Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-27 00:00:00

SAILING OF THE FOXHOUND.—The Foxhound, Capt. Sims, for Tunis, sailed early yesterday morning, from one of the northern docks. • • MR. MANSFIELD, THE STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE. — We understand it has been definitely fixed that Monday next, the 2nd of January, will be the last day on which Mr. Mansfield will sit as a magistrate in our police court , LA.mps ron HIRE.—Noiv - and during the season, Lamps, in every shade and variety, with oil to burn in me, can be had on moderate terms at the New Light Uompany, 19, Great George-street. djl6 CHRISTMAS CHEER.—Families residing within five miles of Liverpool can, be supplied with Burton mild 411 d bitter ales of the first brand, as also London stout, in 41, 9, and Ik3 gallon casks, by sending their orders. or calling at T. Bolton's, family ale and porter merchant, 110, Duke-street. ACCIDENT YESTERDAY.—A labouring man, named Thomas Do; le, residing at 11 Court, Burlington-street, received a severe compound fracture of the arm, by an iron tank falling upon him while at work in a boiler /Iyd in Oil-street. He was taken to the Northern aospital, where it was found necessary to amputate the inj tired limb. FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE AT BIRKENHEAD.—On Sunday, a greengrocer named White, residing in Chester atteet, Birkenhead, whilst in a state of delirium tremens, ran up a chimney in the sitting-room of his house. There was a fire in the grate at the time,' and he was" terribly burned abOat the head, arms. and breast. It took the efforts of four men to extricate the . unfortunate man from his position, and he lies . in a very precarious State in the Birkenhead hospital. ...INQUEST AT BIRKENHEAD.—Yestaday afternoon, Churton held an inquest at Birkenhead over the body of Margaret McCanna, aged,6 years, daughter of • 'John McCanna, 211, Chester-street. It appeared that !bout fifteen months ago the deceasOd sustained severe Injuries at Glasgow, by accidentally falling down stairs, d that she had been in ill-health from'that time until the day of her death: Averdict was returned 'that the deceased died from the effects of the fall in question. CAUTION TO PEnEwritiANs.--Yesterday evening two Women attempted to cross Lime-street, nearly opposite the railway terminus, but in doing so, appeared to take no 'notice whether such a proceeding was safe in that very crowded thoroughfare. A cab, just then passing, Struck them, and both - women were prostrated in the Miry street, and nearly ran over by another. vehicle Which was going in the opposite direction. Fortunately the drivers succeeded in pulling . up their horses, and the women were rescued from their perilous position, with no other injury 'than disordered, and terribly bedabbled garments. GRAND CONCERTS IN ST. GEORGE'S HALL.—FTOIII °ltr advertising columns it will be seen that the band of her Majesty's Coldstream Guards are to give a series of three concerts in 'St. 'George's - Hall; on • Miinday,• the 9 th, and Tuesday the 10th of January next. • In addi !ion to the efficient services of this celebrated military, band, Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. -Harrison are en gaged as vocalists for these concerts, which cannot fail to: prove very attractive. ' Tuesday, December 27, 1859. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. THE VOCAL UNION. This society gave a performance; of the " Messiah" ' 4 4 Saturday evening last, at St. George's-halls and. we litere seldom heard an oratorio so well performed with small means. Considering the limited number of ‘ne voices, the choruses were given with surprising t teet, and Mr. Best rendered the accompaniments on the organ with the greatest skill, though he, was some -1133.es a little too loud in the solos. : The organ is, .deed, a very ungracidus instrument for, accompanying single VOices . ; however softly it may be played, there is -always a Certain degree of heaviness about it which ferns to weigh down and obscure the voice more or less.- solo_ parts in the oratorio were taken by Miss -miles; Miss Clara Hiles, Mr. Morgan, and Mr. Bran the two latter from Lincoln's Inn' Chapel, London. Mss Riles sang better than we haye ever heard her. Clara Hiles sings very correctly, but the 11 , 11 akitp of her voice is not very pleasing, and 8 " Wants more variety and expression. Mr. Morgan's si nging, was very good, but he unfortunately wants . Power- in his upper notes, and ,was occasionally rather I kt of tune. Concerning Mr. Brandon, we may safely 44 Y, that we have rarely heard th e b ass a i rs in the Messiah" sung better, and we'hope, we may have the Pleasure of hearing him again in Liverpool. " The oratorio was considerably shortened by the .%4ssioauf a good many pieces,' but it was a mistake to stlike out the chorus "He trusted in God," which is one of the finest and' most original of Handel's cona Positions. The hall was well filled except in the reserved 488t3 ) Which were all but empty. The performance le emed to be much enjoyed by the audience, and - in °j °l Y respect did great credit to the' society. X. • T HE PANTOMIME AT THE THEATRE ROYAL. • • 41. L ITTLE SNOW-WHITE; 9R HARLEQUIN, PRINCE O ttoRNHEART, AND THE FAIR MAIDEN WHO NEVER "„, -V W HER FACE IN A GLASS." , A .: 4 1 -I C II is the title, as we announced in our 'columns of t i t e rday, of the gTand Christmas pantomime produced , night at the Theatre Royal, for th 6 first time. Our teltders are already aware of the authorship, and those ho attended last night will, we feel sure, add their as to ours, that the clever manner in which . it tn " represented has already stamped its character as ti, - e,of the best, if, indeed,lifot: the , vett best, pantomime has been produced in Liverpool for many years. ° .„, 111 past experience, the public can place confidence * to 'Copeland's endeavours to please; .and it was rho ,ear Prising to see a - very well-filled house. The and le scenery in general is gorgeous—magnificent— gli`..