Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-15 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIINIES.LIVERPOOL, T UES DAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1857, THE INDIAN MUTINY. MEETING IN THE SESSIONS HOUSE. I A public meeting was held yesterday, in the Sessions Tiouse,': Chapel-street, for the purpose of enabling the inhabitants of Liverpool and the neighbourhood an opportunity of expressing their sympathy with the suf. ferers by the rebellion i❑ Inlia,',and in taking soma mea sures to aid in relieving these whom the outbreak has left destitute. The meeting was very numerously attended. Among the gentlemen on the platform and around it were —the Mayor (Francis Shand, 84q.), Wm. Brown, M.P., Charles Turner, W. Barclay. T. D. Anderson, J. A. Tinne, W. Potter, J. Aiken, J. H. Turner, Rev. Hugh M'Neile, Major Greig, J. Livinzston, G. H. Horefall, J. Finch, jun., G. Grant, John Woodruff. Rev. S. Minton, J. J. Stitt, T. M. Mackay, William Rathbone., George Melly, N. Carne. the Venerable Archdeacon Jones, J. H. Lev. ingstone, B. Williams, Wilson, and a large number of clergymen and other gentlemen whose names we did not ascertain. :'_,_The chair was taken shortly after twelve o'clock, by his worship the Mayor. Hughes, Deputy Town-clerk, acted as secretary to the meeting. r A requisition caning the meeting - was read, and the fol lowing letters were also submitted to the meeting : shop'.--court, West IDeri:y, Sept. 2, 1857. Dear Mr. Marr,—Althougio maiiy days have now elarsad since the met tin,: at the Mansion-house in London, ori,enating a subscription far tl:e retie! of thote snddanly tenthire l destitute under the most cruel and di•pressing circnmst times by this terrib!e rebeli'm in India, I do not believe that the wealthy and liberal men of Liverpool will fail to follow the example of the metropolis; but think rather that only a beginnhig is required, and that if your Werahip would only announce that aubscr:ptio33 would be received at the :own Hall, or elsewhere, or kindly take any other more apprapria'e step in the matter, contribution s won d readily fl ow in. Under this im;ression, Iw. pry you to receive the encloses cheque as my mite, with the expression of try regret that the amount is not larger; but those who have children in that distracted country must expect to ba calle I upon, as I have already bean, for the youngest of my four, who (bare'y escaped with life) finds his earthly nosse..sion educed to the hose that carrie I sun the cloth's which covered him. Apologt,ing for tie trouble I have ventwed to glv,•, Lremat, dear M. slayor, your. truly, S. Towing, Lieutenant-Colonel. For his Worship the Mayo: of Liverpool. Wahl!' Breck, Saturday. September 5, 1857. My dear Sir,—A movement has b en originated in London, under the auspices of the Lord Mayor ant other influential persons, for the temporary relie of our suffering fellow countrymen in Piclia. Their wants, it is stated in some of the public journal , , are great and ur gent. A prompt remittance, therefore, for their relief would un doubtedly be a boon of infinitely greater value than tardi'y offered contrihntions of double the a - acad. I gave notice last Sunday, in my church, of a collection to-morrow, September 6, for the above object ; and if a subscrip ion could be at or ce commenced in Liverpool, I should be glai to add the quota from my district to it, otherwise I propose forwarding it to London, for transmission t, India with the xcetrurolil an fund.—l am, my dear sir, your obedunt humble scrvant, HOLLAND LO iII.S. To the Worshipful tha 'Mayor of Liverpool. P.S. I have written to the R :v. tte Rector by this post. N:=l4 Green, West Derby, Liverpool, Sept. 14, 1857. Dear Mr. Mayor'—As I cann t attend the meetinz in aid of the subscription for our unfortunate Ang;o4ndisn fallow-countrymen, you wilt oblige me by putting down Arthur Heywood, Son; said Co. or .elo 1, and Mrs. J. Pemberton Heywood for 4'20.-1 am, yours faithfully, J. P. H.YWOOD. The Mayor, Town-hall, Liverpool. CA:e4iate S9pt. 14, 1857. Thar Sir,—l am obliged to go to Oar° d this afternoon. Thus, I regret to say, I shall be prevented from attending the meeting. Will yon have the goodness is mention this,,to Mr. Brown and the other gentlemen ?—'aithfary yours, J. S. HOWSON. W. Shuttlewo.th, Esq. The Mayor said, Gentlemen, the requisition which I have read lets you completely into the secret of our meet ing to-day. I am happy to feel that the names attached to the requisition, and the gentlemen I see around me, give the strongest assurance that the immediate object of our meeting ill be instantly carried out. I feel some little difficulty in enlarging upon a subject like this, be_ cause I am sure that the heart-rending details of the Indian mutiny are as familiar to you as they are to my self. A great difficulty is the difficulty of ascertaining 'what is the amount of the evil which we are prepared to meet. But when I look to the mutiny which has taken pace, a mutiny, I believe, without parallel in the history of the world—when I look to the treacheries which the %mutineers committed in destroying their officers—when I regard the monatroas atrocities which have been commit_ ted in every possible way, I cannot but apprehend that the spoliation and destitution must extend to a very vast amount, and that every (Mort which can be made by public and private subscription, will be necessary to relieve the destitute and the distre;sed. (Hear, hear.) It is not necessary on an occasion like this, to deal with the matter at all in a political point of view. We shall not look at all the circumstances which may have led to this fearful catastrophe, nor shall we now a ry anything of the remedies which may be applied. But lam quite sure of this, that there is no one in the conatry who is not prepared to stretch, his purse-strings to the utmost amount to meet the distress and destitution which must be thrown upon our fellow•subjects, and that there are none whose hearts will not prompt them to strengthen the government in sending the means of putting down the rebellion, and re-establishing our dominion upon a firmer ground than it ever yet has been. (Hear, hear.) lam sure that we shall, at the same time, take upon the mis• creants retributive justice, but I trust that while we do inflict upon them retributive jastice, we will do it with Christian judgment. (Hear.) The informr ha which we have from India by the mail just arrived, is, I think, of a most favourable character, for although we do net hear of any great event having taken place, the occurrences which have taken place, are of very great moment. General Havelock appears to have beaten the rebels very effectually, and will be, therefore, making progress ra pidly towards Lucknow. I believe that although we have not taken Delhi, we are only postponing it to a more fitting opportunity, and that when, our strength shall be properly increased, then, without separating the tigers encaged within its walls, we shall-be able, without any risk, to punish them as they deserve. (lear, hear.) With these observations, I may proceed to say, that Mr. William Brown will move the 'fir.it resolution. (Cheers.) With regard to myself, I 1:•: . q to say, as it is just as well to give a tone to the affairs at once as far as we can, that I beg to put my name down for £25 as the Mayor, and 4'loo in the name of the firm of Messrs. Shand. (Cheers.) Mr. William Brown, M.P., then came forward and was received with loud cheers. He said: Gentlemon, I think we must all feel extreme regret that it has been necessary for the chief magistrate to call us togethee upon such a melancholy occasion. (Hear, hear.) Who can read the despatches from India without deploring the sufferings of our officers and their families, their wives, and their children ? It is true that the East India Company will be able, upon the spur of the occasion, to extend to the distressed parties some temporary relief, bet that, apprehend, will be very inadequate to the demands which wie! be necessary to place them in a position no - of corn. fort, but ready to prevent absolute destitution. We must recollect that many of these parties are workmen on railroads, many of them are shopkeepers, many of them clergymen; others are missionaries and civil service officers