Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-29 00:00:00

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THEATRE ROYAL—Dramati2 Perferrnnnoe-7 p.m. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE—Dramatic Per:ormance-7 p.m. Dm,: MASONS' HALL- Sam. Cower —8.15 p.m. LIVEEPOOL ACADCsIT'S EXHIBIT ON, Postoffice-place. AsLsop's WAxwolut Exutorriotr.-10 a Ha. to 10 p.m. ird.rros Haw., Clayt. n-square—Gordon Cumming-8 p.m. ROYAL CoLosrottrai—Genaral Entertainment-6.30 p.m. Cy For particulars see advertisements. 4 4AI l OC U ci 2TESDAY, SEPTE.HBER, 29 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. We are at length in possession of a fortrsight'e later news from Inds. The two telegraphic despatches published in another column will, doubtless, be read by the public with the utmost interest, and we are serry to say they will not find much of a satisfactory character. The news is nearly ns " bad as bad can be," yet we have not the least apprehension of the ultimate result, or that the disorganized band of mutineers will prevail over the power of England, when that power is col lected, and strong enough to take the fi:ld. The worst that can be apprehended, according to pre : sent appearances, is, that not- only will Delhi remain in possession of the insurgents for some time to come, but that Luck now will also fall into their hands, and that the gallant defenders of that plaee, who were reduced to (3cremities at the date of the last advices, will be added to the victims already sacrificed to the savage cruelty of the rebel forces From China the only news of the least interest is the fact that Admiral Seymour had declared the port of Canton to be in a state of strict blockade. The meetings in aid of the sufferers in India continue. At Leeds, on Saturday, about £l,OOO was subscribed on the spot, and yesterday, at Wrexham, the amount of subscriptions handed in were fully £350. On Sunday, in the Roman Catholic Churches of London, a pastoral was read from Car dinal Wiseman relative to India. The Cardinal employs language which will entirely free him from the accusation of being indifferent to the atrocities that have been committed by the Seyoys ; but, at the same time, he takes care that no such sentiments as those mitten by Mr. Bowyer shall be endorsed. "Remember," says the Cardinal, "that the words vengeance and revenge were washed out by the blood of Calvary from the catalogue of man's assumed rights, and that these are reserved to God alone." Parliamentary papers continue to be issued containing those official details relative to the mutinous districts which have been received by the Governor-General of India, and which the Governor-General transmits to our Goverment at home. For the most part, the papers thus printed possess little interest, for all the facts connected with the mutiny are known many weeks before they appear. We 'Publish the most interesting points of a correspondence that has taken place between the Duke of Bedford, Mr. Miall, and Mr. MialA's friends, concerning the share said to be taken by the Duke in the late Tavisto:dc election. The accusation against the Duke was of the ordinary kind, namely, that through his agents he employed what influence he possessed to secure the return of his nephew, in opposition to Mr. Miall. This the Duke denies, while at the same time he wges that he can see no reason why a member of his family should not aspire to the representation of any locality where it may hold proprietorial possessions. Mr. Mialt's committee chairman appears to make out a case against those who might be called the agents of the Duke of Bedford, but the link of connection between the Duke and these gentlemen is, in a legal sense. wanting. Mr. Cobbett, M P , has been giving an account of his stewardship to the electors of Oldham. On Saturday afternoon, he addressed a tn-eting of the electors and non electors in the open air. Mr Cobbett addressed the meeting at conalerable length. The reception that he met with convinced him that he had satisfied his constituents, and that he had carried out all the pledges he had made to them, 'and had acted in accordance with their wishes during the late arduous session. He had stuck by them, as far as the factory question was concerned, as fast as any man could possibly do. He had brought their case before the house, and had divide the _house upon it, and he assured them that if in the future he found any variation of that .sct, or any interference with its spirit, he would not hesitate to stand up and