Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-18 00:00:00

Conunerrfat Spaim—Vbfg ;Bar. At one o'clock, at the brokers' office, 16. Exchange-bnild'ngs, 2105 barrels American Tar.-1. H. Rayner and Co. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 10, Chapel-stret, 220 barrels tßosio.—A R.Co: and Co. ttr For particulars seal advertisements. AMUSEMENTS, PUBLAC MEETINGS, &c. THIS DAY. RoTAr. Am PIIITHIATILE — Dramatie Performance-7 p.m. ST. Gao aua's HALL—Organ Performances-3 p.m. HoTAI. CoLoss sux —General Entertainment—ö.so p.m. ZooLoarcar. GARDENS—Grand and Varied Entertainmenta. CLATTON HALL, Clayton-square —Gordon Cumming-8 p.m. ALLEOP'S CRYSTAL PALACE, Lime-street-10 a.m. to 10 p.m. 1/V" For particulars see advertisements. i e kortern ime SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1857. THE DAYS' NEWS. In the House of Lords last night Lord Brougham made a very energetic attack on the conduct of the French government, in sanctioning the principles of a company which has just been started for the importation of African negroes into the French West India Islands. The noble lord was of opinion that the object of the scheme was the revival of the slave trade, and he was much astonished at the Emperor Napoleon lending his name to such a measure. He therefore moved that the House adopt a petition to her Majesty, praying that she would use all her influence to discountenance a project having a tendency, directly or indirectly, to encourage slavery. Earl Granville did not oppose the motion, though he was of opinion that the scheme of the French company would prove a total failure, and the motion was ultimately agreed to. In the House of Commons, the morning sitting was taken up in the discussion of the clauses of the Lunatics (Scotland) Bill, in committee. Some amendments having been inserted, and some new clauses added, the bill passed the stage. The Burial Acts Amendment Bill also passed through commit tee. At the evening sitting, a new writ was ordered to be issued for Woodstock, in the room of the Mar ' quis of Bland ford, elevated to the Peerage through the death of the Duke of Marlborough. Sir Erskine Perry gave notice that on an early day next session he should move a resolution to the effect that the recent events in India rendered it expedient that the government of India should be transferred from the East India Company to the responsible ministers of the Crown. Mr. Hors man, Chairman of the Bath Election Committee, was called to task for having adjourned the meet ing of the committee, for the purpose of attending the meeting of members of Parliament, held on Thursday, on the Oath's Bill. We have a week's later news from the United States, by the arrival of the Persia, which passed the landing -stage about half-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon. The news is not of much importance. We regret to announce the sudden death of the Hon. Mr. Marcy, late Secretary of State of the United States. He expired on Satur• day afternoon, the 4th inst., at his residence near Albany. His death was owing to disease of the heart. He was 72 years of age. Independence day was celebrated throughout the Union on the 4th, with the usual eclat. In New York and else where, there was a large amount of rioting, but the loss of life was not greater than usual at such rows. In New York city there.was only eight men killed and about one hundred wounded. Quiet had' been restored when the Persia took her de - parture. We supply our readers with a full epitome of the news from the West Indies and the South Pacific Ocean, just arrived. The steamer Orinoco lost 27 of her crew by yellow fever, on the run to South ampton. At the Island of St. Thomas yellow fever was prevalent, and several of the crew of the Royal Mail steamer had died. The island of Jamaica continued healthy, but business was slack. Abun dant rains had fallen, and the canes promised well for next year. At Barbadoes the weather had continued favourable for reaping, and very little sugar remained to be made. The health of the island was good. The political news from the other islands does not call for comment. From Peru we learn that Vivanco still held out at Arequipa, but was surrounded by 3,000 troops. A collision was soon expected, with the chances against Vivanco. The Chilian government was about raising a loan of four millions of dollars, to complete the Valparaiso aad Santiago Railroad. The Santiago and Tacna Railroad advanced rapidly. The Valparaiso Floating dock had received some vessels, several of them of 700 tons register. A treaty had been concluded in Lima, having for its object the protection of the Chincha, Islands, Lobos and others, by an armed force of the English and French for the term of ten years, so that they have actual possession of them ; but the Peruvian Government has the entire control and disposal of the guano as heretofore. Other nations are entitled to enter into the protectorate of the islands. This is a death-blow to the revolutions present and to come. The reason for giving the English and French the preference are, that they are the heaviest Peruvian bondholders, and this is a kind of collateral security for their payment. Our local and domestic news is of no intereet or importance this morning. Prince Napoleon was lionising in Liverpool yesterday. He visited the Town Hall, St. George's Hall, and the Aintree races, and has set sail in his yacht for Ireland. Yesterday, there was a grand review at Aldershot, the Queen, the Court, and all the notabilities being present. The celebrated French lyric poet, Beranger, died in Paris on Thursday afternoon. That we were quite justified in considering the insurrectionary movements in Spain as of greater importance than the Government telegraphs from Madrid ascribed to them, appears evident from the number of persons stated officially to have been arrested at Madrid alone. This number amounts to 1,549. Either serious dangers are still hanging over the