Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-27 00:00:00

QMITHSONIAN HOTEL, la - heitowAY, Corner of Heuvros-trzerc, New Vets. Named In honour o the Ssurnsomas Isstrrcnos, Established at WAsursrelTON, by the U. S. CoNuar 3i , With Feeds bequeathed by James SMITRiON, of Ex nitkwe. iffAving the Friendship of the OPTICE3,3 Of 1 .119 NATIONAL INTILMTION" Is conducted on the System of Hotels in Emetstre. CHAS. H. SMITH. E VERTON AND KIRKDALE !WARD PUBLIC MEETINGS Of the Friends -and Supporters of GEORGE MELLY, ESQ., Will be held TO-MORROW EVENING (WEDNESDAY). in ST.MA.RY'S SCHOOL-ROOM, Kirkdale, at Half•past Seven o'c!ocl; and in the 3RITISa SC HOOL- ROO MS, Prince Edwin-street, E,erton, at 114 f p ast Eight o'clock, when MR. MELLY 'WILL ATTEND, And Address the Electors. • J. AMIN, JuN.. ESQ.; C. R. II tLL, EsQ ; J. R. JEFFERY, Es(l. E. HARVEY, Esn.; Dr. CHALMER, And other influential Friends are also expected to attend the Meetings- MR. COUNCILLOR STITI . WILL OCCUPY THE CHAIR. C. MILL WARD, Hen. See. `Nag's Head, Netherdsld .re id North, Everton ; Committee Rooms And t C .st!e•st eet, October 27, 1357. to Itinerctat malfs.—!:bt4 ,@an. At twelve o'c:ock, at the brokers' otrce, 1, Oldhal'-strcat, 500 balco Jute.—How and Barclay. f Yor oarticulan se" vivertisement.. A USl:tlLvT.i, PUBLCU AEA.: &O. THIS DAY. Tit Simla Rotat. —Prossir Anderson —7 p.m. Zoist. AMPHITHEATRE—Ur. Robson-7 p.m. 11.111141:11 CIRQUE VASIET6, Da le-street-7 . p.m. Irsaamasonee lima., Liana-street-7 p.m. 11112:3200L AC ADVIT'S EMU SIT tOll, POstOffin-PlaCe. LT.Lsotos Waxwoar EZHIBITON —lO a.m. to 10 par. CoLoisaux—Seaoral Entertainment-6.30 p.z.n. 7' For particulars see advertisements. „ /dr; (1 - IV° t , jii,al t. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1E57. THE DAY'S NEWS. On the 20th of September, 1851, the battis , of the Alma took place, and the British completely de leated their enemies. On that day three 37,ars, viz., Saturday, the 20th of September ; IK7, the British force proved triumphant before Delhi; for by the telegraphic despatch received at the foreign. Office yesterday, and published in this day's paper. that city fell into the hands of the English troops on the day mentioned. - We by our rem arks•some time since, - led our readers to believe that such an. event would shortly take place, hut were not ..,at all prepared to receive the news at so early a date. Such an occurrence might have taken place on the date alluded to, as by the middle of Septernhcr it was expecte , " that fully Ikon British troops r.7ould be in the vicinity of the besieged inhabitants. Of the importtnao of this triumph, if it is really the fact, little can be said at present. It will, doubtless, have a very dielleartening effect upon the ruutinee , :s in the interior of the Indian Peninsula. Bat wLen we take into account the heavy loss which he English have -sustained at the assault, and - the arge number of troops which will be required to hold such an important position snd prevent its re-capture, 1174 shall gain but little in the way of disposable troops for service in 'the disturbed districts, in which, we are sorry to find, the spirit of rebellion appears to be speedily assuming greater proportions. The indications of the turbulence which it is averred has been shown in the Bomber army so late as the I's - h Sept. is a serious set cff against the fall of Delhi, and, taking the whole of the telegraphic despatch: received at the Foreign-ollice into account, we do not auger a speedy termination of the Indian troubles. In Upper Scinde there were serious disturbances on the 23rd of September ; this -shows that the mutineers were not much die; heartened by the fall of : Delbi, if they tad receivei ; the news of that even', but it is not likely that such could have been the case. We are still without information from Lucknow, which is, after all, quite as important a place in the eyes of English. men —not, hovever, in a wagetical point..of view— as even Delhi itself, This may b 3 accounted for in the intelligence we may expect to receive before the news by the Pekin and the Nubia are ex _ hausted. s uch is a summary of the intelligence from India received by the: Foreign otii3e.. ,Many people are inalined to believe that in the main the facts are not stated correctly,.and it is looked upon as extraordinary that news of the fall of klelhi should reach Suez one month after such event. We have to- lay to record a fearful amount of crime—murders, suicides, and,robberies are fear fully prevalent. On Thursday Jaat, Mr. Ellis, a Scotchman, was shot dead near Ternplemore, Tipperary. Mr. Ellie, who wan agent to Mr Trant, of Dovea, had purchased coma property in the niiignbourhood of the place above mentioned, and it is supposed that his murder has some con-. nection with that circumstance. Mr. Ellis rented the farm of Meeliek, near Mountraellic't, in the Queen's County, and spent the greater part of last Thursday there. He proceeded per train one Saturday from Maryborough to Templernere, where. he arrived aafely in the evening. and was on his way. to D ,vat when he was met by a man armed with a pistol. The aasassin, on satisfying himself that ha had found the person whom he looked for, discharged the contents of the weapon in the .region of the unfortunate gentlernan'a hear'. It is said that other individuals besids the murderer wer,-)pre sent at the lima. On Saturday a min named B aker, gardener t031c..T. Maisters,Register-hwase,B3verley, cut the throat of a fellow-servant, a woman, and after wards attempted to commit suicide, lay cutting his own throat. The woman is deal, the sui.ide nearly ao.An attem othas been made to murder Mr Braddon, a magistrate, in his hedroam, at his country seat, Blockland, near Piym uth. About two o'e!oek, the Servants were aroused by the ringing of their master's bell, and the nook having alarmed the butler, he found Mr. Braddon lying with Ida face covered with blood. His son was then called, and the family for some time considered that an artery had burnt. Shortly after, however, the pantry window was discovered to have been Forced, the drawing-room poker, in a bent condition, w.