Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-24 00:00:00

SMITHSONIAN HOTEL, BROADWAY, Corner of HOUSTON-STREET, Nsw Yoss. Named In honour of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Established at WASHINGTON, by the U. S. CONGRESS, With Fnnds bequeathed. by JAMSS SMITH3ON, of ENGLAND, Ravin the Friendship of the Orpicess of the NATIONAL INstirurin N Is conducted on the EUROPEAN PLAN. caAs. H. SMITH. ea ' , lurk - tat Vale.—rbfl Orin. t twelve o'c'ock, at the hrok,lT's offhe, I. O'dhall-street. 24 bags damaged Sago Flour, and 93 bags damaged ltice.—John Baron ar-d Sou. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Colonic'-buildings, Dale street, 1955 bags Saltpe're.—Bashby and Co. At twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, 18, Ilackin's-hey, 44 barrels ➢alsaa Capivi.—Balmain and At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 10, Water-street, i 2 bags Saltpetre.—Hall and Jones. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Exchan;e-street Past, le e iska Palm Nut Oit.—Edmund Bowes. At twelve o'clock, at the commercial saleroom, Temple-court, 100 boxes Almonds.—Thomas Parry. At twelve o'clock, at the commercial saleroom, a quantity of Fruit.— Ge. Badenach and Son. ♦t twe ve o'clock, at the broklrs' office, 9, Temple-court, a quantity of Fruit.—Houghton ard Levy. eg' For particulars see frivertisenant,. AMUSE,4 ENTS, PUBLIC MEENNGS, &c. THIS PAY. Tax ATRE ROYAL —Dramatic Performnn e-7 p.m. ROYAL AsiparruckraE—Dramatic Performance-7 p.m. LIVERPOOL ACADEET's EXIIIBIT ON, Po4toffice-place. ALLSOP'i WACWORK EXHIBITION-10 a m. to 10 p.m. i"....1T0N HALL, Clayton-squi.re— Gardon Cumming -3 p.m. LOYAL COLO43BUN —Gener..ll Entertainment-6.30 p.m. TooLootcm. GARDEN3—Grand .nd Varied Ent,rtainmentr. el" For particulars see advertisements. qerl It tp} THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. The weekly meeting of the West Darby Guar dians was held yesterday. The proceedings were not, however, of the slightest public interest. The Board have determined to meet at two o'clock in the afternoor, in future, instead of at ten o'clock in the morning, as at present. At the Police Court, yesterday, a 44 fortune teller" Has sent to prison for three mpriths, as a rogue and vagabond. A full report of fire case will be found in another column. The reve lations are of a curious character, and say but little for the enlightenment of the nineteenth century. A dinner was held in honour of Mr. MeThi, late sheriff of the city of London, and the well-known cutler and awiculturist, in the London Tavern, on Tuesday ❑ight ; and an elegant testimonial, sub scribed for by nearly 500 of his friends, was pre sented to him, as an acknowledgement of the dis tinguished services which he has rendered to the cause of British agriculture. The Mutiny in the Indian army seems to have spread to the British forces in Canada. We learn by the North Ameri can, arrived here yesterday, that the 39th Regiment, quartered in Montreal, was i❑ a com plete state of disorganisation. There were• 29 desertions from that one regiment in one day, and the s3enes that were being enacted were of a rather threatening character. The Volunteers had been called out to " regulate the regulars,'' and the barracks had been mobbed by about 1,000 men and women ; and this, too, in Mon treal, claiming for itself to be the most fitting place for the seat of government, and now being the head quarters of the army. The worst, however, is not told, for we are further informed that the soldiers of the 39th regiment are almost in a sta'e of mutiny, smashing barra c k furniture, and setting the authority of their offioers at defiance. Desertions, insubordina`ion, and Montreal frater nization with the Mutineers, if all true, or but only half tru., lead us to take a somewhat alarming view of things. No lel , s than 300 men h:ve deserted from one corps. Men potjare themselves by wholesa'e. for every man on taking the Queen's shilling swears that he will be faith'ul to her. This is not even yet the worst—bad as it is— and requires an er.ample to be made: Montreal, or the rowdy portion of it, and that is nearly the whole of it, is decidedly as disloyal as she wits in 1840, when she issued tint celehriVed manifesto concerning a peaceable separati, - ,n from the mother country. What were the civic authorities about, to suffer So tinny men and so many women to mob the barracks ? The remainder of the regiment had been packed off to Qiebee in companies, and they had a chain gang of 18 for the hulks at Ber muda, and some o her forty . prisoners. It is to be hoped that an example will be made of these mutineers. In connection with the desertions we may mention that a lieutenant who went in search of some of them was attacked by a number of rowdies, and in self-defence ha shot one of them deal All this is very disheartening in the present state of affairs. It, seems we cannot rely upon our troops in India or Canada ; and, to make the matter worse, we find great difficulty in raising recruits. The recruiting movement is a failure ; the authorities at the Horse Guards are pet-pl.-zed, and no one has the moral courage to raise the nation out of this embarrassing position. At the rate at which the decorated sergeants are now enlisting, it is certain that the augmentations required for the existing regiments will scarcely be obtained; whilst for the fifteen fresh battalions it will take at least eighteen months to raise them to their proper complement. We say raise them to their proper complement, because officers have already been appointed to four of those corps, and yet it may safely be asserted that they have not eight hundred men to divide amongst them, The limes is out in favour o f the C ;ntinen'al system of having the whole population trained to arms. It will next advise conscription. In yes terday's publication the editor says :—" Two great objects must be attained if we would give security to the empire. We must popularise the army and martialise the population. The gulf must ba nar rowed between the soldier and the civilian ; the notion of hiring a man to fight for us, which sprang up during the last century, must give place again to the good old principle of fighting for ourselves. Why should not the preparati m of boys and young men for a share in military duty be begun in our schools and colleges ? Surely cricket, football, and rowing might be varied occasionally by drill, in the case of young men, by practice whir firearms. 