Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-28 00:00:00

Commtrziai THIS DAY, On account of whom it may concern. tuts DKr, 'the 28th instellt, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 17, Exchange-buildings. About n Bales Newfoundland COTTON, damaged, A quantity of wet PICKINGS, tx. Thames, from Savannah, lying on west side of Brunswick DOck.—For particulars apply to Charles Hal, Merchant; or to DUCKWORTH and RATHBONE, Brokers. On account of - whom it may concern. Tins D A'S., the 28th instant, at One o'clock, at the `Office of Thoirms Joynsen and Co., 13, Manchester-buildings, 82 Bales of CO I'TON, damaged, per Thames, from Savannah, lying west side Brunswick Dock. — Tor particulsrs apply to TI rnIA JYNSON and Co., Brokers NEXT 'WEEK Postponed from Friday, th, On account of whom tan Thr..snAY next, the 31st ins Brokers' Office ' Cern Exeh 140 Sacks Darn: !'stirs Felix, in nto: NBXT ,nt, at ha .:.7th instant may concern. -past One -o'clock, at the Brunswick-street, (wigs, .ch FLO LT I 11. 11. GOLDING.Broker MONTH of the Mersey Dock I mitt of whom it inay concern. HURSDAY, the Ist andlnd of June next, at Half-past 0n , ,, o'clock each day , A Quantity of SIL.iAR SCRAPINGS, COTTON PICKINGS, RICE. SWEEPINGS. FLOUR, LINSEED, CORN, GAM TIER, HUMAC and ItiYRABOLAM SWEEPINGS, Old ROPES, RAGS, CAST IR'ON,:ttc., Szc., lying in the Statdey hock warehouses.— For further, articulars apply to DANIEL C. BUCIIA NAN and Co., Brokers. On WBDN ESII&V and On Wr DIfE nAir, the Bth June, at the Brokers' Saler Oldhall-street, ;ola OItCIIELLA WEED, Apply to Messrs. Leech, Harrison, and Jest landed from Lisbon Forvood, Merchants; or to 11.10KE, OKELL, and SPENCE. ; Broker 7,Ya JAMES BANKS, CASTLE-BUILDINGS, DE Y-SQUA RE, LI VERPOOL. FENCING WIRE, Black., Bright, and Galvanised; TELEGRAPII WIRE and SIGNAL CORD, Wholesale and for Exportation. AMERICAN SOLACE, PIPE SMOKERS, TRY THE A,BOVE P4cka C. TURMEAU SUPERPHOSPHATE, PHOSPHOROUS, To MANtrACTtirelßs 0' POILCELAIIT, AND TLIMA Ce SOMBRERO, AND OTHER RICH ORGANIC CRUST PHOSPHATES OF LIME, g 80 to 85 per cen' ARNOTT BROTHER 3, Mersey Chamber Apply to AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, &c.—THIS DAY ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE —MT. and MTS. Barney Williams. OROAN PE/troaatAxcL—St. George's Hall, 3 p.m. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS —Mount Etna, &e. THR PARISIAN GALLERY OF ANATOMY, Paradise-street. ekb - - For particulars see advertisements on Bth page, TO CORRESPONDENTS. can we insert communications no -Under no circumstance accompanied by the aut sarily for .blicatio Cl? Itort l 4tra EinttL SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1859. THE DAY'S NEWS The War news this morning is meagre in the extreme, and adds scarcely a new fact to what has already appeared in our columns. A despatch from Alessandria, of the date of Thursday, simply announces :—" There is nothing new to note. The health of the army continues in excellent condition." A flotilla of gunboats is ready to sail from Toulon, and shortly to be followed by a second. It is believed they are intended to act against Venice . Five gunboats, which can be taken to -nieces and re-mounted, have been shipped to Genoa. They are intended, it is said, to be used against the Austrians on Lake Maggiore. The French Government, in consequence of the difficulty of obtaining English coal, have contracted with three French companies St. Petersburgh as certain, and its announcement close at had. The resignation of Prince Gortschakoff speaks volumes, and may change the whole aspect of the war. On Thursday, thz Case of the " Queen v. Roberts," in which a writ of habeas corpus had been issued against the Rev. W. Roberts, ordering him to produce a child named Mary Ann M'Donnell, whom it was stated the rev. gentleman detained against the wish of her father, in a Roman Catholic school, wai decided by the Court of Queen's Bench, the being whether the return made to the writ by Mr. Roberts was a bona file one. Mr. Lush contended it was not, and prayed the judgment of the court agenst the defendant for contempt, and after some argument, Lord Campbell said he was of opinion that an attachment ought to issue against Mr. Robeits, the effect of vhich would be that he would have to enter fate recognizances to answer certain interrogatories, and upon those answers the punishment to be awarded would depend. The attachment was therefore ordered to issue. The " Whipper-in" of the Ministry has issued the usual circular, preliminary to the opening of Parliament. It sets forth that it is fully expected " that an amendment will be proposed upon the address in answer to the Queen's Speech, on Tues and it is of the utmost importance that every vote should be available on that day." day, June rth Our readers will be glad to learn that great improvement took place in the health of the Duchess of Kent yesterday. The Bank Returns, as published in last night's Gazette, show an increase of 212,0011. in the bullion, 317,570/. in the re-issne of notes, and of 780,980/. in active circulation LYING CHRONICLERS OF THE WAR. THERE is one tactic of the French, in their Italian campaign, which, if there was nothing else, would augur no good of their cause—namely, that of enor mous lying. All their accounts of the operations, pro et contra, are found to be lying accounts. Exag- gerations of their own successes extenuations of their own mishaps ; and, vice versa, extenuations of Austrian advantages, and exaggerations