Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-23 00:00:00

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, &e.—THIS DAY ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE—Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams. TRANSPARENT MAGlC—Clayton Hall. ST. GEORGE'S HALL —The Coloured Opera Troupe Taz PARISIAN GALLERY or ANATOMY, Paradise-street. 1,:&' For particulars see advertisements on Bth page TO CORRESPONDENTS, Under no circumstances can we insert communications not accompanied by the author's real name and address, not neces sarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. MONDAY, MAY 23, 1859. THE DAY'S NEWS. Since the War has broken out, the most important action in Piedmont was reported here on Saturday evening. It appears that an attack, on Friday, by the Austrians, on Montebello and Casteggio, was repulsed with great losses, the Austrians suffering a .considerable defeat at the hands of the combined French and Sardinians. A considerable change has taken place in tne position of the belligerents. The Austrians, who, up to the middle of the week , held Vercelli, on the right bank of the Sesia , withdrew from that post on Thursday, and destroyed the bridge over the Seisa, traversed by the road to Novara. At the same time General Gyulai shifte d his head-quarters from Mortara to Garlasco, and nearly in the centre of the position occupied by the Austrians. " It seems to be generally assumed," says a writer in Saturday's Globe," that the Austrian army is about to be eaten up by the Allies in some _great -and decisive battle. People are on the tip-toe of expectation. They anticipate a repe tition of Marengo, Or at least of Montenotte , Dego, and Milessimo. It is assumed that an Austrian general is certain to commit an er- ror, or to be animated with too great an eagerness to fight. At present little has occurred to give any warrant for these suppositions. The movements and the abstinence of movements on both sides have been characterised by an amount of pru- ----- dence easily explained by the stake at issue." From appearances, it is inferred that the Austaians will, in the main, stand on the defensive, with a watchful eye on the disposition of their foes ; while the allies will endeavour so to dispose their forces as to be able to take the initiative in an attack. The official despatch from the Emperor of the French, says that an attack made on Saturday by a body of Austrians 15,000 strong, was repulsed, and that the village of Montebello had been cleared after a struggle of four hours. Two hundred Austrian prisoners were taken, including one Colonel. The loss of the French was 500 killed and wounded. From Berne it is reported that the Austrian detachments on the Lago Mag giore have withdrawn. A despatch from Ales sandria says that, on Friday morning, the French Emperor went to Casale, where the King of Sardinia was awaiting him. The two Sovereigns then inspected, together, the fortifications and the positions of the vanguard. The Emperor then returned to Alessandria, and Went in the afternoon to visit the battle-field of Marengo. His Majesty enjoys good health, and the sanitary condition of the army is all that can be desired. The Sesal has arrived at Leghorn with 350 men of the sth corps d'arrnee on board. The troops disembarked amid enthu siastic plaudits expressive of the sympathy of the populace. The whole town was being hung w i t h flags. Other vessels with troops are expected. Th e Dresden journals state the report of a separate treaty ,concluded between Bavaria and Austria to be incor recta The Marseilles correspondeo of the Times says the siege fleet is fitting out at Toulol2 with great expedition. Independent of screw liners and is igates, it is to consist of ten screw gunboats suitable for tiift shallow shores of the Adriatic. The naval equip ments are so urgent that merchant vessels are left without crews in some cases. English seamen have been taken on boVd the French ships of war. The formation of Volunteer Rifle Corps seems to have been taken up with enthusiasm by the chie f cities and towns in the kingdom. A meeting has been held at Folkestone, one at Ipswich, one a Portsmouth, and several other places, besides which there are several additional meetings announced The Cambridge Rifle Club is in a more advanced state than any of those which have been recently formed, and on the Queen's birthday the first practice meet ing took place at the Chalk Pits, Cherryhinton• About 150 members were present, and the pro ceedings commenced with sundry speeches. It would appear, f rom a careful examination of the returns to the new House of Commons, now completed, that of the 651 members, 302 may be numbered among the general supporters of the Government, while 349 belong to the Opposition. The double return for Aylesbury is, in reality, no return, as neither of the gentlemen who ran this political dead-heat can vote (except upon the election of the Speaker) until a commtittee shall have settled the point. This, with the death of Mr. Fagar, reduces the actual strength of the House to 651 members. Adding to previous