Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-05 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1837. THE DAY'S NEWS. In the House of Lords, last night, several notices Ma:notion were given. Lord Dungannon will ask, on Monday next, when the report of the Commis sinners respecting the riots at Belfast will be laid before the House, and several particulars are wanted with respect to the Indian Press by Lord Ellenborough. Lord Shaftesbury will, on Monday, state the object of the Religious Worship Act Amendment Bill, and move its postponement. In the House of Commons, last night, Lord Palmerston stated that the negoeiations with the Austrian Government with respect to the Tele graphic line with India had been abandoned, as the Austrian Government wished to impose such restrictions as the English authori ies would not submit to. After the discussion of some other minor matters, the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a somewhat lengthened statement, on the House going into Committee or the purpose of moving that the Chairman be directed to move to bring in a bill to indemnify the Bank of England for their recent suspension of the Bank. Charter Act. The right hon. gentle man entered into full particulars. After some remarks from Mr. Gladstone, Lord John Russell, ind Mr. Disraeli, it was agreed that leave be given t© bring in the bill, The second reading will take place on Friday next. At the AssiaLs yesterday, a very diabolical case was gone into. A young man, only 23 years old, named Greenwood, was charged with the murder of a little girl under 10 years. The case was very peculiar. The deceased and the prisoner had slept. in the same bed. Some few days after the girl eomplainad of being unwell. She was taken to a doctor, who prescribed for her, but after enduring great agony she died in about three weeks, Just previous to her death, depositions were taken,when she averred that the prisoner had, to all intents and purposes, committed a rape up m her. A post/nor :len examination was made, and it was found that she had died of a foul and noxious disease. The prisoner was apprehended, and he was found to labour under a similar disease of a virulent cha racter and of long standing. After a trial occu pying five hours, the jury brought in a verdict of aggravated manslaughter, and the Judge sen tenced Greenwood to penal servitude for life. The ease of fratricide, in Trowbridge -street, in this town, was also tried, and a verdict of manslaugh ter being returned, a sentence of eighteen calan der months was imposed on Robert Jones, the paipeti Mtn - . Mr. Justice Wightnnin, in the course of some remarks yesterday, on the reprehensibie system of the way in which the Liverpool depositions are taken before the - Magistrates, eulogised the manner in which Mr. Mansfield performed his duty, but he said, "it is too great for him (3,1 r. M.), and he ought to have assistance." At the Police Court, yesterday, the case of the murder by the captain and mate of the Elizabeth was again under investigation. Several additional witnesses were examined, including a Frenchman, whose evidence went very much against the cap• thin particularly, who looked very much care worn. Mr. Snowball said that it would be as well to send the affair for trial at once, but Mr. Mansfield did not take this view of the affair, and intimated that although the investigation might mot be concluded in time for these assizes, the Crown may thii:k it proper, to save time and ex pence, to send the case for trial at the Central Criminal Court, the same as in that of Palmer, the poisoner. As it is, none of the accused will ever serve as captain in the merchant service of Eng land. A further attempt was made to launch the LeTiathen yesterday, and she has now made a progress of 19 feet. Yesterday, in the Court of Chancery, a rather important question was settled. The question to be decided whether a marriage with a deceased - wife's sister, in a foreign country, which by the ittw of that country is valid, is to be held valid or nugatory, both parties being British subjects. Mr. Justice Cresswell, who sat as assessor to the Vice-Chancellor, summed up a learned exposition of the law of the case by adjudging that the xmarriage is question was invalid. In the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday, the claim of the Great Northern Railway Company to prove the amount that Rzdpath defrauded it of as a debt against his estate, was rejected. — Thain, the detective oThleer, who was shot on board the Caledonia, by his prisoner, while con veying him to England, die] yesterday morning. The news from the Continent this morning is mot of much importance. The commercial crisis ztill cow inues in the north. In Hamburgh, tile general assembly of citizens, which constitutes the sovereign power, has adopted the proposition of The Senate, giving an indulgence to debtors; the indulgence is, however, as it now appears, of a limited character, allowing tae administration of a bankrupt estate by a committee of the creditors, without bankruptly being pronounced. The cities of Copenhagen and Berlin begin to be seriously affected, and the panic in fact is general all round the Baltic. The Paris Petrie says that although the Em peroi's permission to General Lamoriciere to return to France reached him too late to enable him to see his dying son, the general