Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-20 00:00:00

sp&I"THSONIAN HOT`EL, BROADWAY, Corner of HOUSTON -STREET, NEW YORK. Igen:nod In honour of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Fatablished at WASHINGTON, by the U. S. CONGRESS, With Funds bequeathed by JAMES SMITESbN, Or EN r.L. , ..09 1137/Itg the Frienish:p of the 0 RFICERS of the NATIONAL INSTITUTION Is eonductal on the ,System of Hotels in ENGLAND. CHAS. H. SMITH. AMUSEAIESTS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, &c. THIS DAY. 7-,DLATin oY/L—Profass)r Anderson-7 p.m. Ea - rat. AMPUITUZATRE—DramatiI Paformance-7 p.m. PaUaasmoxte HALL—Phomas's Grand Con.lerts-8 p.m. 113)1GiUM'8 CIBAUE VAII TE, Dale-street--7 p.m. LI9E3PIIOL ACADS3III'B EXIIII3ITiON, Postoffice-place. lin7aL COLOSSIMIL—GaneraI Ent2rtninment-6.30 p.m. For advertisemeati see second ma. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERR Persons seeking Employment, parties requi ring Servants, Assistants or Clerks, and those in search of Apartments, or having Lodgings to Let, can best by their wants under the notice of the public, by ad;vertising in the NORTHERN TIMES, and which, , from its large, circulation, is the ilo3e efficient medium of Lpubeicity in thi district. The cash price for this special class; of advertisements is new r✓duced to THREEPENCE .FOR TWENTY WORDS, and for every additional five words one penny, Zet t' ,7* • it R Tp . 7 . j. . t , ..,,riv? .%•;, P,Y+ t ' 4,7, 4004 .1.0 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1,257. THE DAY'S NEW. - Our Metropolitan cotemporaries -continue. to liscant upon -the late news from India. The majority look upon it as of a most satisfactory character; and we.areeglad to see that there is no such thing as British .Sepoyism advoeeeed of late. We have had some soldiers of sterling merit killed before Delhi, and it is a sort of relief to notice how some. of our London friends talk upea that affair. The Tieic3 of yesterday, atler alluding to the great slaughter which must have taken place before and inside the wails of Delhi, iand eulogising the con duct of the various - troopinengaged in the conflict, -says :—" Our Indian Generals, then, we say, are the proper objects of. the t highest honours. High honours do not suit our aristocracy alone, though some may think so.; they. suit these men of the middle classes also,; they suit them admirably, suit them perfectly. There is no disproportion, and:there „will be DO incongruity-; these men have earned honour well, and they can wear it well. Nor let us forg,e'; one partisallar honour appropriao to , the dead. General .I\ 7 :di' has left a family behind him. A national.provision for them, and that -a generous one, is an honour whioh such a General - can - justly claim.from the tomb. Such a provision will be an honeur to the dead and to the living—to him who earned it, and to those who :receive it, 'The °Thant; our soldiers are the children of the nation., and their national adoption, while-it is their necessary. euppert, is .also, by its associations, their pride and glory—the noblest of all family escucheons and insignia. The -subject of Reform is beginning to attract the , attention of the general public. Al a metro politan paper o: yesterday .says—" The public will study.the details of the Roebuck Ch:nmlar—frona -which,- however, the member for Sheffield is now endeavouring to disconnect, his name—and will judge whether it represents the essential points of Reform. We are inclioed to accept it, wide iL compromises and delielenoies, as an approaoh to the Sf_therlae of an equitable measure ; and are by no meaue disposed to carp at shortcomings which may have been. found unavoidable. But in concert with all earnest Liberals, we reiterate our protest agndest coospiencies concocted rill beewaya. ; and we tell Mr. Roebuck and his colleagues that, if thy would oncey the nation with them, they must corns forw.at, invite co-operation from all quarters and classes, nnd do their worls withcotnags, knowing themselves tel be responsible to the public. The struggle may be postponed, but cannot be far disnint ; it is for the people to be pre-' pared, and for those who pretend to guile them to act with honour, discretion, and uuwovering Those who are on the side of the Ministers have taken alsrtn at the document, and, proiessing themselves to he Rt.>forrners, have -begun the task of carneenly counselling the Liberal party to abandon all !False of satisfactory -change until the P4rliamsnt and the P.tnnler And they have a spare Session on hand for :the ample discussion of a new Reform measure. No intimation -ie given as to when this spare Session is likely to dawn; bun as if to it away as far as possible, observations are made in.reference to China and -the, Continent which ore likely to facilitate a culmination of the Tilost•;301i0U8 troubles. Something is also said about what •Ministers rrilt really venture to do when Parliament meets—that is to sty, a possible pr groirnine is mentioned—with a view of finding outflow tar iZ; be favoured by public opinion. Fisst, the Book Chkrter Act to be diseussed and refeened to a Coinneitteo,; -ser,ond, discussions n Joi;a to be made to burn upon the bravery of those who have fought, b!ed, suff?red, „and escaped; and, third, some laV7 changes of the -officers of the Crown upon which debate -may ,become interatinable. Such is the programme; and the Royal s:peech t it is proposed, altottl-71 con tain not it word ,shout; Reform." We tied a 1 this 4nentioned in the special organ of the Premiere .and it remains for the country to decide. A great deal, of course, .will depend upon sole step • which the Conservative Opposnion will take t and, with respect to this point,_ ^e can hear nothing but -vague and very absued rumours. What, for:exam pleenan be thought of a statement which has found its way somewhere that the .12ory party - will -steles.