Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-18 00:00:00

SMITHSONIAN HOTEL, BRO: DWAT, COMIC!' of IIOUSTON-STBRE", NEW Yortif. Named in honour of the SILITHAONIAN INSTITOTION, ElltabliStled ad WASHINGTON, by the U. S. CONGIE34, With Funds biegneatited by JAN SMITIIiON. of ENGLAND, Navin tho Friendstitp o • the OFFICSAIS Of the NATIONAL INSTITUTION, Is euniuctel on the EIeOPEAN PLAN. CRAB. TI. RMITH. Co - iinurctal 21015.—Ebt 5 . Elm). At twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, 380 bal s Man'lla Hem.— T. ant H. i.itti ds e and C t. At twelvo o'clock, at the broker's office, 18, Hackin's-hey, 4000 bags Madras Riei.—A. and S. H Sleigh. At twelve o clock, at tl,e brokers' office, 16, Exchange-buildifigs, 87 big , Nittatc of ode.—J. H. Rayner and Co At twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, F.xchaige-chambers, 72 ba'es ottot.-- bomas Po,tlethwaita and Co. At twelve o'clock, in the broker's Mahogany Shed, east side Bruns wick Dock, a quan i'y of Ti ober —James tlongaton• At twelve o'cl e , a quantity or Manganese, Linseed, and Castor Oil —J3I Brothers, At twelve o'c octr, at the brekers' office, Lancaster-buildings, 124 ba'es Mexican Bark.—James Gordon and Co. At one o'c'o..k, at the broken' office. 14, EacJaange-buildiogs, a quan tity of Su nac —S. Dutton and Nephew. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers office, Apsley-bulltlings, 50 tons Savant I.i Favic.-L-Rower an I Slack. At ose o'c'ock, at the broker's o fee, Sweting-street, 10 tons Silos sa Bars.—ArnAd, Leete, Itoscoc and Co. ell' For rart!culan .se3 alvertls!m3nti. 4Sle kottlifni iiut FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. We again devote a large space to further interesting details of news from, India ; also two telegraphic despatches received yesterday. The rumour which was current that a disaster had befallen a pertion of the 10th Earopean Regiment, 'in an enceuater with the mutineers out of Dina. .pore, is fully confirmed by this despatch. Her Majesty's 37th was also in the fight, which, says the telegraph, " was not successful, and our loss very he ney." This disaster occurred at a place called Arrak, at a short distance from Dinapore. Nothing is said of the previously reported slaughter of 800 of these revolted Sepoys. Many more of the native regiments have been disarmed, among them the Governor-Genera?e Body Guard. Gen Outram had succeeded Gen. Lloyd in his com mand, an effi.2lent for an inefficient officer. The most singular, if not the rer)s; inexplicable piece of intelligence communicated by this telegraph, however, is the arrival at Calcutta of Lord Elgin, on board the Shannon. The Times looks upon the news just arrived as of a much more satisfactory character. " One may feel justly prouri of one's countrymen as one glances first at the forced marches and successive victories of General Havelock and his invincible band under a sun which even the Sepoy finds as fatal as the artillery of the, foe; then at the stern repose and vigorous preparation of the Supreme Government ; then at. the quick vengence taken at Dinapore ; then at the pati:mt wai ing of our beleaguered countrymen at Agra and Taieknow, the latter hoping immediate aid, the former able to hold out long ; then at the prompt measures taken to meet formidable outbreaks and lurking conspiracies in the Bombay Presidency; then at the universal stamping out of the sparks in the Punjaub ; and, lastly, at those rocky heights whereon sits the Avenger, still keeping his eye on the accursed city, gathering his strengl3, and biding his time." It concludes, in the following strain. "No doubt—and here we only express the heartfelt confidence of everybody in Inlia—all will be right in the end. We shall destroy the whole of this foul craven mob, that reserves its fury for women and children, and its courage for the ramparts, but always flies be'ore an Englishman in the open field. But what may not happen in the meantime? What terrible gaps may not occur between the expiring efforts of an heroic resistance and the tardy arrival of long expected succour. A fortnight is not much on paper. Wind or rain, a trifling mistake, a moment of false security, the illness of a General, or any trifling cause, may interpose that delay, and cost us a massacre of Cawnpore. Throughout the country great exertions are being m ado for the purpose of raising money for the relief of the sufferers in India, and we are glad to see that Liverpo )1 is one of the foremost towns in this respect. Already nearly X 3,000 has been subscribed by her inhabitants. We are glad to learn that, although late in comparison with other places, Manchester is moving in the matter of affording relief to the sufferers by the Soppy mutiny in India. A requisiton, signed already by many influential names, is in course of signatuae to his Worship the Mayor, calling upon him to convene a town's meeting in aid of the persons reduced to a state of destitution by the recent mutinies in Bengal. The Mayor ha's, in accordance with the request thus urged on him, called a town's meeting for Thursday next, at the Town 'Hall, for the promotion of this object. In London a sum approaching to .240,000 has been subscribed. The Belfast r ots may be sail to be at an end. The determ'natioa of the Government to put down the turbulent scenes which, of late, have been so prevalent there, together with the prompt and energetic conduct of the Lord Lieutenant of Ire land in " proclaiming" Belfast, has viven welt satisfaction to the peaceable inhabitants, and it is to be hoped that the police authorities will insist upon. a complete and thorough disarming of the disaffected characters. The political ,gossips assure us that the Premier has offJred peerages to several individuals, and that his