Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-22 00:00:00

ROBERT MULLINER, (Successor to GORST & Co.), (Late with Wm. Horne, London), :CARRIAGE AND HARNESS NI tNUFACTURER, 59 and ni, GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL, MANPPACTURZEL OF BVBRY DESCELIPTION OP FASE[IONABI.E CARRIAGES. Sole Agent for the Patent piorap!es,pr which a Prize Medal was awarded at the . treat Exhibition. A Great Variety of New and Fashionable CARRIAGES at.vays on ?low, which are ready for immediate use. Estimates given for 'ipairs. CARRI 'AGES TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. Geed Standing on moderate terms. mission. Catriages sold by Com- nerchantS supplied Wits Carriages for - ,:exportation on liberal ems. ectauntritat Daltes.—..bis Dan, At twelve o'clock, at the brokees office, 4, Lancas►ter-buildings, 100 barrels Lard OlL—John Davies and Co. jam' For particulars see advertisementp. AAUSEIIENT3, PUBLIC MEETINGS, Ecc. THIS DAY. RtITAL A mrRITIEEATRE—Dramatt PerformanCe—,7 IlmroLEa's GRA an CIRQUE VARIETR, Dale-street-7.30 and Z p.m Fzzzussox's ZALL—Ga!lery of Anatomy-11 a.m. to 10 p ROYAL Cor.asPaum—Geneml Entertainment—G.3o p.m. ZooLocazaz GARDENS—Grand and Varied Entertainments.. CU' or particulars 563 advertivoments. , , Et t p. r , 41, 3 / 4 , 9 4, fie MONDAY, JUNE 22, 18r)7. THE DAY'S NEWS. Sattrr3ay last was the anniversary of 'her Majesty's secession to the throne. She has r low completed a 'reign of twenty years, and he r virtues as a sovereign, a lady, and a mother, I ;'n cleaT her still more and more to all classes c her subjects Under such circumstances, the ds r in all parts of the United Kingdom was marked by demonstra tions of loyalty. Both in Lond on, and all the leading cities and towns of the em pire, bells pealed merrily, flags were hoisted, and in the shipping ports the vessels were dressed . out gaily , with variegated ermigns, and fens de jo is were fired from the several military forts. The Educational Conference, under the presi dency of His Royal Highness, co , mmences this day, and will continue its sittings fo r three days; when important papers on this trill y important topic will be read. It is -,gratify in g to see •such an illustrious personage as ti to Prince CoLeert taking the lead in such an irnl )ortant movement, and we sincerely hope that the leliberations of the Conference will be attended wit h beneficial results. The prosecution of the Brith )11 Bank Directors still engrosses public attention i. Two more, Mr. Alderman Kennedy, and Mr. Ai_ caeleod, are said to be arrested. It will be in the recollection of our readers that Mr. Apsley , Pellatt , late M.P. for the borough of Southwark, was o cie of the original directors of the Royal British Bank. It appears from his examinatioir in the Ban kruptey Court, that be was a party in some proceed ings in connection with the formation of the bank ; • but he left it in the year 1850, without taking an ything from it, and without sharing in the plunder . . We understand Mr. Pelates case has been coniddered by the law officers of the Crown ; and that,. after a full con sideration of all the cironmsta nces, it has been determined not to make any ch arge against that gentleman. The followir.g are• the latest par ticulars respecting the matter given in yesterday's Vbserner Mr. Alderman Kennedy is on his way to this country, and will arrive in. London to-day in cus tody of one of the assistants of Inspector Field. Bail is re.acty to be given to the required amount for Mr. Kennedy. Alderman Kennedy was cap tured in .the.south of Germany by Inspector Field. He had for some time past been suffering consider ably in health, and was about to leave the residence he had occupied for some time for one in Italy. The Alderman was, it is stated, considerably alarmed on being arrested. =lie was first taken to Wiesbaden, -where he was left by the officer and a marnber of the firm of Messrs. Linklater and Hackwood, in 'charge of an assistant, instructed to accompany him to London. Mr. H. D. Macleod, who was a director of the bank in the earliest stages, surrendered himself at Boulogne on Thursday morning last to REr. Hosgood, who held the warrant for his apprehension, and in whose company he arrived in town on the after noon of that day. Macleod was subsequently brought up ` ; before' Mr. Justice Erie, at Judges' chambete, when the. amount of his` bail was fixed at £8;000, _himself in. _e114,000, and ;two sureties o' 52,000. each. Mr. Humphrey Brown, it appears, succeeded for some time in evading being taken, by wearing green spectacles and a wig, which most effectually altered his personal appearance. No proceedings will bo taken against Mr. Apsley Pellatt; his connection . with the concern, and the acts which he performed having been doubtless influeneed.hy a feeling of the most perfect confi dence in the integrity of those with whom he was associated. -He was in no way btinefited by the fraudulent transactions •of the bank, and the Attorney-General feeling convinced that the prose cution of that gentlematt would be attended with failure, has decided not