Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-22 00:00:00

0 tii° ier e3 ' t o rtv Oi°s [ELEGRAPHIC NEWS. 1 ;'5 1 British and Irish .Jfizgnetie Telegraph. bANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. VIENNA, TUESDAY. The tilo Mold av i an Divan has voted almost unani uslY in fav our o f the complete un i on of the p rinc ipaliti es, under a Western Prince ; also for o{ t h e institutions,.and for the neutrality p the °wes s tate to b e guaran t ee d b y th e great FRANCE. T he Three - PARIS, WEDNESDAY. r '6f, 70 c, e per Cent. Rentes closed to- day at EXECUTION AT ABERDEEN. Jah n ABERDEEN, WEDNESDAY. :flti Booth, conv i c t e d o f mur d er i ng hi s ' 4er-in:lacv, at Old Meldrum, in July last, add elec ated this mo r nin g by Calcr a ft. He r c ess ed th e crowd with great firmness, contra thatit! hl5 statement made to the judge in court, mot w ire's unfaithfuiness, abetted by her her, had led to the murder. tie it" „o$ Zed on tomb, of the French Admiral Brunt, who .t ~ 8 ec e yage home from the Crimea, just completed o, .tre o rptitetery of Pere Lachaise, consists of . a p . edestal b y a large gun and naval trophies , below, ' 4l al; ent 's of Ilistery is seen holding a crown. This tomb Thiit:4l' that of General Foy. • l e Z t ,v,Z.,7 t P at ' e l s t tn t ßN A L 7N £l , —The Waterford News, a liberel ation newspaper has been " kicked t ° " the .• 1 nes iro , m of New Ross -te 44itto ti n l ;iiiiaeroi lefolrumeerriaereterned Mr. Gavan Deify to tie :Id t l t he A' voting was as follows—For re to i t atton 15 ; against, 34. Its late Sepoy essays 'Stu' eitaukioa- which was moved by )r. Hewlett, f Ro nanCatholic gentleman. lh T e'rree lajikroellowinr. IR IN INDIA.—A correspondent Beetle ti The extract . wh . ich . serves as the text Fa joke, lint we believe it is a bona fide quite- Sol• t i ,, ll ltract. ' from etatioa oreters by Major Mmo ; of i" Rltnient Bombay Native Infantry, comm a nding . liek''a'Peor, issued on the cccasion of a native offie l er • Privately informed that the lrregeler C , ay s a h r i y . 1 4 tPie ° ! tu a., l bad mutinied, and were about to attace 4:etear,cise;:liate_d Shika• rpo •r, Jane, 1857. On the one h t - eob h huadred mutineers coming in sight on the '4% 4- 'oad three guns will be fir . ed, Oa the first un Lette e ", te d, all the ladies and Christian cooks wil proceed an ltila t i'a the mess - room , and with the thirty muto.ets d 1 1e11 41 Proportion of ammuniti n placed there for their 14.1' defet,d it to the last." 4 le,:‘itlierneer.—A writer in the _Examiner . says :—" In ag article you express your belief that English ander the commend of Englishmen, are incapable 1" h 'tag 'promiscuous carnage,' or of imitating °4 ' h a'lnl ess atrocities of the Sepoys; and you etate that ‘e 4Ve Lot heard such retaliatory excesses recommended % , t ilte l , batter deserting of respect.' The last words coe h i'et ';'aving cause, but I cannot help bringing under -rl the ' r't) e te a e from the letter of an effieer before ▪ wa; a p g ublished in the Manchester Guardian ti ulte and which deserves tt e most indignat, h ° - every hand. It is as follows lam quite sn o t.? ' e a we et into Delhi, our men will not spare as I, tiSertloltltla(se.engnor children ; a a lt . h n ou nl g y h I would not . touch men from cluing so. I would not e rest r liN d s .l l, f otd atop l th b r eed , at once.' Shall we act goes uncontradicted ? That it is a Our l i s e t I honestly trust and believe. If not, this% i',(leed, meat day of humiliation in store for England " I C'niel the news shall come of the sac fif e diflil7t. cannot be necessary . to urge you to 4eao,,t'anticily to the 'feeling of disgust wh ch you, in e;.° l ° witt l ev erY honest Englishman, must ful, at such f /I A.I Ike Sen r t , illl "ts as these." 1 / 4 `‘ sn'TR Gg prEMBER ON THZ AMERICAN tt .i t' llt. ' • e l. Rl 3 b — er l p h a e s t i f3 3 ,les e pr perty for th • month of er thstioyed Without a parallel. The gales ot last li an unusual number of ves els, and with t h, " 'es Were lust • bat the hurricane of the 10th, ti ti, 2th 13 ti soe , 1 4th, and 15th of last mon h had for its alittan lives, the number ( f which it is awful to ttk tta Plate. eitei,ciaver aging The amount of property lost has been im ever one hundred theusand dollars for th ta thr.: month, and is equal in amo'tnt to the ) gate 1 0 ' The list of ten's'eel, ss 3of the four months previous. ~abe,calprises three learners, three ships, three barques, L ''itt r "., and twenty -two 6 schoorers, making a total ot li" - ri ` I ght Vesse t to In lswh'ce have been wholly lost. It must that ' the ab ve Ist does not include yes tise• . " ; ' Wife received more or le-s damage in their bulls 0 II) j'rng during the s .me eriod ;if all such were added t ll 4 - 1 , 41 it would number fully 100. There can be little oa , ia a t that a number of vessels, in addition to the I , i v e been lost, reports from which have not yet ° 4 - I ,te e e % - a le,O. s The hurricane which c eused so muchlots till "P. Bast p ob .bly ex t ended far towards the shores cf 8e the I , t will be some time before we shall hear of a,,Vtab_eia.sters occasioned .by the f arftl gales of .4 e ,,ltis I ,' , tilting which 500 lives and over three million orth (it property have been lost.—Neto York to, e t . Of CIINRGE AGtIN;T A 7ARMIR.-012 Friday r • 'alton and the village of Barrow - upon - Humber tr e tb c'ne of eat . afirdin try excitement, on the °via- We r - :', 6 al examination by the couny magistrates of uiteroft Young, late of Barrow-upon-Humber, srr. k Inlet oW Sussex, farmer, and, it is told, landed p w kitttlof atd, of E'inebeth Sayler, his domestic . se: v 011i.meree seventeen yea's, on sus's:a on of having s +4- a child of which ste was the mother, and he i da l' r ?Y th: v b . e the father. The facts new elio.ted are Ito th, • --- That on Saturday, the Bth of ' Auerst, th e a ib r, _Mouth of M-s. Y-ung's confinement tf her deb t o tl i t tli re - ; ! thi3 inqui ' r v y e , red herself in a barn of . a child which she stat-s was still-hem, I .4o l t's 11 ,! 18 have since been found - th a ribbon tied th e 'ele end over that a cotton with a ribbon tied S LI over that a Cottori c'oth or ra.gs, so n wi s ee r veotb, ntelt and mly knotted, but the body &t g ,th` el e %°4 that it is ' to say whether the child tisr,,-,.slive or not . Early on Sunday morning the 9th t I t - tP 440 ;',1 111 two prisoners 141 the house together aboti 11 4 A 4 L a Y. were absent half an hour, and on their (lot • tte, Ptesi e in the garden, six feet deep, which Young 16-`4LtIl e" ti e' l Y dog, was found filled up, and two spades 'eeye -se " and d' d garden soil, were fon d s i t e „ ir t e ,e " which Selvidge had on the preceding- day t ' ele 'lllj et ed• In this ho'e or grave the body was sub-_ ▪ Both the pritsoners have been committed secretly buried the child k1a0414 olite"ltb° e c Lealits a:ge of having birth. —Bull Packet' Ofn" - 4 epectal meeting of . the Association of t pb ate !ere of H ea l t h was held on Saturday, to re.• o e f erk from a committee of their own body on s th r e • pr'esaida break of cholera near Stratford.. M d . A n‘e ",e i nt, Was in the chaie. The report, signed 1 2 ,." (chairman), Dr. .Chalice, Dr. Dundas tilt I f b .itte e h and Mr. Elli ! on,stated that the Tat on Thursday last, visited the spot where ti teep,e' s eaPPosed to liave broken out. They found t, ei a a "ad heel 15 eases, of which 7 bad proved fatal. `%t 1 4 ,ueal st vase occult d on the •29 h Septem , ber ; the 4 1:1 ; 4 . je ll ,, a1j 4 th at e e night of tt e tad of Oc ober, rhe_pla n e s ; ti,ll l l: . e re caies occurred was in Abbey Row, W tolerab y well are 16 houses in the ro lita by ll illsoe s i ' b t v i ii r ! of four or five rooms each, w an i tenanted ha,' in ea ' 0 means dirty or very poor, generally one Pi; at e a house. The cccupants . for the most .; part .nff Fire of flew ro -Jai • th e , Ills, or silk printing factory adjoining. 