Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-27 00:00:00

L'A N G L I E R. M • W. ALLSOP respeetfally intim lte3 to the inhabitants of Liverpool, Birkenheal, and Vicinity, that he is now in Gla gow, engaged in nsodellinT, a FIGURE of 12A.NGLIE +4, from the only Photograph (on Glass) in Glasgow, which he has parchaied ; and it will be ready for inspection, by the side of MISS ill' 111, in a few days, in his WAX WORK EXHIBITION, LIME-BISSET, Livzarnor.. Glasgow, Ja y 25, 1857. AIIUSEAE*ATS, PUBLIC MEErINGS, &c. THIS DAY. ZOIAL PlitTl2ATlLE — Dnitllatb Performance-7 p.m. E.O-zAr. CoLossstrv—Genera! Entertainment-6.30 p.m. ZooLs.aicsr. GAADEMS-Gr and and Varied Entertainments. 01..savax HALL, Clafftcn-square—Gordon Cumming-8 p.m. Aliases CITSTIL PALICB, Lims.street —lO a.m. to 10 p.m. i 0" For particulars see advertisements. Ete lortipu MONDAY, JULY 27, 1857 THE DAY'S NEWS. The assize calendars continue to exhibit crime, not only fearful iu extent, hut character. Capital conviction follows capital conviction, and the hangman is once or twice a week called upon to execute the extreme penalty of the law upon the murderer. On Saturday, Calcraft was professionally engaged in strangling John Lewis, at Cardiff; who, it will be recollected, murdered his wife for the purpose of gaing a little money to gratify his lust of intoxication. Shortly after Lewis was launched into eternity, Thomas Fuller Bacon was placed in dock at Lincoln, on the charge of administering poison to his mother. We report the trial in another column. The unfortunate culprit, although seeping the indictment preferred against him at the Old Bailey, has been convicted on the atrocious crime of poisoning his mother with arsenic. Of course he has been sentenced to death, and left for execution. On Saturday, two women, named Amelia Collier and Charlotte Butcher, stood their trial before Mr. Justice Willes, at Maidstone, for the murder of a female, near the city of Canterbury; the first named prisoner being the mother. The facts of the case, although atrocious, and manifesting brutality and inhumanity in no small degree, were not sufficient to induce the jury to return a verdict of guilty, and both were acquitted. Mr. Disraeli has placed the motion which he intends to bring forward in the House of Commons to-night in the Order Book. After calling atten tion to the present aspect of affairs in India, he will move for the following papers :-1. Copy of any despatch addressed to the Governor-General of India, and dated about March, 1856, by the late General Anson, relative to the Bengal army. 2. Report on the organisation of the Bengal Army, made by the late Sir Charles Napier to the Duke of Wellington. 3. Minute of General Low to the Council of India relative to the annexation of Oude. We may here mention that much anxiety has been manifested for the arrival of the overland mail, but up to the time we write, no intelligence has been received, per telegraph. From telegraphic enquiries addressed to Cagliari, it appears that no special steamer had arrived there from Malta up to yesterday. On the previous occasion the intelli gence from India was of so momentous and important a character, that the Lieut.-Governor of Malta, Sir M. Reed, despatched a steamer to Cagliari with a summary of the news brought overland. The Peninsular and Oriental has no doubt already arrived at Malta from Alexandria, and as no special communication has been made through Sardinia, it may afford some ground for the opinion that the news is not of so alarming a character as has been circulated for some days past, without the slightest shadow of foundation. The Globe of Saturday evening says :—" In consequence of the continued prevalence of rumours respecting the subject to which public attention is so anxiously directed, it may be well for us to state that, up to this afternoon, the Government has not received any additional intelligence from India." The United States steam screw frigate of war Niagara, Captain Hudson, and consort, the United States war-steamer Susquehanna, will leave the Mersey to-day for the purpose of joining her Majesky's war-steamers Agamemnon and Leopard, on the west coast of Ireland, fur the purpose of laying down the Atlantic telegraphic cable. The labour in which all the vessels are engaged is a truly important one, and they will carry with them the earnest prayers of all good men for their safe and speedy success. Truly, the immortal Bard of Avon was a genuine prophet when he spoke of putting a girdle round the earth in forty minutes. We may here mention that one of the Rock Ferry boats will accompany the Niagara and Susque hanna as far as the north-west Light Ship. The Trade and Navigation Returns were published on Saturday. They show a continued flow of the tide of commercial prosperity. The declared value of British produce ex ported in June was £10,630,000, as compared with £10,661,000 in the June of 1856, and £8,168,000 in that of 1855 ; while for the first six months of the present year the exports amounted to £60,826,000, as compared with £53,968,000 in the same period of last year. and