Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-22 00:00:00

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Apply to George Goore, 5, gent to 24j y 5 the Manua,. Iv4IVERPOOL VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS EN f OLMENT OF VOLUNTEERS, CLASS No. 1, tz., Those who will provide their own arms and uniforms. aid all other accoutrements, and who ate to be entirely a self-supporting body, will take place at the Town-hall, To-MORnow (Thursday), 23rd June, 1859, at Three o'clock precisely. Volunteers are requested to attend. Until further notice, the uniforms, as approved of by the Earl of Sefton, the Lord-Lieutenant of the County, may be seen at the shop of Messrs. Brett and James, Tailors, 3, South Castle-street. BY ORDEK OF THE COMMITTEE. st June, 1859. Town-hall, Liverpool, 2 VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS. M ILITARY AND MUSICAL INSTRUIVIENTS, ' K6HLER." SMI T $ JAMES Having been APPOINTED AGENT ABOVE JUSTLY CELEBR tTED 31A bzgs to announce th tion on hand, just unpacked. a very elad, RY DESCRIPTION OP MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Bepav ed in the niost'satisfactory manner. OBSBRVE !-76, LORD-STREET. AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, & itovAt AmmirrHEATßE—Dramatic Performance ZOOtOGICAL GARDENS —Mount Etna, &c. HENGLRR'S CutatE—Miscellaneous Attrac'ions TEM PARISIAN GALLERY OF ANATOMY, Paradise-stieet *Z - • For particulars see advertisements on Bth pag .-THIS D.Y. TO CORRESPONDENTS. nces can we insert communications not and address, not neces= as the author's r lion. but as a gortlitrn Chita WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1859. THE DAY'S NEWS The House of Commons held a short sitting last 'night; and *Mr. James gave notice that on Monday he should ask the Government whether it was their intention to bring in .a Reform Bill during the present session. Sir C. Napier postponed his motion for a committee of inquiry into the state of the navy to this day fortnight, and in doing so expressed his hope that there would be no undue curtailment of preparations for defence. Mr: Brand stated that the new writs would be moved for this day A large number of election petitions were presented, and the House ad journed. It is stated, on very good authority, that the re-election of Mr. W. E. Gladstone will be contested by the Marquis of Chandos. Mr. Bernal Osborne has declined to come forward for Marylebone. Lord John Russell has issued his address to the electors of the city of London. He promises strict neutrality in the pending war, and a further amendment of the law regulating the representation of the people in parliament. Mr. Samuel Laing, M.P. for Wick, will probably . be the new financial secretary of the treasury. Mr. Cowan has declined the Irieh lordship or the treasury., The Globe states that the esti mates and financial measures will be brought forward soon after the re-assembling of the House of Com mons, when the members of the government will be in their place s Her Alajc and. the Court returned. from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Placeyesterday afternoon. The news froth the Contineut is now again watched with great interest. Every holt,: iinpartant news is ex pected. Le Nord ofto-day says the two armies arenow face to face. All the corps of the Austrian army are and the last concentrated on the fac columns are arriving by for :I marches The Aus trian army occupies a li ne on the other side of the £hiese. The allied armies follow the enemy step by step. The ground chosen by the Austrians for d habitually for the grand The Independence states that the Prussian Envoy at the Court of Vienna had accepting Da.tt ina • tio3uvresi of the autumt at proceeded to the Austrian Imperial hea,cl-quarters Verona. He was accompanied by Count Richberg, the representative of 'Austria at the Germanic Diet. Kossuth has embarked for Genoa. ICtlers froth Rome of the 18th, state that 20,000 Papal troops hav,bee4 sent to Perugia to: restore order. collission has already taken. place between a detachment . . of Papal troops : and. the inhabi tants at Cernia. The letters from Paris say,, "News:_ of a great battle on the Minch:, is daily expected there. Should the Austrians be defeated; it is thought, or hoped, that the neutral Powers may attempt to mediate. Some suppose that Austria may be irkieFd :to 4ba n''lombardy, 711Idh annexe to Tietimon , a*d that, Venice will %e, grepempitroppersvpiruspielissonsoespowareasider.a,bl e portion of territory, as far as the limits of Lombardy." The Paris Univers thinks that Peschiere will speedily fall into the hands of the French, who will thus possess one ,of the keys or the famous Square and the command of the Mincio. The Allies Mav, therefore, fight an extraordinarily decisive battle in the very centre of the great quadrangle. A naval expedition, possessing immense means of 'destruction, is on the way to Venice. One hundred and two flat-bottomed boats, sheeted with iron and armed with rifled cannon, are, it is said, to ascend the Adige and the Po. If Venice falls, the fleet may land a corps d'armee to march on the Adige, and take the Austrians in the rear, while the grand army attacks them in front. There are also at present in Tuscany French troops which will, at an ap pointed day, appear on almost any given point. At Vienna, according to the correspondent of the Times, official persons profess to think that Prussia is about to place herself at the head of the German Confederation, and to make a demonstration on the Rhine. Accounts from St. Petersburgh state