Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-09 00:00:00

CommtxTiai 4ales. THIS DAY. Tuts DAT, the 9th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at', Brawn, Hunter, and Co.'s offi ce , 2 , Dale-street, 02 Bags Bengal RICE, BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers, Tats DAY, the 9th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at Browne, Hunter, and Co.'s Office, 2, Dale-street, 310 Boxes Pearl SAGO, 24 Hhds. Quercitron BARK, 219 Bags Sago FLOUR, all faults. !BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers Tuzs Day, the 9th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Commercial Saleroom, Temple•court, 126 Cases Naples ORANGES, 121 Cases Naples LEMONS, ex Rhone (ss), 82 Boxes Port ORANGES, ex Minho (ss), 432 Cases Messina LEMONS, ex Express, 200 Bags Turkey NUTS, 150 Bags Para NUTS, 200 Bags Barcelona Nuts. GEO. BADENACH and SON, Brokers TO-M 0 It R 0 W TO-MORROW, the 10th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at Browne, Hunter, and Co.'s Office, 2, Dale-street, 2,000 Bags RAPESEED, 2,000 , MUSTARD SEED. BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Brokers To-monaow, the 10th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at Browne, Hunter, and Co's office, 2, Dale-street, 200 Bales J U FE. BROWNE, HUNTER, and Co., Broker, TO-MORROW, the 10th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at J. H. Rayner and Co.'s Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 425 Bales 'Manilla HEMP. J. H. RAYNER and Cb.,.Brokers To-monaow, the 10th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at J. 11. Rayner and Co.'. Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 50 lihds. new Dutch Sowing FLAXSEED. J. 11. RAYNEIt and Co., Brokers ♦pply to Apply to Apply to Apply to Apply to Apply to Apply to TO-MORROW, the 10th instant, at. Twelve o'clock, at J. 11. Rayner & Co.'s Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 25 Tierces Carolina RICE, now landing ex City of Baltimore.—Apply to J. 11. RAYNER and Co., Brokers WEDNESDAY. On WELNNSDAY next, the 11th instant, at One o'clock, at 13, Exchange-building's, 48 Bales of Surat COTTON (all faults), ex Samuel Fales, from Bombay, lying in Tobin's, Galton-street Apply to T. & 11. LITTLEDALE, Brokers On WIDNESDAY next, the 11th instant, at TwelN °o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 1,142 Bags CUTOII. J. H. RAYNER and Co., Brokers. ♦pply to On WEDNESDAY next, the 11th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 16, Exchange-buildings, 68 llogsheads Quercitron BARK, 1,237 Barrels ROSIN, now landing, per Wyoming, from Philadelphia Brown, Shipley, & Co., Merchants; or to J. H. R %.I(NER and Co.. Brokers —Apply to Messrs THURSDAY On THURSDAY, the 12th instant, and followin Days,at Four, Public Saleroom, Exchange-buildings, 4,1)00 Bales East India 200 Bales Unwashed Chili, WOOL. 200 Bales Washed Perwriaa, Egyptian, &c. T. and H. IITTLEOALE and Co., Brokers Apply to On THURSDAY, the 12th instant, and following days, at the Broker's saleroom, Colonial-buildings, 36, Dale. street, I,lool3ales East India and other low WOOLS. Also, on FRIDA/, the 13th instant, 300 Sheets English Skin and Fleece WOOLS. MALCOLM GREAME, Wool Broker. Apply to SATURDAY On SATURDAY, the 14th instant, at the Brokers' Saleroom, Atherton-buildings, Dale-street, Liverpool, 2,000 Bales East India WOOL. For Catalogues, &c., apply to HUGHES and RONALD, Wool Brokers. NEXT WEEK On MONDAY, the 16th instant, at half-past Eleven o'clock, at the Commercial Saleroom, Temple-court, 337 Baskets of VARIOUS. Patterns may be seen prior to the sale by applying to GEO. BADENACII and SON, 18, North John-street. Postponed from Thursday, the sth May On THURSDAY, the 19th May, and following days, at Browne, Hunter, and Co.'s Office, 2, Dale-street, 1,800 Bales East India WOOL. 50 „ Egyptian ~ 40 , Smyrna BROWNE, ' HUNTER, and Co., Brokers On FRID.SY, the 20th instant, at the Brokers' Saleroom, Atherton-buildings, Dale-street, Liverpool, 600 Bales East India 300 ~ Danskoi fleece 300 Oporto washed and unwashed 300 „ Bueaos Ayres low and fine WOOL. 100 „ Brock washed Odessa and Lisbon 70 „ .Volo and Vidino 350 „ Chili and sundries 2020 Bales.—For Catalogues, &c., apply to HUGtiES and RONALD, Wool Brokers, NEXT MONTH On THURSDAY, the 9th of June, at One o'clock, at Christopher Bushell, and Co.'s Office, Royal Insuranee-buildings, About 50 Pipes and 30 Hhds. of superior PORT WINES, of various brands and vintages, 70 Pipes of Spanish RED WINES, together with smaller parcels of SHERRY, CHAM PAGNE, CLARET, BRANDY, and other Wines and Spirits, in Wood and •Bottle.—For further particulars apply to CHRISTOPHER BUSHELL, and Co., Brokers. On ,sait. JAMES BANKS, CASTLE-BUILDINGS, DERBY-SQUARE, LIVERPOOL. FENCING WIRE, Black, Bright, and Galvanised; TELEGRAPH WIRE and SIGNAL CORD, Wholesale and for Exportation. AMERICAN SOLACE PIPE SMOKERS, TRY THE ABOTE. Packages, 2 oz s. for Bd, C. TURMEAL HISTORY OF THE WORKING CLASSES, Every Saturday, in the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES, Price One Penny. THE TEA TRADE. ROYAL BANK BUILDINGS, Liverpool, May 4th, 1859. PART of the Importation of this " Season's Black Teas" has been—of a liner quality than for several years past ; —but, although the market value is higher, we have made such arrangements as will enable us to continue to supply Family Orders (until further notice) without any advance on former prices, viz—Fine Congou, 3s Bd, First-class Congou, Rich Souchong Flavour, 4s, and the Extra Fine, full Ripe Souchong, 4s 4d. At these prices will be found unusually good Teas—equal to those of the well remem bered season of 1852, and more particularly the cargo imported per ship Race Horse, in that year. For the special convenience of Families. we hare an Account open with "The City Bank," London-'• Bank of Ireland," Dublin-" National Bank of Scotland," Edinburgh and Glasgow-and the " Gloucestershire Banking Company," in Cheltenham. THE extreme care with which "This Branch of our Trade," the supplying of Families—has been conducted, and which we commenced in 18-10 has exercised a direct influence in the extension of our correspondence among parties of the highest standing, and the nicest perception of taste, throughout the United Kingdom.