Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-12 00:00:00

AMUSEMENTS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, &c. THIS DAY. TATAL Aiu PHITREATRE—DrarIa ti 3 Performance-7 p.m. ly. Gitoseit's lism,—The People's Conterts-8 p.m. Itmeratata's C,B.QUE VARIETZ, Dale-street-7 p.m. LrYzazout. ACADEMY'S EXHIBIT( ox, Post-office-place. CoLosssum—General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. For advertisements see second page. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Tersons seeking Employment, parties requiring Servants, Assigants or Clerks, and those in search of Apartments, or having Lodgings to Let, can best bring their wants wader the notice of the public, by advertising in the NORTHERN TIMES, and which, from its _large circulation, ss the most efficient medium of publicity in this district. ne cash price for this special class of advertisements is sow reduced to THREEPENCE FOR TWENTY WORDS, and for every additional five words one penny. CO:NERSION OF THE NATIONS OR, CHRIS'2S CHARGE TO HIS CHURCH : ROTHERHAM'S SUBJECT, 70-MORROW NIGHT, AT HALF-PAST SIX O'CLOCK, AT GILL-STREET CHAPEL. SATURDAY, DECEM - BER 12 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. In the House of Lords last night, in answer to the Earl of Shaftsbury, Lord Clarendon stated that it was true that the French Government had sanc tioned a project for the introduction of African labour into their colonies, but he was afraid that such colonization would degenerate into slavery The Bank Issue Indemnity Bill was read a third time, and the House adjourned. In the House of Commons several notices of motion were givrn, including oue by Mr. Duneombe, that Baron Rothschild should be allowed to take bis seat in that house. On his taking the oaths in such a manner as ,would be binding on his con science. Mr. V. Smith said that the Government were inclined to be as lenient as possible on the Indian Mutineers, and except where prisoners were captured in that overt act, they would not be executed. In the course of the night this gentleman also stated that the life of the Bing of Delhi would be spared, as Captain Hodson, when he captured him, promised that his life would not be forfeited. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in moving the adjournment of the discussion on supply, stated that the Government were desirous of aiding Dr. Livingstone in his researches in Africa, and that they should seek a grant of -05,000 this year for that purpose. Lord Palmerston moved that the House do adjourn until the 4th of February, and said that the Government would amend the bill granting to General Havelock a pension of £l,OOO a year, by extending the pension to the next succeeding life. The Chancellor of the Exchequer then moved for a select committee to inquire into the Bank Charter Act. Both motions were agreed to, and the House adjourned. We pubish rather more favourable news from India this morning. Sir Colin Campbell had reached Cawnpore with 6000 troops, and would soon be able to relieve General Havelock. It now appears that the garrison of Lucknow would shortly be in possession of large quantities of provisions. We to-day publish the tietsils of another shock ing tragedy. A. lady of some property, and her two sons, ono a clerk at the Bank of England, with a salary of £2OO a year, were all yesterday found dead in bed. The elder son, who was in the Bank, bad sustained some losses by Share speculations It is believed, that as he was in the habit of ad ministering a draught which his mother took at night., he infused prussic acid into it, that he next gave the same poison to his brother while asleep, and then destroyed himself by another dose. The name of the faintly is buntners. The inquest on the body of the man whose will is alleged to have been forged by Mr. Monk, surgeon, at Preston, was concluded yesterday. ' After a lengthened investigation, the jury returned a verdict of died through natural causes. At the sessions, yesterday, Madam Anna pleaded guilty to keeping a house of ill fame. The Re corder deferred sentence. At the assizes, yesterday. no case of importance was tried. The judge announced that & singular mistake had been committed on the trial of Miller for the murder of his wife at Bolton.. One juryman had answered to the same of another, and the prisoner might have challenged the gentleman who mistook the name. The prisoner will be respited until all the judges give an opinion on the matter. At the police court yesterday, the information against the keeper of the "Turkish Divaa," Lime-street, for harbouring unfortunate women, was dismissed. . We publish the details of the robbery of up wards of £3,000 from a merchant's desk in the Manches'er Corn Exchange. Through the exer tions of one of the gentlemen connected with the business of the Corn Exchange, and a detective facer, the thief was apprehended on his way to Liverpool. The nomination of candidates for Ashton-under- Lyne took place yesterday. The