kind offers have either been waived for the present or declined altogether. It appears pretty certain that the Marquis of Lansdowne has re fused to become a Duke. It would b 3 most inter esting if the noble Marquis woull make the public acquainted with the reasons which have induced hi►n conscientiously to decline what the most of people would have regarded as a great honour. The trial of the driver and stoker whose negli gence was said to have occasioned the deplorable railway accident, near Lewisham in June last, took pier(' on Wednesday, and resulted in an immediate - verdict of Nut Guilty. The evidence, so far as it was supposed to implicate the prisoners, corn pletely broke down. Gorman, who was accused of wounding with intent to murder one of the assistant wardens of the Milthank prison has been found guilty of that offence. The ,prisoner had been three times convicted of burglary, and while undergoing his ser.t qtce, had wounded one of the officers who had him in charge. Fur this offence he was tried at the assizes at Reading, and sentenced to 14 years' transportation. He was then removed to Pentonvilie prison, and here he committed several assaults upon the offl 3ers, and was, in eonsequenco, removed to the Poniten tia..:y, where he committed the act for which be had now been c nivieted. Mr. Baron Watson said, the prisoner hai boon incorrigilfy wicked, and the case was one of the worst that had ever come before him. He therefore felt it to be his duty to pass the highest sentence fixed by the law for this offence, which was, that he be kept in penal servi tude for the remainder of his life. Our Manchester friends are certainly a very modest people. They have been agitating for some time on the necessity of assizes being held in that city, as Liverpool was too far cff. They have memorialised the Home-office in favour of the pro ject, and promised almost anything and everything that could be at all demanded of them. Sir George Grey wrote to ask them if they would supply proper Civil and Crown C iurts. judges' loigings,and other accommodation, should it please her Majesty's Government to grant their prayer. This communication is decidedly not of the tone and character they bad wished for, but the council came to the resoluti)n that it is fully prepared, in conjunction with the borough and hundred of Salford, to adopt all necessary measures for making ouch provlsion. In reply to Alderman Pilling, the Town-clerk said that the motion did not bind the corporation of Manchester to provide courts ; the suggestion had always been that provision should be made out of the hundred rate. Manchester and Salford had been memorialising for this change, and they included at least one-third of the whole assessment of the hundred. But besides Man chester and Salford, the corporations of Bolton, Rochdale, Bury, Ashton, Oldham, Stalybridge, and all the towns in the hundred had been movingin the matter. But listen to the impudent climax of Mr. Heron. He believed that at present the magis trates of the hundred had not power to order a rate for the purpose, but he hoped government would bring in a bill to give them the necessary powers, and that they might have, at a compara tively trifling cost, so great a convenience as assizes ix Manchester for the Salford Hundred. Very likely, indeed. C•)uld they not get some railway company to pay the costs, as has been done in the Meraey Conservancy Bill? The usual weekly meetings of the Dock and Health Committees were held yesterday, but nothing of importance transpired At the latter it was stated that the deaths last week were 272, being 14 more than the corrected average. The Medical Officer says that the mortality from diarrhoea is considerably less than that of last week—viz , 50 against 73. At the half-yearly meeting of the Bank of Eng land held yesterday, a dividend of 5i per cont. for the half-year was declared. The dividend has not reached so high an amount since April, 1849. We learn that, in addition to the two bishoprics already existing in New Zealaad, three others are to be immediately formed—one for Wellington, for Nelson, and one for Tauranga, the last being, an exclusively Maori district. The Rev. 0. Had field, Archdeacon of Kapiti, will be Bishop of Wellington ; the Rev. William Williams, Archdea con of Wiapu, will be Bishop of Touranga; and the Bishopric of Nelson N 1 ill probably be conferred Upon the Ray. C. J. Abraham, 8.D., Archdeacon of Waitemata. The foreign news this morning is not of much moment. The French papers comment on the Indian news. The Debats very rightly begins to advocate the abolition of the East India Com pany. The same papers says that it has reason to believe that Agra has fallen, though it does not give its authority. We find a rather obscure despatch in the French papers, which affirms that the States of the Duchy of Lauenbourg have resolved to lay a complaint before the Germanic Diet, to the effeuip that the negotiations ordered by the King for the arrangement of constitutional affairs have not yet taken place. If this be so the matter will easily be arranged, as the question is only one of time. The elections in Wallachii are, like those in Moldavia, favourable to the unionist party. A despatch from Bucharest states that the clergy have ele3ted nine unionists, and the great landed proprietors 20 deputies, of whom 22 are unionists. A des:A:eh from Madrid, of the 26th instant, an. nounces that the members of the cabinet had ten dered their resignation ; the Queen, however, had nt•t accepted it. The Australian mails will in all probability be delivered here to-morrow morning. WE return to the subject of Mormonism because efforts are at present made to push it into public no:ice, with concealment of its real eatures ; and so many of our