Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-14 00:00:00

r )3tirtljern MaNDA 17, MARCH 14, 1859 -44.---- THE DAY'S NEWS All doubt as to the fate of the Government Reform Bill seems at an end. The Press, which is reputed to be inspired by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in its- issue of Saturday, earnestly advises Mr. Dis raeli to withdraw the Reform Bill. "From what we hear," says our contemporary, " of the views of the best men on both sides of the House, , we are con vinced that it is the only course by which the Government can put themselves right with the existing Parliament, and we are satisfied that, under present circumstances, they have nothing to gain by an appeal to the country." The Observer, on the other side, says : " It is understood, in the highest political circles, that the motion for the second reading of the Govern ment Reform Bill will be rejected by a majority of from 80 to 90 votes, and that the resolution of Lord J. Russell will be carried by a majority of from 60 to 80." The Observer adds : "It is at present con sidered extremely doubtful whether the Government, in. such case, will resign office or dissolve Parlia ment. A middle course, however, has been mooted, which may not improbably be adopted by them, viz., to remain in power until ejected from office by a vote of want of confidence." The Continental news is much less favourable. It was positively stated in Paris on Saturday that the Sardinian Government has applied to the Emperor of the French for an auxiliary corps' d'armee of 75,000 men. The Paris correspondent of the Times says it is certain that a note prepared for publication in the Moniteur far less pacific, and perhaps more truth ful, than that of Saturday last. It was drawn up by the author of the official pamphlet entitled " Napoleon 111. and Italy," and was. intended to neutralise the effect of the first note ,. .which indicated a retrograde movement. Its publi cation may have been postponed, but not abandoned. The correspondent of the Times says, also, that a communication has been made to the Piedmontese Government. M. Cavour was advised to continue his armaments all the same, to try whether there as a chance of a movement in the Italian Duchie s, was a chance of a movement in the Italian Duchies, with the object of forcing. Austria to intervene, and thus p rovoke might be take, an aggression, - • of which advantage Patters must now be pretty ripe for an outbreak ; . and it is ascertained that M. Cavour has intim a a ted , to the French . Minister at Turin his intention to serve the French Government- recently r a formal summons on ai t d i and assistance, as he considers the measures 000 n adopted by Austria as equivalent to a declaration of The Paris correspondent of the he rald says that both in France and Piedmont everything is ready for a campaign. circular Count Buol has addressed anothe r discussed des patch to the Austrian diplomatic agents abroad. states that all the pending questions INL'eorie,ddise It at Vienna, between Count Buol and without, however, any proposition having Cowley,, made. Count Buol flatters himself that Lord Coe e s on leaving Vienna, has taken with him tlie conviction of the conciliatory sentiments of the Emperor, who is ready to co-operate for the main the two tenance of peace if the Emperor of thiC;French will re-establish the good relations betwfen countries. The Americans at Pa ris have just 'Tow a - bit of enjoyment in the way of Yankee gossip furnished by the Law Courts, where Berryer made a grand speech to obtain an insertion by decree of the tri bunal in Galignani's columns. The row was about a citizen of Philadelphia, named Montgomery, whose marriage in Normandy was chronicled last January twelvemonth, under the name of Count Alfred de Montgomery. A letter from his brother Henry appeared in the Courrier de Parisstating his relative t father to be no count, but a mere citizen U.S., their worthy having been a wholesale g rocer in the. Quaker sity. This l e tt er turne d out a forgery. Henry brings an action against the Courrier, which is now pending. From Brittany we learn (Union Britonne, pub lished at Nantes) that Russia has entered into various contracts with shipbuilding firms of several French ports for war-shipping. to the amount of eleven millions of francs, the share of this of splendid order being three millions for the dockyards of Nantes. The good folks at Rouen are quite delighted with the arrival alongside their quays of sundry fine three-masted West Indiamen and others, the works for deepening the channel of the Lower Seine having produced this - result to the great an noyance of the Havre skippers, who are as jealous as the Limerick gents appear to be of Gal way's recent success. The Messager de Bayonne reports the departure from the- mouth of- the Adour of eight large fishing vessels, with an 'aggregate crew of 500 men, for the cod-banks of Newfoundland. A turn-out of hands in the spinning departments of one_ or two Manchester factories has taken place. The principals consider the demand for an advance of wages to be such as cannot for a moment be entertained, besides being connected with an inter ference with the mode of working which cannot be conceded to servants. At the Police Court, on Saturday, there were seve ral matters of local interest. The charge against the two engineers of the steamer Bogota, for causing the death of a fireman, was to have been heaid, but, in consequence of the absence of Mr. Mansfield, it was further adjourned to one o'clock to-morrow. The case seems to excite much interest, as the Court was crowded. Mr. Aspinall, who appeared for the chief engineer, made use of some strong language in re probation of the heading of the case in the Post and Mercury, and their having posted placards over the town, headed, " a man roasted alive," which he designated as grossly false, and calculated to injure the prisoners whilst the case was under investiga tion. Two celebrated London swell-men, described as the head of aristocratic thieves of England, were before the Court, on a charge of attempting to pick a lady's pocket coming across the river in one of the railway boats. They were defended by Mr. Cobb, but, notwithstanding