Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-19 00:00:00

r t SMITHSONIAN HOTEL, Bao: otvalr, Corner of HOUSTON-STREEP, New Yor e. Named is honour of the SMITHSONIAN IraTtruTros, Established at WAsursiGroN, by the U. S. CONGRESS, With Fitnds bequeathed by JAMES SMITHSON, of ENGLAND, 'laving the Friendship of the Opptcmas of the NATIONAL INSTITUTION. Is conducted on the EUROPEAN PLAN, CHAS. H. SMITH. holders' funds, as well as the mighty efforts of the Men of Manchester, with the untiring energy of their Town-Clerk, Mr. HERON, were declared null and void, and that they must com mence de novo. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, desirous of obtaining a better name with the people of Liverpool than his past conduct towards them entitled him, undertook to bring in a new Bill, founded on the amendments proposed in the House of Lords, securing to the Corporation of Liverpool the indemnity of 1,500,000/., just double the amount he formerly stated was amply sufficient for all the purposes of justice, and to compensate for any injurious consequences arising to the inha bitants of the Borough by the transfer of the Town Dues to the new Dock Trust. The Bill was brought in, and, after a suspension of the stand ing orders, was read a first and second time. It is not too late yet to battle against the obnoxi ous clauses of the Bill, amended though it be ; and if any opposition is offered, we are told that the measure cannot be proceeded with this ses sion. Opposition there will be, for Sir JAMES GRAHAM stated that the Dock Trustees would present a petition upon some of the clauses in the new Bill; and unless a compromise can be effected before this day at two o'clock, the Mersey Conservancy Bill will be shelved until the next Session, and then all the parties interested will have to re-fight the battle of the Town Dues and the Dock Management Bill over again. As the matter now stands, we have to thank the Liverpool authorities for the attention, energy, perseverance, and zeal which they have bestowed on the matter. To them are the people indebted for their temporary defeat of this measure of unjustifiable spoliation. Encouraged by the success of the past, surely will induce the inha bitants of Liverpool to be less lethargic, should their vested rights and interests again be assailed by the people of Manchester and the railway interests. who have figured so conspicuously against them this Session. WE have had a good deal of writing and speaking about the Supply of Cotton. Public meetings have been held in various parts of England and Scotland, ht ‘shich deputations from the Cotton Supply Association have held forth, for the purpose of calling public attention to that important matter. Several fields for an extensive culture of the cotton plant have been pointed out. Africa and the West Indies have been named, whilst India has given tolerably good evidence of the vast capability of produc tion which that extensive empire possesses over all other portions of the globe. In glancing at the question of Cotton supply, our first inquiry should be—ls there any grounds for an apprehended deficiency ? An easy solution of this inquiry is found in the statistical returns in the circulars of the Cotton Brokers' Association. According to the state ments contained therein, on Friday last, it appears that the weekly average consumption during the present year amounts to 40,164 bales, against 41,765 in 1856. The total stock on hands on Friday was estimated at 471,610 bales, against 812,450 at the same date last year, being a deficiency of 341,870 bales. According to the average weekly consumption going forward, there is not at present more than eight weeks' supply in hand. This, of course, is exclusive of the stocks which spinners may hold just now ; but this, we have good reason for believing, is at the present moment rather lower than usual. Hence it is that there is reason to fear that there will be a great deficiency of the raw material ere long. Evidences of this undesirable state of things begin to manifest themselves, for already spin ners have had recourse to the manufacturing of fine numberscor working short time. Assuming. then, a serious deficiency of Cotton to continue, it therefore follows that we should look out how we can best procure a supply equal to all the wants and requirements of the country, and to make up for the deficiency which is now weekly increasing. It is at all times desirable that we should be as little dependent as possible upon foreign countries for a proper supply of this most desirable com modity. Two reasons suggest themselves in sup port of this idea—first, by encouraging our colo nial population to follow the cultivation of Cotton, we induce them to become industrious in their habits, and elevate them from degradation and poverty into happy and wealthy communities. In the second place, we become independent of foreign rivals, such as America, and in case of any rupture with that country, could still keep our spinning-jennies and steam-looms going at full speed, although all the Cotton of the American Union was blocked up against us. It is for these considerations that we are desirous to sea a mighty effort put forward to promote the culture of Cotton in many of our colonies, but particularly in the East Indies. At the present moment we are at war with a portion of the population, who dispute our sovereignty in that vast empire and we are putting forth all our energies to subdue the rebels, and re-establish our power and authority in these possessions. One great means of ensuring the steady alle -1 giance of the native population of India is by developing the resources of the country, and opening up new fields of industry, whereby all may obtain abundance of well remunerated labour. We believe that India has a boundless extent of soil fitted for Cotton cultivation. According to the best information we can lobtain, the great drawback to this is want of THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19. ecurnleviA tatt6.