Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-24 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL THE MUTINIES IN INDIA. DELHI NOT TAKEN. DEATH OF GENERAL BARNARD. S IR RINEY LAWRESOE KILLED IN A SORTIE FROM MIMI:MOW. GENERAL HAVELOCK'S FORCES. The following telegraphic despatch appeared in a large portion of our impression of Saturday, having been received just at the moment of our going to press : The following is a teletraphic despatch received through Rer Majesty's Consul at Caglisri Angu3t 14, 9 p.m.—The labia arrived at Suez to-day. She brings dates from Calcutta to July 21st; Madras, 25th; Galle, 28th, and Aden, Bth instant. Who telegraphic mem:age from Suez is meagre and COll - and there is not time t receive explanation before She departure of the steamer Boetia for Malta. JO is stated that Delhi is not taken, but, the date is not even. General Barnard reported to have died from dysentery. The newe given in the Bombay Times of the 14th July, by last mail, respecting the taking of Cawnpore, by the rebals, and the massacre of the Earopaans, is confirmed. The Suez telegraph massage then goes on to say as follows : —The Simoom and Himalaya arrived at Calcutta with about 1,500 of China forces to proceed at once up the country. Only 300 more troops expected. The rebels were beaten on three occasions, and several guns taken, between Allahabad and Cawnpora, the latter re-taken. Nena Sahib is followed by Havelock twelve miles up the Bhittoor. Mir S. Lawrence died of wounds received in a sortie from Lutknow, where at present all is well. All the troops in Oude mutinie). Agra all quiet. Native troops di-armed. contingent mutini,d, and supposed to, have marched on Indore. THR FATE OF CAWNPORE. When the accounts received;afortnight ago left India, the fate of Sir Hugh Wheeler and his gallant garrison, straightened for provisions, encumbered by a considerable "mbar of new combatants,' and surrounded by the muti neers was peculiarly critical. It now appears, before "effectual. succour could be re ceived the ch.fande:s of-Cawopore succombal under these overwhelming rebels. There is too much reason to fear that the succeis of the rebels was signalised by the same ' , inspirited and relentless atrocity that has hitherto marked all their proceedings. According to the intelligence by the last mail, Brigadier ilaverlock was invested with the supreme command of the flying squadron, consisting of H M 64th., 781. nighlanders, and 84th. He appears to have moved up from Ahalabad too late - to prevent the fall of Cawnpore, but with sufficient celerity to make signal, reprisals on its captors, defeating Nana Sahib in more than one encounter, taking several of his guns, and finally succeeding in again planting the British flag on the walls of Cawnpore. CHINA. Zia despatch does not give any political news from China. Total loss of the Transit Gwarnmant Steamer in the Ektraits of Sunda is reported, but the telegraphic despatch saps, crew and troops all Bawl INDIA AND PERSIA. A. letter from Teheran, of July 5. in the Pays, states that the revolt in India has produced a great sensation in Persia, that several Uletnas had openly preached in favour of the Indians, and that the propaganda would have assumed a very serious character but for the energy displayed by the government iu putting it down. At the last dates all was tranquil. Herat was about to be evacuated by the Persian troops. The reason why it has not hitherto been restored is that for the last six months there has been war with the principal Affghan tribes who set up claims to the possession of the town. News had been received at Teheran that the English had completely terminated the evacuation of the Persian Gulf. Constantinop!e letters of the 15th (via Trieste) state that Mr. Murray has called upon the Persian government to evacuate Herat immediately. THE INTELLIGENCE FROM INDIA. ~„File telegraphic communication received at . he Foreign :LC* last night, and published in another column, Lu engh confused, elliptical, and in some parts almost n a. ul utel igible, put us iapossession of information sixteen da ys later from Calcutta, and fourteen from Madras. Delhi —the great centre of interest—is re parted as still Untaken when the last despatch left, but we have no clue to the date of that information. Everything so far etonarms the opinion we have repeatedly expressed that than ile bjgat of that city is a work of greater magnitude has generally been supposed. Unfortunately, at the ver y moment we were most in want of his efficient aerviees, General Barnard, in command of the forces bef ore Delhi, is carried o thff, like General ffiAnson, by dysente ry: The los s .of at excellent officer at so concern erilc a juncture w ill b e f e l t i n thi s coun t r y w ith a al proportioned to th urgent nd there is at the present moment of such valuable experiences and undeniable abilities as he possessed. But this is not the on- ly loss . An of fi cer whom we could ill spare—Sir sortie y i. wrance—h as died of wou n ds received i n a fro:n important. 'Luck n o w rebels. Thus, at two now against the re • It is co , . points, we have lost our ablest commanders. soling, however, to know that Sir Colin Campbell will have arrived at Calcutta in time to snake such new arrangements as these unfortunate deaths will render necessary. The Consul's communication from Alexandria refers to the massacre reported in the Bombay 4▪ .47 ne,s of the 14th of July, which arrived by last mail, and c 4nfirms its thrilling details. We must, however, wait 1 Be e arrival of the mail, or our own correspondent's tele aPhic co mmunication from Marseilles, in anticipation of :,_ b efore we can know with any certainty if anything has ,nl3Pened to increase the extent of this calamity. All ,i 3 - '9O seems to have risen, and the general feeling there air n g greatly against the English, the probability is that which Mtine ers are strongly supported by the natives, pe rp will, Perhaps, account for their success at Cawn tell - The Gwalior contingent, which was at one time l e n e a upon as safe, turns out to have mutinied. But, 'W e ° _, o Y as this infor m ation is, we must not look only at an >-!ark side of it. The grand comforts ll remains that abritllla mischief is confined to the Bengal provinces. eli,;; w ra s and Bombay are still arm, and there is no sign of b —eeti en• We must imagine the strictest look-out to _e kept rea s upon the troops in those presidencies, and all W er r a hle precautions to be taken against an outbreak. t el ;- ,aueh an event to take place, it would not, as in n ot bg:Li.,take every one by surprise, and therefore would audden e th c•elY to be attended with the same success. The B, ccess FSE of the mutiny in Bengal force and be in gave it Played t • many places. But that kind of game cannot . wiee, and we may reasonably hope that the ev i l within limits will continue to be circumscribed within the Must reins w hich it first began. In the next place, we Cale ttuber that the arrival of Sir Colin Campbell at therewu uld be so edy as to enable him to make fresh depositions asmight be necessary ; we must therefore ben are of ml un Proinising. ow.. S ad tidings these certainly' are., but such Barnard.l as we must ex i n Good and brave as Peet war. BF._and Lawrence were, they wilt have worthy _ tr7 es d sGrs • The Indian service is a good school, and has duty many able men, who well knew how to do their __.Y ill this trying f r et to enujuneture. What we have to do is lay toodasisch stress upon the loss of this or that $t eat soldier. - but to take care to be sending out a neicient supply of best men, that one may be able ;,2 r eplace another i n the event of death or disability. - I:ne arrival of the Siosoen and Himalaya with troops at Calcutta would, with those which remained to follow, Z