with £43,112,000 in that of the previous year. Contrasting, June, 1850, with June, 1857,we find that the tonnage entered inwards had increased from 632,000 to 714,000, and that cleared outwards from 813,000 to 926,000. In the six months of each year the increase, under the former head, from 3,327,000 to 3,521,000, and in the latter from 4,394,000 to 4,971,000. The year 1856 was of course very much in advance of the previous year, and if we compared 1855 with 1857, we should find the increase still more considerable. The column devoted to quantities entered for home consumption shows that the quantity of cocoa consumed in last June had decreased to 233,0001b5, from 244,0001bs used in the previous June. Coffee had decreased from 2,628,0001bs to 2,565,0001b5. Tea had in creased from 4,774,0001bs to 5,358,0001bs ; tobacco from 2,453,0001bs to 2,551,0001b5. Wine had de creased from 584,000 to 575,000 gallons. Thus the great progress made in 1856 in productive industry and commercial activity is well sustained by the half of 1857 which has passed. On Saturday, several parliamentary reports were published. They show the total revenues and charges of India for the last three years, as well as the estimated revenue and charge for the year ending April, 1857. It appears that in 1853-4 the revenue was 26,510,0001, being 2,044 0001. less than the expenditure ; in 1854-5 the revenue was 27,312 0001., being 1,707,0001. short of the expendi ture ; in 1855 6 the revenue was 28,891,0001, being 972,0001., less than the expenditure ; and the esti mate for 1856-7 is that the income will be found to amount to 29,341,0001., and the expense to 31,326,0001, showing an anticipate' deficiency of 1,981,000/. The principal source of in come—the land revenue—had increased from 14,848,0001. in 1853-4, to 16,682,000/. in 1856-7. The customs had increased in the same period from 1,283,0001. to 2,029,0001, while the revenue from salt had somewhat decreased, and that from opium remained at nearly the same amount. Under the head of Charges we find, from 1853 to 1857, that the direct claims upon the revenue, including charges of collection and cost of salt and opium, had increased front 6,805,0001 , in 1853, to 7,380,000/ in 1857; the civil and political establishments, from 1,973,0001 to 2,500,0001. ; the judicial and police charges from 2,307,0001. to 2,633,000/.; build ings, roads, &c., from 609,0001. to 1,216 , 0001. ; mili tary charges from 10,168,0001. t o 10,537,0001.; buildings for military purposes from 292.000/. to 615,0001. ; the Indian navy, 472,0001 to 603,0001. The interest on debt, on the other hand, h as decreased from 2,504,000 1 . in 1853 to 2,162,0001. n 1857. Our Paris advices inform us that the statement in the .bfoniteur, to the effect that the French Gov ernment does not contemplate sending troops to China, has ex c it e d some little disappointzr nit in Paris, where the Zouaves, Chasseurs, and other choice troops, had already made up their minds for a campaign, rich is spoils if not in glory. The statement was rendered necessary by the attitude of the French and Belgian papers, which have laboured for the last fortnight to prove that the events in India have so completely shaken the power of England as to prevent her from conducting her little affairs in China, and to compel her to sue for the assistance of France. " The fact is," says a Paris correspondent, " that the French naval force now in the Chinese waters is already sufficient to render the British navy both active and zealous assistance, while the despatch of troops would have entailed heavy and unnecessary expenditure, which the Emperor has at heart to avoid." It would seem as if the movements of the ex-Queen Marie Amelie in Belgium was causing some sensa- tion. A late Paris letter states that the mattsr had created a visible movement among the leading Orleanista there, who are all hastening to the Belgian capital. M. Thiers met the ex Queen at Ostend, and immediately started for Brussels, to place himself at her disposal. General Changan nicr bas likewise left the sea-side for Brussels. In all probability a general assembly of the Or leanist partisans will be held in the latter city, under the mask of witnessing the marriage of the Princess Charlotte. Our advicea fi tam Madrid state that on her accouchment the Queen of Spain would creat• several grandees, so as to enable their sons to sit by hereditary right in the Senate The price of wheat and other grain was declining everywhere; in some provinces wheat had fallen in three days 8 to 12 reels the bushel. A letter from a ministerial source says—" The government has this day learned by telegraphic despatch that the differences with Rome are terminated, the Pope having approved of the sales of the church property which have been made. This fact gives great moral force to the Cabinet." Letters from Vienna mention that in conse quence of the events of Italy, orders have been sent to Verona to hasten the works now in progress there for strengthening the fortifications The two:new forts that have been built in the im mediate neighbourhood are to be armed