of the company who were living comfortably upon £lOO, .e200,,0r £3OO a•year, and who are now lett without any means. We know how diffcult it is for men who have been living in tolerable affi ience to be redueel to absolute destitution. It remains now for ;13r1. tain to relie v e th em f rom thi s u nhappy situation. We find arriving at Calcutta officers who have lost their wives, wives who have lost their husbands, mothers who have lost their children, and children who -have lost their parents. By the treachery of those trai tors—whom it is impossible to designate by a name too harsh—not only have they sacrificed the lives of helpless women and children, but have betrayed the trust of their officers, offering them protection, an d a l most at the same moment murdering them. Gentlernen,l am sire it is only necessary to refer to the columns of the Times, and the other daily papers, of the country to have our souls, almost harrowed up by the distressing scenes which have occurred in India. (Hear, hear.) It rests upon us, to the utmost of our power, to relieve the distressed parties, awl to give them some little comforts after the serious privations they have met with. We are exceedingly for_ innate in having in the Anglo Saxon race soldiers and sailors, who, with the odds fearfully against them, have so far carried everything before them. (Cheers.) Thit morning's papers have brought U 3 an amount of the defeat of one of the m os t villainous fellows in India. Tne forces are within one day's march of relieving Lueknow.' The brave men who have defended it are deserving of our warmest praise and our warmest thanks. Gentlemen, o ne might say a great deal upon this subject were you all not already well posted up on the events which have taken place. W e all look forward with hope and.expec tation_to the news daily arriving from India ; and I am sure we shall with the warmest heart, and the stronzest feelings, give that support to the government which is necessary to send out not merely troops enough crush the rebellion, but an overwhelming number which shall utterly prevent any limilar outbreak from taking place hereafter. (Cheers.) I heard with great pleasure yes terday that eleven or twelve steamers had been taken up to carry out troops to India; and, now that we are so happy and comfortable at home, with an abundant har vest, we want no troops to take care of us here; the hearts of the people will take care of us at home. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I know there are some speakers more elo- Trent than myself wha will have an opportunity of addressing you upon this qaestion, and I shall therefore not take up any more of your time than by reading the Tes)lution which has been'entrusted to my care. Mr. Brown then read the resolulion which he prepared, and which after deploring the sufferings inflicted apan our fellow subjects in India, called upon the inhabitants of Liverpool to give a pracical exple3sion ta their feelings by raising a large fund for the relief of the numerous sufferers. MR. I. M. MACKAY was called upon to second the reso lution, and came forward amid Iml applause. He said : In rising to address you, I eanno':, help expressing the deep regret I feel at the necessity which brings us together to-day ; at the same time, I also feel that there is strocca sion for lengthened speeches, in the hope that the fountains of our sympathies may thereby gush out more profusely. When the heart is full, the tongue is not disposed to be elequent, and I am always reminded, on such benevolent occasions, of the wisdom of Dean Swift's celebrated ser mon, which, although an old and well known anecdote, I will relate for the benefit of the younger portion of my audience, who are not supposed to be so well acquainted with the witty D !an of St. Patrick's as their fathers are. It was on what is usually termed a charity sermon that he choose for his text the Scriptural pissage, 4 ' He that giveth to the poor, lendeth to the Lord ; and then, with a force of appeal far beyond the power of any oration,,he simply added, " There's your security, down with the dust," and immeiiately made the collection. {Hear, hear, and loud laughter.) I am, therefore, quite disposed to follow so good an example, and will not detain you long, tor the re cent accounts from India are so drealful that I have no desire, were I able, to paint their atrocity. They more than realise the striking apostrophe of the poet, on the massacre of the Poles, by Suwarrow, when Kosicusko fell:— The sun went down, nor censei the carnage there, Tamilßaoul murder sbo,k the mi.inight air. Hark r as the smouldering piles wish thunder fall, A thousand shr.eks for hopa!sss mercr Earth shook—red meteors ft sh along the sky, And cinscions nature shuddered at the cry ! Oh I righteous Heaven! ere snail men founi a grave, Wtiy slept the sword—omnipotent to save ? Where was thine arm. 0 vengeance! where thy rol That sm to the foes of Zion and of God. (Cheers.) It is hard to contrjl our common nature at such a time ' • and I fear I am appealing more to a sense of revenge for the wrongs that have been done than those we are assembled to remedy. So, instead of hardening your hearts against the treacherous foe, I would not seek to touch those better feelings which are ever alive to the call of sorrow and affliction"' There is one peculiarity about the elai,ns now urged which make them differ materially from any other appeals to our benevolence in oar lifetime, I allude to the class of sufferers by this terrible insurrection. In ordinary cases it is almost within our power to restore the mere worldly condition of the unfortunate; but here we have thousands, in high social positions, bereft of every personal comfort, driven out on the highways, without a roof to shelter them, wandering in hunger and wretched• ness under a tropical sun, and glad to escape with their very lives. To give you some idea of the best phases of the social misery at present in the seat of insurrection, I will read you a letter just received from a friend : " Our poor friends are in deep anxiety just now about their children in India, particularly their youngest married daughter, whose husband is a captain in the 71st Native Infantry. which was ono of' the first regis ments that mutinied at Lucknow. She, poor dear creature, with her three helpless ,children, two of whom being twins. and expecting a fourth, without a particle of clothing, either for herself or children, to change whh, in a small room with nine other families." Who cal estimate the amount of suffering in such a condition as the fiery furnace of an Indian summer. Only fancy it our else; to realise the horrors of being cast adrift, without a moment's notice, with our wives and children,' at immense distances frein any friendly asylum our personal effects, the result of years and years of economy and privation, utterly destroyed, and with little or no means of restoring them. For, bear in mind, the majority of the civil and military servants of the East India Company, apart from those eneaged'in independent pursuits, have very little scope, now-a-days, for laying up stores of wealth. I was much struck with the recital of the history of some of the sufferers I read in the newspapers yesterday. No doubt, there are thousands to whom this revolt is utter ruin, and many more to whom the cherished hope of "a youth of-labour with an age of ease" is now like a tale that is toll. lam done. God grant we may never be called together for such an object again. I repeat that in our "generation none like it has ever taken place, and I, there• fore, claim the embodiment of your sympathies this dey in a subscription truly worthy of the town of Liverpool. (Loud applause:) The resolution was carried by aeolamatirin. The REV. Da. M'Noten came forward to propose the sec3nd resolution, and was received with euthusias is acclamation. He slide Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I quite feel with the last sneaker, that it is - unnecessary to attempt to give information upon the subject Mere us to the meeting new assembhd. This meeting. sir, consists of gen t'cmen who have read for themselves month after month, as the mailshavearrivstl, the details of the horrors which has cc carrel in India. I tqu.lly ftiliy agree with