computations of party gains and losses the gain of a seat by the. Government in King's County, we find the nett Ministerial gain to be 26 seats, of which six were gained in Irish counties, by means of the Derby-Wiseman alliance. The Evening Herald gives a return of its own, occupying a column and a-half, showing that 304 Conservatives, 10 Liberal Conservatives, and 340 Liberals have been elected, adding—We thus see that the Conservatives are making steady, but certain progress, and there can be but little doubt that one more dissolution will give them not only what they have got now—a working majority—but also an absolute majority in the House of Commons, 23 more seats only being required to effect that object. Of domestic news there is not much of importance. We give the conclusion of the investigation into the charge of murder against a surgeon at Richmond, the particulars of which are of a most diabolical description. Smethurst, the accused physician, has been committed on a charge of " wilful murder." The inquest on the body of the woman murdered at Ledbury, has been adjourned. Locally, there is nothing whatever occurring of an interesting character. Caunntrriat saits. 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IT is proclaimed by the Emperor Louis NAPOLEON of France, that he goes to Italy, with his armed hosts, numbering some hundred and fifty thousand men, to rescue the people from oppression. This has been the burthen of his manifestos and his orders of the day. And this is his excuse, to all whom it may concern, for the war on which he has entered. His cousin, the Prince Napoleon, in his address to the Fifth Corps of the " Army of Italy," has reiterated the Imperial pretext. He tells them, " The country which was the cradle of ancient civilisation and of modern renaissance is about to owe its liberty to you; you will deliver that country for ever from its oppressors—from those eternal enemies of France whose name is associated in our history with all our struggles and all our victories. The reception," he adds, " which the Italian people give to their liberators, bears witness to the justice of the cause which the Emperor defends. Vice l'Empereur ! Tire la France ! Five Inclepen dance Italienne." Now all this is very fine. But what does it really, in sober seriousness, mean ? What is this oppression, from which oppressors like these BUONAPARTES profess to have gone with their legions to set the Italians free ? The oppression of a people is the crushing or keeping of them down by severity and injustice— the denial to them of their rights to which, as members of society, they are justly entitled—the witholding from them of those privileges which belong to them in civilised countries the imposing upon them burthens and disabilities which are unrighteously exactive and severe. We find some of the best descriptions of oppression in Holy Writ, —some of the strongest denunciations of it also, —and there it is generally coupled with injustice and wrong, and they are the wicked and the proud that inflict it. We read of the people being " brought low through oppression." We are told, " If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter ; for He that is ' higher than the highest regardeth, and there be higher than they,"—forcibly implying, that it is a wrong that will not go unheeded or unpunished. Again, we have the Almighty represented as de claring, "For the oppression of the people, I will arise, and set him in safety." The true religious fast is described as "to undo the heavy burdens, and let the oppressed go free." And among things which are included in the divine precept, " learn to do well," is prominently placed the obligation to " seek judgment, and relieve the oppressed." And in all this we see that it is not according to right—as in the eyes of Divine Wisdom, right is estimated—to harass a people with unreasonable or unjust severity, whether of restriction or exaction. In a state of society—in any settled community every,member of it is justly entitled to the utmost civil liberty that is compatible with the interests and happiness of the whole. This civil liberty is the not being restrained by any law, but what conduces in a greater degree to the public welfare. "To do what we will," it has been well observed, "is natural liberty : to do what we will, consistently with the interest of the com munity to which we belong, is civil liberty,—that is to say, the only liberty to be desired in a state of civil society." And any unnecessary restriction of this civil liberty is more or less an oppression : because this restraint itself is an evil ; and this evil ought to be counterbalanced by some greater advantage. Now, considered upon these principles, which are those of reason and justice, there is probably not a State of Continental Europe, the people of which are not, in some degree, labouring under oppression. * Saturday Review. THE VOX POP ULI FOR NON-INTER VENTION. AN eminent writer on political philosophy has aptly put the question, " How is the popular voice to find a legitimate place in the government of nations ?" This is undoubtedly