Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-30 00:00:00

SMITHSONIAN HOTEL, BROAIIVIAY, Corner of HOUSTON-STEEET, New Yost. Named in honour of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Established at WAsnTrz ()TON, by the U. S. Cosossas, With Funds bequeathed by JAMES SMITHSON, of ENGLAND. rilVin the Friendship of the °mesas of the NATIONAL INSTITUTION, Is conducted on the System of Hotels in ENGLAND. CHAS. H. SMITH. Co 'antral - I Salt4.—Cbts 333/). ♦t twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 84 casks Tallow.—Big and Sons and Jeffreys. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' o9'ce, Oldhall-street, 10G cases Borax. and 100 chests Shell Lac.—Buchanan, Browne end Co. Lt twelva o'clock, at the brokers' offize, 2, Dale.-street, a quantity of Ginger, Madder Roots, Etude, & c.—i3roane, Hrowne. Hunter and Co. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' 01 e, Exchane-street East, 247 Bags Sago Flour.—Wm. and Jos. White. At four o'clock, at the broker's °Ric', Victoria-buildings, Hackin't key, 1519 balea Weol.—Pt rkins and Robinson. ♦t twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 16, Exchange-buildings, a quantity of Logwood and Itosin.—J. H. Rayner & Co. ♦t the Broker's saleroom, Co!oni,l-buildings, 210 bales of Wool.— Edmund Buckh y. At the Brokers' Sale room, Atherton-buildings, Dale-street, 636 bolas Wo 'l.—Hughes and. CI - For pardeutam see advertisements. ARUSEMENTS, PUBLIC M.EETINGS, &c. THIS DAY. Triteana RaiAL—Dramattc Performance-7 p.m. liteyel. A3i PHILTti WllE—Dr aralt!?, Performance-7 p.m. LIVERPOOL ACADEMY'S EXIIIBIT!ON, Postoffice-place. ALLsop's WAXWORK EXAIRITION —lO a m. to 10 p.m. CLAYTON HALL, Clayt , n-square—Gordon Cumming-8 p.m. LOLL'. CoLossaun—General Entertlinment-6.a0 p.m. C . - For pvtleulars see advertisements. Ae• Egabtril WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. According to the ilforning Post, the British troops have proved triumphant before Luaknow. We hope such is the case, but we are much afraid of it. However, be that as it may, the intelli- • gence by the telegraph now to hand is not so gloomy as we had reason to believe would be • . the case. The garrison of that city, it is said, had continued to lay in more provisions, an 1 if General Havelock did not reach them shortly •after he ha! retired to Cawnpore, we may rest ' assured that they would be eeabled to hold out for some time to come. •The events iu the Bernbay and Madras Presidencies may attract less notice than the position of Lucknow, for they appeal less to the imagination, but they .are far more pregnant with danger. Though the mutiny . an the 27th Bombay Native Infantry is said to have been suppressed, it is intimated that • a plot to attack the 2nd Europeans, on their arrival at Belganm, had been discovered, It is added that I a regiment stationed at Rutnagherry had been dis• armed. According to the Bombay . Army List, that station was oceupiel by a local corps—the Rutnagherry Rangers. The Mahratta country thus appears to continue in a feverish state. But so, also, does that portion of the Presidency which lies to the north and east_ of Bombay. The disarming of the 12th Bombay Native Infantry does nor, indee 1, take us by sur prise, for suspicions of their loyalty had begun to be entertained before the previous mail was des patched from Bombay. But, viewed in connection with the partial revolt of the Jeuipere Legion, their disaffection is full of menace. Erinpoora—the station of the Legion, on Mount Aboo—is only 40 miles north-cast of Deese, the station from which the 12 h Regiment WAS marched to Nusseerabad after the mutiny of the Bengel troops there. There is an appearance of pre-concert' in the mutinous deportment f two corps which had been such near neighbours. The news from Bomb iy is re assuring. Tne Kohurrum had passed off quietly. The mutiny of the 27th Regiment had been com pletely trodden our, and many of the rebels had been executed ; and a detachment of that regiment at Rutnagherry (not another regiment, as some report) had been disarmed. On the other hand, it had been found necessary to disarm 105 men of the 12th Bombay Native Infantry at Nusseeraba who, giving ear to the seditious speeches of a drunken trooper, had disobeyed their officers. In other respects Bombay was perfectly secure, and the European force had been strengthened by the ar xival of the other wing of the 33rd from the Mauritius, and a battery of artillery from Bushire. The Times of yesterday says, " the great question for which every mail will be most anxiously scrutinised will now be that of reinforcement. Five hundred gunners and drivers of the much wanted Royal Artillery were to leave Hong Kong on the 12th of August, and would probably arrive at Cal• cutta at the end of the first week in the present month. Lord Elgin, on his return to China, had left the Shannon and the Pearl with their crews at the dis posal of the Indian Government, and accordingly Captain Peel had left Calcutta for Allahabad with 400 seamen and ten GB-pounders. We shall look with much interest to the result of this unique contribution from the B itish Admiralty to the most important and most perilous conflict in which England was ever engaged. Our readers, too, if we do not mistake them, will follow the progress of these seamen into the interior of Hindostan, in a river steamer towing flats and carrying these heavy guns, with a deeper interest and closer . attention' than they give to the grand naval pro menade of Admiral Lyons with his three deckers, and we know not how many guns, or how many thousand men, from port to port around the shores of the Mediterranean. As Captain Peel only left Calcutta on the 18th of August, he might arrive to the aid of General Havelock about the middle of this month, but scarcely earlier. The sth and 90th Regiments were on their way up the river, but at Calcutta there was much anxiety as to the prospect of their arrival in time for the relief of Lucknow. Elsewhere there appears to be more confidence felt as to the strength and re sources of the garrison there. At Bombay, where reinforcements