Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-06 00:00:00

ROBERT MIILLINER, Successor to GOILST & 1 . 10 (Late with Win.H one, London), CARRIAGF. AND HARNESS MANUFACTURER, Sf and .11, GREAT CRARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL, MANUFACTUZEZ OF EVART lIIISCRIPTION Op FASeIONABLE CARRIAGES. A Great Variety of New and Fashionable CARRIAGES always on •tew, which are ready tor •tam?diate use. Estimates given for fr. pairs. ,CARRIAGES TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. Good Standing on moderate terms. 'mean. Carriages z sold by Com- Merchants supplied with Carriages for exportation on liberal taring. FIRE AT MO RRISH'S MERCHANTS' DIVING ROOMS, TITHEBARN-STREE LIVERPOOL. MR. MORRISH bet4s to return his grateful thanks for the kind sympathy of his friends. and the pract'cal ezortiens of those gentlemen who rendered such able assistance on the occasion of the accidental fire, which occurred at his rooms on Saturday last, and is happy to Inform them the damage is not so great as wa3 at first anticipated. He has much pleasure in stating that busin7ss will be resumed as usual, on MONDAY (THIS DAY). Co nmerriat itatts.—Ebis Dap. At eleven o'clock, at the Commercial Saleroom, a quantity of Fruit. — George Badenach and Son. Pte' For particulars see advertisements. AALTSEAENTS, PUBLIC NIEEPINGS, THIS DAY. ROYAL Ax P HIT HZATSE —Dr3M2bie Performance-7 p.m. lizsgLaa's Grisly]) Omens VA RIE ne. Dale-street-7 p.m. Roy kr. CoLoss Rini—General Entertainment—B.lo p.m. ZooLoarcat GARDEN3—Grand and Varied Entartainments. t For particulars see advertisements. Eitt Parthrtri MOATDAY, JULY 6, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. The local and domestic incidents of the day ere not of much importance. Saturday being the anniversary of " American independence," the day was observed, as usual, with much respect and honour by the Americans now in Liverpool, The ships in the harbour belonging to the United States were gaily decked out in the colours of all nations. The officers of the United States frigate Niagara were entertained at the Adelphi Hotel by a number of the American merchantsresident in Liver pool. These annual meetings are calculated to do good; they assuage anything approaching national enmity, and, if possible, united the mercantile community of the two countries to each other more and more. Yesterday morning, the body of a man respecta bly dressed, and having the appearance of a country farmer, was found in the canal with his throat cut- A police officer had observed the deceased in the course of Saturday evening in Chisenhall-street, at a house of ill-fame. We believe the body has been identified. A Coroner's inquest will be held to-day, when further particulars will transpire. The trial of Miss Smith still proceeds at Edin burgh. To-lily's issue contains a good portion of the evidence given for the prosecution. The unfortunate prisoner continues her self possession ; and the wonder is, that a female could undergo such a trying ordeal as she has done without the smallest symptom of trepidation. It would be premature to offer any opinion on the evidence at present given --sufficient, however, has transpired to establish that L'Angelier died from the effects of poison, and, without waiting for the medical testimony, we may say, that the poison employed was arsenic— the question yet to be determined is, who admin istered it ? _ _ We report at full length the proceedings of a trial in the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday, in connection with the loss of the Lochmaben Castle. The loss of the barque Ontario, of Liverpool, is reported in another column. On Saturday an inquest was held on the body of the late Earl of Mornington, who died suddenly on Wednesday last. Considerable interest attached .to the inquiry, not only consequent on the high position of the deceased in the peerage, and the circumstances which have so frequently brought his name before ti'e public, but more especially in connection with a sum of something like £200,000, which the noble earl's death will, derived as it is upon policies of insurance, place at the disposal of the trustees of his encumbered estates and other creditors. The chief witness was Major Richardson, who said he did not consider the earl at all likely to commit suicide. During the last four months his spirits had flaggel, but that was only in private. So far from appearing desponding, during the last three or four weeks he appeared the reverse, saying that he had attained the great object of his life, by proving to the world, with regard to his Chancery affairs, that he was a wronged man. With respect to the statement as to his being in want, he (witness) was aware that the earl had not wanted for the last four years. In 1854 he (witness) obtained for the earl 1,0001, which lasted him two years. He had been living upon 81 a week, but on his cousin, the Duke of Wellington, becoming acquainted with his condi tion, he allowed him 101 a week, which he had up to the time of his decease. He did not, therefore, consider the earl in pecuniary want, but at the same time it