Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-06 00:00:00

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We are to-day called upon to record the melancholy details of the murders of two persons, and what may, perhaps, turn out to be a third. At Liverpool, yesterday morning, a butcher, named Jones, went to his mother's house, in Trowbridge street, and after having some harsh words with her, the latter left in fear, and went to the house of a brother in the same street. That brother immediately went to the aggressor, and upbraided him with his conduct, and in the meantime was joined by another brother. High words ensued, and the elder brother, Robert Jones slipped a knife in between the ribs of his brother Wiliam, and and although the wounded man was immediately conveyed to the Infirmary, life was extinct before reaching there. The assassin was im mediately seized, and was brought up before the police magistrate 3 esterday, but the examination was adjourned, until a post mortem examination is made, _ _ At Birkenhead, on Sunday evening, five navvies residing as the Dock Cottages, were regaling themselves in a beer-house at the north end of that township. These men left at eleven o'clock, and p.oceeded to their places of resi dence. Shortly after the hour named, the police man on duty was informed that two men had been murdered, and after procuring assistance, the body of a man named Drury, was found lying in a pool of blood, in a dark corner in the immediate vicinity of the cottages, and a man named John Dunn was found to be seriously stabbed. The po ice having rt ceived some infor mation, proceeded to one of tha houses in the Dock Cottages, and arrested three men, named Peter Gallagher, John Smith, and Francs Smith. Blood was found on the g2rmenls of each of tLe prisoners. The enquiry into this melancho:y affair was adjourned until to-day. The Burial Board held their monthly meeting yesterday. The late chairman, and deputy-chait man, Mr. Robertson Gladstone, and Mr. J. R Jeffery, were re-elected. It was stated that the Corporation would be willing to treat for a portion of the Newsham House estate, for the purpose of A cemetery. On Saturday, two dragoon officers were com mitted for ten days to the House of Correction, for assaulting the police, by one of the London police magistrates. Another Railway Accident. The mail train which left Liverpool on Sunday night, experienced a severe shock at Rugby. Three coupling irons were broken, and the engine being released from the break van, went forward at great speed. The train was seriously injured, and several persons bruised. The cause of the accident is unknown. People are now anxiously awaiting further news India, but they really cannot expect further telegraphic despatches before Sunday or Monday next In the meantime it is said, that should there be any pressing necessity, we could afford at once to despatch to India 10,000 men from the United Kingdom, and 5,000 from the Mediter ranean, relying upon the Militia to supply the plane of the latter. The Globe states that the number of recruits enlisted in the last four weeks was exactly 4,488, a number not even reached during the Crimean war. Respecting the meeting of Parliament, the same paper avers that it is not at all probable that there will be an autumn s,-_-ssion. The mutinies in India seem to be a standard topic for the public men of the day. We have had to record the sayings of Mr. Disraeli, Sir H, L. Bulwer, Lord Panrnure, Sir Charles Napier, MAjor Beresford, &e., ; and we now learn that Sir John Pakington has been delivering a speech at Worcester on the same subject. While inclined to be less severe than Mr. Disraeli in the judgment he passes upon the conduct of Ministers at home, he is far from being willing to absolve the autho rities in India from blame. He ventures to to proclaim a merciful as well as a just policy toward the mutineers, and urges, as one reason, the fact that our own offi3ials have been guilty of gc•s of torture to the natives E irl Fi zwilliam died on Sunday. He will be succeeded by his son, Viscount Milton, who goes up to the House of Lords, creating a vacancy in the representation of Wicklow County. Of course this event will prevent the Queen from paying a visit to Wentworth House. Our latest advices from Balmoral, represent the Queen as having determined to delay her journey homewards for two nays longer, and need not be expected at Windsor before the 17th inst , mean while, says a London Cotemporary, the last Court circular continues to spec f y that the 'royal party drove to the woods for deer," and that Prince Albert joinel in the sport as has been the case on two or three previous occeasions." Such information more than ever excites remarks from those who think that the affairs of India are too solemn for such recreations ; but the Sunday organ of the Cabinet takes the opportunity to inform the country that the Court have a right to seek health and "retirement in the month devoted to those purposes," that the Government came up to town, and showed their