yourself, Mr. Mayor, t hat this is tut an ems' on to enter largely upon the events whittle may be supposed to have lel to this outbreak ; neither to enter upon eny of the thorny questions of inter national law, as the right .of conquest of one nation over soother. This is a time, I thiak e when we should take matters here as we find them, and confine ourselves to the facts of the &are now before us. It is true, sir, that many questions may seise ir. ustn'.s minds and agitate them, with reference to matters on which differences of opinion may be entertained, es to the treatment of India by th:. , British G .vernm-mt and the East India Company, as to the manner in which they have conducted themselves during their various conquests and the annexations of more Modern years. (Hear, hear.) But I think, sir, that we may fairly take the matter as we now find i', and I shall briefly say why I think se. I find in the highest authority to which my mind, heart, a'ad conscience are in the habit of submitting instinctively—l flan a recognition without inquiry or examination of the existing right of conquest. When the tribute mosey of Judea was breught befere our Saviour, be asked whose image and superscription it bore. He was told, " ter's," and he said—" actid,r, therefore. unto Cm , ar the things which are Creme's," The right of Caesar to Palestine av-ts of the same character as the right of Britain to .F.lindostac—he had taken itbv conquest. That right was recognised by the highest authority, without engeiry or examination as to the motives of the Roman Conquest, or the manner in which it had been carried out in the East. There, I think, is our lesson, and the reason which I give fur taking matters as we find them, and looking only at the adtuel facts of the case, presenting as they do, the claims enaho lied in the resoltoi en. It is needless, I think, Mr. Mayor, to repeat facts which hive been made public. D„uhtless, every addilieu to whet has been published derived from priv Ito correspondence, will come with fresh interest to the pub'ic mind. Wa have got one ineance of this in the letter which the preceeding speaker has been kind enough to read to the meeting. I rosy add, sir, 'hat there are instances under my own knowl- dge —the circumstances of one of my own sons, who is a captain in the sth Native Bengal Infantry. His regiment had mutinied. Thank God, his life has not been slertlimd. His wife was with him at the static near Urnhallat., bat she was obliged to fly from - him ; and when we last heard she was in a room with thirty people, without a curtain to draw between thetu —without a separate room to retire to for steeping, washing, eatine-- all the details of social life. These indeed are harrowing Nets:, 'connected with perseno in such a class of society. I heard ales ie a letter reed to me this morning, by a friend who is s eying at my louse, of a very gratify:ne exercise of benevolenee now goirtg on in Calcutta. Houses of refoge have been opened tl ere for the sufr re a who are arriving from the north-west, and" Mrs. Coloire, wife cf the bandeau, and Lady C.nning, wife of the Governor General, are working thete, as Miss Nightingale dii in the Crimea, with their own hands ministering to the necessities of the ladies and children daily brought in from the river. (L cheers) The funds transmitted from the Lard Mayor of London and arriving hr the m ils to he disposed of at the discretion of the Governor-Gete:al, will be most invaluable and seasonable in Calc tta, (Meer, hear.) Bat, Mr. Meyer, s 'me of the sufferers have left India. Some have already arrived in England. Some of them are now on the see, coming te England, completely destitute. They are the widows and the orphans of affiesrs, many of whom were the sons of poor rnen—the sons of poor clergymen of the Church of England, of the Church of Scotland—the sons of men who find it difflcult to manage under the immediate pressure of their (muffles at heme, and who will be cern- Wet ly o eswhelmed by the additional pressure of 'the eleughtertain-law and grandohildren thrown new upon their families, I thi..k, sir, it would well become this great town and this meeting, as the ex penest of the Christian charity of this town, if, together with our contributions to be gathered to-day, we were to give an expression to the public—on iefxr may es callsionw it hi so, eh ,I have no doubt, the parent committee, in London would g . ve constant heed to, that, instead of continuing to act upon their resolution and transmitting 1)1 every mail to the G.Aternor-Geseral of India for distribution at his pleasure there all the funds collected, there should now be a reserved fund kept in England to meet the immediate necessities of the sufferers who have arrived, and may be txpecttd to arrive from week to week at some of our ports. (Rear, hear.) The resolution 'entrusted to me is, " that a committee be no w appointed to collect subscriptionsand so to appropriate them as in their judgment may best carry out the intentions of the meeting,' not losing slgitt of the .fact, of cease, that many have arrived and are arriving in Great Britain who may require immediate relief, as well as those re maining in I ndia. (Hear, hear.) I have great pleasure in proposing that resolution for the ad ,ption of the meet ing. I must resist the temptation of enlarging in a different strain upon the course now before us, remember ing and ag eeing subs'antially in what my predecessor said, that this is not the time nor the place for lengthened sermons ; bu-, sir, this is alubject for a sermon, and for a good sermon too—one that would call forth all the energies of Christian symp thies emanating if they, be genuine, as all Christian truth and Christian practice must do, from the lova of Him who left all that was dear to him and was content to be a fugitive from his father's house, and to be poor and naked for our sake. It is in the love of him —in the power of his work over us, exercised upon the heart—in the person, feelings, faith, life, and rising 'again of our Saviour, that I would appeal to ouriChristian friends, and say you should be thankful to God for enabling you to make money, if it were only for such a crisis as this— thankful for the opportuaiiies you have had t o mike more than you have had occasion to expand. I address myself to men who have large investments in various securities is els country—large balaocea in their bankers' hands, and I would beseeth their co-operation in this work by all the valise they set upon the kind feelings of Christian blaahsrhood—by all the value they set upon the lova of Christian husbands —by all the value they set upon the memosy of those husbands who have been snatched by the murderers frun under the very eyes of their suffering wives, and by all the holy and honest indignation they must feel at' such scenes as are ree,r.led of that wonderful man of whom I read in one - of those letters. He was standing in his bungalow, his wife alone being with him. lie was assailed by a mutinous regiment. Ho had a rifle and two revolvers, each of them with four barrels—nine charges in all. He beat off the mutineers as long as he could. He shot four of them with his first revolver, and two with the second, and then she had but two shotleff. Be turaai round and looked at his wife. Who can estimaos the power of such a look on either side as that ? Mast she fall into the hands of the barbarians? They did not fire, because they wanted to have hsr, and would not risk her death in shooting him. He taw it—she saw it. He had two charges left. He fired one into her heart, ani the other into his own head, and they both fell dead before the mutineers. (Sensation.) I beg to propose the resolution for your adop.ion. ( A pplause.) Me, J. J. STITT seconded it. He said : Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I have to express deep regret that the gentle ni,n who, it was intended should second this resolution, is not able to be praseat, and consequently I am called upon unexpectedly to take his p!ace. It has never been my lot to take part, and I doubt very much whether it has ever been your lot, sir, to preside over a meeting calle I under such melancholy one painful circumstances as those which have assembled us togs; her this morning. Who is there with the heart of an