is still free to avail himself of the passport which the French minister at Brussels sent to him, anti that "in all probability he will soon do so." A .. correspon dent adds:—" I have reason to believe, however, that General Limoriciere does not intend to come to France. lam not aware whether the report, which I perceive has reached Lon don, that passports have also been sent to Generals Chaugarnier and Bodeen is true, but I believe it to be quite certain that they will not at present return from exile." The A iriatic, the new steamer of the Collins line, arrived here yesterday with New York dates to the ?3rd ult , acid nearly 400,000 dollars in specie. A late New York paper avers that the administration will avow the acquisition of Cuba as necessary to the policy of the United States. A flliibuster rendezvous of Walker's had been broken up. The Atlantic had arrived at New York on the 50nd of November, with the news of the Bank of England having raised to ten per cent. its rate of discount ; also of Dennistoun's failure, and the Scotch Bank suspensions. The news, however, Ind not time to develops its effects. The Niagara frigate had arrived at New York 14 days from Portsmouth. In the Money market there was a tendency to greater ease, and supplies were more Isberal at from 7 to 8 per cent. on New York State THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5,1857 e Stocks. Foreign Exchange was rather inactive at 1071 to 1081 for bankers' bills on London, and 105 to 107 for commercial bills. IT would be impossible to form an opinion of the view taken by Parliament of the Currency Question; from Thursday's debate. Lord DERBY showed a great desire to exact some definite statement from the Cabinet as to their Monetary policy, and ridiculed the idea of asking for committees to inquire into a subject which had been thoroughly exhausted ; and he observed that lie could not understand how, while soli citing Parliament, "to grant an indemnity for violating an Act the Government could ask the Legislature to continue the permanent operation of the very Act the Executive itself had found it necessary to suspend." Earl GREY took pretty much the same view of the subject, but would, on account, give up our present low fixed stand ard of value. Lord OVEItSTONE followed in his usual strain of Leo erectus. The Bullionist Peer was, in fact, perfectly desperate, He would not admit that the creation of the money of a country, was the prerogative of its Sovereign. ITu fortunately there are several qualities of money required to give a commercial nation a currency. Of the metals employed,:the Crown is only left to regulate the quantity which shall represent certain sums, and when this is done, the money itself certainly belongs to its subjects. But there is another species of money which human hands can create, and in any quantity. This money is composed of paper, and the right to create it is the highest prerogative of the State, and cannot be surrendered to money dealers and lenders without doing gross injustice to every other class of a community. But let us read Lord OVERSTONE'S assertion, on this head, literally. The noble lord alleges boldly, that the principles on which the Bank Charter was founded were, that " gold should be the money of England, and that the quantity of gold which the country should have for its money should not be under the control of any Government, nor of any body, nor of any private individual." If this be the case, how comes it that we have any bank notes at all ? And how can Parliament think of allowing Acts to be concocted for the avowed object of giving bankers the power of controlling all the gold in the realm ? Again, if we have " perfect Free Trade in gold," as Lord OVERSTONI asserts, and " can rely on a proper supply of money upon the same principle as that on which we rely for a proper supply of provisions," how can the Legislature venture to place a fixed price, upon the commodity we call "money," above which it cannot rise ? To talk of Free Trade where there is a fixed price placed on that with which alone we are to trade, is simply outraging common sense. It would be useless, however, to enter into a discussion on first principloa with mon who corn opia.l3lo of otioh monstrous contradictions. Our most urgent business at the present moment i ; first, to account for the distress which has fallen on the country ; and, secondly, to endeavour to see our way out of the crisis. In the performance of the former of these tasks, we derive considerable assistance from Lord 0 VERSTONE'S speech. After dwelling in the most disparaging terms on our Joint-Stock Banks, of which the Bank of England is the head, and impugning their method of doing busyness, his Lordship said that if the Government had maintained the Bank Charter Act " only twenty-four hours longer, the whole of the vicious system to which he referred would have been got rid of, by the crumbling to atoms of the institutions which fostered it. Irretrievable ruin would have followed, but the commercial atmosphere would have been cleared." Here we think we ay pause. We need not go further in search of the secre which has led to the commercial disasters of 1857. We have long suspected that Banking rivalry lay at the bottom of this great national calamity. " Free Trade in money was established in 1844 ;" and yet we hear from the mouthpiece