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The man Jones, accused of the murder of his brother, was yesterday brought up for further examination at the Police Court, and after some evidence had been adduced, Mr. Mansfield came to the determination of sending the prisoner to the assizes for trial on a charge of manslaughter. The coroner's jury found a verdict of guilty of manslaughter, and he hsa been accordingly com mitted for trial under the coroner's warrant also. At Birkenhead, yesterday, the three men charged with the murder of the man Drury, who was found dead, with a number of wounds on his body, on Sunday night, was brought up for examination before the ma2istrates. The evidence did not seem to be of much importance so far, and the inquiry has been adjourned until Saturday. The man who was stabbed at the same time is at the Birkenhead Hospital, and yesterday made his depositions. The monthly meeting of the Toxteth Board of Health was held yesterday, but no business of im portance was transacted. The Board will take into consideration, on an early day, the proposition of Mr. Boult, that Toxteth Park district should annex itself to the Borough of Liverpool. _ _ _ The meeting of the Birkenhead Commissioners was held last night, an ample report of which will be found in another column. At the fortnightly mee.',ing of the Select Vestry yesterday, a conversation occurred in reference to the recent dancing-rooms prosecution. The general opinion seemed to prevail that the expenses of the prosecution should not be paid out of the poir rates, but as it was compulsory that such be done, it was hoped that s::rne alteration would be made in the law. Messrs. Radiey and Caine will not rec3ive the amount they are entitled to for in forming. The charge brought against Nit. Ros-, in London, by Sir R. W. Carden, for endeavcuring to obtain money by threatening a libel, has fa len to the ground, the magistrates deciding that there has been some mistake in the matter. A somewhat singular charge was brought against a respectable female, at one of the London Police CourLs, on Monday—v'z., for forging a telegraphic message. She was discharged, after promising not to repeat the operation. The Committee of the Church Missionary Society have pronounced upon the religious aspect of the Indian question, and in a way which probably will excite the surprise of politicians. The Society commended the humiliation of tc- lay on the ground that the revolt is a Divine : judgment, aris ing, as we understand their document, from this Cause, that two generations of the teeming popula tion of India have been allowed to pass away withou . :, being taught the truths of Christianity The guilt of this, we aro next informed, is to be divided between the Government of British India and the Christian churches of Great Britain—a steement that will be interpret3d to mean that the State church prin ciple should have been far more upheld than it has been in our Indian possessions. This is more obvious from what follows, because the Indian authorities are urged to avow themselves a Christian Government, to introduce the Bible into the Government schools, and to make the same moral law which exists in England the moral law that must be compulsory in India, The Committee aid that all religious forms might be " tolerated," and that a proclamation should be made that no " compulsion" should be used. The meaning of the Church Missionary SN - tiety is clear enough, namely, that to avert the Divine judgment for the future. India should receive precisely the same ecclesiastical constitution which we have at home. The Archbishop of Canterbury has just delivered a lengthened address on questions 'elating to the present condition of the church. As to the Divorce Bill, he was decidedly adverse to many of its enact ments, and he was glad to find so many clergymen opposing some of the obnoxious provisions, which opposition has met with success. Respecting the church rate question, he is of opinion that it wouid he unjust to abolish it, as only 5 out of 100 parishes had shown any opposition to the impost. He congra •ulated his clergy upon the almost entire absence of late of perversions—" he might call them apostasies from the troth His Grace next adverted to the S:riptures, and hinted that he was opposed to any new verbion, and he concluded by deplo:iug the spr,ad of Romish principles and of latitudinarian speculation, together with the indi&reuee and demoralisation of the working classes, and a desecration of the Lord's day, consequent on the introduction of railways. On Monday, an important meeting of the Surrey Ganiens shareholders was held. The directlrs presentei a vindicatory report, which controverts the various charges that have been preferred against them. They state that they believe X 25,000 will cover the whole of the demands upon the CJrnpany, and they say that "if the simple contract creditors will agree to accept preferential charges upon the property of the Company for their debts, there can be no difficulty in arranging for the future." They advise the shareholders to discontinue the respon sibility of musical entertainments, but to let their premises at an annual rental. A long discussion ensued, and in the end a committee of investiga tion was appointed, a proceeding which the Direc tors themselves