might be deemed so in the case of one who, from 100,0001 a year, had had to live upon 5001 per annum. The 101 a week from the Duke, of Wellington was all the earl received, and he often writhed under that. His life was insured on behalf of the trustees of the estate for 87,0001, and for 120,0001. on behalf of other parties, making up a sum of £207,000. The policies were not encumbered, as the premiums were regularly paid by the parties, and the earl frequently expressed his surprise that the people would continue paying on them. Not one of the policies was in his own possession, and some were nearly forty years old. On Monday (the day before his death) he called on him (witness) for the last time, and as he entered the room he addressed him in French—" Ah, my friend, quite a stranger—how do you do ?" The earl im mediately placed his hands to his body, exclaiming, " Good God, how ill lam and supported himself by a chair. He was afterwards sick, and he (Major Richardson) sent for Dr. Probert, who gave him some brandy, and he became so vi ell again that before Dr. Probert left he was very lively, and related one of his witty anecdotes. The earl was a very temperate person, although it was reputed he drank a very great deal, yet he (witness) knew for a fact his drink consisted of nothing better than coloured water, which he would sip for hours together, and hence the report about his being an inveterate drinker. Thep , y returned a verdict of "Died from natural causes.' Thomas Mansell, whose case has engaged so much of the attention of the courts, is left for execution, and will undergo the last penalty of the law at Maidstone this day. His crime was that of a most deliberate murder, having shot a sergeant of his regiment, on account of a personal quarrel. in a cool and determined manner, in the open day. The objections to his conviction were entirely of a technical character—unconnected with the merits of the case—and were overruled by all the Supe rior Courts to which they were referred, and before which they were elaborately argued. No palliating circumstances have since come light ; and there were no grounds, therefore, to authorise the Secretary of State to advise any departure from the due course of law. One of our London cotemporaries informs us that the Royal Commissioners, appointed to inquire and examine into the constitution of the superior courts of law at Westminster, and into the existing arrangements of the circuit courts, have agreed to their report, which will be printed and ready to be submitted to Parliament before the close of the session. It is understood that the Commissioners will express their opinion, founded upon the evi dence before them and their own experience, that THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, JULY 6. 1857. no diminution of the number of judges can take place. Indeed, at this very time, the several courts can scarcely make up a full court, or get through the Nisi Prins sittings in time for the circuits. Several changes in the times and manner of hold ing the assizes will be recommended, as well as the division of the larger counties, and a more equal distribution of the circuits, with other matters of detail of a practical nature, so as to ensure a more speedy and uniform administration of justice, both civil and criminal. The liberal electors of Manchester have held a meeting, at which resolutions, highly con gratulatory of the return to England of Mr. John Bright, were adopted. Compliments, as graceful as they are merited, were passed upon that gentleman by the various speakers. The chair. man made the remarkable statement that Sir John Potter had told a friend that " it was painful to him to be in the lobby of the House of Commons and hear from all sides the universal expression of regret at the absence of John Bright." Our intelligence from the Continent is interest ing. A dispatch from Marseilles says that the Algiers journals of the 30th ult. publish a dispatch from the Governor General, announcing that General Yusuf's division attacked and carried two days before the village of Taouria, the last rampart of the Beni-Yenni, who had there collected the contingents of all the insurgent tribes The Italian news is unquestionably serious Mazzini appears to be personally at the bottom of the simultaneous attempts at Leghorn and Genoa, and of the seizure of the steamer Cagliari, and the descent on Ponza. The plan evidently aimed at the overthrow of the central Italian Governments. All the accounts concur in representing these attempts as being unsuccesful, but a good deal of obscurity exists in the telegraghic repor .s received. It is probable that the conspirators who seized the Cagliari, went on board that vessel when she left Genoa on the 25th June, ani seized it when it was four days out of port; just at or about the date of the simultaneous outbreaks at Genoa and Leghorn. From the East we have confirmation of the fact that the Porte had protested against the occu pation of Perim, and an announcement of a new quarrel between the Shah and Mr. Murray, our troublesome envoy, who is now represented as demanding to