Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-01 00:00:00

CXBINETM IKERS' WE, the Undersigned Cabinet Manufacturers of the Town of Liverpool, tender our sincere thanks to our several Customers, the Nobility and Gentry of Liver pool, and the surrounding neighbourhood, for their hind forbearance towards ns during the arduous straule which has been in existence between us and our late workmen for the past twelve weeks; and we have now the pleasure to inform onr several friends that we have suc ceeded in employing an entirely new lot of men, and re now fully prepared to undertate any orders we may be favoured with. Again offering our sine iie thanks, we remain your obedient servants, Abbott, John Holden and Co., Abbott, Samuel Holt and Sin, Blain, Arbuthnot Hughes, T., and Co., Bradley Brothers, Lew's, Thomas Campbe'l and Morgan, Paterson, Robert Davies, John Roberts, W. S., Dutton, N. and T. Rossall and Gradwell Fairclough Brothers, Wcodbnrn, Miles Forest, Charles Wright, Henry Harris, Henry THOMAS PARKER, let August, 1857. Secretary, 5, Church street. AMUSEAIESTS, PUBLIC MEMNG3, &c. THIS DAY. ROYAL AMPIIITEIATRE—Dramatic Performance-7 p.m. 'tam)! HALL, Clayton-square—G,,rdon Cumming-8 p.m. Rorer. CoLosssum—Gewiral Entertain:salt-6.30 p.m. SeoLooicai. GAZDEN3—Grand And Varied Entertainments. LUMP'S CITSTAL PILACD, Lima-street-10 a.m. to 10 p.m. 1 0- For particulars see advertisements. he had an interview with Mr. Tucker and his solicitor with respect to his property. It is under stood that the assets, estimated at between £B,OOO and £9,000, were claimed by the assignees of the Royal British Bank. ',The choice of assignees is appointed for August 14th, and for last examination, September 19th, at i twelve, and will be forthwith gazetted. The home preparations for prosecuting the war against the Indian sepoys are of an extensive character, and remind us of what took place pre vious to the expedition to the Crimea. Under such circumstances, the talk about the poor Re form Bill, of which we heard so much a few weeks since, seems likely altogether to be forgotten. At Rochdale, however, there has been a political demonstration. The death of Mr. Muntz, M.P. for Birmingham, is announced. He represented that town for seventeen years. It is unnecessary for us to say that, as a public man, Mr. Muntz was remarkable as possessing peculiar views on monetary ques tions, and as an advanced reformer. The honour able gentleman, who was in his 64th year, had been in ill health for some time past. We will be somewhat anxious to see upon whom the choice cf the electors of that most influential constituency will fall. The friends of Mr. George Dawson are likely to ask him to stand as a candidate, and others are said to be anxious to put Mr. Bright in nomination. The demise of the late member will be the subject of considerable regret, not only in the House of Commons, but throughout all politi cal circles. Our police reports this morning contain several cases of interest, and one of shocking barbarity of a mother to one of her children, a deaf and dumb girl. The case has been remanded. As far as heard it betrays female atrocity of the most brutal description, and from all appearances the man connected with her is not much better. A beer house keeper, named Francis Daly, was summoned for not admitting officer Bolton on Sunday morning. The officer was in plain clothes, and had only waited two or three minutes. Mr. Wy berg stated that the late Mr. Rushton had expressed an opinion as to the illegality of Policemen going in plain cloths to entrap publicans, awl he believed that the Chair man of the Watch Committee was also against the system. The ease NVIV dismissed. The Assize intelli , tence in to-day's 'publication, contain accounts of no less than three cases of murder and two of manslaughter. Happily no capital convictions ha►e taken place. At the Tipperary Assizes three men, including Rowan, Patrick Cashell, Esq., solicitor, were indicted and found guilty of an aggravated assault on a man named Dennis Brien, at Nenagh, on the s:h inst. Mr Cashell was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour, and the others to twelve months. Our accounts from Paris state that there is likely to be trouble respecting the question of the Danubian Principalities, not only to Turkey but her allies. TheZ.French government are reported to be disappointed, if not grieved, at the manner in -which the elections in Moldavia were conducted ; and it is said that the Emperor has sent expressly for the Turkish ambassador, to tell him It bit of his imperial mind. The trial of the three Italians charged with complicity in the plot against the Emperor, has been fixed for Thursday next. The President of the Court of Assize has assigned counsel to each. A dreadful railway accident had taken place on the Paris and Strasburg line, in consequence of a fire breaking out in an up train, the passengers in the carriage where the flames burst out, in a state of frantic despair, burst open the door and jumped off the train, whereby two ladies and two children were killed on the spot, and eight other passengers were dangerously injured. The Moniteur states that France has obtained an authorisation from Baden to construct a permanent bridge over the Rhine between Strasburg and Khel. Advices from Constantinople, via Trieste, mention that a note signed by M. de Thouvenal and Lord Redeliffe demands, fitA, that the Porte shall banish the judges who passed sentence on the Jew lately executed at Tunis; second, the proclamation of the Tanzimat in the government of