supported. In alluding to the vacancy in the representation of East Kent, consequent upon the retirement of Sir E. Deering, a local paper of yesterday, speaks of Mr Deedes, lately member for the county, Mr. E. Rice, lately M.P. for Dover, and Mr. C. M. Lushington, lately M.P. for Canterbury, as likely to be brought forward. " Neither Tory nor Liberal," it says, " is as well prepared for a contest as might have been the case." From the Continent we do not publish any striking intelligence this morning. The Prussian Bank at Berlin has raised its rate of discount to 6 per cent. In spite of the peaceful tendencies engendered by the Stuttgardt events, the Emperor Napoleon has too great a sympathy for his soldiers to allow their school of war at Chalons to be broken up again. The camp will be established as a perma nent one. We suppose the French will do the thing cheaper and more effectively than we can do it at Aldershott. If certain statements contained in Belgian papers are to be believed, the Sublime Porte has taken the initiative in renewing the diplomatic debates on the union of the Danubian Princi palities. According to these statements the Cabinet of Constantinople has sent a circular despatch to the representatives of Turkey at the European Courts, wherein, in the name of the integrity of the Ottoman empire, it protests against the idea of a political union of Moldavia and Wallachia. Accounts from Antwerp mention a very singular circumstance. It appears that the greater portion of letters received by merchants of that port, from Calcutta, had been opened. A correspondent of the Independance Belge adds (or, probably, invents) that several passages in the letters were scratched out. Of course the authorities at Calcutta are suspected by the continental press of having tampered with the mail ; but this is impossibl , . It is highly necessary, however, that an inquiry should be made into the subject, as the fact of the letters having arrived open seems undoubted. The news from America by the Baltic does not add much to the particulars already published respecting the loss of the steamer Central America. The brig, which it was expected had saved the captain, and others, had arrived at Boston, but without any tidings of any of the missing, and there now seems an almost impossibility of more being saved than 102, leaving nearly 4-10 to hive met a watery grave. The Money panic at New Yurk had spread to Phila delphia, and two or three banks in the latter city had already suspended payment, and it was ex pected the whole of the monetary establishments there would follow the same course. The Govern ment were making every exertion to prevent the departure of any fillibustering expedition to Nica ragua. OUR OWN RESPONSIBILITIES. THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1857. [COMMUNICATED] WHEN we retire into our own closets to offer up our , prayers, it is rather on our private sins that we meditate than on those of others; and when we are called upon to consecrate a day to National humiliation we should rather think of our own individual and personal political shortcomings than on those of others, We are among those who believe, literally, that not a hair falls from our heads without the knowledge of our Father which is in Heaven, and who would fain see the finger of God in everything. We believe the " balance of power" and the " march of civilisation " to be of His inspiration and of His ordering. Not the peddling idea of the Balance of Power which connives at the partition of' Poland, the despotism of Austria, or tyranny at Naples, to carp at the French Rhine frontier, or the American occupation of Cuba, but the real laws of the Balance of Power, by which the Empire of Rome was overthrown, Napoleon sent to St. Helena, and America a free and independent nation. Not the march of civilisation of a Croat invasion of Constantinople. but that which has converted Australia into a cultivated midland county, and changed India from the battle-field of hostile Princes and rivalries of a hundred Pagan worships, into the happy contented Empire she:was supposed to be six months ago. While we firmly believe then that our occupation of India a hundred years• ago, and the steady and gradual spread of our power over the whole country was by God intended as part of a scheme by which the whole E tst was to be civilised and Christianised ; we also accept the chastise ment we have met with there, as direct from His hand as a punishment for our shortcomings, and as a warning to us to discharge our responsibilities more faithfully. That we have g,overn.2.d the Indian Empire better than any other European power could have done—that the Natives themselves are happier than under their former rulers—that we have stimulated the cultivation of that garden of Eden, and thereby benefitted all the world—we are sure, for had it not been so our rule would not have lasted a century ; but in the heat of conquest we have annexed province after province, which we had not the right, and hardly the excuse to take ; we have entrusted the care of these provinces to too small a body of Europeans ; we have cast aside the advice of the great Generals and Statesmen who have offered it from time to time ; we have not been jealous enough of our good name, and have allowed Native Tax-Collectors too great an