be al'owed to bring with him, as escort or pageant, on his return to and entrance into Teheran, a regiment of the Bombay army. We earnestly hope that this may not be true. A German paper publishes the purport of the resolutions of the European Commission in the Principalities, on the necessary amendments of the electorial law as established by finnan. These resolutions seem to be favourable in the main to the interests of the Great Boyards. THERE is no denying that the recent news from India is sufficientiy grave and startling ; and yet we are now beginning to bear that all this might have been foreseen long ago. It was brewing in the distance, like that tremendous thunderstorm which last Tuesday broke over Liverpool. It might have been prevented, if we had had wise Governor-Generals, and capable Military Commanders. Strange and incredible as it may seem,. we in England have not always the right men in the right place. No explana tion that we have yet seen, accounts for this military revolt. Unexpected it can hardly be called, as certain prelusive indications went before. The compelling of the native soldiers to bite greasy cartridges won't account for it. Ready as we are to credit the Hon. East India Company with a large amount of Indian mis government, yet neither do we think that this cause can be invoked on the present occasion, and the mutiny attributed to the general oppres sion and misrule of India. Qcaoro.l mica. vlo ought to eventuate in general disaffection, but so far as we yet know, this movement is purely military, and has not reached the general popula tion. It may turn out in the end that misdirected religious feeling is at the root of it. If this were so it would be another illustration of the power ful part which religion plays in the affairs of men. In some form or other, religion is indis tructible in the human soul. Banished for a time, it will always return. "Xaturam expellas furca tamen usque recurret." Religion has been made the pretext for this outbreak, though we venture to prophesy that it will ultimately be resolved into causes and reasons more particu larly connected with our Indian army. True, the cry has been set up—" The English want to convert us to Christianity, and overthrow the ancient and established religion of the country." But if this were the true cause, the military would hardly be the first persons to find it out, and the rest of the population would have joined in the cry. Moreover, the mutinous soldiers are Mahomedans, and not attached to the Hindoo religion at all. We doubt, therefore, if religion is any thing more than a mere popular cry, and colourable pretence to hide the true cause. In all cases of public disaster or suffering, it is wise not to conceal from ourselves the true state of the facts—the full extent of our danger. In the present instance, the facts are sufficiently deplorable ; there are, nevertheless, some miti gating circumstances, on which it is well to fix public attention. In the first place, the mutiny is simply military and local ; it is not shared nor sympathised with by the people of India generally. Portions of some eight or nine regiments, numbering in all about eight thousand men, were alone implicated, according to our most recent accounts. It was restricted to the army in Bengal, and even concentrated near Meerut and Delhi, the ancient capital of the Mogul. Benares, the great seat and centre of lirahminism, is unmoved. The revolters, we understand, are Mahommedans ; and even some of these revolters are said to have unwillingly joined, and some of the revolted regiments spared their officers; and wherever Europeans escaped the fury of the maddened soldiery, they were protected by the people. All the neighbouring chiefs and Rajahs hastened to offer the aid of their troops to the British authorities; and, without a single exception. so far as yet appears, testified their allegiance to British rule. All this is reassuring. It is possible, even, that all the atrocit?es may not have been committed by the soldiers, but that a lawless mob, which unfortunately may be collected in any country, took advantage of the confusion. The rich, influential, and educated classes in India, are in favour of British rule, and took no part against us. It was not the rioters, but their victims, who received protection and asylum from the natives. All this seems encouraging, and helps us better to estimate the true state of the case. We hardly expect to hear that the mutiny has spread. We rather expect soon to learn that it has been concen trated and hemmed in at Delhi, and extinguished there. Reinforcements were advancing from many sides, and soon the mutineers would be crushed. Still we cannot think that all the blame is on the side of the misguided soldiers ; probably our authorities and commanders may have something to confess. At any rate, here is a voice for Army Reform coming to us all the way from India, as we had lately many sad voices and warnings from the Crimea. We shall revert to this topic. At present we only ask—is it quite safe for us to have a native army of a quarter of a million of men, with arms in