Spanish Government, or that Government is mad. Our Paris intelligence speaks of the presence in that city of the Prince of Syracuse, brother of the King of Naples, to whom the disinterested desire is ascribed of effecting a reconciliation between his Royal brother and the Emperor of the French. If a Paris rumour, mentioned as such by a Brussels paper, may be believed, the complaint of the Italian governments, referred to a few days ago, respecting the shelter given to Mazzini in England, has already been laid before Lord Pal merston by the Tuscan representative, and has, as was to be expected, been met with a simple reference to the English law. Intelligence from the Christian provinces of Turkey is unsatisfactory. In Bosnia the hard ships of the Christians do not appear to have been relieved, and their distress is great. An underhand fermentation is said to exist, while murders and crimes are numerous. The trial of a Pacha for the murder of a B u l garian girl at Varna, and his ac quittal, will be remembered by the reader. This Pacha : Sami Pacha by name, has been named to the military command in Bosnia—a nomination that does not testify to the t act o f the Porte, for the details of the Varna case have not been for gotten by the Christian subjects of Turkey, and the presence of Sarni Packs will scarcely improve the present state of mind of the inhabitants of Bosnia. Unless a general reduction of taxation, and a more equitable distribution of the same, shall be effected in this and neighbouring pro vinces, the Porte must shortly expect to meet with mischief. General Farina, Roman Minister of War, has died of apoplexy, and one of his former colleagues, the late Mi n i ster o f Fi nance, has likew i se expired at Ancona. The Bank Returns of last night are not so favourable as had been expected ; still there is an increase of £75,304 in the bullion in the bank, the amount being £11,592,160. The returns show a decrease of £4,755,628 in public depositr, £1,260,075 in other deposits. MR. ROEBUCK brought forward a most important motion in the House of Commons, on Thursday night—nothing less than a vote of censure against the Government, for its conduct regarding the war with Persia. Considering that we are again plunged into a war with China, and that the state of affairsin India are truly alarming, it was to be expected that the Honourable Member for Sheffield would fail to induce the House to affirm his resolution, which set forth that the conduct of the Government in the Persian war tends to weaken the authority of the House, and to dispense with its constitu tional control over the finances of the country, and renders it necessary for the House to express its strong reprobation of such a course :of proceeding. The debate which ensued upon the motion was tame in the extreme, and were it not that Lord PA.LMERSTON is one of the most popular Premiers which ever held the reins of Government in time of war, the division would, no doubt, have shown a totally different result, and the majority been converted into a minority. Let us inquire whether the conduct of Government, as far as it has reference to hostilities with Persia, merited the condemna tion which Mr. ROEBUCK'S motion set forth. It is one of the conditions of the British consti tution, that no war can be carried on with any foreign power, except by and with the know ledge and consent of Parliament. It is true that the Sovereign has the exclusive power of declaring war, but the power of granting the means of carrying on hostilities rests exclusively with the House of Commons. Once the supplies are stopped, there is an end to campaigning in an enemy's country. There is wisdom in such an arrangement. The taxation of the country, which goes to support our naval and military forces, is taken from the pockets of the people at large. It is their money, and not that of the Government, for the time being. It should not, therefore, be squandered in this or that project without their concurrence. Hence the national purse-strings have for a long series of years been placed under the entire con trol of the people's representatives—the House of Commons. And so jealous is the House of is prerogative in financial matters, that the House of Lords are not permitted to alter or amend any Money Bill introduced by the Govern ment of the day. Were it otherwise, there would be a door open for much Government jobbing and corruption; and foreign diplomatists might find means for carrying out political deeigns which would bring about results of a disastrous character to this country. Again, there cannot be a question that the fact of any Government assuming to itself the nowe.r tf declar;ns and carrying on war without the knowledge and sanction of Parliament is abrogating one of the foremost principles of the British Constitution, and is a direct attempt to rob the House of Commons of one of the most important powers and privileges of which it is possessed. On these grounds alone there was enough to justify the House of Commons expressing its dissatis faction with the course adopted by the Govern ment in carrying on a series of warlike engage ments in Persia. But there was another and a very significant idea put forth by Mr. ROEBUCK to show that Lord PALMERSTON and his colleagues have been culpable in the movements upon Persia—namely, that by withdrawing the forces from India to serve in the expedition against Persia, we have only hastened " the period of the mutiny in India. Should this actually have been so, no language could be too strong to denounce a governmental policy which has resulted in a deluge of human blood, and an expenditure of money which will bear heavily upon the pfesent generation and and upon generations yet unborn. The Chan cellor of the Exchequer was the great apologist of the Government, but, as he was told by Mr. WALPOLE, he offered a very lame reply to the charges against the Government. Lord JOHN RUSSELL also objected to the proceedings of the Ministry