were becoming as important as at Calcutta, the remainder of the 33rd had 'arrived from Mauritias, and a company of European Artillery from Bushire. From that Presidency, therefore, we hear no more of the misgivings felt some weeks since, and the authorities seem to meet conspiracy, disobedience, and symptom of disaffec tion with a decision evidently suggested by the sense of security, and as evilenty successful. Central India is reported quiet. On the whole, then, we oonfidently trust that though the mutiny rages with little check within its original ground, it is not successful in its efforts to spread, and Must now be every day contracted within a narrower and still narrower circle." The local news is not of the least importance. '0 F domestic intelligence, we have but little that will interest the public generally. The-Rev. Hugh Hanna, upon his solemn oath, before the Belfast Commissioners, declared that it is his clear duty to preach in the open air, even though convinced that a riot should follow. It is _always dangerous, he said, to snecomb to a mob— ile considers the authorities are bound to protect him, and put the mob down—and to any man or any mob he never will consent to forego his rights. lie was cheered when he said so, for a large num _ diver of sympathisers were in the court. On Thursday the Marchioness of Londonderry -entertained her Irish tenants at Cairnelough. Her ladyship again delivered one of those kind-hearted 4ornmon sense speeches for which she has gained 40 much celebrity. Vice-Chancellor Wood held a Court at Norwich en Monday to dispose of a petition praying for a .~} _1 THE NORTHERN winding-up order in the matter of the London and Eastern Banking Company. The Vice Chan cellor, for reasons elsewhere stated, refused to make such an order, and the petition was, there fore, dismissed. The screw steamer Kangaroo arrived here yes terday. The news by this arrival is only one day later, the dates being New York, Sept. 17. It is not of the least importance. A full detail of the more interesting items will be found in the regular summary. The steamer General Wyndham also arrived here yesterday. She sailed from Newfound land on the I 9th instant. The loss of the Pacific, from Liverpool to New Yoik, will not have been forgotten by our readers. According to a French provincial paper, the Phare de la Loire, a bottle has been picked up off the coast of Porspoder, containing a sheet of paper, on. which i 3 written in pencil, by Cap tain Smith, of the Transatlantic steamer Pacific, that his vessel was on the point of sinking. This written statement may, perhaps, throw some light on the mysterious disappearance. of the Pacific, but it may also turn out to r•e a hoax of some foolish individual. Such is the vJrsion of the Paris col , : respondent of the Globe. It is a most foolish paragraph, for if we mistake not, the captain of the Pacific was named Lll , l . Dr. Kern, Minister of Switzerland to the Court of the " is expecte' at Paris on the 15th proxitno. The Duke de Grammont, late Minister of France to Piedmorr, his at rived in the capital from Turin. General Yankousky, Aide-de camp General to the Eaaperor of Russia. has likew . se arrived, it is said, on a military mission. Letters from Constantinople of the 18th have teen received here. Rumours of ministerial changes were still current in that capital ; and the app)intment of As Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the office of the Grand Vizier, in Pla, - ;e of Mustafa Paella, was mentioned as probable. The financial position has not improved, and the Goveramant, in order to meet its most pressing necessities, has.effelted a fresh issue of notes the extent of 100 million piastres The diplomatic world had beer► somewhat, troubled by the con duct of that petty thspot Prince Danilo. Same tima ago the Governor of Scutari in 4 klbania received instructions to chas'iso a ccrtain district in the neighbourhood which had singularly r&sbehaved itself. The goiernor placed himself at the head of 3,000 regulars, and marched towards the district. Prince Danilo .on hearing this gave private ii:structions to his followers, who poured down into the Forkish territory in order to support the c ffending inhabitants. On the receipt of this -intelligence the ambassadors of England, France, and Austria, hill a con'erence on the 17th, and requested the Porte to countermand the expedition for a time, ien'order that no fresh corn. plications might arise from this unreasonable, con duct of Prince Danilo. But the Turkish troops al ready have in all probability arrived at their desti nation, and the go3d intentions of the ambassadors may prove fruitless. It is believed that the three governments will seriously impress on the mind of. the ruler of Montenegro that hs marauding excur sions will no longer be tolerated. It is worthy of remark that the Russian ambassador declined to attend the conference held by the three repre sentatives, and it is presumed that Russia `s.citly approves of the ambitious language of Montenegro.- THE eff)rts of the Legislature to suppress the, immoral practice of gambling have always had our earnest and unreserved approval. Whether we view its baneful influence upon the generality of all who "make books," their ultimate discom fiture in a financial point of view, or the ten dency which the system has of seducing young, inexperienced, and honest persons from the paths of virtue, to engage in a life of infamy and crime, we must regard with favour every enact ment which aims a direct safeguard against professed gambling. The criminal records of ' the country afford ample and painful proof of the necessity which existed for such a law as that prohibiting Betting Houses, and punishing wit h severity every one who vi)lated its provisions. Some four or five years ago, before the statute in question became law, there was hardly a street in the metropolis which had not a Betting House of some kind or other—Manchester and Liver pool, Dublin and Belfast, besides hosts of other places, were stocked with book-making rendez vous. Thither the old and the young, the speculative adventurer—all