Tunis; and third, that an indemnity shall be given to the family of the victim. Mr. Murray has consented to enter Tehe ran withont being escorted by regiments. Intel ligence from Madrid mentions that the church will be indemnified by transfer of Consolidated Funds. Mr. Garrigo is the new military governor of Madrid. A. service of steamers is organized be tween Spain and Cuba. For the first time since May 23rd, the bank returns show a diminution in the stock of bullion, which for July 23rd, was £167,671 less than on the week preceding. gle bailut! iirripo SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. In the House of Lords last night the Earl of Ellenborough asked whether the government would consent to lay before the house, certain papers relating to affairs in India. He commented in very strong terms on the conduct of certain high personages in India, and laid all the blame of the late revolt on the head of the Governor-General. Earl Granville said that there would be no objection to the production of the papers, and after some further conversation the matter dropped. In the House of Commons there was not much business of importance transacted. A petition was presented from the inhabitants of Preston, corn plaining of the scarcity of Cotton and praying for an enquiry into the eauses that prevented its growth in India. In reply to a question by Mr. H. Baillie, if the Attorney-General had been authorised to prosecute Pil those persons who had been reported by Election Committees to have violated the laws of the country, or whether it was to be confined to the offen ders in the County of Mayo. Sir G. Grey said that the Attorney General only prosecuted in such cases as the committees considered were of sufficient magnitude and importance for such a proceeding. The chairman of the Mayo committee, with— as he (Sir G. Grey) understood—the unanimous approbation of the members of that committee, made a motion in that house for the prosecution of two persons in connection with that election, and to which the house had acceded. He did not know the other cases to which the hon. gentlemen referred, but he had no doubt, if the chairman of any other election committee made a similar motion, that the house would deal with it according to its merits when made. Lord John Russell will move for a seclect committee (on Monday) to consider the Oaths Bill. The House then resumed the debate on the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill. Mr. Patrick Somers, the member for Sligo, has been unseated, and the Right Hon. Mr. Wynne' has been declared duly elected for that borough. Some excitement prevails in the borough of Great Yarmouth, in consequence of the decision of the committee of the house of Commons unseating Mr. Torrens M'Cullagh and Mr. Watkin. It is not yet agreed upon who will be the Liberal candidates to supply their places, but the Conservatives have determined on starting Sir Edward Lacon, and the Hon. Colonel Vereker, who were beaten at the last election, when the numbers stood as fol lows :—Mr. M'Culle.gh, 606 ; Mr. Watkin, 590; Sir E. Lacon, 521 ; Colonel Vereker, 476. Vari ous suggestions have been made as to the course the Liberal party should take, and in all pro bability a public meeting will be called in a day Or two. The Chairman of the Ipswich Election Com mittee last night announced that Hugh Edward Adair and John C. Cobbold were duly elected for that borough; and the Huntingdon Electien Com mittee have decided that John Major Hethcoate has not been duly elecetd, but that Edward Fel lowea was duly elected. Yesterday, Hr. Humphrey Brown, late M.P., surrendered in London, under the Bankruptcy -LAW, on his own petition. The previous evening ANXIETY deep and earnest has been felt by every inhabitant of the British Isles, during the last week, for the full details of the news from India. They are hourly expected to reach Liverpool, when the eagerness of all will be satisfied respecting the state of affairs in our Indian Empire. Meantime, it will not be out of place to take a retrospective glance of the past history of East India, which will show that for far more than a century our Government has been subject to mutations and vicissitudes of good or bad fortune, to combinations of European and native princes against British rule, and to mutinies as extensive, startling, and unexpected, although not so formidable in character, as the one with which we have now to deal and put down. Prior to the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1748, England and France contended for the mastery, and for years after that event, the armies which both nations maintained gave their adhesion to the native princes, so that the British Ensign or the French eagle might float in triumph, and betoken that its army were possessors of the soil. Although France had for her commanders men of great military skill and courage, and each of them animated by an ardent desire to combine the French with the native element so as to effect the overthrow of British power in India, they were unsuccessful, and British valour and dogged determination triumphed over French bravery and skill, com bined with Indian faithlessness. Hence in the war with ii.YDF.It ALL and TIPP() SAID, the designs of France were frustrated, and her skilled Generals, DuPLErx, LABOURDONNAIR, DILLY, and DESTRANGE, completely mastered. The result of this important contest was the annexa tion of Mysore, which was for the most part transferred:to the East India Company. Again, in the Scindia and Holkier war, the army of the confederates was under