anxiety by " sitting two days in succession," and tha► they certainly " are not un mindful of the gravity of the moment." It also intimates that if the course of events should render it necessary for Parliament to be called together, the M nisters will do so. The Continental news may be summed up in a few sentences this morning. The Wallaehian elections have given a good majority to the Unionist party. The Divan will commence its sittings on the 8.11 of this month. The Emperor Napoleon will, in the course of this month, visit Marseilles, and point out the im provements which are to be made in the harbour iu consequence of the increasing trade of that important town• 'the otil3ial journals of the continental govern ments speak in a very peaceful strain of the re sults of the interview of the Emperors. All differ encas that may exist, or arise hereafter, they wish to b,l settled en famille; they know of no interests which could divide the Sovereigns of Europe. One of those d fferences, which had already proluced the rumour of an ultimatum sent from Paris to Copenhagen, has been removed. The French minister at the Danish court has signed a separate convention with regard to the payments of France for indemnifying the kingdom , of Denmark for the abolition of the Sound Dues. We have tc-day to record another awful calamity at sea, in the total loss of a Russian man-or-war in the Baltic. This war vessel had a thousand souls on hoard, every one of whom perished. Events like these must be warding to such as are inclined to place reliance on the protecting influence of modern material progress. Advices from Spain announce the resignation of Narvaez, and that Lersundi had been provisionally appointed President of the Council. THE sayings and doings" of great public men are, at all times, eagerly criticised and scanned by the community at large. Hence the after dinner orations of our Parliamentary "great guns"—thanks to a cheap daily Press—are perused and pondered upon by the humblest in the land. The village mechanic and the rural labourer takes up the newspaper of the day, and after their " twelve hour's toil" read what DISRAELI and LYTTON, what Lord GODERICH, and the far-famed Major BERESFORD, aye, and also the hero of Acre, CHARLEY NAPIER—not to speak of the dashing Secretary to the Admiralty, with many others we could mention, have got to say respecting the mutinies in India. We do not quarrel with these Right Honourable and Honourable Members of the Legislature for enun- ciating their statements upon a matter so preg nant with importance to the dearest interests of the British Enpire, and the peace, the comfort, and the domestic happiness of millions of its people. On the contrary, we rejoice that they feel it their duty to speak out in such a crisis. By hearing the pros and cons of the question, we are able to judge where the truth lies, and to determine whether the Government at home have done its duty, not only as regards the chastise ment of Indian mutineers, but also the- deliver ance, protection, and safety of every British sub• ject in Hindostan. As a matter of course, diversity of opinion prevails, so that we need not wonder that the Honourable Member for Buck inghamshire and Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE tOOk two totally opposite views, nor that Sir CHARLES NAPIER should differ with both, and put forward principles and opinions peculiar to himself. Yesterday, we made some comments upon Mr. DISRAELI'S speech at Newport-Pagnall. To-day, we proceed to notice that delivered by Sir CHAS. NAPIER, at Bury, and Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE, at Dover. In discharging this duty, we do so not because we consider that these after-dinner speeches contain any great novelty of suggestion or comment, but they give us an insight into the opinions of public men, and these opinions pour tray, for either good or bad, the impressions on the minds of the various speakers. Mr. DISRAELI, as we observed yesterday, when addressing his constituents in Buckinghamshire, was guilty of absurdity, falseNove fo reasoning,rSir cEr and an and absence of patriotism. NAPIER. This gallant gentleman has rendered himself rea•wned as a warrior, and somewhat remarkable THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1857. for his opinions and comments on the conduct of the British Navy, to which he belongs. He is a member of the House of Commons, too, and has there displayed the peculiarities of his public and private character in a manner that at once makes one anxious to hear what he has got to say about India. Well, the Admiral has had his say. He has spoken to the operatives of Bury, and, as usual, it contains some portions of natural good sense, mixed with a spice of absurdity. He considers that the Ministry are not alone to blame for the delay which has taken place in the despatch of military relief to India; the people, he says, are also culpable. Right, Sir CHARLES—the people are to blame if they tolerated delay, and aided the savage Sepoys of Bengal to carry on for a more