that the Ist and 2nd corps of the Russian army are to, be mobilised in the neighbourhood of Kalisch, and the 3rd and 4th corps ou the Gallician frontier. Another corps is to be assembled in Besarabia on the 14th. There were disturbances at Venice, but order was soon restored. Two men were killed, and three wounded. et East THE NEW WAR PROSPECTS OUR change of Ministry has evidently been some what of a change also in the prospects of the war. The late ministry, as we all know, was one of strict neutrality. It had no sympathy with either side. Sympathy with Italy, it had; but not with the war, although it is professed to have been provoked for the advantage of Italy. But Lord PALMERSTON is known to have strong partialities for France —or, rather, indeed, for France's despotic ruler, whose war it is. , And Lord PALMERSTON'S accession to office, on this'occasion, at so important a conjuncture, has inspired the French Emperor with highest hopes of success in his ambitious and sanguinary career. Well may it be written from Vienna, as we see it is, that " PALMERSTON and RUSSELL they consider as the sworn enemies of legality .and of Austria, and public feeling here as far at least as it is apparent in the papers and the ruling circles—has been mani festly clouded by the news of the formation of a Liberal Cabinet in England." And this, not because they could have expected any support from Lord DERBY'S Ministry, but simply because they appre hend that their enemies will receive encouragement from Lord PALMERSTON'S. Now, the question of the most proximate moment in the present prospects of the war, is that of the attitude of Prussia. What is it, let it be asked, that will drive Prussia into the conflict ? Why, the movement which the Germanic Confederation may he induceu maze. And no inducement can probably be more powerful with this body, than that which will arise from the advance of the allies upon the German territory. Just in proportion as the French EMPEROR is encouraged by the smiles of the British Government, will he push on his conquests into Austria; and just in proportion, again, as he does this, will Germany become aroused. - But Prussia herself is already in motion—to be prepared, at any rate, for the defensive. " The slow but steady progress of . the Prussian armatnentsi" says a letter from Berlin, " has advanced another stage. By an order of yesterday the first class of the Landwehr, of nearly two-thirds of 'the army, is called out. The number of troops now ready for immediate action amounts to about 25,000 men. As the members of the Landwehr have all of them passed both through line and reserve, and are for the most part-fathers of families, established in the different profession§ as well as trades and handi crafts, the drawing together of this force can never be resorted to, unless in the hour of imminent peril." And the hour of peril, therefore, it is obviOus the Prussian Government thinks, has ar rived with the advent of L )rd PALMERSTON to the Premiership of England. The Ministerial Preussielie Zeitung thus states, the case, as it is now considered to stand,—" The greater the magnitude of events in Italy, the more serious duty it becomes for the Royal Government to place itself in a position enabling Prussia, in conjunction with her allies, to have that influence in an arrange ment of the Italian question which she is destined to exercise, and which befits the powerful position the German nation holds in Europe. From this point of view, and considering the daily augmented arma ments of even neutral Powers,. the Royal Government has deemed it unavoidable to mobilise part of the army. It will have also to resort to other proceedings connected with this step, in order to prevent Prussia and Germany from being taken unprepared by coming events." Now all this, we say, has come to pass since our change of Ministry. It indicates, therefore, very significantly, what is the impression that has been produced at Berlin by Lord PALMERSTON'S return to power. We know that the idea has been encouraged by France, for interested purposes, that the Derby Ministry had a strong leaning in favour of Austria, and therefore would be most likely to encourage Germany to take part with that Power, in resistance of the incursions of the Allies upon the Austrian dominions. Such, however, was not the fact. The Derby Ministry, it is evident from the Malmesbury Correspondence, used its best endeavours to keep Germany quiet. See, for instance, what it appears from the second series of the Correspondence, issued a few days since, Lord MALMESBURY wrote to our Minister at Turin, as to the apprehended German ," Her Majesty's Government have done their utmost, within the bounds of friendly represen tation, to calm the excitement prevailing in Ger many, but they have not felt themselves called upon or authorised to dissuade the German States from taking such measures as those States consider to he necessary for the maintenance of their several in terests ; for they could not assume the responsibility: of even morally guaranteeing them against the: eventualities of the Italian war. Her Majesty's Government hare distinctly declared that Germany must not be iilftteencert in arriving at ct decision on the •momentous question no. ; f it: uzdcecroutil.tfe from , o n ns ti i , d is er c a o tn tr o y f: Herille Diet.. b y s y ty a 's n?l G G overnment, ment, in accordance with the commands of the Queen, and with the universal concurrence of the British nation, as displayed at the late election, desire to maintain the strictest :novements,—' NORTHERN TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1859 nltiaatt?'n the present war between Austria and FAlce. _fihey are determined to keep themselves unfettered by any engagements, expressed or implied, which would restrict their freedom of action in any circumstances that may arise. They will judge for themselves, and they will not embarrass their policy by any previous declarations, or by any previous expression of opinion. This language which her Majesty's Government have held to Germany with reference to the prevailing excitement in that country, they hold also to the Powers now engaged in. active hostilities ; and you will give the Sardinian Government clearly to understand, that as regards the question now at issue, her Majesty's Government will abstain from all inter ference, direct or indirect, whatever." Now nothing, surely, could well be more distinct, or more emphatic, than this. Germany—and, of course, Prussia inclu ded—was on no account to entertain " any hope of succour from this country." For England,, under the late Administration, at any rate, was determined "to maintain the strictest neutrality in the present war between Austria and France." We would fain hope that such will be the sound policy of England under Lord PALMERSTON'S Administration Also. But there are reasons, it seems, for doubting it. And hence it is that there is considered to be a change in the prospects of the war,—and a change which certainly bodes no good for our country. of Ireland, is gazetted a p present ~..--.---.,-.,......--- THE COURT. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. know that my hands are now so full that I have no time to spare. We had better Wait a while. Who can tell what a year may bring forth . ? We may want the question to help us over the stile at a general election. Mr. Gladstone : We must really give up crotchets, just now, and look to the war, and also to the finances. Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir C. Wood, the Duke of SOtherset, and several others, cry "hear, hear." Now there is nothing whatever of the caricature about this. It is not only quite within the bounds of probability ; but it is one of the most natural things in the world that the question should be'dis posed of in that way, in such a Cabinet, a Cabinet at the head of which is one who notoriously hates Reform, and one half of whose colleagues would be for having the least modicurn'of it that they could well devise. We are not, of- course, for a Moment supposing that the Advanced Liberals, the real out and out Reformers, will stand such nonsense. And hence the force of the opinion- of one of their own organs of the press, that we have already quoted, that the new Admintstration has entered upon an unpromising existence. LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. —Lord Eglinton, Lord-Lieu the title of Earl of Winton. General Sir Thomas M‘Mahon, General the Earl of Cathcart, `General -Gomm, and General Sir Robert Gardiner, to be Knights Grand .Cross of the Bath; General Henry Windon, and Lieut.Cren. Aitchison, to be Knights Commanders of the Bath. The Victoria Cross has been conferred on several officers and privates of her Majesty's 'army and Indian military forces: , Earl St. Germains gazetted Lord Steward of the Royal Household. WINDSOR CASTLE, June 20.—The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Alice, visited her Royal HiglAxess the Duchess of Kent, at Frogmore, this morning. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort went to the Wellington. College, attended by Captain the Hon. D. de Princess Helena and Princess Louisa rode out on horse back. RETURN OP THE COURT PROM' WlNDSOR.—Yesterday afternoon her Majesty and the Court returned to Bucking. ham Palace from Windsor. ANTICIPATED VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO DOVER.-We learn from an undoubted source that her Majesty the Queen intends visiting Dover as early as can be made convenient after the arrival of the " Heroes of Lucknow" head-quarters of the 32nd Regiment. (Light Infantry). The honour of "Light Infantry" was conferred upon this regiment for its very remarkable and distinguished bravery at Lucknow, under trying circumstances. This honour inte,nde4 by the Queen to the first regiment returning from the seat of the late Indian rebellion, will.be hailed by the 32nd Regiment itself, and the inhabitants and 'troops of Dover garrison with the highest delight. We also learn that a few of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, have yet to receive the Victoria Cross, with which, in all probability, these heroes will be decorated by the Queen on the occasion of her Majesty's visit to Dover. The 32nd may be expected, we are told by officers who have come overland, in the course of a few days.—Dover Chronicle. GRAND BALL AT TAB FRENCH EMBASSY.—The Countess le Persigny gave a brilliant ball on Monday night at the French Embassy, Knightsbridge, which was attended by several members of the royal family, and at least 400 of the members of the beau monde. It was the first party the countess had given since Count Persigny has, returned to this country for the second time to discharge the high functions of ambassador , from his Imperial 'Majesty the Emperor Napoleon 111. The splendid salons were tastefully adorned with a profusion of the rarest flowering plants, and illuminated by hundreds of wax lights. Dancing commenced shortly after 11 o'clock, and among the favourites were the "brphee Quadrille " and " Avalanche Galop," repeated in the course of the ball by express desire. The. Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklen burgh Strelitz and the Princess Mary and the Duke of Cambridge, retired frem the salon de danse at about half-past 12, his Excellency and the beautiful hostess leading their royal visitors to the supper room. A limited circle at the ball' were favoured . by invitations om the countess to meet the illustrious guests. It was remarked that the leading members of the newly formed 'government mustered in' force at the ball; among them were the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord J. Russell, &c. The Earl of Clarendon and Viscountess Palmerston were among the notables that graced the countess's brilliant reunion by their presence. The royal visitors left shortly. after one o'clock. After the royal party had partaken of supper, the general company repaired to enjoy the repast. After the interval consequent on that important feature in the entertainment, dancing was resumed, and •was kept up with spirit to a very advanced hour. LETTERS TO THE' WEST COAST OF AFRICA.-011 Friday next the royal mail screw steam-ship Ethiope sails from Liverpool for the West Coast of Africa with the mails, &c. THEFT OF A WATCH.—John. Mollineaux, a notorious pickpocket, was yesterday sent to_" apartments" in. Chester Castle, by the Birkenhead magistrates, for the term of three months, for stealing a watch from a " cheap tripper," named Price. STEALING HAMS.--A well-known offender named. James Robinson was stopped by a Police-officer on Monday night, with ten hams in his possession, which he could not satis factorily Account for. It was afterwards found that he had entered the eating-house of Mr. Grey, St. Mary's-gate, and stolen them. lie was sent for trial. . ST . ANNE'S DISPENSARY, AND EYE AND EAR INSTITU TION, 13, ROSE-HILL.—New patients entered on the books last week, viz. :—ltelieved at the institution, 174 ; relieved at their own dwellings, 42 ; total, 216. Visitors : Messrs. E. Watts and George Jordan. Hon. Sec. arid Treasurer, Joseph Kitchen, Esq. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOIrS.—The usual fortnightly meeting of the Committee of the Industrial Schools was held yesterday at the Schools, Kirkdale, Mr. Bairstow presiding.. other members present were—Messrs. Owen, Cook, Turner, Whitty, Williams, and Wm. Whitby. The report of Mr. Coates showed that the number of inmates of the schools Was 845, of whom 66 were sick and in the Infirmary. At the corresponding period last year .there were 906 inmates, of whom 62 were sick and in the Infirniary. It was moved by Mr. Williams, and seconded by Mr. Turner, that they should have a porter to attend to the gate, to be paid at the rate .of 12s a week, with house rent, coals, and gas free. The committee agreed to recommend Henry Torney to fill the situation. This was the only business before the com mittee. S. lIELLEw ELL, 2 and 3, Quadrant, and 53:Castle-street, Liverpool, gratefully acknowledges the enteusive patronage he has received from his •friends and the public generally, during the eleven years he has been engaged in the Indian Rubber and Gtitta Percha trade, both as a manufacturer and dealer. RR - success in the introduction of every variety of waterproof and airproof fabrics, and their application in the manufacture of garments, life belts, beds, deck, sea, and fishing boats, &c.; and the equally important adapta tion of the same materials to mechanical purposes. therefore, deems it due to himself, and to those who may', intrust him with their orders, either for export or home use, to state, that he is prepared to afford them every advantage; he enjoys from long experience—a thorough acquaintance! with the market—and _the preference he has established with the best manufacturers, both as to , terms, and the± prompt execution of his orders, at prices as favourable asr those of an y o th er h ouse i n th e t ra d e , e ith er h ere or e l se -` where ; and for large wholesale orders he is open to treat: with consumers,' or exportera, -on the most liberal terms. 'See General Advertisement. FATAL FIGHT CHARGE OF 'MANSLAUGHTER. -- Mr. Rutter, coroner, held an inquiry on ilionda . y, at the, Cock Inn, Stretford, on the body of Thomas Berry, master TRAIN ON FIRI covered on the tate of wheelwright, aged 50, who expired on Friday night last, after being in conflict with a young ma n name d I saac Burgess, wo was lately a farm servant in the entploy of Mr. Unsworth. From what could be gathered from the evidence of several witnesses, it appeared that a little after five o'clock on Friday afternoon, Burgess, who was the worse for drink, went into the public-house witli two companions, one of them named Beesley. Beesley :had also had drink, and was quarrelsome. A .person came - in named Howarth, and Beesley insisted upon fighting him before he should go out. Burgess and Beesley then came into collision, and gave each other a blow. .At • this time the deceased, Thomas Berry, who had been drinking at the house most of the day; came in, and• began quavering his fists towards Burgess. Burgess said he would fight him, and they both began in the tap-room. Burgess, who is a strong, robust young fellow, about 22, knocked Berry down near the fender; and, according to the ,evidence of his . . journeyman, John Gatley, kicked - him about the neck and 'shoulder, upon which Gatley seized hold of Burgess, and pushed him away. When Berry rose from the floor he was bleeding at the mouth, and went into the yard behind to wash his face at the pump, his man, Gatley, accompanying him. , While Berry was in the yard, Burgess went