—Time—the most in'allible test in all such cases has served to show us, that it is our interest to afford THE GREAI EST ADVANTAGE IN PRICE -combined with EVERY POSSIBLE SECURITY AS TO QUALITY. We have ever resolutely declined all offers of business at great gains, with corre sponding risks of long credit. The utility of our system of business, viz., payment in full, on receipt and approval of Goods, is well exemplified in the increasing nihnber of our customers. Essusn FAMILIES, and others residing abroad, will recognise the advantages which we possess for the execution of Orders for Tea UNDER BOND, Duty Free both as regards size of Packages and SUPERIOR QUALITY, at PRICES WHICH MUST TEND TO SECURE FURTHER TRANSACTIONS. RTOCK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. STOCK, 31sT MARCH, 1858 STOCK, 31sT MARCH, 1859 68,000,000 lbs, CAIWORS OF TEA AFLOAT BTH APRIL, 1858, IN 17 SHIPS. BTH APRIL, 1859, IN 23 SHIPS 10,579,200 lbs. 16,024,760 lbs, Owing to the above small deficiency in the stock of Tea in Great Britain, speculative demand has caused a temporary advance on Common Tea. Your obliged and faithful Servants, ROBT• ROBERTS & COMPT. Tea and Coffee Salesmen. Other necessary remarks, and the present List of Prices, maY be hal on application. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Under no circumstances Call we insert communications not acco mpanied by the author's real name and address, not neces sarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. - AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, T MEAT ZE ROYAL — Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams, DAY. ROYAL A MPHI THEATRE —Dramatic PerfOrMan ee S , ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS -Mount Etna, Ste. TRANSPARENT MAoic—Clayton Hall, Morning and Evening, Tux PAETW/AN GALLERY OF ANATOMY, Paradise -street . Tstrroarc HALL (Lime-street) —Vocalists, Dancers, Acrobats, Sse For particulars see advertisements on Bth page. El)t Pnrityrn Chum. MONDAY M4Y 9, 1859. Apply to THE DAY'S NEWS. The preparations for the bloody conflict in Italy continue with unabated vigour The Emperor Napoleon, it is now definitely settled, will leaVe Paris to-morrow, for Genoa. The Moniteur, of yesterday, states, that the Emperor has decided upon increasing the Cadre of the General Staff by thirty Generals, and the Cadre of the Major Staff by fifty officers. Advices from Marseilles, received last night, state, that letters have been received from Rome, of the sth inst., which assert that the French garrison has been maintained entire, and that 10,000 Austrians are at Ancona. Another telegram, received last night from Turin, and dated yesterday, states that an official bulletin was issued on Saturday, and which sets forth that the Austrians have hastily evacuated Vaghera, and after recrossing the Po at Gergla, remained in the wood on the left bank of the river. The same despatch also states that the Austrians who were at Vercelli marched on Saturday towards Gattinira, under the command of one of their generals, and have been replaced by other troops. The Austrians, it is added, are endeavouring to fortify their position on the Sesia. Letters from Naples of the sth state, that the emotion of the King, on learning the state of Italy, has greatly aggravated his disease. A telegram from Berne, dated yesterday, states, that a revolutionary movement is expected at Como. The tri-colour has already been hoisted before the castle. A 'thousand croats have arrived at Como, and a contribution of .5,000 florins, and a supply of provisions has been imposed upon the town. The subscription to the new French Loan of £20,000,000 sterling, was opened at Paris, on Satur day, and already about three fifths have been subscribed. Letters from Rome, in the Marseilles journals, state that the Pope is about to send a pastoral letter to all Catholic bishops, requesting them to order public prayers for peace to be offered up ; and that Cardinal Antonelli has issued a diplo matic note which declares that the Roman government will, in the existing war, maintain strict neutrality, Letters from Kiel inform us that during the last two days the English Admiralty have hired some spacious magazines, with the view of establishing depots of sea coal. Similar arrangements, it will be remembered, were made by the Admiralty several months before the last maritime war in the Baltic. At our Bourse to-day a report was circulated that English vessels of war have taken up a position in the roads of Gothenberg—the chief port of Sweden at the entrance of the Baltic. Mr. H. St. John Mild" may, formerly an officer in the Austrian service, will accompany the head-quarters of the Austrian army as British Commissioner during the war in Italy. Colonel Cameron accompanies the Sardinian army in a similar capacity. The Committee of Management of the Commercial Bank of Trieste has called together an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders for the Bth of June, to discuss the advisability of deferring for the present the further payment of dividends. The Great Britain arrived here yesterday, with a fortnight's later news from Australia and 130,0001. in specie. She sailed from Melbourne on the 3rd of March. The news is interesting. Some difficulty had been experienced in the Victoria House of Par liament in passing the Appropriation Act. Par liament was prorogued on the 24th February. Secretary Barkley arrived at the House at half-past four o'clock, and had the pleasure of waiting in one of the ante-rooms from half-past four o'clock