The Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-28 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONI)tNT.) • PARTS, TuestitiYl NOV. 21; . _ I give you the following pitnegyrib; iti the Patric of yesterday evening; Oil the Gokreititilellt of Napoleon liit, Under thh title of "THE DtdittE_OV THE 24TH NOVEMBFP '! in lest than eight. years the F '"' has • : peror given to trance order, well-beiT-- reflects in v ' A and glory. And when one - 1 . - , • - ~. . ....at a state the country was when the great .ame of Napoleon was eliminated (,sortie) by ttaditio.n arid iitiittital sliffrage ; When .oiie reflects oii the uneasi est .gild diarbliy which 00' 0 0 in-the-interior; and on 0e discredit in which re were regarded from Without-- piw can searc,ely compfghenft 4 7 ;;esiiltei sti,itigiiitice,rit 'Jilt iz i r , 4 1 ( 3 ) e " t s a t te d m in s e a o st s o m n astonished space when of it t s i h m all ielate how the SoVereign who received France anar chical, discredited, and on the brink of a frightful ruin, and who has reconciled her with herself, has elevated her in the estimation of foreign powers, and has en riched her, has been able, in addition, to give her those Political guarantees, of which the Moniteur yesterday conveyed to us the intelligence. We might have said, a long time ago, by transforming a celebrated saying, " All parties promise liberty to rrance-- - -the Empire alone Will giye it to her." Former 11 - oire 'hid:Mils Bait stink under or bOinprOmisba liberty ; they were not siifficiently strong 6.6ls:hire it, nor ,spftl= biently strong. to defend it from its eiceSse'Ss. Their. attitude toward§ it. was. that of a pr i lsdri4 iii. itiesehbe of his keeper. The Empire alOtib ban banter liherty *Wl put,, elniigei, beealise it is not . now abused. The Riii l lAin alotte can render liberty fruitful, because under It there is no reason to fear that liberty will become tempestuous. It is by measures such as the present that tkrisb and prudent legislators are mognistd. The Emperor, in guarantees has' 1111 t Wilted till the country asked for the guarantees and liberties which he has accorded tolt ; he -ias anticipated the time and the desires for them. May the country prove more conscious of its confidence and of its strength ! France already enjoyed the greatest civil liberty and the greatest religious liberty ?) The reforms inaugu rated by the decree of the 24th of November, by asso iiating tl.O treat bodies of the State in a manner niore ireet with the general policy of the Government, do etter than prepare. for they almost completely realise political liberty. But let there be no mistake in the matter ; ,the regime Which is about to comnienbe is not a return to the re'gime condemned, by t*o ievoltitioAA, aliti • Which.unicatfily leans td the Aide Of anarchy ; i it is the' Parliamentary regime without its inconiemenCies and its dangers, or, in other words, it is the representative system in all its reality. • It would be easy for us to prove this by an diaiiiiiia-. tion of the decree in detail. Yeste'rda'y vi:e received it With a lily synipath; 77 to-day.*e are hi* lei aseer tap Ate fairpralita e thiesildil tfiat It iiaS predneed on fillfilindk l T6ii ttiotig its of the Emperor are quickly 11 ' 4601 'StOTI Id Prance, and the same pc&pie who last Jitr nailed with so mach enthusiasm the victories won on the.field of battle, are now welcoming, with no less rejoicing, a brilliant triumph of peacet ß , . , , ~ In itydettiot!, o 1 s yegtiercliik I mentioned that iiloat o thn papers had spoken favourably of the new constitutional arrangements and modifica tions. There are, of course, exceptions, and I • give you some of theni. The Gazette de France, the Union, and the Monde, the legitimitist and ultramontane organs which are still allowed to• flourish it. None or these journals can find" any , thing in the ineantifile to justify the leatt testi nicql,T OfOtisfaitiOn On their part with the decree." • The bazeiie.de France is rather embarrassed, as might be expected, how to treat the reforms, to judge from the following sentence :—" If the truth must be .Spoken, as regards the modifica 7 lions de'eree4; l *e do ha it.iii 4tittb fioillPieliend lie Bearing that they are capable of having.'!;, he Utilon gives the entire text of the decrees, mad an analysis of them, which occupies two Columns ; but there is not a word in the latter Which indicates the real sentiments of that paper on the subject : and the Mende contents_ itself With noticing the subject in three lines, which are as follows :—" A decree of the Moniteur estab lishes some modifications in the powers of corps legislatff, and• in some divers ministerial depart ments." The Atni de la _Religion, on the other hand,. is an exception to these exceptions, and expresses a very candid approval of the changes: As *as generally expected; the news or the tlecreb *Ets 'received with the liveliest satisfaction icio: the Bourse. The greater proportion of trans actions that took place yesterday in Rentes was effected at 70f. .60c., a very considerable rise. Railway shares were also on the ' whole very satisfactory. LATEST NEWS. (BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) OFFICIAL DESPATCHES FROM SIR HOPE GRANT., A supplement to the London Gazette contains the despatches from Lieutenant-General Sir Hope. Grant, commanding the forces in China, and from Colonel Saint George Foley, British Military Commissioner at the head quarters of the French army in China, dated 20th and 22nd September, describing the operations up to the latter date. Sir Hope Grant, writing on 20th September from. Chang-tsia-wah, states—On 13th he halted at Hooseizoo, forty miles from Tien-tsin, for Messrs. Parkes and Wade, who returned on 15th, having made arrangements with the Chinese Commissioners, by which it was agreed that the allied forces should halt at Chang-tsia-wah, five oiiles short of Tang-chow, to which place the Ambassadors should advance with an escort to sign the convention. To prevent a collision it Was settled that the Chinese army, should fall back - . On arriving on the 18th, however, at the Proposed camping ground, it was found occupied by a large Chinese army. and flanked by well armed batteries. Mr. Parkes started back to Tang-chow. Colonel Walker and Deputy Dragoon Guards and one Sowar, to receive Mr. Assistant Commissary General Thompson re loatned on the ground, with four men of the King's Parkes' return. Mr. De Norman and Mr. Boulby had accompanied Mr. Parkes to Tang-chow, and remained there with Lieutenant Anderson. Mr. Loch and Captain Brabazon started under a flag of truce with orders for Mr. Parkes and the Whole party to return to head-quarters. Meanwhile, the Chinese cavalry advanced in' great-numbers and their infantry poured down on our right front. Sir Hope was extremely anxious not to engage, for fear of compromising onr officers who were in their lines. Suddenly a commotion appeared in the enemy's line ; they opened fire in their centre, and Colonel Walker's Party dashed out of the midst of their ranks. Colonel Walker reported that whilst waiting for Mr. Parkes a French officer joined him, who was suddenly cut down, and on his riding up to prevent his being murdered his own sword was snatched, and some men tried to throw him. Seeing that it was a deliberate attempt to assas sinate the whole of them, Col. Walker galloped out with his party, under fire of the Chinese line, Mr. Thompson receiving a spear thrust in his back. It was now useless to wait longer, and the attack was immediately formed. General de Montauban advanced . to turn their left. The attack commenced simultaneously on all points, and it was now apparent that the Chinese had Prepared a very treacherous reception' for our forces. An entrenchment skilfully concealed extended on our right and left for several miles, and with numerous guns. The enormous extent of 'country covered by the enemy, who showed more than 20,000 men, did not permit Sir Hope to use his force with such good effect as he might have done. The attack of the allies was success ful. The loss of the' enemy was estimated at 600 killed, whilst 75 guns fell into the hands of the allies. Sir Hope Grant, writing on the 22nd Sept., from head-quarters, near Tang-chow, describes the successful advance of the allies in greater strength on the 21st. The Armstrong • guns served admirably. Several Chinese camps were burned, and the Chinese army retired. into Pekin. Forty-three 'guns were taken in this action, and the loss of the Chinese was very severe. Our loss was two killed, and twenty-nine wounded, chiefly slightly. Our loss on the 18th was seven teen wounded, two since dead, and one missing. The prefect' at Tang-chow denied all knowledge of Mr. Wade's party, but a Chinaman afterwards brought in stated that he had heard that after the fight upwards of twenty foreigners went into Pekin. This, if true, would give every reason for their ultimate safety. Col. St. George Foley reports the complete success in both actions of the Allies. The French loss was comparatively small. They captured forty guns. Col. Foley says there is every reason to believe that Mr. Parkes and party had been sent by Sangkolinsin prisoners to Pekiu. FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 27. The Emperor is on the point of leaving for Compiegne. The Emperor will stay at Compiegne for a week. Mr. John Bright, M.P., has arrived in Paris. A Lyons journal explains that the object of the proposed measure relative to the reserve of the army, is to allow of a considerable reduction of the army in time of peace, while it can be largely increased in case of war. THE FRENCH FUNDS. PARIS, Nov. 27, 3.20 p.m. The Bourse has been slightly agitated, and Funds have declined. Rentes closed flat, at 70f. 25c., or 35c. lower than yesterday. ITALY• MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN ROME. —THE POPE AND FRANCIS 11. ROME, Nov. 24. The majority of the cardinals are said to be Opposed to the policy of Cardinal Antonelli. It is also asserted that dissension etiStg Between Cardinal Antonelli and - M.:;t1.6 Meto . cle. 'lt is thti ConVietion here that the Pope Will remain for sortie time Without tbmporal gov,eintkient'..