the command of the most accomplished and experienced generals of the day, among whom were PERRON, and M. LOUIS BOURGEIN, WELLESLEY, however, kept the enemy at bay, and in a marvellous manner maintained the supremacy acquired by CLIVE and PLASSY, the final result being a cession of the greater part of the territory of Halkier to England. To these we may add the Nepaul, Pindany, Mahratta, Affghanistan and Punjaub wars, in which European skill and genius lent a helping hand to the natives. But England was always invincible, and her Generals, Lords HAST INGS and COMMIE, POLLOCK, GOUGH, HARDINGE, and last, but by no means least, NAPIER, ever able to sustain the repute, heroism, and undaunted courage of our glorious armies. We notice these facts for the purpose of reminding our readers that, for a full century, - ending in 1848, England, which had to struggle single-handed against the combination of European and native forces in India, is not at all likely to succumb to a set of mutineers, who, although extensive in numbers, and widely spread throughout the territories, are without a guide, a definite object, or governing intelligence, It must be borne in mind that the natives of India are without that patriotic ardour which is inherently planted in the bosoms of Europeans; and although there is in India an ancient civilisation, ancient literature, and mostly all the arts of civilised life, the total absence of the foregoing requisites is a drawback serious to themselves, but fortunate for Great Britain, when she has to march upon the enemies of her flag, and honour, and dignity of her crown. Indeed, we are disposed to think that the peculiar constitution of the Hindoo character, seeing that i,t has caused India to submit to every invader—to the Mogul in past times, and Great Britain at present—must deprive the Sepoys of the power long to act together as one man, deprive them of political strength and unity of purpose, and ultimately prevent them from acting together with sympathy and vigour in support of any project hastily and imperfectly matured. It is for these reasons we do not join in the melan choly croakings of some alarmists. We have strong faith that any conspiracy or mutiny against Britain in India must ultimately fail. The British troops have never yet unsuccessfully fought on India soil. It is true many and severe have been the contests, and awful has been the waste of treasure and sacrifice of human life connected with our Indian battles ; but the final and decisive struggles have vindicated British prowess, and given to us a country and a soil magnificent in character, -end enormous in extent—a country whose population is five times as numerous as France, and three times as numerous as Russia. Moreover, as we have already remarked, these mutinies are of common occurrence. As far back as 1683, a serious mutiny broke oat at Bombay, and, in order to effect its complete suppression, the seat of government was removed to Surat. Again, another eineute took place in 1764, when the European forces took part with the native troops. History tells us that they stood to their arms, and after loading their pieces and fixing their bayonets, took possession of the artillery parks, and made their way in the direction of the Caramanassa. The sepoys were also disaffected, but ultimately they were induced to return. The English also became sensible of the wildness of the project, and desisted from giving it countenance, so that at last only some few hundred men, the greater part being French or Germans, went on to Benares. After this was the mutiny of officers in 1765, respecting the double battue. The finale of this attempt at rebellion is well known ; the officers and their adherents were quickly put down by . the steady mien of the sepoys, who were drawn up to attack them. To this last we have to add the mutiny of Vellore. This, too, was speedily suppressed, although it unfortunately cost the lives of some gallant British officers, among whom was the late Sir ROLLO GILLESPIE. Looking, then, at the results of all former mutinies in India, and taking into account the Hindoo character, and the fact that the disaffec tion now prevalent does not contain any European element, and that it has no mental or moral organisation to direct and control it, we feel that it is bereft of consistency or cohesion, and that it must give way to the seeds of dissOlution and decay which has always marked its progress. There must, however, be causes for such repeated manifestations of treason and disloyalty to the British Crown. The consideration of these causes, and the remedies which should be applied, will form the subject of further remarks as soon as the official details of the whole affair have been made public. SOME three months ago, at a special meeting of the Town Council, it was agreed to defer the decision on the memorial of the Rate- payers (praying for the restoration of the well water), until the first meeting of the Council in August, by which time the Water Committee declared they would be fully ready to state what course they would be prepared to pursue in regard to the whole question. As the day approaches when they are to meet and discuss the fate of the inhabitants of Liverpool on this great ques tion, at least so far as it is in their power to decide it, the public are naturally anxious to know the nature of the report they are to expect, and we have had numerous interrogatories on the subject. Will the Water Committee persist in maintaining that the Pike water is fit for dietetic purposes by itself ? Will they try the