Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-18 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES, SATURDAY, JUNE: la 1859 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. to Mantua, the south-western corner of the Equi lateral—as the • district of which that '-fortress, Peschiera, Verona, and Legnaho from .the four Corners, is here generally called, although its sides are not, geographically speaking, equal. As the distance between the two armies leSsens, and they again come in sight of each other on the opposite sides of the Mincio, the interest of the campaign, now somewhat slackened, will revive with greater intensity than ever. After witnessing the wretched blundering of Gyulai—who, backed by 'his head strong and headlong Sovereign, would assume the offensive, and then showed that he was. too timid or too slow to profit by his opportunity, and too un sklful to recede without disaster—the world will watch with strong interest the defensive tactics of the veteran Hess. What hag passed as yet is but the prologue to the bloody drama ; the real cam paign will be in eastern Lombardy, not in eastern Piedmont. The Austrians hold lines which they have spent years in strengthening —a position which, naturally formidable, has been rendered yet more so by the application to it of every resource of the. engineer's art. They are known to have prepared and practised themselves against every contingency. of attack they could forsee. Large bodies of troops have been repeatedly opposed to each other, in simulated attack and defence of the Mincio and the works that back it, with a view to detect every weak point, and to be prepared for every possible device of an assailant. The Austrians will fight on ground perfectly familiar to them, provided with every applicable means of defence, with abundant stores and material of war, close at their back, and with an army 'which what ever may have been the effect upon its morale of its recent unprofitable foraging and countermarchings in Piedmont, of its reverses in Montebello, Palestro, and Magenta, and of its hasty retreat from the frontier—has not yet experienced numerical losses I members . of the new ministry of any importance as compared to its great strength. The Attorney-General fcr Ireland gave notice that, on The French, on the other hand, take with them upon I the 30th of June, should bring in a series of bills to their forward march the prestige of success, and Consolidate the statute criminals in England and Ireland. their usual confidence of victory. Although some of Mr. kinnaird asked the Secretary o f State for India them may suspect that t he trium p hs o f, M o nte bello .establishmen . ts and Magenta might have been m o re dec i si v e ,- Or whether he had not received a report, on civil at any rate less dearly purchased, their generals throughout India, by Mr. Henry Ricketts, and what "steps can point to the broad plains of Lombardy they it is proposed totake in accordance with the recommendation now are traversing as the tangible proofs of their thereof. valour and of their conquests: Only the other Lord Stanley said that the report had been received, and day the enemy was on the Ticino ; he is precently on the Mincio. There is something in this - had been taken into consideration, and a communication argument. As they pursue their not unpleasant had been mede to the Government of India relative thereto, march through a rich and smiling country, they are The Chancellor of the Exchequer then rose, amid pro cheered by the enthusiastic applause and heartfelt found silence, and said it was but respectful to the house to demonstrations of the ardent Italian population. We announce what it already knew, that, in consequence of the can hardly doubt that they go to their work, with a vote of Friday, Lard Derby and his colleagues had tendered good will, and in high spirits. As regards scientific t heir resignation to her Majesty, which . she had been resources ? so important when sieges are in question, the experience and skill of General Niel cannot be graciously pleased to accept. They only held office till their doubted. The famous rifled canon 'have not as yet I successors could be appointed. He understood that the had opportunity of fair trial ; as far as there have 1 noble lord the hon. member for Tiverton had been entrusted been means pf judging practically of their effects, .with the task of forming a new Administration. He had these are reported to have satisfied even those most succeeded in that task, and it would therefore be convenient sanguine in their expectations. It is still to be seen .to the nobie lord if he moved that the house, at its rising, whether their powerS be sufficient to work that revolution in siege warfare which some confidently adjourn till Tuesday. anticipate. Unless those powers be very extraordi- j The motion was agreed to. nary, sieges of great length are naturally to be Colonel Forrester brought up the Royal answer to the expected: But there are many rumours abroad of 'address of the House in reply to the Royal Speech, again plans by which those usually tedious operations are. repeating the professions - of neutrality during the present to be greatly shortened. There . is much talk of struggle, and announcing that, in corformity with the taking the Austrians in the rear, of landings to be advice of the House, Her. Majesty has taken steps for the effected in the neighbourhood of Venice. We are formation of a new administration. told also of floating batteries of prodigious power, Petitions against the return for Athlone, Weymouth, to be set afloat on the Lego di Garda, and on the small lake formed by the expansion of the Mincio, Aylesbury, Maidstone, Norwich, Beverley, North which environs Mantua on three sides, and stretches Leiceiters hire, Preston, Clare Count y , Bur y , Limerick for about three miles to the westward of that fortress. City. - A very short time will, doubtless, show us the yalue On motion of Mr. J. Northcote, of these conjectures and reports, and fully display The aggressive resources of the French and the Queen's Speech was ordered to be taken into consideration on Tuesday next. Austrian powers of •resistance. The last • two bulletins describe the • Austrians as in full Mr. S. Estcourt moved the second reading of the retreat from the Adda to the Oglio, some of their Criminal Justice Middlesex Judges Bill. The object'was forces having already got far beyond the 'latter simply to increase the salary of .the assistant Judge, who stream. They mined and blew up all the bridges would forego his private business. on the Adda and other rivers,. and evacuated Pizzi- Mr. W. Williams o pp osed the bill, as involving ghettone, burning the bridge, and throwing into the river large quantities of artillery, ammunition, and c Mr y : . x 'i n s : moved that the debate' be adjeurned for a fortnight.' 