before the end of the year. Verona will then be the stron gest fortress of the empire, Comorn excepted. The Opinione of Turin states that several persons have been arrested in various towns of Tuscany on the charge of being implicated in the late in surrection at Leghorn. It also quotes letters from Parma, stating that several attempts had been made to induce the people to rise, but without success, the Mazzinian party being totally extinct there. The tenor of the news from Constantinople is grave. Discord prevails in the diplomatic body there, and France, Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia are ranged on one side, against Turkey, England, and Austria on the other. The difference arises in respct to the course taken in Moldavia, and the refusal of the Porte to assimilate the electoral law to that of Wallachia, and to arrest the arbitrary proceedings of the Kaimakan. The Commissioners in the Principalities are also at loggerheads on the same subject. The Niagara arrived hero from Boston yesterday morning, with three day's later news. Great exertions are being made by the administration for the subjugation of the Mormon territory. Large numbers of troops were being forwarded to Utah. Kansas was in a peaceable state. General Walker had sent a despatch to the President, intimating that he would surely restore law and order. In New York still more bloodshed had been the result of further rioting. A New York journalist, under the head of" Civic affairs, 6rder,riot s,trife,j ebbing," thus writes :—" Thankful are we that it is consistent with our sense cf duty to our readers to condense into brief space the leading municipal events of the week. To do even this is an irksome task, so foul is the atmosphere, so full of moral, political, physi cal, and legal contention is every hole and corner of our civic departments. The Fourth of July was ushered in and celebrated by the riotous and meaningless street fights of banded hordes of ruffians. Nearly a dozen lives were lost ; nearly half a hundred men and boys were wounded ; and barricades were for the first time used. by gangs of New York rowdies. The police, under their new managers, were powerless ; the military were called out and overawed the brawlers. Order and dis order alternate. TUE City of London is again the scene of a Parliamentary election. Baron ROTHSCHILD has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds—a new writ has been moved for—and the millionaire once more asks the electors of the metropolis to return him as their representative, so that, in his person, a further and final struggle may be made to obtain Jewish Emancipation. This step shows that the question is no longer whether Baron ROTHSCHILD, and gentlemen of his religious persuasion, shall be permitted to take their seats in the House of Commons, but what is to be the result of a conflict between that branch of the Legislature and the House of Lords, should it be resolved to admit the Baron by a simple resolu tion, permitting him to be sworn in any manner he may deem most binding upon his conscience. Our readers will have observed that Baron ROTHSCHILD met the electors of London at the London Tavern, and that he delivered a brief but telling speech, which it would be well if the House of Lords pondered over with earnestness. Short though the Baron's address was, it did not fail to tell when he grappled with the fallacious argument put forth by the enemies of Jewish Emancipation, namely, that there was no cry on the part of the people for the admis sion of members of his persuasion into Parlia ment—that the desire to obtain Jewish Emanci pation was not accompanied by riots such as compelled the repeal of the Corn Laws, and the passage of the Reform Bill. This is a most dangerous doctrine for any statesman to pro pound, namely, that in order to ensure the enactment of just and salutary measures of progress, the House of Peers is justified in withholding its assent, until the mandatory shouts of an indignant populace compel the realisation of all their political demands. Gracious GOD ! if Parliament is to refuse measures of useful and necessary reform until a platoon of soldiers and a brigade of cavalry swarm the streets of our cities and towns better for us at once to remodel the Constitution, and curb the legislative powers of our hereditary peerage. If the doctrine of the Tory side of the House of Lords is permitted to be acted upon, we see nothing for this once happy country but anarchy and confusion—for what free people will bear to have their reasonable political demands treated with contempt and scorn. and a loyal, well-conducted, and useful section of the community denied the glorious privileges which civil and religious liberty confers upon all who live under its influence and sway. From what took place at the meeting which was held at the London Tavern on Thurs t day, it is evident that little hope is placed in the effort made by Lord JOHN Russnu. to settle the question by what is regarded as a THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, JULY 27. 