countrymen and Jcountrywomen have fallen into the snare of this organised sensualism. We blush to read that its chief converts in Europe are from our own country. We are ashamed that it speaks the English language. What an argument is this for increased efforts to spread popular education. Here are our people leaving England by hun dreds, the victims of a transparent delusion, which is distinguished by its appeals to the lowest feelings, by its coarse dogmatism, and its hypocritical assumption of religious phraseology. It would be curious, and perhaps instructive, to know the proportions which other nations besides our own have contributed to swell the ranks of Mormonism. Several have gone from Sweden to Utah, and there are proselytes from Germany; but, according to the latest informa tion, the largest proportion is furnished by Eng land, Wales, and Scotland. Ireland is honour ably distinguished in this matter. To abate the somewhat disparaging conclusion which might be drawn from this fact, in comparison with the quota furnished by other. European nations, it must be remembered that Mormon ideas are clothed in the English language; its territory is within the dominions of an Anglo- Saxon race, and the people of this country are the world's best colonists and missionaries. Had Mormonism used principally the lan guages of France, Spain, or Germany, it is probable that a larger proportion of the people of those countries would have found their way to the city of the Salt Lake. Oa second view, then, the fact, however discreditable, is not quite so sh imeful to us as might at first appear—still, as they say in the House of Lords, it is too bad. We acknowledge our surprise that two classes of persons should be found in an' considerable numbers among the Mormon saints—First, women ; and then Scots men. Surely no Englishwoman, who really knows the facts of the case, the fact of poly gamy, the fact of woman's domestic degrada tion, into a mere thing and satellite of Mormon voluptuousness, losing half her own personality and womanly dignity—surely no English woman who is distinctly aware of this can deliberately commit herself to such a condition of society. What is this but domestic slavery and dishonour to the woman ? How can any English woman consent to ba counted the third part, or tenth part, of a wife ? Why not the entire wife—queen and mistress of the house hold ? We appeal to woman's sense of honour, to their vanity, to their ambition, to any thing that may save them from these precious " Saints." Why, we demand, may not the opposite doctrine of a plurality of husbands be set up ? It would sound as well, and might have something to say for itself. Will no strong-minded woman inaugurate the heresy ? We promise to bear them a hand in this laudable work, and we will stake the log :c of it against the logic of Mormonism. This would, at least, be a reductio ad absurdum of the Mormon theory. We claim the honours of an inventor. Here is the thing ready for use, and we will quote Scripture for it—" I will show it thee to-morrow in the Scripture, said my Uncle Toby to the Corporal." We offer this revelation to the Saints. Creation was gradually unfolded into the nobler forms. Man came after the lower animals—therefore he is nobler and higher than they. But accordirig to one account of the Creation in Genesis, woman was formed later than man—therefore she is nobler THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 1857 and higher than he : Her 'prentice ban' she fried on n•an, &c. She is not so physically strong as man, but neither is he so strong as an elephant. Dignity of nature is not measured by physical strength. Woman being, therefore, the paragon of nature, the head and mother of the human race, is most righteously entitled to have a number of the lower male creatures at her service. This is the true revelation—plurality of husbands, and down with Mormonism ! Quod erat demon strandum. Next to our surprise at finding women going to Utah, is our marvel at finding Scotsmen there—natives of prudent, cautious, " cannie," educated, religious, Calvinistical, and Sabba tarian Scotland. We are afraid Sandie is degenerating in this iron age, and is no better than was Tam, who " tint " (.Inglice lost) " his reason a'thegither." Seriously, it is disgraceful to this country that a single prose lyte should set out for the Salt Lake. We observe that the annual meeting of the Mon monites was held in London on Sunday, Sep tember 6. Six hundred persons were said to have been present in the morning, and a thousand in the evening. As we have said already, we would not prevent the meetings of these people, or put them down by force, but we would pub- lish the facts of the case—such fact? as were narrated at the Bury meeting, the other day, by Mr. HILL. Here is another trifling fact which we will state, resting on the authority of the Times correspondent. Twenty-six fugitives from Mormon persecution arrived a short time since in the city of San Francisco, and they corroborate the strongest and most revolting allegations of the American Judge DRUMMOND. It is easy to deny, but unsupported denial is not proof. Facts are stronger than assertion. Let Mor monism be well pelted with these hard facts. Let uur countrymen and women be acquainted with the actual state of things in that land of Zion which has BRIGHAM YOUNG for its high priest, and we greatly miscalculate the sagacity of our countrymen, if the number of recruits to the Valley of the Salt Lake does not ere long `• grow small by degrees, and beau'ifully less." THERE is an old but trite adage that persons " who live in glass houses should not throw stones." Our readers will recollect that, a few days ago, we deemed it necessary to animadvert upon certain remarks which