Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-24 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.--SATURDAY. (Before Mr. MANSFIELD.) THE CHARGE OF STEALING A WATC7l.—Michael Doyle, a shoemaker, Roscommon-street, remanded from Saturday, was again placed in the dock charged with stealing a.gohl watch, value £25, from the shop of Mr. ~ Edward Morrison, watchmaker, Pembroke-place. Mr. Pemberton appeared for the prosecution, Mr. Cobb defended the prisoner. Mr. Pemberton said he had no additional evidence to produce. Mr. Cobb said his client was a very respectable man in his profession, having an apprentice bound to him by the Toxteth-park Guardians. —Mr. Mansfield said, as two respectable people were so positive as to the identity of the prisoner, he could not dis charge him. As to his guilt, it was not for him to speak his opinion, but there was certainly a prima facie case, and he would commit the prisoner for trial at the ses sions. Mr. Cobb said he hoped his worship would take bail. Mr. Mansfield said lie would take two sureties of £2.5 each, twenty-four hours' notice to be given of the bail. STEALING AN OVERCOAT.—Duncan Matheson, a slender young man, and from his appearance a foreigner, was charged 14y Mr. Williams with having stolen an overcoat from an inmate of the Sailors' Home. The owner of the coat had left his bedroom-door open—the prisoner sleeping in the adjoining room. From infor mation, Mr. Williams said he had eauSe to suspect the prisoner, and he accused him of having committed the robbery, whereupon he ga ve him a pawn-ticket for it. A little boy from - the pawnbroker's shop, stated that the prisoner had got five shillings 'on the coat on . Thursday morning last.—Sentenced to six months' imprisonment. THEFT FROM A. JEWELLER'S SHOF%—Peter Cunning ham, and .ElizabetliJaekson, his mother, were charged with having 'stolen. - a ,silver cigar case, a lady's com panion, a pair of gold spectacles, and a timepiece,. from the shop of Mr. Mayer, jeweller, Lord-street. An officer stated, that from information he received, he apprehended the prisoners. He charged them with having stolen the articles, and pawned them. The female went on to her knees, and said she knew nothing about them. The other prisoner then said to her, ‘ Don't you recollect Mr. Jones gave them to us to pledges:" - She then began . to tell a story about a Mr. Jones, whom she said had gone to Manchester for a few days, having given them the things to pawn. Ile asked her where she lived, and she first said Gerald-street, and then she said another street.—Mr. Mayer said he did not miss the articles - until the, police-officer came to the shop. -He saw them last on the - 22nd of August:Oa the application of Mr. Clough the prisoners were, remanded, to allow the police time to find the owner of the timepiece. STEALING A PAIR OF SLIPPERS.—Mary an old woman, was charged by Mary Dans, of Church street, with stealing a pair of slippers.—Mr. Cobb, Who appeared for the .prisoner, said she bore a very good character. She had bought a -pair of slippers at the prosecutor's' shop; 'being in liquor at the time, she took up another pair, put them on her feet, and then walked 'away, taking the pair she bought with her. At. the request Of Mr. Cobb, the prosecutor consented to with draw the charge on getting the slippers returned:— Discharged. ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON.—EUIOIa ROllO, ii girl of ill fame, was charged by James Villiers with having robbed him of his gold Watch and silver snuff-hex. The complainant stated - that the prisoner accosted him in Villar-street, and when he reached home, which was close to, he missed his watch and snuff-box. The chain of his watch had broke. Police-constable 29 said ho found the prisoner talking to two men in Copperas -hill. He took her to the bridewell, and the snuff-box wa found on her. He retraced the road he had broaght her, 4n4 found the .watch,Sentenced to six months' imprisonment. BOROUGH SESSIONS. On Saturday last, the following persons were sentenced before Gilbert Henderson, Esq., recorder, and J.. B. Aspinall, Esq., assistant-barrister, at the general quarter sessions of the peace for .the borough of Liverpool : Patrick Kennedy, aged 23, for unlawfully and maliciously wounding Patrick APCarroll, on the 13th September last ; five months' to hard labour.—Thomas Motters head, aged 30, clerk, in the employ of the Select Vestry, for unlawfully conspiring, with some other parties, to obtain £29 158., with intent to de fraud the. same ; five months' to hard labour.— Thomas Griffiths, aged 50, for wounding Jane Griffiths on the 14th September, eight months to hard labour.—Alice Collins, aged 30, for having ob tained £1 ls., belonging to Euohemin R9wan, with intent to defraud her, five months to hard. labour.— Mary Clark, 43, for keeping a house of ill-fame, one month.—Elizabeth "Ward, for a similar offence; three months.--Antonio Jerusalem, 60, clock-maker, for Assaulting Mary Ormsher, nine mouths.—Ann aged 20, for stealing a shawl and other articles, the property of Jan es Nelson ; and two bracelets, the property of Richard !Allston, six weeks.—Andrew Bailey, for stealing - a 4aek flour, the property of Wilson, 041-7 WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—The will of Isambard Einz doin Brunel, civil Engineer, late of Dtliie" l— ...ieet, - West rainster, was proved in the court of Probate by the four executors therein appointed : the widow, the eldest son, Isambard tamel:Esq., Sir Benjamin Hawes, K.C.8., and Dr. Seth Thompson, M.D. ; the personalty being sworn under £90,000. He thus dis• poses of his property : To his eldest son, Isambard, he leaves' an immediate legacy of £2,500, and a further sum of £12,000 at the expiration of five years after his (the testator's) decease, he receiving in the meantime £450 a year during that period; to his other son, Henry Marco, £2,500 immediate, and £B,OOO in five years, £3OO in lieu of interest ; and to his daughter £4,000, subject to conditions on marriage. He leaves his books so that his eldest son may make a selection, but leaving to his youngest son all his drawings, illustra tions, maps, plans, and such books as may be of assist ance to him in his profession of a civil engineer the remainder of the books, together with all articles of virtu, plate, jewellery, trinkets, and the whole of the furniture, he leaves to his wife, and also a life interest in the residue of his property, and at her death it is to be divided in ten parts—five-tenths he leaves to his eldest son, four-tenths to his youngest, and one-tenth to his dazghter. To Sir Benjamin Hawes he be queaths £l,lOO, and to Dr. Thompson £lOO. The will was witnessed by R. Elsdale, solicitor, 3, Whitehall-place, and S. Bennett, 18, Duke-street; Westminster, and bears date the 3rd of December, 1858:—The will and two codicils of the Right Rev. ,Thomas Carr, D.D., late Bishop of Bombay, and since rector of Bath, was proved in London, on the Ist of October, by his son-in-law, Sir John Wither Awdry, Notton, Wilts, and the Hon. Sydney Roper Curzon, of Tooting, Surrey, the executors ; the personality in England was sworn under £B,OOO. He bequeathed to his wife all his plate, jewellery, pictures, furniture, carriages, house, and money at the banker's. The residue of his property he leaves equally between his son, the Rev. William Carr, 8.A., of Currachee, in India, and his daughters, Elizabeth Catherine, the wife of the Rev. William Kew Fletcher, M.A., chaplain of the Presidency in Bombay, and Frances Ellen, Lady Awdry, the wife of the said Sir John Wither AwdrY a nd to their children. The will i s d a t e d th e 9 t h o f Au gust, 1851 ; the first codicil, 1852, and the last codicil, the 11th of January, 1856.