Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-03 00:00:00

OOLOGIOAL GXRDENS, LIVERPOOL. vff THIS DAY (NIONDXY), the GRAND UNITED ORDEB sf ODDFELLOW3' GRAND FETE and G kLA will take place, for *Lich an array of Talent. have been engaged. The Lessee 13 happy t 3 inform his Patrons VIA he ha; Engaged Mr. W. F. WALLEIT, the celebrated Jester, and the DELAVANT I FAMILY, Nor FOUR DAY'S, cynmencing on TUESD kY neat, the 4th kunst And three following days. Mr. W. F. WALLETT, the shalcsparr.2. Jester, has had tie slushed mark of Royal favour, in bring patronised by Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, and most of the Crowned Heads of Europe. The DELAVANTI FAMILY will give their ExtrtOrdinary and Wonderful Entert.inment. The DRAMATIC COMPANY, which has nightly been re,eived with such enthu iaitic applause. will perform eich evening. EXTRA and SPLENDID FIREWORKS will take place each even ag, in a' ditioa to the other Amusements of the Gardens. Admission Is. Children 6d. All Improper Characters prohibited admission into the Gardens. G O R D O N CUMMING, LION HUNTER, Will appear THIS EVENING, and Every Evnning (ex ept Saturday), till further aJtize, in Liverpool, at the CLAYTON-EaLL, CLAYTON-SQUARE, And, snrroanled by the SPOILS and TROPHIES of his HUN riNG ACHIEVEHENT3, Gin his MIIiICAL and PICTORIAL ENTERTAINMENT, Doseriptive of h 1.3 EXPLOITS and ADVENTIJBES in the FAR INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA. The Hanter's Narrative will be ills trated by a NoTel Series of DIORAMIC SCENES; And the NATIVE BUSH PEOPLE from the GREAT KALAHARI DESERT, Will appear in their Characteristic Dances. SPECIAL PERFAIIIANCE ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON, At Two o'clock. Ldnission to the Gallery, 1%; Area Stalls, 2s ; Dress Circle, 3s. Commence at Eight o'clock precisely. T. GEORGE'S HALL ORGAN PERFORMANCES ' Will Le ...riven by the Organist, MR. W. T. BE ST, (EVERY SATURDAY AND THURSDAY. Saturday Afternoon . . ....... at 3 p.m. Thursday Evening • .... Admission on Saturday Afternoon, 6d ; Thursday Evening, 3d, The Concerts last one hour. Doors open half an hour before each performance. ISS SMITH AND EMILE L'ANGELIER, I- , -.11.- FULL LENGTH AND CORRECT LIKENESSES OF Hiss MT H AND L'ANGELIER ARE ADDEa T') ALLSOP'S CRYSTAL PALACE VAX WORK EXIIISITIoN, LINE-STREEr, LIVERPOOL, MIN SMIMEI Mod,lied from aDraw:ng tiken daring her Trial at Edinburgh. L'ANGELEI3 , Modelled from a Photograph now in the possels:on of Mr. ALlsop, the Proprietor a the Exhibition. The above Exhibition consists of upwards of 109 WAX FIGURES ; as large as Life; Emperors, Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses, Dukes, Lords, Statesmen, &c., &c., of all Nations; t - gether with SCHLPTLIRE LERIES, coritlioing m4E I Hundreds of Antlque and Modern Stat ivy, varying from five to fourteen feet in height. The Walls of the Pa:ace are ii,:cor .ted with Massive Looking Glasses. and Silk Flags and Panne , s. In the Evening the Palace is illuminated with a numb- r of Massive Gass Chandeliers. Tke Exhibition enlivened by Performances on a GRAND CON MCAT ORGAN :it intervals. Open from Ten a.m. to Ton p.m. Admission, 6d. Children, Half-price. ROYAL COLOSSETTM, PARADISE STREET. — Mr. Heath, Proprietor.—The National Palace of Cheap Amusements, and the most elegant Lounge in Europe NOITING LIKE it in LIVERPOOL. NOVELTY and VARIETY. A CHANGE EVERY EVE • ING. Crowded Houses—Matchless Entertainments—Endless Applause ! And what Wonder, when the Great& Combination of Taunt in England is Engaged at this Establishment. This Evening and daring the Week—With the most un - elnel satisfaction, the Management has to announce another week of the M gic Drama, A '• IGHT IN WONDE t WORLD, by PROF. HORMAN, the Great Wizard! Magic and Mystery. THE GREAT GUN TRICK; or, the Secret of Invulnerability. The Illustrations cf SPIBI I' RAPPING made still m ire striking, and invested wi'h greater interest. Excitement unparalleled at the HERCULES TRACTION 1 RICK, by means of which, an interest ing looking Child, seven years of age, can pull to the Ground One Thous ,no Stron4 den. No des Ca , ' be farm dof the Entertainment •r tie Marvellous Am. emb!..ge without paying a visit. Great Success of the migi- al JOE MILLER. Astounding success of Mr. and Mrs J. COOPER and their talented Troupe of Infant Artistes, I, their orig n Entertainmints. Triumphant reception of Mr. HAS BERRY, the Musics' Phenomenon, Pieco's rival and Champion D Continued success of the CHANTRELL FAMILY ! in their grand Classical Entertainments, in which they had the honour of appearing, by special command, before Her Majesty the Queen and the Boys. Family. Enthusiastic reception of MISS HOWELL, the pleasing Cantatrice, and Mr. BRAHAN, the eminent Baritone. air Dcors open at Half-pa it Six o'clocx, to commence at Seven Leader, and at asical Director, Mr. S TANN/SAD. The Powerful Braes Band under the Direction of Mr. J. A RTINGSTALL. Director of the Entertainments, Mr. HEATH, Jun. Children in arms will not be admitted. A Illusion—Upper Halt .6d. Lower 1441,W. 1C.74e Ruffian Tian MOYDAY, ,4UGUSI' 3, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. The full details of the news brought by the Overland flail has at length arrived, and we devote a coni,iderahle portion of this day' s impression with all that is interesting in the news. Taken as a whole, the news is as satisfactory as could b e expected, an I much more encouraging than the gloomy and 2 Icsponding would have led us to an ticipate. The total number of regiments which had mutinied Madras presidency, was com puted at fury, and fully twenty