that, both made vociferous and able speeches in their own defence. Their eloquence was, however, wasted, as the only effect it served to produce was to get them three months' hard labour, as the case against them was too clear. In another case, a celebrated " touter," named Robinson, who prowls about the court, was brought up for having obtained money, under false pretences, from a woman who had business to the court. The evidence failed to sustain the charge, but Mr. Alderman Holme, the presiding magistrate, spoke in strong terms of condem'nation of the system of robbery pursued by " touters" about the court, and also of attorneys who employed and sanctioned such persons and such a system. The details of there and other cases will be found in their usual place. tammaciat sates. THIS DAY Tisza DAT, the 14th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 3, Exchange-alley North, Chapel-street, About 100 Eons LINSEED CAKE, ex Emma, from Marseilles.—Apply to Messrs. Mahler, Brs., and •Sultzberger, Merchants; or to THOMAS SILL, Broker. TO-MORROW TO-MORROW, the 15th instant, at Half-past One o'clock, at the Commercial Saleroom, Temple-court, 237 Boxes American BACON, ex Henry Clay, from New York.—Apply to Messrs. Wakefield, Nash, and Co., Merchants ; or to Apply to GEORGE BADENACH and SON, Brokers. TO-MORROW, the 15th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at 2, Dale-street, • 500 Bales JUTE, 50 „ Bombay HEMP. BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers Apply to TO-NORBOW, the 15th instant, at Half-past One o'clock, at H. H. 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Tob her particulars, apply to EDWARD SAMLTELSON and PIKE, Tobacco Brokers eco Warehouse King's Do, N E X T WEEK On WEDNESDAY, the 23rd instant, at the Brokers' Saleroom, Oldhall-street, 100 Bales Mozambique, 1 ORCHELLA WEED, 91 „ Angola just landed, per Twinde Brodes, from Lisbon. Leech, Harrison, and Forwood, Merchants; or to R')OKE, OKELL, and SPENCE, Brokers Apply to Messrs NOTICE If 160 Boxes ORANGES marked and 25 Boxes Bitter ORANGES marked Bi.vio at Messina, by Edward Oates and Nephew; and also 205 Boxes Bitter ORANGES, marked shipped at Messina, by John Sofio, all consigned to order, by the steamer Mceander, which arrived here on the 2nd instant, are not claimed before Monday next, the 14th instant, they will on that day be Sold by Public Auction, for account of whom it may concern. JOHN BIBBY, SON, and Co. Liverpool, 10th March, 1859. On cart. - JAMES BANKS, CASTLE-BUILDINGS, DERBY-SQUARE, LIVERPOOL. ITNOIN6 WIRE, Black, Bright, and Galvanised F'TELEGRAPH WIRE and SIGNAL CORD, Wholesale and for Exportation, TO EXPORTERS AND BOTTLERS. ' ON SALE, William Whitwell and Co.'s INDIA PALE AND MILD ALES, PARRT and CO., Agent Stores-15, North John-street. ate condition Irrr ORY one Penny OF THE WORKING CLASSES, Saturday, in the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES, Price AMERiCAN SOLACE. CHARLES TURMEAU AMERICAN. :SOLACE. AMERICAN: SOLACE. - CHARLES TURMEAU AMERICAN- SOLACE. AMERICAN SOLACE. CHARLES TURMEAU AMERICAN SOLACE. TO CORRESPONDENTS Under no circumstances can We insert communications not accompanied by the author's real name and address, not neces sarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, &c.—THIS DAY ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE —Maclaine Celeste. lIENGLER'S CIRQUE VARlETE—Miseellaneous Attractions. THE PARISIAN GALLERY OF ANATOMY, Paradise-street. itANDERS' MENAGERIE— Foot of Shaw's-brow. ROYAL CO .—Miseellaneous Attractions. orz- F LL or part OSSEGM iculars see advertisements on Bth page. LIVERPOOL DELINEATED THE delineation of a town like Liverpool, in order to present at a glance not only its topographical, but its moral and social position, is a very interesting and a very important object ; and we have before us four Maps for that purpose, which do more to give a, graphic representation of its character and condition than one could have thought it possible to do by any such means. The peculiar and distinguishing characteristics of each Map are brought out by different colourings and. shadings. The several localities are represented by various indications, — such as Pauper Streets ; Semi-pauper Streets ; Streets of Crime and Immorality; Churches, per manent and temporary ; Roman Catholic Chapels, ditto ; Dissenting Chapels, ditto ; Church Schools, ditto, under Inspection ; Incumbents, Curates, Scripture Readers. All these things are, plainly indicated on each Map. Then there are figures round the margins for - the purpose of dividing the Map into imaginary squares of one inch in area, thus affording facilities for identifying any particular spot, or object. Two Circlei are drawn, one to show the amount of Church accommo dation for the rich, the other for the poor,—the first, the South-eastern circle, of five hundred yards radius, containing a population of ten thousand, in which there are twenty-seven public Churches and Chapels, and three private ones, being one for every 350, or nearly ; the second, the North-western Circle, also of five hundred yards radius, but containing a population of thirty-five thousand, in which there are but twelve public Churches and Chapels, being only one for every 3,000, or nearly. In the corner of each Map is a smaller one of the town, skewing the localities respectively of Pauper ism, Cholera, and Violent Deaths. A series of studies is thus furnished of the condition of Liverpool, physical, moral, and social, including its state, more especially, as regards religious instruction, education, morals, pauperism, and crime. Now these are matters in which we are all, or ought to be, deeply interested. It is not necessary that we should make any particular pretensions to philanthropy, to take a deep interest in them. They concern us all, immediately and necessarily, if we would only, each of us, shake off our indifference, and cast away our selfishness, and think so. They are things appertaining to the place in which we live, and where we have our daily occupations, and affecting most materially not only the physical, but also the moral atmosphere which we are constantly breathing. They are subjects, therefore, which come home, more or less closely, to " the