of the Bullionists that the Joint Stock system of paying interest on deposits is a vicious one, and that the Act of 1844 would have crumbled those institutions—meaning our Joint Stock Banks— into atoms within twenty-four hours if the Government had not decided on its immediate suspension ! Here the light must be beginning to dawn on the mercantile world, and we may say, "so much for the past." The present and future must now be considered, and we need only quote Lord OVERSTONE'S words in support of our oft reiterated predictions :—" The next occasion of pressure upon the Bank would probably come before the exchanges were rectified, and then the crisis would beg; eater than that which we had shrunk front meeting upon the present occasion. There were serious and formidable difficulties hanging over this country, and, in warning the House of them, he desired to call their earnest attention to them." This is Lord OVERSTONE'S language, when asking the House of Lords to support the renewal of a statute which was within twenty-four hours of bringing this great country into ‘• irretrievable ruin," for the purpose of " clearing the commercial atmosphere !" But will the merchants, bankers, and traders of Great Britain never see through this wretched hum- bug ? We were in hopes that the exposure of the vile scheme, and the object of its authors, would have deterred all honourable and high-minded men from mixing up their names with any pro posal for its perpetuation. That we should have an infernal machine ready for the " crumbling to atoms" of the Joint Stock Banks of the country, with their mercantile constituency, within twenty four hours, is a most lamentable reflection, and one which our enlightened Legislature will not, surely, leave the commerce and industry of England exposed to. Lord OVERSTONE speaks as a banker, having many years of experience in the money world; and, when he breathes danger to society, and makes no distinction in favour of classes, it is time to take heed. Had be spoken of the probable operation of laws, which he had only read incidentally, we might not attach any great weight to his warning voice. But in this instance, we have the first apostle of Mammon, revealing the true faith of his master, and preaching the law which the Bullionist has made and the usurer knows best how to revere. We therefore say to every class of the community beware of the impending danger, and place no reliance on the stability of a state of things which is based on Acts of Parliament, which are now admitted by their authors, to be diametrically opposed to the com mercial and industrial progress of its people, and for which the Senate appears to be unable to find a substitute. It is a positive falsehood for those who say that, our money-laws permit " any man to bring any quantity of gold into the country, while it has a low fixed price placed upon it," or that "any man may take out of the country any amount of money: , while the Bank Charter Act gives bankers the power, and compels them actually, to raise their rate of discount to 10 per cent., in order to keep gold at home, IT is useless to deny the fact that, according to present appearances, the Government of the United States seem likely to have an Indian Mutiny]of its own, and carried on, too, in much the same fashion as the Sepoy's of Bengal began the mad and murderous rebellion at Cawnpore. The accounts brought by the steam-ship Canada, and published in this journal on Monday, inform us that, there was a great movement among the Mormons, in preparation to contest any attempt of the United States' troops' to compel the Salt Lake " saints " to pay deference and obedience to the mandates of the federal Govern ment. It seems that the Mormons of Carson Valley and San Bernardino had disposed of their cattle and property for nearly nothing, and, at the bidding of their Chief, had gone to Salt Lake, with the secret design of re-organising, arming, equipping, returning, murdering, and plundering their Gentile enemies. We see it stated that they have declared that for every saint slain by the United States' troops, ten Gentile women shall make atonement. That they will first exterminate the troops' from the East, then proceed West, and in predatory bands, allied with Indians, they will ravage the border, rob, plunder and murder, until they shall have .. I .,l,Lasti.o tr,vas"..y insults upon his chosen people ! This is a tolerably good programme to begin with ; its first part—the declaration that for every saint " slain in the coming contest, ten Gentile women should make atonement —is a type of the NANA SAUIB school, and must entitle BRIGHAM YOUNG to a distinguished consideration among the civilised nations of the earth. Before commenting upon the unholy and brutal character of such a threat, let us see what means these Mormon warriors have of effecting such iniquitous purposes. From all we have learned of the territory of Utah, we believe that, at the order of their leader and prophet, they can muster 15,000 men, armed with the most effective instruments of destruction ; they have many thousands of the finest horses trained to camp service; they have a foundry, where cannon and shells are cast ; a powder-mill and factory, where revolving rifles and pistols are manufactured, equal to any made in the United States , they have every munition of war and necessary provision