had been dis banded. According to the l a st re p or t s th e mu ti n y was as rife as ever, but most of the reels had maae their way to Delhi. This city is, no doubt, an important place, especially when we consider that it is open to receive men and sup plies. Bnt many circumstances, political as well as military, show that the natural aim of the mutineers to make Delhi their head-quarters has been of great advantage to us. Cot.fleting rumours prevail that Delhi has fallen, but no authenti.:: in tellig ace 3neeting that event had reached the Government. To meet and crush the mutineers at Delhi, General Barnard was said to have had, on the 16th of June, under his command, something like 6,000 men. His siege train had reached him on the Bth, so that he did not want the 18-pounders to which Lord Ellenborough alluded. He had determined to begin a hot fire on the 9th, and it was probably against tL e batteries of the besiegers that the fruitless sorties were made on the 9th and 14th June. Sir John Lawrence, with decision beyond praise, had sent up from the Punjaub some of his best troops, and— what is more—some of his best men—the Chamberlains and Nicholsous. The quiet of the Punjaub had rendered the resources of that country, as one of the early writers expressed it, "a mine of strength." Add to this, the passage of regiments up the Ganges as high as Allahabad ; the progress of the Bombay column to Mhow ; the proximate arrival of the China Troops; the possi ble arrival of a regiment from the Mauritius or the Cape; the fact that Calcutta was secured ; and it will be seen that, barring the climate and the coming rains, the position of Sir Henry Barnard renders it not improbable that the next mail will report some decisive results of this converging pressure on the rebels. The inteii: Tence from China confirms the tele previously received. Admiral graphic despZtchees Seymour was proceeding in the work of capturing the Chinese junks, and giving Highness the Imperial Commissioner Yeh a further proo : that England is in earnest upon the dispute in question. From what has taken place in the Canton waters we have little doubt but Lord Elgin will find his task of arranging a fresh treaty one of short dura tion, and extremely little difficuby. The steam-ship Arabia, which sailed from New York on the 22nd ultimo, arrived here yesterday forenoon, bringing 1,400 277 dollars and £3OO specie on freight Of this 112,009 dollars go to Havre, and 20,025 to London. The Arabia's news is meagre and unimportant. The chief item relates to renewed troubles in Kansas. Governor Walker had issued a proclamation, in which he says that the charter is set up not only without authority of law, but in direct and open defiance of the act of the Territorial Legisla ture. He then goes on to state wherein it contra venes the law, and recites the evils arising from the proposed course of the inhabitants of Lawrence. He stigmatises their acts as most iniquitous, and ncessarily involving awful consequences. He says —"you are inaugurating a rebellious revolution, disregarding the laws of Congress and the Terri torial Government, and conspiring to overthrow the Government of the United States in the Ter ritory. Your purpose, if carried into effect in the mode designated, by putting your laws fc, , reihly into execution, would involve you in guilt and in the crime of treason. You stand upon the brink of an awful precipice, and it is my duty to warn you ere you take the fatal leap. I warn you, then, ere it is too late, to recede from your perilous posi tion." He concludes thus —" It will be my purpose, if you persist, to spare bloodshed as far as practicable, and subject the leaders or the pro jectors of this revolutionary movement to the punishment - prescribed by law. I will accompany troops to Lawrence with the view of preventing if possible, any conflict, and in the sincere hope that the revolutonary movement contemplates and nearly accomplished will, ere it it too late, be abandoned." A late despatch from St. Louis mentions that Gov. Walker was camped outside of Lawrence, with eight companies of Dragoons, on the 17th instant. The citizens had decided not to negociate with him. They will not resist the troops unless fired upon, when civil war will be declared. Gov. Walker has warrants for the arrest of the city officers and other citizens of Lawrence. The West India Mail Steamer Parana reached Southampton on Saturday night. We give in an another column full details of the news. The chief topic of public attention and discussion related to the slave trade. The island was healthy, and the mining intelligence satisfactory. Cholera was prevalent in Demerara. The Court of Policy had all but passed the Militia Bill. Accounts from St. Thomas speak very strongly of the ravages of fever in that island ever since the West India mail steamers had made it their central rendezvous. The Continental intelligence this morning is not of any moment. From Paris we learn that Col. Barmann, for several years past Minister Plenipo tentiary of the Helvetic Confederation at Paris, has given in his resignation, and that his decision is announced as irrevocable. In January last M Barmann proceeded to Berne for the same pur pose, and it required all the eloquence of the President of the Federal Council and the entreaties of some of the leading members of that body to make him change his purpose. The Moniteur publishes a decree promulgating the convention recently concluded between France and the Grand Duchy of Baden, for the construction of bridges over the Rhine. By the first article of the conven tion, itis agreed that