Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

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GEN TLEM E N,—l have received a Requisition so numerously and respectably si.me , l by the Inhabi tants of your Wa - d, i viting me to all , w myself to Ito nominWed as your Represmtaive at the approach ng atuni.ipal Election, that I deers it a duty to errnply with your 'eguest. Happily the great questions that have hithe to ''hided parties are now set at rest; ant the laltours of the Ccune.l will hereafter be con fined to framing sn h mea,ures of s,eial and sanatory improvement as are rencered necessary by the growing wan's of the community. 'the only matter calling tor any special remark at the presen t. t time is the question of Aster Sa;iply." It were fut le now discuss the which first led to the adoption of the Rivin;ton Pike scheine. • Whether wise) , cr unwisely adopted, that scheme has now been carried out; and I apprehend that its most bitter opponents would not wish who'ly to sacrifice wh a t h as b een obtained at so great a cost. A t t h e same time, the almost universal condemnation of the water that has been intrukced into our dwell ings sufficiently attests the opinion o 7 the pubic as to its partial failure, and makes it, I think, incumbent upon the Council to turn its ear attention to the best means of suppl)in; t t the inhabitants the red sandstone water separately for dietetic purposes. How this can be accomplished wi.h the least possisle cost and inconvenience to the nteit,yer., is a question whi h it were premature to discuss • pending the repot% of the Wetter Committee alertly to be submitted to the Council. 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LITIMPOOL ACADEXT'S EXHIBIT,ON, Porto/Ice-place. ALLsoaos %Vex woßic rIIBITION-10 a.m. to 10 p.m. GIATToti HALL, Clayton-square—Gordon Cumming-8 p.m. E.. - 4nAL CoL3ssicul —General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. tEr For particulars see advertisements. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mr. G. C., Byrom-street.—Your question is purely professional. It wou'd, therefore, be better to take th, a 'vice of a lawyer. Eke kortiyrn titan S-4TURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. It is stated in the Paris Pays, semi-official journal, that Nena Sahib arrived at Lucknow on the Ist of August, when be was at once made governor of the town, and commander-in-chief of the army of Oude. HP had also cut the canal which supplied the citadel, and the English shut up in the fortress were besieged by Nena Sahib in person. The Pays avers that it has receive:l this intelligence from Lueknow itself. Whether it is only one of those h4zardous paragraphs for which the Paris papers are so celebrated, time alone can tell, but there is every fear that such a calamity might occur; not, however, without the Indian government becoming aware of such a movement on the part of the rebels. The Globe, which last week state 1 that the number of re3ruits coming in were not calculated to meet all our wants, in its issue of last night says that the ordinary rate of recruiting has very much improved, the number enlisted within the last week being considerably in excess of 1,000 men, the general average since the war ceased. The embodiment at the present time of fifteen regiments of militia will enable us to send out another strong reinforcement for India if it be required, and required it will be, so the sooner they are sent out the better. The cavalry regiments likely to be selected for India are the Scots Greys, and the Inniskillen Dragoons, and of infantry, the 21nd, 25th, 67th, and 99 h Regiments. This will mike a force of about 5,000 men, which can be dis patched at once. Th 3 conduct of the Home G wernmen', in allow ing the civil and military authority to be lodged in separate hands, is severely con lemned. A writer in a London cotemparary says that Sir Colin Camp bell should at once be nominated Governor General as well as Commander-in-Chief—" No nation in the world but our own would commit the folly of divided power, with all its possible, and not impos sible evils, in such a state of things as now exists in India " Something has been whispered about the likeli hood of the terrible Santhal tribe taking advantage of the revolt to rise against us, and as they could "'ouster a stakding force of acme hundred and fifty thousand depredators, nothing could be more alartnintz than to find they had let themselves loose upon the country. We read in the Calcutta papers that the Santhals have exhibited alarming symp toms. The EiViAinan says that advices from Beerblio:,sm state that they have been committing great depredations in that quarter. A letter from Singapore gives some particulars of a Mahommodan plot whi3h had been detected there ; and the intelligence from China confirms the telegraphic announcement of the blockade of the Canton river. The Indian Relief Committee have issued an other appeal for funds, which should be promp'ly and effectually responded to by all classes of our countrymen. It is true that meetings have been held and committees organised in a very large number of places throughout Great Britain, but there are many who have yet to take public action a the matter. Particulars of a diabolical murder in Bolton on Thursday night, are given in another column. A wounded, was obliged to fall back upon Cawn pore. To have adopted any other course would have been attended with disastrous results. At . this time the force under his command was not more than twelve hundred strong, and he was losing not less than