an important problem, and one that it deeply concerns all who rule under free institutions to consider. But "to solve this problem," it is observed, " it must first be ascertained what functions can be legitimately discharged by the people,—what originating active power can be entrusted to them without violating the unity of the ruling will." And then it is asked, '• In what cases may the voice of the people become, in any sense, the voice of God, and require us to conform to it ? These cases," he adds, " appear to be chiefly three, corresponding with the three obvious uses of the representative system, of which the acknowledged object is, to prevent oppression, to secure fit governors, and to exercise that free agency which is necessary to raise a people from the con sciousness and the degradation of slavery." Into the discussion of this, however, we are not now about to enter at large,—it may probably serve us for an article on some other occasion. But what we now adduce the principle involved in it to do, is to consider it for a moment in its bearing upon the non-intervention movement that is increasing and strengthening in all directions around us. Vox populi, vox Dei, is an old apothegm. And doubtless there are times and occasions when the voice of the people does become, in some sense, the voice of God. 'Whenever, for instance, as it has been said of mercy, that " It is an attribute to God himself," whenever the voice of the people is the utterance of any such divine attribute, and it can be said of it, " That earthly power doth then show likest God's,"— then, assuredly, the voice of the people is, in one sense, the voice of GOD. Peace is one such attribute. He is a GoD of peace, no less than of mercy. It is one of the divine blessings, is peace; and when the vox populi is raised for peace, that voice, we repeat, in a certain sense, may be considered as the vox Dci. The voice of the people of England, then, is being raised higher and higher for peace,—for the main tenance of our neutral position, in relation to that most criminal war that has been entered upon in Italy,—raised in order that this country may enjoy the blessings of peace. And it is certainly most satisfactory to see, that as the movement increases and developes itself, there is a growing intelligence and comprehension as to the subject to which it has reference. " Your memorialists," says one of the memorials that have within the last two or three days been adopted—" and they believe the English people at large, have no sympathy with either of the despotic rulers engaged in this mischievous war, and they would respectfully but most earnestly pray the British Government to maintain inviolate that policy of non-intervention which has been recently and so emphatically advocated from the hustings, not only THE NORTH MIN TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1859 The Italians partake of the common lot of the Conti nental ration,--manly, perhaps, they have rad2er more than their share of the universal oppression. But surely if they are to be singled out for special deliverance by the sword, the deliverer should him self have clean hands. He that is without sin, and only he, should " cast the first stone." The poet has glowingly exclaimed,— " To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free— These are imperial acts and worthy thee." But worthy of whom Not surely the proud, who himself needs to be tamed,—not, by any means, the enslaver of his own people, who themselves require to be made free. Such an idea would involve a great inconsistency. Reform, like charity, must begin at home. It is a divine injunction, that we first pluck the beam out of our own eye, and then we shall see clearly to pull out the mote that is in our brother's eye. Apply this reasoning, then, to the case of this Italian war, and it is the reasoning of plain common sense, no less than of justice and truth,-- and where are LOUIS NAPOLEON'S pretensions to be the liberator of Italy—to go forth, and leave his own oppressed people unrelieved, to free from oppression the people of Italy ? "We do not forget," said an able contemporary the other day, " as the French trumpets are ringing out their Portant pour la Syrie,' the Emperor's antecedents. We are not now disposed to let the 2nd of December and its unspeak able wickedness fade from our memory. As RIVERS, GRAY, and VAUGHAN sat heavily on the conscience of our great historical example of the Imperial system, so ought the ghosts of December, the wailings from Cayenne, the shrieks from Lambessa to do their work on the Messiah of Order. We are not going to forget, at this particular epoch, that Louis NAPOLEON found France free, and quits it enslaved free, we say, or at least on the way to freedom, for the Red Republic had worked, or was working itself, out, and CAVAIGNAC would have reconstructed what the President destroyed. And from the hour of his election to this, Louis NAPOLEON'S line has been undeviating. The coup d'gtat itself was only a step in the regular order of things. Liberty has been trampled out by a system which is even more demoralising