1114 " et "aces have separate cesspools , and the re l'epT? drain into one larger one behind the centre ell s'‘e 'o 'his at a dis t ance of 70 fe t . from_ the w t ite tb l ei e : a a te P_um 1)- Froml this source the inb s a . b e it s a ni nt l s i d s r e a n. te ch ) : gra ve , fur drinking and warhing'.. h 41 1(1" 't fron: ll d there is no doubt that enfil.ration might 4 0 . 1 ',t0t 0 oe cesspool to the w• 11. The water wee tuigroehenieal examination by Dr. Thomson. Abbey Dett Betrle t aea u - Lde d by marsh land, much impregnated by In !Not!' it i " ° ale' a few feet ab Ire the '1 ames. Nrif": eou 8 a tidal stream called Channel Sea River, ttl - t ato t v Os much ( f the sewage of the town of S t tr .c a a t- . th o 'r of h... River Lee. By the d& sire of the medical di ID4 e4llll , • ° I t t the hatdla was removed from o t „ ate el .. NI 12[1 itst. Since that date theraenh_aas half.been Nt lri t f r t t ‘ehtete proved fatal in six hours d 11 0h._ * a3 ' 1 case eccurred in the person of a woman, her own Gl t ,". taunted with water from a well en . 'Nee f tt t his Well, too was liable to coetaminativn by rotathe Boil. THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, MUNICIPAL ELECTION. SCOTLAND WARD. Yesterday evening a meeting of the Burgesses of this Ward was held at the Traveller's Rest, Scotland-road, in order to select a fit and proper person to represent the Ward in the Council at the forthcoming election. There was a full attendance of voters present. The chair was taken at, a quarter before 9 o'clock by Mr. John Murdock. Mr. F. McPhilips acted as secretary to the meeting. The Chairman' returned thanks for the honour and confidence placed in him. He then addressed the meet ing, and said they desired a man to represent the Ward who was for progress and reform. (Hear, hear.) He contended that politics thonld not he imparted into the Corporation, but such was the fact. He alluded to the reje ;don of Mr. Preston and Mr Holt as the Mayors of the town, because they were reformers, and he repudiated the idea that such should be the case. He contended that the ward should place the right man in the right place, and rescue the town from the, degredation in which it was at present placed. " Mr. Lowden then proposed the following resolution : " Resolved, that it is the opinion of this meeting' that a large and popular constituency such as Scotland Ward should select a candidate whose political antecedents will afford a guarantee that his conduct, as their representative, if returned, will be in accordance with their views of progress and reform." He said there was scarcely any difference of opinion on the point. Their object was to send the best man to re. present them in the Council, and that was Mr. Liversedge. (Cheers•) He was well known in the ward, and would be one of the best men in the corporation. He alluded to the Introduction of politics into the Town Council, and con tended that the people should elect the best man devoid of politics to represent the ward in the Council. Mr. Mc Philips said that it was net the desire of the gentleman named to go into the Council except on princi ple. The resolution was then seconded, and carried unanimously. Mr. Joseph Healing then, in a brief and able address, spoke to the next resolution, which was the proposal of Mr. William Liversedge as a fit and proper person to represent the ward in the Town Council. (Hear, hear.) He spoke of the qualities of Mr. Liversedge in high terms as a man of business and every thing that the people could desire. After some further remarks on the qualifi cation of the gentleman, he proposed that he was a fit and proper person to represent the ward in the Council. Mr. Edward Smith seconded the resolution. Mr. Lloyd here addressed the meeting and caused some amusement by calling the meeting a "sham from bottom to top." He spoke about Mr. Crellin, and then followed a good deal of personalities, after which Mr. Lloyd contended that Mr. Liversedge was dragged out against his will. Mr. Glover said Mr. Lloyd had told him the previous day that he would support Mr. Liversedge or Mr. Mus pratt. Mr. Lloyd : That is an abominable lie. Hero a small rebellion took place, when Mr. Lowden addressed the meeting, and, by some judicious observations, calmed the storm. Some explanation then took place, when the resolution was put and carried amid loud cheers. The Chairman, in reply to a question, said the candidate was pledged to restore pure water to the town. (Cheers.) The meeting then pledged itself to support Mr. Liversedgo, and a vote of thanks being passed to the Chairman, the meeting seperated. • ABERCRO MBY WARD. A meeting of the electors of this ward favourable to the return of Mr. Robert Hutchison as one of the representa- tives of the ward in the Town Council, was held last night in Hope-hall, Hope-street. The 'meting was numerous, and of an influential character. The chair was occupied by Mr. Janus Holme, and among the gen tlemen present were Alderman Dover, Messrs. Richard Griffiths, Richard E. Griffiths, Elias Arnaud, Hugh Neill, J. H. Hudwigien, Dr. Hensm , m, Messrs John Bigham, Robert Waddington, James N. Holmes, George Webb, James Webb, W. 11. North, William Nicholson, Charles Meinche, Richard Holmes, William William 3, Robert Williams, William Winstaniey, G orge Ladmore, Thomas Wilkinson, James R. Chambers, William Erlam, John J. Hatton, C. M. Brownbill, &c. The Chairman, in a few brief remarks, in'roduced the name of Mr. Hutchison to the meeting, and observed that if they returned him as their representative to the council, they would have selected a gen leman every way qualified to fulfil the duties of that important office. In Mr. Hutchison, they would have a gentleman of business habits, and one connected with the mercantile interests of the town, and if they elected him, they would find they had selected a man fit to represent them (Hear, hear.) Many important questions would be brought before the council, particularly the question of widening the streets, and improving the approaches to the pier.heao, and in the consideration of that question, they would find the advantage in having the sentiments of men well acquainted with the in'erests of the town ; and such a man was Mr. Hutchison. (Hear, hear.) He well knew the town, apd on the great question of the water supply, he would corns to its consideration withaut partiality or • prejudice. (Cheers.) • Mr. Robert Hutchison then came forward, and was warmly greeted. After thanking the meeting for the cordial reception accorded to him, be proceeded to say that he laboured under some disadvantage in coming forward, for the first time, as a candidate for the representation of the ward, and particularly as the successor of a gentleman of such high character, standing, and ability, as Mr. John Abraham Tinne. There was a time, he confessed, when he thought that political opinions should not form a test of a man's fitness or unfitness for the Town Council, and although he still adhered to that opinion to a great extent, he was very well aware that Government could not be carried on except by party, but at the same time there was no reason why that strong and bitter party feeling. which existed to former years, should any longer coutiuue to exist. (Hear, hear.) It appeared to him that at the present time more than ever men of all parties could meet on common and neutral grounds for the discussion of such questions as were likely to come before the Town Council. If they took a retrospect of the last thirty years, they would find that. all the great questions which had agitated the public mind, and stirred up party passions, were now removed. In 1827 the Test Act was repealed ; in 1829 Roman Catholic Emancipation was granted ; in 1832 the Reform Bill was passed ; it was tollowed by Municipal Reform ; and soon after came the fiscal changes of Sir Robert Peel, which ended eventually in the repeal of the Corn and Navigation Laws. He had therefore hoped that when his nomination was first broached the election would have been allowed to pass over without any ebullition of party feeling, but he war sorry to say that, within the last few days, there was some ink'ing that it would not be so. Whe ther it was proper that the opprobious epi he s which were applied to them should be used, he wou'd leave the meeting to determine, but for his part he thought it was unjast and calumnious to ascribe to the conservative party that they were influenced by improper motives. (Hear, hear.) It appeared to him that within the last few years a fusion of parties had as it were taken place, and that all important questions could be now discussed without any exhibition of party feeling. As the great organ of public opinion, the Times, in a recent artic:e observed, " Eh, y should all be c loser vatives in some way or the other,' and there was evidently a growing disposition on the part of the leading liberals of the day not to give way to that innovating spirit which it had ever been the policy of the conservative party merely to keep in check (Hear, hear.) Ile would cont. nd that the party who called themselves liberal were not more liberal than they (the conservatives) were. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The true conservative knew as well as the liberal did that the safety of all their institutions depended on their reparation from time to time, and, therefore, the conservative party had never placed themselves as obstacles in the way of improvement. (Hear, hear.) It was only against rash, ill-judged, and hasty legislation that they protested, and not against improvement. (Hear, hear.) The leading question which was now before the Council was that of the water supply. He should confess that he felt very greatly disappointed with the Rivington water, but there was no use in discuss ing whether that was the quarter which they should have gone for a supply for the town. It was sufficient fur them to know that three quarters of a million of money had been expended on the Pike scheme; and as it would be absurd for them to throw away what had been obtained at so great a cost, he did think that the resolution which the Council came to in regard to it, on last Monday, was the wisest, under the circumstances. He was a strong advocate for having the red sandstone water carried into dwelling houses for dietetic purposes ; but, as that supply should be supplemented from some source, he thought it far better to wait the result of the experiments for improving the Rivington w tter, before they entered on the expenditure of £155,000, in laying down a double set of pipes. (Hear, hear.) He con side red, seeing that many of the men of business of the town lived on the other side of the river, that the question of the improvement of the approaches to the landing stage should receive the earnest attention of the Coaucli, and that the widening of the streets generally also deserved consideration. He thought. too, that the recreation of the people should be provided for, by means of public parks, and that the land suitable for that purpose should be now bought up, before it reached a value that would treble the cost to the town at some future day. (Hear, hear.) He would allude more particularly to the land, the property of the Earl of Sefton, known as the Parliament Yields, which lay contiguous to a very populous district, and was well suiLd for the purpose of a park ; and without such places of recreation and health, he did not see how they could hope for that moral and social improvement among the people which all so ardently desired. (Hear, hear.) Another subject, which now occupied the attention of the council, was the inventory of the corporate property moved for by Mr. - Robertson Gladstone. He (Mr. Hutchison) could see no objection in principle to that inventory being made, but, at the same time, it would involve much time and expense, and would be, therefore, of doubtful advantage. As to the town does, they should recollect that there had been something like 45%000 a year taken from them for which they got no benefit whatever, and, therefore—though some years ago he was Opposed to the idea of rating the docks—believing that if t hey t enovrd from commerce everything that impeded its action, they would ultimately reap the benefit of it, yet he considered that the question was , now so much altered by the passing of the Mersey Conservance Bill, that it would be for the serious consideration of the Council to say, whether the docks should not now be made to bear a portion of the expense which was thrown on the town. (Hear. hear.) He would not commit him- self to any certain opinion upon the point, but he thoug'it it was one deserving of serious consideration. (Rear, hear.) In conclusion Mr. Hutchison declared that they wanted an extension of docks on this sido of the water, vessels having frequently to lay in the river for ten days before they could obtain a berth, and that as the coal trade was largely increasing in the port, and as they had already secured a large proportion of the whole trade of the kingdom, they might yet secure more , of it by dealing with the question in no niggard spirit.. On the motion of Mr. Richard Holmes, seconded by Mr. Elias Arnlud, a resolution, approving of Mr. Hutchison as a candidate for the ward, and pledging the meeting to his return, was carried by acclamation. On the motion of Mr. R. Griffiths, seconded by Mr. J. L Holmes, a committee was appointed for the purpose of securing Mr. Hutchison's elecAon, in the event of any opposition. Mr. Ald. Dover then addressed the meeting in support of Mr. Hutchison, and in the course of his remarks, endeavoured to prove that the Rivington water was not so bad as it was described. His views, 4owever, did not seem to correspond with those of the meeting:on that question. Mr. Hugh Neill begged to dissent in Coto from Mr. Dover's views on the water question. He (lTr. Neill) had visited a great deal throughout the ward, and everywhere he heard grievous complaints against the quality of the water, and also the manner of its distri bution. (Hear, hear.) Over and over again they were told that the water would not be given to the town without due warning, and yet that promise had been scandalously violated ; and now after they had been made to swallow the water for weeks, experiments were about to be made to see if it could be made palatable and fit for domestic use. He repeated, such nasty filthy stuff should not have been transferred into their cisterns without warning. (Cheers.) Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, after which the meeting separated. _ . The Provincial Bank of Ireland has r iced the rate of interest on Depo its to 3 prer cent. from the 17th inst. IRISH REPRESENTATIVE BISHOPS FOR 1858.—The Lord Archbishop of Dublir, the Lord Bishop of Cashel, the .Lord Bishop of Derry, and the Lord Bishop of Limerick. The Portuguese authorities at Lisbon placed the Penh slier and Oriental Com?t.ny's mail packet Tagus in quarantine on ter last voyap, because the hose of the water• tank ashore was laid over the ship, the yellow fever being at the time prey lent ashore at Lisbon. Law:tic Arrnas.—Mr. A kins, of the Rnyal Marine, barracks, lately picked from his garden, at the Paint, two apples of the fol:owing extraordinary dimensions : one measured 134 in hes in circumference, and weighed 131 fai ; the other measured 13 inches, and weighed 13 eze.- Plymouth Journal. On di4 that a gallant Militia Major who represents a neighhouritg county is about to lead to the hymenial altar a beautiful metropolitan young lady, with a fortune of £2l,ooo.—Ltmeriele Chron'cle. The officer alluded to is The O'Danoghtfe. M.P , for the county of Tipperary, and M,j ;r in the Kerry Wig ia. ONE OF TH t BEsq LIVINGS IN THE CHURCH OF ENG LAND.—The rectory of Stoke-upon-Treat, Staff prdshire, has btcome.vac;nt by the death of !hi Rey. J. W. Tom linson. It is worth upwards r f:3,0001. a year. `l here ate Only two liviegs in the Church which exceed this in annual value—riamely, the rectory of Stanhop., Durham, worth 5,0001. a-year, end the rectory of Doddington, Cambridgeshire, which is worth nearly 8 0001. a-year. GUERIN'S SELF-ACTING RAILWAY BLEAK.