Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-25 00:00:00

- 10p0BERT :NIULLINER, (Successor to GOSiT C0.),1 RA/ (Late with Wm. Horne, London), CIEtRL-IGil AND EIAR.VESS NIANUFAC fintErt, 59 and :il, GR 7 ,AT CHARLOTTE-STRRET, LIVERPOOL, MA.NUFACTURVI OF 107EitY 1:11151CIttPTION OF FASHIONABLE CARRIAGES. 3gte Agent for the Palest flioraples,pr which a Prize Medal was awar d e d at the Grest A Great Variety of New and Fashionable CARRIAGES always on view, which are ready for mmediate use. Estimates givea for repairs. CARRIAGES TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. Good Standing on moderate terms. mission. Carriages sold by Coal- Merchants supplie 1 with Carriages for exportation on liberal urns. STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM REEDY A r TEN O'CLOCK. I C E S:. STRAWBERRY CREAM AND CHERRY WATER. AMERICAN DRINKS. ifORRISH'S MERCHANTS' DINING ROOMS, LANCASTER-BUILDINGS, TITHEBARN-STREET. a muertial aan. At h ilf-past twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Apsley-buildings, about 1,100 packages Pea.--E. Tiernan. At twelve o'clock, at the broke,' office, 9, Rumford-street, 143 bales Straw Braid.—Whitaker, Whitehead and Co. At tvreive o'clock, at the broker's office, 4, Lancaster-buildings, 110 bags Rapeseed.—John Davies and Co. At one o'clock, at the brokers' office, 9, Temple-con,t. a quantity of Currants, Raisins, Figs, Almonds, and Prnnes.—Heaghton and Levy. At half-past twelve o'clock, 400 packages of Tex.—James Bateson, 50/15 and Co. At one o'clock, 15 barrels Amer:can Golden Syrup.—Cox Brothers. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Apsley-b. , ildings, Oldhall street, 200 bales Lima Orehella Weed.—Rooke, Okell, and Spence. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, York-buildings, Dale street, a quantity of Rice and Ries Sweepings.—Pattinson and Clark. At twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, 5, Lancaster-buildings, Tithebarn-street, a qnsntity of Rapeseed and Niger Seed.—Henry Wilde. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Victoria-buildings, Flackin'e hey, a quantity of Ginger, Arrowroot, and Lime Juice.—T. W. and L C. Harrop and Co. At one o'clock, at the brokers' office, Royal Insurer cc-ha ldings, North Joan street, a quantity of Brandy, Sherry, and Red Wine. — Christopher Ba.hell isndCo. For particulars see advertisements. AAUSE s4E iTS, PUBLIC MEE rING'3, Sce. THIS DAY. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE—Dramatic Per:Ormanca-7 p.m. LIENGLER'a GRAND CIRQUE VARLETS, Dale-street-7 p.m. FIZEMAiON'i HALL—Gallery of Anatomy-11 a.m. to 10 p.m RoyAL CoLossauat —General Entertainment-6.50 p.m. ZooLoetcAL GLIDE vs—Grand And Variei Entntalnments. lar For particulars see advertisements. 7 0 - 1 4 firg eri t t THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1857 THE DAY'S NEWS. No business of importance was transacted in the House of Commons last night, if we except that relating to the Rochdale election—ihe report of the Select Committee to inquire into the allegations made against one Peter Johnston, of offering £5O to a witness on the election petition. The Committee are of opinion that £5O was offered to Rothwell for the purpose of inducing him to keep out of the way, and not give evidence on the petition coming before the committee appointed to inquire into the election. Still, the Select Committee state that the testimony of the witnesses was so unsatisfatory, that they were unable to state that that inference has been the clear result of their investigation. Nothing came before them to connect the sitting member with the transaction. Peter Johnston did not appear before the Committee. though every exertion had been taken to find him, both in London and in Rochdale. The Judgments' Execution Bill was passed through Committee as far as the seventh clause. The Educational Conference concluded yester day. The final meeting was presided over by Earl Granville ; and the reports of the various sections having been read, several resolutions were passed, the most important of which was, that the greater number of the children of the working 'lasses were taken from school too soon. The final examination of the Directors of the British Bank at the London Court of Bankruptcy was appointed for yesterday, and Mr. Commissioner Holyroyd ordered that the directors should file their balance sheets on or before the Ist Sept. It will be seen that a man has been arrested on the charge of murdering the late Mr. Little, of the Irish Midland Great Western Railway. His name is Spollen, and he had been engaged in painting Mr. Little's room a few days before the murder. His arrest was in consequence of information given by his wife. The inhabitants of Leicester have not endorsed the electors' rejection of Sir Joshua Walmsley. A handsome piece of plate was presented to him on Wednesday, together with an address, signed by nearly 7,000 of the ladies of Leicester ; and another, signed by 6,000 men, electors and non-electors of the borough, by way of a practical protest against the result of the last election. A full report of the proceedings will be found in another column. In local matters there is not much to mention. At the Police court, yesterday, a collector of Messrs. Mirner and Co., the safe manufacturers, was committed for trial at the Assizes, for embezzling some £l,OOO. The usual meeting of the West Derby Guardians was held yesterday, being the first meeting since the actual separation of the Toxteth from the West Derby Union. There was, consequently, a slender attendance. Notwithstanding the pro- mise of Mr. Wilson, that the arrears due by i'oxteth Park should be paid by Tuesday, no such payment had been made, and the clerk was in structed to take out a summons against the over seers for the amount—some £5OO. The inquest in the case of wife murder in