Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

SMITHSONIAN HOTEL Btu:wow-AY, Corner of HOUSTON-STHEET, Nsw YoS/C. Named in honour of the SMITHSONIAN Irterrrorzoli, Established at WASHINGTON, by the U. S. CONGEESS, With Funds bequeathed by JAMES SMITHSON, of ENGLAND. Having the Friendship of the OFFICERS of the NATIONAL INSTITUTION Is - conducted on the EUROPEAN PLAN. CHAS. H. SMITH. AMUSEAENTS, PUBLIC RIEETINGS, &c. THIS DAY. MEATS% 6 ROYAL — Dramatic PerformaTl:B-7 p.m. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE—DramItic Performulce-7 p.m. LIYIXIMOL ACADEMY'S EXHIBIT:ON, Postoffice-place. ALLSOP'S WAXWORK EXHIBITION-10 a tO 10 p.m. OLAITox HALL, Clayton-square—Gordon Cumming-0 -pm. ROYAL CoLlssetnt—General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. IT. GEOVIE'S HALL—Organ Performances—s pm. riff* For particulars see advertisements. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1&57. THE DAY'S NEWS. We may now shortly expect to receive telegraphic accounts of a fortnight's later news from India. Whether the intelligence will be of a reassuring character it is very difficult to pregnosticate, but let ue hope that the masacres and butcheries that we have had to chronicle from time to time the last two months have ended, or at any rate de creased. But should the news prove disastrous, should it unhappily turn out that`" for a time the rising tide of mutiny is carrying all before it— England will not bate a jo: of heart or hope, but will still look forward with assured confidence to the day—ielayed, but not far distant—of her ultimate triumph. "But, as surely as that is true, so surely is this true also," says the Daily News, "that she will exact a stern retribution from those careless or incorapetent rulers who, in the days of Eng land's distress and India's extremity, chose to forget, in sending out their army of succour, that Alexandria is the route to India.' " The G/ob3 of last night, by way of pre Baring the public mind, says we are not justified in anticipating that any large and decided change for the better will take place before about the third week in October, when the first strong body of reinforcements from England may be expected in India. The Times says that the revolt will immedia:ely fail from financial weakness alone, if the mutineers continue to rely upon their own unassisted resources, and argues from this that, until all the chiefs and princes join the revolt, there is no ultimate danger to the rule of Great Britain in Indic. " The primes of India are now on their trill, and if they are found faitlalul their position will be secured for an indefinite period. They have it in their power to do much injury to the Supreme Government, and by the same act to entaL inevitable ruin on them selves. .The dominions of faithless allies and the pensions of treacherous dependents will be justly applied in relief of the charges which must neces.; sarily be occasioned by the war. Any territory which the mutineers may occupy, through the connivance or incapacity of its rulers, will be re-conquered to the use of the Power which is able to protect it. It is of the utmost impor tance that the rebels should be prevented from sheltering themselves under the authority of any legitimate potentate. Those native Governments which prove themselves ready and able to fulfil their engagements will not fail to reap their reward, and the present crisis will show whether it is desirable that the English Empire should be surrounded by feudatories and dependant allies. But the proverb which attributes victory to the longest nurse indicates no accidental or inequit able condition of affairs. Wealth is on the side of prudence against rashness, of commercial rations against warlike hordes, and generally of civilisation in its contest with barbarism. There is little doubt that English organisation will out last the imple.ses of Oriental violence, The fund for the relief of the sufferers in India is fast accumulating. Throughout the length and breadth of the land meetings are being held, and subscriptions are rapidly pouring in. At the meeting at Glasgow the sum of £5,000 was subscribed on the spa, and at Manchester, nearly 43.500. The fund in Liverpool now amounts to £lO,OOO. Recruiting is going on but slowly. An evening paper says, that 700 young men per month are enlisting in the artillery, but it does not venture to inform us how many for the Line. Another question is, whether the new Government plan, about which so much has been said, for bestowing commissions upon young gentlemen who .can bring 100 followers, has yiel ?ed any fruit ? Some say it has been abandoned.; others, that Govern ment have had many overtures from the class of young gentlemen referred to, but there is no praot that any one of them has succeeded in getting his men. A correspondent of one of the London papers, proposes a plan -by which he says 40,000 troops could be raised in two months. He says—" During the last European great war, many of our finest regiments were raised by transferring whole bodies of local militia or volunteer corps, at once to the line, the rank of the officers having been confirmed to those holding commis. sions. Each county has already a regiment of militia. Were the Government at this moment to give a bounty of £O, with a free kit, to each private, and offer to form forty second batallions of 1,000 men each, to the first forty militia regiments that volunteered to be transferred to the line, with confirmation to rank to the present officers of these militia regiments, placing the force on an equal footing in every respect with the line—rank to date from the day of such transfer—there can be no doubt that double the number of men now required would be placed at the disposal of the country, without any red tape fuss or circumlocution. The Globe, of last night, states that General Ashburnham, the Commander of the China Expe dition, is to have a command