lengthened period than was absolutely necessary the deeds of cru-lty and brutality which each despatch from India narrates. Sir CHARLES is troubled that the blue jackets of England cannot take part in the bloody contest on the banks of the Ganges ; yet he steps out of his way to eulogise the Government by telling us that the Cabinet of Lord PALMERSTON may have been remiss at first, but have made ample amends by their subsequent energy, and then dilates upon the fact of thirty thousand men having been sent round to India, and the further reinforcements which are to follow. Here we are at issue with Sir CHARLES, and cannot help thinking that there might have been much more activity displayed, and a more earnest desire manifested to cope with the mutiny at a much earlier period ; and, what is more, we would be disposed to regard the activity and conduct of the Admiralty in a much more favour able light, if we saw them desirous of devising ways and means to employ our naval tars in the contest. Experienced as a naval offi.3er, Sir CHARLES NAPIER failed, at least he studiously avoided saying one word about employing a strong flotilla of naval gunboats. If we can traverse, with these implements of destruction, the intricate and shallow rivers of China, and penetrate into the interior of the province of Canton, what is to hinder us from sending forth a fleet of well-equipped steam gun-boats up the Ganges and the other leading rivers of India, when disaffection, mutiny and murder has shown itself? We answer, nothing but Governmental neglect or indifference. Sir CHARLES NAPIER would have talked much more-sagaciously at Bury had he demonstrated how and by what means we can send out some four or five thousand of the navy to take part against the murderous Sepoys. Thousands of English sailors pant to have an opportunity to take part in the contest. Country and clime have but little effect upon these men. From their very youth they have been obliged to rough it. Feats of strength and agility are common to their nature, so that as a storming patty at Delhi, they would be matchless. Again, there was inconsistency in the speech of of the gallant Admiral; for, while eulogising the ministry for its later actions, he attributes to it the undesirable quality of " weakness" in not making the army and navy fit for every emergency, and gravely hinted that Lord PALMERSTON, being like other ministers, permitted that unfitness, from " a fear of losing his place." Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S speech is quite characteristic of the He has mingled with a good deal of professional rubsish some truths which will do the administration no good. Although we are not quite certain but, as the hero of Acre, he would very much like to be appointed to a seat at the Admiralty Board, where he could carry out his theories and opinions, notwithstanding their impracticable character. Most of our readers know that the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE, who addressed his constituency at Dover, is considered among the most witty and satirical speakers in the House of Commons. As such, he was dreaded by every Tory Ministry in office since he has had a seat in the House. The Whigs have found him a most important and valuable advocate. At length he was rewarded with office. This has muzzled him on any occasion where he could find fault with his party. His speeches now are rare, and quite harmless, com pared with those delivered in former days. The one at Dover the other day was, however, remarkable from the fact that, after a " thick and thin" defence of the Government in all that it has done since the commencement of our Indian troubles, he, in the most dexterous manner, availed himself of the horror which the brutalities and butcheries of the mutineers have planted in the breast of every Englishman, to draw off attention from the errors of omission and com mission committed by those upon whom the high, important, and responsible duty devolved, of maintaining the integrity of the Empire, and stemming with alacrity, effect, and permanency, the avalanche of insurrection. Upon this part of the question Mr. OSBORNE has had his reply from " the other side of the House ;" for, among the very few good things said by Mr. DISRAELI, the country must feel with him that our first of duties is that of moderating the outcries for indiscriminate vengeance into something more approximating to the heroism of Christians. The pugnacious member of the Treasury Bench, ere he makes another speech like that which he delivered at Dover, will do well to read the pages of England's history in India, and then ask himself the question—has not England com mitted awful atrocities upon Hindostan, and has she not, more than once, attempted a war of ex termination ? Is not the council of the " angry boy" of the Admiralty, that of another attempt at exterminating the native population of India from their own soil? No one can, or does, for a moment countenance the deeds of violence and blood which stains the character of the Indian Sepoys. They