experi ment of giving the town a week's supply from Rivington of the stuff itself ? Or will they still continue to juggle with an admixture of hog wash and the pure well water, supplied in such quantities, and to such districts, as the caprice of the water magnates suggest ? These and many other such questions are constantly being put to us by those most:interested—the people who con sume and pay for the water, and who have hitherto borne with the grossest insolence and contumely from their own servants. We confess our inability, at present, to indi- cate to our many querists what course the Water Committee will pursue in the matter, or whether they will pursue any course at all, for they manage to keep their matters so completely secret, that bat little of their proceedings oozes out of the doors of the Town-hall, and this very secrecy has, as we have over and over again con tended, been their bane. Why, on such a sub ject as the supply of water to this or any other town, should there be any mystery ? Why are the people denied the privilege of looking into their own wells or their own reservoirs ? Why are the sources, the fountains of our water supply, hermitically sealed from the observation of those who have the best right to look into them ? Yet so it is; all is mystery, jugglery, and deceit, and will continue to be, until such time as the people shall rise up and say we will have no more of it ; thither shalt thou go but no further. We have already cautioned our readers against placing any faith in procuring even the semblance of justice from the Council on Wed nesday next, and we now repeat that caution. If any report is made at all, of which we have good grounds for doubting, then it will only be another specious specimen of Jesuitical sophistry, of which we have already bad so many. We have no faith whatever in the Water Committee, and still less in those whom they employ to do their work for them. What do either care for the comfort or welfare of the people of Liverpool We have had quite enough of the whole Pike gang already, and we know them. The wash, doctored and mixed although it is, teems with abominations of every possible kind, living organisms of every colour and shape, and decoctions of vegetable and animal matter even more deliterious than the aqueous monsters, who find their way into our stomachs with every draught of water we drink. Yet, while we are thus being nauseousated by this abominable filth, a couple of maudlin philosophers are enjoying themselves at the Pike at the cost of the Corporation, or rather of the people of Liverpool, experimenting or, at all events, pretending to do so, on the practicability Of improving the Peat bog-wash by some patent filtering or galvanising process, the invention of that universal genius THOMAS SPENCER —fudge. All the filtering ever known, or ever will be known, cannot alter the radical character of the Pike water. It is not the disgusting colour of the filthy liquid, bad although that is, that we care so much about as the foul abomination it holds in solution, and which no filtration in the world ever can remove. But the juggling operations of these emperical savans may answer the purpose of the Water Committee. The weather is delightful. The scenery about the Pike is, at present, beautiful. A drive in the Corporation trap in the morning, and a sail in their boats in the evening, is charming exercise this hot weather ; while the accom modation at the Black Boy is unsurpassed. The dinners, wines, and grog being all of premier quality, and, as the whole cost is defrayed by the Corporation, it need excite no great wonder if, with such substantial temptations, the two solons, who are deputed to enlighten the Council on the mode of purifying the bog-wash, should be in no hurry in bringing their labours to a close ; and we can readily imagine Jo,EPH COOPER rising up in his place in Council, and telling his expectant hearers that these eminent gentlemen have not had sufficient time to make their elaborate report, therefore the question must stand in abeyance until another time ; we say it need excite no great surprise if such should really be the case. But we shall see; THE HUDDERSFIELD ELECTION.—A correspondence between Mr. E. Ackroyd, M.P., for Huddersfield, and and General Thompson, appears in a London con temporary. I❑ the course of his remarks on the China war, the general, referring to the Huddersfield election, bad said :—" Then there was falsehood the third, which came to Huddersfield, where a most able and respected public servant, formerly a' member of this house, was excluded from a seat. The news came down to Huddersfield that all was over ; that the Emperor of China had conceded everything that was demanded; that the British lion was satisfied ; and that there was nothing to do bat to turn out of parliament the gentleman to whom he had alluded." Mr. Ackroyd wishes to know what the falsehood was to which reference is here made• The general replies that he cannot see how a false hood which he asserted had come down to Huddersfield could be reasonably charged as originating in Huddersfield. All that he intended to convey was that this false news coming down just in the nick time, adversely affected Mr. Cobden's chance of success. [The general had referred to the falie telegraph which was circulated on the morning of the polling, viz., the 28th of March.] In his final reply, Mr. Ackroyd reminds the general that the telegraph in question was only posted in Huddersfiield on this par ticular morning, "much too late to affect the issue of the election, even if the news had been of sufficient weight to have done so under any circumstances. As my own canvass book testifies, the electors had previously resolved f o r whom they would vote, and their decision was not in the slightest degrea affected at the last hour by this doubtful intelligence. I had more promises before the news ar rived than I polled afterwards, or my friends deemed it necessary to record with so decisive a majority in my favour." RUSSIAN INTRIGUES IN INDIA.