- Tens to turd ha undivided „attention to eurseney problems ? It would be much more credibly; to 11..ar that all its energy will :be devoted to die explicatio: - , , s of the great ;Tulare difficulty. At all events, the public would be agreeably surprised to know that tae leviors of the On-position were ore the eve of making Reform their sp;ecill question for the new-Session of PariLamont: but tile likel:- hood 4: rather the other wiy, for Conservatives, after all, stoutly resist any return to the ancient democratic institutions of this country. The usual monthly meeting of the Dock and Health Committees were held yesterday, but the proceedings were:of no general importance. The successful submersion of the telegraph cable betwe(qi Cagliari and Msiba is announced. This is a success of some imoortancB just now, as it will considerably .expedite the dnspetch of the next telegraph's, and we hope of all future tele graoh's from India. The news from abroad is rather interest d iag to ay. Th & e pi:rat:tie gossip in the coetiuental press afford hopes of a mu tual understanding between the Po s, , ors on the question of the Princi palities. Not merely is it essested that reuscia, Russia, and even France hew' become unanimous, on the proposed compromise, but the latest infor rnwion from Constantinople renders it probable that Turkey herself will accept it. If so, the meeting of the Paris conference will be a mere matter of form, On the other hand, we are informed that Turkey is arming, and that the Mahomedan population generally anticipate war. Turish troops are constaezly moving towards the Lower Danube. The Sardinian elections, in whiel; the clerical party anti the ultra Liberals seem to 13 - ,•nte extent to conpciate against the G)vernmen`,, continue, nevertheless to be in favour of the latter. Count Cavour's strength rests chiefly ou the great division of parties in the Turin chambers. For, besides the clerical and ultra Liberal parties, and the ministerialists proper, there is the Rattazzi fraction, or left central, besides a right central, and a phalanx of strict Conservatives. THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1857 The lef .t and right centrals, though by no means always, agreeing, even on important questions with , Countz Cavour, are ncvea - theless compelled by ' inutr.sl jealousy to support him, while the Con sery atives, the clericals, and ulta Liberals, are ao wio,ely divergent, that a permanent coalition of th , am is impossible. The trial of the Genoa irtsur g( nits has ended with many acquittals, amongst w hich is to be recorded, that of Miss nite who seems to b 6 destined, not to become a martyr. As yet no complete light is thrown on the conspiracy just discovered in Spain, the Menternolinist , character of which, however, seems certain, and in which French legitimists are likewise said to be implicated. The man named Montserrat, who is now under examination at Barcelona, having procured a temporary postponement of his execution by promising important revelations, is well known as an old Monternolinist agent; and he has been condemned and amnested before. The Swiss, whom nobody can reproach with not being jealous of their national honour and standing, have never theless just -resolved, in their Federal Council, neither to send consular agents to Turkey, nor to claim the protection of any other Government for Swiss citizens residing there. We supply our readers with an ample summary of the more striking news from Australia. THE Lordon Times reminds us of the promise to pay all contracts in gold most opportunely. The'Bank-of England and the Chancellor of the Exchequer are• as firmly bound by this compact as the humblest huxster in trade, and if the former will lead the way, the commercial public will follow their laudable example. This they cannot do, and thus arises the all vital question,. whether, when " every thing has been brought to chaos," as in the present instance, " a master in the shape either of a Finance Minister or a Bank Commissioner should be allowed to interpose and say, This confusion must be stopped. I will now adjust your relative claims so as to give relief 'to , one side ,against the other. You are unfit to be left to yourselves, and it is time for me to step in""—as the advocates of national bankruptcy say we have—or whether Parliament will, at once, abolish one of the greatest frauds ever directed against the labour and accumulated wealth of a credulous people. It is the last excess of folly to talk of a " creditor interest" which only exists in the imagination of the wildest theorist, or a " bullion currency" which, after nearly forty years of unprecedented industry and enterprise in 'every - civilised" pursuit, is not • now worth more than eighteen pence in the pound. We write in this strain merely to show our respect for the " intent and meaning of the law," and not to throw discredit on the most valuable of our social institutions—namely, our Banks. The Bank of England is an institution of which any nation might well be proud. Its manage ment, as the chief depositdry of the moriey - means of this great commercial country, is without a blemish, and its Directors are worthy of any amount of' credit they may think proper to ask from the State and its subjects. Up to 1819, the Bank of England was allowed to issue any amount of " credit notes" the Directors thought , proper. :But this right was taken away by PEEL'S Bill of that year ; and in 1844 the London Times ventures to assert that, "England was'placed upon the footing of having an enth ely metallic currency." And in the same paragraph it alleges that—" It made no difference that the 