Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-09 00:00:00

J ,tb, $?! reactisi Free c 1054 gs Jisrae,, on tinu 61 5 00 'i 0 THE WAR IN ITALY. 1111 0 VAL OF FRENCH COMMANDERS The Paris Correspondent of the Globe, writing on the 42 eurity of the despatches respecting the War in Italy, lay s : T he consequence of obscurity has, of course, been the Ptepagation of various surmises. For one of these I had P r epared you last week by putting you in p o s session of the se cret of Marshal Vaillant's being cashiered from post at t,e War Office some weeks ago, and superseded by Marshal an der'. It would seem that fatality has foll owed him, and that his condo . in the face of the enemy has given the Emperor rounds for more severe measures, and in censuring :aillant, Napoleon 111. has equally found fault with the remissness of General Baraguay's d'Hilliers, both bei n g 0 / removed from their respective commands, General ta ZreY being Baraguay's successor. Bandon leaves Paris to o r Vaillant's post, and General Schram goes to the War Cce• The grant to M'Mahon of a marshall's baton with e dukedom of Magenta places him at once on a par with tlelissier or Malakoff, the capture of the Russian stronghold w a Ving been quite as much, if not more, immediately the erk of the new duke. There are yet probably many ,„!aliari localities reserved to furnish titles for the Niels, et'anrobert's, Foreys, of the new imperial noblesse, and the Irj,Ps of Wimpffen, which is supposed to be in force behind 'lan, will, in junction with the remnants of the late defeated divisions, offer battle again; it is conjectured on t he territory before the eventual - retirement of 'e Austrians into the famous quadraudge of the Mincio. IRE POSITION OF ENGLAND IN THE WAR. It is stated in Vienna, notwithstanding the denial of g ° eernmeut papers, that Paul Esterhazy is actually sent to ellforce on whatever. abinet he may find in existence It trival in London the absolute necessity (?) of England's re cognising and guaranteeing this quadrilateral position of Austria on the Po, as au indispensable barrier for the Germ an confederation, with a view to the coming European in terference between the belligerents. Prince Paul, being b rought up at one of your great public schools, counts many statesmen of both sides of your Houses as his collegiate of the evening papers say that Marshal Canrobert wts wounded, but I have heard this afternoon that the Empress has contradicted this news. It is confirmed that General M‘Mahon was wounded, and the Passe says that General •Mellinet, commanding the Ist division of the' Guards, was wounded seriously. No news from the theatre of war has been made public to-day, and considerable surprise is felt at the delay in announcing the entry of the allies into Milan. The fact that the municipality of Milan waited upon the Kin , * of Sardinia at head quarters, to inform him , in presence of the Emperor, that they had proclaimed the annexation of Lombardy to Sardinia, shows almost con clusively that there can be nothing to prevent the allies from taking military possession of the capital. There is a report that the Emperor entered Milan at four this after noon. Yesterday evening the illuminations in Paris were much more general than on the night before. Flags were also hung out from many windows. At most of the theatres, patriotic songs, specially composed for the occasion, were chaunted. It is said that the chorus of the opera was shut up for six hours to rehearse a hymn by M. Mary, to music by Auber. THE FEELING AMONG THE FRENCH _SENATORS. At the end of the sitting of the Senate, on Monday, M. Fould, minister of state, was introduced to announce the close of the session, and the president, M. Troplong, made the following speech : "Messieurs, les Senateurs —Before according the tribune to the minister of state, permit me to address you in a few words which will be my farewell at the close of this most important session. The Emperor has just inscribed another name on the annals of our victories. (Applause.) 'Already the grand army and the great captain seem once more to have sprung up in the land of Italy, where the genius of Napoleon I. first disclosed itself, and the daring battle of Magenta constitutes at the same time the deliverance of Piedmont, the establishment of Lombardo-Venetian inde pendence, and the rout of the foreigner. (Loud.marks of approbation). Let us applaud, with the whole country, a success henceforward belonging to history. When we again assemble here, the empire of Napoleon 111., which has saved France, will probably S have enfranchised Italy ; and Europe will have witnessed the termination of a question which has been a heavy weight on, her for ages. We have, in fact,' at the other side of. the Alps, a man, an - , and our invincible moderation, justice, and humanity full confidence in the future, and r for another session, with the' cry cause; trength is employed with • - INDIA AND CHINA. , re hay MARSEILLES, Wednesday.—The India and China mails leave to-day with dates from Calcutta, 3rd inst. ; Madras, 10th; and Hong Kong, 23rd ult. Calcutta'esports dull; imports more active ; Madras ditto ; Hong Kong, 4s 81d. Shanghai, April 16 : Imports dull ; iu exports fair business done, price lower ; exchange, 6s Bd. ALEXANDRIA, May 31.---The telegraph is working from Suez to Aden. The Elba, laying the cable for Candia, grounded here for a few minutes on the morning of the 29th inst., but was restored yesterday morning, and this evening the signal from the ship is perfect. 120 miles have been laid down. CANADA. ARRIVAL OF THE NOVA SCOTIAN, - The Montreal Ocean Screw Steam-ship Company's steamer Nova Scotian, Captain Borland, arrived here last evening from Quebec. She brings about 80 cabin, and 300 steerage passengers. Among the former is Lieutenant-General Sir W. Eyre, late commander of the • forces, and among the latter, a draft for the 100th Royal Canadian Regi ment, consisting of one subaltern and fifty-five men, and a number of invalids and other soldiers belong ing to regiments stationed. in Canada. The men of the 100th are under the command of Lieutenant Fletcher, and the others of Captain M'Pherson, 17th Regiment, Dr. Rambant being the medical officer in charge. The Corporation and Church Society at Montreal, presented addresses to Sir W. Eyre, previous to his leaving that city. There is no political or general intelligence of much interest. In the lull of political agitation, which has followed as usual the conclusion of the parliamentary session, some of our Toronto contem poraries, apparently at loss for any topic, continue to talk of the. extortionate demands made by parsons in Quebec for leasing their property for the accommo dation of the legislature and government. With respect to the condition and prospect of the crops, the Toronto Herald, of ajate date, says All accounts received up