Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-17 00:00:00

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. BARRY SULLIVAN respectfully informs his Friends and the Public that bia,BENEFIT will take place on WEDNESDAY next, the 19th instant. on which occasion he will appear as CLAUDE MELNOTTE, In Bnlwer's celebrated Play of THE LADY OF LYONS ; and, for the first time, s WIL LIAM, In the late Douglas Jerrold's favourite Drama of BLACK-EYED SUSAN. do-uniercia aar. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 2, Dale-street, 500 bags Rape seed, and 800 Empty Bags.—Browne, Hunter and c o. ♦t twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, 7, Exchange-chamber", 60 bales Hex can Fibre.—F. J. Eatoh. At twelve o clock, at the brokers' office, 16. Exchange-bnildings, 300 tons Carnpeachy Logwood —J. H. Rayner and Co. At eleven o'clock, at the com - nercial saleroom, Temple•conrt, a quan tity of Frair.—Jams Adam, Son and Cs. nartieulars sea alvertsrmenti. PtlBLte, THIS PAY. RoTAL Am PHI T EAT R E—D raMa Performillcs-7 p.m. CLAYTON HALL, Claytm-square—Gordon Cumming-3 p.m. arAs. CoLnsszum—C;oneral Entertlinment-6.30 p.m. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS—Grand nnd Varied Entertainments AlMaio& CRYSTAL PALACE, Lime-street —lO a .m„ to 10 p.m: [,„' For particulars see advertisements, gigc llfirtbtru (j MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. The House of Commons had a sitting on Satur day. Mr. John Locke presented a petition from Mr. E. A. Glover, the late member for Beverley, prayintz for an inquiry into his qualification, on account of which his election was declared void. The Speaker ruled that the question having already been settled by a select committee, could not again be entertained, and the petition could not be received. The Charitable Trusts Act Continu- ance Bill, the Mutiny (East India) Bill, and the Parochial Schoolmasters (Scotland) Bill, were read a third timo and passed, The Militia Bill went through committee. In reply to Mr. Hadfield, the Lord Advocate said he had been in communication with the Lord Chancellor on the subject of putting Scotch con firmations on the same footing as English and Irish probates, and he should lose no time next ses sion in doing for Scotland what was in course of being done for England and Ireland. During the consideraf on of the Appropriation Bill, a strong appeal was made by Mr. Caird in support of a grant for a museum in Edinburgh, which had previously been negatived in committee of supply. The Chan cellor of the Exchequer declared that nothing could be done this session with reference to*the grant, but promised to re-introduee it next session. The Customs' and Excise Bill, and the Jurisdiction in Siam Bill went through committee. The Probates and Letters of Administration (Ireland) Bill was considered as amended and ordered for third reading. The Ministerial white-bait dinner at Greenwich did not take place on Saturday as was anticipated would he the case. It is postponed to Wednesday next. It is still expected that the prorogation of Parliament may take place upon the appointed day—namely, Saturday next, the 22nd. But when we look at the delays in the debates upon the Divorce Bill, we fear that the session may be prolonged half a week, or even an entire week - longer. The Consolidated Fund Bill—containing the clause for appropriating the money votes of the session—has be.ua read a first and a second time in the Commons, has gone through com mittee, and was reported to the House on Satur day, and may be read a third time to day, and sent to the Lords, where it will be passed in three or four days. So far all is prepared for the proroga tion. " But," says the Observer of yesterday, " the Government is resolved not to give up the Divorce Bill, nor to have the same dilatory proceedings over again in another session. Thay are resolved to keep the session open till the Divorce Bill is passed. of wbich there are, however, some trouble some clauses, to be yet passed, in the face of a " factious opposition." The proceedings in the House of Commons tc-morrow will decide the question. No one can tell what course such an opposition as Gladstone and Co will take, even when the real question at issue is virtually decided. If the gentlemen of the Commons make way with the Divorce Bill to-morrow, they may be relieved from the labours of a long session on Saturday next. If not- the Divorce Bill must, at all events be passed." The state of affairs in India continues to absorb the attention of the public. The news by the last mail is not looked upon as so discouraging as was expected. It is gratifying to know that the Bombay and Madras armies remain still perfectly quiet and undisturbed, Even in Calcutta and sonic parts of the Bengal Presidency, several of the regiments which have been disarmed have memorialised the Government to have their arms restored to them, and ask to be afforded an opportunity of displaying their loyalty by assisting in suppressing the mutiny among their faithless comrades. Meanwhile re inforcements are hurrying on with all the speed of steam, and, we trust, favourable winds, to the scene of action ; and two of the regiments which were on their way to China have already landed in Calcutta. The populations of India take no part with the mutineers, and thus, deprived of the sympathy and assistance of the millions, weakened by discord among their leaders, by insubordination among themselves, and