show of hands was in favour of Mr. Mason, the Conservative candidate. _ _ Y‘sterday,. Captain Watkins, of the Northampton militia, while proceeding by rail to Plymouth, with his regiment, put his head out of the carriage window, and came in contact with the buttress of a wall. His death was instantaneous. Our foreign news this molning is not of much importance. The nervousness just now shown by the French Governmett journals is rather aston ishing. Emile Girardin in the Courrier declares for the empire; they are not content with that; the Siecie declares it wants no new revolutions ; they are not content with that either. They ridicule the little knot of five democratic deputies, who have taken the oath, for furnishing the Legislative Body with an Opposition, and yet at the same time they exhibit great fear of this opposition, and threaten it. The Bank Returns, as publishad in last night's Gazette, are much more favourable. The increase in the bullion is X 713,026. The total amount now in the vaults of the Bank is 8,8,063,493. THE East Indian news received ©n yesterday afternoon, brings down our record of the great Indian catastrophe to November 17th. This intelligence, reaching us by way of Bombay, leaves us to infer that the telegraph corninunica lion between the latter place and Agra has been re-opened. This, coupled with the fact that Sir COLIN CAmeßzu. reached Cawnpore on the 4th of November, and crossed the Ganges on the 9th, e^a route to Lucknow, at the head of 5,000 men is the most cheering news we have yet received from India since the commencement of the out. break. This event will lead to the re-establish rent of military law in 'dealing with the mu neers, and warlike order in the direction of our army in its operation in the field, both of which were set aside at the onset of the revolt, and with, we fear, most lamentable consequences to our fellow-countrymen in India. That well concerted plans will now be brought THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1857. to bear upon the enemy is sufficiently shown by the Commander-in-Chief having left General WINDHAM at Cawnpore, with a strong force to cover a retreat across the Ganges, if necessary, while Sir COLIN himself push forward with 1,500 ,o the relief of Lucknow. From this it would ppear that Cawnpore is to be the base of our 'uture operations, and that our General's im- mediate object was to relieve Liicknow, and then fall back on his reserve, and wait the arrival of sufficient reinforcements to justify his taking the field against an armed force of 50,000 men. Sir COLIN' having crossed the Ganges on the 9th, would probably have reached the neighbourhood of Lucknow on the 15th of November. We might, therefore, have had, under ordinary cir- cumstances, some intelligence as to his subse- quent movements via Agra, in the Bombay espatch of the 17th. Here we are assuming that the telegraph between the two latter places was still at work; and in this we are scarcely justified, as it appears to have taken from the 9th to the 17th to convey he intelligence we now hare from Cawnpore to Bombay. It is encouraging, however, to hear that so late as the 9th of November, that both OUTILAM and HAVELOCK were holding out in the 'ace of their overwhelming enemies, and that the mutineers had been defeated in several engage- ments. Meanwhile the communication between OUTRAM and llA.vaLocK—Lucknow and Cawn- pore—were completely cut off; still we have this assurance, that the position of our troops.in ;hose distant regions is now beginning to assume a definite and intelligible character. The Indian march, climate, scarcity of food, and shelter are the most formidable enemies that onr gallant soldiers have to dread. The Hindoo may prefer death to returning to his allegiance to his conqueror ; but he can never hope to vanquish a British soldier in battle. Their superior numbers, unless backed by a general rising of the inhabitants, will not avail them when opposed to the discipline and determination of an European army. But there is still the danger of our troops being cut up in detail before any considerable force could have reached Cawn pore. Generals HAVELOCK and OUTRAM'S united forcef could not have exceeded 2,000 effective men, and the small force which Sir COLIN CAMPBELL took with him to their aid could render them but very little assistance, while the large number left to guard Cawnpore shows that that place must have been seriously lreatened by the Dinapore and Gwalior ca*Z.,....-.. Y. 4 -...-o a- c• r w.. 4 4.1....4. ........ tan.. • • 1..,1 e intelligence by this mail is more satisfactory ,han any we have received since the commence• ment of the rebellion. PARLIAMENT has barely assembled, when the Indian Mutiny formed the subject of debate. In the discussion which took place on the address, in reply to the QUEEN'S speech, Lord GRANVILLE in the Lords, and the Premier in the House of Commons, managed with much cunning and diplomatic quibbling, to parry off the serious charges and inuendoes made against the Governor• General, Lord CANNING. Never theless it is impossible to read the speeches re lating to his Lordship as the supreme ruler of our Indian Empire, and not feel that no reply was made to the serious complaints which have been preferred against himself and his councillors. But although what was said by Lord CANNING'S opponents, amounted to nothing more than a mere expression of dissatisfaction, we may rest assured that had there not been an understanding in both houses, that no decisive discussion on the state of affairs in India be prematurely forced upon the legislature, the ministry would have needed all the power and ability they could com mand, to save them and then' pet colleague from impeachments of a most unpleasant character. For these reasons the real discussion is yet to take place, and both Lords and Commons will be called upon to give their verdict upon the propriety of the late administration of India, under circumstances, not only alarming, but truly appalling. Looking at what has taken place in India=the mutiny of such vast numbers of native troops, the butcheries and brutalities which the Sepoys have committed—the treachery of princes pretended friendship—and the chaos of confusion in which the whole territory has been placed—it is evident that the great question which parliament will have to solve, consists of two grand divisions,—the expediency of contin uing the East India Company, and its govern ment, which has given incontrovertible proof of its inability to regulate and control the vast population of our extensive and expanding do minion in Asia, and the personal policy of the men at the head of the Indian department. There was a total absence of any declaration respecting the East India Company. Neither Lord DERBY, nor Mr. DISRAELI, ventured an attack ; they seemed merely desirous of forcing an engagement. At the same time Mr. VERNON SMITH and Lord CANNING came in for no small amount of castiga tion, and no one can deny that the accusations levelled against each, were not rebutted in any one sense. Had Mr. SMITH less of vanity, and not such strong faith in the power and influence of his friends both in and out of parliament, the debate of Thursday night, would have induced him to tender to Lord PALMERSTON, his seals of office as President of the Board of Control. Be this as it may, enough has been shown to induce the House of Commons to take such steps as will compel the resignation in question. It is the duty of the Cabinet either to exculpate their colleague, or part his company as a minister of the Crown. Either gross ignorance of what was going on in India, or a desire to mislead Parliament, led him to talk of sur rounding and capturing Delhi, with what—a force of two thousand men. Ignorance o r deception, induced him at the very moment the Cawnpore massacres were being perpetrated, to declare that the mutiny was suppressed. Accusa tions such as these can easily be refuted, but if on the other hand they be true, surely the legislature will be lost to all sense of patriotism and public duty, if it permits a minister to exer cise such tremendous power, whose every official undertaking, stamps him as incJmpetent in the extreme. It cannot be, that a man so manifestly unfitted to occupy the virtual throne of our oriental possessions, shall be permitted, with such a stigma upon his political character, to retain an office, which requires the exercise of talents, and administrative abilities, equal to that possessed by the foremost statesman of either ancient or modern times. But against Lord CANNING the charges are still more serious and less easily to be disposed of. llis apologist, Lord GRANVILLE, may de claim as much as he pleases and argue with all imaginable earnestness, but he knows the diplo matic Premier will never be able to satisfy the Country that the Bengal mutiny was not acalamity which might have been foreseen, and provided for. The facts are entirely in the face of such a supposition. Long before the rebellion manifested itself, it was prophesied, but the Governor-General, we know beyond dispute, treated the warnings he got as idle tales. And even after four regi ments had abandoned their allegiance and their loyalty, officers were threatened with dismissal who gave vent to unpleasant councils, whilst others were sneered at as: alarmists, Again we find Lord CANNING remiss in watching the course of events after the outbreak at Barrackpore and Meerut, and following every sign of danger by precaution, in a word to be in advance of every movement instead of the rear. As we said before neither Mr. VERNON SMITH, or Lard CANNING found able or effective advocates. We have at present said enough to shew that when the case of the Indian mutiny comes on to be fully and finally discussed, the government will have hard work of it to maintain their places against a hostile vote in both Houses. The in competence which the Indian officials both at home and