—nif; Bay. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Apsley-buildings, Oldhall str.-et, GOO bales Gambler.—Jeffrrson an d aylur. At twelve o'clock, at the broker's offi.le, 7. Eactsnre-bull 'ings, about 28 b , los Cotton, and a quantity of Pickings.—Haywuod and Bl•Viccar. At tweive o clock, at the brokers' office, 16. Exchange•bai?difizs, 1.250 ba. els Rosin, and 3'.10 tons Canapca'.hy Logw•ood.—J. H. Rayner and Co. At tw , lve o'clock, 49 cases East India Tiacal, and 40 tons Llmawood —Cox Bri thers. At the public saleroom, 20 tons Metal Bri.r.stone —Alex. S. Macrae. At twelve o'eloc4, at the brokers' office, Oldhall-street, 4 ca'ks Cream Tarta , and 200 nags Cutch —CII ,dstona and Sadeanrson. At twelve o'clock, at tha broker's office, T aneaster-buildings, Tithe barn-street, 30 tons Loose Myrabo anl3,—Henry Wide. At twelve oVock, at the broker's office, 4. Lancaster -buildings, Tithe barn-street, 214 bales Midder Roots.—John Davies and Co. ♦t twelve o'cl:ck at the pablie saleroom, Exchange-buildings, 20 csies Argob.—Fergusson, Pilians and Co. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, IS, TTackin's-hey, 240 tons Logwood, and 1.5 cage Shnmac.—Balmain and Hill. At twelve (Mee, at the public saleroom, Evchange-buildings, 10 tons Sapan Wood.—Whitaker, Wh tch,-ad and Co. ♦t twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, 1, Oldhall•street, 1.329 bags Sur ac.—N. Waterhouse and Sons. At twelve o'c:ock, at the public saleroom, Exchange•buildirgs, a quanti y of CcclMl24l and Ro)ti.—John Baron a d Son. At twelve o'clo k. at the public sa eroom, Exchange-buildings, a quantity of at O'P. Shelf, 4•gols, and Tart.ir —Bower and Slack. At twelve o%lock, at the brokers' office, qweeting-street, 3) tons Cattle Bones.—Aono'd, Leete, Itoscoe and Co. Lt twelve o'..lock, at the broker's offi e 30a, Exchange-street Fast, about 8 tons Camw,od, a.d 14 bags Ginger.— Percival, Campbell and Co. For rartieu!ars see arly,!rtisement, 2.AUSEHENT3, PrT3LIC bcc. THIS PAY, TIZATILB ROYAL —ltalian Op ra.-8 p.•n. ROYAL .M kilT:l %ATI: —DraalltlZ Performance-7 p.m. CLATros HALL, Clayt m-sqnere—Gardon Cumming-8 p.m. CoLossitun —General Entertainme at-6.'10 p.m. ZooLowcAL GARDENi—Grand .nd Varied Entartainmente Igclea CRYSTAL PALACE, Lima-!treet —lO a.m. to 10 p.m. C-g" For particulars lee advertisements. Li. r qd Et o n 16 r Ila Vthial WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1857, THE DAY'S NEWS. From what took place in the House of Lords last night, it would appear that the termination of the session is not just so near as was expected. Earl Granville said he was not prepared to state that the House would *rise on Saturday next. Lord St. Leonardn had complained that no time would be left for that House to entertain the amendments of the House of Commons to the Divorce Bill. Lord Campbell. hoped the session would not terminate ere the Bill in some form or other became the law of the land. Several Bills were forwarded a stage, and the House adjournec'. The House of Comraons was the whole of the morning sitting yesterday engaged on the Divorce Bill. At clause 53; Sir W. Heethcoate, in the absence of Mr. Gladstone, who was prevented from attending by severe domestic affliction, proposed an amendment, to the effect that the respective parties in a divorce case would be allowed to marry again, but would be obliged to have the marriage celebrated before the register. The object was to remove the compulsion from clergymen contrary to their conscieneious scruples to re-marry divorced persons. The Attorney-General objected to the proposed amendment upon the ground that it would place the ionocent, and guilty upon the same footing, and would give a divorced man the capacity to contract a marriage with a woman who did not know his antecedents, and would thus be drawn into concubinage. Ultimately the amendment was withdrawn ; but a long discussion occurred on another amendment ended in the Attorney-General proposing an amendment, that priests or deacons would not be liable to a pe.nalty if they refused to marry any person who had been divorced on the crime of adultery The new committee on the Mersey Conservancy (2nd) Bill was appointed. The gentlemen com posing it arc—Mr. J. C Ewart, Mr. Fitzroy, and Mr. Kinglake. The home news this morning is not of the least importance. At the Middlesex sessions yesterday, Clark, the man who was charged with debauching and abducting a young Jewess, about fourteen years of age, WAS found guilty, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. The half-yearly meeting of the Liverpool United Gas Company was held yesterdey, and a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared, the Chair man announcing that ‘` white wages during the past year or two had been greatly increased, and raw material of almost every description had also greatly gone