hemmed in by the rapidly increasing British and loyal native forces, the sickening drama of the Indian mutiny may shortly be expected to close with a retribution, which, however sanguinary, could not be too severe, and which, while serving as a lasting warning to the natives of India, will not be without its effect in awakening in this country a deeper sense of the duties and responsiblities of those in whose hands is vested the government of our magnificent Indian Empire. The Right Hon. E. Cardwell was entertained at a dinner in Oxford on Friday. The company was very large and enthusiastic. Mr. Pike, the chair man of the election committee, presided, and gave the health of their guest, when Mr. Cardwell replied, and chiefly dwelt upon the crisis i❑ India, viewing the matter with the eyes of a cautious statesman. He also alluded to the quevien of reform, but here he said nothing beyond pledging himself to take a liberal and comprehensive view of the suvi!ct. A speech was als ) made by Mr. Roundel] Palmer, whose views harmonise with those of Mr. Cardwell. Major-General Windham, M.P., was entertained at dinner on Thursday, at Norwich, previous to leaving England for his new Indian command. The Hon. W. Rous was in the chair, and all the notabilities of tits county were present General Windham mule a long speech in reply to the toast to his lanc2 , l insisting much upon the desira bleness of a more thorough military organiz tlion , and a grea•cr facility of augmenting the army when required : proposing, as a necessary means to attain this end, a ballot militia . In anoLhir column wilt be found full particulars respecting the loss of a p - rition of the Atlantic telegraph cable. It will be seen that 335 nautical miles length of the cable has been lost, the hs. 100 miles of it being in water over two miles deep. The expedition h Is for the present re`ureed to Engl tnd, and it is not know❑ whether any further operations will take place before next summer. A meeting of the directors will be held on Wednes day, to decide upon what course is to be taken. For more ti a i ten days past the rain has pre vailed mere or less in the United Kingdom, and this week harvest work has been entirely interrupted in many pants of the country. In the eastern counties about onc-fourth of the wheat crop is secured in fine condition ; of the remainder, two thirds are cut, and one-third is standing. The weather, on Saturday and yesterday was exceed ingly fine. The arguments in the great Shrewsbury Peerage case have been concluded. On Friday, the Lord Chancellor said the case was a very important one, and their lordships weuld require time to consi ler it. He moved that the decision should be post poned till next session. Lord St. Leonards con curred, and the committee adjourned. Of local news there is very little of importance to-day. We report at full length the trials at the assizes on Saturday. There is no news of interest from the French capital. M. Guitera, an Italian gentleman of respectability, wall known at the BJurse, was, on Friday, sentenced by the tribunalof correctional police to a year's imprisonment and a fine of 1,000 f., for false news, and disrespectful expres sions towards the Emperor, alleged to have been overheard by a police agent, but which the prisoner denied having uttered. From all that is reported at Paris, it seems that a meeting of the Conference on the Moldavian elections is unnecessary. This was, from Lord Palmerston's declarations, the conviction at Osborne. News by way of Constantinople has been re: ceived, concerning the battle between Schamyl and the Russians, mentioned a week ago in cur St. Petersburg intelligence. Of course, here Schamyl has beaten the Russians, while there, it was the Russians beat Schamyl, We learn that the organisation and arming of the Russian " Chasseur " battalions and companies proceed but slowly, and it is by no means difficult to believe that such is the case. Thirty-six separate batalions, and as many companies as there are batalions of the line, are to be formed, and armed with the best rifles that can be procured for money. The fhtilla in the Caspian, which is under the command of Rear-Admiral Wulf, is com posed of twenty transport barques and eight steamer?. Several new vessels are being built at Astrachan, and there is a regular naval establish ment on the island of Ashoorada, which is at no great distance from Asterabad. Intelligence from Athens to the Bth states that bands of Turkish disbanded soldiers infest Epirus, and the situation is represented as most unsafe both for life and property. By the arrival of the -As'a yesterday morning, we are in receipt of one week's later news from the United States. It, however, is not of any political importance. The arrest of Mrs. Cunningham and others in New York (as noticed in our summary in another column), charged with felonious conspiracy to defraud the Doctor's heirs, by the production of a suppostitious child, purporting to be the otTspring of her alleged marriage with the Doctor, and consequently entitled to two-thirds of his estate, caused, when announced, an immediate deepening of the conviction which a large part of the community have entertained, even since the verdict of acquittal, that she was privy to the murder of the man she claimed as her husband. The details which are before the public of this attempt to secure the Doctor's estate, cannot add much to the general evil opinion entertained