14Ivery city or agricultural district might well have iii com pany of volunteers, electing their own officers, or receiving them by nomination of some compe tent authority. Suppose that only 30 000 such trustworthy soldiers were known to exist through Great Britain, how much stronger would be the national confilence at this moment ; and it i 3 not only the immediate access'on of strenLth which makes such a forLe valuable, but the spit it which it infuses into the community. Now, if ever, Eagland requires the services of all classes and conditions of its people, and can little afford to loso any of the energy and devotion with which Heaven has gifted them. We are few in number considering the extent and population of the empire, and we are exposed to all that envy can ow2t and subtlety accomplish. Every year the numbers which these narrow islands can hold must lessen in propottion to the populations of other States,—our rivals, if not our enemies Placed among nations whom nature allows to be greater and mightier than us, we are indeed unwise if we neglect any means by which our hard-won supremacy may he maintained." The way in which justice is administered in the British possessions on the West Coast of Africa is said to be disgraceful. Some facts of individual oppression and cruelty, especially affecting the administration of justice in the colony of Sierra THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1857. Leone, are whispered abroad ; and if they should prove to be tru', or be substantiated by trust worthy evidence, nothing short of a searching and open inquiry will meet the demands of public justice. If it be discovered that high officials have been parties to gross violations of British law ; that some of the courts of justice have become the patrons of tyranny and fraud ; and that the interests of the public service have bean delibe rately and sys':etnaically sacrificed to offic al job bery and private gain ; —then - it will become im peratively necesa,ary that both the system which has produced these evils, and the men who have origi nated and carrie:4 it out, shall be promptly super seded, and the graver (Jelin pients severely punished Sir Wm, Molcsworth, shortly before his death, resolved to dispatch a commission to the colony of Sierra Leone, for the purpose of prosecuting the investigation which we now demand, but his un timely end prevented the accomplishment of that design. Mr. Lahouchere, sir ce he has been Colo nial Minister, appears to have taken no steps towards instituting an inquiry; and the conse quence is, that the administration of justice in the colony is sail to be a disgrace to the English name, and official circles there are spoken of us hot.beds of nepotism, idleness, and partiality. The Continental news is rather meagre this morning. The agitation in favour of the Suez Canal scheme has reached such a height in France, where the greatest commercial hopes are connected with it, at least by the middle classes, that any further opposition to it on the part of the British representative at Constantinople might seriously endanger the good understanding between the two nations. The Emperor of the French left the Chalons camp for Stuttgardt yesterday. The Duke of Carnbri ige had previously left for Paris, where he arrived on Tuesday night. The final results of the Moldavian Elections— with the exception of only three returns—are now transmitted fron4 Vienna, and show, unmistake ably, that if there be a party opposed to the union of the Principalities at all, it is only a factitious one. ALldavia would he so far a loser by the union, since there can be no doubt that Bucharest. in Wallachia, would, in that case, be made the common capital, while Jassy would be deserted. The result of the Moldavian elections is, therefore, the more significant of the enthusiasm with which the Roumar:s seem to look upon a revival of their national life. The Government paper at Berlin, the Zeit, contains a long article in justification of the conduct of the Holstein Estates with respect to Denmark. The Zeit Pffirms, what we certainly have failed to observe, that the decision of the Es'ates has met the approval of the entire German press. The ministerial crisis in Spain has ended in smoke though some of the minor luminaries of the Cabinet are said to be on the eve of being replaced. _ The North American, screw steamer, arrived here from Q iebec yesterday, with advises to the 12th instant. We giva an atn2le summary of the news in another part of to-days paper. THE news from India continues to be so various and exciting that it is not easy to present a connected narrative of events, nor to retain in he mind a clear representation of what has happened. All England is held in breathless admiration of the heroism and endurance of our countrymen and countrywomen, heartfelt sym pathy for their cruel sufferings, and indignation against the perfidious authors of those sufferings. The hero of the hour is General IllvEeocx, though, no doubt, the ranks of the British army contain many officers of kindred spirit and ability. The latest telegram reported that he has resumed bis march to the relief of Lucknow. We trust that the very next telegraphic