Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-19 00:00:00

Tuts DATA the 19th Cotton instant, at Two o'clock, at the Salesroom, 700 Bales East India, 30 0 „ Cordova, Smy rna, Scotch, &c. WOOL 1,000 Bales. 75 Bales Foreign White and Grey HAIR. JOHN L. BOWES & BROTHER, Wool Brokers 35, Dale-street. APP I 9 t° THIS DAY, the 19th instant, at the Brokers' Saleroom, Atherton -buildings, Dale-street, Liverpool, 2,509 Bales East India WOOL. For catalogues, Br.c., Apply to HUGHES and MONALD, Wool Brokers On SATURDAY next, the 22nd instant, at Three o'clock, at the Brokers' Saleroom, Atherton-baildings, Dale-street, Liverpool, 1,625 Bales East India 1,250 „ Donskoi fleece, chiefly superior combing 600 „ Superior Iceland, chiefly Northland 180 „ Oporto fleece WOOLS. 100 „ Egyptian 73 „ Foreign and English, white and grey irAls 57 „ Cordova 316 „ Laid Cheviot and white and laid Highland 299 „ Peruvian, Chili, Lisbon, Scotch, &e. For catalogues, a c., apply to HUGHES and RONALD, 'Wool Brokers 4,500 Bales On account of whom it may concern. THIS DAY, the 19th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers'-office, Exchange-court, Exchange-street East, 7 Bales COTTN (all faults), And a q uantit O y of Loose COTTON. damaaged by salt water, ex Snowdon, from Alexandria; now ying ia Branclter's Warehouse F, Dickson-street.— Apply to STEAD, BROTHERS, brokers. TIIIS DAY, the 19th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street., 10 Cases COWRIES, BROWNE, HUNTER ad Co., Brokers apply to TO-MORROW TO-MORROW, the 20th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 809 Tanned East India KIPS, 752 BUFFALO HIDES. BROWNE, BUNTER, and Co., Brokers. Apply to TO-MORROW, the 20th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the On account of whom it may concern. Brokers Office, 7, Exchange-chambers, RATTANS, (all faults), spore. - Apply to FRANCIS J. EATON, Brolo per Phillip I from Si TO-MORROW, th lat, at 7 lye o'clock, at the 2,000 Bags Bengal RICE. T. and H. LITT.LEDALE and Co., Brokers. Apply to a instant, at Tw 'e o'clock, at the Pt;blic Saleroom, Exchange-buildings, About 500 Bales Low American and other COTTON, . partially damaged.—For further particulars apply to TITHERINGTON, GILL, and Co., Brokers e 20th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, s Navassa GUANO. Brothers, and Co., Merchants ; or to J. H. RAYNER and Co., Brokers. s. Rathbon TO-MORROW, the 20th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, BORATE OF LIME, ly to Messrs. Nicholson and M‘Gill, J. 11. RAYNER and Co., Brokers. FRIDAY On FRIDAY next, the 21st instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 13 Tons CAMWOOD, anding ex Maggie Walker, from Africa, in the Albert Dock Apply to Mr. George F. Cornish, Merchant ; or to .1. 11. RAYNER and Co., Brokers On FRIDAY next, the 21st instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 11, Oldhall-street, Philadelphia QUERCITRON BARK, apply to FERGUSON and MARRIOTT, Brokers, 15 Hhds, cx J. H. Perkins. 21st instant, at Four o'cloct, at the s' Office, 2, Dale-street, _ales East India WOOL. BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers On FRIDAY next, t NEXT WEEK On MONDAY next, the 24th instant, at Four o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 2, Dale-street, 700 Bales East India WOOL. 25 „ Egyptian BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers an account On TUESDAY next, the 25th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Broker's Office, 7, Exchange-chambers, 150 Ballots, 1 e M 'Lean FIBRE, • 63 Bales Ackers Back Goree.—Apply to - FRANCIS J. EATON, Broker. On TUESDAY next, the 25th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Broker's Office, 7, Exchange-chambers, 500 Bales Mexican FIBRE, per sundry vessels, from Tampico.—Apply to Messrs. Leech, Harrison and Forwood, Merchants ; or to FRANCIS J. EATON, Broker. On WEDNESDAY, the 26th instant, at Three o'clock, 300 Bales Port Philip and Sydney WOOLS. r. and H. LITTLEDALE and CO., Brokers Apply to On WEDNESDAY, the 26th instant, at Three o'clock, at the Cotton Saleroom, Exchange-buildings, Liverpool, 200 Bales German, Hungarian, and Cape Skin WOOL, And at Four o'clock, 1,500 Bales East India, Egyptian, Peruvian, j WOOL. Russian, &c. MAME and Co., Wool Brokers Apply to Ou Bart, PATENT ASPHALTE ROOFING FELT. A cheap, durable, and perfectly Waterproof Roofing. ONE PENNY PER SQUARE FOOT. 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 ON SALE 100 Tons MANURE OIL CAKE. For analysis and price, apply to • THOMPSON, BAGNALL, and BUTTERWORTH, Brokers, 30, Moorfield. ON S tLE, to arrive A cargo of BONE ASH and BONES, from Rio Grande, 156 Tons BOIibASH, 28 „ Mixed BONES, 13,000 SHANKS Apply to JEFFERSON and TAYLOR, Brokers, Liverpool and London Chambers. TO LANDOWNERS AND FARMERS, CHESHIRE PHOSPHATE COMPANY have constantly ON SALE Nitrogenised BONE PHOSPHATE, and other valuable fertilisers.—Samples and prices may be had at he Office, 3, CABLE-STREET. Works :—Lowrat BEBI N °TON . J. It. CAMERON, CHRONOMETER MANUFACTURER AND OPTICIAN, 54, SOUTH CASTLE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. MARINE CHRONOMETERS ON SALE OR HIRE. GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, SEXTANTS, QUADRANTS, BAROMETERS, TELESCOPES, 4.a --- • -- CHARTS FROM LATEST SURVEYS _ THE POPULAR HISTORY OF THE I N G CLASSES EVERY SATURDAY, rx THE . NORTHERN DAILY PRICE ONE PENNIi TIMES, Apply to M anding Merchant Apply to Apply to WORK WAR" Av iN TER CLOTHING, T HE GENTLEMAN'S OUTFITTING WAREHOUSES, _ . 