` . • . • • :• -1 , • , • Gaeta. All Tia,c withdrawn to Rome. The Pope, dissatisfied, vv his Nuno;- icn the departtre'of irom Gaeta, will send another repre sentative to that place. Should King Francis 11. :leave Gaeta he is expected to go to Rome. ". • • • The former Franco-Belgian battalion complains against M. de Merode. . • 11.6-Sik (44 Marseilles); XoV. 24;. • Sardinian custoin-houses will ~tie established roundthe Ist Piiber. Although tile..diities will be light; a. kep.eral rise haS taken place in prices of merchandise. Two French regiments are preparing to depart., but it is said that others will come to replace them. . VICTOR EMMANUEL AND THE ROMAN QUESTION. The Archbishop of Salerno and his clergy having waited on Victor Emmanuel with an address, the king said ; in reply, he trusted the itornan question*mild be arrani.ged sd as to safely guard the real interest of fennel': . . . NAPLES. ADDRESS TO VICTOR EM4ANUEt. The depUtation !las presented the address from the. Sardinian Parliament to the . His Majesty keeeii•ed ivith gatisill6tion the bifpreasion of the national sentiment. • WITHDRAWAL OF FRANCIS 11. TO, ROME. NAPLES, Nov. 27. The rumour that Francis 11. has fled from Gaeta is widely circulated. The - Nord points out that the withdrawal of Francis 11. to Rome will transform the Eternal City into a grand centre of reactionary and cle rical prpagandism, tinder the apparent shelter of the Preneh flag, INDIA, The Mildbm dazettd of October Nth contains an order abolishing three regiments or Madras light Catalry; and redticiiig the strength of fifty two native infantry regiments to 600 rank and file each: The sating -will amount to htlo l Cloo a Yeivi% SHIP, ON FIRE AT SEA.. The Limerick Company's steamship Mangertori, which arrived. at PlYmouth yesterday morning, reports that a barque .was seen on fire. on SaturL day evening fifty miles sotith-east of Npe Clear. A full,-,riglod ship was ticai.. The Mapgerton etit a boat; but the boisterous weather pre vented communication. The barque is supposed to have been bound - for Port Philip. GAZETTE NEWS. The. Army : Major-General Tho Mas Morten to be Colonel 6th Dragoons ; Major-General Allen M'Lean to be Colonel 13th Light DragoonS; Major-General , Beckwith to be Colonel 14th Light Dragoons. DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS. The appointment of Lord Bloomfield to be Envoy Extraordinary arid. IVliniAer Plenipoten tiary to the Emperor of Austria is ga2etted. Lord. Loftus is transferred. froth "Vienna, and, appointed Envoy Eitraorditiary and." MiniStei to the Prussia: The following appeared in our later editions of yesterday : FRANCE. • PARIS, Nov. 27. THE NEW FRENCH MINISTRY. The Moniteur contains the following appoint :nents :—Count Persigny, as . Minister of the In terior; M. Billault, as Minister, without portfolio; M. Forcade Loroquette, as - Minister of Finance ; M. Magne, as Minister, without portfolio ; and M. Benedetti, as Councillor of ; State , for extraor-, dinary service, ARMIES IN, CHINA. CAPTURE' OF THE ENGLISH PRISONERS. The .advices by the overland mail from Hong Kong are to Oct. 13. The English mails of Aug. 26 arrived out Oct. 9. Details, are given of the capture -of Mr. Parkes, and several Englishmen, by the Chinese. They were well treated. It was previously known that the demand of the Chinese commissioners at Tien-Tsin for further delay was met by an order for-the advance of the Allies. The townrupon, the march were found to be in, great part deserted, and supplies had to be taken by force. On the morning of the 18th September it was found that the army was surrounded by Tartar troops. An engagement immediately took place, which caused the Tartars to retire with some loss. A second engagement took place on September 21, when about twenty-five of our force and several hundreds of the enemy were placed hors de combat. The next day a flag of truce was sent in from Pekin, and proposals were made to re-open negotiations. On the followinc day suplies were sent in by the Chinese for the use of the allied army. The latest news is to September 27 or 28, when the allied army was still in position seven or eight miles from Pekin, and two or three from Tung-Chan. THE' I ASERICAN EXCHANGES AND TH'E LONDON MONEY MARKET. The Times, after noticing that the fall in the funds yesterday, was caused by mercantile telegrams from New )Cork, quoting the rates of exchange for, bankers' bills on London at 1061—a decline of per, cent. since the previous advices,—it attributes this alteration solely to the agitation for- disunion having caused a great amount of Southern bills to be suddenly thrown on the New York money market, for which gold has been taken; thus causing a sharp pressure for money. The New York bankers would buy these bills to any amount at low terms, but to obtain the funds they would have to sell their own draughts on England, and to submit to a considerable sacrifice in the rate. The effect of such operations can be but temporary, and should cause no uneasiness. THE ROAD MURDER INQUIRY. The motion was made so late in this term that cause cannot be shown against the rule nisi until Hilary Term, which does not commence before the 11th of next January ; and the new inquiry, if eventually ordered to issue, cannot come off before February. DEATH OF THE DUKE OF NORFOLK. This event occurred on Sunday. The Duke had just completed his 45th year. His eldest son will complete his thirteenth year next month. It was out of a bequest to a younger son that arose the costly suit known as the great Shrewsbury case. His grace once sat for Limerick. He seldom addressed either • House except on topics affecting the interests of the Roman Catholics, .when his moderation and courtesy always commanded respect. MAIL NEWS. The India and China letters by the Overland Mail were 'despatched to the provinces this morning by the earliest trains. The mails for India, China, and Australia will remain open till 'this evening to allow replies to the letters which will be delivered in London this morning. , SOUTH AMERICA. Advices by the French mail state that the adhesion of Buenos Ayres to the Confederation had been finally and officially settled, and that the modification in the Constitution had been agreed to with only one dissentient voice. EARLY CLOSING. TO THE EDITORS OF. THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY., Liverpool Early Closing Association, 7, •Heathfield-street, 24th November, 1860. Gentlemen,---I have just, received the folloWing letter; wi ll, you kindly insert .it in your paper.? .In the hope that others may go and do likewise, I remain yours truly, • CHARLES BREWER, Sec. TO - TILE' SECRETARY OF TILE EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION. The Butter Place, Liverpool, Nov. 21, 1860. Sir,---Enclosed we , beg to hand a guinea towards your funds. We owe a great deal to the p ro moters of early closing. At ore time we did not c l ose before ten ; w 0 were then "unknown, unfriendad, melancholy, s l o w!" Th e early closers persuaded us to try nine . ; we did so, and our t ra de doubled That enlightened us considerably; so we then tried eight, and to . our great surprii6 the trade increased as before ! I This was rather more than we could properly attend to ; but. as an experiment, we tried seven. Strange to say, another jump in the trade was the cons2quenee ; hence the rep en t extens i ons. Who shall say now that we arc either " unknown" or " slow 1" We may thank certain gentlemen for all this; and hereby express gratitude accordingly, not only for the above-men tioned pleasing results, but for the many leisure hours and other, benefits more tangible arising therefrom. - (How could any'person write an advertisement after ten p.tn. ?) • , We now have it in contemplation to close at six, but must our pres, at r esources .-- power, judgin g by past p not do so until we complete the erection of our little fixtures for x cutting ng wouldbutter by steam overwhelm With best compliments , a nd man y than ks for your good experience the e d r fol s d h i advices,'Nve remain, dear sir, yours, as usual,' EDWARD KELLY & C 0.,. Usually styled KELLY THE BUTTERMAN. LEBANON.—UnIess it be in the spring of the year, when the hills of Syria are dressed in abundant verdure, and the green is variegated with thousands of flowerinc, heather ; when the broad plains of Ccelo-Syria, of, E:_ draelon, and of the Maritime, are positively glittering in the morning light, like waving seas of gold,—unless at such period, nothing can be more Wearying to the' eye ' than the general aspect of the country, stretching-from the Dead Sea northward to Tripoli. In one portion of the Lebanon, particularly in that which lies between Beyrout and the Cedars, the land is thickly covered with bould ersfo f a d ar k and generally c onsists -or a nd in many plac es vitrified, character; but the country un ending and ex h aus ti ng hill s and mounds of dreary barren limestone. Timber is a thing positively unknown, except among the solitary trees of the few remaining cedars occupying one little plot upon the summits of , Lebanon ; or in that happy valley w hich , the Barada (the Abana and Pharp ar o f ancient S i riptures) cleaves for it s elf amongst the f as t nesses o f Auri-Lebanon, bursting rock madly over and c rag , an d d r i v ing onward furiously .until it . makes its way into the plain of Damascus. Wherever those "waters of Damascus" rush along, there is timber and shrub, plant, flower, verdure,, rich ness Except i n some ver y r are exceptions , asa and len at Baas, tty. the ancient Cwsarea4Thilippi, places -are the only ones wherein "timber " the above .' is to be found; and throughout the rest of the land the eye meets with nothing but olive, mulberry, vine, walnut, and fig trees. These are in abundance, but they give no effect of foliag?, and are consequently most unsatisfying to the eye, which thirsts for shadow and for something green. It was well . in ancient days to describe this as a land of corn, wine, and oil. Such it was ; and despite Turkish misrule, Druse and Maronite animosity, such it still is. But these are very poor and unsatisfactoty elements in the picturesque.—.4ev. T. C. M. Bellew, itt 4i T e mple Bar," No. I. OF LIVERPOOL, Owing to the total absence of ordinary , accommodation for tkic.orn perhaK,',oriej of-the moit neglected Seap s brt6,l3y the pr9fier ,atitliontio; re spect, of any rii the rtiiiigd6tti; *hal are generally berthed where there is neither shed nor coVer i".. f2f any descriiltion. The owners or consignees of the d l -fazes and short sack stands. tn. . corn send long stag( (te lat... being shaped like agnifled hour glasses, from which the most miserable looking of all human beings, called corn-porters, run, by relays; with sacks upon their backs, from one stand to another, in the most primitive manner, until the last man reaches the place of deposit,—a ware hotise, Compare this rtiode of doing business *ith that of the ThaiiieS or Humber; *here . the vessels unload their cargoes direct into the granarles, at a eonipatatiVely trifling elpense! . 'No.extensive branch of Orntnetee in this great seaport is carried on in so loOsO h Manner; and it• so went an expense, as the cora trade. The charges fot pbiterage, turning, and cartage, are greater, on an average, than at any other seaport in the kingdom, London excepted.— " Commerce of Liverpool," by Braithwaite Poole. 1854. MR,,AND MRS. GERMAN REED'S ENTER TAINMW AT ST: GEORGE'S-HALL THIS DAT: Nt6 ieg to Call the attention of riff reaq6l':3i tAtT dt this season of Vie year are naturally disinclined to ven ture out at id the Chit Mr aiid Reed and John Parry give their initnitable entOtan.. - • ---,non, in the beautiful small conceri-roof; merit tins arty.