to take steps against him. Th e indict/needs against the parties are for having conspired frauchnlently to .obtain a charter from her Majesty's Privy Ocuneil, wed also for conspiring to obtain money by IFrauduliant representations. The trials will not, it is ex,pected, come off before November, and they will take pace in the Court of Qaeen's Bench. The bill. to enable the assignees of the bank to effect a connprornise between the shareholders and dsplasitortT, bas passed the House of Commons, and now awaits a second reading in the House of Lords. It is stated,, however, that Lord St. Leonards and some other of the law lords are opposed to the further pvogresa of the bill until the appeal from the deci.lion of the Master of the Rolls in Ireland, respectieig the liability of the shareholders of the .Tipperar . y bank, has been decided. A telegraph despatch areived.in. London last night, stating that Mr. -Camelron, the late manager of the bank, had been arrest ed at Lausane; and it .W 43 also reported that Mr. Esdale, the governor of the bank, had been captured. The Select Committee of the House cif Commons appointed to investigate the petition of Wlr. Newall respecting the Rochdale Election, met on Satur day; but as the proceedings were conducted with closed doors, we are nimble to communicate what took place. No doubt fteae_exclusion of members of the House will formo'a—subject of a keen debate te-night. The Committee .of the House of Commons ap pointed-to consider the petition of Mr. Bert:laces respecting the Ducky of Lancaster, have com menced their inquiry. The petitioner wa& the first witness examined. It is now rumoured in fashionable circles, that Prints Frederick William of Prussia and the Princess Royal will be married on the 18ih of January next, or thereabouts. At 17 years of age, the eldest daughter of the Queen will be a young bride, too young, there can be no doubt, but it is a matter with which we have no right to interfere. We understand that Mr. H. W. Schneider, M P for Norwich, has announced his hope that at an early day he may be enabled to brine the whole subject of poor-law reform, including an equitable adjustment of the mode of assessment, an enlarge ment of area from which the rates for relief c.‘f the poor are levied, and an entire abolition of the law of removal and settlement, before the House of Commons, in conjunction with an experienced member, who takes a deep interest in the question. The French elections are to take place during the early part of the present week, so that the electoral " fever" absorbs everythingin that country.. The extent to which this fever has gone proves the existence of a large democratic and constitutional feeling which the heavy pressu has failed to extinguish. A of imperial rule --circular of the Prefect of the Seine on the subject, adds another to a thousand proofs tlat freedom of election in France means freedom to vote for the government can didates, and nothing more. The Emperor is un derstood to be uneasy. The Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France, Eng. land, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey, met on Friday at the Ministry of Foreign Affiairs, for the purpose of signing the treaty for the frontier settlement in Bessarabia, and for regulating the question of the Isle of Serpents and of the Delta of the Danube. The Moniteur confirms the fact, teat a treaty of commerce was signed between France and Russia on the 14th of the present month. Our latest intelligence from Madrid informs us, that at Sastago disturbances to the cry of " Long live Charles VIA " had taken place, but no details of them are given. Republican proclamations had again been put in circulation in the capital, but they preduced little effect. More troops had been sent off to the Havannab; The guano dis covered in Estramadura is stated to be equal in quality to that of Peru. Growing complications about the Principalities will shortly compel attention to that quarter. The complaints in the French Moniteur of the arbitrary proceedings of Kaimakam Vogorides are flatly termed falsehoods by the Austrian government organ, while direct, news from the Danube de scribes the Kaimakams as openly refusing to be controlled by the European Commissioners, four of whom, representing France, Prussia, Sardinia, and Russia, have addressed a protest to the Porte against thir contemptuous treatment of their office. The Pope has pardoned two eminent persons the President of the Roman Constituent Assembly, and one of the Command€rs of the fortes of the late Roman Republic. _ The Arabia arrived here yesterday, with New York dates to the 10th inst. inclusive, 151 passen gers, and the largest amount of specie brough, over by one steamer this season, viz., 2,225,624 dollars. The news is interesting. Colonel Cum mings had received the appointment of Governor of Utah. The latest news from that territory is to the effect that great excitement prevailed there. The reports from previous sources of the growing tyranny of Brigham Young, and his settled hostility to the Gentiles, and &termination to resist the