—The will of the Right H on . Charlotte Susannah Dowager Baroness Suffield, who died on the 15th of August, was administered to on the 15th instant by her uncle, the Right Hon. Robt. John Lord' Carrington, the sole executor ; the person alty wa s sworn under t20,000._ Various specific a r ti c l es ofjewellery are left t o, personal friends, and the residue to her relatives.:—.Frons the Illustrated London _Yews. THE LITERATURE OF THE BRITISH STAGE . —Why is it that all our farce s and light come di es are borrowed from the French ? There are a hundred reasons against such a practice ; the whole philosophy of life is different in England from that adopted by our light- neighbours. Half the things that they va lue we des p ise, and- they regard with contempt more than half ers of thoie by which we set the greatest store. Our mann are different from theirs ; our notions of politics are as wide as the poles assunder ; even love itself is a different thing on the two sides of the channel ; and yet no B)oner does a new farce or comedietta appear at one of the London houses, when lo ! it is ascertained to be "an adaptation from the French." It is all very well to say that the Gallic invention is brighter than any which we yossess; that the dialogue of a French vaudeville is infinitely more sharp and spirited than that of a cones raing, English piece; that the French are more rapid, have more tact, more savoir vivre, and therefore can make their characters display more than we can. All this may be true, and we are not inclined to dispute it; but we return still to the old objection—a French piece is addressed to the French mind, and that mind is e s;eutially ditf.atat from the English,--Literary Gazette. THE GREAT EASTERN & ITS PROMISED MOVEMENTS. A great change (says the Observer) has come over the directors. pf the Great Ship Company since last week, when they stated that the ship would positively sail for America' on the 24th. We stated, however, last week, that there were some requirements of the Board of Trade which remained to be carried out, and which would probably delay the departure for a few days, but not beyond the end of the present month. All the demands of the Board of Trade could have been corn pleted.by the 25th, and at the meeting of the board. in London, on Thursday, it • was decided that the ship should sail on the 29th. So far, therefore, as the de cision of the Board, and the demands of the Board of Trade were concerned, there was nothing to prevent the ship sailing with passengers during the presentmonth. It appears, however, that Mr. Hawkshaw and the other surveyors -appointed by the company to decide as arbi trators upon, all matters in dispute between - the company und the contractors, relative to the completion of the. 'works, have reported that several things specified in the contract with respect to the fittings of the ship have not been finished; and at a meeting of the board at Holyhead, the previous resolution as to the time of starting was rescinded, on the plea that these trifling siiggeStions ought to be carried out before the departure of the Great Eastern. The fittings which were specified in no way interfered with the safety or efficiency of the ship and engines, for with these the officers of the Board of Trade had expressed their satisfaction ; and they were pre pared to grant the usual certificate upon its being applied for by the directors. As these details suggested by the surveyors would take some time to complete, it Was thought, considering the' advanced season, that it would be better to abandon all notion of taking the ship to America during the present year. The sole object which the board had in view in sending the Great . Eastern across the Atlantic, was to reap a good harvest of admission fees, and this object would be frustrated if the ship arrived in any of the transatlantic ports at a time when travelling is Canada or in she States would have 'become inconvenient or impracticable. The ne cessity of keeping faith with the public weighed to a considerable extent with the board, and the motion for further postponing the voyage was only carried after a protracted discussion by the casting vote of the chairman. The minority of the directors are greatly annoyed at thiS fresh disappointment, and it is not improbable that it will lead to the secession of several of the most influential members of the board. With respect, to the future movements of the ship, it is of course impossible, after so many breaches of faith, to speak with anything like certainty. It has been decided to .take the ship to Southampton, as being the most convenient place for completing the few remaining.fit tings that are required, but it will, not excite surprise if it should be announced that some other port has, been • selected. The, party in the board who succeeded in upsetting the previous resolution have a prone - ammo of future proceedings which includes visits to Gibraltar, Cadiz, Marseilles, and Genoa, and other Mediterranean ports, as they appear to think that tin mildness of a southern climate will be more favourable to the ship, and to the interests of the company, than a on on the other side Of the Atlantic. They seem incapable of conceiving any other purpose to which the great ship can be turned than that of exhibiting it, lik Samson bound, to be made sport of by the Philistines, and to bring dollars cal half-crowns from visitors to the coffers of the company. . There is another party connected with the ship -who, satisfied in every respect with its performance, are desi rous, however, of seeing it employed in developing the idea of those by whom it was originated and constructed. They are anxious to establish a complete ocean line of communication between England and India and Aus tralia, by means of vessels similar in size and power to the Great Eastern. Up to the present time the limited size of ocean steamers, the largest being not more than 4,000 ton s,Wi th 800 horsepoiver, has rendered it impossible, when seeking high rates of speed, to carry fuel for more than a few days' consumption, and hence has arisen the necessity in long voyages of frequent stoppages at coaling stations, while the small amount of space left available for goods involves the necessity of high tariffs of freights. The attempts which have been made to use steam merely as •an auxiliary. power, when calms or contrary winds prevented rapid sailivg, have given but the slightest possible speed over fast-sailng vessels. Proud as we may be as a nation of the fact that we possess almost the whole of the ocean steam navigation —America not now' having a single line of ocean steamers—we have obtained the monopoly only by means of heavy annual sUbsidies and high rates of charges for passengers and freight. The results of the trial trip of the great ship, incomplete though they are in some respects, have confirmed the opinion already very generally entertained, that increase of size, and more especially in the length of vessels, with equal motive power, results in increased speed and capacity, with di minished expense, while at the same time the great ship qs §livwn that vessels may 1)1 l,tdll of iron of any ..e . • !