to this date speak favourably of the harvest prospects this year. The late rains have proved extremely beneficial to the spring crops, and in most of the counties heard from, both spring and fall crops wear a very promising appearance. Farmers generally seem to think there is every probability of a most bounteous harvest. Tot only was a much greater breadth of land sown this weather has proved extremely favourable. In a Stratford exchange, the dry spring has iculturists. Much of the land is fiat and cannot be drained until the stumps are out, and now the rain will moisten the ground and cause the seed to sprout out with vigour. In the townships of Camden, Ernestown, Sheffield, according to the Newburgh, Index, the fall crops have never presented a more promising appear ance than at present. The fly or rust may injure them it is true, but.they have had an early start this spring" and will ripen earlier and at- year, but tt this country Greatly favoured the a .d. a far better 'chance of escape ' from its' ravages than during any pre vious year. And similar' accounts have' been received from ether counties. Seeding having been completed, farmers have had more time to bring - their produce to market ; and within the past week a very brisk business has been transacted in this market. In most descriptions of. produce there is a good deal - of unsteadiness in market just now.. :The tenor of the European advices received within the- few days has checked the extreme speculative spirit prevailing, especially in the Grain Market. Buyers are not now so cant; in bidding against one another in a desperate attempt to secure grain at almost any price. And the result has been that within the past few days the wheat market is much easier ; , and to-day closes quietly at a reduction of twenty cents (1s) per bushell on the rates prevailing during the greater portion of the week. Quo *dons of other articles of produce have also undergone considerable fluctuation during the week. And in nearly all cases the markets close to-day with a downward ten dency. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. QUEBEC, May 28 RUSSIAN CIRCULAR ON THE WAR The Independence of Brussels publishes an analysis of an I ,.. 4l Portant circular which Prince Gortchakoff, FOreigu "blist er of Russia, has addressed to the diplomatic represen- natives of the Emperor at the several Courts of Germany. The Prince strongly recommends a policy of non-interven ti°n as to this Italian war; and in very explicit terms denies t he right of the Germanic Confederation to interfere in the War which Austria has commenced respecting one of her IlOn -Germanic possessions. He appeals to the treaties by W hich the Confederation is constituted, and declares that if G ermany goes to the aid of Austria in this war, the political equilibrium resulting from these treaties will be destroyed. France has given the most positive assurances that she has n ot the slightest idea of attacking Germany, and therefore should the German governments depart from neutrality, I tilssia would take an attitude as seemed required by the il lterests of Europe and by her own position as a leading Power. THE COMBAT AT TURBIGO The Moniteur contains General M'Mahon's report of a n affair of considerable importance, which took place at Tarbig o on the 3rd inst., the day before the battle of M agenta. The report is to the following effect:-- 1, if lle 2nd corps left Novara this (Friday) morning , at ua - past eight, to cross the bridge thrown over the Ticino „" 4 the previous night, under the protection of the voltige urs , the Imperial Gaard. ordered. General de la Motterouge, who had then with him only the regiment of Algerine tirailleurs, his other t e'iments being still on the left bank of the•river , to take . three battalions of tirailleurs to Robechetto, and dispose them in three attacking columns. The three columns, marching at some distance from one another, were at the word of command to converge on Robecchetto, and on entering its chief street, which runs from west to east, to turn on the east, so as to threaten the ,he enemy's retreat w of of til e nr,,,or While General de la Motterouge was proceeding to exe elite these movements with the regiment of Algerine tirailleurs, I myself made the necessary arrangements for A e ,, ll (ling up to him the other regiments of his division. The Regt. of the line, being the 2nd Regt. of the Ist "Ode, received orders to march in the path taken by the Algerine tirailleurs. The second brigade, consisting of the 6 5th and 70th Regiments of the line, received a little later it s Orders to make for the village of Robecchetto by the Castano-road, so asio flauklhe converging attack made by the Algerine tirailleurs. About two o'clock, General de la Motterouge marched With his three battalions on Robecchetto, followed by a battery from the general reserve of the army, directed by General Auger in person. The columns of Algerine tiraillenrs, most vigorously Twoved by the voice of General de la Motterouge, and that 13 f their colonel, marched resolutely on Robecchetto without i9 isl lie d' ,:ghel using their fire-arms. • Received at the entrance of the village by a very sharp won.. gainer. , se, LU piloty,.. volley, our tirailleurs rushect headlong on to the Austrians, who appeared for twent y of the creditors, said the y asked that Who were defendinc , the approaches. It was only inside the young man should be properly punished, as a warning the village that they began to fire , and then instan tl y to others ; but they would be willing to treat with forbear- Tnarged with the bayonet all who endeavoured to resist and and respect, any offer on the part of the father. After ?bar their passage. In ten minutes the en 'my was dislodged discussion, His Honour declined to name a da y for makin g from the village and in retreat along the road by which a final order in the case, or to grant protection of the court they had come. On comine , out of the village he wished to to the insolvent, who was afterwards arrested at the railway 4 • st electior har y kee p up with the enemy's retreat, dashed on it at by way -- full gallop, and captured it. Near the gun lay the corn- Tory party, that inandant of the battery, cut in two by one of our cannon member only. balls. were in a " fix." Whilst this was'passing near Robecchetto, a column-head experience and long tent of Austrian cavalry showed itself on our left, coming from I urged many qualification eastano. I brought up a battallion of the 65th and two - by the ga llant colonel. field-pieces to meet them. Two shots were enough to decide i"Go to the wall" them on retiring precipitately dilemma, two eminent men s :ed the rates of to-day e is quiet p.1.3011e1 - 5-lt eApt‘iiiicu. w.s• - that of the other candidate. This being agreea to, anu which the engagement took place. On our side we have had one captain killed (M. being moreover decided that the decision of the arbitrators • L, A nr% 3 /,...o rsf which wns a wee to be binding. and conclusive, the lawyer and tb, heriff :Montreal: Lieutenan aneecuout), 4of leers wounuea one 111,11 NY colonel of the staff, M. de Laveaucoupet), 7 soldiers killed and 38 wounded, four of them being, I am told, voltigeurs of the guard, which had its tiraillenrs engaged with the enemy behind Robecohetto ----........