message will inform us that Lucknow has been relieved, and Agra received succours so much needed. it is impossible for us in Eagland, living at home in safety, to conceive the unutterable suspense and agony that must occupy the minds of those who are in hourly peril of being pounced upon by such fiends as enacted the flagitious massacre at Cawnpore. Wives, mothers, daugh ters, children, in India, are names th it call up the thought of all that is terrible. Letters have reached England whose details were too horrible to be made public. And to think, too, that little children were among the objects of this fiendish barbarity. One shudders to believe that any beings wearing the human form could, under any circumstances, or under any provoca tion, perpetrate such foul deeds. When within twenty-four hours after the horrid butchery of women and children at Cawnpore, General HAVELOCK entered at the head of his invincible column, they witnessed a scene that beggars all description. The spot which marks the tragedy covered two inches deep with the blood of English officers, their wives, sisters, and children ; here a portion of a bonnet or a gown, and in another th s. long tresses of English women bedded in the gore, telling so mournfully that their deliverers had come just too late. It has been alleged that the inhuman murderers threw some children into the well that contained the dead bodies of their mothers, and that some of the women, to avoid a fate far worse than death, threw themselves into the same well over the dead bodies of their com panions. Such scenes can .hardly be paralleled in European history. We can hardly hold the pen while we ponder th?m, and what the unfor tunate victims must have endured till death put a period to their indignities and to their • misery. If any one had ventured to predict that human monsters could be found to do such deeds, he would have been triumphantly scouted as por traying an impossibility. History contains stranger things than fiction. Throughout all these melancholy scenes the courage, patience, presence of mind, and self-sacrifice of our coun trymen are as conspicuous as their sufferings are unequalled. Not only is England, but all Europe aghast at the cruelties of the one, and full of admiration for the noble qualities displayed by the other. From the depth of our great trial shines out the most illustrious virtue. If our Government has been remiss, our officials careless, and India misgoverned, it is our melancholy consolation that, in the day of calamity, our people in India behaved in such a manner as to reflect honour upon the name of Englishman. The nations of Europe have not credited us with the high qualities which this rebellion has called forth; and neither Europe nor the world could believe that such fiendish barbarity was possible to human beings. It is an appalling revelation of the depths of wickedness to which human beings may descend when they they appear to have cast off all sentiments of humanity, all relentings of kindness, neither fearing GOD, or regarding men, nor honouring woman. We can forgive men for shooting down other armed men on the field of battle, but the atrocious cruelties and indignities practised on women and children excite the deepest horror, joined to the most righteous indignation, that such acts may meet with deserved punishment. There is, indeed, some danger that the national feeling may go beyond the line which separates retribution from revenge. Our people are sorely tempted to indulge in some feelings which can only be called vengeful—especially those of them whose relatives have Le m the victims of Indian cruelty. It is easy to preach humanity in this crisis, but not easy to feel humanity and practise it. It is so natural to be maddened and carried beyond one's self by reading only a small part of the horrid details that are now reaching England. Th e , matter, however, is in the hands of our generals and soldiers, and though a fearful retri bution will be exacted, yet we believe too well of our countrymen —even when they are under the present unequalled circumstances of maddening excitement and provocation, to fear that they will for one moment think of dealing torture upon any women or children that might fall into their power. It would only be imitating the work of (lemons, but it would be no satisfaction—no righteous retribution—no solemn punishment of unheard-of crimes, and it would not undo a sin gle pang or outrage endured by those helpless children and heroic women, whose memories and whose sufferings call aloud to Heaven and their country for justice, but net for vengeanc,.% THE various chapters or incidents which, for want of a more appropriate term, we shall desig nate " Society and its victims," reveal facts which are painful in the extreme to every indi vidual possessed of the feelings of benevolence and humanity. When cases such as those to which we allude, refer particularly to helpless and unprotected females, they are doubly dis tressing, and should induce some movement among the philanthropists of tha day to seek for the adoption of meaaures of a remedial cha- . ratter. Our readers will recollect that, a few days ago, a•poor, dejected, and careworn woman, named MARIA CLARKE, was brought before the Worship-street Police Migistrate, London, charged with attempting to cointnic suicide. The history of her CASa was a painful one. Oa being placed at the bar, she was recognised as a recent inmate of the Hackney Workhouse, who but the week previous had uadergane an examination for the alleged murder of her female child, by drowning it in the Regent's Canal From want of sufficient evidence, she liberated. Connected with this serious offence, we may remark that some years ago she became the victim of an unfaithful young man, and the result of her connection with him was the birth of a