Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-11 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. • • Uud e er no circumstances can we insert comm unica tions not a aril by the authors real name and address, not nacos / 11 7 for Publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Ebr. I,ltirtijern Cintn TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1839 THE DAY'S NEWS. The intelligence from the Continent this -warn ing does not enlighten us much further on the Austro-Frank disruption, or " dispute"asthe French Moniteur calls it. The Vienna despatehes con tinue to report the movements' of Austrian troops towards Lombardy. The third Austrian army corps, on whose march to the south some doubt has been thrown, is, while we write, actually on its way to Laybaelr„ near the Italian frontier. It is, -however, evidently the disturbed state of the Italian-towns, and not any apprehension of com plication with France, which has induced the Aus trian Govenment to resolve upon this 'measure of safety. An article- which appears in:- an An Tian official paper states this positively, adding thatkiriter national relations are . so good, thatno such rein foreements could by any possibility be required to ;meet any exigencies from that source. What further is likely to re-assure 'EurOPe, are the words addressed by the Emperor - Francis Joseph, on the 4th, to the French Ambassador at Vienna. These words are a direct reply to the language of the French Emperor to Baron - Hubner,, and they reciprocate the assurances of personal esteem,and sympathy, " notwithstanding the differences necessitated by polities." • 1 • • Letters from Turin give ''publicity to a rumour to the effect that a memorandum had recently been _received by the Austrian Emperor from the Frei4 Government. In this document Louis Napoleon proposed that 'Francis Joseph should cease to occupy a country he could not goven,_ and which was a perpetual source of alarm to Europe. Austria, it is said, welcomed this communication with a very ill grace, and. replied that the affairs. of Italy were her business, and that, she could attend to them . with Out -the interference of others. It was .this reply that induced the Emperor to speak his miud so .freely - to M. de Hubneron the Ist of January, in terms tht have created so. much sensation. Their effect- in - Italy- will be immense. Garibaldi has been in Turin, and after several times' seeing the Minister, and twice the king, has undertaken the task of reorganising the National Guard. A corps of about 15,000 chasseurs will be formed, and, in the event of war, will be placed uuder the command of the terrible general. Both Houses of the French Legislative Body . are convoked for the 7th of February. The Sardinian Government, as we are informed by telegraph, has thought fit to raise a proteSt against the resolutions concerning the navigation of the Danube, come to by .the Riverain States in their conference held at Vienna, as not in accordance with the principle laid down by the Paris Conference. The Servian revolution has been acknowledged not merely by some of the European Powers,such as France and Russia, but it is now a great fact that the Sultan will give his assent to the election of Milosch as Hereditary Prince. The Porte's only desire was that the Servians should observe the prescribed forms, and continue to acknow ledge its suzerainty. This has been cheerfully done. According to our latest adv ices from Nicaragua, a revolutionary scheme was in progress there among the natives, in conjunction with the filli busters, who were expected to land in, and be assisted by Honduras. The Canadian Commissioner of Public Works has resigned. He was averse to the project of making Bytown the capital of Canada, and the seat of Government. His colleagues insisted upon the measure, and resignation is the consequence. Mr. John Able Smith, member for Chichester, has been addressing his constituents. In the course of his remarks, he stated that it was clear there was a slumbering fire in Italy, which must break ont, and he did not think, seeing the conduct of Austria during the Russian war, and the per fidious massacre in Gallacia in 1847, we ought to assist the Emperor Joseph in. preserving Lombary to Austria. In alluding to the Reform agitation, he was most heartily glad .that we were to have a bill on this question at a moment when we had every chance of calm deliberation and unim passioned consideration of such an important measure. • , •He held in his hand the manifesto of the Birmingham Reform Association, who first stated what they wanted and why they wanted it. They wanted a large extension of the suffrage— they wanted vote by ballot—and they wanted• a more equal apportionment of members to popula tion. Now, he wished his constituents to know that he was in'favour of a very large extension of the suffrage—that he was in favour of vote by ballot; but if the Birmingham gentlemen, when they talked of a more equal apportionment of members to population, meant electoral districts, he did not agree with them ; because he did r i o t believe that such an apportionment would be acceptable to the mass of the people of England; and he considered that old arrangements and old associations possessed great, importance. We recently noticed a letter to the editor of the Times, by Mr. William Sherman Crawford, on the grievances of Ireland. The leading journal com mented upon the letter, and made• use of . several expressions very Uncomplimentary to the Irish grievance party. Mr. 'Sherman Crawford has published an address to the peOPle of Ireland in consequence. It would occupy fully a column and a-half of our space, and would not' add much to the information or enlightenment of our readers. One piece of good advice he gives to Ribbonmen . and others, and as it is excellent, coming from: such an authority as Mr. Crawford, we give - it.. He says—" But, whilst I would endeaVOur to rouse Irishmen ,to agitate for justice, I would warn them against the evil counsel of those who, would entice them into any project for the attainment of their rights by the phamtom of throwing off subjection to British dominion, either through the means of any power within themselves, "or its combinations with foreign assistance. Indepen dently' of every other consideration, both reason and experience prove the absurdity of any attempt to organise such a combination in Ireland as would be able to contend against the means which Eng land could instantly apply for her subjugation— Etigland,. who demonstrates the immense extent of her -power and resources by compelling an unwilling submission to her authority over ex tended dominions removed by thousands of miles from her centre of action. Therefore, let Irish men be assured„; that ..successful resistance to British dominion is impracticable, and that every such attempt will end in an aggravation of those grievances which she at present complains of." From a return of Mr. Braidwood, Superintendant of the London Fire Brigade, we learn that the total number of fires in London for the year 1858, was 1,114. Of the premises, 32 were totally destroyed, 385 considerably damaged, and 697 slightly damaged. •Of the 32 totally destroyed, 14 were from 2 to 10. miles distant from the nearest station, •13 were the workshops of carpen ters and other dangerous trades, 3 fell down, more from old age than the effects of fire ; and of the remaining 2 one was destroyed by, an explosion of saltpetre, and the other by imprudenFe in breaking open the shop treat befOre the • en gines arrived. Mr. Sampson Low, in his report to the committee of the Society for the Protection of Life froin Fire, states that the number of fires attended in - London,' during the year, amounted to 504, and the lives saved by means of the escapes and conductors had been not fewer than 45. Since the re-establishment of the society in 1843, as many as 476 liveS had been saved, and during the last year 12 additional stations had been added,, making a total of 67 stations. At the execution of J. H. Whitworth, at York on. Saturday, a most extraordinary sane occurred. It will be remembered that Whitworth murdered his sweetheart Sally Hare, near Worksop, on the Ist October last. Many of the crowd assembled to witness the execution gave utterance :to groans and hisses, declaring that Atkinson, who Was lately acquitted of murder on the ground. of insanity, was more guilty than Whitworth. Another instance of tke .danger attending the THE NORTHERN TIMES, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1859 t • incsatiks of the opiates to children ' -l aitiofig," any class of the n people ; becanS igno has-occurred at Sheffi.ea Mrs. Brammer gave to ranee is a great evil—the source of all sorto her three children, who were suffering from severe colds, a preparation of treacle C on t a i n ing opium, of vice, and misery, and mischief', which which she had made :herself. They soon -became. , n,fflict society, , Jorge; as well as demoralise gorararrsig-salvi. TILLS DAY Turs DAT, the Ilth in ale-st stant, at reet the Brokers' Office, 2, D, 1,500 Bags Bombay LINSEED, 1,000 Bags Bombay RAPESEED, 800 Bags Bombay MUSTARD SEED, 300 Bags Bombay SAFFLOWER SEED. BROWNE, HUNTER, and co., Broker Apply to Tins DAY, the 11th instant,, at Twelve o'clock, at tho Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 52 Bales Long Yellow Berry Mocha COFFEE. pRowNE,:HUNTER, and . Co., Broker Apply to Tins DAY, t llth instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Oftice;.7,,txchang, a'rels TAPIOCA (all faults La. —Apply to !7cpambersi ex Falcon, from, B, FRANCLS'.4, EATON, 11201er 13n , account of whom it may concern. Tuts DAY, the 11th instant, at One o'clock, • Ilrokers' Saleroom, 25, Temple street, ci -, ) 12 Bales WOOLLEN RAGS, ex Providence, from Leghorn damaged by, sea watc W: GREAME and Co., Brokers Apply to DiTS DAY, the 11th instant, at Twelve o'clotk, at the - Brokers' Office, 30, Exchange-alley North, 70 Bales HEMP, ex Black Eagle, from Bombay, Albert Dock ; 15 Tons HEMP, per Howden, from Bombay, SOO Ballots COCOANUT FIBRE, ex Dolphin, from Colombo, Albert Dock.--tor further particu• • are apply to SHAND, lIIGSON and Co., Brokers. 'P ATS DAY, the 11th instant, at 'rwelive o'clock, a the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 100 Casks COCOA NITT.OLL, ..lauded.—Apply to J. 11. RA1?;Ell and Co., Brokers, ,'clock, at the TIM DAT, the 11th instant, at TNycic Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildini4, , About 70 Tuns Southern WHALE OIL, ex Antilla, front' Honolulu.—Apply to • ' ' J. H. ItAYNEIt and Co., Brokers Tuts DAY, the 11th instant, at half-past One o'clock, at.the Broker's Office, Corn Exchange-buildings Brunswick-street, 2,500 Barrels Ohio and Philadelphia FLOUR, in store. eat sundry vessels.—Apply to H. U. GOLDING; Broker. M 0 R R,O W TO-MORROW, tt Apply to .a Bombay .SAI 500-. Bag 300 Bags Ditto DITTO, oil damaged, 49 Pales East India SENNA. BROWNE, ITIINTEIt, and Co., Moll Postponed from Wednesday, the 29th ult. TO-MORROW, the 12th instant, at the Brokers' saleroom, 195 Bales Fine Mozambigne 011eHELLA WEED, now landing ex Fernandez, from Lisbon.—Apply to Mess Leech, Harrison, and Forwood, Mach:ants; or to HOOKE, OKELL, and SPENCE, Brokers THURSDAY On TIMICSFOAY next, the 13th instant, at Twelve o'clock at the Broker's Office, 7, Esehange-chambera, About 160 Tons Fine 21ANGANF.SE, ust landed ex Guedo Bodceling, from Huelva, in Garston Doel COPY OF ANALYSIS MADE 13& MIL. OEO. C. lICSON.:—.