Essex has ended in a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner. Yesterday a very large and influential assemblage of the commercial gentlemen of London met at the London Tavern to hear the case in favour of the Suez Canal, and to pronounce an opinion on it. So far as our report informs us of the proceedings, there is no doubt but that the metropolis will add its approbation to that already expressed by the great mercantile bodies in-the provinces. Another Irish grievance has been started by our friends across the channel. They have not received their quota of the trophies so lavishly distributed to towns in England, who had little or no participa tion in the late war, and they justly complain. " We speak not of Scotland," says a Dublin con temporary, " whatever shattered fragments are sent to her, she earned them well. Who has not been lately v ividly reminded o f " t h at long thin line of red," the curling volume of white smoke, the thud the cheer, the charge, and the pride of Russia's cavalry in front and confusion? No, we envy not her trophies to Scotland; she wo a an d she deserves them, and in obtaining her share she has but asked and received her right. But were there no Irish in the Crimea? Is the soil enriched by the hurried sculpture of no men from this metro polis ? Or is it the case that here, as in all else where the prize of honour is concerned, no Irish need apply ? We can all call to mind that cold and snowy morning in March when through our streets proceeded cheerfully 900 men of one of our Dub lin regiments, and the cheers of our sympathising people drowned the sound of those household airs by which they were accompanied. Of that 900 full 560 lie in trenches hastily covered in, in pits crowded together, or on the bleak mountain side. No mimic artillery knelled their funeral service. Did not these earn some trifling prize ? We know that when men are needed, when a dangerous service is to be performed, then the valour and spirit of the Irish are lauded, and the youth and sinewof our land hear with ready ears the stories of olden prowess; but when honours are to be distri buted, some tokens of appreciation for the past, as well as incitement for the future, all bravo deeds are forgotten, and the survivor of the fiercest fight looks in vain for some public, lasting, and tangible memento of his services. Is not this true? Is it not the fact, that in vain throughout the Irish metropolis, or Irish land, you will look for any memorials of Waterloo, Burmah, China, Scinde, or Sebastonol ? Everything sacred by its memories, suggestive by its inspiration, is sent to grace old churches or new promenades in obscure loca lities throughout England. We ask not now for equal justice ; we require not an amount of trophies proportionate to the brave soldiers we sent forth, or the gallant sons we have lost; but we do ask for some share in this indiscriminate distribution, and that here, in the heart of Ireland, some few out of many relics may be placed to stir the pulse of the young blood of our country. Our Celtic brethren have doubtless reason to complain, but is the grievance here worth mentioning ? We think not. Our intelligence from the Continent continues interesting. The results of the French elections, although more favourable to the Government than we anticipated, ought not to be construed as a decision by the French people in favour of arbitrary rule against liberty. It the elections themselves had been free the decision might have been the other way. According to the Russian paper Le Nord, Louis Napoleon an his wife are to pay another visit to the Queen here—as a sort of cele bration we suppose of his triumph over the repub licans. That paper also admits that the rumours of an interview between the French potentate and the Emperor of Russia are not without foundation. THE Select Committee of the House of Com mons are still engaged with the consideration of the Mersey Conservancy Bill. In yesterday's publication of the NORTHERN TIMES, we gave the address of Mr. Hops SlOT?, Q.C., in opposition to the bill, and on behalf of the Corporation and inhabitants of Liverpool. The principles laid down at the outset of his address were perfectly convincing, namely—whether the people of Liverpool were to be disfranchised and practically superseded in resoect to the manage ment of docks which they themselves have erected, and which now produce a revenue of 326,0001. The people of Manchester, or rather the promoters of this Mersey Conservancy Bill, have taken a stand quite the reverse, and have been contending that the docks of Liverpool are public property ; and that being so, that all who contribute to the dock rates should have a voice as to their expenditure. This is the very point which we have over and over again refuted. The history of the Liverpool Docks shows that private enterprise, and not national funds, have reared them ; and that whilst the aid of the public purse has been given for years and years to Kingston and Holyhead, and several other places, to construct harbours of refuge, Liverpool has not had the advantage of a single Parlia mentary grant ; so that the cry for considering them public property is nothing less than an attempt to obtain other men's property without giving any equivalent in return. Indeed the preamble of the bill is a perfect exemplification of these remarks, and fully justified Mr. HOPE SCOTT, not only in stigmatising Miss HARRIET MARTINEAU'S book upon the subject, and that the extraordinary efforts of Mr. HERON to procure the passage of the bill was nothing less than a mercantile theory, which waged war against the principles of honesty and common sense, and in the advocacy of which the manifestations of absurdities, contradictions, mis-statements, and alternations between meanness and extravagance are the main and distinguishing