6 other military stores, including a great mass of pro- Mr. Hardy, in consenting to the motion, defended the visions, Which had been levied by requisitions bill. on the surrounding country. They had left • After Somelurther_discussion, the motionlvras agreed to. Cremona, Brescia, and Crema ; Bergamo and Lodi The House then adjourned at five minutes to five o'clock had proclaimed Victor Emmanuel, and declared themselveaunited to the Sardinian States. A con siderable portion of the Franco-Piedmontese army. had crossed the Adda at Vaprio and Canonica, places close to each other, but on opposite sides of the river, a few miles to the north of Cassano. The al u e of the stores of all kinds abandoned at Piacenza, is estimated at several millions ; and, owing to the failure of some of the mines, the damage done to the citidal and other fortifications did not appear to be very considerable. On the 12th the Emperor's head quarters were at Gorgonzola, about fourteen miles to the north-east of Milan: While the bridges broken by the Austrians were being repaired, the 'Emperor had two bridges of boats thrown over the Adda and ' 'the Muzza, near Cassano. The state of the Adda, swollen by the late rains, rendered the work diffi cult, butit was accomplished, and the army ,forth-; with recommenced its forward movement. It -i s positively stated that . Massimo d'Azeglio is ..going as governor to Bologna. Farini, the deputy, is ,to go. in the same capacity to Modena, news of whose evacuation is almost hourly expected. - Other appointments, announced as nearly • certain, are .those of Count Pallieri as Intendant-General at Parma, .Signor Alasia at Pavia, and' SignOr Vera as 'lntendant of Mortara, and Intendant-General of Como.' ' A Royal decree, published' at Milan on the 9th instant, says, that all direct and indirect takes 'it present borne by the Lombard provinces are pro- visionally maintained, excepting in so far as alteration is made by the following article :-- As regards the sale of Excise articles, the post, the tele raphs, and the Custom -h o us e ,, there, will be applied in Lombardy, by special measures, to proceed from the Governor, the rates, laws, and regulations in force in other parts of the Royal States. This assimilation completed, the Custom-house: line between Lombardy , and the other provinces will be suppressed. A recruiting office. has been opened in Milan, for the-.enrolment of volunteers, between the ages of 18 and 35 years, for the Chassears of the Alps • HOUSE OF LORDS.-Fium.ky The Earl of Derby announced that, in consequence of the vote of the Commons, on Friday, he' had placed his resig nation in the hands of her Majesty. That resignation her Majesty had been graciously pleased to accept. He and his colleagues now only held office till their successors could be appointed ; and was happy in believing in the present state of foreign affairs that those successors would be quickly appointed, and trusted that they would observe a strict neutrality in the present contest. The future Ministry would receive from himself and his friends that support which their duty would enable them to give. Before he sat down, he felt bound to take notice of the publication and the comments in the Times newspaper, respecting the conversation which had taken place relative to the formation of the new Ministry, between her Majesty and Earl Granville. It was unusual and inconvenient that such a conversation should be made public. Earl Granville regretted that he had been somewhat indiscreet in mentioning what had passed between himself and the Queen. It was not undesirable that these matters should be known, as it proved how constitutionally her Majesty had acted, but, still, he regretted it. Lord Brougham made some observations, urging the necessity of preserving the strictest neutrality during the present Contest. The House adjourned till Tuesday HOUSE OF COMMONS. -FRIDAY The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock, when there was a full attendance of members. Most of the members of the actual ministry attended, but none of the expectant A POPULAR: HISTORY OF THE WORKING GLASSES. ADDRESSED TO THE - WORKING CLASSES THEMSELVES THEIR. RISE AND PROGRESS-SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PART SIXTII CHAPTER FIRST LAW OF SETTLEMENT IN RESPECT TO THE POOR EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE PERIOD day, to settle the balance of Europe, and depose kings, and to prove that England was upon the brink of ruin, to their hearts' content. In this spirit the tradesman forsook his shop, and the merchant his counting-house, to take care of the State, and harangue upon the conduct of the Ministry, without thinking of his own. And, as a necessary conse quence, the Tattler informs us, the approaches to a club-house had often an ambushment of bailiffs and bailiffs' men on a look out for those disinterested patriots ; so that an oratorical financier, after he had settled off the debts of the nation, was often walked off to the " sponging-house" for ' being unable to settle a paltry bill. One mark of these political quidnunes, it would seem, was to have the upper lip besmeared with snuff, which was supposed to impart an air of peculiar sagacity to the whole countenance. This characteristic would almost seem to attach itself to similar politicians of our own day. Gallantry, it would appear, was even still more active than politics. It clearly appears, from the poputar literature of the earlier part of the eighteenth