—The belief that Russia has for the last three years been endeavouring—and suc cessfully endeavouring—to sow discontent in India be comes more and more prevalent on the Continent, and amongst the best-informed in this country. Thera can be no doubt whatever that the Emperor of Russia,Nicholas could never be brought to believe in the possibility of a cordial alliance between England and France, and in 1852 and 1853 his plans were formed and matured in this thoroagh conviction. In the solitude of his own cabinet, and in the gloomy recesses of his own mind, the Emperor had arrived at this conclusion, and when dependants and councillors appealed for facts and events, Nicholas became excited and angry, and appeared to cling more obstinately to his own opinions. At length, early in 1854, his Imperial Majesty became aware of how entirely erroneous were his suppositions, and at this time it was that, disabused of his illusions, he turned all hie thoughts to the perpetraiion of mischief in British India, Any one who knows the State system of Russia is peifeetly aware that the Government of the Czar has in its employ. went hundreds of men prepared for any emergencies or any enterprise, however desperate or difficult. There are at St. Petersburg adventurers and renegades of every country and clime apt, artful, and unprinci pled—ready for instantaneous duty in any latitude. Among these may be found Italians, Greeks, Swiss, Germans, Armenians, Mussulmans. Jewa, Parsecs, and Hindoos. These adventurers, lured by the hope of gain and ,distinction, rush to Russia, as unprin cipled schemers did in its palmiest days to Rome—" Quasi in sentinanz, corruptionje In St. Petersburgh they are put at once in training, and are attached to such superior agents as the late M. Italinsky, or the late M. Situonitch, the latter of whom largely operated in Persia, Affghanistan, and British India. The cause of the Afghan war may be traced to agents of this kind, and the belief becomes hourly more prevalent that in the recent mutiny, Russsia has, directly or indirectly, been an " agent provocateur." Within a few years, several traders from Bombay and Calcutta have settled at St. Petersburg ; some of those have intermarried with Russians, and brcome Russian sub jects; and, on the other hand, there are several Russians and Greeks by birth, though Russian in feeling, settled in various parts of India. By the aid of this machinery, it wouldnot be difficult to operate on the King of Oude and some of his functionaries and nobles, and to establish a chain of communication with the Russian empire. Nor would this be the only means by which Russia might intrigue against us. Russian schemes against British power has been before now hatched :by Russian agents in the British metropolis and also within the harbour of New York. We believe at this moment Russia is working by American born agents in China and Japan, and in British India. Within twenty years an im mense number of journals have been established in the three Presidencies of India and up. the country, and who can say how much of Russian influence and money may not be brought to bear in this particular direction. If Russia can maintain a paid press at Frank fort, Augsburg, and Brussels, why may she not have such a press at Calcutta, at Agra, or at Delhi. From the journals of Sir C. Napier, we know that some of the writers in the Indian newspapers are men of blasted character and desperate fortunes, and it is to such men in foreign countries Russian solicitations are usually addressed. If the native press in India has endeavoured to stimulate the Sepoy on the question of the cartridges, may not this effort be traced to a " foreign agency," such as was hinted at by Mr. Mangles in his speech on Monday night ? Under such circumstances as we suppose, the placing of the Indian press under a license was a wise precau tionary imeasure, and the arrest of the King of Oudo and his Minister was not only a necessity, but a duty. The King has long been a suspected personage, and the moment proofs were obtained the sooner the delinquent was captured the better. Whenever there is a weak or an undefended point in India now, we must expect discontent, but the only way, as the Duke of Wellington wrote to Colonel Close fifty-three yeors ago, "is to be guarded everywhere, and to keep up troops for our defence." We should never lose sight, as the same great authority said, in writing to Lieutenant-General Stuart from the camp at Niggeree, in July, 1804, " that all government in India is held by the sword," and that " the con clusion of the most successful foreign war in India —that by which the most formidable enemy may have been subdued, if it gives an accession of territory, must bring with the territory a necessity to increase the army, because the Government must be established in the now territory, and supported, as well as in the old, by the power of the sword. The want of knowledge, or rather recollection, of these facts," adds the Duke, " is the cause of all the complaints of high military - establishments, and expenses, and of all the difficulties