features. Truly might he at the outset declare that this combined attack upon the rights and immunities of the people of Liverpool was not only unjust and unreasonable, but perfectly ludicrous. The history of the attack, as given in Mr. SCOTT'S speech, shows the cool determination of this union of parties, (railway proprietors and manu facturers,) to attain an object which would give hardly the smallest relief to individual interest. Nor are the efforts of the promoters of the bill less remarkable and prejudicial to Liverpool than the studied and constant schemes suggested by the Board of Trade, for a purpose similar in result to that propounded by the Town Clerk of Manchester, and his adherents. For years, both the Board of Trade and the promoters of the Mersey Conservancy Bill have been rowing in the same boat. Their proposals have been alike detrimental to the interests of the port of Liverpool ; and the elevation of Birkenhead, at the expense of ' Liverpool, has shown itself at every step taken during the last ten or twelve years. The posi tion assumed by the Mersey Conservancy Bill is not improved. On the contrary, the evidence of our efficient Town Clerk has completely demolished the pretensions to right, or even expediency, put forward by Mr. HERON, and Messrs. BANCROFT, BAZLEY, &c., &c. Any one who has perused Mr. SEIUTTLEWORTH'S evidence must have been struck with the clear, succinct, and telling facts, which he arranged and laid before the Committee, for the purpose of upsetting the gross and gloomy misstatements of the promoters of the Bill ; and if the Committee desire any satisfactory argument to convince them of the inutility of the scheme, and of the suspcious manner in which the measure proposes to deal with the Liverpool Docks and the Town Dues, Mr. SCOTT'S narrative of the union of the Railway interests with the Lancashire and Yorkshire manufacturers, completely establishes the fact. Besides, the cry about Dock warehouses is nothing more than clap-trap to divert the Committee's attention from the broad fact, that THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, JUNE 25. there is no great want of such accommodation as that mentioned in the Bill now before Parlia ment. If the people of Manchester must have the control of our Decks, and the abolition of the Town Dues, they are bound by everything approaching justice to give an equivalent, and thereby place the Corporation in a pecuniary position, equal to what it now occupies. Notwithstanding the strong fears of the Chair• man, we have strong hopes that truth and honesty will triumph over the organised conspiracy to obtain by Act of Parliament the rights and property of this great community. Sir JAMES GRAHAM may rest satisfied that, should his exertions and prejudiced views induce the Committee to declare the preamble of the Bill, which is not only contrary to fact, but inconsistent, and in opposition to the true policy of the country, there is still another tribunal which will have to give the final vote, and he may rest assured that the question will be battled, inch by inch, in all its stages in the House. YANKEE DEGREES.—Our readers will, no doubt, recollect that about two months ago some " LL.D.'s" were granted by the Clinton College, Arkansas, U. S., to some of our Liverpool gentlemen, who, at the first, swallowed the diplomas with the utmost gusto, and, no doubt, paid the fees. In ielation to these fees, we extract the following from one of the leading papers in Canada—the Toronto Globe. It will assuredly amuse our readers :—" Brother Jonathan, to ernpl.ey cne of his own peculiar and classic expressions, whips all creation' in the art. of accumu lating mammon. Baiting his hook sometimes with a hickory ham, and at others with a pine nutmeg, he angles with fructilying success for the dearly cherished ' almighty dollar.' His freshest and most elastic energies are con secrated to the pursuit of this metalic piscatorialism,' as Sydney Smith bath it, and he frequently manages to fill his creel,' where even a Jew, or a native of Aberdeen, would fail in obtaining a solitary nibble. Ever on the alert is honest Jonathan to engender fresh lures for the enticement of golden fish. With the most recent of these we are made conversant by a late issue of the British Banner. Some three or four months ago, two gentlemen, described by the Banner as being of the first respecta b lay,' and residing in different parts of the country, received each of them an epistle purporting to be from Arkansas. These, missives were exact duplicates, and were calculated incontinently to tickle the palates of lusters after academical distinctions. One of the genuine letters is published in the above cited journal. It is dated Clinton College, Arkansas,' and bears the signature of 'James Lander, CS.' Master James commences by setting forth that one of our trustees received a letter from a literary friend of his in England, highly compli mentary of you, and expressing a wish that oar college should confer on you the honorary degree of Dootor of Laws.' Due effect was given to the request of this anonymous literary friend.' The senates academicus of our college ' conferred the degree nem con, and directed that the usual diploma should be transmitted to the newly_ created LL.D., Tian.; primes—or right slick away,' to employ the Doric vernacular of Arkansas. In its post. script lurks the pith of a woman's letter, and a cognate peculiarity marks the communication of ' James Lander, C. S.' At the fag end of that document it is stated that our Mr. Simpson is preparing to leave this for England. He takes your diploma with him, and will post it for you on his arrival. As Mr. Simpso❑ will be in England for a very short time only, you will oblige us by writing to Mr. Simpson when the diploma reaches you, acknowledging its receipt ; and ['ere follows