•tbe representation of the fairy bower of the Qn Zephyrus was of the most dazzlinc , description. n o gg the p er f ormance some o f our local buildings of to c ,are show n w ith goo d e ff ec t ; arid a scene represent .l4 °I. George's-hall and the Lime-street railway ter- Tn,, 43 7 is deserving of highly commendable mention. .4,„," n inth scene is the model prison and lock-up in the ,flions of Ki ng S quan d er , wh ere th e ki ng , i n pro 'cinging sentence on the prince, says : • A dreadful doom is yours, we here decree it, Although we scarcely have the nerve to see it, • Prepare yourself for poison, slow and sure, ';* drug that kills most whom it tries to cure; • With mixture of "Dock Board proceedinys," 'vith a devotion of "choice Vestry pleadings," , "Tow,: Council speeches," we will then infuse, Ar,d stupefaction in a trice ensues. 9f this ch o i ce m i x t ure you s h a ll h ave your fill, " it won't.finish you, why, nothing will. to : thiB 8 o P f eeCh produced an explosion of laughter and 41148 applause. It wo ziad i n .2 ll d be useless to go through the story again, gun ~,ad, we will pass on to the harlequinade, where ori., - .. ,sure to follow. The droll tricks are almost all ca: l ',,_‘ u 'u , giving to the entertainment quite a .different Ilesir e r from what it would be were they the old and se e _Y Itsed up. ones t h at we .h av e b een accustome d to M a ur and over aga i n repeated. tl e a nY witticis ms ma d e use o f b y th e l aug h-p rovo ki ng , oa 1 , 1 ; . his partner Pantaloon are purely local, and, tile-Liv 1'1(1 erpool audience, are, of course, doubly amusing. kta t ; a gain, are national in -their character ; a s, f or o tir , e . ,e, , when P an t a l oon di scovers i n a p i ece o f c l o th a Iloto u t hat runs, the clown shows the union jack as the . t hat never r uns . Th e ear l y c l os i ng ' movemen t i s t o Zl_ to such an extreme that even fires are hot allowed Att e e Place after eight o'clock. It would•be useless to Pla ce pt to relate half th e f un th a t i s t o b e f oun d i n t hi s Why thosemusement; but we say to the public—and th e I,,,have a good t as t e will take our advice--go to ",eatre With In Royaliverpool and you or will of find a treat seldom to • • ~poß Liverpool out it. tats_ D trnmo Tux YEAR.-Tl3.e Progress of all rural N ein -- the year . bas been most satisfactory, . c°ll r Bl ,, ng having eich: po*.p. a steady striae 4jet.l.wii-Ctherir'• ste. l 4le-ellasing,' hough not keeping Y pa r t ..' n ' yet at events not retro ng. e oof 1. sum mer was so dry plat the legs' and . ‘Lorses in training suffered severely, and the apparent°l)e ' ° flly an owner were oruslied just prior to their rawblfikaent. But the g eyhounds have had no Cphieanfl the two haivei, r .'ef.their seasons, which I.of Ito one ; current year, have only be,:n interrupted 414 evi,Dee.k, namely, tha.t just 414. The courts of the n Jna , have also" been held in the, grcenw°°4 4 . 1 ,.t/x05t 1 7 1.1 ,, 1 Y: tte yorn i pf i tlie huhier 're-echoing' there 'ter 1 1 , --es antlY ; for even in the hot summer niouths ands have been at work.—The Field, DREADFUL SHIPWRECK IN THE CHANNEL. During Friday afternoon' and Saturday a most painful sensation pervaded the shipping interest in the city, in consequence of the receipt of a telegram from Lloyd's agent at Calais, announcing that in the course of that ' (Friday) morning, several French fishing smacks had thought into Calais harbour a large number of cases of wrecked goods, with the name of " Blervie Castle" painted upon them. It was at once sup posed that they had come from the ship Blervie Castle, Captain George M'Hardy commander, belonging to Messrs. Duncan Dunbar and Son, the eminent ship ' owners, which cleared out of the London Docks last week for Adelaide, and sailed from. Gravesend on the 15th. Great anxiety was of course evinced to have further information relative to the cases, and a message ' per electric telegraph was at once forwarded to the agent of Lloyd's at Calais, desiring, him to send im ' mediately the numbers and character of marks upon the cases. Yesterday morning the subjoined particulars of the wrecked property taken into. Calais was received from the agent :- " CALAIS, Friday. " The dads picked up and landed at Calaii are marked as follows B A (in a diamond), 34 1 (in a triangle), A beneath 10, 3 B A (in a diamond), D J T (in a dia mond), 123 M N (in a diamond), 359 T L (in a dia mond), ' 40, 35, 139, 98, 158, 133, 59. . Eleven cases marked B 59, G B F 1,4, 8, 17, 20 F (in a:circle), 880 S A (in a diamond), 130 G. W A (in a diamond), 28, 32, S A B and G 95 (in a square), G B L, 12 13 ; AE (in a diamond), 185 83 (in a diamond), with C M (beneath), 251, It and SS, 58 ; G W A (in a dia mond), 811 outside, 528 ; B S A (in a . diamond), 127 ; G W (in a diamond), C outside, 1,020, 1,021; a box marked ' Edward Chard ;" a desk and two boxes without marks ; barrels marked C. S., .120, M, G. and C., 1,622, 12, 23, 24 ; D. J..F. (in a diamond), 70 ; D. Y. P.' (in a diamond), 54 ; F. C. 205 ; A. M. L. (in a square), 256, 258, 366; 173, 287, 375, 207, 125, 278, 165, 288, 223, 139, 254 ; P. (in a diamond), 10,.17, 21, 29 ; eight casks without marks ; four barrels marked, Booth, London,' M. C. and C., 69, '214 ; B. C. R. W., 156 ; W. P. E. P:: three casks without marks, 12, 62. .20 tin cases, a gun carriage, six bottles of wine, one bottle of gin, and seven iron hoops. The master of one of the boats states that these things were picked up about 20 miles to the N. E. of Dimkirk, and that he left a cohsiderable quantity of goods floating about, with 'the spar's and' planking of' a large Vessel. The cases' bear, in addition to the other marks, the words Blervie Castle?' Lloyd's agent at D unkirk also forwarded the following : " Dec. 23.