business and bosom" of every one of us ; and no one of ordi nary reflection, if he will stop to reflect a moment upon them, can fail to realise, in some form or other, and in some degree, their great importance. It does not quit us of our obligations, as members of society, be our stations or our circumstances what they may, to " pass by on the other side," as it were, when there abound, in all directions around us, moral and social evils - nay, horrors—such as these Maps point out. He can have no claim to be, we will not say a good Samaritan, but a good member of society in any wise, who cares for none of these things,, but is content to live and move among them, and take his ease, and indulge his pleasure, and enjoy his com forts, as heartily and as complacently as though all about him were a perfect paradise, instead of, as alas ! it is, a countless collection of pests and pan demoniums. It may, in a worldly sense, be perhaps considered a happy state of mind that can keep fulfilling the ordinary duties, each of his own private sphere of life, even in the midst of so much revolting evil, without being put out of humour by such sur rounding annoyances. But, as has been well observed, " such a transient, temporary good nature is, at any rate, not that philanthropy, that love of mankind, which deserves the title of a moral virtue." It may seem to be commendable for a man to be quiet, to be content with things as they are, and, as it were, Along the cool, sequestered vale of life, To keep the noiseless tenor of his way." Doubtless it may minister to one's indolence, and accommodate one's indifference, aye, and gratify one's selfishness, so to do. But it is not, we may rest assured, in any case, or in any condition—it cannot possibly be —to do our duty, but rather to shrink from doing it,—from doing that, we mean, which every one of us is by both natural and moral obligation bound to do. Common humanity demands it, to say nothing of any higher principle. "lam n man , and nothing which relates to man can be THE NORTRFARN TIMES, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1869 foreign to my bosom." Thi s i b • not to be regarded as merely the strong phrase of tht.' philanthropist, but as the expression of a feeling of humanity which belongs of right, or o ug ht t o d o , t o e very m.-‘mber of the family of mankind. It was the avowal of one who had not .either the advantages or the responsibilitiet; of Christianity,—for he was a heathen who lived more than a century before Christianity had any manifest existence. But he felt, and thought, as a man,—and as every man ought to feel and think. And yet how comparatively few of us there are, even in our Christian community, that really do so. How many of us there are of whom, on the contrary, it may with only too much truth be said, that they are " formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species." Such, indeed, must they be who can examine Maps like these, which, with so much true and earnest philanthropy, our learned and benevolent townsman, Dr. HUME, has taken such pains to prepare, and then fold their hands, and say to themselves, this sad and shocking state of things which they represent is no business of ours, and we won't move, no not our little finger, to amend it ! These Maps of Liverpool Delineated were pre pred, it may be remembered, all the more graphically to illustrate Dr. HUME'S valuable pamphlet on the subject, which was noticed in our columns at the time of its publication a few months since. It was there stated, with regard to the seeming hopelessness of setting about remedying such a state of things as their delineation presents, that " few will be so absurd as to expect that we can ever get rid of difficulties, in making men what it is desirable they should be. Least of all—is such a thing possible in a large town where they have many wants, and are surrounded with many tempta tions ; and where ungodly masses are mutually attracted to injure by their misapplied faculties, and corrupt by their vicious example. But on the same principle that sanatory regulations improve the health of any place, though they can never get rid of disease and death, so we may secure much good which at present has no existence, and remove much evil which presses us with the weight of a millstone. We can at least maximise' the good, and minimise ' the evil." And this is certainly most true. Let us hope that many who examine these Maps, and see* Liverpool thus delineated, will come to think so, and act accordingly,—and more especially those who are placed in circumstances to feel most closely, because addressed to them so personally, that very perti nent inquiry of a great Prophet of old,—" Is this your joyous city, . . . whose merchants are Princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth P" whom'Sardinia. has been, not apparently so much outwitted as out-knayed. Still it is not quite certain, the French journals in the Imperial interest are stating, that, after all, Louis NAPOLEON will desist from his original hostile inten tentions. " What the Emperor wished," says one, from the very day when grave dfficulties arose in Europe, and when a misunderstanding took place between France and Austria, the Emperor wishes still." While another distinctly declares, that "as negocia tions are pending, the Emperor consented to the in sertion of the article in question to show his modera tion ; but that if the present difficulties are not diplomatically solved—if Austria, in a word, does not yield - he will not shrink from the consequences." But then if this were so, why did his Majesty's cousin, Prince NAPOLEON, resign ? Why he has re signed, was professed -to be because the Emperor is shrinking from the consequences of his own pro ceedings, and is leaving the Royal father of the Prince's bride, obtained on the strength of them, forlorn and deserted. Such is the present complexion of the case. The French Emperor has evidently broken his word to the King of Sardinia. If the result thereof be peace, one cannot but rejoice, Yet 6ne can at the same time have DJ:, respect for the Imperial defaulter. . THE GARSTON RAILWAY ROUTE TO LIVERPOOL.