in the matter. From what his lordship said, the Persian affair was a matter much to be deplored, showing as it does that, after all, Persia was more sinned against than sinning. The result of the debate was a majority of 314 in favour of government, the resolution of Mr. ROEBUCK finding only thirty-eight supporters. and Ministers 352. We are glad that Mr. ROEBUCK brought forward the subject, and that there was a tacit understanding that the course adopted by the Government should not be drawn into a prece dent. The people of the United Kingdom will not tolerate Lord PALMERSTON'S idea that the Government has a right to declare war and to conclude peace independent of Parliament. The doctrine is mischievous in the extreme, and although he may vaunt about what he has done in Persia, we must tell him that the privilege of the House of Commons controlling the conduct of Government through the finances must and shall be maintained. Altogether the debate tells better for the minority, and still less for the moral courage of the House, when it succumbed to the Treasury Whip and voted against its own powers and prerogatives. AT last, a movement is about being made on behalf of Mr. JAMES M'DONALD, amongst a few influential gentlemen—his friends. This should have been done long since, However, better late than never. Mr. M‘DoNALD's ante. cedents are well known. Some five-and-twenty years ago, he was a common policeman. Then we find him rising step by step, (the best proof of good conduct) until he reached the highest office but one in the Liverpool Constabulary, in which service he was most severely injured. Then we find him in the important situation of manager for one of the Water Companies. In that position he displayed considerable engineer ing skill; and to him, we believe, the people of Liverpool are indebted for our truly invaluable and scientific method of supplying water for the extinguishing of fires. But Mr. INI‘DoNALD was guilty of a grave offence against the established usages of society. In common parlance, he was a fool—so very foolish that he was honest; and for this folly he has been made to suffer. Some ten years ago, when the Pike scheme was obtruded on the consideration of the authorities, Mr. M‘DoNALD ventured to tell them that there was an abundance of good spring water at their own doors, infinitely superior in quality to any they could procure from Rivington ; the quantity unlimited, and the cost, compared with that of the Pike, nil. Mr. M'DoNALD's satements caused consider able consternation amongst the Pike promoters. However, it was thought he could very soon be disposed of. Five hundred pounds per annum, plenty of champagne and claret at the Stork, sumptuous dinners, and `all the etceteras, were arguments conclusive, in the estimation of the Pikeists, to secure his silence, if not his acqui- escence in the job. But the sturdy Highlander was not to be bribed or cajoled ; he stuck to his text—truth lay at the bottom of the well—so said Mr. M'DoNALD. Intimidation was then retorted to, but with no better result. Then followed the last resort of tyrant's persecution, in its worst and most detestable aspect. Talk et the cap of silence—of the rack and thumbscrew ! The jobbers whose path Mr. M•DoiALD had crossed would willingly have consigned him to the stake or the scaffold, if they had only possessed the power ; as they did not, however, they thought starvation would be a more refined method of gratifying their vengeance. But Mr. M'DONALD would not starve. In the midst of poverty his spirit was unsubdued, and he per sisted in the truth of his original statements. The base and the cowardly only resort to slander and defamation, and these were the dernier weapons used by Mr. MTONALD'S enemies ; but, as usual, they have been turned against them selves with fearful effect. Mr. IVI'DoNALD has completely vindicated his character, both public and private, from all the foul aspersions of his calumniators, who stand conscience-stricken— powerless to do further mischief. For ten long years Mr. M'DONALD has stood in the " fore front" of the hottest battle which ever was fought in Liverpool or elsewhere on such a subject, and he has virtually proved vic torious. True, he has not succeeded in preventing the consummation of the Pike job, but he has fully exposed its thorough rottenness, and has thus rendered it comparatively innocuous, while, on the other hand, he has proved incontestibly that the yield of the wells is even more than he had contended for. It must be borne in mind that it was for having made known the truth about the yield of these wells that this poor man was reduced to beggary. What do those persons, who were loudest in denouncing his statements in the Council Chamber and elsewhere, think of their conduct to-day ? • But we should nut be serving his interests if we dwelt on this most painful subject. It is enough to say that Mr. M'DONALD has been a deeply injured man. We trust, however, that those who were parties to his downfall will show, now that they have the opportunity, that they were not influenced by factious or personal feelings. Nothing can justify the fierce and vindictive attacks made on this poor man by those who ought to have known better. If those parties are gentlemen, they can yet make the amende honourable. We believe that if ever a man deserved well of a community, :that man is JAMES M`DONALD. There is not .a ratepayer in Liverpool who is not his debtor, and we trust they will prove to the world that the man who sacrificed his own interests to serve them shall not go unrewarded. The result of the present movement will show whether the public deserve to have honest, faithful, and devoted servants, or the reverse. For our own parts we shall have much pleasure in subscribing our mite in aid of the M'DONALD fund, and shall be happy to receive any sums which may be handed to us for that object. The ratepayers of Liverpool owe a duty to themselves even more than to Mr. M DONALD