government are fully confirmed. The expected address of General William Walker was delivered in New Orleans on the 30th ult., in presence of a multitude of people, who appeared to sympathise deeply with the general's filibustering tendencies. Walker's speech is not long, but sharp—what there is of it. He reviews briefly the course of events in Nicaragua from the period he set his foot on its shores ; declares that he was elected president by the unanimous voice of the people, and but for American influence would have carried the day, and remained in power. He regrets that any one bearing the name of an Americam should have conducted himself as Captain Davis did, and speaks of that officer in terms of unmeasured condemnation; The prospects of the coming campaign —for the General promises to return, feeling it his duty to do so—are looked upon as peculiarly prom ising, and all patriots .who love their country, are affectionately desired to buckle on their armour, join his standard, and renew the struggle for what the General terms " Americanization of Central America." The New York papers contain the par ticulars of the burning of the steamer Louisanain the Gulf of Mexico. The event occurred some six of eight miles southward of _Galveston, Texas, the fire h aving broke out about one o'ciock on the morning of May 31. There were fifty or sixty passengers on board, besides the crew, the greater number of wbtom perished. The .fire being amid-ships, all communication between the forward and after part of tthe ship was cut off, and the teller-ropes being burnt, she was entirely unmanagable, although the en, , tines contrived to run. for some time. Among tipa se who perished was Colonel Bainbridge, of the United States army. The Hon. William B. Prestob, of Virginia, had been appointed, by about a dozen of irailroad companies, to proceed on a mission to E ngland to negotiate with the commander of the Great Eastern, and to secure, if possible, her first trip a cross the Atlantic to the port of Norfolk. By the Ir ,st news from Mexico we learn that the presi denti. it election, though not determined, was pro gressing favourably for General Comonfort. This is an encouraging omen for the future peace and prospt tray of the republic. It was a matter of extreme doubt whether the people of Mexico were sufficiently enlightened, and sufficiently indepen dent of the priesthood, to .I'e-elect to the presi dency a man whose chief aim, has been to establish the sup: remany of the state over the church, and to break 'down that exorbitant and unwholesome power v thich the latter has nowhere more arro gantly e xercised than in the Mexican Republic. The cent est between President Comonfort and the Mexican church has been long and severe. THE year . 1857 will witness'New Houses of , Parliament in England, France, and Belgium. ' According to the latest accounts from Belgium, • the king, exercising at once his wisdom and his prerogative, has changed the prorogation into a dissolution- The obnoxious Charitable Bequests Bill will be dropped, and then a serious national danger will be averted. It will be very instructive to Europe, and , especially to OJI who are interested in the success of constitu tisonal government, to watch the elections in Belgium, a country in which the suffrage is nearly univeral, and given by ballot. Not less instructive and interesting, though in a different way, will be the French elections, where nine and a half millions of electors will be invited to go through the form of voting for men almost dictated to them by the Government—that is, by the Emperor. A short time since it appeared as if the mass of the people meant to abstain from voting, being indifferent to the senseless formality of an appearance behind which there was nothing real. If we may trust later accounts, more interest is taken in the coming event ; lists of opposition candidates are being prepared.; and among the names will appear that of General CAVAIGNAC, as one of the members for the metropolis ; and other liberals will also appear in other parts of the country, Even this slight movement is better and more hopeful than absolute stagnation and complete indifference. But the question occurs, what can they do, even :supposing them returned, in opposition to Government Candidates, in a legislative body where no free discussion is allowed, no popular petitions are received, and no press records the proceedings ? We, in England, cannot regard the future of France without the gravest apprehension. We\can harbour no ill wishes for the French nation or the Emperor. The prosperity of the two nations is intimately connected. England is closely linked to France as to America, and though we should safely ride out the storm as we have done before, yet a servile or a civil war in the United states, and another r evolution in France, would be powerfully felt in England. Every year the interests and prosperity" of nations are becoming THE NniTIIMIN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, iitIONDAY, JUNE 22. 