till nearly eleven p.m., and within an hour of midnight he prorogued Parliament with an avowed view to its dissolution. A late Melbourne paper, in reference to the dissolution, says —" The session is over then , and the first chapter of our Parliamentary history is closed. We have a political future before us on which there are few land-marks even to guide specu lation. What will be the position of present men, and what the chances of present parties, in that good time' we are taught to anticipate, are mysteries that belong to it, and we must wait for their develop ment." In Sydney some changes in the Cabinet had occurred. Business in Melbourne was steady and quiet. Wool rather dull, with a downward tendency. We have a month's later news from the West coast of Africa, by the arrival of the steamer Armenian. It would appear that the gentlemen who had waited on the King of Jaboo Ode, have been unsuccessful to throw open the Palm Oil trade, as he has most posi tively refused to allow Palm Oil to pass through his country. Dr. Baikie, of the Niger expedition, and his party, arrived at Oghomasho, on the 27th o March. The Bombay mail has arrived, and by it we have the full particulars of the capture of Tantia Topee, which will be found in another column. The Press of Saturday, gives the " gains and losses" as follows :—England and Wales. Boroughs : Liberal losses, 32 ; Conservative losses, 14. Coun ties : Liberal losses, 10 ; Conservative losses, 3. Total Conservative gains, 42 ; total Liberal gains, 17. Net Conservative gains, 25 seats. THE MERITS OF THE WAR. WHEN we use such a phrase as " the merits of the war," we do so, of course, as respects its character. The merits, or desert of a thing, may be for evil, or for good, as the case may be. Here, unhappily, it is for evil—unmitigated evil. It is a crime, as well as a calamity. But the merits of the whole case must be considered, if we would judge correctly where the fearful responsibility rests,—whether with Austria, as having first broken the peace; or with France and Sardinia, conjointly, as having provoked it ; or whether it is not to be shared by all three, as having, one with another, driven a dispute, which might have been *micably adjusted, to so terrible an extremity. The Emperor of the French, in another commu nication to the Corps Legislatif, by the mouth of his Minister for Foreign Affairs, puts the case of the actual resort to hostilities very ingeniously for his own exoneration, though certainly any thi4 but fairly for the interests of truth. He says of Austria's having, at the last, had recourse to arms, that he "has not wished the Court of Austria to be ignorant how the French Government contemplated this eventuality; and the chargé d' affaires of his Majesty at Vienna, on the 26th ult., informed the Austrian Government that if her troops passed the ; frontier of Piedmont, France would be obliged to consider that invasion of an allied country as a declaration of war." Well, but having done this beforehand dOes not serve to exonerate either the threat, or the executor of it. The real question is, was it a casus belli for France ? Taking into account all that had gone before, we don't think it was. But the acme is in what follows, —" The Court of Austria, having per sisted in employing arms, and her troops having entered the Sardinian territory on the 29th, the Emperor has ordered me to make the Corps Legis latif acquainted with this fact, which constitutes Austria in a state of war with France." Now, we must consider how this "constitutes Austria in a state of war with France." And it is thus—as we understand it : France says to Austria, if you do so and so, we will consider it a declaration of war ; and Austria having done it, France proceeds to construe it as " a state of war " with her. But this does not justify FranCe in what she has done. Not only was she not bound, but she had no right to do it. To adopt such a pretext for war, was to show that she preferred war to peace., And this, on the part of one whose boast it has been 'Empire c'est la paix, must, to say the least of it, be a fatal incon sistency. But let us glance, for a moment, at the Austrian side of the question. We begin with Sardinia's provocations. " Under the most frivolous pretexts," says Count BuoL's circular dispatch to the Austrian diplomatic agents, " Sardinia declares herself liberated from the obligations clearly imposed by treaties, as proved by th; conventions with Austria and the Italian States for the extradition of criminals and deserters. Her emissaries overrun the neighbouring States, exciting soldiers to disobey their chiefs ; treading under_ foot all the rules of military discipline, Piedmont admitted deserters into the ranks of her own army." From these and other hostile acts, Austria, not unnaturally, came to the conclusion that her rights —the rights conferred upon and guaranteed to her by treaties -were to be invaded and assailed, "by all the means of a dishonest policy." It was not, we say, an unreason able inference to draw from such acts ; and more especially when, apparently, to carry out their object, Sardinia was providing enormous arma ments ; and, what is far more threatening, leaguing herself with France, who, in pursuance of the same purpose, makes still more formidable provision for in vasion and assault. " I Vho, ,after this," asks Count BUOL, "can any longer doubt that that Government regarded as the chief obstaCle the rights which Austria derives from treaties, and accordingly sought to get rid of them by all the means of a dishonest policy ? The true intentions of Piedmont," he adds, " which had long ceased to be a secret to any one, were openly avowed as soon as that State was sufficiently assured of foreign assistance, and had no further necessity for concealing its projects of war and revolution." Such is the fact. VICTOR EMMANUEL of Piedmont leagued himself with Louis NAPOLEON