authority, which in many instances they have terribly abused, as may be gathered from the " Blue Book " on Torture, published last session; in short, we have been too grasping in our policy, too ecpnomic in our Government, too self-confident in our power. and above all, too careless of the welfare of our subjects ; and the present outbreak is the lesson which will teach us to " look to these things." And in these remarks we would not impute all the blame to Governors and Rulers, and excent ourselves, the middle classes, from all share of the responsibility ; for the middle classes by their votes and by their influence on public opinion govern the cotiatry and order the policy of its Statesmen. The Reform Bill was virtually carried by the middle and even by the non-Elector class; the abolition of the Corn Laws was the work of a city, not larger nor more important than ours ; the " ministry of all the talents," backe.l by a large Parliamentary majority, and intinding the most statesmanlike and scholarly meu of the day, fell before the public oyision of lie middle classes, aroused by Crimean disasters. As is our power, so is our responsibility. A great French Statesman said, a few months before the mutiny broke out, that the remarkable thing was not the existence of our Indian Empire; but how little our statesman seemed to know about it, and how little our middle classes cared about it ; and he was right ! The middle classes of thi; country have not cared one straw about India; have never made themselves acquainted with the vast country whence so many of them draw their fortunes, and all of them procure half the luxuries of their homes. The very idea of India was a " bore " to them ; they would not listen to a speech on the subject from their representatives, and their members would hardly " make a House " when important measures connected with the welfare of 150 000,000 of English subjects were to be discussed. This indifference has ceased; we are willing enough to listen or to read now ; but we have not been roused from our apathy till the honour of our daughters had been violated, and our sons murdered. Nor is India the- only subject on which we have shown great indifference. In all the great interests of our nation we are too careless, and too self-confident. Blest with freedom, civil and religious beyond all other nations, we are not devoting ourselves, heart and soul, to the great duties to cur fellow subjects which devolve upon us. De.spotic Emperors issue edicts, which attempt to provide for the poor, educate the ignorant, and reform the criminal, and the responsibility of the middle classes in those countries is small indeed ; but in this happier land these movements spring from ourselves, and it is on us that the responsibility of poverty, ignorance, or crime devolves, as it is we who will suffer if we do not faithfully discharge it. Do we value our political power enough, and do we always give our voice and vote on all subjects from purely disinterested motives, and for what we, in our consciences, believe to be for the good of all ; or do we hardly care to defend our electoral privilege it attacked, or walk up to booth or hustings, if it be inconvenient at the moment ? Do we select the best man for the place, even if he he too honest to bribe, or too independent to cringe ? Are we prepared, if called upon, to step forward and take our share of the work, even if at some sacrifice of inclination or money ? or do we throw the responsibility on some one else if we can, and as long as society is agreeable and business lucrative, follow the example of GALLIO, and " care for none of these things." Meanwhile, is there no band of " Sepoys" at our very gates, brought up in every species of crime, which may one day turn upon us ? Is there no army of heathens in this very city, whom our sectarian differences prevent us from converting to an honest life and a future Heaven. Let us all, then, on this day which has been set apart by those in authority as a day of Humiliation and Prayer, think rather on our own omissions than on those of Ministers or Gover nors-General, meditate as to the political good each can do in his own sphere, however humble it may be, and pray that we may show no care less indifference to the happiness of our fellow subjects here or in India, and that Gcn will give us each grace,to do our duty in that state of life in which he has placed us, and to discharge aright our own responsibilities. RECRUITING. —" J . W. M." writes to the Times :—I was stand ng with URIC curiosity before a very taking plac aid, headed with 'he Queen's arms, and underneath the bold legend, 4' Britons, arise ! avenge your slaughteerd country men and countrywomen in the Els," (ell in bold capita's) ; then " l'he Indian Mutiny !" beneath which there was a very glowing account of the glorious life of the British soldier ia India, which, oa the whole, was not much exaggerated, for it merely stated that he was generally carried in a palenquin if inclispesed for marching, and that he had a servant to attend to him when in cart.p or cantonments, with a constant service of hot c ff,e, tea, and creature nourisnments when on duty, whin I observed two young men approach the wall on which it was placed, and began to read it. They were well-dressel, stou' young fellows, of the middle ranks, and very