who desired to get rich at a " bounce"—repaired. Their visits were of daily occurrence —time was lost, money mis spent, and in nine cases out of ten their bets thrown away—some cunning but well "posted" "outsider," making a haul of the bets, and applying them to his own advantage. Persons of limited circumstances could not stand such a game without having recourse to dishonest practices : hence embezzlements became the order of the day, and with them other species of felonies, including forgeries, followed, until, at last, the deluded victim found himself within the sure grasp of the law, and obliged to plead before a jury of his country "guilty or not guilty." Many such victims are, at the present moment, atoning for their guilty practices as felons in a penal settlement or con victs in the hulks. This was nothing more than t e interest and safety of society demanded. In the proper administration of the law sup pressing Batting Houses we for one rejoice. But while anxious to see all gambling proceedings abolished, we are also desirous of witnessing that it be accomplished by legal means. Police constables are very apt to consider themselves great adepts in interpreting special acts of par liament, not only as regards the letter, but the spirit and intention of the very framers. If there be any country where such a feeling could run riot it is that portion of the metropolis called " Cockneydom," where the veriest urchin of London proper looks upon every mortal not a " citizen " as ignorant; countrified, and liable to be. duped or misled by the dwarfiish and simple-minded Cockney who runs along the streets. It was in such a spirit that one of the London police, No. 322, took it into his head to interpret the Betting Act in a manner that has called forth a dignified rebuke from Mr. Alderman COPZLAND, M.P. It appears that the police officer alluded to, on Thursday morning last, saw a gentleman residing at Dept ford, and name] DAvrs, with two or three other persons, talking together in Bride-lane. The officer took him into custody for obstructing the streets. He searched him, and found a watch, 51. 17s. 51-ci, and a betting book upon him. This was the entire charge, for the police-officer swore that neither the prisoner, nor the men with him, hal betting-books in their hand. The presiding magistrate, Mr. Alderman HALE, was very desir- . ous of inflicting a fine, although no case was proved, until Mr. Alderman COPELAND interfered and said, " I consider it a monstrous interference with the liberty of the subject, to take a gentle man into custody •who has committed no offence, and I should like to know by what authority they searched him, and took his money away ?" We, too, should like to know, by what authority, —not to speak of law—the arrest and imprison ment took place. Of course, Mr. Alderman HALE could not convict, and Mr. Davis was discharged. On . the following day (Friday), some other cases of a similar character took place before Mr. BINGHAM, at the Marborough-street police-court, the offence alleged against the men being that they obstructed the public thoroughfares, but the cba:g-e failed. As we have already remarked, we have every desire to see the Act for suppressing gambling-houses carried out in its entirety, con 7 vinced that it would do good, but we must stre nuously protest against police-officers getting up cases such as those alluded to. No man should be hau!ed off to prison on flimsy and fallacious pretences. The momen" , , that this is so, police vigilance is a tyranny; antagonistic to the liberty which the Constitution accords to all its subjects, and worthy only of adoption by despots. where every Man is under the constant surveillance of a race of pampered gendafmes, whose love of offi cial and governmental notoriety is the instigator of professional conduct, -which the people of England condemn and despise. Much as we deplore the practice of horse-race gambling„ and anxious as we are to see it sup pressed, we have to thank Mr. Alderman COPELAND for his pointed allusion to the daily practices in Capel-court, London. The worthy Alderman said, "If the officer would go into th passage leading to the Stock Exchange, he would see bargains done in the Consols among persons whom he might just as reasonably take into custody as the prisoner." Again, addressing Alderman HALE, he said, " I am here by accident only, and if you, sir, will direct the attention' of the police to the Baltic Coffee-house, where thousands of barrel* of tallow are passed from hand to hand without one farthing being paid, they will find there plenty of stags' to give them occupation." Yes; we believe there is as much gambling going on, not in the Public Securities, and Railway Stocks and Shares alone, but in foreign' and colonial produce, as in horse-racing. The consequences are equally disastrous. Hence it is that our Bankruptcy List shows weekly returns of the disasters which it causes. Betting, on horse-races is a purely speculative action. Buying any commodity, or making an invest ment for a rise or fall in price, is speculation. The former is generally on the minor, the. latter the major scale. Of all species of gambling that of commercial is generally the most reckless. Need we point to the Royal British Bank, the Tippe'rary Bank, the Surrey Gardens. Company, and hundreds of other Joint Stock Companies. We have not exhausted this subject, and shall return to it again. AMONG the more important political events of the day is the visit of Loan JOHN RUSSELL to Sheffield, for the purpose of presiding over the annual meeting of the Ragged School Union of that town. The cordial and enthusiastic reception which greeted his Lordship, and the thousands of cheers which hailed every step of his progress from the railway to the seat of his guest was only a well merited tribute to his position and character as a philanthropist and a statesman. LORD JOHN RUSSELL still occupies a great position in the eyes of Great Britain, and among the politicians of Europe, consequently all his movements and speeches, are looked upon with importance. This visit to Sheffield was the