of France, in furtherance of his "projects of war and revolution." And no sooner was the King of Sar dinia thus " sufficiently assured of foreign assist ance," than he cast off all reserve, and began to assemble his armaments almost within gunshot of the Austrian territory. Nay more than this,—France sent forth her armaments also—hastily marched them across the Alps to pass them into Piedmont ; thus but indorsing and enforcing the threats which had already emanated so offensively from Turin. So that, it is evident from this, that when the King of. Sardinia declares, as he does, in his recent proclamation to his troops, "Austria, which increases its army on our frontiers, and threatens to invade our territory, because liberty here reigns with order ; because not force but concord and affection between people and Sovereign here rule the State; because the cries of suffering of oppressed Italy here find a hearing— Austria dares . to intimate to ' us, armed only in defence, that we are to lay down our arms and put ourselves in her power, —his Majesty has recourse to a most audacious tissue of misrepresentations. It was for none of those causes that Austria threatened to invade his territory; neither, in her intimation to Piedmont to disarm, did she do so that Piedmont might "put itself in her power." All this, we say, is gross and malicious misrepresentation. And it shakes one's confidence very much in any cause, in fur therance of which it is found necessary to have recourse to such vile expedients. - By far the most fearful, and most inexcusable part of the affair, is that which belongs to France. For without the co-operation of France, Sardinia's threats would probably have remained very much of the character of a mere brutum fulaten. But France goes quite out of her way to enter into the quarrel, and thereby give a force and effect to it for extensive mischief which otherwise it could never have had. Having, ever since the present year came in shared the responsibility with Sardinia, it has now proceeded to assume it altogether. " And why, we ask," says the Austrian official circular, " were the legitimate hopes of the friends of peace in Europe thus to be annihilated by a single blow ? Because the time had arrived at which projects long meditated in silence have arrived at muturity—at which the second French Empire desires to give substance to its ideas —at which the political state of Europe, based on right, is to be sacrificed to its illegitimate pretensions —at which the treaties- which- form the basis of public European power are to be replaced - by the political wisdom which the Power which rules at Paris has announced to the astonished world. The traditions of the first NAPOLEON are resumed. Such is the signification of the struggle on the eve of which Europe is placed." We give this explanation with no view of favouring Austria. We give it simply to show, -in so far as such facts enable us to do, what we set out by calling the merits of the war. We do not twist it in any wise to Austria's advantage. We put the case as the merits require it to be put, in justice, and fairness. Austria-herself is otherwise very far from being free from fearful responsibility likewise. Her despotic rule in Italy has at least given occasion for all this Mischief. • But to Sardinia and to France-- and principally to the latter Fower—must attach the infamy of having precipitated a war, the fearful and sanguinary issues of which it is at present impossible to calculate. THE NORTHERN TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 9, 18i9 AUSTRIA AND GERMANY ALTHOUGH Austria proper is a portion of Ger many, she is likely, it would seem,- to find- some difficulty in enlisting Germany on her side in the war in which she has just embarked. We would here observe, that the geographical, as well as the political position of Austria, deserves to be carefully considered at the present moment, in forming an opinion upon that threatening state of affairs in which she occupies so prominent a place. Austria, a country of Germany, is an archduchy, conferring the title of Emperor on its sovereign. Strictly speaking, there fore, Austria is a German State ; and it has been brought into its present situation, and within its present limits, mainly by those transfers and changes of territories which arose from the disastrous conse quences of the former wars with France. The pre sent government of Germany, as settled at the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, is by a per petual confederation, bearing the name of the Germanic Confederation ; and its affairs were' con fided to a Federative Diet, consisting of seventeen individual and collective Stafes, of which a majority has the rule by its votes in the Diet. Austria is.tlle most important of the German States, and therefore has the presidency. Now it is before this Diet that Austria has formally notified to the Prussian Government her intention to lay a proposition requiring that the Federal forces shall be employed for the defence of her .empire, in the present emer gency. "It is not known," we read, " what reasons • Austria will adduce in support of that demand. She will probably allege that Germany has an interest in her holding Lombardy, that she defends the Rhine on the Po," &c. BUt we understand that the Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs has answered the communication of the Austrian Ambassador, by declaring that Prussia will meet this proposition with a decided negative, and, if necessary, will take up a position apart, because she cannot allow her • liberty of action to be restricted by a majority of the smaller States. And a recent letter from Berlin 'states, that the Prussian Cabinet has resolved to do nothing merely for the defence of the Austrian possessions in Italy, and to take no part whatever in the struggle, unless the interests of Prussia and Germany require it. " The separate treaties," it is added, " which Austria has concluded with several small German States are regarded as directed againSt Prussia, and conceived in a spirit of. hostility towards the country." The fact is, that a strong feeling of jealousy prevails in Prussia, if not generally throughout Northern Germany, against Austria, and which partly arises from her position with regard to Italy, which is not Germany. Her. Lombardo-Venetian territory is a part of Italy,. including all the States between the Ticino, the Po, and the Gulf of Venice ; and they are not only not German, geographically, but nationally and tra ditionally they are anti-German. 