and means of transportation within themselves, and even the women and children are instructed and practised in the use of arms. To this, may be added their geographical position. To reach Salt Lake from the East, it is necessary to pass through a valley of twenty-five miles, under hills so steep and rocky that a dozen of men could hurl down an avalanche of stones on an Approaching caravan ; and, even in the event of several thousand troops reaching the valley, the besieged, with their herds, would take to the mountains, and reinforced by their savage allies —the Indians—would, in turn, besiege the besiegers, until they had starved out the invaders. Again, we are told that they have 20,000 Indian allies, whom they are ready to furl - fish with arms and horses on an emergency. These Indians are partly instructed in the Mormon doctrines, enough to cause them to be superstitious in regard to the God of a superior race, yet repres sing none of their natural ferocity. Such fiends would only delight to torture and murder civilised females. With allies like these, and fighting for their homes, and, according to the belief of the ignorant, under the direct super vision of the God of Battles ; and, from the rampart*, wi h which nature has surrounded them, it is easy to conceive what would be the fate of a few thousand troops who travelled a thousand miles to fight their own countrymen, brave as themselves, as well armed, better used to field life, and stimulated by their love of home and family, and assured of victory by the revelations of their prophets. Such is the character of the enemy, and the warlike resources at their command, which the Government of the United States has now to grapple with and conquer. The tenor of their ! religious creed shows that ferocity and inhu manity are among the more conspicuous traits of character towards any one who would dispute their religion or their practices. In their treatment of the Federal Judge of Utah, and the ruthless hands which they laid upon the heads of the territory, we have a sample of the ferocity which they would indulge should they be engaged in actual warfare with an open enemy. Indeed, we must say, that the United States' Government has too long delayed the chastisement of BRIGHAM YOUNG. Allow them to continue their haughty defiance to the Federal authorities, what is there to prevent the Southern States d from rising en masse and enforcing the adoption of their pro-slavery principles and practices upon the citizens of the North and East. On this ground alone Mormonism must be compelled to submit to the laws of the Union, and he is no friend to his country or his kind that would counsel any other line of policy. But, inde pendent of all this, the horrible system of polygamy, which is the main characteristic of Mormonism, is a moral pestilence, and, such' unfitted to the existence of a country where the Supreme Being and Christianity are admitted and acknowledged by the very humblest. Not less then, on account of the political importance of the matter, than the great moral results which must follow the Mormon subjugation, we desire to see President BUCHANAN put forth his whole power, and send a sufficient army of Christians to root out this nest of wickedness and idolatory, planting in its stead a colony of industrious, well-disposed, and loyal people. If this is done, the administration of Mr. BUCHANAN will be considered amongst the most successful and humanising since the days of 'WASHINGTON himself. THE " TIMES" AND THE CHEAP PRESS. —About a year ago the Edinburgh Review, in an interesting article on journalism, sp)ke of the great nugabers who read the Times ‘‘ with a purely passive and unhesitating belief." This fact, which no one can doubt—though it is not true to nearly the same extent as when that paper was penned —is partly owing to the world-wide circulation and celebrity of the paper ; the herd worship fame, wealth, and success, and have neither knowledge, penetration, or vigour of mind to contest views eloquently supported and reiterated from day to day; but it is also owing to the thorough independence and disdain of party or one-sided views which that journal lcng maintained. But the Times of tc-day is not such as it was under the reign of Walter the First. It is n 9 longer broadly British ; it is Ministerial. Formerly it gave information impartially, quite regardless of how it might tell or who it might strike. But now it cuts and carves, selects and adapts to please particular appetites, and wholly suppresses some awkward facts and unpleasant documents. The cake of the Calcutta anti- Government Meeting, and the petition to the Queen for the recall of Lord Canning, is a case in point. Thus, too, an important speech of Sir J. Pakington was garbled into a few lines, because it was an attack on our Indian policy ; while the absurd rhodornontale of "W. B." is given columns long because it was a fulsome adulation of Lord Palmerston. The elder Walter would have spurned such subserviency, but now the Times has fallen under the sway of smaller intellects, who wield it not for British and imperial, but. cur uuunuea tang put Ly purposes. Inc su premacy of the Times is quite a recent creation, and as it rose to its higher position, owing to the really great quali ties which it exhibited, so by falling under a meaner management, it may gradually recede from