36,000,000/. of' paper in circulation" at the latter date, " comprised certain existing notes, namely, 14,000,0001. of those of the Bank of England, and 8,000,000/. of those of country bankers, and that these, instead of being actually representatives of gold is hand, merely repre seated credit." Such monstrous contradictions at a crisis such as this, are most unpardonable. But mark what our enlightened cotemporary considers a proper basis for the note-issues of a commercial country. "It was enough that an assurance was given that this element of credit wouldremain at the point fixed, and would never hence.forth be allowed co fluctuate." No increase of shipping, improvements of land, additions to our productive powers, in the numbers of our house 3, factories, mills, and machinery- - no enlargement of oar commerce by Free Trade or any other means, was to entitle us to more credit. " The movements of gold for the future," says this oracle, " would " exclusively regulate every transaction." It would be treason towards the State, and destruc tion to the citizen, to respond to these Charla tans by saying.'" We will hold to your word. You say that the element of credit, is to redmuin at a point fixed- That has now been reached, if not passed over, and now discharge all your contracts in gold, and show us that England has an entirely metallic currency. The value of the bullion note is worth only a fraction more or less than eighteen pence in the pound according to your ,statement, and as the movements of gold ex clusively regulate every transaction, give the debtor the full benefit of the enhanced value of his sovereign —cash--as compared with the feather like promise to pay on demand," Hap pily for E lgland, there is no such destructive desire lurking in the bosom of her people. The commercial honour of Great Britain is safe in the Hands of her beleaguered merchants, and the stability of our Banks is guaranteed by the prudence and integrity of our suffering tra ders. Political knaves, and a London hireling preys. may destroy all confidence between man and man, prostrate commerce. plunder trade, and starve, labour; but their employers cannot pay their own contracts in gold, and there is still . morality and geniu3 enough left, in the country to preserve Erv;flond from p ,rishing in the pursuit of impo: , sibilities. Tne Bank Note of England is a mighty national instrument, and the people must cling to it as a drowning man holds on to the last fragment of a wreck. its value is decided by t h e t ang ible and immoveable wealth which surrounds the people who US2 it, by the square miles of slated roofs and •all they cover, by our broad acres of rich lands. 1 and millions of cubic feet of steam and can vass, which are daily carrying away the produce of our labour, and bringing back the world's substance in return ; and not by the possession of a foreign product—gold—which has but very limited, and, therefore, less necessary functions to discharge in the commerce and other trans actions of civilised lite. Let those who will have gold pay for it, and give for the sovereign what it is really worth. It is useless to say that the " chosen metal" is only worth 3/. 17s. 9d. per ounce, when one hundred sovereigns can be leaned for twelve months at ten per cent. The ounce of standard gold fetches just as much now as when the rate of interest is two or two-and-a-half per cent. The Bullionist claims this as his right, and let him have it where the transaction is confined to bullion ; but when we require an enlargement of bank ing credit, what right has he to ten per cent ? If we had an "entirely metallic currency," we could understand rthe honesty and consistency of the Bullionist's demands ; but where he has only eighteen-pence in cash risked in his trans actions, we cannot see what right he has to ask a bullion rate of discount for his earial " promise to pay on demand." The average amount of authorised issues of Bank notes is 36,000,0001., of which 14,000,0001. represents nothing but paper; and 8,000,000/. l of country notes, which very rarely represent more than 6s. Bd. of cash to the pound, and yet we are made to pay ten per cent. for the use of this paper, when the demand is confined exclusively to gold, and when we arc required to pay all contracts in that metal ! Ars est celare artem ; but we defy the London Times to gull the commercial public to submit much longer to such an odious system of chicanery. ONE of the most singular, but most important documents, connected with the Indian mutiny, has at length made its appearance in the public prints. We have on several occasions alluded to it, but being now before us in, extenso, a further reference to the extraordinarylrevelations which it contains will not be out of place. The document in question is the memorial of the Christian inha bitants of Calcutta, and of the Presidency of Fort William, in Bengal. Its object was to obtain the recall of Lord CANNING. Contrary to political etiquette, the memorialists did not deem it their duty to memorialise the East India Corn. pony or her Majesty's Government on the sub ject, but at once addressed themselves to the QUEEN. Long bofore this document was spoken of, we took occasion to censure Lord CANNING'S Administration, and contended that he was not the nobleman to rule the destinies of our Indian Empire in Its present crisis. Had we no other proof to sustain - -this position than the Cal cutta memorial to the QUEEN, our case would be complete and unanswerable. The Christian inhabitants of Calcutta and Fort William, in the Presidency of Bengal, after briefly alluding to the outbreak of the mutiny, and its direful consequences—placing all the British and Christian population in mourning, lowering the English name and reputation ; paralysing