- " Peroxide of Manganese Ditto of Iron "Water " Selica and Alumina Apply to Mess: 0 Leech, H son, and Forwood, Merchants ; or FBANCIS. J. EATON, Broker. On THIMSDAY, the 13th instant, at Twelve o'cloalc, in the _ Commercial Saleroom, 500 Boxes Valentin RAISINS, 900 I-Do. 140 Boxes Fine MUSCATELLS, in Layers, 200 i-Do. do. DITTO Do. 100 i-Do. , do. • DITTO . Do. 500 Boxes Old Persian Sultana RAISINS, 2,000 and I-Drnms Turkey FIGS, 500 Tapnets Malagar Do. 700 Boxes Do. Do. 500 Mats Bombay DATES. Apply to GEO. BADENACH SON, Brokers, On THVBSDAY next, the 13th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at tin Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 6,715 BUFFALO HORNS. BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers, YRIDAY On FRIDAY next, the 14th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 125 Bales Bombay HEMP, 34 Bales Ditto DITTO, ' 38 Bales JUTE, 32 Bales RAGS. BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers Apply to NEXT WEEK On TUESDAY, the 18th instant, and folloliing days, at Browne. 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BItOWNE, HUNTER,. and Co., Brokers Apply to On SATVRDAY, the 22nd instant, at the Brokers' Saleroom, Atherton-buildings, Dale-street, Liverpool, 2,000 Bales East India 1,000 „ superior Russia Donskoi combing fleece WOOLS 300 „ „ Iceland OOLS 300 „ Egyptian, Portugal, Mediterranean, &c. 600 Bales AFTER d RONALD, Wool Brokers TEXT WEEK On WEDNESDAY, the 26th instant, at Three o'clock, 300 Bales Port Philip and Sydney WOOLS.' T. and H.' LITTLEDALE and CO., Brokers Apply to On ate, PATENT ASPIIALTE ROOFING FELT. A cheap, durable, and perfectly Waterproof Roofing. ONE PENNY PER SQUARE Foor. And PATENT HAIR FELT, For Clothing Steam Boilers, &c., by which a saving of one-fourth . in the consumption of fuel is effected. WM. GIBSON, Successor to W. W. POWELL. Office and Warehouse-12, CABLE-STREET. ON SALE, 100 Tons MANURE OIL OAKI lysis .and price, apply to THOMPSON, BAGNALL, and BUTTERWORTH, Brokers,.3o, Moorfieldl TO LANDOWNERS AND FARMERS. CHESHIRE PHOSPHATE COM PAN Y have constantly ON SALE Nitrogenised BONE PHOSPHATE, and other valuable fertilisers. —Samples and prices may be had at he office, 3, CABLE-STREET. Works; :-- LOWER BEBINOTON. J. It. CAMERON CHRONOMETER mil 21" U FACTui 3VD OPTICLL) 54, SOUTH CASTLE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. MARINE CHRONOMETERS ON SALE OR HIRE. ,GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, SEXTANTS, Q ,dP.RANTS, BAROMETERS, TELESCOPES, 4-c CHARTS FROM LATEST SURVEYS AN TARM wixTER C LuimxG, T HE GENTLEMAN, OUTFITTING WAR EIICIUSES, 24 AND 26, BOLD-STREET. P. L. m.4&TAGGART., . , • INVERNESS WRAPPEit3. 1. OVER COATS. ' - • - • DRESSING GOWNS DRAWERS AND VESTS ' ' FANCY FLANNEL SMELTS.' RAILWAY RUGS AND PLAIDS. MUFFLERS AND SCARFS. FLANNELS AND BLANKETS. BOYS' WINTER CLOTHING AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, &c.—TIIIS DAY. THEATRE ROYAL—Grand Comic Pantomime. ROYAL AsuntrusArnE—English Opera Company. ALLSOP'S WAX WORK EXHIBITION (Lime-street). LIVERPOOL SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS (Queen's Han, Bold-street HENOLEits CIRQUE VARIETE—MISCeIIaTIeOUS Attractions. THE PARISIAN GALLERY OF ANATOMY, Paradise-street. Qum"; Ilswc,C.arter's Mirror of American Scenery. Tionomc HALL (Lime-street) — Ascent of Mont Blanc. gar For particulars see advertisements on Bth page. Apply to alarmingly ill, and one of them died yesterday though it is hoped the others will morning recover There - are' two shocking railway' accidents to report this morning. On Saturday, a"Plategayer on the.:Greut Northern Railway, was repairing the line about five miles from Doncaster. He observed an up-train approaching, and stepped On one: side to, allow of its passing. At the same moment a doWn train appeared, but the poor fellow did not 'notice it, and 'although the driver of the engine let offhis .whistle, and endeavoured to stop-the train, he was literally cut to pieces. .On : Friday. afternoon, a young lad, about sixteen years of age, who was travelling on the Bristol amt Exeter Railway, was so foolish as to put his body half-way •out of the window of the carriage—though. warned of..the anger, he repeated the 'experiment three . or four times. At leagtb, his head,came in contact witha; 'bridge, and lie WAS killed on the spot.• ; , • _ The South Staffordshire colliers have held seve ral meetings lately on the subject of an increase of wages. They now state that the masters are in a condition • to_ grant au...advance of 6d. per clay, and they that if such is not done by - tieertain time, they will strike. for an .advance of ls. per day. . . To-day, a Cabirtet Council, and a Privy Council; Will settle the time for the ensuing session of Par liament to begin its sittings. It is to , be hoped the . earliest possible day will be decided. upon. Mean while, Ministers are.coming up to town, and Lord Derby is expected-from Knowsley in the course Of this day. The Aforning Herald, which gets infor mation from the Treasury, has reason to believe that the session will commence in the first week of February, and probably on the first day of. the month. At a weekly meeting of the Water Committee yesterday, the engineer stated that' the total 'supply of water to the town, or the week ending Saturday was 7.5,514,(y3 gallons, of which 47,766,756 gallons were from . the- vingtun works. In answer to Mr. Bennett- the engineer stated that the falling off in the. supply of well water was owing to the several pumping apparatuses being. out-of order; in addition to'-not pumping on the' Sundays. THERE are still 'great differences of opinion on the subject of education. The antiquated and illiberal and unintellectual ideas about the danger of educating the masses are all, of course, by, this time, exploded. The great wonder now is, limy such barbarous notions ever came to be entertained by people who had themselves had some, sort of education, and who were citizens of a civilised They must have known and felt, one would have thought,' something of the advantage of being educated, in whatever degree, themselves ; and yet they would deny it to others with similar faculties to theirs, similar means of profit ing by it, and as good opportunities, perhaps, as theirs of being made more useful thereby, in theirday of generation. But all this error and prejudice, we , day, is now exploded, and scattered