of her character, while they will undoubtedly strengthen the belief that she had a part in procuring the Doctor's death. The New York Markets were very firm ; Cotton, indeed, had slightly advanced. Breadstuff steady, and freights unchanged. WHEN a house is on fire the inmates do not usually waste time in searching out the cause of the disaster, but they vigorously apply them selves to extinguish the conflagration. The investigation into causes will follow in due time, but the first work is to put out the fire, or to limit the area of its devastation. So with our present Indian difficulty. The investigation into causes will very properly follow the quelling of the insurrection. We will listen to Air. DISRAELI and others after the mutiny is subdued. This is the pressing work of the hour. No doubt many causes have concurred to bring about this result. The Hon. Gentleman specified three ; a little ingenuity might raise them to thirty, and then the catalogue would be incomplete. Very probably we have committed many mistakes ; and the misgovernment of India must be largely blamed for bringing on the present crisis. The extent of our territory ; the jostling against native prejudices, civil and religious; the land tax; the salt tax; the disproportion of European to native soldiers ; the insufficient supply of British officers ; the frequent inability of those officers to converse with their men in the native dialect ; the unwisdom of selecting our most numerous Indian army from one arrogant and pampered caste, the Brahmins; the conferring of British discipline upon those men, putting arms into their hands, and then trusting them to guard fortresses containing large guns and other military stores ; the double government of India, a clumsy and awkward expedient, by which the Honourable Company and the Home Government could ,act as mutual checks and hindrances to one another; these, and probably many other causes, have contributed to produce the present and alarming state of things. But this is not the question that ought to interest the nation at this moment. The time will come for inquiring into the " why and the wherefore," and the demand for the reform of all proved Indian grievances and misgovernment ; but that time is not yet. At present we have to subdue insurrection, to restore the supremac y of Eagland, and show the world and the mutineers that none can effectually dispute our authority or successfully contend with us on the plains of India. Whoever seeks to embarrass the Government, or divert their attention from this one supreme object, or to make the nation think lightly of the present Indian emergency, is either an ignoramus or a knave ; either he has been asleep for the last few months, or he is an enemy to his country. When, therefore, Lord JOHN RUSSELL lately turned the implied censure of DISRAELI into a declaration of assurance that the House and the country would earnestly support Ministers in a vigorous course of action in India, he rightly interpreted the feeling of the country, and gave it timely expression. Mr. DISRAELI'S oration was brilliant, and able, and elaborate; and if to power of elocution there were added somewhat more of steadiness of principle, we should all be proud of the leader of her Majesty's Opposition. Unfortunately, the right honourable gentleman blends far too much of personal feeling and party politics with his brilliant displays, and so mars his own dignity and public usefulness. We entirely accord, and the nation generally agrees with Mr. BRIGHT, just returned for Birmingham, Ithat, in mercy t o I n di a, as we ll as out o f regar d to our own interests and dignity, we are bound Ito put down the military rebellion. But we THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, AUGUST 17. 1857. confess to a grave apprehension that even Ministers may not as yet be duly impressed with the magnitude of the occasion and of the danger. Lord JOHN RUSSELL again spoke out what many were thinking and beginning to ask themselves, when he expressed some surprise that our vast mechanical means of transport were made so little available, that our screw steamers of war should remain unemployed, while soldiers were so urgen.ly and so instantaneously needed in India, and that arrangements had not been made to send some men by the overland route to the scene of conflict. A few thousand men arriving promptly would tell for more than five times that number coming in leisurely some months later. Lord PALMERSTON'S assurance that he has no fear of the result ought not to be held sufficient to satisfy the country. Prime ministers are not infallible, and it is better to be prepared too much than too little. We must steadily persist 'n reminding Ministers and ourselves that the discussion of causes, and even of reforms for India, is quite out of place, and unseasonable for the moment. We must first put our countrymen, their wives and families, into safety against Brahmin ruffianism and butchery ; give assurance to India that our sovereignty is unimpaired; put down the insurrection, and inflict chastisement on its originators and its instruments, from the meanest scoundrel who has dared to insult an Englishwoman, up to the puppet Emperor of Delhi, and the traitor King of Oude. Happily, from all we can yet learn, the insurrection continues almost exclusively military. Some of the scum of the population, and a few of the chiefs here and there, who are more ambitious than wise, may have