are shocking to contemplate— but awful, and truly sad in the extreme as may be the ejects of this mutiny in India, they must have had their causes. To-morrow we are "commanded" by Her Majesty the Queen to set apart that day to fasting, prayer, and humilia tion. That will be an appropriate time to enter into an enunciation of the topics suggested by our concluding remark. AT the last Special Meeting of the Water Committee their Pike engineer, Mr. HAWKESLEY , was again present, and certain members of the committee interrogated him closely as to the future of the Pike, and the probabilities, if any, of improving the quality of the water. As usual the replies were indefinite, but he gave the committee to understand that he had never pledged himself to the question of quality, and that the water was as good, if not better, than he had anticipated, and in his opinion quite good enough for the stomachs of the people of Liverpool. As his answers were not satis factory more definite replies were insisted on, when the great little man waxed wroth, declaring himself to be a grieviously injured man, that he had sacrificed everything for the corporation, and had his professional character jeopordised for his zeal and fidelity—that he had received 10,5001. was true, but the money had done him no good, that the continued assaults made upon him and his scheme had rendered him perfectly miserable. That in having brought the water to Liverpool he had fulfilled all he ever undertook to do—that for the future he was resolved to wash his hands of the committee and the scheme —that he must no longer be considered as the paid servant of the corporation ; but, he magnanimously added, that if the . Water Committee stood in need of his valuable advice he was prepared to give it at any time without fee or reward. Generous offer, indeed ! —one which he might make with the full certainty that it never would be accepted. Of Mr. HAWKESLEY, personally, we know nothing, and care less ; with individuals, as such, in our public capacity, we have neither friendship nor hate; we deal with the acts of public men, and not with the men ; and when we find an opponant convinced or coerced into an acknow ledgement of error our antagonism forthwith ceases. Mr. HAWKESLEY is, according to his own sheaving, a fallen and a miserable man, and under other circumstances we would not add to his degradation ; but there are circum stances in his case which, for the present at all events, steels our helrts against pity or sympathy. We recognise in Mr. HAWKESLEY the author of a scheme which we have over and over again denounced as one of the most wicked and disgraceful ever conceived by the mind of any man ; a scheme which had for its object the withholding of a first necessary of existence from a community of 400,000 souls, which has to a certain extent in its partial development deprived our poor of one of the greatest blessings providence could vouchsafe them—an ample supply of pure water. This Pike scheme was founded in decep tion; and has been reared to its present proportions by a system of reckless tyranny, oppression and injustice, such as never was inflicted on a confiding people. Have we not witnessed our champions of freedom—our cosmopolitans, liberal and enlightened patriots' the very men who were ever to be found in the van of human progress, fighting for the cause of mankind, who, once brought under the influence of the spells of this necromancer, become the veriest tyrants that ever cursed the earth —have we not witnessed the havock made amongst party-ties, and the fatal shipwrecks of old and tried friendships during the fierce conflict which interested, unprincipled, and unscrupulous men so long waged, in order to accomplish their own sordid purposes ; and can we forget all these things now that the recoil has taken place, and pity them who did so much to circumvent us ? Certainly not. The Pike has fallen, and crushed its author amongst the ruins ; so perish all, say we, who practice similar courses. Mr. HA WKESLEY'S severance from the Water Committee is now a matter of little moment. Would that we could have conveyed to him the congratulations of the people of Liverpool on his retirement; as it is we, in common with our fellow-townsmen, only rejoice that a stumbling block is removed from the path of our Water Committee, who are now at liberty to follow the dictates of their own honest convictions without the dread of being overridden by their own servant. We regret that the Committee did not, at their last meeting, decide conclusively on an imme diate return to the well supply, without any further boggling about the matter. True, the Town Clerk was absent, and as his presence is considered essential prior to their coining to a final conclusion on the subject an adjournment took place until this day. We confess, these repeated adjournments are most tantalising, to say tilt: least of it. We do hope that the committee will delay no longer in complying - with the expressed wishes of the great mass of the people of Liverpool, but that