—Seven cases have been picked up twelve miles N.N.E. of,this port. G and C (in a diamond) C A 88, G B A; (in a diamond), n 62, W H P (in a dia mond), C M 259, 1 (in a triangle) A 34, S I (in a dia mond),M 65, five of which bear the name Blervie Castle, besides one without mark and one Containing a piano forte. The third One (No. 259) is broken and appears to contain ready-made clothes. On the spot there was no appearance of a vessel except that of a mast." Immediately on the receipt of this news the brokers, Meisrs. Grierson and Tweedale, of Prince's-street, who had chartered the ship, compared the marks aminumbers of the cases with the vessel's manifeit ; and it was at at once seen that the whole of the wrecked property formed portion of the cargo' of the Blervie Castle, and the fact was apparent that she must have gone to pieces, as the four barrels marked,. " Booth, London," which had been landed at Calais, were known by the clerk to have been stowed at the bottom of ,the hold of the ill fated ship. The Blervie Castle was one of the fleet ,of Messrs. Duncan Dunbar, of Limehonse. She, was, a very, fine ship, 610 tons register, almost new, having only been built two years ago, and was classed at Lloyd's A 1, twelve years. She had very superior passenger accommo dation, and was chartered by Messrs. Grierson and Tweedale, and laid On for Adelaide. She loaded in the London Docks,, and about forty passengers had taken berths in her ,to proceed to the colony. Twenty two joined her when she left the, river, and the remainder intended to ,go on board at. Plymouth, where the ship had to . put in. , She carried a crew of thirty-four hands, ineluding the officers, and had a valuable cargo of merchandise, with some live stock on deck. The channel pilot took charge of her when she sailed from Gravesend, on the 15th inst., and:proceeded through the Downs with her, and left her off Dover on Sunday evening, when all appeared well with her, and, she had a fair wind for her course. down Channel. It was expected that she would reach Plymouth about. Tuesday,or Wednesday, but nothing more was heard of her. Toivards the close of Tuesday the wind shifted to the north-north-west and blew a terrific gale, with heavy snow, the pilots who .were out describing it as an. awful night. It is supposed that the ship must haVe got some dis tance down Channel when she encountered the gale, and whether Captain M'Hardy, who bears a high Character for skilful seamanship, attempted to run, back . er hold on by 'beating about, and vias driyen back by the force of the tempest, is a matter of conjecture, It is quite evident that the ship got back to the eastward of Dun geness in the more narrow portion of the Channel, where both the English and French coasts are most prominently lighted, and when seen, give a ship her immediate position. It is, therefore, exceedingly, probable that the dense now which fell during the'night entirely shut out these beacons from view, and that Captain M'Hardy was not aware of his situation. It is thought that She was 'lost either on the Varne or the Ridge, two shoals which stand in the centre of the Channel almost in - a line with Folkestene and Cape Grinei. The Verne extends some four or five miles in length, extremely narrow, and has not more than a fathom and a half upon it at row water, while all around it are sonndings at 12 and 17'fathoins. The ridge is near to the French coast, a long and narrow shoal, and, like the: Varne, has deep water round it. The, general impression is that the ship' struok upon one of these shoals, and, after heavy beating, went to pieces ; and, sliding off, sunk in deep water. It may be Stated that she was fitted with 'ample boats to save ill hands, but in such a. sea as pre vailed that night it is very doubtful whether they mild have outlived it. . Since the communications that have come to hand from Calais and Dunkirk, it has been ascertained that several luggers have .reached Rainsgate, Dover, and , 1 Folkeitone, with portions of the cargo, of the Blervie Castle ; some of it was picked up in the course of Thurs day as far to the eastward as the GallOper Light off Har wich. The following are the names of, the passengers who Irmit on board in the river, arid have perished:— 'lst Class.—Mr. and Mrs. Daniel and faMily, 1 , 7 of four sons and one daughter--:-Henry, Arthur, Ed aid, William, and Elizabeth, late of Upp..r Belgrave , place,. Belgrave-square ; Master Sto7:'.., ;17 ,. ; ! 16. " - 2nd Cabin Passengers7--James 5. - oung, Catherine Young, his wife, and their children—James; John, Isa bella, and Margaret ; Joseph Saunders - , James' White, Mr. and MrS. Denham, M. and Mrs. Cameren, Thincln M•Coll, and Edward Chard. " List of the Crew:. - ---Captain George M'Hardy, com nlander, London; Mr. Thomas Hosie M'Anderion, 38 years, chief . officer, London ; Mr. Alexander Fraser, '22, second officer, London ; Mr. Edwin Walker, 23, third offiCer, London ; Charles Dainaell; 31, briataivain, Exeter ; John Slitherland, 31, steward, ' Shetland ; Georg'e Wildradv, 21, carpenter; - Wick ; David Finlay-son, 20, sailmaker, Dundee ; EdWin Woialej . t, 'cook; Eieter; Janics Hatt,' 25, butct e i, Lolidon; Robert Peil a te, 25, a bl e Seaman, Londori: ; Sydlander, 25, able seaman, Sweden ; Hear! Cook, 20, 'NORTHERN DAILI able seaman, Milford ; Thomas Elvin, 23, able sea man, London; John Jones, 19, able seaman, Cardiff ; Wm. M'lntosh, 24, able seaman, London ; John Lewes, 23, able seaman, Bordeaux ; John Swainson, 23, able seaman, Sweden ; Louis Leguenne, 26, able seaman, Havre; John Charle, 24, able seaman, Caen; William Anderson, 22, ordinary seamam, Kirkaldy ; Grigsby, 17, ordinary seaman, Dover; Herbert Rawlinson, 18, cuddy servant, London. Midshipmen (apprentices) William Pittman, of London ; James Shaw Davis, of London; Albert Langdon Dramond, of London ; Wal ter. Pearson, of London." There are nine other seamen on board whose names have not yet been correctly ascertained. The value of — the ship and cargo is estimated at £30.000 at least. WAKEFIELD ELECTION .COMMISSION. WAKEFIELD, Saturday. The Commissioners met this morning at ten o'clock in the Sessions-house. The first witness called was Mr. Henry Edmund Gurney, one of the firm of Overend and Gurney, who said—l am brother-in.- law to Mr. W. 11. Leath.am. Just before the last election for Wakefield I received a letter from Mr. Leatham stating that he was about to stand for Wakefield. I have only half the letter by me, for I tore off the sheet which relates to business matters and destroyed the other. It is headed " confidential," and after mentioning that he was going to stand a contest, it goes on thus " I shall want some money for ways and means, and rather than draw it from the bank, where there are some clerks who might talk, I have been thinking that you would not mind me asking you—that is, 0., G., and Co., lending me £l,OOO for a short time, so as'not to be known at Leatham, Tew, and Co. If you see no ob jection to meet my wishes I would thank you to send the money in four divisions in registered covers, waiting the acknowledgment of each. Let it be in Bank of England notes of small amount—fives, tens, and twen ties. The money is wanted for legitimate purposes, as my agent is not a moneyed man, as well as for some —." There the half-sheet stops ; what there was on the other, side I can't recollect. I sent this 'half of the letter into the office, and directed the clerks to forward £l,OOO, as requested. It was sent down in four packets Of £250 each; addressed to Mr. Wainwright, solicitor, Wakefield. Shortly afterivards my brother-in-law wrote to me for another £5OO, which was sent, and in a little time after for £l,OOO which also was sent to Mr. Wainwright. I have not kept the two last letters; the first, to the best of my recollection, merely contained a request to send another £5OO, and in the second I think Mr. Latham remarked that he found the contest more expensive 'than he ex pected. That was all. the money we sent down, and all the correspondence I had about the Wake field election with . anybody. I never wrote to Mrs. Leatham, sen., on the subject. Mr. Wain wright sent us receipts for each parcel as it reached him—for £2,500 in all. He generally sent them in a roundabout way, enclosing them to a friend of his in London, who posted them to . us there. • Mr. Serjeant Pigott.—Can't you supply the contents of the missing half-sheet ? Mr. Gurney.—l haven't the least idea what it was—some indifferent personal matter or other. Mr. Serjeant pigott.—What word followed the. ".'some" at the end of the sheet here ; was it a cant word for bribery—"sugar," for instance, or anything else like that P Mr. Gurney.—Certainly not.. Mr. Willes.- 7 You see the language of the note, " forlegitimate purposes, and for some"—, im plies that a contrast of some sort followed ? Mr. Gurney.—l see that, of course, but I am quite sure there was nothing suggestive of bri bery in the note. • •Mr. Leatham may. have said that the other side were not likely to lose for want of spending money, and he.should like to'be' pre pared for them. I think he did say something of that sort, but that was all. Mr. Willes.—What did you understand by that?- Mr. Gurney.—Well, from my experience in county elections, I knew that a good deal of money is spent in bringing up voters from the country, and .the like, when the contest is close, which would not be spent under ordinary circumstances, and - I thought it might be for something of that sort. If I had thought the money' as for bribery, of course I should not have sent it. Mr. Willes—Had you no suspicions, when all this large,sura of money was sent for, that some of it .was to be applied to illegitimate pur poses ? . Mr. Gurney—With the two first sums I had not the slightest suspicion. 'When the third ap plication came I did make the remark that " Wakefield seemed an expensive place." I had no knowledge of Wakefield, and I had such com plete confidence in my brother-in-Jaw that it never entered . my mind that . the money was for bribery. Benjamin Watson acted as stakeholder during the election for a voter named Lang. He was to have £35 for voting for Leatham, ,and: witness kept the money for him and gave him a promis sory note for the amount until he had voted. Lang, however, did not vote at all. John Lang, landlord of the Bay Horse, said he hadnrranged to vote for Leatham for •£35, which was put into Watson's hands.. 'He gave me a promissory note for the amount. After that bar gain was concluded, the " Man in the Moon" offered me £5O to vote for Charlesivorth. I took the £5O and promised my vote, but on reflection I found I should offend a great many of my friends if .I voted that way, so I determined to stand neutral. My wife was offered £lOO for a warming-pan, if I would vote for Leatham, but I was in bed at the time, and don't know who made the offer.. I didn't particularly want any money for my vote for either side, but it was difficult to refuse it *hen it was almost crannied down ones throat. (Laughter.) • 'William Shaw, farmer, said—l bought Benja min Johnson's vote for Mr. Charlesworth ; £lO was the price paid. I got £2O from. Joe Brear to do the job with ; £lO I gave. to Johnson; £2 10s. to William Johnson, - who went with me ; £7 10s. was spent in expenses; treating, and the like. Edwin Link was examined as to offers said to have been made . by him to a • voter named Arundel on behalf of the Liberal party. Mr. Sergeant Pigott—You are described to us as "a " mesmeriser." Do you, answer to that description ? . Witness—Well, if folk are susceptible to the " influence," I can manage. it. (Laughter.) Mr. Serjeant Pigott—Did you ." mesmerise " ' Arundel? Witness—All, I. did was• to. promise Arundel that he should have some . money if he would vote for Leatham. He had pledged for us, and I was sent to find out whether he was sticking firm or whether the other side had tampered ;with him. I . giVe.him a. general assurance that we would cover whatever the Conservatives offered. I did that with several voters. George Smith, butcher, mid—l v o t e d f or Lea tham and, got £3O for it. ' William 'Osterfield gave it me. I had £l5 in hand. £l5 was given me on the Monday after .the poll. William OstP.l.fiebt—l bribed the last witness as he has said. • j got the money from Gilbert . at Wainwright's ' o ffi ce . Mr. W• 3 1_,. Sellars 4Rid-I paid £4O to New, some, .kecps, the White House, to vote for 'Leath ram=--at least I gave it to his daughter to giv to her.-father.. I, got,tlig,money.,from Gilbert. bargain_had heen,made before by Woodhead.. Sarah. ,Newsome said-4 am .the daughter ,of • the landlord 011ie White - IL: auk, -After the lasi polling-day, Mr. SellarS gave me £4O to give to my father, and Mr. Woodhead gave me £lO. I didn't know what it was for. I never gave it my father; nor did I ever tell hint that I b.ad got it. I put it in my own drawer, and used it as I wanted it. I told my mother of it, and I gave her some whenever she asked for it. lam not aware that my father ever knew of the money being in the house. It is all spent now. Mrs. Newsome, mother of the last witness, was also examined, and gave the same account of the transaction. Her husband never knew that the £5O had been left at the house. She and her daughter had kept it secret from hint, for he was very angry whenever people bothered him about the election. Mr. Woodhead had told her be forehand that if her husband would vote for Leatham he should have £4O, but she would not make any promise for him. Charles Jameson said,—l voted for Leatham, and got £35 for it. William Oakes gave it to me. Several other witnesses