in crease s ___ the European force by some 2,000 men. Unfor• unately, however, there lie 976 miles of arduous march L' ef ere what we suppose we must callthe seat b ef ore what we suppose we must caflthe seat of war could e reached. A. delay which cannot be of s mall consequence Arise s of war could 8 _ from the total loss of the Transit in the Straits of t,' l ltia. From the telegraphic despatch it would appear _enat the crew and troops had been rescued and brought t u t. to Suez, but this is antecedently so improbable I h ma , t , Yve are inclined to think there must be some mistake Vet, message. No vessel rescuing the crew of the ae llt ill the Straits of Sunda would be likely to be en fret eget f or Baez under circum s t ances o f suc h stringency as _ 0 e nable it to pro cee d t o Si ngapore and land its troops ajre. That they wou ld h ave been carried up the RPd ' aPPears incredible , because . so unnecessary. ...; We must, therefore, suppose the telegraph to be at fault, and the passage to mean that the Transit had been lost, but that the troops were saved, the words, " Suez to day" being intended to refer to the date of the despatch. A week must still e'apse befure further news in detail can be had, but we have reason to rejoice that the government arrangements have been so well organised as to give us news from Suez so rapidly, at a time when the country Is wrought up to so paintul a pitch of anxiety about the greatest crisis that has :for many years occurred in our: Indian pots sions.— Morning Poet. The fact that Delhi still holds out need tense no sur prise. It is the strongest fortress in India, coutainiug a❑ immense quantity of warlike stores and material, while its garrison are animated by the resolution of despair. Most persons whose opinions are entitled to respectful consideration have stated that its capture would not prove so easy of accomplishment as ministers represented, and even General Windham, at the banquet given at Norwich last week, declared very plainly, " I have a very strong opinion that Delhi is not yet taken, and I am sorry to say that Ido not believe it will be suite so fast as many men in this country think it will be. The rainy season has by this time commenced, and it does not appear iu the least probable that anything like decisive operations can be rsnewed 'Clore November. The hope that such a fortress, thus garrisoned and defended would fall at the first summons could but prove delusive, and we can hardly imagine that it was ever seriously entertained by the Government. Their chief error through this lamentable affair has been to underrate its importance, and they are as blind to its real consequences and results as they were to the causes which lea to the explosion. No victories are gained by those whose preparations in variably fall below the required standard. The men who commend success are those who provide for every contingency, and overcome peril and difficulty by the exercise of that iron will, by which alone under the blessing of Providence, they, can be controlled. The word of promise has been kept long enough to the ear of the British public, and it is high time that some of the masnificent promises made by our rulers were realised. Whilst Mr. Vernon Smith and those whom he delights to serve endeavour to create a false confidence, every iota cf news renders their case more desperate, and shows that the crisis is graver than was at first anticipated. The truth is, our Indian empire has to be regained, and this cannot be effected unless a very different system to that which has hitherto prevailed be adopted. While our European forces have been drained off to supply the exigencies of rashly-provoked contests the rebels have matured their plans and burst like a thunder-cloud upon the almost deserted garrisons and stations. There is no disguising the fact that the revolt has spread and is spreading in the most alarming manner, and that it is net confined to the troops. Unless vigorous measures be once take❑ the other presidencies will be infec ted, for, as we showed upon a former occasion, the contagion has passed the limits of the north-west provinces. Its the presence of these painful facts, how wretched do the first measures proposed by the English government for the suppression of the revolt appear. W!iat a commentary do they afford upon their feeble reinforcements, their slow-sailing transports, their 10,000 militia, and their reiterated refusal to consider the outbreak as a peril of more than ordinary magnitude. What shall we say after this of the nonchalance of the Premier, and the confident and arrogant tone in which Mr. Vernon Smith attempts to silence criticism and turn aside the current of investigation? These are exactly the results ot dhninished garrisons and neglected defences, which everybody but the authorities anticipated, and which have taken none by surprise but those very person s whose duty it is to be prepared for whatever contingen cies may occur. That the country will emerge in triumph from these perils and perplexities we have not the slightest doubt; but this can only be accomplished when her destinies are wielded by men fully impressed with the importance of their weighty responsibilities, and actuated by an earnest, anxious, and humble desire to encounter the crisis with energy and determination, and to employ all the resources of the state in its defence.— Morning Herald. The news from India which is now brought up to the 21st July, is indeed disastrous. It shows us the mutiny exaggerated into rebel ion. It tells us of towns captured by the enemy—it mentions by name leaders of the rebel army, and intimates that if we are besieging—it rather should be said, in military phrase, are observing—Delhi, we are, in our turn, besieged at Lueknow, where in sad confirmation of the grave intelligence communicated to the public in our paper of the 4th inst., Sir Henry Lawrence has died of wounds received in a "sortie" from out of Lucknow. Thus then the fact is confirmed which we announced eighteen days previously in the following words . " Sir Henry Lawrence, who had already marled from Lucknow upon Citwnpore, has been compelled to fall back' from the latter position. It is with extreme pain we add that the heal: h of Sir Henry Lawrence is stated to be in such a precarious condition, that for some time, at least, even at this perilous moment, if not altogether, as is t o much feared, his invaluable aid will be lost to the service of the country." The loss of Sir Henry Lawrence is a severe calamity at the present mom alt. He was one of tile school of Clive —discreet in council and prompt in action, he averted danger, or met it boldly in the onset. General Sir Henry W. Barnard, too, the general com manding betore Delhi, is said to have fallen a victim to that fatal disease which besets besieging armies. But this is not the worst. We have heard of the cholera being in Delhi; there is too much reason to fear it has found its way outside. General Sir 11. W. Barnard, K. C.B , had the charge of a brigade in the Crimean army, and subse quently acted as chief of the staff during the siege and tall of Sebastopol. His powers of organisation were admirable, and it was in consequence of these special qualities that he was sent out to India. That the whole of the Oude troops have mutinied will not be surprising to those who now know how we have deceived ourselves .in supposing that our rule would cer tainly be more gratifying to the people of Oude than that of their native monarch —Morning Chronicle. The telegraphic news from India is of a gloomy charac ter, but it is not so serious as it looks at first view. It carries its gloomy side from the deaths of distinguished men—some from the baneful influence of the climate— some from the sword of the barbarians, whom we