Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-13 00:00:00

AXUSEAENTS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, &c. THIS DAY. =oust. rllrrElZATEE—Dramatie Performance-7 p.m. Mucus's GRAND CIRQUE VARIETS, Dale-street-7 p.ra. Borax. CoLosssuar—Geeeral Entertainment-8.3 0 p.mn. ZooLoetCAL Gaanzars—Grand and Varied Entertainments. CLAYTON HALL, Clayt n-square—Gordon Cumming-8 p.m. ALLOOP'S CRYSTAL PALACE, Lime.street —lO a.m. to 10 p.m. r For particulars see advertisements. kort4ern (MIEN MONDAY, JULY 13, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. We have very exciting and interesting news from all quarters of the globe to-day—lndia, Aus tralia, and America. From the former the intelli gence is of a serious nature. The telegraphic accounts aro very meagre ; but there is sufficient to cause uneasiness. We fear there is no reason to doubt that some 30,000 Sepoy soldiers have deserted their duties in the Presidency of Bengal. They have gone off, however, like so many hares into a wood, without leaders, or concert, or arms, or warlike stores. Still the disaffection must be regarded as wide spread; and it is possible that many of the deserters may reach our military stations, and disseminate the panic still further. The Governor-General and the authorities at Calcutta feel less alarm, and write in confident terms as to the result. We cannot doubt that the mutineers will be severely punished, and the deserters dealt with in a manner becoming the sternness of military discipline. In the meantime, there is happily no intelligence of any spirit of disaffection having exhibited itself amongst the native popula tion throughout India. The desertions and the crimes committed upon the defenceless part of the European residents are confined to the soldiers of the Bengal Presidency alone. How far the con tagion may spread it is impossible to say. The mutineers, who had sought refuge in Delhi, and who had committed such atrocities in that city, with the aid of the worst part of the native population, having ventured outside the walls, and been joined by other deserters, have been defeated, after some partial successes, and have been compelled to seek shelter within the walls where it is hoped they will soon receive the signal punishment they so richly deserve. The death of General Anson, the Commander-in-Chief, from cholera, at any time a subject of regret, is a loss all the more to be deplored at a moment like this, when he is struck down in the midst of his preparations and anxieties to arrive at the scene of action, and to inflict exemplary punishment upon the offenders. He died at Kur naul, on his road from Urnballah to take the com mann of the troops before the capital of Delhi. The Observer of yesterday, in alluding to this matter, says :—" The telegraphic despatches received by the Government yesterday, were despatched by the Port-Admiral of Malta, on the arrival of the Indian mail in that island. The Admiral Super intendent, perceiving the importance of the intel ligence, sent a special steamer from Malta to Cagliari, in Sardinia, where there is an electric telegraph to London. The Cabinet Council, which had been summoned for three o'clock, was assembled more than an hour earlier. Sir Colin Campbell, with the true spirit of a gallant soldier, at one consented to go out, without twenty-four hours' notice. He said he would not wait to take anything out with him: he could get all he wanted at Calcutta as well as in London. The steamer for India, about to start, was stopped yesterday by telegraph, and will await Sir Cohn Campbell's arrival at Marseilles, with any further instructions necessary lo be sent out in the emergency. The 14,000 troops under orders for India are gone or going immediately ; other reinforcements of Euro pean troops will be sent as soon as ships and stores can be got ready. The news from Australia to hand by the arrival of the James Baines, which brought 60,000 ozs. of gold, is ten days later than that previously to hand. The Great Britain and the Lightening had both Itlrel2ciaeerfri — geveiifyWW, Fr Sial'riTertolil. Another political crisis had occurred in Victoria. A long debate had taken place in the Legislative Assembly, on a motion of want of con fidence in the O'Shannessy Ministry, by Mr. Fellows ; the result of which was a vote of 34 for and 19 against the motion. Mr. O'Shannessy had sent in his resignation to the Governor-General, who had accepted it, but no new ministry had been formed when the James Baines left. Lady Barkly, wife of the Governor of Victoria, died on tha 18th April, the melan choly event being attributed to nervous ex haustion, resulting from her recent accouchment. Three more of the unfortunate Williamstown convicts had been sentenced to death. Leprosy was prevalent among the Chinese, and great ex citement had resulted from the knowledge of such a state of things. News from New South Wales to the 20th of April states that Parliament had been prorogued to the 9th of June. Tasmania seemed to be on the eve of another political crisis. There has never been an entente cordiale between the new Premier and the Parliament, and now they have come to a positive rupture. One of the Opposition, Mr. Weston, had brought forward a vote of want of confidence in the Ministry, and it was carried by a majority of five. So stood the matter. Whether the indignant premier would resign does not seem to have been decided. The news from the United States, by the arrival of the Europa, which brings 460,000 dollars in specie, is four days later than that previously to band. The Europa brings us