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AMERICAN SOLACE.) } CHARLES TURMEAt AMERICAN SOLACE. ) AMERICAN SOLACE. CHARLES TITRMEAU AMERICAN SOLACE. ROYAL A. 31 FIENGLEIL'S TOR PARIS' ROYAL COI TO CORRESPONDENTS Lame and address, not antee of good faith. BENTS, MEETINGS, &e —Madame Celeste. —Reform Meeting tr.TE—Niseellaneot THIS DAY ttraction IT OF ANATOMY, Paradise-street, Miscellaneous Attractions. THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1859, THE DAY'S NEWS The news this morning is brief. In the House of Commons last night there was a very short sitting. Lord John Russell moved the second reading of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Bill, which was passed. The registration of County Voters ( Scotland) Bill was also read a second time. On the motion for going into Committee on the Lunatic Poor Bill, a discussion arose on an amendment that it be com mitted that day six months, which resulted in the original motion being withdrawn. The Globe of last night, in reviewing the position of ministers and their Reform Bill, says : " The difficulties of Ministers continue to multiply almost hourly, not only out of doors, but within the House where.their fate is to be decided. Should they get over the amendment proposed by Lord John Russell on the motion for the second reading, they will en counter in committee that same member, whose idea they have incorporated and disguised in their bill ; for yesterday Mr. Locke King gave notice of the following amendment, to be moved in committee, on the Representation of the People Bill: Page 2, line 21, after tenant' leave out to the end of line 22, and insert, any dwelling house with or without - any land, so that the dwelling house by itself or with - the land shall be of the clear -yearly value of not less than ten pounds ; provided always, that such dwelling house shall be of the clear yearly value of not less than free pounds.' " It adds, " Lord John's friends are counting on certain suc cess ; we have seen it computed that, with the utmost whipping on the part of Ministers, and indifference on the Liberal side, the majority against them will not be less than 50; and obviously the proposition is one calculated to obtain affirmation among Liberals generally, as Mr. Walpole and Mr. Henley confess that it will among. Conservatives. In that event, Ministers will have to determine whether they will proceed with the Bill, or will resign forthwith. It is true that, technically, they might dissolve Parliament; but such a course is improbable, because their supporters would be sub jected to the opposition of all those freeholders who were to be deprived of their county votes by the first clause of the Bill, but are not yet disfranchised." In the Continental news there is nothing startling. In Paris the effect produced by the note in yesterday's Monileur appears to be far from satisfactory, according to the letters from Paris received this morning. Amongst bankers and merchants the article is regarded as nothing less than a preliminary to a campaign, in spite of the pacific tone of the first paragraph. The German Ministers at the Court of the Tuileries say that it displays a perfidious spirit, as it attempts to make the pudic believe that it is Germany that menaces Frititce, and they have no doubt it will produce bad effect among the German the correspondent of the Times says that some Persons who profess to be in the secret state that the intention was to show that firmness and resolution, instead or hesitation, were the bases of the imperial .. The correspondent of the Herald states that the article has excitedr v e e sh distrust and alarm. The have comm ercial classes beginning been so much harrassed of late, that they are be to l entertain the opinion a r l that an armed peace, with the alarms and uncer tainty of war, is mere prejudicial3adrid than war itself. The semi-official journal of announces that Mexico has given full satisfaction to Spain, consent ing to re-establish the treaties with . that Power by the punishing the guilty persons and indemnifyingade b y the natives of Spain according to the award mad e mediating Power. The Courier of the Alps, a Journal of Savoy lishes a severe article against the war policyof , C P o u u b ni de Cavour. The Calcutta correspondent of the Tim( in Time s says, the p o sition may almost be described the old telegra phic formula , I ndia is p rofoundly q uiet. There are riots in the Deccan, and riots reported from Travan core, and there are Sepo M ys who still refuse to submit, in Behar, but war, for the first time since ay, 185'7, had ceased. The Hong Kong advices state that Lord Bi g 4, was at Shanghae, and his future movements were -a 'known. The sixty -SON en Neapolitan Exiles to whom a few days ago we kit quite at liberty to promise a gene rous reception among us, have already new reason to bless the Providence which directed them to our shores. The Subscription List, although only in the second day of its existence, testifies to the broad and noble spirit in which their sufferings and their cause is contemplated by men of the most various political opinion. On occasions like these, English feeling, and English common sense go surely and straight to their work. Tory or Liberal it is all the same, we cannot help intensely hating oppression when it is brought home to our perception ; and, if the way is at all clear, we must do something to abate it. _ Yesterday, at the Police