up, that company was still able to maintain its dividend, and to have a small sum again for the reserve fund." We don't see, how ever, that the quality of theg as has improved. In the Globe of last night there appears a cor respondence between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Edwin James, Q.C. Mr Gladstone, in the House of Commons, had adverted, in no complimentary terms, to the observations made by Mr. James, as counsel for the plaintiff in an action for criminal conversation. Mr James says —" The sentiment which I intended to convey to the jury was, that a man of the highest position and the most unsullied honour might, from feelings of friendship, and from the most sincere motives, lend his assistanc% to another in procuring the evidence essential to procure a separation from a wife who had dis honoured him, and vvhc, he believed, was no longer worthy to bear his name." Mr. James suggests that it is due both to himself and Mr. Glads .one that the letter be read in the House of Commons. Mr. Gladstone declines to read the letter before the house, as he could not ask it to listen to a document the most material part of which he could read only to question r.nd contradict. So the matter rests. • The detailed news by the West India steamer is of some interest. The health of the various islands was rather satisfactory. At St. Thomas, a fire of ra her an alarming character had broken out, but owing to the prompt exertions of the crews of two of the Royal mail steamers, it was speedily subdued. His Excellency, Charles Henry Darling, Esq , the new Governor of Jamaica, had arrived at Kingston. He was received with the 'lotions due to his exalted station, and with the pleasurable feelings which ancient recollections very generally excited thr..ughout the community ; his Excellency having for many years resided in the island -L--first, as Secretary to His Excellency Sirl.7nil4.l Smith, "art., while in the ad ministration of this government, and subs - goently as Secretary, temporarily, to Sir Charles Grey His Excellency was sworn in on the 24th inst. with the customary and his administration may thus be sail to hasa. formally commenced. A large anti i n fi d ential meeting has been held for the purpose of adopting an address of tharks to the Lieutenant-Governor, Major-General Bed, , hho had administered the go v e rnment fora period of fourteen months, which was unanimously agreed to. The intelligence that the English government had pledged itself to adopt more stringent measures to put down the slave trade on the coast of Culai, hay been received with the highest gratcation by the whole of the inhab'tkrits of Jamaica, where the effect of the impunity at present granted to the traffic is, from the scanty nature of its free population, more seriously felt, perhaps, than in any other West Indian colony. • We have dates from the republic of Salvador to the 2ith of June, from which we learn that General Barrios, late commander of the Salvadorian forces in Nicaragua, made an unsuccessful attempt to get up a rev:lution against the Government. The cholera is raging in the State of Salvador, at Cojutepeque, San Salvador, Sonsonati, and other towns. At the end of June the deaths in Sonsonati averaged sixteen a-day. The surveys of the Pacific terminus of the Honduras Railroad at LA Union are progressing in a most satisfactory manner, and will soon be completed. From Chili our advices say that the political trials that have been so long going on, are brought to a close. Same of the offenders have been condemned to death, but it is thought that the Government will commute the sentence. Among the Government measures proposed, is a law regulating banking establishments, and another permitting the alienation of entailed estates The cost of constructing a dock at Valparaiso has been estimated by Mr. Chevalier, the engineer appointed by government to report thereon, at $200,000, and hopes are entertained that the undertaking will be carried out. A subsidy of $40,000 per year for the service per formed by the P. S. N. Co. in keeping up the monthly communication wilt Chiloe, and another for the steam navigation of the river Bio Bio, has been asked by government. The El Peruano, the official paper of Peru, con tains the correspondence between the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and H B. M.'s Charge d'Affairs in Lima, relative to the seizure of the steamers of war Loa and Turnbes by Admiral Bruce, on ac count of the attack on, and pillage of the British steamer New Granada by the former vessel. The Secretary demands that the steamers seized be retained for the benefit of Castilla's party, which the Charge refuses t.; comply with, on the grounds that he would thus be violating his instructions, by lending aid to one of the contending parties. The upshot of the whole is, that the Turnbes has been finally delivered over to the existing govern ment, which guarantees to rn:llte good the amount of treasure ($32,000) pillaged from the New Grana da, if called upon to do so. The Loa had been set at liberty some time previously. There is not much news of importance from the Continent this morning. The French mails had not arrived last evening, so that we are not in possession of any intelligence from that terri tory. The Holstein Diet was opened on SlturAay. The opening speech cf the Danish Commissioner is described as conciliatory, but the Diet unani mously replied to it by