in which you must have found yourself from the want of troops. It is %Veil to weigh these wise words after the mutiny is suppressed and Delhi taken, of both of which events we entertain little doubt we shall have full details by the next mail. The idea that the mutiny had extended to other Presidencies is one of those monstrous fabrications concocted by the Greek forgers of false in telligence. It should be remembered by those writing and speaking of these events, that India is composed of several different nations, each speaking its own language, and having its own peculiar and dissimilar feelings. The absence of community of feelings, opinions, and views, is one of our greatest securities. There is no common co-operation amongst these diverse races or castes and their cohesion is a rope of sand. The village and the field where any particular Hindoo was born is his whole world, and his thoughts extent not beyond it. There is no common feeling between the natives of the different presidencies, and this is why, with a handful of Europeans, we are enabled to hold in subjection a popula tion six , oll more numerous than that of the United King dom.—Morning Post. THE TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRAPH, THE RENDEZVOUS AT QUEENSTOWN. QUENSTOWN WeJneEdly Evening. Up to the present moment the ships about to be engaged in this gigantic undertaking which have arrived in our harbour are the Cyclops, the Leopard, and the American Niagara and Susquehanna. The two latter arrived this morning, and dropped anchors in the man-of-war roads. It was expected that Mr. William Browne, M.P. for South Lancashire, whose munificent gift to the town of Liver pool lately attracted so much admiration in England, would have arrived in Qaeenztown, in his capacity of chairman of the directory of the company, but owing to a domestic affliction, it is doubtful whether or not he will come. An idea of the estimation in which this merchant prince is held may be formed from the fact that the Admiral, Sir W. Chads, received from the Lord Lieutenant a private letter commending Mr. Browne to his particular attention. Four of the other directors have arrived, Mr. T. H. Brooking, Chairman of the Executive Com mittee ; Mr. Lampson, Mr. Logie, of Glasgow ; and Mr, Cyrus C. Field, the distinguished American, with who the project of the Atlantic Telegraph origated. Amongst those who have arrived are the secretary of the Company, Mr. George Seward ; Mr. Glass, of the firm of Glass, Elliott, and Co., of Greenwich, manufacturers of the cable; Mr. Statham, the manufacturer of its gutta percha coating ; and Sir William O'Shaughnessy, to whose splendid success in the laying down of telegraphic communication it is probably owing that the British government can maintain a foot of ground in India. Sir William attends on behalf of the East India Company, who meditate laying down a similar line across the Persian Gulf as soon as tranquillity is restored. Professor Morse attends on behalf of the American government, while the French power is repre sented by M. De La Marsh, an engineer of eminence. Two scientific gentlemen from Russia, with names which I shall not venture to transcribe, ha►e also arrived in the Niagara, in which veasel they came to England from New York. At twelve o'clock the directors and their friends prot ceeded on board the steam-tug Willing Mind, placed a their disposal by the Messrs. Scott, to visit the Leopard English war steamer, and subsequently the Cyclops. Lieutenant Dayman, who is in command of the latter vessel, exhibited the results of his soundings, and satisfied the directors that the nature of the ground had been as favourable as was already reported. He exhibited the specimens of soil, shells, &c., taken up from the bottom, some of them at a depth of 2.400 fathoms. The visitors were much interested by a practical exhibition of the mode in which the lead is heaved for those soundings, the large cast iron weight being rejected as soon as the instrument strikes the bottom, and a tube only ascending, which contains portions of the bed of the ocean. A very simple but useful apparatus, by which the temperature of the water at its lowest depth has been ascertained, was also exhibited. It consists of a cop per cylinder, having at each end a valve opening upwards. While descending, the water is forced through this, but the moment the descent is arrested, the pressure of the water closes the 'valves, and it is brought to the surface full of the water taken from the place in which it has been stopped. A self-registering thermometer in the vessel shows the highest and lowest temperature ; and by this it been found that the temperature at the lowest depth he been about 38 degrees. This discovery is satisfacrory, in" asmnch as, while great heat would interfere with the electric current, it is not affected by cold. A deputation •f gentlemen from Cork, headed by the Mayor, waited on the directors and the other partici engaged in 'the undertaking, to invite them to a public banquet, but owing to the limited stay of the vessels the invitation was declined, it being understood that they will attend a public dinner to be given in Cork after the cora pletion of the enterprise. The Susquehanna and Niagara are magnificent vessels, the former being 2,600 and the latter 5,000 tons burden. The length of the Susquehanna is 275 feet, with forty• six feet beam, and her armament consists of fifteen guns, all being 64-pounders. The length of the Niagara is 345, and her breadth fifty' five. Her armament consists of twelve enormous guns. The