fifty men a day by sickness, As it was impossible, under such circumstances, to press forward to the aid and relief of the starving garrison of Lucknow, he re-crossed the Ganges, but before he could again occupy Cawnpore, he was compelled to to encounter two considerable bodies of muti neers, one five and the other four thousand strong. In these engagements, although per fectly successful, his little army had dwindled down to about 900 fighting men, and with such a force he has to maintain his position against fully 6,000 mutineers, who have followed him in his retreat, and threatened him upon the Northern banks of the Ganges. An army of 5,000 men occupy the Southern bank of the river, and we e are told that this force were actually endeavouring- to construct a bridge of boats for the purpose of attacking him in flank while he was engaged with the rebel forces of the North. We have not yet told .the worst. The Gwalioi' contingent, mustering 10,000 men at arms, were crossing the Jumna at Calpee, for the purpose of forming a junction with the Dude insurgents. Now, we are not disposed to be alarmists, or to join in the desponding cry of many of our metropolitan and provincial cotem poraries. Nevertheless, the foregoing facts exhibit a fearful state of things. This will appear much more apparent when we take into account the statement of Mr. EDMONSTONE, the Secretary to the Government of India, who assures us that the small force sent by steamer to oppose the passage of the mutineers at Calpee was quite too weak and insignificant to accom plish that important object. Thus it appears that General HAVELOCK was surrounded and threatened by the mutineers on three different sides of his position, and that the numbers of the enemy were overwhelming when compared with the force under his command at Cawnpore. What rendered his position more critical was the probability that the 4,000 rebels which he had routed at Bithoor would make an effort to join the scattered band from Saugor, and, thus reinforced, would march, not loss than 6,000 strong, to the assistance of their fellow rebels on the North and South banks of the Ganges. Although matters may wear the gloomy aspect which the foregoing facts depict, we have full confidence that the brave and enduring HAVE LOCK will rise superior to all the dangers and difficulties which hover round his track. L the gallant Sir HUGH WHEELER, we are certain that he will keep thousands of mutineers at bay, and that there is not a single man belonging to his brigade but will die with arms in their hands, determined to inflict summary vengeance upon the merciless butchers of the daughters of England, and maintain British power and supre macy in Hindostan. But the suspense which now pervades the breast of every true Briton until the certainty of HAvEeoces-brigade being safe, and the relief of the garrison of Lucknow is confirmed, is tremendous in the extreme. If the former can hold out against the fearful odds pitted against him, until the end of September, he and his heroic band are safe. 'Would that we could indulge the same hope for Lucknow ? And here we must again refer to the obstinate and short-sighted policy of Lord CANNING. Certain we are had his Lordship acted upon the advice tendered by Lord ELPHINSTONE in May last, a tithe of the cruelties and disasters which we have been painfully obliged to narrate would never have occurred. Had he met the difficulty fairly in the face, and made the Government at home aware of the vast conspiracy which existed against British rule in India, and had he not previously closed his. eyes to the Magnitude of the emergency—had he not for two successive mails obstinately assured the Home Government that the rebellion was suppressed, when each succeeding day seemed only to extend and strengthen it, the latter end of July would have seen the arrival of those reinforcements which are now so eagerly looked for by our suffering countrymen. Lord CANNING cannot plead ignorance as to the actual state of things. Every one at all acquainted with the character, disposi tion, and principles of the Sepoys, foresaw what was about to take place, and loud and general was the demand for military assistance. The self-willed and haughty Governor-General despised the necessity for aid ; and when JUNG BAHODOOR, the ruling Prince of Nepaul, offered a contingent of 3,000 men, it was insolently refused. He ha I before him the example of Lord DALHOUSIE, who did not disdain to press on the Home authorities the duty of keeping a considerable force of the Queen's troops in India Taking the whole of his Lordship's career in Hindostan into account, we are sorry to say that he was not " the right man in the right place." He may be a local statesman of great abilities, but we have no hesitation in pronouncing him entirely unfit to rule the destinies of a military campaign. In every step which he has taken we perceive a want of political sagacity, futility of invention, and moral courage. The former is manifested by his utter inability to realise the desperate nature of the emergency; the second is the absence of energetic, efficient, and vigorous measures to extinguish the rebellion ; and lastly, in that weak compliance with an unfounded and counterfeit notion of equality which confounded the well-disposed and the traitor; in the common suppression of the native and English Press; and man named Aaron Taylor cut his wife's throat in the street, and afterwards attempted to commit suicide. The wife died almost instantaneously. The Central Board of Healsh has issued some " preliminary