of Aus trian reverses. All their own proceedings are re presented en colour de rose: all those of the enemy as most dismal and disordered. And this, not where it could be in anywise a matter admitting differences of opinion, but where it was simply one of fact. The recent affair of Montebello is a striking .case in point. So far from the valour and prowess of the occasion being all on the side of the French, as was pretended, the Austrians certainly more than shared it with them ; and instead of defeat being all therefore with the Austrians, the French, it would appear, were signally defeated, until strong rein forcements came up to their assistance. " The Piedmontese Cavalry," says an English letter from the seat of war, " after occupying Casteggio, had been driven back by the Austrians, who followed it into Montebello, where they were brought up by the force under FOREY and BEURET ; a fierce contest took place in the streets of the village, from whence the French were ultimately driven after two hours hard fighting, but at this time a reinforcement made its appearance, in the shape of half a battery of artillery and. the 91st and 98th Regiments. The village was recaptured after much slaughter, and the Austrians fell back along the road to Casteggio in perfect order, closely followed by the French." Such, it now appears, was the real state of the case. arrogance and ostentation, a man should detect in hi own defence, because he should not be triumphed over; those which are told out of maliee he should expose, both for his own sake and that of the rest of man kind, because every man skOuld rise against a com mon enemy; but the officious liar, many have agreed, is to be excused, because it does some man good, and no man hurt." Here, however, it is not the officious, so much as the rojicia/ liar. The whole process is official throughout. The French accounts of the war which are circulated all over Europe are described—and we believe truly—as - written by " the Paris journalists selected by the Emperor to accom pany the army, and record for the glory of France and the delectation of the French people the brilliant feats of arms which it is part of the Imperial pro gramme to perform." These scribes form a part of the French Emperor's campaigning establishment. They are, in fact, his special secretaries for the occasion, and for the purpose. Their lies may be "told out of arrogance and ostentation "—or " out of malice "—or out of all these. But they are lies ; and they are not " officious," but official lies. They deserve to be exposed, that people may be on their guard. The Italian campaign is only commencing, and yet has there being lying enough to make every French account of it discredited for all time to come. THE CHANCES OF INVASION, AND OUR MEANS OF DEFENCE. THERE has been of late years, we believe, no moment when the chances of an invasion of our shores were smaller than now ; and no period at which the alarmists had not better grounds than to-day for prognosticating disaster and distress. At no time, during the last ten years, have we, on the one hand, been more fully prepared to meet any enemy rash enough to attempt a landing on our coasts ; and at no period, on the other, has our only possible enemy been more incapable of making such an attempt. An invasion of England, at all times a favourite bugbear of the alarmists, has never been a favourite scheme with foreign nations ; and on two occasions it has proved an impracticable one. The Romans, we believe, once effected a landing on these shores. WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, also, in remote ages, invaded Britain ; but from those days, to these, England, alone among the nations of Europe, has remained untrodden by the heel of the invader. History tells us that the Spanish Armada was destroyed by Providential gales, while bearing a hostile army to these shores ; but history also informs us of the reception which awaited the Spanish army here. The cele brated Uncle of the present Emperor of the French meditated on the possibility of rivaling the feats of Roman and Norman conquerors, and con templated the white cliffs of Dover from the heights of Boulogne with longing eye. NAPOLEON, at peace with all the world—with a victorious army worship ping his star, and ready to march anywhere at his command—conscious of his vast military genius, and full of. vengeful hatred towards the one nation that had defied and thwarted him found it impossible to attack us, and framed a ready excuse for abandoning the scheme of the invasion of England, to which he had devoted years of thought, months of personal labour, and millions of money ; and to-day alarmists threaten Lis with a successful repetition of the failure of 1803, on the part of Louis NAPOLEON, and call upon us to fortify, to arm, and to drill, as if the heights of Boulogne were already white with the tents of the invading army, and our Ambassador had been insulted at the Tuileries. The Austrians were out-numbered by the arrival of The invasion of this country might have been French reinforcements. "At Casteggio," the letter attempted ten years ago, when our defences had goes on to say, " they stopped their retrograde been neglected, our army reduced, and our public movement, and a battalion of riflemen, posted on spirit demoralised, by the wretched sophistry some well-wooded hills south of the town, kept up a and unpatriotic speeches of the Manchester galling fire against the French, who made a despe- economists, and the " peace-at-any-price " party. rate attack to gain possession of the village, but A coup de main, might have been successful two years they were repulsed, and retired in considerable dis- ago, when our army was engaged in putting down order to Montebello, the Austrians pursuing them, the Indian rebellion, and when, owing to the exigen and it would have been all up with the division cies of the Russian war, and the want of energy of FOREY but for the 52nd regiment and the 6th the then First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir CHARLES battalion of Chasseurs, who had just arrived from WOOD, our navy was in an inefficient condition. A Cantalupe." This, then, is a very different version temporary blockade of our fortresses in the Mediter from that of the French ; and it is given by a rancan, or even of our ports and arsenals at home, neutral, and therefore impartial inquirer after the might have been maintained last autumn, when our truth of the conflict. How very different this from fleet, in both the Mediterranean and the Channel, the French Marshal BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS' Order was for some weeks actually, as well as numerically, of the Day to the first army corps :—" The battle of inferior to that of France. But to-day the one Montebello, 20th May, 1859, two thousand five nation who alone is sufficiently powerful to attack hundred against twelve thousand !! " in large us—and who, under any conceivable circumstances, capitals. And this placarded all over Paris, in order would be insane enough to do so P—has " other fish to excite the vices of the French population ! So to fry." Whatever may be the blustering tone far from the force being only two thousand five adopted by French Colonels, and the hostile feelings hundred, the Paris Patrie now gives just double of the French army towards the only nation which the number —five thousand—as the strength of contains " foemen worthy of their steel," we believe General FOREY'S division, and the Nord, a paper in the alliance and the entente cordiale as regards the equally vehement on the side of the allies and whole manufacturing, shopkeeping, and agricultural against Austria, asserts it to have numbered eight classes throughout the length and breadth of France ; thousand men, exclusive of the regiment of Sar- and we are convinced that no war would be more dinian cavalry. The same letter from the spot unpopular with the lo wer an d m iddl e c l asses t h an declares that, "at the beginning of the action the an aggressive war with Engla n d, commence d b y t h e Austrians had a decided numerical advantage; but Emperor without a well-d e fi ne d an d su ffi c i ent cause. at the close the advantage of numbers was wholly The interests of the two nations are id en ti ca l ; t h e on the side of the French." And this, we find from desire for peace is, at thi s momen t, common to b oth ; other sources, is just the fact of the matter, as to the and France is bound over to respect our neutrality numbers on either side. The same spirit of men- in very heavy recognizances. We wish we were as dacity has characterised, apparently, the French firmly convinced that the first unfriendly declaration accounts of the respective losses on the occasion. will not go from this side of the Channel. The Austrian loss has been stated as upwards of The fear of an invasion naturally follows the two thousand, killed and wounded, and the French argument which the Times, Saturday Review, and at five hundred,—the one, it is now ascertained, as other Austrian journals have maintained since the much above as the other is below the number. declaration of war,—that NAPOLEON 111. has It is the observation of a contemporary, with entered upon a war of universal conquest ; that a reference to this instance of French falsificati on " , love for It a li a n f re edom i s b u t a mas k t o cover that the composers of war b u ll e ti ns h ave never designs upon the Rhine frontier, Lombard-street, been famous for a rigid adherence to truth, but the and the Bank of England ! With these views we degree to which they depart from that virtue depends are entirely at issue. We believe that the Emperor as much upon the brilliancy of their imagination as landed at Genoa to rescue Italy from the iron rule of upon the questionable patriotism of desiring to make Austria ; not perhaps from an earnest hatred of their own side shine to advantage." From whatever tyranny, but from an innate love of existence. motive it proceeds, it is equally mendacious --and Italian assassins, revolutionary leaders, anonymous therefore equally vicious. It may be all right and letters, have for years presented him with this fair to " make their own side shine to advantage" alternative,--" Fulfil the oath you swore as a where it can be done without positive lying. It is Carbonari, or perish according to the rules to which allowable enough to paint their own successes in the you have also sworn allegiance !" the repeated most glowing colours—to blazon forth their own attempts by Italian refugees at the assassination of heroic deeds with the most brilliant effect—and to their former colleague and co-conspirator, are the set out every formidable circumstance in the most moving causes of the invasion of Lombardy,—and advantageous light. But still there must be some the letter written by ORSINI before his death regard for truth—there must be some groundwork decided the policy which will deluge the rice fields of fact. Lying is a v il e e x p e dient to trust to, even of Northern Italy with blood, even if it does not lead in war : it is a hateful vice under any circumstances, to the freedom of his country from foreign yoke. • The cause that s t an d s i n nee d o f an y thi ng so d e t es - it -is, then, we believe, from no restless and table, an d so v i cious, may well be suspected. " Lies;" insatiable ambition, but from sheer necessity, that it has been PPily remarked, "which are told out of i _the Emyerpr.bas drawn the sword in 1ta1 . 