were aamined, but they were mostly confirmatory of previous evi dence, and of little interest. ' At the close of the day, Mr. Serjeant Pigott said,— As far as we are aware this inquiry is terminated, and we there fore adjourn now to . London. . The commission was accordingly adjourned sine die. THE POPE AND THE CONGRESS. The following is an abridgment of the very important pamphlet by M. de la Guerroniere, which has just been published in Paris, and trans lated in the Tines TILE POPEDOM IN PERIL. "Of what avail are any allusions: By a combination of many circumstances, by a succession of causes that go far back into history, the temporal power of the Pope is seriously menaced in the conditions under which .it is now : exercised. It is a great calamity, which we deplore from the bottom of our hearts ; but it is also a great.danger, which it is the duty of all—men of the world and religious men alike—to lessen for the good of the Church as for the interests of Europe. The Holy See is. placed on a volcano, and• the Pontiff, who is charged by God to maintain peaee in the world, is himself constantly threatened with a revolution. He, the august representative of the highest moral authority on earth, can only maintain himself by the protection of foreign armies. These military occupations only protect him by compromising him. They excite against him all the susceptibilities of the national feeling. They prove that he cannot rely on the love and respect of his people." THE EXTENT OF THE POPE'S POWER. "The power of the Pope can only be a paternal power ; he must rather resemble a family than a State. Thus, not only is it not necessary that his territory should be of large extent, but we think that it is even essential that it should be limited. :The smaller the territory, the greater will be the Sovereign. "In fact, a great State implies certain requirements (exigencies) which it is impossible for the Pope to satisfy. A great State would like to follow up the poli tics of the day, to perfect its institutions, participate in the general movement of ideas, take advantage of the transformations of the age, of the conquests of science, of the progress of the human mind. He cannot do it. The laws will be shackled by dogmas. His authority will be,paralysed by traditions. His patriotism will be condemned by faith. He must either resign himself to immobility, or rise even to revolt. The world will ad vance and leave him behind. Then, of two things, one will happen—either everything will be extinguished in that people, and nothing will remnin in it of the generous activity of public life. or else the noble aspi rations of nationality will burst through, and it will become necessary, as we have witnessed• already, for material force to supply the deficiencies of moral autho rity. The: temporal power of the Pope under these conditions cannot maintain itself unless protected by an Austrian or French military occupation—a painful resource, for every Power that does not exist upon its national strength and public confidence is simply an institution—is but an expedient.= The church, far from finding therein a condition of independence, Would only find a cause of discredit and incapacity. This is not what France can wish. This is not what truly religious men can desire." -• THE CHARACTER OF THE NEW KINGDOM. " In short, there will be a people in EurOpe.Who will, be ruled less by a king than by a father, and whose rights will be ifeiaranteed rather by the heart of the so vereign than by the authority of the Imp .and institu tions. This people will' haVe no national - representa tive, no army, no press, no magistracy. It must exist without an army; without a parliament, "so to say, ,With; out a code of laws or a,court of justice. The whole of its political existence will be limited to its municipal organisation. Beyond that 'narrow circle it will have no other resource than Contemplation, the arts, the study of ruins' (la culture des mines), and prayer. He will be for ever disinherited of that noble portion,of activity which in every country is the stimulus of patriotism and the legitimate exercise of the faculties, of the mind of superior characters. Under the Government of the Sovereign Pontiff-there .Can. be, no aspiration either to the glory of the soldier or the triumphs of the orator or of the statesman. It will be the government of peace and reflection—a sort "of oasis where , the passions and interests of politics still not trespass, and which will only have the sweet and calm contemplations .of a spiritual world." • . THE BLESSINGS,OF THE NEW KINGDOM. "The. Government of the Pope must be paternal in its administration, as it is by its:nature. He who calls himself the Holy Father ought to be a father for all his subjects. If his institutions .are beyond the princi ples which guarantee the rights of 'government in a political society, his acts ought to be only the more irreproachable, and when he cannot be imitated by any one he will be the envy of all men. We look,' there fore, upon the. temporal government of the Pope as the image of the government of the Church. , It is a Pontificate, and not a Dictatorship. The large develop ment of his municipal area relieving him from the- re sponsibility of administrative interests, he can. maintain himself in a sphere far above the management of affairs. A member of the Italian Confederation, he is protected by the Federal army. A Pontifical army ought not to be more than an emblem of public *der. When ene mies are to be fought, either at home or abroad, it is not for the Head of the Church to draw the sword. Blood shed in his name seems an insult to divine mercy, which he represents ; when he raises his hand it ought to be to bless, and not to strike. " The city of Rome and the Patrimony of 'St. Peter must be guaranteed to' the Sovereign Pontiff. 