—Tuts in valuable apparatus is already in daily use on nearly the whole of the French railways, as will be seen from the following list of the lin s which Lave a loptel it :—Orleans, Northern, Westerr, Lyons, Bomb , nnais, Southern, and St. Rampert to Grenoble. the Eastern (.r S rasb.)urg) Company are now basing it fitted to their carriages.— Mining Journal. RESIGNATION OP ITICE• ADMIRAL SIR MAURICE BEEXELEY. —The death of Earl Fozhardinge, the elder brother of Vice-Admi al Sir Maurice Berk.ley, K.C.8., and Senior Naval Lord of Admiralty, having devolved new duties upon the admiral, and placed him in a different position, the gadant officer haa sent in his resign ition as a Lord of the Admiralty. The arrangements consequent upon this event, which has long been in contemplation, have not vet transpired ; bat we understand that no ffic'r senior to Sir Richard Dunchs will be appointed.—United Service Gazette. _ _ _ MR. SPURGRON'S Naw BOOK.—MT. Spurgeon has just issued his first work from the press. He says in his pre face :—" Never was a book written amid more incessant toi'. Wti ing is to me the work of a slave. It is a delight, a joy, a rapneee to talk out one's thoughts in word; that flash upon the mind at the instant when they are required ; bat it is poor drudgery to sit still and grcan for thoughts and words without succeeding ie obtaiui-g them. Nothing but a sense of duty has impel d me to fini , ,h this little bask, which has been more than two yea-sin hand." • MALICIOUS OUTIWIE.—On Sunday night last as John V. Forde, Esq., was rising home to Ratianaveoge from Frenk fort Castle, where be had dined, some ruffians pelted him with stones, one of which s ruck him in the side, bit for tunately did not injure him much. He is an excelleet horseman, and owes his escape from further serious in jai ies to ill: fleetness with which his horse carried him away out of the reach of his cowardly assailants. No cause can be assigaed for this wanton et ack on Mr. Forde, who is irc tpable of prov king hestility and hietly esteemed in the trighbourhood.-21fidland Counties Advertiser. Tea liomare Ceexoetc Cuuaca.—lt is understcod in Roman Catholic ci-cles that a sammons has been received from Rome by Cardinal Wiseman, which, if complied with, will elevate the Most Rev. Dr. Errington, Archbishop of Trebizond, and Coadjutor to his Eminence, to the purple. It may he stated that the Cardinal need not comply with the command. He is, as a Niece of the Church, rerfectly independent of the Holy See, E 0 fir as its tett itori al j iris die ion extends; but in well-informed Catholic circles it is stated that the Pope is anxi 'us to abdicate his sove reignty, and looks to Cardinal Wiseman as the only person worthy to succeed him. TDB CASE OP LORD CECIL.GORDON.—The else of th:s ioselvent came on for hearing in the Taunton County Court, on Monday. It will be recolltcted that at a former pt titian for hearirg, the insolvent was dismissed on the 7th Se,. t mber on a It gal teeht icality, and his Lord 'ship had remained in prison and was now heard on an tther petition filed by Mess s. Lewis an I Lewis. After a 1 tug investigation the ju age (4lr. C. Saunders) declared Lord Cecil entitled to the benefi of the Act, and ordered him to be discharged forthwith. The case did not terminate uu'il nearly ha'f past eight o'clock, having occupied upwards of eight hours in the investigation. His lordshie who had been in prison 80 days, was congratulated by his Liends, and ordered to bo released from c-nanemeet. • A PRINCELY MAacntoNEss.—The Marc'iioness of Len donderry, possessing an independent tonuae of £IOO,OJO a year, a Peeress:in her own tieA, and ben ficiary of a great many- other very god and very pleasant things, seems inclin2d to look upon her estates as principali ies, and her colliers and peasants as subjec a. At Garron Tower she arrived " punteual as the Q leen," in a Cleopttre's barge , p c:cs of aerie% in which reclined Lady Antrim, the Ma chioness driving. Lady Londonderry w.s attired in a cloth of gold mantle, embroidered like an altar cloth ; Lady Antrim, the youneastedowager in the Peerage, in a piquant Pa isian c atom., even rn re startlirg and delight ful. On a " raised dais" addresses from the tetantry were received, and a written arswer was read " with a perfec i in of elocu ion which reminded us of Queen Victoria when opening Parliamet.t." Truly a " stronz-mindel woman ! We remember the poor Duk , of Backiugham, whose head got a little weakened by the belief that a homers spathic globde of the Plantagenet blood runs up and down s m. - where in his "system," wore his coronet, put on his state robes and sat upon a sort of throne on a similar occasion at Stowe. We giva the Marchioness the benefl.. of a hint for a future occasion.—Dispatch. HARBOUR (.1 , REFUGX AT PORTRUBH. —A very numerous and influential assemblage of the nobility and galtry of Antrim, and the northern parts of county Derry, was held at Pertrush, last week, for the purpose of adopting measures to have the claims of P,:rtrtish to be made a harbour of refuge, by the junction of the Skerries with the mainland, brotglu before the Committee of the House of Cem-noes during the next session of Parliament. The meeting had been e mveled by Mr. M cartney, M P., who entered fully into the subject, and explained a plan which he had seen in a public - al:a al the G ,veroreent for making the contemplated harbour. It ca.nsists of a breakwater from Rarnore Head, east of the quay, to the extremity of the smaller rocks, which would form a break-water is conneotion with the mainland of 3,400 feet ; then join the smaller Skerries to the larger, fill rig' in the interstices, thus forming a break-water .with an intervening pass , ge through of 1,250 1 et, by which a vessel would either have passage to go in or out, according to the, wind. Tao anchorage within the Skerries would be from four to twelve fathom, so that the largest ship in the navy might with safety fly thither in a gale of wind. The cost was estimated at about £220,000. Mr. Dargan aud other gentlemen spoke strongly in favour cf the uneertaking, which was stated to have received the warm approval of the Lord Lieutenant. A committee, consisting of William Dargan, Esq., William Wilson Campbell, Esq., John Boyd, 14'sq., M.D., Samuel Lawrence, Esq., and Hugh Belles, Esq., wos appointed _to prepare evidence to he laid befom a . Committee of the House of Commons. WEST LPERBY UNION. The weekly meeting of the West Derby Guardians was held at twelve o'clock yesterday, in the Noerd-nom. Mr. H. Edwards presided and the other members present were Messrs. Abrahams, Reyes, Lunt, Whitby, Leclie - , Roberts, Birch, Pitts, Segar. Parkin, French, Stone, and ',tome. The fo lowing cheques for ent-door relief were ordered :—Mr. Pott., 4110; Mr. 0 ney, ,e 32 ; and W. Lythgoe, £22. Mr. Davies, the master of the hospital, reported that the number of sick in hospital last week was 103, almitte I since % discha•ged 12 dead 2 ; this week 103, of whom 35 belonged to the Toxteth-park, Union, corresponding week last year 95. Mr. Gone, the governor of the workhouse, reported that the num ber of paupers in the hall e last week was 605, a emitted since 22, born 1, dhcharged 13 ; number this week 615, of whom 37", belonged to Toxteth-pa k; corresponding week last year 6sl. A letter was read from the Poor Law Board, in reply to the request of the Board of Gua-clians, to show whether Mr. Latham, who was appointed relieving old .er for the township of Tosteth-park lively,exclu was no longer their servant, in consequence of the seperat:on of that townshp. The Board decided that as the whole of the district for which Mr. Latham was app Anted had been vparatel from the union, his connects m as relieving Olen* with West Derby had ceased. A letter was read from Mr. Reed, medical officer, stating that