they, irrespective of every other con sideration, will direct that the well-water be restored to them. It is not enough that their engineer has become wedded to his own scheme —of a double line of pipes--and that he intimi dates the committee by declaring his inability to give an adequate supply unless his own pro ject is carried out. We trust the committee will submit to no dictation, or anything appertaining to it, from any servant in their employment. There has been sadly too much of that already. If the committee are not competent to decide what ought, or what ought not, to be done, then they proclaim to the world their incapacity for the discharge of the duties they have undertaken. It is the province of a committee to pass such resolutions as may appear to them best suited to promote the interests of their constituents, and it is for their servants to carry these resolutions into effect. Any committee acting otherwise are worse than nonentities. We speak advisedly when we say that no difficulty, no risk or in convenience, need result from the immediate restoration of the well-water, if the matter is only set about with an honest determination. The " bugaboo" about the Corpozation being bound by certain clauses in an Act of Parliament is all "bosh?' No Act of Parliament can compel any public body to perform impossibilities, nor would the Legislature think of insisting on forcing un palatable water on the town, when there was plenty of the pure fluid to give them. The cry raised about danger from fire is equally groundless. In short, nothing ought to satisfy the committee, as assuredly nothing will the town, save an immediate return to our well supply, at all hazards. Yesterday we published, from the pen of a correspondEnt, a faithful account of the present state of the water and the works at Rivington, and we recommend itsperusal by the Water Com mittee. There is nothing particularly new Qr striking in the report, but it affords abundant corroborative proof, if such were necessary, of the soundness of the views .we have ever ex pressed on the subject. There is now no (Neel to be gained by exaggerating the abominations of the Pike water, and our correspondent has carefully abstained from all such; but he has seen and said enough to convince any un prejudiced mind that the Pike is what all must now admit it to be —a, total failure, not only as regards the quality of the water, but the quantity promised is evidently not to be procured. We have previously declared our intention not to say or do ought calculated to embarrass the com mittee, knowing as we do the difficult and some what perplexing position in which they are placed, but we cannot help urging upon them the absolute necessity which exists of putting an end at once and for ever to the state of suspense in which the town has been so long kept on this most important subject. And we hope we shall be enabled to announce to our readers, in our next impression, that their decision has been in unison with the anxious wishes of the whole town—a result which will be hailed by universal acclamation. We read in the Weekly Dispatch :—" The conscience money' paid to the Chancellor of the Exchecrier is some index to the moral sense of the nation. Peed), makes a joke of it ;we regard it with pride and hope. It shows the strength of the small still voice' among us. It marks the lusty vigour of our ♦irtue. Taxation is a species of obligation about which the notions of mankind are prover bially lose. A payment to Sir Cornewall Lewis must indeed, indicate the throes of an over-mastering ♦irtue. Here is another form of the same spirit, from that epitome of the hopes, fears, and passions, the wants and wishes of the world, the advertising columns of the Times :—' Never too Late to Mend.—lf any young ladies who were at a school close to Leamington in 1836, kept by an unmar ried lady (since dead), can recollect the fact of having lost some small sums of money—supposed to have been lost, but which were really stolen from them by the advertiser, she will feel obliged if they would wrae a few linos to say whether the amount may be returned or given in charity, and address M. R , Nil desperandum, General Post-office, London, to be kept till called for.' Since 1836, for twenty one long years, has this secret sin rankled in the repentant heart. Like the ball in the woanded soldier that the surgeon's art could not probe, it weighs upon the system, but' is cast out 'at last. ' Were :really stolen by the advertiser.' She will not only restore, but make confession. Restitution is not enough, nor repentance, she must render every 'jot and tittle of her shame and confusion of face to the uttermost farthing Your sin will fled you out,' says the prophet ; better still, this penitent has found out her sin." The Leader thinks that: the :vegetarians and total abstainers have been deprived of one of their best argu ments by the horrible events in India. " Who• that has endured a lecture on the immortal virtues of the crystal flaid and the physiological effects of green stuff, has not