Englishman ; who. reading those scenes in the papers, has not occasionally came to passages upon which he was called to close his eyes, and from which he was called to divert his mini ; bat this morning, we are called upon to look manfully at the consequences of this terrible revolution in India. Wrapt in the fierce flame of rebellion—surrounded by cowardly, dastard, cunning foes—hunted ie partridges on the mountains, who does not feel, with what magnanimity— with what nobleness—with what fortitude our suffering fellow-countrymen and country-women have upheld the cause and name of England in that far distant land? (Hear, hear,) some time ago, some p - ,rtions of the terri tories of a neighbouring ally were visited by an outbreak, not of this kind, but a devastation from the hand of God • An appeal was made to the sympathies of England—and did England, who fought site by-side with that ally in the straggle in the Crimes refuse to hear that call ? No ; she answered - it nobl., and sent forth he. subscriptions to those who h4 7 i suffered from the inundations in France ; and shall the cry which susgss up : from the blood stained plains of India, from the burning bungalow, and from the more inhospitable mountain and forest, which now shelter our otherwise shelterless fellow-sabjeats. Shall that cry fall upon the ear of Englishmen unanswered.? I say, no; and I h ipe that this day you have ineugura.ed measures which will show that the people of Liverpool are alive to those emotions and Pyawathigi which all the motives of kindred, commercial caaaection, humanity, and Ciristianity ought to dictate. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was unanimously adopted. The Venerable Archdeacon JONES proposed the next resolution. Lie said :—I have now, sir, to propose the following resolution :—" That the requisitionists an ,I aldermen constitute the sommittee, with power to add to their number." Very few words it is necessary for me to speak with reference to this resolution. I Ideal, however, t 3 take the opportunity of thanking you, sir, for acceding to the request of the gentlemen who are now to form the committee ; and I bag leave, as a minister of religion, to thank those requisitionists. I shoull be sorry indeed if Liverpool were bshindhand in following the example of the metropolis. Sae has always been Lamest in every good work, and certainly there never was such an occasion as this which more called f)r the axiime co-operation of the inhabitants of this large commercial town. (II ear, hear.) Sir, the object for which we are met together may be simply said to be to express our symp ithy for these sufferers, and to do all we can to aid their necessities. (Hoer, hear) It is alma , t impossible to avoid giving effusion to those feel ings that are natural to_ the human heart, when we speak of such atrocities as these which the public prints record. The natural feeling of a desire for revenge at first prompts the human heart, but it is necessary t 3 cheek and modify all such feelings. Tne recollection of the terrible coasequences to those rurtlens iaclividaally in the world to come, oven if they escape the sword in this world, is sufficient to repress the tumultuous and revengeful feelings of our hearts. To me—and I venture to speak it before a Christian audience such as this—to me the eicape of delinquents so barbarous from punishment (and hundreds and thousands or them will escape), is a strong argument for a judg ment to come. (Hear, hear.) Surely, there is a God, a righteous God to revenge. He does not vindicate justice always in this world, but their is a tribunal above, another tribunal, at which we and they and all must one day answer. Allusion has been made to the relations of the speakers now in the East I have a relation there I have a dear son at this moment before Delhi. He has been engaged in several en gagamen t s , and he has lost all the little store that he had at Um: ballah. He was on leave of absence when the mutiny broke out. Ile was hundreds of miles away, but he met with the first tidings when he was on his way back wards. He hastened down to Umballeh, but he found hie regiment gone—the oth Lancers. He packed up the few things that were necessary and harriel after them, and overtook them two day's march before they arrived at Delhi, and there he hue been from that time until this, when with anxious heart I am waiting for the next account. Ile happily is not married. He has no wife or children to take care of, thank Gad! hr under such ch.cumstances it must indeed be misery to have such anxieties at heart. His only desire is to be faiehfal to his Queen and country, and ho is now engaged, at this moment it may be, before that fortress (Applause) Bat though we are not to advert to topics that may produce a single jarring note, I trust I May refer to one topic with the hope that it may not pro duce the slightest disagreement of sentiment—l mean as to the origin of this horrible rebel ion —for when it broke out there were many in this country that were rea,iy to attribute the origin of the mutiny to a cause which I feel, as a-minister of religion, ought not to go away unexplained —I refer to the stigma that his been thrown at one time by the public prints, and another time by a person eminent in the legislature, in disparagement of missions. It has been said that the zeal of missionaries has been the cause of this outbreak. Nothing was ever more untrue. Then forsooth the argument that the Government wore the origin of it by the order to issue cartridges composed of unctuous subtances that were obaoxious to the !Endow. That his been found to be an untrue state ment. It was only sought for as an excuse, but it was not the cause. New light is b-eaking out on the real object and the real cause of it. We now see that the Messulman ar.d the disciples of the false prophet is at the 'bottom of it. We see now, that the Hulloes have been made seep goats as it were, and infamous as the conduct of the sepsys has been, it has been under the still more wicked influence of the stmhitious and revengeful Mussul man. Ido trust, sir, that this meeting wi I not expend its charities in mere sympathy, and much less in listening to speeches, but that we shalt proceed to work. I have done the little that I . could in 'nevi: g this resolution, and I doubt not, that the committee would perform their duty with zeal and sucsess. (Applause.) Mu. W. RATIIBONE seconded the resolution. Ile said: I had no intention to take any part in this meeting, but as an obedient subject. I answer the call of the Mayor and rise to second the resolution. I agree with Dr. M'Neill that we are to take things as they are ; bat I believe that the last speaker, from what he has said, has rather misunderstood the thing. I have never heard anything again the missionaries, but I. have beard things that convince me that there is a sin 'yin at our door as well as at the door of the others. (Hear, hear.) I hope we shall not now go into it. I do not want to go into it; but I do want us to act as a Christian country, and to remember that some of our military men, and some of our civil service men, have been the cause of a great deal of that feeling which is abroad in India. (Hear, hear.) I do not want .to palliate those cruelties, or the outrages on our women—outrages that cannot be mentioned in a court —outragm; that were worse than death—ten thousand times worse than death from the barbarians who perpetrated them. I do not want to mitigate one feeling of your resentment, but, I believe that our treatment of women has been one cause of the fee ing shown to our country women, and, I hope, that in the future government of India we shall by that deeply to heart. I shall not say more, but beg to second the resolution. (Applause.) The resolution was unanimously alopted. The Mayon then read the subscription list, which already bears the names of many of our leading merchants for large amounts. Mr. W. BROWS', 31. P„ moved a vote of thanks to the Mayor, and, in doing so, bore testimony to the zeal evinced by h*s Worship in t his.m atter. The Rev. Dr. AItYR , Lc. Seconded the motion, which was carried by acclamation. The meeting then separated. ALCOHOL; OR, THE MINOR CURSE OF ENGLAND. BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A S 4 BIES OF ADDRESSES DELIVERED IN CONNICLTION WITS ST. M tBY'S TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY, KURD/ILE. DEDICATED TO THE REV. MR, TIT PERTON, PRESIDENT, BY A ' • LIVID,POOL WORKING MAN. " Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him and mak3st, him dranken."