- amount ui ..tee al or size. lase strengtn..:4 t tie ship was tested in a most remarkable manner at the time of the launching, when she remained for months resting only upon the support of the two cradles near her centre. Ever since'the commencement of the Great EiStern, im provements have been made in naval engineering, which, applied to other ships of" the same character, .would pto duce even more important and satisfactory results than those already achieved. Such,' for instance, 114 the else of steel in the construction of boilers, as well as in the hull of ships, and the important process of superheating the steam, which, in the case of the great ship, has been applied to only one pair of her boilers, and was most sparingly used in the trial trip. The speed which has been obtained by the great ship, of froin 14 to 15 knots an hour, will suffice to take her from England to Calcutta or Sydney in from 32 to 36 days, the voyage to Australia under the most favourable circumstances now occupying from 55 to 60 days. Of the four routes between England and Australia there is but one, viz., that by way of the Red Sea and the Mauritius, which is the course taken under the present postal contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company, - which is shorter in point of distance than by the voyage round the Cape of Good Mipe, the difference being, however, only to the small extent of about 370 miles ; but, in point of time, the ocean route, via the Cape, would be performed by ships of the class of the Great Eastern in less than half the . time now occupied upon this overland route. T h e accommodation for passengers and goods by the large ships they in the ratio of at least two to . one over the Red Sea line, and the rate of speed at the same cost for fuel would be 50 per cent. in favour of the Cape line. So far as the prospects of such a line are concerned, it must be remembered that the railway system in India, Ceylon, and Australia is but just beginning to develop itself ; that China and Japan, with their immense populations and varied products, will at no distant day be thrown open to British commerce and enterprise, .and that already at least one million of tons of shipping find ample remuneration in the trade with the East. The wants of commerce in that part of the world are even now but insufficiently supplied with shipping. The actually existing trade with the East is ten times greater than the capacity of a whole line of these large vessels would provide, and if their performance on a long voy age should be at all commensurate .with the results already obtained in the short trips, there is no reason to suppose that the expenses would be disproportionate to the speed obtained, and the great carrying capacity of the vessels. It, is absurd to suppose that large vessels of the Great Eastern class could be worked with profit upon shorttrWns-itlanti c trips, for the time which wouldbe con sume d i n the ports of this country and the United States, in loading to that and unloading, would be out of all proportion week's work wouldwhileonlythatlong require probably a month's delay, and it was for these and these designed —the delays in port would take place only ats intervals of a m on th. With one Great Eastern it would 3e of course impossible to communication with the East si at least would be re lineThofreoeeesnunchvesse o es r ta A b a li s s t h ra a li n a y quired, together with smaller different branches. The plan which has at the and which irtmder the consideration of several persons con nected with the present company, is to constru p e e t r a s n o r q for - sea two other vessels similar to the Great Eastern,e-'ti but with such alterations and improvements as ex perience may point out as necessary, and which with th existing ship will be put upon a main trunk line between e England and Trincomalee, calling at the Cape of Good Hope. Branch lines, worked by smaller and powerful steamers, would run between the Cape and Australia, and between Trincomalee and China, Madras and Cal cutta, in connection with the fleet of large ships, a n d carrying freight and passengers to and from them to their destination, There is no intention, so far at least as a larger body of the proprietors and directors are concerned, to permit the great ship to exist merely as a spectacle to be visited at half-a-crown a ,head as the " Great wonder of the world," but on the contrary to endeavour to carry out to their legitimate results those advantages which the employment of vessels of larger size may be calculated to produce. NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. NEW BLAST-FURNACES AT ULVERSTONE. (From the 411 - Zning Journal, 22nd O c t o b er , 1859.) I The opening of the new works recently erected by Messrs. Schneider, Hannay, and Co., of Ulverstone, created considerable excitement in the whole district of Low Furness, on Tuesday last. Gentlemen connected' with the trade, from Loudon, South Wales, Stafford shire, and other iron districts, came down in conSiderable numbers, and by a special train provided for the oceasion, which left Ulverstone at two o'clock, about 1,000 visitors were brought by the Furness Railway Com pany into the. yard of the Ulverstone Hematite Iron works—the name under which the enterprising filen of Schneider, . Hannay, and Co: intend to cart' on their new- enterprise.. The works are connected with the Fxrness Railway by a branch line from Barrow, which forms a link with the Ulverstone and Lancaster, Lancister and Carlisle, North-E .stern for Leeds, and the Stockton and Darlington Railways, tines rendering their railway communication complete for fuel from all the best coal districts. The furnaces are likewise within 200 yards of the water on one side; and when the jetty is completed, will have great facilities for loading their own vessels with the pigs which they manufacture.' The visitors were evidently gratified with the new works, and the moment the special' train delivered its 1,000 visitors, including numbers of ladies, interesting groups were seen about the works, the chief point of at traction beimg the apparatus where the gas is ignited for the generation of steam, &c. Large parties ascended