advice" relative to cholera. They address their notification to Local Boards of Health, and they append a statement of the powers which these boards possess, in order that they may be stringently exercised. Cholera, says the General Board, has appeared in an epidemic form in the Baltic ports and at Hamburg, and they want every Local Board to " keep them well informed as to the amount of bowel complaint prevailing from time to time within their district.' We are told that public authorities, armed with the existing powers of the law, can do almost everything to render the mysteries influence of cholera inno alone - The Government Commission of Inquiry into the Belfast riots hive been brought to a close. It was at first expected that great good would be the result of their lab aura, but so far as we are able to judge, such supposition has been wofully deceived, and it is not going too far, when we say that the gentlemen appointed as Commissioners had not the ability required for • the performance of such a delicate undertaking. The very first duty incumbent on them, as Commissioners—the duty of keeping order, of maintaining decorum in their Court —they, from the very first, failed most si g nally in disch arg i ng . A nyt hi ng l i ke the scenes that occurred on Tuesday and on Wednesday, and which the Commissioners seemed to take very much as a matter of course, it would be impossible to parallel. Witnesses received no protection. As a local paper says :—' A scurrilous, character less,unredeemable slanderer was permitted to make the Court an arena for the display of his ani mosities ; and the Commissioners sat patiently, while he vented his foul-meuthedness on honour able gentlemen. It is such conduct that makes us believe that the sooner the Cotnmissioners close their loquiry the better will it be for public decency. Its utility has expended itself—it is not probable that any mere practical turn will now be given to the Investigation." Now that people have digested the.news per the Overland Mail, t'tey are turning their atteoton to the recent meeting of the Emperors at Stuttgardt. The Daily News looks upon the conduct of the Russian Emperor and Empress, as a plain and unmistakable insult to the Empress of France and the Emperor of the French war, indeed, be unworthy of the grace and beauty which he has placed on the throne, if he he do not resent such Imperial impertinence and rieleness. "When on the banks of the Rhine, it was the place of the Czar to have sought an interview at Paris.' Instead, he !sant th:ther his brother, Constantine, who disgusted all France by his coarsneas and violence ; and at Stuttgardt he has had the bad taste to allow his wife to insult the Empress of the French Well, under such circumstances, might the inter cour.s:e between the two monarchs be of that formal and reserve i character which is ascribed to it." The special correspondent of the, Times at Stutt gardt, does not look so unfavourably on the conduct of the Emperor of Russia,—and he sums up in a few words the result of this meeting. The two Emperors have had the satisfaction of making each other's acquaintance, and of exchanging the expression of their individual views, wishes, and aspirations, but nothing beyond th:s has been obtained, except it be some matters of such very trifling moment as not to be worth citing. The Emperor Napoleon has not betrayed any inclination to tamper with or jeopardise the English alliance. As to any arrangement for the reduction of the French and Russian armies, it is known that the latter has been already reduced to a very low pc ale footing, while it is felt that for the rngintenance of the Imperial system anti of tranquility at home the French army could not be materially reduced. It is said that the French Emperor was more popular at Stuttgardt than the Czar. For,ign papers speak of an insurrection in Per sia, and of a probable alliance of the Persian Mahorn medans with the Indian insurgents, by which the difficulties of Great Britain in the East would be increased. But 603 h rumours as that have been repeatedly put forward and turned out, at last, as unfounded. The Diet of the Kingdom of Danmark was opened on Wednes lay.' The speech of the Prime Minsster did not allude to the Holstein question. • The Crown Prince of Sweden, after dissolving the provincial anvernment, has begun his career as Regent pf the Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. The Otheiontinental news is not of any impor tance. The Bank returns are rather more favourable :his week, there being an innrease of X 87,528 in he amount of bullion in the Bank of England. IT cannot be denied that each succeeding mail from India furnishes additional proof of the incompetency of Lord CANNING as Governor- General. His obstinate and pertinacious refusal to comply with the earnest entreaties of the merchants of Calcutta to disarm the brigade under General LLOYD at Dinapore, is, we regret to say, likely to lead to serious and sad disasters. Should the fate of Colonel WHEELER be reserved for General HavELocK, the country may thank Lord CANNING for it. It is really sad to con template how the safety of the gallant General, on whose life so much depended, has been fear fully and unnecessarily endangered. Had Lord CANNING paid the least attention to the remon strances addressed to him nearly a month before the Dinapore mutiny, General HAVELOCK would have been reinforced by the 10th and 37th Regiments. He would not have been obliged to make a retrograde movement, nor would that terrific slaughter have overtaken the former of the regiments