means of causing him to deliver three addresses. In the first place he had to respond to the flattering welcome of the Town Council of Sheffield, next to expatiate on the ad vantages and importance of Ragged Schools, and to show their perfect and peculiar adaptibility to the moral and social requirements of large cities and towns, and last to deliver an answer of a more general nature to the address presented to him by the working men of Sheffield. Being an " old stager" accustomed to address great meetings, Loan JOIIN acquitted himself with dignity, ease, and tact. He went through the task allotted to him as a veteran statesman conscious that he would be listened to with favour and respect. The opening part of the address read by the Town Clerk was calculated to please the noble Lord, as it made appropriate and pointed allusion to his past efforts in the eaus3 of Reform, and his long continued exertions to aid in the progress of civil and religious liberty,—which, with just reason, he regards as among the mo - .:e popular points of his career. In all that he says „respecting the Test and Corporation Act, and the other measures of Legislative Reform, down to the repeal of the Navigation Laws we fully agree, and look upon them as being " remakable for progress without revolution." Lord John RUSSEL knows as well as any other living stateman how to make polital capital out of any great topic which may happen to agitate the public mind ; accordingly, he did not fail to make allusion to the affa.;rs of India, in such a manner as showed that the nation had a most important duty to perform. The calm and dignified manner in which he referred to the deplorable event s which have taken p lace, and the views he takes o f the policy that must be adopted for restoring our dominion, and placing our Indian empire upon a more lasting, satisfactory, and solid basis, are such as the nation must approve. He spoke of the cruelties which have been perpetrated iu terms of ' horror and indignation' commensurate with the deeds he denounced. But what will equally satisfy the country, is his Lordship's ideas TIMES.--LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1857. > - , : 4 1" ) foi a ' respecting the Ind.ian crisis, and the future policy' our rulers must adopt should we desire British rule in Hindoostan; these are, " energy, com bined with a deliberate plan ,of action ; entire religious liberty, a benevolent ruler, and the firm assertion of power," from which, as he justly remarks, we can only expect " to preserve to Great Britain and to civilisation a fairer and a more secure empire than we have hitherto possessed." This very sentiment he re echoed when he told the working men of Shgfiald that " no one will belleve that we are about to suffer a diminution of our territory in the East." A declaration such as this, is proof clear as Holy Writ, that, no matter who the statesman may be that underrates the value and importance of the Indian possessions of Great Britain, they will not find in Lord John Rugsum. an aider or au abetter. The next topic of political importance on which Lord John addressed the men of Sheffield, was the Parliamentary franchise. Considering the constant .advocacy of Reform which has at all times and under every circumstance marked the people of this important municipality; and also, that for a long series of years they have sent to Parliament such representatives as would advocate with consistency and zeal such political principles and views, it was to be expected that Lord John would enunciate his views thereon. From what he sail we learn that he will be no party to the postponement of the promised Reform Bill ; for he emphatically de:lares that the time has come when the franchise may be further extended, and " I think, nearly in the words of the Prime Minister, that large classes who have not hitherto possessed the Franchise should in future enjoy and exercise that privilege." We take this as a good omen, that there will not be wanting men of :ability and position in the House to oppose the Government should they prefer delaying the consideration of Parliamentary Reform, on the ground that the affairs of India will be quite enough to settle in the next session. It rests with the country to back up such r?psesentativea as are opposed to procrastination, and by innumerable petitions to both Houses of Parliament, demand Parliamentary Reform in 1855 as the right of the country. Lord John, in addressing the Ragged- School Union of Sheffield, referred to the Education question, and from all we can gather from what his L-nAship said we fear that he considers the want of harmony among the different religious sects as a great barrier to the settlement of this impor tant butmuch vexed question. TriS FRENCII PRESS 015 INDIAN Arr,tras.—A corres_ pandent writing from Paris says :—"Whoever has been in the habit of reading the French papers since the outbreak of the Indian revolt must have been struck by the extraordinarly conflicting statements and appreciations they contain. If these amouAted only to differences of opinion as to the probable result of the struggle, there would be no cause for wonder, but they also display strange inattention to facts and to accuracy of detail. Thus, for in_ stance, with respect to the number of European troops we shall have to oppose to the mutineers when all the reinforcements now on their way shall have arrived, we find it variously estimated at from 30,000 to 80,000, while ,one paper said - that the reinforcements sent out would but fill the gapa created before they reach India. Comm - on attention to statistics easily obtained, and to the e;act statements supplied by the English papers as ;to the number. of 'men embarked, would prevent such strange discrepancits as these. With regard to the causes of the insurrection appreciations equally rash have been hazarded, and the small number of journals habitually hostile to England have daily shuddered over the newly_ discovered risgovernment which hai driven the Indians o revolt. With such unfair and unfounded attacks a these latter it is agreeable to contrast the jester