the incline to visit the funnel heads of the furnaces, and the ladies were continually seen venturing upon this apparently perilons trip, Among the visitors we 4b3erved Mr. A. Sainedo (the eminent shipbuilder of London), Mr: H. S. Ainslie (of the firm of Harrison, Ainslie, and Co.), Mr. Thomas Roper, ,Mr. Alexander Brogden, Mr. James Ramsden, Mr. Henry G. Grieveson, Mr. J. R. Breekon, Mr. E. Wadham (agent to the Duke of Buccleuch), Mr. Drewry (laud steward to the Duke of Devonshire), the Messrs. Barker (of the Cleator Hematite Works), Mr. A. Paxton (of the Carlisle Railway), Mr. Henry W. Schneider, Mr. Robert Hannay, Mr. George IC. Hannay;and Mr. Robert Hannay, jun., Mr. J. T. Smith (the bnildcr of the works), Mr. Thos. Perry (of the . firei of Thomas Perry & Son), Mr. George Stephenson, Mr. J. Salterthwaite (of the Lancaster Banking Company), Mr. S. Griffiths, Wolverhamplon, and a great.number of other, principal mine 'masters and gentry of Lew Furness. The works are designed A, nd erected by, Mr. Josiah T. Smith, of South Staffordshire, and are most unquestionably as perfect in all their arrangemente if not more gh; than any other works in the. United Kingdom. The engines are from the works of Messrs. Perry, of the Highfields Foundry, near Wolverhampton. They are a beautiful pair of bright beam engines, with cranks and fly-wheels, arranged either for separate or combined action, condensirg on the expanSive principle; stroke nine feet, with connecting-nd attached to an elongated por tion of the beam in the iMmediate vicinity. of tie pis ton-rod steam cylinder; forty-six inches, blowing cylin ders, ninety-six inches. The effective rawer of these engines when completed will be upwards of 2GO horse power. The nozels are what 'are called the organ pat, tern, and, as a whole, the engines will hear comparison with any pair of blast engines in the kingdom ; the one in action did its work - in a smooth and easy man ner, without the least jarring or shaking. The perfection of the gas apparatus, which is con structed d la Brymba, was universally admired ; it worked admirably during the whale day, by its perfect combustion under the steam-boilers generating ample caloric, and to spare, for the - prodnetion of steam re quired for the engines. The shaft is 150 feet high, and 8 feet diameter at the summit; standing on an extensive square stone basement, and is Very beautifully Propor tioned. The furnace architecture is' - a Complete success, and may' safely be visited by builders as a model works, replete with all the latest improvements both of Wales and Staffordshire. The arrangements for delivering at the mines coal and limestone are admirable, the fultates being provided with a semicircle of a series of railways to supply all the materials on the feeding side, the minerals bung dis charged from the various rails in the immediate vicinity of the bridge-house. These arrangements must of necessity save an amount of common charges unpatal leled, even in the working of, the best constructed plants with which we are acqnamted. The inclined plane over which the mine ascends to the furnaces is entirely of iron—graceful and light, though adequately strong, being constructed of two lattice girder's, 155 feet in length. The mine is taken up,by a steam-engine, with a wire rope connection, and the brake with which this apparatus is controlled is, on a new and successful principle. The mines of Schneider and Hannay have a world wide celebrity, the celebrated Parks deposit of hemetite ore being the largest and, perhaps the Most valuable d e pagitian e 1 1e , 111t49 9r9 everclLscoyered in this country ; and for than)* years will continue to turn out an amount of wealth equal to the , great Barra Barra Copper Mine, which has yielded such enormous quanti ties of copper, in Australia. The firm are at the present moment raising and disposing of hematite iron ore, of a first-rate qUality, to the extent of. 250,000 tons per annum, a large portion of this grand aggregate of ore being shipped in their own screw steamers, three of whichnontinually ply between the ports of South Wales and Barrow with the hematite 'ore raised by the firm for the Welch ironmasters. _ _ _ We understand that Schneider and Hannay have a great variety of ore in their large 'estates ; one lately discovered, called Monad, which - contains no. less than 20 per cent. of manganese ; and as they intend to use this and some poor ores to mix with the rich ores of the famous Parks deposit, no doubt is entertained . of their being able to produce a quality of hematite iron at these new works far superior to anything previously brought into the market,' and admirably adapted for admixture with the pig-iron of Staffordshire and South Wales. Mr. Brown, the managing partner of the well-known Ebbw Vale Company, has looked over the works since their completion, and expressed his entire approval of the whole of the arrangements. The proprietors are importing the best steam coal from South 'Wales,• and coke from the Darlington and Durham districts; and we understand that they expect to produce 900 tons of 'good I hematite 'iron per week from these three furnaces. MUNICIPAL ELECTION. TO THE CARTOWNERS OF VAUXHALL WARD. GENTLEMEN —I see, from the report of the meeting in Vauxhall Ward last night, that Mr. Corbally's name is very prominent, endeavouring t 3 induce the electors of that ward to return Mr. Cearns as his colleague in the Council, and thus lisplace our indefatigable and well tried representative, Mr. John Shimmin. „. , Does Mr. Corbally mean to offer himself as a sample, and ask you to return him a " brother chip," to protect your interests in the ward ? If so, I will endeavour to enlighten you as to his mode of procedure, and leave you to judge for yourselves. In the early part of the present year I was employed by one of the corporate officials to do some cartage for the Corporation ; and, as that respectable body rules our charges and binds us to rates, I, of course, only charged the rates laid down by them. My account was put into Mr. Corbally's hands, and, to my astonishment, two months after the account was due, he called at my house several times, and, with unblushing assurance, said that if I did not reduce the amount more than 35 per cent., orders would be given to all the officers under the Cor poration that I should never be again employed,—a threat, however, which he has not the power to carry out. I, of course, would not accede, and got paid my claim in full ; but no more work while Mr. Corbally is on committee. Now, gentlemen, I ask two questions. If my charge was a just one, why should Mr. Corbally demand such a reduction ? If not a just one, why was it paid ? Are such men as Mr. Corbally and his proteges the parties you w ould select to represent your inte res t s i n the Council Chamber ?—I remain, gentlemen, your obe dient humble servant, GEORGE WILSON. 61, Gascoyne-street, Oct. 20th, 1859. INDIA..-LORD CLYDE TO COM MAND THE CH INA Ex- PEDITION.