in this matter. We shall be somewhat curious to know how they will perform it. Let it be borne in mind that every statement which Mr. M'DONALD has made since the commencement of the water controversy, ha s been verified to the letter. That even his enemies must admit. PRINCE NAPOLEON IN LIVERPOOL,—Prince Napoleon and party arrived from Manchester at twelve o'clock on Tuursday night, and proceeded direct to his yacht, La Reins Hortense. Yesterday morning the deputy-mayor, Mr. Alderman J. H. Turner, accompanied by Mr. Charles Turner, Mr. T. Bold, and Mr. F. Heywood, went on board to pay their respects to his Imperial Highness, and were introduced by the French Consul. They were most courteously received by the Prince, and subsequently accompanied his Imperial Highness on his visit to the American frigate Niagara. Eve,ry honour was paid by Captain Hudson to his distinnished visitor, and on the departure of the Prince the yards were manned by the crew, who loudly che ere d hi m . Th e P r i nce and 1 7arty reached the landing-stage s h or tly a ft er two o'clock, an ,. carriages being in waiting for them, they drove at once to the Town-hall. Bodies of police were stationed both at the Landing-stage and Town-hall, but as it was not generally known that Prince Napoleon had returned from Manchester, very few persons were present to receive him. He did not long delay at the Town-hall, but after a hurried inspection of its magnificent suite of rooms, proceeded to witness the races at Aintree. He was accompanied by Mr• C. Turner, the French Conenl, and his suite, consisting of Le Baron de la Ronciere-le•Nonry, membre du conseil d'amiraute ; M. Ferri Pisani, chef d'escarde d'etat msjor, aides-de-camp; M. Rignault, mambre de I'institut ; M. Le Vicomte chef d'escadron, aides-de-camp ; M. L 9 Comte Broniki ; M. Arago, inspector-general deg beaux arts ; M. Champcomtois, ingenieur des Mines, profes3eur a l'Ecole des Mines. On his return from Aintree he visited St. George's-ball, and in the evening entertained at dinner, on board La Beine Hortense, the deputy-mayor, Mr, Alderman J. H. Turn3r, and Mr. Charles Turner. He sailed from Liverpool this morning, and will touch at the Isle of Man on his way to Belfast. He bears a striking resemblance to the great founder of his family, and would, in any company, be at once recognised as a Bonap ar t e . I PRINCE NAPOLEON AND IRISH " ARDENT ►SPIRITS."— That respectable journal, the 'Dublin Freeman's Journal, states that Prince Napoleon, before leaving Dublin, ordered a large cask of the best Irish whiskey, from Mr. Smith's, of Seckville-street, in that city, and that on Sunday morn ing last, on board the Royal yacht in Kingstown Harbour, his Imperial Highness, along with his officers of state, &c., after dinner, mixed good strong tumblers of punch, and drank success to " Ould Ireland," before leaving the hos pitable shores of Green Erin. All very good; but what will Neil Dow say ? when we inform that " cute" Yankee, that we have also heard (nn private authority of course) that the chorus of a celebrated Irish ditty followed the last sup of the aforesaid tumbler, in this fashion— " Oh, sire some take delight in fishin and fowlin ; An more takes delight in their carriage a rowlin ; But all my delight is, without any blarney, A supptn full tumblers o' the juice o' the barley !" Bid look-up for the Maine Liquor Law and Mr. Ne Thw—if the version be correct. MARRIAGES IN limn LlFE.—Yesterday morning the marriage of Lord Burgbersb, C. 8., eldest son of the Earl of Westmoreland, with Lady Adelaide Curzon, daughter of Earl Howe, and god-daughter of her late Majesty Qaeen Adelaide, was celebrated at St. George's Church, Hanover-sqaare. Shortly after 11 o'clock, the bride, accompanied by Eirl Howe, arrived, attended by a bevy of bridesmaids. There were present His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Colonel and Miss Llwther, Earl and Countess of West moreland, Countess of Chichester, Earl of Cardigans Dowager Lady Raglan, the Hon. Misses Somerset, Lady Rosa Fane, Hon. Mr. J. Fane, Countess of Wilton, Colonel Kingsford, with many other noblemen and gentle men. At the conclusion of the ceremony the newly married pair took their departure for B idminton House, Gloucestershire, the seat of the Duke of Beaufort.—The marriage of the Hon. Edward William Douglas, youngest son of the Earl of Morton, with Miss Bankes, youngest daughter of the late Right Hon. George Bankes, was solemnised at the parish church of St. Margaret's, West minster, in the presence of a distinguished circle.. The marriage of William Frederick Webb, EN., late of the 17th Lancers, of Cowton and Westwick, in the county of York, with Miss Goodlake, eldest daughter of T. M. Goodlake, Esq., of Wadley and Shillingford, in the county of Barks, and granddaughter of the late Sir Edward and Lady Elizabeth Baker, took place on Wednesday, at St. George's Hanover-square, in the presence of a very numerous circle of the fashiouable world. Miss Goodlake wore a superb bridal costume composed of a white taffetas d'ltalie dress, trimmed with three-deep Brussels lace flounces. A square veil of the same oustly materiel was thrown over the head, which was encircled with a wreath of orange blossoms and myrtle. The bridesmaids were attired in very elegant costumes of white muslin, with pink scarfs. MARITIME Law.