a mixed special commission, formed of delegates of the two States, shall meet at Carlsruhe or at Strasburg, as soon as possible, in order to deterhaine, subject to the approbation of their respective Governments, the different points at which the interests of the two States most imperatively call for the establishment on the Rhine of new means of passage either by fixed or flying bridges, Sze.; and by the second, it is decided that a permanent bridge between Strasburg and Kehl shall be immediately commenced, as being indispensable for the extension of the commercial ralations between France and Germany, and for giving to the intenational conveyances of the re ipective railways every possible development. Letters from the East again allude to the dissen sion that has arisen among the members of the Greek Church in consequence of the foolish con duct of the Vicar-Apostolic and the French Consul about imposing the Gregorian calendar. Rather than submit to this wanton innovation, many of the Greek Catholics have preferred becoming Schismatics. At Beyrout, it would appear, the bishop, priests, and the population of the diocese have refused to recognise the Pope any longer as head of the Catholic Church, as the Court of Rome has not vouchsafed to take any notice of the remonstrances addressed to it against the forcible introduction of a nomen clature which is so contrary to their usages and traditions. Our local news this morning does not contain much that is interesting or important: Two fires took place yesterday, one in Mr. Alderman Bennett's premises, in Sir Thomas's-buildings, and the other in the establishment of Mr. Jackson, organ builder, Camden-str‘et, London•road. The former was a minor affair, but Mr. Jackson is said to have sus tained considerable damage. Yesterday the Rev. J. Martineau preached his farewell 'sermon to his late congregation, in Hope-street The esimation in which this rev. gentleman was held by his flock not only for his erudition as a scholar and a divine' but his great moral worth as a minister of the Gospel and a private citizen, attracted a large congregation ; and the rev. pastor, having preached a brilliant and deeply affecting discourse, bade his hearers farewell. Sighs and sobs were audible, and all present left the chapel fu;ly impressed with the cenviction that Liverpool was about to lose the ministerial services of one of its greatest divines. The celebrated clipper ship Lightning, Captain Enright, which sailed from Melbourne on the (.SAI of May, arrived here on Saturday, with 32,856 UZ3. of gold, valued at £131,500. THE details of the news from India have reached us, and we compile from Bonibay and Madras files full particulars. Before noticing the leading aspect of affairs in the Indian terri tory, we have to say that we were not wrong in the opinion stated by us on Saturday, respecting the final issue of the serious and important struggle now going forward. Generally speak ing, the telegraphic despatches i n ant i c i pat i on of the Overland Mail were tolerably correct The principal feature that is new in the detailed particulars just to hand is the movement which has commenced to exhibit itself among the native princes. However, we have not sufficient infor mation to enable us to form anything like a definite opinion thereon. The arrest of the King of Oude is fully confirmed, but upon what charge we are left for the present t 0 conjecture. It was said (but OA reports were confined to Commtrctat Daltk—Zbfs At one o'clock, at the brokers' saleroom. 1, Chapel-strer, about 100 bales Cotto Titherington and Gill. At s'even o'clock, at the commercial sa'eroom, Temple-court, a quan of Fruit—James Adam, S n and Co. A. twelve o'clock, 100 tons Sapanwood. and 120 tons Logwood.—Cox Brothers. At twelve o'clock. 300 bags Nitrate of Sods.—Finlay, Lawrence and Lance. ' r For particulars see: advertisement'. AMUSE AE_ifa, PLTI3LtO MEEILS.jo, &c. TBIA DAY. RCTAL AM NUT FlZATRE—Dramatie Performln C 3-7 p.m. CLArrolg HALL, Clayton-agave—Gordon Cumming- 7 3 p.m. ROTAS. Cownszum—Genaral Entertainment-6.30 p.m. ZOOLOSICAL GAILDENi—Grand and Varied. Entertainmente. Lames CZYSTAL PALACE!, Lime-street-10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Cff - For particulars see advertisements. TO OUR READERS. In consequence of the fire on our premises on Friday eveniag, the arrant ements for the publication of the NORTHERN TIMES of Saturday were Impeded, and we have to apologise to the public for short supply of papers on that morning, being only enabled to print a sufficient number for our subscribers, and these we had to have machined at the Cuur;er office. THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, AUGUST 3. 1857. native sources) that he had joined and counte nanced a plan to overturn British rule and authority in Bengal and Upper India, and thereby restore the i'lussulman dynasties. In carrying out this scheme, we are told that to the titular King of Delhi was to have been given the North-West territory. Lower Bengal was set apart for the kingly sway of His Majesty of 0 ude, and the hereditary possessions of the family was to be bestowed upon his brother, whilst the Nawab of Moorshedabad was to be rewarded with other portions of our Indian possessions. At present these are only presented to us as rumours, but there cannot be a doubt that if there has been any settled plan or systematic i,-2ot at the foundation of the mu tiny, it is most likely to have proceeded from the former rulers of India. As to the Rajah of Gwalior, he is in a position not favourable to England. All his troops are in revolt against the English