-" Lord Clyde, on his arrival at Cawnpore," says the Bombay Times, " will await the resu lt o f a reference made to England in regard to the recent disasters in China. It is Lord Canning's intention to place the a rm y i n t en d e d f or o pe r ati ons i n Chi na under the personal- command of the Commander-in-Chief. This force has already been detailed at head quarters, and will comprise about 10,000 troops of all arms," THE BOMBAY OVERLAND EXPRESS MAIL. The Bombay Overland Express Mail has brought letters and a eurnals from Bombay to the '27th September inclusive_ , [From the Bombay Gazette, Sept. 27.] TROO.i'S FOR CitlNA.—The items of China news which reached us by the last mail are but slight. There is an impression that the authorities at Pekin are now pre pared to receive all . the ministers in a friendly manner, and that there is no intention to -throw difficulties in way, at least so far as their mission is concerned. Notwithstanding, however, such assurances and promises from the - Chinese, whose Weird we may now take , for what it is worth, we are evidently on the threshold of a war with that country. The death of (Mil countrymen, and the hope of victory for our flag, clearly point to a struggle with China such as shall end in hunriliatingher, and placing our commercial re lations on a sure and permanent footing. There is no room for negotiations, and therefore we must, obtain peace by fighting for it. We are in the war, and We must go through : it, demanding not more "military glory," blit more effectual securities than we should have been content with before we had spent a shilling or shed a drop of blood. An application has already been.made to the Indian Government for about 15,000. troops, and we'believe a 'few European regiments have already been despatched to China. Her Majesty's 67th Regiment isamder orders for China ; it will be followed by the 90th, in which the vacancies caused by tire- number of soldiers that have taken their discharge, are likely- to be filled before it starts, so that it will be raised to its proper strength. About three hundred men have volunteered from one militia corps for this regiment. Thicent events have unfortunately reduced our military resources to such an extent that it would scarcely be a wise measure to remove the European regiments from the country, unless their places can be speedily supplied by troops fl'om England. There is not lunch scope here for raising troops by voluntary enlistment from among the East Indian or European population. THE RI.TSIANS IN, is difficult to say what has taken the Governor-General of Eastern Sibe ria to the mouth of the Peiho ; but the fact that lie is to be followed by no less than four Russian gunboats is certainly no indication of peaceful intentions. It is almost certain that Russian agents are traVelling in the interior, for it is stated that the Rassians exchanged ratifications with the Chinese four or. five - months ago; thus see...lring the privilege. of visiting any part of the country. Russian agency in China is a permanent and übiquitous institution. - • . THE, REBELS IN NEPAUL.—In Northern India the frontier districts of Nepaul are still occupied by the Nana and his 10,000.0 r 12,000 adherents.' It- is singu lar that Jung Balladeer does not interdict their residence in his territories ; at any rate why he doeS.not:send his troops from the north, to scatter them along the plains, where 'they can scarcely hope - to evade th of our soldiers? So long as the opera , : them are directed from the south, they are only driven into the mountain fastnesses higher up, where it must be ex -treindly harasSing to - follow them. The quiet inhabit ants of the district . are severely ill-treated, and it would not therefore be anything wonderful if in the desperation of their rage they. should "excite one another to rise. The ill-usage to which the population are sub , jected may either have this effect or compel 'them to abandon the country. [The tontky Sta, erd, Sept. 27.) The. chief topic throughout India since-the departure of our last mail has been the -new Bill for Licensing Trades and Professions; otherwise there has been no matter commanding general interest for a longer term than the orthodox "nine days." • Upon the whole, our attitude here - is that of expectation, based upon the approaching arrival of Mr. Wilson, and the .possible departure of Lord Canning—two events that ca.e very greatly desired. His . lordship's ..movements are .now tolerably settled. He has "obtained leave" of theLegiS lative Council, and is expect - ,ed, to such Cawnpore by the 12th proximo. Ho will be joined there by. Lord Clyde, the.. two magnates then making- a right royal progress to Lucknow. Lord Clyde then, it is said, re turns to England, Lord Canning spendinc , the cold season in a tour through the North West and the Pun jab, retiring to Simla in April: It has long been de cided that Sir Hugh Rose is' to be the new Commander in Chief. Lords Canning and Clyde will, doubtless, have much. to settle .as to-the. future of Oude, -which-it is now affirmed is to be amalgamated with the other North West 'Proyinces. It is said, also, that there is to be - a grand distribution of presents to the loyal-Oudeaus. An expedition into Nepaul, it is to be hoped, will be arranged during the conference of the two chiefs. There is'SOTTIO talk about it.. China has not: furnished us with much news. A be lief is beginning to form, however, not only ! that the . Peiho affair was entered upon without due consideration, but that we had no .right to force the passage pending the signing of the treaty. The Adventurer was to leave ITong Kong for. Calcuita, it is said, •on the 21st inst. The 67th - and 99th ReniMents are -under orders for. according to the 11 - icrkar2c; and it is supposed they twill bo largely supplimented by. native troops. request has gone home, we hear, for 11,900 in all. • NANA SAMB.---The Nana is reported (to good to be true) to be dying of Terai fever, and Azini-ulla Khan is said to be dead. There 'is ne doubt that the Malaria has been very serviceable in saving the swordSnian and hangman trouble, but we need confirmation of all that reaches us from Nepaul, But, if we have not got the Nana, we have got, according to the bteknow Hereq, the uncle of the . Nana's wife, he (Nara Punt Marna Kursumee Kar) having been arrested at Poona, but on what charge is not said. We have mentioned that there has been talk about taking the field against the Nana. It is even said that the - authorities. haVe at length fully resolved upon hunting dovin . the Nana and rebels in Nepaul,' and flying, columns' will enter the Terai early this cold season. A similar course will be adopted with regard to the marauding bands now infest ing the Bundlecand country. It is certainly high time something was done, Jung' 13ahadoor 'professing his inability to help us. The - district is full of sepoys of our oldregiments, some having come in • others, the majority, are living on the proceeds of their plunder, . &c., and when they hear any police being near, -make a bolt for the jungles. They are very sickly and quite done up, and heartily wish, they had not fought against the Company Bahadoor. THE LATE MR. ROBERT STEPHENSON.