daughter. He, like all others of his class, deserted her, and left the unfortunate and mis guided young mother to struggle with the child as best she could. She appe trs to have aske her sister to take charge of the child until she obtained a situation, bat this the sister either would not or could not do. The result of the refusal was to oblige M.utts. CLARKE and her daughter to go into the Hackney Workhouse. Here, it appears she became, from the treatment she received, an" the negligence manifested towards her helpless child, so broken down both in body and mind, that she formed the idea of destroying the child's life. Now, upon this part of the case we have to remark that, as the law now stands with respect to bastardy, there is a sad defect. A young and artless girl is betrayed by a cruel and designing young man. He obtains her dearest sympathies and affections, and ultimately ruins her character. To compel him to relieve her of at least a portion of the burden and expense of rearing his illegi timate off4pring, she must go into open court and make a full confession of her shame and guilt. She must be the subject for impudent gazing in the magistrate's room, and another and trying attack made upon that quality of modesty which should adorn the female cha racter. This should not be so. We require a much easier mode of getting at the seducers of young females; and the pains and penalties of the offence should be both marked and severe. We have been 'lately concocting a measure of divorce, That effects only one portion of the community ; there is another class of female society who should be protected from the shame of seduction and the evils of bastardy. Surely some of the Right Rev. Prelates who have been so earnest and energeric on questions of adultery might well and tru'ly employ themselves in this most important topic . But it is not only for the purpose of procuring pecuniary compensation to such unfortunate characters as MARIA. CLARKE that we write. Sin is an element in the human character which accumulates by degrees. A crime which at the outset is viewed with horror, by repetition becomes quite unalarming, and nothing is thought of its commission. CLARKZ'S case is an apt illustration of this idea. She must have been to some extent brought up religiously, for w e find her, after seeing the sufferings and privations of her little daughter, expressing her intention that " to save the child from being wrong, as she had been, it would be better for her to go to JESUS while young." Here is an admission of former guilt, and a desire to save her offspring from the possibility of falling into the mother's errors, and the only way to do that was by sending it," as she terms it, "to JESUS." As a further proof that MARIA CLARKE had been brought up piously, we find her making a con fession of perjury, and thin, in the midst of her despair, crying oat, "CHRIST save me !" This is a case which, more than any that has been previously recorded, impera tively calls for some change in the manage ment of our Union Workhouses. In the first place, it is alleged, neither mother or child were properly treated or cared for. Although the latter was illegitimate, there is nothing in the case to show that orphans whose parents are dead, and which circumstance necessitates their being Union paupers, are sub jected to any better treatment ; and if so, is it not a most painful thing to think that such unfortunate creatures should be placed in such a position as to render death more desirable to them than life. We know that all Union Work houses are not the same, and that there are many where treatment of such a kind as takes place in the hackney would not be tolerated. But there must be something very bad with the adminis tration of our poor-laws where it is possible for such treatment to occur. Lastly, we think that some means could be adopted for bringing such characters to a sense of their duty, and recovering their lost position. Ilad there been any piously disposed and sympa thising female at hand, who would have given her wise and solemn counsels, the daughter would have still been alive, and the mother would not have attempted suicide, nor be obliged to stand in the felon's dock, accuse I of being the mur deress of her own offspring The poor wretch is to be pitied, and the inhuman laws which instigated the crime to be reprobated by the good and the wise of every class in the community. FEMALE LABOUR. LOOK ON THIS PICTURE, It is impossible to deny—and we need not say that we are not r.fl eting upon a particular Gloss here, but only upon the systern that produe=s it—that in a whole range of shops men are regularly and systematically used far doing what women could do just as well, if not very much better. What is there in the whol process of showing 41 a piece of silk or muslin, or nerolling a round of riband, which requires a men ? A woman could do it every bit as wcll. She is fully equal in body al(' mind to it; she could Ha the article from the shelf, she could hmdle it and wave it up and do vn, and she could explain everything about it. Then, why employ men ? Such a misapplication of labour has two miseMeveus results,—it takes' at en away from their work, and it takes women away from theirs. It deprive society of its due amount of strength, part of which is here carried off and misae propriated, and thus leaves undertaking; and employ ments which require men's strength with a der, etive supply of it, while at the same time it makes a certai proportion of the female sea superfluous, without work to do, and therefore an exe-escence upon society, instead of a.useful pertion of the whole. It throws them, i n l ac k o f proper employmeet. 