-It would be seen by our report, on Saturday, of the proceed ings of the Parliamentary Committee on the Bill that has been introduced in the House of Commons for the purchase of the Warrington and Stockport Railway by the London and North-Western Company, and which involves the transfer of the route from Liverpool via Garston, that the Preamble of the Bill has been declared to be proved ; and, further, that the Birkenhead, Lancashire ; and Cheshire Junction Company shall have running powers for through traffic between Altrincham and Manchester. The latter decision, our report stated, appeared to take the promoters of the Bill by surprise ; for it was no doubt more than they bargained for. But it is evident the Committee considered that the public interest required such an extension of the scheme, and that it would be the most effectual means of preventing anything like monopoly on the part of that powerful company whose interests such a Bill will so mate rially strengthen in this neighbourhood. Liverpool, how ever, will gain a great practical advantage by having the line from Garston continued to the town. This is the object in which the people of Liverpool are mainly inter ested.- And its accomplishment will certainly have the effect of removing a great anomaly from our midst,—that, we mean, of having a railway brought to within some five or six miles of the town,.but not allowed, from very partial and interested considerations, to approach any nearer its confines, thus necessitating the expensive and _cumbrous recourse to tedious land carriage from its present depot io the great terminus alike of its goods and passenger traffic. The only fear is that there may be a monopoly of it in the hands of the North-Western. This is to be guarded against ; and we trust that in the Bill this will be done. SUPPLY OF WATER.—The meeting we reported on Saturday, on this subject, of manufacturers and others, l i deeply interested in the equitable adjustme n t of the questi on of the cost of the water furnished by the Water Works, must have suggested to the town at, large the' necessity of some more fair and reasonable means being adopted, than there is at present, for regulating the charge according to the quantity of water supplied. The object of the Corporation is, or ought to be, not to make money by the Water Works, but to provide a constant supply of pure r wholesome water at a remunerative charge to consumers. This charge may be regarded as of the nature of a rate, or municipal tax ; with this difference, certainly, from ordinary rates or taxes, that they who pay it get, fully and fairly, or ought to do, " v.alue received." The object, therefore, should be to divide the expenses of the Water Works as equally as possible among those who benefit by them, and in a due proportion to the quantity of water, or amount of benefit, which each inhabitant derives from them. The value of rated premises into which the water is conveyed would afford some test of calculation as to the proportion of payment that it would be just and fair to require, but for the extra consumption which certain manu facturers and others, for their own special purpdses, severally take, which renders it unavoidable, perhaps, to adopt, in such cases, a system of charging according to quantity. For this purpose, meters are required by the Water Committee of the Council to be used. We do not see that there ought to be any objection to this, provided the ratio of charge by the meters be uniform, fair, and reliable. To secure this was, we presume, in fact, the real object of the meeting in question, and to-day a deputation is to wait upon the Water Committee to urge a more equitable scale of charges to large consumers ; and we trust that the interview will tend to a satisfactory result. SARDINIA OUTWITTED, THis is what they are calling the scurvy trick which Louis NAPOLEON has played his dear friend and cousin, VICTOR EMANUEL. Sardinia, they say, is outwitted by the wily Emperor of the French. He has failed in his truth, and left his Sardinian Majesty in the lurch. " But then," says a shrewd moralist, " the world calls it outwitting a man, when he is only out-knaved." The moralist aforesaid is right ; and the case in hand, is a case in point. Louis NAPOLEON may have cheated VICTOR EMANUEL, but he has not overcome him by stratagem. He has deceived him ; he made engagements with him which he is failing to fulfil. All Europe, or nearly so, thinks he is right in drawing back from doing that which would have been keeping his engagements ; but then he ought never 'to have made them. The King of Sardinia has doubtless good reason to complain. It is at his sacrifice that the peace of Europe is not, after all,, to be disturbed ; and it is just the sort of sacrifice which one cannot have much commiseration with the victim of. Their bargain was an indefensible One ; and the breach of faith in it, therefore, save at Turin, can excite but little indignation. There is an old saying, that " when plaintiff and defendant happen, to, be crafty knaves, there is equity against both." In citing it, we mean nothing personally offensive to the Royal and Imperial Personages in question. But certainly there is a principle in it which bears closely upon their present case, and it is one which must of necessity deprive of one's sympathy, alike the cheated and the cheater. The Sardinian Minister, Count Cavour, is marked out by the public at home as the person principally taken in. The popular feeling at Turin is repre sented as very indignant —as well as that of his Majesty. " The King," observes a letter of late date, "is said to have betraYed much bitterness of feeling and Count CAVOUR threatens to resign." Then, as regards the indignation out of doors, in vain is it reported that the Cabinet has received private communications from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, softening down the language of the official article, and suggesting that its only object was to check the progress of military preparations in Germany. But this is not credited by the public, which speaks of the whole business in terms favourable to neither France, our .Court, nor CAVOUR. That the latter should have allowed himself to be outwitted will not be readily forgiven." The same communication remarks, that "the result of