- HIS MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS. In our Saturday's publication, we were enabled to give full particulars relative to the funeral of the late Mr: Robert Stephenson. We now have .Much satis faction in alluding to the munificent bequests which he has made on behalf of several important public charities and other institutions. It is gratifying, says the Times , to be able to state that Mr. Stephenson has bequeathed by his will a sum amounting to £25,000 to various public institutions, located chiefly in Newcastle-upui- Tyne, in the vicinity of which he was born, and with which so great a portion of his life was so closely identified. To the _Newcastle Infirmary he has. criven £10,000; to the Literary and Philosophical Institution. 6 of that town, £7,000 ; to the Institution of Mining Engineers there, £2,000 ; to the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, £2,000 ; to the Society for Promo ting Christian Knowledge, £2,000 ; and to the Society for Providing Additional Curates in Populous Places, £2,000. At Sunderland, Shields, and Whitby, all the places of business were closed in the afternoon of Friday. The ships carried their flags half-mast high, while muffled peals rang from the churches. At Newcastle and Gateshead the same marks of respect were paid ; and in the former town a special service was held at half-past eleven, and was attended by 1,000 workmen, who, dressed in black, walked in procession four abreast from the different factories. The church was crowded, and a funeral sermon was preached by the vicar. SI'ORTING, IN THIBET.—We have seen an extract from a letter of Captain Edmund Smyth, dated July 27, which speaks of sport of no ordinary character in the hills of Thibet. He had killed 55 head of really large game, including three,yaks (Bos grunnicits .2), and five ammon (Ovis ammon), of which two were rams of great size. Next came 32 burral and 11 thar, eight of them large males. Of smaller " deer" he did not deign to speak. Captain Speke, the zealous, able, and successful African traveller, had asked Captain Smyth to join him in his projected expedition • and it will rejoice all friends of scientific exploration to learn .that to the energy and high capacity of Captain Spoke will be added the high qualifications of Captain Edmur.d Smyth, in one of the most interesting exi,oditien.s ever undertaken for the exploration cf Africa. LIFE-BOATS FOR SCOTLAND. The following letter has been addressed to the Editor of the daily Tiwes, London, and we will only express a hope that the earnest appeal of the benevolent donor, who has furnished us with his address, will be responded to : "SIR,—In the Times of the 17th instant appeared a. statement of the wrecks on our coasts during the past year, and of the efforts of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to diminish the dreadful loss of life which annually occurs from these disasters. I was sorry to observe , that an unsuccessful appeal had been made to the Scotch to second these efforts by aiding the institu tion to place lifeboats upon their coasts, which are at present almost entirely unprovided with them, You say : " On the coast of Scotland there is a sad want of lifeboats. It is along this coast a large portion of our trade with the Baltic, Greenland, Archangel, Davis's Straits, and much of that of the Canadian and United States trade is carried on. In addition to this traffic, the Scotch coast is remarkable for its great herring fishery. Peterhead has its 250 fishing boats : Frascm burgh and Buckie more than 400 sail; while further 'north, off the coast of Caithness, more than 1,200 fishing hoats, manned by 6,000 persons, nightly pursue their calling during the season exposed to the proverbial suddenness of a north-east gale. About two years ?go, durin g a fearful gale of wind, of a fleet of such boats five were lost, from which forty-two men were drowned, leaving twenty-Seven widows and seventy'-nine orphans unprovided for. Since then calamities to Scotch fisher men, nearly equal in magnitude, have occurred. Within the last two or three months, the - National Lifeboat Institution has made an urgent appeal to the Scotch people generally for assistance to station additional life boats on their coast; but we lament to say the appeal has met with little response from them." . In consequence of these remarks, I have made inquiries, and I find that the following is briefly the state of the case : The coast of Scotland, in order to be provided. with the smallest number of lifeboats required by the coast-. guard returns, should have twenty-one boats. It has in reality but three. of the institution's, and a few others of uncertain efficiency, without regular crews or main tenance. This lamentable want is due to the extra ordinary supineness of the Scotch, for the institution cannot place boats without local aid ; and the sixty-five boats it has on the English coast are owing to the support it has received there. • The late appeal, though widely circulated among the Scotch, has. not produced a fund sufficient to purchase a single boat. • `Though not a Scotehman, I am the son of a Scotch man, and feel a deep interest in all that concerns Scotland. I deplore the state of her shores which the statement discloses ; and for the sake of humanity, as well as the honour of the country, I am anxious to renew the appeal to the Scotch. To prove that I am in earnest, I have made a commencement by presenting the Institutioa with two lifeboats of the value of £lBO each, which the committed have liberally undertaken to provide with carriages and houses, to place as speedily as possible on those • points of the coast where there is the moat urgent need. I earnestly trust that the example. may be - followed by the landholders, owners, merchants, and manufacturers of Scotland. If each large town would contribute one or more boats, and each coast district make an effort in aid, the work would be done, and Scotland's opprobrium removed of neglect urg the calls of humanity, and leaving shipwrecked sea men to perish, helpless, on her inhospitable coasts. Shall it be said that England provides sixty- , five life boats, and Scotland but three ? That all the wealth and liberality of the north is: insensible to the cry of the drowningpoor mariner on its. own shores ; and while profiting so largely by commerce, utterly neglects the security of the seamen who carry it on ? .Can there be a more truly philanthropic object, or one which it is more a duty to carry out than this ? I will add nothing more. If something is to be done, now is the time. Winter with its storms and ship wrecks is fast approaching, and unless the Scotch coast is to remain another dark season without life-saving means, not a moment is to be lost in answering this appeal.—l enclose my card, and I am, your obedient servant, J. _ _ London, October 22nd. P.S.