full particulars of the burning of the steamer Montreal, in the river St. Lawrence, on the 27th instant. This was one of the most deplorable disasters that we have been called upon to record for a long time. The Moatreal left Quebec at four o'clock in the after noon for Montreal, having on board between four and five hundred passengers, nearly all of them them emigrants, and many of them recently arrived from Scotland. About five o'clock, when abrest of Cape Rouge, the wood work of the furnaces was discovered to be on fire, and at the same moment the flames burst forth, causing the utmost consternation. The flames spread with great rapidity, and numbers of the pas sengers precipitated themselves into the river, and many in such cases were drowned. The steamers Napoleon and Alliance went to the rescue, and the former took off one hundred and twenty seven. Several of these subsequently died of their wounds. It is thought probable that some of the passengers may have reached land by swimming. Captain Rudolph, of the Montreal, and the purser, swam to the Alliance ani were saved. News from California to the sth June, is not of an im portant character. Preparations were being made for canvassing the state for the elections, which will take place in September. A defalcation, vari ously estimated at from 100,000 dols. to 500,000 dols., bad occurred at the United States Branch Mint. Rumour—for as yet it is nothing more —points to Colonel Haraszthy, melter and re finer, as the p ar t y to bl ame . H e has made over all his property, to be held in trust against any deficiency that may be proved against him It seems to be clearly established that, owing to badly constructed chimneys and flues, the waste in the Mint has been immense. The trial of the notorious Ned McGowan, as an accessory to the murder of James King, late Editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, had resulted as every one expected, in a verdict of "Not guilty." In the news from Oregon and Washington Terri tories there is nothing worthy of special notice. Late advices from Sonora fully confirm the information, previously received, concerning the destruction of Crabb and his party at Cavern. Further and very interesting particulars are also given of the movement of other branches of that ill-fated expediti on . Th ere was some ex citement in California, and there were rumours of another contemplated invasion of Mexico to revenge the deaths of Colonel C ra bb an d hi s assoc i ates, b u t it not believed that any will be found sufficiently reckless to put such threats into execution. From Great Salt Lake we learn that serious dissensions have arisen among the Mormons, and that there was some probability of a collision between the contending factions. Brigham Young is reported to have gone northward in search of favourable localities for new settlements. Parties of missionaries continue to be sent out, and over a hundred had started for the Eastern States. The polygamists in the Mormon settlement of San Bernardino had been ordered to remove with their wives to Salt Lake, in order that the peculiar in stitution may be strengthened by the union of those who have adopted it. Particulars of a most singular murder will be found in another column. A young man, appa rently a maniac, who had been sent from Bow street Police Office to St. Martin's Workhouse, succeeded in murder in one of the keepers by re peatedly striking him on the head with a poker. The screw.stea mer Circassian, Captain Powell, sailed from this port for Newfoundland, Halifax, and Portland, on Saturday, with 350 passengers and a large cargo. A full report of a banquet given to the officers of the United States steam frigate Niagara, at present lying in the Mersey, at the Adelphia Hotel, on Saturday evening, by the members of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. A summons was on Saturday issued against the proprietor of the Liverpool Herald for defamation of character, at the suit of the Roman Catholic priests, resident in the Isle of Man. The news from the Continent this morning is not of much moment. The French Government, through the Moniteur, republishes the numbers at the former elections, which stamped, as it is said, the imperial regime with the approval of the country, and in this way it endeavours to cover the decided defeat which Napoleonism sus tained in the late elections. But the significance of the return of five Republican deputies for Paris, in 1857. loses nothing by the remembrance of the fact, that Louis Napoleon was elected President by an immense majority in 1818, and confirmed in his usurpation, in 1851, by another great niljority. The open declaration of Lord Palmerston against the Suez Canal is severely criticised by the con tinental press, and especially by that of Paris. The supporters of the project by no means dispair on account of the hostility of the British Govern. ment, The Italian newspapers continue to give details connected with the late outbreaks. They all show that the 3cheme, for revolutionising the South of Europe was on the grandest scale ; and it is not very surprising to meet the assertion in a Paris Ministerial paper that the French Government was for a fortnight previously in possession of information that the assassination of Louis Napc leon was destined to become the signal for simul taneous outbreaks in France, Italy, and Spain, with the war-cry of " The Social Republic." WE, this morning, publish further news from India, which is of a sufficiently disasterous character. Although the mutineers had been defeated outside the city of Delhi with