371 ;mod We i see no reason why, when it has accomplished its present ostensible purpose * it thould not be sheathed. Anyhow, the work cut tut 'for the Eniperor, on his own showing, will occupy him completely for some time, and will leave the resources.of his country, both in men and money, exhausted at its close. Austria has 500,000 men under arms at this moment—a force which has not only taken every one by surprise by its magnitude, but by its efficiency and material strength. The battle of Italian freedom will be fought to the last inch of ground, and to the last man capable of bearing arms. The stakes are as heavy as any ever played for, even on that historic and well-known field—on the one hand, the existence of Austria, as a despotic empire ; on the other, the success or failure of a man who has always been ready to pay any price for success, and to whom failure is ruin. At such a moment, to talk of a French invasion is to exhibit a complete ignorance of the actual state of matters on the' Continent, or intentionally to play the game of Austria, by inspiring Englishmen with suspicions which there is nothing to justify, and so prepare the way for a declaration in support of our " natural ally and ancient friend." We have left ourselves but little space to speak of our defences. Whether we turn to our army, our navy, our financial position, or our people, we shall find that they are larger, more powerful, on a sounder basis, and animated with a better spirit, than perhaps at any period in our history. The regular troops are rapidly returning from India ; the militia is numerous, well organised and disciplined ; the fleets are comparatively stronger than they have been for many years, and are being materially reinforced every day. The well-conceived, because simple and business-like, appeal to the seafaring population, has been most successfully responded to. Rifle corps are about to take the 'place of cricket clubs at Oxford, Cambridge, and every other place where young men have time and money at their disposal. , The whole population are happy, con tented, and comparatively prosperous; and the only danger personal to us as a nation, which we see before us, is—not that being for warned, we shall be unarmed ; but that being foranned, we shall want to make some use of the vast means of offence we have accumulated ; and that it will be difficult to check the martial spirit always latent in English breasts, and which the Press and the Rifle Clubs will easily arouse into a flame. for 250,000 tons. The steamer Vesuvio has arrived at Marseilles from Naples, with a full complement of passengers, who have hurriedly quitted Naples from fear of a collision which appeared imminent there. The court is divided. The King, confiding in his army, is making prepara tions to suppress any outbreak of a revolution. His Majesty has ordered the arrest of several suspected persons of distinction. It is asserted that the Kin, will declare for neutrality. His Majesty has received, bytelegraph, re-assuring communications from the great Powers. A telegram, published in the second edition of the Times, dated Naples May 26th, says that " the capital was tranquil The King was pro- claimed at Caserta on Sunday. The garrison took the oath of allegiance the same day. The garrison of Naples took the same oath on Wednesday. The funeral will:take place at the end of the week, or on Monday." From Frankfort we have the report that, at the sitting of the Federal Diet, on Thursday, the minor German States voted that in certain eventualities military measures should be taken. Prussia claimed that in such cases the initiative should be accorded to her. The Morning Advertiser confirms the announcement -we made some days ago as to the intended departure of M. Kossuth from England. It says that "it is the intention of M. Kossuth to quit England in eight or ten days for Hungary. He goes in the first instance to Genoa, with the full concurrence of the King of Sardinia and Louis Napoleon, and will there concert, with General Klapka and other eminent Hungarian officers, measures for throwing off the Austrian yoke in their native country, and for restoring its inde pendence." The attitude of Russia has been felt all along to be .one of the most important .elements in forming any .conjecture Es to the probable results of the war. That there was some understanding arrived at :between the Cabinets of the Tuileries and St. Petersburg, by which, within certain limits, Russia was to remain neutral, or, in certain other contin gencies, lend her aid to France, is almost certain, ,The agreement wag no doubt erroneously described as a treaty offensive and defensive, but it was a secret agreement whieh might possibly lead to such a treaty. A change, however, has come over these relations of the western and northern empires, wliich is of the highest significance. We are informed, on authority which we deem perfectly raliable, that Prince Gortechakoff, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs and. for War, has resigned, in conseque nce of the no w undis gu i se d leaning of his Government towards Austria. Th e Prince sent in his resignation some time ago, but it .was not accepted until Prince Windisgratz's mission n is talked of at bad been accomplished. A coalitto 'HE NORTHERN TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1859 POPULAR RECREATIONS THERE is no part of the community that is so much entitled to recreation as the working.classes. And yet, shame to say, there are none among us for whom so little provision is made in this respect. To recreate is .to relieve or recruit after toil—to amuse or divert in weariness. Recreation is - tefreshment, amusement, diversion. And who can possibly hav e such claims to this, as those who labour severely ten or twelve hours out of the tVventy-four It is the remark of an eminent philosopher, that " diversions are the most properly applied to cure and relieve those who are oppressed by being too much employed. Those that are idle have no need of them ; and yet they, above all others, give themselves up to them. To unbend our thoughts," he adds, " when they are too much stretched by our cares, is not more natural than it is necessary ; but to turn our whole life into a holiday, is not only ridiculous, but destroyeth pleasure instead of promoting it." And as with the mind, so with the body, Manual labour, no less than mental, has need of this relief. While, on the one hand, the invigorating exercises of bodily labour counteract most effectually the pernicious, debilitat ing tendencies of bodily pleasure ; on the other, bodily labour without pleasure converts the body into a mere machine; and brutalises the soul. We see this fact illustrated'but too often in the brutalities to which some of the most devoted of the sons of toil are apt to be addicted. Take that hardworking class of the labouring portion of the community, the navvies. Their bodily labour is perhaps the severest of any that has to be endured ; and it is only too notorious, that whenever it happens, as so generally it does, that the scene of their labours is one which precludes the enjoyment of any rational recreation, the soul becomes more brutalised among them than among any other section of the labouring classes BURTON, in his " Anatomy of Melancholy," argues most convincingly, that " the mind and body must be continually in exercise, and therefore dancing, singing, masking, mumming, however severely they may be censured by the CATOS of the age, are, if opportunely and soberly used, extremely beneficial. ..ifelius est fodere quart saltare, says St. AUSTIN; and TULLY insists, Nei zo saltat sobrius ; but these are the observations of men to whom age and infirmities had rendered all youthful passions unpleasant and disagreeable. Let the world, I say," he adds, "have their May-games, wakes, whitsunales ; their dancing, and concerts ; their puppet-shows, hobby horses, tabors, bagpipes, balls, barley-breaks, and whatever sports and recreations please them best, provided they be followed with discretion." This is the great point,—the use of such sports and recreations, without the abuse of them. But then we believe that one reason why they are now so apt to be abused among the working classes is, that they so seldom are able to use them,—that the bodies of so many of them are become such mere machines, and their souls thereby are so much brutalised, as to have almost unfitted them for following, all at once, any sports or recreations with discretion. There are, of course, many precautions necessary, in the people, and more especially the labouring classes, having recourse to diversions and pleasures. "Let not your recreations," says JEREMY TAYLOR, " be lavish spenders of your time ; but choose such as are healthful, recreative, and apt to refresh you : but at no hand dwell upon them." And the same sound moralist adduces a high, nay a saintly authority for diversion and relaxation, when he says,—" Necessity, and the example of St. JOHN, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge, teach us that it is lawful to relax our bow, but not suffer it to be unstrung." It is the sober and temperate use of such expedients that makes them beneficial to us all,—the letting them subserve alike our physical and mental improvement, without allowing ourselves to be in anywise their slaves or their victims. One great art of life is to be tempe rate in all things,—remembering the ancient but still seasonable maxim, that " moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues." One is forcibly reminded of the necessity of pro viding means of recreation for the working classes, when one sees the crowds of them who, during the . present looLeveuings, spend their hours after work in lounging about the streets where their dwellings are situated, with pipes in their mouths, and often gathering in groups to amuse themselves with what an Apostle has called "filthiness, foolish talking, _and jesting," which, he teaches us, " are not con venient." And sad experience shows that they are not only " not convenient," but, on the contrary, are most demoralising. Or, it may be, that many of them spend their time at the pot-house--which is worse still. And in either case, it very generally arises from their want of some opportunity of enjoying any rational yet popular recreation. We hnow they may be told, To walk abroad and recreate themselves But even this they too often cannot do even were there, which generally there is not, the inducement to