joined the rebel soldiery, but the mass of both chiefs and people are still with us. We hope it is true that they all feel that far more would be lost to them than gained by the subversion of British authority. With all its faults, we believe British rule is still a blessing to India, This very revolt proves it, because it has hitherto found so little sympathy from the multifarious populations and kingdoms that constitute British India. Under our disasters, this is some slight consolation to us. But if our Ministers trifle and dawdle, and under estimate this conjuncture of Indian affairs, we have no security that the revolt will b restricted to Bengal, or continue to be purely military. By the latest arrival, eight or nine new centres of mutiny are reported, all, fortunately, still in the Bengal presidency, but creeping southward, in the direction of Bombay. Much, therefore, depends on our at once striking a decisive blow. " What thou doest, do quickly" must be our present word to the Government. " Set thy house in order" will follow. After chaos has been subdued, order and beauty will arise. When rebellion has been put down, and ruffian cowardice and cruelty condignly punished, then neither the Govern ment nor the people of England will be back ward to reform all proved abuses, and to confer all reasonable benefits, rights, and privileges, on the hundred and eighty millions of loyal people, who, amid the temptation of a military revolt, and the evil example of eighty thousand rebels, have remained faithful to the Crown and people of England. THE scene that lately took place at Stafford gaol, on the occasion of the execution of the unfortunate convict JACK ON, was such as to add nothing to the dignity of the law, or, we fear, to • the repression of crime. If capital punishment could ever be defensible it would be as a terror to evil doers, and as a riddance to society of members that are found to be incor rigible. But the exhibition at Sttifford was con verted from a salutary warning into a scene of disgust and horror; it resembled a savage butchery; the wretched criminal sobbed, and shrieked, and struggled, and gave every sign of mania and utter despair. The tendency of such exhibitions is to array our feelings against the laws and its administrators. Probably all public executions do more to brutalise the crowd than strike a wholesome fear of repeating the crime., In a moment of passion Wien do not obey their fears ; at the best, fear is but " the hangman's scourge to keep the wretch in order;" but the sources of moral improvement in men lie deeper than their fears. We must touch their more generous feelings, and we must rely on sound habits, ana useful information, and honest em ployment, and improved tastes, for the diminution of crime and the increase of virtue. We can expect no such results from the shocking and disgusting scenes of a public execution ; culprit shrieking, weeping, and struggling against the execution of the last sentence of the law. It was a moat horrible and degrading sight for a crowd of people to look on and witness an un fortunate fellow creature forced like a sheep to the slaughter—like an ox to the shambles. The effect upon the spectators must have been any thing but moral ; horror against the crime must have been lost in indignation against the clumsy and revolting mode of inflicting the punishment ; and instead of conciliating respect for the law there must have been a misplaced sympathy for the sufferer. low long shall such scenes be enacted in England, in the open face of day ? They are shocking to every mind of ordinary cor rectness; they cruelly torture the better and more refined class of minds ; and they harden and brutalise that class whom they were more specially intended to deter from the commission of crime. We have always combatted the right fulness, the wisdom, and the expediency of taking away human life. It fails of its object— it neither protects society ncr reforms the offender. In spite of all our hangings we do not observe that the crime of murder is materially dimished ; and we are satisfied that this vengeful mode of dealing with the criminal never will effect the desired end. Because a man has murdered some other person the law takes and murders him . So a violent and foolish woman who finds her children fighting together commences banging away right and left in order that she may teach them proper behavior. By a vigorous application of the strappado this silly and passionate woman thinks to enforce the law of kindness and to make her children behave as brothers and sisters should to each other. Our Executive is that foolish mother ;—to inculcate the humanities it employs violence, and to teach respect for human life, it seizes the criminal, and, suspending him by the neck, makes him die the death of a dog. Where is the consistency of such teaching, and what must be the effect of such lessons, but to lower the sanctity of human life, and make human nature appear a very worthless thing. If we should be told that the malefactor has reduced himself to this class of worthless beings, and especially that the murderer, who showed no mercy to his victim, should receive none at the hand of society—we reply that the malefactor is still a human being, and that if ever crime is to be repressed, it is not to be repressed by degrading and vindictive inflictions ; the appeal must be to higher impulses within us, and to nobler principles; and the only