Court, a case of some commercial interest was disposed of. A person, named Wright, the captain and part owner of a ship called the Mersey, was charged with a con spiracy, with a man named Bouchier, to defraud Mr. Edward Chaloner, the timber merchant, out of £l3B. The vessel brought a cargo of mahogany from Honduras to Mr. Chaloner, and in order,to increase the freight, the captain induced the weight takers to make a false return, increasing the freight by the above sum. The case was clearly proved, and the prisoners ,were sent for trial. PROTECTION TO SHIPPING IT is important and interesting to know that this object is about being brought about, much more effectually than has yet been the case. Start not, gentle reader. It is not the Protection to Shipping of which our shipowners have been deprived by the establishment of free trade that is going to be wailings which have so loudly pre yet scarcely died away, on account of such deprivation, are not going to be silenced by any such concessions. It is quite another kind of Protection to Shipping, and one much more legitimate, and right principled. It is the protection from the storms and the casualties to which it is 1 which have exposed, by the provision of Harbours of Refuge on our shor We learn from the Report of the Commissioners on this important subject, just issued, that the annual loss of property from casualties on our coast, has been estimated at £1,500,000 sterling, whilst the average loss of life resulting from them, during a period of six years, from 1852 to 1857, has amounted to that of 780 persons annually ; and that in one year alone (1854) no fewer than 1,549 persons perished from these casualties. Taking this into considera tion, and looking at the state of our coasts, they propose the construction of ten Harbours of Refuge, —viz., at St. Ives, Padstow, Tyne River, Hartlepool, and Filey, on the coast of England ; at Wick and Peterhead, in Scotland; at Waterford and Carling ford, in Ireland ; and at Douglas, in the Isle of Man. It appears that the sum required by way of loan for the purpose of constructing such harbours will not be less than £1,268,000; and the Commissioners say they think it necessary to recommend that applica tion for loans proceeding from the localities selected by them for harbours, should, in virtue of their national character, be granted in preference to all others. They observe on this part of the case, —" from the foregoing statement it appears that the amount of grants we propose is greater than that originally contemplated ; but we are of opinion that the excess in question is amply justified, since through its means we are to obtain additional harbour improvement to the value of upwards of £1,268,000 raised locally, and that the security for life on the coast will riot merely be extended in a corresponding degree, but is shown to be very inadequately provided for in any other way,"—adding, that they have come to the conclusion, " it would not be advisable to restrict the vote for the constructiot of these harbours to less than £250,000 per annum, if any regard is to be had to the rate of progress as effecting economy of con struction, and we are of opinion that the whole of the works we have recommended should be completed within ten. years from the present time." Their object, in short, is to accomplish the purpose in hand as effectually as possible. It has no doubt been a matter of some difficulty to come to a correct decision as to the best situations for such harbours ; and we shall not presume to pass any judgment at present, either upon those which they have selected, or those which they have passed over. They state upon this "the assurances which we generally received whenever we held a public sitting, and without exception at the places where the construction of these harbours had become matter of common expec tation, of the entire satisfaction with the mode in which we entered into the full investigation of the claims preferred, lead us with confidence to the expectation that equal justice will be done to the careful consideration which has been bestowed on each individual case in arriving at our decision." It seems very likely that all the places selected may be found suitable enough for the purpose. But whether or not there are others more suitable—since the number is to be thus limited—is a question on which there will, of Bourse, be a difference of opinion ; and it will well deserve to be fully discussed. The Commissioners do not deny that the questions under consideration have touched very closely the commercial interests and rivalries of neighbouring ports, and the pecu niary interests of large and wealthy districts of country in their neighbourhood, and that corre sponding feelings have been very keenly excited. But they indulge, they say, the hope " that all those to whose cordial assistance they have been so much indebted during the prosecution of the inquiry will be influenced both by patriotism and humanity to lay aside such feelings, and to join point,- heartily in promoting those measures which may result from their labours, without which they can meet with but partial success,"—a hope in which we cannot but join; though, at the same time, it were but reasonable that what they have done should be made the subject of discussion by practical men, in order that the soundness of their decisions may be fairly tested. Apply to Apply to On - MONDAY TIC 499 Bar 4 ,-lli' Slarvbone. — GEOR ------ On :WEDNESDAY next, a AY, April it: Apply to AMERICAN BREAD, IT may certainly be, that soil and climate, not less than cultivation, have to do with the reasons why such superior bread-corn is produced in America; but, at the same time, it must be admitted, we think, that in its manufacture into flour, the ingenuity of nan has perhaps more to do than the advantages of American flour, or very much of it, is made, it is true, of wheat that is naturally better adapted for pulverization than probably the average of English wheat. But even taking this into account, it must be admitted, we think, that in the manufac ture of the flour of wheat—that is, in the preparation of the edible part of the wheat for bread, the Americans have made very great progress, autd carried out the manufacture .more extensively than probably any other people in the world. There are flour-mills, in different parts of the United States, which produce amounts of flour that would appear incredible to one who had no previous idea of their magnitude. There is one firm, in New York, we understand, which turns out as many as a thousand barrels of flour a day, as well as other preparations of cereal products. And yet New York is not a place that is at all famous for its flour-mills,— with the single e xcept i on, - ' perhaps, of the one we allude to. B u t a people who, as well as supplying abundantly their own population of now nearly nature, restored. The vailed, a THE NORTHERN TIMES THURSDAI, MARCH 17, 1859 thirty millions, can export, as the Americans have done, some three millions of barrels of flour in a year —much of it of very superior quality—must of course be considered as having no ordinary experience in a manufacture which, of all manufactures, is one of the most important, from its furnishing the material for the " staff of life." It is, however, not this very valuable material, flour, of which we would speak more particularly at present, but the still more valuable purpose to which it is applied,—the preparation of the " staff of life " itself,— " Bread that decaying man with strength supplies As with flour for making bread, .so with the bread itself, our American cousins are evidently going fast a-head. of us. Having appropriated machinery more closely and more extensively than we have done to the work of their flour-mills, so now they are doing the same to the operations. of their bake houses. There are now in the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston,—and very likely others besides these,—bakehouses, or, as they call them, bakeries, in which, to quote the descrip tion given of one of them, there is a process that " substitutes steam-power for the failing human muscle,—substitutes scientific precision of heat, for the guess-so of the cook or the baker,—places the loaf successively in thirty different parts of the oven to secure advantages which are impossible while it is fixed in one point ; and, indeed, in many other ways secures an article, more nutritious, more 'healthy, -third and vastly more palatable, while it is one cheaper than the best bread which is made by any other means one of these machinery-made bread bakeries has lately been burnt down in Boston,—having been set on fire, it is believed, by an incendiary, from the old, but, one had hoped, exploded antipathy to machi nery for doing the work of the hand,—and it is considered a public calamity, on the ground that the people are thereby, for the present, deprived of the opportunity of procuring such bread as it supplied them with. " Any person," says the Boston Adver tiser, " who has bought the five cent loaf of the mechanical bakery in Philadelphia, in Baltimore, or elsewhere,—knows how ludicrous is the comparison in quality or in size between that loaf and the varying brick loaf of this city." So that in point of quantity, as well as quality, it is bread the supply of which would seem to be a real blessing to the people. The Boston paper we have just mentioned has taken up the subject in a very spirited manner, as one of great practical importance, whether on the score of public health, or domestic economy. It con tends that " a very large number of families have never tasted first-rate bread, and do not know what it is The word bread no more stands for the possible article with them, than, with an old Bostonian, used to the Old South pump or similar conduits, the word water stood for the true article. With these families every ingenious device takes the place at their meals of the true article. Every form of buckwheat, Indian or rye-meal, every chemical invention which secures lightness at the expense of health, and every combination of sweets are called upon to take the place from which the unpopular bread is deservedly driven." So that as respects the quality of bread, we are all, it would seem, labour ing under the greatest disadvantage—American and English, all alike. " The bread-making of Boston to-c4ty, public or private, excepting for hard bread, shows no advance on the system in use 3200 years ago in Egypt. Indeed, we are told that the paintings on the tombs of Egypt show some details of refine ment not in use here." And the seine remark will apply with equal truth, no doubt, to Liverpool, as to Boston—or even to London. As regards Boston itself, however, the contrast of the supply of bread as it is, with that as it was, affords the opportunity of drawing some most important practical conclu sions. " Since the