26, BOLD-STREET. P. L. IfACTAGGA.RT. 24 AND L'TVERNESS WRAPPERS OVER COATS. DRESSING GOWNS. DRAWERS AND VESTS. ~.., FANCY FLANNEL SHIRTS ItAI6VAYRUGS AND PLAIDS. MUFFLE - RS AND SCARFS. FLANNELS AND BLANKETS. BOYS' TI NTER CLOTHING TO CORRESPONDENTS. Under no circumstances can we i -sert communications not sarily f accompanied by the aubutthor's real nme and address, not neces or publication, as a guaara.ntee of good faith. AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, THEATRE ROYAL—Grand Comic Pantomi me. BAY ROYAL ARPHITHEATRE—EngIiSh Opera Company. CONCERT HALL (Lord Nelson-street)—Lola Montes. ALLSOP'S WAX WORK EXHIBITION (Lime-street). THE PARISIAN GALLERY OF ANATOMY, Paradise -street. TEUTONIC HALL (Lime-street)—Ascent of Mont Blanc. w7- t ,.- For particulars see advertisements on Bth page, CA) Iliarti)tra iml WEDNESDAY, JAN UARY THE DAY'S NEWS 19, 1859. , The only item or topic discussed just now, i s the new Reform Bill of Mr. Bright. It is looked upon by all authorities as of a most sweeping character, and-several of our Metropolitan contem poraries point out, what they term, inconsistences. The speech of Mr. Bright at Bradford., explaining the principal provisions of the bill, will be found in another portion of to-day's paper. Mr. Gladstone, it is announced by the morning papers, will not remain much longer in the lonian Islands, as he will be back in time to take part in the principal debates in Parliament this session. This does not look as if he was to be definitely appointed as Lord High Commissioner. The Express of last night, publishes , an indig nant protest against a garrison anrder pro mulgated at Malta. The order is as follows : " All guards to turn out to the Archbishop of Malta, and all sentries to carry arms and - present arms when the Host passes." The Express says--" This order has been the source of much bitterness. A British officer, Captain Shef field, of the Royal North British Fusiliers, a Crimean officer, having refused to obey the order, has been placed under arrest. It is a case of con science with him, and he is ready to submit to any punishment rather than do homage to the Host.' We should think he is ; but we should like to see who, at the present day, will dare to punish any soldier of the British Army, be he officer or private, for refusing to pay religious honours to a priest's bit of bread. It is time this nonsense was done with. We have heard a great deal too much lately from the Mediterranean of ignoble truckling to the priesthood both of the Latin and Greek Churches. Some whose high station and endowments ought to have preserved them from unworthy compliances im this respect have compromised the dignity of their country among the races which inhabit the islands of Southern Europe. The country, how ever, can take care of its own honour, eminent public men may expiate their errors with the loss of reputation ; but the soldier, if the rules and orders of the service are against him, is helpless. It is for those who enjoy the protection of the Army and the reflected lustre of its glories to take care that its members shall not be harassed by the imposition of orders which destroy their self respect without bringing the least advantage to the country." From Paris we learn, that au Austrian Courier has arrived in that city, with despatches, which are understood to contain the answer to a note sent by the French government, simultaneously with notes on the same subject from the other powers parties to the Treaty of Paris, complaining of the order sent to the commandant of Semlin, authorising, in certain eventualities, an interven tiop. in Servia. The answer, we are told, is to this effect :—" The Austrian government, as a neighbour ing power to Servia, is more interested than any other can be in the strict observance of article 29 of. the Treaty of Paris ; that in the present in stance the question has lost its practical importance, inasmuch as Prince Milosch has been recognised by the Turkish government ;. and that in point of international law the offer made to the Pacha of Belgrade implied that the Pacha would submit the proposition to the Porte, who, in its turn, would consult the powers parties to the Treaty of Paris before giving an answer." If this version be cor rect it amounts to an important concession, for it has been confidently represented for a long while that Austria insisted upon her right to send troops to Belgrade with the consent of the Porte without regard to the other powers. A semi-official article in the Constitutionnel, confirms this statement, and expresses an opinion that this act of Austria cannot but strengthen confidence in the main tenance of peace. A Marseilles letter in the Nord makes very light of a war with Austria, and pretends that mer chants there are quite astonished at the panic which the prospect of such an event has produced on the Paris Bourse. The writer reckons with confidence upon the alliance of France with Russia, and " the troubles in India," to keep Eng land quiet, and thus comforted looks upon the " localised " war which is likely to ensue, as an excellent opportunity for developing the French merchant navy. We have also interesting news by telegraph from the Danubian Principalities. On Monday, the election of a Hospodar for Moldavia took place, and Cousa, an advocate for the union of both Prin cipalities, was elected, and assumed the reins of The French Minister of Commerce has drawn up a new Corn-law, which is now before the Coun cil of State. It is stated that the sliding scale will be definitively abolished, and