probable rate of charges will be the following :--. From Newfoundland to Ireland, for a massage of twenty words or more, £2 103. For a message of the same lengh from New York to London, £4. G O R D O N C U ?1 M I N G, LION HUNTER, WM appear THIS EVENING, and Every Evening (except Saturday), till further notice, in Liverpool, at tke CLAYTON-HALL, CLAYTON-SQUARE, And, surrounded by the SPOILS and TROPHIES of his HUNTING ACHIEVEMENTS, Give his muacAL and PICTORIAL ENTERTAINMENT, Dweriptire of 1113 EXPLOITS and ADVENTURES in the FAR INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA. Tke Hunter's Narrative will be illnitrated by a Novel Series of DIORAMIC SCENES; And the NATIVE BUSH PEOPLE from the GREAT KALAHARI DESERT, Will appear in their Characteristic Deuces. jA SPECIAL PERFJRUANCE ON SATURDAY AFTERNOOW, At Two o'.lock. Admission. to the Gallery, 1s; Area Stalls, 2s ; Dress Circle, 3s. Commence at Eight o'clock precisely. S T. GEORGE'S HALL 1./.I•MMMONMI ORGAN PERFORMANCES Will be given by the Organist, MR. W. T. BEST, - - EVERY SATITRDAY AND THURSDAY. Saturday Afternoon ..... Thursday Evening Admission on Saturday Afternoon, 6d ; Thursday Evening, 3d , The Concerts last one hour. Doors open half an hour before each performance. M ISS SMITH IN LIVERPOOL. FULL LENGTH AND CORRECT LIKENESS or MISS SMITH Is juit added to ALLSOP'S CRYSTAL PALACE WAX-WORE EXaIBITION, LIME-STREET, LIVERPOOL, Mei*lied from a Drawing trk,a during her Trial at Edinburgh, and POSITIVELY THE ONLY ONE TAKEN. The above Exhibition consists of One Hundred WAX FIGURES, as large as Life ; Emperors, Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses, lakes, Lords, Statesmen, &c., &c., of all Nations; t gether with fiCIILPTURE GrA.LLERIES, containing many Hundreds of Antique aid Modern Stat ,ary, varying from five to fo❑rteen feet in height. The Walls of the Palace are decor , terl with Massive Looking Glasses, and Silk Flags and •ianne , s. In the Evening the Pa'ace is illuminated with a number of Massive Glass Chandeliers. The Exhibition is enlivened by Performances on a GRAND CON CERT ORGAN at intervals. Open from 't en a.m. to Ten p.m. Admission, Gd. Children, Half-price. e LA N G- E L I E R. W. !LUG? respectfully intimates to the inhabitants of Liverpool, Birkenhead, and Vicinity, that he is now in Gla sow, engag , c 1 in modelling a FIGURE of L'ANGLIE 11, from the only Photograph (oa Glass) in Glasgow, which he has pa, has( d ; and it will be ready for inspection, by the side of MISS SMITH, in a few days, in his WAY WORK EXEIIBIPION, LIME -STREET, LIVERPOOL. Glasgow, Ja y 25, 1857. OOLOGICAL GARDENS, LIVERPOOL The Lessee is happy to inform his Patrons that he has Engaged Mr. W. F. WALLETT, the celebrated Jester, and the DELAVANTI FAMILY, For FOUR DAYS, commencing on TUEsD.tY neat, the 4th August, And three following days. Mr. W. F. WALLETT, the Shakspevhn Jester, has had the distin guished mark of Royal favour, in being patronised by Her Mot gracious Majesty the Queen, and most of the Crowned Heads of ittrepe. The DELAVANTI FAMILY will give their Extraordinary and Wonderful Entertainment. The DRAMATIC COMPANY, which has nightly been received With such enthu-taAtic applause, will parform each evening, EXTRA and SPLENDID FIREWORKS will take place each even ng, in aidttioe to the other Amusements of the Gardens. MONDA I next, August 3, the GRAND UNITED ORDEB Sf ODDFELLOWS' GRAND f•ETE and GNLA will take place, for which an array of Talent have been engaged. _ Admission Is. Children 63. All Improper Characters prohibited admission into the Gardens. THE COURT, &c. OSBORNE, JULY 30.—Her Majesty, accompanied bl the Prince Consort, rode en horseback yesterday afternoon• Lord Charles Fitzroy was in attendance. His Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon arrived in Cowes Roads earl, this morning, in the Reino Hortense, and proceeded on to Osborne at eleven o'clock, where his Imperial Highness landed, and was received by the Prince Consort on the pier. Prince Napoleon, accompanied by the Prince, drove up to the house in one of her Majesty's carriages, and was received by her Majesty, attended by the Ladies and Gen tlemen in Waiting, at the entrance. His Imperial High ness remains on a visit to the Queen, attended by the Baron de la Ronciere, Capitaine de Vaisseau, and M. Pisani. AMUSEMENTS, &c. THEATRE ROYAL.—The improvements and alterations of this theatre have been carried on by Mr. Copeland upon an extensive scale. We believe those who visit the theatre on Monday night. will find that no establishment of equal size in the metropolis, can compare with it either for beauty of aspect or comfort of arrangement. Mr. Charles Mathews commences an engagement necessarily brief, on Monday night, and will not, we believe, again appear before a Liverpool audience for a considerable time. After the close of Mr. Mathews's engagement, Madame Ristori will appear. On Monday, the 10th of August, thisgrcat actress will be seen in Liverpool, for the first time, as Bianca, in an Italianised version of Milman's "Fazio."4on the following Wednesday she will appear as " Camma," and on Friday as " Lady Macbeth." To the lessee, Mr. Copeland, whose en erprise thus enables Liverpool audiences ,to enjoy all the advantages which not long since were confined to a metropolis, so far as the engagement of dramatic talent of the highest class is concerned, the public here must feel deeply indebted. THE AMPEIITHEATRE.