have pampered and led—but most of all the dismal side of the picture presents the foul atrocities committed upon inno cent women of one own blood and kindred. The news is gloomy decidedly. But it is in effect no worse than was dreaded by thoughtful and reflective men. From:the momenta it was found that the mutiny of the Bengal Sepoys was universal and wide spread—and when it further .appeared that wherever they were left with arms in their hands a wholesale massacre o' innocent Europeans took place, it was evident that the only preservative from such atrocities was the presence of a European force. And so it has turned out. The Sepoys have only succeded as yet where they were unopposed. Wherever a European force has ap• peared they have been—and will be—obliged to succumb. The British are arriving—and will arrive—day after day. The first s,ooo—diverted from China—havo arrived already. Tne Persian contin gent is also on its return to India. The Cape regiments (two) are thero by this time. The Indian reliefs for the year-9,000 strong—are more than a month on their way —and of the 20,000 infantry, cavalry, and artillery ordered from home, the greater portion has already sailed. We must make up the deficit thus created in our home ranks —not merely for home protection, but for Indian reserves, Already ten second battalions are ordered to be embodied. to replace those that are gone. Ten more second battalions will be ordered before the first ten are filled. The militia will be brought out—in ten thousand at a time—to fill np the blank made in our service by the gallant regiments who are gone. We are crippled by the short-sighted an unpatriotic policy of the beginning of this year.; but we will end it yet by military as well as parliamentary success.—Observer. The greatest exasperation against the rebels reigns in the English camp before Delhi, but it 'is kept under by General Bullard. The wise prudence of this officer, who holds in his hands the destines of British India, cannot be blamed. A check sustained by him before the walls of Delhi would be attended with incalculable consequences ; and, in spite of the impatience created by the inevitable length of the operations, it is the force of events and not the general that must be a.ccused. The position of the British has not grown worse. Th 4 fidelity of many native rulers has not been shaken. Although some of their regiments have joined the insurgents, others have bravely fought for the English cause. We may mention in particular the flying column commanded by General Van Cortlandt, composed exclusively of irregulars or of native contingents, who defeated the insurgents in two sanguinary encounters. The English have,- moreover, completed their organisation, and are beginning to experience the, blessings of rein forcements. The state of the army commanded by Gene ral Barnard is partly favourable, partly unfavourable. On the one hand, the season of great heat which cruelly tried the troops has passed, but then the rainy season is about to commence. The rain will . seriously obstruct the siege operations, and it will produce fever and cholera among the troops encamped en a marshy soil. This is perhaps the most dangerous enemy opposed to the English, but the latter • give no signs of discouragement. Everything proves that the English authorities, after the first moment of surprise, have commenced assuming the offensive. This is the ,most i nportant feature of the latest news, and it would be unjust not to acknowledge that a sensible improvement has taken place in the pros pects of the Company. —Journal' des Debars. The lb:lowing is an extract of a letter from Allahabad, from Colonel Neill, dtted 30th June, 1857 :—" I have driven all the insurgents away from about this. 'On the 16th I gave them a great smashing. Got two Fusiliers killed, and, young Bailey, a gallant officer, severely wounded, as also some of our men, one of whom has since died; hat atl will do well, young Bailey included, 1 hope. I have no animals to drag my guns, and no way of getting far out of the tort ; besides, the fearful heat made it sudden death to tl;f3 European soldiers to move without teats. However, whlt did bad the effe3 Of Striking THE NORTHERN TIIVIEa:--LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1857. great terror into t ;nom all. They were seized with a panic, took to quarrelin g among themselves, and went off, leaving the . cWO guns they had. got on the night of the mutiny :..nd many arms. It has been a great blow. Autbo rayt; rc-established,land we have been settling down things wonderfully. A large force is to be collected here, and I am getting all[fready for their movement. I have not been able as yet to send a single man towards Cawnpore. I had no carriage, no means of moving a man out; every. thing had been destroyed. The road from this to Cawn_ pore is in the hands of the enemy. No food to be pro cured, so I have been helpless, with Cawnporo only 120 miles off to relieve it. Tire awful heat, too, was against me. Certain death, moving troops, without or with only a:few tents along that road; besides, I could not leave this, the most important fortress in India, insecure. To cover all, cholera attacked us with fearful virulence. Within three days there were 121 cases in the Fusiliers alone, and 57 deaths. I was so exhausted for a few days, I was obliged to lie down constantly, and only able to get up when the attacks were going on, and then I was obliged to sit down on the batteries to give my orders and directions ; but I always had the greatest confidence in myself, although I felt almost dying, as it were, at times, from complete exhaustion. Yet I kept up my heart, and here I am, thank God, as well as ever. The cholera has now entirely left us. It was caused by the excessive filth which I found had been allowed to accumulate here. I have been much galled at not being able to push on troops to Cawnpore, but in a few hourt 400 Europeans, 2 guns, 300 Seikhs, and the few cavalry I have, start, and will have to • fight their way along the road. They have to carry all their provisions with them. This party will be banked up by others, which will keep open the communi cation, as I feel certain it will get on to Cawnpore. I do not myself leave this. I send Major Renard in command, with orders and instructions, and if he acts up to them all will be right." DISTRIBUTION OF HER MAJESTY'S REGIMENTS IN INDIA. A good deal of anxiety prevails in England regarding the actual locality of the Queen's regiments serving in ludia. We have drawn up the following from the scattered notices in the Indian papers. We think it may be relied upon as correct : fith Carbine ors—Meerut. Prepared to move on Delhi. 9:h Lancers—Delhi. 1 Ith Lancers—Bargalore (Madras Presidency). 14th Light Dragoons—Two sluadrons at Aurungabad (Nizam's territories). One squadron, (forming pa•t of a flying brigade, to assemble at Illalligaum (Candeish, Deccsn). Depot—Kirkee, near Poona. sth Foot—Had arrived at Calcutta, and was to move up the Ganges towards Bsnares, Allahabad, and Cawnpore. B.h Foot—Delhi. 10th Foot—Dinapore. 24th Foot—Fanjaub. 27th—Enniskillings—Punjanb. 29th Foot—Burmah. Ordered up to Calcutta. 32nd Foot—Lucknow. 35th Foot —W.arrackpore, near CaLutta. 37th Foot—One wing at Benares ; one wing at Calcutta. 43rd Light Infantry—Bangalore. 52nd Light Infantry—Panjaub. 53rd Foot—Calcutta. 60th Rifles—Delhi. fist Foot--One wing at Ferozopore ; one wing at Delhi. 64th Foot—Depot, Belgaum (Bombay Presidency), 500 men a t Allahabad. 70tt► Foot—Punjaub. 75th Foot—Delhi. 78th Highlanders—Dept, Poonah, On; wing at Benares ; one wing at Calcutta. 81st Foot—Lahore. 83rd F ot —Depot, Deesa. 502 men on the march, from Deesa, to overawe the Mewah territory. 84th Foot—Allahabad. 