— at St. George's-hall. Pew entertainut6r.ts nrc more deserving of encouragement than the one in question ; and we, therefore, naturally expect to sce the room crowded, as it was on previous and similar occasions, by a utinicrotis auclienceJ SELECT VESTRY. . A meeting of this - vestry was held yesterday in the board-reom of the Workhouse, the Rev. Rector Camp bell in the chair: The following tienibcts of the Vestry . Are also preEbnt:-z:Mes§rd. Cctipper tieek, Critchley, CkVen, Secitt; Shaw, &rite!), 'Atkin; Light: hound,4nes, Goodaere, Syred, Collins, Cooks and Litff. . . . The minutes of the proceedings of the last n'ieeting 'were read grid iigned: • „ • In moving . the teiktriatiOn,,Pt. the minutes of the prcieeedings Of One of the htinimittees; ,‘.! Mr. CROPPER remarked, that it Nvp desirable that any suggestion made by the Lunacy Commission in their report, should be carried out by the vestry. He believed the cost of doing so would only involve an outlay of a few pounds. Mr. DENTON thought, however, that it would take more than a few pounds to carry out those suggestions. The proceedin g s of the Industrial Schools Committee having been read, Mr. BAte...sv* in moving their confirmation, said that it had been remarked that the schools at present had but a poor attendance of children. He belieted that the reason of this falling off in the number Of Children attending the suhdol, should be partly attributed to the tad that their parents were leaving the hotiSei and taking, their children With them. HesUggested that if it Were the pleasure df the Work house Committee; it would lie desirable to hate the children of the pont who receive oilt , doot relief admit tedito the stiliddl. Mr.. Lvii remarked; that at the opening of the schools this prindiple, as suggested by the previous speaker, had been adopted by the vestry, and Was found to give rise to considerable abused.. Mr. CaotiEn said he Was obliged to rise to move a resolution for the cdnsideration df the board, with resppci to the adinissidii Of Children having parents receiving parochial relief to. the Inthistrial School i— t.. Notice to rescind all resellutions of the bard which limit admission to the Indlistrial schools to appear, or to such children as have parents in the workhouse, the object being to open the schools to the admission of children who have parents in receipt of parochial relief." He gave that notice of motion for the next meeting of the vestry, and he also stated that if these children were admitted into the schools he would move that the parochial relief of the parents be stopped. At the next Meeting he would give his reasons more fully for taking this course. Mr. DENTON said before that motion was submitted to the meeting, he would wish to have a legal opinion On the subject,' Whether they could adopt such a princi.; ple i as the question embraced a very comprehensive scale: Y v Mr. ',CltotTErt said he merely gave notice of the mo tion, aiid it could be dis Cussed in all its bearings 'at the nett Meeting. - Mr. DENTON asked if .any conimunication had been received. from Mr. Whiteman: Mr. CROPPER amid much laughter; replied that be had spoken to dr. Whiteman last week and received the usual answer from him. Mr. BAIRSTOW remarked that Mr. Whiteman ought really to say that he would furniSh the articles or not. Mr. CROPPER-But he says that he will furnish them. ;(Laughter). He said they would be ready in a fort night. The meeting then separated. - BANKRL PTCY COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner PERRY.) In Re W. M. TowNsoN.—This bankrupt, a licensed victualler in Christian-street, came up yesterday on application for, his certificate, supported by Mr. Evans. Mr. Bartlett, for the assignees, assented to the applica tion, and the bankrupt was awarded an immediate certi ficate of the second class. In Re SAMUEL EAso:sr.—This was also an application for certificate by the' bankrupt, described as a coal mer chant, carrying on business in Liverpool. Mr. Burnie, counsel, instructed by Mr. John Radcliffe, appeared for the assignee's; Mr. Deighton, instructed by Messrs. Evans and Sandys, for the bankrupt; and Mr. henry Jenkins for Messrs. Wright and Mercer; oprosing creditors. The bankrupt, on examination by Mr. Burnie, stated that he had been unfortunate before in 1854, and that he com menced-business in 1856 with a capithl of that his transactions with his largest creditor, Mr. David Jones, commenced in the latter end of 1859, and terminated. in March last. He was further ermined with refer ence to his dealings with -Mr. Jones, also as to his personal expenditure. Mr. Jenkins then addressed the court on the part of Messrs. Wright and Mercer in opposition, and contended that the bankrupt was not entitled to a certificate, as the examinations on the file showed that he had carried on a most specu lative business without capital and without being aware during the last three years whether it was at a profit or loss, 'lnd that there was now no prospect of dividend to the creditors. Mr. Deighton, for the bankrupt, thought these objections should have been urged .by the assignees, as they were not personal grounds of complaint' by Messrs. Wright and Mercer, who might - if they chose have examined the bankrupt list the way their debt had been contracted if they had ground of complaint. - With regard to the "debt of Mr. Jones, the assignee, it was contracted at his own solici tation, and letters were on the file so late as June last to that effect. The. charge of excessive expenditure could hardly be sustained, as the bankrupt appeared to have only allowed himself £5OO a-year ; and as to capital, a commission bdsiness required no capital, arid that when he entered into coal speculation, in 1859, he had a balance in his favour of profit in the commission business. . No fraud had' beew suggested; he therefore hoped that it would not be considered a case for refusal of certificate. His -Honour said the certificate ought to be, suspended ; indeed that was admitted by the learned counsel, but he did not think it a case for refusal, as no fraud had been proved ; ,but there bad been excessive speculation, and for that' reason he should. suspend the certificate' for eighteen months with protection, the cer tificate to be of the second class. LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY. (Before Mr. RAFFLES.) CAPTURE OF TWO WELSH BURGLARS. Owen Jones alias P r it c h ar d, a desperate looking m( a ruffian,ar sclerkd e and n i o n n j t t l a h : e e f s ol G l detective o r w e e i n ng , wereoehffi act. office), o . u a g um l t r u. detective up by Black l 1 l a r 1 . vJeoani officer. es e d , for the prisoners. Mr. Jones said at half-past three yesterday, I received information that two men were in a house in Hatton-garden, looking for skeleton keys, and that they were suspicious persons. I went there along with officer Marsd en , a n d saw the prisoners in the back - part of Mr. Challoner's shop. I asked them what they wanted with the screws ? (the slang name for skeleton keys), and they could net tell. I asked them where they came from?, They refused to tell; and then Gteen took off a scarf he had on and tore it up. We then arrested them as suspicious persons. Inspector Horn said, when the prisoners were brought to the station they were searched, 'and about £22 or £23 got on them. We got, amongst other things, a piece of paper on Pritchard, on which were the names of Mr. Springman, Grove-park, Lodge-lane, and. Miss Ross, Cherry Cottage, Lodge-lane, and we sus pected the prisoners had "set" these houses to rob them. Your worship wall - war evidence on that point. On looking over the books and Police Gazette, we find, that Pritchard is " wanted" in Wales, for having commit ted several burglaries and robber i es there and in England. There is a full description of him here, and it appears that he has broken out of Ruthin gaol. Mr. Bluck : That has nothing to do with him at present. Officer Marsden said: I arrested Pritchard, and found a glazier's diamond and a knife on him, and £6 3s. in money. I also got this paper with two addresses in Lodge-lane on it. I went to the house of Mr. Spring man, Lodge-lane, and asked for a Miss Pritchard, and found there 'was such a person there as cook. I asked her if she knew a man named Jones? and she got into a great flutter, and was confused. I told her not to deny it,' and asked her if any one had been to see her lately ? and she then said two men had been to see her, and that one of them (the prisoner Pritchard) was her brother, but she did not wish him to come there any more. Mr. Black objected to this evidence, as it had nothing to do with the prisoner. Mr. Horn repeated that the prisoner was wanted on two or three charges, and he was described as being in company with an Irishman. Mr. Black again objected, and asked his worship to discharge him. Mr. Raffles said there was not the least chance of his doing that. Mr. Challoner, of Hatton-garden, said, the prisoners called at my shop, and asked for some screws. What sort of screws ? said. I, and they pointed at some skeleton keys. I suspected all was not right, and said I was making some, and if they came back at half past three, I would have some ready. I then sent for the officers, and when the prisoners came back, I showed them into the back, and kept them till the officers came to take them into custody. Mr. Raffles : You acted very pro perly. Marsden said he got a quantity of new silk handkerchiefs, on the prisoners. Mr. Raffles : Let them be remanded for seven days. AN ORDER FOR PROTECTION. Mr. Gray, on behalf of a delicate and innocent -looking young woman, named Jane Stanton, applied to his wor ship for an order of protection from her husband, George Stanton, a clerk to the Belfast Steam-boat Company. Mr, Gray, after stating the case called the applicant , and she said : Th ree y ears ago I lived in Doncaster street, and one morning I was confined, when my husband left the house and did not leave a particle of food or anything else for me. He never lived with me since, although he called for some nights after, but never spoke to me since, nor gave me any support. lam living with my father, who supports me and my child. I went to Bow-lane, where he lives with a woman who calls herself Stanfield, and she told me she was his wife. He was in her bedroom, and was pulled from under the bed by two policemen. Mr. Raffles : Did he give you any support for the three years ? None whatever, sir •I am living with my father, who supports me. She then went on to relate some horrible things, when his worship said that will do ; take the order. Order granted. BACHELORS' BALL, LAST EVENING.--AbOUt eighty persons were present last evening at the Bachelors' Ball, in the Royal Assembly-rooms, Great George-street. Mr. Oakes, of Lord-street, supplied refreshments. Squire Greenwood's quadrille band was in attendance. Dancing was commenced at nine o'clock, and the company kept it up in a spirited manner until the small hours of morning. The rooms were decorated pleasingly, and all the arrangements most admirably carried out. THE DAILY TIMES, WtIiXEMjAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1860. A MAN slim' kr A hot On Saturday lag; an inquest was held at the Flouch tun, near 411 the, body , of a respectable labouripg man;,naMqd ,John A.shtOn, Was Shot on Thursday iati by a boy named TOM William lYeeiOr,s, at Swindon Lodge, a shootini r tO Lionel Pilkington. From the evidence it aPlJeared that Mr. Beevors, the father of the lad, is head keeper to Sir L. Pilkington, and is also an innkeeper at Langsett, and generally has some one sleeping in the lodge. On Thursday night, his two eons went to the lodge Or the night s the father intending to follow on the inn shutting up. The deceased ; who was In the employ iof n Bee+Ors i had teen Visiting his family at 4 distance for goiriedayg; and airibing in the e+ening at the inn , it Was arranged that he should sleeps at gviindon Lodge tliat night. In company ,with his bidthei,-in-faii, d iflaft named Bra 17, he started for that place, the two separat-,, ing asliOtit 00 or ioV yards. distance from it, Abont 20 minutes after he bad lef 4 :, Hind, Bradley ; whilst sitting in his house, heard the report of a pin, bit ilionghtnothing of the circumstance, it not being unusual. Abouthaif-past twelve he was called up, and on going to the lodge at Swin don, found Ashton lying dead in the passage leading to the kitchen. Mr. Beevors stated that about half-past ten on Thursday night, he was called up by his wife, who said the the two lads had come from the lodge and said that some one was breaking into it. He took up a gun and went to the lodge, where his younger son Benjamin pointed out the back door as the place where the " do" had taken place. On going outside the door, be found deceased on the ground, quite dead, with one knee drawn under him, and his arms outstretched, The youngest lad stated that his brother and himself were engaged in the house, when they heard some one whistle two or three times at the hack of the house, and afterwards a voice saying, " do for you young chaps now." His brother then got a double , barrelled gun out of the clip board, found it was loaded, and got two caps and put them on, He then told witness to open the door lead ing to the passage, ,which he did. His brother then fired the gfin, and they afterwards went clown to the inn.