--..-.....-••••• THE "TE DEITU" IN PARIS that Artillery replied by some successful shots that completely knows that at, ~,.—_ raggered the enemy's columns, throwing . them into a per- Captain Boldero lost his seat. r - ew, ... __, , feet rout. The tirailleurs pursued them at running speed to that he is indebted for that mischance to the unlucky toss London may be consider._ within two kilometres of Robecchetto, killing great numbers up of a halfpenny I Yet so it was, and thus it occurred : of them. General Auger, by causing . his battery to take up Messrs. Boldero and Long hoped and endeavoured to persuade NEW YORK MARKETS. successively four positions most happily selected, did them the good people of Chippenham that the hitherto unbroken FLOUR. —Receipts large ; State and Western very heavy. - tuso much harm. line of Tory succession should continue. Bnt they were and 5c to 10e lower ; sales Western 5,000 barrels ; Super- It was i n one of those positions that General Auger, doomed to disappointment. Chippenham was not as fine State $5 50c to $6 50e ; Extra $6 90e to $7 20c -^w amid the corn an Austrian _gun that could Chippenham used to be; and Chippenham, therefore , said , Round Hoop Ohio $7 to $7 30c ; common to good ExtrE _ _ _ the change easy and comfortable to the Western $6 80c to . s7 30c. Southern heavy ; sale she would beg,in with a change of one 600 brls ; $7 75e for good ; $7 80 to $9 50e for fancy and Here, then. our two Tory candidates extra. Canadian nominal. Colonel Boldero pressed forward his Grain : Wheat dull, and tending downwards ; sale , g 1 aof his seat.; Mr. Long 8,000 bushels Western Red Winter, at $1 78c for, choice 'cat which were not enjoyed I Corn—Sales 12,000 bushels, Mixed Western, 94c;: YelloN lel How was it to be decided ? 90c to 94c. Oath lower; sales Southern and Jersey 50c t on of them must, In this 53 c ; Nort hern and Western, 53c to 59c. -L. Provisions : Pork heavy ; sale's 1,200 brls • " FORSYTH, BELL & CO May 26. $l7 50 Prime, $l5 50e. Lard quiet ; sales at 11 tic to 121 c. Stocks are rather better, but not very active. Money more active, and Sterling Exchan The enemy has suffered considerable loss. The field of ber -of the long 'robe, though not a patron of Lon ,-, ; the battle is covered with his dead, and a large quantity of other a lion. gentleman, High Sheriff of the count", and Miscellaneous articles which he has left in ou r hands, such member for a nei g hbouring borough. These two gentlemen, as camp equipage and bedding, thrown away on the spot, praiseworthily animated with a desire to accommodate that lie might escape all the more nimbly. We have picked I matters, undertook the task of deciding which of the two Lisx or PASSENGIMS.—From Quebec : Capt McPherson 1 . 1 r) arms, carbines, and muskets. We have taken few candidates should give way the Queen's counsel taking 17th Regt Mrs McPherson two children and maid ; bv the nature of the ground on charge of the interest of the Colonel and the High Sheriff Polak, Josh ' . onco, C. J. Slw Mr Jamieson and lady _ :4 , MAGRI- M Miss a McGill. Mr ia Field, Geo. Beswick, Smtl 0 asi __ 7 Rrvan, C. Cousgins, Arthur Jackson, Ed, Jackson, Fro' -General Sir Pin Eyre, Lady Eyi retired in solemn conclave, to fix upon one of the future ' ana Mitt, ..,....„ _ members for. Chippenham. But here the same difficulty l A . Whitchill, Rev P. Wolff, lit,, \ againpresented itself which had prevented the two candidates lady and three sons, Miss Trevithick and set\ from themselves coming to an accord upon the subject — Foulds, lad y and child, Mrs and Miss Dow, A. Robertson, namely, that each party would not yield to the views of the Dr Rambault, Lady' Eyre's -maid, Wm Wagner, General other. At last however, what reason could not effect chance Eyre's man. From Kingston; Col. Skyeing, lady, and four accomplished. Our Queen's Counsel, whose humour children and maid, Dr and Mrs Fisher, Robt. Fisher. From fiRIS, Tuesday Evening.—To-day, at one o'clock, the an d l ove o f a j o k e are k nown t o all who have the privilege Toronto : Lieutenant Fletcher, 100th Regiment ;Mr Empress went in state to Notre Dame, to hear • a solemn of his acquaintance, suggested that the question should go Watson, Mr McDougall, Mr Lepper and lady, Mr Stitt Te paint, for the victory of Magenta. Thehvcar-general, vicar-general, through the ordeal of - the toss, and producing from his and lady, Mr Forman and lady, R. B. Hunt and lady, Mr M. S ara t,officiated in the absence of the Cardinal -Archbishop trousers pocket the most useful, coin known as the British Ronalds. From Hamilton : Miss Cambridge, Rev. John of Paris, who has gone to Bourges, to the funeral of Cardinal halfpenny, he proposed that the toss, and the toss alone, Ilobdon, T. Mclllraith. From Cincinnatti W. H. Davis Dupont. Ju'st as her Majesty was quitting the Tuileries a should arbitrate between the parties. The sheriff, seeing and lady. From Galt : Mr. Boomer. From New Orleans tremendous thunderstorm , with heavy rain and hail, burst no better chance of settlement, at once agreed. One toss Charles Goodrich and lady. From Breokville :, MrS C. ove r P ar i s , an d in great measure dispersed the crowd which was to decide the fate of the candidates and the represen- AYardrop, Robert Wardrop, 80 cabin and 78 steerage lined th e s t r eets along which her Majesty was to pass. A tation of the borough of Chippenham in the Commons passengers, besides 55 men, 4 women, and 2 children of the great many people, however, aided by umbrellas, gallantly House of Parliament ! Tip was to spin the coin, and if it 100th Royal Canadian Regiment ; and 1.66,• men, women stood their ground to the last. Troops of the line formed came down head uppermost the Colonel was to represent - and children froin other regiments in Canada—in all, 385 la hale on one side of the road, and the National Guard on Chippenbam, and if tail, the other candidate. law Thelawyer was passengers. the other. The imperial cor te g e consisted of fifteen court to perform "up .goes the- halfpenny,;" the yer . exerted Carri ages . M a rshal Magnan and General Lawcestine, as his utmost skill ; never even upon Epsom racecourse, has Coiu AND YOUGRAL RAlLway.---We understand the commanders of the army of Paris and of the National Guard, been :seen a more splendid toss. By due time -the law. of people of Youghall intend entertaining Sir Cusac P ic R rode on e ither side of the Empress's carriage. Her Majesty grav itation brought the coin to the ground. Itead or - tail ?