mechanical bakery was burnt," it is observed, " the inhabitants in its neighbourhood, including probably the man who set fire to it, have paid nearly twice as much for the bread they have eaten as they would haveTaid had it been in opera tion. So unequal are the prices of bread, as it is now made, that those who pay the highest prices under our present system are thus hardly treated. But these people are used to paying high for everything they buy. It will require some months of a mechanical bakery to accustom them to obtaining their bread almost as cheaply as their water." This, however, is to be done ; and, when they have suc ceeded in restoring the establishment that has been destroyed, it will no doubt be accomplished. There are in America, as there are in this country, as it is further observed, " a few families, very few in proportion, who retain in their own private service good bread-makers,—they pay fancy prices for the most fancy flour, and thus secure on their own private tables, by the magic of money, a supply, almost first-rate, of the staff of life.' To these persons, of course, the introduction of science-made bread, on a large scale, is not a pressing personal matter." But the subject is one that addresses itself to the masses. It is important to all classes of the people, that the bread they eat should be the best and cheapest that can be made and furnished to them ; but it is more especially so to the working classes, both because it is of the utmost moment that this staple article of food should be as nutritious that they should be enabled to obtain it as economically as possible. All this, however, is quite as applicable to Eng land, as it is to America. Our people—our working classes, in particular —require to be supplied with bread of the best quality that can be manufactured, and at the lowest prices at which it can be produced. The Americans are therefore setting us a valuable example, and one which will well deserve to b carefully watched in its issues. The mechanical bakery system of bread-making which they are in troducing with such complete success, is equally practicable here in this country. And let us not be ashamed to borrow it from those who have evidently paid- more attention to this subject than we have, to provide thereby sources of supply, of superior bread, on better terms, as well as • of better quality, than at present it is possible to obtain in th ordinary way. MR. MANSFIELD AND THE SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESION OF VICE. Whatever may be the defects of the stipendiary magistrate, even his opponents cannot deny to him such great moral qualifications for his office as courage and' independence. These virtues he has eminently displayed on several occasions, and in none more conspicuously' than when, at the resent meeting of magistrates, he boldly braved the obloquy of un popular opinions upon what is called, in the cant phraseology of the day, " The Social Evil." Mr. Mansfield may or may not be right in his speculations as to the causes of • prostitu tion. Tke question, indeed, is too profound and difficult to be handled satisfactorily within the space at our disposal. Nor shall we now discuss it, quite agreeing with Mr. Mansfield, that it has puzzled wiser heads than those of our local magistracy, or even of the infallible association, whose views are represented by Messrs. Caine and Cropper. The great fear, however, to be dreaded in the present excited temper of the public mind, is the application of ill advised and empirical remedies which will only exasperate the symptoms of the disease. " Fools will rush in where angels fear to tread," and, instead of awaiting a solution from the brains of sages and philosophers, this moral cancer may be abandoned to the rash treatment of quacks and crotchet mongers, and in that category we have but too good ground for placing the philanthropists to whom we have referred. They are no doubt very well meaning, conscientious persons, but extremely perverse and wrong headed, and as Professor Sedgewick remarked the other day of the Cambridge Pro-Proctors, evidently birds of precisely similar feather, " Who are more mischievous and dangerous in a community than your conscientious, wrong- headed men P " We understand this Society, which_ Messrs. Caine and Cropper have the glory of founding, started into existence about a year ago, and has ever since been undergoing a process of bap tismal regeneration. It began its career with the title of " The Society for the Suppression of Vice," which was soon dropped for that of " Vicious Practices," but largely indulging itself in such evil practices as detraction and slander, the con scientious twitdiings of its members, it is supposed, have once more induced them to change their name into " The Society for the Sup pression of Vicious Resorts." Under that latest designation we propose to review its past exertions, What, in truth, has it done, to entitle it to public esteem and confidence ? It has succeeded iu shutting up " the Hop," and we are told that prostitution has increased, and that the • streets are worse than ever. This state of things is attributed by the society to Mr. Mansfield's order prohibiting informations against the coffee shops, but a much more ]ogical inference would be, that it arises' from their own mischievous meddling. What necessary connection can there really be between the immunity of the coffee-shop keepers from police