demand that it should be made es effective and st..ringent that there would be no ground of complaint. Sometimes he bad been called a Tory. Such had been the confusion of parties for a considerable time, that it was difficult to tell what a Tory was, what a Whig was, or what a Radical was. and it was still more difficult to say what a Liberal was. Whenever he was asked what ho was he said he was a Radium'. Some people asked him if he was a Liberal, but he said he was not, b• cause he never could find out what a Liberal was. It was the Liberals who carried, during tie last session but one, the new Police Act—it was the Liberals, in his opinion, who did the most illiberal thiLgs, and therefore he never called him ' selfia Liberal. But he sometimes went into the same lobby with the Tories. When the division took place on tile Police Bill, he went into the same lobby with the Taries because they opposed it. He would not place himszlf ill the harness of any party whatsoever. He did not belong to any party, or to the coterie of any party : he never professed to support any party, but he invariably voted with that body of men who appeared to him to be on the right side. Respecting the accident on the Great Norhern Railway we have nut much to add. On Saturday, one of tho Government inspectorg of railways inspected minutely the portion of the line where the accident occurred. He also took the eviden:e of a great number of men in the employ of the company, as to their belief of the working condition of the line, its state, &0., upon which he will found a report. This report, if not laid before the coroner to day( Tuesday) for the guidance of the jury, will doubt. Ids be presented to the public in Borne other way- Another victim must be added to the four who were killed by the accident—William Jackson, who had his aim amputated, died on Friday night. The railway company gives every facility to the friends -of the dead and the irjured. The Earl of Fife, it is understood, is about to be made a Peer. On Saturday evening, the Nonconformist clergy men of Sheffield presented a complimentary address to Lord John Russell. These gentlemen took occasion to express their conviction that the noble lord would be able, when the position of affairs should justify such a step, to make satisfactory explanations of his conduct at the Vienna Con. ferences. Lord John in reply intimated that con siderations of state policy had alone prevented him from entering upon such a defence. The chief event of interest just now is the meeting of the Emperors at Stuttgardt. We to-day give the fullest account of the meeting, so far as it has reached us. On Friday night, the Emperor of the French entered Stuttgardt, and the King of Wurtemberg WEIS at the railway station to meet him. The King and the Emperor proceeded to the palace, and here the Emperor of Russia was in waiting to receive them. Next day the Emperor of Russia took the initiative in the ceremonies by paying a visit to the Emperor of France, and the Empress of Russia trl3o reached Stuttgardt that day and joined the party. As to what may have taken place at any of the interviews, the public at present must not expect to be made acquainted. Yesterday (Monday) afternoon, the Emperor and Empress of Russia left Stuttgardt. We learn from Vienne, that the resolution of Francis Joseph to meet the Emperor Alexander, has created a ministerial crisis ; and that, perhaps, Count, Appooyi will succeed Count Buol in the Premiership. The other news from the continent, !is not of much importance. The Madrid papers of the 23 , 1 instant, state that several Republican proclamations had been seized there, together with a cony of instructions for the new members who shall . join the Republican secret societies. Some arrests had been made. The Grand Council of the. Canton of Vaud has resolved to demand the convocation of the Federal Assembly, and to submit to it the question of competence. From Constantinople we are informed that the remaining members of the Polish L , .g:on hive just off:n.ed their servioes to the English Ambassador. There are only 400 left, and they wish to go to India, there to fight in the cruse of Enuland. Their colonel, whose name is Jordan, has placed himself et their head, and will retain the command in case their offer is accepted. Lord Stratford de Redcliffff~ has already written home to his novernmont for instructions respecting these brave men. AT a late hour yesterday, we received a tele graphic despatch, giving most important news from India, in