estimate ofßritish rule inlndia contained in an article in yesterday's Siecle, entitled, Englan .1 and the Police of the Seas :'—. o,le must do England: the justice to say that she was the first to renounce conquest in Europe. She transported her ambition elsewhere, and has had the immense glory to give birth to oae of the greatest nations in the world— to the people free par excellence—to the American nation. Her conquests have almost all been conquets of commerce and of civilisation. Russia, Austria, Prussia, have ag - grandised themselves at the expense of free European populations, whose nationality they have killed, and whose development they have stopped. The English have not committed this crime. Ia this respect they are like France, and have no restitution to make. They pursued their unity, and like us, they stopped when that unity was complete. They have sought the elements of their expansion beyond the limits of their European brethren. They have peopled the solitudes of America, and called into life the new world of Oceania. If, become masters of India by the hazard of events, they have not assimilated it to themselves, allowance must be made for the time and for the immensity of the difficulty. But what great things they have there done ! How many barbarous customs abolished! how many towns rendered healthy, roads constructed, and rivers bridged ! Properly to ap preciate English domination i❑ . India—one must know what India was before that domination, one must remem ber the unheard of strug;les of sects and religions, and the inundations of blood of which it was the periodic tl prey. Millions of men perished from ; half-century to half-century in wars, in the establishment and fall of empire. The massacre that now revolt Europe, from whatever side they proceed, would have been mere festivals previously to the Brtiish rule.' The Siecle then proceeds to set forth the services ren dered by England to civilisation, besides that of having bee❑ the first to teach Europe that there was another kind of government than despotism, the first to establish the rights of the nation by the side of the rights of the throne—the only country where representative and con stitutional government has been solidly established and wisely exercised. She has' been the chief agent in purg - ing the world of piracy and the slave trade, and in establishing the freelom and security of the ocean If, by an impossibility, her immense maritime power were suddenly to vanish, and that no other nation were ri ely to replace it, the anarchy of the seas would again burst forth, and centuries of new efforts would be re quired to repair the evil. Commerce, then, no more than philosophy and liberty, should desire the:fall of Eng land. In like manner that our conquest of Algeira was a humane act, a benefit for the werld, so is the greatness of England at this moment one of the conditions of universal security. It it did not exist is its present form, it would have to be reconstructed, and it would reconstruct itself under a different form. It serves not only as the basis of the European equilibrium, to check enterprises directed against that equilibrium, but it is one of the elements of the material life of our political universe. Suppress it without replacing it, you have a cataclysm that cannot be estimated ; on a thousand points of the world's surface barbarism revives and destroys commerce for ages. It has been said that there are no necessary men, nor do we believe in necessary powers ; but there are some eminently useful, whose loss leaves a frightful void. And England is of those nations and those Powers." • AMUSEMENTS. THILTRE ROYAL.—Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams, sustain, or, if anything, increase their pop u l ar ity i n the Theatre Royal. We scarcely know any performers who g t e hi h s as sinarly hadgul comic pair . It is very so excellent a represen t at i ve can attract a greater number of crowded audiences of a certain class of Irish com ic humour as M r . Wa llow' , l s o u n e g ell e ss in iv ce ely th th e astna Genuine Hibernian drollery, wi h its peculiar mingling of naivete and shrewdness, is set forth by this comedian in a manner the most amusingly natural and life like. It is the weakness of actors, wtto take up characters of this class, to strive after a vulgar success by outrageous exaggeration, preposterous brogue, and extravagant grimace. Mr. Williams has none of these defects. His manner is wholly free from exaggeration with reference to the parts he assumes ; his brogue rolls richly off with the genuine tone which no " foreigner" can mimic, but without the coarseness and extravagance which other comedians less 'naturally endowed, are forced to introduce. Mr. Williams is neither within nor outside the outlines of his part ; he is a thorough Irishman of whatever grade, manner, or peculiarity of humour the character he represents may require. Every action, look, and tone are in keepiag, and the whole is as natty/al and unforced as it is irresistably comic; Mrs. - Williams is as peculiar in her own line, and sets off Irish brogue and Irish fan with Yankee twang, quaintness, and keen humour. Her singing and dancing are curiosities of c medy. Mr. and Mrs. Williams had a crowded hoaselast night, as:, indeed, they have had every night during their engagement. • Mr. Williams appeared as Shandy Maguire. - The pair played together in " Latest from New York," and Mrs. Barney Williams subsequently -came on as " Our. Gal." . -We need not say that hughter and applause were mingled throughout the night. THE AMPHITHWEE.—This theatre is relying upon the resources of its own ,company this week, without any "bright, particalar star" This absence is not , mich felt when such a comedian as Mr. Baker performs. Manlmx PICCOLOMINI.