just named. Instead of b • being hemmed in, surrounded on all sides by a nume rous and ferocious enemy, with his supplies cut off, he would have been in a position to continue his victorious career, and to have pressed on to Lucknow and relieved the unfortunate garrison at that place. Had wise counsels been adopted by the Governor-General of India, England would just now have had ample room to congratulate itself upon the deliverance of as glorious a band of heroic soldiers as ever carried arms, and to thank, with unaffected fervency, the GOD of BATTLES for bringing - us through all the diffi culties and dangers of the mutiny, and crowning every movement of the gallant HAVELOCK with complete and unalloyed success. A careful perusal of the last advices lead us to fear that the position of that great commander is not free from serious danger and peril. He is threatened by the insurgent forces on three sides, and the manner in which they have moved down upon him clearly shows that their operations have been carried on with no small amount of military skill and ability. The following facts, as recorded in the last despatches received from the seat of the rebellion, will enable our readers to form an exact estimate of General HAVELOCK'S position. On the 29th of July General HAVELOCK ob tained a brilliant and decisive victory at Bussenet Gunge, but having no cavalry to follow up his successes, and being hampered by his sick and THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERTOOL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1857. in the absurd and timid proclamations, appealing to a fidelity which did not exist, instead of com pelling the unsettled allegiance of time-serving and unprincipled Hi n d oos . Th e ' ime is not far distant when Lord CANNING must explain his conduct, and give way to a successor able and willing in every respect to guard and maintain the supremacy of England in the good and wise government of India. THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY'S EXHIBITION. The general features of this season's exhibition we briefly pointed out at its opening. More careful observation doe' not suggest to us any altered opinion. Many of the pai lungs are, however, of a character which deserve a further notice, and upon these we purpose to remark from time to time. Teis we shall endeavour to do with no affectation of any special illumination upon the subject of the art of painting, and with as little of the critic's jargon es we can conveniently employ. We have but little faith in any rules of art whose cmnprehension is confined only to a few of the initiated, or, indeed, in any rul, s of art not based upon the etereal and universal laws of nature, which are open and simple to be received by any men who patien ly gives his mind to understand them. We have still less filth in dogmatic criticism, founded upon imaginary principles, and cri..- ple I within arbitrary limit. Therefore, we do not mean to qua-rel with any picture because it. is named of any particular school, or to be enraptured about it merely for a similar cause. The only school whose teachieg ought t o guide us all is th t of nature, and her academy, happ,iy, is open to every one to enter and learn in. Here are no mystic, signs or secret pose-words, but a common lesson to be studied humbly by Itsphaelites and pre-Rephaelites uli:se, and which any of us who has learned the smallest part by heart may feaflessly apply as a test, though he should never have pai'ated a picture or written a poem, to the picture or the poem of the head of the highest cless. We are, probably, bound by courtesy to notice, in th e first instance, this yeal'a prize picture. " The Blind Girl" (Ni. 124), by Mr. d. E. Illillaia, has been the seccessful competitor. Na priz3 ever yet was given away without ere icing some dissatisfaction ; but, probably, few prizes of this kind ever aroused mire grumbling than that bestossed in this iinnance. The committee must have had some moral courage to mate the award, and need more yet to bear up against the acrim mioes oi - jecii rs which lave been raised to it. Sa much has been said an I vrrittes in Livereool against this picture, that we hea-tily wish we could vary the monotony by defending it. But the thing, as Mac tulay said of poor " Satan," M mtgomery's poem, is now past a joke. This painting of the " kglied Gire" seems to us a kind of elim ex, beyond which no force of putlieg can carry th efforts of the " sehoat" very far. This is the inevitable deduction, the reductio ad absurduiii of the " Rescues," " Awakenel Conscie-c3s," and the rest. To this com plexion it must c )me—and it is by no means difficult now to make us laugh at that. The " 13iistd Girl" is a small painting, representing two young females sitting in what purports to be a field, the elder hiving an accordion in her lap, and her eyes closed. Nothing in particular indicates that the girl is blind, or has not merely fallen asleep. The field rises right up like a greenish-;ellow wa 1 behind the figures. A double rainbow of marvellous,dense nes. and distlnctles9 spans the sky. Birds of enormous siz 3 and blue colour, popularly believed to lea crows, are dotted over the fie'd. Houses are seen is the distance,so.ne cows, a donkes, and a haystack, also make their appearance. We need not say, that the hair of the blind girl is of that peculiar yellow tow-like kind, whose beauty appears to exercise a singular fascination over all faithful pte-Ra phaelites. A very large butterfly seems affixed to the cloak of the girl—looking like a naturalist's specimen on