goad stuff far soldiers—at least they would have served willingly with Cut's or Lygon in the old da,s, and no disgrace to them. But aq they read they laughed, and Sergeant Twiggs, who was lying perdu in a little nook close by, and who popped out his mach be-rib aided head at th, sound of their footsteps in the quiet cloister-angle of the old cathedral yar ', at once began to grin sympatheti cally with them, and gave a narsoaie nod, which plaiely said, "Ah, you're too good for roe—you see through poor rviigee flummery," and then he poppe I i❑ agair. che young mea laughed heartily when they came to the end, and then went in to visit the cathedral. Now, why dil they lau - gh ? Because they knew the placard was a lie and its promises himbug, and that Twiggy, the moment they took the shilling, woad t laugh in their faces, and send them off to try their hot coff,e and paler - ruins and native servants at Brompton Barracks, cheek by Jowl with the general sweepings of society, which consitute a pr p , rtion of the rank aid file of our—is of all—soldiers. I watched on, and very soon came three lads of the bumpkin order—two hobbl.ltheys who would grow into fine stout five-nine men—one a sinewy 3 oungster the beau ideal of a light cavalry man, and evidently used to horses from the peculiar curve of his leg, and absence of calf to it. One of them read the placard for the others. Twiggs advanced hopeetil'y, his face radiant with smiles, a veritable Mars triurnphans. "Now, my lads," he began, but he was cut short by a horse laugh, " None of yer gammon of us, Mister Sergeant, don't you think we knows 'ow you served the Militiers ?" and so they departed. Now, what Sergeant Twiggs ever did to the,Militia I don't know, nor could he tell me, but it was evident that on the mind of these young men was engraved the permanent idea that Twiggs was a deceiver and a liar because he wore a red coat and wanted them to enlist, and because faith had somehow or other been hroken with some friends of theirs by him or his like. And this feeling is, I fear, very common. It has arisen greatly, I fear, from the false pretences under which many rec►uits are entrapped; but, above alt, I believe it is to be treed to the exaspera tion prcdnced in men's minds when they have enlisted by finding that their bounty is a mere myth, and that their pay is ab3orbed under a ll sorts cf forms and excuses. What would my friend Titmarsh's ♦ery elegant domestic have said, if the day after he had covenanted to shed round the said Titmarsh the glories of his presence, and to give him aid and succour in the affairs of his man sion, at £3O per annum, he was told, " Your livery cost e £2O, and I pay a guinea a year for the powder in your hair, and the beer costs me—?" Would not Jeames, ere he got thus far, have given him instant warning, and com menced pulling off his smallclothes instanter, ere the sen tence was finished, and have told all his friends Titmarsh was a scoundrel, and no gentleman. But John, his brother, who 'listed in consequence of the parish constable having something to say to him from the guardians, and who has made up his mind to do something very handsome for the poor thing out of his bounty, and to save 6i. a-day out of his pay for her—he can't give warn ing, he can't get away when he hears that all bounty and most of his pay are mere figments of the recruiting sergeant. Bat he, too, tells all his friends. Depend on it we must do away with the present system of obtaining soldiers under false pretences, and our excellent clergymen would do good service-if they promised, as no doubt they will be justified in doing on Humiliation Day, that the country will deal honourably and generously with those who come to her assistance in the hour of need. Let us not be deceived by the talk of 1,000 men recruited per week. Ask any officer of expe:ience how many of them he would take if he was not co elpelled ? `• Why," said a' old officer in command of a regiment to me the other day, out of 20 men I'm compelled to let into the regiment there are not five who will ever make soldier, fit to fight ; the old sort somehow or other are not to be bad." How many do you think of the Tipperary Militia, whose dis missal was attended with a riot, became the men. right or wr, ng, thought themselves badly treated when they were stripped of their clothes by the government, will go into the Line now ? And yet, if names affords an index of nativity, it is not the Scot but the Lishman who is fighting hardest, and getting most knocks, in India just at present. Emigration has dried up many a pr life stream which went to swell the twrent of our armies formerly in the Highlands and in Ireland, and I much fear that a similar effect will be produced in Wah s and Englaral. A most intelligent ironmastcr told me the other day at Wolverhampton that it was scarcely pessible to procure hands, because the able-bodied were emigrating —to escape what ?—the enrolment of the militia. At the bo tom of all this aversion to military service, I am satis fied there is not on'y the feeling that the profession of arms is rot " r expectable," but the persuasion that those who foll)w it have begun by being dupes, and then close it ingloriously by duping others. Keep faith with the lower classes as well as with the higher. Make the word '• sol dier" s)nonyrno :s with "armed citizen paid for his ser vices by the S:ate, with prospects of rank and money," and you will get abuedance of the youth of the middle classes to serve in the ranks, especially if there are regiments which get a name for being composed of that class. Let us make any sacr,fice, pay any millions, ere we resort to foreign mercenaries. THE LATE EARL FITZ WILLIAM, K.G.