• and Mr. Lewis, directors of the railway, at a public dinner was accompanied by Prince Jerome. The Princess Mathilde By all that was unlucky for the Colonel, it was a ta dil -t . their OUS ASSAULT. —A respectable farmer , named Before l e aving the-cathedral the Empress beckoned Marshal . arrangements, and forthwith informed the expectant candi - Daniel Larkin, whilst returning home to Ballylarkin, ne ar Bandon, the Minister of War, to tell him that the Emperor dates (omitting, as we are told, the exact means by whtch Callan. from the fair of Kilkenny, on Thursday, . was vio had created Generals M c Mahon andßegnault that General °aint they arrived at that conclusion) that, after much careful leTitly attacked near the - Limetree, as he states, by two men Jean d'Angely, marshals of France. I hear I , aai , examination g i ve n t o th e ma tter, they had decided that the from Callen, named Halfpenny and Saunders, who dragged M‘Mahon,lika a knight banneret of old, was elev4ed to gallant Colonel should be the candidate who should retire him out of his ear, and struck him repeatedly with stl cks. his new di gn ity on the field of battle. He is made a duke from the contest. Th e ga ll an t C o l o nel, therefore, did retire. They then went on, but waited at Farniley for him, and with the tttle of the Duke of Magenta. The news -that Mr. Long and Mr. Lpley (the Liberal) were returned again attacked hiM with stones, inflicting a severe wound Generals Espivasse and Cler were killed at the battle of without opposition; and thus the representation of the nu his left cheek,c besides bruises on other parts of the Magenta i s co nfirmed. The body of General Espinasse has borough - of Chippenham was won an d lost by thu t oss u p o f 0 ) 0. 1 - :. ITO a a4t,ued for this outrage,— , Kaonny been embalmed and will be brought home to France, Must • a halfpenny,--Keon's Bath Journal, I - ,:,.erator.. - , • , . . : ---- THE DRINKING FOUNTAIN MOVEMENT.---A large standard drinking fountain is about to be erected forthwith at the end of Tower-hill, opposite the Royal Mint and the St. Katherine's Deckhouse, at the joint expense of the Whitechapel Board of Works and the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association. FISH POISONING IN THE THAMES.—A correspondent of a London contemporary, states that, in rowing from Chelsea to Kew, his attention was drawn to a quantity of scum, reflecting the prismatic colours, floating in the river, in the neighbourhood of Hammersmith. On his return, he says, he observed a shoal of dead fish, extending from where the scum was first observed down the river as low as Chelsea. As a number of gentlemen are endeavouring, at much ex pense, to restock the Thames, this " wholesale poisoning case" is the more worthy of attention. FAST LIFE AT CAMBRIDGE.—On Friday, in the Cam. bridge County Court, George John Watts, an under graduate, formerly of Corpus Christi College, and now of Queen's, appeared as an insolvent debtor, with a view to pass his first eXamination. It appeared that the young man had been two years at the Uaiversiry, and that his debts incurred in that period exceeded his college expenses and an allowance of £5O per annam from his father by £473 lOs 6d ; that of this sum £l6 7s 7d was due to five hosiers, £53 10s 3d to seven wine merchants, £176 16s 6d to eight tailors, £lB 8s lid to four shoemakers, £25 4s to two j . ewellers, £52 4s 5d to four livery stable keepers, &c. The insolvent was opposed on the ground that he had contracted these debts without reasonable expectations of being able to pay them , that he had converted some of the goods he had obtained into ready money at " an alarm ing sacrifice," having procured them for that purpose ; and that he had obtained possession of other articles by. false representations. Counsel having been heard in support of these allegations, Dr. Leapingwell, on the part of the insolvent, urged that the creditors were to blame for not making proper inquiries, and.that they had also displayed a great want of forethought. The father of the insolvent was a clergyman, with a small living--vicar of Brock worth, Gloucestershire--and had six other children besides the young man now before the court; he had, however, offered to pay 4s in the pound. Tie did not justify the insolvent's conduct, bnt contended that no useful purpose Id b' Iby nding: him to arisen. Mr. Nayle THE NORTHERN TIMES, THURSDAY,, JUNE 9 1859 Ashes: In th rticle we do not alter our quotations. observe is not adequate to the demand. there is nothing offering, and in flour the demand is very small indeed —present iiigh prices tending very much to check business. We augur a decline iu low grades of flour, and the maintainance of present high figures for Canada brands. Number one superfine will require much strength in our subsequent report from the English The supply Produce: market. Provisions : For mess pork we do not change our figures, but for the lower grades, as demand begins to spring up for ships account, are more inquired for, and we advance our prices accordingly. Beef is easy without much inquiry. Coals and Salt. —But few sales have been made in this branch. Salt in bulk is firm, and bags are more inquired for. Coals are steady. Freights.—We quote timber to Liverpool, per sailing vessels. We learn the steamers are carrying deals at our rates. Business generally is very dull indeed, in a local point. of view ; nor do we look for much animation till after the next harvest, everything then depending on an abundant crop, which at present, we are ham to say, from all reports, promises fair. Timber : During the last fourteen days very little anima tion has been shown in our market, the great depression in commercial matters in England reacting here and preventing all speculative inquiry. Our fleet also is coming up slowly although there are upwards of a hundred vessels near at hand, yet till they arrive we do not expect any active demand. White pine is dull of sale, and holders anxious to realise, —very little new timber has arrived, and of this very little good, but the waters on the Ottawa are favourable and rafts thence as well as by the St. Lawrence will be in gond season. Red pine is selling at our quotations but not briskly. Oak is very dull the Liverpool market Vein.. very y affected by large suipmeiii, uvua Elm if good and small is wanted at a relative price to mix with large, but large elm is not scarce. Tamarac was wanted a 'few weeks ago but the con tinued depression in ships will prevent anything being done in building until times are better. Standard staves are arrivinc , unusually early as well as puncheon, and the demand is by no means good, but large parcels in NeW York, intended for the English markets, are now being shipped to the Continent, which may cause a better demand there ; at