DovEs V. LIVNRPOOL. —A correspondent writing to the London Times, says :—" Dover is a little Liverpool ; it is the worst port in England by which a p-or foreigner could be introduced to the English ; he would hate them the rest o his days." THE . IDIDIA, rAITNA, AND AT:STRATA 4N, MAIDS, —The Weds arrived at Marseilles on the 27th August, with the Indian and Australian mails. They left Marseilles the same night at ten, and will be delivered in London thili morning (Saturday.) A COUNTESS IN 'fitquELL—The Dowager Ceunte3s of Castle Stuart has brought an action for a malicious prosecution against MM. C , rnier and Manoury, tradesmen in Paris. It appears that the Countess, who lest her husband some months ago, ordered some mourning of the defendants, with whom she had frequently dealt before, and rs she was about to etnb,rk at Marseilles for Rome on the 2nd of June last, she and her cousin, Mr. Henry: Bathurst, who was travelling with her, were arrested on s 4 charge of having obtained the goods under false pretences-. Mr. Bathurst was released in the course of the day, but the countess was incarcerated in two dlfftrsnt prisons, an& kept in custody thirty-six hours. When the proper authorities of Marseilles investigated the charge. they decided lhat there was not the remotest foundation for it. On the pressnt occasion the public minister took a pre liminary objection to the Countess of. Cos le Stuart's pro secution, on the ground that it did not sufficiently appear that the examining magistrates had decided the accusa tion against her to le:t false. This objection was overruled by the court, and the cause was adjourned to be heard upon its merits. Mr. JOHN MITCHELL IN TENNESSEIL—FrOII a letter althessoi by Mr. John Mitchell to his friend, Mr. John Martin, and dated '° Knoxville, Tenness?e, July 30 la" we clip the following morceau descriptive of Southern seen. ry :—" One morning we sallied forth, with reel dawn, and came out upon the cliffs tot see the sun rev ; and be rises over this greet vale as though he low e d it• Yon know how the thing is done, so I need not te;el eon the sun's method of getting up. You also have been in the path of the sun as he travels his z ae rood, yet to see him on the morning of Independence day eleivee out so kindly neon this Arcady of America is worth rising at fur o'clock for. Alt around us lies the great mountain region of the south ; the grim peaks of Scat' eh Carolina , where the untamed panther yet mama and ravens; the greges and glens of a thousand rivere, where in laurel-tickets crouches the bear ; and the long smooth ridges of Tennessee and Alabama, where herds of deer are browsing this blessed morning. Far over the Tennessee valley, sod away into the blue distance, corn and wheat are waving in such abundance and luxurian.ee as Tennessee never saw beef Ire. And southward you mal get glimpses of the distant plains of Georgia, where the black field-hands are going forth this moment singing, t° hoe long rows of budding civilisation. Standing on Lb° tabular cliff, I can see in vision the whole beautiful south ; and I sly unto you that no peeple pessess such elements of rower and grandeur. Their climate is matehle3s—thit products of all sorts varied and exhaustless.. Nowhere ,ten :you fiord a higher type of manhood, nowhere does woman* hoed bloom out into more sove , eigu beauty. lief° Republicanism is in its truest, proudest form. All things that the States of Greece pesseased (save one) these States poser se. And as all Asia precipitated herself upon these immortal isles and rocky promontories and was dashed t 0 shiver's like a wave upon the back of Semium—even so ode finch it impossible to coneciae how these haughty demo' cats here could ever by any force be conquered, or so mar l / as cove d. Why, little South Carolina herself h as t h e hear " and the stomach for a dozen Marathens. Everything the Greeks pceseesed, says one—high aeohetic culture, Wi t "' lesure and spirit, a fertile brain and a vultiptuous temper' a ment, the Southerns have yet to begirt to make their O f ! • Art and Literature. Oh thou riaiaa, sun breed for the ir own Caitionce ! Smite some rock_ with thy level Eastern ray, and let our own Aganeppe gush forth, our oWn llippocane fl nv. IVhat reeds this fair South butl la.ercture race of the eoil e '. tinted with the purple glow ,_° o the Southern sky, warm . w i t h S out h ern pass i cn , a nd tel_ t red Southern blood ? Such, I pray God, may be Ie vouchsafed us," NvRAT is COMING to LIVERPOOL on the 318 instant ?—Why, F. GREATEST NOVELTY IN THE WORbi ll WHERE IS IT TO BE SEEN THAT'S THE QUESTION. THE NO, lITHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29. 1857.