abroad have manifested during the contest, shows that Parliament must do some thinz, and that soon to rptrenerate the onvprnmpnt so as to make the people of India happy and prosperous under British sway and control. THE currency qnestion has fallen, as it were, from the hands of those who have made it their constant study, and written upon it week after week for years past, into those of Journalists, who to be in the fashion of a panic season, rush into it at all hazards. The borrowed idea differs little more than in complexion, however, from the mother wit, and thus we find the great mass which has been writ ten on the all important subject, converging to one point, and settling down into a powerful advocacy of sound principles of Currency Reform. All are agreed that PEEL'S laws of 1819 and 1844, expose the whole Community to systemised plunder. That the Bank of England should have retained the unshaken confidence of the nation, throughout the many periods of mercantile con fiscation, which have followed the operations of those laws, is one of the most remarkable features in our monetary history ; but so it is, and every honest Monetary Reformer rejoices in the fact. On the other hand it is universally admitted, that the wants of trade have grown far beyond the limits placed on the creation and use of money by the legislatule. The popular cry is, "we have not enough of the circulating medium to carry on the business of the country." No one wishes to take from the Bank of England note its convertible character as long as it retains it, whether in name, or in fact. It adds so much to the facilities and main springs of commerce. Notes, are as useful abroad, as at home. It would be foolish therefore to discard them. As far as they go they are admirably adapted to sustain our mercantile credit in foreign transactions. Commerce has the first claim on every civil• ised State. This is not denied by Currency Reformers. Oa the contrary, they contend that our metallic money, and its representative, bo it what it may, ought t ) be wholly set apart for the support of this bulwark of our national greatness. But nations have other wants to supply. Labour, and the cost of government have to be provided for. These are purely domestic wants, which can be represented in any conventional form we please, as a people, to adopt, nor are they without a natural limit, or unsurmountable barriers to abuse. Let us take for a paradigm, a childish desire on the part of philantrophie statesmen to improve the condition of the working classes, by having recourse to an excessively large issue of paper money—legal tenders—in the form of one pound notes, for, is any other shape, his first and paramount difficulty would be to get them into circulation. He would scarcily resort to giving them away. Hence, he would be compelled to look out for some positive demand for his notes. Parliament sets a limit to the disbursements of the Exchequer, but there are no restrictions placed upon the States's receipts. The issue of their notes for domestic use would, consequently, be impossible, until the Government was called on to pay its debts. They would then begin to put their paper money into circulation. The quarter's expenditure would, probably, amount to 20,000,0001. The taxes to be paid within the same period, adding local rates to imperial taxation, would amount to 26,000,000 ; and here we arrive at the practical bar to any abuse of these issues, and the impossibility of deprecia tion. These notes being made legal tender in payment of all taxes and duties, would return to the Government coffers as fast as they were issued. The taxation of each month would be more than sufficient to absorb the whole of the notes issued within the month ; and we defy those alarmists who are always warning the public of the dangers of an over-issue of paper money, to show how the Chancellor of the Exchequer could, by any possibility, contrive to keep even 5,000,0001. of these notes in the hands of the public at any one time. By limiting their issue to the actual disbursements of the Exchequer, it would always leave the demand from five to six millions in excess of the supply. How, then, could any depreciation take place ? Such a currency would require no other security to render it safe to the holder than the positive certainty that, as the Government note entered his pocket the tax collector would be at the door to lighten its possessor of his burden. And this is the paper money—the currency—taxpayers desire to see introduced, in order to relieve the money of commerce, which must of necessity be comprised of gold and silver, of the payment of 80,000,0001. of taxation, and leave this vast amount of money to employ libour and discharge the more legitimate duties of commer cial capital. There are a variety of ways of spelling words and concocting programmes, which mean one and the same thing and when Currency Reformers speak of a Government issue of paper money, they mean nothing more or