—The Right Hon. Charles William Wentworth -Fitzwilliam, third Earl Fitz villiam, Viscount Milton, of Norborough, county of Northampton, and Baron Fitzwilliam in the peerage of (he United Kingdom, and also fifth Earl Fitzwilliam and Viscount Milton in the peerage of Ireland, whose death was announced in our impression yesterday, was born in Grosvenor-square, London, May 4th, 1786 ; so that at his death he was in his 72nd year. He was the only son . of William, fourth Earl (some time Lord -Lieutenant of Ireland), by his first wife, the Lady Charlotte Ponsonby, a daughtor of the second Earl of Beasborough, and great gr ndson of Thomas, Maruis of Rockingham, whose title it was at one time rumoured was intended by Earl Gey for the deceased peer's father. The nobleman so recently deceased was educated at Trinity College, C.m bridge, and represented the county of York in the Lower House in seven successive parliaments, between the years 1807 and 1833, and succeeded to the Earldom on his father's death, February the Bch, 1333. In the House of Lords he was a staunch but not indiscriminating supporter of the liberal government, which, however, he occasionally opposed by both voice and vote, as on the debate stirred at the commencement of the present year relative to the China question, and the conduct of Sir John B owring in regard to the Arrow. In 1853 he was appinted a deputy lieutenant for Northamptonshire, and in 1336 received the royal license authorising him to adopt the surname of Wentworth before that cf Fitz eilliarn, as it had been previously used by his father, to mark. his descent from 'I homes, first Marquis of Rockingham, to which we have alluded above, his grandmother having been sister and co heir of Charles, the second and last Marquis. He w honoured with the blue riband of the Garter in 1851. Earl Fiezeilliim married in 1836 Mary, fourth daughter of Thomas, first Lord Dundas, and sister of the first Earl of Zetland, by whom, who died Ncvamber, 1, 1830, his lord ship had issue —first, William Charles, late Viscount Milton, who was born in 1812, and who died in 1835. having for a short time represented the Northern Division of Northamptonshire, without leaving male issue by his wife, Lady Selina Jenkinson, a daughter of the Eatl of Liverpool; second, William Thomas Seencer, the present Viscount Milton, who was born in 1815, and married in 1838 Lady Frances Douglas, eldest daughter of the 18th Earl of Morton, by whom he has a numerous family ; third, Ge age, M.P. for Peterborough, who has represented that borough since 1841 ; fourth, Charles William, who has sat fur Melton since 1852. He has also left four daughters, of whom one is Lady Mackenzie, of Scatwell' county Ross, and the youngest is the wife of the Right Hoe. It. Vernon Smith, M.P. The present E rl was M.P. for 11,1 ton from 1837 till 1841, and again from 1846 to 1847; he was (lected for Wicklow in the Parlia mont of 1847, and reelected in 1862 and in the present year. He was appointed Lieutenant Celonel commanding the West York Yeomanry Cavalry in 1815, a Doputy- Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1853 and Lord-Lieutenant of the Wsst Riding, on the death of the. Earl of Harewood, early in the present year. In 1565, Hugh Fitz vi liana, Eq , of Sprotburgh, in the co inty of York, collected the roc )rds of the ancient family of F•tz william, from which it appears that they t - ace their pedigree up to Sir William Fitz Allem, Ambassador at the Court of William, Duke of Normandy, who attended that p ince iu his invasion of England as Marshal of his ermy, and, for his va' oar at the battle of Hastings, was presented with a scarf from the arm of the C onqueror. His son married the heiress of Sprotburgh, which continued in the posseseion of the family in a direct line of succession down to tee reign of Henry VIII. In that reign we find his de cat. dent, Sir William Fitzwilliam, of Milton, North amptonshire, and of the city of London, serving as Sheriff of London in 1506, and subsequently al:ermen of Bread street Ward. He had been for some time in the retinue of Cardinal Wolsey, and, retiring to his house at Mil!oi. there gave his o 1 i mister a kind reception in the hour of his eisgrace. For thi; conduct he was rebuked by the King, but replied that he had not acted out of con tempt for his Highnes', but out of gratitude towards his kllen master. Satisfied and pleased with the answer, King Henry knighted him on the spot, and made him one of his Privy Council His grandson, Sir William FitzwiTam, was Lord Deputy and Lord Jus'ice of Ireland from 1560 •0 1594, and is thus no'iced by Fuller in his " Worthies of England" : —"Sir Willm was five times Lard Doputie of Ireland,—a sufficient evidence of his honesty and ability, Queen Elizabeth never trusting twice where she was once deceived in a Minister of State. And she also preserved him in the power of his place in that sending over Walter, Earl of Essex, to be Governor of Ulster, the Earl