Suzerainate. He remains with his army, but has not countenanced any attack upon European officers, and sent in all the European females. The disbanding of the Bengal army has proceeded, so that, at last advises, it existed only in name. No confidence can be placed in it. The Sikhs at Benares remained faithful, and hopes were entertained that their religious antipathies to B rah in inism would keep them so. We are. also told that, notwithstand ing the occurrences at Simla, the troops remained loyal to the British flag. As far as we can per ceive, the Bengal and Bombay armies remain faith ful, but there were certain evidences of political uneasiness in the Nizam's dominions and at Sat tarah. The accounts from Delhi are of a hopeful character. Although no positive information had reached the Bombay authorities, the capture of that city was certain to be effected. To show the extent of the mutiny, we may remark that we have a list now before us which specifies that no less than fifty-eight regiments of the Bengal army had mutinied, and twenty had been disarmed. These latter, if they can obtain arms, will no doubt join the rebels. Such is a mere precis of the position in which we now stand. No doubt the details are gloomy enough, and cause timid minds to fear for the final result. The moment of peril is not, however, a time for encouraging a feeling of trepidation or des pondency. Without noticing the probable result of this important entente, we cannot refrain from observing that from what has already transpired, the military system of the whole Indian Empire has shown itself to be incompetent .and weak. The revolt of the Madras army proves how short sighted our military administrators have been when they proposed to bring Lord DALHOUSIE home at once to the ministry of war, and to put an Indian general, with a staff of picked Indian officers at the head of the army. The reflections arising from a perusal of the details of the Indian news are such as to satisfy any one that our military resources are quite as hollow in India as at home, and that the black spots of incapacity, want of forethought, decision of character, and military corruption, spread and penetrate into every country and every clime where the British standard floats over armed forces. We can detect but slight difference between the military reports from India and what we received during the Crimean campaign. Now, as then, want of foresight in the generals, an absence of management on the part of the subordinates, a vast arsenal left comparatively unprotected, dangers of the most serious character provoked, without due means of facing them being provided, are everywhere conspicuous, In a word, capacity in the ranks and incapacity in all other grades seem to be the lea ling traits in the Indian mutiny. When we come to dissect the subject in all its bearings we shall not find difficulty in demonstrating that from the Court of Directors down to a mere lieutenant in charge of a company of native troops, that there has been incapacity or unwillingness—in some instances both combined—to perform a simple but pressing duty. Should this be so, it will cause the people of this country to consider whether a royal charter should be given to a trading and commercial company to rule the destinies, poli tical, social, and moral, of an Empire unequalled in geographical extent and position by any other un the face of the globe. As in the Crimean campaign, we have every confidence that the result of the struggle will be the complete and permanent supremacy of England in India, and that in re-organising the Indian army care will be taken to do away with the system of growing incompetence which has penetrated every one of its higher grades. THE adjourned debate on the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill was resumed in the House of Commons on Thursday, and again on Friday, and for once the mini,try has manifested energy enough to determine to carry through the Bill this Session. No doubt the opponents or the measure have been induced to endeavour to strangle it, from the fact that Lord PALMERSTON and his collegues have ex hibited on several occasions an extraordinary amount of pusillanimity, and dreaded to en counter an earnest and determined opposition. As we remarked last week, the motion for a post ponement of the further progress of the bill for a month, was urged upon grounds flimsy and fallacious in the extreme, and if the arguments advanced by Mr. GLADSTONE and others, in favour of the amendment proposed by Ur •• , HENLEY, be good for anything, they would cer tainly plead an ample justification for their re jecting and refusing to deal with every question brought before them. These very same gentle men do not generally chose to be led by the House of Lords, or to recognise ;71 right of the Peers, spiritual and teranejrab to take the initia tive in a measure relating to the social and moral elevation of the people. The debate of Thursday showed clearly that the opponents understooo all its provisions with accuracy, and as it proceeded the good sense of the majority of members present compelled a discussion on the merits of the bill, and not on points of fan ciful technicalities, or objections urged by a species of special pleading, alike derogatory to the matter in hand, and those gentlemen who had recourse to them. Having been com pelled to debate the question in its entireity, the opposition led by Mr. HENLEY censured the Government for adopting such a strong line of policy, but at the same time they shrunk for assuming any line at all in op posing the Bill. What is the answer of