'by the great Powers, with a considerable revenue, that the Catholic States will pay as a tribute of respect and pro tection to the Head of the Church. An Italian Militia chosen from the elite of the Federal army, should assure the tranquillity and inviolability of the Holy See: Municipal. liberties, as extensive as' possible, should release the Papal Government from all the details of administration, and thus give a share of public local life to those • who are disinherited of political-activity. Finally, every complication, every idea of war and of revolt, must be for ever banished ' from the territory governed by the Pope, that it may be said, where reigns the Vicar of Christ, there also reign well-being, concord; and peace. " Moreover, if the subjects of the Pope are deprived of a political existence, they will be indemnified, on the other hand, by a most paternal government, •by the ex emption from taxation, by the moral :greatness of their country,•which is the centre of the Catholic faith, and by the presence of a Court the brilliancy of which, necessary for the double Majesty of the Pontiff and of the,Prince, will be maintained by the means of liberal , tributes paid by the Catholic powers of Europe. .These considerations have' surely some value, and, after all, under such a system, with such advantages, and with the chance of having • great Popes, such as history re cords, it will: always be an honour to; call oneself a Roman citizen---civic Romans." ' • THE 'ROMAGNA. GIVE' UP. "We ourselves are of opinion that the separation of the 'Romagna would not tend to : diminish the' temporal power of the Pope. • llis territory, it is true, would bo diininished„ but his political authority, disencumbered of a resistance Which paralyses it, would not be, weak ened, but morally strengthened. " What matters it to the . prestige, to the 'dignity, to the greatness of the Sovereign Pontiff, the square miles comprised in his Stitt 4 he want space to be be loved and‘y6nerated?' A?e notHlits beneelittions atql his teaching - the most powerfurinanifestalion 'of hi" fight :DoeS hair - ale - Ye and bless i at - lie‘'Nihole universe liTe= . ther he'roles bver'fCW' 6r `Bits =,' that is not the qires-: tion •, what is essential is that he should have a sufficient number of subjects to be independent, and that lac should not have too many to be carried away by those currents of passions, of interests, of novelties, which are pro duced everywhere where there are considerable agglo merations. "The importance of the Pope• does not consist in the twenty-one provinces which he actually possesses. Bo logna, Ancona, and Ravenna, separated from Rome by a chain of mountains, the character of their inhabitants, and historical souvenirs, add nothing-to the splendour of Rome. The Pope throning at Rome, his seat at the `Vatican ' is what awes (frappe) the world. The Sove reign of the Roman States is scarcely thought of." WILA.T FORCE WOULD RESTORE TILE ROMAGNA ? "It is force only which can restore the Romagna to the condition imposed upon it by treaties and by his tery. Can it be employed ? And if employed, who is to be charged with executing it ? Is it France ? Is it Austria ? " France ! But she cannot do it. A Catholic nation, she would never consent to strike so serious a blow at the moral power of Catholicism. A liberal nation, she could not compel a people to submit to a government whichstheir will rejects. " Catholics who seek such a triumph for the Church, appear to us as dangerou.3 for it 'as would be for the Monarchy the Royalists who would dream of re-estab lishing the ancient legitimacy by the aid of a new in vasion. " As regards compelling peoples, France is not used to such'work. When she meddled in their affairs it . was to enfranchise them, and not to oppress them. Under Louis XVI. we went to. the New World to help it to achieve its nationality. Belgium and the Danubian Principalities are indebted to us for their political ex ' istence.. It is not the Emperor who could prove un faithful to these generous traditions. " But, if France cannot intervene, let her allow Austria to have her way. This is what the partisans of foreign intervention in Italy sat. Aud should we have run the risk of a great war, gained four victories, lost 50,000 men, spent 300 millions, and shaken Europe, that Austria might on the morrow of peace resume in the Peninsula the domination she exercised on the eve of her defeat ? Magenta and. Solferino should be simply trophies of contemporaneous history ! Shall our soldiers have shed their blood for vain glory ? French heroism be sterile ? No! no ! French policy does not harbour such inconsistencies and degradations. "The domination of Austria in Italy is at an end. This is the grand result of our campaign, consecrated by the peace 'of Villafranca. For Austria to return to Florence, to Parma, or to Bologna, it would be neces sary to-admit that it was she who vanquished as. Let us render justice to her honesty and common sense. She does not pretend it, and those who, in France, make the pretence for her forget at the same time what our prin ciples impose upon , us, and what our honour prohibits us. Our principles bid us leave Italy to herself, and respect the sovereignty we have restored to her, on the condition that she will know how to conciliate its rights with the equilibrium of Europe. Our honour prohi bits us from recognising the right of Austria to armed intervention, which we do not admit for ourselves. " If neither France nor Austria intervene, whose arm is it that will bring back the Romagna under the Papal sway ? Would it be that of an Italian Power ? There is but one Power to which such a task might appertain —Naples. But is that possible ? The kingdom of the Two Sicilies is labouring under a deep-set movement in the public mind, which does not allow its Government to attempt a diversion on the Abruzzi. _ _ "The armed intervention of Naples would produce nothing but disasters, if it were possible. But it is not possible, for it would be a manifest violation of the neutrality imposed upon all the Italian States. In fact, if the Neapolitan army entered the States of the Church, nothing' could prevent the Piedmontese' army from oc cupying Parma and Tuscany. Such disorder would not only be the overthrow of all international rules, it would be, moreover, a revolt against the jurisdiction of Europe, whose duty it is,,while respecting the ,right of sovereign ties to watch over the general order which concerns the safety of its equilibrium." THE POWER OF THE CONGRESS. " The Congress of Paris has full power to alter what was settled by the Congress of Vienna. ' Europe; com bined at Vienna in 1815, gave. the Romagna to the Pope ; Europe, combined in Pa4s in 1860, may decide otherwise in regard to it. " And, let it be observed, the last decision, should it I be contrary to that of 1815, would not bear the same character as the first. In 1815 the Powers 'disposed of the people of Romagna ; in 1860, if they were not placed under the authority of the Pope, the Powers of Europe only formally record a fait accompli, "The competence of 'the Congress, then,,, cannot be disputed ; 'for, if it were now denied to be cempetent, it would be necessary to' declare that the Congress of Vienna,. the majority of, which .were representatives of great, schismatic, Powers, had no right to dispose of the territory of Runiagna ,and its population ,in .favour .qf the'Pope." ..r .. MISCELLANEOUS REVEN UE .