86th Foot—One wing at Poonah; ono wing with the 14th Light Dragoons, en route to Malligaum. 87th FoJt —Royal Irish Fusiliers—Peshawar. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. (EXTRACT FROM A (LADY'S) PRIVATE LETTER ) RatuvrielE (Cape of Good Hope), April 22. Since I wrote yon last our quiet little town has gone -head at a rate that has not a little astonished the slow-going Cape res. The cause of the great movement has bzen the alarm of another Kaffir outbreak, and our Governor has wisely considered that the bet ter part of va'our is discretion, and that the best way to maintain peace is to be prepared for war. At first the grantees of farms :ere ordered to the front to protect the district. but they were soon relieve! from their disagreeable duty by the military arrangements his Excellency was enabled to make from the abundant supply of troops that was sent t ) the colony. The 85th Regiment are, for the present, stationed in (Ideenstown. They are a quiet and orderly sat, both officers and men, and of course stlea an increase to the population of our settlement has given an impetus to business that could not have been calculated upon by. the most sangu ne. Sir George Grey has lent every assistance in his power to Improve the resources of the district. Engineers are employe] to Improve the harbour at East London; and the other day we heard from a gentle man, Just come from there, that eleven vessels were at anchor when he left, some of them direct from England. It makes a great saving of land carriage, instead of landing and shipping at Port Elizabeth as formerly. Several Cape houses have entered into business in Queenstown' and more are proposing to follow the example ; and, to judge from appearances, all seem to be prospering. We at one time expected that a part of the German Legion would be located here, but It has been arranged differently; they are estab ',shed in villages all along the frontier. For the present all alarm of war is at an end ; and the people are in high spirits at the prospect of peace and at the high price of wool. ANCIENT RULES FOR THE BALL-ROOTS.—The following transcript of ancient fashionable regulations, copied from a framed and printed paper in the Museum at Derby, may amuse our readers, and illustrate manners and customs of a century since :—" Rules to be observed. is the Ladies' Assembly in Derby. No lady shall be admitted in a long white apron. All rung ladies in mantuas shall pay 2s. 6d. No Miss in a coat shall dance without permission of the lady of the assembly. Whoever shall trapsgress any of these rules shall be turned out of the assembly. ALLEGED LIBEL.—JENEYN V. GLOVER AND ANOTHER. — This was a writ of inquiry, brought in the Sheriff's Court, London, on Thursday, to assess damages in an action brought in one of , the superior courts. The declaration set forth an alleged libel, which was published hr the Morning Chronicle, on the 12th of December last, and the defendants were the proprietor and publisher of that journal. The particulars of the case, which were stated at great length, were totally devoid of public interest. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, with £25 damages, adding that they did so with the greatest reluctance. COMMITTEIII OF SUPPLY.—The select committee ap pointed to corsider the present forms for the conduct of public business in committee of supply," have agreed to the following resolutions :-1. That in a committee of supply the present mode of putting the question on an amendment for a reduction of a vote be altered. 2. That in a committee of supply a member be at liberty to take the opinion of the committee on any item contained in the vote. 3. That when an amendment is proposed to leave out or reduce a particular item of a vote, the question shall be put from the chair whether the proposed reduction (specifying the item) be agreed to. 4. That when several amendments to different items are proposed, they shall be taken in the order in which they appear in the printed estimates. 5. That when a motion shall have been made and question put for the reduction of any item, no question for the reduction of any preceding item shall be put. 6. That when any reduction or reductions shall have been agreed to, the vote so reduced shall be put from the chair. It is proposed to form an association in Lancashire for encouraging the• increased growth of cotton in Jamaica, for the supply of the manufacturers in this country. Millions of acres of fine land are at this moment lying, waste in Jamaica; and although in those parishes (cow comparatively few) in which sugar is still made, more men might find employment at certain seasons of the year, yet there are many extensive districts in which the labourers cannot find profitable employment, and are obliged to rent or purchase land to grow the necessaries o life for the support of their families, or to travel 15 and even 20 miles from their homes, and in some instances to Central America, in search of work. All such persons, with numbers of women and children, might be profitably and advantageously employed in cotton cultivation. Cot ton gathered in the St. Andrew's Mountains has been exhibited at the Exchange Rooms in Manchester, and has been pronounced as of the value of 141. per lb., whilst the coq, when properly ginned, need not exceed 4d. or sd. per lb. ' so that it may now be cultivated at a profit of at least 25 to 40 per cent. All that seems necessary is, that a few spirited Manchester gertlemen should form themselves into a commit tee, with a view to such arrange ments es may be necessary to induce the manufacturers and other capitalists of the county to incur a comparatively triflingrisk by the advance of a working capital of £20,000, or at the most £30.000, to put in cultivation 2,000 acres of land in cotton, so as to point an example of profitable cultivation to the numerous proprietors of West Indian estates, who require to be stimulated to the improvement of their own property. Several of the principal manufac turers in Manchester have undertaken to take shares in s limited liability company, and it is believed that the friends of freedom all over the country, will heartily co-operate in the undertaking. THE MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS. OPINIONS OE TRIILONDON PRESS. On Friday we made some remarks respecting this terrible affair, in which we took occasion to point out the justice of the verdict and sentence. The subject has called forth some comments from the London press. We reprint them, and our readers will find that they generally coincide with our ob ervations. The horrible charge of murder on the high seas just tried at Liverpool has resulted in a verdict, of guilty against Henry Rogers, the captain, and William Miles and Charles Edward Seymour. the first and second mates of the vessel. This verdict the jury have thought fit to couple with a recommendation to mercy. To this recom mendation, for which no ground whatever is laid in the evidence, we trust that the authorities of the Horne-office, as far, at all events, as Henry Rogers, the principal culprit, is concerned, will show the most absolute disregard. A more atrocious and appalling case of infernal barbarity it is utterly impossible for the human imagination to con ceive. It is a case for justice and not for mercy : or rather it is a case in which clemency to the individual would be cruelty to a class—an unprotected and suffering class over whose welfare the executive government of this country is especially bound to watch. There is no body of men more liable to gross tyranny and brutal violence than the mariners in our merchant service; there is none whose safety and comfort ought to be an object of such paramount care to the government of the greatest maritime and mercantile community in the world. Unless a signal and terrible examp'e