a loss of 26 guns, may be satisfactory, the desertion of large numbers of Native Troops in Bengal and the North-western Provinces, coupled with the death of Col. ANSON, and also that of two thousand men from excessive heat, is dishear tening, the Country will be anxious for the details, to know something more of the grave and critical state of affairs in India. England is not dismayed, the island is not shaken from its propriety by this military revolt of some thousands of soldiers belonging to an empire of 170 millions of people. We are calmly confident of our power to stretch forth our iron arm and put down insurrection and mutiny at the distance of half the globe. Yet there cannot be a doubt that, though the nation umerrmea mere must be anxiety in many English homes that may happen to have relatives in India. either in the military or the civil service. Their trouble and anxiety are assuredly not assuaged by the reflection that, possibly all this bloodshed and violence may have been provoked in part by our own misconduct in India, and might have been by forecast and pru dence prevented. All our military authorities up to this moment, concur in the belief that probably, long ere this, the revolt is crushed in Delhi, its head quarters ; and we all devoutly wish it may be so; and that the mutiny may not have seriously spread to other places, and the wild fire have seized upon the majority of the Bengal army, numbering eighty thousand men. We have had so many recent grounds to distrust our military authorities, that we must be pardoned if we take their opinion with a few grains of allowance. But we will try to hope the best till we know the worst. During this pause of suspense we will offer a remark or two. It will be found impossible, we believe, to exonerate our civil and military administrators from grave and long-continued mistakes in governing India. How much might have been done that has not been done, to conciliate the religious feelings and prejudices, or if you will—the superstitions of the people. The deceased Mr. BLACKETT, late M.P. for Newcastle-on-Tyne, made himself very con spicuous and very useful, in his endeavours to call attention to the misgovernment of India, and to procure justice for that portion of Her Majesty's subjects; and he was earnestly seconded by that liberal constituency. We dis tinctly remember being present at a public meeting in Newcastle, when he announced the certain approach of trouble in India, and urged the meeting to support him and others in Parlia ment in procuring measures of reform, to avert coming disaster. Nor was this anticipation pe culiar to him; many others, in the Muse and outside, shared it with him. " Coming events cast their shadows before ;" and it needed no prophetic mind to see that either our system must be altered, or our power shaken in the East. We learn that, lately, officers more zealous t han discreet, have been distributing tracts and Bibles among the soldiers. Well meant, but de cidedly unwise. Our Christian civilisation and ideas cannot be passively poured upon other minds like water from one vessel into another ; but the people must be gradually and judiciously pre pared for the change, if ever they are to accept our religion. The circumstance of the greased cartridges is a very sorry affair of course, but it seems mighty to them. Very wisely two pro clamations have lately been issued in India since ' the disturbances began, assuring the Hindoos that there would be no interference with their religion. Quite proper but too late. Why was not all this and a great deal more, foreseen and done long ago. Our reforms generally move at a snail pace ; and when the steed is stolen, we take the precaution to close the stable door. Thus Master John Bull proceedeth, for he is wise in his generation—at least he thinketh him self so. We have not always dealt gently and discreetly with the religious sentiments and usa ges of the people. In the present revolt the cry was " the English wish to convert us to Christianity, and to subvert the ancient religion of India." The double government of India,—by the Honourable Company, conjointly with Her Majesty's Ministers—is a clumsy round-about way of doing things, adapted to embarrass, delay, and counter-check itself. We do not at this moment say " Let the Company stand out of the way and let India be directly represented in the British Parliament"—but some such demand as this, or better, will be made one day. Too great lenity may have been shown in dealing with some recent instances of insubordination, and where there should have been severe military discipline and punishment the culprits have got off easily ; and thus, our system, or rather our no-system, combines the opposite vices of rigor and remiss ness. Our English officers are said to know very little of the habits and feelings of the native soldiery under them. The two come rarely into contact. The natural result follows—alienation, want of sym pathy; the men hardly know their officers, except when a riot occurs, just enough to shoot them down. Possibly, Russian machinations may have something to do with our late disasters. We distrust that grasping, perfidious, intriguing power, even while we are at peace with her. And while we are at peace with her arms and have no ill will to her people, we must give no advan tage to her diplomacy. We are not bitten by a Russo-phobia ; we have no fear that Russia can ever contend with us on the plains or passes of Hindostan ; we hold in supreme contempt her power to conflict with us openly. She could not even, without immense effort and