in India. Brigadier General Havelock, whose substantial rank is that of colonel, is to have the rank and command of a major-general. The last promotion is, of course, not intended as a reward to General Havelock, who will he honourel in a manner commensurate with the brilliancy of his services. The enquiry into the causes of the Belfast Riots continues. It would appear that up to the present, the enquiry has been without practical aim, while it has not been conducted according to any system, legal or otherwise. It is altogether a " hodge podge" affair; and the result will be a ponderous blue book of evide,nee, from which the public, in general, will turn in disgust —it will never be read. The general desire of the town of Belfast is, that the Commissioners should ascertain, as fully as possible, the cause of the rioting, and then take evi lenee as to the most effectual means by which a recurrence of such semi barbarous conduct should be, iu future. guarded Against. The July riots were undoubtedly _caused, as far as the evidence goes, by the drunken folly of a Roman Catholic, named Loughran, who drove on, an outside ear, through the Romish quarter, on the 12th, flourishing a bunch of orange lilies, by way of brEkyado He was not recognised as a Roman Catholec—in fact he was taken to be an Orangeman, -and a rush was made to seize him. He was seiz 3d, and would havo been not very mercifully dealt with, had not the police interfered to save him. This incident created a commotion in the Roman Catholic district, and some shots were fired in the evening by way of idle defiance. They were duly responded to from the Sandy-row or 01 auge quarter ; and, as darkness set in, some personal contests- took place, with stone throw ing. Such simply was the.origin of the rioting. As far as possible to glean from the mass of irrelevant evidence that hampers the enquiry, the Roman Catholic party allege that they are the innocent victims of Orange conspirators•-=meek and long- enduring Christians who, when smitten on one cheek, in the spirit of martyrdom, piously turn the other. They repudiate all the honours of aggres sion, an& only in grave extremities act upon the instinct of -self-preservation. Such is the ease they desire to represent, but it is not the case even their own evidence bears out. We have never attempted, and shall not now engage in the hopeless task of discriminating between the degrees of guilt attachable to the Orange and the •Green parties. Enough for us to know, says a local paper, that they both manifest a detestable spirit; that both are brutal in their passions, and murderous in their insane animosi ties ; that both have pursued a course destructive of public morality and of public tranquility ; that both make religion a pretext for their savage vio lence, by which they have brought deep disgrace on the town. The supposed murderer of the woman, whose body was recently found near Bristol has been apprehended. His name is Beale. He is a butler by profession, and about thirty years of age. We publish full details of another railway acci dent, of a terrible and fatal character, by which four persons have been killed, and two or three others so much injured as to be despaired of. This painful occurrence happened on a branch of the Great Northern Railway, to a train proceeding from Manchester to London. It seems to have been caused by some defect in the axle of the en gine. At any rate the carriages, principally first class, got off the rails, and were hurled over an embankment, and smashed to pieces. Among the killed is the Hon. Mr. Clive. The other victims were ladies, including Miss Paget, of Garstou, near this town. The Continental news is meagre this morning The arrival of the Cztr at Stuttgardt, on Thursday evecing, is announced. Letters from St. Peters burg state that the reduction, to a peace footing, of the three divisions of cavalry of the Russian Imperial Guard is now accomplished. The Russians have completed the fortifications of Yenikale, in "the Black Sea. At Vienna it is reported that a large reduction of the Austrian army, is in contemplation. The interview between the Emperors of Russ:a and Austria will takes place at Warsaw, on the Ist of October. A Royal decree in the indritl Gazgtte, convokes the Cortes for October 3rd. News received from Constantinople, by way of Marseilles, contains a report that the Arabs had attempted to cut off the telegraph communication, to Show their sympathy with the Indian mutineers. If there be any• truth in this rumour, it refers, we suppose, to the telegraph in course of construction along the Euphrates route. The Bank Returns, this week, show a de u - ease in the bullion to the extent of £2o,9ol—th amount in the Bank cuff- rs b,.ing £11,188,550, agains , , £11,218,401, as per last week's returns. IT was rep3rted and believed for a long time that the Indian insurrection was purely military, confined chiefly to the Brahmens, instigated probably by Mohammedan machinations, and restricted to Bengal. This notion has now to be modified. It is no longer restricted to the largest of the three presidences, but has shown itself in the Presidency of Bombay. Two or three places have been marked by mutiny ; it appears that the low castes, as well as the high Brahminical order sharesin it. Not only Moham medans, but Hindoos are ranged against us, and not the military only but the general population, at least the scum of that population. We trust, and believe that it still remaine true, that the great men of the Indian nation are for us, and deplore this &Toy insurrection. They would lose far more than they would gain by the overthrow of our authority ; and already this has been painfully experienced in the plunder and violence practised on their own countrymen by the ,insurgents. Those who acted such fiends to the English cannot prove angels to their own countrymen. Wherever they show ,hemselves life, property, and honour become