a moderate fixed duty established. A meeting has been held in Manchester, pre sided over by the Mayor, to consider the question of adulteration of food and the sale of poisons. A resolution was passed declaring the opinion of the meeting to be that the local authorities ought to have the power of inspecting all food offered for sale, and that the vendors of food injuriously adul terated should be subjected to a penalty. A peti tion to Parliament, based on this very reasonable proposal, was adopted by the meeting. The most amusing part of the proceedings was an attempt on the part of those very indefatigable gentlemen, the advocates of the Maine Liquor Law, who are always appearing when least expected, to carry an amendment condemnatory of " thatpoison alcohol." Sixteen colliers were summoned at Wigan, on Monday, for leaving work without notice. The magistrates adjourned the case f or a f or t n i g ht, i n the hope that a better feeling may then exist between masters and men. -The peace of the neighbourhood continues undisturbed. A man and his wife, named Parkinson, have been committed for trial in Manchester, on a charge of wilfully murdering their child. At the meeting of the Select Vestry, yesterday, the resolution of the Workhouse Committee, expelling or excluding. Miss Gillow, the Roman Catholic lady visitor, was confirmed without any discussion on the matter. THE Shipping Interest, it is most satisfactory to understand, is likely to participate largely in the general revival of commerce with which the New Year has opened. During the past year, indeed, British Shipping, under all the circumstances of the country, has been in a much more hopeful state than many people apprehended The Shipping generally, in was its condition our ports, has been, in many cases, in a situation of decided advancement Take for instance our own Docks, the account just rendered of the dues on the tonnage of which, during the past year, shows an increase of nearly £6oo,—notwith standing the general commercial depression that has prevailed. The past year, in fact, has been the most productive year to the. Docks, we find, that Liverpool has ever known. Or take again —which also happens to be at hand whilst we write--the report of the Commercial Dock Company of the port of London, presented to a General Court of Proprietors a few days since, in which we find it stated —" The directors have the pleasure to report that the docks have received a larger amount of tonnage of shipping during the past year than in any former year." And then the report proceeds to show, that the ships and tonnage of the year was 1,222 ships and 401,470 tons —being an in crease of 161 ships, and 37,452 tons, over the num ber in 1857. Surely this is very palpable evidence that the Shipping Interest, so far from declining, has actually been improving, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of our general commerce. Such being the case, it is really surprising to witness the outcry which portions of the great Interest persist in raising, as to its alleged ruinous condition, in order to effect a retrogression in the commercial policy which is now in operation,— with less satisfactory results, perhaps, to British Shipping, as yet, than there ought to be, but still with no such consequences as it is endeavoured to persuade the country have arisen from it. The General Shipowners' Society of London, for instance, we observe, have just adopted a Petition to Parliament, praying for the prompt removal from British Shipping of all burdens, vexatious restrictions, and liabilities. Now, in the first place, British Shipping must, like everything else by which there is profit desired, as a matter of justice and fairness, bear its rightful share of those burthens which have tole imposed for providing the means and appliances by which it is accommodated in our several ports, and protected, and otherwise advantaged. What the " vexatious restrictions " are we do not know. Everything is "vexatious," with certain minds, which in anywise interferes with men's desire to do as they like, and to make what profit they like, looking only to their own interest. All taxation is " vexatious " when one would rather not pay it, but prefer keeping the money demanded in one's own pocket. These burthens press heavily sometimes, yet they must be borne: every Interest in the country is called upon to bear its due proportion of them, be its state for the time beilig what it may. The General Shipowners' Society, in their Petition, declare that " from this cause, among others, the progres sive advancement of British navigation to meet the requirements of a continually increasing commerce has been checked ; and at this moment the British Shipping Interest is plunged into the deepest and most ruinous state of depression and difficulty—a vast amount of capital being annihilated ; freights in all parts of the world reduced to a point render ing any adequate return to investments in Shipping impossible ; and a very large amount of British tonnage, both at home and in foreign ports, being absolutely without employment." Now this is a tissue of the grossest fallacies ; and the end of the statement completely contradicts the beginning. How is it possible that, at one and the same time, British Shipping is unable " to meet the require ments of a continually increasing commerce," and " a very large amount of British tonnage, both at home and in foreign ports be absolutely without employment ?" Why, we are here told in the same breath, substantially, that there is employ ment for more Shipping than can be had—and that the Shipping Interest is at present unable to " meet the requirements of a continually increasing commerce !" The very prayer of the Petition in question shows a perverse and unreasonable state of mind. It is that Parliament will " institute a rigorous investigation into the facts herein alleged, with the view "—to what, does the reader suppose ? To ascertain whether or not they really are facts ; and if they are, then to find out how they came to pass—if it is the liberal commercial policy in operation that is producing them ; and, if so, whether that policy cannot with advantage be modified ? No—for none of this, so fair and reasonable as it would be, do they ask that the investigation be instituted, but only with the view "to the prompt removal from British Shipping of every burden, restriction, and liability, general and local, now pressing upon the British Shipping Interest, by which it is incapacitated from main taining the foreign competition to which it is exposed !" Such is the modest request to Parliame London. Why ant of the General Shipowner's Society of a more arrant begging of the whole question could scarcely be imagined. It is more than doubted, it is denied, that the British Shipping Interest is incapacitated from maintain ing the foreign competition to which it is exposed. The error or the correctness of it might be ascertained by the " rigorous investigation " proposed. But this is not the point with the General Shipowners' Society. They evidently do not want to ascertain anything but the ruin of their Interest, arising from its being " incapacitated from maintaining the foreign competition to which it is subjected !" If they really think that Parliament is likely' to be imposed upon in this way, all we can say is, that they are infinitely more credulous than one could have had any idea of TILE art of colonising has received a most wondrous advancement in these latter days. What the Continent of America might have been, and the " isles of the sea" adjacent thereto, by this time, had colonial progress been understood in former times as it is now, it were impossible to say. But certainly it would have been something different from what it now is, notwithstanding the rapid strides which the United States have made since they were formed into a federal union, having cast off the Colonial trammels which, with such short-sighted policy, had been imposed by the mother country. Look at South Australia. ° See what she has been enabled to do as a British colony, under a system of rule and governance which not only left her free to develop her rich resources, but gave her every encouragement to do so. Why, the colony of South Australia has accomplished in less than a quarter of a century, that which there are other colonies have not been able to do in several entire centuries. She is one of the most prosperous of all our colonial possessions, and promises to go on in her successful career at the same rapid rate, until she probably becomes one of the wealthiest and greatest of the nations of the earth. And all this proceeding from a settlement there, which at present dates back no longer than twenty -a brief space, indeed, in the history of a country. one years Yes,—South Australia has but attained• her majority. Only a year ago was her twenty-first anniversary celebrated—an event which could not fail to be highly interesting to all who had watched her progress, or taken part in her early struggles and difficulties. And a mode of commemoration was determined upon that is highly honourable to the colony, in this her youthful life, and which is not yet, it seems, wholly completed. Many who had been sharers in those struggles and difficulties have returned with the fruits of their labours to the countries of their birth ; but it was felt that, although no longer resident in South Australia, these absent friends were as warmly as ever interested in its welfare, and would be as willing to mark this commemoration with some permanent record of their sentiments. It was resolved, therefore, that all who still took an interest in the welfare of the colony, be their residence now where it may, should be invited to subscribe to a commemoration fund; and that the amount thus raised should be devoted to the promotion of some object of general and last ing benefit to the colony. The object decided upon is one that does infinite credit to its promoters,--one that is highly commendable on its merits, and calculated moreover to increase and strengthen the ties which bind the colony to the mother country. It is proposed to establish three exhibitions of £lOO a-year, tenable for three years each, so that one will fall vacant every year. The exhibition will be open to every school in the colony, and the object is to enable the holder to complete his education at some European or Colonial University. It would be difficult to devise a means more likely, whilst advancing the interests of South Australia, to perpetuate, and to do so under the happiest circumstances, the mutual benefits of British connection. Many, doubtless,•will contribute to the fund who have returned home prosperous gentlemen, through their successful industry and enterprise in the colony ; and these cannot but feel a glow of satisfaction, and have a deeper interest in the colony, when thus made parties to a means of promoting intellectual improvement there, the constant accounts of the good effects of which cannot fail to reach their ears ; while the youth of the colony, who may