was ordered to take his commission from the Lord Deputy." The grandson of this Sir William was raised to the Irish peerage in 1620 as Baron Fi4william, of Liffori, county Donegal, and his successor, in 1716, was advanced to the earldom of that kingdom. The third earl of the Irish peerage who was made an E peer in 1712, and advapeed to the English earldom four years subsequently, WiB the grandfather of th 9 noble man whose decease it is now our painful duty to record in these columns. MUNICIPAL ELECTION. NUMBER OF MUNICIPAL ELICOTORS IN LIVERPOOL, The following statement, derived from an official source, gives the number of municipal electors in each of the sixteen wards in Liverpool, and will be useful, as well as interesting, at the present time : No. 1. Everton and litrkdale .. „ 2. Scotland „ 3. Vauxhall 44.4 „ 4. St. Paul's „ 5. Exchange „ 6. Castle-street ~ 7. St. Peter's „ 8. Pitt-street „ 9. Great George.. „ 10. Rodney-street 1,170 „ 11. Abereromby „ 12. Lime-street „ 13. St. Anne's „ 14. West Derby „ 15. North Toxteth „ 16. South Tosteth ... • . .15,256 AMUSEMENTS, &c. MR. AND MR% BARNEY WILLIAIR3 AT THE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—Mr. and Mrs. Burley Williams, who have been so successful at tha Theatre Royal, are this week delightirg large audiences at the Royal Amphitheatre. There will be no p3rformance this evening, on account of the fast appointed by proclamation, but the remainder of the week will affird opdortunities of seeing these clever performers, which those who appreciate such representations of national character sh)uld not lose. The national English Opera Company commenca their performances on Monday next, an 1 they will afford the public an oppor tunity of seeing the " Troy Itore." FREEMASiN'S HALL-lilt. E.WART's ENTERTAINMENT.-- A new aspirant for public favour appeared last night at the ::hove hall, in the person of 31% E vart, who, not to aptly, calls himself " professor," and certain, i❑ some po:- don of the entertainment, his professions fully entit'e him to the designation. The entertainment is a salmagundi of drama , ic, zoological, and ornothologistic representations, carried out by the human voice i❑ a style that, in a majority of instances, cannot be surpassed. His ventre loquial power is remarkably clear, and his rapid represen tation of various voices, his singing and imitative powers are amongst the first of such genius. After giving a variety of a musing sketches in these respects, he proceelstalegerdemaln, for the performance of which he has fine appa•atns and an attractive stage. His " tricks and stratagems," in some instances, are not quite so good as other " professors," but, on the whole, of that portion, he is clever and amusing. His forte, however, lies in the first part ef the performance ; and he must necessarily become a public favourite. Naturally he has a fine voice ; and although slightly tinged with the accent no-th of the Tweed, it is pleasing enough. His figure is faultless, and his face what the fair sex. would call "a very nice min." We would enter more into detail to-lay, but the prolonged hour to which he kept up the entertain meat precludes us. We may, however, sty as an entire piece, we were p'eased, and the p iblic will. no daub*, partake of our impression when visiting the Hall. The performance is however too long by half-an-hour— this can be remedied Con)ristes - Couar.—The Coroner held an inquest on the body of a female, name] Eliz tbeth Marshall, that was found in the canal nett. Lightbody-street. Tae only evidence was as to the finding of the body, and a verdict of " found drowned" was returned. CHARGE OF CHILD MURDER.—Yesterday, a female was taken to the Workhouse, in a very weak state. She hal given birth to a child, and, it is a'leged, she killed it im mediately after being b)rn. She is under charge of the police until she will be in a fit state to be removed before the magistrates. FALSE STATEMENT.—Mr. John Kirby, the sheriff's office, requests us to state that a man named Do wbell, woo was charged at the Police Calla, on Saturday, and who stated he was in Mr. Kirby's employment, is not in his employment, nor was he in any way employed or engaged by Mr. lii by. THE NEW BeILDING4 IN DALE AND TITIIEBARN ffTRIMTS. —These beautiful new buildings were p•ofusely decorated with flags yesterday, in honour of what is called the " rearing." Tacy looked vcry gay and attractive, and hundreds of people gazed at and admired the bunting, 'out could not tell what it was all about. DR. LIVINGSTON.—We have much pie:sure in an nouncing that this celebrated African traveller will be in Liverpool on Monday next, and will attend a public meeting, in the CAton Sale-room, on Tuesday, at which kis Worship the Mayor is expected to preside. We understand that a committee, consisting of the members of the African Associatian, are now engage :A in making :he accessary arrangements for the mietiog, of which public notice will be given in due time, PASSIMGERS per the United States Mail steamer Baltic, Captain C .mstuck, from New York to Liverpool.