1857. side-wind bill. It cannot be expected that the Lords will stultify their former decisions , at least this session, and' give permission to the House of Commons to alter a form of oath especially prescribed by an unrepealed act of Parliament. Nor is there any faith that the Premier and his colleagues will lend their coun tenance to a line of policy which will bring the House of Commons and the Law Courts into open collision. If the ministry are in earnest about Jewish emancipation, they could make short work of the affair. Matters of much greater delicacy and difficulty have been carried through both Houses of Parliament to a success ful issue. We have not swept away, one after the other, the Test and Corporation Acts—we have not carried Catholic emancipation, and compelled a repeal of the Corn-Laws, to be insulted, year after year by this bigoted and miserable refusal of right—clear and indisputable right—in the case of the Jew. Shall the great fabric of civil and religious liberty, the pride and the boast of every British subject, and the heredi tary glory of every true-born Englishman be permitted to dally session after session in om pleting the extinction of the last remnant of our illiberal and unwise enactments of religious intolerance ? Are we to wait for the convenience of fanatical prelates, and until they have learned to be charitable and to do to others what they would others should do to them ? We say not. Reason, common sense, and justice alike demand that a handful of Tory Lords and a batch of morbid Churchmen shall not rule the Commons of England, and constitute themselves a per petual barrier against the admission of our Jewish fellow-countrymen to their political rights. We must take other means of subduing this political intolerance of the Lords spiritual and temporal than a mere annual protest against their injustice, and a yearly repetition of a repeatedly-rejected measure. The time for protests and petitions has passed away. This is the day for strong language and determined action. Seeing, then, that there is no hope of actual assistance from Lord PALMERSTON, and that Lord JOHN RUSSELL cannot carry his measure, it may be asked what is to be done ? We would deplore a collision between the House of Commons and the Law Courts, as such must take place if Baron ROTHSCHILD is permitted to take his seat by a simple resolution. For although the House has a right, yea, is bound, to vindicate and uphold its privileges, we have grave doubts whether the law would sustain such a course. A simple resolution of the House of Commons is not law, although it may be passed for the pur pose of regulating its own proceedings, if a positive act of parliament still unrepealed, aye, and acted upon, is emphatic against such a line of procedure. But there is no cause to steer such a course. Lord PALMERSTON, if he desires, can concoct a measure of Jewish emancipation, and by having recourse to a " swamping creation" of peers, ' compel the Lords to abolish the present objec tionable form of oath. He can call to the House of Lords a BRIGHT, a GIBSON, a Lord JOHN RUSSELL, a BROWN, and several other distin • guished commoners whom we could name, whose votes would set at rest the opposition of SAMUEL of Oxford, HENRY cf Exeter, my Lord DERBY, and all his fellow peers who row in the same political boat. To do so would please the nation. The Baron's Coronet would sit gracefully on the brows of the gentlemen We have named. It would be a grateful homage to statesmen who had laboured for their country's good, and lent a helping hand in demolishing the iniquitous corn law imports, the purification of the Parliamentary representation, and who have given a hearty advocacy to the mental and moral illumination of the people, irrespective of creed or party. As the time approaches for the next Meeting of the Council every person is wondering 'what will be the nature of the report which will be brought up by the Water Committee in regard to the withdrawal or continuance of the abomi nable Pike bog-wash. Will they persist in forcing the mixed stuff they are now supplying the people with clown their throats any longer, or will they give us back our pure well water in its integrity, or boldly test the Pike in its natural state, and thus give the people at large a fair opportunity of judging of its merits when unadulterated. These are questions which every one asks, but no one can answer. The probability is we shall have some fresh Jesuitical piece of jugglery in order to perpetuate that system of chicanery and deception which has been so long and so successfully practised on the unfortunate ratepayers of Liverpool by that nefarious gang, the Pike jobbers, and those who have hitherto aided and abetted their villianous proceedings. But we give them timely warning. The patience of the people of Liverpool, enduring although it has been, has long since been exhausted, and although the deep discontent of the people has not as yet exhibited itself in any open demon stration yet they have long been ripe for such ; and if they find that their heartless oppressors are resolved to continue to tantalise them—to persist in tampering