be so fortunate as to obtain the exhibitions, coming, as in all probability they will, to our own Universities, will get more and more imbued with good old English feeling, and have, as Colonists, *their loyalty and love towards the mother country increased and invi gorated accordingly. It certainly indicates a spirit on the part of our South Australian brethren that is most honourable to their hearts and minds, that they should thus prefer a means of commemorating the " coming of age " of their youthful colony which has too generally so little immediate attraction for the world. With them it is evident that, in the words of one of the wisest of men, " wisdom is the prin cipal thing," and, therefore, it is that they are careful their youth should " get wisdom, and with all their getting should get understanding,"—and thereby to " give to the young man knowledge and discretion," since " a wise man will hear and will increase learning." It speaks highly, we say, for the intelligence of South Australia, that there is so warm an appreciation as this of the benefits to be derived by society from such an education as our own and other Universities impart ; and we have no doubt that, before another quarter of a century of its colonial life has passed away, there will be most satisfactory proofs of its happy effects upon their community THERE is probably no town in the kingdom, next to the metropolis itself, in which prostitution is so prevalent as in Liverpool. Whenever, therefore, we hear of any movement for the suppression of this monstrous iniquity, this vile and debasing pollution, in other places, we naturally look at home, and wonder and lament that here there should be so little effort made to grapple with so appalling and so defiling an evil, paraded as it is continually before the public gaze in our streets and places_of popular resort. In London there are now several district Associations for the purpose of dealing with this great " social evil" by judicious reformatory measures ; and within the last few days there has been a meeting of one of these, called the " All Souls and Trinity Preventive Association," '—the sphere of whose operations is the district around Portland-place,—at which statements were made of the prevalence of the abominable vice, in all its various phases, that ought to arouse the public mind from its too general apathy upon the • subject. It appears that in the district in question, - which is of comparatively limited extent, there were not long ago as many as one hundred and forty notorious houses of ill-fame, containing from six to ten fallen women each, which fearful array of prostitution was swelled by a large number of young women lodging in the district, who were known to be gaining their livelihood, nominally by working for shops, but principally by the means of night prostitution. And one natural result, it was remarked, of this dense aggregation of depravity in a narrow spot, was the front of insolent and shameless defiance which vice had put on. " Indecent exhibitions in broad day from the windows of these houses, utterances the most revolting, that startled and shocked the ear of the passenger who had unwarily penetrated these haunts of infamy, together with the outrageous conduct of the unhappy children of shame, which even before the shades of night had fallen were wont to come forth in hundreds upon the pavements of Portland-place and Regent-street, seemed to indicate a determination that no vestige of respectability should be suffered to linger in a neighbourhood which not thirty years ago was as pure and as much resorted to as any of the most favoured districts of western London." Such are the vicious and pestilent tranformations which prostitution produces, even in the midst of what the world calls respectability. And well, therefore, did the Committee of this Preventive Association ask, in the Report they submitted to the meeting,—" Could those who were cognisant of the presence of such an evil, who knew what crime, disorder, and demoralisation it was diffusing, who met it, and were shocked by it at every turn, any longer pretend to ignore its existence ? Were they to suffer this hideous cancer to fester and spread itself on every side,- and never to devise means to suppress its infamy, and to alleviate its horrors, even when it was threatening to invade the purity and peace of their own homes ? No !" they answered, " the -right minded and respectable part of the com munity felt that a crisis had arrived, and that for the sake of the moral well-being of the poorer classes around, as also for the moral protec- tion of their own households, some prompt repres sive action must be taken." And such action has been taken, through the instrumentality of this Association, already with considerable success. In one street, where nearly every house was a brothel, only one now remains ; in another, upwards of fifty houses of the most infamous description have been emptied of their abominations, and even those that still remain " are now no longer charac terised by the outrageous proceedings which ren dered them once so demoralising and offensive to the neighbourhood." Nor is this all ; for if it were, it would only be like driving away the evil from one district to make a a lodgment in another. Bid the wretched prosti tutes themselves are looked after, remonstrated with, rescued from their vile position, and in many instances thoroughly reclaimed. Houses of refuge are provided for them penitentiaries, where, whilst all their physical wants are care fully