insecure, Jealously and are springing up between the mutinous regiments who have enriched themselves by plunder, and the poor regiments who have taken no booty. Some are stealing out of the ranks with their ill gotten gain ; it is impossible that such a lawless treacherous crew should long hold together ; they are not animated by any high and patriotic aims; and they must sooner or later fall to pieces, and perhaps do mutual execution upon themselves. ,Out of some eighty-three Bengal regiments, all, except five or six, have revolted ; not one of them is to be trusted ; every soldier of these should be disarmed, a precaution which we hope has been taken ere this time. Had the disarma ment been promptly made at Dinapore, when the regiments first showed signs of wavering, the suc ceeding slaughter might hays been spared ; the mutineers would not have been allowed to escape with their arms and ammunition ; our,srnall detach ment would not have suffered a check at Arrah when they went in pursuit of the mutineers ; and two or three thousand men would not have been added to the insurgents. Very properly Sir COLIN CAMPBELL has removed the incompetent commander and replaced him with a man of pre-eminent ability—General Sir JAMES OUTRALT, of Persian celibrity, the victor of Mohammerah. As a contrast to this indecision we read of the prompt and soldierly behavior of a Major MACDONALD, commander of a regiment of Indiae, cavalry. He had been severely wounded in a murderous attack made upon himself and other British officers, in which Sir N. LESLIE was ' killed. The assassins were discovered. The Major determined to have justice executed upon three, proved to be criminals. They were to be punished with hanging, which is felt to be so ignomineous by a Brahmin. They richly deserved their fate, but how to carry out the sentence was the difficulty. There was danger that the whole regiment might mutiny. They were high caste men that were to suffer, and one especially of the highest caste. He actually appealed to his companions around him for rescue. Here was the point of danger; the slightest indecision or hesitation, or fear on the part of the major might have made him the target of a hundred bullets. There was no indecision, and he knew no fear; wounded as he was, he rode to the front of that Indian cavalry with his revolver in his hand, determined to do his duty at every risk ; the three murderous villains were suspended in the air. Yet not a musket or a muscle moved against the gallant officer ; his fearless and decided bearing had overawed mutiny, and prevented massacre. " When all was over," said the Major, " I was surprised to find my head upon my shoulders." This prompt, tearless, and decided manner is what we need in this crisis, and, in dealing with the insurgents, we have many such officers, we hope, as this Major MACDONALD in the Indian army. We could wish, however, that we saw more of the same spirit in the Government at home, and in our Governor-General abroad. Lord CANNING has at length found out that he cannot trust his Indian body guard, and they are accordingly disarmed. But why trust them so long ? Why should the capital of British India, and the representa'ive of England's might and authority, have been left in jeopardy for a single hour ? At length it is determined to send rein forcements to India by the shorter overland route. But why, we ask, was not this conceded before ? Why did not our Government do it at once, when the crisis was known to he dangerous, what they are doing now ? A few thousand men, arriving within two months after we first heard of 'the mutinies, would have saved some massacres, and might have prevented some out breaks. Perhaps we ought to say better late than never. But this is no defence, thcugh it is a palliation. Reinforcements must have arrived by this time; and though Delhi ha.l not been taken, yet our men remained holding their own, in presence of overwelming numbers. Generals NJ - ELL, NICHOLSON, STUART, and HAVELOCK, were concentrating their forces toward Delhi, where the chief struggle will probably be made. The Commander-in-Chief had arrived at Calcutta, who will, no doubt, be found worthy of his former exploits and great reputation. On the whole, we trust the tide of insurrection has reached its highest point, and is now retreating before that British valour and dogged perseverance which, however they may be out-numbered and overpowered, are never subdued, never daunted, but still fight on till, in the end, they conquer. TOE ToriiEs AND THE NRVir REETJEIH BILL —A London paper says—" We care not who initiates the next Reform Bi 1, or vvbeth , r it bears the stamp of Cambridge-house or Woburn Abbey ; but of this we are convinced, that it is an essential necessity of the times. Parliament, as at present canitituted, is a worn-wt machine, iacspable of receiving an impulse, and toe apathe'ic to govern with a vigilant eye arid a vigorous hand the Administration of the country. The Gevernment naturally becornei careless, and loses the sense of responsibility. 'the c Anstituencies fall into corruptien and neglect ; and it is only when great national calamities awaken all minds and quicken all hearts that the subject of reform ',acmes once more of serious and pressing importance. It will not be lost sight of, we feel assure.' ; bat whoever may be the originato7 of the bill, and whatever may be its tendencies, we are . gievously mistaken if the public allows it to be prosti tuted to the purposes of a fallen and exhausted faction, which has tried in vain every other means of recovering its lost power and restoring its bankrupt fortunes." TIIa FINViCKS OF BRITISH lenta.