informations and the increase of brothels and prostitutes ? The effect of Mr. Mans field's order may have increased the consumption of coffee and crumpets in those particular places, but we really cannot see how an increase inthe consumption of such innocent comestibles necessarily leads to a corresponding inerease of profligate women. Such, however, is the reasoning of the Society for the Suppression of Vicious Resorts. Brothels, in which robberies are committed, have, it appears, sensibly declined ; but this little crumb of comfort Mr. Mansfield- ruthlessly . snatches from the society by ascribing it to the rigour with which he himself has administered the law against them. We will not adopt the energetic language of the stipendiary magis trate in denouncing the proceedings of this society, but we may express our regret that such moral and religious men should, in their collective capacity, have been guilty of so many acts which are usually associated with the character of the " artful dodger." We do not impute to them anything so gross as money payments to the police, but the roguish- Mr. Mansfield alluded to was probably subtle form of corruption, such as we can readily imagine to have been seen in the exercise of a sinister and illegitimate influence, from whatever cause arising, which might warp the evidence of the officers, cause them to fence with a more questions, equivocate and tell only partial, ex aggerated,, or distorted truth. Messrs. Caine and Cropper, in their reply to Mr. Mansfield, deny having influenced the police, and yet, in the same breath they admit having gone to Major Greig and incited him to lay informations. The Head Constable seems to have at once transmitted the momentum he had received to his subordinates, and the machinery so biassed began to work. And here we take leave to think that Major Greig committed a grave indiscretion. He ought not to allow the force under his command to be set in motion at the will and pleasure of any irresponsible body like this society, but have referred ,them to the Watch Committee, whose instructions, or those of the magistrates, he ought alone to carry out. It was natural enough that a " dead set" being sud denly made at these coffee shops should astonish those not behind the scenes. The magistrates, it seems, asked questions, but could get no 'straightforward answers from the police. Stranger phenomenon still, there was an attorney to get up their case, and eminent counsel to conduct it. It was clear the borough fund was inapplicable to such expenses. Were the police so zealous all at once to abate the social evil as to be paying for all this costly legal machinery out of their own' pockets ? Hence the conclusion of Mr. 'Mansfield that there was something unfair, un-English, or to use his own words, " roguish and corrupt," about the administration of justice. It was not surprising that these elaborate efforts to procure convictions should frequently result in miscarriage and failure. Some magistrates interpreted the law one way, some another. At length, after several acquittals, there was an appeal to the Queen's Bench (by Major Greig, another phase of the phenomenon), which confirmed the refusal of the magistrates to convict, and, to the confusion of the Society, made that certain which was before doubtful, namely, the right of these wretched "Creatures to resort to such places for refreshment. After this decision, it seems to us that, if the Society had any residuum of common and practical sense left, they would have taken some tea, and made arrangements for their quiet dissolutione and decent interment. They chose, however, to call indignation meetings, and evince their keen apprecia tion of " vicious practices " by making rabid speeches and concocting reports, full of misrepresentations and scurrile invectives against Mr. Mansfield, the ac quitting magistrates, and their legal adviser. Having thus signally failed before tribunals so high and so low as the Queen's Bench and the Police Court, we find they have recently, by a process as sneaking as it is arbitrary, got by a very dirty back door into the intermediate Court of Quarter Sessions. Not having the courage to meet their adver saries face to face before the magistrates, they have thought fit to prefer bills of indictment against the coffee-shop keepers behind their backs. Nor is it very surprising to hear that those bills have been found by a grand jury, charged by the counsel of the society, sitting as deputy-recorder. Certainly these novel prosecutions have been inaugurated at the ses sions by circumstances remarkably auspicious, arid it was, no doubt, a brilliant thought, for which this artful society ought to have full credit, to seek, in such distressful weather, and in such extreme needs, the shelter of that fiiendly and congenial tribunal. There for the present we must leave them, but as it is not unlikely that the coffee shopkeepers,, with the view of securing a fair trial, may desire t o have their cases brought before a court into which undue influences, cannot enter, we shall no doubt hear of them again suffering'a still more disastrous fate than that which they have already met at the hands of the magistrates of Liverpool, backed by John Lord Campbell and his brethren. - - THE REFORM BILLS. IT is a great advantage, undoubtedly, to the cause of Constitutional Reform, that the Bill now before ParliaMent has been introduced at a period of such political calm as the