be made of such monsters as this Henry Rogers, the annals of our mercantile marine will continue to teem with instances of oppressiJn and crime that make the blood curdle, and the heart stand still in an icy trance of disgust and horror. So loath some are the details cf this atrocious crime that nothing except a strong sense of public duty could prevail on us to reproduce them. Even as it is, we must refuse to polute our pen with some of the unspeakable horrors whose recital sickened even the least squeamish hearer in that Liverpool assize court. The witnesses gave their evidence with perfect simplicity and straightforwardness : a searching cross-examination failed to elicit any semblance of inconsistency or exaggera tion. And this . miscreant a jury of Englishmen have recommended to mercy.. Mercy 1 why it makes one's very blood boil to hear the word profaned in connec tion with atrocities so merciless. Mercy ! yes, the same mercy that he meted to his victim is all that ought to be to this abominable culprit. That instinct of wild justice which all the conventions of civilisation cannot utterly put down, irresistibly impels every honest hearer of this vile story to regret that the law, even if carried out to the very uttermost, can only punish, and not retaliate. Rapid extinction at the hands of Calcraft is but a poor requital for the protracted tortures under which this miscreant worried the life out of his defenceless victim. But mercy—the remission of the death sentence—would in this case be an unpardonable weakness. An example—a terror-striking example—must he made of this fiend in human form, if there is to be hereafter any security for life and limb for our mariners amid the silence and solitude of the seas. The brutality of masters and mates, both in the British merchant service and that of the States, has long been tending to a climax. The climax is reached. It is time for hstice to interfere with all her salutary terrors. In certain classes of crime we have no great faith in the efficacy of deterrents. Where the man lives by crime as a profession, he will not be frightened out of its pursuit by penal awards; but such crimes as those of Henry Rogers are precisely of the class in which deterrent punishments are mosteffica ju ci s o t u ly for s.A ke s it t e lr . law stands, this brute's life has been moat mercy to an oppressed class oLmeritorious and defence less men, we demand that the Ink should take its course. —Daily News. The Liverpool jury has done justice to the case of the "Murder on the High Seas " tried on Thursday. Juries have been apt to take lax views of such cases. The bias of a seaport jury is in favour of ship authorities and dis cipline. It is supposed in such cases that the victim was au unmanageable fellow, or that he was a provoking fellow; that he brought punishment upon himself; that the captain must deal sharply with such fellows on peril of the whole discipline of the ship giving way ; that this being necessary, you must not examine his acts too accurately ; that he may have overdone it, but that the chances are a hundred to one for his having been sub stantially in the right. These are the sort of general axioms that often direct a seaport verdict. But a seaport jury has now found its way to a verdict of wilful murder for death brought on by cruelty on board ship. The case is certainly an atrocious one. There is a horrible mystery in cruelty in its not being content with scattering pain, but selecting some one victim for continuous torture. The tormenter must stand, like the mesmerist, in fixed rela tions to some ofie person for the complete satisfaction of his cruelty, otherwise the passion is stunted as it were, and not properly and fully developed. It may be accidental in the first instance what victim is selected, but, once chosen, spite has got something to hold on, and grows by concentration. The wretched man cannot do anything which does not provoke his;tortnenter,—if he does not look him in the face he is a reptile ; if he does he is an impu dent dog; if he speaks he is obstreperous; and if he holds - his tongue pe is a sneak. So every motion, word, and look of the victim feeds the torturing bully's spite, which of course grows every day, and requires, like an animal appetite, perpetual fresh acts to appease It Cruelty is a hungry passion, and a tormenter grows lean under it, unless he can satisfy it by 'a continuous victim. Even then he must have variety, for cruelty is an epicure as well as a glutton; it wants fresh dishes, strong season ing, and sharp sauces. This is the secret of such institu tions as the Inquisition. There" must be variety, or the torturer himself gets tired. The apparatus which the Spanish Armada conveyed exhibited a gradual and scientific ascent from the thumbscrew to the rack. We almost wonder all the time we read this account at the courage of a man who could defy the natural horror of a whole ship's crew for weeks. Indeed. it shows the strength of discipline in our merchant service that he was able to do so—a strength of discipline which in the long run is most advantagous, however it may on particular occasions incidentally result in the painful, simple acquisence of a whole ship's crew while such atrocities as those were going on. We might wonder, we say, at the courage of a man who could throw himself so c mfidently upon the principle of discipline and defy all 'the indignation of a ship's crew, did we not know that a strong passion often gives an overbearing energy and resolution of its own to the mind,—a force of will which overrides opposition and nascent rebellion by simply not seeing them. The crew stood by in sullen disgust while those barbarities were being perpetrated, one man only intimating to the captain that he would have to answer for his conduct cn shore? The trial has at last come, and a Liverpool jury has ' decicred that murder on the high seas is still murder. .But at the same time this seems to be a new idea to them at present,—they cannot quite take it in; they only half realise it ; they only caught hold of a corner of it, and, like many other fresh discoveries and original ideas, it startles at first even those who adopt it. The Liverpool jury no sooner pronounce their verdict than they sta. t back from the sound themselves have made, and recommend the criminals to mercy. But what can he the meaning of such a recommendation ? If this is wilful murder, surely it is one of the most atrocious and revolting that was 'ever committed. A man who knocks another on the head with a blow is a mild murderer compared with a wretch who first torments his victim cruelly and then despatches him. Why, then the recommendation to mercy? Does the jury think the case very horrible, but still not amounting alto gether to murder ? Then, why did they bring in the ver dict of g"wilful murder" at all? We will give them the option of either horn of the dilemma—either that their verdict was right and recommendation wrong, or their recommendation right and verdict wrong ; but both can not be right together. The confusion. however, is easily explained. At Liverpool they have but just embraced the idea that murder on the high seas is murder. Murder on land is murder, but murder at sea—what .is that? They must call it murder, because they do not know what else it is ; but they recommend the criminal to mercy because it is not really murder• Such a verdict as this would disgrace, intellectually, any market town in the country, because it is absolutely suicidal and self- contradictory. Let them call the case manslaughter if they do not really think it murder, but do not let them call it wilful murder and recommend the criminal to mercy. For, it this is murder, so far from the stain being cleared away by the element on which it was committed, —so far from all great Neptune's ocean washing out that blood," it has itself the " multitudinous seas lacer nadined." PASSENGERS REFUSING TO PAY TIIRIR FARES.