1857, closer, and more dependent one upon another. We have the strongest reasons for wishing sve2: l to France. NAPOLEON 111. is the first French sovereign who has ever heartily thrown himself into an English Alliance. He deserves well of Europe and of England for the faithful and honourable fulfillment of his public engagements. But when we look at his home Government — his rule of France—we are not without the greatest fears. It is impossible that the existing state of things in France can be perpetuated, A whole nation gagged and dragooned by one man cannot always last. We can imagine reasons for excessive rigour at the beginning of a career, when the reins of power had to be seized and held by a strong hand, supposing it true that France had to be saved, and society protected against anarchy. But this preliminary work has not always to be done; repression is not to be always the order of the day ; and the settle ment of a dynasty and the form of a government are not to be the eternal questions proposed to France and Europe expected and expects that when chaos and anarchy were checked, the bonds of a temporary despotism would be relaxed, and a wise and moderate liberty would be granted to the nation —or, at the very least, that preparation would be made for such an improved state of things. Not a glimpse of this is yet visible. The Emperor is still the government and the nation. lle not only reigns, but rules, and is the sole ruler. This is very perilous to the Emporor himself; for though in the way, he may of course get credited for the good, he may also be blamed for the evil. a nation. In our own country, when anything is seriously wrong, a Ministry is displaced, hut the Sovereign is sacred and above criticism. Not so the French Emperor. By ruling despotically instead of constitutionally, through responsible Ministers, he makes himself personally account able, for whatever results. The present General Election shows France just as remote from freedom as the last, after six years of military rule. The Emperor politely dictates candidates to the nation ; they are not capable of choosing for themselves ; as the dangerous power of originating laws is withheld within the Legis lative Chamber, so the dangerous power of initiating or proposing candidates is withheld from the public outside. It is proposed by the Emperor that, with a few exceptions, the entire of the lats Legislative Body should be re-elected. We cannot imagine such a thing proposed in England or Belgium, the near neighbour of France. Not even in Spain or in Italy would it be dared. Now the only justification of the coup d'etat, of setting up the Empire, and suspending the liberties of the French nation, is the gradual restoration of those liberties as soon as this may be deemed safe and expedient. A momentous, rigorous, unrelaxing despotism will neither justify the Empire, nor permanently attach the French people to the Bonaparte dynasty. Having no to the Emperor, and having the heartiest good-will to the nation, we see the only safety fur both is the frank and wise concession of a regulated freedom, as the people are able to bear it and use it. This day and to-morrow the French elections will take place; and though probably a few oppo sition Liberal candidates may be returned, yet the great body will obey the word of command as.they do in the 'army, and delegates will be sent up according to the riod and beck of one who is the military as well as the civil chief of France—lmperador as well as Emperor. WE-have not, in general, much faith in the instrumentality of public meetings and large associations of hasty formation and undefined aims, where the promotion of purely commercial objects is concerned. The Manchester Cotton Supply Association has, however, narrowed its scheme of operation to the limits within which such an organisation may advantageously work. Its policy may be considered as defined by the tone of the very important meeting which was held in the Manchester Town-hail on Friday, and of which -we published a report. The members of the Association do not mean to be growers of cotton, or speculators in land in their collective capacity.; ~they do not propose even to invite others to do-so, or in any way to irtter fere with the ordinary movements of private enterprise and commercial progress. Their operations will be confined , merely to the collecting and disseminating of information on a larger and more general scale than private effort could easily at.tain ; and thus, by opening up the question fully ;, 1 :o the commercial world= removing some of the obstacles which retarded at the very threshold, the entrance of mercantile speculation and energy into new ground. 