Government to this charge ? They declare that they do not seek to create facilities for divorce, and merely aim at transferring a class of causes, which, unfortunately, frequently occur, from the final decision of the Legislature to a properly constituted legal tribunal. They do not seek to infringe upon the principles of the marriage law, by which the continuance or cancel ment of the marriage bond is decided, but merely desire that a law which dates back full two centuries ago shall be administered before properly qualified and selected judges. Crina. con. cases, that are a public scandel, they desire to abolish, and to give every facility for redress which man or wife can desire for the crime of adultery, and offences akin thereto. Now, read the speeches of Lord JOHN MANNERS, Mr. DRUMMOND, Mr. BOWYER, and Mr. MALINS, and analyse their respective arguments, and what do they amount to, simply that they admit the necessity for a change in the administration of the marriage law, but do not contend that marriage is indissoluble; at the same time they will hold the advocates of the Bill responsible for all the results which may arise from putting its provisions in force, and lay to their doors the blame of all adulteries, fornications, bigamies, and poligamies, &c., which may hereafter take place. Such a mode of attempting to defeat the Bill is childish—it is political cowardice without the smallest fraction of reason. It is somewhat singular that the opponents of the Bill, whilst they cannot or will not prove the indissolubility of marriage, will deny facilities for releasing a man from a bad wife or vice versa. In admitting that there should be divorce, Messrs. HENLEY, GLADSTONE and Com pany would perpetuate the old, cumbersome, and costly tribunal, the House of Lords, and the Ecclesiastical Clourt., Iu raw, Lney would make the Church the dispenser of laws regulating the social and domestic concerns of families. The more the opposition to the Bill developes itself, the more do we detect priestly intolerance and ecclesiastical arrogance. Hence, we cannot wonder that Mr. BOWYER, the great advocate of the Roman Catholic persuasion in the House of Commons, should designate the Bill as one infringing upon the very foundations of society, and the fundamental principles of the Divine law. We presume to differ with this learned gentle man. We hold that there is nothing in the Divine law to compel a man to live with a woman who is an habitual adulterer ; nor for a woman to spend her life with a man, whose conduct towards her is cruel and beastly in the extreme. We have somewhere read in the inspired pages—" Be ye not unequally yoked together." The very phaseology of the text shows that it partakes of the character of a command ; and, when we consider the miserable consequences of a union where the habits, thoughts, and feelings of the man and woman are diametrically opposite, we cannot wonder that the supreme ruler should positively prohibit such unnatural contracts. It would be easy to argue, from both the Old and New Testament, in support of the Bill, and in contravention of what Mr. MALINS and Lord JOIIN MANNERS advanced, but a reference to the laws of England now existing. show that parties divorced may marry again. We hope that now the House of Commons has virtually assented to the principle of . the Bill, no more factious opposition will be offered, and that the advocates of the doctrines propounded by :the Bishop of OXFORD and Mr. BowYER will find no further sympathy. The measure is a just and necessary one, and we trust Government will push it forward with energy and determination. I . .PT Or PASSENGRRI PER B.M.S. ARAMA, YORK To LIVEn . OOI'..—MiSS C. Guerin and friend, Mr. an.] Mrs. DI, Miss Stewart, Miss M. L. Weaver, Mr. and Mniel G. hay, Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Brown, and servant, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Ransom, two Mires Goner, Mr. N. P. Stewart, Miss M. Mitchel, Miss P. Swift, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Powel, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Eseher, ju* two children, and nurse, Mrs. Ash, Mr. and Mr- Walker, Miss Bates. Miss Gere, Mcs:rs. Yourg, J. Charles Green, Charles Mason, J. A. Sr ' nalana, daughter Liters and, Messrs. J. W. Owens, Lauton, Bernlie, S. Rock', Colonel Grasser Walter, James Caugbey, E. Saparta- ' lllll3 ' • D. Kuusf, J. Vasherg, James Pinta. , Fran is Valcz. S. W. Alvood, J. 0, Me. Torice, sister, Strut, James Bichan, B. W. jr , nee , Master Biagi, Messrs. anA. d o m m a i i p d b , o A n l s r e . n N , ra E l ! a n t i a n n s d ll o l l ey r. n, Mrs. Gener Lud servant, E. Seers, Master Georg,: M. KMi r e . an T. a L n e d v ta; Lees, ' liar, ckhill, Livey, F Messrs. P. Ge - Jrice and infant, Mr. and Mrs. W. R der, Henry Alderhy : J. Leinan, H. jnn., M. Ts• "Tissandier, J. H. Martin, Andrew Law, Romagosa Bev ' George Pantos, Mr. S. B. Joh n F a r _dad two sons, Mr. Manuel Romagosa, Rev. Bancrc.` D. 11., Mr. and Mrs. Strachar, Messrs. J. G. Vero • , t, F. E Parker, Osborne Chambers, L. Loreng, T. - Fos'er, J. B. Payon, J. Goiner, R. Propley, Mr. • ()rice's man servant, Messrs. Barzelo Howes, M. Steel, J. iWright, Meat-H, Lear, S. F. Edwards, Ferguson, Mr. Lee's, servant. . THE REV, MR. MARTINEATJ'S FAa.. SWELL SERMON. Yesterday the Rev. James Martineau delivered his farewell sermon to the congregation whose minister he `,ad been for 25 years. The Hope-street church was densely crowded in every part, add gnat numbers belong. ing to other congregations and religious denominations were among those present. The Rev. Mr. Martineau selected as his text, the seventh verse of the third chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians—" Neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth, but God tae:t giveth the increase." Sinking deep into these words of the ai.e estle said the rev. gentleman, he touched the ~. ranchorage in that agitating hour. He only ground is. . 