--:-Mr. Ward, surgeon, of Penstone, liming stated that the injuries inflicted by the gun were the cause of death, which must haie been instantaneous, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Tom William Beevors, and he was committed to take his trial at the next York assizes. The lad being only fourteen years of age, substantial bail was accepted for his appearance. THE LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP ARCTIC. RESULT OF THE INQUIRY, At the Hull Police-court, on Monday, T. H. Travis, Esq., stipendiary magistrate, announced that he had received a letter from the Board of Trade, in answer to the report which he had forwarded in respect to the loss of the steamship Arctic, and he read the following eitract :--" Sir, —My lards have intimated to their soli citor that they approve of the course he adopted in applying to yoti for Costs. As regards the master of the Arctic, I am to inform you that my lords have suspended his certificate of competency for six months ; and as regards the Meritorious services rendered to the survivors, my lords direct me to inform you that they have already given £5O as a gratuity to the widow of Mr. Earle, who lost his life in an attempt to save the shipwrecked passengers and crew; and they have also given gratuities to the men who manned the Danish lifeboat. They are also about to suggest to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs that medals should also be given by her Majesty's Government to these latter. (Signed) T. H. FARRER." —Mr. Travis said that be appealed as strongly as he could in his report on behalf of the widow of Mr. Earle. DEATH OF THE DUKE OF NORFOLK. We have to announce that the recent illness of the Duke of Norkfolk has at last, as was anticipated for some weeks previously, had a fatal termination, and that his Grace died on Sunday at Arundal astle, whither he had been removed from his villa at Little hampton shortly before his death, after having received the last rites and sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, of which he was through life a firm and devoted . adherent. The Duke had been ailing for some months past, but the immediate cause of his dissolution was an enlargement of the liver, under which he sank, as we have said above. The Duke had just completed the 45th year of his age, and his Duchess and other members of the esJuity were present at his dissolution. The deceased Peer, the Most Noble Henry Granville Fitz-Alan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk, Premier Duke and Earl in the Peerage of England, Earl of Arundel, Surrey, and Norfolk, and Baron Fitz-Alan, Chin, Oswaldestre, and Maltravers, Hereditary Earl- Marshal and Chief Butler of England, was the eldest son of Henry Charles, 13th Duke of Norfolk, K.G., by the Lady Charlotte Leveson-Gower, eldest daughter of George Granville, Marquis of Stafford, who was even tually raised in 1833 to the Dukedom of Sutherland, and died the same yeaT. He was born in Great Stanhope street, London, on the 7th of November, 1815. Although a Roman Catholic by profession, he was sent to Eton, and passed thence to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he completed his education. He entered the army as cornet in the Royal Horse Guards, but retired soon. after attaining the rank of captain. He entered Parlia ment at the general election consequent on the death of the late Ding in July, 1837, as M.P. in the Liberal interest for the family borough of Arundel, which he represented without intermission (while bearing the courtesy titles of Lord Fitz Alan and Earl of Arundel and Surrey) down to the middle of the year 1851, when, finding that his sentiments on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill were not in accordance with those of the "patron" of the constituency—his father, the late Duke—he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and was immediately returned by the electors of Limerick, Mr. John O'Con nell getiring in his favour. He left the House of Com mons at the dissolution of 1852. The Earl of Arundel and Surrey succeeded to the honours and representation of the noble house of Howard on the death of his father, the late Duke, on the 18th of February, 1856, so that his Grace had held the duke dom for a period of somewhat less than five years. The late Duke was a magistrate for the counties of Middle sex and Sussex, and enjoyed the entire patronage of the College of Arms, (better known to the public under the name of the Heralds' College), and also of seven teen livings in the Established Church. He was a large and liberal supporter of Roman Catholic charities, and took a warm interest in all public affairs which affected the interests of his religion, both in his place i t s peer of Parliament and in his private capacity. H e published one or two pamphlets on the various Roman Catholic questions which have risen to the surface of current events during the last twelve or fifteen years. He also edited the Lives of Philip, Earl of Arundel, and Anne Dacre, his wife. He seldom or never addressed either the Upper or the Lower House, excepting upon topics of this nature ; and whenever he spoke on these subjects his moderation and courtesy uniformly com manded the respect even of those whose religious opinions differed most widely from his own. The late Duke married in June, 1839, Augusta Mary Minna Catharine, second daughter of the late Admiral Lord Lyons, G.C.8., by whom, who survives him, he 'has left a family of two sons and six daughters, besides two children who died in infancy. It was his Grace's younger son, Lord Edmund Bernard Howard, in favour of whom Bertram Arthur, late Earl of Shrewsbury, made his will, bequeathing to him the magnificent estate of Alton Towers, out of which bequest arose the long and costly suit which will he known to our distant posterity as "The Great Shrewsbury Case." The elder, son, Henry Fitz-Alan Howard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, who now succeeds his father, was born on the 27th of December , 1847, so that he is now on the eve of completing his 13th year. The Duke also leaves two sisters, Lady Foley and Lady Adeliza Manners, and also a brother, Lord Edward Howard, M.P. for Arundel, formerly Vice-Chamberlain of Her Majesty's House hold, who is married to Miss Augusta Talbot, consin of the late Earl of Shrewsbury. The Ducal House of Norfolk is one whose fate it has been beyond all others among the English nobility, t o find its name interwoven with the thread of English history, and not rarely in colours of blood. The accom plished but unfortunate Surrey, and his scarcely less unhappy father, Thomas Howard —whose head was only saved from the block on which his son .so nobly suffered by the death of the Royal tyrant Henry—are "house hold words" in the pages of English history ; and readers of Shakspeare will have other recollections of the same name allied with other historical events ; while those who are familiar with the writings of Pope will not have forgotten how tersely and pointedly he typifies the glory of ancestral pedigrees, by "All the blood of all the Howards." Neither must the words " all the 'Towards " be taken in a mere vague and poe ti ca l sense. They r epresent a fact, and a remarkable one. In the British peerage there are no less than four different branches and off shoots of the ducal House of Norfolk who have attained the dignity of the coronet—viz., the Earls of.Carlisle, Effingham, Wicklow, and Suffolk, to say nothing of Lord Howard de Walden (who descends from them maternally), or of Sir Ralph Howard, of Bushy-park, Wicklow, or of the untitled but scarcely less noble scions of the house, the 'Towards of Co rb y Castle and of Greystock, in Cumberland, both of w hom are i n remainder to the duk e d om in the event of the failure of the present line. The death of the Duke will be a heavy loss to the Roman Catholic churches and charitable associations connected with the metropolis and the sou th of Eng land, and more especially t o th e O ra t o rians of St. Philip Neri, at Brompton, of whom he was a most ste ad y and munificent supporter.—Tines. . THE EARLY CLospra MOVEMENT.—John Edgar, aged 18, of 70. Lisson-grove, was charged, in con junction with Thomas Bamford and William Gayfer, drapers' assistants, with being disorderly, by causing a crowd to assemble ; also obstructing the public footway by distributing handbills in front of the premises, No. 76, Edgware-road, London. It appeared that the Messrs. Thompson, whose shop was at this address, had not joined the early closing movement, and that the defendants had made a practice of endeavouring to dis suade customers from entering on Saturday evenings. After a great deal of evidence, Mr. Mansfield said that Mr. Thompson might, if he pleased, proceed against the defendants in a County Court for loss of custom, but that he could do nothing. THE COURT. WINDSOR CASTLE, N6v. G. The.atteen; w)th the Princess Alioe, walked in the ~..troulrette of thO Castle this morning, and visited the Eftfchess lent frognleft. The i'fince &doff, trinec Aga - 0 and Prince Louis of Ilesse; Weilt ogi alileicit .ati f ficted colohot the Hon. A. Hardinge andl3arott fgh *estef wefier, .e • • - • The Price i; f Wares left WirielS'or fox: o.ifOrdl . 