there also ; and Berry, on seeing him, said, " Will thou have a round turn with me ?" He replied that he would, and both struck, but Burgess knocked Berry down near the wall, and then kicked him, first with one, foot and then with the other. The ostler saw Burgess strike Berry on both 'sides of his head, and went and parted the combatants. On looking round immediately afterwards, he saw Berry lvinz kicks on the neck had caused the .rupture of a bloodvessel, and he returned into the public-house. His wife had gone to Bowden with some school children, and he told his man, Gatley, to go to his' (Berry's) house, make a fire, and put the kettle, on,. and he, would follow soon. -He went home, and dra not appear much worse at first, but about nine o'clock, he complained of his throat, and difficulty of breath ing. He sent for Mr. Bradshaw, surgeon, who ordered some application to the neck, which was distended. About eleven o'clock he then visited him again, and finding him unable to breathe, he opened the windpipe to relieve him, but he did not survive more than a few minutes. The surgeon subsequently made a post mortem examination, and found a considerable quantity of blood accumulated behind the windpipe from a ruptured blood vessel.. This he considered was the cause of death, and there was every probability that the rupture had resulted from external violence, although there was no distinct external injury visible upon the neck. Burgess was in charge of an officer at the house when the inquest was held. The jury, after a brief deliberation, returned a verdict of manslaughter against Isaac Burgess, and a coroner's warrant was made out for his committal to Kirkdale gaol for trial at the assizes. IMPORTATION OF POTATOES FROM THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. —About 200 tons of new potatoes are now being imported into Weymouth and Southampton every week from the Channel Islands by the mail packets. The yield of potatoes has been immense in those, islands this year, and the Jersey farmers have reaped a rich harvest in consequence of the fertility of their land and their favourable climate, which enable them to forestall the English potato growers. By means of the fast mail packets the Jersey and Guernsey farmers are also almost as near the London market as English agriculturalists. .AN AMERICAN PUGILIST.—A letter in the Morning Post, from Boston, says :—" Mr. Heenan, the pugilist, and known as the Benicia Boy,' will pass the summer at Avon Springs, where he will train' for his fight with Mr. Tom Sayers. Heenan has plenty of 'pluck,' but it was thought that; in his fight with Morrissey, he showed a deficiency of physical power, and that power training and time may supply. He hat marriett His wife is an L.L. (' literary lady'), but lier name is never mentioned.' Perhaps she is one of the two L.L. i s' who so astonished Martin Chuzzlewit, and puzzled the 'Hon. Elijah Pogram. She is said to feel con fident of her husband's victory, and to anticipate a great triumph over the Britisher.' So Mr. Sayers must look out for the belt and his laurels." —On Tuesday evening a fire was dis „ top of some carriages of the London train der and Carlisle Railway. The fire was fi rs t observed shortly after the train had left Penrith, and it is supposed that a spark from the-funnel of the engine must have alighted upon the luggage. Fortunately, the fire was observed before it had time to spread, and the train being stopped, allhands used the utmost diligence in extinguish ing the flames. The greatest damage was done to the passengers' luggage—the boxes and portmanteaus, which were stowed away on the roofs of the carriages, being more or less burnt. We heard of one American gentleman, who lost nearly the whole of his clothing—but even this was a less evil than what might have been.— Carlisle Examiner. THE MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT. — Yesterday, at the Marylebone Police Court, London, - an application was made by Mr. Hanley to Mr. Broughton under the Matrimonial C - auses Act, to obtain an order of protection for a female under the following circumstances : The applicant, a respectable female, named Cave, stated that, in the month of August, 1840, she was married at the church of St. George, Hanover-square, to Francis Cave, who was then 21 years of age. Soon after her marriage she was subjected to a cOurse_of ill-treatment from her husband, when they were obliged to live in separate apartments. This was in the month of Feb., 1857, when he left her. She was living in Ernest-street, Regent's -park, at the time. He has never con tributed anything to her support since the year 1847, and she had three children to maintain. Having now some property, and also beinc , in expectation of a considerable sum of money in August next, she was desirous of having an order of protection under the Matrimonial Causes Act. Mr. Broughton asked if her husband did at any time take possession of any of her property ? Applicant : Yes, sir :in April last he came to my apartments where I was living, and stripped me and my children of all my furniture and everything I possessed. Mr. Broughton: What did you value your "property at ? Applicant : At about £3O. I want to secure the money I expect for my children. Capt. Robson, a retired officer, proved the marriage of applicant with Mr. Francis Cave ; when the order was made. SUICIDE THROUGH DISAPPOINTED LOVE.