's all. Let him hold to that rock, and was nothing..-.t get e grief, fear, and love, sweep by. let the passionate tide re glad to merge ourselves There were times when WC Ws, end lessen the size of away into a speck of insignifleatieo e eestness of the all things mutable and sorrowful, by the in that Divine light and space. So let it be 'with Mtn „, f hour. He desired to escape from hineeelf into Mee whose husbandry he was the transient instrument, wbo gave the seed to plant the field, and the showers to water I t, and who never ceased to provide the increteee. , Even from his friends around, whose parting looks, if they were seen alone, would too much move him, he would fait; escape into a more august presence. He would fain steady his uncertain eye by fixing it on those who once were with them, but who had passed to the service of a higher world. The seats of the church were far from including all who were among them that day. Behind the visible congregation to whom he spoke, there was an invisible crowd. The comrades who once mingled their voices with those now present ; the elders who had laid their burthens down among them ; the children snatched from the threshhold to the very crown of life—all of whom death had promoted from their company —seemed among them now, and from their shadowy ranks many a well-known face seemed to look towards h'ne, and many a familiar tone to be heard. Yet these times were, alas, but the echo of his own feelings. The cloud of witnesses around them could shed the truest light upon their paths, could they but know whether those who were gone yet thought and cherished any love which was born with their worship herel whether any snatches of the earthly strains, still blended with their soundless prayers ; whether they had, w:nout a change of gospel, entered upon a change of worlds, he would fain take courage and believe that when that congregation joined to-day in a parting hymn, the dead and the living would swell the sound. The twenty-five years of service which had now reached their close, were, no doubt, much in any indivi dual life, and were fraught with the spoils of an entire generation. For each individual they had, doubtless, written a long story; and, in the cabinet of memory, had set many a tragedy wrung from their hearts. But in the life of a church, and still more in the history of humanity, such a period was but a little spot, barely enabling them to trace the course of a movement, and forbidding even the presumption to take its measuse. Changes, however —perceptible changes—there must have been during an interval so considerable. Such a period could not pass over a society and a denomination such as theirs without altering the proportions, if not shifting the centre of its development. Whoever had lived with them through that period, whoever could transport himself back in memory to the commencement of it, must surely be aware that the seasons were somewhat altered for their faith; that the lights and shadows of their religious life, fell not precisely as they did once ; that the words and thoughts which stirred them to their depths wore not exactly the same ; that their relations to Christendom were more general; and that they were passing from outward courtesies to something like inward sympathy ; so that upon the whole if it were possible exactly to reproduce the administration of religion which adequately served for the last genera tion, it would scarcely serve to assuage the living thirst to bed the prooont socrct of their souls. Let them leave it to narrow-hearted men to treat this change as a reproach to the age, or as its pride, and to dispute whether the morning twilight of God's truth was fairer than the evening, and the spring of the northern hemi. sphere than that of the southern. Let them rather recog nise the season which God adjusts at will, and sees that it is good. His truth, they might depend upon it, was something infinite, which could not be rounded off. His light was an everlasting stream, which cannot cease fliw ing ; and so long as faithful men would humble themselves to be his organs, he would not want for true interpreters. Nay, even reaction was but part of a Providential law of osciliation in completing the beat of each movement of progress. Into the spaces of thought which were left cold and vacant in one age, rushed the enthusiasm of the next. By leaving perhaps dry and stranded some deserted truths, the reflux of a third age might yet reach them. We are all of us the children of our own time. Its tem perature reaches, whether we know it or not, to the very pulses of our hearts. Against the truth, as it had been committed to others, he did not in any degree presume to measure the truth which they had received. Each one must speak as he saw. He would speak of what had pos. sensed him from the beginning, and which would hold him until he could perceive better than as through a glass. Darkly, the one deep faith which had determined his whole work and words among that congregation, was a faith in the living union of God with our humanity. Long did that faith live obscurely within him, ere it could find its way to a clear joy. It was not enough for him to believe that God exists. ~,It did not satisfy him to believe that God was the living