6 sity, attended by Maittf-Cfenetai the Hon. R.' Rime° and Lieutenant Colonel Keppel. The Portuguese Minister, Count de Lavradio, did Cap tain Tarlton, R.N., have left the Castle. The Duchess of Kent visited her. Majesty, and took luncheon. The Itev. F, Temple had the honour of being invited fo cUne vtith the Queen yesterday. The Hereditary Friuce and Princess of Holstein Angustenbourg left LOntion tm Stiuday evening for the Continent. fAThi RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT LEIGH. `... • • • poit'dq• .; pfter .l t,Moii,,a karftil cctdent occured on the Bolton/ I.Jeigli; and; Venyori - l#arich Of the London and North-Western Railway. The goods Valhi Which should have left the Atherton Stfttion for LiierPoel at 2.50 was detained until about 3.55. After die PlY.Sfiertrei train, which leaves Atherton about 3.40, had passed, a number of - platelayers ' repairing engaged in the perma nent way about a quarter of a mile from Leigh took up a All; hot being aware that the goods train was behind time: before they bad time to replace it they saw the goods train destending the incline, The gauger (Samuel iridley) at once destiattlied the signal man to warn i ttds6 lithe of the train of the danger of approach ieg: gods &din vial a t ety heavy one, consisting of upwards of forty waggons, afid Braid* hy tidy engines. Five persons conducted it, nanielY, gwe ensitie &Liters, two stokers, and one breaksinari. They immediately put on the breaks and redersed the engines, but, owing to the srikpeirstate of the rails from the recent rain, the deep inenrig, rind the *ei'ght„of the train; it was found impossible to stop ft: . The result was, that the first engine, lid -A on reaching the *scre the rail was displaced, was turned over, the second °fit tqin ing partially upon it, and the waggons piling them selves one over the other into a complete and enormous pyramid. Richard Higginson, driver of the second engine, was killed on the spot, his body being fearfully mutilated, and lying for several hours under the boiler of the engine, with the water and steam playing on it. John Elliott and John Valentine, driver and stoker of the ,first engine, finding that there was no chance of escape, leaped from their engine, the former sustaining deep laceration of the upper portion of the thigh. and the latter severe contusions. The other stoker and the breaksman escaped with very little injury. Messrs. Bridoake, Anderton, and Evans, surgeons, of Leigh, were promptly in attendance. FATAL Aceinesm.-00 Friday week last a man named Thomas Keenan, was injured by a fall from some building in the locality of Faulkner-square, and died yesterday at his residence from the effects. Monte Aloe. OF THE NEXT FREE ASSEME - m — The Scodisk Otiartlidn states that at the private conference of the Commission of the general Assembly of the Free Church, held on Wednesday afternoon, imme diately after the public business had been disposed of, the Rev. Dr. Candlish was unanimously nominated for the Moderatorship of the General Assembly of 1861. CHICAGO TO LIVERPOOL. —The following paragraph from the Chicago Tribune is interesting :—George Little, Esq., in Septerriber last, purchased and shipped a cargo of wheat from this port direct to Liverpool, by way of St.. Lawrence River ; and on Monday he received a letter informing him that the grain had arrived at Liverpool in twenty-five days from the date of its shipment at this city. The route of shipment was as follows :—From Chicago to Port Colborne; from Port Colborne to Port Dalhousie over the Welland Railway ; from Port Dal housie to. Quebec by propeller; and from Quebec to Liverpool by steamer. THE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.—The Empress Eugenie arrived at Birnam - Hotel, Dunkeld, at two o'clock, on Friday afternoon. A Dunkeld correspondent writes that her Majesty intended to have proceeded to the west on Saturday morning , but that she was so de lighted with the locality that she intended to remain there till Monday. A telegram received on Saturday evening, however, states that the Empress was on that day at Taymouth Castle, visiting the Marquis of Breadalbane. At a meeting of the. Glasgow Town Council held on Saturday, it was resolved that an address should be presented by the Council to the Empress of the French on the occasion of her approach ing visit to Glasgow. The Empress is expected to be in Glasgow very early during the present week, and we hear it is not her intention to remain at, present at Hamilton Palace.—Sotsman. MR. IippWORTH DIXON'S VINDICATION OF BACON. —We must noW take leave of Mr. Dixon. With that generous sympathy for noble deeds and men which has inspired him in his literary career to teach us how rightly to admire Howard, Blake, and Penn, he has again performed a manly and noble task. The dragon he has cloven down is no more. The lie no longer lives. Henceforth Bacon's fame is no matter for anxious gloom or ingenious speculation. The ground where he lies enshrouded is for ever closed to contest. The case has at last been so stated that discussion on it can never again be reopened with any chance of altering the pub lic verdict. No longer will good men fear to love him. Looking on his virtues, eternal in their dazzling beauty, even as his intellect is imperishable in power, no longer can the licking boast of him as a familiar and a compeer. —From " Temple Bar," No. I. THE GALE IN THE NORTH SEA.—SHIELDS' Satur day night.—The weather has so far moderated on the north-east coast that some of the steamships have got to sea, though it looks far from settled. The barque Arno is a complete wreck. The barque Pet, of Shields, is ashore on Whitburn Sands, and the Susan , nah, of Whitstable, is stranded near the same place. Small vessels are also stranded near Holy Island. A Spanish vessel, which came ashore a few days ago near Newbiggin Point, on the Northumberland coast, laden with dried cod from Norway, it is reported, has been shamefully plundered by the natives—fishermen, belong ing to the neighbouring villages. The ships that have arrived here to-day describe the weather at sea on Thursday night and yesterday as very fearful, and it is to be feared that the loss of shipping will be very serious. AN UNPLEASANT RETREAT. -2 011 Saturday night last, two soldiers belonging ter the Infantr Depot, quartered at Canterbury, were pambulating the streets somewhat inebriated, and disposed to create,a disturb ance in Rosemary-lane, avowing themselves determined to have more drink or smash the windows of those who refused them, althoUgh, as was subsequently proved, they had not the money wherewith to pay for it. The police-officer on duty in that district accosted them and advised them to go peaceably home to their barracks, for which advice he was treated with abuse ; lie then asked them if they had a pass, as, if they had not, it was his duty to take them into custody, and give them up to the military autho rities. This appeared to alarm the heroes, and they made a hasty retreat, as they thought to the fields leading towards Whitehall, by running down an opening between Stour-street and Church-lane, at the bottom of which passes the river Stour, which was at the time by the effect of the recent heavy rains, swollen above the dipping bridge. Into the water they plunged '---and thus their threatened "smash" became a "splash." They lustily . called for assistance to get them out, and were quickly relieved from their cold bath by the policeman whom they had abused, with other persons whom their call for aid had attracted to the scene of their disaster. Dripping wet, and now very tame, they were conveyed to the station-house, where they Were stripped of their wet clothes and placed in a warm room till their clothing was dried, aad thence, by order of Superintendent Davis, they were escorted to their barracks by a police-constable. AN ACTOR MORTALLY STABBED IN THE PRESENCE OF lIIS AUDIENCE.—The New Orleans Bee of the 29th records the following tragic occurrence of the previous night:—" At ten o'clock last night a shocking tragedy was enacted in reality on the stage of the German Theatre or Concert-hall in Paydras-street, between St. Charles and Carondelet. They were playing in the drama of the Wolf,' and at the moment were acting a scene in a gambling-house, where a young man is fleeced of his last dime, and, when he charges the gamblers with cheating, is stabbed and killed. John Kruger was playing the part of the gambler, Emile Stener that of the ruined young man. Kruger had not been furnished with a stage dagger bv the property man, and borrowed a real one from officer Berwin, who was the special p oliceman in Concert hall. In acting such scenes with real daggers on the stage, the person who strikes the blow keeps his elbow out further than the point of the weapon, and the person who pretends to receive the fatal thrust leans backwards, so that the striker's elbow coming against his breast stops the mot ion. Stener was unhappily somewhat intoxicated, and when he should have thrown himself backward he suddenly stooped forward, and be fore Kruger could check the i m p etus of his arm the dagger had gone into the right side of Stener's neck, opening a ga s h to the back bone. The unfortunate actor was instantly carried off the stage, and sent to the Charity Hospital mortally wounded, while Kruger was taken to the lock-up by officers Dalton and Berwin. The curtain was down but a short ti me, the pool of blood was washed up, and then it was announced to the audience that the drama could not be concluded, but that a farce would be substituted. The audience applauded, up went the curtain, and for a whole hour the fellow-actors of Steller exerted themselves to make fun, while' the auditors laughed and applauded as if the spilling of a man's life blood was a mere trifle." DEATH OF LIEUT.-COLONEL HAMERTO:sT. — The death of Lieut.-Colonel Hamerton took place on Friday morn ing, at his residence, 22, Lansdown-place, Cheltenham, after a period of severe illness, which had confined him to his room for many months. Deceased entered the army in 1806, as second lieutenant in the 95th, or Rifle Corps. Having served in that regiment for some time, and in the best of schools, viz., Sir J. Moore's celebrated brigade at Shorncliffe, composed of the 43d and 52d light infantry regiments, and 95th Rifles, he was appointed aide-de-camp to Gen. Vaughan Hart, who commanded the northern district of Ireland at that time. In 1808 he obtained a lieutenancy in the 7th Fusiliers, which regiment he joined on its being ordered for active service in the Peninsula. Ho landed at Lisbon in April, 1809 ; went through all the campaigns of that year and 1810, in cluding the battles of Talavera and Busaco, but got into such bad health the following winter, that a medical board sent him home. He rejoined the 7th early in 1812; was present at the capture of Badajoz, and the battle of Salamanca, where he was wounded in the thigh, but was still able to go through the campaign of 1813, including the battle of Vittoria, and the yet more severe one (as far as the 7th Fusiliers were cpncerned) of Pampeluna, and in the Pyrenees, where he was very severely wounded through the body, and was sent to England, and remained till the return of his regiment in 1815, just two days too late for the 7th taking a part in the battle of Waterloo. Besides the engagements above enumerated, Colonel Hamerton was present at the Lines of Torres Vedras, at the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, ant took part in the affair of Roncesvalles—in every instance acquitting himself as a brave and gallant soldier. He was also present at the capture of Paris ; and on the breaking up of the army of occupation, in 1818, gotthe rank of brevet-major; but shortly after lo e r i e e ti s r e e r d . on calf - pay; became lieutenant-colonel in succession, and sold out altogether a few years b a c k. vice: briefly adverted to in the foregoing remarks, Col. Hanerton received the silver medal with clasps. Th e deceased was nephew to the late Gen. Sir W. Meadows, and nearly connected with the family of Earl Manvers. —Oteltenham Looker-on. THE WAR IN CHINA. The arcr . /trivi C'hind of 14;1i October, mentions that the London mail of the 1 5 ;•tth of 'August had arrived on the 9th of October. Ilk journal, in reference to the negotiations, with tree the capture of Mr. Parkes and Other kiteosegnent defeats of the Tartar Horse, says-- =, • , Y.nioni.last.O'verland we mentioned thaf negotiations had beep broken' oil at Tien-tsin, and' that , the ist dioi sion of the force was marching, upon Pekin: T i tle