'Austria is not unreasonably anxious to call forth the sympathies of the German people. The Emperor. FRANCIS JOSEPH, in his recent Imperial Manifesto, appeals earnestly to their common nationalty and. brotherhood. " Our struggle," he says, "is a just one, and we begin it with courage and confidence. We hope, however, that we shall not stand alone in, it. The soil on which we have' to do battle, was made fruitful by the blood lost by our German brethren when they won those bulwarks which they have maintained up to the present day. There • the crafty enemies of Germany have generally begun their game when they have wished to break her internal power. The feeling that such a danger is now imminent prevails in all parts of Germany, from: the hut to the throne, from one frontier to the other. I speak as a Sovereign member of the German Confederation when I call attention to the common danger,. and recall to memory the glorious times in which Europe had to thank the general and fervent, enthusiasm of Germany for its liberation." Such is Austria's anxious appeal for German sympathy and succour, in the fearful struggle on which she is now entering. No doubt there is truth in what is stated, as to the former association of Germany with the same battle-field as that on which she is now about to fight in her own behalf. Nor is it to be disputed, perhaps, that there is a common danger in the game which the " crafty enemies," not of Germany, but of Europe, have begun by this outbreak which they have provoked. But it does not, so far, appear that Germany is at all sensible of it. The Austrian Emperor says, that " the feeling that such danger is now imminent prevails in all parts of Germany, from the hut to the throne, from one frontier to the other." But Prussia gives a flat contradiction to this, both officially and popularly. The Prussian idea appar ently is, that Germany is not bound to support Austria in Italy ; on the contrary, that Austria ought to be left to carry on alone, as her own affair, the conflict in which she has engaged. " Austria has taken a bold step," observes a Berlin journal which is believed to echo public opinion, and she alone must bear all the consequences of it. No doubt France may desire to attack Austria, not only in Italy, but on German territory. In that case, certainly, the situation would be different ; and to be prepared for it the Confederation and Prussia ought to place her armies on the war footing. But for the present to rush into war for the honour and dignity of Austria, because she' cannot live quietly with Sardinia, is a course which only writers paid by Austria, or exaggerated prudence can demand." But there is an implication here in which German, and probably Prussian interests are, or may be, rather deeply involved. The probable, desire of France to attack Austria on German territory is certainly an evil omen for German security and tranquillity, and fully warrants the Austrian Emperor in calling attention to the "common danger." One way of meeting it, undoubtedly, is for " the Confederation and Prussia to put their armies on a war footing." And, in this case, Austria would, as respects her German empire, not stand alone in the conflict. Should France and Sardinia drive her armies back across the Adige, they will then begin to attack her on German territory ; and then, we suppose, the time will have come, when the armies of the Confederation must go forth to the rescue. Then, too, will it be begun to be felt, that it was knot true of Austria, in the struggle into which she has been drawn, that " she alone must bear all the consequences of it," Germany will assuredly share them with her, if once the belligerents enter upon German territory. There is another consideration which Austria, in a circular despatch issued by her Foreign Secretary, has incidentally mentioned,—namely, that of Lombardy having been " far centuries back a fief of the German Empire ;" that is to say, Lombardy has, for so long a period, belonged to Germany. The inference to be drawn from this is, we suppose, that Germany ought to be in terested in it as such ; and that, although France may not be attacking Austria on the German territory exactly, yet is she doing so on a soil that is a sort of German possession. Still, Lombardy is a part of Italy. Forawrly, it represented almost all the ancient Cisalphine Gaul. Since it became " a fief of the German empire," its political position has, of course, been in same respects different. • But it is yet much more Italian than German ; and there is nothing in the circumstance of Austria holding it in possession to excite German sympathy. It is not "fatherland." This is the great point. In German Austria there may probably be German help, should the necessity for it arise ; but far Italian Austria, FRANCIS JOSEPH, it is evident, must look for aid elsewhere. THE COURT Hcr Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Prince. Consort, accompanied by Prince Leopold and the Princess Alice, .took a drive in an open carriage and four on Friday afternoon. Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieutenant- Colonal PortsOrikY attended'on.horsebaOk.' The Prince Consort rode on horseback in the forenoon, attended by his Equerry in waiting. The Queen and Prince Consort honoured the perform ance at the Haymarket Theatre with their presence on Friday evening. The Royal suite consisted of Lady Macdonald, the Hon. Horatio. Stopford, Lord Byron, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieut.-Colonel Ponsonby. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Susan Leslie Melville, Miss Victoria Wortley, and Sir George Couper, arrived at her residence, Clarence House, St.. James's, on Friday afternoon, from Frogmore. On Saturday afternoon her Majesty held her second Drawing-room this season at St. James's. Palace. The pre sentations were very numerous, and .the beauty of the weather brought a large assemblage of spectators. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort were loudly cheered on their way from Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty will hold a chapter of the Order of the Bath on Thursday next, the 12th inst., at Buckingham Palace, for the investiture of several of the last nominated members to the order LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. FATAL ACCIDENT.--011 Saturday, a man, named Richard Bullock, a fireman on board the Laconia, was killed in - the Sandon graving-dock, in consequence of tho breaking of a stage, and he fell into the d r y d oc k , an d was k i lled on the FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RlVER.—Yesterday afternoon, as the ship Arica was coming up the river, EdWard Cassiday fell from the main-top-yard on to the deck, and received such injuries that he died while being conveyed to the Northern Hospital. AMERICAN MAILS. —The British and North American Royal 'mail . steamer, Canada, Captain Lan g , sa il e d f or Boston, via Halifax, on Saturday afternoon, with about 100 passengers, a full- cargo of British and Continental- manu factured goods, and the semi-weekly mails.' ST. A:VNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAR INSTITU TION, 13, Rose Hill. New patients entered on the books last week, viz :—Relieved at the institution, 202 ; relieved at their own dwellings, 49 ; total, 251. Visitors—Messrs. E. - Watts, and G. Jordan. Hon. secretary and treasurer, Joseph Kitchen .L Esq. FIRE AT A BISCUIT MANUFACTORY:—Yesterday after noon, a fire broke out on .the premises of Mr. Haylock, steam biscuit manufacturer, Lydia Ann-street. Alarm being given, the reels from Hatton Garden, Seel-street, and the West of England Company were soon on the spot, and the flames were speedily subdued. The damage done was trifling, and the owner is fully insured in the Norwich Union. LIVERPOOL ROYAL INVIRMARY.---ROWITI for the week ending May 7th, 1859. Admitted: in-patients, 39 ; out patients, 24; surgical casualties, 27. Discharged: cured, 19 ; relieved, and at own request, 8 ; made out-patients 9 . ; irregular, 1; dead, 5 ; remain in the house, 163. For the ensuing week : Visitors : Mess rs . E : Gibb on Ei q., and Rev. R. Leicester ; physician, Dr. Vose ; surgeon, Mr. Stubbs ; house :surgeon, ,Mr. T. S. Walker ; junior house surgeon, Mr: Y. Allen ; chaplain, Rev. IL J. Garrod, A.B. Robert Hutchison, treasurer. MR. AND MRS. BARNEY WILLIAAS.—It can scarcely be necessary to do more than call attention to . the' fa7ct that, Mr and Mrs. Barney Williams make -their appearance in the Theatre Royal to-night, and that the brief engagement they now commence is the last they will undertake in Liver pool previous to their return to America. No actors of the present day have been more successful in obtaining a wide popularity than Mr. and Mrs. Williams; and there is pro bably no, part of the United Kingdom . whe re th e y h ave b een received with 'more admiration than in tiverpool.. " IN PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR."—Following this well known maxim, why not set about forming in all our large towns a " Volunteer Force ? " Liverpool could furnish her 2,000 men—good and true ones—from eighteen to thirty, who would purchase their own accoutrements, and be an effective army of defence. By this means the regular force might be held for foreign service exclusively. The small force now drilled into the efficiency of regulars by Cornet Bousfield, of Percy-street, is evidence of what can be done ; they were highly complimented by Colonel Hesketh at the last militia drill. England could easily furnish 200,000 of such a force, and, independently of other considerations, the drill is a healthful and manly accomplishment.—B. G. THE LIVERPOOL FUNERAL REPOSITORY.---A new estab lishment for supplying hearses, mourning coaches, and all necessary funeral appendages, has been opened at No. 7, Oldham-street. For the hearse a novel and appropriate de sign has been adopted. It is in the form of a tomb, over which rises a canopy supported by draped figures, repre senting mourners. At the top of the canopy appears a re presentation of Time, bearing his scythe and hourglass. Other emblematical figures are also introduced in accordance with the.character of the design. The, mourning coaches are neat and appropriate, and the funeral paraphernalia altogether exhibits many new and improved features, adopted by the proprietors to meet the requirements of all classes or the community. ALARMING FIRE AT BIRKENHEAD.—Yesterday evening, this township was thrown into considerable uproar, by the outbreak of fire, in the premises occupied by Mr. Charles A. Taylor, ironmonger, Argy . le-street. The fire, of the origin of which nothing certain is known, seems, to have broken out in the front shop, for on the window shutters being removed, the flames burst forth in the most alarming manner possible. The whole of the goods in the shop, as well as the household furniture in the premises adjoining, have been either partially or wholly destroyed by the fire and the water. The engines, under the direction of Super intendant Birnie and a numerous body of the constabulary, -were early on the ground, and succeeded in extinguishing the flames. The proprietor, Mr. Taylor, was unfortunately out of town at the time of the occurrence, and had left the premises in charge of a servant, who had gone to walk in the park. At first, great fears of an explosion were enter tained, as - to there being gunpowder on the premises. The shop adjoining is occupied by Mr. John Green, druggest, in whose stores are various inflammable goods. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENs.--The season' for out-door amuse ment has now fully arrived, and with it a more than usual amount of attraction has been presented to the public of Liverpool at the Zoological Gardens. During the past fortnight, young people of both sexes have been enjoying themselves heartily by participating in the varied amuse ments which are afforded. The representation of Mount Etna is such as to make the spectator imagine that he is at the very foot of the volcano; but, of course, with all the pleasing reflection of being perfectly secure from the lava which pours down in liquid streams on every side of the mountain at an eruption. The splendid fireworks in troduced in connection with this subject are of the most pleasing and varied description, and reflect grea t cre di t on the lessee for his judgment in pleasing the tastes of " the million." 'The- entertainments of Professor Buck, consisting of physical and natural magic, are a great spume of attraction. " A grand cYcluriuna of our natlssliand ", is also introduced, and for the truthfulness of the scenes she r people have already vouched. Amusements of importance are so numerous, that it would be impossible for us to convey anything like a correct idea of their variety, but direct all who wish to be pleased and gratified to Pal these gardens a visit. CORONER'S INQUESTS.— On Saturday, the deputy coroner, J. IL Statham, Esq., held the following inquests; —On-the body of John E. Mills, late the captain uf schooner Satyr, in the Bin g 's dock. It appeared that he was about 3.5 years of age, and had been in delicate hea l , tb e for the last three months, and complained of pains in . W e chest, shortness of breathing, and pains in his bead. 0 dropped dead in the Pheasant Inn, 232, Park-road, it Friday evening, where he went in and asked liberty to s t down for a moment, saying he was very ill. V ' er die ol : t , Died of natural causes."—On th e b o dy of va s Lindsay Lums4lain, thirty years of age, wh° Ic a t deseribed as an " independent gentleman," and re siding te Lathallan, in Fifeshire. James Buict, the butler i n i t ft family of deceased, stated that on the 20th April. be' go home with the deceased, and since that time they had %el in London and Brighton, and deceased drank veryfreelY, ll3 _ l 6 , f , whiskey, when at home. They arrived here on 'grebe'''. and went to Chester races on Thursday. They were stopPllo at the Angel, and on Friday morning the witness liven 06 his bedroom at eight o'cloek, by appointment, bu t he deceased.was not there, and on enquiry be found thO had not been in all night. He made enquiry, and for t / 0 1 the police had taken a person to the Northern 1 1 ° 5 P . that answered the description. He went there and sa deceased. He had a gold watch, tha+ was mi ss —% - 0- Constable Moore, 6'708, said ha found the deceased sittnig the stepS of a warehouse in Silkhouse-Zane, about h 3il l s it, nm. Pin Priancr inhavnincr • ha wan fral+Mnn• nat of the /o°-,tua then dea and appeared to be in a dying stag Northern Hospital, but lie w Weaver, of the s~~d NortheTn hospital, said h° a n d made a post . mrtein examination of the body, found the cause of death to be apoplexy, and in his Oily it was from excessive driuking. .Ther e w a s a -m re at clu 3n . . Vei•diet, " Died of exec s' hild, named M‘Laran, 1 cousequen e t he rdingly.- -- P il e d rs Xty years of age, Who O S : . night watchman at I te S;l be w-of pied 1. e'er 1 the stomach 0-e the body of being accidentally scalde4 body of Nicholas - Rdschen 36; DaYies-street. Ite w Mactie's sugar house, and .ea, `Eriday morni suddenly. ife was'a very sober man. Verdic natural causes, The Weekly _Register states that the Duke of Leeds /5 7; a short time previous to his death, received into the 80113- Catholic Church by the Bishop of Beverle) The Earl and Countess of Ellesm wator House to-day, on a visit to the Dow of Ellesniere, at Hatchford, Cobham, Surrey A Paris letter says the pawning of jewels e will leave colic to the crown diamOnds of the State, but the Princes s lo ; the Austrian Court are stated' to be in active irate ' 0 be with the Jews. _Rumour also states that what used t° o o called a " benevolence " in the middle- ages, when the e`i ngs, Is a. Thinrs mast zoing on with the °W11 1,1 5. 11 .e at work in t SfONUMiiINT TO T MARQUIS OF WATERFORD. — ; ' ,tet' nitenneu.to erect . a monument to the late Ilfarquis of `; ford, and the subject has been referred to the E a rl of Pf it of Lord St. Lawrence, and Lord Ingestre. One ideals a bronze equestrian stake, which : would cost about in the demesne at Curraghmore ; another, a monrett%rti, 0 , , the centre of the .people's park at Waterford ; and a t' e `• oo to imitate the example lately se t i n the W e llin 9 :ton 1 1 , e fbf rial, and to build and endow: an institution for the go jockeys'or huntsmen who are diSabled by • - taken by old age: 4) „ (11 , 4 1 DEATH OF A LAD Y FROM Jo - T.