present. Upon the whole, the country is tranquil and composed, not but any means indfferent to the question, by free from excitement, and all the more capable, therefore, of judging coolly and 'correctly the the measure which character and object of Ministers have submitted to the House of Com mons, to be dealt with there on behalf of the country at large. And in that House, even more than out of doors, there is evidentli some slight exceptions, a disposition to consider the subject in a dispassionate manner. On the occasion of its introduction, it will be remembered, there were two or three rather intemperate speeches made, provoked, no doubt ; by what the speakers regarded as the utter insufficiency of such a Bill for the exigencies of the case. But that hasty feeling soon subsided; and now, it is evident, that the House is preparing to discuss the measure as th, of a great nation ought to discuss a measure of such vital importance to the national welfare Preparations are being consideratel- Legislators made, more over, in the interval preceding the motion for a second re ions in, and additions to, its provisions, in Committee,— should it pass a second reading, and be committed Among other notices of motions in Committee , given with great consistency, and we dare say with much anxiety, by Mr. H. BERKELEY, to the effect, " That in the opinion of this House, no is one. extension of the suffrage will be deemed acceptable to the people, as a complete measure of Reform, unless accompanied by the protection of the Ballot." This motion of course contemplates the second read- ing of the Bill ; and its result will be one pretty decisive test of the feeling of the House towards the whole subject of Parliamentary Reform. Last year, it may be remembered, the same hon. member was refused leave even to bring in a Bill for the votes of Parliamentary Electors to be taken by ballot, his motion for leave having been rejected by a majority of 294 to 197. The vote on his present motion will show if the introduction of a Reform Bill so objectionable to reformers generally has created any increased feeling in favour of the Ballot, the more especially as the system of Votipg Papers, which it proposes, is regarded by many as a move ment in an opposite direction to that method of re cording votes in Parliamentary Elections. Another motion of which notice has been given, is that of Mr. STUART WORTLEY, that in the event of the House going into committee on the Bill, he should move the insertion of a clause providing that the elections for all boroughs in England and Wales should take place simultaneously on a fixed day after the issuing of the writ. This, of course, would interfere with no principle of the Bill, and would in many respects be an advantage, both to candidates and constituencies. DUNCOMBE has also given notice of his inten tion to move a reduction of the Savings' Bank qualification to £4O, and. the lodging qualification to 4s. a week,—both of them well worth considera tion, and not unlikely to be adopted. The efforts that have been repeated to force on the introduction of the Reform Bills for Scotland and Ireland, have not met with much encouragement in the House. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has answered the inquiries concerning those expected Bills, made by Scotch and Irish members, to the effect that as soon as the second reading of the English Bill takes place, it is his intention to under take the Scotch Bill ; and that after the Scotch Bill has been introduced, and before the second reading, he will take the opportunity of stating the course which the Government intend to take with regard to a Reform Bill for Ireland,---expressing his belief that the House would agree with him that it was much more convenient that a general statement should be made of the provisions of the Bill ; and that no partial statement should be made at the pre sent moment, which might lead to very great misap- prehension. As well as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. BRIGHT has been questioned about his Bill, the opinion being expressed that its immediate introduc tion was extremely desirable, in order that indepen dent members should have an opportunity of choosing which they thought was the best of the two bills. But Mr. BRIGHT, it appears, thinks otherwise. One Bill at a time, he is of opinidn, is quite enough, that the undivided attention of the House may be given to it. His own Bill will be introduced whenever he thinks it right to do so. In the mean time both sections of the Opposition in the House, the one headed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the other by Mr. BRIGHT, are preparing to meet the motion for the second reading of the Government Bill with a most determined resistance; while out of doors, both the parties which those sections represent in Parliament are bestiring themselves in all directions, though generally so far, apparently, without coalition or concert. It is true, they agree in opposing the Bill,—but they do so upon very different grounds, and with quite distinct ulterior objects. Thus divided, as regards some of the fundamental principles of Parliamentary Reform are the Liberalparty —a circumstance that is not likely to operate favourably for the cause of Reform in the hands of the present parliamentary opposition. Both sections of the party have objections, strong objections, to the Ministerial Bill, but they are of different kinds, if not also, some of them of opposite tendencies They agree as to its shortcomings and its imperfections, but in different degrees, and from distinct motives. How this may really affect the measure in the House of Commons remains to be seen. TILE TOXTETR BOARD OF GUARDIASS.