present, however, they are not very saleable either on this or the other side. Deals are not so buoyant as they were a month ago, the impression being that unless the consumptidn improves in England, which can only be from her remaining neutral, they will be affected equally with scpre timber. Freights have nol -Uantity, although some new ships wer( inj carious States. been a ng in c s for Liverpool 29s to 3 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY. The Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock. - Mr. Vincent Scully and Lord Raynham,. took the oaths and their seats PRIVATE BILLS A number of railway and private bills left over from last ssion, including the Charing-cross Railway bill, were Alvaneed several stages ENDOWED SCHOOLS Mr. Dillwyn moved and obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the laws relating to endowed schools. The hon. member said he did not know what course the government All he asked was permission to introduce would pursue. his bill SIR ALEX. BURNES' DESPATCH. Mr. Hadfield move 1 that the returns relating to the East India (Cabul and Affghan), presented on the 2•. be printed. He said the printing of the returns would set at rest an important question, whether the despatches of Sir Alexander Burnes, as laid upon the table some years ago, had been mutilated or not ? Sir Stafford Northcote said, on the part of the govern ment, they had no objection to the documents asked for being printed. They had no desire of secrecy, but he (Sir Stafford) having been one of the members of the printing committee, desired to state that, as the report was mere matter of history, on grounds of economy it was considered unnecessary to print them. On the motion being put, it was agreed to without a 4th March, division, SCOTTISH TRIAL BY JURY AMENDMENT , Mr. Dunlop moved, and obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the Act of the 17th and 18th Viet., for allowing verdicts on trial by jury, in civil cases in Scotland, to be received, although the jury may not be unanimous. After some formal business was disposed of, the house adjourned at twenty minutes past one o'clock. " I curse the hour when we married!" exclaimed an nraged husband to his better half, to which she mild]• replied, "Don't, my dear, for that wa he only hap we have had !" A singular occurrence has taken place at Bromtib. where a valuable donkey had got his head fast in a swing which was fixed in a tree which was hanging down in a running noose, and poor Neddy unfortunately put his head through, and was found the following morning quite dead. NOT AN EXORBITANT ULTIMATUM —We emphatically de clare that all the blood of heroes poured out like water will have been shed in vain, if Austria be suffered to hold a rood of ground between the Ticino and the Tiber.—Daily News. [Austria would be rather too happy to ucgociate on, that basis ] DEATH BY LIGHTNING. —During the thunder-storm, last week, a man, named 'Brennan, residing at a place called Killeens, beyond Crossmolina, was instantaneously killed by lightning- His hat was very much shattered, his clothes burned, and his body entirely charred. The same flash killed an ass the unfortunate man was driving at the time. WESLEYAN METIIODISM. --The returns of this body are said to show a great increase of members since In Bristol circuit there are 9,048 members, bein of 547.; in Bath circuit there are 7,177 members, an increase of 504, and in the first South Wales circuit 2.878 members, an increase of 203. The aggregate number of members is 26,1,341, showing 'an increase of 14,550 upon last year's returns. The Border Advertiser states that an engine on the Gala and Ettrick railway went over a pheasant, which in rising got into the firebox, and *vas cooked and made a meal of by the engine-driver and stoker. The Gateshead Observer, alluding to this, says : "It needed all our faith in our Border brother's reputation to swallow the fact that the pheasants are beginning to cook themselves for the stokers ! Tell it to the gamekeepers!" TYPE-srrriNo —A printer accustomed to set type never thinks what the,letters are which he is to put into his stick. Ire,never looks at one of them as they go in. But when he first began to set type it was a very different thing with him. He looked and read, " And as they departed thence," &c., and so began. " And "a; and then he had to see which end was up !He puts in a, and comes to n. lie takes up the wrong letter ! He puts that back, and gets the right • - Then lie gets d, and puts that in. Then he thinks, wanted, and lie divides one word from -vies the next word, and he looks at last year g an increase now there is a si: LLIt; Ile,. UM:. • each lettei and makes mistakes at that. But go a year after, and let the man set up the same Terse, " And as they departed thence, Jesus began to say to the multitude "—he reads as much as that, and then clink ! clink ! clink !---it is all done. What made that F. How those different faculties of mind—the muscles---all work? What an immense amount of trial and discipline has been condensed into that automatic nower! This is a wonderful element of human mind.---H. TV. Beecher. A NEW STORY or NAPOLEON. —A oorrespondent of the (R. I.) News tells the following anecdote of Napo- Newport, ,_ leon the First : —Among my old French acqua,... many years since, was one old savan, M. C-Ih, attached to Napoleon's corps scientific. Ile accompanies him into Egypt, and was one of those whom Napoleon ordered as follows, "Thy savans and jackasses form in the centre." I have never seen so passionate an admirer of the Emperor. Among the many incidents he recounted of Napoleon, shall I jot down one for you? At the time Napoleon was general of the army of Italy, he was very spare and youthful looking. While laying siege to Milan, and confident of its surrender, he quartered himself at the palace of an aristocratic Italian lady, who was bitter in her hostility and sarcastic in d- --. ence of the young general. C presence of his staff, with malicious emphasis, formerly riding A 4- A; le you Le said to him, in " Quel age AfnelamA avez veils, iuorisiviii - iv ~.. Vl,. 0.1. . , '' j'ai vingt ans, maisdemain m atin j'aurai mine ans (Milan). And true to his boast, the next day he entered the city. VEGETABLE PARCHMENT.—III a. recent number of the Mechanics' Magazine, public attention was called to a newly manufactured substance, the uses of which promise to be innumerable —vegetable parcnment. ne sno v il...“ l . of the process by which it is produced is as remarkable as are the qualities it is found to possess. Vegetable parch ment, as we said, is blotting paper dried, after being pasSed through a solution of sulphuric acid—nothing more. Fronk the effect of this operation the weak, porous, non-fibrous material becomes, on drying, tough, hard on the surface, and, in a high degree, fibrous.; Its whole character, in fact, is changed. It is different in all respects save one to what it was before immersion. That one ..