their hands, living almost idle, while our European soldiers mixed with them scarcely number twenty thousand men. We know,7pro verbially, what idle hands will do. Labour is not a curse but a blessing to mankind ; for whether it be men or women, Europeans or Asiatics, children or soldiers, idle hands that have nothing useful to do will manage to get into mischief. We must have Armyißeformfor India as well as for England. A FEW days ago we published a letter headed the " People's Education," in which the writer urged the expediency of having the Corporation Schools of Liverpool placed under Government nspection. Our correspondent is right in his estimate of the advantages which would result from such connexion, and we are glad to find that what we have already written on this subject has called forth the letter in question. The Educational Conference held in London, in the early part of last week, did not disguise the fact that there is at the present day a very great amount of parental indifference on the subject. This we showed arose from the imperfect character of the Education imparted in the shcools for the humbler classes. And we also threw out the hint that if we would desire to get rid of this much to be regretted parental indifference, we must set about raising up a race of really qualified and efficient Teachers—male and female, who not merely know what to teach but how to teach. So far back as 1835, the Rev. Dr. Bryce of Belfast, a gentleman who has made the theory and practice of education a constant study for forty years, declared before a Committee of the House of Commons, that all that was required to promote and improve the education of the people, was the production of a race of Educators worthy of the name. What vine trnp ;n 1 RM. ;a no leas a matter of fate, :- 1857. It may be said that we have numerous training institutions throughout the country, and that our proposal is not requisite. We grant that there are such establishments in England, some in Scotland, and one national, in Ireland. But while general scholastic knowledge is carefully inculcated, and practical education is attended to, we maintain that there is a lamenta ble deficiency both in the quantity and quality of the "Philosophy of Teaching" communicated. Without this latter we hold no man or woman can be a real and successful Educator. True they may impart instruction which will remove their pupils from mere ignorance, but their suc cess in the realms of intellect, when endeavouring to draw forth, expand and exercise its powers by daily practice, will only resemble the prescrip tions of the medical quack who administers one general cure for all the ills to which human flesh is heir to. The truth of this remark will become more apparent, if we reflect that intellectual educa tion is the foremost part of the teacher's duty. He has to draw forth, cultivate and expand, as the very term education implies, all the powers and faculties appe►taining to intellect ; in other words, mind being the teacher's province, his great duty is to cultivate it to the utmost limit of which it is susceptible. Now, all who have paid the least attention to the operations of mind are aware that it resembles the works of a watch; it has wheels within wheels, which a:t and re act upon each other. Hence it is that the trade of watchmaking is an exceedingly nice and deli cate one. A blacksmith may be a very good judge of the steel which composes the main spring, but his rough hands could not adjust the disarranged verge, or the injured lever ; nor could we find the most illiterate individual in society willing to place a dirty watch, with a broken spring, an injured pinion, or a loose screw, in the hands of the blacksmith for the pur pose of being repaired. Now, if the human mind like the watch is a piece of complicated machi nery, which none can safely operate upon without being fully aware of all its powers and faculties and modes of operation. It fol lows then that none but those who have studied mind, and witnessed its operations as far as the communication of knowledge is concerned, is fit to be ranked, or recognised as an Educator of youth. Before any university of repute, issues to surgeons a deploma of competence, the student must attend a course of clinical lectures ; that is, he must go to the patient's bed side, hear the laws of anatomy and pathology explained, and see the case, under consideration, treated accor ding to the medical principles propounded by the professor. If such a practice were adopted in the mattq' of education, there would not be so much cause to complain of the imperfect educa tion of the people, or of indifference on the part of parents, as to the attendance of their children at public schools. On considering the letter of our correspondent, respecting the Corporation Schools, we would call the attention of the Town Council to the matter. The masters and mistresses of the Corporation Schools, are reputed to be able, intelligent, and painstaking. If so, we presume each and all would readily ag:ee to undergo an examination, and thereby have their schools placed under Government