justifiable grounds of punishments, recognised by jurists and moral ists, so far as we are aware," are, to repair the wrong which has been done in the past, to protect society for the future, or to reform the criminals. If all these ends can be combined, so much the better. But mere vengeance is surely not a ground of punishment at this time of day, and at this era of civilization. Cruel and revolt ing punishments mark a barborous age and people. In our own country they were far more prevalent in ancient times,*than in our own time. In the less civilized East they are more prevalent than in the West, which has made more advance. In China, in India, and in Turkey, torture is still applied to criminals ; —to say nothing of Naples, and other countries that we could name. An English crowd ought not to be insulted by these painful, humbling, and revolting exhibitions. It is an evidence of weakness and incapacity ; a confession that we can only mangle Gon's image upon earth, but not educate, and train, and unfold those high capacious powers which he folded up in man. We call upon all good men and women to aid us in our endeavour to produce a sounder and more enlightened opinion on the practical methods of dealing with crime ; in order that, while we spare no effort to protect society, we may do no thing to retard the reformation of the offender, or to lower the sanctity of human life If the people of Liverpool are not th j e 4 Most abject slaves under Heaven---if they have one drop of freedom's blood in their veins---they will no longer quietly and passively submit to the cruel and relentless corporate despotism by which they have so long been trampled in the dust; they will no longer be the uncomplaining bondsmen of these who have hitherto claimed them as a parcel of cattle, or beasts of burthen, permitted to live only for the pleasure or profit of those who have so far acted as their masters. Let them bear in mind that "Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow." Let them arouse as one man, and with one voice proclaim that they will no longer submit to be plundered, kicked, trampled upon, and poisoned by a company of scheming•quack-engineering adventurers and charlatan chemists, supported although these may have been, and are, by a lot of drivelling imbeciles of Town Councillors. The recent reports of the medical officer of health exhibit a state of things truly alarming. The mortality has been steadily on the increase for several weeks, but last week the number of deaths amounted to no fewer than 265. This is frightful ! To what is this fearful mortality to be ascribed ? To the warm weather, says Dr. DUNCAN. We question this. Ask any person you may chance to meet, the state of his health, and he will tell you he is very unwell, and in nine cases out of ten he will tell you he ascribes his illness entirely to the use of that abominable Pike filth miscalled water. And is this a state of things which is longer to be endured ? Are the people to be compelled to die like rotten sheep, and is disease to be per mitted to make its insidious progress, as it is now doing, in order that corporate jobbers may gratify their cupidity or crotchets ? Certainly not. To one and all of such we say, " thither shalt thou go, but no farther." Talk of waiting the result of experiments, forsooth, with the seeds of death sown at every door ! We have had experiments enough, to our cost and sorrow. And what result need be expected from the further experiments, as they are called ? True, that celebrated amateur electro-gilder and would be-chemist, the liberally-paid philosopher of the Town-hall—TßomAs SPENCER—teIIs us that he has succeeded, by some magnetic process of filtration in decolourising a portion of the Pike water. It may be possible that this worthy has, by some process of magnetism, electricity, or electrotyping, distilled as much water through his alembic as would suffice to mix his own and ITAWKSLEY'S grog ; but that he or all the quacks in Christendom can ever purify the Pike water in bulk is sheer fudge. This eminent chemist might as well tell us that he could, by means of the Atlantic cable, charm all the salt from the ocean as that any of his magnetic protoxides, whether of iron or tin, could have the effect of purifying the Pike water in bulk. Experiments such as are now being made at the Pike might prove highly amusing if the manipulations took place in some chemist's laboratory, and are no doubt highly gratifying to Mr. SPENCER, more so as all the cost is borne by the Corporation, as well as a handsome fee in prospect. Do the Water Commtttee really take the people of Liverpool for idiots, when they imagine that they can accomplish their nefarious purposes by thus throwing dust in their eyes ? Not so long as there is a free and an independent press ; the people at large will cling to it and spurn the scheming jobbers. This will be shown, and, perhaps, that right early. There is no longer any use in temporising or experimenting. We have had enough of that, in all conscience. No, we must now to work, and let it be a word and a blow. The money spent on a parcel of harpies in their pretended experiments and ledgerdemain tricks, would suffice to have given Liverpool ample spring water for every purpose, and the Pike might remain in abeyance. But, we repeat it, this must be tolerated no longer. Let the people only speak out, and the jobbers are extinct. A public meeting must be held on an early day, when those who deny that there is any discontent may find their mistake in a manner which may not prove very pleasant to them more ways than one. THE COURT, &c. OSBORNE, SATURDAY, Are. 15.