anticipation of the Overland mail. The despatch was forwarded from Alexandria on the 20th of the present month, through the Rear- Admiral at Malta to the Secretary of the Admi ralty in London, and was received at the Foreign office yesterday, at 12.45 p.m. These advices were brought to Suez by the steamer Pottinger, and the dates are to the 31st of August from Bombay, and the I Rh of September from Aden The news is disheartening enough. Instead of General HAVELOCK having taken possession of Lucknow, as we were led to believe would be the case, he has been obliged to retire upon Cawnpore more than once, and at our last advices, was still in the immediate neigh bourhood of that city. He had had several desperate conflicts with the rebels, in which the latter were invariably routed. So says the telegraphic despatch from Cagliari : yet the General was obliged to retire to await further reinforcements before he made a final attack upon Lucknow. Although the distance from the one city to the other is only about fifty miles, the want of reinforcements and the heat of the weather prevented General HAVELOCK from reaching Lucknow, it could not be long ere that gallant General would make his' triumphant entry into the city, still much anxiety was felt for the fate of the English inhabitants, which numbered upwards of 1,000, the majority of whom were women and children. They were blockaded by that arch-rebel, NEN A SAHIB—he who, it was reported, had committed suicide ; and as the provisions in the garrison were said to be scarce, it was really doubtful whether the garrison could hold out until General TIAvELocK arrived there. In the meantime several regi ments had been sent up the river to reinforce that General, and if the gallant band could hold out for some time, NENA S.tHin and his myrmidons would meet with a rather formidable enemy, and LucknOw be set free. Respecting Delhi there is little or no intelli gence. The latest date from that-city is the 12th August, at which time it was still in the hands of the rebels. A number of_sortics had been re pulsed, and it was confidently hoped that an early attack would be made upon the city by the British as a large reinfor c eme n t un d er the command of General NlcaoLsoN was in the immediate vicinity, and would be enabled to surround the walls in a few days. We are glad to say that the mutiny, which had spread to the Bombay and Madras Presiden cies, had been all but suppressed. A number of regiments who had refused to do duty were quietly disarmed, and but very few co:Epanies of that once powerful army are now in existence. From Lahore we have intelligence respecting the 26th Native Infantry. That regiment had mutinied, and murdered their commanding Officer, Major SPENCER; but they met with a terrible retribution, for a number of English officers and soldiers immediately set upon them, and so signal was their vengeance that hardly a soul of the rebels escaped. Such then is a complete synopt-is of the leading features of the news now to hand. It w)uld be very hazardous to say that it is not of a most unpromising character. We have just begun to feel the difficulties under which we labour, and the East India Company are not, we are afraid, in a position to put down this mutiny. It does not possess the funds, and, ere long, we may be sure the East India Company will be asking a loan. They have been urged to apply for fifty thousand men and some eight or ten minions of money, and it is said they must do so if they want to subdue the revolt. But if the Govern ment were to supply fitly thousand men, who are to pay them ? The sooner the Queen's supremacy in the East Indies is proclaimed over and above the Leadenhall-street potentates, the sooner will the rebellion be crushed, for the mutineers will then see that they have to cope with a powerful kingdom, while they now think that they have only to expel from the country a private company. " HE that is wise in his own conceit is stronger than seven men that can render a reason." The Rev. HUGH HANNA, of Belfast, is the man. Nothing moves him ; nothing puts him out of conceit with his own notion of street preaching for the glory of GOD, and the assertion of an abstract right to preach, under all circumstances, in the open air. The town has been retained in a state of chronic disturbance and indefinite alarm, and blood has been shed, and there is danger of more ; but what cares this minister of peace ? Two thousand soldiers of the line are called out to keep the peace of Belfast, when they might so much