in the manner they have done with their copious supply of pure water— then they may rest assured that there will be an exhibition of feeling on the part of the Rate payers such as never has been witnessed in Liver pool before, and that right:early, Four hundred thousand people are not to sub mit tamely any longer to swallow a mixture which all abhor, siatriy because a few unprin- cipled jobbers will it—they will rather rise up in their might and majesty, and with one voice, and it will be a voice of thunder, demand that their dearest rights be no longer trifled with by such agents and for such purposes. Everything con nected with the job, from the first day when the abortion saw the light of day, to the present, has been redolent of rottenness. Falsehood, fraud, and deception, have marked every step of its progress, and the same characterise it at the present hour. It has proved an upas tree, which has indeed had the power of striking with moral death all who have had the misfortune to come within the sphere of its blighting influence. There is but one feeling throughout the town, and that is one of unmitigated hatred and dis gust at the filth itself, and all connected with it. Complaints pour in upon us from all quarters, and from all classes ; and, notwithstanding the filtering, the doctoring, limeing and mixing, the stuff is still so discoloured as to be abominable and totally unfit for drinking, and many other purposes. If the 'Water Committee wish to play the part of honesty then they will at once deter mine to restore to the town the dearly beloved well water in its pristine purity, regardless of the specious reports and misrepresentations of jobbing or unprincipled officials. We need no Pike— never did—if the well supply is only honestly and fairly distributed, what it never has been hitherto since the Corporation got the works— how should such things be ? WE have received several communications from highly respectable parties in Birkenhead, commenting on the mysterious death of a young female, which took place a few weeks ago in the Birkenhead Hospital, under what are des cribed as very suspicious circumstances. On in stituting a careful investigation into the matter, we find that there is a mystery about the case which should be promptly cleared up, and it is to be regretted that the conduct of some of the Birkenhead officials should be open to a suspicion of culpable neglect, and demands the fullest explanations which can be given.. The facts of the case, in so far as we have been able to learn, appear to be these :—About the time named a young female took lodgings in the house of a person named DEAR. The house is an eating and lodging establishment close to the Woodside ferry. The girl informed Mrs. DEAR that she had come from Birmingham, that she was to be followed by her brother GEORGE, —she calling herself MARGARET GARDNER . She engaged two bedrooms, one for herself and one for her pretended brother. As she complained of a severe headache she requested Mrs. DEAR to make her a cup of strong tea, which she took, and again had another. As her friend did not arrive at the time promised, she exhibited the greatest uneasiness, and still Icomplaining of illness she went to bed. Next morning she was much worse, and as her brother did not arrive she expressed the utmost anxiety in consequence ; she gradually grew worse, and a medical man was called in to see her, who treated her complaint as English Cholera. Her symptoms became alarming, and Mrs. DEAR applied to the relieving officer— MNERNEY —to have her removed to the Infirm ary. Two medical men were then called in to examine her, and they gave it as their opinion that there would be great danger in removing her, and refused to give a certificate for that purpose : a third however was called in, said to be the "family doctor," who granted the re quired certificate, and hence McN ERNEY was compelled to have her forthwith removed. This was on Monday. In hospital she was seen by Mr. M'DOUGAL, one of the acting house surgeons, who was much struck by her lady-like appearance and the quality of her apparel ; he prescribed for her although he was at a loss to determine the cause of her complaint. On the Tuesday he again visited her and found her no better. On the Wednesday she was visited by Dr. GODDEN, who again called on the Thursday when he found her dead. Drs. GODDEN and APDOUGAL were then applied to by the relieving officer for a certificate of her death, with a view to her interment. This they refused to give until a post mortem examination had taken place, as they could not satisfactorily account for the cause of death. This was not complied with by the releiving officer until de composition had taken place to such an extent that the smell became unbearable, when the re quired examination was ordered, and accordingly the body was opened by Drs. GODDEN and M`DOUGAL on the Sunday, who saw certain appearances which they thought would account for death, and gave a certificate accordingly, when the body was at once interred. In about a week afterwards the coroner received a communication from a