less than making taxation the basis of our paper currency. They have no desire to see the Bank of England deprived of any of its powers or privileges as a mercantile institution. They would rather have its efficiency increased, and, what is more, its stability placed beyond the reach of danger in monetary convulsions. Their desire is, to have it released from its present State trammels, and left free to combat the difficulties of our mighty commerce. But, there are persons who write on monetary matters who really know nothing of the currency Reform movement, or the views of its leaders and supporters; and some of these scribes advocate a low fixed standard price for -e (In sna the same time. In this way, they would compel the merchant and tax-payer, to find gold at a low fixed price, and then would allow those who had obtained this particular discription of money at their own rate, to charge any amount of interest they pleased for its use ! The man, who knows what Currency Reform means, would not breathe such an idea as this. The way to remedy this gross imposition is, to anew gold to be as free of restriction as any other commodity. Then we should have no right to complain of excessively high rates of interest. But if you will have a fixed price for gold, then we protest against every thing bordering on usury. Bind the feet or hands of the debtor, as merchants are called now-a.days. but do not bind -him both hand and foot. Let Mr. DISRAELI try it with the farmers of Buckinghatnshire. Let him tell his constituents that they must pay their debts in wheat at 40s. a quarter, ani if they cannot do that, they must pledge their grain and raise the money at ten per cent. There would be some thing too unjust in this for agricultural dinners. Currency Reformers denand, however, that either the low fixed standard price of gold, or usury, such as we are now suffering from, shall be abolished. Had six per cent. been the maximum legal rate of interest at the commence ment of the existing pilule, the Bank of England's ceasing to discount would have had precisely the same practical effect as the ten per cent. rate has had. The refusal to afford accommodation to trade is quite enough, of itself, to produce a panic, without siperadding usury to its pains and penalties. The only " limit " we require then, in our moaetary system is, the restriction which a usury law provides, or, that " limit " of common justice which would -give to all persons, having to pay debts in gold, an open market for the metal in which he has to discharge his contracts. The nature of money, whether paper or metallic, prescribes bounds, beyond which human ingenuity cannot push it, and mar's artifice has ever failed to pervert it from its Godly ends with credit and profi, ST. CHRYSOSTOM'S WoRKING MENS' ASSOCIATION.—We are glad to hear that this Association prospers both in the number of its members and in the efficiency of its various and numerous classes. The concert!, on Saturday evenings, continue, as we understand, to draw large audiences of 300 or 400 persons. The glees and songs for this evening are, we believe, of a character even more promising than usual. In these entertainments no professionals are employed ; but the working classes amuse themselves. STRANGE AND FATAL ACCIDENT.--An accident of a singular nature took place on the Ist instant, in a foundry in Jordan-street, and terminated fatally at the Royal Infirmary, yesterday. It appears that on the day just stated, a man mined Henry Hughes, who was engaged in a foundry in Jordan-ltreet, was lying bef)re one of the fires, he having a box of matches in his pocket. He felt asleep and on turning, the pressure set fire to the matokeF, and his clothes being impregnated with oil, caugb! fire, and he was terribly burnt all over the upper par t o f th e body. He died in the Infimary yesterday, fror4 the effect of the injuries he bad received, INDIAN NEWS. DESPAL.M TO THE EAST INDIA HOUSE. ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 1857.—Intelligence from Bom bay, November 17th. Cawnpore on the 4th Nov., Sir Colin Campbell reachet; crossed the Ganges on the oth, fit route to Lucknow, with 5,000 men, of all arms. General Wyndham commands tilts ros 9rve at Cawnpore . Colonel Greathead's column arrived st Ciwnpore on the '26th Oct., and proceeded on the 31st, undue 121 e command of Brigadier Grant, being reinforced by 5, 003 riti\lng, with a large supply of provisions, to Allumbagh, whb're ho awaits the arrival of the Commander-in-Chief: The Dinapore mutineers were driven from a strarg position atj Binder, near l'uttapore, by a detachment of 500 men under Colonel Powell, of the 53rd Foot. Two guns were captured, but with severe loss. Colonel Powell killed. The accounts from Saugar and Jubbelpore unsatisfac tory. Major Erskine has earnestly demanded assistance Brigadier Stewart's column, on its road to Mhow, has been directed to proceel thither. The contingent at 3ilaheelpore mutinied on the Bth of November, and