heard how it mollifies the character, and inspires humanity with a saintly moderation ? Who has not been told of the meek Hindoo and the sober Mohammedan? Well, we see at last what these rice-eating and water-drinking fellows are. How the honey, herb, rice, butter, curd, and sugar ' eating, and milk-and-water drinking rabble have revelled in blood ! How the chivalrous nobles who slay their maidens at the approach of pollution have tossed naked English girls into the street to be outraged, tortured, and trampled to death ! They must not kill a rat, snake, or a 83a, but give them a thousand white women and children, and the water-drinkers will become worse than cannibals. Among the Marquesas savages, when it was resolved to eat a virgin, they simply took off her clothes, laid her upon a block, passed a knife into her heart, and thus mercifully prepared her for the fire. So, at least, the old ,voyagers say. But these Brahmins , who feed like lambs and drink like gazelles, and these Mahommedans who hold fermentation in horror, fasten men and women to trees while they whip their children t death, or wring their necks, or carve them to pieces ; the blood of the infant is dashed in its mother's face, the husband sees his wife ripped open. Verily, there must be no further allusion to India by the disciples of Por phyry. They must not say again, Look at the Hindoo who eats rice and drinks water; he would not willingly harm an insect, and establishes hospitals for superannu ated cows ;' or, Mark how the Moslem, who drinks water will not tread upon a piece of paper, least the name of God should be written upon it.' He has trampled on the image of God itself; and we have no intention of arguing that he would have been a less brutal coward had he fed on flesh and inebriated himself with brandy instead of bhang. All we insist on is, that a vast number of vegetarian total abstinence fallacies will be exploded, in a popular sense, by the incidents of the Sepoy rebel. lion." A curious result of official printing and publishing is shown by the ann ua l reports o f par li amen t o f th e P aten t Cornm , ssioner w . It appears that, from the beginning of their operations, in Cc'ober, 1852, to December, 1856, they have expended in printing £119,886 lfi.s. 9d , and have sold printed copies -of specifications, indexes, &c ,to the amount of £3,932, so that they have on hand unproduc'ive stock of the nominal value of nearly X 116,009. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS' By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph• SPAIN. The Queen of Spain has accepted the resig °ll' ;tion of Narvaez. Bravo Marillo left Paris veer day (Monday) for Madrid. A despatch from t il l latter city announces that Lersundi is provisio n9ll appointed President of the Council. FRANCE. The Paris Three per Cents closed yeBter3sl (Monday) at 68f. 55g. THE LATE MEE LING OF THE EINIPEBOIS for The Czar set out from W e imar on Sunuk Warsaw. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY Evitt4iNa• er ° Yesterday afternoon, at half-past two, the 11313 ft °t1 who was accompanied by the Empress, again se t °) ,l his return to Chalons. On reaching the Strasburg " W t he station, their Majesties were recei ve d by M. t ie Prefect of Police, Baron d'Huvey, and others of directors of the Company. The Empress appeared much struck by t he sob imperial train, the magnificence of which has been wil ; spoken of. If the weather continues fine her Maie st i made up her mind to lodge with the Emperor under "to tent in the camp, and not to occupy the apart The prepared for her at the prefecture at Chalons• imperial train was expected to arrive at Chalons a t 11 : 1 1 , 0 past five this evening The Imperial Prince is not of the party, and consequently the report that the Et a P re o intended to take this opportunity to present higi to f regiment of Grenadiers is probably incorrect. Thel the baby's name is regularly called at muster roll, lkis that a corporal answers for him " Absent on leave his family." Si °f The Court of Cessation has rejected the aPPeL tto - Captaiu Doineau and Ben Hadji, condemned, the n il of death, the second to hard labour for life, by the Coafvort Assizes at Oran. The decree is based upon a r eP drawn by the Precureue-General upon the case. THE PRINCIPALITIES. 3. ASSY, OCT ti. to The elections in Wallachia have terminated, and °- favour of the Union. nat The Moldavian divan will assemble on the 4th of - and that of Wallachia on the Bth of the same month. THE MEETING AT WEIVIAR. PARIS, StrO l ihe It has been stated by some Austrian journals that " a Emperor Napoleon suggested the meeting of the Cza r 11° .. ,ber the Emperor of Austria. lam able to assure you is no foundation whatever in these assertions. l alln e e t he ately the Austrian Cabinet learnt that the Emperor et " French would meet the Emperor Alexander, the aci vi , silt s t of Francis Joseph took means to solicit the intervie", o Weimar. The approach was entirely on the Pa r ; ‘ ,ol Austria, and the Emperor of Russia consented more It`; courtesy than