P. London commercial men, shipowners, and traders of every kind, find a great convenience in having one receptacle for all advertisements, and not having to seek them through a number of channels. But this operates much more feebly in the provinces. Its uuwieldly busk is itself a drawback. It must require an enormous appetite and a fine digestion to master its contents and not to feel oppressed by the effect. There is a luxury in a smaller and a lighter paper. There is a growing charm about it. At first the cheap daily press seemed vulgar, belt it is fast outwearing that unpardonable crime, and if conducts 1 with equal ability it will be an over tnetch for its ponderous opponents. We rise from its perusal refreshed, not wearied, and with a healthy appetite for what tho morrow may bring. The Manchester Guardian, after ridiculing the cheap press, found itself compelled, on risk of extinction, to become one itself. The growth of this new power, both in London and the provine , ,s, leas•perilously shaken the supremacy of the Times, and has with vast multitudes in all classes entirely superseded it. The freaks which the Times has been playing of late, and the deep abasement into which it has plunged in its wholesale subserviency to the Gov, rn meet—for the Thunderer i 3 now enacting the humble part of jackal—will only accelerate the process.—Bath Express. THE KING OF DELHI—Just added to Allsop's Royal Wax Work Exhibition, Lime-street, Liverpool, modelled from a sketch taken in the City of Delhi. LEWIS AND COMPANY'S NEW ESTABLISHMENT FOE BOY te CLOTHING.—Number of boys clothed for the week ending Saturday, November 28th, 694; corresponding week last year, 410 ; increase, 284. _ • _ _ _ SAILING . OF TEE OCEANIC& —This splendid ship belongs to Messrs. Edward Thompson's line, sailed yesterday for Melbourne, having on board the large number of 420 passengers, besides 1,400 tons of valuable merchandise. The Alice Walton is the succeeding packet of 25th Dec. Lisa or PASSENGERi par U.S mail steamship Adriatic, from New York.—Col. and Mrs. J. W. Line, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hauser, Miss M‘Naughton, Misses H. C. and M.S. Allen, Mr. Horatio M. Allen, Capt. Mackinnon, R.N., Dr. Hugh Walsh, Dr. J. Whitmore, Mr. H. Johns, Mr. Messier Reese, Mr. Wm. Armer, Mr. P. Williams, Mr. S. Geary, Me. Wm. Keatinge, Senor - Jose Burtillo Arleta, Mr. S. C. Barney, Mr. G. Macbride, Mr. H. H. Rothbar, Mr. W. H. Flandrean, Mr. John Zimmer, Rev. D. V. M•Lean, Miss Lavinia Rablin, Messrs. Wm. Rablin, Charles Mosher, Armand Hodey, Henry Smith, Thomas O'Connor, Albert Michel August Sauvain, Thos. Crunn, Magnus Wilson, Thos. Taylor, L. A. Philopoteaux, and David Holland. CORONRR'S INQUEST.—The inquest on the body of Pefer Davis, cooper, of Ormond-street, mentioned in yesterday's paper, was concluded yesterday, The affair at fi st assumed a serious aspect, bat from a long investigation that took place, the facts appeared to be these :—About a week sine the deceased got one of his hands hurt by a cask falling on and crushing it. Then, it appeared, he was ordered some ointment for it by a " bone setter." Subsequtntly a " medical man" was called in, and from his report it would appear that the " bone setter" had not done right. Thera did not appear 'to exist between the parties an amicable feeling, but on the fellest investi i gation the jury found a verdict of accidental death. THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY INSURANCE COMPANY.—At a recent meeting of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway board, the directors, finding that out of upwards of .5,000 of their servants, about 1,000 had omitted to become members of an insurance society estab lished in connection with the company, making a provision for the p iyment of a sum of money in cases of death to the surviving family, and of a weekly allowande in cases of disablement through accident, passed an order to compel the whole of their employes to join the institution or to leave the service. It appears the directors pay £lOO a year to the funds of the institution, and the subscription of workmen is so small as to be scarcely felt by them. The adoption of such a resolution Was singulary vind!oated a few days after it was passed. A man employed in one of their workshops was injured by an accident on the very day his name was inscribed on the books, and died the following day. His widow and children became entitled under the rules to the sum of 437, 10s. The amount' of subscription to secure this benefit would be only 23. per week. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. STATE OP THE MANCHESTER TRADE. Captain Palin's return of the state of employment in the mills and workshops within the city of Manchester, for the week ending on Tuesday evening, shows a decrease from 10,294, in the previous week, to 9,513, of the operatives entirely oat of employment, and an increase of those on short time from 18,136 in the previous week, to 20,815; whilst those in full work have decreased from 16,861 to 15,244. THE UNEMPLOYED POOR OF LEICESTER. At the meeting of the board of guardians of the Leices ter union, on Tuesday night, it was stated that the relief cases wcre—in-door, 660 ; out-door, 2,624 ; showing a very large increase of distress. The committee appointed last week to consider the expediency of abolishing or modifying the wookhouse