the kernel of the affair] at same time please to send him the college fee of Xti 103 [to an indicated address], as he is authorised by the Senate to receive it.' As before stated, the British Banner was aware of at least two instances iu which, on the recom mendation of mysterious ' literary friends,' the Senatus of Clinton College had voted to Anglicans skins of diplomal parchment, each evident ' bearing a tax of ' stte Ws.' Great are the probabilities that corresponding honours have been conceded to hundreds of other fortunate individuals. Should the stipulated fees be religiously remitted to our Mr. Simpson,' that excellent gentleman will recross the Atlantic with an obesely replenished pleuchan— always presuming that he contrives to steer clear of the hulks and penitentierek For be it known to all men by these presents, that Clinton College, Arkansas,' ranks under the category of mythic institutions I It has a • name,' but sorrow a' local habitation.' The members of the ' senates academicus,' which, with such genial readiness, scatter degrees broadcast, so to to speak, are, one and all, denizens of dreamland. They are all classic visions —devout imegivations,' with one single and soli tary exception, to wit, that is to say, • our Mr. Simpson.' We hare been more particular in noticing the above artistic attempt at shaving,' from the fact that many simple souls in Canada, so consumedly hunger and thirst after initial supplements to their names, that rather than lack a degree they would accept of one from a Milesian hedge school. Let such persons take digestive note of two things. In the first place, there are not more than half a dozen colleges in the United States, whose diplomas are worth manipal iting with a pitchfork or a pair of tongs. The vast majority of such distinctions' are de facto, as unsubstantial as the ' patents of nobility,' and letters of orders' possessed by ' Knights Templars ' and ' Worthy Grand Patriarchs,' which (of course) would be ignored by every heraldic and ecclesiastical confraternity in Christendom. Oar pro vince can now boast of institutions duly authorised to grant academical honours the value of which is recognised by all whose recognition is of moment. When a Canadian. consequently, wanders to Dollardom for a degree, room is created for the suspicion that he is too well known at home—and that his psychologic feathers look only well at a distance. And, once more, the risk of being hoaxed by spurious diplomas must be considerable. How surpass ingly easy for plausable long headed adventurers, like our Mr. Simpson,' to palm off bankum parchment upon the credulous and unsuspecting." GENERAL THOMPSON AND THE JEW QUESTION.—GeneraI Thompson has adiressel a letter on this subject to the Bradford Advertiser. He says :—The grand argument of the opposition to the Jews was the statement, that though there are many in the country who are not Christians, we are a Christian country because we admit none of them to parliament ; and that we are bound to continue this course, because other wise we should cease to be a country which admitted none but Christians to parliament. This is the sum and substance of the argument. It is the same that i 6 and has always been advanced, wherever the minor persecution was to be inflicted, which, instead of bunting a theological adversary, only deprives him of something which others have. • Spain or Portugal says, we are a Catholic country, by the token that we keep Protestants out of office. The Grand Turk or his councillors, if applied to for the admission of Christians into the council, would pro bably reply, " We are a Mohammedan country, because we keep Christians out of council; and we cannot let them in, because then we should cease to be a country that kept them out.' What comment would our friends on the opposite benches make ou this but " What a Turk he is ! " An,ther grand piece of imbecility was the plea that though it may be proper that a Jew should vote for a member of Parliament because he is only one in a crowd, it is impossible that he should be allowed to be a member himself, because then he would have a voice in the legislation. As a legislator, would he be ~ nything but one in a crowd? What is the Jew to do as a legislator that he cannot do as a voter ? Is he to proceed by force to circumcise the House of Commons ? Besides, may it not bo very fitting and desirable for all friends of rational freedom that there should be somebody in the House of Commons to represent the interests of the weakest religious bodies in proportion to what their actual influences may be? Would Protestants, in a oountry where Roman Catholics were predominant, fail to discover this ? Would Christians in Turkey ? Finally, they do it all because they are Christians. :„ Sledge hammers cannot drive into them that we oppose them because we are Christians. First, the Protestants, then Dissenters, and then Cahn lies, have been roasted or scorched in various minor degrees by this burning Christianity. The world has been acquainted with it long enough to set its mark: upon it in all forms and degrees. BRITISH COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE IN TURKEY.