-53 found lying in icle the front door, and the door unlocked. These evidences of the intrusion o!' burglars were unfortunately aonfirmed on a suraLal examination of their victim. One of Mr. Beaddonas eyes protruded from the suaket, and his temples exhibited two blows, laying open the skull bone, which was fractured. The wounds and the shock . _ lead tiarown him into a state of insensibility, from which he recovered to yin - ; his bell. We regret to state that there i 3 .ver.y prospect of his surviving. Some snsp - .cion rests on a man of Swiss extraction, efilled ,JAtnes E tudiste, who, about Iwo or three years since, was taken into the service of Mr. Braddon. We have also to record the death of Major Warburton, M P. for Harwich, who destroyed himself on Friday miming, about eight o'clock, at his residence at Front,.byshooting himself. A surgeon was sent for, but could - render no assistance, as the unfortunate gentleman ex- pired almost immediately after th 9 fatal, act was committed. We are unable to give any further particulars at so short a notice. An invest will, of course, be held on the body. It maybe unkumn to many of our readers that the deceased gentleman was a brother of the late Eliot Warburton, whose untimely fate is so well ',clown to them. • Sir Barrington Reynolds has declined the office of First Naval Lord of the Admiralty, in suevasion to Sir Maurice Berkeley, who has resigned. It has now been offered to Sir R. pandas, who was appointed to th 3 command of the Baltic &et when Sir Charles Napier vas recalled. There seems to be no doubt that Admiral Dundas will uuder take the duties, iu which clse he will eater upon them forthwith. Pokington dt-liverad a speech on In(lia, county meeting held at WuroeBter, 012 Satui, THE NORTHERN TIMES. -LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1857 day, for the purpose Of organisidg a local relief, fund -movement. Sir John recapittilated his views of the Indian crisis, and still further illustrated and defended the positions he had taken. We have to give the record today of disastrous storms at sea and serious :floods on land. A large portion of the Eastern Counties Railway has been flooded by an overflow of the River Lea. Ins- C'Ranee damage has been done over a consid era bl e ant of the marshy districts of Essex; many sheep and cattle have been drowned, and more than one human being has .perished. We also hear of terrible floods in Kent and - Surrey, and other parts of the country. We publish the details, which our readers would anticipate from our telegram on yesterday, of the wrecks , that took place on the north-east coast, during the fearful gale which raged on Thursday night. It Will. be seen that many vessels, besides the Ontario, perished, and that many hapless mariners fou n d a watery grave. 'The local news this morning of any importance, is entirely confined to the-prsceedings in connection with the Municipal Elccticns, We report at full length the various Ward Meetings held last night. Of Foreign news there is not much this morning. We are info Teed from Paris, that the French Government is actually about to issue invitations for the Conference on the Principalities to meet about the middle of next month. Constantinople letters are to the 14th instant, and consequectly bring nothing concerning the Ministerial changes announced by telegraph. The Constantinople public ascribed no great importance to the visit paid by the Sultan to Reschid Pacha, but it may have reason to think otherwise by and bye. 'A malignant fever is -making great ravages at Lisbon, which is .described as wearing the appear once of a city of the plague. .Berlin despatches announce the delegation, by the King of Prussia, of his Royal powers to his brother and heir. This sets at rest the rumours that had been current .about a Regency. The powers are transferred to the Prince of Prussia only for the space of three months, or even a shorter -period, should the King he able • , to resume his duties. A journey of the King to Italy :is spoken of. `THE Empire Las been suddenly involved in .a conflict of men, and a stern war of principles. The mutiny in India has'brought Britain iwo .a war against herself. Every shot fire' in such •a contest is suicide, and every drop of blood shed is -so much precious treasure lost to the nation. 4 r.tl divided house cannot -stand ;" and from such catastrophes history dates the fall of the mightiest Powers. The cause of such melan choly disasters exhibit no .greater variety than the effect they produce. The chariot of unin telgible:grandeur rolls on smoothly for a time. The great phantom of incomprehensible purpose lives on until things assume substantial form, and society exhibits a thousand antagonistic elements. Political irconsistency is found to have given place to :vaunting personal ambition, and the whole .sehteme of social existence is discovered to have been warped to suit the selfish ends of indi vidual or class interests. Whether the leading events of m_rdern times have.any such tendencies must be left to the cool and ,reflective portions of the community to decide. Certain, it is, that we have failed atellome and abroad to amalgamate Christian and,Pagan elements. Oar armed con quests have been complete, our political ascen dancy indisputable, but our moral sabiugations and Christian victories supply us with little for present lau.dation,.er future hope. One hundred ,years bears witness to the fact that we have neglected the Christianising of India; -and -now we are called tupon,again to subdue one hund-red millions of Pagan and merciless people. ;With such a:cigar:tie task before us, it is time to inquire how this .wort is to be commenced, and what means vie. have at command for such objects. An advance ,in :the banking rates of discount to eight p-er cent.