--It is Scarcely necessary to call attention to the fact, that the public of Liverpool will have very soon one other opportunity of se.. , ing and hearing Madame Piccolomini in the part which her talents have almost succeeded in establishing on the stage. Oti Saturday, the 10th of October, "'La Traviata" will again be brought out at the Theatre R'yal, with tke same splendid caste as on a recent occasion. This will, we believe, be the last opportunity for a considerable time of hearing Madame Piccolomini, Signor Giuglini, and the other distinguished artistes who appear with - them. - DRURY-LANB Tie ZATRE, r. - IZobers, the Amerirrn tragedian, brought to a close his eh;rt season on Satar evenine, when he appeared in the character of Richard the Third, and again met with a gratifying reception. At the close of the pley I V r.• Aaberts was c for, and in f-w the course oiliort adderss 'said :—" The do'ibts and fears udder which , Ilaboured at the °poling of this thi . ntre have been.all dispelled by , the great and indulgent kpcip,ess .which y‘u have shown l r o . ,Fae., Ablatiugh we AmernaitS are vigorous off-shoots frlh,e. rcryar oak of knglah'd';' , Yri bend our way towards 'this lam'. "And, again, when an actor from beyond the brYid Allautic treadi the hallo.. ed stage of Olt aury—that sage rendered sacred by the n mes and the gerins of a Cooke, a Kean, a Kimble, and a Macready—he feels that he is on no common ground, and looks with awe and reverence at the responsibility which he has assumed. This, the theatre of the metropolis, is looked upon—and jus!ly—by the American tragedian as the Mecca of his devotion, towards'which all his i•spirar tions are directed, in which all - his sanguine hopes of- the future bre centred, as the ooe sicced shri e before which he longs an t laves to worship. Ladies and gentlerner believe me that the manner in which I have been received here, by al English audience, will render glad the heart's and botany I have JAI far behind me." New York ; is not likely to lack for amusements thits antumr. "Toe hotels," 'says a letter from that city, " full of southern and western guests returning from the watering pla'ces. 'lois has given a new stimulus mid full houses to the theatres. Frixt'Aini' is singing to Willi... siastic audiences at the °nem. Tholberg is giving crowded concerts, assisted by Vituxteinp4. Mr. Murdoch is playing at nortol's tLe same characters that won him sl) mach favour at the Haymarket last year. Laura Keene is living on Mr. Tom Taylor's last play Wsllack's the aro is producing the moral drama of the" Dame oux —an expurgated edition. And 'at the Broadway Mr. Charles Mathews has made his debut' to one ()Utile largetit and most enthusiastic audienees that New York has seen for a long.titn?. The great r success of this gentleman be gra ifying to his friends in London." COUNTY COURT Conway presi led in this court yesterday, in the absence of Mr. Pollock, the judge, who is again somewhat indisposed. A conAderable number of cases wee heard, but none involved anything of public implrtance. —*- PASSENGERS ET THE KANGAROI,-Alii3 P. Sullivan, Aire. Rook and two children, . Messrs. Julian Koppell, H. Hardwidge, Louis Becker, Jacob Schloemer, T. Connell, Leake, Crozier, Clarke, Vrgnon. Lynch, A.Albert,Waison, Sayre, Mrs. Wentworth, and 219 steerage. Sueinker &Hoax. TEACHleaS.—Last evening the teacheis of the Sunday Schools in connection with Great George street Chapel (Dr.:Raill,s',)'held"teir annuaf rtes meeting in the school-room. . Alvir an excel' ,nt tea, several gentle men b„l*, , ,gingto the cangri‘gatin addressed the. mieting, and a most pleasant evenirgevos spent. Factiwoon.-e-The ;sloop An nae and Whitehaven Trader, :tying; .master; apparently from .Liverpciel to Annan, was rtito.!,cd up 'y ester ay, off Walne;y bland, by two emacks;:and W l B brought tutu this harbour this tanning a complete Wreck, heVing eei:ently int', being cut down to bilge on staibaard side. :Two or three casks of oil .an some deals on board. Mast, sails, and gear everc r e s ell gone,. The body of a female was found fliaqng - in - tlie cabin. No things of" crew. • QUICK PASSA.GIi OF THE S.S. ANTELOPE. —This fine vessel, which has recently been added to the splendid line of steamers belonging to the North Atlantic Steam Navigation Company, s between this port and St. John's, Nevi foundland, Halifax, and Portland, arrivednt St.-John's on the morning of the lath instant, having made the rapid passage across the Atlantic in nine days, one or the quicket: on recoil. Letters just received per General Williams, s.s., state that she encountered some severe gales on her passage out, but received no damage; and landed her pas sengers-in good health. !They,eapressed themselves highly pleased with the ship and the unremitting attention paid to them by Captain-Smith and his. officers. ST. SILAS'S WOKIcING MEW ASSOCIATION, PE.1413 10K13. reacte.,--We perceive that this association continues to extend its operalions in the itn, ortant work of catering for the inStruction'and rational, ralaxa ion of the working clesses. Tne fie.d recreations du ing the summer months have served to keep up the interests of the members, and we are informed that it is intended to continue the crick eting and (awaiting next summer;-thus giving the labanring clasks an opportunity of enjoying harmless recreation. The winter secs on has just cerumnnce.l, with the evenirii, classes for instruction .tn reading, Writing," arithmetic, drawing, singing, &c. ;, and the l e cture s an d discussions are ex2ected to be as attractive ant useful as heretofore. Theßty. Richard Dandy addressed the members on lest Thursday evening, his subject being the "Sons of Toil ;" and, next Thursday, the Rev. R. W. Riley will give a narrative of " Three Weeks in Switzerland. The come mittee of Oake-street school having granted the use of that room, the Working 'liens' Concerts (so popular Let winter) will be resumed, under lay management, next 'Saturday evening ; at eight-o'clock, on which occasion S. lt Graves, Esq., his pro'ni'ed to preside. George Arkle, Esq., has consented to preside on the following Saturday. We may mention- that the rooms have been unlergoing various improvements colcalatel to ensure the comfort of the working classes,: for VOOS3 benefit this association is conducted. A school has been established in Londaa to teach cooking to the poor. THE CASE OF MPS MADFLEINE SMITHi—STARTLING DISCLOSURE —The ptitalc may he prepared to' hear an astounding disclosure in a few nays, in connexion with the cue of Miss Madeleine Smith. We have been in-, formed, by a most, reliable authority,-that one of the her vants, in the house at Blyth wood-square, in March last, has just died rather suddenly; and that, on her death-bed, seized with remorse, she made a confessi in of the im portant fact, that arsenic was mixed with the coffee given to L'Angelier en the sight of his last visit to Miss Smith. On the trial it failed to be proved that L'Angelier was at the house of his betrothed on the night in question at all, although the srrvant, who has LOW made this disclosure, was examined for the prosecution at the trial. We trust to be enabled to lay further particulars before our readers shortly. —Belfast Mercury. REPUBLIC IN EDITOR 3 AT LOGGERHEADS.