trade and commerce, interrupting agriculture, whilst ruin and famine threaten all those who have escaped the massacre. " The treasures of the East India Company," says the memorial, ' are pillaged and exhausted—their credit is wholly gone, and their securities are so depreciated as be almost unsaleable at any rate of diScount." This is a sad tale ; but all late events connected with Inlia. clearly demonstrate that it is not overdrawn or too highly coloured. After making the statements above alluded to, the memorialists assign a cause for the disastrous effects which they so graphically pourtrayed. It is their deli berate conviction that the calamities and the results of the spread of the mutiny are "attribu table to the incapacity of the local Government of India, of which the present Governer-General is the responsible head." Such is the nature of the charge which the memorialists preferred against Lord CANNING and his &Interne Council. And now for the proof by which they sustain the charge. In the first place, indyerence to repeated warning as to the mutinous spirit which manifested itself amongst the four regiments of I Sepoys stationed at Barrackpore, in January and February last. The Governor-General was made aware of this by various sources, still he unheeded the warning, and some of the officers who ventured to give it received a reprimand for their then timely information. Barrackpere is only sixteen miles from Calcutta; and it appears that the original intention of the mutineers was to march upon it, and take the city by surprise, massacre all the Christians, and aftewards pillage the treasuries. At this time Calcutta was only I defended by a wing of the Queen's 53rd Regi ment, stationed in Fort William—" a fort," says the memorialists, " which requires upwards of 10,000 men for its full garrison." Had this plan been successful, the British troops would have been obliged to contend with rebels from without, and the treachery of the native garrison within, and thus been overpowered and slaughtered to a man. One can well imagine what must have resulted from the capture of Calcutta, particu larly if in possession of Fort William. All these villianous designs were made known to Lord CAN NING in due time. Nevertheless, he despised the intimation, and studiously refused to make the slightest preparations for the approaching and foretold irruption. The inhabitants of Cal cutta were thus left in a state of insecurity and' danger. Indeed, we find by the papers laid before Parliament, that Lord CANNING wrote 1 home to the Government that there was no danger, even while the mutineers were hatching their schemes. Indeed, he reported that the emute had been suppressed, while every hour gave fresh evidence of its extension and increasing firmness. From the time of the rupture at Barrackpore until the seizure of Delhi, which took place on the 11th of May, we find that Lord CANNING confined his exertions to the issuing of certain proclamations, which resulted in aiding the rebellion instead of supressing it, inasmuch as it only served to convince the Indian Sepoys of the blindness and weakness of the Government. After narrating the several occurrences which took place from the capture of Delhi until the commencement of the siege of Cawnpore, the memorial appeals, and very justly too, to her Majesty if such a state of things should have been permitted to exist, The horrible massacre which ended that memorable siege, we need not now dwell upon; suffice it to say, that not only the Calcutta memorial, but unimpeachable cor roborative evidence clearly demonstrate that it was owing to the supineness of the Indian Government that all this took place. The " energy " and " promptitude " which their quandam friend, and late Cabinet colleague, so lavishly heaps upon Lord CANNING, were non est juveniles. Instead of these he showed a peculiar aptitude for putting confidence in regiments which, iwhile he was extolling them, massacred their officers. He next disarmed the English as well as the native—Degraded and imposed uncalled for penalties upon the conductors of the press, who made it a constant study to stimulate the people to loyalty. In a word, the vast majority of European residents, officers, planters, merchants, and even ". politicals" attribute 'to his Lordship's pur-blind policy the numerous and aggravated disasters which have occurred in many—nay, almost every part of rebellious India. Who that reads the Calcutta memorial, can doubt for a single moment the appalling statements which that document contains, or deny that indescribable bloodshed and ruin, misery and shame, have been the better fruits of the egotism, incapacity, and obstinacy of the Governor-General? It may suit the purpose of Lords PALMERSTON and GRANVILLE to defend Lord CANNING, and to hold him up as the model of all that•is truly great—as a statesman and a soldier—but any one who reads • the Calcutta memorial, will dispute the premises, and charac terise him as the' most unsuited of men to rule the destinies of India. It was an easy task to pursue the argument of Lord CANNING'S incom petency much further, but that would only be a work of supererogation. Seeing that the voice of the nation regards the memorial from Calcutta as a true Bill, and one that Parliament must sooner or later adjudicate upon. What that verdict will be, there is little room to doubt—the peremptory demand for Lord CANNING'S instant dismissal. TIIE PROPOSED D9CEI WORNS.