—Ltabak. IL 15. [Continued from. llth Septenther.] It is n sturel enough to think that the prostitute will drink to forget her degradation, and remember her misery no mare, and as a consequence, puts off amendment, or abandons the hope altogether. I will state a circumstance which came under my own observation, wilt others, i.lnetrative a the fact, that these unfortunate victims of Alcoholic drinks, are not unmindful of their degradation. Some fifteen years age, I had a fern de servant of good moral character, who had been in my employment two years, and gave general satisfaction, who was induced by the temptation of extrava gant wages, to accept the offer of a publican, in this town, when she made the circumstance known to me, I reasoned with her on the impropiaty and danger of such a course; reminding her that her moral character was then good, she his erred to my arguments and declined the offer in the first instance, but on the publican making a second application, an,i holding oat farther inducements, she was te npted to accept the offer, and entered his se:vice. I lo_t sight of her nntil the summer of 1853, when having occasion to call upon a person in Moon s'reet, in this town, and not having procured the address of the party accurately, I had to call at Beyond houses, among the cumber was a brothel, and b my astonishment, Es her presentedherself s the moment she recognised me, she exclaimed, "m a t 0:d master, my old ma=ter," and instantly the tear began rolling down her cheeks, and exclaimed in piercing agony ; "Oh that I had taken your advice, and net gone to that cursed public house, I had no: been ruined ; I am ruined, I am ruined, what must I do, what must Ido ?" 0 tercome mysels, with the circumstance, I felt utterly unable to give her any advice, at the moment, and turned away, promising to call again, night gave me no rest the foantain of sleep was dried . up, Either's degradation, and exclama tion was upon my mind, daring.tha whole of the night; my wife equally aaxions that she should be reclaimed, with this view, I went next morning at g o'clock, in order to see if I could induce her to go to the penitentiary, and if she continue 1 to man fest that contri tion she seemed to evince the day before, I would have again taken her into my service, bat alas, I was told she had gone away, what had become of poor unforta taM Esth.r, the victim of intox icating drink, the councils of eternity alone will disclose. Ono of nese unfortunate daughters of vice, and victims of intosioating drink, sail to a town missionary, "young as I am, drink has rainA me? my father died raving mai, through drunkenness; my poor mother new lies on her death be I, through drunkenness; and I an a pro,titnte, ant, therefore lost, lost I" Bat, she added, "if you will get my p3o: mother into th., workhouse, I will sign t pledge and go into the peniteat'a y, for lam weary of my sinful coarse." The Missioa try had the mother removed into the worknease, and o'st tined the daughter admission into the penitentiary, where; she died you peultant. Who knows but signing the total ,abstinenee pledge was the first step to her forgiving Saviour. Anoner of these unfortunate victims of kcohol said to the same missionary, " drink has ruined m 3 ! my father and mother ware great drunkards, they had six children, all of them drunkards, as you_see me ; two of them have been t:ransporte two others die I through drank3aness, one is in the asylum through drunkenness, and I am a prostitute," What a shocking thing is drink, she added. As a f utter illastrati en that prostitution, as well as other crimes, is dependent on drunkenness, W, F. Johnson, E•gaire, chairman of the Durham County Penitentiary, said at a puhlic ineetine, " 1 hive examined 21 inmates, 8 between 14 and 16, and 13 under 21 years of ago, and it Is lamentahl3 to have to say that every one of these unfor tunate girls-have boon gat hot, of by pahlicaas and be reapers, and by them in Focal to resort to profligate live I, and further a Iped's surgeon and inspector of factories made the following kvalling dis closures to a parliamentary committee to inquire into the =ie. crime : Ann C committed to gaol for feloly, `Aid me tint she went astray through going to live at a bear-hoe e, where a nuna')er of boys and girls were induced to reams:, the Mrs. of the house clam - ling one shilling eery time the k ,y of a bed room was require!. Martha F c tun to Bradfir I as servant t 3 - beerhoese : after being there a fortnight, the Mrs. propo7ei that she should go into the bed-raem with fdan !s, and gore her one shilling and sispen.m every time she reloired the key. Mary K- wan ' , lineal to accept a aim lar offer from a beer house keeper at Leads : prior to tht , her moral character was goad. The report of this perilame airy corn oittee r2Cp:dni to some extent the otherwise molarn phooo melon of how oar gorgeoal Gin-shops are e Cate! and supporta!, the extravagance of publicans, their dogs, guns, horses, and equipages, at the bast a a nit of shaeby genteel :style of living kept up by profligacy and plunder. A widow from Ormskiric told my wife that, contrary to her ex pressed wish. her daughter, age! 16, c tine to Liverpool to be servant at a pubPc-hense, and returned home in three months disease,' through profligacy. In Richmond Penitentiary. Dublin, 26 of those unfortunate victims of drunkenness hid been imprisoned, 2186 averaging 81 times each one of them hal been in prison 121 tines. Such is the demoralising inufi once of thsintoxic sting draught. Bat more app tiling still, in a reyert of the Watch Committee d tted Town-hall, Moch 2, 1936, it was stile! that there were 120') pros ti tu'es known to 117 e in opea brothels in this town, walla more than doable th it number ha l their lodgings in other places, so th st ac cording to that fe rful re,3mit if the p ;pniation of Liverpool had been analysed at that time, it would be fon d that there was one profes sional prostitute foe ovary sane virtuous woolen. Mr. Kelly, a bridewell keeper of this to wo of long staeding and of great experience; and, I am hinpy, to say, a ehrist4 a platanthroehist .nformsl M 3, that feeling for these uefortunete creatures, (it is sails. fa tory to know that there %reser) , noway in the police establishme it 1 ke Mr. Kelly, who are not de.titate of sympathy when they witness the degradation of their Mew beings); ant with the view to the con templation of so ne practical 311 ge3' Loa for their amelioration, insti tatel an ingairy as to the number of these unfortunate vic:lms of drankenness in the neigh'soa:hoed of Hotham-street, is which In quiry he found in II othan-st:set, .Alblea-street, Norhury-scree", Poynton-street, and Pellew-street 73 brothels, with 203 prostitutes Conneeted with them, and Major Greig reported in 1856 193 b othols in Liverpool, with 2,313 p ostitates connectel" with the a, being an increase of 123 prostitn:es over the year !855. Sorely it was time for the authorities to take the matter up; and while they are attempt ing to check this fearful amount o: pallation flowing from ant the effects of drunkenness, I must calmly look on aid see what, in the:r wisdom, they will do with the cuts?, viz., the gin shop. If British women would wipe oat this foul stain and appal ling amount of suffering and crime feam their sax and country, they mast assist the men of Britain to close up the nurseries of that terrible evil —panic houses. The Puritan diviae said well, when he designated them seminaries of iniquity. Whatever government may do, neither craven hearted exeelieacy nor economy can j istify their Coe tinuance in their present form, unless, indeed, to expedite England's dissolu tion, for the evil cannot go on increasing as it has dons daring the last fifty years witecrat sech an evil occurring at no distant day. 