-for commercial acco-• modation indicates that there is a strong suspi-: cion entertained of present or...speedy insolvency.. It cannot be supposed that the profits in trade are sufficiently high to.admit of any such interest being paid for money to carry on the employ ment and..productive pursuits of ,she country. If it is meant to cause " a fall g,erierally in the prices of ...all commodities," .it must not be forgotten that we have • been buy ing in foreign markets for the last two years at famine prices, and that iLis almost impossible to work up our present stocks at the frost trifling profit. if this be true, as . we are prepared to prove; it is useless to talk ..of the depression of prices. Confiscation of the sub stance of the merchant and manufacturer, and the immediate prostration of the productive industry of the realm, must be the inevitable results, if not the manifest object in.view. If: the heavy calls. of a distant war were superadded to ,the pressing- necessities of trade and Coal' merce, to justify the application of the bank screw, then Ave say, the dangers of the crisis , be come threefold more palpable. It has .been -reserved for the politicians and philosophers of the present day to cajole the world into a belief, that where two alarming difficulties exist, safety lies in the creation .of a third, greater than the other two. Tll,-; theory of precipitation may. require the adoption :9f extreme mfF.az•ures, to (rive it what 13 call in the theatrical wurl.l " startling efExt; " but it should he rememb3re:l, that co.nruerce is th 3 mazazine of modern exis- tend----the store-house of the ktation's substances, bought at one price, and to be soli at a profit, without political or legislative interference of any kind. That prices are so interfered with cannot be denied while we have a bank screw, invented by professional Tories, sanctioned by Whigs, and guarded by a Parliamentary Charter, the primary object of which our Bank Directors openly declare to be, "to depress and cause a fall generally in the prices of all commodities." That these are its object and its practic.il effects will be amply detno.istrated, within a very few days, in the produce markets and the manufacturing districts. The holders of produce cannot cofi tinu.-: to hohi at 8 per cent., and what class of empllyers can continue w9rkin; at that rate with a certainty of depreciated prices for his produce ? And here, we ask, is this the m,naent— when we are engaged in a war of wavrnaination , the end of which no man can pretend to foresee,—; to throw the whole commercial world into a state of consternation ? It may be very well for Premier and the House of Commons to endeavour to shake off all responsibility, in such cases, by pointing to the statute book and exclaiming. ‘` It is law." They are, nevertheless, answerable for the consequences of those laws which they .have sanctioned, even if they did not make them. They are, however, morally and politically responsible for every measure which adds to the pressure of taxation, and renders the fiscal burdens of the State oppressive and intolerable. It matters not whether we are called on to pay scutage,,prisage, butlerage, poundage, or the whole string of imposts called Nova Customa, in the fourteenth century--according to .the whim of the Crown, the caprice of Parliament, or by a Royal Chartered Bank, in the shape of 1 or 2 per cent., on nine-ten'hs of the mercantile operations of the day. The moral effect and political consequences are precisely the same. The Bank of England exercises a power which no wise statesman would leave at the discretion of any set of men, whose responsibilities as private bankers are far greater than those of bankers to a commercial nation. They have a private connection to conserve. The bullion holders and dealers are their best, and the men who must have gold for their business their worst, customers, and whenever the time comes when they must please the former and curb the latter, the interests of the State at large cannot be regarded before all other considerations, as they ought to be. Here again, then, we have the Pagan elements of politics making war against all the great moral interests of the Empire, The besotted instincts of the bullion holder cannot be made to amalgamate with high-minded genius of a progressive age. Foreign wars have added their 1 or 2 per cent. to his dividends, and he does not see why internal commotions should not be made to contribute to his good fortune. It is more to his interest to habituate his country to such calamities than !otherwise. He thrives on national disasters, and only feels ill at ease when money is cheap, employment abundant, wages high, and prices remunerative, and it is with men of this stamp, holding the lever of this great Empire in their hands, that we hope to conquer in arms, and to p - rogress in arts, science, industry, and com merce ! But the whole of this precious system is now on its trial. We have never before had to fight an enemy, numbering 100 000,000 within our own