Imperial Commissioners are pa.7.led 1 S! the ,deMands for a permanent residency at Pekin, anti fOr . ari immediate and large instalment of indemnity trio - icy. Their counter-demand for delay was met by the advance of Lord Elgin with a great portion of the allied force. Seen the towns upon the march were found to he in a great part deserted, and supplies had to be taken by force. The large toiitt, Ho-si-wit, was completely looted by the fOrde, and it became etldent that there must be another appeal to arms. On the inornitig of the 18th of geptthnber Mr. Parkes and his party fell into the han'ds of the Chinese, and it was found that the army Was sWrfounded by . Tartar troops at the village of ,110- ko-chuang. An thigragem'ent imatediately took place, which caused the Tartaia to' retire *IA sortie less. A second engagement took place' thl the 2fst of gepternber f • when about 25 of our force and several Idadreds of the enemy were placed hors de comber. The nett day a flag of truce was sent in from Pekin, and proposals were made to re-open negotiations. On the following day supplies were sent in by the Chinese for the use of the Allied army, Which saved Tung-chau from being looted. The latest Iletts We hare is by verbal communication with a French , steariter f which entered the Yang-tse as the mall from Shanghai was hating. It brought intelli gence frOM the seat of war up to the 27th or 28th of September, when the allied army was still in its posi tion, gefen.' or tight miles from Pekin, and two' or three from Tung-amt . :- The statement was confirmed' that that the prisoners were well treated!" The following letters, received from the neigh bourhood of Pekin; give an interesting account of THE PROGRESS OF THE TROOPS. SEVEN MILES rnox PEKIN:, Sept. 22. An attempt has been made at negotiatio'n, which has ended in the smoke of more gunpowder, the partial deception of Lord Elgin and Mr. Parkes, and, I grieve to say, the capture of the latter by the Tartars, with the Times correspondent, Mr. Loch (Lord Elgin's private secretary), Mr. De Norman (Attache), .Captain Brabazop, of the Artillery, and the Adjutant of Fane's Horse, with 'some 20 " Sowars," and the murder 'of: a French officer. But I must, as well as my memory will. enable me, take, up my narrative . where I dropped it on the 26th ultimo. The whole of our force were then encamped at or near the Take Forts ; now they are scattered over a space of some 80 miles, to say nothing of the 44th Regiment, who were packed off in hurry, on the 27th or 28th, to relieve Shanghai, where it appears - they were not wanted, the Royal Marines having "settled the hash " of the rebels before their arrival. It was not until the Ist instant, I think 4(unfortunately I have lost the few notes I kept), that the first move was made towards the North. This con sisted in the advance of our Ist Division, which crossed the Peiho over a bridge of boats, about two miles above Tongku, and were followed on the 2nd by the 2nd Division (with the exception of a wing of the Buffs who were left to garrison the Take Forts), the French marching' along the left bank of the river. The first. halting place was about half a mile from the bridge of boats, on a plain nearly encircled by orcliardi full of grapes, peaches, apples, pears, and water-melons. The second march was to a place called Kikko, the third to Kih-tang-kou, and the fourth brought the whole army to Tien-tsin, the marches, consequently, averaging .about eight - miles each. But although they were so short, and the start was" generally made before day break each morning, still they were much more fatiguing than any one would imagine, as they were never finished in less than four hours, during the last two of which the heat was always very great, and to men carrying heavy packs as well as their rifles and ammunition very trying. At Tien-tsin the army halted for nearly a week on a magnificent plain immediately outside the town, living in clover in more senses than one, while the French occupied. aposition'on the left bank of the river, and an attempt was made at negotiation, which, as I have already said, has ended in smoke, the Chinese Commissioner sent down to treat with us having declared Himself afraid to sign any con vention 1m his own responsibility, and almost hinting, I believe, that our best plan would be to advance upon Peki - r, and so frighten the Emperor into submissidt by a warlike demonstration at his very door. On the ,9th instant, accordingly; a force consisting of the King's 'Dragoon Guards, Fane's and Probyn's Horse, Baring's, Desborough's, and Stirling's BatterieS, the Royal Marines, the 99th Regiment, the whole under command of General Mitchell, marched past Tien tsin, to a place called Pookoo, ten miles distant. On the following day they marched to Yang-tsin, eight miles further ; and the next day to Nan-tsin, eight miles further; and the next to Hoo-si-woo, when they halted for five days again, until the 2d Queen's, the 60th. Rifles, and some 2,000 French came up. Almost the whole.of the road for these last four marches was through endless fields of millet, extending as far as the eye could reach, and the camping ground at the end of each of them was nearly as comfortable as a bed of thorns, being upon half-cut beds of millet, the spikes of which were' nearly as sharp and strong, ris those sur rounding the Take Forts, and had, I verily believe, been left so by the Tartars, in the hope that they would effectually prevent our advance, without any further aid from their 'prowess. So far, 'not one of them had shown his face within range since the dressing they got at Take. IHE CAPTURE. OF MR. PARKES AND THE OTHER PRISONERS. • At Hoo-si-woo, accOrdingly, Mr. Parkes was embol dened to ride forward to Mut-ow . , about ten miles fur- ther on, attended by a cavalry escort and the gentlemen I have already mentioned, in order, I believe; to 'propose to the inhabitants that if they. would send us out sup plies of fuel, flour, &e., we would notmolest ,them, but encamp outside, as we had previously done in the case of every village or town we had passed.. As far as I can make out. from the various reports I hear, they first of all tohi him that they would consent to . furnish its with supplies, if we would agree to their kelecting the camping ground for us; but on ins K oplying• that the General could not agree to any such condition, they immediately made him and all his companions prisoners, with the .exception of a few King's Dragoon Guards, who succeeded in cutting their way out. Colonel Walker, of the Bays, and Mr. Thomson, of the cola missariat, who had ridden out in the same direction, were also very nearly taken prisoners, a French officer who accompanied them being cut to pieces —Colonel Walker only escaping with the loss of his sword, and a' cut over the hand, and Mr. Thomson with a lance wound in his back. ENGAGEMENTS WITH THE TARTAR HORSE. The Cavalry, Artillery, 2nd Queen's, Royal Marines, : and 99th Regiment, were immediately ordered out by Sir Hope Grant, and about midway between Hoo-si-woo, our friends of Singho celebrity, and whom we had heard had never drawn rein after that affair until they reached, Pekin, again came in sight, extending in a wide semicircle before Mut-oW as far as the eye could reach • The Queen's,' who were in advance, were immediately ordered to halt, until the' rest of the regiments came up, and aline of battle was formed, the French taking the right, the Queen's the centre, Royal Marines and 99th the left, and Artillery and Cavalry the flanks. They had not advanced far in this order before fire was opened on them from some dozen points in.the aforesaid semicircle, while the Tartar Cavalry threatened our . flanks. They were promptly met, however; byours, but the Irregular Horse who were on the right flank, the King's Dragoon Guards being on the left; alone succeeded in getting among them, with the to-be expected result of " chawing them up' completely of course. Our artillery, meanwhile, thundered dreadful responses to theirs, and with very unequal' effect—theirs doing little or no damage, ours telling with deadly effect, and 'finally completely silencing all their batteries; which were planted in: all sorts of ,extraordinary -positions, and were evidently of quite an impromptu construction, some at -the entrances to villages, others among clumps of trees, and others behind natural embankments. The infantry then advanded,.and threw in a smart fire on them as they retreated, our nimble and gallant 'allies even getting among th em w ith the bayonet, I believe;and killing great.nambers. The enemy .fled in every direction, and did not even attempt. to defend Mut-ow itself, which was accordingly entered and taken possessien,of the same evening, and proved'th be a ni N l -e i r e y comfortable and picturesque little town, with a tumble down old brick wall of great height, and once doubtless say n.f of great strength. The following day was mad t e he and had really a hard rest, and yesterday the force advanced into had plot more than about three miles before . th i e c. e c nel n again met presented themselves in a vast semicircle. N . us day, but got' them pretty inneli as we did on'the previous the Irrecrular, day's fighting. They not g closer to them on several occasions— both well among Horse and King's Dragoon Guardsyrreed'part of infantry them, as well as our more intersected by wide ditches, and fields of: cut d Ise thickets), and their separated here and there by dense —although, from the naturea(l advanced the ground (endless If we had d infantry all. had actually might l ir.ve had the alone, I believe they , knowledge of how t o avail themselves of it, it was very difficult to get near them at they enough showed themselves, on both d audacity to close with us (as they were evidently plucky i m pressed with..a very salutary; dread of our, ar tillery and caval r y , and althou g h the y made severa l apparentot men) but, as it was, charges at our cavalry, I believe they were almost all 'feints to draw them into ,some trap or other (such as a concealed ditch or ,rough piece of ground), While entangled in Which they might have an opportn- . nity to er6 their gingalls at them from under the cover of home walls or c'op*se of trees. RESULT or THE fic4nrria, AND RUMOURED FLIGHT OF THE EMPEROR. • However, the result of the two days fighting has been thie 74.