—Fo r the interest of Turkey herself the progress of such under takings should be gradual, and it is to be hoped she will henceforth show reserve in entertaining them. Should she wait to see the result of the concessions thus far granted, it is possible that, instead of having to solicit capital in future cases by offering guarantees, she may find an eager competition for the privilege of undertaking great works even without them. The concession to the Euphrates line will be sufficient to test the effect of rail— ways in stimulating the industry of the Syrian portion of her territory, where, according:to thefreports from British Konsols and others, lately published by the Board of Trade, only these aro required to make that region again the granery of the world, while it will also, as a new highway to India, draw still closer her political relations with Eng land. The Smyrna line will perform a similar service as regards Asia Minor, by showing the effect of adopting economical means of transport to a port the aggregate trade of which is estimated to amount annually to £5,000,000, of which about a third is direct with this country. Finally, the Kosteuje route to connect the Danube with the Black Sea, so as to save between 200 and 300 miles in transporting the produce of Servia, Bulgaria, and Wallachia, will suffice as an experiment for that dis trict. These several works will confer equal benefit on each o most important portions of the empire. When they shall have been completed, but not before, it will be time to think of new ones. With the present rapidity of operations, a couple of years will enable their most important portions to be constructed, so that the public may be satisfied of their prospects, and the Turkish government would best consult their own welfare and dignity were they to intimate that until after the lapse of that period, no new applications for guarantees on schemes of any magnitude will be taken into consideration. SEAMEN'S WAGES.—The ports of the United States, even more than those of great Britain, are infested with crimps and loafers who systematically plunder seamen by cashing advance notes—notes that become due after the vessel a seaman is employed in has proceeded to sea. To remedy this evil several prominent merchants in New York have agreed to abolish these notes altogether after the Ist of July, and they propose instead to supply warm clothing equal to one suit per man for each ship under their control, which shall be sold at first cost to the sailors. The crimps charge above 50 per cent advance on retail prices. They are also proposing to pay a bounty of 10 per cent on the earned wages of each sailor who shall perform the voyage to the end of the contract or return in the ship. If the ship is lost every seaman to be paid to the time of his loss, in no case less than one month on foreign and one half on coastwise voyages. These conditions are to be affixed to the shipping articles. It will be seen from the above that the New York merchants are following the excellent example set by the Board of Trade in this country, in en couraging provident and orderly habits among seamen. There is no doubt that, co-extensive with the progress of the mercantile marine of Great Britain and the United States, a progress so rapid in recent times as to cause the supply of seamen to be short of the demand in both countries, a fearful amount of evil has been created among the seamen, and great loss has been occasioned to the owners of shipping property through the crimping system. The money order offices and savings banks for seamen, recently originated by the Board of Trade, are doing much to domesticate the seamen employed in long voyages, and to keep alive an attachment to home; and no doubt if our shipowners were to think more of seamen as men, and less of them as chattels, and support the Board of Trade in putting down the crimping system in a manner such as that exhibited by the New York merchants, we should have more real domestie comfort on board ship, and, it is to be hoped, fewer of such outrages as those reported to have occurred on boarithe Mary and Jane, of Sunderland. At the present time, notwithstanding the great efforts made by the Board of Trade and the local marine boards of this country to put an end to crimping, scarcely a sea tide occurs on the Tyne, Wear, or any of the other large exporting ports, without large vessels that are about to proceed on long voyages being detained for hours off the bars until portions of the crew, who have had their ad vance notes cashed by crimps, are brought off in boats by river police, drunk. THE PUBLIC DEBT OF CANADA.—The public debt of Great Britian and Ireland at the accession of William and Mary, was no more than three hundred thousand pounds, and we have Bolingbroke's authority for the fact, that the revenue at that time amounted to no more than two millions annually. Happy as we would be were our debt and revenue in the same proportion to each other, and to the general wealth ; both burdens were a sore grievance to our forefathers, and an unfailing capital to their Majesties loyal opposition. Yet England was well enough able to bear them. Tried by modern stan dards, she had indeed no ,little cause to rejoice in her comparatively unfettered resources. She boasted at that time of eight millions of inhabitants, of whom five lived south of the Tweed, arid one on its northern bank, the remaining two hailing Ireland as their place of birth. Wealth had accummulated through centuries. Magnifi cent castles and mansions were the homes of a high aristocracy, gorgeous cathedrals and countless churches were thronged by the priests of a rich establishment ; the country had its squires, rich in acres, and the towns and cities had their burgesses, some of whom, on occasion, could entertain their Monarch on services of gold. Even then London could boast a population of nearly 700,000, and Bristol was one of the greatest shipping ports of Europe. Canada can hardly be said to stand on a fair comparison with such a picture. A country of yesterday, however rich in its capabilities they are as yet wed nigh undeveloped—manufactures are yet in their infancy, and while the mass of the people are in comfort able circumstances, it cannot with justice be maintained, that we have any considerable class of very wealthy men Our largest cities are little better than villages, compared with the London of William's reign, and our population is little more than a quarter of that which he ruled. Our future