borders, with such machinery. A deadly conflict of such startling magnitude never before fell to the lot of any people. It Cann 3t be supposed that we are to re-conquer India by gold, and producing great and unpre cedented commercial distress at home. And yet it appears that 8 per cent. is father to the thought. If so, the parent is a disgrace to his offlpring. But what is Liverpool about in the midst of this monetary and war crisis ? Eight per cent. led to intense anxiety, and large meet ings of our merchants, in 1847. Few who witnessed the excitement of that period will forget it. Sill, when war, of the most costly and self-destroying character, has taken the place of famine, all is passive, and may possibly continue so, until the prices of all commodities are depre ciated, and universal ruin brought home to our doors. But it may then be too late to look for relief, and it would be better at once to lay it down as a fixed rule, that when the Bank of England raises its discount to 8 per cent, the Bank,Charter Act of 1814 shall be considered inoperative, and shall be suspencYed by order of Efer Nlajesty in Council, or on the responsibility of the ,Premier for the time being. WE return to the Municipal!campaign, con siderably refreshed by good report. The defences thrown up by the Corruptionists are few and childish. Their ambuscades are amusing. A few picquets guard, with laudable vigilance, the great jungles of Twaddleclem on the left ; and an odd, very odd, foraging party may be seen struggling, with the ordinary difficulties of a slough of despair, on the right. We only wish it was in our power to give the same cheerful account of the present ~, t as t e of the enemies' affairs in India. It is well, 1114. w -ever, to have even so much to animate us at home, at a moment when matters are still looking so Bloomy abroad. The Liberal electors are advancing boldly with the Fit and proper men, anal no jobbery," written on their banners. And we say, in the language of the camp, " Peter's Ward must be carried." Lime-street atad Abercromby Wards ought also to be won, ,and no exertion spared wherever a Liberal can didate is to be returned. The Burgesses are aware that the dock jobbers are about to renew their application to Parliament for leave to proceed with the 4 000,0001 dock extension job. If this request should be granted, the dock debt will be increased to over 1.5,000,000/. This would be a pretty burden to lay on the com merce of one single port, in these Free Trade times; and it must be remembered that such things c3uid not be done by any Corporation if its constituents were true to the trust reposed in them. But on what grounds do the present dock authorities pretend to justify their incurring the heavy expense of an application to Parlia ment for dock extension, when ,they know full well that their period of office must terminate next January, when an entirely new, and differently constituted, body are to take up the management of the docks, and the conservancy of the Mersey ? Inotto—' Is it merely to incur a useless expense and to .give 'the Dock Rate-payers a last farewell taste of their love of prodigalty ? The present ➢ock Management have not the power to pledge the new . Conservancy Commission to any of their monster schemes, and yet they go on spending money on Parliamentary notices, as though no enange had taken place, or was even likely to occur. It would be hard to find a name for such doings as these, unless we dipped into some very harsh and awkward vocabularly. They serve, however, to show how very necessary it is to correct the corruptional spirit, whenever we find it in the management of public affairs. And now to return to Twaddledom. The defenders of St. Peter's Ward have earned this unenviable subroquet for that corporate locality. They tell us that Mr. BANNER has given us our Asylum for male and female orphans, and that "he has erected a church for that asylum." This reads very like a libel on the very long lists of subscribers who paid down their money for those good and holy purposes; and on these lists the names of a large number of the Liberal Electors of St. Peter's and other Ward's will be found recorded. True, Mr. BANNER headed the lists in question, and he also took an active part in getting the church built ; but when all was finished, Mr. BANNER gave the church, with its annual stipend, to his own son! We are not accustomed to calculate the money-value of church livings, but, probably, the special guardians of Mr. BANNER'S fair fame will inform us how much Mr. BANNER lost by this very praiseworthy transaction. We question if his losses were sufficiently large to entitle him to the support of those Electors who really feel concerned for the economic government of this Borough, and whu think it absolutely necessary to cat down a Corruptionist majority in the Corporation, who set no bounds to municipal extravagance. Every Liberal voter in St. Peter's Ward must be ready to admit that Mr. BANNER is a good and well-meaning citizen, but as a public man, and one of a majority in a prodigal Council, they are in duty bound to themselves and their fellovv-townsmen to oppose him. Mr. BANNER'S friends say, "We do require a band of spouters against time in the Council Chamber," and they very unguardedly add, " If noise were a criterion of worth, the braying of the ass would take pre cedence of the bleating of the lamb." This, though perfectly poetic, is quite true, but unfor tunately for our Liverpool , PEasfus, " the spout ers against time" are all on the Corruptionist side of the Chamber ; and it is in order to get a hearing for the "lambs " on the other side that we seek to get rid