11703 the most wretc?:ed means of subsistence. * * * On the continent, though we sea women often doing men's work, employed in a tears; kind of field labour not Pui'able to women, yet, as a compensation for this, they are not deprived of their own proper work so much as they are ie this country. The Pais ladies' shops d indee , i, employ raen to same extent, but not to such an ex ent as w 3 do ; and at f ,reign rei Gay stations women are often ticke'-keepeis. Women in Frv.el act as espying -clerks, an 1 srrve in all shops where becks, prints, and light goods are retailed. lu Switzerland they are watelemekers. In America they are compositors is printing-offices. Our sysnera is who:ly in the direction of d e p r ivi ng w omen o f all work, and tucking them supetfluoes, and we see the co-sequences of it. We caez:ot think fore a moment that English ladies, once fairly realizing the effect of this system, viii allow a few trifling aqvantaees to outweigh the greet and terrible cask which res olt from a vi , l.tion ( f the proper atjus!- orient anal apportionment of labour. The truth is, they do not think of these thins or connect causes and effects. When Os y real:` connect them they will take the only proper course. Ttsy will extend their patronage to the obnoxious class of shopwamen. They will overlook a few irreralent airs an I graces. They gill not be t e severe eves upon those highly ottje;tioalble and inexcusable things—flirtations live they n ve. in their ()Aa sub lime sphero been guilty of suc'a thing ; ? It is, indeed, wrong that anything should be done vulgarly which eon be done in the way and manner in which they can do it ; bet they will allow a lit le vent, nsverthe:ess, to female nature, and admit of a little jar to their refine. meat for the sake of a solid advantage to society.— limes AND ON THIS. Th : Times, assuming that Ensign P:utne and Sergeant Kite a-e not succeeding quite as well as could be deli ed ie their efforts to induc the patriotic hob-nails an I strick• frocks to take the . Q seen's shilling, rec mmends an imm di s'e, urcmipremelag, and comprelocnsive swoop upon , he unfortunate assistants is the linen-drapers,' shops of Regent-street and Piccadilly, anl other fashionable thoroughfares. The r .crui log sergeant—he might surely have sonic bowels of comps?sion for haberda-hery, bedi veiled as he is with ribbons—is to "lay his hand on a fine, well dressed pod), and say, Coma along with me, I will give you something better to do than that.' fhe reply is. as in the other slop, but if I go, some other young n must come in troy place,' but tae sergeant has now a rrj dnd,r, and an effective one—"No, my good fellow, you need not be concerned about that, a young woman will do just as well." We humbly beg the pardon of the Times. A young woman will not do just as 'well, or anything like as well. A young woman is no more fi; for the hard labour of a fashionable draper's or haberd Nimes, for the tramping aid retramping backwards and forwards for twelve mortal hoirs, far haulieg and pulling at heavy bales of gcolg; fur straining her weak muscles in the manipulation of a yard measure, for sprawling over counter., for running up ladders, and reaching t lofty shelves, than she won't' be fit to put on jack-b sots and leathers, bestride a rneelisnne charger en cavalier, and, a helmet on her head and a sabre in her hand, mount guard in one of the cuckoo-clock alcoves at the R yal Horse Guard. In every large lieendrapery establishment there is al ways a Sql ill corps of young lady assistants to atie ad to its light• r exigencies ; in shops where the more tr:fling re In iqice wares, are solely vend •d, as milliners and lace- varehouscs, the service of the pace is performed exclasively, an i very properly so, by young women ; but to the end cf the chapter, it will be found that the harder work—the reel serving labour of a shop—must ever be done by men, even if they have to waste their martial energies in showing off a piece *1 silk or mes;in, or unrolling a round of ribbon. The arduous rcuiretnents of a large_liueedraper's shop are as much heyoad the ph)sical capacity of young women as the diTensieg of medicine would ba beyond their mental powers. 0 ir c temp airy has much that is wron;-headed and much that is absurd respecting the employment of women in this country—the avocations from which they are debarred and to which they are preferred. It is true that we do not make our young women theatrical box-openers, check and money takers, booking clerk's, or attendants at places of public resort, as in France . ; watchmakers, as in Switzerland ; street-sweepers, as in Russia ; or com positors, as in America. Bar, on th e o th er hand, we do not make them guide the plough, haw wood and draw water, or drag pissengers' luggage in trucks, Ike beasts of burden, and we cannot think that in this respect they " manage things better in France," Our cotemporary speaks of the " importance of the great fundamental lam, that men should de men's work, and woman should do women'i,"—another gem of elegance in 0-imposi tion ; but it is because we recognise the importance of this fundamental law that we would rather not see the adoption of the oontinental system among ns; that we object to Madame posting up the ledger or rating the shop-bey (mhy not shop-g'rl ? the boy - should be a-drumming at the wars, at least according to the Times) while Monsieur is taking the baby out for an airing, or pattering away his time mad his energies over dominoes and coffee in the nearest cafe. We think it would be infinitely preferable if Monsieur would take care of the book-keeping by double entry, and Madame take care of the baby—if Monsieur would stay t home and mind his own affairs, and Madame mind here, too, in the way of me: ding her stockings. A great deal of nonsense ,has been said, and is being said, about the avocations for which woman are eminently qualified, but from which men, in their selfish tyranny, exclude them. We have thrown professions opt n to