better be spared to keep the peace of Calcutta, or end the siege of Delhi. But this is all to the , glory and notoriety of the church militant in Ir e l a nd, l e d on by that redoubted officer the Rev. 11. HANNA. Quie t citizens and God-fearing people have no par ticular wish to do anything that might endanger the public tranquillity or create an uproar. They have a feeling that the gospel of mercy and peace accords but ill with street riots and the muster of soldiery ; but the Rev. Gentleman says, in the words of the apostle, " Behold, I show y a more excellent way." Seriously, it is a great nuisance to have a clergyman, who ought to set a better example, sedubusiy persisting to do what tends to create a row, and requiring soldiers and police to protect himself and the town against the effects of such conduct. 'We can little afford at this moment to have our attention distracted by sectarian squabbles. We are far from denying the abstract right to preach in the open air —to preach anywhere, and everywhere. We should promote public good at all times, and at all places. But in seeking this justifiable end, we ought to seek it by wise means, not by means which defeat our end. This is what the Rev. Gentleman is doing. His presumed end is to preach the Gospel for the saving of the soul; but the manner of his attain ing his object defeats that object. Inst3ad of creating kindness, good-will, and brotherhood, the results are fear, hostility, and violence. Mr. HANNA will say that he has a right to " preach the Gospel to every creature." But should not kindness, and propriety, and decorum, and judg ment, accompany the exercise of all our rights ? Will Mr. HANNA, on the strength of the text we have quoted, insist upon exercising his abstract right in the Queen's palace ? Let him try, if he dares to be consistent. The abstract right is undeniable—and the test is clear. The Queen and the Court are sinners of the Gentiles, and need to have Christianity preached to them. There are sinners noble and right honourable, as well as sinners ignoble and untitled ; and the Rev. Gentleman will fail and come short, if he decline to insist on preaching the Gospel to every creature—the Queen included. We can guess what his reception would be if he attempted to enforce this abstract right of which he prates. After he baS tried the English Court, there might be no harm in attempting the French Court, for Louis NAPOLEON is not imma culate, and needs Christianity quite as much al the Queen of England; and, besides, it would be bearding Itomanism, and would, therefore, be all the more appropriate and in character. But Mr. HANNA and his friends are not to be cured by logic ; our carnal reasonings will have slight force with those who ride the high horse of abstract right. Only even they might Eee tha t abstract rights are not to be exercised under all circumstances, unless we would defeat onr own purpose. And if, on the side of Mr. f-lANNA, there exists the right to preach, there exits also not less clearly on the side of the magistrates of Belfast the right to maintain the peace ana safety of the town. The right to protect thousands of people is, at least, as dear, and is altogether paramount to the right of this single spouter, to utter his preachments, which, after all, are only his individual judgments of the meaning of. Scripture—for we suppose he will not insist om. being oracular. But oracle or no oracle, the Queen's peace must be maintained. The Rev. Gentleman has the hardihood to pub lish a letter, in which the right of the magistrates, to shift his preaching stand, is questioned ; and he asks them to make an apology, and own themselves wrong, in order to prevent litigation. This is cool, But the Lord-Lieutenant has telegraphed the thing to be done. The nuisance must cease. There is no undue interference with the liberty of preachinz or pros,lyting ; for the tNo or three hundred people who listen to the preacher can just as conveniently hear him inside a church or chapel, and with less chance of broken heads. We appeal, then, to his remaining good sense, in order that he may see that " discretion is the better part of valour," and that he will cease to needlessly agitate the loner-vexed questions between ltomanism and Protestantism. Or, if he will be a martyr, to an a bstract right, in Heaven's name, let him ship himself off to India, and preach to the mutinous, murderous sepoys, where, we venture to pre dict, he will find fit audience, if feW. AT.the meeting of the Water Committee, on Saturday