-e have captured upwards of 100 cannorf; •inost of them tfr-ponntlet brass guns of very good description, immense stores of foiageigrain, and tea, and have got to within seven miles of ?Ala,. and have, I should think, thoroughly demoralised •the Tarl:tf army, by capturing and entirely destroying all their calrio and munitions of war, so far. [They say that Sankolinsin ibminanded in person, on both days, and that he had ted Mon ' golfarr lyrinees, each with 5,000 mcn, under him.j We have nrilf , alien up a position on the right of the Grand Canal, only seven miles from the Celestial 'capiial, but ai:e again eneamping among fields of spikes, of which dtlr vid - rthy and gallant general seems to think we are fond; as . ' h'e,..ziefer . lets' us among the trees. There, like so many imikiktfniittYrs,-vie are to await, I believe the arrival•of some more ttebiih'tind'sfores: A "shave" has just come in to me that the En pirOr has bolted from Pekin, and that Sankolinsin has sent in tifibtiaer flag of truce, but I have not time to find out how far it a true. Great. sympathy is felt for -Mi. Parkes and his part*, aFcl I have heard a report, which I earnestly hope is trtie, !bat Lord Elgin has declared that he will order.. Pekin, to be sacked if he is not given - up. again with all his patty alive and in good condition. Such is certainly not DIOTC than Mr. Parkes deserves, for he has undoubtedly , proved himself • throughout the whole of this campaign —as, indeed, throughout *the whole of his long service in China --,-one o' the most energetic and zealous servants his country has . eve had. ' If it is true that the Emperor has fled, and that Sankolinsin is now in undivided power at Pekin, believe, however; that not only will Mr. Parkes he given up again all right, but that a satisfac tory treaty will soon .be made, as Sankolinsin's policy throughout, I suspect, has not been so much to repel' us as merely to get a name for himself by opposingus with apparent determination, while he . was in reality merely forcing us to advance until his chicken-hearted cousin (as I believe the Emperor is) should get sufficiently frightened to fly into Tartary, that then he might assume the reins of government, and, by taking that course which his more enlightened mind must have pointed. out to him long ere this is the best for his country, secure for himself that place in it to which he has all along been aspiring. • ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. TIEN-TSTN, Sept. 26. You will doubtless obtain' all the news from other sources ; however, I send you the latest received this morning from the front. • It appears that Messrs. Loch, Bowlby, and Captain 13rabazon are all safe and well treated at Pekin, with Mr. Consul Parkes. The army is within five miles of Pekin, after an engagementon Saturday,i n which the enemy is said to have kept at a respectful distance from our artillery, but the French got .at them, and treated them very roughly, killing, it is said, 400 or 500 men. We had one officer and a few men wounded. The Emperor's - brother and another Mandarin of the highest feather came out to camp, but Lord Elgin would not see them until Mr. Parkes and' the other prisoners were given up. • Tung chau was given'up to pillage, and the usual atrocities of .the Tartars were , committed by themselves on their women, whom they deprived of life, and on their chil dren, whom they threw into wells. The latter was past doubt,. as the bodies were seen :when the place was entered. *rating lltritigenct. Lord of the Manor has changed hands, and has bees sent to Wadlow's stable. Aunt Sally, who ran in the Worcestershire Cup race at Upton-on-Severn, hes been destroyed. Mr. W. Ford, clerk of the course, announces that. weather permitting, the Lincoln Meeting for 1861 will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, the 13th and 14th of February. Tng SUDBURY COURSING MEETING. --A gold brace— let will be awarded to the winner of the Vernon Cup at the above meeting, in addition to the stakes, by the lady secretary. The Liverpool July meetipg will next year be held em the Tneiday, Wednesday, and Thursday in the second week of that month, instead of Monday, Tuesday, an& Wednesday. John Bnine has been engaged as private trainer to ions. Schicklet, and 14 ions. Lupin's late trainer (Cun— ningham) has taken the house and stables recently occupied by , Bains, where he will start as a publie trainer. M. Phillipe (late Odd Trick). was sold last week for guineas, and goes into Hughes's stable at Epsom. The two-year-old colt by Surplice, out of New Forest Deer, 25 guineas, goes into J. Nightingall's stable at. Epsom. Ingestre, 3 yrs, 32 guineas, goes into Searles stable also at Epsom. The Hon. Artillery Company's Steeple Chases will comae off on Saturday next, at Mill Hill, Hendon, under the stevtardship of Colonel Lord Frederick Mullet,. Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Colville, Lieutenant-colonel Viscount Ranclagh, Lieutenant-colonel Lord Elcho, Earl Strathmore, Major Robinson, Major Snell, and Captain Jay. THE Cmotrtoxsittr. — The original belt of the Champion of England has been duly presented to "The Infant," Sam Hurst, of Staleybridge, who lately won it. in his fight with Paddock. He is now challenged by Mace, and one or two others. He must keep the belt against all comers for three years, in order to be entitled to it and the "Championship of England " for life. It appears that the original belt was in the possession of Tom Sayers, who was using it in a starring tour in the ' provinces, for which Mes-rs Howes and Cushing pay him £55 a w ee k. lie has now surrendered the belt. Lincoln RACING FIXTURES FOR 1861. , FEBRUARY. 13 I Coventry .. 27 MARCH. 5 Shrewsbury 12f Nottingham ‘?Tifig Liverpool spring Northampton Epsom Spring Newmarket Craven Chester York Malton Bath APRIL. .„ 2 Thirsk ... 11 Newmarket First Spring 29 15 MAY. 7 I Manchester 14 I Harpenden 16 1 Epsom Chelmsford • Hungerford • ascot ~... Hampton Newton JUNE. 5 I Oldham ........................... 25 6 Newcastle . .............. 25. 11 Bibery Club 26. 19 Stockbridge 19 Winchester JULY. 2 Abingdon 9 , 2 Nottingham l6 4 Goodwood 3O Newntarket Carlisle . . Worcester Liverpool July AUGUST. Brighton Brighton Club 9 I Reading. _ Doncaster Richmond Leicester SEPTEMBER, 17 I Monmouth 21 I Manchester .., 25 ...... OCTOBER. Newmarket First October.. 1 I Newmarket 110ught0n...... Newmarket Second October 14 NOVEMBER. Worcester Liverpool 5 1 Shrewsbury 13 HUNTING FIXTURES. The SHROPSHIRE FOXHOUNDS will meet on Wednesday, November 28, at Acton Burnell. Friday, November 30, at Hadnal At half-past ten o'clock. Mr. MEYNELL INGRAM'S HOUNDS will meet on Thursday, November 29, at Log's! ford Saturday, December 1, at At a quarter to eleven. The WYNNSTAY PACK will meet on Wednesday, November 28, at Friday, November 30, at Saturday, December 1, at Each day at half-past ten. Master, Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., M.P. ; Huntsman, J.Walker- Ilawardetr _Mien Sadler& . . The LUDLOW FOXHOUNDS will meet on Thursday, November 29. at Little Hereford Tollgate- Saturday, December 1, at Hopton Park. Wednesci ty, December 5, at Shaker/ burst. Saturday, December 8, at Burnal Glean At half-past ten o'clock. The ALI3RIGIITON FOXHOUNDS will meet on Thursday, November 29, at Himley Saturday, December I, at Stableford Tuesday, December 4, at Shallerford Gate Thursday, December 6, at 'Wrottesley Saturday, December 8, at Burnal Green At half-past ten o'clock. The CHESHIRE HOUNDS meet on Wednesday, November 28, at Norton Priory Thursday, November 29, at Appleton Hall Saturday, November 30, at tshton Heyes Monday, December 3, at Morbury Wednesday, December 5, at Black Dog, Saightort Thursday, December 6, at Oulton Park Saturday, December 8, at Beeston Castlts Saturday, December 10, at Smoker Inn Wednesday, December 12, at Wrenbury Station. Thursday, December 13, at Cholmondeley Saturdey, December 15, at Delamere Each day at half-past ten. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. BENEFICES AND APPOINTMENTS VACANT- BISHOPRIC. Worcester : val £5,000 : pat the Crown : Right Rev. H. Pepys, p.D., dec. RECTORIES. Edworth, Beds: dio Ely : val £167 : pat C. C. Hale, Esq. : Rev. 0. Dering, dec. • Hedsar, Bucks : dio Oxford : val £6O : pats Bishop of Oxford and Lord Boston : Rev. A. Youlden, dec. Martinstherpe, Rutland : dio Peterboroagh : pat Duke et Devonshire : Rev. G. Quirk, prom. Stoke-Ash, Suffolk : dio Norwich: val £363 with residence pat the Reps of the late R. the Rev. S. W. Bull, dec.. Wapping, Middlesex : dio 1:onSon : val £258 with residence pats Brasehose College, Oxford : Rev. T. W. Nowell, prom 6. THE ENGLISH CAPTIVES AT PERIN. Mr. William Charles F. Helmuth T. de Norman, the First Attache to the Hon. Frederick Bruce's mission to Chin‘a, who has been taken prisoner by the Chinese, is the only son of Baroness de. Norman, and cousin to the Marquis of Northampton, Lady Marianne Alford, and Lord William Compton. Mr. de Norman was for fa short period attached to the British Legation pt Wash ington, arid was' afterwards transferred to Berlin. For a short time he served in the 2d Royal Surrey Militia. On the declaration of war against Russia, Mr. de Norman. proceeded to the East, and was temporarily attached with the rank of Captain, in Turkey, to the Osmanli Horse Artillery of the Turkish Contingent from April to. December, 1857, he ,was attached to Lieutenant-Colonel. Simmons,. the British Com Missioner foi the 'Ttirkb4 ) eisian boundary. He was afterwards appointed as Attache at Constantinople, and on the appointment of the Hen. F. ,Bruce to his mission to China, in 1858, he was appointed First Attache. Mr. Hari-y smith Parkes.—This energetic -and valuable servant of the Crown was employed under the late Sir Henry Pottinger in' June, 1842, for his proficiency in the Chinese. language. He acted as : interpreter, at Foo chow-foo in 1845 and 1846; as interpreter at Shanghai in 1848. In the 'succeeding year be proceeded to Amoy in a similar capacity. In 1851 he was selected to pro ceed to Formosa to. distribute rewards to.the Chinese, and :acqUitted himself greatly to the satisfaction of his superiors. August, 1854, he was appointed , British Consol- at Amoy, and the following year accompanied Sir raiiiei 13 - ON - Wing .to Siam, on that gentleman's special miSsion. , .He had the. honour te• bring the Siamese Treaty with this country, and to return with its ratifica tion in January, 1856. On his return to Canton he was appointed (June, 1856) Consul, and in September, 1858, he' was transferred to Shanghai. On the Earl of Elgin's reaching China, he was selected as principal interpreter. Mr. Henry Brougham Loch.—This 'gentleman, an nounced as c one of the captives at Pekin, entered- the Hon. East India Company's Bengal Cavalry in 1844, and as an aide-de-camp to Lord Gough served through the Sutlej campaign. After holding the .Adjutancy of his regiment three years, he was appointed second in command of Skinner's Horse in 1851. He returned to England early in 1854, and volunteered his services` to the army in Bulgaria, to assist in organising the Turkish Cavalry. He accompanied the army to the Crimea, and was present at the' Battle of the Alma: • He resigned his commiSsiOß in the East India Company's service, and for a time was in the Cheshire YcoManry. In April, 1857, he accompanied the Earl of Elgin on his mission to China, as First Attache, and was selected by that nobleman to bring home the Treaty with Japan, signed at Jeddo in August, 1858. DEATH OF A CHILD.--An inquest will be held to-day, at the Angel Inn,.Birkenhead, by Mr. Henry Churton, coroner for -the district, on the body of a child of one year and nine months old, named James Hollyrood, who died on Sunday from the; effects pf a fall. His parents reside in 22, Oakes-street. _ _ _ FALLEN WOMEN.-The midnight meetings for the reclamation of this unfortunate class of fewales have been suspended for the present, until a larger asylum can ne..proiltreit . fur them, mid the Ilcum:,,Aly fund. sa c; forthcominm. The present building in St. Anne:street contains 27 inmates,• which is the utmost number to whom accommodation can be afforded. THE BALI ADS or S COT LXND. —At the Working Men's Institute, Bond-street, last evening, the Rev. Mr. Beaumont delivered a very interesting lecture upon the Ballads or Scotland.' The attendance was considerable : an attentive hearing and a cordial vote of thanks were accorded the lecturer. LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.