—The " scene" at this Board which we reported yesterday, most discreditably unbecoming as it was in the parties concerned, was at the same time most disreputable to the Union, which elects men as guardians who can ever and anon " play such fantastic tricks before high heaven." A brawl in an ordinary pot-house would be decent in comparison with the vulgar squabbles which they, or some of them, make a point of indulging in, when they assemble• in. their Board room to transact the business of the 'Union, and of which that we had the disgusting task of reporting yesterday was a fair specimen.. The rude manners of those who cut the most conspicuous figure—their giving one another the lie, and calling each other rogues—their noisy wrangling— their gross insults towards their law-clerk, who is evidently quite unworthy of such company—all this, and a great deal. more, had we time to enumerate it, constitutes a display of low-lived disorderliness which must make many a respectable ratepayer blush to think he is %a disgracefully represented at sash a Board. Wha t the poor, whose guardians those men unfortunatelri re ; think of them, it could not, perhaps, be very difficult to, imagine ; aftd we have no doubt that there is many an un happy pauper, whom they are "set over," who would be ashamed to conduct himself, even in the not always very select society of the workhouse, in so unbecoming a manner. For such men, too, to take upon them to examine the can' didates for the situation of medical officer to the union,-" to question, in their vulgar way, and with their g,r, oss e of the subject, gentlemen of education and goo d manners, who are invited to appear before them to of their services for the discharge of such most respond —surely, if there were a feeling of di )te Ist excited before, this must have made it most intensely disgusting' One's wonder is, that medical gentlemen would con sent to go through such an ordeal, at It were a most intolerable hardship, certainly tions, it appeared, feel convinced that the Poor-law disapprove of it Board cannot Some of the qu " put in so dictatorial a manner to the medical men, that they were complained of as " painful to the ings of the members of the board." Such were the terra.; . _ body, wl_° by which they were. characterised by one of evidently himself felt qu to ashamed of i There CO no doubt then, that some steps ought immediately to b taken to put a stop to such disreputable pr the ratepayers have any regard for their own r€ and their own interests, they will lose no time together to at least prot gainst it ~-.----....--. A. Deputation, consisting of Car B. J. Thomson, fral tion of LiYerpt94' meeting Sproule) Captain Lamont, and the Mercantile Marine -- Service accompanied by Mr. T: B. Horsfall, M.P 1. Captai° Bramle Office, in reference to THE REFOR terview with the Ilig'. MEETING TO-NIGHT vened under the auspices of the Reform the purpose of enablir g Liverpool Refor Association: their opinions with regard to the Governmer ers to ar t ' . .t Bill, will 1! held in the Amphitheatre, at seven o'clock this even. Mr. Thomas Brocklebank will preside, and Mr. Ewart, M.P., will be in attendant Among the speol eil ssrs. W. Earle, J. R. leffetP will be, we understand S. G. Rathbone, W. F. INI-aeGr( ;or, Mullineux, & LOCAL INTELLIGENCE• AMERICAN MAIL,.—The screw-steamer Kangaroo, C . l, thin Jeffrey, sailed yesterday for New York, Se"- th tuu She wilL weekly mails, and about 120 passengers succeeded by the Cunard steamer Africa, which is apPol to sail on Saturday next. the The Hero (tug-boat), broke from her anchors in or Mersey, about midnight, and ran foul of the bridg e c o ., neaing the South Landing-stage with the George' s-P IO carrying away har funnel, and doing other damage. have not heard whether any persons were injured. ed FATAL ACCIDENT. —Yesterday, a shipwright, 113':,,,ig Win. Ormsby, aged 50, died in consequence of ha cps received some injuries in his toes. Some days ago he,i 9 working at the Coburgh Dock, when a piece of iron fe,' and injured some of his toes—erysipelas set in, and de was the result.. ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAR ll' sl.l.lT it; TION, 13, Rose Hill. —New patients entered on the 19°"to last week, viz :-12th March, 1859: Relieved at 4 8; institution, 146 ; relieved at their own dwellies , total, 194. Visitors—Messrs. E. Watts, and G. ° P r " Hon. secretary and treasurer, Joseph Kitchen, Esq. THE CASE or TIM BOGITA.—IR this case, the 0 , 1- .0 Lions were read over yesterday, and occupied a long "lot before Mr.iMansfield. Mitchell, the second engiac er Ves , two sureties of £250 each for his appearance at the as'oe. and, therefore, he was liberated on these recogni sli ha il , The chief engineer was also liberated on his former "lot Several respectable looking persons, male and fernal e 'heta the parties when they were let out, and congratulate d • -" To-morrOW evening, as announced in our advell i :7 columns, a public meeting will be held in Mill 1,,‘,001 Everton, for the purpose of memorialising the • .