killed two of their officers, but a tele graphic despatch, just received, states that they were attacked by the Mhow field force and routed, with the loss of all their guns. Mhow and Indore all quiet. No further outbreaks in Rajapootana, but the Rewah Thakt or and Judpore mutineers are still in force. A reinforcement of 509 Infantry has pro cee,led from 0 uzerat to aid General Lawrence. All quiet in Bombay with the exception of the Bheelg in Kandeish, which are being put down. The Genghiskham arrived at Bombay with a detach ment of the 3rd Dragoon and 86th foot. All quiet in Scinda and Punjsub, as also in the Nizams country. Dates from Calcutta direct to the 9th of November, nothing of imp ortaac . _ _ _ H. JOHNSTON, Trieste, December 11, 9.15 a.m. FOREIGN OFFICE DESPATCH. The following telegraph was received at the Foreign Office, Dec. 11, 1857, at a quarter past five p.m. : ALEXANDRIA, STH DEc , 1857.—The Bombay reached Suez on the 30th of November, conveying Bombay dates to the 17th November. Greathead'a column, after the battle of Agra, was pushing en with great haste towards Cawn pore, where, en the 13th, Brigadier Grant, with the 9th Lancers, j iined and took command. Oa the 23rd they arrived at Kanoni, where the enemy was cut up by our cavalry, and five guns captured. The force, now about 3,500 strong, reached Cawnpore on the 20th, and being reinforced to 5000, crossed the Ganges on the 30th. They reached Alambagh without obstruction on the 3rd, and there waited till the Commander-in-Chief joined them. Lucknow, said to be surrounded by 50,000 insurgents, had not been relieved at the date of the latest advices, but still held out. Oar force at Alembagh, only three miles from Luck now, though in easy communication with Cawnpore, had not received a line from Lacknow for more then a month. Heavy fighting, with slaughter, believed to have occurred. Sir C. Campbell, who left Calcutta on the 27th October, reached Cawnpore on the 3rd of November, where he remained till the 9th, waiting,it is presumed, for reinforce ments, which mutt bring up the force at Alumbag, when he j ins, to close on 10,000 men. Oa the Ist November, an action was fought near the village of Ketinia, betwixt the Drnapore mutinee-s and a detachment of 800 men, consisting of part of the Naval Brigade, and a detachment of the 93rd Highlanders, with two nine pounders, under Colonel Power, FI.M., 53q1 Foot. Our success was complete, but loss heavy, Colonel Power being among the dead. The naval brigade afterwards fell back on Binkee, with a view of returning to Futtapore, and the rest of the troops reached Cawnpore on the 2nd. The Kohlinud rebel , had again advanced to Nagursatel, end again taken to flight, on finding that the little force from that plane wes approaching Miihedapore, having been attacked on the Bth of November, by a body of insurgent tribes from the neighbourhood. A portion of the Melwe Contingent - joined the enemy. killed Contain Mille "nr ""d 6ereeants Uannet and iklansen, captured the guns, and compelled the other troops to retire. According to latest accounts from B )mbay tha first, third, and fourth divisions Nizim's Cavalry, under Mejor Orr, attacked the rear gaard of the rebels on the 12. h Nov., at Burra and Burrarawal, recapturing the whole of the guns aril stores taken from Mehidapore ; also two of the enemy's guns ; 100 of the enemy killed, and 74 Prisoners. Our casualties not yet received, bat said to be severe. The column under Brigadier Showers has ceptured Tluijur, Dadree, Nunond, and other places S W. of Delhi, securing up mards of £70,000 worth of treasure. Further north, General Van Courtlandt still keeps the country in order. The district between Agra and Meerut is so quiet, that the past and passengers' carriages run daily between the two places eastward of Oade. The Nepaulee contingent has gained two victories over bodies of the insurgents. The steamer Bengal reached Suez on the 3rd instant, from Calcutta, but brings no later dates than those from Bombay. The dates from Hong Kong are to the 30th October. Preparations were being made for the assault on Canton. (Signed) JOHN GREEN. Trieste, 11th Dec., 3.30. a.m. RAVEN. THE "TIMES" DESPATCH. The following telegraph appears in the Third Edition o The Times : TRIESTE, Friday Morning.—The steamer Calcutta, arrived on the 11th December, at half_past eight a.m., in 136 hours from Alexandria. ALEXANDRIA, Dec. s.