from political motives to meet his IWe° brother monarch. ti fo As regards the results of this meeting of th e de Emperors, of Itugsia and Aust ia. I am led to 00611 46 that if the object of the meeting was simply to rein" s i the acerbities left by the late war by means of p ers° er j 1:1 intercourse, that object has been gattninad, and amicable personal feeling established ; on the other " L- 011 I hear nothing which suggests th e id ea t h a t any diplo rtia i t p business at all was transacted. How it has fared r i- t the fate of Count Buol I am not in a position to r e p or t '- 0 my own impression is, that Francis Joseph is not likel/ give up his minister for any but a very weighty rc and that Alexander is not, as yet, so far master or t he fr situation as to be able to demand it, nor Austria 8° far isolated as to make it imperative for her to Pal L- price for re.admisssion to amity with Russia. SPAIN. ~.t 1t Letters from Madrid t o th e 30th u lt., s tate th at expected a violent a tt ac k w ill be mad.) ou the miaistr. , ". Of the opening of the C lr t es , on occas i on o f th e electi on the President and officers of the Chamber of Deputies. ip• LOSS OF A RUSSIAN LINE-ORBATrLE 6°' 1,00) LIVES LOST. HAMBURGH, OCT' 3 1 st We learn from St. Petersburg, via Lubeck, on th e , inst., that a very awful catastrophe happened to a Sa s ily, line-of-battle ship between the 21st and 23rd ult., i ll 4 10 Gulf of Finland, during a violent storm, in which 'foundered, with a crew of upwards of 1,000 sou ls - 0i board, all of whom perished. About 150 were family p rr e h e which renders the misfortune still more calarnitou 3 • vessel had arrived near the Island of Hogland, from g e ,ot and her dangerous situation was apparent to the cre'%. several large vessels of war in its vicinity, but, unOr nately, they were not able to render assistance. THE FORCE OF HABIT.—A leading broker in Ne% o rit being asked how his child was, answered, alm os t in ,r " Very ill, Wouldn't give two per cent, f or his life; cie rS TUB VISITORS' Beorc AT ET N COLLEGE.—Our re 3 3 l,'' will remember an it edent related in It tikes's "Jon i.° her in which it was shown how, after a certain cer etmorl' o pe Majesty contrived th Prince Albert should sign his.norf lot-fore the King of Hanover. The visitors to the l' b r i c al in Eton College will meet there w ith a littl e parallel. When the Queen and the Duke of Wellinfio, accompanied Louis• Philippe, on his visit to Eton, IV of tors' book in th a lil)rary was opened before the 1 01/ :',o the French, in order that he should inscribe his t:l ; o li' therein. His Maj sty did so at the end of ac o be mentary paragraph in indifferent French, in wh iem a pil speaks of Cet honorable Collruesou Th e ro y a l autog r ', o l being c , moleted, th, King handed his pen to her . I ‘ l . l the that she mi;lit write h-tr nano?, beneath his; but that Queen, turning to a frcEh pace, inscribed at the top 8 111 firm and graceful autograph whi c h is so f am iliar to u pga and then handed the pen to the duke, whl appears to toten so delighted, or hurried, that he mis-spelt ' bicb nam and wrote it " Welligton,"—a circumstance t he will not m.slead, we h o p e , f uture historians. - " g e oa school-room, the last illustrioos individual cut his lis ra f o rPt one of the pillars somath'e,-quarters of a century , ° o af and there it stands as " "W. Wesley." Th t two Nr s pe d be accounted for by his havi ng p ro b a bl y tw i ce coran 36 his surname.—Athcnceunz. re• THE ATLANTIC CABLE.—The arrangements for caption of the Atlantic telegraph cable at Keyham s t yard, Plymeu'll, are so far complete that the landing o pen be commenred next week. The spot selected is 911 0 10 space between the old powder magazine and the boundary wall of the work=. On the area-161ft. bflrti 3i i.—sl e epe r s 12i n . by 6i c . h ave b een l a id t our feet sspare to receive a flooring of thre e -i nc h pl an k s . The si de ore e , to be carried 9ft, high, a nd th e w h o l e di v i led int o ye rea compartments, which will be caulk e d a nd the floors n ° s , of with pitch, to make th e m w a t er ti g ht, f or th e Purr,ii 11° occasionally treting th e wi r e. A woo d en roof '' l ce iv s hrown over all. The th ree t an k s are com p u ted to r th e 3,000 miles of cable. The quantity now on boa r 9 00 r Agamemnon is about 1,250 m il es , an d t h e Ni ag ara ha ring' but a much greater quantity will be sent off nest. s rprg e The two ships are lying in the tid tl basin. The di " 9c ro a b commences from the Niagara; th, wire Rill pass til l p ro' boiling oil, and its delivery in the ordinary way to 1091 b .bly occupy six weeks; after which she will go ' 1 ;001 Yotk for repairs. The new steam-frigate Su` - 8 0 ,," Captain Sands, which arrived with the Niag a i rs o tit' t Agamemnon on the 29th of August, sailed from 9 depot on Wednesday for Spezzia, the United States' ria".o s t in the Mediterranean. Her return next year t°' ° ",..ill l) "" the effolt to effect a clear union of the two manor " hailed on all sides with satisfaction.