electing, as its President, the leader of the national opposition in the country, and another well known orator of that party, vice-president. Matters hero seem rapidly verging to a crisis. • There is a prospect that the AustriAn Govern ment, although reluctantly, will disown some of the acts in which its representative at CJnstanti nonle, in connection with Lord Stratford de Red cliffe, Permitted himself to be eu2agad, in the affair of the M oldavian elections. SIR JAMES GRAHAM has out-heroded himself in the shifting character of his public principles and policy. His conduct on the Mersey Con servancy Bill proves that he is capable of changing his tactics on any great and important question, with a readiness and facility far beyond that of any other member of the House of Commons. Our readers are aware that Sir JAMES GRAHAM was the chairman of the Select Committee appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the preamble and provisions of the Mersey Conservancy Bill. As the Bill stood at the second reading in the Commons, it contained a clause, the simple object of which was to deprive the Corporation of Liverpool of the Town Dues, without any compensation or consideration whatever. From the very first, Sir JAMES GRAHAM was in favour of this outrageous proposal. He manifested this feeling by his general remarks and bearing towards the learned counsel who represented the Corporation and the Dock Trustees. In fact, his whole conduct was more like that of a paid advocate for the promoters of the Bill, than the president of a tribunal which was to judge and decide between the contending parties. It was only when compelled by the unanswerable facts and figures which the counsel, opposing the Bill laid before the Committee, and graphically elucidated the monstrous injustice of taking away the Town Dues, and the serious injury which must be inflicted upon the inhabitants of Liverpool, if compensation was not granted, that the Right Honourable Baronet began to listen to reason, and consent to something in the way of an equivalent being paid to the Corporation of Liverpool. The nature of the compensation, and the terms by which it was accompanied, ren dered the boon comparatively valueless, so much so that the Corporation and Dock authorities were no doubt animated to exclaim, " Thank you for nothing." They certainly felt it their duty to continue their opposition to the measure, and for a number of days gave effective battle before the Select Committee of the House of Lords. Their efforts were not unsuccessful, for we find that that committee rejected the Bill as it was first laid before them ; but being anxious that the matter in dispute should be settled during the present session, they con sidered the clauses of the Bill seriatim, and made such alterations in their respective provisions as wculd be likely to meet the wishes of all the parties both for and against the measure. In the first instance the amendments introduced by their Lordships was an augmentation of the com_i deration, for a surrender of the Town Dues, to 1,500,0001. In other respects the Bill left the House of Lords in a much more favourable condition towards Liverpool interests than it was when sent up by the Commons. On 11onday Sir J. GR kIIANI called the attention of the House to the alterations made in the Bill by the Select Committee of the House of Lords, and stated that as the main amendment—an interference with the amount of compensation— involved a question of privilege, he was desirous of giving way—conceding the amount named by their Lordships' Committee, and, in fact, " eating his own leek." As this could not be done without a Select Committee inspecting- the minutes of their Lordships' journals, he moved that it be appointed. This was allowed, and at six o'clock the Committee reported that further proceedings in the Mersey Conservancy Bill be adjourned for three months. Thus all the exertions of the Great Western Railway Com pany, and their lavish expenditure of the share- roads, and means of irrigation. As to the latter, we find that the total tail of rain in the Cotton districts of India is greater than the fall in the Mississippi. Existing drawbacks could be remedied by the construction of irrigational works, and the formation of a stupendous canal. It is also requisite to improve the fixity of tenure, and thereby encourage the peasantry to bring their land into improved cultivation. Nor should there be any want of means to effect an extension of railways in India, and the con struction of canals. We can come forward and aid the financial difficulties of France, Sardinia, and Turkey ; we can invest in the railway projects of Holland and Russia, and buy stocks and shares in the United States. A people so plethoric of capital can surely assist by their money the development of Indian resources. The people of Manchester have taken the lead in this Cotton-supply question. They should not be given so much to talk. That will do little to remedy the evils complained of. The Bombay Times, of the 10th of July, at the same time, wisely remarks—" If the Manchester Men really want Cotton from India, and hope to get it, the sooner they understand the conditions upon which alone we can supply them the better. First, let them come forward with a loan to the Indian Government of five millions sterling, to be laid out in roads and irrigational works in the Cotton district of the Presidency." And again