—OR Monday, Mr. Rutter held an inquest at Blackley on the body of a young woman, named Mary Ellen Shuttleworth, 20 years of age, who is believed to have committed suicide through disappointed love. The deceased had lived as servant with Mrs. Brown, of Crumpsall, and about a fortnight ago, one morning when the family rose, it was found that she had left the house, merely taking with her the clothes in which she was dressed. Mrs. Brown had noticed that for about two months previously she had appeared in a desponding mind; but beyond this there was nothing unusual in her appearance. Every se ar ch an d inquiry was made to ascertain her whereabouts, but without success, and nothing could- be ascertained respecting her fate 'until Monday morning, when two men passing a reservoir connected with Mr. Royle's works, at Crumpsall, about three-quarters of a mile from Mrs. Brown's house, obierved her body floating on the surface. Information was given to the police, and the body was at once taken out of the water and removed to the nearest public-house. No evidence was given at the inquest to show any cause for the commission of suicide, but it was currently rumoured in the neighbourhood that the deceased had been engaged to a young man who had dis carded her in order to commence payinc , his addresseS to her cousin.—The jury returned- a verdict of Found drow ne d. Mdlle. Piccolomi n i made her re-appearance at Drury-lane Theatre on Monday night, after a long absence from London, in her character-of Violetta, in "La Traviata." When she first came upon the stage applause burst from all parts -of the house, and was prolonged for some minutes. , The theatre was: so densely crowded in every. part that the director was compelled to accommodate several applicants for places with seats upon the stage. SUNDAY SAILING ON THE CLYDE.—A lawsuit Some years pending in the Court of Session in reference to the use of the piers at Gareloch by passengers landing from steamers plying on the Clyde on ; , undays- has just been brought to a termination. When the Sunday steamer was first started on the Clyde, in 1853, it James Colquhoun, pro prietor Of the piers of Gar elochhead, Row, and Rowmore, took forcible measures to prevent the landing of the passengers there, and for - several Sundays the piers were-the scene of unseemly contests between the pasengers attempt ing to land and the servants of the proprietor resisting the attempt. Legal measures were then taken on the one side to interdict, and on the other to claim the use of the pier by the public on Sundays. The court in the first instance refused to interdict the public use of the pier on Sundays until the proprietor had established his rights in a possessory• action to exclude the public. In the action as ultimately brought it was admitted by the defenders (Paton and otherS, owners of the steamer kmperor) that the three piers in qeestion had all been built -by it james Colquhoini at his own expense, and . the question at issue was whet her the piers-- being use d- b y the public on the s i x days of the week the public were entitled also to use them on" tlie seventh. The court held that in the circumstances - in - which these piers had been erected the proprietor was entitled, in 'virtue of possession and of usage previous to 1f53, to restrict the public, use of the piers in the vVa'y he sought to do, and that the: proprietor did not necessarily_ sacrifice his private rights :by . giving the public. access, to the piers, there being no grant of free-port in the case. The court therefore interdicted the defenders from landing passengers at the piers in question in vessels leaving and returning to Glasgow on Sundays. The House adjourned at half-past five (county division), Bury, __...__ in anticipation of a vacancy caul plications of the Italian question as the most urgent qu, of the present moment CABINET meets t yen on IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. YESTERDAY. The House met and immediately adjourned till Thursdil for private business. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—YESTERDAY. A letter was `read at the table from Sir Archdale Vill s t. °P i in acknowledgement of the vote of thanks passed by that House for his services. In reply to Mr. Jackson— Lord Clarence Paget stated, that he should withdravrL as motion for a committee of inquiry into the shipbui/ 6 74 department of the navy, but. that, the present Board Admiralty was prepared to take e ffici en t s t e p s in °th et matters. Mr. E. James give notice that, on Monday week, . 116 should ask the government whe,ther it. was their intention, to introduce a bill for the refo r m of the re p res entation ° I the people in the present session. Sir Charles Napier, in postponing the motion he had °II the paper for a committee to inquire into the state of th e navy till that day fortnight, alluded to a remark said t ° have been made by Lord Derby, that M r . Gladstone b s ; declared himself shocked at our expenditure, and expresse: they would not interfere with the efficiency of the navy, °` with the steps taken by the late government for its improve: ment, in face of the actual armaments of France and Austria, even if it required a treble income-tax to do so. Mr. W. Williams said that he thought that the gall art i l admiral should have waited 'till the Government had n 15 u, 6 The gallant admiral was never satisfied ivltu" its statement. the expenditure of the public money; however large it rail Mr. Slaney obtained leave to bring in a bill for the fl l ' pose of enabling public walks and places of exercise to b e established out of the rates. The Earl of March obtained leave to bring in a bill t° provide for the payment of debts incurred by Boards °f Guardians