difficulty, transport a hundred thousand men to dispute with us the sovereignity of India, where we could meet her with three hundred thousand men, led by British officers, brave as their own swords, and who know not the word fear. It is not her force we dread, but her wiles; her deplomacy ; her perfidy ; her hollowness ; her plausibility that threw Western Statesmen off their guard, and could turn the heads of even stronger men; and cleverer ambassadors than LORD JOHN RUSSELL, Timeo Danaos et done ferentes. We must distrust diplomacy and Russian sympathy in every form. Meantime, firmly and fearlessly, this India revolt must be extinguished at whatever cost—even if it has been caused by the incapacity of our rulers, : out tne same hour which see s the mutiny sub dued, must be the hour thattshall witness the commencement in India, of complete reform, both in her civil and military departments. WE hear a great deal of cant and twaddle in the form of sympathy, for the miseries and priva tions of the working classes from those who do all in their power to perpetuate that misery. As we have often said, it is in vain to grapple with the giant flood of human wretchedness, which sweeps over this and other lands, until. we have learned to deal with the causes, not to tamper with; and speculate about the effects. The curse of the human race is now as it ever has been— ignorance ; remove that and you put an end at once to that fearful mass of misery, wretchedness, and crime, which all alike deplore. But how is that to be effected, that is the question ? Your teachings of the schools will not accomplish it as has been abundantly shown. While the utopian schemes of socialists and other visionaries, how ever spacious they might appear on paper, have one and all proved abortions; a fact which cannot be denied. Until the masses are taught to compre hend their true social position, their redemption from poverty and degradation must be postponed till an indefinite period. They belie the Creator of the human race, who contend that poverty and suffering is their natural condition. A con venient doctrine, certainly, for the interests of the few who profit by its continuance, but very unpleasant for the many who are thus doomed to everlasting toil in order to:eke out a miserable existence and die unnoticed and unknown. Who are the producers of all wealth ? Who, but these children of toil ? They produce it for the enjoy. merit of others not for their own, and will con. tinue to do so until such time as they shall be made aware of their own true interests and put in practice the only means which can lead to their social regeneration. In the artificial state of society in which we exist the great bane of the masses has been the fierce competition which has so long prevailed in almost every branch of trade, and the general " glut," as it is called, of the labour market. This competition is not only disastrous to the masses but often to the principals, as the records of our bankruptcy courts abundantly prove— cheapness. • Cheapness is, and has been too long, the order of the day, and this cheapness is not only the course of the working man, but the bane of the honest and fair-dealing tradesman, who to secure an order and compete with his rivals has often to resort to practices from which, under other circumstances, he would shrink with abhorence ; and, unfortunately, this state of things is not confined to any one particular branch of trade THE NORTHERN TIME S.--LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, JULY 13. 1857, —it pervades all. Yet this deplorable system is fostered and encouraged by those would-be philanthrophists, who read us homilies on the miseries of humanity. To meet this insensate cry of cheapness, the shop-keeper, the tailor sailmaker, builders, &c. has to squeeze all he can out of those he employs. The raw material is regulated in its value by the state of the markets, and on that there can be no reduction, unless in exceptional cases. The labourer and the skilled artizan must therefore be the victims of the cheap mania. This is an evil which can not be too often held up to public opprobrium. For of what use is all the lugubrious lamenta tions of mock philanthrophists, so long as it is not only tolerated, but encouraged—so long as the wives and daughters of our wealthy and middle classes continually hunt for bargains, and patronise those establishments only, where articles are exhibited for sale, at prices which would not pay for the price of the labour bestowed on them ; if that labour was honestly and justly remunerated as it ought to be ? No; let all who wish to elevate the character and social position of the working man, who think that "the labourer is worthy of his hire," shun all such practices as they would moral pestilence. They will thus prove in prac tice, their devotion to the true interests of the working classes, and do more to aid his progress than by an eternity of moralizing, philosophising, or idle and profitless lamentation. If all good and sincere Christians, of whatever creed, were to unite, and try to give a " fair day's wages for a fair day's work," they would be putting in practice the teaching of their Divine Master, and doing all which in them lay to stem the flood of trade—immorality, which has led to so much vice, crime, pauperism, disease, and the prema ture deaths of thousands whose dearest wish was to support themselves by their honest labour, but who were denied the chance, and fell victims to that monster—fierce trade—competition. The vast importance of this subject to all classes in the community, will justify a recurrence to it more in detail on an early day. THE COURT, &c. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Saturday, June 11.—Her Majesty with a large party from the palace, went in state this afternoon from Buckingham Palace to lay the foundation stone, at Wandsworth, of the Royal Patriotic Fund Schools. The royal cortege quitted the palace at half past four o'clock, and consisted of seven open carriages and four, with outriders in scarlet liveries, and a party of light cavalry, which formed the escort of the Sovereign. The Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lords Spencer, Torrington, and Byron, and General Sir Frederick Stovi❑ were in the two first carriages, and left shortly before the rest of the royal party, the gentlemen wearing their state uniforms, and bearinfi their badges of offi ce. With the Qoeen in her carriage were the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, the Prince Consort, and Prince Frederick William of Prusia. The Prince Consort wore a field; marshal's uniform, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia that of his regiment in the Prussian service, with the insignia of the order of the Black Eagle. In the next carriage were their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and In the third carriage were Lady C. Barrington, the Lady-in-Waiting to the Princess Charlotte, Lord Aber corn, and the Aide-de-Camp of Prince Frederick of Prussia. The two last carriages contained the Maids of Honour in Waiting, the Equerries in Waiting, and the tutor to Prince Alfred. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Orleans and her two sons paid a visit to the Queen this afternoon, upon their arrival in this country. The Duchess was attended by her Lady and two Gentlemen in Waiting. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived from Clarence House about two o'clock this afternoon, and remaitied until near four o'clock. The younger royal children were taken for a drive in an open carriage and four this morning. At five minutes to nine o'clock her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the King of the Belgians, the Princess Royal, the Princess Charlotte, Princa Frederick William of [Prussia, and the Comte/de Flandres left the palace to honour the performance of " Fra Diavole," at the Royal Italian Opera, with their presence. Viscountess Jocelyn, the Countess d'Yve, the Hon. Miss Gordon, and the Gentlemen-in-Waiting were in attendance. APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—The Morning Post says :—" We understand that a marriage will shortly take place between Miss Graham, daughter of Sir Belling. ham Graham, Bart., of Norton Conyers, in the county of York, and Captain de Feyl, an officer in the Austrian service.—A marriage is also announced to take place im mediately between Mr. W. Webb, of Westwick and Cowton, Yorkshire, and Worlaby, Lincolnshire, and Miss Goodlake, the beautiful daughter of Mr. Thomas Mills Goodlake, of Wadley and Shellingford, in Berkshire, and granddaughter of the late Sir Edward Baker, Bar.t, and the Lady Elizabeth Baker."—A matrimonial alliance is also about to take place between Viscount Stormont, son of the late Earl of Maryfield, and Miss Macgregor, the beautiful daughter of Lady Macgregor.—The Post corrects an inaccuracy in the paragraph under this head. It is Lieutenant-Colonel J. Reeve, late of the Grenadier Guards, eldest son of General and Lady Susan Reeve, who is about to marry the daughter of Sir Glynne Earle Welby, and not Lieut.-Col. W. H• Reeve, of the Cold stream Guards. MISS SMITH. An absurd rumour prevailed on Saturday that this unfortunately notorious young lady was on the landing stage, and was going out in the Canadian boat. Ridicw loos as the rumour was, hundreds of people credited it, and many fl 'eked to the stage, with the hope of seeing her, long after the boat in which she was said to be a passenger, had sailed. What will not the gullable public believe ? The wretched young creature ought to be let rest, for ❑o matter what her faults and follies may have been, she has been severely punished for them, and the charity of silence ought now to be accorded to her. HOW MISS SMITH LEFT THE COURT. The circumstances of the ruse, adopted by one of the Glasgow agents employed in the case, for getting off Miss Smith unmolested by the vast crowd waiting in the Parliament-square and neighbourhood for her exit after her trial were, we are told, as follow :—He had provided himself with the dress worn on the previous days of her trial by Miss Smith, and on her liberation from the bar, he asked the Sergeant of Police in attendance whether he could find him a girl about the size of Miss Smith to personate her, and go through the ordeal of driving in a cab to the gaol down the High street. The sergeant immediately recollected a girl who had tor several days importuned the police officers to get her a sight of the prisoner, saying she would give anything for the privilege. This girl was got, and being told that not only wotld she get a sight of Miss Smith, but also her dress and a douceur besides if she would represent ha: in a cab, in order to disperse the mob from the square ; she undertook the job, and was dressed (by Miss Smith herself) accordingly. In the meantirae, a rumour was circulated through tile:,,,OrOWd __that Miss Smith was to drive to the gaol to change her dress before going a large, and orders were given to clear a space a about the court-room doors. This being done, and the anxiety of the crowd raised to the utmost pitch by the perpetrators, up came the cab and