Inspection. Thanks to the liberality of the Town Council, the teachers of the Corporation Schools are most munificently paid; they do not want nor stand in need of Government aid, but the junior teachers do; and, moreover, the fact of the schools not being under Government Inspection, many a young and promising teacher, for want of the usual certificate, is deprived of the power of getting a situation elswhere. The Schools are admirably adapted for the purposes of training establish ments. We hope that something will be done in the matter. It is an important subject, view it as we may, and therefore press it upon the atten tion of the Council. We do not ask for any aid for these Schools, but simply that the junior teachers should be examined by her Majesty's Inspectors of schools, and, if qualified, obtain the necessary certificate of competency. To us it was quite refreshing to find our old and esteemed friend, Mr. WILLIAM RATUBONE, in his proper position, once more, on Monday evening, advocating, as he has ever done, the interests of those who are npt in a position to plead for themselves. None have deplored more deeply than we have, the circumstances which led to the temporary isolation of such men as WILLIAM RATHBONE, GEORGE HOLT, and HUGH HORNBY, from public life. That such men, endowed as they are with the highest order of talent, and overflowing with philantrophy and benevolence to all around them, should have on one, and only on one subject, played false to their principles, is a subject of the deepest regret. In fact, their absence from the Council Chamber, on the present emergency, is a cause for public sorrow. On that one question we differed with them; but then the question was a vital one, and demanded at our hands that all friendship and sympathy, which interposed be twixt us, and the discharge of a stern matter of duty should be cast aside. In an evil hour, these, our most esteemed and valued friends, the friends of the human race, in fact, became facina ted by the blandishments of the Pike jobbers, and, although, no jobbers themselves, yet the spell was so complete that their noble minds became enveloped in an aqueous mist. The Pike was presented to their imaginations in all the rflowinv colours in which its most deeply designing and largely interested partizans could depict it; unfortunately, in the singleness of their hearts, these gentlemen believed that the concoctors of this infamous job were as honest as themselves, and, acting on these impressions, they were led to commit a great wrong—not only to the public, but themselves. We allude to this subject with reluctance—we might almost say with repugnance—and if such a thing were possible, we would willingly ignore it altogether, and blot it out f i rom the tablet of our memory, —that is, however, impossible. The next best thing we can do is to rejoice at seeing WILLIAM RATHBONE, the zealous ad vocate of the Pike scheme, making common cause with its able and most talented opponent, J. R. JEFFERY, in the interests of humanity. This was a re-union worthy of the arena, and the object they met, to advocate. Never was the cause of the working man pleaded with greater or more disinterested earnestness than it was on that occasion, and the sentiments enunciated from the platform of the Concert Hall, will resound throughout the length and breadth of this and other lands. We had the right men in their right places for once. Sympathy for the poor we have ever had amongst us in some shape or other. Our numerous charitable institutions, endowed as they have been by the wealthy and well-disposed, prove that the last and greatest deed of their founders, was an act of generous sympathy for their fellow men—all honour to their memory. Man, in his original state, is not, in reality, a savage. All our experience has gone to prove that however barbarous nations, tribes, or races may have been represented, yet their evil propen sities have only been called into action by circumstances, not by inclination. Take the testimony of our most eminent travellers from BRUCE or MARCO POLO, down to ALBERT SMITH, and they will prove that, in every country, in every clime, the human heart melts at human suffering. Surely our own ought notto be, nor is it an exception, But some , thing more is wanted than the mere giving of alms to meet the monster evil—poverty, and its concomitants; wretchedness, and crime. Individuals may be relieved from much suffer ing by individual exertion, and that this is done to as great an extent in this as in any other country in Europe, no one can doubt, but when we find that the curse of poverty is upon us, not in an individual, isolated, or local sense, but as one embracing the length and breadth of the land,—not numbering its victims by thousands merely, but by millions, it will be at once ap parent that mere individual exertion, however wisely or liberally directed, must of necessity prove -utterly abortive in oopeing with such a giant evil. The charitable ladies of this, that, or the other ball or castle, may give with an un sparing and bountiful hand to those around them, or who may be dependant upon them, and of course the gentlemen must follow their example; but what then—a few trickling streams of sorrow may be dried up by such means, but the great ocean of human misery and wretched ness rolls on as triumphantly as ever. We must grapple with causes, not tamper with effects, if we wish to make a lasting impression. We recommend to the notice of our philanthro • phists a perusal of the report recently published by the guardians of the poor of Kingston-upon- Hull. Such report indeed calls for the grave con sideration of all those who desire to ameliorate the sufferings of their fellow mortals. We make the following extract from page 5. Treating of the condition of the poor working tailors and needlewomen, the report goes on to say.