• respect is its specific gravity and a she ng paper the same size of ve g etable parchment are 'lit exactly. It would be imagined that the of ecku thiisty I the acid per must drink u ) and retain some ff If it does so, by some strange paradox , - - and perishable paper remains, nevertheless, as heavy m the strong and everlasting parchment. It has been founi by practical' experiment that vegetable parchment gives -..•r,. "ro” m.ofnrahle to that of either naner o: THE REMa.T L OF SIR .TAMPICTOW'S I REMAINS. Yesterday morning, the Bayswater roof' was vehicles of every description, with a concourse of pea , that has not. occurred for many years in that locality. cause of this gathering was the removal of the remains of the late Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton; who died at Waterloo, from the burial-ground of St. George'S Cpapel, to St. Paul's cathedral. The deceased commanded the second division, and gloriously fell at the head of the same, about half-past two o'clock in the afternoon, when the battle was at its height. The Duke of Wellington, on hearing of his fall, d exclaime, "Is it possible ? No.-- exertion is necessary, for we have lost our rio- 1 “ gallant general had served throw' campaign, and was consideret l for - • • fined with pout the whole Peninsula ;ond only to the ll very EQUITY COURT— Yesterday. THE' LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY COMPANY V. THE LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY AND" THE PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY.—Much interest was created amongst persons connected with the railway interest by the judgment of the Court of Chancery in this case. The case came before the ' court on a motion for a decree in the cause, and was practically an appeal from a decision by 'Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood, vile refused to_ grant an injunction which the plaintiff, the _ .- London, Brighton, and South Coast R cimAt to obtain in January last to restrain 'estern Railw Wester Ind examining in detail the var companies, pally from conveying passen Ling the South Westeni Com :ers or goods on the Brighton and condemned the South Western Company in the costs of the appeal EAST INDIA COMPANI A. meeting of the Court of Directors of th copied side by me, from widel ist India and that opposite the project two arms, t one' of which is •cular steel drill, and the other by a r TO MAGISTRATES, At Doonas potty sessions, in a fishing case in which Mr. Lysaght mplainant, the magistrates being equally divided, the cnairman gave a casting vote in addition to his other vote. Mr. Lysaght wrote to the Chief Secretary to have the opinion of the Law Adviser on the point, and the following important reply has been ieceived :—" Dublin Castle; June 1, 1859. Sir,--I am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to ,acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th ult., and I am to acquaint you, in reply, that Mr. John Brown, J.P., has beeninformed that the Law Adviser is of opinion that, if the Magistrates in attendance at Doonas petty sessions on the occasion in question were equally divided, the chairman had no right to insist on a double vote, but that the proper course would have been to have adjourned the case for a . larger attendance. I am further to inform you that the TA. Adviser declines to instruct the magistrates _as to the they shou pursue, or to interfere in their discretion r. your obedient servant, T. A. LARCOII." HONESTY' REWARDED.—A few days ago the well-known. metal•broker, Mr. Samuel Griffitlis, was about proceeding to Birmingham per the Great Western Railway, and having called in at the refreshment-room of the Low Level Station, he accidentally left upon the table a roll of bank notes to the amount of £l6O. On arri , ving at Birmingham he discovered, to his dismay, that he. was minus the notes. On returning, however, to-Wolverhampton, he wes agreeably surprised by having the packet placed in his hands by . Mrs. Aliport, of the refreshment-rooms, who, noticing that it had been left behind, took very proper care of it. Mr. Griffiths was, it need hardly be said, highly gratified, and in token. of his _ usual liberality, pressed upon her to accept £5, which she delicately, but firmly, declineit. Determined to make the lady some acknowledgment, Isk. Griffiths immediately pro cured a handsome silk dress, which he presented to her, and which she, after some hesitation, accepted. —Bliininghans jbwroal imiratlon of AiGOOD STORY OF PICOLOMINI IN DRTROI —On the morning previous to the concert, a mysterious whisper was circulated in the vicinity of the Biddle House, that Pico lomini was to rehearse at Firemen's-hall, in the afternoon, and , that, through the personal friendship of her manager, a•gentleman of this city had been invited to attend, with permission also to take with him a few friends. It was TIVIITIFIPT of friends he found! But wonuerlui to see Lim • . being fearful of trespassing, he selected only fifteen of them. Two o'clock being the time for rehearsal to com mence, this select and honoured party were seen marching In the hall. They evidtn6y had been v&y particular in making their toilet, and had carefully ad nna mit an extra. , Quantity of tear's oil on their I tairs of t arrived Among ti Their appearance, was li - • they ascended e an honovable, dignified company of artists. More entering, they were obliged to show their cards of admission to a nice looking young man. who said : "Alt right." The prirne.donna had not Lill. e, and: annously awaited nor appearance. In were two United States. ex-officials, two firmament, and au editor; also an artist, The reign of t ITMITIg SllClal a lul Incatczautc nimal parchment which latter is indeed troublesome to accommodation to be proviaea appau, 11 but the users of qu Dens and that it receives freely inhabitants of Bath as to the suffering: poor of the Unite,,, it and varnishes. For power to resist robbing it is inferior Xingdom. Indeed, when the old hospital, to which this 'is.. o the sheepskin, but to paper it is far superior—even to to be an adjunct, was opened in / 1 7:42, the inhabitants of ,- ; ful, may - rtly, straim as it mav appear,. were specially excluded; ! Are Enf • 3 • ommint valuahl lent, may C it we cannot ai C hope t sh who patronise its use has Ld this r Do theN ~ich costs in manitfae- till within a few years ago. Since the opening of the , , been eage - rly. adopted ana ..A tar less than animal„pareh- hospital 39,137 patients have , been received, 11,'Wt, of impudently oils ea oy 1,,,,_ be en creatures 9f theiE ovni Each reader will imagine many whom have been restored to their homes cure& and 1 ; 9,293; sex whose touellthey think poison, whose breath contag,ion— `feehanic' s Magazine, much relieved. The new building, which will cost several by the wretched castaways they make it a point of honour to , —Yes, I w ill s teal f rom thousand pounds will, it is believed, accelerate the. re- •loathe and to,despise Do they . know that in ascending 'hall tell where I covert' of patients, and afford accommodation for the i staircases awl entering carriages, in balconies, and on plat- Eoho shall not so much as whisper my hiding-place. reception of 100 more every year. forms they are living monuments of immodesty, eynoc ures :,..r thy imagination to paint it as a little sun-gilt cot- SouNtAximism.