—It may bewail to direc t the attention of the commercial public to the fact, tha t plans have been prepared by - the Dock Serveyce, o the woks proposed to be executed under tba notices issued within the last few days. The plans lie at pre,7ent on the table of the Dock Committee, and may be inspected by any one who feels interested in the subject. We believe the D ,ek Committee have also given instructions to their offices to afford the fullest information in reference to there plans. It need hardly be stated, that the notices isen.d will not bind the new Dock 'frost, which comes into existence in January next, to carry out the whole or any portion of those proposed works. The notices now given will merely enable the new committee to proceed with the bills necessary for the construction of the works, or any port of them, in the coming Session of Parliament, if it should be deemed advisable. THE RUN or Tx z SIMLA.—The extraordinary run of this powerful steamer is highly creditable t) Captain Cooper, her respected commander. She arrived at Port Philip on Wed ausday night, Sept. 2, having maeTe the passage from Suez in thirty-seven days, bringing English intelligence to the 17:1 July—the shlrtest time on record. The following are the dates of :arrival and departure :—From Suez 26th July, at 11 p.m. ; arrived at Aden Ist August 8 a.m. ; salted 2 al August, 6 a.m. ; arrived at Galle 10th, at 7 a.m. ; sailed again l at 2 p.m.; arrived at Melbourne 2ad Sept., at 11 p.m. We were favoured by Mr. Smith, the purser, with files of the latest papers, also our correspon dent's despatches, which were promptly handed to us by Captain Walker, of the Wunga Wonga. The intelligence by the Simla has thus been received four days in advance. She sailed from Melbourne Heads at 9 p.m , on Friday, the 4th, and hove to for a pilot off the Sydney Lighthouse on Sunday night, at nide o'clock, thus making the passage in forty-eight hours. Captain Cooper states that he expe.ieneed strong S.E. wi:;ds all the way fr.:na Galle to the Lcuwen, or his time would have been shortened con siderably. Tee royal mai steam-ship European arrived at Point de Gallo on the 21st, and sailed again on 3rU July. Sydney Morning Herald. DEATH OF Ma. ALIGUEITUEI , STAFFORD, M.P.—lt was with deep regret we yesterday announced Vie death of Mr Augustus Stafford, the accomplished and amiable member for North Northamptonshire. This melancholy event to k place on Moiday morning, at MOrrison's Hotel, Dublin, to which Mr. Stafford ha `l been brought from his seat in the connty of Limerick, a few days ago. Since his visits to the Crimea during the late war, Mr. Stafford had been liable to attacks of spasms in the chest, occasioned by the anxious and arduous duties which he had undertaken in attending and administering to the wants of our soldiers in the hospitals at Scutari and Balaclava. " On a late occasion," says the Herald. " while suffering under one of these attacks, a large dose of laudanum was given to him, t' e usual remedy in such cases, after which, we understand, he was bled. In the course of the night the bandage is said to have come off, and before he became aware of it a further and profuse b'eeding took place. The exhaustion consequent upon this appears to have given the laudanum previously taken such power over the constitution that its usual poisonous effects became manifest in the drowsiness which precedes death. With the resolution which belonged to his charac!er, he insisted on the strongest means being taken to restore animation ; and he caused his labourers to bastinado his feet in order to keep him awake. This had the efflct desired, and his medical attendants were enabled to have lain removed to Dublin, but his constitution proved unequal to the shock; he gradually sank, and expired in the arms of his friend, Dr. .Todd." As a politician, the late Mr. Stafford was a consistent, conserva tive, and was Secretary to the Admiralty during the short administration of Lord Derby; His conduct during the Crimean war was above all praise. Day after day and night after night he went from bedside to bedside in the hospitals, amidst scenes of misery and suffering and exposed to the danger of cholera and fever, from both of which he suffered. He made it his business net only to alleviate the wants, but to write letters on the part of our wounded soldiers to their friends and relatives at home ; and many an anxious wife or parent derived a solace or satisfaction in hearing from husband or son through the considerate kindness of Mr. Stafford. The reader will not forget the touching address presented to him from the officers and soldiers a a French transport ship in which he happened to be present when the cholera 'broke ant, and the proof which that address afforded of the Christian heroism he displayed. AMUSEMENTS, &c. PROFESSOR ANDERSON'S BENEFIT. It seems scarcely necessary to call special attention to the fact that Professor Anderson's benefit takes place at the Theatre Royal this night, when we recollect that every night's performance sees the theatre about as well crowded as its limits will allow. Nevertheless, it is, perhaps, well to remind the public that every one who attends the per formance to-night, not only pays a well-merited tribute to one of the most popular of favourites, but also secures one of the very last opportunities which can occur for a long time of seeing the famous Wizard work his wonders. It is not requisite to enhance up3n the marvels and the merits of Professor Anderson's feats of magic art, when the manner in which he can draw crowds together week after week sufficiently testifies that his powers are not overrated by his admirers, or their capacity to interest anl entertain eaily exhausted. MR. Z. W. THOM.Ve•4 BENEFIT CONCERT AT THE Pli EMI C HALL. To-night, being the last night but one of Mr. E. Thomas's Shilling Concerts, this spirited caterer for public amuse - ment, will take his benefit—let it b 3 an overflowing one. If good music, wed played, -in a`magnificeut hall, at the cheapest prices, are desired, Me. E. Thomas deserves to be