of those noisy quadrupeds against whom Mr. BANNER'S supporters direct their invectives and censures. But it is useless to look for safety from corruption in preposterous metaphors. Mr. BANNER belongs to that section of the Council which has plunged this Borough and its commerce into debt to the extent of 18.000,0001. to 20,000,0001., and it now remains to be seen whether the Burgesses will thank Mr. BANNER to retire with a good grace, and send men into the Council who will turn the key' of the Corporation till, and tell the Ratepayers to button up their pockets; or whether they will be guilty of the further cruelty to dumb animals of sending a lamb into the Chamber to bleat against braving, to the dit,cdrdant tunes of 18,000,000!. or 20,000,0001, local debts. Mr. BANNER'S opponeW, Mr. BOWRING'S capital is not invested in churches, or other property which is likely to survive the advent and passing away of gene rations." It is employed in ships, imported pro duce, and goods for export, which are precisely the description of property which is most liable to be confiscated by excessive local taxation and gigantic corporate abuses. In Mr. BowniNo we have, therefore, a guardian of those fountains of skill, 'industry, and enterprise, from which all churches are built and all asylums are supported. So much for Twaddledom ; and now let the Liberal electors of Liverpool show that, while they are ready to award to every man the praise which is due to him in whatever sphere of society he is found, that they are rccolved to put a stop to the gross mismanagement of the local affairs, and the barefaced jobbing propensities of a clique who have obtained sovereign sway over their pockets and tills. 'DIE - MUNICIPAL ELECTION. —A BVICROMBY WARD.— On Monday next, the burgesses of Liverpool will be called upon to exercise their privileges, and elect gentle men to represent them in the Town Council. Our readers are, of course, aware that we have heretofore strenuously supported those gentlemen who have advocated the supply of red sandstone water to the inhabitaats of Liverpool, in opposition to the Pro-Pikeist party, providing that these were otherwise qualified for the responsible office of Town Councillor. On these grounds we are, therefore, much in favour of D:. Anderson, who is a candidate for Abereromby Ward. Mr. Robert Hutchison is a most respectable and influential gentleman, but his remarks at the meeting on Wednesday last, on the water question, were far from satisfactory. lie is evidently in favour of the Rivington Pike scheme, but he so far qualifies his remarks as to make it appear that he would advocate the supplying of red sandstone water for dietetic purposes ; but this he would not do until all theories and systems of filtration had been found to fail. Besides, he seems to think that the red sandstone water cannot be obtained In sufficient quantity for domestic purposes ; for he says, " that the latter can only be a supplementary supply." irrom Mr. Efutchison's remarks, we come to the conclusion that he will vote for the Piko through thick and thin, and on these grounds we give our support to D. Anderson, who, as will be seen, is determined to use his utmost efforts fo r the restoration of spring water for 'the use of the inhabitants of the borough. EVrRTON AND KIRKDALE WAnn.—Mr. George Melly, the Liberal candidate for this Ward, will address the electors to-morrow evening, bath in Evcrton and Kirk dale. Mr. Melly is at present engaged on important business in London, but at. the solicitation of h's numerous friends, he has arranged to return to-morrow for the purpose of explaiuhis his views to the burgesses" of ;the Ward. There is little doubt of Mr. Melly's success, as there is a very strong feeling in his favour, and it needs but his presence to ensure his triumphant return. Mr. Stitt, Mr. J. Aikin, Mr. Jeffery, and other well known gentlemen, are also expected to address the meeting in supprrt of Mr. Melly. Tnz COMMERCIAL CRISIS ZN CANADA.—From the Montreal Gazette, of the 10th inst., we extract the following interesting article :—" We have had news from Western Canada) to-day. contained in the letter of our Toronto correspondent.V,We learn that as a result of the meeting of the Board of Trade of that city, that body has addressed a communication to the Board of Trade of Montreal, praying it to act in concert by seeking means of relief for the present stringency of the money market, and such an extensienj'of :bank acconetno ration as will enable the crops of the present autumn to be sent forward to market in payment of the liabilities of the country. We know not what the council of the board here may see fit to do in the matter. The best action, probably, would be none at all. Things of this sort are just the promoters of that style of foolish panic which induces everybody to distrust everybody, and everybody to think that every body must fail, which is productive of the worst possible results in times of commercial crisis. There is every ground to believe that the affairs of the banks of Montreal are in the hands of men competent to 'manage them, and manage them well. They know that to allow failures in the mercantile community here is most prejalical to them selves, that it must harm them more than any others, besides the victims themselves, and they will exert themselves to the utmost to:enable all sound mercantile concerns to meet their liabilities. They know that the commercial credit of Canada is to a great extent in their hands, that the other portions of the country as well as the United States are looking to them as the barometers by which the soundness of Canadian commerce is to be tested, and