the city editor of the limes had made respecting the commercial morality of Liverpool.. The writer in question stated that such is the system pursued in this town, that whenever a mrchant was found to be in difficulties great efforts were made to screen the extent and character of the insolvent's lia bilities, and that this was effected for a variety of purposes, some of these far from bordering upon honesty. To persue the remarks of the Times' city article, the reader would suppose that the writer never aimed at cloaking a failure that came under his notice, and that his com mercial morality was like Caesar's wife—above suspicion. Knowing the history of the Times' city article for a series of years, we felt that 'his assumed perfection in matters of . _the kind was far from being able to stand the test he desired to apply to Liverpool. We had not long to wait until we were in a position to refute his calumny upon the mercantile community of Liverpool. Not only is London, in its dealings, more open to a charge of commercial dishonesty, bat the gigantic schemes of fraud which are perpetrated show that it is the metropolis of rascality. Various reasons and undeniable testimony in support of this allegation might be quoted. The cargo of swindling convicts, Sir JOHN PAUL, SI'RAHAN, BATES, REDPATiI, &c., which dropped down the Thames the other day, to a distant land of exile and slavery, were a sample of London swindlers. Hardly were these notorious characters sailed from their native land, when out comes another case of huge dis honesty and fraud. Mr. DEAN, the London solicitor, who has contrived by forgeries and other dishonest actions to fleece a number of his dupes and clients to a pretty large amount. Mr. DEAN'S case is but another of the many instances of gross fraud perpetrated in London, and which is steadily and surely undermining that high tone of commercial morality on which, as a nation, we have so long and so justly prided ourselves. True it is that in Liverpool we have occasional failures—eases of bankruptcy and insolvency they are, however, of such a character as might be expected in an extensive trading community like Liverpool. In very few instances can positive dishonesty be traced to the parties con cerned. If we turn our eyes to London what do we find ? We see the canker of studied decep_ tion and dishonesty spreading itself with rapid strides among all classes—the banker, the piety monger, the merchant, and . the. tradesman. Board of Directors, too, have contributed their full quota to the want of honest principles, and laxity of commercial morality. Bat the picture wa not complete, nor the list of characters in the gallery of modern rogues filled up, until the legal profession had its representative. Accord ingly Mr. DEAN, of King's Bench Walk, has taken his place. But notwithstanding the readi ness of the writer of the Times' city article to trumpet for the failures or commercial faux pas of Liverpool merchants, he has been perfectly mute about Mr. DEAN'S delinquencies. Is sach conduct creditable to the boasted morality of the leading journal, and its city editor in. par not. It contrasts ticular ? We should say strongly with the remarks of the writer of the city article in our excelleiZt cotemporary, the Daily News, who observes—" When a man who has borne a respectable character, during a period of five-and-twenty or thirty yez.: rs of pro fessional practice, is discovered to have thus betrayed the trust reposed in him, the intimacy of the relations subsisting between the client and his confidential legal adviser renders the blow more severe." Not only did Mr. DEAN ap propriate his client's money, but he forged deeds and other legal instruments to enable him to effect his dishonest and unholy purposes, and has inflicted, it is said, great pecuniary distress upon several respectable families, including some of his relations. To this tale of Ave is to be added the fact that he has left—for he has absconded from justice—his wife without any means of support; REDPATII and ROBSON were clever in their way, but their dishonest practices were by no means as nefarious as those of the King's Bench Walk solicitor. Justice demands that something should be done to put a stop to the huge swindles which are practised in the metro polis. At the same time, surely we will hear no more of the penny squakes of the Times about the commercial morality of Liverpool. Let the writers Jonk at home, Much, and be eilcnt. THE LATE CAPTATN Roams.—lt will be seen, by an advertisement in another part of our columns, that an effort is being made in Liverpool to raise a hubscription in relibf of the widow and children of the udortunate man whose name heads this paragraph, and whose miserable fate has not yet ceased to be matter of comment. We have already expressed our opinion on the justice of the ignomqdous punishment which closed his earthly career, and need not again refer to it. Even if we were inclined to do so, the prosent would nor be a fitting occasion, when we are called upon to sympathise in a distress as melancholf as can well be imagined. The sins of the father should not be visited on the children ; and whatever may be the opinion of the conduct of the unhappy man— conduct wh ch he expiated on the public seaff,dd at Kirk dale—vc e feel assured that none amongst us will be found to deny to his thrice miserable wife and children, whose inheritance is shame and poverty, that commiseration whic'i their lot calls for. The present effort to aid them in their distress, has originated, and properly so, with the members of the Mercantile Marine Association; but let us hope that the appeal will not be unheeded by the commu nity at large. All the means which Mrs. Rogers had she spent as a wife should do, in the