last, that body were honoured with the presence of their Pike Engineer, Mr. HAWKESLEY, who for the nonce condesceuded to pay then] an admonitory visit. We say an " admonibry visit," because, if we are not greatly misinformed, the Committee were instructed by their own officer as to how they were to treat the complaints of the inhabitants for the future, They were told that the Pike water was• purity itself—that its inky colour was a positive advantage to it; that it was much better than the water supplied to many places, and that four millions of people were then using much worse ; that it was quite good enough for the canaille of Liver pool, without any admixture of spring water ; that the complaints of its impurities were all bosh, and ought to be treated, as they deserved, with silent contempt, as being the outcry raised by idle clamourers only, and not the respectable inhabitants, who were, as he asserted, all well satisfied with the quality of the water. Such was the sum and substance of Mr. IIAWKESLEY'S interview with the Committee, which lasted nearly three mortal hours. Our readers will hardly credit the fact that so much brazen effrontery should have been dis played in the face of the openly-expressed views of the Council and the Town on the quality of the Pike water; but they must bear in mind that unscrupulous mendacity is essential to successful empiricism. But Mr. HAWK ESLEY Wil discover that this time he has rather overshot the mark. Although he did succeed in fasci nating the Council into a belief of the beauties of his scheme at one time, yet it was " distance lent enchantment to the view." A nearer inspection showed its just proportions, which are now fully appreciated by all except its author. " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever ;" but, after all, what is beauty ? According to Mr. HAWKESLEY, the filthy bog washings of Itivington constitute the most beau tiful of waters. We wonder if the same autho rity considers Miss JULIA PASTRANA the mo,t beautiful of ? It may be so. But, clever although the Pike engineer un doubtedly is, he will find himself unable to conjure the people of Liverpool out of their senses, even if he did successfully operate upon their pockets. Foolish although they have been, they are not altogether such fools as to drink dirty water, when they c.ri procure clear, even although they have Mr. HAwKiisLEy's authority that the dirty fluid is the best. No, no, Mr. lIAWKESLEY ! you have pre sumed far enough on our forbearance, and we only wonder why the Water Committee patiently listened to such sophistry. The time thus wasted would have sufficed to settle the water question, without any reference to HAWKESLEY'S mountebankism, in the only way it can be settlea satisfactorily, that is by an imme diate restoration of the well water. No more arrogant dictation from jobbing engineers or mendicant philosophers must be permitted longer to prevent this. The Committee adjourned their meeting until Thursday next, when they will proceed to con sider another report subrni'ted to them by their engineer, Mr. DUNCAN. In the meantime, we would again impress upon the Committee the advice we have over and again given them — to act according to their own unbiassed judg ments and honest convictions, without regard to the vagaries of conflicting engineers; by so doing they will best, promote the interests and wishes of the inhabitants. How the philanthrop:c mind r. j,)ices when the national voice resounds its notes of universal thankigiving to the Great Provider for ample and well harvested crops of the fruits of the earth. iuch notes of rejoicing have been just heard over the length and breadth of our highly favouredland, and who can tell the blessing; that will follow upon an abundant grain harvest in prospect of the claims that must be made upon u?, nationally, sooner or later, and in one f3rrn or another, before we have re-eEt tblished our rightful authority in India, and can again rejoice in having an empire upon which the glorious orb of day never sets. Already we notice that the prices of grain have fallen considerably, and contrast favourably with the rates which were current after the harvest of 1857. It is fairly to he anticipated that as the crops of grain are also reported to be large throughout Europe we shall sea moderate rates for food general throughout the year. It is well for us, too, that food is likely to be cheap for another reason, and that is, the position' - present and prospective, of all the industrial interests (and who