'Reduced thus into shape, and bounded by reasonable limits, the newly-formed Association must meet with general approval, and even from those who may still entertain doubts of any practical issue to its labours, can hardly encounter any objection. The pressing character of the difficulty which offers itself in regard- to the supply of cotton, must render men cautious in obtruding objections founded upon theoretic and abstract rules; where any effort likely to rerwhe any obstacle, and lead to any degree of success, is undertaken by agents so well qualified to conduct safely a great public organisation the commercial and manufacturing classes of Aanchester. We may, therefore, safely hope for ml - ultimate advantage arising from the present movement, which Manchester has inaugurated; and may express our conviction that the more its objects are limited and defined, the greater its chances of successful labour. Many difficulties it will have to get over, and some temptations it will have carefully to avoid. In the singularly able speech deli vered by Lord STANLEY, it was emphatically recommended that the special object for which the Association has been called into existence should be kept clearly seperated from any questions of an exclusively political character, From the manner in whieh that speech, and some others delivered in Liverpool as well as in Manchester, were received, it may be concluded that the operations of the Association will be mainly, if not alto gether, directed for the present to British India. Against the temptation of Indian politics, Lord STANLEY delivered a valuable warning. We earnestly hope that no object, however desirable in itself, no scheme of improvement or reform, however philanthropic and deserving of support by other agencies, will withdraw this Association from the sphere of labour in which it can war-k with advantage to this and other countries, and beyond which its strength would be wasted, its own object missed, and none other attained or even served. The Association will also have to guard against entering into too many subjects, even where its immediate object seems to be concerned. Every one who fancies he has discovered a new Cotton Country will, of course, expect the Asscciation to turn its attention to his scheme in preference to all others. Nothing short of exploring expeditions to every country in the world where an Englishman has ever lived, would satisfy the endless variety of demands which new projects will every day make upon the Manchester Association. The eyes and ears of that body must not, of course, be closed against any reasonable suggestion, but the danger of allowing its means of operation to run to waste over too vast and varied a surface must be carefully shunned. As much as possible, one subject at a time, until it be finished one way or the other, must be kept in view The manufacturing of silk, or the rearing of the vine in the colonies of Great Britain, are important questions of themselves, but they are not involved in the immediate object now before the public, and should not be suffered to embarrass it. The Association must also remember that the undertaking it has commenced must not hope to rest on large popular support. However important the question, and imminent the danger in the eyes of commercial men, it cannot be hoped that very much of popular interest will be stirred up. The appliances by which Manchester carried its corn law victories cannot be called into operation to aid in the development of new cotton fields. One great advantage this scheme possesses over most undertakings of a national character, is to be found in the fact that the immediate personal interest of every man actively engaged in it is concerned, and it therefore has a larger share of that superiority which private enterprise in such a project must possess over the more easily exhausted and less defined efforts of an aggregate public body. We can hardly pass over this subject without a distinct allusion to the speech delivered by Lord STANLEY, at the Manchester meeting. It was one of the very ablest of the many able speeches delivered by that rising young states man within the last few years. It evidenced a full and close acquaintance with its subject, and was delivered in the hearing of men who could not be deceived by any theoretic and doctrinaire declamation, or by the hastily -crammed " facts" of an amateur legislator. It was exact as well as comprehensive, and had that clearness of arrangement and detail which can only be given by one who is a thorough master of the question he deals with. It afforded another of the many proofs Lord STANLEY'S public carreer so far has given, that as CLIVE led armies to victory without the training of a military school, and SPINOLA became extemporaneously a master of strategy, it is possible for a man who has not passed his youth in a counting-house to become a great commercial statesman. As we stated on Friday, the Oaths' Bill, the ostensible object of which is to admit Jews into Parliament, passed through Com mittee on Monday night, and as several notices of amendment were given, the end and aim of which were to defeat the measure, there was a strong muster of flleinbers, and a keen and spirited debate. Mr. DEAsY appeared first as the champion of the Roman Catholic party, and, urged• upon the House, with a sort of forensic eloquence, an amendment which sought to place Protestant and Roman Catholic members on the same footing., by taking the same oath. This Lord PALMERSTON resisted, on the ground that it would have the effect of defeating