— They are, in the first instance, oppressed, and this oppression falls upon them just in proportion to their honesty and independence in struggling with the reverse in their circumstances ; for, let these fail them, and, by becoming paupers, they at once transfer the burden to the community, by their making up the deficiencies in their wages; and it is evident from the subsequent statement that the amount paid for work done is so ruinously low, that unless they receive some relief they must starve. They are conscious that no degree of industry and economy can put it into their power to emerge from their present con dition to supply even food and clothing for their children. The grave has been, And still is, the only door open for the emancipation of this class of our fellow-men, and it has opened its door without measure. " Ye men of M errie England " Read and reflect on this ; ye wives and daughters, of all that is great and good in this the land of the " brave and the free," reserve some of your sighs, spare a few of your pearly tears if they are not already exhausted over the Uncle Toms and the EvangAines of the western hemisphere, for you will find ere long that you will have tales of woe and sorrow, of patient suffering and christian resignation, at your own doors, which will call for all your womanly sympathies. MURDER OR SUICIDE. About three o'clock, yesterday morning, the body of a man was found near Burlington-bridge, in the canal, not far from Chisenhall-street. When it was taken out, the throat was found to have been pierced with some deep punctured wounds. The body was that of a man nearly sixty years of age, without a coat, and dressed somewhat like a countryman, or farmer, having leather gaiters and stout shoes. The arms were tattooed, the right having the outlines of a crucifix, and the left those of a figure with an anchor imprinted. The most varied and conflicting rumours were afloat during the day as to the cause of the man's death, which was at first generally set down as murder. It became gradually known to the police that the deceased was a man named orge Isherwood, who had been living for some short time back in a court off Upper William-street. It was stated that he kept a public-house some time before in Pendleton, near Manchester ; and it was alleged by some that he was a returned convict. He had made some acquaint ance, it appeared, with the wife of a seafaring man while in Liverpool, and rumour alleged that a quarrel a ose in consequence, and that the sailor threatened him v. hemently. One woman was even stated to have seen tne aeceasea attacxea ay tnree men ana tnrown into the canal. In consequence of these allegations, three persons were arrested yesterday, but as when the matter came to be sifted, there appeared no truth in many of the statements current, and no reasonable grounds on which to hold those parties liable to suspicion, they were subsequently dis charged from custody. The man was stated to have been wandering about the neighbourhood of the canal for some days past in a state of destitution and apparent despair. On Friday he appears to have pawned his coat. These circumstances, and the absence of any authentic testimony to support the original conjecture, would seem to support the belief which arose after some investigation had taken place, that the man had attempted suicide by cutting his throat, and then flung himself into the canal. A docu ment found in his pocket showed that he had once had some money 'edged in a local bank. some blood-marks were found upon the canal bank, some yards from where the body was found ; but this fact would scarcely point to any inference not equally consistent with either of the conjectures formed as to the manner of his death. The body lies at the dead-house, and an inquest will, probably, be held this day. A woman dropped dead in the street yesterday morning. Her body was convened to the dead-house, where it awaits recognition. S'ie was about middle age, and plainly dressed. FIRE ON SATURD k Ir.-A fire broke out about one o'clock on Saturday, in Mr. Morrish's Merchant Dining-rooms, TithebArn-street. The fire was, however, confined to a chimney, and by the aid of Mr. Hewitt, and the engines from Temple-court, was ex i gnished before any very considerable damage had been dene. PuoNtonoNs.