century, that the generality of men dressed, looked, acted, and studied, like our own modern " gent" (unhappily not yet quite ex tinguished from among us,) entirely with a reference Two year's after the Restoration, a revolution wa , effected in the condition of the labouring population almost as important as the emancipation front, villainage, though in a contrary direction ; for in lieu of a charter of manumission, it became an instrument of local bondage. The measure to which I allude was the celebrated one which so long con tinued the foundation of the law of settlement, and formed a most fruitful source throughout its exist ence of parish litigation. The objects of this statute have been much misunderstood, but are apparent enough, and were twofold—first, the further restraint of vagrant larceny ;,and secondly, to fix each parish with, the maintenance of its own poor only, without being burdened with those of another. But the expedients by which those ends were sought proved extremely oppressive ; for instance, they empowered two justices, on complaint of the churchwardens, withm'forty days after the arrival of any new comer in the parish, forcibly to remove him to the parish where he was last legally settled, unless he rented a house of ten pounds a year, or could give security that he was unlikely to become chargeable in the new place of residence he had chosen. So long as this law lasted, which it did for 133 years, it was next to ImpoSsible for a poor man to remove from one parish to another, whatever induce ments he might have been under from ties of friend ship; or better market for his labour. He was, in fact, in a manner chained to the soil, and his parish became his prison for life. An Irishman or Scotch man; however, though the privilege was denied to a native, might live anywhere in England without being subject to removal ; but then the former had no claim to relief in destitution—a resource dearly purchased, it must be owned, by the sacrifice of one of the most precious adjuncts of freedom, the undisturbed right of moving and dwelling wherever a man pleases. I now carry my narrative forward to the period of the eighteenth century. I purposely omit dwelling upon a description of those wars which originated at the close of the seventeenth, and were continued at the early commencement of the eighteenth, century —all of which produced incalculable evils to the kingdom—because I do not consider that they at all enter into the subject with which I have to deal. War, I may simply reiterate, has two results which essentially interfere with the progress of nations in riches and civilisation. The first-consists in the disturbance it gives to the pursuits of industry, by the waste and misdirection of capital and labour ; the second is a similarly injurious action on the public mind by withdrawing it from everything of an ameliorating character, to dissipate intellectual power on objects tending to demoralisation and barbarism. The most melancholy lesson which history affords is the fact, that the decay and ruin of empires have mostly proceeded from the popular derangement growing out of proneness to war. It was the pertinacious and exasperated wars of the Grecian empire that mainly produced their im poverishment and subversion. Even successful wars carry along with them mortal maladies, which, like the constant force of gravity acting on a projectile, infallibly tend to bring the proudest people to the earth. The splendid triumphs of ancient Rome did not save her from destruction ; probably they hastened it by the annoyance, luxury, and effemi nancy, which her territorial: conquests engendered. Of the thirteen years of King William's reign ten were years of war:; of thetwelve years of Queen to the tastes and humours of the - fair sex. In the present day, when love is but an episode, rather than thegreat subject of life, " a lady's man" of the reign of George I. would be (with the exception of the individual referred to) decidedly regarded as a sort of fuses naturm. The following features, grouped together from the various sketches. of the period, will convey an idea of a numerous 'class of beings, now, thanks to the witty and well-pointed satires of our humorous friend Punch, nearly extinct. From ten to twelve o'clock, then, the fashionable beau received visits iii bed, where he lay in state, his periwig, superb'y powdered, lying beside him on the sheets, while his dressing-table was sprinkled with a few volumes of love poetry, a canister or two of Lisbon or Spanish snuff, a snielling b3ttle, ' and sundry fashionable trinkets. At twelve he rose, and managed to perform the business of his toilet by three o'clock. In this complicated process he perfumed his clothes ; soaked his hands in washes, to make them appear white and delicate; tinged his cheeks with carminative, so as to give them th gentle blush which nature had denied; arranged a few patches on his face, dipped his hand kerchief in rosewater, and powdered his linen, to do away with the horrid smell of the soap. The tying of his cravat was a weighty operation that occupied much time, as well as the adjustment of his wig and the proper cock of his hat. After he had surveyed. the whole arrangement in - a looking-glass, it was necessary to practice before it the most becoming attitudes, to give his finery 'its full effect, and study such smiles as would show the whiteness of his teeth to advantage. He then dined ; after which he ordered a chair and repaired to some coffee-house, where he endeavoured to exhibit his wit and his gallantry—the former by railing at the last publica- . tion; the latter by pulling out some tailor's or laimdresS's bill and kissing it with great fervour, pretending that it was a billet doux he had received. from some favourite mistress or lady of high rank. From the coffee-house he went to the play, where, it being vulgar to attend to the performance, he turned his back on the stage. From the play he next repaired to the park, buzzing and fluttering from lady= to lady, chattering to each a jargon of bad. English, worse French, and worse Latin, and was rewarded with many a rap on the shoulders from their fans, and the epithets " mad fellow," " dear tormenting devil." When the lounge was ended, he - dropped into some fashionable party in Pall Mall or James's-square, where he chattered his empty nothings, and lost his money with an air of fashionable indifference. The general style of courtship with which ladies were wooed and won, comported with the character of the unintellectual coxcombs by whom the incense was offered ; and in a love speech, " Angels, Gods, racks, furies, tortures and demons," together with a host of names of other " fabulous animals," as the- elder Mr. Weller denom inates them, ran through all- the mazes of metaphorical confusion. It must be remembered. that this was an age when female education had not advanced so far as to enable -women to detect the absurdity of such vapid-lip worship, so that it ap peared to them the language of truth and propriety. An idea of female education at this time may be gathered from the account, that a fashionable woman was thought to be learned enough if she could barely read and' write. In Scotland, we are told, even many ladies of the highest rank could , and some of them not read. If she could. write without notoriously violating the common laws of orthography, she was then in a condition to pass for a wit. not write [These articles being CipyrigAt, the Author the privilege of ftirther publication 01' serves t.) himself anion.] -do-- The China telegraph, mentions the reeeipt of 30 bales Japanese silk. The Times says it rs• reported that Sir B. Hall will be raised to the peerage ; and that Mt. Wilson will be appointed a mernheroleouncil in India.. To HOUSE Wives. —A marl dlwn east has invented yellow spectacles for making lard look like batter. They are a great s eying of - expense, if worn while eating. A FAST Gong.—Will Grey, of Kentucky, is so swift of foot, that, he is 9bliged to send his, shadow by rail aud special train, for• it to keep pace with him. —Americana Taper M. Kossuth has.heen provided wit,h a passport by superior order at' the Ftench Embissy, and. has left London for formation of a Hungarian LegiOn has Ciehoa, wh been commenced. A KNOWINtii DACHELOR.—" fine gobt lady's breast pin,": is advertised as lost in an American paper. A bachelor makes the inquiry if sha-is a single "gold lady,". anclis willing to, he changed. SARCABTIe: -" Did you present yo:ir acconnt to the defendant ?•'' inquired a lawytnef his client. " I did, sir.' "-And what did he say ?" "He told me to go to the devil." "And what did you do iher..?.. "Why, then—l came to On Thursday, in the Court of Queen's Bench, Mr. Collier ; . on behalf of Mr..Digby Seymour, applied for a rule against the' Morning Iltroa: for libel, in reference to his rote of last Saturday in the House of Commons. Lord Campbell declined to grant the rule. • LEG XL C frArldts.—The Daily News understands that Lord' Cramworth has declined to fill the office of Lord Chief Justice of England ; and that Lord Campbell will, in all probability, he succeeded by Sir Alexander Cockburn, Chief Justice of the Court,of•C anation of a parochial -., asking a class the m eaning swered very well till he gave "Backbiter." 'ler. It went down, down the class, tiy it Dle little urchin, who looked sheepishly knowing, ntlanan wa THE MINISTRY. The. Post says that the new Cabinet is completed. Cir cumstances, however; in no way effecting: the•stability of the arrangements, induce us still to abstein from publishing the list. The Times says the following list of the new Cabinet will be found correct; although, as it has not yet been approved by her-Majesty, some changes may still be made : THE CABINET, First Lord of the , Treasury Viscount , Palmerston. Chancellor of the. Exchequer Mr. W. Gladstone. Foreign Secretary of State .... Lord John Russell. Home Secretary Sir G. C. Lewis. Colonial Secretary Duke of Newcastle. War Mr. S. Herbert. India ............_ .. ...... .. . Sir. C. Wood. First Lord of the Admiralty Duke of S om erset. Lord Chancellor - Lord Catnpbell. President of the Council ..... . . Earl Granville. Privy Seal Duke of Argyle. Postmaster General President of the Board of Trade . Mr. R. Cobden. President of the Poor-law Board . Mr. Milner Gibson. First Commissioner of Works . . .ll(e. Cardwell. Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster.. Sir G. Grey. Joint Secretaries to the Treasury .. Mr. F. Peel, Mr. Brand Secretary to the Admiralty Lord Clarence - Paget. i•For the Colonies Mr. C. Fortescue. For the Home Office Mr. Massey. Under secretary Foreign Affairs Lord Wodehouse. The Times, referring to the above list, says there never was a more powerful cast, and several of the members of the new administration who are out of the cabinet are of rank of statesmen. The cabinet itself is indeed almost overcharged with power of one sort or another. It contains two men who have been premiers, three dukes, two popular chiefs, and several men of long and varied official experience, and a Lord Chancellor who is still young at 80. Four distinct sections are amply represented in the cabinet. Indeed all are fighting men, and there are not sixteen such men to be found oat of the cabinet. There is no reason why they should not manage their differences within doors. Lord Palmerston has had to go out of the old circle ant the hard beaten ground in. which power has so long moved. He has had to negociate at every step, and to win allies when possibly he would have consulted his Own genial temper by choosing friends. It is the law of self-preservation that compels him to invite Mr. Gladstone ; and Lord Campbell, it is avowed, must be Lard Chan Sir It. Bethel is required in the Commons ellor, becaus POLITICAL MOVEMENTS Yesterday morning, a general meeting of the members of the new Cabinet, and other gentlemen Rho are to be l officially connected with the Govern- Ment, took place at Cambridge House, Piccadilly. The object of the meeting, it was stated, was to arrange matters for the commencement of the forth coming parliamentary campaign. There were pre sent—Lord Palmerston, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Duke of Somerset, Lord Campbell, Earl Granville, Mr. Gladstone, Sir George Grey, Sir G. C. Lewis, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Sir