out came the fabricated girl in nearly a fainting state, and being, with some little difficulty, got into the carriage along with the usual police, off drove the vehicle at a breakneck pace, followed by the whole rabble of expectants, and in a trice the Parliament-square and all the thoroughfares about were completely cleared. Miss Smith then having been taken round through the Advocates' Library, and put on a different dress with a coloured veil, quietly walked away, accompanied by her brother and another young gentle man, to the front of St. Giles' Church, where her cab was in waiting, and entering it quietly Jehu drove away to Slateford, where she met the Caledonian train to Glasgow, and was carried by it to that city. She proceeded, we believe, straight on to Rowaleyn, her father's residence, near Helensburgh. MISS SMITII'S SAYINGS. On dit, that on the day of the Lord Advocate's address she was asked what she though of it ? She replid, " When I hear the Dean of Faculty I will tell you. 1 never like to give an opinion till I have heard both sides." HER OPINION OF THE PRESIDING JUDGE. She pronounced the Lord Justice Clerk " a tedious old man," on the first evening of his summing up. HER JOURNEY BY RAIL, Miss Smith passed Motherwell on her way from Edin burgh to Glasgow on Friday afternoon by the Caledonian Railway. There was some cheering where she was recognised. She left the railway at Stepps' station and drove home. She was closely veiled, and accompanied by two young gentlemen—set down by the onlookers as her brother and betrothed. THE TRIAL. After the verdict of the jury had been returned on Thursday, Miss Smith was taken down to one of the witness-rooms, where she changed her dress, putting on a cloak of a different colour from that which she had worn in court, a straw bonnet, dark ribbons, and green veil- She remained there till about five minutes past four, when she was brought up stairs taken through the several passages to the Exchequer door, from which, accompanied by her brother, she walked unobserved to the front of St. Giles's Church, where a cab was in waiting, which drove her to the Slateford station of the Caledonian Railway. There she took the five p.m. train from Edinburgh, and pro— ceeded to Greenock, and thence by steamer to her father's house at Row. In order to get rid of the mob assembled in Parliament square, a ruse was resorted to provions to Miss Smith's departure. A girl, in consideration of having her curiosity satisfied with a look of the ex-prisoner, agreed to perform the part of Miss Smith leaving the court, and, being suitably dressed and veiled, was hurried into the cab which had been procured for the purpose; but so affected was she by the eager gaze of the mob that she immediately fainted, and in that condi tion was driven towards the jail, accompanied by a voci. ferating multitude, SUPPLEMENTED EVIDENCE.. 7,,,0n Monday last, a gentleman from Glasgow went into Edinburgh, and had an interview with the Crown authorities, where he made a revelation of a startling character, which might have had an important bearing on the trial of Madeline Smith had it been offered at an earlier period. This gentleman stated as we are informed, that on a Sunday night about the time of L'Angelier's death, and between twelve and one o'clock on that night, he saw together two young persons, male and female, in the lane behind Mr. Smith's Blythe wood-square house uttering words of endearment, and that the'young man was attired in a dress similar to that which is proved to have been usually worn byL'Angelier. From other circum stances, the impression of this too-late witness is that the young female was not an ordinary street-walker, but a lady. We give this information as it has reached us from more than one respectable quarter. But it must not be forgotten that it is perfectly possible that the effect and character of such a revelation might have been materially altered and shaken under cross-examination* In England such a witness could, we believe, have been received while the trial was actually in progress, but by the more restricted, and possibly the more humane, prac tice of the Scotch law, the indictment and list of witnesses must be served upon the accused fifteen days before the It has been arranged that, instead of the punishment of seven years' transportation, as originally proposed in the Fraudulent Trustees Bill now before Parliament, the term of three years shall be adopted ; and that this may be modified to fine or imprisonment for not more that two years, with or without hard labour. PRINCE NAroLEON.—Yesterday, a large number of persons assembled on the pier head and landing -stage, in the expectation of seeing that splendid screw steam yacht La Reine Hortense, which vessel is conveying Prince Napoleon and suite to this country. Up to a late hour yesterday, however, it had not arrived, but may be expected this day, EMBARKATION OF TROOPS.—On S iturday afternoon, about 800 soldiers, principally belonging to the 01st and 84th Regiments, were embarked on board the Prince Arthur, steamer, for India. The steamer was moored alongside the lauding-stage, from whence the men marched on board in admirable order and in good spirits. The whole arrangements were under the direction of Com mander Bevis, R.N. THE ABORTION CASE—DEATH Or THE WOMAN.—It may be remembered that a surgeon, named Bryde, was charged with having procured abortion on a female named Margaret M'Creel, and that he was twice remanded before the magi- trates on the charge. The unfortunate woman has been in the Northern Hospital since, and died there on Saturday morning. The Coroner summoned a jury o❑ Saturday, and these having viewed the body, the inquest was adjourned to half-past eleven o'cock on Tuesday to-morrow. The prisoner will be brought up at the police court, on this day, to answer the charge. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Saturday afternoon, a very serious accident occurred to Mr. Forshaw, solicitor, of this town. That gentleman was riding a rather spirited horse along Church-street. when the animal suddenly shied. Mr. Forshaw pulled up sharply, when the horse reared, and, overbalancing itself, fell. Mr. Forshaw was seriously injured, having, as we understand, several of his ribs broken. He was immediately conveyed into a shop adjacent, and from thence to his own residence, where, of course, every attention was paid to him. TAE PRINCE OF WALES AT WATERLOO.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales visited the field of Water loo on the Bth instant, proceeding thither in a private carriage from Brussels. Afterwards he drove to the Groendael station, of the Great Luxembourg Railway, a distance of five miles, and proceeded by that line to Namur. where he arrived at half-past three o'clock. His Royal Highness slept at Namur, and the next day con tinued his journey towards Germany. The new route by the Great Luxembourg line, adopted by His Royal High_ ness, offers great attractions to the tourist proceeding to the Rhine and Germany, whether as regards the beauty of the scenery throughout from Brussels, the regularity of the service of the railway, built by English capital and worked under English management, or the directness of the course. PASSENGERS PER R.M.S. EUROPA, FROM BOSTON AND HALIFAX :—Mr. and Mrs. Harding and child, Mrs. J. P. Davis and two children, Miss Wheelwright, Mrs. N. Brown and daughter, Mr. J. K. Brick and lady, Mrs. Russell, Mr and Mrs. Samuel, Mr. and Mrs. Puccio, Mr. and Mrs. C. Homer, two children and servant, Mr. and Mrs. Daiaty, Miss A. Elsworthy and maid, Messrs. R. C. Smith, Sidney Smith, James R. Anderson, F. de Arrangoiz, J. Wallis, jun., G. Dent, Mrs. Doncourneane and son, Mr. and Mrs. A. Trouble, Messrs. A. Arkin, E. Payne, G. Nathan, A. Calvary, L. Blackstone, James Smith, W. Ross and brother, S Lawrence, C. Robertson, W. Wheelwright, Captain E. A. Emmerton, Messrs. M. Townley, J. Bette, Rev. G. W. Blodgen, Messrs. C. W, Rogers, J. P. Bigelow, Mr. and Mrs. Storell, Messrs. A. S. Newbury, J. C. Brown, jun., C. Griffiths, C. W. Griffiths, R. Dowling, Wm. Carrere, M. Jacobez, R. C. Pratt and two children, J. Taylor, D. M'Kay, Captain W. Clarke, Messrs. M. Thayer, jun., C. H. Gregory, J. Brooke, E. S. Sherman, Beinranrue, R. W. Tucker and sons, F. Passengham, Fehrenback, W. H. Gammon, F. Malhon, J. D. Sybrande, E. Coward, C. W. Baird, Dr. Baird, Rev. Dr. Mac Lean, Messrs. Roberts, J, Ford, J. Going, J. Syston, J. Duthie, Miss M. Duncan, Miss J. Andrews, Messrs. J. Winter, Groves, Drybury, J. P. Blake, C. Evans, Dr. A. D. Sinclair, Mr. Hinds, Mr. and Mrs. Bickers, Messrs. A. Hayter, J. Brown, C. H. Russell, Mrs. Jeffrey, Messrs. Jeffrey, Wilson, Mitchell, Deveber, J. Smith, Bremner, Rev. Mr. Steel and lady and three children, Messrs. C. Romans, Edward Prouse, J. Porteans, Mrs. Cullen, Miss Drybury, Messrs. Brooks, Labadino, Mr. and Mrs. Isaacs, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard, J. Graham, Mr. and Mrs. Shrimpton, Messrs. Hugens, Hernott, P. Robinson, J. Murphy, T. Kinny, J. Duffus, Miss Fawson, Mr. Coleman, Captain H. Stewart, RN Mr Kohl, Rev. Mr. Campbell, lady, two children' and servant, Messrs. Wright, and T. Richar3s- _ TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. INDIA. Intelligence has been received from India that the mutineers had been defeated, with the loss of twenty-six guns, outside the walls of Delhi. They had retired into Delhi, which was about to be assaulted immediately. Large numbers of the native troops in Bengal and the north-western provinces had deserted. General Anson died of cholera on the 27th ultimo. A statement in the Paris Presse, is to the effect that the insurrection in India has made further progress, and that 2,000 men had been killed by the excessive heat. ALEXANDRIA, SUNDAY, The mail steamer from Malta and Alexandria, with the Indian Mails, arrived here this day. VIENNA, SUNDAY. The mail steamer despatched from Alexandria on the arrival of the mail from Suez has arrived at Trieste. DREADFUL MURDER BY A LUNATIC. On Saturday morning Richard Empson, a keeper in the lunatic ward in St. Martin's workhouse, London, was murdered by J :hn Peon, a young man, aged 20, one of the lunatics codfined in the place. The circumstances are as follow On Thursday evening the accused, who is a person Of rather prepossessing appearance, accosted a policeman of the F division in the Strand, saying that he had been challenged by several persons with having been guilty of unnatural offences, and wished to get into prison. The constable said he could not take him into custody, when he said he would do something which shouid compel him, and, going up to the door of a tailor's shops he caught up a figure with a coat upon it, and walked away. The officer immediately stopped him, and took the property back, when no oharge of felony was preferred ; but as he seemed to be wanting in intellect, he was on that charge detained at the station-house. On Friday morning, he was taken to Bow-street Police-office, where Mr. Henry, considering from his manner that he was no doubt deranged, sent him to the workhouse. There he refused to do some slight work he was put to, and became