—The Queen and Prince Consort, with her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, spent the earlier part of the forenoon in promenading about the grounds. The different members of the royal family were also walking about the neighbourhood during the morning. The son of the Pasha of Egypt arrived yesterday, snd was presented to the Queen by Sir Moses Mcntefiore. The Queen of the Netherlands took leave of her Majesty and the Prince Consort this afternoon, about four o'clock, The Prince accompaniel the Queen to her embarkation on board the Fairy. In attendance on the Queen of the Netherlands were the Comte de Ranwick, Mdlle. Heldewier, Mdlle de Pabst, Baron Tindal, and Baron Weckerlin. The Fairy got under weigh, and steamed to Southampton Dock, where the royal carriage of the London and South Western Railway was in readiness to convey her Majesty and suite to London. It is the intention of the Qieen of the ,Netherlands to quit the metropolis on Monday, and return to the Hague. Lieut.- General Sir William Codrington arrived yesterday on a visit, and had the honour of joining the royal dinner party in the evening. The Hon. Miss Bulteel has arrived, and has succeeded the Hon. Miss Byng as Maid of Honour in waiting to the Queen. DEATH OF TIIE DEAN OF LLAND :FF.—We regret to have to record the death, on Wednesday last, of the Very Rev. William Daniel Conybeare, Dean of Llandaff, at Itchen Stoke, near Portsmouth. The recent death of his son, the Rev. W. J. Conybeare, whose Essays in the Edinburgh Review gave such high promise of literary and professional eminence, is said to have hastened the disso lution of the venerable dean. DEATH OF DR. MARSHALL HALL.—This well-known physician died at Brighton on Tuesday last, in his 67th year. In the history of medicine (observes the Literary Gazette) his name will be remembered with distinction on account of his ingenious and elaborate researches on the physiology of the nervous system. In a work, published in 1841, on the "Diseases and Derangements of th e Nervous System," he brought his views on this depart ment of pathology and practical medicine before the profession. In 184 his " New Memoir on the Nervous System," a handsome quarto volume, with plates illustra_ tive of his researches, attracted considerable notice. Various other professional treatises were written by him, the earliest as long since as 1830, entitled " Commentaries on Diseases of Females." In 1837 he published a sys tematic work on the " Theory and ,Practice of Medicine," and, in 1846, " Practical Observations and Suggestions in Medicine." Dr. Marshall Hall was a member of the Institute of France, and of various melical societies and scientific institutions on the Continent, - as well as in this country and America. AMUSEMENTS, TIIE THEATRE ROYAL.—I: is scarcely necessary to remind our readers that the Ita',lin Opera Company, from the Lyceum Theatre, appear to-night in the Theatre Royal. Madame Bisio, Mad'lle Taghafico, Signor Gar doni, Signor G . aziani, and many other names of celebrity , will be found in the list of the performers, Especial mention may be made of two " first' appearances" in Liverpool, Mad'lle Vic'orie B fife will this week make her first appearance before a Liverpool audience, and the high enconium which the critical j mrnals of the metro. polls have concurred in passing upon this young lady have excited much interest in the provinces regarding her. Another singer, very well known indeed nearly all over the world, Signor Roneoni, will make his appearance in Liverpopl for the first time this week. To-night the opera 4' I Puritani" will be brought out; and we under stand that all the arrangements of the performance will be as perfect as in the metropolis. MISS CU Uhis highly gifted actress, in her own path baying scarcely a rival, will soon spear again in Liverpool, and give three performances, previous to her departure for the United States. Among the characters Miss Cushman will assume, that of Bianca. in " Fazio," is - announced. The Liverpool public will thus have an opportunity of comparing Miss Cushman's embodiment of this part with that whose outlines will be distinct in the memory of every one who beheld it—:he Bianca of Madame Ristori. THE AMPHITHEATRE.—Mr. Barry Sullivan continues to appear at this theatre during the week, and will repeat the part of Hamel and Claude Ilielnoite —probably the characters in which in the opinion of most of hi s admirers. his talents are displayed to the highest advantage. ME. CHARLES MATHEWS.—Mr. Charles Mathews, as our readers will perceive, is about to give a farewell performance at this theatre, on / riday. This will be the last opportunity we are to have of seeing our fist living comedian before his journey to the United States, as he will leave Liverpool by the steamer the following morning. It is somewhat of a gratification to think that we in Liverpool are to have positively the last glimpse an assem blage of European spectators are to have for a considerable time of a favorite so unrivalled in his peculiar lino of comedy. THZ ITALIAN OPERA AT THZ PRINCESS'S TIVP_:ATRE.