defence of her husband ; and, we must admit, that she and her children are now true objects of charity. CAUTION TO EMIGRANTS. [CO3I)II:NICATED.] We are glad to observe that the unprincipled attack which appeared in the Liverpool Chronicle upon the Pennsylvania Central Railway Company and its represen - ta.ives has been the means of calling forth some able and just replies ; and we gladly give publicity to the following information which has coats to our, hands regarding one of the most heartless systems of fraud ever practised on p oor env grants, in the hops that that it mty serve as a caution to them. The system alluded to, is that which is pursued with apparent impunity by the commissioners at Castle Garden New York, and by their understrappnrs in this country, which has bsen brought the light of day by a special committee appointed fir that pacp)se. Win is there in this country, after a perusal of said report, which has been published, that has not blushed to think that there are parties in this country mean enough to act as the paid hirelings, for .uph Ading the Cas.le Garden. practice of de— liding and defrauding his fellow-countryman on his arrival at New York. The report of the committee speaks for itself, and is backed by evidence conclusive as it is v'elunainous. It appears that there is a clique in Sew York dubbed "Emigration Commissioners," locate I in Castle Garden where all emigrants must land, who have made arrange: meats with some railway compalies to for ward all parties Who desire to leave New York. The Pennsylvania Central Railway Company refused to ag,,de to the proposal made by the Castle Garden Committee, and was refue”d the privilege of booking any passengers in C tstle Garden. Tee Commissioners, dreading the consequences of that railway company being able to book passengers at rates So far below those charged by them, used every means to damage that company's c edit, and if possible to put it down, and finding the utter impossibility of doing so, they have had recourse to a species of cowardly revenge which unfortunately for themselves recoils back upon them with redoubled force. This claque has sent commissaries to Europe (who, with the whole stock of commissioners, are well paid from the money they overcharge the poor emigrant), to induce the different governments to put down other companies, tha t they may have the pie, crust and all, to themselves. We imagine, that if some of the poor deluded emigrants could lay hands on these gentry, that they would receive treat ment, not much batter than that which awaits the Sepoys at the hands of our troops in India. We shall content ourselves, in the present article, by merely pointing out one or two glaring bits of testimony which the committee's report has elicited. It is state', in the sixth resolution, " that an emigrant landing at Castle Garden, if going west, is compelled to purchase a ticket, or pass, before he can leave the Castle grounds, and for which he must pay about thirty per cent,' additional to the price charged by the company" Mr. Schucte testifies that thirteen dollars and thirty.five cents are charged in Castle Gardens for a pass to Mil waukie, when the advertise nears of railroad prices are ten dollars and sevenieen cents. Leopold Lorenz swears th tt " the Pennsylvania railroad charges twelve dollars and fifty cents to St. Louis, and that the Commissioners charged for the same ticket fifteen dollars; that emigrants are chargel sixteen dollars and fifty cents if they go by the Erie railroad to St. Louis, and they make no time thereby." This, than, accounts for the milk in the cocoa-nut. This, then, is the reason why Mr. Lorenz and'the Pennsyl vania Railway Company have been so maliciously reviled in the recent article in the Liverpool Chronicle. 0 t eni polo, 0 mores! It is also sworn to in a further evidence, that the Com missioners charge twenty per cent. upon the passage money furnishe to the railroads, and where, on one occasion, as brought out in proof, a poor emigrant disc)vered that he had been defrauded, and applied for restitution of the money he had been robbed of, referring to the advertised rates in the ne vepapers, he was toll by the vendor of the ticket, "He did not care for the papers, and would not pay the difference, nor take back the ticket." The report winds up as follows :—" Your committee have stated sufficient herein to convince any candid mind of the gross mismanagement, and constant impositions practised at Castle Garden. Emigrants are defrauded of their money, i►l-treatel, and imposed upon by thong who profess to be their temporary guardians and protectors." • We shall conclude our present article by giving at length—the evidence of Mr. Lorenz, agent for the Pen sylvania Ceara Railway Company, before the committee. This is the gentleman and the Railway Company ahead , ' alluded to as having been sa vilely calumniated in the article which appeared in the Liverpool Chronicle of September sth. . " Leopold Lorenz sworn : Live at 95, Greenwich. street. I am agent for the Pensylvania Central Railway Company. I forward emigrants and second class passengers. I was willing to make arrange ments with the commissioners, but they refused to allow me in the depot. (this witness states that he went with Mr. Howe, an officer of this company, to make arrange_ ments with the commissioners.) The Pennsylvania Rail 'Toad charges twelve dollars and fifty cents to St. Louis the commissioners charge for thelsame tickets fifteen dollars bought from witness on one occasion, they took thirty-two tickets, but afterwards the passengers went by Erie Rail road ; I have received ticke's from Castle garden charged two or three dollars more than the price. I pay runner s one dollar commission on each passenger. Mr. Newton does the same ; in Castle garden emigrants are charged sixteen dollars and fifty cents if they go by the Eri a Railroad to St. Louis, and they do not go faster by Erie Railroad than by Pennsylvania Central Rai road. All emigrants are not treated alike in regard to prices. The establishment of the depot has been a loss to the Penns3l.