highly respectable party in Birmingham informing him that the deceased had been poisoned by a doze of cantharides administered by other hands than her own. The coroner at once proceeded to have the body exhumed, and so far he appears to have acted with due diligence, but decomposition had made rapid progress, the body presenting a black ened mass of corruption. The jury who were impannelled to investigate the mystery com plained of the paucity of information laid before them, and adjourned the inquest for more evidence. Under such circumstances any one would suppose • that every means would have been taken to elucidatc, the mystery by the tothor;,- ties ; nothing of the kind however was done. On the second day no additional evidence was tendered,—no medical men were called as wit nesses—no analysis was made of the contents of the stomach—nor was there a single effort made, by those officials whose duty it was to have probed to the bottom the mystery, and the jury were as much in the dark as ever. This is a proceeding not merely discreditable to the Birkenhead authorities—it is utterly diagrace ful. We care not whose duty it was to have cleared this mystery. They have shamefully neglected it. The medical men do not appear so much, if at all, to blame; they acted on the instructions given them, and only on these. We have heard it said that the expense was urged as an objection against further inquiry. What ! are the Birken head officials to step in and burke the investiga tion of a case so pregnant of suspicion as this was ? Expense, redic ulous the mystery surroun - ding that poor girl's death must be cleared up, regardless of expense. And we ate mistaken if less will satisfy the people of Birkenhead, more especially when it is borne in mind that the appearance presented by the body, on Dr. GODDEN'S post mortem examination, were pre cisely such as might be produced in a case of poisoning by cantharides. MILITARY BUTCHERIES IN SPAlN.—Letters from Seville tell of the extreme dismay caused in that city by the recent unsparing executions. On the 11th, on which day Caro and twenty-fout , others were shot, all the shops were shut and the streets deserted at an early hour of the day. Most of the victims were artisans, natives of Seville, where they had numerous relatives. The execution took place at half past six p.m. As already mentioned, the criminals were drawn up together and fired upon by a company. This was the plan pursued by Cabrera during the civil war, in his wholesale massacres of Chriatino prisoners. At Seville, according to one letter, the work was done but slovenly ; the soldiers must have fired too high, for, at the first discharge, Cara was the only one killed, although stray halls killed two bystanders and wounded a third. At night there were numerous panics in the street, people running in groundless terror , it was reported that all the members of the corporation had sent in their resignation ; on the 12th, news having been circulated that, on the 13th twenty-eight or thirty more were to be shot, deputations waited on the military authorities, imploring a reprieve until the deputies for the province should have communi cated with the Madrid Government. After much solicita tion the delay was granted. At Utera, on the 12th, seven were shot, and four were sent on the same night to Arahal, where they were to be shot on the 14th, with eight ethers and two women. THE RUsSIAN NiVY, &c.—The lately-built frigate, of 44 guns, Constantine, has just been attached to the 9th equipage of the fleet, under the name of Cesarowitsch Constantine. Farther reinforcements for the Baltic fleet are expected to arrive at Cronstadt in the course of the summer from France and America. Among others, there is a new 70-gun screw frigate now on the stocks in an American building yard, and being built for the Russian Government, which is to bear the name of General-Admi ral, when launched. The number of vessels that have cleared in and out of Cronstadt this season amounts almost to 2,000. If we may trust the statements contained in letters from Odessa, the Russia Commercial and Steam Navigation Company is beating its competitors off the waters of the Black Sea. Very soon after the Russian vessels commenced plying, we are informed that the Turks g Lye notice that their vessels plying between Constantino ple and Odessa would be withdrawn, as there was no chance of their being able to compete wish the Russians: PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—There seems to be no probability of Parliament being prorogued before the 20th of August. There are still some very important measures in an advanced state, which it is desirable.eto mature into Acts of Parliament instead of tidin; them over to aother session. The House of Commons now sits every day, as well as every night ; and the new members especially, seem dis posed so keep up their attedanca till the work of the session shall be done. IMPORTANT TO SHIP MASTERS. Captain Campbell, of the ship Amethyst, arrived here on the '2lst, reports that masters:of vessels leaving the po7t of Melbourne, bound to any ports