—Castoms : Mr. E. Conway has been promoted from second to first class tide surveyor at Liverpool. Mr. James Foley has been promoted from third to second class tide surveyor at Liverpool. Mr. Alexander French has been promoted from fourth to third class tide surveyor at Liverpool.—Civil Service Gazette. ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. NEW YoßE..—The s.s. New York, from New York, Captain Craig, commander, reached Greenock on Friday evening, at a qearter.past five o'clock, atter a run of twelve days and thirteen hours. She brings 160 passengers. Th 3 news is anticipated by the Atlantic, which arrived in thi Mersey on Wednesday evening. FAIRLOP Fara.—Friday morning being the first Friday in July, according to ancient custom the ship wright., caulkers, and waterm ni of the port of London assemble 1 at Mile-end Gate, where a procession was formed of glass coaches, flies, and several vans. A boat, glily chcorated with flit', was, as usual, a prominent object The procession at ten o'clock wended its way to Fairlop, preceded by two vans, and accompanied by some hundreds of pedestrians. THE AMPHIT 'EA TRII.—We perceive with much gratifi cation that the engagement of Messrs: Webster, Wright, and Bedford, at this thea're, has been renewed. To-night the drama of " The Willow Copse," which has been received with so much favour, will be re-produced. In addition to the performance M. Pant Bedford will appaar in a prtion of " Jack Sheppard," end will sing some of his well known songs. Several novelties w:11 be brought out out during the remainder of the engagmnent, which we have no doubt will be a highly successful on. STABBING THRBP. FEMALES.—On Saturday night, a your.) , man, a sailor by profession, was] in a house of ill-fame in Dawson-street, off Williamson-square. Ha had a quarrel with some of the inmates, and drawing a knife stabbed three women. One of them, M try Marsden, received a cut on the right hand. which 4;1-Med the artery ; a second, Mary styles, received a d. ep \roiled in the right cheek, and a smaller woand over the left cye ; and the third, Anne Bainbury, was wounded in the face. The women were taken to the Northern Hospital on Sunday morning The man is in custody. THUNDER•STORM IN MANC'HEgTER.—A violent thunder. storm, accompanied by fierce and heavy rain, broke over Manchester on Saturday afternoon. The Art Treasures' Exhibition building was at the time crowded with visitors, among whom no small consternation was spread by the fact that the rain came down through the roof in several places. A thick darkness prevailed at the same time. Streams of rain scattered many groups in particular corners of the Exhibition building, Some of the pictures were, we understand, wetted by the rain, but we do not know whether any damage was done, although it was rumoured that in the water colour gallery, some injuries took place among its contents. The storm ar!cl rain 4.0 about a vat* of an hour. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. THE ITALIAN INSURRECTION. The Italian insurrectionary movement has been everywhere put down, and money to the value of upwards of one million francs, belonging to the insurgents, has been seized. At Calabria, upwards of 100 of the insurgents have been killed. From Naples we also learn that two engage ments had taken place on the frontiers of Calabria; between the revolutionists and the royal troops. when nearly 200 was the loss sustained by the insurgents. Three steam frigates, of the Neapolitan marine, have been ordered to remain cruising off ,he coast. THE COURT. BUCKINGHAM PALACE-FRIDAY, JULY 3. ARRIVAL OF THE KING OF TA& S Majesty the King of th Belgians, with their Royal High nesses the Princess Charlotte of Belgium and the Count of Flanders, arrived at the Palace at ten minutes past one o'clock this afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty. HER MAJESTY'S CONCERT.—Her Majesty gave, on Friday evening, a concert at the palace, at which the following vocalists assisted, viz. : Itiad.t.me Novello, Madame Alboni, Madame Bosio, Mademoiselle Balfe, Madame Didiee, Signors Giuglini, Gardoni, Rorconi Belletti, and Herr Formes. The invitations amounted to' 400. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accom— panied by the Prince of Leiningen, arrived about half-past nine o'clock. Their Royol Highnesses the Duchess Of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge arrived, attended by their Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting- At ten o'clock her Majesty the Queen entered the saloon, which was fitted up for the concert. The Queen was accompanied by his Majesty the King of the Belgians, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, their Royal High nesses the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Royal, the Princess Charlotte of B lgium, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Pincess Mary, the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, and was attended by the great Officers of State, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting. The concert then commenced. BUCKINGHAM PALACE.-SATURDAY, JULY 4. RECEPTION OF THE QUERN AND PRINCES OF OUDE BY THE QUEEN.—Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint a quarter to three o'clock for the reception of the Queen of Gude, shortly before that time the cavalcade conveying the East Indian Queen entered the court yard of the palace. The cortege consisted of two carriages and four, occupied by the Queen and Princes, followed by several others, filled with the principal officers of her house hold, and three or four mounted attendants in Oriental costume. The Queen was attended in her visit to the palace by a numerous suite, including a chamberlain, an aide-de-camp, a physician, an interpreter, and several officers of high Indian rank. A lady attendant rode in the carriage with the Queen. The cavalcade left the palace at half-past three o'clock, after the audience of her Majesty. In the evening the Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the King of the Be'giens, the Princess Royal, the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, the Princess Alice, the Prince of Wales, the Comte de Flanclres, Prince Frederick William, and the Prince of Hohenzollern f.i. a maringen, hnnonrorl t.hv porformanao of Mr. Wilkie Collin's play of " The Frozen Deep," at the Gallery of Illustration, in Regent-street, with theirpresence. APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE. We believe we are correct in announcing that the pre liminary arrangements have been agreed upon for the following marriages in high life : The Marquis of Lothian, with the Lady Constance Talbot, eldest surviving daughter of the Eirl Talbot, and sister of Viscount Ingestre. The young marquis has just attained his 25th year, and his betrothed is not yet or age. Viscount Grey de Wilton, eldest son of the Earl of Wilton, with the Ludy Susan Pelham Clinton, daughter of the Duke of Newcastle. Lord Ashley, eldest son of the Earl of Shafcesbury, with the Lady Harriet Chichester, only daughter of the Marquis of Donegal, and sister of the late lamented Earl of Belfast. Lord Robert Cecil, second son of the Marquis of Salis bury, with Nis Alderson, daughter of Baron Alderson. The Hon. Mr. North, eldest son of the Baroness North. with Miss Cockereil, stepdaughter of the Earl of Egnton, and sister of the Viscountess Ingestre. Mr. North is heir to his mother's peerage, and will inherit and unincum bered estate o. £40,000 a year. This alliance, owing to the youth of the bride, will probably be delayed for some , months. Mr. W. H Reeve, of the Coldstream Guards, with Miss , Welby, daughter of Sir Gynne Welby, Bart. PARTY RIOT AND HO UICIDE IN CROSSGAIL We have received the following particulars regarding party-riot, which resulted in loss of life to one man ) and serious injuries to several others, in the town of Crossgar on Wednesday night last. The Orangemen of the town and neighbourhood of Crossgar assembled there about nine o'clock, on the night of tha Ist of July, and began to beat drums and play their favourite airs on fifes and other musical ins truments. For some time they were allowed to proceed unmolested in their foolish performance; but the sound of the drum attracted the attention of the. ‘i navvies" who were employed in the constriction of the extension line of the County Down , Railway, which will have a terminus at Crossgar. These men were rein forced by a number of young fellows of the opposite faction to the Orangemen, and a breach of the peace. was committed. By whom, or in what manner, the riot was begun, we have been unable to, learn ; but it is certain that the rankling bitterness of years was aroused, and a spirit of revenge evoked, which was only too terribly gratified. Fire-arms were used, and wounds inflicted by other and not less deadly weapons. For twa hours Cross gar was one scene of lawless violence and confusion, and the worst passions were excited to such an extent as to call forcibly to mind the excesses committed n ot long ago by our Transatlantic cousins in the State of Kansas. In the contest, an aged man, named Martin, from Ballywoollen, was shot dead. He was in no way cos' nected with the riotous proceedings ; an d w h en h e W as so suddenly deprived of life, was in the act of accompany ing a female friend out of Crossgar, so as to be out of the reach of danger. His remains were removed to the Police he ßarracks, where b till an inquest w a s h e ld upon m yesterday, by e ßohn yY A. Ward, L q ,, coro n er for the district. There are many persons ser i ous l y i n j ure d, but t the particulars have not been, precisely ascertaine d . Many houses have suffered severely—those o f o' noxious individuals in particular. We hear that the house of Mr. Daniel Smith, pv.'olican, has been completell riddled with bullets ; and srime other premises in the tow n have suffered h a 0 - oiler way. This is a lamentab le .. occurrence in a locality but too celebrated for outrag e : originating i - a Do.rty spleen. Surely something might . % done to ptit stop to all demonstrations calculated to . g . " l/ , offence t" any individual, especially on religious or political grottr:da. But we hope that the perpetrators of t g ot outrage and homicide will be taught that they can e violate the law with impunity.—Belfast Mercury.