—An idea seems to be very generally entertained that one of the greatest evils l'ksly to result to Great Britain fron the present dig - turbances in a portion of her Indian possessions, is the immense drain on the national resources that the expenses of the war will probably occasion, arieing from the inablity of the East India Company to sustain the outlay on Chair own account. We have seen frequent allusions made to the insolvency," " ruined condition," " heavy financial embarrassment" of the Company, and their frequent recourse to ruinous loans to meet their expenditure and pay their dividends. This view, however, of the financial condition of the. East India Enpi:e is certainly very much exaggerated, if it is not altogether erroneous : since from a comparison of the net revenue and expenditure of that country, the resources at the disposal of the local and home government, and the probable expendi ture which the war will render necessary, there is no immediate prospect of the East India Company being obliged to resort to any extraordinary measures to raise money. or to apply to the British Government to assist them either directly by loan, or.indirectly by pledging the credit of Great Britain as a guarantee ; nor is ther e any apparent ground for the belief that the Company is seriously embarrassed, much less in a state of insolvency. In a lengthy and valuable article, published in a recent number of the London Economise, various statistical watements are given with regard to the finances and revenues of India, derived from the most authentic sources, and consequently, entirely reliable. The gross revenue collected in India in 1855-6 atn minted to £23,812 097, which, deducting the cost of collection, £6 601,750, left a net income of £22 147,347. The charges against this income, both in India and in England, for the same year amounted to £23,120,138, or an excess of expan diture over income of £972,791, which deficiency wss to be added to the debt of the Company. But, as it is justly observed, £1,881,606 for pubic works is one of the items of the expenditure account, and this being more in the nature of an investment, which must subsequently prove remunerative, by adding to the land revenue, this amount might well be deducted, thus leaving a - surplus of close on a million of revenue over outlay. It is highly probable, also, that in the present condition of affiirs, the public works will be temporarily suspended, and if so, the two millions app opriated for this purpose will be at once avail able towards the war expenses. It would, doubtless, be objected to this view of the case, so far, that as the land revenue, which forms the chief item of the Indian budget, will not be generally paid in Bengal during the eontinu anee of the rebellion, that amount cannot be reckoned as part of the company's present available income. But even granting that no pact of the land revenue of Bengal his paid, it would only prove a net loss of £4,074,402, the total revenue of the North West Pro v:nces from all sources only amounting to £4,786,541. Tee fact, however, that the land revenue is paid by the Zemindars, who are well pleased with the favourable terms on which they hold the land ; that they would be unwillir g to risk the advantages they enjoy, and be ejected from their profitable holding; ; and that being a comparatively small portion of the population they are consequently easy of access—renders it im probable chit the land revenue will be a total loss even in the revolted districts. But even , if it were, the loss is more th n compensitei by the withdrawal of the pensions to the insurgent Bing of Delhi amounting to £160,000 a year ; to the King of Oade, a similar sum, and to the Rajah of Moorshedabad, £120,000 a year, making in all an annual outlay of £440,000 a year, representing a capital of £8.850 000. Add to this the pay of the regiments which have deserted the royal standard, amounting to close on £170,000 a. month, or £2,040.000 per annum, and in reality the Company, in a purely pecuniary point of view, are gainer& of several millions. Should occasion require it, the Company have close on £4,000,000 invested in public securities in England, which caa be made available at any mament, and they have farther an unexhausted power to issue bonds to the amount of £3,000,000, which they can use at pleasure. So far as the immediate wants of the In dian Gave nment are concerned, it will appear from the foregoing calculation that there is no lack of means, and it is admitted that they could easily borrow in India on their own security very large sums without any call on the resources of England. The total debt of India amounts to £62,095,175, the interest on which is £2,924,577, which, though certainly a heavy burthen, is by no means an overwhelming one, with a revenue of close on £23,000,000, or nearly eight times the interest on the debt. There is no State in Europe so free from national encumbrance. It is not calculated, by the most gloomy judges as to the condition of affairs in India, that the war will be protracted beyond six or eight months, or that it will cast more than £10,000,000, in which are included loss of revenue, expense of moving troops, rein forcements, loss by plunder, &c. But even allowing that it require £20,000,000 to restore English supremacy in India, when it is calculated that the forfeited pensions of the rebel princes represent a capital of nearly £9,000,000, and that the pay of the rebel troops for a year is £2,000,0G0, more than half the required sum is thus provided, and the remainder, involving an annual charge of £500,000, is by no means a sum that the East India Company can find any insuperable difficulty in obtaining. An able writer in the London Times, long a resident in India, says that he has often known the opium revenue to fluctuate to the extent of a million sterling, " and not ten men in India ever heard of or noticed the fact." The same writer predicts, that while, as a mere matter of business, it is worth £200,000,000 to subdue the revolt, its suppression will not "cost the English tax-payer that number of farthings." It would certainly seem that this is the belief of the British Gov-Inment and of the East India Company, as, were it otherwise, Parliament would not have been allowed to separate without making the necessary provision for a loan or a guarantee, were such a contingency contem apited as probable.