—Last week a, card appeared in the Boston Traveller, from Samuel Bowles, Esq., announcing his withdrawal from the concern, , and the sale of his interest to the other proprietors, because of " the different principles of newspaper economy held by the respective partners." The Traveller published the following rep!y :—" It 'is proper to state that the cars of Mr:Bowles, in yesterday's issue, was not seen by the other proprietors until it appeared in the paper. They do not deem it necessary to make any comment upon it, except to state, that, while they are witnesses of his industry, an I do not doubt his honesty of purpose and his editorial skill, they have not been disposed to place any obstacles is the way of his retirement, and are en irely satisfied with the 'principles of newspaper economy upoa which the Traveller has been successfully conuuc ed for many years ' • and while they regret that the expectations under which he was induced to take the editorship of the Traveller were not likely to be realised,' they are, content to return to the aLcient ways; which to them have been ways of pleasantness and success, and have abundantly realised al their expecta tions." 'I he T ra v e ll er a l so announces its return from the quarto to the folio form, and the intention to m ike that paper " eminently conservative in the highest and best sense of that term." This is a happy determination, and excites the hope that at length some straggling ray of light may penetrate the blackness so visibly intensified by ttte consolidation, a few months since, of the eminently R l p u b. licau papers, severally known as the Traveller, Atlas, Telegraph, and Chronicle, =New York raper, J , TE LE 6-RA PHIC PROMOTION OF COLONEL HAVELOa. + h- 29 18°11 WAR-OFFICE, PALL MALL, Elep.em ,, er Thu:vim—ln consequence of the eminent service' ino -formed by Colonel Henry Ha4elock, •C. 8., in coo n ' till epe a Division of her Majesty's Army, engaged in actil rations in the field, in India, the Queen hag been grilel_2k pleased to command that he be promoted to the Pio!! Major-General in the army, and that his consuli , " i°l ' bear date the 30.1 July, 1857. APPOINTMENTS. -The Gaidte notifies the oppointment of t ,00 0 Simon Fraz.r, and the Rev. Henry Capel, as "' Inspect:4s of Schools. ME EARL or Fp - T.—The Gazelle announces_ th c o. digaity of a Baron of the 'United Kingdom has be 812001 tarred on the Esrl of Fife, by the title of Baron , Skene, iu-the 'county of Aberdeen. , BELFAST; RIOTS. COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY. By British . and Irish Magnetic Telegrap h • ebi l ' The evidence gives at the inquiry to-day, chie.-Y ell , silted of that of the magistrates. of the Belfast bro Their testi,nony want to a complete exculpatio n ° hod • course pursue 1 by the authorities during the late riet°,4 their vigour, which was indefatigable, was ufideratectovel .by a tenderness for human life. The justices crime the ROill&a. Catholic party as the . originators of 1 ' 1 7 6 t elf turbances- both. in July and September, and as by '! tit more i violent' of the two parties in their, resistance a t of authorities. :The Mayor of Belfast, kr. G,tty , flit and at the- scene of the disorders thrOugh s,l/ 0 , riotcous nights of July. —The magistrates spoke the conduit of ,the local police,: who are an e '''Tf° fore,' and many.of whom were injured in the affren" o bst of the justices stated, that both in July and SPI e o oll they hal seen--Mr. Laughlin, proprietor of the- tlinpol' , newspaper, its the , =chit of the Roman Catholic 00 increa.sii,g their violence by kis disorderly conclul o ef' day's proceeding 4 *Sol with a scene' between 'not Verner and Mr: John Ali, and angry words were ehanged. Xis Court adjourned tilt to-morrow. st ies New USE 07 Tonacce.—Dr. Stephenson (an th e phys'ciae), calls the attention of tht- proi,sti-1 tti° treattneet.,of ery,ipalae by. tobacco, and; asserts tbei st ool agent is (le most relieble ono. for subduing ertail ) : b rio t ieflaminatieu. He (wee• s e ietlemed surface W' t eta' tobacco leaves, wtilth are 'left on Until much tigaseli duced. —Medical Times. col STRANGE_ ACCIIMNT TO A CHILD.-.-011. Fridey - / „ 0 11 , e Elizabeth Myres was nursing an infant in the kil e ' - froo' her master's houie, in Myrtle-street, Liverpool. "'4l of her stood a lit le girl, sister to the, infant,•vrK o bit her heeds a basin with some treacle in it. l!'si e g e w suddenly let the basin fall, and the girl, in endeavo ur ', save it from being broken, slipped, and fell with lb e cr isl under her, when a piece of -the broken pat was f er. 'f. the infam.'s neck, dividing the jugular vein, and ',b o ot° almost immediately in the arms of its mother; who , !! te aso . by the scream's - of the nurse 'girl, had run e inte the ° aft er, The parents of the child are Mr. and Mrs. Cutli.,.. e g s grocer:l. -At ' the' ioquest, on Saturday, o r °- accidental death was returned. . w ith Curious' Cuteueisraeica.—Latelv, a' fisliieg•Tl; t ' 5 0 11 1 its stakes, corks, leads, .dec., was discovered on VI, in' n-ar Haggarth.