—Mr. Charles Dillon's Belphegor is his masterpiece, and must be allowed to be, on the whole, a masterpiece of acting. This part Mr. Dillon per formed on Tuesday and on Thursday night, each time with the most enthusiastic applause of the audience. We have had occasion to express an opinion of Mr. DiUeda acting in other parts, which probably did not agree with the estimate many of his admirers had formed of hiS capabilities. We do not think Mr. Dillon is Qualified to take the place of a great Shaksperian actor. Below that grade, however, there lies a wide space on which many a high and lasting reputation might be founded ; and here we fully believe Mr. Dillon capable c f achieving success' It would not be easy to behold upon any stage a more simple, natural, and at the same time effective piece of acting than Mr. Dillon's Belphegor. The effect it produces is an effect wholly divorced from the efforts which usually win a very transient and delusive applause upon the stage. The poor mountebank whom Mr. Dillon pourtrays, is no tragedy hero. No starts and strides, no effects, no " points " aid in the success which he achieves. When the audience are moved, they are moved by no merely meld' dramatic effects. When they bestow their applause. they give it to nature plainly rendered, and not to the stor m? and vehement displays which often startl e an au di a nCe i nto emotion merely by their surprising and electric character, of their appeals. In ,this performance, therefore, Mr. Dillon may fairly claim to have produced no effect but such as genuine nature, rendered by faithful art, must always produce. The play is, perhaps, itself, not one of much merit, and the events are melo-dramatic and e:re travagant, even beyond the:common dogree of melodra matic extravagance. But the character of the simple, honest, passionate mountebank, as impersonated by Mr. Dillon, redeems any defects of structure, and makes one forget that anything but pure and genuine nature animated the whole. His deep, fervid, honest love for his wife ; hiS vehement and demonstrative grief at losing her; and his passionate outbreak when he again finds her under such circurnstnnces, so mutually altered, are equally made life like by a simple and truthful power, which as far trans— cends the common displays of the stage as all real feeling passes got-up sentiment. In such parts as this, Mr. Dillon must always win the approbation of any appreciated audience. To be great even, in such parts, is far better than to bo second-class in those of a higher and wider range. Having felt bound to declare our opinion where we believed Mr. Dillon to have failed, we feel far greater pleasure in recording what we conceive his well-deserved success. " THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE."—An Edin burgh paper observes :—Oar ever active sheriff, Mr. Gordon, although blamed sometimes for taking the ordi— nary business of his office easy, is ever at his post when a strong emergency arises, and, accordingly on Saturday evening we find him at the Zoological Gardens to recreate after the toils of the week, and desirous, no doubt, to witness the daring feat of Madame Rossini, who was to ascend a tight rope:6o feet ; but, as the wind was gusty and the weather doubtful, he then and there issued the following interdict : "Royal Zoological Gardens, July 25, 1857, 7, " i lialf-past Eight p.m. -4 " Sir,—Considering;;the weather and the heavy and uncertain gusts of wind, I feel it to be a public duty to interdict and forbid, as: I hereby do, the ascent of the tight rope this evening ,by:Madame Rossini.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) "JOHN n m T. an G a o g ß e D r. o : , Sheriff of Mid-Lothi an . ~ To Mr. Robson, REPORTED DEATH or M. LABLACHC—The Paris Presse of Wednesday evening states that M. Calzado, the manager of the Italian theatre, has received the melan choly news of the death of Lablache. LIVE n root. BANYRUPTOT COURT.-YESTERD AY.-BL. FORE MR. COMMISSIONER STzveNsoN.—lN r e BENJAMIN' CHADWICK. —The bankrupt, watchmaker, of Lord -street, applied this day for his certificate. Mr. Evans appeared on his behalf. His Honour granted a certificate of the first class. COUNTY COURT.—Mr. Harden, Judge of Chester County Court, presided in the Liverpool County Court yesterday, and disposed of nearly six hundred cases, which had been adjourned from the 19th June and the 24th of July courts. None of them, however, were possessed of the slightest interest. FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, about 11 o'clock, a man named William Venty, 33 years of age, a carter, living in Hale-street, was killed at the stores of Messrs. M'Kibbin and Cordukes, in a street off Dale-street. It appeared that the man was in a cart, taking down boxes of bacon from one of the store lofts, when a box about 3 cwt., which was being laid on another at the store door above where the unfortunate man was in the cart, slipped and fell on his bead, killing him on the spot. An inquest will be held on the body this day. SLENPY-lINADED CANADA ! Another achievement by the Canadian steamers ! Beat th e Y an k ee li nes a ll to nothing ! Three boats left England for America on the Ist of July; the Anglo-Saxon for Quebec, the Arago for New York, and the city of Washington, also for New York. The Anglo-Saxon left Liverpool at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the Ist, and reached Riviere.du-loup at 1 o'clock on the morning of the 10th, thus making the voyage in 9 days 10 hours. The Arago did not arrive in New York till Monday night, and we have not heard tbat the City of Washington has got there yet—Quebec Morning Chronicle 18th July. THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1. 1857.