and criminal than that of the old Roman proscriptions. Mind and freedom of thought have been manacled ; the press is extinct in France ; literature is poisoned ; religion is corrupted, and has not risen superior to the most sordid temptations. Massacre, treason, and deportation of the best citizens are crimes neither to be forgotten nor forgiven. And this, and nothing less than this, is the internal aspect of the Imperial system. It has never wavered nor swerved a single hair's breadth in the dreadful directness and completeness of its aim.'" Is it possible that Italy can be worse than this ? Is there no oppression in such a state of things as this in France ? Do the people who are thus enthralled themselves need no liberator? Has he why thus enslaves, thus oppresses them, no occasion to begin his deliverances and his liberations at home ? Must there not be a beam in the eye of such an one, which it is necessary should be plucked out, before he pretends to pull out the mote that is in his brother's eye ? It is in the answer to such questions as these—and there can be but one answer— that we must look for the grounds of a right judgment of this Italian war ; and such a judgment may well arouse the people of England, to insist that this country shall have nothing to do with it. by Ministers of the Crown, but by almost every leading statesman of this country." Here, then, there is a clear understanding manifested of the real eerits of the question. " The English people at large have no sympathy with either of the despotic rulers ,engaged in this mischievous war." How can they ? .;'here is despotism involved in it ; and how can a free _people ever sympathise with depotism ? It is truly a " mischievous war,"—not only because it is waged by t ,vo despots against each other, but because it is be gs under false pretences, and its ostensible object cal.' never be attained under any system of despotic sway'. At another place whe're the subject was dis cussed, the following res Ilution was adopted,---- " That this meeting, though deeply sympathising with Italy in her apprehensions . Itnd sorrows, cannot regard with confidence or with hope the armed agencies which have been put in operalion professedly for her deliverance." How is it possible that a free people can have any confidence, or any h.Ve, where such " armed agencies " are those of despots ? And well, therefore, was that resolution followeJ by another, to such an effect as this,—" That, in to opinion of this meeting, a policy of non-intervention in the struggle between Austria and France is most 1 consistent with the dignity of Great Britain, the interests of civilisation, the progress of constitutional liberty, and the most conducive to the safety and welfare of our country." All this we verily believe. No possible good could ever come of England's intervention in such a war; but, on the contrary, an incalculable amount of evil. Even Piedmont is not blameless in such a war. Not only is her object a very questionable one ; but her own people are being oppressed by the very process of carrying it out. " The people of Piedmont," says the letter of an intelligent and independent observer upon the spot, " are not in favour of this war. So far from it are they, that nothing would be easier than to raise the population of this part of the country against the Government. Count CAVOUR is detested. As for the King, they consider him a mere puppet of CAvouß's. The entire power, they say, is in the hands of agitators, principally from Milan." How could the English people, then, have any confidence or any hope in such a war ? Row could one expect that it would ever serve " the interests of civilisa tion," or " the progress of constitutional liberty ?" It is furthermore most satisfactory to observe, that there is at least confidence in our own Govern ment, at so critical a conjuncture. At most of the meetings we refer to, they have declared how much they rejoice in the conviction expressed by one and all of her Majesty's Ministers, that it is no part of the duty of England to meddle in this deplorable contest between the potentates of Central Europe. And Ministers themselves,—and the Parliament, too, when it meets,—cannot but be encouraged to persevere in the maintenance of a pacific and non-intervention policy, by the prayer of these memorials, " that the same views may continue to prevail, and that England may be thereby preserved from the guilt, sufferings, and penalties of any participation in the war, and from all entangling engagements which may commit her to the support of either party." LORD DERBY AND THE. QUAKERS THE principles of Quakerism,—we use the term respectfully,—is every where mainly the same. At any rate,, as regards the question of war, it is hic et übique. It is one of the religious tenets of the Quakers, that war is unlawful. " Because the Christian Scriptures," as a writer on military estab lishments observes, " describe wars, as what they are, as crimes or judgments, some have been led to believe that it is unlawful for a Christian to bear arms." And the Quakers are of that number. Not only on