encouraged, As we have said before, we only fear that the music he has given has been too good for the public, who, with all their pretension to progress in art and science, and intellectual refinement, still bestow their eucouragetn:;nt most freely on coaree grotesqueries, farcical exaggerations of national peculiarities, and any other performance that will raise _a "horse-laugh." Mr. E. W. Thomas's band is considered to be the best he has ever collected ; and though some popular favourites, such:as Lazarus on the clarionet, may be missed, very adequate substitutes have been provided. His vocalist, Miss Louisa `'inning, is very popular, and has achieved distinctions in her second appearance before the public which fully sustain the reputation she achieved in early years as a musical prot3igy, when she charmed every one as the "Infant Sappho." The music given by Mr. Thomas, both ins'rumental and vocal, has been varied every evening, so as to suit all tastes, and the price of admission so low that, even in times of panic, and money at 10 par cent., there can be nn difficulty in finding a sufficient number to crowd the Philharmonic Hall, and give Mr. Thomas that testimony in his favour which his former benefit concerts have done in previous seasons. Such an attendance he deserves for his con tinued efforts to place good music before the public, and we trust that the public will not be wanting in their p Ire on this occasion. ACCIDENTAL DEATII.—At hall-past seven o'clock 011 Wecillt)Scliy evening, a woman named Mary Leary fell into a cellar at Lionel-street, and was killed. SUDDEN DEATll.—Yeverday morning, a man named Martin Walsh, whilst getting out of bed, in a court in &ockdale-street, fell down and died suddenly. FATAL ACC/DENT. —On Welnesdty Evening, . John Gleister, in engineer, on - board the steamer Sampson, was accidentally killed by a blow of one of the etanks of the vessel. LEWI3 AND COMPANY'S Nzw ESTABLI3III,I:,:NY FOR BOYS' CLOTIIINS.-Nulubdr of boys elotnecl for the week ending Saturday, November 14th, 653; correspotvling week last year, 381 ; increase, 269. STANLEY LITEE.4.EY AND DEB WING SDEIETY.—This society held its usual weekly meeting on ,Wednesday evening, 18th instant, at eight o'clock, Mr. T. Daniel in the chair, when a most interesting and instructive lecture on the " Mutinies in India" was delivered by Mr. W. H. Morris, at the conclusion of which a vote of thanks was unanimously accorded to the lecturer, and the meeting separated. SUtCtDE —Yesterday morning, a man named John O'Hare, a tailor, aged forty years, who resided atel9,. Great 0:1mb11-street, hung himself in the pantry of the house: It appearel that for some time past the unfortunate man bad been drinking very heavy, and about a month since he was sent to the hospital in a state of delirium tremens, and when he came out he went to Ireland, and returned about a week back, and since then he threateded, several times, to pat as end to his life. An invest will be held on the body this day. Amsasr oN . A CHARGE or Munnurt.—Yesterday, a man named Michael Tc.vey, a tinplate worker, was brought before Mr. Mansfield, at the Police -curt, on a' charge of hiving muriered a girl named Mail Maya, in Tipperary, iu 1855. The only thing that transpired was, that "the woman was murdered, and that there was suspicion attached to the prisoner, who was said to be her sweetheart. He absconded at the time, and was not heard of afterwards until arrested on Wednesday night, in Bevingt,ort-hill. He was sent to Ireland last-night. HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANDASHIRD AND CHESHIRE,— The weekly meeting of this Society was held in the Grand Jury Room, St. George's Hall, at seven o'clock last night. The chair was taken by Mr. P. R. MacQ tire. The fal lowing donations were received h—Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, No. 5 ; Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin for 1857 ; " Lord Palmerston and the Isthmus of Suez Canal ;" Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. Among the subjects of intenst exhibited ware an Ethiopian spooa, elegantly carved with a pocket knife; a primitive article in brotiz>, of which the use is unknown, but which is supposed to have been one of several sands for a shield, or a portion of a bridle bit. Dr. Hume's ethnological map was also exhibited, shewinr the arranunicnt of sirnames in the county, of Antrim, accompanied by a descriptive article from a recent number of the Ulster Journal of Ethnology. Applications were received for admission to mpmbership by several gentlemen, among whom were Mr. 'T. D Andersoo, Liverpool,, Mr. Ivie Mackie, the present Mayor, and Sir James Wa'.ts, the late Mayor of Manchester. Among the donations to the society, should also be men tioned n curious volume, printed in 1745, entitled " The Names of the Roman Catholics, Nonjurors, and others, who refused to take the oaths to his late Majesty King George, together with thzir titles, additions, and places of abode,"&e., &n., "and," the title page added, "now published with a generous view to promote and serve the true Protes'ant interest of these kingdoms." Tne volume . contained 151 pages of names and titres, arraeg nd accor ding to the several counties of Englan I. The paper for the evening was a iecture by Air. J. T. Tow son , on th e subject of Icebergs in the Southern Seas. The lecture, which was illustrated by drawings and diagrams, entered into the coestion of the obstructions recently opposed to Australian voyages by the prevalence of ice, and in especial referred to some singular phenomena presented by is - bergs, which have very lately been met with on the' home ward voyage. • _ Tan ou - nn REBELLION.