The Manchester Men are requiring us to make bricks without straw, while they simply keep urging us to grow Cotton. The price they offer is fair enough, and we would gladly supply them on the terms ; but if that is all they can do for us, it is useless to expect us to compete with America." These are plain but stubborn facts. We cannot expect that a population such as that of India will throw off their natural habits and dispositions, and become industrious and indefatigable, to promote the manu facturing interests—the cotton autocrats—of Manchester. We hope that these remarks will induce the Cotton Supply Association to adopt some more practical mode of effecting the object which it has in view, than merely holding public meetings, and delivering long-winded orations upon the serious consequences in store for this country, should we still be obliged to draw our main supply from the United States. The lengthy speeches which have already been deli.vered on the subject here and elsewhere have induced our Indian cotemporary alluded to, to make the following remarks These Man chester Men will go on talking about the matter for the next ten years. in all probability ; whereas if there were one really ahle man amongst thein, who would grasp hold of the simple fact that our cotton fields want capital invested in them, and set at once about arranging that investment, ten years hence there would be no room to fear that their mills would suffer a cotton famine, though America were suddenly engulphed in the waters of the vast oceans which surround her." This statement should not be without its effect ; and if the people of Manchester are earnest on the subject, they will lose no time in taking it into their most serious consider ation. THE SroLenvs.—There is really some show of justice in the cr ntinned demands of the Cork Constitution for further irqeiry into the allegations preferred against Spollen', wife, by Mr. Curran, in the course of his able defence of the prisoner. Following up its recent remarks upon this branch of the case, the Cork paper asks—" Is a woman publicly impeached of having attempted to procure the execution of her husband to remain at large? Is there to be no trial, no inquiry, no investigation of the grounds on which the accusation was preferred ? If the Attorney. Gmeral sleeps shall the press sleep ? Ara our Dublin cotemporaries to suffer the startling statement of Mr. Carrara to be forgotten ? Is it not batter worth their attention than were the host of 'rumours' on which they Expended so much speculation? Then why are they silent? Tnere is a clue to the murder. Either Sp ellen was the murderer, or Mrs. Sp Alen knows cvh r was. There is no escaping that dilemma. lirw without knowledge of the murderer could she have told where the plunder was deposited! How could her statements to the police have been verified, and their search for it have been successful ? Hew, moreover, did Spollen's razor get into the canal ? We put these ques tions merely to show that if Spollen is innocent Mrs. Sp Alen has a secret in her possession which ought not to be left there, and that if he is not innocent she ought not to be made the victim of the foil' est calumny ever uttered against a mother and a wife. No license can excuse, no exigency can justify it. Either it is true, and she is worse, more heartless, more hardened, mere infamous than the shedder of Mr. Little's blood ; or it is false, and but we must not trust ourselves with the inference. Be it which way it may, it is the duty of the law officers to search it out, and the duty o' the press to keep them to it . Wecrever the accusation is believed that woman stands in a more undesirable position than Spoilen stood in before he was arraigned : and ought this to be so and she still at large? Is that the result we lock for from legal process in superior courts? Is one to be a-quitted that another, unconvicted and unqUestiened, may be condemned ?" THZ ATLANTIC TZLEGUAPH.-We are glad to fin I that, although the check sustained .by this na;ional undertaking through the loss of a portion of the cable, owing to the too sudden application of the brakes connected with the machinery at a tine when the stern of the Niagara was down in the trough of the sea, has had the effect of dis appoining for a time the hcpas of the public as to the realisation, during the present month, of telegraphic com munication across the Atlantic. The h7pes and antici patiw-is of those engaged in the enterprise never theless, more and more co:Armed and sanguine as to the perfect practicability of Transatlantic telegraphy, An investigation into the precise causes which have led to the temporary cessatiJn of operations is no v being conducted by the directors, and we shall be able to publish authoratively in a few days the result, containi:ig a truthful statement as to the present mishap, and possibly the details of future operations. Meanwhile we may state that the immediato cau 3e of the breakage was as follows : " The engineer in charge of the brake on board the Niagara had retired for a short time from exhaustion, and a new assn occupied his place. The Niagara was pitching in a heavy sea, and it is believed that the man at the brake — either from fear at the novelty of his pssition, or from want of experience, put on the bite' at a time when the ship was stern down 'to the trough of the sea, instead o 1857. T/ relaxing it at that point. The consequence