do so,—and for the best of all reasons ; that within any easy distance there are nothing but hard and dusty and cheerless roads where they can walk abroad. Besides, this is not, after all, any recreation to them; it is no diversion—no amuse- ment. They want something to entertain them, — and they deserve to have it, to act as a relief to their labour, a solace to their care There is a Society in London for providing means of recreation for the working classes,—principally, it is true, for the juvenile portion of them ; but, of course, such an instrumentality is equally applicable, in all respects, to the case of adults. " This Society," it is remarked of it, we see, " is now in its third year; it has gathered around it many patrons and friends ; it has obtained the sanction of the Legislature for its proceedings ; it has just held its second anniversary; and we believe it is in a fair way of permanently working out the good for which it was founded. But it is still only in its infancy; it has no large funds, or generous donations, or ample subscriptions to fall back upon. The Society, in : fact, is like its objects, not only young but poor. That it shall not long continue so must be the care of the benevolent British public. There is some thing really very pleasing and thoroughly English in this association. At this season we should like to see the proceeds of a game of cricket or two, or a sturdy boat-race, applied to this institution. It ought to cast itself on Young England for support, and rely on it, while, no doubt, more matured benevolence will not be wanting. In truth, there is so much ingenuity, as well as gbodness, in' the scheme, that we could not bear to see it otherwise than flourishing. This Playground and General Recreation Society is one of those types of modern British benevolence whose exponents are to be found in our new parks, our summer excursions, our baths and washhouses, and our model lodging-houses. There is something of human kindness and a family consideration and feeling about all of them. This is the Conservative socialism of England, differing in tote from the revolutionary ; it is therefore we feel bound to plead the cause of the new progress so frequently ; and foremost in the van we certainly place this society for providing playgrounds and recreation for the wandering children of our great cities." Thus wrote of it, a few days since, one of our London contemporaries ; and we were struck, when reading it, with the idea of such a Society for Liverpool—one that would seek to promote, and to provide for, the general recreation of the working classes here, and thereby, we feel quite sure, do them, and the community at large, a most essential service, as regards the, moral and physical improve ment of so numerous and important a section of the body politic. We throw out the hint. Let us hope it may be taken and acted upon. It is a cause, we may depend upon it, of real philanthropy and patriotism. A CABINET COUNCIL was held yesterday afternoon, LETTERS for the Colony of Victoria may be registered on and after June lst. THE Gibraltar Chronicle says the Mediterranean fleet is to be augmented to thirty-five screw-ships of the line. THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL CONTRACT.—There are likely to be four competive tenders for the Australian mail contract vile Panama. LETTERS FROM Romu state that the greatest enthuiasm was produced among the people and French troops, by the news of the triumph of the French troops at Montebello. ADVICES FROM llinsEILLEs state that the steamers arriv ing at that port from Italy are crowded with passengers. The English are leaving Tuscany, the Roman States, and Naples._ THE FRENCH ENVOYS at the Courts of Bavaria, Han over, and Wurtemburg are at present in Paris, , having been summoned to give verbal account of the difficulties of their position in consequence of the war excitement in Germany. THE POSTAL COMMUNICATION with the lonian Islands, via Trieste, having been interrupted by the war, the Govern ment have entered into a contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company for a fortnightly mail service between Marseilles and Corfu. MAIL NEWS.—The light portion of the Calcutta and China mail will be delivered in London this (Saturday) morning. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Malta was due at Alexandria on Thursday, with dates from Melbourne to the 17th April. THE Shipping Gazette is of opinion that the local trade is as ,free to make engagements and to execute them as if war had not broken out, and quotes, in support of this view, the official instructions sent by the Commissioners of Customs to the outports at the time the neutrality prc clamation was issued. RIFLE CORPS.—The morning papers published the new circular respecting rifle corps. The Post remarks that if the War Office thinks it went too far in issuing the circular of the 12th of ➢iay, they have, by the document issued on Thursday, only proved that they are unwilling to restore to the people of this country their common law right, not only to possess but to be trained, to the use of arms. Independently of the eight divisions already designated to form the army of observation under the command of Marshal Pellissier, four additional divisions are in course of organisation for the same object. Accounts from the army of Italy state that the whole of the French troops and military stores were expected an Saturday the 28th, when the Emperor will probably make a general inspection of his force. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.--TREASURY CIRCULAR,— Members are most particularly requested to make their arrangements so as to admit of their being sworn at the table of the House of Commons not later than the 6th of June' It. is fully expected that an amendment will be proposal upon the address in answer to the Queen's Speech, on Tuesi day, June 7th ; and it is of the utmost importance thaf every vote should be available on that day.—Treasury, May 23rd. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. John Gaskill, a child ) Wee overlain in bed on Thas as . night by his mother. Kite llBl/. Joseph Davis, 25, who lived in a court off street, was found dead yesterday in the water closet. 1 4, A box, containing the body of a full grown - ma1e 14 .4 was found on Thursday night in St. Anthony's Church___•' Scotland-road. Yesterday, William Crowley, 37 years of age, 340 lived , 4 0 in St. Andrew-street, was working in the slaughter-uw,d in Throwbridge-street, when he suddenly fell down, 1. " expired on the spot. e The body of a woman, named Agnes Gibson, who ke e r s e fish stall in St. John's Market, and whose husband _or, plasterer, was found in the river yesterday by the Bun boat, and brought on shore. )I°' EXCTJRSION TO BEAUMARIS, &C.—The steamer „ chester, will leave the Great Landing-stage to - n wr l o o morning at half-past nine o'clock prompt, on an elc urz ico trip to Beaumaris, Bangor, and the Menai-straits• o il have no doubt a large number of persons, who canno t , 13 : c o themselves of any other day, will gladly do su rea this opportnnity. The management is in the hands o tib ito old friends, who have earned so good a reputation as Y t aie , caterers, and we are satisfied they will always In olll o , l and take the lead as purveyors on this station, and defy any opposition which may be offered. The Ir e t o very moderate for the round, as will be seen by refeien' the advertisement. Rai DAMAGING 'GLASS, &c., &c.—Daniel MurpeL.,o. yesterday summoned to the Police Court, before . 01 :1,01 Grant and Houghton, for £2 18s 2d, for damage be It done to glass, &c., belonging to one Michael Farre n ' o e would appear that the defendant was a lodger of the cot plainent, and he refused to pay the rent, a baliff ward t ba in, and some ill-feeling arose, threats were made, 011 , 4 ed other evening the defendant burst-open the door, three' re , the defendant, and broke glass, earthenware and furtlit: l o 4 to the value of £2 18s 2d. Some legal squabbling 1 01/ place between Mr. Cobb and Mr. Campbell, and ultiroal or the bench ordered that the defendant pay the £2 1 852 ' be impisoned for one month. A cs oclk; BIRKENHEAD AND CLALTGHTON RATEPAYERS' TION.—The following gentlemen were selected hy tw el association, and are recommended to the ratepayers, as tbs proper persons to be nominated as commissioners at ensuing election, on the 7th of June, 1859 : E. G. Willoughby, steam-packet owner, Mersey-street . Stainton Bailiff, painter, &c., Ashfield-terrace. Thomas Evans, coacL propritor, Devonshire-road. Edward Bretherton, attorney, Hamilton-square. William Henderson, seedsman, Market-cross. Joseph Peck, draper, Chester-street. Thomas Reeves, gentleman. Melville-place. Walter Johnston, accountant, Oaton-road. William Ryalls, professor of music, Blackburn-terrace: ot% JAMES HIGHTON, President of the Associat to CAPTAIN SCHOMBERG.—We understand that CIO' Schomherg, who has held the appointment of chief en ' co te tion officer at this port for some six- years, is about to lot his place, in consequence of, as we hear, an apPo i , rit il iq that he has received on board H.M. ship Aboukir. vr„ 1 01 his stay amongst us, we have had frequent opportow l- ; a! meeting him, professionally and otherwise, and truly say, that a more polite, kind, and considera te r an d we have never known, nor one who has, by man ° col urbanity, his honesty and faithfulness in the discharg e to his duties, gained so many friends ; at the same t e 0 . 1 has been admired by all, and respected in every P b ' , ., les official and social life. We heartily wish him succes s ' new position. t the A Mn. MANSFIELD AND THE CORONER. —Yeeterelk; police court, before Mr. Mansfield, a man named The was put up, charged with the murder of a child. f 0 i case will be found fully re p or t e d i n ano th er pa rt °•ath e paper. The officer wh o h a d c h arge o f th e pr i son er sa' ef eli prisoner had been before the coroner. Mr.lke.ansfield, i ' e r. apparent surprise) : What, sir, a man before the eerleld . a charge of murder ? Officer : Yes, sir. Mr. Mau a d He had no right to be taken there and the coro ner t i e right or power to have him before him ; it was doer' improper. Who brought him before the coroner ? I did, sir. Mr. Mansfield : You did very improper're Who authorised you to do so ? Officer : One of the Myatt trates who sat here, sir. Mr. Mansfield : The rnag s nr jer , made a mistake, as he had no right to make such a n v r igl! t and he ought not to have done so. The coroner has 11° 0 0 1. to have any prisoner before him, whether the pe r th e tb e charged with murder or any other offence. What or' dig' result of the case there ? Officer : The prisoner 045 es/ charged. Mr. Mansfield : Take care you don't do s°o3e more, by taking any prisoner before the coroner. matter then dropped. t ie BOY'S CONCERT, WOOLTON.—On Wednesday ,la s !' 