king of all, who stood aloof from all. It was very hard to believe that he dwelt and never stirred in the universal space ; that he restricted all to an inexorable law which could never hear the most piercing shriek, and look with strong eye upon the upturned face of agony. It seemed to him to stain the very Heaven to charge God with the origin of human guilt, to represent him as moulding man into sin, and then punishing him out of it. A mere constructive and l egislating God, satisfied to adjust co-existence, and to establish successions ;2 who filled the cold sky, and brooded over the waste sea, and watched upon the mountain head, and embraced the waxing and the waning moon, and suffered the tide of history to sweep by him, unmoved by its most passionate and sur ging waves—a God who wrung from us thousands . ot sighs which never touched him ; who drew forth from us, by day and night, millions of prayers which he never answered—puch a one it was vain ever to attempt to I trust and to love. ,Nay, at times, faith] in such a being, seemed but to turn the darkness of Atheism into flame. Nor could he believe the stillness and inaccessibility of God att all compensated by exceptional miracles. An oce_a,ssional message rather served to render more sensi ble and undeniable the usual absence and silence; nor could the sender say to his servant, " You go back," without implying, " I stay hero." Merely to add to the Deists' God of nature, an historical fragment of miracle did nothing to meet the exigencies of human piety. We pine as prisoners until we reach the air of that supernatural life, where he lives eternally. We are parched with thirst until we can approach the running water of that quickening and filling affection. We seek for him imme diately—him in person—him in the whispers in the day—and eye to eyein the night—him ready with moistening dews for every dried heart, and breathing hope for every sorrow. Does the incubus of nature press ? Enter into his spirit and you will throw it off. Are you haunted by the con stancy of law ? Balance it by the perpetuity of inspira tion. God's presence in the lower realms of the universe, would seem to him but a cold unreality —a Pagan dreary, if he could not trace him in the highest realms of all the consciences—the spirits of /415 childroh, Surel;; : tba changes of time and season, the day and night, the Arctic frost, could better spare him than the overcharged heart and fevered life of our humanity. In Christ alone there was a reconciliation, perfect between the human and the "vine. We all find in Christ God's ideal purely a.. 1 . but the t wo na t ures wh i ch are i n h i m meet inrealise... only an exempl ar o f th e li v i ng and constan t unionall, and of he God b' wu _ h our humanity. Such was th e f a i t h t (the preacher) as th e ver y which always possessed him. principle of life. How far he ;lad been able to awaken it in his hearers, and by its power to stir in their hearts the waters of healing and consolation, only the discerner of hearts and spirits knew. Necessarily it had affected all his teachings and instructions, and imparted to them. perhaps a character of more intensity and breadth. Hence the urency with which he had aspired to rise with them out of the regions of obedience into the regions of communion, not only to leave behind the calculations of spiritual prudence and self-interest, but to emerge even from the necessities of moral seledepenaance, anjt fully to pass into the hand of God. Service is for the distant—sympathy for the near. We should not blame those who cannot shape themselves to order, but who are - eoulded by the gentlest pressure of reverence and freely — e -elution is weak love. In spiritual things zee_ , and soon drops the Labouring oar, but Faith, spreading her sheet, flies beforethe winds of heaven. Purely ethical, weking under the moral law, gives' a Jewish hardness to our individuality. liis aim was to loose the rersonal will, lAA the ties of the Divine affections, and to be reconciled by' becoming one with the living spirit of holiness. Surely we had enough in the rough world to secure self-respect, and we might be able to bear something of the humble and modest trust which flows from the conscious presence of God's life in our hearts. Hence, also, he had ever striven to foster among them what he might call the lesser attachments of our inner life. The genuine admiration which flows into hearts genial and pure from objects short of the very highest. The huge chasm which Protestant ism placed between the Creator and the created, between human loves and the divine affections, was painful to him. He would rather cling to the Catholic veneration for the saints, as a minor form of love, akin in type to that which passed f nite bounds. Nature, art, and character thus presented to the eye thousands of resting-places for the upward toil. Resting-places there were which were far from detaining the progress upwards, but which carried the vision upwards by an ascending attraction to the light of lights. Unaided by such assistance, men were apt to carry on at once two lip es, which never mingle the ideal and the actual, the devout and the secular, and to dip in and oat by the force of influence or of reason, conscious of a mechanical mixture without any blending of identity. Again, the same sences of the living union of God with humanity would relieve from all fear and anxiety respecting the issues of enlarging knowledge, scientific and historical. The vanity of progress and the shrineing of conservatism were egotist both, which should lose themselves, their fancies and their