an Egyptian women's mystic ornament. Now, we do no t moan to deny, that out of these materials a very fine paining might be produced. For all talk about the dig nity of art, and its exal'iCion above common-plat; subjects we entertain nothing but contempt. But a com mon-place subject must be represented with truth and natural simplicity ; and, it may be fairly asked, of any man who can look-out from his own eyes, whether the marvellous combination of colours which he saes here before him, is in the least like any phase of nature his gaze has ever rested on? Miny of the details are, indeed, worke 1 out with an almost photographic fidelity. The rents in the girl's dress, the worn sboes, and other ibjacts, have a Chinese exactness of imitation. But the whole effect pro due el seems to us s!artlingly unreal and unlike to nature. The subject is presented with, ut a single suggestion of beauty, even in the sky and the rajah° and surely could only have been redeemed by faithfulness and ['lntl to life and objet'. This, indeed, is lel one only merit at which paintings such as this profess to aim, and in this paintin,l before us appears to have glaringly and painfully failed. It may be, inc'eed, that this i 3 no common-place subject at all. Some deep allegoric meaning, some exalted moral purpose, may lie buried behind these astonishing masses of colour. M. Millais and his imitators are fond of pratty sentimental mysteries wrapped up in their productions ; but if there be any such in this pointing, we must leave other eyes than ours to fins it out. Perhaps the butterfly may indicate something psychic and mysterioess perhaps the accordion, perhaps even the crows. The obvious meaning of the picture is, however, only such as we have described; and we are forced to think it a failure, because it is not more wanting in beauty of conception than in faithfulness of execution : beeaus 3 it neither realizes nor suggests; because it does not fill the mind or give pleasure to the eye. LIME-STREET WARD. AMUSEMENTS, &c. The visitor will naturally turn from this painting to that of Sir Isumbras at the Ford," (217), the other contribu tion of Mr. Millais's to the exhibi.ion. This is, we believe, the picture which Mr. Ruskin described as a catastrophe in art. Without feeling all the warmth of that very ene - getic and impassioned critic, we cannot help thinking the painting a very waste of talent; a latish flinging away of patient labour and great strength for a result all but worthless. One could bear very calmly with Mr. Millais's more recent productions, if the very worst of them did not display talents of the most valuable character, which only absJlate perversion of their use could keep from enriching the world whit images of beauty, power, and life. Mr. Millais has gone far out, of the ordinary track to find a subject, and has h-re selected one which surely scarcely merited so elaborate and pretentioas an illustration. Sir Isumbras, like a kindly old knight, takes a boy and a girl upon his war horse, Dextrier, over a ford, and this poi- ion of the ballad alone the artist has selected as his subject. The face n Sir Isumbras is exquisitely painted—bmovolent, simple, and quaint—perfectly natural, so far as every day life and character are concerned—not at all after any chivalric ' or herein model. The reverent wonder in the eyes of the little girl is child like and touching. Her costume, how ever, seems to us to be perfectly modern, and her attitude too easy and unconcerned for a child on the pommel of a war-horse's saddle. The knight bestrides his horse in a ingularly wooden fashion, and his lower limbs are short and awkward. The horse Dextrier is an animal of a blue black colour, and a very crane like neck. His position is a' stiff as that of the Commandec's horse in "Don Giovanni" I might be. There are marvellous blue hills in the distance, and skies of wonderful tiflge. There is a castle, trees 2re seen, and upon a bank two nuns are walking. We are wholly unable to account for a large bridge which is also visible, and which one would have thought the builder might have managed to make available for the better crossing of the ford. The bundle of sticks which the boy carries, the helmet of the knight, the peacock's feathers, and other minor objects, are represented as usual with singular correctness. But the picture, taken as a while, only moves us to astonishment, and not to admiration. The attitudes of the figures, the skies, the hills, the colouring gaserilly, seem to as utterly, and sometimes fanttstioal ly unnatural. Many of the details appear quite inconsistent with each other. Again we are tempted to seek for some hidden allegorical meaning, not obvious at the first glance eitheron the ballad or the painting. Why, if therebe no such meaning, introduce some of the objects here represented ? And, if there is any mysterious purpose in the picture, can any one tell us what it is? Being only Davus, and not Edipus, and having a strong objection to involvement in bewildering speculations,. we can only g:ve the considera tion of the p'ct tre up, not without regret that so much talent should be prodigally flung away upon unintelligible conceits, and laboured' efforts to amaz3 and startle. More space has been consumed in remarking, even thus briefly, thess pictures than we had at first intended, W e shall proceed to noti3o several other paintings in the same po-tion of the exhibition at the earliest opportunity. It is to be regretted that the attendance of visi'ors should not be more numerous. Sufficient reason for this fact wit'', however, be