therm, but they fail, save in rare instances, to distin guish themselves in those profession.. II)ve few female artists—save in music—attain celebrity ! How few female writers, compared with the huge multitude of male authors! There was vast pother some years since of the new cba::nel " opened up" for women in the art of woo 1-engreving. Ask any wood-engraver now. how many females he has in his employ, and hew many applications he has fur employment from females. He will tell you that the work is generally unsatisfactory and the competilon scanty. There ate exceptions in this, of course, as well as in everything else ; bul the exception s are a Jean de D'Arc in courage, a Juliana Berners in sportswemanship, a Madame Dacier in erudition, a Char lotte Corday in patriotism, a Miss Edgworth in fiction, a Mrs. Somerville in science. And if any one thing should tend towards discountenanc ng the promotion of women to mas culine employments, it is t he incalculable injury we do to both sexes in breaking up homes, in destroyi g domesticlty, in weakenirg affection, in subverting authority, in changing a state of society in which we have loving wives, dear sisters, and tender sweethearts, into ore which would be beta dreary waste of wrangling sleeping partners, discontented f male clerks, and precise corespondents, who would endorse Lye 1. tters as though they were bills of lading, and allude to matrimonial proposals as "your favour of the 11l instant." An evil day will bo it fury England when Lesbie's eye can only beam on " bide re ceivable," and Nora Creina goes on 'Change, and is to-day a Bull" and to-mo-row a " Bear." One word with r. spent to the much-suff.rring linendrapers' shop men, of whom the nines pr looses to make soldiers Willy Wny are they to be singled oat more than the g °cora' shoprnen, the great army of hotel and coffee-hot 33 waiters, and, above all, the migh y lesion of re 1, blue, and yellow plashed, black-whiskered, and plethoric-calved dc-nothings, the flunkeys of England ? Why are they not to be hailed at once into t e Forty-seventh F. ot, and initiated in the mysteries of the goose-step ? Our cetem pore ry, again, seems to have omitted one small but very significant trobablity—the scornful refusal of any young man who has attained even the social status of a linendraper's shopman to en'er her Majesty's service at all. " No, thank yen," we think we hear one of the well dressed youths reply ; I den'c see it. I have been respec tably trained and educated, and don't care about having me eyes anethem sti,e,l by en ensign of sixteen, whom I could thrash wi h head or with hand, hut who has just the better ef tue by four hundred and fifty poun:s. I want someth'ng better than forty shillings bounty to get drunk upon, sevenpence a d Iv, ration be f and ration rum, the chance of being shut, and— he very remote commission of a quarter-nester lo mine in the distance. I am ob i;ted to you, but I much prefer rolling out ribbon to entering a service where efforts the most astounding and danger m st awful are reunited by wages and treatment such as would be icorned by the poorest mechanic. You pay a eividan in a blue coat a pound a week to prevent people breaking . one another's heals, but you won't pay a sillier in a red co l t a quarter of the sum to save the Queen's crown from b i smashed to pieces altogether. I wish ye..o a very good morning sergeant."—Dailey Telegraph., 010 CHINESE DIFFICULTY.—There is evidently nothing in the views of the Chinese which should prevent us from obtaining all we desire. In the first place, the chief interests of the two countries are identical. We want to buy tea—the Chinese want to sell it. This trade must be the first object of their lives, and one of the main supports of the population. We find accordingly that nothing can interrupt it—no rebellion in the interior, no hostilities on the coast. Whatever else may be going on, a Chinaman will certainly bring his wares fir sale, and the mere occurrence of hostilities is an incident of such secondary importance, that whether the war is continue] or sus pend?d, signifies very little to the paramou st operations of commerce. But this very cheapness of war ren lees it also likely to be undertaken, ac 1 the Chinese, though certain enough to sell us their tea or anything else for which we are willing to pay, would naturally be more ready than other nations to fall to blows at the same time. Indeed, it is hard to see what should keep a people from fightin3 who do not value their lives, and who have no idea that the quarrel should disturb what they do value—their trade. The Celestial Court itself has doubtless imbibed mere cautious principles, but its information and its authority arc prO bab:y both very imperfect, and the Cantonese can follow the bent of their owe minis without, much interventi n from the Suprem-' Governmee. This appears at present to be the point of difficulty. The disorder is not consti tutional, but local. We are at war with the populace of Canton, not the people of China ; but that turbulent city has so paraded its insolence and proclaimed its ferocity that our only security for the future must lie in the abatement of its pretensions. We must enforce this con dition, for we have been tied to it by the Cult - ones° them selves; but if satisfaction can be obtained without blood• shed, the result will be not only gratifying in itself, but more in accord with the sentiments which the accommo dating civility of our enemies is calculated to excite. It will really be hard to fight in such very cold blood. When a duel elan be suspended for six months it ought not to come off at all, and both Chinese and Englishmen may as well put both hands to trade, instead of striking with one and chaffering with the other.— Times of yesterday. INDIA.