—New York Tournal of Commerce. :C1 THE COURT. BALMORAL, Serr. 22.-,Tue Q teen accompanied by the Prirceso Royal and Prince Alfred, and attended by Lady Churchill and Lieutenant Cowell, R. E., drove yes'erday to Loch Cullater. The Ricca Contort went ont di,er stalkng. The Earl of Aberdeen and the Hon. Mrs. A. Gordon arrived at Balmoral upon a visit to her Majesty. The r0y.,1 dinner party vest relay included the Duchess of Kent, Lady Augusta Bruce, The hon. Mrs. A. Gordon, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord James Murray, besides the ladies and gentlemen in attendanca upon her Majesty. The New Prussian Gazette of the 23r1 says:—" His R-yal Highness Prince Frederick William will, according to arrangement, proceed to England in November, and pay a visit to the English Court on the 21st of that month, which is the birthday of her Royal highness the Princess Royal. The wedding day is fixed for the 18,h of January, and the 3rd of February it named as the day of their entry ir , to Berlin." O Ttlurslay morning the m irriage of Alfred Planta - irenet Frederick Charles Somerset, only son of the la'e Lord John S ,merset, with Miss Adelaide Harriet Pechell, daughter of Admiral Sir George and Lady Brook Pechelly was solemnised at S'. George's Church, Hanover-square, in the presence of a brilliant circle of the frie❑ds of both families. Amongst the distinguished visitors at Manchester are Prince Giorge of P..usiia (second son of Prince Frederick, a brother of Frederick William 111., the late King of Prussia), with his aide-de-camp, the C Hn'es Perpouoher and Lehndarff, and suite, who visited the Exhibition on Wednesday. AMUSEMENTS, &c. "SAM COWELL AND the LITTLE PARTY."—The very old favourite, M. Co veil, ailed by his friends, Miss Wight, Mr. Bowler, aid Frederiek Bridgeman, has bees cancer icing vary sum stfully at the Freemason's-ball Lime-street, during the past week. As our space is limited, we can refer but briefly to the entertainment. Fret and foremost, Mr. °owe!! is the " nonstre 06-action" On each evening; and certainly the very extraordinary style of his Travestries, and the great originality of their rendering, places him far above all competitors in his ' mimic doe." The celebrated " Kynge Rych trde ye Tlu'rde," "La Sonnacabula," "Il Trovatore," &c., most deciledly have no representative on the English stage eq 1.11 to the " famed Sam Cowell." Mr. Bowler gives general sa'isfantion in his nightly selections ; and the uupresuming, Miss Wight has made herself a great favourite with the large audiences who have nightly crowded the hall. Although last, certainly not least, of this entertain ing " . select- few" is Mr. F. Bridgernan, whose per farmancßs on the piano -forte and .cencertina are of the first order, and the well-known and favourite Scratch airs and variations, La. which this gentleman has became famous throughcut the tkree kingdoms, have been highly applauded the last night or two by discriminating auliences. No doubt the atten-lance during the short stay, will cor tinue to be as numerous ackaitherto; for who rvould omi t to see SAM COWELL ? NEW YORK, SEPT. 9.—Despite all obstacles—s :ch as commercial flatness, and the influences of temperatare— the many-headed mob show a stern determination to be plentifully amused, and thus in the chief city of the States thinp theatrical and matters musical are assuming a somewhat lively aspect. Last night the Academy of Music opened its doors for the season, and so great was the public exaltatian at the fact, that at four o'clock in the afternoon every seat was taken, The principal attraction was the appearance of Fezzolini, who, despite some disadvantages, succeeded in creating a favourable impression ; she is accompanied in the present instance by a tenor, M. Ltboretta, and by a baritone, M. Gassier, lysth of whom, I believe, are known to you in London. The new cond actor is Herr Carl A.nschucz. Another novelty last night offered to the members of theatrical circles was the production by Miss Heron, at Wallack's Theatre, of M. Uchard's drama, "La Flammina." You all know that this was one of the curiosities of the Francais—that it was written by the literary stock-broker when his wife, the famous Madeleine Brohan, cut the ties of matrimony ; you k tow that M. Uch erd went in to prove (illustrating his theory by the detail cf at wicked prima donna's career) that the sins of the parent may be visited on the children, and that the immoral conduct of a mother may frustrate the total happi less of her son. Ail this is treated in a manner peculiarly and unalterably French, and in trying to purify the drama, and make it moral in tendency and form, Miss Heron has signally failed. It is no good attempting to deny the fact, that if there be any attraction about this class of drama or story, it is cantered in the imivorali,y, or rather perfect freedom of style; sift all this away, and you hive a bold, uninterest ing, uosympathetic, incorgruons assemblage of facts. That juvenile old gentleman, Mr. J. E. Murdoch, has appeared at Burton's Tasatre as Young lifirabel, and has b sen accorded a differential reception. Mr. Torn Taylor's comedy of the ‘: Victims" has been successfully proluied at Laura Lay's Theatre, and will, I think, enjoy a good run. The principal characters are sustained by the directress, Miss C. Tnompson, and Messrs. Jefferson, Wnettleigh, and Burnett. Yankees never say die; the papers here, which mourn over the fate of the Atlantic cable, are crowing over a trial of speed which casually took place between the Niagara, the Agamemnon, and the Susquehanna, and which is said tee have resulted in the success of the first mentionel vessel ; our cousins never will be beaten. In another department of competition they are now alt alive. The result of the Goot:wood race has excited the turfman in Savannah, Georgia, aCd they prunos e getting up a match race for $lOO,OOO aside, Intrfsletl the United States and England, to be run in this country, under sueh terms of agreement as shall fully test the superiority of the horses of the two countries. They therefore make the following challenge, which is open to the world ;—" To run a match race of four miles and repeat, at such times as may be agreed upon, post entries for 100,000 dollars aside, the horses to sorry weight for age, to be run over the Ten Broeck Course at Savannah." In order to induce their Ens.