the entire measure. But this was a consideration which neither Mr. DEASY nor his supporters thought or cared about. Their sole aim appears to have been "to improve the occasion" for the special advantage of the Gatholic members, totally regardless of any consequences to the Bill before the House. This move of the Roman Catholic members not tied to the Cabinet, met but little sympathy from the House. The discUssion on the amendment was short, and the division dicisive ; so much ,so, it was perfectly evident that the House viewed Mr. DEASY'S side-wind opposition as sinister in its character, seeing: that the knowledge that it would be brought forward emboldened the real opponents of the Bill to make their determined effort to upset the measure, by retaining the very form of oath which the Government sought to abolish. We are not going to argue the desirability of altering the form of oath taken by Roman Catholic members of the House of Commons. While we admit that in some respect that oath should be less offensive in its character, we feel that the attempt to improve,it, which Mr. DF,Asy and his supporters made on Monday nijht, was ill-timed. Indeed, Lord PALMERSTON told them as much, when he declared that if they carried their amendment, the only result would be the I defeat of the Bill, and with it, of course, their own motion—so that neither Jews nor Catholics could gain anything by the movement of Messrs. DEASY and Co. The House, no matter how they may regard the wording of the oath adminis tered to Catholic members, viewed the matter in the same light as the Premier, and by a majority of 290 decided that the present was by no means a desirable or fitting opportunity for bringing forward plans of improvement thereon. After Mr. DEASY had been silenced by the vote in question, Sir FREDERICK LIES IGER redeemed his promise and introduced an amend ment, sanctioning the ancient formula of intolerance, by retaining in the oath, " On the true faith of a Christian." This, in other words, was to retain, in its most objectionable form, the very words which have for years hindered Baron ROTHSCH ILD from taking his seat as member for the city of London. It raised the question whether the Jews, who are now eligible to fill every civil and municipal office, and have risen in many instances to hig h social distinction and honour, are to be for ever excluded from Parliament, by the tender of an oath which they who administer it know full well cannot be taken. In opening the debate on his amendment, it was quite remarkable that he advanced no new argument to support the bigoted faction of which he was the leader ; and had he talked ten times as long as he did, it was evident that all his ideas were quite threadbare, and had been often and often refuted within the very walls wherein he then stood. Both Sir FREDERICK THESIGER and his quondam friend, Mr. JOSEPH NAPIER, seemed to think that the most forcible and cogent reason which could be advanced against the measure of Jewish Emancipation was the fact that the business of the House of Commons opened with an invocation to the Deity to bless the labours of Parliament, and that it was impossible that a Jew could be permitted to mingle in the supplications of a Christian assembly. He might, as Lord Mayor of London, go in state to St. Paul's, and, with the judges of the land, join in the services of the Liturgy of the Church, but to allow him to attend and listen to the Rev. Mr. GARDINER, the Chaplain of the House of Commons, offering up his daily prayers of sacrifice and thanksgiving, was certainly more than the pious principles of SPOONER, NEWDEGATE, and Company could endure. Passing by the oft-refuted fallacies urged by Mr WARREN, we come to the speech of Sir JOHN PAKINGTON. On former occasions he had resisted Jewish emancipation ; on Monday night he recanted that political error, and took his stand on the side of civil and religious liberty. Glad to find that the cause had gained a convert, who , begins to be somewhat popular on account of his exer tions in the cause of education, it was satis factory to hear his vindication of the measure ; but we do not coincide with the Right Hon. Baronet when he said that if the admission of Jews into Parliament would unchristianise Parliament, it was already unchristianised by the number of Unitarians amongst its members. This was a reason unjustified by fact; and we think that the Right Honourable Member fo r Droitwich might have selected a much m ore conclusive and less offensive proof for the arguments he was advancing. Unitarians, it is true, hold certain doctrines. They' are in unison with true morality; and although they may differ from other sections of the Protestant community, they are no less Christian in their character. There was an entire absence -of reason put forward by the Opposition to show that Baron ROTHSCHILD'S admission to Parliament could or would influence the decision of the Legislature either one way or another. He is more a representa tive of a great body of monetary and commercial electors, who regard him as the champion of their order, and