of this was that when at the next oscillation, the bows of the ship descended, a dead nip was put on the cable, and the whole weight of the Niagara's stern wrenched it upwards and broke it. But for this untimely circumstance, all had gone as well as the best friends of the union of England and America could wish. T%e p-ophets of evil had said, that once the slender cable reached the great ocean depths it would be attenuated by its own weight, or that if it sank, it would be so inj tre,d or oppressed by the superincumbent weight of water, that no signals could be put through it. Both these hav proved utter fa Tile cable sunk in 1,500 fathoms of water twenty-four hours before the accident, and from that time was paved out at the average rate of four knots per h )nr, until, at the time of the event, a depth of 2,000 fathoms had been reached. During the whole of this time the electric signals positively went on improving. It would appear that the effect, if any, of the weight was simply to compress the pores of the gutta percha and thereby develop more completely its insulating properties, while, with regard to the special conformation of the cable itself, its beautifully elastic nature appears to have peeectly adapted itself to the rapid descent from 460 fathoms to 1,700 fathoms, which occurs within a limit of twenty miles, commencing from the two hundredth mile away from the Irish coast. It is not yet decided whether a further attempt to lay the cable will be made thi3 year, but informition as to the average state in September and October of the weath,r, with reference to fogs, ice, and other nautical pints i❑ the Atlantic, is being obtained elm this point, and carefully collatcid. The impression of all concernel in the carrying cut of the project is one of hope eni stinguiee expectation that the temporary retardation now felt evil', by the expe rience it has given to all concerned, lead assuredly to a successful issue upon the next eccasion.—elforning Chronicle. THEATRE ROYAL. RI GOLETTO. " Rigoletto" was performed last night, Ronconi playing the part of the Court Jester. Despite a failing voice and weakened frame, he showed himself a great artist, and elicited the most enthusiastic applause. Signor Neri Baraldi took the part of the Duke with great success, hiving a rich, full-toned tenor voice, very highly culti vated, and used with great taste. Signor Tagliafico was, as usual, admivably made up for Sparafacile. and sang his music with his accustomed skill. Signor Polonini was grand and effective as Monterone, and delivered the male diction npon Rigoletto with great energy and power. Md'ile Tagliafico executed her little part of Giovanna well. Millie Nantier Male acted Magdalena, and sang the music in the most satisfactory manner ; but we can find no words to express the completeness in acting and singing of Mdlle B'ssio, in the unfortunate and ill-used Glide. A lovely voice and most finished and expressive style; a fine person, with most graceful and impassioned action, combined with the utmost refinement of taste, would still leave much untold. The duet between herself and the Duke was enthusiastically encored, as was her solo, immediately after it. The quartett to which we alluded in our account of the opera yesterday was very effective and but fer the lateness of the hour, near eleven, would have been encored. The Trio immediately preceeding the murder of Gi'der was also very powerfully given. "La Dolma e Mobile" was encored and repeated with great success. Whatever may be said of Verdi as a musician, it cannot be denied that he has produced a most effective opera. Whether the music be original or not, it is suited to the situations, and full of melody, and we cannot wonder at the popularity of Rigo'etto in Italy and else where. The audience, not so large as it ought to have b sea with so fine a representation of a new work, exhibited a tendancy to check an absurd custom which has crept in with the star system, that of "receiving" the principal singers with applause in the middle of a piece of music. We are quite sure that the singers would rather not be interrupted in an impassioned entrance, but would much prefer being allowed to complete their performance and receive the applause after it. The music is spoiled, the action and expression weakened, and the simzers robbed of their enthusiasm, to acknowledge plaudits which had much better be reserved till they can do no harm. We would urge upon the public this reservation of their own enthusiasm. so as to give fair scope to that of the performers. This is especially to be requested in the ease of Don Giovanni and Le Nozze de Figaro. In both the principal performers commence the Operas with beau tiful music, which is sacrificed. The introduction to Don Giovanni, the most dramatic thing that Mozart ever com posed, is destroyed by this absurd custom, and it is in consequence utterly unknown, except to those who have heard it in private. " Cinque Diece," the pretty duet with which:Lc no:ze de Figaro commences, is placed in the same predicament, and the performer inconvenienced and interrupted by what is intended to be very c mpli mentary, but is, in fact, impertinent, would be omitted with benefit to all parties. We hope we have heard the Itst of it. " Fra Diavolo" is the opera to night, in which Madame Bosio will take the part of Zerlina; Madame Parepa that of Lady Alleash; Roaconi that of Lord Atic , asli; Neri Baraldi, Lorenzo ; Gardoni, Era Diavolo ; T glisfieo, Polonini, and Zelger complete a very ong cast. The opera is so well known in its English dress, that we need not describe it. CRUISE OF HER MAJESTY TO CHERBOURG. Poars)rourit, MONDAY.