test, presented a very long report. They had unanimously arrived at the following conclusion:— As there is still ample accommodation in the workhouse, and bearing in mind that an indoor labour test, to any extent, is impracticable, and that numbers of the appli cants for relief are altogether unfit for exposure to the weather, to which they would be subjected by outdoor labour, your committee cannot recommend a departure from the present system of relief. The report recommends, that in view of a large . increase in the number of inmates of the workhouse, due pro vision be made for preserving order and subordination. Fer this purpose the committee, having had full powers delegated to it by the board, has engaged a superintendent for each of the wards, male and female, who are to be paid,—the men, 12e per week, with ration and lodging in the house ; the women, 10s, per week with lodgings, and and allowance of 63, in lieu of rations. The committee doubts if it will be necessary to institute an oat-doer labour test ; but in order to be prepared for it, rooms are to be fitted up for the oakum picking, and a superinten dent is appointed to teke the over3iglet of these so engaged. It is proposed, in the first place, to employ at this work men of about 60 years of age, who, it is sup posed, will generally be married men, without families, and to give there 33. in money and 21b, of bread daily, with an additional loaf and is 2d in grocery at the end of each week—in value altogether 4s 8d weekly. Should the Pressure continue, it is proposed that this class of applicants be discharged from labour, and the test applied to young:r and more able•bodied men. The committee suppose these means " will be found sufficient to carry out effectually the object sought, namely,—to amend the evil of giving relief in aid of wages, by withdrawing from the labour market every person receiving parochial assistance, t o c h e ek imposition and yet adequa'ely relieve the poor." The report was unanimously adopted by the board. As soon as the decision of the board became known, great dissatisfaction was expressed by the more violently disposed of the ope: a tives, and at two several aaeetings, held on Wednesday, some strong langurge was used. At the breaking up of the second meeting in the afternoon, a number of those com posing it passed through Market-street, where a lump of coal was thrown at the window of a baker named Cox. Mr. Cox succeeded in collaring the man who threw it, but was set upon and severely beaten by the mob, who then passed through to the Market Place, hooting and groaning at the shops of some members of the board of guardians. By the prompt exertions of the police, however, further mischief was prevented. ,The militia, who are now quartered in the town, and the Leicester troop of the Yeomanry Cavalry, have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to suppress any outbreak that may occur. The operatives' committee report the number of unemployed at 4,000. DISTRESS IN CARLISLE. The distress consequent on the general depression of trade, which more or less prevails throughout the country, has at length reached Carlisle, where it is beginning to manifest itself to a melancholy cro. p 3 of 1= IX ana half grown 10.40 aro equator ing in the streets, either from want of employment, or the result of that short time system which has recently been adopted by the whole of the manufacturing firms iu the city. The la'e hard weather has lately thrown out of work numbers of men employed in the building trade. The hand-loom weavers have been the first to awaken the sympathies of the well to do citizens, and the Mayor (John Howe, Esq) called a public meeting of the inhabi tants on Wednesday afternoon, to devise measures to alleviate their present distress. The chair was taken by the Dean of Carlisle, who was supported by W. N Hodgson, Esq. and other gentlemen. One of the speakers disclosed the fact that in a single district of the town there were no less than 693 persons (including women and children) who are entirely without the means of subsistence. The total number of persons out of work is about 1,200. Resolutions recommending a subscription, and appointieg a committee to administer the funds, were carried unanimously. Mr.Wilks carried a motion appoint. ing a committee to inquire iato the general condition of the band-loom weavers, and to adopt some means for its permanent improvement. The meeting then broke up. MEETING OF MESSRS. FLETCHEP. AND ROSE'S CREDITORS. The meeting of the crelitors of this firm, on Thursday, at the Queen's-hotel, Birmingham, (Mr. Skey presiding), was numerously attended. A statement of liabilities and assets, and a debtor and cruclitor account having been read, a discussion cusuel, and the result was that an amendment was carried, that the estate be assigned to inspectors (who ware appointed), and an offer of 12s 61 in tin pound was accepted, is 3d at two months, 13 3d at four months, and four other instalments of 2s Gd each, at seven, twelve, eighteen, and twenty-four months. TILE WESTERN I.3_kNK OF SCOTLAND. Toe me Aing of the shards shiers was held on Wedaesi ay, Mr. J ,Ins Dunlop, senior director, in the chair. It was resolved to register the company under the Joint Stock Banking Companies Act of 1857. The chairman said that the best endeavours of the directors hsd bean thwarted by the late