who desire to see their interests watched, and their views advocated on all great questions of finance, more than any thing else. It may be that the constituency of London, who have so often elected him, are chagrined at the continued exclusion of their representative. The amend:nent of Sir FREDERICK TIIESIGER was rejected by a majority of 140, in a House of 543, the Speaker included. The character of the debate, and the overwhelming majority by which the main Principle of the Bill was affirmed, must convince the Lords that opposition on their part must prove unavailing ; and that should the "Right Reverend Fathers in GOD" lend their aid to procrastinate the settlement of this much-vexed question, they will only be atallenging a storm of public indig nation, and affoydina a just pretext for the Minister of the day to swamp the Peers in order to carry by means of such a political Coup d'etat this important measure. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. [By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.] FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE 21. The electoorations com mence d t o -d ay i n the moc:,', perfect order, and with the pacific `..ninatir, n which should always characterise an election. The voting will reopen to-morrow until five o'clock. ROYAL BRITISH BANK, Five Directors of the Royal British Bank, and Cameron, the Manager, are now in custody, or out on bail. A CHEAP RAILWAY FOR COTTON COUNTRIES.—We have had our attention directed to a model of a cheap and easily-constructed tram xay, of peculiar utility in the con veyance of loads of cotton by bullocks through the thick grass and vegetation which renders conveyance so difficult across the surface of a tropical country. A more simple and, at the same time, effective mode of carriage cannot easily be conceived. It consists merely of a single or double line, made by laying the trunks of trees half sunk in the earth, and parallel to each other. The trunks are smoothed hastily of branches, and rough knots, and pro jntions, and then imbedded in the earth, so-that-half of each rises above the surface. The car to run upon this simple tramway is an ordinary flat cart, laid upon a single roller, whose extremities are bevelled off where they lie upon the trams already described. Those trams are suffi ciently distant from each other to allow the bullocks harnessed to the car to walk between them. The car rolls smoothly along the line, and thus a heavy load of cotton is easily and quickly conveyed across a surface where the vegetation of grass and underwood is sometimes so dense, and the gronnd so soft, that the 'Airlocks sink above their knees at ev:ry step, and without such facilities as this plan affords, could scateciy drag their burden along. This method is adopted, we are informed, in parts of the West Indies, and is found to be as efficacious as cheap and ready. NUISANCE: AT BOOTLE.—The case of the Bootle Local Health Committee against the Earl of Derby, for a nuisance arising upon laud belonging to his lordship at Bootle, came on for hearing in the Coanty Magislates' Court, before Meessrs. Thcakstone and Pre,ton, on Satur day. Mr. Conway, barrister, appeared on behalf of the plaintiffa, and Mr. Barrow represented the Earl of Derby. Several witnesses having been heard, the magistrates made an order, against the defendant, to have the nuisance abated. A BEGGING IMPOSTOR —The public should be on their guard against the tricks of impostors, who have taken of late to a somewhat new dodge—calling at respectable houses, and soliciting subscriptions in aid of shopkeepers whom they name, and whom they represent to be in urgent distress. A few days since, a respectable shopkeeper, in Myrtle-street, happening to be out or town for a short time with his family, and during his absence some parson went round to a numbsr of houses in the vicinity, where the shopkeeper was well known, representing him as hav ing suddenly fallen into deep distress, and handing a sub scription list on his behalf. In many cases subscriptions were obtained—a clergyman of the Established Church giving a sovereign—and it was only when some one not so credulous took occasion to call personally at the shop, the fraud was discovered. It is not known in how namy instances or under how many names this system has been tried, In the case we have mentioned the detectives have been put upon the alert, and the parties concerned in the fraud will, before long, in all probability, be discovered. A GREAT FEITIVE MEETING AT UPTON.