C. Wood, the Duke of Argyll, Mr. Cardwell, Lord Clarence Paget, Mr. Robert LoWe, Sir Richard Bethell, and Sir Henry Keating. At the close of the meeting Lord Palmerston pro ceeded to submit the list of his new cabinet to the Queen, in order to obtain her Majesty's approbation of it. Sir Benjamin Hall will probably be called to the Peers simultaneouely with the meeting of pa'rlia ment under the new government for the dispatch of business, which will be about the 28th instant. The right hon. baronet will, it is said, be known by the style and title of Baron Llanover. -- Mr. Vernon Smith, for whom no provision' has at present been made, either in' the Cabinet or in any other way, will, in all probability, be appointed to a seat in the Indian Council, in conjunction with Mr. James Wilson, whose former post of Secretary to the Treasury has been taken by Mr. Frederick- Peel. Mr. Vernon Smith had a brief interview with Lord Palmerston yesterday morning, at Cambridge-house. . .. REPRESENTATION OF MARYLEBONE. Anne, only two were years of peace. The reign of George 1., although it only lasted thirteen years, Yesterday morning it became known te•the leaders was remarkable for a great many petty wars, suc of the Liberal party in Marylebone that a vacancy cessively, undertaken with almost every European in the representation of their borough would speedily state, and for the only reason that each in its turn occur in consequenCe of the proposed elevation of had sheltered the pretender to the throne of England. The consequence of these repeated hostilities, as may Sir Benjamin Hall to the peerage, and preparations be readily imagined; were an enormous addit ion to will forthwith be made to secure th e election of a fit the public burdens —burdens which have gone on successor to the right hon. gentleman. The Whig increasing, through similar causes, up to the present party in the borough will in al l p robabilit y bring day Anne'sp t brief reign is sim 1 remarkable inthe union which took place between the two kin g doms forward Colonel Romilly, whi le the more advanced of England and Scotland. Till this period, although are turning their eyes to Mr. Layard, Sir Anthony they had been under the rule of the same sovereign, Rothschild, and Mr. Wakley. The Conservatives yet they had regarded each other as a foreign state will probably start a candidate in the person of commerciallylati asons. well But as b in res the pect union to most Soft their either Alderman Sir R. W. Carden or Mr. John political rey -air e ither in all respects as much a part of England. as Laurie, late member for Barnstap le, both of whom Yorkshire, and was equally permitted to share in are residents in the borough. the trade with the colonies, the American plantations, • and Ireland. She also found a market in. England for the sale of her linens, coarse woollen stuffs, and PRINCE ALFRED.—The official .Tourn.at of the Two black cattle, and continues .nt the present day to Sicilies states that on the 9th the Count &Aquila went on send into England a larger number .of the latter board the Euryalus to compliment Prince Alfred in the than the sister kingdom, Ireland. name of the King of Naples. It is singular to remark the great extravagance LEWIS AND COMPANY'S NEW ESTABLISHMENT FOR which characterised mercantile speculations in the BOYS' CeenneNce--Number of boys clothed for the week l week last year, 928.—Increase, lth, 97S : corresponding beginning. of the eighteenth century. It was in 50. boys. the ending Saturday, June d reign of George I. that the famous South Sea bubble To SHIPPERS AND EXPORTERS. ----,A most profitable i l s eb o r f a celebrated article of export, to warm climates especially, are the Self- fir eoe s t e t b e e r g p a a n r e t j t u b s e t after missi s t s l i e p e i explosion seb ee ef im the Pa c l e . cleansing Charcoal Filters, patented by Messrs. Saunders John Law. Its original projector,: Sir "John Blount, and Co., of 16, Parker-street, Liverpool—in feet they are is said to,have been a man possessed of all the curi invaluable wherever there is bac'. water. S. and Co. allow ning, boldness, and plausibility essential to recom a liberal discount on export and wholesale Orders. d SHANGHAI HARIMIL—A coinnunication received at - llel delver to mercantile shipping from the want of a port- mend his schema.. It met with su ccess among all a classes for a.thnoawho contri b u ted towards it, and, Lloyd's calls attention to the serious inconven ien ce a as a natural course, it sugge sted. other bubbles in, turn. Some idoa• may be formed of the fre nz y which, captain or harbourmaster .at Shanghai, to berth vessels existed' among the properly. Many instances are re-corded of the very con-people in those days for ne w . sidernble damage sustained by vessels from the want of such THE MAROATE.SEA.SON.—Ths, favourite watering place an official, and the hope is therefore entertained that from schemes and projects, when we find such ones as the following actually contriving t®" thrive for a season_: is already beginning to assume a •gay and animated appear- ' the attention now called to tee subject the neceesary —One for instance there was for building of hospitals ance, the note of " preparation" is being sounded in every appointment will be filled• up without delay. for bastard children.; a seemed, for importing a e large direction, and confident hopes are entertained , that .the , KCOIDENT TO A 'nom Roan DANceee—Aboutteno'clocle number of jackasses from Spain, in order tug propa seasonivill be an unusually brillianfone. lt is currently 1 , on Tuesday evening, a serious accident happened to gate a larger kind of mules. in England ; a third, for reported the Prince of Wales intends honouring the town ' 9,500. . Madame Rossini, while performing - an the tight-rope at trading in human, hair a a fourth, for perpetual by a three months' sojourn 'there, with a view of benefiting M eat. the great "lake. She had gone the length. of the rope, and, motions and a fifth, for an undertaking which in his health by the pure and invigorating breeze . for which, B EATING THE' BOUNDRIES or Yfamanoare.