to the. win 1s: No one, now-a-days, dare stand up and acknowledge an objection to the extension of education to all classes—the very poorest of all. Nay, we believe that the opinion is now 'a very prevalent one, in all directions, that the educ'ation of the people, how poor soever some of them may be, is a national concern,—not only a matter in which the nation is to take an interest, but one which the nation is bound to provide the means of accomplishing, wherever the people to be educated are unable to do so themselves. country This question, and in these very aspects of it, has within the last few days been discussed bi- the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, Mr ADDERLEY, M.P., on the occasion of the anniversary Celebration of the Library and Museum at Saltley, near Birmingham, of which the right hon. gentleman was the founder. His principal object seems to have been, to explain what were the limits of National Education—at what point the State ought to interfere, and the point beyond which it ought never to go considered this," says the report of his address, most important part of the question in this country at this moment, because he had had sufficient knowledge and experience, short as it had been, to show him that at all events, on one side, namely, towards the higher limit which that institution represented, there was a perpetual tendency and. inclination in the State to interfere too much, whilst on the other hand he was not at all sure whether, from carlessness on the part of the lower class of parents there was not a. point where the State did not, interfere soon enough." We believe there is a great deal of truth in this remark higher and middle classes are quite 'capable of sup porting their own respective educational institu tions, and the State therefore has nothing whatever to do with them. But it is quite a different thing with thoa for the poor. In the first place, they must have schools provided for them—since they are unable to provide them themselves ; and, in the next place, there is among them, too often, an indisposition to send their children for any lengths of time to school, particularly if they can find any profitable employment for them without, and instead of doing so. And here it is that the State does not interfere enough. The evils of ignorance are public evils. The State must, therefore, take measures to remedy them. And one of the fore most of such remedial measures is that of providing for, and seeing to, the education of those who are unable, arid perhaps, unwilling also, to do it them selves Mr ADDERLEY was anxious to disabuse the minds of those who are interested in this important question, as to the examples of other countries being applicable to the case of England. " They were continually meeting with speakers," he observed, "in and out of Parliament, who cited Prussia,. Austria, and France in this manner. Well, these countries had autocratic Governments, where the sovereign power did everything for the people, and the people did nothing for themselves. Other orators threw in our teeth the institutions of America, but in that country there was a tyrant of another description equally fatal to individuality of action : he meant the will of the masses. England did not present either the one or the other of these phases—but something between the two, and to his mind something vastly superior and preferable to either. Here the rule was that the State should in no case interfere, except where it was absolutely necessary." And certainly this is a good rule, provided it be acted out,—that the State, that is, did always interfere when it was absolutely neces sary to (19 fs9• Ignoranee must zKot prevail The right hon. gentle " It seemed to those whom it pervades mati took much thii , view` of it him," he said, " - that there -, kere three classes of poor, ohildren in. whose .education the: State might safely and legitimately, and ought to interfere : 'firstly, the children of the industrious working class ; secondly, pauper children, who are , 11'60144 destitute, who are practiCally parentless and cast upon the tutelage of others ; and thirdly, the children of parents who could educate them . but will not, and who were cast upon the world to becOme criminals and utterly abandoned. To the first fof these - classes the State stood in :a paternal relation, and was bound , to help them. The 'other classes it was most necessary and essential the Statp should aid, because it must support them as thieves unless it educated them and made honest; industrious citizens of them, and of use to the country. He thought there could be no doubt on this point as a . question of cheapnees and pOlicy." There can be no doubt about it at all. We see the case illustrated 'most forcibly in our paupers, our vagrants, and our criminals. But then to give such aid effectually, the State has a great deal yet to do; as'it is in duty bound to .do, towards !those its ignorant and destitute subjects. And they are the best friends of the people, we may depend upon it—the trueSt patriots, as well as the most earnest philanthropists—who do their utmost -to get the State to discharge these its obligations most ; care fully and completely. • • TAE spirited manner in which Spain has resented the declarations of President BUCHANAN, respecting the eagerly sought annexation of. Cuba to the United States, will rather take the Great Republic by surprise, and make them feet at Washington somewhat nonplussed on the subject. A member of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies asks the Government if it intends - to reply to the paragraph of the President's Message, which con tains, he4said, "a new and really grave insult to the Spanish nation :" and the Minister for Foreign Affairs answers, the Government is determined to demand due satisfaction for such an insult. Ho*. this is to be done of course remains- to be The positions taken up by the two Governments appear to be of the