— The brief operatic season under the direction of Mr. Beale will commence on Monday, the 24th instant, with the performance of " La Traviata," the charart'er of the heroine being sustained by Madame Gassier, supported by Signor Mario arid Signor Dragon°, and an efficient band and chorus solected from those of rier Majesty's Theatre and the Royal Italian} Opera• signor Dragone, the new barritone, who will make his debut on the occasion, wag the original representative in his own count r y of the character (Vermont) in which he is now to appear before a London audience, and by his peformance of which he hes achieved a high reputation. He possesses a voice resem bling in a remarkable degree that of Graziani, both in qua!ity and power, and his abilities as an actor are such a% to justify the belief that he will be heartily welcomed b the opera-goers of London. THInTRE ROYAL, EDINBURGH.—The attractions at this house have been greater than usual during the nest week+ Mrs. Wyndham, Miss Keeley, Mrs:. Webb, Miss Nicoll Mr. Wyndham, Sir William Don, Mr. H. Webb, Bce" together with the regular corps dramatiqe, forming a combination of which the " Modem Attaeniaus" mai just now be prowl. With such an array of talent we and in no way surprised at the " good houses" nightly gatheree to support M , . Wyndham, the worthy and enterprising proprietor. " Nicholas Nickleby," " Alcestis," an d the " Rag Picker of Paris" have proved a capital " bill of faze ;" the appearance of Mr. Webb as Father lean, la the latter piece, was the signal for enthusiastic and continued cheering and waving of hats, and certainly 11 19 performance of that part has in no way deteriorated. Mrs. Webb (late Miss Parker) has been as warwli received each night as on the occasion oP her first re', appearance ; and the little graceful, spirited,.accomplishee vocalist, Miss Keetey, continues to meet with great success. On Saturday evening Mrs. Webb made her first appearance in " Flowers of the Forest," adding an adds' tional charm to that very pretty piece. In " Box and Cox" Sir W. Don and Mr. Toole were all that could be wished, these gentlemen being rapturously received in all, their undertakings ; white in the " Norma Travestie Miss Keeley and Mr. Toole were as vociferously applauded as ever. BODY FOUND.—The body of a black man was found yesterday morning in a field on Victoria-road, near e brick-kiln. There are no marks of violence, and it is supposed he was suffocated. He is not known at present. CUSTOMS PROMOTION AT THIS PORT.—Mr. James Ward, has been promoted from second, to first-class landing' . waiter. Mr. Rodolph llbery, from third, to second-class• Mr. John Britten, from fourth, to third-class. Mr. Hugh B. Jones, from fifth to fourth-class . REscux FROM DROWNING.—A youth named Burnett, fell over the Waterloo pier on Saturday evening, and would have been drowned but for the exertions of a sailor lad, who jumped over the wall and saved his life. [We regret we do not know tha name of the brave lad.] CRICKET.—On Wednesday and Thu-sday next, the return match between the a Shrewsbury" and the " Bit . .. kenhead Victoria," will b 3 played upon the ground of the latter, Birkenl sad park ; and, as the former game proved there was little difference between the two elevens, a close m itch as well as some very fine play, is expected. ACCIDENT AT TITHBARN-STREET STATION.—OLI Satin' day evening, a man named James Hovarth, an excurtionist from Bolton, whilst waiting for the return train, went and placed himself on the buffer of a carriage, not thinking any harm. He was not observed by any of the officials► and being deaf, a train came up and crushed him seriously' , his arm particularly was much hurt. He lies at th e Northern Hospital. SAILING OF THE CARRIER DOVE.—This fine ship, 01 which we have already given a description, belonging t° the Eagle line of packets, sailed on Saturday for Mel. bourne, with over 300 passengers, having refused several others, and cargo also, for want of room. The passenger s were all of a respectable class, and appeared in the beg' spirits, and pleased with the arrangements and accomnie" dations provided for them. THE STEAMER WATERLOO.—This vessel, which ran upoa a rock near 13allywalter, on Wednesday afternoon, iu $, dense fog, is at present, we understand, in a p r ecarious position. There are several feet of water in her bold, hat . the extent of the injury sustained cannot be ascertaine d until the ship is got off the rock. Every exertion to sal the vessel is being made by Mr. Langtry, who is one 0 ' the principal owners . and yesterday evening a steam-till from this port, having on beard a nu mb er of l a b oure rs and carpenters, was despatched to the assistance of the Water . ' 100, with the view of trying to get her off at first high tide. —Belfast Mercury of Saturday. Li ST OF PAS3ENOERS PER It. A.S. ASIA, FROM NEW YORIC' —llr. and Mts. C. S. Growski and two daughters, All! Saunders, Miss Betsey Ferguson, Mr. awl Mrs, W. Astor, Miss Ward and maid, Mr. Linder, Master W. Langley, Mr. J. L. Alfonso and son, Captain M. Smith' Messrs. C. Weber, C. M. Hoist, Itex. J. T. flicker, Messrs' Suttor ' R. Torriente, Master William Nevitt, Messrs' Edward King, Morrison, E. de Rebeaux, Mr. and Mrs. Pill, Messrs. Alonzo Regis, Ernest Regio, Alonz) Peoa, Henry Austin, Charles Laurie, James Yullington, H. GaY' John Morland, J. L. Alfonso's female servant and son, 53-t ' and Mrs. William Knight, Messrs. A. Verses, Henri Horncastle. STRANGE DEATlL—Charles J. Speerdell, 18 years of age, and who resided in Butler-street, West Derby-road, died on Friday afternoon under the following circumstance: tie was engaged in some capacity at Messrs. Cearne and Brown's, Chapel-street, and it seems he took ill there, an d was sent home in a vehicle. He got worse, and Dr. Wilson was sent for, who on arriving found him inseresib e* Galvinism was resorted to, but without any effect. TO doctor then used tha stomach pump, and extracted soul fluid (which he has preserved) that smelt of brandy an t vinegar, and it is said the deceased told some person, tbs wi en he took ill, some of the clerks in the office gave !lir,. a quantity of brandy and vinegar. All the doct or could ay was done, but the ee ith followed. _ . THE WEATHER.