—After all, the sum required to accomplish the object is extremely moderate. There will be five efficient boats, as soon as the two mentioned above arc stationed.. Sixteen only are therefore required, at a cost of about £7,000. I have little doubt that if two-thirds of this .§lllll can be raised in Scotland, the Institution will receive the support in England necessary to make up the remainder. The object then is, to raise. about : X5,000, and to secure the small local support necessary for the boats when stationed. .If this cannot be entirely accomplished, let a part be .done, and boats b..) put on as fast as the funds accrue. - . J.., BANQUET TO THE 78TH HIGHLANDERS 'AT INVERNESS, The gallant 78th .Highlanders, now stationed at Fort- George, arrived at Inverness on Thursday, to partake of the banquet prepared -for them by general subscription entered into by the northern public. The day was held as a holiday, and the streets were profusely decorated with evergreens, flowers, festoons of tartan, flags, and other appropriate insignia and inscriptions. In enter ing the town from the railway station, the regiment was received , by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county (Lord Lovat) and other gentlemen. Colonel Mecintyre rode at the head of the regiment, and ordered them to halt opposite the residence of the venerable General John Mackenzie, and gave three cheers for that aged officer (now the 'oldest officer in the British army), who had assisted in the original formation of the 78th High landers: The soldiers accordingly gave a true military round of cheers in honour of the old general. At the Exchange, an address by the Magistrates and . the Council was presented to the officers and privates of the recriment, which was acknowledged by Col. Macintyre. The regiment then proceeded to the banqueting hall, where 700 soldiers sat down to dinner. The Provost, in proposing the toast of, the 78th High landers, gave a history of their achievements. Serjeant majOr Pocock replied ; and Quartermaster Serjeant Robertson gave a trait to their hospitable entertainers. He said—" Two years ago we were hemmed in by count less hordes, and reduced to -small 'fare,' in the city of Lucknow. We strained our eyes and ears from day to day in expectation of the relieving force. We sometimes looked forward to the time when we should return to the peaceful hills of our native land, and obtain the applause of our countrymen ; but little did we anticipate that we should receive such a true Highland welcome to bonnie Scotland—to. the peaceful banks of the silvery Ness. (Loud cheering) We now see and believe that our Queen and country are satisfied that we have done our best to fulfil the well-known signal of the gal lant and immortal Nelson—that is full recompense to us for • all that we have undergone." (Hear.)—The Master of Lovat returned thanks.—The Provost here proposed a toast to the old garrison of Lucknow, coupled with the name of Major Boileau.=-Major Boileau re turned thanks. He remarked that the struggle in which they engaged, though forced upon them. by the first in stincts of humanity, excited far higher feelings. The devo ted garrison felt they were fighting the battle of British supremacy in , the East, and that the honour of the country was in their keeping. The gallant major then paid a high tribute to Sir James Outram ; and added—" It was the sound of the Scottish bagpipe and the Highland cheering that first raised our drooping spirits ; and on the arrival of the relief, our feelings were most conflicting. . The women and children of our garrison, and, indeed, I may say all of us, on first meeting the relief, could do no more than hold out the hand of welcome ; but the 78th well knew from our looks and that silent grasp, that the hearts within us were beating quicker than they had ever done before, and, I fancy, have done since. And lam glad to have this opportunity, in the name of myself and comrades of Lucknow, of again thanking the 78th Regiment, and the rest of Havelock's brave army, for their almost superhuman efforts in our behalf." (Cheers.)—The proceedings shortly afterwards terminated, no public entertainment of the kind having ever passed off with more genuine enthusiasm or cordiality. A MUNIFICENT DONATION.—It gives us much pleasure to be able to announce that the British Museum has just received a magnificent addition to its numismatic treasures, by the gift from the Count de Salis of his well known collection of coins. These are in fourteen cabinets, containing altogether as many as 7,000 coins, brought together with the greatest taste during many years of the count's life, and at an expense of about £5,000. The munificent donor has at the same time offered his services gratuitously to the Museum to assist in al-ranging the cc action, or in amalgamating it with aye", t h a t already in the Museum. The trustees h c ourse, accepted his offer with tha.ukz.—Crit:c, of OCTOBER 24, 1859. LITERATURE. THE POETICAL WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER ; WITH MEMOIR AND CRITICAL DISSERTATIONS. By the , • Rev. GEORGE GILFILLAN. In Five. Volumes. Edin burgh : James Nichol. The book. now before us is a library edition of the: poetical works of the great English poet, Edmund Spenser. The first four volumes are occupied by the " Fairie Queene," and the fifth comprises all the minor poems which have been authenticated as from the pen of Spenser. To offer any criticism on the poetry of , Spenser would, at this time of day, be superfluous, if not absolutely impertinent ; to pea a eulogium on it would now be indeed "to gild refined gold and paint the lily," neither of which tasks shall we at present essay ; we shall, on the contrary, confine our few remarks to the peculiar claims and merits of the very handsome, indeed beautiful, edition now under conside ration. We may be permitted to state en passant that the volumes referred to form five of a comprehensive and admirable series published under the appropriate name of " Nichol's Library Edition of the British Poets,' of which somewhere about three dozen of volumes have been already published in bi-monthly series. The whole of the series has been edited 17 the Rev. George Gilfillan, who has exhibited great industry and good taste in supplying a full and pure text of all the authors whose works have been already given. In his biogra phical notices and critical 'dissertations - he has - also shown himself to be a painstaking collator and a dis criminating critic. The volumes whose title stand at the head of this notice, present at least one peculiar claim to the atten tion of English readers of the present day. Throughout the whole of the poems, the antiqUated and all but obsolete orthography of Spenser's time has been sub stituted by the more accurate spelling of the present time, due care, however, having been taken to avoid any chaiige which could alter the sense, or in even the slightest degree interfere with tb e rythm. This is a course which had been previously followed with the writings of all the great authors who were, or