most contradictory character. President BUCHANAN'S declaration to Congress was,—" Oar relations with the great empires of France and Russia, as well as with all other Governments on the Continent of Europe, except that of Spain, continue to be of the most friendly character." The only inference to be drawn from this expression is, that the relations of the United States Government with Spain are not of the " most friendly character." The Spanish Foreign Minister, on the other hand, declares to : the Chamber of Deputies,—" I can assure the Chamber that during the six months we have been in office our relations with the Government of the United States have not ceased to be marked with the greatest cordiality. Accordingly, I was sur prised to read, in the Message of the President of the United States, that thoie relations were in an unsatisfactory state." Further than this, the Spanish Minister states, " In the few conferences I have had with the worthy representative in this city of the Anglo-American Republic, such a cordial spirit was manifested, that I felt convinced the relations between the two Governments were perfectly amicable, and that they could run no risk of being troubled." Here, then, is either a marvellous condition of blissful ignorance, or an extraordinary instance of either dissimulation on the one side, or delusion on the other. We are inclined to suspect the former ; for the designs of the American President upon Cuba, to say nothing of his policy regarding Mexico, are certainly, not at all consistent with amicable feelings on the part of the United States towards Spain,—at the same time that Spain, apparently, has had no reason to suppose that there was any such hostile spirit prevalent at Washington. And yet it is bufa faint kind of prudence thus to dissemble ; and well has it been observed, that " it is the weaker sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers." But with regard to 'President BUCHANAN'S project of annexing Cuba: It is evident that the Spanish Government and he are of very opposite minds upon the subject. The President declares that, " whilst the possession of the island would be of vast importance to the United States, its value to Spain is comparatively unimportant." Yet Spain herself is of a very different opinion. She not only sets a, value upon Cuba, as her colony, but such a value as to make it worth while to go to war, if need be, for its protection. "If the power of Spain," said the Minister to the Chamber, " be not great enough to menace, it is strong enough to defend the integrity of the territory of the monarchy, and to preserve the dignity of the Spanish name without stain. In whatever circumstances the Spanish nation may find itself," he added, " it will in the future, as in the past, never * be insensible to its honour, never will it abandon the smallest portion of its territory —and a. proposition haying ._that tendency will always be considered by the Government as an insult to the Spanish people." This, then, one would think, must put an extinguisher on the hopes, if it do not put a stop to the schemes, of President BUCHANAN for the acquisition of Cuba. By fair means, at least. Should he have recourse to any other means, it is plain there must be a fight for it. Then will come " the tug of war." One would fain hope that England may be able to keep out of it. - And yet it will be difficult, if not impossible, to avoid being drawn into a conflict which concerns so deeply the interests not only of an old and friendly ally, but its own interests also, in those her neighbouring Colonies of the Caribbean sea. The Buchananite pretext, that " Cuba, in its existing colonial condition, is a constant source of injury and annoyance to the American people,"—since " it is the only spot in the civilised world where the African slave trade is tolerated," will not excite any sympathy in this c ountry, simply because it is not, it cannot be believed to be real. It may be pretended that the African slave trade is -not " tolerated " in thif United States ; but 'they contain more -than one " spot in the civilised world" where it is carried on—" tolerated" or not. Among our recent advices from America were accounts of the iniquitous trade being prosecuted in Georgia, if not also in South Carolina. The Spanish feeling regarding Cuba is represen ted as not.merely a ministerial, but a national one. And no sooner had Marshal O'DONNELL, the Minister for Foreign:Affairs, made the declaration to the Chamber that we- have alluded to, than a resolution was, proposed, and unanimously adopted, to the. effect that the • Congress had received the same with satisfaction, and would give to the Government its constant: support, in. order to maintain the integrity - of the Spanish dominions. The States therefore may go on . coveting Cuba , and even scheming for its acquisition. But Spain, with such a national determination as that, will not easily be overcome, even if left 'to fight for it single-handed. MR. THOMAS MASON JONES'S ORATION AT HOPE HALL Last night, Mr. T. Mason Jones; a young Irish orator of very high prcrinise,.delivered the first of a course of three lectures in the Hope Hall. There was a very crowded audience, the hall for the most part being densely filled. The chair was taken by the Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, and among the gentlemen on the platform were— Mr. J..R. Jeffery. - Mr. C. 11.11ali; and7sLkeral other well kiibtivd residents of LiNerp9ol, 3.1 : r: Tones, having been _ introduced in a few 'Words by the Chairman, was re ceived with a loud burst of applause, and'proceeded to deliver his lecture, the • subject of which was "The character and genius of Jonathan SWift." Although Mr. Jones has adapted the phrase "oration" as -descrip tive of his lectures, the addresses which he delivers are by no moans of the merely rhetorical character which . inspires English audiences with something nearly akin to alarm. Weave not heard for many. years, in Lii:erpool, a speaker more eminently and peculiarly fitted to be a popular_ lecturer of the higher 'order than Mr. Jeines.