- vania Central Railroad, on account of restriction being put on emigrants, in not allow;ng them to come out of the gat den and choose their route, (theirs being the cheapest) ; went to the Astor House to make arrangements with Thurlow Weed and where. Mr. Howe was with me, but they would not come to any conclusion, on account of Mr• ThurlowWeed, who would not send passengers on our route, only those who could not travel by any other route. They could not agree on the twenty par cant. they wanted to Charge upon emigrants. L. L. • -4.--- NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL. Noßwlca, Sept. 15.7; Although several unpropitious circumstances threatened to militate against the 12th triennial music meetings in aid of the Norfolk and Norwich charities, its success, we have reason to believe, is now placed beyond a doubt. The exertions of the general committee and of their inde fatigab!e hon. secretary, Mr. Roger Kerrison, who has for many years borne the chief weight of the official responsi bilities with credit to himself and benefit to the festival, have been unremitting. All obstacles are surmounted, and it is confidently anticipated that a very different balance sheet will be presented at the termination of the proceea lugs from that of 1854, which shoved an excess of expenditure over receipts, amounting to £lO3 93. sde thus leaving a small deficiency to be made up by the vice-presidents, and 'waling at all for the charities. Hew large is the outlay attendant upon these festivals, and what degree of public support is indispensable to insure a profit, may be gathered from the table of salaries paid to singers and players at the 11th meeting. F:ona this it appears that £2,110 16s. fell to the principal singers and chorus, £1,117 14s 6d to the band, and £lO5 to the conductor— making a total of £3,333 lOs 61 for musicians alone. The other liabilities raised the gross amount to £4,347 143 7d, and, the receipts being only £-1,244 53 21, the above-mentioned loss was incurred. The Norwich Festival, like that at Birmingham, depends entirely on the sale of tickets for any servile it may be able to confer upon the charities. There are no collections after performance as at the celebrations of the " Three Choirs," and no donations unless there is a deficiency to provide for. Nevertheless, that the undertaking can be made to pay is proved by the fact that out of eleven meetings only two (those of 1836 and 1854) were unsuc cessful. The largest receipts ever obtained were at the first and second meetings (1824 and 1827). The outlay has invariably averaged between -e4,000 and .t'5,000. In keeping the expenditure within bounds, in varying the attractions as much as possible, in endeavouring to inspire the inhabitants of the county with a personal interest in the welfare of their music meeting, and a sense of humi liation at the prospect of a failure, lie the chances of future and permanent triumph. As no lees than eleven useful and excellent charities look to the triennal festival for very necessary contributions to their funds, it would be sad indeed to witness its decay for want of that local patronage on which it has so just a right to count. But the nobility and gentry of Norfolk will never permit such a disgrace, and the brightening aspect of the present anni versary shows that a new sympathy has been raised from which the most favourable re3ult3 may be expected: Besides, charity apart, the Norwich Festival can lay Claire to a chapter in the future history of music—since what Birmingham has done for Mendelssohn Norwich has effected for Sophr. " The Fall of Babylon and Calvary" may not be comparable, as work'S of the highest genius, to " St. Paul and Elijah ;" but they are the productions of the only man of the day at all able to compete with Mendelssohn in the composition of sacred oratories. The liet of noblemen and gentlemen who countenance the present meeting with their inflaence, and the majority of whom will probably attend, is long and imposing. President, the Earl of Leicester ; Vice-Presidents, the High Sheriff and Mayor of Norwich, the Duke of Wellington, Nlarquis of Lothian, Marquis Towashend, Earl of Albemarle, Earl of Rosebery, Earl of Gosford Earl: of Orford,, Earl Jermyn, Viscount Maynard' Viscount Ranelagh, Viscount Riyuham, Viscount Bury, Lord Stanley, Lord Hastings, Lord Stafford, Lord Sondes, Lord Walsingham, Lord Suffield, Lord 13ayning, Lord Wodehowe, Right Hon. Sir John Patteson, the Dan of Norwich, Sir Edmund Bacon, sir W. R. Kemp, Sir Henry Bedingfeld, Sir W. J. H. B. Fiolkes, Sir W. F. Middlet ou Sir R. P. Jodrell, Sir E. H. K• L icon, Sir Henry J: Stracey, Sir Willoughby Jones, Sir J. P. Boileau, Sir R, Shafto Adair, Sir E. N. Buxton, Sir S• Morton Peto, Rear-Admiral Sir E, Travers, Sir Henry Robinson, Sir Samuel . Bighold, Mij Gmeral Windham, Messrs. B, Garden, G. P. Bentinek, H. W. Schneider, J. H. Gurney, J. C. Cabbold, and E. Fellowes, the Mayors of Yarmouth Lynn, and Thetford, and the Sheriff of Norwich. The Lord-Lieutenant :of ithe county seldom appe tits except in name; but hi plac.t is to be occupied by the Earl of Alb ermarle (ehairtnan of the general committee), who will officiate as president at the concerts. The Bishop of Nor. with, on Wing, applied to far his p ttronage, declined to give it, we are informed, on the plea that, " with every desire to promote the inerest of the charities to which it is proposed to devote the profits of the