may be as glorious as we please, to make it by our industry awl virtues, but meanwhile we are only at best an Infant Hercules with limbs unknit, and thews and sinews unstrung and weak. If then our worthy fore fathers had a right to complain of their public burdens under the Prince of Orange, what may we not rightfully think of our own position at this moment. It is so easy to get into debt, so delicious to do so, while the grisly phantom of payment has not as yet risen to trouble us, that without our waking to any sense of our danger, we have been charmed nearer the Rocks of the Sirens than is ei her sate or agreeable. Our public liabilities have been sw lling to their present threatening magnitude only gradually. A. very few years ago they were nominal, but with each successive Government they have grown larger and larger, till they now amount in round figures to no less than about nine millions of pounds, req riving an annual payment of no less than five hundred and fifty one thousand eight hundred pounds for interest and sinking fund, or, deducting the latter item altogether, of four hundred and seventy six thousand eight hundred pounds. Of course this seems a very small sum to people of such large ideas as our railway speculators. A million, to them, is only six Arabic numerals, representing a trifle hardly worth consideration. But every thing is large or small by comparison with that to which it bears relations. A. million to a man having no capitrhimself and willing. to put down any amount on paper to secure soma large depredation on the funds of others is only a bagatelle. How could he induce the simple to give real subscriptions tor his fictitious one, if his bearing were not something grand, and did he not act the " Mr. Lofty" of Goldsmith's good natured Man ? A million to real wealth would be comparatively trifling. To Britain it means no serious inconvenience. It is paid without the taxes being very visibly increased. But a million to a German Duchy is a very diff rent matter. There, it mears a hopeless mort gage of every thi;;g from his Grand Hignes3es' bed to the p eas an t' s cabbage garden, and the substitution of the Lender P_.s real monarch instead of the serene hereditary 1857 r. Prince. To Canada a million in the same way means great deal. Our whole revenue, by Mr. Cayley's esti mates, is only £1,552,500—in ;round numbers one million. and-a-half. A. million thus pays two-thirds of all our yearly expenses—of Mr. Cayley's jobs and those of his friends—of the Baby Contracts—of the Fortin squadron, and of all the mutitudinous items involved in a year's life of a nation. But we owe not one million, but eight—more than twenty times the amount of the public debt of Bri tain at the time of the Revolution, and our yearly payments of interest on the huge sum are more than the whole debt of that period. If this be not enough to make us pause, what is ? Whither are we drifting ? With such financiers as Mr. Cayley, how :far ahead is the final ruin of our credit, and the hopeless wreck of our resources ? We shall soon have to issue Provincial post obits as a legacy to the next generation. All that the present race can bear will be laid on them till they sink to the dust under the load. The genius of incapacity and ignorance in the person of the Inspector-General and his colleagues will leave us helplessly stripped of our resources in a country which calls for more than we have ever had to develop its riches—will leave capitaljparalysed, industry struck help less, and a people stationary and poor, where they might have been advancing and powerful. There is one light in which the relative greatness of our public debt may be viewed, that deserves our calmest regard. From its revenue Britain pays a little more than a third for interest on a national debt, that is the wonder of the world. The interest on our national debt bears very nearly the same proportion to our revenue. From a million and a half we have to pay four hundred and seventy-five thousand pounds interest yearly, without providing at all for any means of ultimate redemption. Adding the sinking fund, we pay more than a third of our whole Provincial income to meet the yearly claims of our debt I I If any one had told us that we were as deeply mortgaged as Bri. tain in proportion to our means, how indignantly would we have repelled the assertion. Have not many left Britain from the social evils which the great expenses of the State involved—the taxes on everything which sur rounded the Englishman from his cradle to his grave. And yet in how much better a position has the present Government with its four million gift, its bribery and corruption, left us. Let the present state of things in the country and the present tariff answer. With the present House we need have no hope of a change for the better.—Toronto Globe. The Daily News characterises the conduct of the electors of Paris as remarkably firm and temperate, and on the whole encouraging. The unsc upulons zeal of the authorities has barely succeeded in hounding 110,425 voters for the government, less than one-third of the registered electors of Paris to the ballot boxes. Although an unequivocal declaration had gone forth that govern ment would hold all the electors who did not declare for it to be against it, 143,276 stood sullenly aloof, and 90,199 recorded their votes against the government. In other words, more than two-thirds of the electors of Paris, 239,475, have demanded the reality of parliamentary government, and of that number 90,199 have declared their preference for opposition candidates. Yesterday, a deputation from the American Chamh , r of Commerce waited on Captain Hudson, on board the United States frigate Niagara, to welcome him on his arrival in the Mersey, and to convey the invitation of the Chamber to a banquet. The following gentlemen formed the depu tation :—William Rathhone, T. B. Barclay. H. Stolte , - fah% F. A. Hamilton, Charles Pickering, George Warren, Robert Grinnell, H. C. Chapman, and G. J. auxin, Esqrs. On Wednesday, the registered steam tonnage which left Southampton for foreign countries amounted to 11,750 tons, the largest amount of tonnage that was ever know n to leave one port in a single day for foreign ports. [The above is from the Manchester Examiner. It often happens that as much as from 30,000 to 50,000 tons of shipping leaves Liverpool in one day for foreign ports. Bat our cotton-spinning Mews are prejudiced against the port, and we may thus excuse the blunder.] APPREHENSION of Ma. GREGORT.