- lish friends to accept the banter, they else propose to alleW them five per cent. upon the mousy staked, or five thousand dollars to pay the expense of their horses, in case they lose the race. The editor of the Savannah Georgian safe, that the gentlemen by whose atrhority this chal lenge is published, are all men of respectahilil and wealth, ani the money is ready to be covered by a similar amount from England or elsewhere.—Lola Niontes is at her old games again in C made, lecturing the editor of the Montreal Witness, for some hing he has written unpleasant to her feelings. Bit her strain is painfully moderate—no more horse-whipping, no more bull-dogs, no more violence. Lola repents of her sins, and the following are some of the arguments she uses in the course of her epistle :—" Is it not, sir, fr irn the depravity of your own bad nature, that this attack has sprung ? am I not earning my bread as respectably as you are yours? and I rejoice in knowing that in the midst of all the malice and falsehood which have been heaped upon me, I have never yet, to my knewle been thus assailed by any men who was himself of a faultless life. My assailants have been from tie ranks of men like yourself, who have no visible means of getting a character, but by shouting at the top of their voices against vice ; men wise, having worn themselves out in the service of sin, set up to be especial enemies of sinners. My manner of life is squarely and prominently before the public, and scandal itself does loot dare to say morally blameless. Of course, I cannot here outer into, any defence of my past career ; ha: there are hundreds of honourable men on this side of the Atlantic, who know that until circumstances threw me jute the sunny arena of politics, there was far less evil report ail tchel to my name than to that of almost any other lady of me profession in Europe. The causes welch afterwards led to the villificetion of my ream i throe shout the world are already beginning to be partially underehaed, and with devout reliance on the justice of Ged, lam patiently awaiting for the rest to come. That my life has been without errors, I do not deny, but th it I have ever deserved the abuse which such as yoa w uld heap upon me, I do deny, and history will one day vindi ca'e my right to say this of myself. If you cars find any fault with my present life you are welcome to do so; if you can show that my lectures are undeserving of the patronage which they have almost without (as:cation received from the most respectable and the most intelligent portion of the commueity, you are wel come to do that also ; but you are no: welcome to do that which no gentleman ever will do, assail a lady who i honestly eedeavouring to make the best use she can of such opportunities and atilities as Gad has given her. Sir, I pity you, and I forgive you, and it is with the hope that I may be the means of snaking a better-mencered and a better-principled man of you that I address you this note." MARCUS' 12s. 0 1 . TRIP TO LONDMI on MONDAY and WEDNESDAY next, is to leave the Lime-street Sation a' 7 o'clock, a.m., giving the passengers the option of re turnicg either on the We Ines lay or Frid ty foliowiug. THE LATE CAPT. Roams. —A. verbatim report of the trial of the late Captain R igers, an] his two mates, for the murder of Andrew Rase, on the high seas, has just been published. The shorthand notes were taken for Govern ment by Mr. F. B. Hughes—a sufficient guarantee that the report is most accurate in all its detail.. CORONER'S COURT, YESTERDAY.—The Borough C.ironer held the following inquests ye-terday. On the body of John ack•ms, aged 40, who lived at 3, Douglas-street, Bootle-lane, and who was a pointsman on the L incashire and Yorkshire Railway. It appears that deceased was drank, and that he was thrown oat of a public house by a person named O'Neill, an i that he died in eonsFquende of injuries be received. A verdict of " Manslaughter" was re turned by the jury against who was committed for trial. Carcxs.T.—A mach was played, on Saturday last, between the West Hey and II Illy Bank Cricket Clubs, on the ground of the former at Rick Ferry, which resulted in the victory of the latter, the Wi.st Hey scoring, Ist innings, 17; 2od do., 46 ; total, 63 : Holly Bank, let inning?, 31 ; 2nd do., 47 ; total, 78 ; thus winning by 15 runs. A race was afterwards run between Messrs. Reed and Littlewnod ; distance 150 yards; Mr. Litiewood winning by about a fu , ,t and a half. THE WATCH AND GOLD ROBBERY —ERRATA.—In the report of the extensive robbery of watchei, &c , which appeared in our paler of yesterday, the name of Mr. S, L. Samuel, of 48, Dakf-street. was in2dvertently inserted ins'eal of Mr. R. Samuel, of W.ol-strew. The error was not ex ictly that of our reporter, bat we at once hasten to come: the error. Of course the amount of gold stolen was r 01 missed by Mr. R. Samuel until the case came to light at the court. Jams Stewart, one of the seamen on board the Elizabeth Anne Bright, from 7 ,iverpool, died from cruelties receive 1 on board the vessel on her outward passage to Quebe c. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of " manslaughter" against Michael Keenan, the boa'swain, and declared " that John ()live, the commander of the El z:heti' Anne Bright, is highly cewayable for neglecting to provide the deceased, James Stewart, with the necessary care during his Wires., and in not sending him to hospital immediately on arriving in the pert of Q iebee." DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT A 14'IRENVORK ArAiret's.—Yes• tfrday mo-ning, a frightful accident occurred at Mr Davis's, firework maker, No. 3, Garden-place, Regent street, Lambeth, London. It app.'ais Charles Davis, aged six years, and Wilam Davis. aged f ,ur years, evil) sem other children, procured about a quarter of a pound of gunpowder, which they took into the garden for the pur pose of waking " fizgrgA," when a spark of a lucifer match droppel en and a frightful explosion took place, nearly killing the two brothers. They were conveyed to S'. Thomas's Hospit J, where Mr. Williams, house surgeon, promptly attended. But faint hopes are entertained of their TFC,very. QUEER DIET FOR OLD GENTLENIEN.—' The first time I caugh rigrit of milk in a Chinese street, it wasirCthe hands of a female carrying a cup of what I thought to be the genuine unehatked article. Excuse me, but what is that ?' said I. It is milk,' sbe replied. What milk —cow's or goat's?' Woman's milk, sir.' W. man's milk ! for what use ?" It has been bought for an aged neighbour.' And what's the price of that cupful ?' About eighty cash' Subsequently I'discovered taut it is not unusual for nursing women to sell their oTn milk for m itherless babes or rctogenarians in second babyhood, the nurses drawing their own milk to vend it at 2d or 31 a cup."— s Life in China, ROANNTIC Bur Taux.—ln the town of Graigue, in this ,sty, lives a poor widow, named Catherine L3e, whose husband was drowned some three or four years since, on his passage to America. Shortly after meeting with that affliction, her son John, " a slip of a gorsoon," disappeared o le fine night from her wretched cabin, and for a consider able time she could obtain no tidings of his whereabouts, till one morning, having risen from the bed to which she hid gone su?perless the night before, and without visible prospect of the means of then breaking her fast, abe was proceeding to seek the relieving-officer to obtain a ticket for admission to the workhouse, when she met the postboy, who delivered a letter to her. On opening the missive it was found to be from her truant son, and contained a hand some remittance for his poor mother. It appeared that he had become a sailor, and was in a fair way of doing well in that profession. fie continued from time to time to send her money sufficient to keep her in a tolerably comfortable \ state for one in her condition of life, till about six monts lince, when a friend in Liverpool communicated to her byleitter the sad tidings of the death of the youne man, caused by his falling on deck from the rigging of his ship, then just arrived at that port. The friend recom mended her to procure the necessary documentary evidence of her relationship to the deceased, and to hasten to Liverpool and obtain whatever effects he had left. She sorrowfully complied with this advice, and on arriving in Liverpool she lee dvel from the captain of the ship her son's watch and clothes, And the balanc3 of pay coming to him, which was not an inconsiderable sum. Returning to Graigue she lived in a state of gloom and despondency, which, however, was sad tents' dispelled last week . by the • receipt of a letter actually written by her lost and suppoied dead son, John the sailor, from New York ! He forwArded her a large sum of money, and requested that she would at onceproceed to join him in AmericP, where he hoped to l i make her comfortoble and happy for the rest of her days, as he was " well to do" in the world. Th 3 widow, of course, is about to start upon her journey, and we wish her Gid speed in her voyage to her son, although we are at present unable to say how, after being killed on the high seas near Liverpool, he comes to be alive egaia in New Init.—Kilkenny Moderator. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. By British and Irish ilTajnetic Telegraph FRANCE. • The Paris Three per Cent. Rentes again adva ead yesterday, closing at 67f. 45e. THE LATE MURDER NEAR BRISTOL• APPREHENSION OF THE SUPPOSED._ MURDERER. A telegraphic despatch received by Mr. Flan co4lv. chief of the Bristol police, from Mr. Norri 9, of t ll6 Bath police, states that John William Beale, the supposed murderer of Charlotte Pugslo', yr 9 apprehended at Daventry, ❑ear Northampton. DAY OF HUMILIATION AND PRAYER" We have reason to believe that, at the P rivy Council held at Balmoral, on Thursiay, a ");‘) proclamation was issued, setting apart a Lig —r national humiliation and praye r , i n consequeneB °f the unfortunate events arising from the Ind ia mutinies The day seleeed for this parO e f would, in all probability, be Sunday, the VI I° October.—Globe. BELFAST RIOTS, COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY. BELFAST, Friday Evening' The Commissioners took their seat to-day at 11 0'n 1(34 ; Several witnesses who reside in Leeds-street were 011 and examined. They stated that the string of ors o 4 . lillies called an arch was taken down by the local P b ° es and not put up, as alleged by the solicitors for the 1 0° Catholics. A man, named Armstrong, stated that he picked bullets out of the gable of his own house, which was fi re by the mob," on the 19,h Of July. He saw -over teD or twelve guns with men, behind a ditch, who / Mit consequently firing into Protestant districts. He saw tbf, et follows fire at two Gam:tans, who passed near them on ti lt 19th. i d The Rev. H. Hanna was examined. He made a very 111— state nent respecting tha op en a i r serv i ce w hi c h he con dnete d. on Sunday, the 61 September, when the congregation assailed by a mob. He attributai the entire origin of th e opposition to street preaching to the placard which O e posted through Belfast, and to certain articles in t' ll6. Whig