manager, who disregarded their express instruc• tions and gave great advances to unworthy person , . The promise of the bank agents who had already seceded represent 2,000,000 of depsits, and agents representing 1,000,000 more were is the act of seceding. The interim manager read a financial statement, showing that on the Otis of November last the assets were £10,627,82-1; the liabilities were £8,911,932, leaving an apparent surplus of £1,115,892. Up to that timeit he known and undoubted losses were £3d0,000. A committee of investigation was appointed, and the meeting was adjourned till the 17th of December. A proposal was made to resuscitate the bank, but it could not in the meantime be entertained. THE COMMERCIAL CRISIS. A special meeting of the Directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce was held on Thursday, Mr. Thomas Bazley, president, in the chair, and the follow ing petition to the House of Commons was unanimously adopted • To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled. The Humble Petition of the Directors of the Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures at Manchester. Sheweth,—That your petitioners view with regret and alarm the accumulating commercial disasters of this coun try, isnd which they humbly submit have been increased by those serious evils which have arisen from the inju dicious and reprehensible course pursued by a few discount and bankit!g establishments. That whilst your petitioners deplore the disturbances which have taken place in the foreign commercial relations of the country, they cannot withhold the expression of their deep conviction tha• a c tuso of mischief beyond those disturbances has existed, and tended to produce the present ruinous crisis. That your petitioners lament that the floating credits of the country, in the forms of bills of exchange, have been created and circulated beyond the means of the capital and the currency of the Country to withdraw or absorb at their maturity, and whilst they admit the value to commerce of the legitimate bill of exchange, they cannot avoid censuring the abuses which have attended the employment of this beneficial instrument, which, when rightly issued, promotes the profitable exchange of commodities. • That your petitioners fear, from the existing impel„ ments to trade and commerce, and from the crippled et of those sound pecuniary facilities, which are at all titr e needful for the conducting of large transactions, that I T : , labour of the manufacturing districts will become ; 10 minished to an extent fraught with severe distress W industrious classes. That your petitioners believe that a sound curreacl4 indispensable to permanent prosperity, and that a tilet 6 , 6 standard alone can contribute to the monetary safety `" nation. : .„ o .cfa• That your petitioners disapprove of the existing 1,4—•:;,,d larities in the monetary arrangements of the " t i t Kingdom, and respectfully urge that one unde via ,. o impartial, and just system should prevail in Brig' Ireland, and Scotland. r a uf Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that • honourable house fill be pleased to institute a sears >D9 inquiry to ascertain whether the existing monetary sY I no . contribute to the soundness and safety of the trade , . c' n i sr , merce, and industry of the country; and, in PF t , le t at whether the course pursued by some of the join t ' s tbs banks has not been opposed to the intention of de d legislature, and prejudicial, as in the cases of the stlsPe u t o banks, to the best interests of the public, and also its your honourable house will adopt such remedies 115 ;,, t ioti wisdom may be deemed requisite, to ensure the restel l ig of general confidence, the maintenance of order. an La, conduce to the employment again of capital and l a w" to the benefit of the people of these realms. And your petitioners will ever pray. er, The petition was forwarded to James Aspinall Esq., M.P., in London, for presentation ; and Sir Potter, M.P., has been requested to support its prayer. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS• By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph• FRANCE. PARIS, Fftic -il. The Bourse is not so buoyant, and the three vet c ent rates have receded to 67f 50c. SPAIN. MADRID, Tnunsi )° ' The Queen is making favourable progress. THE COMMERCIAL CRISIS. STOCKHOLM DO*3 . The Commercial Crisis is becoming alarming. HAMBURGH, There are no fresh commercial failures. THE LEVIATHAN. the Up to one o'oloek yesterday afterneo u th e Leviathan had advanced nineteen feet nearer t° water's edge. In the whole, since she first ni ° the distance traversed is 826 inches aft an d w inches forward. PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. 