that account do they believe that it is unlawful, but because they interpret such texts as, "be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good," and "if he smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him thy left also," to indicate that Christian men are not to contend with, least of all to fight and kill, one another,—quite forgetting, however, that, for self-preservation, or for other lawful objects, it may be necessary for individuals to unite their force, and for this end to resign themselves to the direction of a common will. Such, however, we say, is Quakerism, here and every where in England, in Ireland, in our Colonies, and in the United States of America. When, therefore, the Premier is waited upon, as he was the other day, by a deputation from the Irish Quakers, for the purpose of presenting a peace memorial, he received, no doubt, an expression of the sentiments and feelings, on the question of war, not of Irish Quakerism only, but of Quakerism wherever it exists. And to the whole body of the Society of Friends, therefore, and, indeed; to the people at large, it cannot but be most satisfactory to find, that Lord DERBY is of the same mind with them on the question of war, as it at present stands affected. Of course the Quakers and he would differ widely as to the 'abstract question of war—as widely as they and the rest of Christendom do. But, as respects the war that now prevails on the Continent of Europe, and the policy, nay the duty of the Govern ment of this country with reference to it, there would appear to be no difference of opinion what ever. lie told the deputation, therefore, it is stated, that the Society of Friends in Ireland had only done justice to the Ministers in assuming that they had hitherto used their best exertions in endeavour ing to promote a settlement of the existing differences ; and that, although at present, when the hostile armies were almost within sight of each other, such attempts might be unavailing, yet that they would continue to be watchful to embrace every favourable opportunity that might present itself to mediate between the contending parties. More than this, he is reported to have said to them, that his Administration had acted with strict impartiality between the hostile Powers, and that by continuing to observe a similar course of conduct, he hoped the time might come when such mediation would be accepted,—and, more important still, that strong as were the feelings of the Society of Friends on the subject of war, yet that they had used no word too strong to express his own feelings with regard to that the . Government was resolved to observe an entire neutrality ; and that no circum stance short of the absolute necessity of self-defence would justify them in involving Great Britain in any manner in the approaching strife. This, we say, must not only be entirely satisfactory to the Quakers, whether of Ireland or of England, but to every religious denomination, and to every class of the community. We have said that Lora DEIU3Y'S assurance to the Irish Quakers must be entirely satisfactory', tkii to them, but to their English brethren also ; becatise i although upon principle, that is in theory, they are opposed to war and fighting of every kind and character, yet there can be no doubt that they would . not, in justice, altogether object to it when it came • to be as an " absolute necessity of self-defence.' , The Quakers, with all their stern opposition to war, would not like to have their country invaded, and their property exposed to plunder, and themselves to slaughter. And certainly their case is a happy one, inasmuch as they can stand aloof, even in such an emergency, and enjoy the blessings of national • defence and protection, without being subjected to • the perils of it in anywise. But the public feeling generally is not only with the Government, as regards the neutrality they are determined to observe, but the necessity which they • at the same time recognise of being prepared for resistance, should the necessity for it arise. Self defence is, or may be, a comprehensive phrase. The case was well put at a public meeting at Norwich, a few days since, when one of the speakers said, — "It did not follow that because this country was an advocate for neutrality, she was for peace at any price. Nothing was further from his sentiments than. peace, except in such a manner as would uphold the honour and dignity of our country ; he simply trusted that we should maintain our shores inviolate from the invader, and at the same time hold a peaceful and calm attitude towards all parties." Equally correct and patriotic was the view which another speaker, on the same occasion, took, when he declared,—" He did not advocate any difference with France, but he wished our neutrality to be strict, perfect, and dignified ; let us prepare for any contingency which might arise, and let there be one universal feeling that, although we deprecated war, we would not shrink from it if we were dragged or forced into it." And it is satisfactory to find that at all these meetings in favour of peace, there is one