this declaration of France may be to inflame. the mind of the nation and of the King, and to hasten a conflict with Austria, even single handed." But this we do not believe ; and for this good and sufficient reason, that the. Government of Sardinia must know very well any army they could bring out, would soon be overwhelmed and annihilated by the outnumbering hosts of Austria. Even with the armies of France marshalled along with their own, the struggle would have been a desperate one ; but without them Sardinia could be resisted, and put hors de combat in no time. Of course Prince NAPOLEON has had his explana tions to give, his disappointments to relate, and his excuses to make.to his royal father-in-law. That part of the bargain in which he is so personally and delicately concerned, is the most awkward part of the affair of all. The French Prince has got the Sardinian King's daughter to wife for nothing ! The Princess was to • have been paid for, under the Imperial pledge, in troops and ammunitions for the coming campaign. But all this now is repudiated. The bill which Sardinia drew on France to that amount, and which France accepted, is virtually dishonoured. It is true, say the accounts, that " the displeasure of the Court has been somewhat diminished, by the receipt of several telegraphic dispatches from Prince NAPOLEON, in which the husband of- Princess CLOTILDE professes strong hostility towards the official note, and 'towards the sentiment which inspired it ;" and they'add, that "it is by no means impossible that he will very shortly visit Turin and await events." But this will not win& the matter as respects the French Emperor, by THE COURT The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by the Princesses Alice and Helena, visited Bridgewater House on Friday afternoon. The equerries in waiting; Major-General the Hon. C. Grey and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, were in attendance. The Prince Consort rode on horseback in the morning. The Queen and Prince Consort, attended by Lady Mac donald, Hon. Lucy Kerr, Hon. Mary Bulteel, the Earl of Sheffield, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, honoured the performance at Covont garden Theatre with their presence on Friday evening. Her Majesty will hold a levee On the 26th proximo, and a drawing-room on the 14th proximo. THE PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM'S RECOLLECTIONS or HomE.—An answer has been received to the address of congratulation lately presented to her Royal Highness Princess Frederick William of Prussia by the tenants upon Balmoral, Abergeldie, and Berkall estates. Dr. Robertson has also received a private letter from her Royal Highness, inclosing a handsome donation for the benefit, of the poor upon these estates.• In her reply the Princess shares in the hope that she may, 'at no distant period, be able to revisit the " Bonnie Bank o' Dee," by which she is bound by so many dear recollections. THE PRINCE OF WALES.—The Makuis d'Azeglio and Count Balbo arrived here. on Tuesday evening, and on Saturday presented the Order of the Annunciation to the Prince of Wales. As I told you in my last letter, the ceremony will be of a strictly private character, not even the Sardinian Charge d'Affaires or Mr. Odo Russell being present. The Prince is to be attended only by his own people —Colonel Bruce, the chaplain, his medical man, and another gentleman. Indeed, most judiciously, every effort is made to maintain the incognito of the Prince, and attach him strictly to the object for which he visited Rome. His Royal Highness enters warmly into the festivities of the Carnival, throwing bouquets into the carriages as they pass beneath his balcony, and receiving with much courtesy those which are presented to him. Indeed, his amiable ex pression and bearing have won all hearts in Rome.—Letter from Rome. The Earl of Minto was, we are gratified to lea r n, muc h better on Friday, and hopes are now entertained of his ultimate recovery. • Despatches were received at the Colonial-office, on Friday, from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and the Governors of the settlements on the West Coast of Africa. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the North American and Australian colonies. Another domestic affliction has befallen his Excellency Count de Lavradio, Portugueses Minister at this court. Scarcely recovered from the severe shock his excellency so recently suffered, Friday's mail brought the intelligence of the death of his sister, the Duchess de Ficalho, Mistress of the Robes to her Majesty the Queen of I), artugal. THE VACANT OFFICE OF RADCLIFFE OB3ERVER.—The names of several gentlemen, eminent in the science of astronomy, are already mentioned for the vacancy at the Radcliffe Observatory, caused by the death of Mr. Johnson. Amongst them are those of Mr. Pogson, of the Hartwell Observatory, and Mr. Donkin, Savilian Professor of Astrc nomy in the university of Oxford. The former gentleman was, for a period of sawn years, Mr. Johnson's chief assistant, and is consequently well qualified to carry out those important scientific works left in an unfinished state. —Oxford Chronicle. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. SunDEN 13 1 EATIt.—The sister superbress of the convent of Notre Dame, Mount-pleasant, died very s u dd en ly on Satur day night. She was in excellent health, to all - appearance, and attended, with the other sisters of the convent, their night devotions at nine o'clock, after which she retired to her apartment, where she was subsequently found dead. She was a lady much respected. EXTRAORDINARY Pl6.—On Saturday last there was exhibited at the shop of Mr. Harding, pork butcher,-01, Byrom-street, the carcase of a pig, the dimensi ons an d obesity of which created much attention. The animal when living, although but twenty weeks old weighed twelve score fifteen pounds. It measured across the shoulders one foot nine inches, and stood two feet high. The flesh was buried in one mass of fat The Dig was of the pure Berkshire breed. I LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY.—Return for the week ending March 12th, 1859. Admitted : in-patients, 38 ; out patients, 21; surgical casualties, 23. Discharged: cured, 20 ; relieved, and at own. request, 9 ; made out-patients, 2 ; irregular, 1; dead, 5 ; remain in the house, 193, For the ensuing week. Visitors : Messrs. C. Melly and J. G. Livingston ; physician, Dr. Dickinson ; surgeon, Mr. Long ; house surgeon, Mr. T. S. Walker ; junior house surgeon, Mr. J. Allen; chaplain, Rev. H. J. Garrod, A.B. Robert Hutchison, treasurer. SOUTHERN HOSPITAL.—WeekIy Report.—Admitted : Accidents and urgent cases, 43; medical and surgical cases upon recommendation, 9;" total, 52. Discharged : Cured, 1; relieved, 3 ; irregular, 1 ; died, 0 ; total, 12. Attending as out-patients, 30. Remaining in the hospi tal, 69. Treasurer : James Houghton, Esq. Visitors : B. Platt, Esq., and J. .Andrews, Esq. Honorary chaplain : Rev. W. Leveson. Physician and surgeon for the ensuing week : Dr. Cameron and Mr. Nottingham. llousd surgeons : Mr, John M. Bateson and Mr. Pemberton. CORONER'S INQUESTS.—The coroner:held the following inquests on Saturday :—On the body of Mrs. Ann Clay, sixty-five years of age, who generally resided at Seaforth, with her son-in-law. The deceased, with some of her rela tions, left New Brighton by the 3.15 boat on Frid4, and just as they left, a s ihower of rain came on, and deceased went down to the cabin, and it appeared that she fell down the stairs, and was killed on the spot. Verdict, "Accidental death." On the . body of Mary Anne Mars, twenty-seven years of age, who was scalded at the West Derby workhouse. She was an inmate of the house, and was engaged at the washing, when she went to stir the clothes with a stick, and it slipped, she falling across the boiler, and was scalded, so that she died from the effects. Verdict, " Accidentally calded." THE GREAT BARON OF BEEF FOR MORRISH'S.—One of the great fat heifers, purchased by Mr. Thomas Lowthian, of John's Market, at Messrs. Torr and Littledale's sale, was shown on Saturday at the stall in the market, and attracted much public attention. It is the finest specimen of a four year old perhaps ever seen in the market—it was almost a pity to kill it it was such a beauty, but man must have meat, at least once upon a day, according to the greatest of all vagabond poets—as some one—Sydney Smith, we believe, called Lord Byron. The term vagabond was not used in the vulgar understanding of the phrase. Poetry and good beef, after all, are allied to each other, for sure we are, if the " noble vagabond" poet were now alive, he would produce as good an ode on a "baron of beef," as Goldsmith did on a haunch of venison. The baron to be cut from the heifer for Morrish's, Tithebarn-street, will be one of the largest and best ever roasted there ; it will weigh nearly 500 lbs. The day for the " roasting "is not yet announced, but will in due course. EXTRAORDINARY QUICK PASSAGE.—The clipper-ship Dreadnought, Captain Samuels, arrived here yesterday, from New York, after the rapid passage• of thirteen days eight hours. She sailed from New Yotk on the afternoon of the 27th ult., with the following passengers : James Smith, Esq. and lady, J. S. Waite and lady, Miss E. Price, and Messrs. Edward Saul, Charles Moore, N. D. Walker; John Prentice, and J. R. Tate • also 7Z in second cabin. The following extract from the log of the Dreadnought will prove interesting to our readers :—Sunday, February 27th, at 3 p.m. discharged pilot; Monday, 28th, noon, 200 miles, Sto WNW, brisk breezes ; Tuesday, March Ist, noon, 293 miles, WNW, fresh breezes; Wednesday,. 2nd, noon, 262 miles, NW to NN W, brisk gales and snow squalls; Thursday, 3rd, noon, 208 miles, NNW to N, heavy gales and snow squalls; Friday, 4th, noon, 178 miles, NNE to N, heavy gales and snow squalls ; Saturday, sth, noon, 218 miles, N to NNE, heavy gales and snow squalls ; Sunday, 6th, noon, 133 miles, NE to S, light breezes ; Monday, 7th, noon, 282 miles, SSE, brisk breezes and clear; Tue . 's:. day, Bth, noon 313 miles, SSW to 8, fresh breezes and clear; Wednesday, 9th, noon, 26& miles, S to SE, brisk gales ; Thursday, 10th, noon, 205 miles, SE to SW, brisk breezes and squally ; Friday, 11th, noon, 308 miles, S to SW, strong breezes and squally; Saturday, 12th, noon, 150 miles, SW, thick weather ; distance run, 3,018 , miles ; passage, 13 days 8 hours L mean time. SIIIPWRECE.S.—LIFE-BOAT SERTICE.—BIDEFORD, March 11th.—This morning at four o'clock, the schooner Caroline, of Fowey, from Teignmouth to. Newport, having come on shore during a heavy storm, on the sands off - Northam Burrows, bilged. One of the life-boats of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, stationed at Appledon, was immediately got out, and gallantly proceeded through the heavy sea to the stranded ship, whose crew of five hands she afterwards safely brought on shore. Holyhead, Friday night. —Captain Riest, R.N., thus writes concerning the valuable services of another life-boat of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. About 11.50 this forenoon, a vessel was seen dangerously near the Clipera Rocks. It was blowing at the time a heavy gale from S.W. The life-boat of the Royal National Life-boat Institution stationed here, having been immediately ordered out, was quickly ready, and reached the distressed vessel at 10.20.p.m. She proved to be the schooner Scotia, of Caraarvon, laden with clay. Throe men were with much difficulty placed on board her, and she soon afterwards slipped, and ran under the guidance of o ur lif e -b oa t men on t o th e b eac h at Trefedoc, in Anglesey, where she is now lying in compara tively smooth water, and I hope will be got off again when the weather moderates. When the boat was on her return another schooner was observed under precisely similar cir cumstances. The life-boat bore up to her, but before the boat could reach her she too slipped or parted, and followed the Scotia into Trefedoc. No other boat than a life-boat could have performed this service, which I consider saved the lives of the crew, as the vessel without local guidance would probably have gone on the rocks, and all hands might have perished. The crew employed were not the regular crew of the life-boat, as the latter did not get to the house in time. They were very smart in Fetting the boat ready." The life-boats of the above National Institution