—New cases received advice and medicine at the institution: .North, 208 ; South, 147; total, 355. New,eases visited. at their own' houses and supplied with medicine : North, 125 ; South, 69 ; total, 194. Rev. Rector Campbell, A.M., Pre sident ; Major • Bourne,. Vice-President of North . Dispensary; Mr. R. A. Payne, Vice-President of South Dispensary ; Mr. Francis Mill, Treasurer ; Mr. F. H. Langley, Secretary. Fla& iN Vmororc-STREET.---About ten o'clock yester day morning a fire broke out in the premises of ,Mr. Cook, Vernon -street. The destructive influence of the fire had made great progress before communication was made with the Central Fire Station, Hatton-garden. The energetic brigade soon extinguished the fire, but unfortunately .the • beerhouse occupied by Mr. Cook has 'Custaincd considerable damage. TUE , 'ART UNION .OF THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY. — We have to direct attention to the advertisement in another column, from which. our readers will see that %the drawing for the prizes, which.will vary from £5 to £lOO, is •to take place early next month, at the Academy's Rooms. Subscribers are also reminded that the holders of prizes will have the privilege, of selecting pictures of their own choice frOm the present exhibition. A BATCH OF MARINE-STORE DEALERS IN TROUBLE.—' yesterday, at the Birkenhead Police Qoprt, Bridget M'Langlen, Jane Burns, and Hannah Davies,. Were charged by Mr. M'Cormack with stealing, and Edward Lee, foreman to Saddler, a marine-store dealer, and Catherine Flynn, residing in the Dock-cottiwes, with feloniously recei v i ng a quant i ty o f i ron s t o l en 'from the premises of the Prosecutor; on whose behalf Mr: Moore appeared. Lee was defended Mr. Rymer. The case was adjourned until to-day, when it is expected that other persons implicated in the offence will be brought to justice. , • THE DOCK PINES AND THE CORN TRADE.—III com pliance with the request expressed at ttie large and influential meetin g held at the Corn Exchange,. on Saturday l ast ., the following memorial has been drawn up, and is in course of signature :—" To the Liverpool Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.: The memorial of importers Of grain and flour into the port of Liverpool, assembled in public meeting, at the Corn Exchange, Liverpool, on the 24th of November, 1860, respectfully shewetli,—That. much irregularity and inconvenience having been experienced by merchants, and others of the corn trade in Liverpool, through the operations of the existing laws in reference to dock fines, a meeting of the membe4.of the said trade was held on the day and at the place above named, when certain resolutiOns *ere passed, w hi ch, in conformity with one of the said resolutionS, are now respectfully submitted for the con sideration of the board." ~ The resolutions passed at that meeting follow s the above memorial. They appeared in the' DAILY TIMES On Monday last. Tarn FIRST FRENCH NEWSPAPER.—It is believed that the first number of the first French newspaper appeared on the 30th of May, 1631. The first article was dated, from Constantinople, the 2nd of April. It informed the pod p eo pl e o f Paris that the King, of Persia was besieging Dille, two days' march from Baby lon, with fifteen thousand . cavalry and fifty thousand . infantry. The Grand Seignor had commanded all his janissaries to repair, on pain of .death,, to him. Not withstanding this grave business, the Grand Seignor continued to wage war against murderers by choking them with smoke. The first five numbeiS of the Gazette contained no Paris news. The good doctor was probably feeling his way,with his somewhat perilous venture. In his sixth number, however, he ventured to inform hig countrymen that the king and his court wet e drinking the mineral waters of St. Germains ; and that the tine edition :14 the Bible, in nine volumes 'and eight lan guages, was in progress--a, work in which he invited all nations to take part.—From " Temp/0 Bar," No. 1.. • Tns COTTON PLANT OF SOUTH CAROLINA The above has been beautifully illustrated on the back of a playing card for the present season, by Messrs. De La Rue and Co. from am original drawing by a Liverpool gentleman, and published br• Messrs. Agnew and Son. J. M. and Son have received a large• stock. N.B.—A good playing card from is 6d. J. Mawdsley and Son, 4, Castle-street. PLAYING CARDS.—llithtrto the keenly contested whist cribbage, 100, &c., exhausted the use of the playing card. Now, however, the beautiful, instructive, and chaste designs imparted to their exterior, teach the form, colour, and growth of plants which have enriched the commerce of Great Those manufactured by De la Rue and CJ., are peculiarly rich in design, and can be had in great variety at Benson and Mal lett's, commercial stationers, 10. Castle-street. Rush of blood to the head is frequently caused by a bad con dition of the stomach or bowels, but by a course of Holloway's Pills, these distressing symptoms arc prevented, or, if they have made their appearance, are o i c kly exterminated. Diz ziness of sight, headache, and other alarming symptoms are also relieved by this wonderful aperient; also, ail internal disorders are curable by them, because by their influence on the circulation they reduce the entire system to a healthy action. The first effect of Holloway's Pills is to cause a flow of saliva during mastication to excite the stomach to secrete sufficient gastric juice todijest the food,- whose chyle, enter ng the bloos', bestows ou that fluid wholesome tonic pro pi rties. Our readers have only to send their address to D. T. Barry, Esq.. 77 R ' Regent-street, W., London, and they will receive gratis and tree by post The "INVALID'S OWN GLIDE" or Natural Restorer without Medicine or expense, of perfec' digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs and refreshing sleep, to the most enfeebled, insuring te removal of indigestio (dys pepsia), constipation, sickness at the stomach, epilepsy, para lysis, debility, nervousness, palpitation, cough, asthma, con sumption, dropsy, flatulency, diarrhoea, dysentery, biliousness, fevers, 'sore throats, catarrhs, colds, noises in the ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, luartburn, despondency, cramp, spasms, ,inking tits, broil. chitis ; also children's complaints. " tlr.q,..estionably the safest 1.1 :( (to health." NEW INVENTION.—THE NEW FOUNTAIN PEN.—A greater annoyance than a bad steel pen can hardly be met with—the difficulty is to get a good one. Amongst the recent improve ments the new " fountain pen," just introduced by Rudliall and Co., is the best we have ever seen. liy a simple but effec tive contrivance the ink is retained in a fountain, by means of a second inverted barrel, above the. writing nib, and this barrel can be taken out at any time, so the pen can be kept perfectly clean w thout any chance of being corroded. Another feature in this pen is, that one din in the ink will last for five minutes' quick writing. The pen itself is of the finest description, and in merchants' offices, banks, and indeed in every place, it will be found to fill a want felt by every one up to this time. We have tried this splendid pen, handed to us by Mr. E. T. Hall, South John-street, and can pronounce it perfect, and we are sure all who use it will give a full verdict in its favour, CONSUNC`TION, COUGH, ASTHMA, Aso linoNcurris CURABLE. —" I believe that the preparation of Balsam of Horehound and Aniseed (as prepared by Hr. Martin, of 22, Copperas hill, Liverpoold will prove of snore value, in ca.,es of bron chitis and incipient consumption, than any other remedy extant. It relieves the most irritating cough in few minutes; and, although it contains no preparation of opium, it induces 'sound and rffreshiny sleep, soothes the nervous system, and restores the healthy action of the lungs." Recommended above all other medicines by Sir Alexander Tralles—sec Thomson' Materia Medico, page 175, vol. 2. The following is from Dr. Brett, the eminent chemist :—" I consider the balsam of hore hound and aniseed, as prepared by Mr. Ma rtin, an ele g an t and efficient cough remedy, and I fully agree with Sir Alexan der Tralles and Dr. Anthony Todd Thomson, that, in conjunc tion with cod liver oil, it is an admirableadmirable remedy fo r con sumption and delicate constitutions." —B. H. Brett, Ph . Dr. , M.R.C.S., late Lecturer on Chemistry and Medical Jurispru dence, Liverpool Royal Infirmary The balsam of h ore h oun d and aniseed is prepared only by T. Martin, chemi s t, 22, Cop per: s-hill, Liverpool; but, owing to its great a n d i ncreas i ng sale, agents have been appointed in all principal towns and cities. It can be procured wholesalefrom Raimes and Co., from Sutton and Co., Edinburgh and York, London, ef.r.. macott, Manchester, and wholesale and retail from them in!: - facturer, as above. Price, is. lad., 2s. 9d., and 45.6d.c..E.4 , The lozenges in box at Is. 10• ~ icee by post, Is. 6d. VICARAGE. Westow, co and dio York :N;lll7i:Pat Archbishop of • it e v. W. T. Wild, dec.: PERPETUAL CURACIES. Bethnal Green, ,St. Bartholomew, Middlesex : dio London val £2OO with. residence : rat Bishop of London : Rev. F. H.. Vivian, prom._ Ilamostead, St. Paul, Middlesex : dio London : val £615: pats. Incumbent of Ilampstcad and Rey'. J. M. Farrar : Rev. J. M.. Farrar, prom.... Islington, St. Michael, Middlesex : dio London : Rev. L. R.. Ayre, prom. DONATIVE CURACY. BatToNv-Gurncy, Somerset : dio Bath and Wells : val £7l : pat J. 11. Blagrove, Esq. : Rev. P. W, Doyne, prom. CHAPLAINCIES. Farnborough Union : Rev. E. M. Heale r prom. Plymouth Borough,Gaol : Rev. W. locker, prom. Plymouth Cemetery: Rev. W. Hooker, prom. Ripponden Commercial College, Halifax : stipend £200:: pat. tee Principal. CIJRACIES. Aldbourne, Wilts : dio Salisbury : stipend £lOO. Allington, Dorset : dio Salisbury. Barnsley, St. Mary, Yorkshire : dio Ripon. Birmingham, St. Luke's : dio Worcester. Bradford-on-Avon ' Wilts : dio Salisbury : with a title. Bringhurst, Leicestershire : dio Peterborough. Hoo ' Norfolk : dio Norwich. Hurst-Pierp?,int, Sussex : dio Chichester. Kibworth.Beauchamp, Leicestershire : dio Peterborough.. Lacock, Wilts : dio Salisbury : As ist.: stipend £lOO. Mablethorpe, St. Mary, w. Stayne, co and dio Lincoln. Monk's Kirby, Warwickshire dio Worcester. Morley, Derbyshire : dio Lichfield. Norbury w Snclston, Derbyshire : dio Lichfield. Otago, New Zealand : dio Christ Church : stipend £2OO 'with house and £leo passage mopey : pat Warden of St. Andrewli , College, Bradfield. Preston, Long, Yorkshire : dio Ripon. Rochdale. St: Tames, Lancashire : dio Manchester. Shaftesbury, Dorset dio Salisbury: stipend £52 and lodgings. Stretton, Lancashire : dio Manchester : stipend £BO and house. Townetall w. St. Saviour, Dartmouth, t)evon : dio Exeter. Toynton, Low, co and dio Lincoln : stipend £7O. Warton, Lancashire : dio Manchester : stipend £l5 with house, or £6O with title. Wheldrake, co and din York. Wiltoa, Wilts : dio Salisbury : stipend £5O with PROFESSORSHIP. Sandhurst Royal Military College : Classics : Rev. E. M.H.cale, prom. MASTERSHIPS. Hipperholme Grammar School, Halifax, Yorkshire : Res. • Warburton, dec. Potton Free School, Beds : salary £26: testimonials befit= December 1. Rochdale Grammar School, Lancashire : pat the V. of Rochdale, for this time. )re, Olt by - 2ent OLIC9 ) our nada on is; , st of :EN. iiy A of periyi short o full meal )een cen- we the. w ... ~