fears, in a full trust of God's infinite realities. The spirit which, in relation to other questions, and as to his indivi dual course of ministration had guided him in that con gregation, the rev. gentleman further explained, and then proceeded :—But these lingering words must have an end. He had only desired once more to count over the stored up fruits of 25 years, and then to turn upon them the key of sacred memory, and depart. The past time had been rich in precious friendships, chastened with some holy sorrows, but darkened, thank God, by no shadows of estrangement. He had had an asso ciate possessed of a large mind and a genial heart, one loved and honoured beyond most living men, and another to whom it, would be a pure joy to leave his charge in that church, that fair and stately house of God, whence, indeed, many faithful had been called to one yet statelier, but where a congregation still assembled. They had had schools created for the Sunday, and vastly increased for every day, They had classes for the young, whose ranks were never better filled. Thep had i erovsiee:h of ore of bOOO Co.:1,11e atudliuuS eye, an d discussions for the enquiring mind. They had the festival of communion attended by large numbers, the traces were everywhere of a successful brotherhood of Christian labours. These were blessings from which it needed a very importunate season of duty to call him. Yet these evidences of outward encouragement, were they ever so great, would not at all answer his prayer for some vestige of benediction upon his labours. Far more sweet to him would it be if, in all that time, but a few souls, nay one here and one there, were reborn into, a diviner faith, love, and trust; if, above all, he could think that any of those who has exchanged their communion for a better one still felt the tones which they had received here not out of tune with the higher harmony which they now enjoyed. In conclusion, the rev. preacher said--And now the last word must come. It was human to wish not to be forgot. Yet they might believe him, that to bo lose from their memory, and to die away by the dawn of what was higher, was his most present and inmost wish. Could he indeed fear, that hereafter heedless change and fading reverence might betray into a lower mood ; that instead of taking up the beauty of the place:and the afil tence of their opportunities as simple organs of expression, for their own prayers, they should degrade them into a mechanism of attraction, into the rhetoric of a sect canvassing for worldly but not real worship—then, indeed, it would be a bitter thing to be thus forgot. But for the rest, the sooner and the further a greater and a holier spirit snatched them away, and left the years of the past unshadowed and traceless, the intenser would be his joy, that his work had reached its end, that he had been poured out and lost upon the offering of their faith, and that the sacrifice was paid and completed. The sermon, of which tho above is but a necessarily imperfect abstract, was listened to with the deepest attention, and amid many evidences of irrepressible emo - Lion on the part of the hearers. THE COUNCIL AIBETING.—ThI Council meeting on Wednesday will be held in the small Concert-room, St. George's-hall, in order to ascertain whether this room is more suitable for the purpo e then the N-ventilated, and in many other respeCs inconvenient, chamber where the Council Mao transactyd their business up to the present. , . DEATH FROM EXCESSIVB DRINKING.-13etween three and four o'cicck on Saturday moraine, a sailor was found drunk, near the Custom-house. ge was lying on the ground, and was quite insensible. He was :taken to the Northern Hospital, but never rallied, and he died there on Sunday. Au American protection ticket, bearing the name of J. Wells, was found on him. - An inquest will be held on the body this clay. NEW CHURCH AT HIGHER BEBINGTON.—On Satu• the foundation-stone of a new church was laid at T .relay Bebington 197 Mrs. W. V. Willis, the wife of „‘ f , i gher Valiant Willis, of bighei Bebington. The , -- 31 r. W. be called " Christ Church." and the finer church ia to . 4 foundation-stone explains its history. IP ription on the, holy and:Tilef blessedoundatio ion-ssatovneuro,f thi3 churn . !s as follows : was l a id .. ..-t..)., dedicated to our year of grace, 1857, by Eliza 711 . , 1 t a .. !" 6 ” Day, in . the Valiant Willis, Esq. The 1 . a , , d 0 ""' 1 1! ; 15 " 'de of liam r.fisiderel ' was erected was the r..eft of 1v,.0 .ch this building Higher of Woodcy„h , a „,, the Rev. Joshua of Pebington, aie d th e fur !' - George King, Esq., .ds were contributed by a to erect a church to„ th e ~ , , js „ . et a privilege to be enabled few individuals who e lof God in this place. Wal ter Scott, arcbi t act; Jae - church is to be. in the .eel Routledge, builder." The arehitectue, and is 11 , first or pointed style of English will consbt or a ; , accommodate about 400 persons. It wit n h ave, north and south aisles, chancel. organ chapel ) • length of 0 . cnr:s and sacristy ; and the total e nave will he 84 feet 7 inches, and of the chancel 1 ' -8 feet—in all 112 feet 7 inches, with awid9'. of nave, including the aisles, of 57 feet. Be fore 'ale ceremony of laying the stone, the Rev. George Troughton, LL.B., Incumbent, delivered an appropriate P .ddress. Among the other clergymen and gentlemen , present were—Rev. Mr. Coxon, Rev. J. King, Rev. P. 1 Robin, Rev. Mr. Wiltink, Rev. Mr. Franks, and Messre. w. V. Willis, M. Willi , , V. A. King, J. Cli n t, an d B. Troughon. n the course of time a tower and side aisles will h e added to the building.