—ln the House of Commons, on Tues day evening, Mr. Lindsay moved an address for copies of the letter addressed by the American secretary of state to the French government, in answer to the resolution of the Paris conference upon the subject of privateering. Lord Palmerston merely stated in reply that the papers did not exist in a fit state for production at the present time; and he had less inclination to discuss them, seeing that the negotiations on the subject had been suspended. Lord John Russell thought that the time had come for the government to state what were the propositions made at the Paris congress. This country was not bound to concede those principles which were part of the law of nations ; and it had never 'given to Lord Clarendon the slightest authority to discuss any compromise of those principles. There was not and could not be any analogy between property on land and at sea. A man who had a farm in the centre of France or Virginia was in quite a different position from those who sent large fleets to sea, manned by thousands of men, who the next moment might be employed against the navy of this country. The whole matter was in a most unsatisfactory state. Undoubtably our most efficient weapon in war had always been our power of crushing the commerce of our enemy, and so making him most eager in desiring that the war should come to an end. But if any great power, such as France, or America, could maintain its trade in full vigour, and send its manufactures over the world in perfect security, in neutral bottoms, there would be no reason for any hurry in making peace. The noble lord concluded by declaring his opinion that this question was in a most alarming state ; but the motion was withdrawn without eliciting any further declaration or assurance from ministers. BANKRUPTS. William Girling Balls, Islington green, tailor. Philadelphia Bravery, Brighton, furniture broker. Elward Barons Bowman, Highbury, New Park, Isling ton, apothecary. John Walter Gray, Bishops, Waltham, commission agent. Ralph Wharton, Nottingham, machine maker and engineer. Charles Rubh, Sorry-place, Old Kent-road, cheese monger. William Lake, Topsham, Devonshire, malster, &c. Stephen Rowley, Cambridge, fellmonger and farmer. Henry Spiller, St. John's Wool-terrace, Regents-park, brick, slate, and lime merchant. William Heron, Huddersfield, cloth merchant. Joseph Nelson, late of Chapel-place, Oxford-street, auctioneer. By the retirement of Mdlle. Rachel from the Theatre Francais, at Paris, a salary of £1,680 per annum will be saved to the management. The salary has been paid for the last three years. A fresh batch of prisoners connected with the late disturbances in Belgium have been tried at Brussels, and condemned to fines and imprisonment. The maximum pu❑ishment was nine days' imprisonment, and 30f. fine. The burgomaster of Brussels on Sund iy morning read from the steps of the Hotel de Ville in that city the banns of marrisge between the ArAduko Maxntilia❑ of Austria and Princess Charlotte of Belgium. A similar ceremony was to take place the same day at Vienna,— Galigo ant. PERCHLORIDE OF IRON.—This substance which has been largely experimented on by Dr. Deleau, physician to the prison of La Roquette, in a medical point of view, is stated by him, in a paper addressed to the Academy of Sciences, to be the most powerful hosmostatic k.oown, and to be par ticularly useful in uterine haemorrhages and scrofulous affections. He had also used it - with advantage in those diseases for which mercury is a specific, thus dispensing with the use of that agent, nitrate of silver, iodine, and their compounds. GERMAN PROVERI39.—Women have long hair and short wits. There is only one bad wife in the world, and every one thinks he has her. 7;ihen the man spoons in and the women shovels out, the nouseliold most soon fall through. A woman spills mare with a thimble than a man can draw with a bucket. A woman alwaY 9 '.. keaps secret what she dwis not know. Rich wives makes poor children_ There are only two good women in the world, one is dead, and the other is pot to be found. Echo in the woods, rai❑bow its the sky, a woman's beauty, soon, passes by. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT (By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.) HOU - 6E OF LORDS.-FRIARY. Their Lordships met at five o'clock. The Cork and. Youghal Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. TEE SLAVE TII4.DE. Lord BROUGHAM brOught up the subject of the African slave trade, and expressed am ;Tile that the Emperor of F rance should give his sanction to a project by a company to take regroes from the coast of Africa to the Erench Nest India colonies. The object stated WAS to import free negroes, but he was convinced that it mast be looked upon as a renewal of the slaie trade. The plan proposed was a most reprehensible attempt to revise the slave trade, and would lead to encouragement of war betweezin African tribes for the sole porpose of obtaining captives to be sold into slavery. He begged to move a resitution expressing hi I views on the subject, and declaring that an address should be presented to Her Majesty praying that she would nee her utmost endeavours to discontinue projects having a tendency, directly or indirectly, to encourage the slave trade. The EARL of CLaap.mooN concurred in the motion, though he doubted the success of the scheme of the French Company, owing to the unwillingness of the negroes to leave their own country ; and he had received a communication from the French Government to the effect that every pre - atition would be taken to prevent the trailic from leading to slavery. The motion was agreed to after a brief discussion. MISCELLANEOUS BILLS. The Larceny Bill, Offences against the Person BM, Malicious Injures to Property Bi I, Forgery Bill, Libel Bill, Coinages Offences Bill, and Accessories and Abettors' Bill went through Committee. The Representative Peers (Ireland) Bill, the Jo nt Stock Companies Bill, with an amendmont to save the rights of judgment of creditors registered in Ireland, were read a third time and passed. The House adjourned at eight o'clock. HOUSE OF CONIMONS.—FRIDAY. The Speaker took the chair at five minutes past twelve o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords amendments to the Ely Tidal II l'hour and Railway, Tyne Improvement, and Wimbledon and Dorking Railway Bills were considered and agreed to. Mr HENLEY presented several petitions frotn various parishes in the county of Oxford against the DiA,rce Bill. The Speaker having left, the chair, the House went into committee on THE LUNATICS (SCOTLAND) BILL. The committee commenced with clausJ No. 17, which with clause! ttp to 43 were considered, and, with various amendm.nts, agreed to, as also were the remaining clauses. 