--Her Majesty's steam corvette, Curacoa 21, Captain Forbes; Osborne, Admiralty yacht, Master-Commander Bowes; and Banshee, st am despatch yacht, Master. Commander H. W. Allen, left this harbour last night, and proceeded to Cowes, where they anchored for the night. At one o'clock this day Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, &c., left Osborne Palace, and embarked on board the Victoria and Albert, Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, at 1 20 and weighed immediately for Cherbourg, the Curacoa, Osborne, and Banshee in company. Her Majesty will touch, probably, at the Channel Islands, en route Royal salutes were fired by the Royal Yacht Squad-on house battery, and the Curacao, on the Royal ember k ation. THE GREATEST NOVELTY produce] in LiverpoJl this season will he 111-.‘ balloon ascent next Monday, at the Z mlogical G adens, and the parachute decent, with a native of A'lica attach,d to The C toreogrAphic troupe, and a lot of other attractions, will form part of the day's amusements. FATAL AncinzNr.—Yester.lay, a boy named John Molloy, aged five fears, a labourer's son, residing at 19 court, Lace-street, was killed at the sAith end of the Prince's Dock. It appeared that the decoased and another lily were struggli , g about a half-penny when deceased fell, and the wheel of a float passed over his head and killed S. C[AL FESTIVITY.—The operatives in the employ of fir. Mylrea, tailor, Castle-stye t, held their annual feast at the Lamb Inn, Wavertree, on Saturday. The workm n, to the number of thirty-two, sat down to a sumptous dinner, which did much credit to the hostess (Mrs. May). The chair was occupied by Mr. R. Williams. After the usual keel teas a and sentiment the party were ewertained with vocal and instrumental mwsie until a late hour, when they broke up expressing their entire satisfaction with the day's proceedings. T H E STEADIER WATERLOO.—This vessel, which ran upon a ledge of sunken rocks, near Ballywater, oa Wednesday last, during a dense feg, was fortueately gut off yesterday morning, at high tide, and she was towed up to the quay by the steam-tugs Woud.-r and Vesta, yesterday evening, about three o'clock, The Waterloo owes her safety entirely to the calmness of the weather during the time she was up - m the rack. he will be put immediately upon the patent slip t, undergo the necessary repairs. —Belfast Mercury, of Monday. _ THE BISHOP OF CAULISTE ON THE INDIAN CRISIS.—Thc Carlisle Examiner publishes a letter on this subject, which the bishop has addressed to the clergy of his diocese. His lordship, after urging the duty of offering up prayer in the various churcl es in the diocese, concludes with these remarks :—" When we think of the horrors and cruelties which have accompanied this fearful mutiny, and when we remember the numbers of the mu iueera, and the time which must elapse before the reieforeetuents can arrive, I am sure that you will feel that it is only to a Gni of mercy, love, and Power, even to our God in Christ Jesus, that we must look. Let us, then, in our public worship according to the Church's form—let us in our . social circle, and at our family altar, as well as in our private devotions, give unto the Lord the glory due unto His Name ; and I - ..i that sitteth upon the fluud—a King for ever—will give strength unto his people. The Lord will bless His people with peace." (Psalm xxix ) The Carlisle Exam:ner thus comments upon the document : ~ The Bishop of Carlisle seems as unconscious of wrong or error in our government of India, as if the Board of Control were a branch of the Foreign Office, and Bengal a part of the family property. The letter to his clergy contains two references to the Psalms, but not an atom of the spirit of the New Testement. It takes for granted that the Almighty is entirely upon our bide in this great contest, and that we have nothing to do but implore His aid, as in a time of national, undeserved trouble. There is not a syllable of that confes;ion of national sin which figures so gracefully in the compositionof our late respected Dean—and not a hint at the necessity for that I wisdom and energy which he of London prays for as the best gift of heavenly mercy." TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph SPAIN. The Cortes are to assemble in October. NAVIGATION OF THE DANUBE. GALATZ, AUG. 9. There is but little hope of real freedom of navigation and commerce on the Danube, with out a new European Connference. The Turkish and Austrian Commissioners, however, are of opinion that neither the Treaty of Paris nor the Commission can compel the States on the banks of the river to execute works favourable to the navigation of the river, unless they are indem nified for the outlay from the produce of the said navigation. Lord Palmerston, in the House of Lords, said that a Conference has been agreed upon by the Governments interested in the subj:ct. ITALY. The Verona Gazette, an official paper, says it is authorisedlto deny that during the excursion of the Pope through his States, many addresses were presented to him praying for liberal reforms, and institutions in harmony with Cie pretended requiremento of the period. The Piedmoutese Gazette, the official Sardinian