so outrageous that it was deemed advisable to put a strait-jacket on him. Upon examination of the prisoner, at Marlborough-street, on Saturday, it was stated that two persons, George Dixon and the murdered man, Richard Empson, were appointed to take charge of and to watch the prisoner. About twelve o'clock in the day the prisoner asked for his bible and his crone. George Dixon went away to get the bible, when the prisoner tried to make his escape. The prisoner was brought back and secured with a straigt-jacket. The deceased Empson afterwards unloosed the fastenings, when bed-time came and went to bed in the same ward. The prisoner about five o'clock asked for some water The deceased requested Dixon to get some, and to loosen the other fastenings which secured the prisoner and pre vented him from doing mischief. Dixon went out to wash himself. In a few min tres he heard the cry of murder• He ran into the yard and found the nrisoner there. who rushed at him with a shovel, struck him four or five times, and would nave knocked him down, but he wrestled with the prisee.er, got away, and fastened the door of the ward• On looking about he found Empson lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Empson was not then dead, but died in a few minutes. The deceased had two wounds on the left temple, and a poker, with which the wounds were in dicted, was lying in the room. William Doering, a pauper, saw the prisoner struggling with the deceased, and after wards beat over the head with a poker. Some further evidence was given, and the prisoner was remanded till Thursday. The bill prom .ted by the directors of the Great Northern Railway to throw the cost of Redpath's frauds on the preference shareholders, has passed the committee of the House of Lords, to the astonishment of its opponentst It will thorefore be forthwith brought up for its third realing. MR. BAss, M.P., AND THE DIJOHY OF LANCASTER.— Some of our readers may remember that when a debate arose in the House of Commons on Mr. \Viso' s motion for a committee to inquire into the affairs of the Duchy of Lancaster, Mr. Bass made certain observations. He com plained of having to keep game on the Duchy lands rented by him in Staffordshire, for the benefit of the Crown and its favourites. For that complaint, made by Mr. Bass, as a member of parliament, he has been punished, we hear. Lord Waterpark, axe-bearer to the Duchy, bears not the axe in vain—that is, unless the rep - irt in circulation b e false. By virtue of his office of axe-bearer, he is vested with authority over the Duchy estates, and in the exercis e of it he writes (gossip says) a letter of rebuke to Mr. B ass. A correspondence ensues, and ends in the withdrawal from Mr. Bass of his shooting privileges over his own leaseholds, to the great depreciation of the property, leaseholders not being willing to hold under the bon plaisir of Lord Water park. Why has not the honourable member brought Lord Waterpark to the bar of the house for this unconstitutional proceeding ?—Leader, THE BISHOP OF RtroN preach :d a sermon on Thursday evening, at Hanover Chapel, Regent-street, to a numerous congregation, on behalf of the Society for the Aid and Benefit of Dressmakers and Milliners, and the Early Closing Association. The text chosen was 2nd Titus, verses 1 lth and P2th. In the latter portion of his sermon, his lordship, in a tone of earnestness, which showed how entirely he had the subject at heart, very ably demonstrated the inapolicy, as well as the utterly nuehristian character of that system of business which involves the treatment of the living, immortal agents, as so many senseless material machines. In the course of his remarks, the bishop con demned the conduct of those votaries of fashion to whose thoughtlessness in giving their orders much of the suffering endured by the dressmakers is to be traced. He implored them to be more considerate, and to encourage those esta , blishinents in which regard is paid to the comfort and welfare of the persons employed. A liberal collection was made after the sermon. ASSISTED EMIGRATION TO OTAGO.—A contract has only recently beea entered into with the firm of Messrs. James WAndrew and Co., of Danedin, Otago, .for the conveyanceof 2,000 adults, which, including their famillu, will be equal to nearly 3,000 persons ;. and Mr. James Adam, a member of the Provincial Connell, oas also been appointed by the Provincial Government to come over for th e purpose of furnishing catigrants to Otago with the nec essar y infor mition. Mr. Adam will commence his labou rs i n a very short time. His instruetions, we believe, are first to send out those parties, the cost of whoso passage is guaranteed by friends in Otagn ; and after thrise, who it is supposed will amount to about 400 adult! , ,,, have been accommodated, he is to take measures to obtain th e rema i n i ng num b er indis criminately, s , bot is strictly l a id d o w n in hi s i ns tr u ctions and all assisted emigrants must be able-bodied persons, whether men or women, and must satisfy him with respect to their cP.paleilitie9 and moral character. The whole of the passage m o p .ev is repayable within such a time as may be agreed u'; on on between the agent and the parties them selves, d will range, in all probability, from three to fo ur years, accordi n g to the n umber and ag e of the family. Tb'e classes most required in Otago are farm servants, especially females, and a few tradespeople. Capitalists, both large and small, if prepered for the requirements of colonial life, cad hardly fail to do well.-- , Altstrallan and Zealand Ga,:retee.