—The im- on her retnrn, was kneeling and preparing to fire, when the due time would be revealed! A subscription, we Margate has been so long celebrated. Should the report portont ceremony o f b ea ti ng the bounds of the great stay-ropes gaye way, andshe fell from a height _of nearly are told, was actually opened for the latter'. Others prove correct, two houses in "Royal Crescent" will be fitted an d wea lthy parish of St. Marylebone took place on thirty feet, descendirie on the bank of the lake, into which ail,a e g , there were resembling some of our railway up in appropriate manner for his Royal Highness's reception. Th urs d a y, i n the presence of the rector, cler and a large she rolled, She was ley,nediatey got out, and Mr. Bishop, s laemes projected a few imagination, years back, having . . an —Kent Herald. number o f the parochial authorities. The provession eon- surgeon of Headi,ag, was sent for, and, on his arrival ALARMING nag, AND N A DDOW ESCAPE...—On Thursday sisted o f a b ou t 300 children of the parochial, national, and found that she had dislocated a thigh, besides being much existence in the but none in reality ; morning, a t an ear ly h o ur, a fire, nearly attended with the workhouse schools. It was beaded by a detachment of police shaken.— Mercury. and fleecing ta the same extent as many unfortunate loss of fi ve h uman b e i ngs , b r oke out in the premises and the beadl es with their maces, three and three, the rector, Teen JOURNP.YMEN BAicens.—On Wednesday evening, dupes through their temporary success. belonging to Mr. Green an oil colour, and Italian ware-: the Rev. E. - 1. •P. Eyre, with Sir James Hamilton, Bart., the a number of persons representing this trade, met at the The rage for politics in the seventeenth century houseman, carrying o n business at X 3. 34, Southampton - Crown. and George ,Poland, Esq. the parochial church- rooms of the Early Closing Association, Ludgate-hill, was very great ; but it was. exceeded in the I street, near Addington -square, Camberwell: The discovery wardens, the district clergy; the s i'desmen, the vestrymen, , London. The meeting assumed the form of a conference. eighteenth, Old and young, • rich and poor, men was made by a Police-officer of the P di v ision, by perceiv- guardians of the poor, ft r i ct the c hildren following. The pro- The proceedings were commenced by Mr. Burt, chair- I and women, were all alike politicians at this period. PIEDMONT. i ing smoke pouring through the aperture in the window cession proceeded from the o our tehouse, down Oxford-street,, man of the association, stating that the society, which enginesenThe reign of Antr al and still more those of the two shutters. Without delay the officer r ai s ed an a larm, and to'the boundaries on the St. p an e r as - s ide, where the were had done so much to lighten the d toil of numerous Ti set June 14.—The bulletins show a continued sent off for the aid of the first Georges, abounded in female politicians. Wal rapid retreat of the Austrians and steady pursuit ,by and the Royal .society's . met . by_ Mr._ Bo a oth . Scott, the chief surveyor,_ .and other other sectio l ns of the t _ s o e ver- k w t o h r e th classes, codald bodynet pole tells us that Lady Sunderland, the second fi-escapes. In 'the c ourse 7 b m t i w n e ute e s s Co ductors officials, and reaching Hampstead by -I N. Toiler . , vestry but strong y sympa hdi b Nv i i dI e eppresse the French. The' former make for their fortresses, 117-Ink and Hamsworth attended wi capes, and clerk, and Mr. Dougas. chief surveyor. on Teaching the of persons represente y tae e egates then present. daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, had a beautiful and the latter content themselves with following head of hair, and, with her fair tresses, she was wont the former being informed that t wo f ema l es were on the archery groan& of the'elieb of St. George, and St. John's Mr. Blackmore, Mr. Pigeon, and others, on the part of the at them up at - a distance. There •*seems a sort of tacit s econd floor, he raised his escape, broke in the window, Wood, which had been pl ace d a t the disposal o f b a kers, explained the steps that had al.ready been taken to angle for the hearts of the Tories, by recei vin g. understanding that the line of the Mincio is to be and entered the room, but could find no one th ere i n . et was th e cenr i nittee •• a capacious marquee had been erec t e d, t o a b o li s h nig ht wor k, and alsb the measures which were in her toilet all those gentlemen whose votes or i c r , e v I h e i s le the scene of the next c onflict ' Notwithstanding subsequently ascertained that all parties had b een a bl e , w ith un d er w hi c h the ' children were regaled with a substantial contemplation. Statements of a mos t s t ar tling nature were she wished to secure, and dressing her hea WhigsL that the Austrians, according to the last ae,ernts, assistance, to leave the premises before the arrival of the dinner, and afterwards with buns, fruit, &c. A cold collation ma de t ouc hing the present condition of this body of Persons. they stood by- At the theatre the female were assembling a strong core t rains of I escapes. The engines of the parish andth?sic idor' the London was serve d t o those who had taken part in the labours of the Mr. Lilwall observed that, as the result of a careful investi- and Tories sat upon opposite sides of the house ; Monteciai, upon the little ra ver `'' ese, t r w a t ar Y i brigade from Southwark and Waterloo_-b: a e-0, were day in the pavilion of the club. The raptor presided, and after gatioh into the state of the industrial classes, it had long been po li t i c i an s, on the iztther hand, resarted while in public they were known by the mode in of the Oglio, it is not supposed to be with an eaten- I soon in attendance, and a good supply of the Lambethnand ►the lore to as ts "Prosperity to the Parish of Marylebone" his conviction that the slavery of the jowneyman bakers was d, the firemen tion of giving battle there. Montechiari is but about I Company's water having been . procure ti. wea given, coupled with the name of James Hamilton, the far more galling and demoralising than that of any other eth fl m t tle