—The public accounts exhibit some odd Miscellaneous sources of income. Thus, in the 'year ending the Met of March, small branches of the hereditary revenue produced £4,480 ; the fees of the • House' of Commons; £41,212 ; the Privy Council Office, £1,123; the Home Office ' £989 ; the office for the registration of .joint-stock companies, £5,585 ; fees and fines from police-courts, £11,270; miscellaneous 'office fees, £9,141; ScottiAl public offices, £36,832; Irish ditto, £4,877; army and ordnance extra receipts, £1,002,808; 'navy old stores, £190,702; receipts in Office of Works for old materials, £5,003 ; grazing rents, dm., on account of public parks, £5,433 ; seignorage on bullion purchased for - coinage at the Mint £87,797 ; productive labour of prisoners in convict establishments, £13,105 ; London, Dublin, and Edinburgh Gazettes, £21,260 ;• abatement from salaries; £7,513 ; conscience money, £3,015 ; various casual and miscellaneous re-. ceipts not specifically detailed, £153,047.; repayments by trustees of the King of the Belgiani, £37,500 ; un claimed dividends, £155,361; East India Company for' pensions' to her Majesty's forces in India,. £60,000 ;. contributions from East India revenue for less on ac count of mail service to India, £36,017 ; and savings,on grants of parliament and over-issues repaid. £231,964. The Woods . and Forests revenue was £420,328. .• Tam FLORENCE GiimiAm.--,•On Tuesday evening the Florence Graham, of Liverpool, bound from the west coast of Africa for that port with a cargo of palm oil, put into Kinsale in distress, having lost her captain and . a number of her crew on the, voyage by scurvy, and having the greater portion of the remainder laid up with the same disease. It appears that the Florence, Graham, which is a fine barque of 379 tons register, belonging to the firm of. Messrs. Hatton 'and Cookson," Liverpool, sailed from that port All the 'l3th January, last, under the command of Captain Henry Nichols, of Norfolk, for the. ; African coast,, ..where .. con siderable trade' in palm oil is done by her owners. 'While out there the chief mate,' Samuel Wharton, of liverpool, five seamen,' the cooper,' and two boys died of a pestilential fever which rages on the, coast. Another ship, belonging to the same firm, the Orient, arrived out with some spare hands, which had been sent in her for the purpose of making good any casualtieS that might have occurred among crews' already out, and those were transferred to the Florence Graham, besides a chief mate, Mr. Robert Browne. The vessel 'left the Rio Bente on the 13th September, for Liverpool, with, a crew of 17 hands, besides the captain ; but while On the voyage scurvy made its appearance in a very vinilent form among the Crew, and in a short time disabled the greater number of them. The master, Mr. Nichols, after having been'con4 fined to his berth for four weeks,4uring whicht•inielle was unable to ,move without the assistance of one of. his men, died about - the 'end of November ;- and three 'others of the crew - also died. Mr. BroWne, the mate, then took command, but' he and' those of the cfew 'who were not disabled experienced considerable difficulty in working the vessel, there being only five or six altogether ,able to work in a ship that earned eighteen hands. Seven were lying in their berthi, not only . unable to render the slightest assistance, but suffering 'mach for' want' Of anything 'like proper' attendance on themselves. Fo r= tunately the vesiel, met no severe gales mac passage. s n h a e ci wo s t4 tie d . met b o e n e e n , liost ,t. As mo i r t e w tr pr n cib t a b b e le b : ree th z a , t freshened tO' su aii "anieitent is to render it necessary to' reef *sails, the work was One 'of difficnity and danger. Had the ship been longer ontlie' voyage, it is ilot \improbable that all the crew: lionrd hire 'been attacked, and carried off by the. terrible Adiliease, - as 1 when she arrived in Kinsale the men who:yliadihitherp escaped it were ; showing sYMptoms,,Cf, being .attacked, and Mr. - Bidwne, the commander, - ' had been attacked with it some days before, and `iras suffering to tin Alarming extent, .thoughhe ;persevered in reitiainingit his post on. deek..; The revenue :cutter -BHA, Cekpt i ait. ' h aving juith, liKon,Tu:cktlay evening, Iff'thb"Old'iredd of Kinsal l e s ‘ e.Af - a; to4s on ttift&d;'Wwhke aSSlSEtheeshevai ;AMY' tlion , ht Iport. Two more of the crew died after the vessel in port, and five were still in a very precarious state, COURT AND OFFICIAL INfELLIGENCE. The Queen and Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, Prince Arthur, Princess Alice, Princess Helena, and Princess Louisa, the Duchess of Kent, and the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the Domestic Household, attended Divine service on Sunday morning in the private chapel. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor performed the service, ana adMinistered the Holy Sacrament. The Prince Consort, with the Prince of Wales, rode on horseback on Saturday forenoon. The Equerries in Waiting attended. Her Majesty paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at Frogmore. The Queen, with the Princess Alice, walked in the Home Park, and the Princesses Helena and Louisa took equestrian exercise in the Riding House. THE MINISTRY.—Lord John Russell has recovered from the effects of his cold, and during the last few days has attended daily at the Foreign Office, Downing street. His lordship returns every evening to his resi dence, Pembroke-lodge, Richmond-park.--Lord Pal merston arrived in town on Saturday, and paid a visit to Lord John Russell at the Foreign-office. After the interview the noble viscount quitted London, and returned to Broadlands.—Earl Granville remains in London.