we have every confidence that they will prove themselves equal to the occasion, Our Toronto letter shows us the operation of the large Chicago purchases of grain by Western millers and others. The Canadian bank paper paid for them has been returned forthwith, and s, ecle drawn off into the States with which to pay American debts, not ours. The same operation has been going onto a certain extent in this city, where some of the bill-brokers have been kept employed drawing specie for the notes of our banks picked up in the States and sent in here for that purpose. Yet it is in face of sech facts as these that the banks wee blamed in some quarters for not aiding large operations in the produce of the Western States. Men talk as if the banks' right to issue paper was perfectly unlimited, and as if their paper whe ; issued were not redeemable in specie ; as if it were not only prudent but their duty to keep all paper repre senting past transactions afl )at, and give as much new accommodation as would open up as much more new business, so doubling the credits of bank customers at one sweep. Is this,:we ask, talking like reasonable men ? As a specimen of the panic stories afloat, of the false hoods that are palmed off on even careful news gatherers on the streets, we give the rumour at the end of our correspondent's letter stating that all new discounts are .refused by the banks doing business in Toronto. We have the positive assurance that two of the leading Mon treal banks doing business in that city are discounting there and elsewhere, and giving ,facilities to responsible parties for produce operations. RgADING IN RitLWAY CARRIAGES —There is a system of impolitic economy at work in the management of many, if not all the British railways, which, in one particular at least, calls for the loudest rernoustrances of the reading public. We allude to the p trim coleus habit of late years in respect to the light afforded in the first, second, and third class carriages. Time was when two lamps gave ample light Dorn the roof of a first and second class compartment for a m in to read his paper or his book, and mayhap, as has been our case, often to save that time which would otherwise be expended in our study by jotting down an essay, a leader, or a few paragraphs. It would seem that the cause of this else Ise paring or oil-squeezho; system arises from the practice of farming out into divisions the various supplies or the rolling stock or perm merit way. If the voice of the passengers is not raised seinehatly stroa; to reach the ear of the direction, or what is yet mere to the purpose, to affect the returns of the trafft 3, n 3 heed is taken of any abuse, however apparent and unjust. It was far different in the old coaching tines. We has no sexier sat down to our dinner at the " middle stage," when the horn would sound to call us to the top of our coach, or the coachman hie:3 , 4f weall appear at the door, having received his instructions from the laollady, and civilly intimate that he was "only new waiting for you, sir." The knowing traveller, the exception to the mass of tourists, &e., would inceatinently seize upon a cold fowl, and knuckle of ham, with a due re g trd to the necessary condirnetants, and hulling it into an old newspaper, would throw d twa his h tlf cro ern with a grin, and pick his poultry outside the coach at his leisure. The railway traveller peences on a book, thro we do sen its price, and retires to enjoy his mental banquet in the carriage, for a seat in which he has , also liberally paid ; but, alas, if it be night, all attempts to get through his intellectual provender are futile. Oae solitary wick suspended over a plot of thick opaque oil, which, with the oscillation; of the carriage, in its tura throws its grin steal areal], is all that is allotted to six or eight first-class passengers. It is in v Lin th tt the persevering realer exchanges seats with some less studious companion. It is in vain that ha sits upon the divisional arms of the seats. Eptally so to stand up, and bring the book close to the thick glass prison of the wick. Yet more so that he attempts to clean the glass itself with his handkerchief, the dirt—dire disappoint ment—is thick, and it is within. Seriously sneaking, this state of things is a great shame. We question whether there may not be some clause in the Railway Acts: which would make it imperative upon the manage ment to give suffielent light for ordinary porpoise, and the darkness visible of the present mode is far from being so. Or if there be no provision by enactment, there ought to be a clause at once introcliee 1 to that effect. We feel assured that if any member of the Legislature—let him be lord or coma:neer—were to rise in his place and call attention to those fasts, th , re is not a man who has once submitted to this system of solitary confioeinent without the benefit of books that would not meet heartily thank him. Literature is much interested in the question, and publishers are alike affected, while the newspaper press, we are convinced, as a body, are serious losers by a practice which, more particularly during the winter months, incapaciates every man, woman, and youth from the perusal of their favourite journal while returning from their business and to their homes by railway. It may be urged there is a remedy for this grievance by the pur chase of a railway reading lamp ;.but who, in the name of higgage ! is to carry about with him a lanthorn, a la Diogenes, wherever he may wend, because at night he will require it for his temporary sojourn in a railway carriage. No—such a book and candle plan would be but an extra penance. Let the managers of railways do what is just and equitable, and the more liberal and the greater their enlightenment in this direction the greater will be the patronage of the " votaries of the lamp."