—Six able-bodied seaman and one ship caok were taken into custody on Friday, at Mari - port, at the instance of Mr. Tickle, agent for the Cambria, for refusing to pay their fares rom Liverpoolto that place on the above day. The men had intented to ship on board the Dykes, about to sail from Marypart to Quebec, but owing to a dispute that had arisen about wages, they refused to go. The money that would have beeu advanced to them was consequently witheid, and they were unable to pay the fare demanded. A subscription was made by the sailors of Maryport, for their liberation, and to pay their expenses back to Liver pool, to which place they returned on Saturday las', via Whitebaven.— Whitehavert News, SAVINGS BANits.—There has been issued a return of the weekly and total increase or decrease of sums paid in or withdrawn by the trustees of savings b inks between the 20th November, 1855, and the 20;,h November, 1856, with the amounts of stock purchased or sold by the com- Otissioners for reducimn of the national deb'. The total exc ,ses paid in beyond the sums drawn out during the above period was £303,009 lls 91; ditto excess drawn out beyond the sums Paid in, £701,313 17s 6. The amount paid for purchase Pi g gock, &c., was £2,778,761 ; ditto received fur sale of same, ...52,256,478 19s 11,1; dividends received by the commissioners o u stock invested, and interest on Exchequer Bills, &c., £1,05;8,711 12s ld, The amount of interest credited to savings baTikS 99 091141 sums invested was £1,109,502 4s 4d. HORRIBLE MURDEM Oa Friday afternoon a most determined murder was committed in Wolverhampton-street, Dudley. Between four and five o'clock a number of Irishmen assembled in that part of the street known as Craddock's End. They soon began to quarrel and fight, and the place became the scene of great excitement. Several of the party had long entertained an aversion to a man named Michael Hickley, and after the whole party had left Mr. Berry's beershop, Henry Higgins, one of the disturbants, struck Hickley upon the head. The blow was a very violent one, and exasperated Hickley very much. Maddened by the pain, he ran into an adjoining butcher's shop, seized a large knife, and making a desparate dash at Higgins, he plunged the knife into the upper part of the abdomen. The wounded man fell, and in spite of medical aid, which was quickly in attendance, the poor fellow expired within 15 minutes after the blow was struck. The police were soon on the spot, and secured Hickley and two other men who had been concerned in the former part of the quarrel. THE TRAGEDY IN TES WHEN'S BENCH PRISON At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, Antonio de Salvi, 29, described as a servant, was again placed at the bar. The indictment charged him, in the first count, with maliciously and feloniously stabbing and wounding Robert Henderson Robertson, with intent to murder him ; and, in the second, with the intent of doing him some grievous bodily harm. A jury, partly composed of foreigners, was empanelled to try the prisoner. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Sleigh conducted the prosecution ; Mr. E. James, Q C., and M. Serjeant Parry were specially retained, with Mr. M‘Mahon, to conduct the defence. Mr. Bodkin having briefly opened the case, the followin4 witnesses were then examined :—Mr. Richard Thompson said : I am a solicitor, and have acted in that capacity for the prisoner. I accompanied him to the Queen's Bench prison on the Bth July. Saw Mr. Robertson. Mr. Gower went with us. I had some conversation with Mr. Robert son before the prisoner came into the room. He was sitting in au arm chair with his back to the window, and I was sitting ou his loft side: The prisoner came into the room, and was standing about five feet from Mr. Robert son, in front of him. The prisoner drew nearer to Mr. Roberson, and it appeared to me that he struck him with his fist. There was an angry feeling between the prisoner and Mr. Robertson on the subject of the debt, the latter denying that he owed it. The prisoner struck him four or five times on the cheek, the right side, the temple and the shoulder, and he fell to the ground, and I observed blood flowing from his person. De Salvi- and Mr. Gower then left the room, and I went up to Mr. Robertson and supported him. Mr. Wild said: At the time of this transaction I was an inmate of the Queen's prison, and I saw the prisoner and Mr. Gower go towards Mr. Robert. son's room, and immediately afterwards I heard a scuffle in his - room, and the prisoner and Mr. Gower came out together, and walked along the corridor. I then went into Mr. Robertson's room, and found him b'eeding and wounded. I went in the direction the prisoner had come, and I picked up the knife now produced, with blood on it, and the point broken off, about five yards from Mr. Robertson's arm. After this I saw the prisoner and said to him, " You are De Salvi—you are the assassin." He made no answer, but stepped back. Mr. C. R. Manson said : I was in the Queen's prison in June last, and I remember about that time seeing the prisoner and Mr. Robertson together, and the prisoner was speaking about a debt due to him upon a bill for £2uo, and he said that if some satisfactory proposal were not made to him respecting that debt, he must have his life. I told the prisoner it was a very serious expression, and I should take particular notice of it, and should not leave the room unless Mr. Robertson required it, and I remained until De Salvi left. I remember hearing a cry of murder from Mr. Robertson's room on the day this occurrence happened, and I went out immediately and saw the pri soner in the passage below leading to the yard. I recog nised him directly as the person who had made the threat formerly, and I laid hold of him and asked him if he did not recollect me. He said he did not, and I told him I remembered him very well, and I should not release him until I had handed him over to the police. Mr. said: I was over the room occupied by Mr. Robertson on the day in question, and I heard a noise and a cry of " Murder," and the prisoner came out, followed by Mr. Gower, and they ran along the passage as fast as they could. Mr. Gower said " Oh" and shuddered when he came out of the room, as if horror struck. I saw the prisoner after this, and told him he should not go, as he was one of the parties, and he re plied, " Oh, what is it ?" Mr. Colville, the chief turnkey of the prison : On the day this matter happened I heard the alarm, and took the prisoner into custody. He was surrounded by a great many people, and there was a cry of "He did it." The prisoner was taken into one of the rooms and he then said, " I did it, and Mr. Gower had nothing to do with it.' He then made an effort to speak to Mr. Gower, but he said, "Dent speak to me." I was present when the deposition of Mr. Robertson was taken in the presence of Mr. Combe, the magistrate. Mr. Wakem, the surgeon of the Queen's Prison, said that he saw Mr. Robertson about half an-hour after the fatal occurrence, and he found him suffering from four wound S—one in the face, one in the collar-bone, ono in the temple, and another in the nape of the neck. The last was the most dangerous wound of the four. Paralysis, total on one side, and par' laity on the other had supervened, and Mr. Robertson was in a very dangerous state. He was of opinion that the broken part of the knife still remained in the wound in the nape of the neck. Mr. James, Q.C., addressed the jury for the prisoner, after which a verdict of stabbing, with intent to do grevious bodily harm, was returned, and De Salvi was sentenced to 15 years' penal servittule. ATTEMPTED MURDER IN