foan I in the attractions of the Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester, and the singuler;y fine weather we now enjoy, which tempts many to posf.p )ne their return to town from the country and the sea-side. THE MUNICIPAL ILEC TION. Last evening, the fri , mds favourable t 3 the return of Mr. Junes Johnso!!, the councillor for this ward, who ntires on the Ist of November next, by rotation, assembled at th e Bee II tel, Q ieen's-scriare, for the purpose of taking pre_ liminary 6teps to secure Oat gerAleman's re-election. THEATRE ROYAL-MIS, AND MRS. BARN.Ar WILLIAMS. The benefit of these most popular performers took place in an overfi wing house last night. This is the lad evening of their appearance in the Theatre Royal, where, for a long time no actors have been more successful in attracting crowded au iences, and in winning fhe most enthusiastic applause. The engagement of these clever performer 3 will close this evoning with " Rory O'More,” " Law for Ladies, and "Mephistopheles," a "domestic demoniacal txtravaganza," written expressly for Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams, and introduced at their benefit, which took place last night, and drew a crowled house. We hope, in justice to Mr. Copeland, who appears to be unremitting in his endeavours to provide varied entertain ments fit the Liverpool public, that the audience will be as largo to-night. For those who appreciate Irish humour and Yankee peculiarities, these performers provide a rich treat, and such as since Power's time has not been approachel. Mr. Copeland has been disappointed in his endeavour to obtain another performan:e of " La Traviata." Railways and steam-boats, though, on some occasions, extremely c have proved unpropitious, and for this particular occasion hays failed to annihilate time and space. The lovers of Italian opera will have to wait for the arrangements with M. Beale, which are pending, for three performances, in a week or two. Sam CowELL —We would remind our readers that this evening Sam Cowell and His Little Party" conclude the present aeries of their entertainment at the Queen's Hall, Mid-street. To say that this "genius" has been appreciated by all who have seen him in Liverpool, would only be informing the whole town of what is well known to be a fact " where'er his footsteps wander," and that large numbers have been unable to visit his salle, simply for want of room. We may also mention that, in consequence of the enthusiastic reception uprn the first appearance of Miss Sidney Cowell, the " eccentric Sam ' has been induced to again announce her fur this evening, when, no doubt, her artless manner and really pleasing vocalisation will be as rapturo illy received. Returning to the " regu lar stock company," we can say that the appetite of the audiences appear to increase by the nature of their food, as repetitions of the famed " Alorz) the Brave," " Life and Death of Macbeth," &e., have been nightly re-demanded, and as cheerfully e naplied with. Mr. F. Bisig Dan also contributed no small share to the evening's entertainmen t by his " fiogaring" on the piano•f)rte, and his i",,Som nambula" variations on the concertina, which invariably meet with a rap uro - as encore. His imitation of the bag pipes we never heard equalled. Miss Wight has more and more improved, upon a closer acquaintance, and afforded us great pleasure when listening to her swat notes and clear intonation. We trust that the visit may prove as pecuniarily profitable to " the party" as it has been satisfactory to the public. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. —By advertisement in another column, it will be seen that three Extra Galas, of the most monstre description, are to be given in these gardens on the days of Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. The attrac tions set forth are of so brilliant and multiform a descrip• tion that it is impossible here even to enumerate them; but, from the talent of the artistes engaged, "at an enormous expense,' we can confidently recommend " an afternoon at the Zoological." Health, pleasure and insti uc tion mey here be found. To say that it will be a " gather ing of the million" is almost superfluou I, when we state th It the price of admission is reduced to sixpence. LITERARY AND DatMATIC SOCIErY —The annual general meeting of the above boiy was held on Thursday even ing last, at the society's rooms, when the fallowing gentlemen ware elec el for the ensuing year : Mr. James Knox Mr. John F. Tafe . Vice• President and Editor. Mr. Frederick Clark... Treasurer. Mr. Edwin Young ..... Honorary Secretary. Mr. Robert Crompton.. Stage Director. Several interesting papers are announced, and negotiation are pending far a series of lectures by eminent literati, under the auspices of this popular local society. COUNTY COURT. —Mr. T. S. BAIA presided in this court yesterday. Upwards of 300 cases were disp.ised of, bat were almost all undefended. No case of any importance came on for hearing. Peres EtNrATI")N TO JAMES PENDLEBURY, Es Q. —Oh Tuesday last, the clerks. workmen, and others connected with the trustees of the late Duke of Bridgewater pre sented the abov.:-named gentleman with an elegant time piece and gold pencil-e ts^, together with an address, on his retiring from the Liverpool agency, after having acted as their representative he'e for a periol of nearly twenty• five years. Mr. Pendlebury has been appointed to the office of principal cashier of the Bridgewater Trust Estates, a position which he is eminently qualified to fulfil. ST. RYSOSTOM'S WORKING MEN'S