0, An Extra Concert was given last night, at low' Pr 7 the Liverpool Philharm o nic Society. Th e vocal 4 numerous—Madame Gassier, Madame Borchardt, gees' Sedlazok, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. George Perren, and pee,' Borchardt; yet nothing beyond a trio was att e— d 00 6 ; With this exception the selection was a very go ° jot After Rossini's grand " Overture to Semiranerreel Mons. and Madame Borchardt and Mr. George s 6 sang the trio from " Lucrezia Borgia," " 614-o,sr ti sfugge use Vto/0." Mad'lle Sedlazck sang rios i!t per's 6' Truth in absence." Then Madame l o ttll and Mr. Sims Reeves sang "Da quel di," from D 3l s eegl Lire'ae di Cham , nini ; Mendelssohn's four-part s 00 " Autumn." Mr. Sims Reeves then gave ilat r ld, caf e Uuder the greutivroott tree anti, both , 6'oor t wo o forward, an bowed an acknowledgement, but not satisfy the audience, and they p ers i s t s n a their a wo e Mr. Sims Reeves reappeared and re p ea t e d the sec° 0 ersit % Madame Gassier then sane Venzano's " La Zin with great spirit and brilliancy, and was required t° repeat the last movement. The beautiful trio from Aleut 's do e. Giovanni," " Protegga Guist° Cielo,"exeauted hY l4 , ti part' Borchardt. Madlte. Sedlazek concluded the fir s c i l y to ° Weber's fine overture to " Euryanthe," played s ad coal; fast, and the brass instruments overpoweringly loa d ' 95 05 menced the second part. Mr. Sims Reeves tilt tbo l " Good bye, sweetheart, good bye" in a e t l l iied t i ° pleased the crowded galleries, and he was comp d, repeat the last verse. The harp was then introdee'we Mr. Streather performed the andante and rondo osts concerto, with orchestral accompaniments by Paris il . be 3"; which had rr ver been heard in Liverpool. It i s - bet 6 i tiful composition, and went ve well throughout, irioa too good to be encored. Madame Gassier sung li er io plie Fantasia, and was called on to repeat it, when she ' ° ;t lotl so far as to give " The Minstrel Boy," with the ca r n ' a 1 1 . 11 „, The Miserere, from II Trovatore" was then st l ,"iig garella epot the latter part repeated, Madame Borchardt to,erreS'e soprano, and Sims Reeves the tenor. Mr. CI-eorg e o. sang " At. si hen mil" so well as to to °floo r :, gat ft ; three ladies then sa n g Cim arcssa ' s t r i o , from "."4 1 cle g monie segreto," "Le faccio un inceioo," " Borchardt taking the part of " Fridalme," for cvb c leod voice could not be expected to have s ; depth of tone or compass; the reproof to the soon,, —Vergogna ! cergogna ! " for shame 1 for shani'o" not selectively given. "The Cricket," a four-Pi e f„ o oi, ° ,o arranged by George Hargreaves to Handel'B "1 11 , 1 r— ess 1- e Blacksmith," followed, but was taken too fast, o " or ee r 'e more canto' bile style to do justice to the original., e c erbe e rt tion. The audience were played out to - 5.13 .' 00' 6 0 ,‘ March in the Camp of Silesia." The whel4 fns appeared to give great sati e f a cti on , and Was .. f h'e attended. The body o f the h a ll was we ll filled, tolerably full, and the galleries c °Tided. i : Of PEOPLE'S CONCERTS AT ST, GEORGE'S p .O h C ir o The experiment of trying whether the pubilethe a b 1 for cheap concerts sufficienly well to enable T0 .13 1r , preneur to provide good music still goes on. ea se '4 Mr. Rime gives another concert. Hitherto s ing formances have been principally vocal. This e l , a 0 3 ""v programme will contain prin c ip a lly instrumen'n'a, A 5, interspersed with a few songs by Miss ArtalS tr.. o4 4 was so successful on Monday la s t, and Who C. 11,40 favourable an impression at Mr. E. W. Thorad'o3° esiC about two years since. Kelodzy's H u ngarian „ o r o ,dirt give overtures, quadrilles, polkas, walt ze s, and "01 1 of a high and brilliant character. Herr lialodzi play a solo on the violin, 4 1 MISS REYNOLDS AT THE AHPHITHEO gg ode" Miss Reynolds will, to-night, terminate a very - Sll e t bea l engagement at the Royal Amphitheatre . to ed e la appeared in n variety of characters, and peril l eial a 4 ; or t ad with equal skill. We have noticed her Pe r ': te d ' ; ' 4 fse' Mr. Tom T ,ylor's "' Victims." Site r 3 P e "„a sit:do 9 Thursday to a much fuller hulls') and gave g re ,, - pslif'd by tion. Last right she took her benefit, and srorte Lady Gay Spanker. She has been well st i r o " - 1 , Mr. E , igar,aud the members of the stock comp #l' 0 0-• gr. The Plymouth Journal says :—" CaPt ai° aocl 'goo Roebuck, late of the Royal Welsh F u silier oe to 94 Montague Williams, late of tho 41st Regialon., 4 n Tesc el. to the stage, and on Monday evening c° l4 l" fl o P o i engagement at the Manch , ster Theatre 111,3:100h On Saturday last, the Earl oil Listowel, vil'!l,ehb,ll,.(l4° with the Duke of Rutland's hou ids in the 1 106 0 ,hic°er. of Whissendice, met with a severe accident, bY h prc* a ot` of his ribs were broken. His lordship, a ltboa t he 5 ' sing favourably, will be prevent.d from cd°Y ieg of the chase for some time. • gt ecor ti (1 lf The Journal de Franefort announces that , ..:, mg oit t ie exact estimates', the expense to the 'l;set l 4o ° federation alone for repairing the c brnage c late explosion at Mentz will amount to .„' of tea ° 8 florins (415,000 tr.) , d , etso, According to a Vienna letter in the a fter-L'eaddiir_ii Frankfort, the Austrian government intends, 1 r 0 the reduction of its army - to keep 100,00 0 te e d and the German provinces, 100,000 in Day' and f in Vienna and the environs. A beautiful bronze medal. in commeln ° l 6 ll lsls %l je Queen's visit to the Great Paris Exhibition of i t Illibet just been struck at the French Mint, wile tw r oje 7%01: bought for ofr. The obverse displaYs the i P torlt i g ieo'-' Majesty, from'the chisel of the eminent see r A with the legend, "Victoria, D.G, Britanejart.l.,,,ol4o.°oo 0 1 and the reverse bears the inscription, " V ar i te 7 stoe rb l i gi a ; l o oter into fcedere, fidenter, Francorum soda Lutet. i n comp . ex poitits oonlita u invisit, a. UDCCCLV." cr edit city i 14 z 1 tz _ or th to meat,