were probably manned last year by crews of no less than 3,000 persons, and it is satisfactory to find that not a single fatal accident happened to any of them. HENGLER'S CIRQUE. —This evening (Monday), we beg to remind our numerous readers, is fixed as a special one, being under distinguished patronage, and at the same time a com plimentary benefit to Mr. Charles Hengler, the worthy pro prietor himself. We need scarcely say that few individuals have ever caierered so well and ably ler the amusement of our townspeople, as this gentleman. If we take. a review of his career during the present season, we shall find that every succeeding week has but been the herald of some novelty or other, and that so little anticipated by the public, that it may . well be a matter of surprise how any one's inventive genius could meet the supply. We feel sure that however crowded the house may be on the occasion, it will be no more than is justly deserved, and highly merited. We did think that it would be quite impossible for the worthy beneficiare to produce a more attractive or sterling programme than has this week been before us, but we must conclude either that Mr. Hengler himself is peculiarly fastidious, and strongly marked with a love of change, or s else he must fancy it necessary to be guided by the general rule in such cases, namely, to advance some new name or popular charac ter—if one had been appealed to in the case, we should have pronounced in all conscience that Mr. John Milton Hengler, with the champion vaulter, and the graceful Miss Wells, and immitable Zephora, aided and assisted by a positive phalanx of talent, whose any single name might suffice to be held forward as a very "chef d'ouvre" would have been an ample magnet to concentrate all lovers of a pleasant evening—and when to those are added the new and really gorgeous and in every way splendid legendary spectacle of St. George and his fabulous yet dreadful "fiend adversary," the most hard to please would have cried " enough ;" but ,no, Mr. Hengler, not content with these "great auxilaries," must needs enlist two debutantes, yclept the Brothers Esthair, of continental fame, who, if report speaks true, are leaders in the calisthenic art, aad have earned and worn the laurels of more than one im perial cirque. We believe and hope our faith in this matter will be taken up by our "legion" of readers, that, if ever one night in the arena reached the climax of perfection in the equestrian and gymnastic world, this will surely be the one, and we do hope, from the known liberality of Mr. Hengler towards the charities and institutions of this town, that has been evinced on more than one occasion, that the people of Liverpool will in their turn be equally generous, at least in giving their presence and support to the cirque this evening. It has been well termed a complimentary benefit. We should like it to prove so, not only in that sense, but in the more substantial one—additional receipts to Mr. Hengler's tr. :asury. BRITISH versus FOREIGN TASTE.—Of late years, a great prejudice has arisen against the taste and skill of native designers and workmen, while a corresponding prejudice in favour of foreign design has been on the increase. IVithout going into the question how far this change may be attributed to'illustrions patronage, the love or change, the rage for cheapness which confines the native workmen to work for the million, of necessity work of inferior kind. It is pleasant to point out examples of British taste and execution which may challenge comparison with the at ail, time. Messrs. Collard and C•tura' specimens ever prodt;;llti in any foreign country an oblique grand piano -forte for Edgar, of Duke-street'tl d which is in every way them ost perfeeL sign and skilful execution that we have evr:2* see n ' gpecimen of tas The . re7 it T, ()Hard have just manufactured nothing in the Exhibition of 1851 at all Co. , n pazable lv ; ich it ; notwithstanding the wide field of enterprise °ll l.a e to that,display was drawn, and the great exertions Tu.' ,of render it effective - . It has been' said to be the provinct the English to adopt the inventions of other nations, ann,d,,te carry them out better than the original projectors . U British bayonet came from Bayonne. French vessels, ear tured during- the war, furnished the finest models for t! ships of Britannia, with which 'she ruled the waves ; an in the case of this beautiful piano -forte, the style of deco rs, tion, called that of Louis Quatorze, though really that a Louis Quinze, has been adopted, and carried out by Mes srs ; Collard with a taste and skill that may defy the competitia of any Frenchman of the present day. The general exte; rior of the case-is walnut wood; and the edges are decorate',l, with ormolu. Panels are formed by the scroll shell-werZ peculiar to the style, which' is inlaid so as not to distal the outline. 'Within these are groups of flowers and musical instruments, similarly introduced in coloured vval to represent the natural colours of the several object s, ° n u disposed with the greatest taste, both in respect of desl is g a ' and colour. In spite 01 modern popular fancies, it !li these points that the British workmen and artist leave other European nations behind. Next to the Venetians .° the period of Titian, the works of British painters clalin the highest rank in the world for colour. Next to he antique Greek sculpture, the British sculptures take the,,l place for form, notwithstanding the classic f u rore of Fra n r during the great revolution, It is gratifying to be abl e t b c e claim an equally high rank for the executive power of British workman, whenever he get s a c h a nce for. decor do do in the highest class of ornament. No description can 1 . justice to this exquisite specimen of skill and taste. , 1 , 11 1 g one who takes any interest in refinement should to sev to at Mr. Edgar's piano-forte rooms, for such workS'are no' 4.4 to be executed every day, We have confined our commen — e o b o n e equally case, but we must say that the internal work h as " equally cared for, and that as a musical instrument i t is ° of the highest quality. LATEST TELEGRAMS. NAPLES. MARSEILLES, Saturday, March 12. --According t° advices received here from Naples to the 9th at °, the King and Royal faMily had disembark ed Crtstellamena, and were about to start for Carcetal in an invalid carriage. Extraordinary activity' Pre vails in the arsenals. A fresh levy of 18,000 nl e° had been ordered for the end of May. Altogeth e ; during the year ending at the present time, 30 , men have been enlisted. There has been f resh earthquakes in the Abruzzi, and several new crater' have recently opened in Mount Vesuvius. THE FRENCH FUNDS, Rentes opened 68.35' l'Ams, Saturday, 1. 