AS 30C lA.TION. - It is with pleasure we perceive that this valuable institu tion i 3 just about to re-open for its fourth winter session. The proceedings will be inaugurated by a tea party, in the Mi'l Lane School-rooms, on Mon lay evening, the sth inst., under the chairmanship of William Brown, Esq., M.P. It is proposed that the reading roam and library shall be open every night, crstept Sunday. Each night will have its own class.is for reading, writing, and arithmetic. Singing will be taught on Thursday evenings. Twice a month there will be lee ures and debates, and every S stur day evening tiers will be a concert for the recreation of the working classes. A PROPM ETPSS AT DRUM—During one of the recent engagements before Delhi, a female dressed in green, was seen leading on the rebels. She was at first taken for the Baz , e Bale, and a rumour, of course, spread that she headed the Gwalior troops ; she, however, had not left G.valior at the time, and may still be there. The female in green, or the very green female, was taken prisoner, and coefiaed in secure quarters in our camp. She is described as an ugly old woman, short, and fat, and is said to be a prophetess of some note in the degraded city. It was first intended to release this woman, but hr the last accou tts she was still kept a prisoner, in the hope, we presume, of eliciting some impartant iufermltion from her. DANGSR TO TRUAX% —The Morning Advertiser, which is, unquestionably, the most ludicrous journal of these realms, had an article on the Belfast riots in its number of Saturday, and the or :an of the cry of "No Popery" protests against the removal, for the pres:nt, of any military now in this country. Our imbecile cotemporary says :—" We trust that our fears will have been ground less ; but a removal of the military is, in the same proparti3n, the surrender of Ireland to the M tynaoth Priests." Tois could not go down in London; eve►, a local Orange paper would be b less insane, Northern Whig, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS' By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EYSIOO'./ According to the monthly return of the price u; wheat in the various markets in France, the averl e is 20f. 23c., being a decline of lf. 38c. sinc e I , 3 previous return. Same . peri o d l as t year the ave r q was 30f. 283. The Three per Gent Rentes were buoyant todal; and closed at titif. 3,5 c. An improvement of ve l ar 2 per cent, han occurred s i nce the middle September. DENMARK The Session of the Danish Chambers has bee b ° s opened by the Minister of the Interior , 10 th e name of the King. No a ll us i on i s made tv conflict with the Duchies. THE IMPERIAL INTERVIEW AT STUTTGARDT: d At Stuttgardt the two E m p erors we re c,I °-gate,,ds together three times, wer f eet ly a l one, f or varying from an hour and a-half to two hours' Prince Gorteschakoff and Count Walewislii coat fered together for one hour and a- half, and 3 upposed they had other interviews. B A.N K RIIPTS. By British and Irish Hagnetie Telegraph; R9bert Cloegh, Oxford-street, hosi , r . Charles Povey, West Bromwich. William Sm rrthwaite Barking, baker. Solomon Cro s, West Bromwich, factor Thomas Payne, Stranl Theatre, Strand, lessee'o rtto said theatre. James C.ueker, Oakhamplon, ironmonger. William Keeth, Exeter, innke , per. Henry Strlbb, Bishop's Sutton, corn de ler. T lornas Huiching., Adam-street, Adelphi, contractm Simnel P :ndersluis, Lower Marsh, Lambeth, tailor.,o, Wiiliana Bracker, Wiliam Hawkins Brucker, and M d . John Brucker, Great Ormond-street, Bloomsbury, as Plaistow, Essex, plumbers. Robert Harrison, Ja mes Ki ero W atson ; an d H enr y xe aser Kingston-on-Hull, bankers. Henry Burke)! Graven, Leeds, corn factor. an d Henry Smith Bight, hingston-on-H ill, merchant a commission agent. William Robe, tscm, Birmingham, carrier. George Warburton and John Orm( slier, Manchester , sti lt merchantF. Rebfrt Chevalier Cream, Rushall, apothecary. Samuel Thyley and Thomas Russell, Macclesfield, 6 dyers. John Tamhleyn, Hawkey, Cardinharn, cattle dealer. Na.hin Farnworth, Chorie,y, druggiq. Thomas Reber, Falcon-square, Loudin, druggist. An immense vulture was shot last week in the forest O f N , eppe, near Lilts. The naturalists of that place supr° sB it t) be a specimen of the grand condo,r of the Andes. a The Perth Courier announ ces t h a t t h e R ev. M r . Cal; of Errol has received an utogra ph letter from her Make; requesting him to pub ish the sermon recently deliverer by him in Crathie Chinch. CABINET COUNCIL —The ministers present on Thg, tg : day. were—Viscount Palmerston, L or d Chancellor' Lord Granville, Earl St. H arrow b y, Si r G . Grey, 801 l Clarend n, Mr. Laboucher e , th e Ch ance ll or of the DWI° quer, Sir C. Wood, Mr V. S m i t h, an d M r. Ba i nes. HIGH SPEED ON TII 3 NARROW GAUGIL—A traveller us the Great Northern morning express train from ga ll ; chester to London, affirms that he timed the speed o 8 Wednesday week, and found that some parts of th.., journey were pe r f or m e d a t t h e rate of s i xty-four m il e s 1" an hour. AN.ALTERNATIVE,—A tidy hiusewife once said tc%, slattern, How do you contrive to amuse yourself r i " Amuse said the other staring, " don't you knoir e have my housework to do ?" '" o Yes, I see y o u have it l do ; but as it is never d one , I th oug h t you must have so°e other tray of passing your time." THE l'istw PRINCIPAL OF J ESUS COLLEGE.