nearly were, contemporaneous with • Spensr, including Shakspeare and other "mighty men of old." This having been done with great care and no small amount of literary judgment, the result has been the production of such a copy of the poems of the immortal author of the " Fairie Queene," as would do credit to the collection of.the most fastidious scholar, or grace the library of a noble ; while it is publi s h e d at so cheap a rate as to be easily obtainable by all the reading ' public, in even the middle and humbler walks of life. In all the varied awl extensive walks of what is known by the name of cheap literature, few possess higher claims to popular patrona g e than the "Library Editor' of the British Poets." A. 3 a birthday or Cliristma,s, present, it would be indeed difficult to meet with any thing more appropriate than this edition of Spencer's Works, and it would probably be still more difficult to over-estimate the value of Mr. Nichol's enterprise in offering to the public so admirable a series of the British Poets, as that of which the present five volumes form so interesting and so characteristic a portion. MEMORANDA OF A JOURNEY TO MOSCOW IN THE YEAR' 1856, by FANNY MARY THOMSON. Liverpool : Smith , Watts, and Co. The journey to Moscow, of which the clever little volume before us contains, as it were, roadside sketches , was performed by a Liverpool lady, who accompanie d her husband on his way to the Russian capital on business, and thus by her presence in some nE,asure converted a matter-of-fact piece of commercial travelling' into a tour of pleasure and instruction. With a lively sagacity; and a penetratingly keen observation, Mrs. Thomson peered into the different scenes, circumstance s, and customs which presented themselves before her. These observations she has transferred with vivid fidelity to the pages of her note-book, which in turn have been ransacked and inspected with a patient attention a nd a discriminating sagacity, which have enabled the lady to cull and arrange a literary bouquet of rich artistic beauty and praiseworthy suggestiveness. In treating of the city, the streets, and the inhabitants of Riga, our autho ress thus delineates the appearance and the position or . the Russian soldier ; " Here the soldier is far enough from the capital to render him useless as an object or display, and to be a soldier here only entitles a man to rank himself one step' above a vagrant, as they are lel almost entirely without the means of maintenance, an their clothing falls to pieces upon their backs. Ou r , errands were done, and our parcels carried by one a these poor ragged wretches, to whom a few coppers were-, a fortune." Throughout the whole of her journeying's) M rs l i Thomson directed a vigilant and cultivated eye to all the objects of art to he met with in her perigrinatio os t and upon many of these she treats us to some lively as well as judicious remarks. We have felt strongly impressed with -a desire to transfer to our columns e highly suggestive sketches of the Kremlin; its interior; and the numerous articles of interest which abound its halls, as these .are presented in the pages of A 1 .; Thomson's book, but want of space forbids us to do W ar ' than recommend them to the careful perusal of the written in the book itself. As a whole, the; - sketche s the written in a lively and pleasant style, and withou t ce slightest pretence to didactic gravity, they are at at interesting, amusing, and instructive. A Sketch of the Origin and Early History of the Lil e : pool Blue Coat Hospital. By John R. 111 1 P e-. Liverpool : T. Brakell. 0 This interesting historical pamphlet is the substanc of a paper read on the.sth of May last, - before the ills toric Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. Asa CO Pe pendium narrative of the chief occur r ences which h 3 ' t marked the history of one of our most important loc 3 , ' charities,, the paper naturally occupies a favourable 13° tion in the eyes of the Liverpool community. Apart fr.., this circumstance, however, or any other adventitious 371 which it might accidentally have derived, the page s question commends itself to approbation on many . gre n ,, li i ti g on none more than on the earnest and painstatsect, industry whi c h M r . Hu g hes has devoted to his 0 111 0 0 Looking on truth of narrative and amplitude of & s a as the essential ingredients of excellence us sue ll o essay, Mr. Hughes has obviously devoted his att en ,. ti chiefly to these points; but in doing so, he has n°_„,l any means beesi' negligent with respect t o those lit e n r, details which lend a charm to 'even the most mat ter :o - fact memoir. The essay is characterised by a persPicure continuity in the flow of its narrative; and is not less t he markable for the assiduity with which the annals 0 toe' institution have been studied and made available for if e, purpose of presenting a succinct, yet comprehen4;.• historical epitome of its early progress and presen t rillo tion. -As an important chapter of our local histor4odt. paper under consideratiim deserves, and will and' doubt command, a large extent of general atten tion approval. 0 13 3 111 BANKRUPTCY •DISCIASURES.—At the Glasg ow c ro- , ruptcy Court, a day or two ago, William ' un l i a l i s oir commission agent, was examined before Sheriff oar The bankrupt said : I commenced business as 3 do r mission merchant in April, 1858. This was sowitioder effecting a - settlement with my former creditor:rot V, a sequestration. I began with about £ 5 O , c o fee' accommodation from my friends. I began. : s ite embarrassment in my affairs about six month` o f 0 beginning business. My present ,assets consi 5 00 stock of iron and. steel furnishings, and also Thelno debts which are due to me by various parties. 1.% voice prices of the stock of goods amount to £17 1 13 : ri boll debts due to me amount to about £445, of whi c (W e , £4O may be recoverable. My liabilities at th i soo" amount to .E 1,217. Before applying for my P:tile . sequestration, I endeavoured to effect a privllit,coitieg ment with my creditors. The amount of my d; t hati at that time was less by some hundred Ponli„t, e th e amount represented in my present state m tts that time I only made out a list of the debt were pressin g . The debts whi c h I did not then jlatiojee comprised a , debt due to Mr. Matthews of ,irrea 11 for £451. Mr. Matthews' debt was not ine' vl icla had renewed after obtaining my present business. It was an old obligation - e at, granted a bill to Mrs-Matthews for that sum.. ii Los n e , terrogation; the bankrupt admitted that the b . ! in t 13,. signed on 29th May, 1848, the date it bore, nn_l' ptif tdc my former settleniron ia; summer of 1859.] I first commenced business iii in the year 1848 or 1849. This is the t,F have been bankrupt. I was first bankrupt init:uour in Dundee, and paid a composition, I thinpra_ ent and • i fe l 7 51 in Glasgow, and got a settlem , in the pound. I was next bankrupt in Dec, b . e i r o , - . B e: - pound of composition.—The examination wab "