—This delinquent, who, it will be recollected, carried on business in the Borough as an oil and pickle merchant, has, we under stand, been arrested in Liverpool, where he has been residing for some time in the hope of getting a passage to the colonies. He, however, was too closely watched to effect his object, and being now in the hands of the police, will be taken to London in safe custody, and undergo an examination on the charge of defrauding his creditors. PRESENTATION,—A very handsome gilded time-piece, manufactured by Mr. Wells, Bold-st-eet, has been preqen ted to the Rev. William Ffolliott, of St. Michael's, by the children of the Confirmation Class attached to that church. The testimonial bears the following inscription —" Presen ted to the Rev. Wm. Ffolliott, 8.A., by the Members of the Confirmation Class, as a mark of gratitude for his valuable instructions. June 22nd, 1857." This beauti fully wrought gift was purchased wholly by the subscrip tions of the children, BIRKENHEAD MODEL YACHT CLUB—SECOND SAILING• MATCH OF THE SHASOL—These matches will ccme 6ff on Saturday next, the 27th instant, on which occasion one of the Woodside Ferry steamers will accompany the yachts sailing in the matches. The steamer will leave the Landing-stage, Prince's Pier, at one o'clock, p.m., and the Woodside Pier at half-past one. The starting point will be north of the Woodside Pier, and the prome nade at Woodside Ferry presents one of the best views ou the river for seeing the start, race, and final close of the same. CORONER'S COURT.—The Coroner held the following inquests yesterday —On the body of Caroline Hooper, aged 16, who was a servant at the public-house of alr. Milligan, 15, Duncan-street, Park-lane. She was appa rently a strong healthy girl, but died rather suddenly. Af ter the examination of a medical gentleman, the jury retur ne d a verdict accordingly. The inquests on the bodies of Daniel Simmons and John Nob!e, that stool over from the previous day, in order to have post mortem examinations of the bodies made, were resumed yesterday. The full details of these cases have already appeared In our paper. After the examination of the medical witnesses, the jury found verdicts that the deceased died of inflaeari ou brought on by excessive drinking. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—On Monday last the Manchester Unity of the Independent Order of Odd Fcllows their annual Gala at this favourite resort, and a l arge gathering of the brethren and their friends assembled on the auspicious occasion. The day was b r illi ant , an d so were the numerous attractions, amongst which was G moral Tom Thumb, who gratified the eager curiosity of the multitude in his usual style. The introduction of a new and very talented Dramatic Company, from the principal metropolitan and provincial theatres, is a new feature, and well deserving encouragement, This was also the first time of the illumination of the City of Moscow—a fac simile of the great city as it appeared on the coronation of the present Emperor of Russia, and it WAS evident, by the repeated bursts of admiration, that the efforts of the caterer were appreciated by the public. ALLEGED MU ['INV ON BOARD THE VANGUARD.—On Monday evening, just prior to the emigrant ship Vanguard, belonging to Messrs. Gaion and Co., weighing her aucher on her outward bound voyage to New York, an alter cation took place between some of the coloured seamen and the petty officers, the former of whom refused for a tine to obey orders, the result was that some blows were exchanged. This created some little alarm amongst the emigrants, who had net been accustomed to such scenes. Inspector Swain and a few po . lice constables went on board. On their appearance the dispute wes soon put al end to, and the fears of the emigrants allayed. One or two of the discontented coloured men, we understand, were sent ashore, and yesterday morning the vessel put to sea, all on board being perfectly quiet and orderly. The dis pute was not of such a nature as to give auy o f th e crew into the custody of the inspector when he went on board, nor did he see anything in the demeanour of the petty officers to render his interference in the least necessary. DnNDRUhf BAT.—O ur readers will p erce i ve t h a t th e p o werful and fast-sa i l i ng steamer Ellen Vannin, now plies between this port and Dundrum (die bay of which is so celebrated through the mishap to the Great, Britain), call ing on her way at the Isle of M an. Dun d rum i s beauti fully situated, the scenery being most delightful. The town of Dundrum is a pleasant a n d h ea lthy l o cality. The ancient castle, which i 3 a beautiful edifice, is well worthy of a visit; it contains the ma r k s o f th e se i s e which it stood against Oliver Cromwell, and commands a view of New castle, much frequented by the fashionable society of bathers, and about 4 ; 1 miles distant from Duadruni. New castle is the property j of Lord Ansley. In the immediate vicinity is Tullamore Park, Lord Roden's mansion, situate about 2j miles from Newcastle ; the to len of Maharaw, a small town at a c onven i en t distance ; Castle Willan, shout 41 miles from Dundrum. The seat of Lord Ansley is but a short distance from Castle Wiliam Th . The beauty of thi s locality notedbleachers, Messrs. Wm. and Jas. Moreland, with their extensive works and bleach grounds, and beautifully arranged dwellings, are well woetll a visit. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. [By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.] RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURGH, Wednesday. This day, the Emperor and Empress of Russia embarked for Kiel, en route for Ger- many. Prince Ferdinand of Denmark will attend at s Kiel to receive the Imperial party. THE FRENCH FUNDS. Yesterday (Wednesday) the Three per Cents. closed at 681. 90c. On Tuesday, the closing prices of the Three per Cents. were 68f. 70c. LITTLE'S MURDER, IN IRELAND. ARREST OF THE SUPPOSED MURDERER. A man, named Spollen, a coach painter, who was em ployed in painting Mr. Little's room, a few days before the murder, was arrested in Dublin yesterday (Wednes day), upon the information of his wife. The police have discovered the whole of the gold and notes stolen. The magistrate refused to receive the information of the wife, unless accompanied by that of another witness. The prisoner's son was subsequently arrested ; it is supposed with the object of having him examined as a witness. LONDON COURT OF BANKRUPTCY -YBEITERDAY. THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK. To-day having been appointed for the last examination of the directors, the court was crowded in the expectation that they wou'd all be present ; but they did not appea r at the commencement of the proceedings. Mr. Huddle stone addressed the court at great length on the part of Mr. Stapleton, and urged that it would be exceedingly unfair to call on him to file any ballnce.sheet pending the very serious proceedings which had been taken against the directors ; besides which, Mr. Stapleton ought not to be called upon to swear to an account consisting of 400 pages and several thousand folios, without having ex amined the accounts with great care, as he had not had the assistance he had a right to receive from the other directors, who were to join him in it. His honour said that he must administer the law as he found it, and call on the directors to file their balance sheets ; and, after a long discussion, he ordered them to be filed on or before the Ist of September, and the adjourned meeting was appointed for the 23rd of the same month. The dividend meeting was adjourned till the latter date. There are funds at present in hand to pay ls. in the pound. AN ARISTOCRATIC DEBTOR. At the London Insolvency Court yesterday (Wednes day), the case In re William George Howard, ,nephew of the Earl of Wicklow, and heir to the title and estates, whose case was before the court on a former occasion on an application for bail, came up for hearing and attracted a good deal of attention. In this case the debts and liabilities were £179,115 18s. 7d., of which £136,300 were " without consideration," and £15,000 more than once entered. He was arrested in February, 1853, and had been in prison from that period. The insolvent was exa mined as to his transactions with Mr. Edward Ransom Clark, a person connected with the turf. He had inserted Mr. Clark as a creditor for £33,000, on three post obit bonds. He had been connected with turf transactions. After ho name to England, in February, 1853, he made a bond to Mr. Clark; and when asked who paid the expenses, he said he " tossed " Clark who should, and he (insolvent) won the toss. (A laugh.) The case will occupy a long time. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-YIWZRDAY. LUDLOW V. THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY.- ACTION POE DAMAGES. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who carries ou business as a slop-dealer, in the Wandsworth.road, against the defendants, for injuries sustained through the alleged neglect of their servants. The damages were laid at• £5,000, and the defendants had paid £5OO into court. From the evidence of the plaintiff's witnesses, it appeared that on the 17th of last October, he was travelling by the defendants' up train to Stratford, when the train came in collision with some trucks on the line, and the consequence was that he sustained some very serious injuries, and among others a concussion of the brain, from the effects of which he was suffering and not likely ever to recover. The medical testimony was not conclusive that the symptoms under which the plaintiff was labouring might not be attributed to dyspepsia as much as to a concussion of the brain. Verdict for the defendants. THE CONVICT MANSELL. Yesterday, the Jedge gave the decision in the long pending question of the convict Mansell. The record of the Court below was not altered, and the prisoner was conveyed back to Maidstone, to undergo his sentence. TRIAL FOR LIBEL AGAINST THE DAILY NEWS. In the action, Jones v. the Daily News, for an alleged libel, in which the damages were laid at £2,000 4 the jury yesterday awarded the plaintiff £l5O. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWCASTLE RA.CES..YESTERDAY. FREE HANDIAP. Imperieuse.... 1 I Minnie.... 2 I Manganese.. 3 Ten ran. GRAND STAND STALES. Sauuterer 1 I Echo . 2 I Intereidono..... 3 Six ran- W , tl in a canter. NORTHUVREVALAND PLATE. ITnderhand LATEST BETTING. NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. Even on the Field 4 to 1 agst Mongrel 5 .. 1 .. ILIdI3 hand 7 ... 1 Van!al 10 .. 1 E 1 lliikiin 12 ... 1 King of SJotiand 20 .. 1 P,Lutomime BIBURY RACES.-YESTERDAY. MATCH. Flying Eagli,hmau beat Kiibride. SWEF PSTAKES. Bar One BIBURY STAKES. Turk I I Ritaha 2 I Van Eyck „3 Six ran. HANDICAP. Lady Conyngbam...l I Scii) , )lieflocv.... 2 I Barbarity... 3 Nine ran. AltßlVED.—Alemb i c, Brother to Homily, Beeswax colt, Rose of Cashmere, Wild ffoney, and Pomona.