• Scan?, oppeA:e Prieqsi le, wher e It SiF lain buried under sand upwards of fifty years' . sanded non the spot where it was found, (106 7apron0 0 stormy night when the Atlas, of Whitehaven, NY°, 0 0 8 4 past that port, .and nop the,aobin Rigg. At t s ° o lo 4l the net was sanded-np, the main chancel of • the 0 0° approached the Seoteh shore ; it then altered its• t , ate' nearer to Otembeelend ; but of late years it had' be e and dually resamieg its former course nearer to S4ollandji o the recent discovery of tee net, by the sconring a e s t tb ° the sand which covered won J seem to indicate 4,1301 channel had now returned to the position it wae yea-s ago.—Annaet Observer. 1 Sliel AGRICULTURAL SAL E% —Among the agricti• l+ •a t , a e et4l taking place th;s week are two claiming unneuel o `'d viz.,. those of S:r J." V. Shelley's stock, at Mare sfiel gr , Farm e aud ofß:,rtort, Pebsbaree Bartmee sale was to commence on Monday last, corihneifo for four days,'.an I comprising 80 fine trews u"' 1 0" 44 vearling-herers-and'steers. and ntirnerous svoral l ,! e ilo ' andother animals. The:sale ef the herd eine] Yee '%. 0 05 the flock of 500 tioutlidewn sheep, and•the hors e s' k 5O mencing to-day. The; sale of Sir 3.' Y: S.hilliry's sock at Maresfielel Park Farrn,tia lixtll for SaturdaY aoct October 3rd. the day after Lewes old sheep fair. I; el comp-ieee 140 ewes, 200 wether lam-be, and 100 ew,etr, lambs, with a fee , Rams. The stock includes 2b par', tier Sussex working oxen acd steers,,and several eb er ,.;e/ steers, and there ere also tome very-valuable cart h et Sussex' BRAINTREE AND BOOKING MECHANIC,' INSTI TCI If r4I : On. Saturday evening, M r . B uc k mas t er d e livered an Art, in the Corn Exalittege, explanatory of the Society °„ e ioo scheme of examination, a nd the, imp i rt a nce f 1 „ 1 classes in 'connex iin with mechanics ' -institution'. of 1 chief points of the address •were—the desirability b . ; ducing young men to attend evening elasses period they leave school until they become oecupiel lbel the duties and responsibilities of adult life e th a s ,ie e. l shoul I work with a view to the examination o .f the o rs of Arts. ,lhe employers of labour were s trong to encourage this movement, by promoting and ad f i - 0' 4 , 1 the interests-of - flame young Mal who hal occupie' i e e k, leisure hours by reeelar attendance at the classea.e, cession took'place o the different points advanced etpci: Buckmaster, in, which M. Courtau the Rev. 'Mr' I , e r g and . other leading gentlemen mad working tea l oo ill A ressiltation was unanimously adopted to es t a blish e ", classes in connexion _with _the institution. Mr. S a ' l so t , a gentleman, who has had censiderehle ,experienedeo„ teacaer, offered`_to undertake the general superie t ,e, 0 1° 0 of the class - es. InstruCtion in the ordinary subjeeyfettw • eletnentaly education is all that will 133- attempted • t af' present. ve Or a n A DETECTIVE OFFICER IN ANILA , VOCATION.-- one of the .detective officers, Ed e r, on duty at the g ( f k rr accosted Mr. J. C. Deane, the general cammissie ne ;it't . s lid, " I want to know, sir, What I 'am do w itll ree ° ;o and woman that are here; the man is one of the g se y pickpockets we have, and he is only jest cut of P e e tot tl oi he has been serving eighteen months." Mr. Dy alt f i e, routed, and saw a stylishly dressed cOuple. theme gentleman hag "made up" excellently, and , vg e :' e s o o cye-elass.• - They knew it was futile to attempt!', l l s°,l ' from the lynx-eyed officer, and so they stood q:tw - 3 if him. The officer added, "They have been steal Vt., there's nothing on them ; and, as they- have Pl i bitie tj ,:s 'helf-crOwes, the man pleads hard to see the d' e - 08 Well," sail Mr. Deane, "yott had better eb ° , round the Exhibition, and then show them t'&: l t p°,';l/ (ifficer to k the hint, and forthwith became a In''„'",eo l , l ef and- attentive cicerOne.: He pointed out the rro r 8) pictures, pictures, and, other objects of virt'i, all of which 'eg e " 0 1 seaweed by the gentleman with the eye-glass; 8 to t - h io theinspection (which was a most ludicrous ()news t he who were in the secret) was over e in somewhat il ia two hours, the visitors with the unenviable O . : 3 P e e, vet were iuttolucel to all the officers in the Eihib, it4 ,;s l , t fr ii then taken to the entrance to the Betanical tgAru' r l the transept. They went into the g a rdens, $l,O scarcely necessary to add that they were not seen the Exhibition.—Manchester Guardian. A PHOTOGRAPHING ON WOOD.—Tile following Is from the Scientific American, :—" In preparing - d St e el' gravings—such as are employed in all books 0 00 papers where the pictures are printed on the s 3 retie and at the same time with the types or letter - r O f c ` c t lio f picture is first drawn by hand on the smeoth,bleo` t o to k aid the lines or shades are subsequently raised , e rr. the white surface is sunk by the skill of the ofe c f r ieri °e ;a l patent was issued on the 5.h of May last , to P.; r:/r Worcester, Mass., for a process of photographs" 6 o OM in- lieu of drawing by baud, which has since bea ° o ,,,o, 'et loped hy the prop r i e to r s, C. J. B. W a t er s 'Ro d e o: o ' 4 ol 90, Fulton-street, this city, as t o b e prenoune em „ - pt e ki by some of our best engravers . The surface is Iooe f as to be sensitive to light, like th e g l ass o r Fmk'''. itot'ot i in the ordinary .photegr a phi c p rocesses , and t" t a any objeCtis thus impressed-epan the block t e so t ot', accuracy than it is.possible to aczomplish by We have seen some wood blocks baring P . "Pr s d ' produced by this maw, and a number of, s ' ;-t is ` t 4 have been engraied and printed, showing th at : 1 0 4 r o t ticable so to use them. The principal defect of %we d /. °, pictures" for this purpose is their too great d i e ;ct e iaJ i h o faintness. If this can be overcome, and the ` fi rl ' produced with the vigour and strength of ordi:oiliteta its ink work, the invention will very greatly f. , • o P e lO o l production of illustrated books and newspaP er ' e 'ae ° 3o°,, , • quite p:obable that, with practice, engravers 01 % pr° 0 1 1 nO et 41 themselves to wo:k from there drawings as - . 9 o ° 4" without difficulty. At present the invention is cessful in reducing engravings tram o)Pieli' daily use for this purpose." ~... -...___, A New