not yet declared themselves used to patch both sides 20 English miles in front of Peschiera, the northern-, parish engineer succeeded in con nin r , e a es o 0 trown churchwardens, who responded, and proposed " The section of Englishmen. He felt it to be impossible that the lower arfof the building, but, notwithstanding, the damn health of the Rector, The eTi fMP 1 d a f• 1 t of the brow. which they patched their faces! Those who had p . _ . , . ie health o r. oan , the present system o nap work oould be tolerated by the most of the four fortresses, and the head of the done was considerable. The fire is supposed ta have ka . en parochial warden, and of "Mr Greenwell," vestry clerk, and British public when its crying evils be 'ame known. The Mincio line. It may, therefore, be considered a caused from a ji g ht h a yina accidentally fallen int% a desk " Mr. &ace," le surveyor, and othertoasts followed, and dc leg es express 'the place of rendezvous for the troops previously to • b in the shop which contained a quantity of Parrs. Several the children having sung som e glees and " God saye o w. rospect of their cause being espoused by a society whose multiplied in a great degree in London in the their entering the quadrangle. The other route y other fires took lacep during the nyst, 1111 t tn'.; damage at Queen," the further labours on the Paddington side asere sufluence had, already been so powerfully felt in oche; and them eighteenth oentury, ero they weld wont, lik,e which the Austrian* are retiring takes them direet each was inconsiderable, renewed, and were not concluded till the evening. , .. . .. . 1 quarters, , ocan e of our ovrn ttkYVIA-fmpenters or the pxeio.it i toTchheonicoalalete-houses and DRURY LANE THEATRE.IIe. Piccolornini, having arrived in England from America, is engaged at the Drury lane Italian Opera, and will appear on Monday next. HAYMARKET THEATRE. A new and original comedy by that prolific dramatist, Mr. Tom Taylor, is announced as in preparation at this theatre: SOAP SUDS. -- They are valuable; do not throw them away. Procure a barrel, and have it set where the suds can be readily taken from it for use. They make the very beet manure for flower roots, currants, grapevines, &c. Tiic PRUSSIAN ARMY. —The number of men in the six corps d'armee, now abont to be mobilised in Prussia, as announced by telegraph, amounts to 300,000 men. The ,Prussian army altogether amounts to eight corps, including the regiments of the Guards. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.—It appears from a Parliamentary return issued, that 1,070 persona have been appointed to act as justices of the peace in the several cities and towns of England and Wales since the Ist of January, 1850. The return was moved for by Mr. John Locke. RIFLE CORPS IN THE Fr,r.s.—The, Volunteer movement has extended itself to the feo country, A rifle corps has been organised. at Wisbeaeh, another has been started at Stamford, and on Wednesday a public,,meeting 'at Peter borough resolved upon establishing a similar, corps in that city and neighbourhood. -/ LECTORIAL CORRUPTION Nonwieu.—The committee appointed by the NorWich Town Council to eonsider .the prevalence of ,bribery at Parliamentary elections for that city, have adopted a memorial to the Government, praying that a commission may be issued for taking evidence on the subject on the spot, as was done at Hull, Barnstable, St. Alban's, and other places. The proposed memorial will - be submitted for adoption at the next meeting of the council. FALSE NEWS. The Tribunal Correctional Police of Tours three days age, tried one Huard for spreading fals?, news. On the 28th of April, he fell in with two of his acquaintances at Villiers au Boin, and said, "you have heard that the war with Austria is not going on well i" "Ah ! how so ?" "There has been an engagement, and out of 5,000 Frenchmen who went into it, only 500 escaped I have the faCt from our friead Fouquet, who received it from his son,'" But how could -the French be so cruelly beaten? "In this way The French general and the Austrian general gave each other a rendezvous to fight ; but the Austrians treacherously • arrived before the hour affixed, and so when the French came up they were beaten !" A few days after, being in a public house at Chateau la Valliere he repeated the same story, but augmented the loss of the French from 4,500 to The tribunal condemned him to a week's imprison- THE WAR IN ITALY. The Times has received the following despatch , dated— " VIENNA, Thursday afternoon.—General Count Schlick has taken the command of the second army, instead of... General Gyuali. The French have established a depot at Antivari, on the Albanian Coast, and disembarked large quantities of gold coin there." The Post publishes the following despatch : " PARIS, June 16.—The despatches received to-day from Berlin are very satisfactory. They confirm the Preceding statements. The mobilisation has in no sense an aggressive character ; and it will not in all Probability have the effect of causing a single Additional French soldier to be called out." ROME, June 14:—It is asserted that the French are about to occupy Ancona. The Ist Swiss Reg- Meat has left for Perugia. The Russian Ambassador has given a banquet in honour of the French Co m inander-in-Chief, General Goyan. TURIN, June 17th, 10.5 p.m.— Official bulletin published this evening, Yesterday the head-quarters of the Emperor were at Covo, on the road from Bergamo to Cremona, and those of the King at Castegnato, six miles to the west, of Brescia. Rimini and Cesese have pro nounced for the national cause. VERoNA, June 17 (cia Vienna). —The following is official,: " General Gyulai has, at his own request, been reduced from the command of the second corns Rarmee, which has been given to Count Schlick, general of cavalry." MOY NIENT OF PRINCE FORCES. NAPOLEON'S TURIN, Friday, June 17.—The official bulletin, ;published to-day, announces from Tuscany that Prince Napoleon has commenced the movement of his troops. 