in unions and parishes, and Boards of Manage, ment in school districts. Mr. Brand, on the motion for going into committee Li' snpply, stated that the new writs would be moved to-mortl: and that he should then propose the adjournment of 1 7, House till Thursday, the 30th i n stant, t o w hi c h day her i poned the present motion Petitions were presented againstthe returns for Roscour mon connty, the boroughs of Yarmouth, Sandwich, O der : minster, Bridgewater, Athlone (2), Cheltenham, 1 - 4111 ; 1 Regis, Kingston -upon-Hull (2), Newry, Frome, County; Weymouth (2), Preston, Wind sor , Ch a tham' P e i ; borough (2), Beverley (3), Carlisle, 'Dundalk, Wake Merionethshire, Dover, Bodmin,. Carlow (2), Kent VI / Barnstaple (2). Mr. Brady gave notice that, on the 30th instant, ~ should ask the Government w h e th er it was th e ir inten tio ; to introduce a bill during the present - §essioh to amen d law oflandlord and tenant in Ireland ? ELECTION PETITIONS- Up to a? late hour on Monday afternoon, the number of petitions which had been presented amounted to thirty-t'r; The folloWing is a list which may be relied upon Al accuracy, of the names of the boroughs or counties Bodmin, Wakefield, Aylesbury, Ashburton, Great Yarmouth; Huddersfield,--Pontefract, Gloucester (city), Athlone' 9 , 1 3 , rt ; ' 1 P,orton, Norwich, Maidstone, Beverley, `-' l ', ), Weymouth, Harwich, Leicester (eounty, nortber° Limerick, New Windsor, Preston, ICiacier' minster, Beverley, Ber*ick-on-Tweed. 10 From the list it a pp ears th a t th ere are fi ve Pe- --i+it f m t against Aylesbury, three aga i ns t Athl one, th r ee ag e ' t i o Beverley, and two against P r e s t on; an d th a t tWO 0f .. petitions against Aylesbury proceed on th e sa me sureS from the same petitiOners, viz., Mr. Darvill and Mr. we-d worth, one petition having been presented on the Btht 511 0 the other on the 17th instant. Of the twenty-three 03'4 petitioned against, it may b e cur iou s t o k now that n° 1 162 4 than fourteen of them we re p e titi one d aga i ns t in the 1: 3 Parliament, viz., B o d m i n , Berwick-on-Tweed, Wak e6e Great Yarmonth, Huddersfield, Pontefract, Gloucest er, Athlone, Norwich, Maidstone, Beverley, Weymouth , s°l ' and New Windsor. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. in reply to a depution of electors of Marylebone, off . et Bernal Osborne has stated that he was willing' t ° himself for that borough if there was a general feeilag expressed in his favour. a mpton! Lord Stanley has addressed th e electors orth of N I by g r . Verno n Sr being made a peer. Captain Colhill Turner, who was defeated by onlY 2! votes at the last election, will oppose Mr. 'Virnitbreatri re-election at Bedford. Mr. Sydney Herbert's election address is publ ished • l ie regards financial difficulties, partly reform, and the cove: MR. GL-IDSTONE and the PALMERSIV A letter from Mr. Gladstone to the Provost of Grit ) . printed and circulated. The right hon. been gentler° ,ae objection against sitting in the same Cabinet Nlth Mr. Milner Gibson and M r . C o bd en, by showig t-ustt Cabinets cannot in th ese d ays b e constitute d Nv ith° f including some, and pe r h a p s very w id e, difreteriecg'the o zeat questions. Ha v ing join t P al : er j,ora s tort vote last year which led t o th e d own f a ll o f the Cabinet, he thought it hi s d u t y t o suppor t tha t o f that Derby, and h e did no t vo t e i n t h e recent ma jority, as go would have implied a course of previous opPos iti°ll. # the could not concur in thei r Ref orm Bill, an d tho u g h " dissolution sing u l ar ly ill-advised. U n d er the 3 c cirellln ; stances, he considered his duty towards the late Cent had been fully discharged. He considers the guidallee and our foreign policy with respect to the war iu Parliamentary Reform, to be th e paramoun t interest s ot ale present moment. On the question of Italy, his views always been in union w ith th ose of the statesm en wh ° - ir 3 e r now charge of our foreign affairs. As to Reform , henchacl understood th e pr i nc i ples on which tha t s ubject th at been managed by the late Cabinet, and he think s the fact of ' the dissolution, together with the re' f ni 4oritY; of an ad verse, an d now no longer indulgent rendered the settlement of the question by the late mi llist i e u impossible. The right hon. gentleman, therefore, nut ur n ly turns to the hope of its being settled by a Cabinet r eal be constituted and led by the men together with Ivhl i t i t .was responsible for framing and proposing a Reform / 3 "` - 00 1854 ; and as to minor points he has seen the inconveeieo of separate political a c tio ns , a nd, s ubject to the conditle.., of honour and of publi c u tility, h e could not with p ro p riet a l pass by any opportunity of bringing it at least in his °1( person to a close. THE REFORM MINISTRY. IF there is one thing which, more than another, is reconciling the popular mind of England for the moment to the curious compact for office that the Whigs have succeeded in forming, it is the idea of its being that of a Reform Ministry. Reform, like charity, covereth a multitude of sins ; and, on this occasion, it has, with many people, done far —it has turned their winter of discontent into a glorious summer of satisfaction and hope. There is a cham in the name of Reform, which can evidently operate powerfully with its enchantment. Reform was the great cry at the hustings in the late Elections. It was the triumph of the cause of Reform, in the old• Parliament, that sent them there. They triumphed over a Ministry which, more,- they contended, had