in the China seas, going east about to Manilla, should be very careful, as the islands and shoals are not properly laid down in the present Charts; and that Captain Houston, of the ship Sea, of Liverpool,stated to him, and pointed out the place, where he had a very narrow escape from losing his vessel through the incorrectness of the Charts ; and to his great astonish ment, also, found two ships on shore on a place that is not laid down. As the traffic now is very great, it is high time that some naval vessel was placed there to survey the coast, and if it is not done before long, thtois Inds of pounds worth of property and life may be lost; as for the crews of the above vessels, it is not known what has become of them, as they are all canibals about that quarter. Captain Campbell thinks that the officers and crews would be better employed in looking after the coast instead of lying at anchor in harbour taking the bearings of the forts, and it would be better for the health of their crews, as well as for the bettar protection of the shipping, as this part is very liable to typhoons. The particulars of the above shoals will be given by Captain Houston on his arrival here. Captain Campbell also states that it is not naviga tion that is wanted out there, it is a good look out, for if you went according to your diree'ions you would run your vessel ashore where she would soon go to pieces on account of the breakers. Captain Campbell has been in the India trade upwards of tweniy-six years, and therefore is thoroughly acquainted with every part of the coast. AMUSEMENTS. THEATRE ROYAL.—The advertisements *hick appear in our columns announce a series of entertaiments of no ordinary character, to follow the opening of this theatre. Daring the time of its being closed it underwent consider able alteration of a very :advantageous character. and is now newly decorated, and splendidly lit. Mr Charles Mathews will make his last appearance this year in Liver pool, on the 3rd of next month. We have already men tioned that Madame Ristari, on whose behalf the London journals have become enthusiastic to a degree singularly uncommon among critics, will then appear for the second time in Liverpool. This great actress will perform for three nights. She will appear as Lady Macbeth, as Bianca, in "Fazio," and in other parts. The former is one of her most recent, and, if we are to be guided by metropolitan opinion, perhaps her most successful imper sonation. After Madame Ristori's departwe, two opera companies will successively appear—that of the Lyceum, and that of her Majesty's the atre. THE AMPHITBEATRE.—The engagement of Messrs. Web. star, Wright, and Bedford concluded on Saturday night. ‘. The Willow Copse" was performed before a very crowded audience, and was followed by the burlespe on " Norms," and otjaer entertainments. To-night, Mr. Charles Dillon will appear as Othello. Mr. Dillon will perform several of his most successful parts during the week, among which will be .Betphegor—the character in which he first w 0.4 metropolitan distinction—Richelieu, Virginius, and Hamlet. EVANS'S, UPPER DAWSON-STREET.—It is due to the pro prietor of this establishment that our friends should be made acquainted with the superior class of music that he has lately produced at his establishment. The choicest selections from our most popular operas are nightly per formed in a style that we have never seen equalled apart from the theatre and ordinary concert room. The Miserere" chorus, from II Trovatore, was rendered during our brief visit, a few evenings ago, and we were astonished at the amount of vocal and instrumental talent engaged in it. The company numbers amongst its members Miss Cavendish, Miss E Mowbray, Messrs. Parkinson* Young, G. Dawson, and G. Saunders, vocalists ; and Messrs. Simmons, Blamphin, Shaw, and Herr Meyer, instrumentalists. The room was densely crowded, and We were informed that the regular nightly attendance je equally good.—Front the Era of Sunday. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS• By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, SATURDAY.. His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russirss has arrived. FRANCE. TOULON, SATURDAY. The squadron of Admiral Lord Lyons ins sailed for Algiers. The Mexican Envoy leaves for Paris on Tues' THE INDIAN NEWS. The Government may, perhaps, have teligraphi 6 news from India during the day. The steamer Vectis, with the outward-bound Overland Mail, together with Sir Colin Campbell and suite, left Malta for Alexandria on the 17th. The Colombo had previously left with the heavy portion of the mail. BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS. On Saturday the Board of Trade returns for the month, and the six months ending the 30th 4)( June, 1857, were issued. We subjoin a statemen t of the total declared value of the exports o f British and Irish produce and manufactures during the month and six months, including only th e " enumerate l articles :" For the month. For six month. 1855 1856 1857 9,881,005 .. 56,346,671 Including the " unenumerated articles," t he aggregate exports stand thus : For the month. For six months• 1855 1856 1857 .... 