•- No man makes his audience go along with him more thoroughly. He is with them in every sentence. He converses with them, laughs with them, excites . them, keeps them in ' breathless. interest, arouses their pity, their auger, or their mirth in turns. He neither shoots his discourse over, their heads, as the dreary, pompous lecturers of some years back were wont to do, nor down under their feet as is 'the more recent fashion of every platform 7 Paillasse," whose only ingenuity con sists in the devising -of new tricks to make his hearers laugh or start. Mr. Jones has a clear and powerful voice, action natural, full of energy sometimes dramatic, but never theatric, an amazing com mand of eloquent and vigorous language, and lar sources of culture and acquirement. lie does not reac his address, but speaks to his; hearers His lecture on Swift occupied nearly two hours in delivery—the leading points of that life's history could have been new to no listener -- and yet, during the whole time, not one of the audience, we feel satisfied, could for a moment withdraw his attention from the speaker. We do not need to enter into any analysis of the passages which described the life of Swift, from his college days through his Moor Park servitude, his career in London, his ieturn to Ireland, and.his appearance on the political boards in the character of an Irish patriot, on to the time when, in Scott's fine phrase —" the stage darkened ere the curtain fell," and madness and death at last closes in upon him. Mr. Jones is an enthusiastic admirer of Swift, a. genuine hero-worshipper. His championship was chivalrous and brilliant, and no hearer . . coma tau to auimre its courage anti its talents, even where he thought its object least deserving of such cordial and generous eulogy. Mr. Jones ran a gallant tilt 'at Swift's censors, especially Mr. Thackeray, although we cannot help thinking that our great living satirist brought out some of the best qualities of Swift's nature into brighter relief than almost any other of his critics. Far less severe he certainly has been than Lord Macaulay (whose determined Whig creed would, in Mr. Jones's eyes, not unreasonably discredit some portion of his opinions on this point), who sums up Swift's character as that of "an apostate politician, a ribald priest, a perjured lover—a heart burning with hatred against the whole human race, a mind stored to the full with images gathered from the lazar-house and the dunghill." .Not concurring to the full in this ferocious judgment, we certainly could not but disagree sometimes with Mr. Jones's eloquent, and evidently genuine adulation of his hero. That love is indeed blind to the faults of its idol, which declares that Swift wrote no line which could call up a blush to the cheek of modesty. We cannot be brought to believe that the character of the man who penned more obscenity than any other in the literature of modern Europe, (except perhaps one who died in France eighteen months ago), can be likened for its purity and austerity to a Grecian Statue. ' But while it would be doing wrong to - our critical post not to record a dissett from such uncondi tional admiration, we are glad to admit that Mr. Jones mado out a triumphant vindication for his illustrious' countryman, from • some of the charges which mere ignorance, and prejudices the most vulgar and unthink ing; sometimes delight to heap upon him. Of the famous Stella and Vanessa passages in the life of Swift, Mr. Jones takes a view which possibly does but justice to the memory of a man whom, in this regard ; nearly' all commentators have joined in condemning. Mr. Jones, however, unlike almost every one else, gives his sympa thies especially to Vanessa, whom he believes to have been the loved one all throughout. This was a pecu liarly interestincr ingenious, and novel portion o f th e lecture, and was listened too with the deepest attention. We cannot ; at this hour, attempt anything like an outline, even of the, most striking passages of the lecture, which concluded with a summing up of the moral of the whole, full of the most eloquent language, and the most truthful thought. The enthusiastic applause of the audience at' the close was only cqualled by their keen enjoyment of some of the passages in. which Mr. Jones delivered, with the happiest humour, some ,of Swift's witty and sarcastic sayings. On the whole, we have never seen a lecturer upon his first appearance win a more decisive and triumphant success. Mr. Jones is sure of. a crowded room. when he lectures on Curian to-morrow night. SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. —Oa Saturday morning, a dreadful and 'fiaal accident occurred upon the Great Northern Railway, at the Rossington station, about five miles from Doncaster., It appears that a plate layer was repairing the line in the vicinity of Rossington station, and seeing au up train approaching, he stepped upon one side to allow of its passing. From some cause or other, watching the car riages pass, he did not see the approach of a down train, and consequently made no effort to get out of its way. The engine driver saw the man between the metals, and put the whistle on, but without avail; and although he made all possible exertion to pull up, he could not do so, and . the poor fellow was run over and literally cut to pieces. Some portions of the body were found attached to the engine when it reached Doncaster. POISONING OF THREE CHILDREN.