paper, had not only - asserted the fact, but when it was contra dicted by the Bologna Gazette, reconfirmed it' with details, supposed to have been communi cated by the Sardinian Government. CHINA. SINGAPORE, JUNE 28. The French squadron is now setting sail for Hung Kong. The English frigate, the Sirnoorn, having on hoard the regiment of Fasilers (the sth), has shaped her course for India. JUNE 30. Lord Elgin has embarked for China. All the honours were paid to him here. THE PRINCIPALITIES. JASSY, JULY 30. The elections are all finished. The inhabitants of ne towns, the small proprietors, and the peasants have abstained from voting. BOARD OF TRADE NOTICE. The Gazette contains a Board of Trade notice, that the trade and fisheries of Greenland are not open to British vessels. MISS JESSIE M. WHITE. Probably more absurd stories were never invented than those which have been published in English newspapers during the last month with regard to the character of the young lady who, not long ago, by her eloquent lectures on I aly, roused the enthusiasm of Newcastle republicans to fever heat. Is it likely, we would ask, that a conspirator v 7 1 1 .0 has had so much experience as Mazzini, would entrust all hie secrets'to h mere girl, who while living at Genoa openly pro fessed herself his devoted admirer, and over whom therefore the authorities would naturally keep the closest watch? If suspicion fell upon any one it would surely be upon her else at all times and seasons, with an audacity that to others might have proved fatal, argued in favour of the cause for which Italian democrats have so often risked their lives ? If Miss White had been placed at the head of this conspiracy, and entrusted with the duty of making all the arrangements for the insurrection, what course could the Mazzinian party have taken better calculated to force the plot on the notice of the authorities ? The fact is, Miss Whi e knew no more about the insurrection till it actually took place, than was known by any one who has taken the trouble to study the tactics of the M. zzinian party- Whatever Mazzini's faults—and amongst them want of ,judgement must be included—cowardice at least need not be imputed to him. He confided to no one the execution of his plans, but himself took the leafing part in carrying them out, and is himself responsible fer their failure. 00 the night when the insurrection broke out at Genoa he viso in the city, and to this day he remains at Sardinia, coun selling the prisoners, and perhaps preparing—for he 1 6 a man whom nothing can discourage—for another revolt. _ This statement may undeceive those persons who supposed that Miss White was another Maid of Saragossa, and lied cha-ged the Pieclmonteselroeps at the head of the rebels. Her part in the war, if the insurrection had become a war, would have been very humble ; and instead of planting the Republican flag on the walls of Rome, she would pro bably have been contented to eevote herself, like WO Nightingale, to the succour of the sick and wounded. Why than, it may be asked, has Miss White been im prisoned? We might almost be excused from replying.to the question, since it is one which the Sardinian authoritie s themselves now find it difficult to answer. But the fee's o f the csse are these. When Col. Pisecene's house was search t d, there was found amongst his papers a letter from a lady in London, to the Colonel's introducing Mis s White as one who had done good service to the Italian c use. This letter served as a pretext for the poli ce to search Miss White's residence; but the search was fruitless, for no document whatever could be found whieb in the slightest degree implicated our countrywomen' She was, however, placed under the surveillance of the police, and in a few days after she was ordered to quit the, country. As there were really no grounds why she should be sent away, Miss White applied to the British authoritie s for redress ; but the Consul, with an utter absence of, W e say the least, gentlemanly feeling, insultingly suggeste d that perhaps Miss White was no better than she should b6' end that it did not much :matter what became of her' We believe that every one who knew Miss White les this country, however much they may disagree with her, will unite in repudiating this insinuation as an unfound ed calemny. Violent and fusee ical many may think he r ' but no ono who can pretend to form an opinion on the subject will deny that a purer, nobler-hearted women, O f pne more regardless of self, never existed. Having fail ed in obtaining permission to remain in Genoa, Miss Wilt demanded a trial, and as this could not be refused, she ' accordingly lodged in prison, where she now is, u slees the report be true—although her friends in this country t have not received any eoefirmation of the rumour—thee she has been politely conveyed out of the country by t' s Sardinian authorities. The laet accounts state that sP was well treated, and without fear of being convicted 013 her trial, as the government was quite unable to produce/ against her one particle of evidence. These statement/ the correctness of which may be relied on, we have thong it necessary to make, in order to disabuse the mind°° 6 many worthy persons of prejudices which they may 115 ` I conceived against Miss White.—Newcastle Chronicle. WHAT is COMING to LIVERPOOL on the 31at instant ?—Why, THE GREATEST NOVELTY IN THE WORLD WHERE is IT TO BE SEEN THAT'S THE QUESTION,