there was a very cons'derab'e increase of fever in Bootle, and applying for an increase of salary in consequence of the enlarged duties. The writer attributed the increase of fever partly to the want of sufficient sewerage arrangements. It was directed that the left rbe laid before the Bo3tle Local Board of Health, ind that a relieving officer should accompany Mr. Hoed in his`vitLs. Mr. L dger prop sea the following resolatioa :—" That the attention of the re iev:ng offi;:ers be directed to the caisting requi.ement of the gaardi ns, that all persons in receipt of relief, hsoing you ig children, p oduce ceraftza'es that Pilch children attend regularly at school, and that the officers be particular in enforcing this requireunnt." The resolution was secon led and carried unanimously. • L was also .agreed, upon the motim of. Mr. Ledger tint Messrs. Al en ant Bramham, relieving ofibers, attend very day at the work honseirelief offi 3e, from nine to ten, and from five to six, for the pu po , 'e of rec2lv7ng applications for relief. Tots cor.cluded the ga..eral business.] ,:„ri POST OFFICE ROBBERY AT BIRKENHEAD. Andrew Wal lam Tucker, a stamper in the Birkenhead Post Office, and who stool re nandai from Tuesday, the 13th inst., was again placed in the dock, ch trged, before it. Bryans, Esq., wit's stealing a at smped envelope and a half-sovereign, the proderty of her Majesty's Postmaster-Gen ran. Mr. James Mouse, a c'erk in the missing letter depattrnent of the General Post Office, London, was the first witness examined, mad sated that in coascquence oF.nume - ous complaints baying been addressed to the Postmaster-General, of letters cont M ing money and articles of value, being missing, he had been sent down to endeavau , to detect the gai ty party, and for Ithat purpose he arched at Clreer on the 12:h inst.,lwhen he wrote a letter, enclosing with it a marked vamp I envelope, and also a marked half.s ,vare'gn, addressed to Kr. Janie" Parkgate, near Birkenhead, and gave it to his assistant to be taien to Manchester, to be posted and put into the Birkenhead letter bag, and on the following morning he was in attend tnce at the Birkenhead Post-office to make inquiries rasp cling it, but the letter could not be found. The prisoner was out at the time, and he went in sers-ch of him. Having found him at a beerhonse in Somerville-street, he took him, back to , the Post.office, and having taken him into the private office, he told him who he wa', and acted if ha hal bee: on duty that morning when the Manehe-ter bag arrived, upon which he (the prieoner) said he had, a d that he had stamped all the Birkenhead letters arriving at the post-office, previ ens to seven o'clock. He then told the pfsen , r that a letter, ad _trey:el) as before states, was missing, and asked him if he knew anything about P. to which he replied— "l do not." He then asked him if he had any objection to be searched. and having said that he hal not, hs was desired to tarn out his pockets. Prisoner then took 9s s I out of one of his trowsera pockets, which he paced u.-on the table; but he (Mr. Monde) observed that the rocket was not enmpletely turned out, and eonsequen ly desired h m to do so, at the samell ti te observing the prisoner trying to conceal something that was in it, and afterwards try to conceal it up his sleeve ; upon which he (Mr. Mollie) sp Ate rather sharply, and desired the prisoner to put the piece of paper out of his pocket on to th- table. He did so, when it turned out to be the I lentleal envelopelhe had enc`osed in the lett r wilt the half-sovereign, addressed to Mrs.J.-dlicoe.ll Having asked the prisoner to account for the possession of it, he said he h d had it in his possesslon since the previous Friday, intending to direct it, upon which he gave the prisoner into custody. A great many other w.tnessea - were examined, to show the whoie course of the letter from the time it left Mr. Moale's hands to the finding of the envelope in the p mouton of the prisoner. Prison - r was then committed for trial at the next assizes ; upon which Mr. Mou'e said h 3 had, assisted by the police, searched the prisoner's home, ani found articles which no doubt had boon sent through the Post offl.e, amongst which was the silver pencil-case he then produced, and for which he should be able to and an owns-, and prayed that the prisoner night be remand d . upon that ch rge until Mond sy ncxt. wh'ch the w.,rtliy magistrate acceded to. ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCE )LOGICAL SOCIETY. The opening meeting of:the Arehi octant and Anlfsellogical Society for th 3 sessi n was h ild I 1 the Royal Institution, at half-past seven o'c ock la-t night. The chair was taken by the President. Samuel Huggins, Esq. _ The Sec'etarj lsid blore the melting several communicttions, among which wds one from the Oxford A etitectural Soele y an nouncing that it WAS the Intentio of that body to invite the members of the Liverp Jol Society to rase - them in Oxford, in June, next, when a gatherin; of su± b ,d,es will be IrAti, and:pipers upon subjects of interest brought forwa-d. - - . Mr. Boult proposal a rao'utioa expressing the acceptance of the invitation on the part of the s)clety, and stating that when the arrangements were mare definitely made known tho society would be in a position to say haw many of their members wall probably attend at the proposed meeting. _ Mr. Picton se •ondel the mot'on, which was Cereal unanimously. Several donalons of books and periodicals were anno:nced. Some photographic drawings were exhibited, sent as specimens by the A - chttectnral Photographic Association, to whose prospectas the attention of the society was dt.-ectel. The Pre.ilent then p weeded to read Oe opening adiress of the sessi an. Ater sons prefatory remarks, he declared that one of the gratest of existing obstacles to the proven rf architectural art, was the w..nt of freedom of design, and the se-vile fealty to particular styles. He -urged that many modifications might be made not dreamed of yet in our philosophy, an! that architects ought to give up the 'ea' of v olating or shaming the sprit of a stye. Let them be tear ess, and leave styles to their own tate. As the true poet wove everything into son; , so cou'd the true architect adopt every t ing to architecture. Architects dil not sufficiently recogn se the change whinh was taking place . in the spirit of the times all around. The President considerel that the present system of competition for designs adopted by the Government, was calzulated to keep ba k -the spirit of originality and invention in architecture. In order to gain succeks, it was too frequently the habit, ins €a i of considering the practical oblect of the bulling in the first instance, to take some great design, disguise its exterior by decoration and aleration, and then adopt the remainder of the building to suit it. There was also per.eptible among archite is in ge ,e -ral, a neglect of the capabilities for improvement afforded by . . . the scientific and indnstrial inventions and adaptations o 1 the present day. He remarked, for instance, that he could see no reason why cast-iroi should not be mere genera ly used for the spiret of churches, and woad for the grained. ceilings of Gothic bui:dings The care-r of architecture cull not be considere finished, until it had sneceadcd in exhlbiti Ig events suited to every country and climate, every relieon, aal every national character. The Pre .ident th'n passed oo to make ecru, renter :5 upon recent swhitectur ,1 developments in the town of Liverpool itself, including the re ent aJ t Von+ to the exterior of St. George's Hall, which he strongly conde nitcl—gees, columns, lions, and sea gods. Many plans, unexceptionable artistically, hal tnen suggested for rendering the spice ar mnd St. Georg :'s Hall one noble place, but those plans hal the defect of involvin; t> la "ge an expeuthtnre —not too loge for the means of the corporation if they would le we- off Pike a..'hemes,ana other fruiters anderteiings—(hear, hear,)—but larger than most of the members of tha fora Cua ,cil waald be !twined is undertak for archttertural7purpos.s. The presi lent gave many saggestior s for the improvement of that portion of the town where St. Georges-h ill stands, as well as of the streets in general. Greater regularity in the leading design on which streets were laid ot't ; the introduction of trees; the openirg of wide spaces end clearing Of overcrowded districts were among the points of Improvement to which be directed attention. Many other interesting and impo tart topics were touched neon In the pres'dent's a 'dross, which was listened to with great atte,tim, and the canclu.don of which was followed by load ap?Pau-e. It was annoanced that the paper for the next meetin; would be an essay by Mr. Frank Howard., upon the adaptalon of stained glass windows to the ornarnentaton of Glasgow C .thedral. MISS EMMETT COI/ITS IN 33IRMINGFIAM.