-A case of poison ing occurred at Sheffield, on Saturday evening, by which a girl of seven years of age lost her life, and the lives of two younger children were placed in jeopardy. Mr. Thos. Brammer, powder-flask maker, Hanover-street, having three children suffering from severe colds, his wife, on Saturday, obtained of Mr. Hill, druggist, one pennyworth each of opium, Spanish juice, and juniper berries. Having made a decoction of the juniper berries, and dissolved the Spanish juice, she mixed them up with the opium and half a pound of treacle. At seven o'clock in the evening, she gave the eldest child, Mary, two tablespoon fuls of the mixture, and the two younger children smaller quantities. About ten o'clock, all three children were taken alarmingly ill, and the father, on learning what had been administered to them, ran for Mr. Nicholson, surgeon. The surgeon found the children in a dangerous state from the effects of the opium, and applied the usual remedies. They were unsuccessful as regards the eldest child, which died at three o'clock next morning. The two younger children were alive on Sunday evening, and were so much better that sanguine hopes were entertained of their ultimate recovery. THE TIMES AND iTS DISCOVERIES.-It has been noticed by cunning observers of times and seasons that about this period of the year the Times, suffering under a dearth of topics,: it is wont to startle its readers with marvellous discoveries, relating to matters with which everyone was perfectly well acquainted before, but which every reader of the Times forthwith consents to regard as a new and ori ginal discovery, involving a valuable addition to the stock of human knowledge. One year, the sage in Printing House square awakes to the marvellous fact that gas companies and organ grinders are nuisances, and must forthwith be swept away ; another year the world is startled by the announcement that nursemaids pay too much attention to the soldiers of the household troops, to the detriment of the household pets entrusted to their charge ; on another occasion society is shocked out of all pprniety by the problem as yet unsolied-='ereepTpi — rctically—can a mal l marry upon three hundred Min& a year ? the husband s o f E ng l a nd wi ll "be astonished to heart upon an authority .no less tremendous than the:Ziiaes, atilt cookery is a part 'of educatiOn sadly neglected hate training of English wives, and that -ho4ekeepirig is a. science little understood among the Matrons of our land. After _clubs have been invented these hundred - years, and chop-hotisce have long invaded the domestic peace of families, we Se t° be told, for the first time, that dining at home is not' summum bonze; of earthly, bliss. Here is a discoverp and forthwith the Times goes to work in its wholesale •happyLgo4ucky style ? abusuig everything and ev er body, and recommending the ladi es ' o f England tor en masse and buy a certain book i!w hi c h di s pl a y s (be it said by the Way) the . grossest ign orance o f th e BOW , and was probably written by_ some friend of the write of the Times article.—Critic. LUDICROUS MISPRINT—A meekly paper says a pror sition. in the United States Senate was "Prettyrfreely discussed, and was-finally adopted by a vote of 25 year s to 23 days." It is to be presumed it should have beel l "Yea, yea," and "Nay, nay." • CENTRALIEATION OF THE PUBLIC OFFICES AT LEEDS,'" The Whole of the Corporate offices were removed, ca , Wednesday, from Park-row -to the Leeds Town-hat The preparation of the new Police-office and BOrduP Court is progressing rapidly, and it is, hoped that the business of this department will shortly also be trans' ferred to the hall.—Leeds Mercury. THE WEST , STAVELEY- AM) SILKSTONE COLLIERIES. The trustees, under an assignment made by Messrs. gar rison, Canter, and Musphamp; the late proprietors of the collieries, have proposed a composition of is in the pound to the creditors, provided that all agree .to. accept that °yid sign a release. If not, the trustees report that there will-be absolutely authini for creditors:— Sheffield Independent. --MTBMIIIim:TOBACCO BY TOBACCO,—John Sfattnewmant of Apsley, .Was charged before the Haddersield trates, Thursday, with using a weight different to the standard weight of the realm.--,—Mr.-Kaye, inspector of weights and measures, said he entered 'the shop - of the defendanten,pe 23rd ult. and. found def en d an t weighing' tobacco by a certain ' Quantity' of tobacco in the -baler scale. The tobaceo. represehted an ounce, ;but was drachm and a half short. The Bench fined the defendaLt 10s. and costs.—Huddersfield Chrbhicle.' "' ACCIDENT TO SLR E. LUGARD.— On Thursday last, Sir Edward Lugard, accompanied by his lady and his s i s ter, Mrs. Robinson, of St. Mary's-lodge,- Reedvale, Teigry mouth, with whom the gallant knight has been l a tely residing, attended a dinner party at Dawlish, and oil returning thence at 'about half-past-eleven iii the eveniat in a hired carriage, the horse took fright, and set off at s rapid pace clOwn the Dawhsh-road, at the bottom of which e the carriage overturned;!'and itA . inmates - Were thrown out. Sir Edward has Sustained a fracture of three ribs, his lady has her. shoulder-bone broken. and Mrs. Robinson. is severely injured," and we: hear iter life - - - - - is despaired of EXECUTION OF WHITWORTH, FOR • THE' THROAPHIII MURDER.—John Taylor Whitworth; who murdered hiS sweetheart, Sally. Hare, near. 'Worksop,. on the Ist of October last, confessed his guilt, and contradicted the statement which he made before the magistrates. Ile also added that Clark's reply was that a spoonful of the wash would kill two persons. This e ,, ntirrus the unfortu nate girl's evidence on her death bed. Up to th when the body of Whitworth was claimed bv irday noon, , his Tie walked upon the saeaffol mly, a ,smiling features. Iris stru o _ apparently dead at the expiration of two minutes STEAM-SHIP COLLISIONS AT THE MOUTH les were faint, and he was THAMES.—On Saturday, at Lloyd's, was reported a col lision' which took place on Thursday n i g ht, b e t ween the Lord Panmure screw store steamer and the Derwent screw collier, a few miles belotv Sheerness. The Lord Panmure rapidly filled and sank in twelve fathoms of water ; the crew were saved. The loss will amo u nt to several thousands of pounds. Another collision took place in Sea Reach, just above Chapman's Light, between the brig Seadrift, from the north with coals, and the Great Northern screw-steamer. The brig was sunk in seven fathoms, and the Great Northern was so much damaged that she had to be run ashore on the Esse% coast. STALYBRIDGE.