musical festival, he could not concur with the committee in seeking to advance thorn by such means." The present Bishop of Norwich wonld seem to maintain very different opinions on such matters from those of his immediate predecessors —Bishops Bathurst, Stanley, an I Ilinds—tvho were all laver; of music, and stanch supporters of the festival, keeping open house in muniti:tient style during the entire week. Bishop Stanley even went so far as to entertain a songstress—Jenny Lind, herself not an apathetic labourer in the field of charity—at his residence. Tais only shows, however, that prelates may indulge in wholly opposite opinions on other points than those of pure theology. The performances at the Norwich Festival, morning and evening, sacred and secular,take place in St Andrews-hall, rine of the most splendid edifices of its kind in England. Here used to be held the Mayor's annual feasts, which sometimes as many as 1,000 persons attended. When the Municipal Reform Act passed these costly and im posing ceremonies were abolished, and the building is now chiefly devoted to public meetings and musical performances. St. Andrew's-hall having more than once manifest been described, it is enough to add that a improvement has been effected by lowering the orchestra at the west end, by means of which contrivance the performers may both be seen and heard to greater advantage. A new arrangement of the raised seats in the aisles (intersected by the pillars supporting pointed arches which sustain the root) has also exposed to view the portraits and historical pictures, which being formerly concealed altogether, deprived the spectator of one of the chief attractions of the interior. At the,east end, on the partition which divides the choir from the nave, is a por trait of Nelson, taken by SirW. Beechey in 1801, and said to be the last for which the hero of Trafalgar ever lat. Mr. Benedict, whose personal popularity with every one in Norwich, high and low, is as great as his musical reputation, is (for the fifth time) conductor of the musical performances. and as usual has provided a magnificent tn. strumental force of 90 players, the flower of the raetrowli. tan oxoliestras. Norfolk is famed for its vitoral singers, te whose fresh and telling; voices are as ple asant hear as their zeal is conducive to the good effect of the execution. Of these there is a !Alan% W 7 " 7 " strong, which, added to - the band, presents a efficient body. Their quality was tested yestettlai and to-day at the rehearsals, when the most in3lO rtan r pieces in the programme were gone through. The °ID; levying are the names of the principal soloists, vocals instrumental:—Madame Clara !Novelle, Mademoiselle Leonhardi, Madame Weiss, Mrs. Loekey, and g ed 7 moiselle Piccolornini, Signor Garden', Sigeor Gingko Mr. Lackey, Mr. Miranda, Mr. Weiss, and Signor B 11 O (vocalists); violin, Mr. S,ainton and Mr. Blagrove; cello, Herr Hausmann. The festival begins to-night iflti a grand concert, at which Mademoiselle Piccolotajoi ° , l Signor Giuglini are to sing, and Mr. Howard " Tom O'Shanter" is to be given for the first time programme is of a more than usually '°miscellana ev; character. To-morrow morning Spohr's cantato ,kil l ae "The Christian Prayer," Mendelssohn's "gr in A ; Praise," and Mozart's "Requiem" will constitute a °le.-, admirable and interesting programme of sacred muggy"‘ At the second evening concert Spohr's symphony °all " the " Seasons" will be performed, and the Italian " tr eti nf , make their second and final appearance. The oyall'b e n l / 1 which is new to Norwich, may be remembered in L on o il as the one composed expressly for' the so-called Naiieh-or Concerts, which made so memorable a failure at; ii Majesty's Theatre in the winter of 1849.50. The rs ' A d morning Beethoven's " Mount of Olives," and 1-131 v " Seasons" will keep the performers and the audieve. St. Andrew's-hall till late in the afternoon. By t1t,41 14 ' the former is annonriced as "arranged by Sir w — of 'Smart," the latter as "arranged by Professor TaYiersig Would it be indiscreet to demand what the fl ol " arranged by" may signify ? As the third o f last evening concert on the same day w e to have the " Pastoral Sympathy" of Best h° ' e :l and a selection from the music to the l' ee oo part of Goethe's " Paust," the composition of Mr. P ier g s ; whose oratorio of " Jerusalem' was produced at the,seo" wick Festival of 1852, and commented urn e t length in our report of the meeting. On Friday oe A r- fe o l° the undying " Messiah," and in the evening a fancy " .. ;do ball at St. Andrew's hall will bring the festival to a v ' i ti The old city is rapidly filling with visitors from al l t ar ot and assuming an aspect of unaccustomed animation. , of streets are thronged especially in the neighbourh oe le the hall, where the strains of music are eagerly este b et the " outsiders," and the scarcely anticipated fine vree'rfor makes everything and everybody look gay and e hee f f e l The Duke of Cambridge was expected to attend t he 1 3 0 tival, but has excused himself to Captain Iv es 'lel proffered host, on the plea of other engageoneSt e ' m ilo shilling concerts at the hall, which usually ushe r festival, hive again been successfal. Tire last too l; r d# on Saturday evening. At the previous one on Wednestbb upwards of 1,200 persons attended. Dr. Bet 0 z?alous and able organist of the cathedral, has hee- d o industrious as of yore. The anthem, composed f e ; of installation of the Bishop of Norwich, was perferaf'add his admirab'y trained chair on Sanday. Of this' 6- he choir we may speak on another occasion.. BANK OF ENGLAND MEETIN.a. i Yesterday, at noon, the usual half-yearly Gener , -a-., tit / of Proprietors of the Bank of England was held 00 Bank parlour; the Governor (Ur. Sheffield Neale) chair. gr The minutes of the two former courts having been to and confirmed, 0 0 0 1 The Governor said—l have now to acquaint the 0001 *hat this is one of the quarterly general courts, sPr dd sr o by the charter, and also one of the half-yearlYlisg, courts appointed by the 12th b;e-law for 0 1 „7", o gvi dividend. The net profits cf the half-year en a4 O 31st, of August last wore .