—The Kingdom of Onde con tains, as we are informed, on authority, font and a-half millions of people. It was annexed to our rule, and its sovereign dethroned, bat very lately ; and the people that we were told so coveted being under the British sway, are now all up in arms against us. This is no mutiny, it is simply a rebellion against truly one of the most unpar donable confiscations we are aware of—none surpassing it in unrighteousness except the conquest of Scinde. But the people are up ; and so far as has reached us, are waging a fair and honourable war against the stranger, the usurper of their rig'an, the destroyer of their nation• ality. Were they Algerians, Central Americans, Gimes slang or Poles, how would their case be considered i 2 this country? But they are only Indians. We claim to be the successors to the Moguls, sovereigns of all India ; and that nothing shall be lei% incomplete in the analogy, we abrogate treaties, and ou rage every principle of poli tical morality. The case of the people of Oade would seem to have escaped notice in the general turmoil. We think only of the garrison at Lacknow, its capital besieged by a rebel soldiery ; but if we may not sympathise with the cause of the Indians, we should at least draw some distinction between a people fighting for liberty, and muti neers guilty of every atrocity.—lnifan Amy, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS By Submarine and British Telegraph• ITALY. SD bt The definite scrutiny givTesUß4-511,1 13 opposition. In this city the poll else le°'4,. 238 votes for Count Cavour, against 0 clerical candidates. FRANCE. Evr lls ,d ti g. PARIS, THVIISDAY - The three per cents. closed at nearlY 006'beit price as yesterday. The last quota 67f- 'c. Ili THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY'S Val:l—T e g [mini Yoe= ; the Sf ild Decidedly the most remarkable Fainting bo le 0 roam, and one of the most remarkable in the its thef tion, is " Sunset on the Atlantic," ( 28 b Tbis the of a young artist, although few who exaanne ; will think that it bears much trace of the Ilan ness, and crudity of even high-promisingjirie subject of the work is a stormy sea break° e ' s , shore beneath the Bill of Portland ligh tll°lis a tl wind has rifted the storm clouds and scattere 3 from the track of the sun w hich s hines ti e tempest-light across the waves. Crims on 3 reta il dark the clouds scud over the flickering B e d it but above the rocky headlands they are r o e, boding masses. Far out, almost on the ho' Bal led tossing : her danger is seen and sag fine eae, crowds who huriy down the beach. r tite rs is for a painter, but one which many P 3 e ' - e t 31. 2 exhibition are given to handling. Pe-realsY many painters living—above all, are tlie r : s ee a g ; , painters who could produce such a stor°l/eole Pa The influence of the wind is over the si a - o es ' here, where the sky, swept of clouds; Lsheal 'aright, as.well as yonder where the storm',l i e a piles on piles of cloud. Every tinge gleam of light upon the waters, has its Peee c e and natural expressi on. Nothing is int ro rut new effect to the work, but everything 1 ,,e let niously to eubserve in suggesting to the min 00;40 tion of the artist. Modest faithfulness wogis",' object which the highest minds meat !Abed ° ac or' school themselves to, is not usually a °ll2:irinc at i young* painters; but it appears to be the leee - e ; of this artist. With such a prevailing teacleteeroi and defects of inexperience are sure to disol to selves. The difficulty most artists 1W ter is, not in learning, but in ualearning' 01.0 has usually to ba wasted in following ft giai and finding that they lead astray int o coa l le t a vehement mind will quietly subt;D•ja ors the duty of being a mere scholar of naeare he may become an interpreter between her,a" gifted or less patient than himself. But tlet% , , 0 to us at least, to have begun in the right Psill'ae beginning. He has learned more already' Pt have given half a lifetime to their task- eteeo easily find out defects and occasional co painting. The waves breaking on the shor seem too heavy, too round, too like 103;tler and no such sensation or suggestion of rea"'" fer, like to that which we derive from the sel l , al ( glittering beneath the sun But who eye they should be painted, the waves of a storatl; t crash down epee the shore? Other artists ° gone nearer to the truth, but all appear t O 4 t or degrees of imperfection. This artist eneY , A l ll O :O something better, perhaps, then anY 51- eritb - certain it is, that few have begun so earlY -Tbr promise, and so much truthful performanee:. 0t; suggestion of motion and change in every O cn o painting except, perhaps, that we have 2 a ro eti aspect of the waves just where they break ° i r e' The sea and sky do not seem as if their e jo eil t p, been seized at a moment, and fixed neee ll l 3o be vats mo ionless and lifeless for ever. if at e look'at the picture from different points 0 oc ee' seem; always gives, u but the painter's skill no t eltte understands and appreciates the ef'; believe, he has not bad as constant opeer t ` in e ; N ' er 6 , o her humours as some of our English arfis-01PAt tl Bridell, the painter of this picture, Wen t ' t he ";10 f ; greater portion of his life in Munich. in De orseyo: is an exquisite water-colour, representing 3 0 ei e pe rr scenery in Bavaria, drawn by his hand , e o the same genius in its touch. It is sur°'-',t a /" c e s ,, prediction to anticipate—for one who evee as the.'4 l :e age for art maturity, produce such worie of no common distinction, and ne een 3 r a° 4 fo r t, his art, and a long enduring fame. ,s o at 1°:09 No. 305 is entitled " Shells of Oce "-of motto some lines of a very feeble apeeia'nel ero kind of production—the modem seatie ) ,7 o ` of t",;e o sornewh It pitiful to find how often er . ° out' day throw