MILLBANK PRISON. One of the subwarders of this prison narrowly escaped assassination on Friday, at the hands of a penal class con vict named Jas. Gorman, who has already, in other prisons, made two attempts to murder officers under whose charge he has been placed. The convicts at Millbank attend Divine service in classes at the prison chapel every morn ing. Only a limited number of penal class prisoners are permitted to be present at one time, owing to the known desperate character of these criminals. On Friday four men of this class—out of a total of some 20 prisoners —were conducted to the chapel in charge of Warder Wilkie and Assistant Warder ifivington. On leaving the chapel, and while passing down an angle of the pentagon staircase, one of their number, James Gorman, made a desperate attack on Bevington with an open metal weapon, felling him to the ground, and inflicting injuries which, in all probability, if they do not prove fatal, will seriously injure the unfortunate man for life. Gorman was third in the rank, and just as he was turning the angle of the staircase leading from the chapel he rushed forward and dealt a desperate blow at the upper part of Bevington'a person. The miscreant had a sharp weapon in his hand, which entered the warder's face over the cheek bone, and; traversing the fl , shy part of the face, came out through the mouth under the upper lip. The convict was seized by Wilkie and other officers, while the weapon was still in his hand, and having been secured, was presently placed in a strong cell. The resident surgeon of the prison, Mr. Savory, was immediately summoned to the wounded man, and the most app-oved means adopted to stanch the bleeding. The poor fellow suffered agonising pain from the severity of his wound, and is still lying in a precarious state. There stems to have been an absence of all reasonable motive for the attack, inasmuch as Bevington had only taken charge of the penal class since Tuesday last. It is generally su pposed the attack was intended far his co-warder, *Wilkie, who, although an excellent , officer, has obtained the ill- will of the con victs by a determination to carry out the discipline of the prison. The weapon _used by the assassin was a piece of iron hoop, worked into something like the • blade of a knife, and strongly bound by waxen thread into a woo len handle. The circumstance was immediately reported to the Home Secretary, and in the course of the morning Captain O'Brien, one of the Inspectors of Prisons, attended at Millbank and insti• tuted an investigation into the affair. Capt. O'Brien's report will be forwarded to Sir George Grey, who, under the provisions of the new Act of Parliament, has the pa wer to commit the convict to Newgate without the intervention of any magisterial inquiry. The penal class convicts are the worst description of prisoners, and are received at IWllbank as incorrigibles from all parts of this country. Gorman is one of the worst of this de graded body. He was originally convicted in a midland county, and sentenced to some light punishment, while undergoing which he attempted to stab an officer of the prison, and on trial for this offence was sentenced to 14 years' transportation. In due course he came to the Model Prison at Pentonville, where he again attacked and bru tally assaulted one of the officers. For this offence he was transferred to the penal class of prisoners, and sent to Millbank about four months ago. His conduct has been desperately bad since his admission, and it is undersCood that his latest crime has not excited much surprise among the authorities of the prison, the wretched man having only a few days since assured the rev. chaplin that "he would do for some of them before long." ACCIDENT TO A STEAMER.—On Thursday arming, the steamer Duke of Cambridge, Captain Roberts, on her past s rge from Dublin to 13e!fast, struck on a low rock off Bal l) waiter, in a heavy fog. Owing to the pratieworthy exertions of the captain and crew, she was got off Imme diately, without having sustained any damage. 'i he cabin passengers on board signed a document, and presented is to Captain Roberts, expressing their entire cotifi fence in him, and their thanks for his coadact under the &ream. stances. CONVICTION OF 'MEI LATE GRAND MASTER OF ODD FELL')W4. —SOUTHAMPTON, FRlDAT.—Charles James Cox, late Grand Master of the Order of Odd-Fellows, (Manshes ter Unit 3) was charged on remand with not giving up the funds committed to his charge as corresponding secretary of the order. Evi levee having been taken, the Magistrate declared the comOaint to he proved, and ordered the defen. dant to pay the amount of £l2l 14i 10d to the socicty,or in default to be impris. nod for two calendar months, with bard labour, The defendant WAS Committed to prison' THE LATE EXECUTIONS. It is a roglancholy fact that in the middle of the nine teenth eentnry great crimes appear to be as prevalent as they were a hundred years ago, notwithstanding the rapid strides which have been made in the arts of lire during the century. A. hundred years since the working and agricultural classes were almost entirely uneducated ; an ataizan or a peasant labourer who could either read or write was a rara avis in terra, and drunkenness was then far more general than it is now. In the present day, thanks to the improved intellectual state of the popula tion, intemperance amongst all classes has materially decreased, and although it is still too prevalent, its sensible diminution is a great source of congratulation to the philanthropist. During the past century schools of all kinds have sprung up. The old . dame schools, almost the only schools for the labouring population, have passed away and in their stead we have, Sunday, National, and Ragged Schools, and even. working men's colleges. The country now ungrudgingly votes educational grants by hundreds of thousands of pounds. Surely from such ex tensive efforts to improve the social position of the population excellent results were to have been expected. To a certain extent these have been realised ; but still the great facts remain, that our monster prisons are kept full ; and that the hangman's office is no, sinecure. This is a In otter of great surprise to all who- ponder deeply on the subject, especially when it is remembered what great alterations have been made in the criminal code within the last thirty years. Formerly, to commit a burglary or a robbery, to forge a bill or note, to steal a sheep or horde, was punished with death ; but. now the only crimes for which the last penalty of the law is inexorably exacted is that of murder. It is true that arson and rape are placed in the same category ; but they are never capitally punished. Oa this single crime alone, then, the hangman has to rely for the profits of his hideous calling; and yet during the last two years he has made a very tolerable income. This year alone five persons have been executed at Maidstone, and there has nut been a single month during which one or two human beings have not been hanged. ha almost all these cases the crimes committed have been of the most hideous character—in fact, of such a nature as almost to preclude the possibility of the extension of any mercy to them. Take, for instance, the cases of Palmer and Dove the poisoners, and of the young men who on Thursday expiated their crimes at Maidstone. To have extended mercyto them would have been to outrage justice. In the present day there is, however, a strong feeling in the country against the she 'ding of blood, and societies have been formed to agitate for the abolishment of the punishment by death ; no sooner, therefore, is a culprit condemned, than the most strenuous efforts are made for a commutation of the sentence. No one, consequently,' is executed except for the perpetration of