—The India and China Mails leave to-day, with dates from Bombay to 17th, Calcutta, 10th. The column under Brigadier Green was at Allumbagh about the Bth of November, awaiting the arrival of the Commander-in-Chief. Sir Colin Campbell crossed from Cawnpora into Oude on the 101 h with, it is believed, about 1,500 men. The communication between Lucknow and Alumbagh was quite interrupted, but Havelock and Outram were known to be holding out. Nana .sahib was believed to be in command of the rebels. The Dinapore and Gwalior mutineers were making for Oude. There had been no fresh outbreaks. The rebels had been encountered and defeated near Guttapore, Sikri, and Juan pore, and in several other engagemen's. The rebellion was represented as subsiding throughout the country. THE BRAZIL MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY EIENING. The Tyne arrived at half-past four o'clock this afternoon. The commercial news has been anticipated by telegraph from Lisbon, where the Tyne arrived last Tuesday. The 'Tyne brings £B,OOO specie, and £60,000 diamonds. Buzsos AYRES : T,.ade dull. Arrived out—Bosphorus, Danube, Isabella,James Canby, Annie Darrell. Rio : Coffee is inactive and freights dull. Arrived out— Antarte, Keturah, Oder:. BAHIA C Aton dull and prices high. Exchange 27d. Arrived out —Vallesfield, Margaret Deane, John Romilly, Sharston, Lcuverna, Queen Bee. _ _ PERNAMBUCO : Caton dull and prices nominal. Freights brisk. Exchange dull, 27-1-d. Arrived out—Zisk a, Excelsior, Boret, Matilda, Linda, Levant, Drena. THE AFRICAN MAILS. PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY• The African Mail steam-ship Gambia, Captain Tutt, arrived here this morning. Her dates are :--Fernando Po, Nov. 3; Bonny, 6 ; and Lagos, 9. She brings £4,000 in specie, and 2,000 ounces gold dust ; a general cargo, and thirteen passengers. The steam-ship Powerful, belonging to the North of Europe Steam Company, had broken down, and was out on tbe beach for repairs, at Fernando Po. The Hecla and Medusa were oft Lagos, bound south• The Company's ship Candace was at Cape Coast Castle ; all well. The Ethiope left Madeira on her outward voyage. The Dorchester, from Liverpool for Bombay, foundered about sixty miles east of Madeira ; the crew escaped by the Queen of the East, and arrived here per CAl:Oise TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. THE BELGIUM ELECTIONS. BRUSSELS, FRIDAY NIGHT. Ont of 108 elections, 69 Ministerial candidates have been returned, The clerical party have returned 38 of their candidates. The Ministerial gain is '25. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY NICHT. The Three per Cent Rentes have closed at 66f, Mc. THE COURT, &c. OSDOENN, DEC. 10. —The Queen, with the Princess Royal, Prince Arthur and Princess Helena, drove out yesterday. The Prince Consort rode on horseback with Princess Alice. The Queen anCPrinee Consort crossed over to-day, to visit Prince Alfred,' at Alverbank. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Ann Maria Dawson, Lady Augusta Bruce,' and Sir George Cooper, arrived at :her: residence, Clarence house, St. James's, yesterday morning. Her Royal Highness returned to Frogmore in the afternoon. AcconcnuENT or TIE QUEEN or SPAIN.—A. correspon dent, writing from Paris, says :—" Several of the Paris journals seem resolutely to have determined to take under their special protection the honour of that virtuous sovereign Queen Isabella, of Spain. They will not have a word uttered against her. If the slightest allusion of an unfavourable kind is mede to her, they tingle with indignation and rage. The Patrie and the Pays left alone in their glory since the disappearance of the Pi else emulate each other in adopting this conduct. They join their forces to-night to give a severe chas tisement to the Times for daring to publish correspond ence from Madril, which does not quite paint the cha racter of the Queen of Spain as of the most shining purity, Why is this ? What do the Paris papers I have just named expect to gain by playing off this comedy of virtuous indignation ? Whom do they expect to convince when they represent Isabella as a pattern of all that 1 3 good and great ? It is hard to say. There is not 3 persen in Paris who is persuaded by the panegyrics of the two journals that this Queen is a whit more virtuous than popular opinion believes her to be. Yet we are treated to the most edifying narratives of the for titude with which she passed through the pangs of childbirth, the object of which is evidently to make us entertain a very high regard indeed for her Catholic Majesty. She suffered ,the most horrible pain, we are told, without complaint, without doing injustice to the reputation for courage by which she is distinguished. What of it ? What mother does not do the same ? When * the accouchement was over, the narrative goes on, the first question was, is it a boy ?' Yes, madam,' replied Dr• Carrol. ' Thank God,' cried the Queen, I was not deceived.' Then she raised her hands to heaven and cave thanks to God. Is not this affecting? Enough to fill the driest eyes with tears, and the hardest heart, with sYre" pathy. But men are so unreeling ; they will not believe in excellence without good proof. Even the Queen of Spain is[rejected by them." MARRIAGE IN Huai LIFE.