—Mils B .irdett C ,, utt4, a lady diwinguished a ike for her birth, her wealth, her benevolence, and her kindness of malner, is at present on a visit to Birmingham. She arrived on Friday evening and t>A up a terepwary lodging at the Queeett Hotol, where it is understood :la will remain for a few days. The mein . object of her visit was to inspect giver?' College, an institution in which she has displayed great interest, having presented it with, £6OO last summer towards the new museum. in addition to other donations. This is her fist acquaintance with Btrini. - :,gli nu, and she is making a tour of hispection through mast of its objects of interest. On Monday an address was praseuted to her by 'he students. After its presentation she prccleded to the Free Industrial School., and from thence to the Girl's Reformatory at spring Hill. Birmingham Daily Press. OTOBER 22 f 1&57. MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT' ON INDIA. MR. R. P. COLLETT, AT PLYIfOUTIT. The question of India was one which must be brought before the House of Commons, and be dealt with in the shape of legislation, therefore constituents had a right to inquire of their representative what course he intended to pursue. This great calamity, the details of whfeh were so horrible and heartrending, might tend to beneilitial results ; he believed, in fact, it had already led to• a highly beneficial result—that of awakening the attention of the people of England, and at last seriously directing ' their attention to Indian aff lire. The conscience of the country had been raised to the awful importance and responsibility which attended the government and direc tion of about 200,000,000 of human beings. Whea addressing a large assembly he liked to speak the truth, whatever might be the consequences, and he stated without hesitation, that the English people were to blame in not looking after and attending properly to their Indian affairs. England had acquired. a large empire by what might be termed haphazard. It had been acquired by no principles they did not know how they got it; they had got it by a series of events , which the most daring romance—writer would hesitate to make the groundwork of a novel—so strange a fiCtlme was it. It had been obtained haphazard, end had been governed haphazard; it had been used as a digging for the extraction of so much gold ; it had been' used to make fortune?, and there had been an immense amount of jobbery and corruption., The Government had not been so bad as it might have been, or yet so good as it might be. It had not been exactly wicked, but it had been a careless, self-seeking. low, unprincipled, huckstering Government. Still, the worst form of European govern ment, was much better than the best native'rule. How was this revolt to be death with ? Oa thin point there could be no serious differenee of opinion, for he believed every Englishman whom he might address, would agree that England must put forth her whole strength and energy for the purpose of putting it dow with a high hand. It was absolutely necessary to restore the Prestige which we have lost, and show nations that we are not to be insulted and offended with impunity, and without return ing' a severe and jest punishment. In fighting for our Indian empire we were, in fact, fighting for our own empire, for there were those on the continent envious of England's greatness, who were found to say that her sun was declining, and it' we failed to put down this mutiny, would say that we had lost our native energy; that our country was on the wane; therefore, let them fight abroad, or else they might have to fight at home. It was with satisraction that they saw their soldiers had not deteri•rated. The men who were fighting under Havelock, were as valiant as those who fought under Wellington. The English troops had not only beaten the Indians, but had beaten those very Sepoys whom they had themselves trained and instructed in arms. If, in the abs,nce of reinforcements, they had been enabled to ho!d their own, it might be confidently hoped that when the reinforcements• arrived, we should be speedily victorious. There would be an army as great, or greater, than that in the Crimea, and led by an efficient commander—S:r Colin Campbell. He was a man who did not owe his position to high birth, but he had earced his rank by his achievements and behaviour in number less battles; bit be was afraid he would be hampered with bands of red tape. However, if he was, he must break them. He was not the one to breathe the cry of vengeance, but matters could mot be minced. The ring leaders must suffer death, and after the mutiny had been put dowri it was then the time to talk of clemency, and not at present. Nothing world give him gieater pleasure than to see a gang of the high caste Brahmins breaking stones on the roads. Transportation would be the punishment or all excepting the ringleaders, who must suffer death. The higher the caste the greater had been the atrocities. The fourth question was the most important of all. That was, " liow were they to prevent a recurrence, and permanently secure their Indian empire ?" This was a question which must without delay occupy the attention of Parliament and the country. It was necessary the people of England should speak their minds, and whatever was required to be done would by the voice of public opinion be carried into effect. Public opinion was as necessary to ventilate the G wernment department as the air which they breathe was necessary to ventilate a room. Indian discussions were never attended by the members of the House; but th s was because the debates on the subpct were never read ; and if the people had read them more interest would have been felt by the members. It was nominally ruled by the East India Company, but really by the Board of Control, and it did seem to him that under this system there was a sort of juggled hocuspocus existing, and no one knew who was responsible for what. All governing powers should be vested in a Peirne Minister, who elope should be as responsible for the G)vernment of India as he was of this country. In organising a future Indian army great care should be laten that the European element was larger in propertion than hitherto. A native army must be organised—as the army could not be entirely an European one—and it mast be reorganised on different principles. Hitherto high caste Brahmina had been selected, and these were the men who were at the bottom of the mischief. Civil reforms must also be male, and a new system of magisterial jurisdiction, so as to secure to every man, as far as possible, his rights and privileges. MR. WHITE AT PLYMOUTH. Atany thousands of the natives considered there was pollution in th© greased cartridges, but it was to be remembered that for the last 50 years the ride regiments had used greased cartridges, though it was true that the grease was of a somewhat different colour. The calamity had come, and we were unprepared for it, for Sir Charles Napier's warnings were not heeded, nor was that to be wondered at, when it was known in Wlat strain he spoke of the Governor-General and the East India Company. He stigmatized the Company as being agents of the Devil to make men miserable, end used simihr language in reference to the officials; therefore, he again asserted it was no wonder his suggestions passed unheeded. He did not consider the missionaries had done any harm, and that he believed was a grievous error which had been circulated to that effect. Some time since it came to light that the native officers emplo;ed to collect the taxes used means of torture as the quickest mode of obtaining the revenue and Government taxis. He believed good cause had been given for the rebellion of the people, but not for the mutiny of the military, which body were treated with every consideration. 