'As a further iilmtration of the evils of females 'drinking, Toomas Wright, batter knows as the prison philaithropi d , pos33 ti a Par liamentary committee, that of two sty-seven coo leransl criniinale with whom I leave conversed on the sisffol 1, thee: W 3 bat one that said he hal a good met her. They all told sad tales of their mothers ; and farther, observed Mr. Wright, there is a race oF women in the world who do not care where the money comes from, or how it is obtained, so that they can get it fo: drink ; some of then I have eves totted to encoarage their girls to become prostitutes. I have seen them as early no ten yea 3of ago, an I they ‘ell told sal tales of their drunken patents, ant especially of their drunken mothers. One told tea most painful tale of her mother sending her out begging in the fl , st instance, au I faille; to supply her wants by bogging, once oroged her to steal, that the mother might get drink. At twelve years of ag this girl had been in prison twelve times, and as a c mftr mation of Mr. Wright's statement, Ave boys applied for admission into. Field-lane Raged Scho3l, London, being as they said, wearied of sin. These boys d,:clared teat they were induced to steal by their mothers to enable them to get tirink ; the oldest, 19, had been impriso,ed forty times; the next, 17, impriloned 29 times; the next, 15, imer's tied seven times ; the next, 11, imprisoned five times , the neat, 12, imprl stoned four times. Notwithstanding these facts, the Earl of Shaftesbury states at a public meeting, that the candact of these five b ys had bean so et ornplary, that employment hat b 3 n obtaited for the three oldest, who were g;ving the utmost sitisfact'on to their employers, and observed this philanthrophie and Christian noblemen—i . But for the gin shops r igged schools would soon cease to exist." And, further, Sir A. Alison says—" That of 234 boys I examined in the House of Refuge, Glasgow, I found 72 had drunken fathers, 62 drunken mothers, and 69 had drunken fathers and mothers." So that there were 203 out of 234 children flute ea ly plunged into want and misery through the drunkenness of tneir parents. DUTCH-RHENISH RAILWAY. The adjourned general meeting of shareholders of the Dutch-Rhenish Railway Company was held at Amsterdam, on Than-day, the 10. h instant. The English party were ro t :reef nted by W. Fenton, Esq., Thomas E. Mess, Esq , W. Chaplin, Esq., Thomas Bonen, Esq., R. E. Morrice, Esq , Charles Holland, Esq , Thomas Braesey, Rig , H. C. Beloe, E q., &c , &c: The chief object of the meeting was to receive the report of the committee of shareholders appointed to confer with the boards of directors and commissaries as to the present and future management cf the company, which pointed out the great economy that could be effected in the working expenses, more especially .in the maintenance of way, engineer's department, labour, and other matters, assuming that by that means the average working expenses could be reduced from 60 to 40 per cont. W. Fzerroet, EQq., en moving the adoption of the report, alluded to the courtesy the committee hal experienced from every member of the boards of commissaries and directors. Ha was anxious to avoid imputing aoy indivi nal blame, and if nomenclature were used, it must be considered as a mere al% straetion, and meant nothing harsh to individuals. It was well known how much disappointed the share holders had been. • It would ba easy to amplify the causes of disappointment, bat speaking as he did in a foreign language, he was anxious to be as short as possible. Railways must be managei in the same way as a mer chant managed his affairs in Amsterdam or London. The public, it was tree, had been well served, but the share holders got no dividend. The manazement of a railway must be practical, not theoretical. - Mach of the blame must be attributed to the great extravagance of the ergineer'e s aff, abounding as it did in inspectors, mob inspectors, and clerks, and a vast red tape sy stem of corres pondence, calculated rather to retard than p-omote the business of the company ; and inasmuch as when railways ware completed, high class engineers were not needed, it was -only necessary now to retain Baron Van Reede as consulting engineer. There was a traffic already on the line sufficient to pay a good div dend, even .to the extent of 6 per cent., bet it was washed away in expenses. The economy of a line needs but one example. The engines ran-about 9,000 miles a week, or 1,286 per day-130 miles is reasonable work for one day, and carrying out that calculation, it wes clear that ten engines, or say even sixteen were req4ired, and having sixteen more in reserve, thirty-two were abundant, but they had forty-six or forty e'ght. Englishmen had little idea of the trade, and population, and general importance of the large towns of Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Utrecht. and Arnheirn forming termini to the line, and he saw no reason at all for being , disheartened, on the contrary, he bid the shareholdeis to be of good courage, and the result would yet prove satisfactory. Mr. Hammen, on the part of the Board, accepted the report, without at the same time concurring in many of the allegations of blame which it contained. He was, however, free to admit tha , adverse circumstances, coin bined with the newness of the traffic, and the general want of experience of the employee, had produced a result which might well cause dissatisfaction in the minds of the shareholders, and all he could now do in behalf of himself and his co-directors, was to give an assurance of the cordial co-operaiion of the Bard in carrying out whoa. ever practicable the suggestions of the committee. Mr. Forbes, late of the Great Western Railway, way then appointed Goods Manager of the Company. Messrs. Holland, Beach, Moss, Watkin. and Fenton were a pp o i n t e d ccennoiseicieere, and thanks hivieg been voted to the Coma:dues and Cuaireaan, the meeting separated. The accounts from the south of Russia represent the harvest around the Sea of Az .fr as wonderful, and that Ilardiantl is likely to t ka away much of the trade of Odessa. PumnaamoNrc S(TIETY, OPERAS, &c.—A report having been circulated that Madame Grisi v Madame Alboni, Mario, and their troupe, will appear herein opera this season, we are authorized to state that these justly celebrated artistes will only sing at the trio concerts at the Philharmonic Society, on the 18th and 18A instant, and we mike the announcement in order that the public may net be dis appointed, by missing these, the only opportunities which will ,be afforded them of hearing the favourite singers in qaestion, which some might be led to do under the im pression that they would have the advantage of seeing them at the Theatre R . INCENDIARISM IN FRANCE BY A LITTLE Boy.—The Droll records a curious case of incendiarism tried on the 7th inst. at the asi.ixas of the Indre-A-Liire. A boy of twelve years of age, named Chats:al, in the sarvice of Due Girand, a farmer, at Savigny, in Touraine, hat ben for some time dissatisfied with hi; situation, complaining that his wages were insufficient. One day he told a woman employed on the farm that he, would set fire to his master's house, but no no'ica was taken of his threats. On the night of the 18 . ,h ult. the firmer was awakened by cries of are, and, on going into the yaid, saw that a bundle of straw close to a shod filled with hay waa on fire. In moment the fire spread to the shed, which was speedily burnt dovn ; as adjac , nt barn was saved wiza difficulty. About six hours afterwards the fire broke out again, and consumed this VG; and all its contents. The boy admired that he had set fire to the straw with some matches which he found on his master's chimney-piece, and stated that he did so la-came his master had beaten him. The farmer denied that ha had in any way M used the boy. 'I he tiry found the prisoner guilty, and he waa sentenced to euht years' imprisonment. ATTEMPTED BURGLARY AT MANN'S BREWERY, MILE END.