20th instant, the third and last gratuitous co nCer) s, given by the schola rs o f th e W oo lt on National Sel l°° o ur the subscribers, teachers, parents, and their friends' The ducted by their able teacher Mr. A. J. Aldred. 0 40 performance consisted of sacred and secular musi c, astonished all who heard it, and especially, those 11 " - their knowledge of music, were able to appreciate o de' singing. The conductor cannot be too highly eein m as ia' for his indefatigable exertions upon the present oe c e ifol and for the diligent attention to his duties for the:: OP of those placed under .his care. The concert "" in bers ce , attended, consisting of very highly and respectable met es: of society, who evidently fully app r eci a t e d the t we i'l e bl ability of the conductor upon the success of his put t , the loud and prolonged applause. The pieces performed ft musicians were very satisfactory. After a vote of thai . l eg the conductor, singers, and musicians, by the tresswiees the schools, he concluded in a most pleasing and instO o ds' manner, by expressing a wish that the concerts sa After factorily ended, might prove beneficial to all parties. AO the National Anth em , th ree t ru l y B r i t i s h c h eers wer e , b b - tbe for our beloved and graci ous Q ueen , a ft er wb, 4 ", 1 0 an assemblage broke up, highly delighted with so e vexing's entertainment.—A Correspondent. ea ri3i. UNIVERSITY LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.—The seconm.reele j, nation, to be held in Liverpool, by the University of not , will commence at nine o'clock on Tuesday, the 13t110 the and be continued, day by day, till half-past eight ,° C log' evening of Wednesday, the 22nd, when it will finall., tb e Each day, the hours will be from nine to twelvelL.,„s4 morning, two to five in the afternoon, andfrom s ix toll:, 1 e ' eight in the evening. The corporation has again vet"' l i V ai lar , granted the use oeSt. George's-hall. The Rev. " so pl)c' M.A., Wadham College, Reader in Experimental Philo l t;i and late Public Examiner in the University of Oxford, sc :. 1 , 11 0 . the presiding Examiner in Liverpool. The number a tio o didates is 87,624 seniors and 63 juniors (rather le ss bor ., last year), but there is an increase in the number °f ,nitro from Liverpool, and from Liverpool achools,who are ° n oel forward on the present occasion. The numbers at the ;le large centres of examination are—London, 224 ; b 6 ' ter, 98 ; Exeter, 84 ; Oxford, 78 ; Birming lloll l ar r Brighton, 48 ; L ee d s , 41 - &c &c. Altogether Hi er d, 937 candidates. A Prize Fund has . again been forni j which the Earl of D er b y h as very liberally contributetuse; contribution of £l5 ; the Right Hon. W E. 010--A ;0 M.P., has given a substantial proof of his interest examination by contributing £lO ; W. J. Legh, 1d• 1'• /3• 3s. ; and the H on . Al gernon E gerton, M.P., 0 " t i Horsfall, M.P., J. C. E war t, M.P., and other gel,l:e. e have promised to c ontr ib u t e , Hs Grace the li ni " ee t°: Devonshire will also cont r ib u te £5 as th e commen r ,c e a prize fund for the candidates at th e C am b r idge -r' s- e 0 1 ° 5 ' tion, to be held at. Liverpool, next Dece m b e r. Most " v eg . who contributed to the funds o f th e A ssoc i a tion, 155. 55' are renewing their contribntions for the purpose Off P u o iris" ing desks and other furniture, after which these 513 tions must be self-supporting. af . A IMPORTANT TO THE WOOL TRADE.—Yesterday ,;bite' A Mr. Waterhou s e, o f Littl e F a ll s , N ew York, ev t ,;ei, ;1 1 ; new machine, patented in England, F rance , Bolg e .- fi rs, the United States, for clearing sheep skins fromd. at Metcalf's Foundry, Naylor- s t ree t, V aux hall t° those not engaged in the wool trade, it may be ne,. ; 0 4° 4 explain that sheep skins, as exported from Buen u o ' pr fcl , o , o are thickly studded with thorns and the ro u ,g",h'eet coverings of the seeds of plants, gathered by the the uncultivated plains of South America. To ront r yory; was at first a costly manipulative process, ,„ 11— e - 13 ,e u cheapened by the invention of a cylinder of a ° 7, - , s 'of „ c o e these old machines are considered by the inv eu—r bstal . new one to do a superficial work, and to leave the of the wool clotted with accumulated thorns and c ll l, oo l o e therefore, in. order more effecti ve ly t o clear the : On O a these accumulations, he ha s cons t ruc t e d a m achine, ti ro 01 cylinder of which there are alte rna t e r ows of scr a P e tro til hooks, the latter being the longer and therefore neao.te es to a greater depth. Th e cylinder is four feet in lefe k , ss.; ,twelve inches in di ame t er ; there are six rows of Iw t l te t six rows of scra p ers ; and the inventor estimate s machine will clean 160 skins an hour, and do 1 7 er oltlYr thoroughly. In the presence of several gentlemen yeS` til t rop e a number of skins was cleaned by the machine , „ror s result was most satisfactory. Although half the _ , r speed was not put upon the inachine,,,,. of skins were thoroughly cleaned of the burs, °'". 0 .01 1. which the skin was previously covered. de olq The waste of wool was sma ll, and this would be eon s ' a ble 11 ' lessened by an increased speed on that which he w as c , ef eea t be obtained yesterday from the temporary arroe_t the made for testing the machine. It is calculated thoteer machine could be driven by 21 or 3 horse, steam, se lves, power. 'The gentlemen present expressed Or: occi,' highly satisfied with the experiment, and were e° l `, e an d that this machine would bring about a very des ireo, important imprerement in foreign wools.