0i the opinion entertained with reference to British ruse, he quoted an answer which had been given by a native when asked how he should like•to be under the British rule, and the answer was, " Of all the misfortunes, save me from that." The number of Europeans there was not sufficient, and he was confident that there were thousands ou thousands of natives who had never seen a white man ; in fact, the Europeans were i❑ the proportion of I to every 5 000 Hindoos, and one magistrate had so large a district that he hal to- go 150 miles to try a charge of murder. He was confident England had not done her duty with regard to India. (Hear.) India's greatest misfortune was the constitution of a Board of Control, which was a great obstruction to her essential progress. He said this irrespective of all party, for no despatch could he sent out by the East India Company, whatever might be its trivial importance. unless it first passed the supervision of the Board of Control, and, as the Bard ma le no defence, the East India Company were naw • ahused. It might• be reams. bered that the Board of Control exercised the riget to make the Persian war, and that the East India Company had nothing to do with it. Mit LAIRD AT BROAIIALY. What did the people or parliament of Eagland know of India , ? Literally nothing. We had-treated it as an o itlying farm, which if it left no great prod's to ourselves, yet gave profit aplo employment and wealth to some junior members of the family who were sent out to manage it. But the welfare of 181,090.000 of people was not so to be treated. For the taleat we had received we are now called to render an account, and if we had hid it in the ground, actuated by no higher motives thin. half-yearly dividends, the time seemed to have come when it must be taken from the hand that had failed to uso it with adrantege, and be in be' ter keeping. For 100 years. . we had borne sway over the richest territory in the world and had been eontented not only to witness but to encourage the grossest idolatry and superstition, without in all that time impressing upon the native population a partiele of the spirit of our reli gion or our principles of truth, justice, and humanity. It was but a year ago that the government in. India ad mitted the truth of the'st &taunts in a memorial presented to them, which alleged that the rural population of Ben g al —many millions of people—were suffering from a native magistracy who were eorr upt, oppressive and incompetent, who encourage I the canualatent :and commission of crime white the people were reduced to beggary and pitiable serv;tude. LORD JOHN H&Y AT WICK. The great question seems to be in regard to the fu'ure I do not say that we should interfere to break down caste in India ; nor do I think it necessary or proper to inter fere with the religion of the p.?ople, I believe that all people should be allowed to profess and carry out any religion they please, and that it is not the duty of any government to ccorce. (Cheers.) In fact, I feel assured that our indirect interference with caste has done not a little to =produce the present state of affairs. For instance, the establishment cf rail ways in India. approved by every thinking man, has been one of the strongest blows against caste. The fact of its chameng the value of property,. and of altering the eandition of villages which had remained in the same state for hundreds of years, and given pro prietors of land a new position in the country, has greatly affected caste. Another important thing that affects it is that whoever pays a certain money price for a seat in a railway carriage can sit side by side with the most power ful. Thus in India the greatest Brahmin h as to sit by the the side of a parish, whom he regards as worse than the dirt on which he treads. This is indeed an ordinary occur rence ; and yet before the levelling influence of British rule was felt the same pariah, if he saw a Brahmin at a distance approaching him on the road, would hav e to go over the hedge or a ditch . into the field, to a vo id tainting the Brahmin. This is not an exaggerated view, but it is a fair index to the general state of the people; and therefore we can fancy the existence of a very good reason fer the higher classes not being partitti.. larly pleased with English rule. Among other things it has also been the Taut that promotion in civil situations has been by merit, to the great objection of men of high caste in India; consequently it is quite clear that men of low meet who did good service were better rewarded than men of high caste who performed fewer services, and whose ideas are that men low in a certain position, while they may descend, ought never to rise. There is another matter. This country has been accused of annexing large tracts of territory to our Indian dominions ; butt think the charge has been made by those who are not :so r_ ficiently acquainted tvith the ques'ion ; for, while it c t be denied that considerable annexation has taken l 1 ice it is', not to be forgotten that the people have been g e t,t ly benefited by the change, and that no annexation has taken place without sufficient reason. With regard to the future of India, Lord John held that the Government had alrea ly shown by the ac ivity displayed in sending out troops that the country nii;ht depend on Lord Palmerston, that he world introduce such vigorous measures to Par liament as would be worthy of support. THE LADIES AND THE COLD ES. (From the New nrk Tribune) Mkts.jessie M. White, an English woman, who had a lame little brother who had repeated!) , broken ?is leg— once when hia doctor 7143 out of to-dra, aid when he could not be induced to submit to a painful operation by a stranger—was compelled to set it herself, and succeeciA so as to win a compliment from the surgeon who attended next day. He sportingly offered her a surgeon's certificate; - . she asked hira-insteal to assist her is gaining e student'S admission to one of the hospitals, which he declined, although she hnd not only her unfortunate brother but another lame boy under her daily charge. Another doctor, being appealed to, warnit-espoused Miss White's cause; and gave her letters and introductions to leading medical friends; but her applications to all the hospitals Of London—fourteen in nunfier—were successively re3ected. She also applied for tickets to attend a three year'gi course of medical and surgical lectures, but was.pA.emptorily refused. It is fixe.l that a woman must not be allowed to cr.quire a regular medical education in England: A year or so ago; three young women, from exemplary New England families, applied foi-ttle prlvit ge of attend ing the clinical lectures at the Philadelphia Hospital- They were admitted , on the same terms with other stu dents—in fact, we believe there was no legal right to exclude then—on payment of the regular- charge. They soon discovered, however, that they were to be driven Out, if possible, by systematic indecency on the part of those' with whom they were. compelled' to a?soci ate, including some whom they had paid - as instructors. Wont sort of morals are prevalent am ea; too - many of the young men who congregate to listen to medical leo , tares is pretty