and Useerinan papers. The Rev. Mr. Vance, Wesleyan minister, and the Be y ' William Johnston, Presbyterian minister, were th e° examined, and stated that they had always been in the habit of holding open ar service, and were never terrupted. Mr. Vance said he preached last Sund e r;' within the proclaimed districts. In pector Harvey was examined, and stated that th e ' music which was heard banre and since the 12th of Jail was played by a gentleman's child:en, about their fathers° place, in the suburbs. The Commission then adjourned until to.morrow (Saturday.) DEATH OF ANOTHER ITALIAN REFUGEE. Franco Maesgone, Prince of Granatelli, a political folk" tive from Sicily, died' suddenly of apoplexy, in the 50of year of his age, on the nigh of the 18th September , ti Genoa. Suspected as a liberal by the Neapolitan authors" ties, his house was searched in 1847 by sbirri, which gr oss act induced him to leave Sicily. In the revolutionary Yea r 1848, he was recalled, and elected a member of the Sicilian parliament, and was deputed by the then government to ; represent Sicily in London. D ur i ng hi s s tay here. published in the English language, a work called " Sic in England—a sketch of Evens in Sicily in 1812 and 184 8, illustrated by vouchers and state papers." He won t 126 e teem and friendship of Lo r d P a l mers t on , an d Llrd Joh n Russell. He had formerly been President of the Acaden 2 J at .Palermo, and wrote fluently in verse and prose. ".1. death," says the Independente, "is one o f t h ose j oys will. Prov . den !a. in its inscrutable ways, has accorded Wth Nea, olitan government. Remarkable for dignity of o" . racte-, and firmness of principl e he p')ssessed g+ est autll.li rity over the liberal pa rt y i n Si c il y, b y whom his loss t" be deeply felt." THE HUNTINCTONS —A gathering of the Handsel family was held at Norwich, Ct., on the 4th inst. Sos four hundred to-tubers were present. Taey emigrated “' this country in 1640. NEw &To/tn.—The .New Orleans B u ll e ti n o f th e Ist °ll September, announces t h e receipt, at that port, of the fir 4 hogshead of sugar o f th e new crop. It w s from t ' , parish of Plequemloes. L /SS OF THE SH:P FUSILEER, AT ST. GOWAN's 1161 —This iron-built ship, 600 t ens b ur d en, homeward botni, from Valparaiso, with a va l ua bl e clrgo of copper and wooly totally lost, on T ues d a y n i g h t, un d er St. Gov ° 11-ad, the crew having a narrow escape. The cotton and wool manufacturers of Philadelphi a have agreed to wor k th e i r m ill s on h a lf time on and a fter the 14 la of the present month, until further notice. The' complain that they have been for a time losers by co y , tinning to work th e i r m ill s et t h e present very low price' received for goofs A traveller in the backwoo.ls met with a settler neat house, and inquired, '' Whose house ?" " M.tg's." , what. built ?" " Logs." "Any n ighbours ?" .6Froge., " What is the soil ?" " Bogs." " The climate?" , " Fogs' " Your diet ?" "H0z..,) The North British Mail reports that a boy abo rt eleven years of age, son of Mr. Bowie, farmer, 14 ° 7 Collech, near Stirling, was accidentally killed on Saturdaf' One of the men was throwing a pitchfork to another, wh en the boy wci - tentilly passing, the implement struck hifi l r entering about the region of the heart, and killed him e a the spot. NEW DISCoVRRY OF IRON ORE, NEAR ULVERsTOPI•I correspondent wrivs :—" The very recent discovery ° iron ore, about half a mile above the town of ITverstOot at a depth of only from three to six feet, extends til e ' surface area so me th ree m il es f urther north of the eld. and p-esent workings of centuries. At the close of 0* weak about 1,000 tons will have reached the canal for shir meat, including 286 tons already put on board the traders.—Cumberland Pacquet. M khRIAGE CLISCUMS IN JAMtS I. TIME._Mr. Gred s catalogue of State papers contains the frllowing extrac t from a letter written by S:r Dudley Carleton, in 1604, de scribing the marriage of Phi ip [Lib rt; E inl o f Mont— urnery, to Slain Vere :—" She brided and bridled it F° handsome; and, indeed b:caine herself so well, that the King ssi.l if he were not married, he would not give herr but keep her for himself. There sv,s nore of our accus" tom nd forms omitted—of bride. cake, sops in wine, giving of gloves, laces ar.d p!iats; and at night there was sewio& into the sheets, casting of the bride's left hose, and twenty other petty sorclies. They were married in the chape!',. feisted in th e grea t c h amber, and lodged in the entitle" cnamber, where the King gave them, in the mornigt before they were up, a reveille main in his shirt and his night-zowri. SUICIDE sY STRYCIINM—On Saturday morning last, • girl named Wilson, aged 13, a servant to Mr. s am psOr Tibshelf, committed suicide under the following circa S. stance.:—ln the absen ce o f M r. and Mrs. Sampson on ti. l Thursday previous, she had been guilty'of improper C oll i duct with t h e servant man, and this enning to the woof, Mr- Sampson on Friday he charged her with it. Sb denied it, but as it was clearly proved by her fel° r servant, Mr. Th ompson told her he should send fa her mother; and on S atur d ay morning, while washing one °a the children, she was suddenly seized with twitchings car traction of the muscles. Mr. Turner, of Alfreton, tent for immediately; but she was dead before he arrive ' From th e s t ate i n wh i ch he found her he saw at once th t death had resulted from strychnia. When asked before she died what she had taken, she pointed to uf; cupboard, and it was found she had taken a quantity a " Battle's Vermin Killer" which contains s t ryc h n is. inquest was h e ld on Monday before Mr, Busby. Vag' " Temporary lanUity."—COrk Reporter, _ FOR] 4 k 11,, 4 t o ' w ee kp, 11 ,r o Itt t „ ear, t 4 th Dit4 A, tla ß e to r t e4+ . t i b er ,lt at: l qa q 5 hqer,e, THE NORTHERN TIMES, LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. 1857.