trifled with Reform,—at whose hands, they insisted, the 'sacred cause had received a great indignity. And in the same spirit in which they voted so successfully in the late House of Commons, were they enabled to carry themselves so valiantly through the conflict of the General Election. In the name of Reform they came forth, an indomitable phalanx, to meet the Ministry which they declared had done so much despite to it in the former Parliament r and at once they proceeded to inflict' summary vengeance upon its reputed adver saries. To have dared to trifle with Reform ! No Ministry 'could certainly have been guilty of a higher crime, or a greater misdemeanor. No Ministry, in fact, it was immediately determined, should be tolerated in the country, or allowed any 4uarter Jr' the -- (louse of commons, that did not realize the 'best and truest ideal of a Reform Ministry. And, acting upon this determination, having sent the DERBY-DISRAELI incapables about their business, they have now themselves, and out of themselves, constructed a Ministry—so the country is given to understand—that shall be a model of a Reform Miniseiv for all time to come. Such is, at any rate, the theory of the new ;Ministerial arrangements. The magic of Reform has brought them all about. But for that irresis tible influence, all the schemes of the Whigs and Peelites combined would have been abortive. And now it has to be shown, in practice, what is its quality. Reform, we all know, is a fine thing to talk about. But talking won't do now. We must have the doing,—the.mere saying has all been used up, and must be done with for They who have mainly carried the day,— they, without whose co-operation the opportunity for the formation of the new Ministry might never have been presented, demand this time a real, substantial, and extensive, Reform ; and they have brought about the present state of things for the express purpose of obtaining it. And yet are there murmurs and misgivings, in that very quarter, that, after all, there is but faint hope of it from those whom they have enabled and empowered to take possession of the Government, on that very condition. " The good men in this new Cabinet," one of their own organs has already proclaimed, " are a small minority, and we cannot see, in the list of names before us, any security for wise legislation, or real Reform, or long life in the kdministration, which is now entering upon its unpromising. existence." Such is the greeting which' is given to them in the Liberal camp itself. And P Simply because the antecedents of so many them are so unpromising as Reformers. There is not " any security for real Reform." This is the long and short of the matter How can it possibly be otherwise P.. Why, when one looks closely into the case, the prospect of Reform, so far from being better, is worse than before. For, as the Saturday Review with only too much reason points out, —" Lord PALMERSTON wants no Reform, and has always repudiated extreme projects. Sir C. LEWIS was the first to ask the pertinent and yet unanswered question, what were the evils to be corrected, and how the remedy would apply.? Mr. GLADSTONE lately protested against the disfranchisement of small boroughs, and Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT proclaimed his general agreement of opinion with Mr. WALPOLE. The Duke of ARGYLL was recently selected by Mr. BRIGTIT as one of the numerous objects of his personal vitupera tion, and it would be absurd to suppose that Lord ELGIN or Lord GRANVILLE desires a democratic revolution." Small hope of any substantial Reform, then, one would think,, at the hand of such Ministers as these. But still they are a Reform Ministry. Such they , call themselves, ,at any rate. And so long as the country only believes that they are such—why, of course, they will retain the vantage ground on which Reform has placed them. But they must evidently either burke the question, or, if they discuss it, they must soon get to loggerheads. One of the more ingenious of our country contemporaries, we per ceive, thinking that when the new Cabinet meets, one of the early questiOns to come before it must be that of a Reform Bill, thus supposes the way in which the matter will be dealt with : Palmerston : I think our presence at this table, as colleagues, in place and paY, show 'that the representa!io!t works well : for the little change that is really required is it worth while to raise a hubbub in the country which can benefit nobody but trading politicians ? Lord John : You know that I am pledged, but you also LORD JOHN RUSSELL ON N_EUT.l2Jiliv. AND REFORM. Lord John Russell has issued a short address, are/ himself for re-election. It consists, besides, o f thetc'r following paragraphs : .. , " The grave responsibility which I have incurred . b _... / accepting the appointment of Secretary of State for Forare Affairs, in the present , critical state of Europe, Ca n onity,,e lightened by the very gene r al assent of the nation to ti % course of honourable neutrality which her Maj es advisers are determined to pursue. 1 a yrS A ',L T A " The question of further amendments in the lating the representation of the people i n Parliam ent be undertaken w ith a v i ew t o strengthen our institutiongt and place them on a broader and stronger foundation." .....••••••,' ~... S'et , 3; 4 niklat Yort. dir tr , ight on =arcels fo: Package, t!IlrpO;c Lion in fright. \r ' t lhe BC ARABIA ,ASIA CANADJ ASIA. CAN N') AFRICA EIIROP PERSIA ARABI. AMERI AFRIC. Utißol PERSI, ARAM Am 81. teak street Th( Sam. the L One 15,' ffic Exl hed Ant XVI