generally known, and Philadelphia had aeilairel a " bad eminence" in the matter of dissipated mescal students. The young women, however,. being most anxious to acquire a knowledge of the healing art. continued to attend the lectures, iu spite-of repeated declarations that they shouldibe driven away. Indecent remarks, wantonly made in the course of the lecture?, did not acco rap!isla their evident purp ace. At length, on entering the lecture room at the time appointed• for a lecture, the young women perceived from the winks and -chuck-1....8.e yclianzed among their gentlemanly. associates, that some special annoyance was prepared for them e and its character was soon revealed by the introductiea-of an ins tne - man in a. state of entire nudity to .form-the sebjact of the current lecture 1 The pretext for this introduction w-as a desire to elucidate a certain disease of the skin. The necessity for the indecent exposure maybe jailged from the fact that all the appearance tf. disease in this unfortunate subject was confined to the scalp and the back-of the head; but no rawer, the female students were driven away, and their money, paid-for admission virtu dlr. taken without consideration. Wte bpjjeve that is " putting as fine a point on it 'as facts will warrant and the law req , aires. The WognAn's.Advocate (Philadelphia) ; from which we have condensed the above statement, adds : ."' Bet there was still another set of persecutors con nected with the matter. T:fta Board-of Guardians; the , - very men who had voted to admit the youuz ladies and to take their money, being instigate I by the doctors, and listenalg to their falsehood and slander without investiga tion or inq eirp, passed a res -ilutioa to the pqrp,rt that certain disreputable rem ties were attending the lectures. tor improper purposes, and should be excluded. Tnis vile slander was publi.hed in the proceedings. Nobody acquainted with that board would be affiliated by it, tOr the character of the body was far below suspicion. It was established as bad. To it they should , rob three young women-was not surprising, whea the propensity for robbing the alms house was so well known. Wno were the persons thus slandered?' They were fr.ora the best. families of New England and of. this State, and as far above the average standing of the majority of the Board of Guardians, as the latter are below that of ordinary men. " Such are some of the difficulties of obtainirr, a mAical education in the United Stags; . or rather, they are difficulties in the w y of hospital practice alter an edoca tion'is obtained. It will not be of lung Scott professional In to will be superseded. by more moral ; and more liberal inM-ds will have charge of public hospitals." DR. 800 NI ON COMPErIrIVE EXAMINATIONS. At Manchester, Dr.. Booth, well known. in this town, has delivered a lecture on this subject. The- Lard Bishop of the Diocese in the chair. After some introluctorr proceedings, the aev. Dr. Booth proceeded to read his paper, which occupied mare than an, hour in delivery,. and in the coarse of which he reviewed the whole systeca of competitive examinations, in its educational, social, administrative, and political aspsets,. observiae that in itself there was actually nettling new. since it was a mere extension to the masses of a system avaich had been tried in the Universities with sigeal success. The great cardinal principle of,this system of. examination, sail the rev. doctor, considered as an instrument of education, is to be found iu this—that it snpplies new eel powerful principles of action. You holdout to hits who toils is solitude and weeks in secret, a hope,. Una a certainty, that he sha 1 be rewarded for ht.slabourse—that his attain - ments shall be tested, certified, and proclaimed. It is in every-day use for the sons of the nobleman or the squire why should net the son of the jaiaer or-the weaver have a like advantage?: Genius is. no. heirloam. and intellect does not descend like a patent of nob:ally. The Almighty retains in his own hands-, the • privilege of conferring the dignity, of the understanding,. and he delegates his power to ne mortal,. representative. What induce ments do we hold out tae wbe4has to fight the hard up-hill battle of life, to pore over books, or to fiien from sleep the few hours he, can sparefor the development of those talents which have beta. given into his charge, those faculties with which he hue. been as llherally en_ dewed as the prince or the peer.? He may become a prof - owed mathematician. as.reany a Lancashire weaver before him • has been, but who. ewes or knows anything about it, or believes it to.be other than pretence ? He may. become a great chemist,;: who is to test his know ledge 2.. The pure gold. passes for base metal because there is no recognised authority to stamp it with the image and superscription. that would make it current. There are, I doubt not,, many bare to-night who sympa thise, aye, deeply sympathise, with those to whom I refer, and one of the.healthest sigas of the moral reaction which :!has set in, is that wide.spreading, consciousness of our common humanity, our growing perception of the grea t moral and eternal truth,that whether of iron or of gold, we are all alike links. of that great chain which binds the future to thelaresent, and the past. The reverend doctor was freojiautly and. warnely applauded, in the course of his interesting leettre. _ _ _ Sir James NVatts-zzioveil a vote of thanks to Dr. Booth,. for his. able, interesting, and useful address, which was seconded by J. A. Turner, Esq., M.P. The Lord Bishop. of Mancnester, in supporting the resolution, said he regretted to hear one rem irk of Dr. Booth; for he (the Bishop) hoped t'. - ere was no prospect that. the Rouse of ersconsons would ever show itself indif ferent on the subject of education. 113 would, through the meeting, tell the people of Manchester that it was their duty not to suffer it to 13 - .•,,th,V, as the II , use of Commons was but the refl v of puhle opinion in this country, so it was our duty to. deterrniae, with God's. blessing, that those around and amongst us—lay, that even the poorest in our furthest dependency shoald , not pass away uneducated in the-knowledge of the I .tatics he_ owed to his Gil and to his fellovv-.nn. 11,ferrifi to,the educational question, his lordship sail that it was with deep gratitude he lea,nal that at the inee'Zing or> the: National Association, in Biraninghttn, last wr i t,lc, evidence was affirded that the system:of education w ',filch, eighteen, yeas ago, he establisher there, was still 'foarishing with complete success, tna% now, as then, 1,43 a children, or twelve i r etiolc i na tions.4.rellgicon, could tri,et together to, gain useful knowiedg,e, without a sip ,le contest or con-, troversy of any kind. The Tote of ,;bank; to De. B.ialh was carried unani:APaslY, a).4 was, briefly acluitswidged.. THE LIVERPOOL 'CTE.R9AVICLE AND THE ILY-Y-INGrON. or error, or what ever it w Ives intended on the part of the Editor, or any one cGnnec ed with that respectable meaning. What we oovionsly meant was, that some cor respondent may have sent the paragraph with . a view to mislead, because it was difficult to aectoutit !or a sta t ement for correcting the which seems to ) Our Liverpool c Foy o- nporaty is " unco writh" with us announced that the f the . Mersey. n ; ~uuken ship Lexin , ton had arrived in s' lipid blunder in his pap !r, wilioh --e , ..3 quite welcome to indulge his ire, fact which h e a, .:knowle iges of one of his local cotem poraries havin lave been considerably raised by the g copied the contradiction. But that shall not hinder or. i r explaining a phrase in the paragraph. which he seusas to have misunderstood. When we wrote, " if it was a wilful hoax it was a c , ual and heartless one,'` we did no', suppose, or mesa i.) convey, that the hoax journal, anti ho or they snould nut have so as.suawd our &really the reverse of the truth Galling its way into print otherwise—Cork Reporter.