1117BIAL ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. The committee on the Bu ial Acts Amendment Bill was resumed, and the remaining clausos wete agreod to without opposition A number of clauses having been added, the Chairman reported progress. The s tting, was then suspended. EVENING SITTING. BATII ELECTION. Mr. Hoasm tN bought up the re.io't of the committee appoint- d to try the validity of the late return for Bath. The r3port s aced that William Tite was duly elected. That bribes had been given, but without the knowledge of the sating memb -r, and that the comini tea had amended the poll by stilling off certain NEW WRIT. Lord VANE TEMPEST moved a new writ for the borough of Wood• stock, in the rcom of the Marquis of Blandford, who, since his election has been called to the HO'llW of Lords. The motion WaS agreed to. THE NATIONAL sultvg.Y. Sir D. NORRETS gave notie that on going into supply he should draw ;:a tention to the appointment, by the House of Lords, of a committee to inquire into the subject of the National Survey. TILE EAST INDIA COMPANY. Sir E. PEnar gave notice that e srly next session he should move a resolution to the effect that the recent events in India render , d it expedient that the government of India should be transfered from the East India Company to the responsible ministers of the crown. MR. HORSEMAN ♦ND THE MUTINY OF THURSDAY. On the motion for adjournment till Monday. a complaint was made against lUr. Horse:ran for le .ving the Bath Electi n Committee, in order that he might be at a meeting that took place yesterday upon the , übj act of the a Imisiion of Jew to parliament. Mr. HORSMAN justified the course that he had taken, on the ground of the importance of the naca'ing, and that 24 hours notice of the adjournment had been given to the committee and the counsel on both sides. Lord GALWAY said had he known the object of the adjournmetr he should have eppo,od it. Mr. ROEBucic remarked that had such a course been taken by the noble 'ord, it would have had reference to his private opinions and to no other object. - ITZGERALD would r ever have consented to the adjournment of a committee upon the ground of attending a public meeting. An aniu:ated personal discussion follow,d, and the subject dropped, SCREW TRANSPORTS. Admiral MlNT°milk calla] the attention of the First Lord of the Admiralty to the policy of reconsidering the determ nation, as an nounced by him, not to employ any of the screw line of batt e ships in conveying a portion of the troops about to be sent to India. Mr. BENTINCK thought that the ships in commission were not at all adapted to defend the cou , :try as to transport troops. He depre cated the decision of Lord Palmerston as to the militia, believing the enal.odiment of the tot jai would be the best means of providing for the defence of the country, while it was weakened by the withdrawal of troop% for India service. Sir CHARLES WOOD alluded to the cross questioning going on, as instancing the expedincy of raising miscellaneous eiscussion upon the adjournment till Monday. He stated, in reply to the questions put to him, that the ships on commission wore not of sufficient power to be trnsted with the conveyance of troops to India; and to fit up large vessels for the purpose would involve the necessity of raising men to man them, an that it was expedient that the se:vice should be per formed by hired transports. In reply to Colonel Norris, Sir JOHN RAMaDEN stated that it was intended to send to India nix companies of Foot and two troops of Horse Artillery. ADMISSION OF JE NS INTO PARLIAMENT. Lord JouN RussELL took the opportunity afforded by the motion for adjournment being under the considoration of the House, to con - siaer the quesiion of the Jewish disabilities, now that the question as to the words `• on the trite faith of a Christian" had been decided by so large a majority as 1,0, and the Lords were still fund to resist the measure. lie held it was necemvry for them to provide for the adayssion of Jews to Parliament by some other means than those formerly resorted to. The Act let and 2nd Victoria provided Hirt in courts of law per,ons take such oaths i.e were binding upon their consciences, and it was a mater of doubt whether or not th 3t provi sion did not extend to other tribunals, and whether it did not also apply to the membeis taking their seits in Parliament. H proposed to ititroduce a bit to remove the do bt in the case, and he wished to ask the Prime Minister whether he would fix a day or the discussion of it. Mr. THOMAS BUNCOMBE suggested that, berore any proceerling 3 were taken, Baron Rothschild would appear at the table and claim his seat, and after the refusal to administer the oaths to him, it would be competent to any member to move a resolution to the effe+•t that, having taken the oaths that were binding upon his conicienoe, Baron Rothschild should be allowed to take his ~eat in the H use. Lord PALMERSTON could not fix a day for a discussion in the pre - so..t state of pat:lic business. THE SUEZ CANAL. Mr. GRIFFITH; then drew attention to the proposed canal across the Isthmus f Suez. Lord PALMERSTON repeated his former statement as to the under takirg being oppos(d to the policy ~f this country, and Mr. Robert STEPHENSON who had been upon the spot stated his con vicdon of the scheme being nnfeasable, and the subject then dropped. AFFAIRS IN INDIA. Mr. DisaAnr.i asked for a day for discussion upon Indian affairs, and sng.ested Friday next. Lord PALMERSTON said probably a ma 1 with further information would arrive on Friday, but thinking that the earliest opportunity should be tasen for tho discussion,' recommended that it should be fixed fo- Monday week. Mr. DISRAELI re tdily assented. After soma further discussion the motion for adjournment over