—On Tuesday morning, about half-past three o'clock, an extraordinary attempted burglary was detected on the premises of Messrs. Mann and Orcssmati the extensive brewers of Mile-end-row. At the time soave named the watchmen on dety heard an nausaal noise, which attract- d their attenion. They proceeded to the counting-1111160,mM' foLind the door fast:,;:ied inside. After some delay they _ forced it open, and discovered seventy-friar pieces of house breaking implements. Information was forwarded to the Atbmt-Ignare Mee Station, Stepney, when Insvct)r Giffin and Scrgemt Smilh, of the K division, made a careful exqminatint of the premises. They ascertained that the barg!ars must have entered by passing through the Plc ory of Mr. Musto, the engineer, of the Cambridge road, when they got npon the roof of the counting-house, where the tiles were removed, and a hole cut in the ceiling, through velich was hinging a new rope ladder. pa the _ _ front of the large iron safe wa3 found a boring machinl of a very peculiar character, which was made in a first-rate style, and a hale about the SiZ3 of a crocin piece had been bored in tho safe, which cont iincd no cash, but a number of deeds and other 'docurnenti. Thera were also a set of skeleton keys, a small sledge-haintne:, two jemmys, gitoblets, a dark lantern, a lite preserver, two small oil cans, ti number of peculiar shaped steel bits for boring, c . )isels, files, saw;, knives, drea leather bar, two silk handkerchiefs, and a cloth cap. The whole of the imple ments were made by e!ever workmen, and weighed about 531b2. A CATASTROPIM—TraveIIers inform u 3 that the vul. tures and other birds tof a feather of warm climates swarm with magical spied arid voracity to the spot where any catastrophe provides them their appropria , e meal. The accident we now record, though not of a fatal character, had yet in it one great point of resem blance to the contratemps of the desert we have alluded to. As the vultures flock to the prostrate carcase, with not less eagernoss and celerity do little hofs swarm rotted a treac'e po - d. A treacle pond, of no small dimensions, was presented to their hungry appetites yesterday morning, by the fall of a cask of that neeta rean article, from one of Croxley's railway waggons, in Upper Temple-stre,-t. In less than . a minute the Arabs of the street rushed upon their prey, dipping their hands in the luselous fool, and then conveying the skid hands to their mouths with a gusto that it was quite refresh ing to witness. Some of the more enthusiastic lovers of treacle threw themselves upon the ground, and plunged tongues and noses into the slowly flowing tide. Great was the consternation of the waggoners at the _loss of their cargo, nor wire they long in hastening to its resctte, aad stemming the treaely deluge by flinging it, mixed with street dust, into some extempore recepta cles borrow'ttl from the adjacent " Acorn," at the same time driving back the juvenile devourers, who, by their rignrous onslo -were event ually compelled to limit their depredatioos to an occasional dip and suck as they stood wistfully around the margin. After some time, as much of the adhesh'e fluid having been collected as pos sible, the aid of a deluse of water from the nearest main washed away all traces ,')f treacle, and closed the scene. —Birmingham Daily Pres:: (To be continued ) DIVIDEND OF THE (IRISH) MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. —We understand it k the intention of the direc tors of this company to rsc nnmend to the prupristors at the approaching lallf-ytitrly m eting a dividend of five per cent. for the half-year ending the ‘ 3ith of Jane last.— Dubidu Freeman. D. I IVINCISTON.—The freedom of the city of Glacrzow is to be presented to this distinguished triorcller on Wed nesday next. The Lord Provost and magistrates have arranged that the presentation shall take place in the City Hall, at one o'clock. On the same evening the learned doctor will be presented with a pecuniary testimonial amounting to about £2,000, on which occasion he will meet the subscribe= iu Abe Dit7 11“11.—courant, POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—YEsTERDAY' LIVERPOOL. BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD. DisunNasr LODGERS —A mechanic, named Trayor, and his rife Rose, were charged by who resides in Arley street, with having stolen a of bed clothes and other property. The priti" farnis'sed lodging; from complainant, and as it Wi they took the things out of poverty, the officer the case said the male prisoner's father was a person, and would arrange the matter. He bd man was out of work for some time. The pris( remanded. PREACHING ON 'CIIANGE.—An elderly man, or Joseph Fidler (who a few days ago had the bench), was ch irged by officer 362 with and disorderly on 'Change, on Saturday evening. preaching and creating a disturbance, and he to take him into custody. The prisoner said, used were very simple ; they were not quite to meaning, but they were perfectly in earnest, al should be addressed to those who are co-par' Joshua. I have no doubt they were mib. Christ has chosen them as the liberators of 10 throughout the. world, and he has permitted nat think the laws very bad which allowed a man to up, and prevent him from being in his place of on the Sabbath. 'At six o'clock I was perfectly attending to my duties. He was remanded for until a medical man could examine him. ASSAULTING A NIGGER.—A. black man DIC Sidney, charged a person named Samuerßerry, ' assaulted him. The complainant was speaking to, in Bandon-street, when the.prisoner came up aryl black nigger had no right to . speak to a w hite He replied he was on English soil, and was free he pleased An altercation followed, when the struck him a blow on the head with a loaded inflicted a smart wound an him. The prisoner tot' story about himself and " another gentleman," he struck the blow in self defence, as ha . it complainant was about to draw a knife. The fined £5, or is default of payment, two mont ALLEGED MURDER IN MARYBONE —John labourer, living in 1, Court, Marybone, was having murdered one Michael Lions, who same court, on Saturday-the titlisinst. The pris in the custody of detective officer Sullivan, who him on Sunday: Mr. Goodere. was for the Surgeon Sheppard, of the Northern Dispenf I attended the deceased on the 6th and 7th, latter day I banded the case over to the parish get relief, as the person was not able to get relic and I did not see the case since. There was on the left side of the mans' neck, fire or six and two in breadth—he was tying on his right s appearance was from a blow. Mr. , Goodere danger then ? No, not then.. Mr. Mansfield : dig ipate death at the time? I did nit anticipate death an injury at all. He complained of stiffness in and he had fever on the second day. Mary Sh , she saw the prisoner strike deceased a blow on with a piece of a horse's harness. She shouter have killed the man. Mr.' Mansfield : Was ' words between them before the blow was given whatever, I heard none. Officer Sullivan ' enquiry that he had made, it' would appear, that a quarrel about a -fortnight before, but not at thi the occurence. Two other females (besides witness), and a b.ly were examined, , and they fully rated • the statement. All said there was no, previous to the blow being struck. Hit worsb' the prisoner to be remanded for seven days, an' a summons to be issued for the surgeon's who would be ordered to make the post mortenb tion of the body by the coroner. Tas Losr BILL.-=Yesterday morning a pars' James Rafferty, described as a runner to master, and formerly proprietor of "Prince Carriage," was arrested by officer Scptt on being concerned with the prisoner Ackerley, in of Mr. Hunt's hill, a full report of which appear' paper of yesterday. Mr. Ciougli said after At been remanded on Sa'urday, he saw Rafferty street, and ordered an officer to take him to the office. He told him that Ackerley was in et that if he did not give up the bill he would se gaol, as he understood he had ir. SabsequentlY went with an officar to Mr. Parker's publio l d i Cable-street, where Ackerley and Rafferty he the bill for 24, audit was given u_p to the officer' morning 'Rafferty went to the office, when in custody. Mr. G-3c11..ey appeared for --- a nd have bail taken for his appearance this dg , at( same discussion his Worship agree.' to take the Su £2O each for his appearance. A boy, named William Willoughby, was sent toe three days, and to be whipped, for stealing tsve r f u of tobacco from his master, Mr. Fle`cher, Fleets CLOSE OF THE ART TREASURES FRIIIDITION.