10,630,840 60,826,381 Ma. W. T. BEST.—We are authorised to state that that: is no foundation, in fact, for the report in the Courier tht Mr. W. T. Best, the organist of St. George's Hall, about leaving Liverpool for the metropolis, to take permanent engagement at the Crystal Palace. : the COUNTY COURT . — Mr. J. W. Harden presided - County Court on Saturday. Several judgment suntrnen se . were heard, and orders of committal made. A- larg o number of actions for small debts were disposed of, but case of any public importance came on. fag' GAS EXPLOSION.—On Saturday as a number of belonging to the Gas Company's works were ernPlard laying pipes at Ihotle, an explosion of gas took place a ll o t severely burnt five of them. One of them named Ed wa 6 Moran, of 45, Helsby-street, was much burnt about ts,m, face and arms, and had his wounds dressed at the North er' Hospital. AcciDENTs.--Yesterday a painter, named Aaron gagi fell from a scaffolding in the Sandon Graving-docks a ll , sustained a fracture of the nose besides several bru iw ; So severe were his injuries that he fell into a fit 0,11 , 8 , carried to the Northern Hospital. Several accidents 0 ' - minor description were also reported at the hospital. o f SUDDEN DEATH.—A woman, named Ellen Scanlon , - 0 Cable-street, Manchester, died suddenly yesterdays tie arriving by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at tlO Tithebarn-street Station. On reaching the station ePto was taken suddenly ill, and died in the cab on her vral, h e the Northern Hospital. An irqueat will be held on body this day (Monday). tlif MB SILK. CROP.—A letter from Milan, of the g te f says that, although the silk crop is gathered in the grarip, part of Italy, the amount of the produce is still uncerl 6 o One fact, however, is ascertained—that the crop is nc l ` y deficient as was apprehended. All the foreign seed P r° f f, pered. The seed raised in Lombardy, on the controof generally failed. The spinners and holders of a stocl‘,, o g silk say that the crop is bad. Speculators pretend tPti it i 3 much better than last year. Everybody according to his inter st and his wishes ; but it is gene ra 'l believed that prices will be lower than last year, and °- silk at present is a hazardous speculation. " Literature," says the Illustrated Lando:. Yews," is di represented in the House. What has Mr. Disraeli aor tt for literature since he quitted chambers in Duke-stre.ecs St. James's, and took to parliamentary life ? Has his f ° , l i l o ever been heard on any one subject connected calling by which his father's name is known and he bra self will be best remembered ? Has he ever said one 11 :# touching that miserable pittance of twelve hundred pottoi a year whieh the affluence of Parliament thinks more tu, ample for the sustenance of literature, art, science, at i 'to long ecc. which would have puzzlai Cowley to pat Po either prose or verse? Then there is Sir Edward El'll / fse Lytton : what has he done for literature in the 0 0 ",, , since his baronetcy ? Then there is Mr. Samuel Waritoi has he ever said a word in behalf of authorship ? that we wish for a single moment that Mr. Thack e io should appear in Parliament as a bore about authors; !At just possible that when once in the House he 1 11 :1 i0 11 have forgotten the craft which made him., and by cyl'ttl he will continue to be remembered with Smollett and 11 Fielding." LIST OF PASSENGERS FARR.M.S. NIAGARA.— ne Dr. I , ° gfr Hayward and lady, Mr. Thomas Gilman, Mr. It_ c ielf , Salter, Dr. Talbott and lady, Mrs. Bolton, Mr. NY' A ft , Muntz and lady, Mr. T. A. Simmons, lady, and c hild, sa d W. H. Winanz, lady and child, Mr. J. B. Gough : f it/f lady, Mrs. Knox and infant , Mr. L. Brown, Miss a r ," Miss E. M. Booth, Messrs. H. W. Geldie, Finley, • fa , Fessen, Robert Dunlop and lady, J. M. Casaneiva, Cassia, J, G. Anderson and lady, E. d e Miguel, A. '' f as o J. F. Heviu, J. Jasigi, M rs . M . jasio, Mr. A. Cls° s „ Captain James Collins, Rev. H. Carrn.,dy, M ow 5 e Jasigi, Master Oscar Jasigi D r . J. M. Wheeling. ge,. J. V. Havin, jun., George 11. G ou ld, ArclaibaA . C. Brooks and lady, Miss Kerr, Messrs. 11. 0. L. 1 ,' 1 , -- 0 4 0, Y oung , William Jenkins, J o h n R. El ge, J. R. John D f „, - ii)el Mrs. J. H. S a yl es , d aug h ter , an d nurse , R v S a n d Stinson, Dr. D. B arre t a , R ev. T . S. Whion,Nlrs. FlO. daughter, Mis s C. M ac G u inea s, M r . W. D, ) ,vnis , rs James Goslin, Mr. W. W. Smith, Mrs. Wa-d, S. Hamilt on an d d aug h ter, Ed war d Hamilton,totl` Galerian, J ose P arra d e l a , R. G u th man , F. Vi z. Gamble, James Morton, Luke Wilkes l au L'be r. Durand, John A. Martin. From Halifax : M e ssrs. invio M. Hezen, B6ckwith, Captain Stopford, Ilm %; Churchill, Rev. M. Pickard, Messrs. Silver, 1 3(u itig A l i Anderson, John Murray, Coombs, GI oreham, Myers, Rev. Bishop Binney, lady, infant, and nurse, Hon., e oo o l Peters, Messrs. Anderson, Mignowits, Irving, r 3 r i. Mrs. Crocker, Mrs. Wallace and two children , Mes'ls,, .0 Smith, Aitthgrotd, Hare, Hawes, an Miss Jerm!ill