crimes which admit of no' extenuating circumstances. There is a fur ther point worthy of consideration, and that is, that some of the worst murders during the last two years have been committed by persons who have been well educated. Pal mer was a man bred to an honourable profession, and pos sessed of considerable intellectual powers, yet engaged in the perpetration of a series of murders, of the most atrocious character. Indeed, there were few of those who of late have been executed but could read and write well. Education, it has always been contended, elevates the mind, and enables man to put a greater restraint upon his passions ; but the long list of murders lately committed —many of them by educated men—have been attended with atrocities which might have been expected amongst the Thugs, but certainly not in civilised England. These cases may be said to be only the exceptions which prove the rule; but, descending iu the scale of crime, it is found that the worst offences have been committed by highly educated personages. Sir John Dean Paul, Strachan, and Bates ; Robson, Redpath, the Sadleirs, with many others, had every advantage of position and talent; and yet they could not refrain from the commission of offences which 30 years ago they would have expiated on the scaffold. What then is to be inferred from these facts ? Are we to be lieve that education does not tend to the prevention of crime ? On the contrary, we think it does tend materially to diminish the length of the black calendar, and that without it our gaols, extensive as they are, would not be' capacious enough by one half. The great fault lies, it is justly believed, in the fact that the moral training of tha population is not sufficiently attended to. It is true that we have in this countty splendid institutions supported entirely by the voluntary contributions of the charitable and benevolent, and which have no parallel in any other eountry in the world. But still there is very very much left undone, that might be accomplished, and without much additional cost. The fact is, that the feeling of prosleytism has taken so firm a hold upon a large class of the population, that whilst committing many acts of self.- denial to christianise the heatlio, they forget the wan's of those who have greater claims upon them—namely, their own countrymen. Some of the leading religious societies spend annually many hundreds of thousands of pounds on extensive missionary establishments in all parts of the known world ; though it cannot be denied that the success which has attended their efforts has not been in any way in proportion to the cost. On the contrary, there are some in stances which would lead to the conclusion that they have done more harm than good. Look at the effosts which have been made to christianize Lelia. How many true converts have been made during the last hundred years in that coun try, considering the great exertions that have been used? Tne results are a Imitted to be discouraging, but it is now discovered that this system of proselytising may, if it does not lose us India altogether, at all events cause a frightful destruction of human life. Would not, then, these benevolent persons be doing more good if they turned themain portion of their energies to the moral improvemement of their own countrymen ? There is a wide field for their utmost exertions, and until the hang man is no longer required, and our gaols co.nparatively empty, they will have no occasion to expend millions abroad.— Observer. WHAT is COMING to LIVERPOOL on the 31st instant ?—Why, THE GREATEST NOVELTY IN THE WORLD! WHERE IS IT TO BE SEEN? THAT'S THE QUESTION. EMIGRiTION NEWS.—The official returns of emigratinn from the several ports of the United Kingdom for the month of July give the following details :—The total number of persons who have left our shores is 19,368; of these 10,141 went to the United Slates, 6,213 to Austra ha, 2,706 to British North America. and 303 to other pieces not named. Total number who left last year in the corresponding month was 15,254. The increase of this year is divided thus :-2,006 to Australasia, 1,344 to the United States, 741 to British North America, and 23 to other paces. The Omega :ailed on the 12 inst. from Plymouth for Adelaide, with 311 government emigrants, equal to 372 statute adults. The Enigriteon Commissioners have received from Sedney, by the last m oil, the first instal ment (S 0,0001) of a sum t f 100,0001, vied before the pro rogation of the New South Wales Parliament, for the purposes of emigration. The new ministry of Victoria, not having matured any new system of emigration, the Executive of that colony have reqtres'ed the Emigration Commissioners to continue their functions for the present, and have remitted a sum of about £30,000 to be expended by the 'Commissioners under the remittance regulation. The Lady Keunaway, appointed to receive emigrants for the Cape of Cood Hope at Plymouth, on the 20th inst., carries eut a large number of single women, selected pric cipally from Ireland, who are to be lcc tted at East London, on the Buffalo River, at the settlements of the British German Legion.--Emigration Record. M. LOCI; BLANC AND THE THEO.tY OF TYitANNICLDE.— We have been permitted during the pist week to look over some proof sheets of the ninth volume of M. Innis Blanc's " History of the Revolution," which incidentally finrnisa a decisive reply to certain charges recently circu lated with industrious malice against the republican refueeras in ibis country. The following are the reflections with which he concludes the chapter devoted to 1161 trat and Charlotte Corday :—" We may here repeat, in conclusion, and with all the authority of the facts just detailed, what we have already said in another work—that assassination is a mistake as well as a crime which ought to be left to aristocrats and tyrants. When Henri 11. allures the Duke of Guise into the Chateau de Bois, and causes him to be strangled by the bravos of the ante-chamber, when the royalists attempt the' life of Napoleon by an infernal machine—these are crimes worthy of those who commit them, but democracy refuses to be assisted thus. Stich means are essentially opposed to its genius and principle. For who can, without pre sumption, arrogate the right of siting himself as an avenger of liberty or as the Nemesis of destiny, in the place of a whole people, almost in the place of history? The stroke of a dagger is usurpation. Where is the power answering to that monstrous right ? What ; then the first corner by raising his arm may change the course of his toric laws. Any man in the street b y pu lli ng t h e trigger of a pistol may convulse th e wor ld ! N o, i t i s not moved thus. Evil, when it exi s t i n t h e m id st o f a s ociety, springs from a vast number of causes, amongst which the exist encedeemed, has only of an ind powerful be may be is accorded the honour of holding a people's life in his own. an occidehnoralevperre-eminence. To no man Reggi rig Pardon of Pascal's shade, it appears to us that he has war.tonly degraded humanity in making the fate of the universe depend on the length of Cleopatra's nose. The occasion is only the surface of the cause, but we, too, often confounded the one with the other. We think to destroy tyranny by destroying the tyrant. Vain Evil, whenever it exists, is at the root of things. It does I not exist b?cause it has a representative, it is represented because it exists. You have stabbed Caesar He reappears in the more terrible form of Octavius. Have you compelled Nero to commit suicide ? You de not escape Vitellius. Marat expirdi bathed in blood. See Hebert succeeds. It avails nothing to destroy the per sonification when you leave untouched the principle personified, which always finds instruments for its work." --,Leader.