`thot Council on behalf of the erection of public bathsZ nr itif t district. The members for the ward, with the neig.l'u:i.clio very war ml. clergy and other gentlemen, have intimated their approval of this movement. If the residents on the e - ntl side of the town have any intelligent appreciatio! benefits thus sought on behalf of the operative cla, meeting cannot fail to be a crowded on PIA iO-FO ItTE EXTRA.ORDINA RY. —J. rec3ived from Messrs. Collard and specimen of the Patent Oblique Piano-torte, fi with perhaps the most elegant and costly case eve . w hic' for an upright piano-forte. This instrument, ijusti possesses three strings to each key, has an extraore_ot powerful and melodious tone, equally sonorous ie le of part of the scale, while the exterior presents an e:t 3 T ll e ats" c h the most finished and costly workmanship, the °ran/ tion being in the style of Louis Quatorze, and ri Va g otlf rated with marqueterie and ormolu work. ladePe ll p gy $ of its musical claims, this instrument will amp l y re a rio s , visit, if only to see with what artistic skill the c , 1 0 5 ' woods have been inlaid, producing to the eye tije on ce t beautiful and intricate floral designs, while in everYilleto,ll the appropriate colours are admirably preserved thro this remarkable piece of workmanship. J. J. cig i c4 oly M f. be glad to show this magnificent instrument to an vie gentleman who may favour him with a call , 1, llnke-street, corner of Berry-street. Co" ~.„ o j li a r E d d ' s ga i r t _15:P:1.15e:1:14 BANKRUPTCY COURT, Yesterday.— (Bejor , ln;ssioner Perry.) —ln re JOHN PETER GEORGE "'" of tr This was the last examination sitting in the at e O'e r bankrupt, who was, until lately, the manager of tu i e th a pool Borough Bank. Mr. Banner, who appea reu forst. assignees, said, he had no questions to ask the ban t bere, His Honour said, from the nature of his basincssroigh, would necessarily be no books, and the bankruP t fo pass. The certificate was fixed for the Bth A 13 1 ,4 10, 0 .1 TARLTON.—The bankrupt was a shipowner al f,is 19 , proprietor of bathing machines, who came up or ~idne s examination. Mr. Lace, on the part of the n'„ c cl offered no opposition to the bankrupt passing, n ' p certificate meeting was fixed for the 4th of AP ril ' ol isbi i.e : --= HENRY PERRY. The bankrupt, a draper, of Care,,,,.ar applied for his certificate. He was supported be 2114 sa ia b of and Mr. Norris, upon the part of the assignee s, t .ot e ,, A was not instructed to offer any opposition. ce l a r 4i/S / 0 the second class was awarded. In re LEWIS s s as f This bankrupt, who formerly carried on b usine merchant in Liverpool, under the style o f tills 010' Wilson and Mgver, came up on application for ' cate. Mr. Richardson supported the bankrup t fu r er Anderson appeared for the assignees. The ba n To ll 5 ,5 not opposed, and his Honour said., looking at tb°„„sht t ab ' put down for personal expenses, the bankrupt pl ' first class certificate. 1 311)r SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE OFF BIDEV It (~ 5 15 FORD, Saturday night.—l grieve to telly ha te Chanter, agent for Lloyd's at Bideford) that ' re ac e ' . a sad misfortune here. The schooner Clifton, of 010 0;. , f from Cardiff for Oporto, in a terrific storm , s, tra a °ti t morning, at the very lower end of the South -13itie..b/i; harbour, and immediately filled. The :berm` en froaa,,t;ee which saved, on Friday last, the crew of five 1 13 e ll e , c r wreck Caroline, was instantly launched, and, I,l e retr t e rs : hours hard pulling, failed to reach the wreck. • A otai cci te cl• life-boat, was then launched, but the sea was 111- t hal ls. l i and she also failed, the crews being perfectly e• . 11 o n Again the Mermaid started, with our old co:olfal r l o ° ty e fresh crew, but the vessel's crew had is and, with a glass, the crew could be discerned. e sailw had taken mast went over the side with the captain and threchea fire who perished. Subsequently the Mermai d f i e ri g jer ° f o al vessel,. and, from the bowsprit, saved the rentreeot at crew, in a very exhausted state. In the e0%,01013fe, confusion, I am unable to detail further Pr o we t oe present. I expect we shall be heavily taxed; and no , 1 1 , had to scour the neighbourhood for hor-ses whictot difficulty in preserving and housing tbe b c : t o ig: l4 not yet perfected. The gale was so terrific 1 0. t! g t th ° o re I kept my son, with a gang of men, all niu e ' re oot more boat house, and sorry indeed am I that theY.rim told? 00 a successful. The broken sea over the wreck, 7 o batc , ,j o ita thirty feet high. Sunday. —The gale does I I ° : o ur to the Alas.! a good look out is kept. • I should add that, ,11.,etiorol _406 and hazardous pursuits on the coast, the J-` O. it s hew eo se boa Institution, with a libelity becor olll 7 oo of and extensive operations, allows uo consideration lero to influence our proceedings. ...-0 00 ,, 1 0 10(1 THE AMpHITMEATRE. MADAME CSVEI-'ecctiyecviiiigp the unfavourable character of Monday and ; 111 0 thsl i t the attendance at the Amphitheatre wa s ' il f r rh e is t he Wee IP f have been expected during the early part f o r to t Tuesday evening Madame Celeste apPea7,,focterf taielit; time this engagement in her own peculiar c v u h ' ich the do ril!lP _Mona in the " Green Bushes," a piec e ' ajo i she displays in it hare kept evergreen _ allo t to et or , 5 more years than it would probably be ,g Nothing new can be said of Madame ue' vO 4- , .this character, except, perhaps, like 18 e w l g "over it years have no powe'• tittle believe there ever was that „