Saturday was agreed to. 111,WAY3 IN INDIA On the motion for going into committ , eJsupply, Air. WATKIN drove attention to the prcgress of railways in India, complaining that the money in hand warranted the works being pro ceeded with gre tter rapidity. Mr. V. Sairrii stated that the East India Company guaranteed five per cent. to theve railways, and exercised control over the works to prevent the expenditure exceeding the revenue. A brief discussion ensued, after which the House went Into SUPPLY. On the vote for £500,000 to defray the expenses of the war with Persia, The CHANCELLOR of the EXQUEQUER explained that. the expenses of the Persian war amounted to about 1,601,000, though he was only asking for a vote of ha'f a million. In consequence of the ,e l zursr o the Treasury at Delhi, ~,n d the in t-rruption in the collection of the revenue, the East India Company thought it necessary to ask the 'Government for a larger sum than the £500,000 and he shouldjpropt,e on this account a supplemental vote of £400,000, in consequence of the with irawal of a large number cf troops from China, he would be able to produce the estim stes for that service, from £500,00 to £400,000, but the First Lord of the Admiralty would name a supplemental estimate of £lOO,OOO for the Indian naval service. The actual rxpe,ndituse of the last year was less than the estimate of February tothe extent of '1,860.000. There was an , ncrease in the estimate of the tea duty of .£500,000 during the last year, and the malt duty had an increase of £500,000 over what he had estimated, and he hod in the Treasury the sum of £2,800 0 , O, while on the other hand, the total amount he required was only £2,2 lo,ooa, leaving a ba'ance in the Treasury of £650,000. After some further discussion, the vote for the Persian war, and the vote of £400,000 for operations in China, were agreed to, and the House adjourned. MARSEILLES, July lA—The price of wheat is still falling BRIGHTON RAILWAY DIVIDEND.-The directors have de. cided on recommending the payment of a dividend for a half year of £2 lOs per cent. on the consolidated stock of the cc prnany, AUSTRALIA.—The next telegraphic advices from Austra lia by the overland route will be conveyed to Suez by the steamer Simla, and are expected to reach London in about sixteen days from the present date. This intelligence will extend to the llth of June from Sydney, and to the 14th from Melbourne. ►STEAM COMPETITION.—Amongst the cargo brought home by the Brazil mail-packet Medway, was a large quazAtity of coffee and cocoa, from the Brazils. This is the first time the mail packet have brought such cargo, and it is owing to the royal mail company having just reduced the freight on such produce. A despatch from Berlin, dated Wednesday, states that the King of Prussia, who had quitted tho baths of Boheme for the purpose of passing a day at Pillmotz, w;,,th the royal family of Saxony, was taken so seriously ill, 6s to be unable to proceed. A bulletin, signed by the royal physicians, says that the intense heat had affecte., his Majesty. TIIE LINE' OF BATTLE SHIPS FOR INDIA.—The Daily News says that the arrival of a couple of line of battle ships in each of the harbours of 80n7:03y, Madras, and Calcutta, would give corfidence to fir; European inhabitants of these cities and strike panic int o t h e b osoms o f t h e mutineers throughout India. The inhabitants would feel perfect ,y safe so long as they knew the crews of 2,013 men of ''ga r were within hail. They wou ld see w ith tranquility their towns denuded of European troops, and the wbr,ie of our effective English soldiers marched to Bengal, On the othe r haud these mighty ships would be regs.rdPAl by the native s ias the avant coureurs of a mighty Englsharmy on its way . to trample ous every spark of dlsfifrection Hindostan, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. INDIA. Private accounts state that the atrocities com mitted by the sepoys, on the Europeans who fe li in their power, was fearful in the extreme. Russian agents throughout the East have spread reports of the weakness of .England. The outbreak is attributed to Russian intrigue. FRANCE. When the French were returning to camp, after the last engagement with the Kabyles, the latter poured upon them a most murderous fire. AMUSEMENTS. THE AMPITITHEATRE.—The engagement of Messrs. Web ster, Wright, and Bedford still attract large audiences to this theatre. During the past week the selection of pieces has been of a more varied character than in the earlier part of the engagement. Three or four short and lively comediettes keep audiences in batter spirits than a long and heavy melo-drama followed by a farce. Much, however, is lost in the former instance by the'acting of Mr. Webster, who is fitted for a line of art as much beyond burlesque or farce as above melo-dramatic stage-play. It is to be regretted that, when a piece of some length is produced, this gentleman's great tale - As should be wasted in endeavouring to render natu al and moving such parts as that of Joseph Clauvigny. The peculiarities of Wright and Bedford, contrasting with and setting each other off, have been, we are glad so say, as thoroughly relished in the Amphitteatre as they cou'd be in the Adelphi. We have already mentioned that the support given to these inimitable performers by the local company has been in no common degree effective and creditable. Miss Page has, up n the whole, gained in public favour during this engagement. She will have to avoid much of the traditional stage peculiarities, the starts, and pauses, and strained attitudes, in orler to be as suceersful as she may without much cl,fficulty become. Mrs. Power's comic talents we have more than once commended, and must again notice with well-merited p raise. HAYMARKET THEATRE, LONDON.—IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE Me. DOUOL9S JEKROLD.