attended to, they are counselled and consoled by religious ministrations, a contrite state of mind is produced, and their return to the paths of virtue and chastity permanently secured. "At these penitentiaries," as one of the speakers on the occa sion referred to stated, " females were admitted and kept two or three years, and then sent out, as it was presumed, reformed ; but in the new institution formed in that district the poor creatures were not only taken in and sheltered, but situations provided for them,"—truly adding, that "it was no use, in fact, taking a fallen woman into the refuge without letting her know that sho would be afterwards provided for :" than which , under the peculiar circumstances of their case, nothing is more natural. Now, what they are doing in London for the suppression of this most appalling "social evil," might at least be attempted in Liverpool. What we have here faintly described is an effort in but a single district of the great metropolis. And surely something of the kind might be tried in some of the worst situations of this town, where the same " disgrace to civilisation " is equally prevalent. Even as regards the revolting out ward aspect of so appalling a moral pestilence, we have, in some parts of the town, quite as much that might be remedied as they have in the neigh bourhood of Portland-place. Our philanthropic townsman, the Rev. Dr. HUME, in his pamphlet on the religious and social condition of Liverpool, asks theSe questions,—" Is there sufficient protec tion afforded to well-disposed persons in our streets, by night, or even by day ? or, apart from the question of safety, is decency or propriety sufficiently respected ? Are there not some streets, near leading thoroughfares, which are almost' wholly impassable P" And then he empha tically adds,—" There is but one answer can be given to each of these inquiries." It is evident, therefore, that here in Liverpool there are fields of labour for such Preventive Associations, quite as prolific of the great " social evil "as any that are to be found in London. Let us hope that the philanthropic example of the metropolis, in such most laudable efforts for its suppression, will not much longer continue to be disregarded among ourselves. THE APPROACHING OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.—Her Majesty will open parliament in person. According to present arrangements, the Queen and the Prince Consort and court, propose_leaving Windsor Castle on Wednesday, the 2nd proximo, for Buckingham Palace. MR. BRIGHT ON THE CURRENCY.—A number of the inhabitants of Birmingham, have addressed a memorial to Mr. Bright, soliciting his "advocacy in Parliament, on behalf of the interest of Labour against that of Money," Mr. Bright addressed to them a reply, in which he says :—" To tell you the truth, I do not comprehend what you complain of, or what you wish to be done, for in the many conversations I have had with persons who thought themselves well informed on what is called Our Monetary •System,' I have never had the good fortune to find any two of them agreeing upon the exact grievance or the precise remedy. I have always thought this a great misfortune, because until I could see clearly where the wrong was, or is, I could have small hope of discovering a remedy. Ido not defend what exists in connection with the Bank of England— much of it seems to be at variance with the laws of political economy, but I find many of the propositions made by those who wish for a change, are even leis in accordance with that science, and long discussion with those who most loudly denounce the present system only leaves me more puzzled than before. I confess, there fore, that I am not the most suitable person to under take the great change which I presume you are looking for. I will willingly support any inquiry by Parliament, in the hope that the truth may at last be discovered ; but I do not feel competent to teach Parliament and the country on the abstruse question to which you have drawn my attention. When it comes before the House of Commons .I will give it all the consideration in my power. I wish I could send you a more satisfactory reply." THE COURT WINDSOR, Monday, Jan. 17.—The Queen, with Prince Arthur, walked and drove in the Home Park this morning. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort went out shooting. Mr: Victor Van de Weyer had the honour of accompanying his Royal Highness. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited Her Majesty to-day at the Castle. Princess Alice and Princess Helena rode in the Riding-house. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived at Frankfort on Friday evening with a numerous suite. He passed the night at the Hotel d'Angleterre, and continued his journey the next day by way of Munich. PRINCE ALFRED.