—Hon. Beverly Tucke-, Unite I States Consul to Liverpool, and lady, Mr. J .hn R. Tucker, Mr. Char'es E. Tucker, Mr. James E. Tucker, M-. Beverly D Tucker, Miss Margaret Tucker, Miss Annie M Tucker, Mr. J. D. Bailie, Mr. Bartholomew, Miss C. Backnell, Mr. B rusfield, Mr. 0. P. Brower, M A. 11. Bhun, Mr. Cuarhs vorth, Mr. N. T. Carryl, Mr. C swford, Mr. W. T. Cristall, Mr. D'Angeiis, Mr. Dabast, M , . Dunbar, Miss Catherine Fletcher, Mr. Wood Gibson, jun., Mrs. William Got.te and (laughter, Mrs. Hall, Mr. Hemingway, Mr. C. Howe, Mr. S. D. H-well, Mr. R. H. Ives, jun., Mr. George A. Jones, Mr. William Keifer, Mr. Laurent, Mr. Lee L ye, Mr. J. C. Lyon, Mr. Walter Manton and 14dy, Mr. J. B. Marie, Mr. John A. Marsh, gr. Fitzgeral I Nook, M. S. P. Patter son and friend, Mr, R B Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Ramage and two children, Master James and John R y, Mr. F. Renter, Shep tril, Mr. George Scott, Mr. A. Trevir, Mr. R. B. Tinker, Mr. C. Tweedle, Mr. T. Tweedle, Mrs. Walden,Miss Mary Waters, M. John L. White, Mr. J B. Win*, Miss Windla and servant, Mrs. M. A. Whitfield, and M. W. Wilson. Tim Ex aUEEN or OuDE.—We regret to hear un favoat able accounts of the health of this lady, who has, in obedience tithe advice of her me Heal advisers, been removed from Hirley-house to a more salubrious atmos phere in the neighbourhcol of London. The events of the last few m wtha are nnderstoo I to have so deeply effected the Q teen Mother of Olde as to render it probable that she may never be able to recover frow her aflction. We are sure that every British subject who possesses the common feelinaas of humanity and justice will nit fail to sympathise with one whose grief appears almost too great for her to bear.—Morning Star. THE MASSACRE AT CAW:4I'O3E. In the fearful list of victims to the a ndish malignity of Nene Sahib the name of "Go Ifrey He uthcote, Mrs. Itlathcote, and baby Heath cote," attracts the eye of a Chesterfield reader, and we regret to sly that they ate relit ives (though distant) of our respected magistrate of the same name. Mr. Ileathcote was of the brunch of the family settled in Not,ingham shire, and had been empl,•yed in India for the last ten years as a surgeon to a native regiment. This unfortunate gen tleman come to England on leave last summer, and then visited a family residing at Clues' erfield, accompanied by his wife; poor '• b:by Heathcote '' has been born since that pe , ioil.—Derbyshire Courier. Tan CHA.RkiE AGAINST Two DaAoo OFFICER 9. —ln our yesterday's imaression we reported the trial, at Marlborough-street Police Cour", of Lieutenant Barton and Cornet Fschakz, belonging to the 7th Dragoon Guards, for being drunk and violently assaulting two po'ica constables whilst in the execution of their duty. Mr. Bingham, after hearing the particulars of the charge, decided on sending the delinquents to the House of Correction for ten days. On hearing this sentence, both gentlemen said their regi ment were under orders fo , India; they, therefore, begged the magistrate not to Bead them to prison, as it would be their ruin. Mr. Bingham replied, that before he could alter his decision in the least he must cause enquiries to be made about them at the War-office. Just as the magis trate was leaving the court, Inspector Webb, who bad been despatched to make the nec:ssary inqairies at the Horse Guards, entered, and informed Mr. Bingham that he had seen th e D e p u ty Adju'ant General, who informed him that Lieutenant Burton was udder immediate orders for India, and it was necessary that he should join his regiment forthwith. Cornet Escbalez was not under orders at present. Mr. Bingham, under these circumstances, mitiga'ed the punishment to a fine of £5 each, which was at elm paid. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS' By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph• PRUSSIA. Emperor Empress ß The morrow for Warsaw, where they are exPectneio 111 r remain a fortnight. The King will a ce° them as far as Silesia. EofßEßluNss,:lo:avveildt'o,to DENMARK. ha r The government has suppressed a journa l f° r bets' in„ pronounced in favour of the Holstein eh°, the The Volsthing, has petitioned in favour a' t he abolition of the constitution of 1855, and f°r re establishment of the actual representations' FRANCE. The Paris Three Per Cents. closed Y e- s t (Tuesday) at 68f. 25a. FRANCE. wee stt 4B ',l PARIS, MONDAY M. Rouher, the Min'.ster of Commer oe 'tha dressed, on the 30th ult., the following Chamber of Commerce of Bordeaux, in an a s iog to the petition of the Bordeaux Pr -1 t merchants, the fito for protection to the French colonies in Indies : ~h 0 1 ! " Gentlemen,—ln your letter of the 1 4 "" d e'0' speak of the uneasiness which is felt by letter Over commercialhotises touching the safety of then bf establishments in India which are bout:00;00 English possessions. You observe that the inten'oes' of humanity and commerce are alike ill I tll° tion, and you express the conviction On 0! French government will find means to s°, l ; , - , 9' te 4 difficulties of detail to which the comp t a situation of the French possessions in 1 0 '1 for e give rise. I lost no time in laying your letter w e 06 the Minister of Marine, Admiral Hamel in ,' otil informed -me that on the 25th of this ' - i fised Governor Durand D'Ubraye bad been, autii ° A t ,t° by him to apply, whenever he should think,. f . ‘l o ' the commandant of the French station Into' China for a ship of war to be sent to Pondt e 9 and also, if necessary, to the Governor of t," f `l c io! of Reunion for troops. The Minister of .