14 p.m.— being a rise of more than 8 per cent. since yes tel' day's closing, but the uncertainty and uneasiness ilre 4 3 15 p.m.—Rentes closed flatter ; 15. ' price, 68.15 for both Aloney and Account. Raill11.1„ Shares, 2 to 5 frLcs higher. continual FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. o te PARis, Friday Evening.—lt is certain that a ° At was prepared for publication in the Monitenr ' o f less pacific, and perhaps more truthful, than th at Saturday last. It was drawn up by the same 1 1 01 , that was employed on the famous brochure, NaP ie be 111. et and was intended to neutralise t o effect of the first note, which indicated a retrogriLcr movement. It was to have appeared yesterdaY ct , to-day in the official organ. Th e wr it er , lielv° was closeted at the- Tuileries yesterday or the w e, before—whether in order to modify his lane g ol or to infuse new fire into it, I cannot say. e r• events it has not appeared; its publication is phis, haps only postponed, but not abandoned. t he however, does not much matter. The same daY . 0 a sort of apologetic article appeared, a communicate was made to the Piedmontese Government t°, Flo 110 attention to it. Ma Cavour was advise", to continue his armaments all the same, an d e at try whether there was a chance of . a' mofen l io g in the Italian Duchies, with the object of f° re „ce Austria to intervene, and thus give the appeari'he of aggression of which advantage migh t „Ae taken. Of course nothing is easier than to pro ' to an adversary, already irritated by petty attae s.s ,,'o an overt act of violence. Matters must h,.,e ; o af pretty ripe far an outbreak, as I am sure M. kt, has intimated to the French minister at Tlirm: ce intention to serve a formal summons (tine Is" - 4 s t• demeure) on the French Government for aid awls c i bY ance, as he considers the measures recently adol' )1. Austria as equivalent to a declaration of War', re.. Latour d'Avergne prayed him, before havin.7 he course to this extreme step, to wait unt i 'The could communicate with his government. 0 4 hope of the maintenance of peace that s POO up on the retirement of Prince Napoleon PO hut short-lived. Confidence has been so thorourVa shaken, that it is difficult indeed to restore it .„a to cannot conceal the fact that no credit is attac h ' e at. the most solemn declarations of the Gover ° T a iitl The public are convinced that nothing is in r ove changed ; that matters will go on just in th e • 5 alr way ; that the separation of Prince NapoleoNlinis• parent and only apparent ; that the Cabinet • ; ters are as little regarded as if they did no t Q . e hroV and that they are pretty much as Boh n ? ta efe describes the Ministers of Charles T hich awkward pageants of Courts, wooden inia p n'es, s the Princes gild," and then throw aside. it es cony knowledge of all this that paralyses trade al l e j at,' merce, and, what is p er h a p s no t t o be wonde'e ce tee the very officials of the Tuileries are, I fear , a i hear by the disquietude which prevails abroad. , t heir of some among th em w h o d o no t c onceal t hey dismay at a system, which, if followed ont's t ate , believe may be fatal to every interest in th e from the very highest to the lowest. eeei vea It is stated that despatches have been r„ 4 01 3 . t from Al g eria, announcing that unusual exeLrittad° prevails among the Arabs, and that a deman d 1 . 5 ,61 i ll for the division of infantry, which lately arr i , s ar e France, to be sent back to Africa. Five friga,, t ool. to be sheathed in iron so as to make them sho,,,,t: th ia The contract for one is just concluded. I ' 4 " 'ac e L . pri, certain is yet known about the successor e fi i loot & Napoleon as Minister of Algeria and the "/ he ar A Generals Damas and Trocher are spoken d that several persons, formerly condemned I ' l 4 l , re tilr: for political offences, have be en au thorized ° ,,,sed to France. Several hu n d re d horses, pure ' ' - ar rice Normandy for the use of the artillery, ha ve in Paris. and Another correspondont writes—Both h ere Piedmont everything is now ready for a e°,,, rh e r aCi" All that is required is a pretext for eol ll „,'' ob tliti hostilities, and it is apprehended from the f ' io te 14 ,; tone which the Austrian journals have °„.. 11) sumed, that the pretext will not be wantir's • „ e ster: French papers (ex. gr. the Constitutionnel t tha day) are now endeavouring to sho w al ba o f preparations which have taken place in -" cio its, a in consequence of the formidable arnia,o,ressl°_t France and Sardinia, constitutes an a a l";: e ael eP , against the latter power. This specious .o°,,,ape; has not even the merit of novelty : the I ,l l e la st t.th have been repeating it in every . key for ' do wn ' cl ij o months ; and, however well it may g o 't ha s j l4 b o a chance war-at-any-price party in Piedinon"as re chance on this side of the Alps, whe re, i t he 0 the Italian question, the great mass ° he rs are for war at any price. cc ta ein There are reports, to-day, that the Pr ln issed' ief o, of the Cabinet Council have been u i s p v erth e alf should consider it as yet very unlikelY ; 1 11 - 0 for ol- e ed it is stated that M. Pietri, a Corsican, iv* to a aee occupied the post of -Prefect of Police, is on M. Delangle, as Minister of the Interi or ' . ° l ° o to The correspondent of the Daily A r ew s ' o d w reas c t ', o rd the same day, sa y s : " I have very g ° t h a t ' w ill believe that the news of yesterday' foaare, eats ;Cowley's mission to Vienna is a OW sto teinoo turn out to be correct. There are Inrl rh als. o f , to the contrary ih several German .I°. ottce,„ w , German Journal of Frankfort, for o: able that a ti,rpcn Conference will DO (Is