—On Wednesday night two of the late Mr. Jerrcld's most successful plays, "The Housekeeper" and "The Prisoner of War," were acted a t the Haymarket Theatre, in aid cf the provision about to be made for his family. " The Housekeeper" was first performed at this same theatre on July 17, 1833 ; conse quently Friday was the twenty-fourth anniversary Of its production ; and though it cannot be looked upon as a stock piece, it is often revived with success—the last occasion being during the engagement of Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean, by whom the two principal characters were per sonated. Last night the only two of the original cast were Mr. Webster and Mr. Buckstone ; the former of whom played the Jesuit., Father Oliver, with that placidity of countenance and subtle hypocritical expression which have since stood him in such stead in " Tartuffe," &c., while the latter endowed the country boy with that simpering stolidity which never fails of its attraction over the risible muscles of the audience. They were ably aided by Miss Reynolds, Miss Wilton, Miss Lavine, Mr. Howe, and Mr. Ferran. "The Prisoner of War," first performed at Drury-lane in Feb , 1842, is necessarily much fresher in the recollection of play goers, and the veriest dramatic tyro has heard of Mr. Phelps's flue manly delineation of Captain Channel!, of Mrs. Keeley's reading of her love letter, and of her husband's hatred of the French, and determination, as a line act of pa'riotism, to trump every statement of a foreigner. It will suffice, therefore, to say, that each of the three characters on Wednesday night was filled by its original representative, that the whole evening passed off without the slightest hitch, and that each favourite was received and constantly en_ couraged with the heartiest applause from a crowded house. After " The Housekeeper" the following " Occasional Address," written by Mr. S. Lucas, was spoken by Mr. Phelps : Welcome in Jerrold's name From Jerrold's tomb This greeting chases half the gathering gloom, And turns our sorrow for his mortal part To joy and pride in his immortal art. If of this art, a❑durin3 at its prime, We gather salvago from the wrecks of time, You, mindful cf the storms and struggles past, Receive and welcome it to shore tit last. True to yourselves, arid to each other true— In honouring one who greatly honoured you, Behind this curtain you can greet at will His genlns living and triumphant still. There waits the actor—there the scene is set, And there the author's thought is pregnant yet ; There the light offspring, of his fancy sprung, Betray their parent by their English tongae, Refleot his native humour in their part, Or draw their pathos from his manly heart. As 'twas of old, in England's classic age, His own creations amply fill our stage. Their's Is the savour and the zest we crave, Surg•ng and sparking like a Channel wave, With salt that had been Attic, but the Nine Steep'd them in English and a stronger brine. Forgetful of their state herekings may sit, Subjects themselves to his imperial wit— Wit that flows on regardless—free as air, Like the rough raters around Canute's ch , ir. You humbler men, who come to see the play, And cheer the playwright, carry this away— The man was still more worthy of regard, And—though he smote the Philistines so hard, He fought a fair, a brave and getterons fight, And struck in honour's name for truth and right : —Hopeless of cross or riband—taking heed. Less for his fortunes than the common need— )—for his guerdon and the common cause. Do you now crowd him with your just applause. MR. RUSKIN'S ADVICE TO THE CHANCELLOR Or THE EXCHEQUER. —lf colours were twenty times as costly as they are, we should hove many more good painters. If I were Chancellor of the Exchequer I would lay a- tax of 203. a cake on all colours, except black, Prussian blue, Vandyke brown, and Chinese white, which I would leave for students. 1 don't say this jestingly ; I believe such a tax would do more to advance real art than a great many schools of design.— The Elements of Drawing. OCEAN Celina. enn.---A singular worm is to be seen on the surface of the harbour at Singapore, when the water is smooth and polished, during the absence of all wind. It is from three, to four inches in ientth, has its body made up of a hundred joints apparently, has hundreds of centipede like legs nlong its entire sides, is covered with a short fine hair ot luzz, and swims quickly, and with a zigzag track. The natives fear their bite greatly, and destroy them when they 'can. They have bright red eyes, and are altogether most disgnsting looking wretches. Ono of the boatmen dir,ped me up several, which. I transferred t o a b ottle full cif spirits of wine, much to their annoyance. Th e y di e d hard, and emitted a bluish fluid, which the natives said was poison. These latter gloated over their sp asmo di c an d protracted efforts to escape from the spirits pretty ranch as old sailors admire the expiring agonies of a dying shark. VIOLENT ATTACK UPON WE;LEYAN MINISTERS.—On Monday evening, as the Rev. Messrs. Hurst and Ramsay, two Primitive Wesleyan Ministers, were reeurning from conducting a religious service in the neighbourhood of Sandy-row, they were grossly assaulted by a savage mob of Roman Catholics. These reverend gentlemen were accom panied by three oflice-beareis in their church, and when they wer , observed by the denizens of " The Pound," they were p',; once set upon. Stones were hurled at them, and wb'Jti they endeavoured to escape from their savage as sailants, they were beaten, and attempts made to give them "the foot," as it is termed, and thus lay them pros trate, and at the mercy of the mob. Fortunately the ministers and their companions managed to escape, two of them being very much injured. We hope that some of the parties who dare thus maltreat Protestant ministers in the streets of Belfast, will be made amenable to the law, and suffer the punishment due to their cri►ne.—Belfast News- Leper. THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, SATURDA_ Y, JULY 18. 1857.