- -- mittee of the Art Treasures Exhibition have re f° close it on the 15th October next. "Mica.'lay, Sir," said the late Mr. Sbeil, cleverest man of the day ; he male fon* speeches &form Bill, and got ten thousand 3 year." THE MURDER IN THE QUEiN'S PRISON- -Th e De Salvi for the alleged murder of Mr. Roberts& QUee , a's Prison will be a Government prosecution eniuing session of the Central Criminal Court, coil to-day. The depositions were laid before the A General, and he decided on prosecuting instead of the matter as a county prosecution on the inquisition. PaersalY-TAx.—An interesting return, moved Ur. Disraeli, , has just been 'Anted. .It contain', showing the ennui' value of all ree property rate ( . schedule A of the Inc mee-tax for the year ends April, 1837, in etch county; or Parliamentary di/ a county, and in each Parliamentary borough in the oi Kiegdorn, together with the popal Alen of each ac e to the census of 1851. An enormous beer vat, made by Mr. Oxley, of l f r e ° s l Somersetshire, is now in course of er , ction, at 1 1 , 0 Norton's Brewery, Carm 'alum, which me tures forZy feet in circumference alai above twenty feet high. ' o f an oval shape, and our readers may furies some idcs e m magnitude from the fact that, wh en th e va t i t coOrii we (CarnurMen Journal) hear that the spirited proliris purpose giving a dinner to thirty of their principal men in the interior of it. The estates of the late Marquis of Themowl , counties of Clare and Cork, will be sold on the Sth and 10th of December, is the Incambered Estatcs This is one of the largest properties brought jo t ` coart since its establi s h men t, th e Clare es':ate aloo e prising over 40,000 acres of had, a great portion of is all oxcelent quality. The estates will bf in small lots, and many of the tenant farmers them, and who are in very comfortable circum'' will, we understand, attend the sale. We (Eferapaek) hare hear,i, but hope it is lo t o b lr that a new cease of dissection has sprung up betivo e so t London and North Westere, and Great Western c urve arising, it is said, out of one of th e companies deP s i, l ', by ten•lerselling the other, from an agreement 1 13(1 i ff, entered into by them to tun at opal fares to certain wr' i If there be any truth in this, we hope the good seasger two boards will put an sad to it, by coming to a P re oled understanding. If not, we trust the shareholders o ' l ,, it for ilt:en ; they have had enough, one would Oi l ' competition. • O r a On Thursday night, about nine o' c l oc k, it coffin :I l e., to rain, awl has continued with ou t intermislon 1 011 , 1 ,40 0 :, hour at which we (Maicldone Journal) write—nine " on -Fri lay night. Many times daring the 24 101 4 0' rain has come down i n t orren t s —th e di tc h es are fumlit, river is swollen, and there must inevitably be !Jeff); P r ,IF This, of course, has rendered the hop-picking a till' e t oi r twit, and very mu c h d e t r a cte d front its value to tb ° ,l,ar , inasmuch as they e r e una bl e t o t a k e th e i r y ounges t ell a , l / I ' l to the gardens, and are obliged to have fires day by dry their wet clothine. t o t 7 , FRENCH POSTAL STATISTICS.—Sines [the postal re s in France, the num b er o f l e tt ers distriheted by ill' te d t : office has enor m o us ly i ecreast d. I n 1856, it alio° A; 251,997,290. Th e eastern o f Prepay i ng h as a ' : o ta ol A great extension • in 1849, Post-office stews we re 5 00" the amount of 4,416,766 t; in 1856, to that of 32,6 9 ?,', Ts. total re ce ipt s o f t h e Post-office, which 10 4 o d 42.034.8591,, were, in 1858, 55,831,1301. The latte' ~b e exceeded the expens e s by 19,494,130 f. Th e nu m- •,,ft employes of the Past-office, including sepernumera ll 'e, , about 28,000, 15,713 of them being letter-cor ie Galignani. AN EXTRAORDINARY A FFAIR.—A reward bas .5011 effe ed undtr,the following c h cen t etances :-o,t the Ist instant, a email lax, covered with brovol i f fi ito o and directed to Mr. Bennett, surgeon , th e S quar e, l s e.l was delivered to Mrs. Ware, th e Witten caTrierf a boti the Shoulder of Mutton Inn, Silisbury, by a boY„ o et ft , (mitten years of age, d res s e d i n a s h or t j ac k e t, trl le; and cap. If the Loy who delivered the b: W. Ware will come f orwar d an d prove th e sam e, sl? eat; informat'on as to the party who entrusted it tO 15 0 , 1 9 1 / 4 ,1 he is offered a rewar d o f £5, toget h er w i t h a ll teas off, travelling expenes ; and a further sum of £lO is ° O O O to him or any o th er , person who shall lead to d 0 o li do tion of the o ff en d er , th e b ox h av i ng cont 3l o fl e ," machine so constructed as to explode on the raisingoaa lid, and intended to destroy Mr. Bennett's life. shire Telegraph. p As S 1741 Nte%tr, ell t And ''' 't Part Q ' , 4 41,b tral l , Cobb' : % 4 1 T/ kEI4 1 si EA RE L ION. ED t 4 00 %:.L io tiD JA e 1 41 1.4_144: 14, Ate ERA lip rz iAft , 14:illes4 PAR. e h Dts 4 :: 14 7 1' i L 4 :ice f i L l l'st :,; '--4 ( 1 4 4, 1 1 3t q14i 6i 4 _ %a l , , LA / , 44 4 8 nt,, , 4 , r d 4 , Poz 4 4 4 ii ez et... 4% titt3,..„ Tu ti,, )t„,. t , :k ' 14 te l : t la Der lit t 'kti '' h iPs rB : l t:wiliZ• A , k rki tz 4) , ?, iv w. 1,. -- .A k 4 for ?a.m., t Sk 4 ..ts . 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ARl'''' are Mistaide, ~ Ea R , ...(To tors of h i s i i 11/1-,..Movi nitted rue sl5 11, 'll'olli‘ a man to be al:, p is place Of l' Al.i` siii„ perfectly csFii ---,:' Ili `..• r , • tz tded for ec,c o , 1 7 a. man igi,,,,,a ,' ' ----- --...__: fßerry, with ti f f -s2 Peaking to s • no up and s i' ..:.,4:..\ ,P,i) ti :0 a white •. -,_.,....,,a, L(,e 21,t'' was free to " --- tbregnry . .0 - , when the 1' E. & !Imbed( . ,xe, ~GIN loaded cane's ..,84!•'40iald all prisoner tOla . "'ri'2,P,l)4," Ken( leleman," id, "111,%-!'l 'lt et,auc ,s he imagine' -°l\__LlYtoeC!, The prisoDe, ;- - ENG i 0 months iroP t '''''''.------ -Sohn nelse, ► a'- .6- k p---- A I, '''' oft\ OR, was afire. , 41,',„ clue ThewhO lived ill ' 4,4,*' Cha,,eol ~ prisooer sh a t Ci d 'tall" eaV Liven, whoa. ; .l ate trZ 0; li, Ja for the p:1) r:(lC,,forl f,laner I Dispensary kr,i,:i. a, Ltiir fast , nd 7th, an d' nti l q Ire' apilather he Parish 0 1 4 6 41 t, e t ? r„s.eY,i„. t get relief othe 1:or":,:i,I.s-o'llg' here was 00131 1 —:=----4alni, 1 . or six inehOi p. Poi is right side v ir, 4103, • *foodere: vt;e 3 : 1, 0 feet 'field did yoo Q ' ee: a m c t ,': 5- e ll 'ate death froe t,flesit,„Plazik`i',l3Y, ifftiess jo Ili' I,..c;:a'eaina car.: 1 11'1U Shaneorl ti,,R il'iariltil st'r a blow 00 00 tqoiaaltti,Z,th a ie shouted Otli' ..,41)4pDie ciecalrraftionf d : Was therei,;, tiZe, Y or ta IN-in te? v was given ' \tt sh7lairli•DC allivan sai3,:, f: 1 , b ' 1.--°. Tear, that the / ii..!, --i"---101.) ,_,,____________ not at the tl &tei*:\oa4:4lllo,"alis-::: (besides the '''444l 22 ?.. 0. 1 they fully c i'l'o LI ect ~o e 11, 8 ' fe ''' ,l I ..e was no ,s 'And almryar ve i 4 worship tl. t?, hati,teltrn :4 days, and cilei.‘"ste: ve'ty,a ?,,,er rgeon's tied: 4,4ttl'utiLyi,wileli-i,',l! morient 6% 0 44g:' 84„ift th, 1 g a person 1i t - ° !nor to a ghtli , V7tN Fort t 'Mee Idencilto ;1..,; reOst )tt on a eh eeka, at Hal e :eriey, i n sho., n e w Ki t h wm, -at. 311 appeared IP W I LD la li }i nch after Acketlei 'h3l rate c , Rafferty in MN. r q u ' l l A he to the ea' ), 4 , taut le in eastodP ..41\Ft,„ would sends ra n ;if...l'V t, • ' >sequently A liehet`iii-1 tt 8 public-1100P, ve°4,l",t,':! &forty had l e d, . .P4,* 11,1.Na,', he officer. P',„l :I;:etcr; 1...!1'41 hen he iveg..N "asr,i',. ajs,ng hini,4ofref o s r . 4-strelt his day, se' ~t •-4- • take. the sat etl.v A\ FO R h ., -,'t• 4a .1/1 ',., e'P'' was sent tO 6- t, 4 t • ~, btite, ling tWelife 011' °,.4th'Pside,:leantd' Ir, .Fleet•stiy--gAt" ‘ 14'4 ka'lll.4" h' ~koq4.he hiling ti . 'n 431 De e-Mpc 10151;s•Ikt rViOu R,11a03, 1 t 1131TION .---1.1!e ,ti "11d'ainstk-etTith I have resoiv, -,!Ve iteu- NA I ------...121121: . tl9 V,,,v r. Shell, ~ ► jr..;lN Port in" speeches ° 1 4 ''.';::A 457 to , Z 4 ll 6 - r i alc ht C'3BN-The ci.li, !Lay ro.nratlese,;:l_n r. Itobertssn ' a t, f-.'•••1?et:orop'", prosecution asi,i, ''''' _Court, comroo \--, ST, fore the Attoti. 0 ---.,_. ~r instead of 1e31,1 q --- o- ;, • on the co: •' . \ tee, - 9 f . • ti urn, moved Pi i t tA,lasiloths. It contain; Po; a4sta:.i!lid o n ity, operty ran i ,tli, 141.14 Qr:ftellinue' • year en,as titZka47 fUT.itshba nen tary difi!'_ii° ; Ir. •or th-:er °our in theol;ci ilort,;tlll.,-1.: Pu each a Ne---....... ") Ariir,