—The past week has been very change able, and for the most part so unsatisf a ctorily f o r harve ° opentions, that the provision markets were about beill sensibly affected. Indeed, as it was, th e monopolists he' a high hand ; but the change for the better (in the wea ther) that set in on Saturday has put down their hopes for rb e t present. Yesterday was as fine and sunny as the sn?! 1 . ardent agriculturist could wish, and a week of such weat it lrS e would prove of the greatest benefit for ha:vest work. r truEt, with the blessing of Providence, that the wearb e d has now taken up, as the electric matter that congrega te in the cloudy atmosphere for some days past, has been d", : i charged in the thunderstorms of last week. The glass e e other indicators predict fair weather. BIRKENHEAD MODEL YACHT OIUIS —The third mate of the season, in connection with the above club, to place at Birkenhead, on Saturday last. The challenge e Oll contested for was valued at fifty guineas: The course 1 1 from Woodside Basin round a fl ag -b ea t s t a tioned o Eeetiaam ; thence round a flag-boat stationed off the Dingl e biek round the Eastham flag-boat; thence back round the " Dingle flag boat, returning direct to W oo d s id e Ferr , J . First rate race. The following is the result of the race : Snake, 4h. 46m. 575. ; Glide, 4h. 53m. 275.; Ghar °l 4 4h. 54m: 255, ; Meyfloser, 4h. 57m. After the race, ts',„ cup was presented by Rear-Commodore, Mr. Watkins , t o Mr. Wilkinson, jun., in the absence of his father. 11 4 yacht Phantom carried away her topmast in the early 1 31. of the race, and was thereby disabled. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT—TWO MEN SUFFOCATED I N ' ; A SINK.—On Friday evening a fatal accident happened the Iluskisson pier head, where two men lost their lives , a a shocking manner. It appears that two men Ha de s Denis Molly, 35 years old, and Jehn Kelly, about the sam e age, went to clean out a petty sewer, that leads from ti ) a pier head into the river, and when they had penetrater some way into it, it would teem that the contents sit. ° rushed upon them, or that the effluvia overpowered thesif and they tell in the sewer. An alarm was at once giv e s fj ; and several of M'. M Iver's men, who were rear the p 1 370 at the time, set about rescuing the poor fellows, and $ ll prompt energy got them out;" but, alas! too late, for tb e l were quite dead. Mr. M•lver's men, with a d e gree ~t ' s intelligence and kindness that refl:cts credit on them'', once prepared hot baths at the sheds,, and used 00', appliances that are recommended under such circa stances. They also sent for Dr. Hodgens, who resides l t the locality, and that gentleman was quickly on the el ) ,,:s end exerted himself for a long time, - but all his lars o i efforts proved fruitless, as life had departed. The ° e t lamentable thing connected with this fatality, is that P ° lt s Molloy has left a wife in a very delicate state of ) l e 3 i be living in a cellar in Bacon-street-, with five c hildr e n 0 , oldest 14, the youngest 3—in a state of utter destitut in An inquest will be held on the bodies this day. 0 1 LAUNCII.—A few days ago, there was launched, "'eS' the ship-building yard of Mr. Wilkinson, at the p o tterto a large and handsome schooner for the coasting and o t ef j. trades, in which Mr. Wilkinson is extensively enge,g o f She is seventy feet long, twenty beam, and upwarut, ten feet deep, and wilt carry over 20(1 tors of cargo ° "s, light draft of water. She is built of the best British eog and put together in the most substantial and )nklo rl ie s manner, with iron knees, stave, &e., and the best int e r pronounced her to be a perfect model of her kind. i .,, r s cabins aro got up in a style of comfsrt and elegance vessel of her size, and these with other portions or 00 6 light and decorati7e wood work, crnatnents, Sze,, vere by Mr. John Taylor, so well-known amongst the s , ' l 4 , builders and merchants, for the superiority of his 'l i t he manship, taste and skill in his line. Mr. W. Suttorbase manager of Mr. Wilkinson's building yard, fell in fe la ble weed of praise on th e occas i on . Th ere was a respeees, party as - embled to witness the launch, which `vas 1 ; of formed in the best manner. Mrs. Edwards, a daugbe,e, the builder, performing the ceremony of "christening, of beautiful craft, which she baptised with a bet tle air champagne " The Tom," amid loud cheers and thl bo ll charge of cannon. In the evening there was a grail,, e ati f and supper given to celebrate the event, and over Se _A to ladies and gentlemen were present who were enterta in qd a princely manner. This is the second vessel laulweis from the same yard in a short space, and there are lip larger vessels on the stocks in a forward state. r oes. Wilkinson deserves the 5110004 that attends his 0%00