—Sir George Cornewall Lewis has gone on a visit for a few days to Lord Clarendon at his country seat.—The Duke of Newcastle, the Duke of Argyll, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Earl of Elgin, . Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Cardwell, and Mr. Milner Gibson, are all absent from London. SNOW IN THE SOUTH OP EUROPE.—Acemmts from. Naples of the 19th state that snow had fallen heavily in and around that city, a circumstance very unusual is that country. Letters from Genoa of the 19th announce that an immense quantity of snow, such as had never been witnessed before, fell last week in that city, and had to be removed in carts. BLONDlN.—A'gentleman living in Bedfbrdshire has received a reliable letter from Canada, in which the following passage occurs :—" You say some doubt exists in England with regard to Blondin having crossed the Falls of Niagara on a tight-rope. He crossed several times, and did all that is reported in the news papers (not over the falls, but between them and the suspension -bridge), drove wheelbarrows over, and carried a man also on his back. There was a groove in the wheel of the barrow to fit the rope." MOVEMENT IN SUPPORT OF CHURCH-RATES.—A large meeting of clerical and lay members of the Church of England has been held at Boxford, Suffolk, Major Parker, M.P., in the chair, to consider the present position of the Church-rate question. It was resolved that the efforts which are being made for the uncon ditional abolition of Church-rates, with the avowed ulterior object of a separation of Church and State, call loudly upon all friends of the Establishment to express their sentiments upon the subject. Petitions to both Houses of Parliament in favour of the existing system were accordingly adopted. ILLNESS OF MR. ALBERT SMITH. —We have much satisfaction in stating that from enquiries made yesterday morning the illness of Mr. Albert Smith has taken a most favourable turn, and that all apprehension of danger has been removed. This favourable change took place at twelve o'clo"k on Sunday, and from that hour until the time of writing has been progressing most favourably. Mr. Rae has been constantly in attendance, and with Dr. Reynolds and Mr. Oscar Clayton, pro nounce Mr. Smith out of danger, and the probability of• his early convalescence. _ _ POLITICAL GOSSIP.---A Paris letter in the Nord says : -" I am able to inform you that Lord John Russell has sent an order to - Mr. Buchanan, at Madrid, not to mention any more the payment of the debt, at all events not for six months. I do not, however, think that the Spanish Government will accept this putting off the evil day. It will, at all events, have on its side the public opinion of Spain. As to the new pamphlet, , whatever be its origin, it expresses the opinions of the Emperor Napoleon on the Roman question. Esta blished :facts are recognised, - as indeed they must be, since it is settled that there is to be no intervention. Not, only France cannot interfere to restore-Romagna to the Pope, but neither Austria nor Naples, nor the , Pope himself can interfere to replace the court of Rome in 'possession of its ancient territory. The pamphlef does not state whether Romagna will be independent or united to another Italian state. This will, of course, be settled by the Congress. If I am well informed, the French plenipotentiaries, strongly opposed to annexa tion, will propose to join the Legations to Tuscany, which will become a new kingdom of Central Italy." WASHINGTON IRVING AND DE QUINCEY.—It is not often that our fortnightly obituary contains at once two such names as those of Thomas De Quincey and Wash ington Irving. Both had passed the allotted limit of, man's life—the first having been born in Manchester ' in 1786, the latter in New York in 1783. The differ ence between the periods of their literary debut is more considerable ; De Quincey published his " Confessions of an English Opium Eater," the work by which he first became famous, in the London Magazine, in 1821. Irving's "Salmagundi" appeared in 1807, and in 1809 his famous " History of New York " was published, and gained at once a popularity which has never yet diminished. America can claim the credit of having first,collected the scattered works of De Quincey, and the honour of having paid the author for them. It was Ticknor and Fields who, immediately after an article in our Peleetie Review, had declared it "not probable that a collected edition of his works would ever appear," determined to publish them, and offered the author a share of the profits of the series. The offer was accepted, and twenty volumes were the result ; but the edition since published by Messrs. Hogg, of Edinburgh, with whom De Quincey was connected for many years before his =death, is better knovin to English readers. En re vanche, England can lay claim to some share in the fame 7 of Washington Irving—not only because his mother was) e b° ll 6)l(s al e l l , l ' e ' rB in 4 ; a so nE me ng o l f is h h is w b o es ma t w n o a r n k d s h m i father t a t S e n c o h t e c r h e m a n— T e b y u c t e b r e t c a a i n u I s; with-i for the h nob me r .lme English u encouragement of from d ,paßi paid a E le n ,eo g or l s oi d guineashg out having seen the MS. ; for the " Conquest of. Granada," £2,000, and for the "Life of Columbus,". 3,000 guineas. A sojourn of seventeen years in Europe, —the greater part of' which time was spent in London' —had indeed long accustomed our literary circles to regard Washington Irving as their own. Irving re turned to New York in 1832 ' • and after another vi s it, to Europe,, and a sojourn of four years in Madrid, as United States Minister there, finally returned in 1846 to his native land, where he died. He had just com pleted his "Life of Washington," by the publication of this fifth volume—a fitting work to close his long and sticcessfulliteriry career.—Publishers' Circular. ssgorting 3attitigtur,e. STEEPLE CHASE FIXTURES FOR 1860. JANVARY. Manchester 4 Carmarthenshire.7, 9 '' '' .28 G A-b ran erY cl B M tw il i i t t h2' P6 ar . y 4 '' Der'.ly Midland— .23 I I (N'tlarrpton) 293 i) Tea sina by inahain 12, 1 1 3 I PerabKrAotkeci(Annuall3 I Coventry 1 4 - _ _ --- RACING FIXTURES FOR 1360. ran avaity. lAncollaiuig ...la i NottinglvintSpring I Derby Spring 23 1 MARCH. 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