10,000 Tuscan troops, with 800 horseF, are ready to depart with him. Ravenna has pronounced for the national cause, and a manifesto has been published declaring the adhesion of that town to a Central Government, established at Bologna, which is to be placed under the dictatorship of the King of Sardinia. The manifesto also expresses the unanimous wish to be enabled some day to form part of a monarchy worthy of the gratitude of the Italians. MOVEMENTS OF AUSTRIANS BERNE, Friday, June 17.—A telegram from Coire tnnouces that a numerous Austrian corps, coming from Stelvio, has arrived at Grostoto, in the Salle lino, and advanced towards Tirano. The Federal Council his ordered the occupation by the Fedral troops of the pass of Muretto, between the Grissous and the Valteline. THE FRENCH FUNDS PARIS, Friday, June 17, 12 20 p.m.—The Bourse opens flat. Rentes 62 60. 3 20, p.m.—Rentes close 62 50 for moneY, and 62 45 for account, being a decline of t in the former and in the latter case since yesterday. FRA_NCE. PARIS, Thursday Evening.—An article appears in the. Journal des' Debuts of to-day, which is not Without interesfat the presen moment, and to which 'it may be as well to direct attention. -It is signed by the " Secietaire de la Redaction" —a formula aometimes employed by a government paper when it gives a communication emanating from more 'autho ritative source than usual. That such is the case in the present instance I do not affirm ; but if it be, the selection of the Journa l dei Debate, rather than the Patrie, or the Conititution nel, is, perhaps, not .without an object. It will, probably, be copied in the Ministerial journals, and will have additional weight from the fact of its having er first appeared in so serious and so impartial a pap as the The subject of the article I allude to is the Island of Perim. After a geographical description of that took, the Debuts says : "When the English occupied Perim they pretended to have purchased it from the Sultan of Raheita for the pur l:lose of building a lighthouse: The Sultan protested, and still protests, we are assured, against a cc ...ion to which he ' had not consented ; he has accepted nothing and received nothing ; for which he gives a very good reason, namely, that the island did not belong to him. " But whether sold or taken, the island of Perini displays now the flag of England floating on a fort. and not on a lighthouse. While she lights up the straits of Babelniandeb she appears disposed to keep it. It is not a signal man, but a sentinel. *. * * _ "Experiments in muanery, interesting and significative, Were carried on 'in 1858 in the strait of Babelmandeb ; a frigate anchored at Perim could 'easily throw balls on the coast . of Arabia far into the land, and on the other side, in the direction of the Ras-Domeiral, and it was proved that it crossed its fire with*a battery established on the coast of Danakil. We deem it useless to add any commentary on these details. :We. admit with difficulty that the English only look upon Perim as a rock meant to serve as a basis for a light-house, or as a support to some section of an electric cable." Speaking of Aden, the Debats observes : " When iog a l o a a nd ho wishecl to establish a line of steamers between Suez Indian h poessipus, she had to seek an intermediate point whereon ofereAon ,to establish a„ coal depot. 'Aden, to the south-west ala, a few miles outside the strait of Babelmandeb, was forma to be on the direct route , of Bombay. Aden offered an exacedlleont.pc.rtd' s P easy of defence ; n Aden was taken. PossesSion o f .the otherday, .a n d as somethi ng will occupied, us was The last accounts received from the French head quarters in Lombar d y informs us that the Emperor is concentrating . his troops in order t o attack the -kitstrian army with an overwhelming force. It is ' 'expected that a dec isive battle will be fought in the 'course of next week. The efforts made by A ustria of late to indu"ce the minor German Powers ,to make her cause in Italy their own is remarked on by the Pays, which con siders all probability of. such interference to be at present remove& from the united causes of the mo deration of Prussia, from the neutrality of Russia, and the fall of the Derby Ministry. EXPF.RIiNTIA M6ET ;chool, a reverend )f words Thi . They ined a . , and said: " It may he a flea." FEET Musae.—The pleasant tinkle of the golden bells in collision, the. chains rattling, and the melodious cbithe of little silver ankle bells, keeping time with the motions of the foot, made an accompaniment so. agreeable to female vanity that. the stately daughters of Jerusalem, with their sweeping trains flowing after them, appear to have adopted a sort of- measured tread, by way of impressing a regular. cadence, upon the mu sic of the feet. The chains of gold were exchanged. as luxury advanced, for strings of pearls and jewels, which :-;wept us snaky• folds about the feet and an kl es .— ,, Toilette of the Hebrew. Lady," in Selections Grave and Gay. By De W ye ,. IMPORTANT INYENTiON OF AN ALLOY FOR FIRE ARMS.— Tdr. C. W. Lancaster, of New. Bond-street, has invented an alloy especially adapted to the manufacture of fire-arms and ordnance ; it is composed of copper and aluminium, in or about the Pro Portion of 90. parts of copper to la parts of aluminium, The alloy forges and rolls when heated pre cisely in the same manner as iron and steel; its uses f or military, purposes are many and important, scare of which are as hollows : —The tensile strain is 97,000 lbs., as compared with nOOO lbs., of the best gun metal used', by the British Government, consequently the difficulties. attending the construction of breech-loading and other. artillery will be greatly diminished. From its non-liability to oxidation it may be advantageously used for rifle barrels, elevating - screws, tangent sights, &c., an d t h e metal work of naval and garrison gun carriages. For the manufacture of barrels of small arms a cylinder, say of inches-diameter and 1 foot. in length, having a co ncentric hole ()flinches diameter from. end to end, may be cast, heated to a white heat, and rolled hetwoen ,grooved rollers, in the manner followed in the tilanufacture of small am barrels. 7 -44ininf. lot.irnal. maid I bes at• lie mi d at, ‘‘„, a, f'. n ite l 11 _a -1-; las f ' w hogl 11 re' Th e ‘„A ryi° s e,yot o — ber, hole a ria 3 the and