`" - ffilt his every reason to hope that these measnr e ditto suffite to maintain tranquillity in our c n for establishments. I beg you, gentlemen, to '" Wi ll your mercantile friends of this step. Th e { the see in it a fresh proof of the solicitude Of Emperor for the interests on behalf whi c : ft - '' have applied.—Receive, 5t.,!., 4 , E. 800ft.7,; , / The 1 3, 1trie observes upon the above l et " th e "French interests in India reduced noW perhaps impotent protection of England , t o ter case of need, find a direct and efficacious ,P: o cci s tion in the presence of the French flag and ." 40 i6 13 troops. Thus is accomplished a nevi P revision of the treaties of 1815." TURKEY. e ° r According to the continental correspood efi° the Independance Beige, the Ottoman Grove r ; ri v ili eP has issued a circular note to its Represenia ,. 'fr foreign Courts, protesting against the unio n ° 00 Danubian Principalities. It founds its argil t he upon the indisputable rights of the Porte ~,11 3, .1651 ) maintenance of the integrity of the - 11 , tt iti Empire. It appeals to the sentiments of e : of the Powers interested, and expresse"cat hope that its just request will be taken io rr t ° r sideration. It, at the same time, the • I n - eeft Government expresses its willingness to ' f - tir as regards the internal reorganization i t 0 1 1 Principalities, any reform compatible suzerain rights of the Sultan, and that the ides separation does not exclude that of an ass h°l-- in the government of the two provinces. • AUSTRIA. t VIENNA, (:)°o* ,, Yesterday evening it was generally rela te-,i-13 0°' that the Emperor of Austria would paY tp d visit to the King of Prussia, but tP",le'd: formation which you a few d a y s since re c t ,: t ie; from me relative to His Majesty's in te t- „ coll e „ j i proves to be c orrec t. Th e E mpe ror Jos' ph left Weim ar a t h a lf-p as t two I , l tt e ; morning of the t a d l us t , an d at a ( 1'4 1 ; after 10 he passed through Dresden on bislo. 4 Bohemia. As has a lre a dy b een sa id, his atl f ;P: will meet the Empress at Gmunden on the r, j. and accompany her across the lake to Isellvsl)°6 period of their Majesties' return to Vienn 4 6 , l re tv g yet fixed, but they will hardly quit Ischl to v 6 end of this mouth. The chamois are sat ve , very numerous this year, and are likely to g l o tilW i Emperor, who is passionately fond o f 0 0 0 0 1 plenty of occupation. Of the meeting betty,lo°,"; two Emperors at Weimar nothing more 1', 5 0 " than that they appeared to be on the best 13 , - 1 3 0 ' d ri terms, and were closeted together two or thre' d tir tt o Several letters written by inhabitants of Stottvbeei, their friends and relatives in this city 10° .a ell t9 read to me ; but they contain hardly all)", r ep o genee which is not te be found in the detaile'po' h of your special correspondent. The °oil tv h i l importance mentioned by the Stuttgarter s ?":l a slight Verstinimung (disionance) was ob s , - at Court after the arrival of the Erne gill Russia. , a to The principal topics of conversation in t ,- - 0 fr hr are the state of things in India, and ~,,t " ,- r s ; v it of the Austrian money-market. The oto e ," t iLl t i longing to the scientific branches of the r tha t 60 1 4 army take great interest in everything in India, and some of them sezmed grea t a lsr oelf pointed when they learned that General . O .."" Li - ntr!" had not succeeded in reaching LucknoW• .' t i o t '0 the military men who are on the spot 113 v 1)11 know what ought to be done, but it Era'ai s pf well to mention that several highly disti r l tlY i v Austrian officers have repeatedly express l e a of selves to the effect that the commanir tg - tea,o l troops before Delhi " ought to have iinti 3 "; - r isol'io example of General Haynau." When the g 4,1 11°1# Temesvar was reduced to extremiaes, 3 1; of t o ? imminent danger of falling into the haou'idrttieti Hungarians, Haynau suddenly quitted til e a 4r of Cumorn, which he was investing, an d µ+ i':" L ; '1 o 0 his army to the relief of Temesvar. n.)w," say the Austrians, " was in the salt i° .4d as Temesvar, and might have been s ti l t li coup de main, although nothing could, W ii ii„ t er, a small force, be undertaken against De's emit' the forfg dug you see that no hope is 1:1 1 , e tamed here that the gallant garrison of t`a at Lucknow will be able to hold out ti l3 ance arrives. SPAIN. 4 1 11 4 ' l s' --- The Madrid jpurnals of the Ist ar e P:j sf l 3 'ets speculations respecting the Ministe r l i ; The Epoca and the Novedacles say tba t '7,00 41 ` 1 al a has consented to have Count de Miras° l Captain-General of Cubl,in the room o f i - gs e° la Concha, but that her M.ijesty had riot 11°0,4, nomination. One of the papers says tur improbable that General Lersundi will V a l b u seat in the Cabinet, and that the Dahe ' 4 ry and h M. Pidal will reconstruct a new lgin; t o is",• ° ,o l t t e Espana declares that all the Ministe`oo9 j o t etand or fall together. An exteneiva e ; t' to ) of senators is spoken of, and fi:fogre9oil gentlemen spoken of belong the 14- 10f i iir r party. The Queen had appointed t he of Pidal to be President of the Madera,. o f g l # lo, and Political Sci ences , th e establish's:l°l'ocl 1 has 10 just been decreed. Her Majati,oiol) nominated 18 of the 36 members 0 ' - Academy is to consist. -Dre a ale Payil