common expression of repugnance to the character and tendencies of the war that has now broken out. " He was proud of the efforts of the present Govern ment," was the avowal of one, "in taking every means in their power to settle, by arbitration, the dispute which had arisen, and he was sorry their mediation had not been accepted. Awful was the responsibility resting on those Powers who had refused our good offices, and who had broken the peace of Europe." Another did not hesitate to declare, that " he believed that the war might have been prevented; that the Powers of Europe were in a condition to have settled, by peaceful arbitration, that which was now referred to arms ; and that a settlement never could or would take place while the tongue and pen of Italy were fettered as at present." While another pointedly and pertinently asked, — "Could England expect that France, after a long and expensive military struggle, would give to Italy what the Government of France had refused to the French people ? Was France so free that she could afford to distribute her freedom to other countries," —Questions these which can only receive one answer ; and that one which puts it altogether out of hope and out of sympathy among those who view the matter calmly, and as it were, through "the loop holes of retreat." At such a crisis in the fate of Europe as the present, however, our own national position is all the happier, the surer and the safer, from the unanimity that pervades the whole public mind upon the question of war. The Government, the Parliament, the people of all classes and of all parties, including even the quakers, are all of one opinion upon it. We do not think, indeed, that there could be any real difference as to the duty of a recourse to arms, should the " absolute necessity of self-defence " arise—not even on the part of the Quakers ; and this " absolute necessity," the Premier has declared, is. " the only circumstance that would •justify them in involving Great Britain, in any manner, in the approaching strife." THE COURT Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, attended by Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieutenant-Colonel Ponsonby, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence House, St. James's, on Friday afternoon. The Duke of Oporto, the Prince and Princess George of Saxony, and the Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, inspected the Houses of Parliament on Friday morning, and also went to the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park. In . the afternoon their Royal Highnesses paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at Clarence House, afterwards drove to Richmond, visited the Countess de Neuilly, and then proceeded to Kew, to pay a visit to the Duchess of Cambridge. The Duke of Oporto was attended by Vicomte de Campanha. The Prince and Princess George of Saxony were attended by Countess de Holzen dorff, M. de Kcennetitz and Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Quoen had a dinner party in the evening.. The company included their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Alice, the Duke of Oporto, the Prince and Princess George of Saxony, the Princess Augustus of Saxe Cobourg, and the Princess Mary of Cambridge; the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Marquis of Exeter, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge, Countess de Holzendorff, Mademoiselle de Zedlitz, the Lady in Waiting to the Princess Augustus of Saxe Cobourg, Lord Bagot, Major- General the Right Hon. J. Peel, the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon: Sir Hamilton Sey mour, Colonel the Hon. Sir C. Phipps, Major-Generat Wylde, Dr. Carus, Lieut -General Vicomte de Campanha, Captain Sergio, M. de Sampaio, M. von Tschirchky, M. de Kcennetitz, M. de Hilldorff, Colonel F. H. Seymour, and the Equerry in Waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge. The Band of the Coldstream Guards attended during dinner. The Queen's Private Band afterwards performed in the Drawing-room. The Hon. Beatrice Byng and the Hon. Emily Cathcart have succeeded the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, and the Hon. Horatia Stopford as the Maids of Honour in Waiting to the Queen LATEST FAsnioNs.---Taste and elegance in an especial degree characterise the bonnets of the present season. The improvement in shape, by which they set more over the forehead, no doubt mainly contributes to the becoming effect of the bonnets just introduced. In the trimming, all the fashionable colours in bright tints are employed. In a large assortment of bonnets just prepared by a West-end milliner, we observe one of Leghorn, trimmed with bouquets of red roses, each having a black centre. Under the brim, instead of blonde, there is a fluting of white crape, with roses inter mingled, We may mention a bonnet of F renc h c hi p, elegantly trimmed with a wreath of peach blossom passing round the e - rown. In the inside there is a trimming of blonde P:nd a demi-wreath of the same flowers. Another bonurA of French chip is trimmed with bouquets formed of tl:r e blossom of the cherry, intermingled with the fruit. We have seen a very pretty bonnet composed of white crape, trimmed with bouquets of lilac, both coloured and white. Another, also comp ose d of white crape, is trimmed with bouquets of jonquiLs, A tutteh.admired I bonnet of white tulle is trimmed with slO b l o i n d :tock and mauve-c o l our r ibbon. A bridal composed of white crape and blond!. 