£775,650, making the efi l° o l 7, the rest on that day £3,840,625 is 3d, and after for a dividend at the rate of 51i- per cent. for the ttr A the rest will be £3,040,210 11 3d. The court of digerm therefore, propose that a half year's dividend 0 1 ,15: 1 and profits be made on the 10th of October, .1 , per cent,, without any deduction on account 0 1 aid tax. t he u.'o Mr. Pilcher : Although there is an increase in t 11,4 dend, perhaps I may be allowed to ask how it le t11:03,4" still so small, as compared with the dividend dee`llolC the banks in the neighbourhood?' They (the ladies," as I may call them) are declaring divideeA 047 ,0 or 20 per cent , but our establishment. the only divides 11. How is it that with larger P —fit the other banks our dividend is yet less? 'nel '`The Governor: The difference is easily el, j4l bse o is rather nominal than real, and is this f o re, which you allude have small capitals, and , the blew th profit they make-41t1r:ugh less than ours--en a dieicl to divide upon their small capital the larger irk ', The Bank of England has 14 , 000 , 000 /. of et f ol although its profits may be larger than those of t-uw:, banks, yet nominally they will not yield the sale " interest as the profits of those banks. ca p Mr Pilcher : Yes, sir ; but how much of our 011,. we keep unemployed ? col 9 The Governor : We have none unemployed 13° J; 0 which, as prudent bankers, we are bound to keep ",„(1 0 Mr. Pilcher: Then it naturally follows that Ic",110 employ our capital as well as the young banks , . t he A ladies,' , as I have called them, do theirs. , i n Mr. M. Clarke : We have earnel £81 1 ),Liv"!oili going to divide £BOO,OOO of that. The division otiN place upon fourteen millions of capital, which is a Of £1,600,000, upon half that capital. Tho wo lka3 ' of our bank is only about three millions. Of Mr. Pilcher : But why should we not 011 31 °1. our capital ? - , .„ 0 " The Governor : We are naturally in our pos , l l- „i,.,,0, to keep a much larger reserve than private bans-tiarri The question that the dividend be declared P"vtll and after the 10;h of October next was th en t t carried unanimously. , The Governor : I have now to inform the 0 ° la st the present rate of dividend exceeds that of th e t he year, it is necessary under the provisions of r, parliament that the same should be confirme d 1 L 0 0 1 : the customary manner ; and I have now, viie clii move that this court do stand adjourned till r jo i! j the 22nd inst., at 4 o'clock, then to take the de te ,for of the proprietors by way of ballot upon the ig" j. dividend. - The motion was ag.eed to. „, to grti: Mr. M. Clatice : It only remains for ns 13„0,7,10'41 , 4 vote of thanks to the Court of ,Directors. the dividend is 51 per cent.; but if it had 0011, 8 0,Y think the thanks of the court would be ecoally ° ll o oi because they have kept in view what is jot too 0 0 ,4 proprietors, and at the s me time have 11 '0 " o r commercial interests. (Rear, hear.) To ace c e j or:ol: they are the regulators of the monetary system et re ce and they are not always masters of their own P, O O A / 1 but the manner in which' they govern the wh°',l lo l,Y, much discretion, prudence, and ability, that ' 0' 1 ; 1 0 0 ' our best thanks. (Hear,. hear) I therefere,A) only due to them that they should receive a o . 6fr ige l : o . 6 our public approbation of their past conduct.. ' v e t e 7 j Mr. Alderman Salomons : I have grew n ' e ar:C seconding that motion. In all my exper' ° oi9j conrte, this is the first time I have heard &Al in the language of complaint about a We, tli! o s dividend. (Hear, hear.) I suppose, hower ; 0( 1 is in our constitution someth:ag; which g r ant feeling that, the more we get the more we be and a laugh) Perhaps, therefore, I maY d if hope that,, consistently with. what is due to to t o' nvg be in the power of the Court. of Direet ° lt SO 4 o ' an increased dividend. (Hear, hear.) Pert ° ;oo% in seconding this motion, that we have ever, e ece satisfied with their eor.duct, and with the ri ls jt they have managed the affairs of the bank , eat , v idee much to say, by one) who has read tbe e tie d o members of the Court of Directors before Pit : oo , o t there never was a period when the character 0 0 1; and the court stood higher than it doea,,; o otr greater effect was produced upon a parba;io, not only to the interf a sts o f the propri to mittee, than was produced by that evidence , ator6 silt resolution o e l g u t t i o o u r e , t Ar u h l of the public. (LTear, hear.) The resolution was carried by acalernati ° T i ef ;0: 4 The Governs):: Gentlemen, in the name°, di e , 0 1 ,./ 4 that in the difficult and arduous duties be co 0 ;0$ 1 i n eh y y o o u u oar have i just t t e pa t s h s e e n d k . s ' . : 014 0 10 : 5 upot those who have the management 0f a t it reftlf it is always to them a source of e°,. c „ - t3 t 1 2 1 , 44 prietary, support if they can obtain the approb ate euti"ff, (Hear.) I may also add that 00 .11 able to all those who have the conduct of 08 00.10 great national institution and who are l iec ,,, e o , t t ol —te whom it is a duty—to keep 1 0 0:i interest—cm at the same time mee t iopi P- tat, and ascertain from"them that they ar°,, bar „el have not sacrificed their interests, but „riot'''. tended to the general interests of the P l9 .'" (seer, hear.) The court then adjourned,