—CHARGE OF FELONY AGAINST COTTAGE OWNER. At the Stalybridge Borough Court on Friday, before the Mayor, William Kay, the owner of two public houses, and considerable cottage property in Stalybridge, and formerly a Commissioner of Police, ws charged with having, on the 31th ult. stolen a purse, eon' taining £2 18s belonging to Ann Stafford, residing neat Acres Lane, Stavley. It appeared that while the purse was upon the table in the front room, Kay came t o the door to borrow a knife, and while the daughter went into the kitchen to fetch it, he had time to take the purr,. unobserved. After hearing all the evidence, the M a yor committed the prisoner for trial at Knutsford ; accepting bail for his surrender there. A YOUNG JACK SHEPPARD.—John Finnie, aged 17, was taken into custody •at Troon, on Friday last, on a charge of theft. Finnie was convicted in 1857 for theft, and received sixty days' imprisonment, thereafter to go to the Reformatory School at Stranraer for five y e ars. He was not long at the school till he made his escape. He was shortly afterwards apprehended by one of the county constables; he was put into the train, and leaped out of the carriage when the engine was at full speed, and was nothing the worse. He was caught again, imprisoned, and sent to Stranraer, when he made hie escape a second time by taking out one of the windows , On this last capture, Finnie was nearly off the, third tinie r but was caught.—.Ayrshire Express. . THE COLLIERS IN SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—During the past day or two, therehas been in circulation amongst the colliers of a portion of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire, an address from Mr. W. H. Miller, hono rary secretary to the South Staffordshire C oa l Mi ne rs' Association, inviting the men to a series of meetings to be hel4 in different parts of the district. The first of these meetings was held on Thursday, at Oldbury, and was attended by upwards of 200 parsons. It was urged that the masters were now in a position to complete their promise of more wages. It was resolved that at the future meeting a deputation should be appointed to wait upon the masters, or some other steps taken to obtain an advance of Gd a day, and that if this increase was not given, then that the men would strike for a rise of is a day. bESTRIPCTION OF A BARN AND FIVE COWS BY FIRE.-"'" About half-past six o'clock on Saturday night, a fire was discovered in a small barn adjoining the farm-house of Mr. Timothy Wood, farmer and horse dealer, at West gate-hill, Tong, distant about four miles from Bradford, on the Bradford and Wakefield-road. Mr. Wood's neighbours quickly united in determined efforts to rescue property from threatened danger. Unhappily, there were five valuable cows in the barn, and there was no possibility of effecting their rescue. The barn, alse, contained a considerable quantity of straw, a small quantity of oats, ready for the miller, a number of agri cultural implements, &c. The building and its contents, including the five cows, were entirely destroyed. The total value of the property destroyed is estimated at less than £4OO. THR WEATHER ON THE NORTHUMBERLAND CWT.-- For the first time this winter the county of Northumber land is covered with snow, and the Cheviot hills and other high lands have a bleak look. There is appearance of more " fall." The wind is from the north, and a heavy sea is breaking upon the coast. Several vessels have had very narrow escapes from destruction. On Friday night, about 8 o'clock, the schooner Sir Edward Banks, from Har tlepool to Aberdeen with coals, ran for Shields harbour, and in taking the bar encountered a fearful sea. She was driven upon the Herd Sands, and three life-boats, two from South Shields and one from North Shields, manned with Tyne pilots, put out to save the crew, and rendered efficient assistance in their rescue. The brig Providence, from Bremen, also struck heavily on the bar, and damaged herself materially, but she got into the harbour in safety. One or two vessels arrived in the Tyue on Saturday ; but it is impossible for any to sail, and all the steamships for the south, north, and the Con tinent, will be delayed until better weather. A large fleet of light vessels is delayed in their passage down by the contrary winds. The brig Whalton, of Blyth, which lift here in September last for Beyrout, has not since hem heard of. DINNER TO 600 AGED PEOPLE. PAYMENT OF THE . DEBT ON Wirrrwoirril Cnunerr. - On Saturday a fete was held in Whitworth, which was regarded with interest by the inhabitants. In 1846 a church was erected, through the exertions of the Rev. Isaac Gaitskill. The, cost was £6,300, a portion of, which remained unp a id until Saturday. A committee having .been formed, and the sum required collected, it was deemed advisable to celebrate the event by a midday service, and to give a dinner to all the old people in the neighbourhood above 55 years of age. The Newmarket Saturday was selected as the occasion to roast an ox whole, and also a - whole sheep. 600 tickets were distributed to old people. The ox and the sheep were roasted, and to see the process, a large number of people had paid ld. each, and thus realised a large sum. The Rev. Mr. Whitworth, of Stubby Lee, preached the sermon, and the church was crowded. At the close of the service, Mr. Thomas , Rawstron, and two other me m b ers of the committee, advanced to the Rev. Mr. Gaitskill, who was standing near the communion -table, and handed to the reverend gentleman a purse contairuno. £284 14s. 34d., bei ng more than the deb t by £55 Os. 34d. The old people then retired to the adjoining schoolroom, where they were abundantly supplied with roast beef and plum pudding.