can fulfil the task of adequately enumerating them) Which depend nearly or remotely upon the great staple—Cmora.. The day is past when a writer upon such a topic would incur the risk of being termed a speculator : the interests inseparably linked With the vast staple are no longer local, but national ; not confined to the narrow sphere of a few traders in bales of cotton, but fiad their place, in ,the, home of the peasant equally as in the palace of the noble, and can be traced laalpably by even an inattentive o'_)server as pervading almost every gradation and distinctive phase of our commercial system. It is not our intention to create any alarm, but simply to advert to the facts which stand out on the face of the broker's weekly circulars There it will be noticed that the elating stocks of American Cotton here are only 207 ; 000 bales aid of all sorts 297,000 bales against the figures respec tively of 499,000 bales and 842,000 last year. It will be known to most of our readers that we are entering uroti the period of interregnum in regard to the American Cotton crops ; that is, the supply from the old crop being exhausted, a consid2rable period will elapse before the new crop yields us a supply, and it is calculated that up to the end of the year not equal to 100,000 bales are likely to arrive. Frem the same brokers tables it appears that the average sales of American to our consu mers this year have been 28,500 bales per week. All this looks serious enough, especially with middling cotton at 9d, and upwards, but yet it may be said if the American crop in futuro yields tolerably the .prospect may not be so dreary. We wish we could write favourably upon that topic ; but as we cannot do so, and the reparts say good weather may yet give an average crop, let us hope for the best. Fortunate it is for us that the position of China exelud , s her from taking much cotton, and so what India usually sends to her comes here, and ye with that acci dental addition to supply, we have here, as we have noticed above, greatly less in the aggregate than was held a year ago. We have the very largest confidence in the potent influence of price, as calculated to extend production in this as in other articles. We have, too, little less confi lenee in the utility of letting our wants be generally known as a means of making an early supply adequate to them. Those who talk hastily upon th's subject, say, reduce your consumption of Cotton, but we know that that means also to employ less labour, and so to bring "gaunt want" to many a fireside, If this indeed, is in store for us, fortunate are we that we have at least the assurance of a cheap loaf as a compensation. 111UPINFES IN INDIA. • [COMMUNICATED.] WE would hardly wish to deprecate the anxiety felt by all classes at this moment as to the lives of our heroic soldiers, and the honour of our not less brave sisters in India; but, while we offer up our prayers for the safety of both, we are not prepared to feel so utterly hopeless and despondent of the issue as the greater part of our countrymen seem to be. JonN BULL is generally self confident enough, but on great occasions he allows himself to be influenced by the alarmists, who think that it shows a greater knowledge than their neighbours, to be alarmed for the safety of the nation, and to proclaim at the top of their voice that " the end of all things is come." With these patriots we feel little sympathy. That a great and awful disaster has occurred— that hundreds of our fellow countrymen and women have died a terrible death at the hands of those who were receiving our pay, and eating our salt—that our fair Empire, in India is over run with disbanded or revolted Sepoys—are undeniable facts, but we are not prepared to jump at the conclusion that the struggle is a life and death one for our supremacy, or that the crisis is such that all the Ministers must forego a few days holiday after the hard work of the session, or that our Queen should give up her healthful residence in the Scottish highlands, even if it be out of " Telegram" distance. In our recollection this is the third time that the absence of Ministers from London, or the annual residence of her Majesty at Balmoral, has been made an excuse for a regular onslaught on our responsible rulers for not attending to their duties. We have yet to learn that a few days' rest incapacitates a Minister from the due dis charge of his office, or that a couple of hours shooting in the morning prevents Lord PALMER STON from receiving his letters, and. despatching