—On the even ing of Thursday last, a most delightful and harmonious meeting was held at Molyneux Hotel, Upton, or, the occa sion of the completion of Upton Hall, which, in future, is to be the residence of William Inman, Esq., the eminent merchant of this town, and the agent for the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steam-ship Company. There were upwards of 13) persons present, including the ersons employed in the establishment, with th e i r wivesand fiends. A most excellent and substantial dinner was provided by the host of the hotel, and after the cr ea t ure comforts had been duly discussed, the owner of th e hall, who gave the entertainment, took the chair. The usual loyal toasts were drank and responded to with great. enthusiasm, after which the health of Mr. William Inman was proposed, and most enthusiastically responded to by the whole company. The applause, by which he was received, hav ing in some degree subsided, Mr. W. Inman proceeded to return thanks, and in the course of the observations he made, he expressed the great satisfaction he felt at meet ing such a company, for the condition ot whom he felt the greatest interest, and added, that of all the parties he had ever attended, he had never found persons conduct them selves more orderly. In conclusion, he proposed the health of the Architects and Contractors of the building, and passed a high eulogy on them for the m , naer in which they had earned out their works. Mr. Cunningham was the architect, and Mr. Walker the contractor for the works, and for the creditable manner in which they had carried out their contract they received the warmest thanks. A most delightful and harmonious evening was spell', and the company did not separate until a 1 ne hour. THE AMPHITLIEATRE.—Our advertising columns an nounce a combination of talent in this theatre such as is rarely to be seen in the provinces. To-night commences the engagement of Mr. B. Webster, Mr. W r i g h t, an d Mr. Paul Bedford—performers who have never before appeared together in our theatre. Each of these performers may he described as chief and inimitable in his own line. Mr. 13, Webster, if not the first man of genius on the English boards at present, is perhaps the most accomplished artist —one who achieves, by careful study and elaborate art, that power over an audience, and that identification with the part he assumes, which usually can only be achieved by the highest combination of genius and acquirement. Every part which Mr. Webster assumes is a perfect study and work of art. Mr. Wright is unrivalled in broad humour, and the display of exaggerated and grotesque characteris' ica, alike defying either criticism or • gravity. Mr. Paul Bedford is broad and grotesque, too, but of a 'totally different style—less of the peculiar whimsical drollery of Cockney humour, and more of that stron.;, downright b u r g charac ter, which is c .moron in every country and under every exterior. The engleemeet of these actors will. last twelve nights. Among the pieces to be performed this week—not to mention the " screaming" Adelphi farces which will close 'each night's entertainment—will be Janet Pride, and T"artec. In the former Mr. Webster appeared in Liverpool about a year ago, but on the present occasion, he will have Mr. Wright, and Mr. Bedford, to give addi tional effect, to his singulary powerful impersonation. His Tareaffe, one of the most finished and perfect studios of acting, nog to be seen on any stage, i s a l so, already known PREPARI NG FOR A DIVO RCE. - -"BURNING" AF FECTION . to the public of Liverpool. lionsON's CHOICE "—A day or two ago, a young fel low w h o gave his name as Robert Hobson, and said he lived some place iu Kirkdale, applied to Mr. Mansfield, at the Police Court, fur a warrant to arrest his wife, on the following strange charge; He 'was dressed in a white linen jacket, and spoke in an unsophisticated sort of way. He said, sir, I am 21 years ot age, and my wife is 45. (Some one, so t to voce: ;',he is Hobsou'e choice.) ' Mr. Mansfield : Well, whet of that ? Mr. Robson : Why, I was led away to marry her Mr. Mansfield : And do you want me to in i m a r y yr,ti ? EtObSOil : I'm afraid you can ' t t do that, sir. Mr. Mansfield :hoam I too, ' Hob - soh: But ' couldint you g ive me a warrantrant to arrest her ?.. Mr. Mans field : For what ? Hobson : Why, she flung a' bottle of vitriol over me and burnt all my clothes, and I'm obliged to wear these now; it was aimed at my. facei.htitzdfdn't hit me there. Mr, Mare-field : What sees it for ?. Hob son : Why, it loppeneo this way. I lived with her in London as a servadi pail through boyish foolishness I was induced to marry her, but aloe is altogether too old, and from the time we were mariled, she has been continually beating me. ( j eaugAlla) At last I was obliged to run away from her, as a. couichet stand any longer. (Laugh ter.) She followed me dawn here and flung the vitriol aver me. Mr, Mae s ti s i 'I: Did you do any.!Ulng to proyoke her ? Hobson : It's all through a piece of,isalnllsY, be cause of a l a d y t h at ' s a goad deal younger dials! . shd is. Mr. Mansfield : I thoeght there was a lady in the ease— • ere you living with the other lady ? Hobson : Oh, yep Mr. Mansfield :As man and wife ? Hobson : Yes sir, I" ii to say it. Mr. Mansfi ld : And that's the reason she threw the vitriol over you ? Hobson : That's the, reason; she says ; and it you don't give me a warrant to arrest her, she'l kill me altogether. Mr. Mansfield : Take a summons in the usual way. Mr. Hobson, having no other "choice, teak the advice, and probably the burning affection of his " old lady," will get a cooling some of these days.