—The Debvs addresses the following scornful reproof to that insignificant minority of the Paris jour nals which exults, more or less openly, at the recent deplorable events in India, ani which at no time loses an opportunity of testifying its hatred of England :—" We have been so indiscreet as to inquire of the journals which appear to found so many hopes on th events in India what would, in their opinion, be the best manner to take advantage of the lade , . We have not as yet received any reply worthy the attention of the public. The Ualvers has produced its plan, which, it is known, consists in reconquering India for the English, who would give up their Mediterranean possessions as the price of this assistaucc.. The Union has replied that, since it has been called upon to explain, it prefers remaining silent. This represents the opinions hell by that journal on Indian affairs. The Gazette de France may claim the merit of having triumphed over its rivals, and of having discovered the best plans of drawing profit from the Indian insurrection; this is, to invite the Emperor of Russia to invade India, and to cast aside all chivalrous sentiments, in order not to lose so capital an opportunity. The heroic manner of threatening England would inspire jealousy in M. de Pourceaugnac, who, in the play, exclaims so boldly, while pointing to Sbrigani, Whoever insults hoe will have to render account to that gentleman !' But none of the above journals pub lish their secret thoughts on the matter. They are well aware that, after all, the only way to distract the atten tion of Eng'and from India would be to recall all her attention and strength to the affairs of Europe, and par. ticularly to France. At heart, this violent measure would not be repugnant to their ideas, and those great defenders of morality and of the rights of nations would confirm the apprehensions bf the Morning Advertiser this very day. were it in their power. Bat it is inconvenient to confide these ideas to the public, and rather than express them appeals are addressed to all the saints, to cholera, and finally to the Emperor of Russia, to prevent the English from recorquering India." SAM COWELL.—This celebrated comic singer is at pre sent in Liverpool. He gave his first concert (second series) at the Freemasons hall, Lime-street, last night. The hall was well filled, the gallery being crammed. Mr. Cowell, on making his appearance, was rapturously applauded. His first performance was that known as " Alonzi the B-ave and the Fair Imogene,' and his personation of the ghost seems to have given the utmost satisfaction to all portions of the audience. The " Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" followed, but the great hit was in the " Cork Leg." His pantomimic powers are very good, and the manner in which he kept his right leg moving during the whole of the song was rather surprising. The " Rat Catchers Daughter" was sung in a style that we never heard before, and to witness Mr. Cowell in this, by itself, is well worth the money paid for admittance to the whole entertainment. Ridiculous though the words and air may be. his rendering of them was what we heard one of the audience term—glorious. Mr. Bridgeman played several solos on the concertina, but we regret to say they did not take, though they were beautifully executed. Miss Wright sings with some sweetness, but she wants volume. As Sam Cowell does not stay long in Liverpool, the public should not lose the opportunity of hearing the greatest combo singer of the day, TELEGRAPHIC NEO (By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING' The Emperor left the camp at Cha lon s rro.n i g' day at two o'clock for Ger ma ny. at he will remain at Luneville, to_morrovf Strasbourg, and will reach Stutter Friday. t il l The Three Per C en t. R en t es c 1•00" A o'd J. at 67f. 25c., being an advance 0 ' 4 cent. THE BELFAST RIOTS. NINTH DAY. Icy British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph• FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. BELFAST, WEDNESDAY 5161 r; The Commission sat to-day, at eleven o'clock•. lot chief witnesses examin e d vera th ose w h o ga ve eilde concerning individual cases of assault. 10 0 John Hockel, the chairman of the " Gun Club' examined. Daring the cross examination of one of the s vitn oe* he stated that a summons had been served on him. j, Mr. Purcell, c ounse l f or t h e O range b o d y o f Pe i° asked to see the summons. The document was s i gne d b y t h e Cl er k o f the C ,O , from whose office it had been proc ure d bl an k, and wards filled up. The justices were erased at the top' as the wordsßy her Majesty's Commi ss i o ners" int iertea inste..d. - The Commissioners mid that, they gave no ore s e rity to issue a smmmons in their name, nor had t i l e ' issued any. Mr. Clerk, solicitor for the Mman CatholieP er d li ; said : He had merely put the wor d s "B y h er Me.j el t Commissione s," in order to show what court these r; sons were required at ; and the Cl er k o f th e C ro wn's °II° had been to them in blank. Mr. Purcell said it it'aq a most improper act. tb B. Mr. Palmer said he was not prepared to say, but person wh 3 took such mean of procuring witnesses , e° i n bs proceeded against under some of the cAm of Cri°llll Law. The Commission said they would hear e v idence for bt Protes'ant party to morrow (Thursday.) The court then adjourned. • The Royal Larcashire Militia Artill er y h as been er. ered nio , to assemble at the Islington Barracks on the sth pr° s ,el The Right Rm. M. T. B l ines, M.P.. h as con'ri°4, £lOO towards the central fund for the reli e f o f the 5 1 : 1 " ers from the mutiny in India. A dig It is intendei (says the Leeds Mercury) to expend sun of £1,500 the ornament i tio e o f t h e su ite of to be erected in the Peepl,'s Park at Halifax, h t7l The W, st York Rifles are to ba embodied on the 6 : October at the .lep,t, Po n tef rac t, f rom which place it i t expec eel the regiment will be sent on to Ireland, wh ere seuel formonths durin; te te war. kco "In Public house 3 in the C h ou la nty Tipperary, it 0 4 unusual occurrence for the f a rme r s to ass emble "s o toast the Sepays, drinking sn a7ss to their cause.'