—Moir and Son's Monthly Review. REP3nT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF WOODS AND FORESTS —On Saturday morning was issued the 25th report of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, together with the accounts, schedules, &c. It appears that in the year ended March 31, 1857, there have been granted 38 leases of land or of houses belonging to the crown in different counties in England, and not being within the boundaries of any of the royal forests. The property demised may be divided Into three classes, viz ;--1. Farms or lands for agricul tural purposes ; 2nd. Rouses ; 3rd. Land for building purposes. The total number of leases of the Ist class amounts to 17. The total acreage of the lands comprised in these lemes, in the counties of ESSOX, Kent, Lincoln, Southawpton,and Sussex,a.nounts to about 4,8 tl a 3r 24p; and the rents reserved by them ana3unt, in the whole, to £5,939 71 sd, subject, in several cases, to a future increase in consideration of buildings to be erected, or of irrprovo ments iu drainage to be made at the cost of the crown. Of the 2ad class, 10 taws hive been granted of 13 houses in Loudon, one of three imamst ilumpton Court, and one of Cowes Castle, in the Isle of Wight, at rents 07; ins in the whole to £1,971 103., and upon payment the cases of fines amounting altogether to £l,7V* Cif res 3rd class, one lease has been granted of the site for tb houses at Windsor, and two of the sites for tiro 01 . tenements which had been erected on land enclosed ill ; the waste of the manor of Portiand ; one lease has bee granted to the Secretary of State for the WO DeP efr meat of the site of the old stationery-office, in 34131 1 , 0 street, Pimlico, and of a parcel of ground ad.joillinfsatoi Wellington Barracks, for the erection of edd'. ew barrack accommodation ; and a lease has also granted to the trustees of the Jsnior United Service CID b of the site of the house in the occupation of that 6011 the rebuilding of which has been executed at 08 .0 1 o r of the club, on the sites of the former club house $ll,O several homes in St. Alban'3-place. The leases of P oe , several houses were surrendered to the crownbef4r,:s9sl execution Postern ls e b w e n T g e rwaenrt-ed hill; of andthe s i i n t e s allh of t twoethese of the new lease to the trustees. Tfl° nceawsehecio eitlblec us'. have 1.4 buildings have been erected at the expense of the sege lessees or before the grant of their respective leases' 40 rents re served under the leases in the 3rd ea" ani° in the whole to £967 14s. AMUSEMENTS, &C• -- g o THEATRE RO YA L.—T HE WIZ kRD OF TOO ''" 11 fl I 1 Professor Anderson, we think, has been gu iltl ;Or misnomer, when he takes the term " Wizar d ° d o it North." would come nearer the mark. What might have bk As orderednf if he substituted "wizard of the f °r p . p . " - e o ' st , to the Professor some two centuries and a-hal f sille e e d ' If o c r a d n er easily tell—he would cortainly have been ar t°. beet; which incomprehensible devices did not step in to beyond resc. r ue be delighted, and puzzled--e expression —by the performance of gr. A 1 3 " ., We Y haven ca n otlii - 0 5 parehl seen him for many years, and we dbweeettonhb edeali believe vau K ets i ea n wd s s,o ' t s ualkd a ere stake, Majesty," onetby e, of fn a b and woul d eowvvconansl beanoed. hav e fesi eib if% ii : i 'm to a diamond of the first water; time (411/;01r refulgence to his lustre, and the longer we 10 01 ci , O a the more new beauties we discern in every el le- og. stamped of his performance. lie is one of the brig ht ; ht+ very m an o t n l e h , u e l v n e a n n i n n a tliiiiree,, carries om never etb i t n o g f a a ci s e_ to ; oo :isl i l along with it. We do not refer to the host et " 5 e fed (even) imitators of this master genius that 113 0 110 where grown up within a few years ; their ligh t *1 who se the stars, compared to the glorious orb of dal. ' '40 6 brilliancy eclipsed all. Often as we sea the ; Ft°'' fel t and m delighted as we have been with him, W e liefe s r l lil° nperce o rs r ot e imn p ea le n a c s y u . re l t t ha is n u l o oo s k m in a g ll on th h in im last nig ht al ir t : t i ed iS : vigour, matured in natural and a st°l le Anderson is. a singular man—singulareinn are sag 045 it tli tt i l f one ; but the greatest singularity about him' is tr ov ii believe People az i, so bu u t n t u h s e ed p to ro t f h e a s t so s r or t t el o l : thing. that u t d l n t c h e el p t t eot be will deceive them, and he performs the promise -4'e truth! It is pleasant, so says Lord Byron, To see one's name in print, • '. A. book's a work, altho' there's nothing i nt , s ofS But there is: something; pleasant in the F re i li s er ti e r br ut . b b e u c r au p s h e ilo th so er p e hy a . re things l m t o i r s e saidm th p a o n ss c es te s 00: 4 er ; b performance, not because it is a blank as abe ce grey . and that these cannot be deceived. Now, t are 0 0 ; strong in opinion so far ° Se as regards our natural 0 but we begin considerably to doubt of the correct:3i: tli S our notions, after spending an evening 064 '• Professor." We have written' so far, f ir although we turn our backs 'on a g bit 0 , - es d ° tive now and then, we are rather at for for / 5 1 , a-911 tell the public what we saw last oveastianglo:st the 'llo:der an in kin it d Royal. The bills proclaimed it was "A nig htill : ll. o 9 ; World ;" and in good faith it was a night e t - 10 °I. tot a . wonders. The Professor