his well considered correspondence by the afternoon mail. With these few observations, we would dismiss the flaming " leader " of the .Daily News, on Saturday last; but the want of self-confidence displayed in that a.rtic!e is, we fear, a fair expres sion of the feeling of the country, and requires some reply. If we compare our present position with that which we occupied during the Crimean war, when pestilence, brought on by want of sanitorial arrangements—overwork, caused by military mis manage9aent and the French alliance—and want of stores and provisions, produced by the negli gent home officials—brought our army to the verge of utter desolation, and made the nerves of the nation thrill with agony at its sufferings, and with indignation at its authors, we thank Providence if' the experience there gained has so far prevented a repetition of the same disasters, But if we go back a few years in history, and consider the time when England, Portugal, and a few Spaniards stood alone against all Europe— when • we subsidised Austria, Prussia, and various German and Dutch Principalities, at the rate of one hundred millions a-year—and when victory against the most military nation of the continent, led by the greatest military commander the world has ever seen, crowned our endea vours—we need not despond because a few thou sand uneducated Sepoys, without a leader, raise thel standard of revolt in Bengal, unsupported even by the natives or by half the hereditary Minces of their own country. , The financial question is one of the least important we have ever had to consider. The nay of the disbanded army alone amounted to 2,000,000/. a-yest, which may now b.: transferred to the account of the British troops employed there, and would suffice to meet the expense of maintaining forty to forty-five regiments of the line ; the annual pensions of th revolted chiefs amount to about 9,000,0001. per annum, all of which is now forfeited ; but if the expenditure were five times as heavy, it could easily be borne by the descendents of those who paid one hun dred millions per annum in 1812, when the resources of the country were not half so large as now. The loss of life as yet, terrible as it has been in its details of women and children ruthlessly murdered, has not been great when looked upon in a military point of view ; the nutnber of offi cers and soldiers murdered in cold blood by the mutineers, killed during the sorties before Delhi, or who have fallen in the pitched battles in the HAVELOcK advance, or in the disastrous march on Arrah, do not exceed the casualties at the battle of the Al The native princes, with a few exceptions, have remained faithful to the sovereigntY of a ill ) Queen VICTORIA. The King of Delhi iS pet in the hands of the mutineers, as be ° so puppet in ours, when a few year s back' , coined rupees with his etfi-y, and the eVollP`fecii, NENA SAHIB has not been very gene rally to lowed. The native population have ' ll°ll ' to say the least of it, considerable indifferencl 4' the struggle now going forward ; and eve 00 they have not given our fugitives assistance t sib every occasion, they have certainly n° " b it with the ni utin eers to any o nside extent. ;bilitYl Want of decision, a fear of responsl- - tibe the imbecility of aged generals, have b eell If chief causes of the spread of the inn ti t ,o o General IlEwirr at Meerut, or Gener al at Dinapore, had shown the courage an d °P o o), which have distinguished EYRE, M. 4C193*. ati fi CAMPBELL, WILLOUGHBY, the L.ovnE ls°sl l,of many others, the mutiny would long ag ° assumed less fearful proportions; as i t 15 have no doubt that the worst is past , °at li o each week rolls by, bringing hundred s °i ll be into Calcutta and Bombay; confidence ' II I be gi restored to our countrymen, and terror ho le struck into the enemy, and that ere th e : fro o) of the thirty thousand m e n w h o have Sailebag England arrive in India, the mutineers will t di`' to exist as a body, and will be b° lace organised bands of robbers, hunted from to place by the natives themselves. aft er ' The telegraphic news received yesterday f a t noon confirms this opining. Troops °c oil arriving, and are as rapidly being pushed O r. • o p to the.f ront ; and the accounts of the disaff ec° of a Madras cavalry regime n t is amplY t d sated for by the confident hopes express ed army before Delhi. ded t°' As on the other occasions allu. t ot alarmists, as usual, look towards Fran ee ' t iff impressed by the new fortifications of Ch er , r o l (which