---On Saturday morning last, between of prurient eyes, quasi-Godivas for chartered Peeping Toms age, on the side of a romantic hill. Dost thou think I twelve and one s 'ck, a Customhouse (deer on watch in to gaze at, butts for the sneering ribaldry of men ? Do will leave love and friendship behind Inc ? Na ! they Leith Dock wa just enabled in the darkness to perceive they know that Crinoline is depraving polite conversation— shall be my companions in solitude, for they will sit a man in his night-dress on the deck of a British that it is a neutral ground on. which double entcndres down and rise up with me in the amiable form of my schooner within a tier of vessels a short distance from and semi -scurrility may be talked, and the dignity T Wa will ho - as merry and as innocent as our first him. He kept his eye fixed ,steadily on the man and and grace of polished intercourse denaded into a . -1,.i - H i on cr the bowsprit miserable discussion about women's ''' drawers and ~_....fe and stays. We liprrAT, ti,;. ~0,,., ;,, more persi- for IlimsE S BOWER OF BLISS the world, and not a babbling tongue parents in Paradise, before the arch fiend entered that lat last beheld htm proceecung feint.," --- -___ we end_ in grab indescribable scene. The kindest affections will have lof the ship, when he suddenly dropped :bout an al:m' $ P ewc°4 " " -.--- it -- * .. - ' ll i a d g e e o ; us, senseless, and MD' room to shoot and expand in our retirement, and produce length, and there remained suspended. The thought flashed ~,,-,1-, fruit as madness and envy and ambition have always across the mind of the officer that it was an attempt at LI a- +l,. mnfinnieSS no days for sumptuary ' reprobation of crinoline as a. Immodest fashion. These are and the ladies may exaggerate .3 their petticoats wi ,n act o Sttlill is. laiu killed in the bud. Let the human tempest and hurricane suicide. The stillness --- distance, the desolation is beyond the horizon appearance, as it were, of the man with - _ 1.1. w ;n Tln- afterwards the drawing up of the leg irst stiocK, 1.1 have con f his co ;s, might NV tubers of disaffection to the house of out in 1747, by legislative onactm, ianover ,t cora- rage at a were tramf pelting. the Higlilanders to wear oreeenots, MOW. social system of 't taboo " is brought into operation, we are hopeless as to the extinction of crinoline. A great deal might be done if young marriageable men would h i davovtht: oi peauv• ..,...,, ...... _____ com ber—some„ friendly wall has K sheltered it from the vinoed him that it Avrt 0,, —_ bitting wind. No planetary influence shall reach us rushed to the deck of the schooner, and aroused tit, but that which presides and cherishes th e sweet flowers. who were all iu bed , next jumping i n to a b oa t attached to God preserve us ! . How delightful this prospect in idea! one of the vessels. Great was his surprise at seeing ti , i 2 e man We will build and we will plant, in our own way— who was suspended cling to it. "Is that yon, Bob ? cried simplicity shall not be tortured by heart. We will learn one of his companions, who had started in alar_m t ‘ o th e m ora l courage nev er to ask a young marriao-ea.......__ of nature how to live—she shall be our alchemist, to mingle deck, but he reoeived no answer. "Is that iou,. Jim r" he dance, the circumference of whose skirts exeCeda a all the good of life in one salubrious draught. The gloomy called again, and was answered " Yes.' ithout making reasonable number of inches. But much more good m ight family of care and distrust shall be banished from our any further remark, and being once more safe on boa r d, th e bd effected, if we adapted to modern use that law of the dwelling, guarded by a kind and tutelar deity. We will i Mall retired below. The seaman was a somnambulist, and ancient Locriaus whicl dl, espaiiin6 sing our choral songs of gratitude, and rejoice to the end of ; had appeared, as described, in a sound sleep. position had me re ly . extravagance of female attire by Pcnal edicts., decreed 1 ~,, ~ilT vi maze, Adieu, my L—. Return to one 'who '.clung in his suspension to a rope. In tea, h e re - ' that an ' lid .' d • ultra-expensive raiment or 3' y...an;t3e i iLL,,,,,, ,„ 4 female of loose •.* r of restraining- the ) or three minute and only when eNhansted iowellery should be class. character, si.n.4 eons ti er ed A ccurct an IlfP~ I 0 1 : 11LA - languishes for thy society.—" Lawrence Sterne to ZQVf Letters of Poiv.qte( Persons. dropped into the Pater d.indomitable couragf of the remains was conductec and Company, of 1 1 01-mall. from the vaults on Tuesday in the chapel The coffin was taker ;yelling, and place Before ten o'clock, a lame cony e, under Superindendent Teddy, w A division Of polio, the chapel. Shortly afterwards a gun carriage, with ar officer and escort of artillery, arrived from WoOlwich. The corpse was placed upon the gun carriage, covered with the armorial bearings of the departed hero. A long train of carriages followed, in some of which were most of the dis tinguished officers of rank in the service, and many the com panions in arms of the departed general. The carriage of the Commander-in-Chief, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, headed the proe6sion, which was conducted in the best posthle manner. It took the route of Oxford and Regent-streets, Charing-cross, Strand, Fleet-street, Ludgate-hill, to the Cathedral. The re interment immediately followed upon the arrival of the body. Some time was taken up in removing the ponder ous mass from the gun carriage, and bearing it up the steps on the south side into the Cathedral. It was there met by the Ver Reverend the Dean Mitman, Arch deacon Hale, the Rev.