4 0 trimm og consists of light folds of tulle and with el uets of white roses, intermingled , e tte, and hout t ' wheat-tats. The addition to the bonnet of a 1 °, 11 .. 0, fall of lace or voilette Clotilde a favourite in Paris, tulle, will continue to be fashionable' 010 i s com pose?, ro h: Chantilly ; when th. t d nearly to the curtain. The voilette Clotilde is alo_ ro w Nown back over the bonnet., black or white embr, -es destined for evening g 0 0 Nidered Flowe.ren generally adopted in coiffu. Many of the wreathes prepay. 'NI for the of •ned Wreaths ets k season are most tastefully mot, • of siol different tones of that colour, anc.. wreathes otip t d The _„. 41 414. among those now frequently ado:" • late ecm - 00 0S Eugenie wore at the Opera in Paris, o. a js d r eg CO wreath of violets in her hair. Her Majesty ;, ar eat ,'":4" of white tulle trimmed with black lace, and balls of the E lie were composed of diamonds of the most brilliat.,il:4 Among the recent novelties in bijouterie ;01 mentioned some bracelets with medallions ° lte m ° hair. Each medallion may contain the hair of a at t of relative or friend ; and thus, though forming l e : i s same bracelet, the hair of several individuals rV separate and distinct. In these bracelets the coati! , 4 4 lion is usually reserved for initials, which are sometimes in gold and sometimes in diamonds) Oa precious stones. Now that round corsages, or ! to Of without points, are again fashionable, a l'ar isl ocsil worker has conceived the idea of making ceintures , , O * V,' bands of hair, which are fastened with a buc kle. Parisian modistes are at present in full activi t y 0 0 0 , and ingenuity will, no doubt, characterise their fo rth b o novelties, but it is expected that endeavours win ji th' ci t i to modify the luxury which has prevailed in c d ' eg toe costume during several past seasons, and a greater ivitr simplicity will give the stamp of haut tort—Zag s paper. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE' 0 1 % SUDDEN DrATn.—On Saturday morning, a it% named Margaret Littler, was found dead in bee , tb; Portland-street. An inquest will be held on theb,7,o ° day. [Curions enough, an inquest was held on the '4 of deceased some time ago.] 10 61111 ...1; Sr. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND Err AND ,DA.• D ror TION, 13, Rose Hilt —New patients entered on tbe .. oo last week, viz :—Relieved at the institution, 207; 'if", at their own dwellings', 53 ; total, 265. Visitors -7 0 0 E. Watts, and G. Jordan. Hon. secretary and tr Joseph Kitchen, Esq. ter a3 d l l DEPAIITURE OF T M HE ROYAL CHAR.--- e 5110: morning at an early hour, the screw steame r .4 8 10' Charter, Captain Taylor; of the Black-ball and P a e ibot ire of Australian packets, took her departure for St o ge:j She carried out a inail'a.nd' upwards of 3Offrot one hundred of which were in the saloon Mg' - second cabins. gut Wil y ° GRAND GALA AT THE GARDENS TO-DAY.-- - "k i . Bt has been already said, regarding the grand gwrbst gardens this day, it is only- necessary to state I, t B fetes will continue all through the day and ese n will be the most brilliant affair witnessed this iL'ojo: that, those whoa miss the treat will lose a sight 0' '4 ment not to be described. Ar e; MAIL STEAMERS.—The Cunard mail steamer TAP : sailed from the Mersey, on Saturday, for Boston, 23 : 3 .4 fax, with the United States mails, about 100 Pass e ", fr i including General Sir William Williams, of gars , if if 'if general cargo. She will be followed on Wednes-1 1 ,0 1 ' screw-steamer City of Washington for New I r " r "_,.tell the screw-steamer Indian for Quebec. The screw- isv Armenian sails to-morrow (Tuesday) with the nientillf for the West Coast of Africa. R - for tke4lll -4IVERPOOL _.OYAL INFIRMARY.—Return p ending May 21st, 1859. Admitted : in-patient s ' A: e t ' patients, 26 ; surgical casualties, 32. Discharg e ; o tit i 20 ; relieved, and at own request, 14'; made eu„"-ce,' 3 ; irregular, 1; dead, 0 ; remain in the ile te - i6 For the ensuing week: Visitors : Messrs. Rev. i t ' - g tSfot and J. Cropper, Esq. ; physician, Dr. Turnbull; Mr. Bickersteth ; house surgeon, Mr. T S. Walk e l'or house surgeon, Mr. J. Allen ; chaplain, Rev. IL 4. b id A.B. Robert Hutchison, treasurer. ere,d; CORONER'S INQUESTSI—The following inque 3,5 ,, 1 0 di 4 0 on Saturday : On the body of Agnes Sefton, 14- 8, Clare-terrace. She was the daughter of a li g6e' ot who kept the Falstaff public-house, corner of Sl ri te d street, and was married to a painter, but seP„oiff e p . l him. It was shown that she had drank incesst g p,'.o long time past, and that she died of excessive dria'oe' t ied jury found a verdict that death was caused bl e 6 0 1 drinking. On the body of the bov Reed; who iia s g3 at the brewery, as reported in 4 our paper of - Verdict, "Accidental death." d 0 44 FIRE. —About half-past four o'clock on FaturdaY Not fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Gibson, P,.