—On Thursday morning, the marriage of Captain Walter John Grimeton, of the Royal Artillery, and nephew of the Earl of Verulam, with Miss Olivia Steele, daughter of the late General Steele, was celebrated at St. George's, Hanover-square, i❑ the pre sence of a brilliant circle of friends. The youthful bride was most magnificently attired, and attended to the altar by a bevy of bridesmaids, attired in white, with scarlet mantles. At the termination the parties repaired to the vestry, where the usual registry was signed. In the afternoon the happy pair left to an for Kimbolton Castle► the seat of his Grace the Duke of Manchester. VISIT Or THE SIAMESE EMBi , SY TO BIIIMINGH43I•' The ambassadors from the two Kings of Siam, who were lately presented to the Queen, are on a visit to Birolie° h am fnr the norroc,, of hiQpaptine the varinuc mala tifatl turing processes which have made that town 1 0 the country which their highnesses represent. They w ell : expected;to arrive during the forenoon of Tuesday, but owing to some delay in London, they did not reach Birmingham till about ten minutes to five. They travelled by the London and North Western line, and occupied a carriage attached to one of the ordinary trains • The Mayor, Mr. John Ratcliffe, was in waiting, accompanied by Mr. Alderman Palmer, for the purpose of welcoming them to the town ; and, on the three ambassadors stepping from the carriage, Captain Clavering, one of the gentlemen in charge of them while in England, went through the ceremony of introduction . This done, Mr. Ratcliff offered the chief ambassador his arm. Alderman Palmer and some one else did the saga) to the second and third:; and, followed by the attendants, the mayor led the way to the Queen's Hotel. Here an extensive suite of apartments had been engaged for them, and Mr. Palmer passed two or three hours in their company. Though an' interpreter Wag present, the mayor found no difficulty in conversing with the chief ambassador or prince regent, as he understands English tolerably well. As far as the dusk , ' twilight allowed us to observe, they had in their faces much of the Chinese physiognomy, and like th e Siamese generally, were of short stature. Their skirl lg lighter in colour than that of Asiatics generally. T he ambassadors may be said to be connected with a firm w ho are our rivals on a small scale. The Kings are me rlii i facturing goldsmiths. In their palaces they keep a staff ° workmen engaged in the fabrication of gold and sib ret vases, which are presented to chiefs and others as of office. As they remain in Birmingham three or 011 ', days, the mayor will have the opportunity of sholvili° them all that is worth seeing.—Birminghant, Daily Post. MAD'LLE PICCOLOMINI AT TOE THEATRE-ROYAL. Last night Mr. Copeland was rewarded for his Pra ise ; worthy enterprise in bringing Mad'lle PiCCololllilli ap Mr. Lumley's troupe again to Liverpool, by the bo tiso t being crowded with the most fashionable audience tha" has yet visited his beautiful little theatre, to hear Irerdi'S opera "La Traviata." Popular as Signor Guiglini a cl ; dently is, the weight of this opera is sustained be Mad'lle. Piccolomini, who by her singing, as wel l as hen acting, fascinates all audiences, and draws large attf.,:e dances. The beautiful quality of her voice, the express'4 style of her declamation, the facility of her execution, tvii delicacy of her lioriture, and the exquisite pronanciati°lo of her Italian, together with her lady-like manner , r a pt all auditors, except some would-be connoisseurs. vril °ll ,:tio something to find fault with. In the character of .0- 0 3 her diminutive stature rather adds to the interes t t o ; of in one so young and unfortunate; while her elorititso3 s manner and grace of action redeems the opera 047- fir/les objection on the score of impropriety, in spite of tr,lielogliat leaders thereon and the sarcastic novelist. Signor ".ons was much applauded in his singing, but his asPi ions was aired were too strong for our taste, and his voice aF uvi r or very veiled. Signor Aldighieri took the part of v .- 0 00 moat with great success, and the whole Par rc°l went off with great eelat. AMERICAN AND CANADIAN MAIL.3.—Th a "Y vv a 'th 111 bo ° steamer Persia sails this day for New York, t, tl l5 e n s General States and Canadian mails. The letter 5 0 01 General Post-Alice will be open to one o'clock in th sma ll course, and till two with late fees. The box et theilaiog stage will be open to three, with late fees--onteilite, each letter. The passengers go on board by the Di at two o'clock, from the landing-stage. is a u l ,, THE CHAMPION OF THE SEAS.—The f0110n.7 extract from a letter, dated Calcutta, Nov. 1, 185 7, •-- stearn et Champion of the Seas was passed, by t ad a s 8 0 116 which came in yesterday, between this and Nienr a e ,', o rts 5 ' may expect her to-morrow. The steamer ale° r d thei great number of troop ships near the Sandhee. 8 2 s od cannot strong currents against them." This Wil l lu s t. 1)6 1 4 get in on account of light northerly w_ 1 : 1 ( :: her passage 85 days, the quickest sailug ship the Efurrey, in 10G. previou k . ""° 1 t he ] . ' but !„. 'Aro 14' r. ret 1 1 4 sh 14, e / 4 _ „, 1/ T ,' ) t sai ti ,, I 11 of knu kith N't 4, t 1 / 4 11- 1 1 kl 10 11 r,