. , writes a 'ripperary corre sp o ndent—Limerick Chroni cle • 4 . IMPALEMENT OF A Youso MAN.—On Tuesday morn t 0 as a young man, namel Willi am All en , of Duke - s tr . ee o n Illackfritrs, was cleaning windows, he fell on th e ' u f , ( l spikes below end w a s lit era lly impaled. Whets ( xtric i s - t, from his frightful position he was co veyed to Gag - Hospital. PEssroNEas —Government has sanctioned the inl °le ; diate employment in I re l an d o f 160 pens i oners , who bo b , s been discharged from th e cava l r y an d art ill er y, io 1b c groomi ig of the, cavalry houses of th e regimen ' s W Ind i , have boon dismounted on emb.rkation for service in In":, e DEATH (I. M. regretMANN.—We to announce death of M. Minis, the heroic defender of V en i ce one ° the most single-minded. devoted, and resol u t e men wb ol l the great struggle of 1843 called forth as a champio n ° n l Italy against Austria. He died i u P ar i s y es terday hypertrophy of the heart. The Magistrates of Waterford have clechied the grocers who have spi r it counters on t h e i r prem i s es ar e not bound to ke , p thoir shops closed until nine ololoclt Monday ra.;rnings, provided the sale of spirits is stri ctly prohibited. This i s contrary to the opinion of the 1 14 advisers of th e Ci own, an d an appeal is lodged_—.Liinc r '' Chroreicle. APil rczrron OF CHIOROF3R.M TO BEES.—Last,wea k ,t e successful apple ttion of this powerful agency was oi a t ' e by Dr. Sinclair to a hive of bees which were aLoat oe swarm at th e gar d en o f B arrog ill I, o a process was very simple aid effecti,e. It was accomplisu o by merely ph &lag a handkerchief snrinklel with chlorofe r a on the hive, when in a short time the whole swarm droll e o tnto the new scape, leaving b e hi n d t h em no l ess t h an 5? d of h .ney. We beli.v , r the process is not new, as it 0 05 been triad in the south ern p art o f thi s coun t y b e f o re, b e is Oa• c ace the dose was too strong, and mos: of the. b` 3 were destroyrd.—John o' Groat Journal. the SIAP 'ESI' Gana ROP stm•day be./6 first hop fair in the county, after the picking, there wa g large attendance of g °avers, hop merchants, and brewe r : s agen s, and very large supplies of samples of new h ar e were exhib:ted. Notwithstanding; that there w:ro soldei splendid samples of old hops and yearlings, the trade rt!. l 4 i f dull and prices nominal. In new h o p s t h ere was a! e• demand, and several (rensive sales were effected at pri o vatying from £5 4s. to 8 gu i neas per cwt.; fi ne silt° • were held at higher rater, the demand for Ditch ts parce" ii however inactive. The duty is estimated at nest 4200,000. FOUND Drt )wNE D.-0 1 Tuesday, in a pit at F i .zaker l,l l ; there was found the b o dy o f a fenral. The following r • a descrption:—About twenty-two or twenq-three Ye a of ago, dark hair, round, full face, stout, and short stator; wi h small round earr i ngs i n h er ears ; d re se d i n a 4(4%. woollen jack e t, with large horn butt. ns, dark stuff dre w white cotton stockings, black cloth blots, laced up at sides, and white chip bonnet, with trine ribbons, and ha d tt e folio sing property in her possession —1.. in silver. a fr o . 80. in copper, two Hop, an I a small basket contaibt a h. ; two cotton night dr e sser. A n i nq les t w fll be, h e ld on rm n body at half-past one thi s day, at the Railw a y l a n, F 3 kerl-y, near Liverpool. Ma. BRIGHT AND THE BERMINGHAM CONSTITUINC. , he Mr. Bright is already beginnin g t o ex p er i ence s.rme of t ot. troubles, a few of the cares, and several cf the annoY rdi f o r of representing a popular e r n s tit uenc y. Th e c alls tic i patronage of all sor's, f or c o n t r ib u ti ons t o c h ar ities, s od , challe - tges to polinical discussion, have, we are inforajor been incessant since his eleelon. The apnea' s re' charitable donations and subscriptions to other- objects bt never ending in Birmingham as elsewhere, and Mr. Br ig s o has been favoured with several of them. A gentle 01,, connected with a bazaar f o r th e P r s h y t er i an G iL ci o thought that, as the oc c ur rence o f th e e l eat i ( n on the when the sale was ta open at the Town Hall, had in' be fere I with the probable profits, Mr. Bright migh t .. o so induce t, from th a t c i rcums t ance, to a id th e i r f un ds, °l e r to him to that effect. This was the somewhat charl i bo istic answer am sorry if the occurrence of bu t election should have madp your bazaar 1-ss pr. duezive; 00 , if it has done ea, I can hardly be hell ih any way reap lie sable for if. I. cannot undertake to subscribe to !li e s' objects in 7Birraingham on sec. tut of my P il o t conneo:ion with it. Since I, have been in Parliara e c o. have always abstained from subscriptions for objects tefld nected with the constituency I represenfeei, and I i A a le ad to continue th a t course. A. contrary course *foul" with me into an expenditure which I could not consent to ora any prudence, aril might lead to an endeavour to s e c public) favour by means whi c h I c an n ot pracrbi e approve. I hope, th ere f ore, you w ill excuse me if i willmyself unable to add to your funds, and that t bio rightly interpret the grounds upon which I act ja m 0 mattet.—l am, very respectfully, JOHN Barone oaf sort of set-off, on the other side of the account, we WS state that the committee conducting the e lection 00 definitively r eso l ve d th a t t h e return of the hon....ge Dt .„oo . shall cost him nothi ng . Th ey are to b ear t h e whole e'''e the melt! eq.— ?he Globe. ..,,____ 4 RItIVA]