away skill of outline aua lay weakly sentimeutalisms, or inillieer'e,eeerle e' of is a young lady standing in the all - n.0 0 1 ' 3 sitlt readers of small poems and gentee l r o bes °,eler thought. She is draped in flewieg w itlit unquestionable fashion, and all wroug ht she r 'olol vraisclnblance. She is musing neon tLepel'etioei only a seutimental painter ever s ou ' 5 0 e, lee 4 which she has gathered, amoeg what ee-'erit;; probably call "generalized" rocks , T who n )t. see nature. truth, aryl thl ,, ght 0 °la ity 01; t1Pre the attitude, and the compositloa genW' ' ee l i ege hard to be satisetel. Is not this the Pet". alteoet,.l of our youth—of all the touching rosnan7b ot oir pelting dramas ? She never sees the oce3, on it ie just such a picture sque a ttitta t unstudied- There is good execution in the soft shades of sky and summer leeZe truthfully rendered. The fieure too has 3 ' of distinctiveness which observers regard as the triumph of art ; but s t ! utterly thrown away upon subjects Willv evince such a queer aping of feeling a". 03 , utter absence of simplicity, such anti se nature. No . . 289. " A Florentine Holiday, picture in which the grotipa are arrang e ! for table air of having been expressly s?' in their places, that they might one up artist's effect. The subject is from the repres mts the refugees from pestilence% selves in separate group s among tr, e ,7; fountains ; probably before the story - 're colouring is gaudy and alluring, but the,. be neither life nor soul in the named after half a dozen subjects as alns from•Boce-accio.- -• No• 341, " The Spring in the lirooe, whose works we always see with 1 : 13 ,,, U n Mark Anthony. It is a li t tl e well, s e y:, a d t e l e a p h i e n avy ath sk ic y k . w;iord.,anil Anthony under seem s to the '. as m th o ;s e e s , inmnpollepathinatos some them o a t s . he loves theol is has considerable trace of the manaerisht easily recogniSed, and which, perhaP s picturesfnoo photographicr t eed. wholly sho o wish g o away. eetor cio es F t e g w la ni de e s 3 , ,ofnet hicSmpidelighted day,s e t e o i h mo i e.s s g s v c: t a t i b e O c e e ho r ,op ca ; aooo.o lo t o r i St :i i ce " ct into such dreaming vistas of tre es ' ' masses, as this work offers. n ce:o °l4lsl No. 420. "Life in Southern Afri ,igte° Picture; giving a scene from the clailq' c ati , 1, 4 e Fr' c 4 1 t 84 ao o Ti epaisdeelecanbers principalst t stationed fi e z d e u re nsle a r r the e o g j 1 o a y r n o; e ef:c o f s i 3 ia j oc a kl c i k obo e y t s lai e a ns u o to d ho l e i r e h h reo t clothinglgorwo follower. ... c ot s r, r; ),c i r fl_l: 3o th servant. One of the horses which we - f tree feio, a, as 5 p easy A 5 i natural effect about the attitu-edea in ,01 figure?, and the painter has well sueeeeotso' the spectator an idea of the gloviingeliosel;gle't'll) region from which the scene has bee% 6 , °,,; 3 0 i s 4 si No. 411, " A game of Cribbage in - ,. e ssq",ro ,r, is full of vigorous humour. The e%,.P; on " c oPrf j of the • card-players and the look D 3 , te 'l` jf sP i 0 1 ' 1 ' varied, and le-like. 13/ 3 No. 292. " Souvenir of Scutari. s to ety9 rfror, and blue waters, this picture seen3as if o pie;e, }.1,1 aad . inexpressive. The figures loeic out of card, and the trees show ver.f h t litad ct„,1,(;10}714 having grown to their present heig-I.olix'oi'geoi being at all liable to laws of decaY °." yes clip) Fixedness and rigidity seem to 13 ° the ro o f toe teristic of everything although 10 e s' women, and the scene on the A.sio l te s it ~, rus. That the picture is eat, • be i . te e t , v s itt cornctuess, we do not at all ques tl " ;et 7 , 0 to us not pleasing, and its general aspects °' t11105.01j No. 405. "At the font of the ~o t s J o i e Earle has had one of the finest shWi e to s iiti o 'p r ; , "1 an artist could have. " Then sa ith or Behold thy mother." There is 500101100,,t4t9 0tt,40,,t the manner selected to express the„ th er. f tiV ing. The disciple and the 0 ) .`" h0 o ote r op a yi around them, alone are seen ; but th e of P o oc li o c 3 t o unoatural, and even fantastical --e witt ee ile,,t 0 ;1 almost suggestive of the ludicrous• aiia r tNOO: 4 0 1 0 1 ,3 this, we do not know that any Pe ° se caP e possibly redeem the picture, an d j t , . , tit ;O/o r thous to remark upon any E' c ss,' - otw t o , 0 1 group ; too, bear a strong family e_t 3 , a ye, ,t , 0 ,1 wii o s but one countenance in his mind an a jesi s . slightly to suit the different fign a re s . 0 0 1 4 P ti ,go No. 363. " Bottom," by gr . face °' V e VIO fail to recognise this attitude, th is to 01 0 'J I • Botteo , tan to - or seltimpertane ? It is Sic. lo pe r i 0 0 is, we think, by far the best Dila are se r i , t i ,ef i s the Exhibition —praise which, tha t 01 1 _4 cif f ro very extravagant, causideriOg._",otatte_lateeol!" others, out of a consideraDi_e_i; prev_veace.fer downrighttoleration burlesquei ade d b , any kind, a blankness a anylo, farest...F3oo(lo7:ooo., tbe ic lio ,i tbe lOW !*. y ito, oo lll' o o °P A ed ISeSLO 1 , oPecoP ap t d ct • s ti ee ras led 0 y o„, 'll B3 sAW fide ef ' ro i n 11 1 gra ' 0 3151 .s "tbit tiof Le w i s ° Ilar e dJ 100' 3 e Le 0 8 3 t l , lief di" to ee' 11 00 il i9M - i „e CO dt. ee, li atu. ric e st • tic ter is t otB rac ttrl 13 0 0 ; oe or - e9e t; t t iell i e , fs l9° 1e 1 fit s it o 0' 11 tb it s b ele a n 1. 1ea,,rt1,45e • 9 h 3 oti o 4 t, • c 0 bCriticia t, rr° o la o i or o a :ed f ;r 0;10 did ts< l° t 4. 09 to fe ti l3°' .be a d 1 , 1 (3 VO l5 ie 0 1 0 10.r ° e3 , o ° l3 r'' Lc 0 t y . l itP O i 10e1;10.C.1 D ' - orr* , e, e elf thld e ii~ a e j e,: I,r° hot 3 i ei lt t $ l l l o 0 4., 0 .) u ctl ar e ' 004t3 eir A !;11 o yr i" wt. 1 ar t, l l,. sP ait °D A , 1 3.r0 Jo y! 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