divided the performa nce - parts, and each contained seven acts—and Fi loll f etg' tP public never before laid eyes on. It opened fie wizard's " Great Trick in Liverpool," and en cic ",, se c appropriately with the " Tunnel to the Antipodes' isid had a few notes of the whole, but the Dress of 19°2 t h# other matters, precludes us doing more to-d 9 ' l briefly alluding to the se. W e cannot, howeirer' el ef remarking, that the wizard has imPrcveci in '124 el f particular ; that his fetes are singe Is happy,ter' to his - exquisitely performed ;t that he has added all respects; and that the programme is the best eve O S forth by him. We may remark that the Il e 0 4 crowded, a few dress seats only being unoleePie 0 11 that the enthusiasm was unbounded. We 114 " ° II say, that everything went off with the et 844. be ` ‘)l.l greate that a variety of new and astounding fetes, I lev A e ;tec i n tl attempted, were performed with wonderful " e t peo l l' We intend to enter more fully into this excelieer-trieci-ig mance, but at the same time, we must sa y to ee ip6t ar ,i that they should not lose the greatest treat ci magic ever presented before them. The splont r 'os, t light shone from the top of the theatre # evening ; and attracted large crowds, outside,3lsl ° 3- thoe . who entered the arcana of O r. so wonder tio tk stage itself is Tu worth going to look at. c AMPHITITEATRE.—We have only sp ace t° 1)5° , °1 that this theatre was well filled to see 1111 2 ° P e h -rl p . eculiar and dramatic performances. To-night what is considered not only his best P et-C( 1 355°204 one of the marvels of the stage, Daddy El if-are' 'he parody on Ristori's Medea." b„toe e lj a 60 CORONER'S INQUEST. Sarah Anne Jones, who died ler oi inquest on the body of a child, four year s (3 „/ i9P I ig sustained by her clothes catching fire, il „ a jar Saacombe street. It was an accident, and t''''' n a i s i s s i 3 g io n n ee e s r , accordingly. 11 ; 3.1 r. or • Perry.) —Li frifftiirinee:Ts eyncoon dpi r p e ,itusa N: tes i e ll i i n a rn St.oe t 1 r e . Stock.— teas - a e : lesii . l e f : 0 .. , , ei e o e i,i r el d l o l ec. y e e, the hsr. q tile c i : : ( 1 13 : 0 rs l neor i h 01, 0 43 (Before b lok i f LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY Counx•— h ef ts d f:rmerly glass na..inuf icturer, at /41' , 2wton, canl e , - ; e , ti e d • on application for his certificate. Mr. D°" 4 l. - gra 9 ' certificate jlEs , and is ins i ti A . D ivisn was held at o f 1 ",, feel ° t' il f g of 3 /' IV' yeStera dee J P Claresdon Rooms, South John-street, for tb e ,,, ip,,,.. a' i n the; b il l 0. - 'pe , a t . 3 urgean-accoucheur to the Cnarit', K lN ri . " M ß is i' s. is" T " l ' s s e i r'e in w e' e j r . e. t T h i t- l ee ck C i a a n ir li vi d a a s te r S c f c : rPtib 7v e re egl ; ce i r t; Open ap a eymnsic( Likeness s figiscri G kicLre i i l Dn i s n scertii : ees u mni r t Gilmour, f i r. 3ov attended : fr f l .ty r Nh . t eoA6 B 2Nt a xiiea y bnbu l ,sy e dspA y , ea, 1 , 3m, a loß. n mo.v d o—oed M nt esist r .e . fr :::: :gtt e tr i; r o g ; e ci : jp.A l ue l egorieoo::: Avr G eiNec i uwt !m our was elected by 103 vote;, the O t P e nano I : : 1 06 u p1 r , R l:T R : e n: 7 7 cl vta l . a N i ri d i r a ,,eino — r kuDn Exhibition,nd n er 4 t e ie n u ri lliss ' I C `' .- 11. 311 ' i i v Linie ..s..e stio t t l inot o pool, to2elher with upwards of 1000 was fiVirl. tip 3 cl e -l a j r B s dr e i f i s le4b u la ' t 9ll 3 lll : o , co,4, l o : o l SUICIDE BY A FEMALE.—OR SIIIIi3Y , ' b .' ife o f f ii..- Ii a l t k lil i en i v i li t %i ! 'i d n ° : , p i t a n o i r a i s a d o : me t t i e la e b rt d ni nl a o d e s e wd l ar il totl:rrLlataslniyorn:timeah Line, pudding, W di r .mrielrkk:t'wsa,'eileaged t a r h 4 bo t a B yp t i :l et ' r c h ' ti e j e l it s " --h tl a w g rci e b ° l ll : letn i e • f g n i g e toil : tined diseas3 of the lungs. On Sanday one of her ° de sir e ' SoFr 'f f t t sh h e e r b e e q d u s i i r d e e d , waintyhthainkgniPfe When, nhdenfotrek on n i g t l . l b b e o ee r 1:,, latesb e b r . : f ti t o e g o: e d e 1j : time after one of her sous went up to sea 11° ' . 0 r, 13 %0 1 ' 6 her bleeding terribly a fearful gash l il t ' ' , ie llt sij a , He gave an alarm, and medicl aid was rFa nIP I . s I t to is j tli nonleceu, n b r u o t rt a l l n l a w te as wvaoitnn,inshweadsieitussoaonue.aftser;lroin:itto tod i act with the knife. An inquest will be " e l fist s' this day. no t, It tr a 'd li s , l AB •CONDING DEBT IRP—Far same titre r i r eii - l ' o n man, loather dealer, Clouakiltv, county C' r ", o t 04 ,,,, 11 0 0, e ; been fl ecel by a num's:r of sh apers. Th e y 'de til''';ise s ' d of lether on fa'se pretences, sol.l it, and M . 4 ,0 14°,7 0 ' v',.„ - B i terla , - oe 1 0) , fr o; scarce. This in ide of robbing Mr. serious, that he delermine I to proc--edega:-",„s:tyrerl,` ,5 4 ,,, last obtained goods frcm him. One jihe .v.. 1 0 ,41] '," 7,if t; Rots Carbery, coun'y Cork, obtained £ 5O - 0 tes le o , 411- / fr'm Mr. Bateman, immediately sold them , a eo tco l . o4 a . if Liverpool, where he was followed by Af r ' nr iyate r ; off obtained the s , , , rvlcs of Mr. Maguire, Wh we ' e. ‘ Ti ;be ° 0 ctrue is at No. 2, Doran's-place, Lard-std so p! . . much trooblo, ths latter gentleman succe el: 0 , Yoe oe . iag him on board the Joseph Fo,ter, for 7 i , had P oo Ite E t was immediately transferred to L3OES3IEr• has g 0 1 1 , 600 0 0 111.3 money to his Wife, who, by-' he- b) 0 . est ," a ll e fforl way, "not r sicing," to " the lind of the w ade 30 es IP "lord and master" Fitzgerald has Ti t will e arrange the matter, but we don't know what F) i .111 6 -ttt I)