—At Os fad, on Thursday morning, th e R a y. Charles Williams, n firmerly Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Honourari f Canon of Bangor Cath' d ra l, an d perpetual curate ° Holyhr al, Anglesey, was elected principal of Jesus College, in the room of the late Rev. Dr. Ffonlkes. HORSE-RACING IN FRANCE —The autumn races at Ch in " tilly c anmence lon Su d ty. The great event of the dl a was the Emperor's Stakes, i n w hi c h M onarque, R onz i,ati several other "c-acks" of the best French stables were dotted by an English hor se , Fi s h erman . S aunterer r 1 1" second. rats result was totally unexpected by the me nabeti of the French Jockey Club, who dropp e d a goo d d e al o f money; the bettin g had been bri s k er t h an i s general l y the case on the French turf. PirORKII0II•B INCIDENTB.—At the last meet'n; of the Birmingham Board of Guardians, a le'ter was read from the Rev. Israel Holgate, Wesleyan superintendant minister, applying, for a room to be set aside in iha workhouse f 0 the spiritual instruction of pauper Wes'eyans. On th e rnceion of Mr. Hawley, seconded by Mr. Tonks. it vrt i resolved that the room now appropriated as a place (1 , worship for inm a t es o f the Roman Catholic persuoir , sn should b e a l so p l ace d at the disposal of the Wesleyans ; respective past ors o f t h e two denominations to arra nge between them the times of their ministration. A let ter was read from Professor Anderson, offering to admit th e children, young and old, of the workhouse, to a performal at half-past one on S a ' ur d ay morning. On the motion ° Mr. Phillips, se co n d e d b y M r. T onks, it was reso l ve d that the offer be accepted, and the best thanks of the board be giv en t o t h e pro f essor for his kindness and liberality. ja CRIMINALS IN AUSTRALlA.—Wain wr i g ht , W h o Was m of the contributors to the London Magazine under ila e name of Janus, and met frequently with Lamb, De Quincy Co!eridg,e, Scott, and oth er s t ars o f t h e li terary firmament' died but very recently in Hobart Town. His crimes are well known, and far exceeded in atrocity those of Palmer' who was recently executed at home. The worst instancy' howev -r, was that of a criminal executed about 01 yeas since, in Sydney, w h o use d to go up the country ofin,„ meet the bullock d ra y s com i ng down with wool. I': would camp with those in charge, and m ke them drunk' when he murdered them, and making an enormous fief' he burned the bodies, took the bullock drays on to SP.: ney, and sold them and the wont. He had carried on this system for som e ti me b e f ore i t wis traced. I remember reading this man's co n f ess i on, an d I thought it the most horrible thing that I had ever heard or read of- . I ' 4o offences or crime s th a t I h ave read of since approach th°s e of which this man had been guilty. Could any one but 1 demon app roac h fi ve h uman b eings encamped in the bush, hold out to them the hand of friendship, smoke th° pipe of peace, and drink with them as brethren, but wh en ' r , he found them stupified or asleep, deliberWely murder the whole of them, and burn the remains and everything c° 6- nected with their encampment ? Some will excleilr i ; "can these thin g s b e ?"—b ut I th i nk that in the hulk President, already a ll u d e d to , t h ere are many men as vicio us as this man was, and c Table of perpet ra ti ng crimes v.' te as atrocious as h e c emmitted.—Tait's Edinburgh illagair 4 for October ENGLI , I4 JOURNALISM : " The Diu, "—E ver y persol (says the Bradford Obse rver ) connected wi - h the pees'' who has anything of the esprit de corps of his professto c ' must feel proud of the Times newspaper : its vast circula r lation, its innum era bl e advertisements, its manly ntterano• a its extraordinary a bilit y, i ts c:mprehensive infoemaii/ combine to m a k e i t to i ts cotemp Taries, not an object. - 4 envy, but of admiration. But the Times. has great 813 0 grave faults, n ever th e l ess, and to multitudes it is not on object of admiration bat o f di s lik e , susp i c i on, an d eve n ' hatred. They se ., or ;pink they see, in th e Ti m es nel t paper, a p ower wh i ch i s prejudicial to some of the hig b e moral and s oc i a l i nterests i n the community ; or if not se o , already, t h a t t h ere i s a danger of its bee ming se. S ) f gentlemen holding this o pi n i on h ave conceived the id e a , starting another daily parer --not with any desire to to turn the Times, but to neutralise its evil influence onr dee check its prcud an d oveibeaeing tenlncies. The I originated some tw o y ears, age, and has been slog egg growing and expan di ng ever since and at this lo° lll l some 3,000 p ersons, many of them having a nationing reputat'on, and the yindeder for the mos t part occoPY ro t honourable an d i n fl uential pesitions in their sev e locelities, have f orme d t h emselves into a joint-stock c° of pany, and subscribed nearly £70,000 for the purP se t to starting 7he Dial. This new venture, however, Is " r i of appear till the number of shareholders, and the ani°, 1 , 1 ,," 0 00 capital are greatly increased. It is proposed to get al. a s of the former, and to make the latter £250,000, be rt iog issuing No 1 ; and certain gentlemen are ex e' red themselves with great zeal and energy to ach ieve „ e secl Position. Mr. Hancock, who is connected with the nrcr to Dial, is now in Liverpool, and it will be seen frond to advertisement in another column, that he is preP ar s 4 receive appli ca ti ons for shares, and to give all noes information. FOR Letterth `8 It the e 2 , 3p es talk "eattailui °1 er In tk it Joi t ::' Li Lett m al de L it t tzp o l l fi r ati °t er t q tiaie oD4` d es tv es 14 0 1 1 e nd /It 44 ( kit ll' 'lQ I lot e e P AlNet