\V. Murray, and several other preben daries and minor canons, who preceded the body to the crypt, where a vault had been constructed not very far from the tomb .of Wellington, the illustrious chief and the noble hero. At this moment the organ began to play the Dead March in Saul," and the scene was of a truly silent and im pressive character. Followed by the old comrades of the illustrious General, the body was conveyed in the most solemn silence to the tomb, where it was received and lowered into the grave with the utmost care, in the presence of Colonel Vereker, J. Picton, Esq., and a large number o' private mourners. This having been done, and earl , taken a last look .at the isitors having .ains, the body ras covered up; and the cavalcade reformed. MEETING OF ROMAN CATHOLICS. Yesterday afternoon, a meeting of persons professing the Roman Catholic faith, was held at St. James's-hall, London, for the purpose of impressing upon the government the necessity of granting them the privilege of chaplains in work houses and prisons. The Hon. Charles Langdale was called to the chair, and there were on the platform—Mr. M'Cann, M.P., Mr. F. R. Wegg-Prosser, late M.P., Mr. Bowyer, M.P., the Hon. C. Langdale, Dr. Manning, Mr. R. Swift, the Hon. Mr. Stoner, Mr. H. W. Wilberforce, Mr. Bag shaw, Q.C., the Very Rev. E. Hearne, V.G., the Rev. Canon O'Neal, V.G., Canon Oakley, Monsr. Searle, th , Rev. W. Kelly, the Rev. W Lockhart, the Bodolski, the lion W. Dolan, the Rev. I Rev. E. Stonor, Mr. T. W Allies (formerly a eler and chaplain to the Bishop late Chief Justice of the Gol of Church of England, London) ; Mr. Fitzpatricl., _ Coast ; Mr. W. Dodswortb, formerly a clergyman of tt. Church of England ; E: B. Deane, Esq., D.C.L., and othE gentlemen. The chairman read letters from Lord Stourtot Lord Vaux, and Lord Dormer, expressing their regret tha they could not attend, and their hearty, sympathy with th objects of the meeting. All the Catholic bishops of Englain had sympathised with the movement, and the " Bishop o Birmingham" wrote to say that the Catholics would neve be content until they were piaceu upuu with their fellow-countrymen in the undisturbed exercise 1),,,,,,,1,.f;nne in a neardrince with the object of ti meeting were agreed to a distinction thus Alynheer Drinkenoff makes much whisky is too much, but too utuc h beer is shoos UOMEuicrms..w , v • well, when you own the cottage and have money out at interest Socrates seeing a scolding wife who•had hanged herself m an olive tree, exclaimed, " Oh, that all trees should bear The modern way of asking for a marriag say : " Clerk, give me an order for a. woman.' nse is to ar, give way me change for a wife." A western editor. once apologised to his readers somewhat after this fashion : "We intended te. have a death and mar riage to publish this week, but a violent storm prevented the wedding, and the doctor being taken sick himself, the patient recovered, and we are accordingly cheated out of both." A HANDY ARTICLE. — Adam. Stonake, a number of years ago, came to Huntington Furnace,. and seeing there, for the first time, a pair of snuffers, he asked: " What's them for ? " «m_ no,„11. " "To. snuff the candle ?" The to bILLIII sduv candle just then needed attention, and Adam, with his thumb and fingers, pinched off the snuff, and carefully poked it into the snuffer, saying, " Well, now, them is handy " shot, from the mouth Pulpit; by Henry Ward hits anybody in t Beecher saia here inc 1ut0...6 . gregation, now, two hundred mon, who stuff their Sunday's full of what they call reli6on, and then g o out on Mondays to. catch their brothers by the throat, saying, ' Pay me that riontin't think that because we sat crying toge. her yesterday, over our Saviour's sufferings and love, that Da to pay it now low l —a very humorous - _ nd agreeable member of Dublin society, mwhnutes o pro elpapsed osed I -I,* not unworthy of record—smug- i and the hercrof many - I/1 tried himself on, top of the dinner table, next to I ni who was dining with Darby's . brotheri w Mr. Secret office. Mr. Peel dropped into a conversation wan). Illy , - known neighbour - on the subject of O'Connell's legal 1 songstress? ctirh. thmt. sir." said Darby, " in regard of the 1 bearing the _ 4,1,,,,f;pfil gel no more than t law, he is no great in cowhide for the whis' But he has great power over a. Jury, --nlain that ?" itures were net o% She was iritv said Mr. Pell Mr. Peel. d'Yx slithers tl to him tion, he mist CRINOLINE classical brogue added great piquancy to Lady r tion.--- s Diary TIIE 111,TN MULL WATER HOSPITAL _ _ . a 6 aturaay too ueremully an. ... j .... 0 ..... ...... s a new hospital for. the reception of patients requirin7 the d use oftha Bath Mineral waters, was performed in tha' a with, great pomp. The proceedings were ,r I local interest but of g reat national import not merely of gics C nub o a ken a taste for arouse a feelt and she was not there. At length, a slight neard in the direction of the dressing-room; all hats e removedpfizgers run through the .hair, and eyes turned: toward the door from which the little , "Princess" norna_fh f , was to _ n;•• ame old pailful of water-in one hand, and the e feet nine classical, but were "-blow would you exp,— "Why, quite flashed and rosy. _ duced to the elite- by .• see; first he butthers them up, and then he the manager•after this fashion : " tirentlemen, this is Biddy a , down, and then the devil himself is not equal Picolomml." Gently turned the• artiste round, a placard Pf Mr. Peel was not satisfied with this• explana- was seen bween her shoulders, bearing, in huge characters, -' least hare been amused; and Darby's i the hardly-n n. tided hint —" So,Tal 1,. —To any arguments founded on the rules of symmetry and good taste, the ladies of England seam deaf _..—On 1 and blind as adders. In 'Wain., may we point to the most 'anon stone of j magnifi ce nt examples of ancient and modern art, and bid our _ —„,, what• rrace, what symmetry, what t city ! elegance, may dwell in thnsweeping folds of drapery, in the —;,,,turesque easiness and, looseness of the upper- vestiture. Venus of Nilo and the draped Diana seems and pot-bellied; Indian v.. , -- 2 - ' grotesquely Beauti- of shame- 01 its Gross immoderateindecency Gompany was held yesterC day for is appr su - bpiitted for confinriation ws of the compan _ on 4th inst., might b jetor had given notic General Court of venient time rito consideration the dividend on the to claim such ) - convene a Special adia Company t a con- of taking )f making appli: ,emption of the cation ament for Company's redemption he right Parliament shall l that notice of the on the Ist September next intention to hold such General C circular from the Court of Directors to ev( India Stock, entitled to be present thereat )tice of the following motion Li also given and Vienna, 1814, 1815, render inicated by proprietor Of "That the ties of Paris nt for this com- pany to urge on the government the propriety of obtaining from the Emperor of the French a recognition of the same onditions as regards India as are secured for England by s." Colonel Sykes, the chairman of the I:- but, after a few words from Mr. Jones vant Gaselee, the Court was --~--- tions by I , ctly balm wandi of work ition of sculpture d form from. the Fuston-read. It h traversed in several to the tools, is so that it can be .ch. The niodus Fr the block of )mpany Pr C or Abe o . °l6e ° f 0!;ti, se M ed i tate o —.rig µ teal 11j 1hf {l'lt