—A letter from Alexandria says : " The expected arrival here, some time during the course of this month, of his Royal Higness Prince Alfred, in the frigate Euryalus, Captain Tarleton, has already created some excitement in the place, and arrangements are being made by the British residents to give the distinguished young visitor a welcome reception. A grand public ball is spoken of, at which the Viceroy has already intimated his intention to be present, if the Prince comes here. Said Pacha, who is certainly princely and magnificent in his hospitality to every distinguished visitor, will, no doubt, in return for the attention shown to his own son, Toossum Pacha, on his late visit to London, by her Majesty, be very desirous of making agreeable to our young Prince his short visit to the famed land of Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary have honoured the Earl and Countess of Sandwich by a visit to Hinchingbrook House, near Huntingdon. The Earl and Countess of Sandwich had invited a select circle to meet their illustrious guests. Many of the local nobility and gentry have also been among the visitors invited to join the circle. We (Post) have reason to believe that a marriage is arranged between Lady Harriet de Burgh, youngest and only unmarried daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, and Mr. T. Vernon Wentworth, only son of Mr. F. and Lady Augusta Wentworth, of Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire. . . _ A letter from Vienna, dated Saturday, says :—" Her Majesty the reigning Empress will go to-morrow to Jilansko—near Briinn, in Moravia --to met her sister, the newly-married Crown Princess of Naples. having taken luncheon at Blansko, which is in a to picturesque situation, the illustrious ladies will retnl' • this city. The Fnlminante, a Neapolitan war Ste° er I is waiting at Trieste for the royal bride." nit A letter from Rome says :—" Th re e brilliant eve t,; have occurred in this first week of the new year, atTil i t ing crowds to ea c h—t o w it, a triple performance o f unrivalled tragedian, Signora Ristori, the illumination, the Colosseum, and a g r a n d b a ll g i v e n by the dab; of St. Albans. The illumination of the Colosseum Bengal lights was owing to the munificence of 1 0 Spenser, who, before leaving R om e, afforded , splendid spectacle to his friends and the pt , The venerable amphitheatre looked mysterious and under the now lurid, now brilliant light, and thou oll . 4 of spectators crowded every part of the Forum, ' it , streamed down the Via Sacra towards the point of attr id tion. The Duchess of St. Albans' ball on Wedne s li evening was the most brilliant that the season has 1 4 presented. It was given at the Palazze Lepri. The anir io stairs were beautifully decorated with verdure and plant s ge full flower ; and the ancient statues, heirlooms in the o° l family of that name, appearing through laurel camelias, looked rith Roman severity upon the swell proportions of modern crinolines. The duchess's salo ° o were filled with the elite of British and Roman soci e ) and the entente cordiale between the Roman and Fr e e d Governments was typified by the simultaneous preg ll o l of Cardinal Antonelh and General de Goyon. Se ce other members of the sacred college attended the ball:, FUNERAL OF THE LATE DUCHESS OF CLEVELAND Yesterday (Tuesday) morning the mortal remains; the late Duchess of Cleveland were removed from It g lf Castle, Durham, and finally deposited in the mausoleum at a loft distance from the castle, in acen ance with the wish of the deceased. The procee were conducted in a comparatively private manner. the time for the starting of the funeral cortege drew nic the park was thronged with spectators, the greater P. 5 : 1 ; being the tenantry. From an early hour in the mornit, the minute bells of the various churches id the neig bourhood was solemnly tolled, and the inhabits", testified their respect for the memory of the late duck` by closing their houses. The mournful cortege eonsi' l ll , of mutes on horseback ; the late duchess's chariot co taining the coronet and cushion, drawn by four lor'•, p ,, with escutcheons ; the hearse drawn by four h° l ::,4 plumed, with escutcheons, Containing the coffin of Spar e , mahogany, covered with crimson Genoa silk yel f o having eight massive gilt handles, with a coronet o.te each, and having upon it the breastplate with 1 . duchess's arms heading the inscription Sop . 1 Duchess of Cleveland, eldest daughter of John, O u ';0 Earl of Poulett, born 16th March, 1785, died ' A January, 1859, aged 74 years ;" and closed with se) mourning coaches drawn by four horses each, one f t y escutcheons, containing the relatives and friends 01 the late lamented duchess, and the private ca rr i ag es of . nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood. The reinTv of the duchess were laid in state on Monday in drawing-room, which was hung . with black an d it family escutcheons, and was visited by a numel ° assemblage of the peasantry and tenantry. LITERATURE CHYMICAL, NATURAL, AND PHYSICAL MAGIC ; London : Longman & Co. Septimus Piesse This little book provides an endless source of inn, .0 tion and entertainment for young people, during V 41 ;4 times,—or, indeed, whenever it is desirable to `0,, 1 1 $ intellectual recreation. " Every time my boys return school," says the author in his Preface, " I am o' l 4 upon to show them some new wonder in the If ° $ of alchemy." And having thus accumulated quit• .' stock of chymical, natural, and physical nog.' he thought the youth of the world at large l' ll s io properly, and perhaps profitably, participate in . 4 . e d enjoyment. " Knowing how well I have pleL r i , my own children, I now send these puzzles, esr t y meats, recreations, and magic legerdemain on errand to amuse others who have not yet s mile , el / them." He does not pretend to pass them all off as D t pt and original ; although he . certainly claims either , 0 ( invention of most of them, or their improvement. ° , O O of them, he acknowledges, we r e in print before be t y born, in Hooper's Rational. Recreations, published 1 0 4 last century ; but all these are, more or less, remod el g Others of them, he states, were contributed by hil 111 .; some of the popular periodicals of the day. " Iler e t v he observes, "I have brought them together to plesg ter present and future generations of youth, who seem de. d mined to make their appearance in geoinet tl y proportion, as Time produces beards, that be may cut them off with his ever-whetted ce fl d when they become grey." The tricks, and puzzles' A; experiments here given, number nearly two huria? and they form a collection of amusing and instra recreations, superior to any we have ever met with. 1: THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH.—London : Cleaver. Liverp ° Holden. This is a very clever paper, read before the Live r e Philomathic Society dunng its thirty-third ses3ioniatil David Buxton, F.R.S.L., Principal of the Live r cil School of the Deaf and Dumb. The author's posit one that affords superior opportunities of mastering 10 a subject. "Of all the persons whp speak the Bag o o language," he remarks, "there are probably 11 / ,e( who have a more intimate practical acquailqiii with its various peculiarities, than those whoso go duty it is to teach it to the deaf and dumb." . r d illustrates this by several facts and experiences, aecl ll ,, i o e in the course of his profession as a teacher of those no, mind, as respects instruction, is a blank to begin w and who have no knowledge whatever of langna; e 5 the instrument by which alone instruction can be gl v It is a very ingenious, and a very interesting essay. A powerful and most effective weapon, knoill; c ( Terry's patent breech-loading rifle, is, by the Ordenir, the Secretary of State for War, to be supplied ii fl diately to several cava'ry regiments. The peel to advantage of this weapon is to make one man equ 3 ten. THE FRENCH PROTESTANT YEAR BOOK FOR , S tile contains the names of the clergy, the lay members of i,Ol consistories, places of worship, school s , a n d theolol e V colleges. A list of superanuated minist ers , a long tab,;ool protestant schools, the titles o f th e p r i nc i pa l publicaw" of the past year, and of the Protestant journals. The second term of the present session of Qu e en College, Galway, has just opened with a large acre lit of stuents. The number on the roll is now 120, I . * oo session it was 100, the session before 96, and the at l ifl before 85. The large increase this year is no doubt some degree attributable to the prominence which Gal has occupied in the public mind in connection with. l 4 packet station, but it is chiefly owing to the increa- .I O T prosperity of the country, and the diffusion the correct notions as to' the nature an d a d van t ages 01 Queen's Colleges. It is remarkable that though, t o provincial synod o f th e R oman C a th o li c pre , thought proper, d ur i ng th e au t umn , t o i ssue a sec 0, condemnation of the Irish s y s te m o f m i xe d educat e p 5 more uncompromi s i ng i n it s t one th an even the faw",„il ' decrees of Thurle s , th e num b er o f R oman C at h o lic t o` - t , dents in the Galw a y C o ll ege h as not f a ll en off—in iad. the proportion of such s t u d en t s h as rat h er i ncr eas At this moment there are 62 Roman Catholic student' i o the College, last year there were 47 ; th e l argest niil'nite in any previous year was 52. Th ese f ac t s furnish stit evidence of progress, and there is no d ou bt th a t i n a fie years the feeling of apprehension with which $° fe people have looked on the Queen's Colleges will ba disappeared. A DOG STORY.—A lady of some pr o p er t y , r esidog in the Rue des Vignes, at Vaugirard, was possessed 0 huge mastiff, which being very savage, had to be e ° ,; ( l stantly chained up, but which she prized because it , belonged to her late husband. Early one m orci o l; according to custom, she t oo k th e anima l hi s f he but he seemed more ind oc il e th an usua l, and ! t ,,, gave him a beating. Watching a n opportun e l he suddenly rushed on her, threw her down, dragca, off the greater part of her clothes, and bit her clr eii io fully in the breast, arm, and one of her legs ' , fact, tearing away fragments of the fl es h. Th e 'Olt, cries attracted some of the neighbours to the 5, and they rescued her. Although su ff er i ng d rea dfu and faint from loss of blood, she requested then f a strangle the animal. Th e y accor di ng l y passe d a ec6e, round the dog's neck, a n d remov i ng hi s co ll ar 1 31. 40 pared to effect the operation : but he tugged ca violently at the cor d t h a t h e b ro k e i t, and rtlsl, ' " towards the room i n t o w hi c h t h e l a d y h ad been OH" veyed. The door was c l ose d on hi m, an d he tried to fc ir c, e it open, but failed. On this, barking furiously, rushed towards the people who remained in the coarq yard, but they were able to escape by the door, a l `„ 1 to close it. The c omm i ss ary of p o li ce , w h o .had h e 'd sent for (a Frenchman sends for th e comm i ssa ry " c i, police if he cuts his little finger), now arri/ o accompanied by some gendarmes, a n d he made th e b , kill the animal. Medical assistan ce h av i ng b ee n °.4 tanned for the unfortunate lady, it wa s f oun d th a t s he A . 4 in a fearful state, but hopes are entertained that she 01 , 61 1 recover. The dog was, after d ea th, exam i ne d b y a Tel, rinary surgeon, and he declared th a t h e was neithernl3 nor labouring under any malady. H e f ur th er d e clare that, in his belief, the a n i ma l must h ave had a sor t °( instinctive hatred of •his mistress, and must , have b eep driven to fury by her beating him.—Paris ?aper, THE NORTHERN TIMES WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1859