„ rel sr o ;'ol establishment, No. 19, St. Anne-street. The /rod discovered in one of the upper stories; ob_., ie n - dse il ascended to, and penetrated the roof. The gyifeoP premises being of light fabric, consisting chieflY ° re 05 moreens, &c., were greatly damaged from the la „Arifi e e e t of water emitted from the hose. No. 6' fire " 1r promptly on the spot ; and the fire police be e a l s ,.r e, assiduous and energetic in their efforts to silli d „ 11 „ de l ,":0 1 meat, effectually succeeded between six and se c a ." - beli,e' - ,r Mr. Gibson was not insured. The morning bet u6 st.'",heil and fair, several of the windows of the houses ill -1 °ll street were graced with ladies, who had precipi tates LPO' from their " hammocks" in bewilderment for theitjar safety ; but the signal of " all's well " striking oi l t ' the " fair" withdrew. EXTRAORDINARY AND USEFUL INVENTION. tro th s' , nothing that housewives complain of with greate r 0 f ness, than the breaking of some favourite Piec, e „so sll eti valuable china, or earthenware. In hundreds or " - ,,0 11 1 0 :4 things cannot be matched, and of course oannot b ,lo ll ,,est The latter want has been obviated by an extraort',"ri," r effective invention, by Mr. Adshead, of Derby 1 1 ,er - ,, r o b Derby. It is a cement that may be said to heal feet manner, all cracks and breaks in the ar tielessr, de o and not only in these, but in marble, alabaster. ei":8 t he benefit of this article need not be dwelt on. We "0 1 0 some of its effects at Mr. Hall's, our neighbour 'that ,1 1 d glass that has been cemented by it is stronger is n o h u la than in any other. The article is very cheap, a l 'i o r it 11 can be long without it. Mr. Hall is the agen i ..„ - s ell, in Liverpool, and all interested can judge for tbe"" l oo s ,' 1 0 , looking in at his establishment. Agent forL is r/ T. Hall, 23, South John-street. Sold in bottles, s.Yff or sent free on receipt of sixteen postage staniPs' None are genuine, except bearing the signat ure ' t i Hall." AMUSEMENTS IN LIVERPOOL. —Open fr , morning until ten at night. Alls o p's W ax -Worwep neeel All the kings and queens, f rom an d i nc l u ding' Conqueror, down to Q ueen Vi ctor i a ; a l s o, In a te s : s princesses, dukes, duchesses, lords eminent s oolL e warriors, poets, divin es; a l so a ll the m o s t noted PeoArfl of the past and present age s , &c. Allsop's sculp ture All containing upwards of 3,000 s t atues, se l ec ted fro% bd e i of the world, varying from five to twenty fe e te l re o ) Allsop's panoramic,dioramic,. cosmoramic, an d , s fi roal e V, views of intense interest Allsop's musical, r o .00 : ijilll The above attractions are now combined, fora" n r tl 7 ' establishment, in the immense and magnificeatne to 0 known as the Teutonic-hall, next door but 1 oPP; County Court, Lime-street, Liverpool, and n ea ' t '6a the Adelphi Hotel, and is open to the public A1;, 7 0 1 ' children under ten years of a3d each. rye exhibition has been pronounced by the press 0 , s ur London, and elsewhere, to be the most perfa c " yl;.J s 0" / r magnificent, and largest establishment in the O,„ oury`P that cannot possibly be contradicted. Be sure v.' e tot, the name, "Allsop, 'at the entrance. Sole P ro 0 11 Wm. Allsop. The tte et THE LATE Miss CLARKE, OF BOLD-STUFSI%,;(II d 'g and codicil of Miss Jane Clarke, of 170, i 1e ,r 0 1.9 18 London, and of Bold-street, Liverpool, was proe'lebfirliefell and the effects were sworn under £45,000. 111e of ll bequests amount to £1,700; tieing £lOO to ea C J - 0 1 " metropolitan police-cou r t s , £lOO to the LiverP o.-tei. bat court, and £5OO to the Westminster Free g° s ,lfieft t °oo, gyeater , part of the remainder of her propertY "oe(1 1 „,, t iO sister, her nieces, and great nephews and nieces. nu retr. e o £2OO to each of the children of her three nien es ', r eleven at the date of her will. To her sisl e d ' 0 $(1 : 0 0 M , Laren, £3, and to her sister's children, D„ vi Ilete M'Laren, £l,OOO each. To each of her execute(Vo'. 1) 0 ' . 0 Gilbert, Alfred Gilbert, and Samuel Howell, X2 ° f d ia cies to two of her assistants—to one an an nuity the other a legacy of £lOO, To Edmund Graliao,o of P at Chelsea, au annuity of £5O, as well as a leg: o il s t° /3 1i0' There are other pecuniary legacies. Begnewrhe t ° National Gallery an original oil painting, be i o nfl ti d Beggar," by Dyokmans, of Antwerp, formerly v on co t Leopold Redpath, and sold with his effects an" .ei f ii i a 01 b a y t C B h eh ri v s e ti n e h 's t( ; ) to be equally divided between her three ajec. e '' s ioag o ot a e n u d ih b i . e q e L a e th a v s etso the ee residueß is h :4s er)fi r fj o rg Pi ir e l,, t , Gilbert, Jane Wigney, ane Helen Howell. It is to t ba occupying fifteen sheets of paper ; but the a 41 1 .0 b id filled in. A codicil was made thereto on the sa 0 01 03 Bth of March, 1858, by which are bequests and the V§§e,