some of them h a v e seen ), and t h " th io camp of Chalons (of which all have read)' that they perceive the ominous signs of °II : o il and begin to whisper that the Emperor t esi b iso advantage of our weakness, and drop da rk ,;lie of that favourite bugbear with all alarmists oc ir sudden descent of twenty-five thousand re ,4 men on the shops in the Strand, or on t he of England and the Lombard-street c0ff ,15 ' ,0 5. idea of a sudden invasion would bet 311 0 1 ' were it not fraught with the very dang er %v dt ( it fears ; nothing would be so likely t °11 0( such an event possible as the terror w hie4 very thought of it seems to cause, and its °5, nators will certainly be our English alar ini fec tlf \Ve are among those who have a P er / unlimited faith in English valour, English Proo and, above all, in the resources of the eO liti) Very true to our nature is the simile of th e Lion—that unfortunate quadruped so oft° I3d fully alluded to, whose name is so o ften tal‘e , oo l vain, and whose habits are so littlieind'lrs'o The deep feelings of the country have been 11 ; 1 aroused but once in the recollection °fol generation. and that was at the coma -151° 1( 0 1 of this century. The Crimean war fAi4O,Ol awake our dormant sense of power, and t° thod a real enthusiasm, though, if that contestv, lasted another six months, the result wou ld ; i f been widely different, fo r th e coun try Wa s b a . e i e ning to see the imp or t ance o f th e str lls ' which it was engaged. te 0 1 ' We would not be supposed to under °. gif dangers to which we are at this moment e c i ct: ( nor are we amon g the f a l se pr o phets'n r " Peace, peace, when there is no pe°elll' we believe that we shall in this, as on °' fro , occasions, come forth with renewed 1 1 °` fe e l / the struggle, and that while we ought to iit(4' the means in our hands, and all the r e :/ with which this favoured land has been g i " fe e ki Providence, we ought not to give way t° of despondency, or of want of self-conhcl ell .; which we find no excuse in the past 11 ' (l) the Nation. AMUSEMENTS. sr „ ti SAM COWELL' S F arewe ll an d B ene fit C on cert efio this evening, at the Freemason's Rail (as maY iILI 9 our advertising col umns ), on w hi c h o ccasion hi s7 j Miss Sidney C owe ll, w ill ma k e h er fi r st aPP e 7 r ; li fi r Liverpool. Report speaks most favourably a - 50 0- lay's talent, sh e h av i ng ma d e h er d e but at thee64:4 i Theatre, some months ago, for her father's b e t e ° which occasion she was most enthusiasti.!al l f MIS 3 Susan Wi g ht, M r . B. Thwler, and W . o ,', Bridgeman, also lend their valu a bl e a il, a nd s ye ,r 4 o6-.' doubt but a great treat is i n s t ore f or a ll w ho 00 t 's ' old sion lend a helping hand to the King of Calo ;e 1 01 111 " R )17AL, ED BC/N RGlE—After the " tr-l a, Ot. %. the season," in the i n t r od u ction of Italian °i": oi r si P d A ported b f the first artistes of the 'op ~v Giuglini, , and an " extra e') Br) to ceiling and do ors , M r . W yn dh am h as r eviv e t very excellent and s t an d ar d d ram farce' s and farc - LeO t l'i the number we may part i cu l ar i se t h e " Br ide cif moor," not only p u t upon t h e stage i n a very e' re l y) manner, but well performed throughout by ibe f C d members a of the co m p an y. F or t h e part A ° derv' one we shall fi n d b u t f ew b e tt e r interr Y ' 4 B ornl Mr. Harker; and is The Two Friends," Ai ig : Rose, Mr. Verner and Mr. Lyons, have Pe? o r) excellent. Mies Foote, a yoang, clever, e l l% ord, actress, has made herself a great favourite, dto ,. ? progress being observable in every part B . ll o °tt t e be o The very g roa t painstaking evinced by Ii connected with this theatre is, no doubt , f a i l" e" measure dae to the talent, kindness, and Paren. the fair manageress. pV 01l OP THE WEATHER h as changed again. t 5;. t . 1 16 „ fine, bright, and s un n y cs one c)u ht ; Tb remarkable, after the heavy rain of Sandq• THE AUSTRALIAN PASSENGE SHIP " L ILLI !; gr"....IIII fi chip, belonging to the Mersey ß Line, t ,rlei noon, with a full complement of passenger'' s . 1 0 1u tl ie t c ' h i three hundred in the 'twcen decks, and twen'!, i tiog cabin ; also a large and valuable cargo, tois'sh,,tbo"A wards Lf 2,000 tons. She is to be inceeded c o lf. u p s er ship Herald, a 1,600 tons register, t t5 ",,, 0 0 4611 0 Her acconamo cations for all classes or F o s are t of the e highest crier, and will, no doubt, reel sbarJ of patronage. THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29. 1857