—Airs. Y oung, — l9 f p: property, and sister to L a dy B uc h an , di e d underder distressing operation, at Leamington Spa, on Th ili :ftlie The deceased had received, th roug h th e 'p a p ers , news -t for success of her 'nephew; Mr. Erie, (Conservative), nit on, Berwick election, and the joyf u l i n t e lli gence br° l4- ts (/` an attack, the, only means of escaping the moral effe j e which was by an incision in the s id e . D rs . Pritchnr u or Jeafferson were engaged ; but, notwithstanding. thel.r pt i , 0 duity and efforts during Wednesday n i g ht, she stated a E bove. vrenc li His Excellency the Duke de Malakoff, the 're for Ambassador, accompanied by the Duchess, has l e f ` f ," 01 1 Paris. His excellency, w h o p resen t e d hi s l e tters OT f in to her Majesty on Thu rs day l as t, was e ngage d on Frr,: e ir..?, paying farewell visits to the diff eren ,t meiahers of th e j° li nti s legations. Baron Malaret will ac t as c h arg e=d'affaire s it 0 the arrival of the noble and gallent duke's successor., tie currently reported that that the Count de Persia tbn predecessor of th e D u k e o f Malakoff will suee ' ee"„ e rtir distinguished drake as the representati v e of the E lel " Napoleon at the Court of St. James's. s THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT AND THE Pa;sa TROOPS THROUGIt SAVOY ---The Independanee Beige very —" The gravest news of the day is that the English G i ., ° o cb meat has protested at P ar i s aga i ns t th e passage of •, - 3 t 0 troops through the n eu t ra li se d t err it or y o f Savoy ; L" t bsi to say, against the use of the railway constricted uPl,,,t i t part of Savoy. The French Government replied "" - i ri' could not acknowledge this protest, as the u se of this t e ic io tory bad been agreed upon by SwitzMand, wid el !„ charged to maintain the neutrality of Savoy specified el treaties of Vienna, and that two Governments die opinion that the Sa r di n i an roa d was not include d- 'O neutralised ground, the limits of which were $l3 defined by the treatv." • ' In ler niel l t BURIED A LIVE. —An instance of ' premature iei; has just taken place at Saint Coulomb (Itle et l A ' , s ou An old woman, aged sixty-one, had just been barie'oeo the relations and friends had quitted the cer nete* w ill. the gravedigger, who was about to throw in the ~,.a c e. fancied he heard a s t range no i se proceed from the . a the He called on some pers ons p resen t to assist him , 91 0 1 0 the coffin was lifted out and a medical man sent for. . c , 0 5 body being examined, th e , surgeon declared that liiirett then extinct, but that the wo man h a d on ly just efilitrej A The men who had ca rr i e d th e b o d y t o th e church "`' no ise. that while on the way they heard a sort of knockiog•T, the but they thought it was the 'body moving abeu t I t AMENTABLE SUICIDE OF A BANKER AT OTLrY. — to ptoi four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon Mr. C,„ 11 ,,,, 11 ,; Jackson, mananr of the Yorkshire Banking u °l ' ls g h t" - Otley, committed suicide by shooting head. •The servant heard the report, and also ic aoiol fall on the floor inn!' upper room, and on immediate there found the bedroom door fastened. An ladle given and assistance obtained. By means of a in i q e re was gained to the room through the window, and i d , ith e l found the deceased-lying on his side, bleeding. 811 1 ; s eall himself thron,tbitig pistol in his right hand. A surgeon was immediat e lc ge u , - in ; but his assistance was of no avail, as the imilu, l l3 , l polw, tleman died in a few minutes. He had been in 3 : Ti 'd so u ' ing state of mind for some time. A powder flas k "- balls and caps were found on a table near his bed. ve . , rfu", apartmentSoVE EIGN s SOVER EIGNTY. —This CURIOUS AND INTERESTING EMBLEM or — th T e hi K s aissceerpbtargeb, wLausekfnmoiwnd th„Joir9 (i n the -I ,r o d 0' 95 room), when our troops entered it on the 14th , • bv o ne given to Lieutenant Morland, Ist Bengal Fusiliersi 0 ; o et, of the men, and by him was presented to the prese t ', pH s ' Mr. W. H. Russell, the special correspondent of seeps It was recognised in Lucknow as .a very ancient to to t"" sent by the King of Delhi (the Mogul) . , in 17 8 / it I Nawab Vizier of Oude, as a token of his favour, an tleautilo usually kept in the Hosseinabad, and used in , tlie t pinef g e processions by the King when proceeding from tu u „i f e P„'„ the Imambara. The head is composed of one ninhe 1 ,,, n " of fine oriental clouded agate, elaborately fluted O lds. i b e j of a mace and enriched with ru bi es a nd emery o pipo • handle, which is about twenty inches in length , is c ei tinal l ; of varied speci mens of oriental jaspers and agates , 'lt b cally cut, and divided by light ferules of fine gni d a oc ksP ur ' been deposited with Messrs. Phillips, jewellers, 23, Ths street, where' it can be seen, EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF C RUEL TY TO A " ill-treatment of a child by parents was, on Thnr s . ol o ll ; mitted to the Court of Assizes of Paris. The ne r , l ;.' es ent e e of a married couple named Fromont, of relit at the in January last to the Commissary of Police e bro od / Fromonts had for some time been in the habit r,T b t sear s i ill-treating one of their five children, a little girl eight f ou nd of age. He, in consequence, went to the house, a f he a in dirt! corner,' child locked up in a room without fire, crolx,,_,, dirt, corner,•shivering with cold, with nothing on but ant; woo rags, and her whole person covered with bruises.a.,a_t ever, to a skeleton for want of food. The child statedoTer, and day for a long time nest her father and ul sa/ f 4-1; especially the latter, lied beaten her in the lit t imes /11 . manner, sometimes with a broomstick and some •th their od ber wooden shoes. They gave her scarcely any fn i ' bent a thong of leather; they also had kicked her V" d bee from hunger she devoured potato peelings, t to s leep more cruelly than before ; they allowed her no oci, n o little t bel on, and scarcely any clothes to cover ben did a ll tjt was taken from the parents, and medical men treat ille she had sustained that she died a few "IT cutting ago could for her, but she was so weakened by the 11 j ack. On Thursday the couple were tried on a charge es trat,i °ll ,,i wounding the child, and of keeping thew WW I 2 4 1 00 her in se c l u o to eigh t and being convicted, were condemned,irop years"hard labour, gnd the man to three Teats meat.