Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-23 00:00:00

Ely - totem 4.litrag THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. In the House of Commons yesterday an ani mated discussion took place on the motion for taking into consideration the Lords' amendment to the Great Northern Railway Capital Bill. The abject of the amendment was to make the pre ference shares bear their quota of the loss occasioned by the frauds of Redpath. Mr. Aspinall Turner, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Ewart, and others were very energetic in their opposition to the bill. Mr. Newdegate and several others advocated the ne cessity and expediency of the passing of the amendment, and it was ultimately negatived with out a division. The Public Charities Bill, intro duced by Mr. Hardcastle, the main feature of which was the establishing of a Registrar-General, with a central office in London, was thrown out. The Married Woman's Bill was referred to a select committee. The Irish Tenant Right Bill was withdrawn, Government being pledged to give it their careful consideration during the recess. A clause was inserted in the Burial Acts amendment bill, to the effect, that in any burial ground in which the necessary provisions bad been complied with, and certified to by one of Her Majesty's Secretary's of State, that it shall be lawful for the incumbent, his curate, or any perspn appointed by him, shall be authorised to bury in such ground prior to consecration. The rioting in Belfast has ceased. On Monday night, 1. the pound," which has for a number of years been a notoriously disorderly locality, was , quiet, its cowardly inhabitants, no doubt, fearing that it would be impossible for them any longer, j with safety, to exhibit, in lawless deeds, the spleen always more or less manifested by them on the return of the July anniversaries. During the eight preceding nights they have, says a Belfast cotemporary, by their disorderly proceedings, kept the town in a ferment, every evening the military having to be brought from the bar racks in order to restrain their propensity to destroy both life and property. The shat tered glass and the demolished shutters testify as to the former, and that valuable institution, the General Hospital, contains evidence as to the latter. But we dare say more thin their indigna tion has become exhausted, for it is likely that these vagabonds could not afford to spend more than a week in idleness. It would be too much to expect them to exert their energies to such a pitch during the night, and think that they would be able to answer the mill-bell at six o'clock in the morning. A large number of rioters have been arrested, and no less than twenty-three of them have been committed for trial to the assizes, which are now sitting. The official declaration of the poll for the elec tion of a member for the City of Oxford shows a majority of 67 for Mr. Cardwell. After the de claration of Mr. Thackeray, and after alluding to the promises made by him before the election, he said they had fought the battle gallantly, but he could hardly expe,ct to succeed against such an honoured and respected name as Mr. Cardwell's. He said that when Lord Monek left Oxford he was kind enough to say a good word for him (Mr. Thaekeray), and he would do the same towards Mr. Cardwell, for whom he entertained the highest respect. He should leave Oxford with some very pleasant recollections of the friendships he had formed, and he should then retire from public liusiness, for which it was evident he was not fitted, and leave it for Mr. Cardwell, who well understood it, and was in every way qualified for it. He attri buted his defeat in a great measure to the prejudices against him on filo Sunday question. The same thing had happened against him at Edinburgh, where he was asked to offer himself ; but finding they differed so much from him on that question, he refused to stand rather than compromise his character and his opinions. Yesterday the case of the Royal British Bank came once more before Vice-Chancellor Sir R. T. Kindersley, at his court in Lincoln's-inn-fields, the Attorney-General, Sir F. Kelly, and several other learned counsel being engaged. It was an application on the part of the official manager to put a gentleman named Brockwell on the list of contributories in the winding up of this defunct concern. It appeared that he held three shares only, upon which, in the early career of the bank, he paid a deposit of £5O, and he then, in common with others, received a half-yearly dividend. Mr. Breokwell allege , l that he had never legally be come a shareholder, the purchase having been obtained by fraud, and that he was entitled to prove against the company in bankruptcy. A number of cases were cited to show that Mr. Brockwell was in the eye of the law really a share holder, and an equally number of cases were cited on the other side to prove that having been led into the bank by the false representations of the managers and directors, he had no legal obligations. The case rested almot entirely upon the construc tion of legal points of the purest technical character, and therefore uninteresting to the general r,...ader. The Vice-Chancellor, after hearing the learned gentlemen on both sides, said he would look into the authorities cited, and would defer his judgment. from the minutes of proceedings of the House of Lords, issued yesterday morning, it appears that there are at this moment sixteen bills waiting for second reading in th e i r lordship ' s house; two waiting for adjourned debates upon motions for second readings to be resumed ; two waiting for commitment ; four referred to select committees ; twenty-four waiting for third reading; and one, with Commons' amendments, waiting to be con sidered. Nineteen bills have been sent t o t h e Commons; thirteen have been returned to the Commons amended ; and fifteen are waiting for select committees to tie named. Wa devote considerable space to assize intelli gence to-day, the efileB reported being of an interesting description. At Tullamore, County Mayo, Ireland, th,-; Lord-Chief Justice has senten ced, to six months imprisonment, a young man named Grogan, an assistant to a apothecary, for having caused the death of a clergyman, through serving out some arsenic instead of arrow-root. A libel case, tried at the York assizes, has ended in a verdict for 300/. damages. The plaintiff was a clergyman. a perusal. The usual weekly meeting of the West Derby Board of Guardians was held yesterday. The proceedings were of no importance. At the Police-court yesterday, Gordon Cumming the Lion hunter, appeared to answer threei sum monses taken out against him for assaults. It appeared that one night a week or two ago, the said Lion-hunter and a friend of his were enjoying themselves in the Grand Junction Hotel, Lime street. Two men and a woman came in, and one of the former behaved rather foolish, the up shot of which was, that the great African traveller gave him a complete " keelhauling," tha other man and the woman interfered, and they also came in for some severe knocks and bruises. Ultimately, the summonses were dismissed, the magistrates being of opinion that the complainants brought on the affair by their own conduct. Several other trials will well repay There is rather important news from the Continent of this morning. The Paris Moniteur of yesterday officially announces the discovery of the plot, known for some weeks past, to assassinate Louis Napoleon. This conspiracy, we Pre now informed, was hatched in London, by Italians, a number of whom are in the hands of the French police, and will be brought to trial forthwith Ledru Rollin is named as among them. The rest of cur French intelligence is not important. Some strong lan guage is applied by the journals, Ministerial and Independent, to the course Lord Palmerston takes in opposition to the scheme of the Suez Canal, which is a pet project of the French public. The Queen and Government of Spain have at length resolved to put a stop to the bloody assize in the south. They seem to have anticipated popular demonstrations against these butcheries. Tranquillity prevails throughout Italy. The Sardinian Government is still tracing the con spirators in the late plot, while the King of Naples confers recompenses on the inhabitants of the island of Ponza for their fi lelity. Late letters from Constantinople speak of nego _ _ tiations concerning the conduct of the Moldavian Kaimakan, and the period when the elections should take place. It is asserted in a Brussels paper that the negotiations on the latter point have suddenly come to an end, Turkey refusing, under shelter of Austria and England, to adjourn the elections, as demanded by the four other powers. They are now to take place on the 12th proximo. From our telegraphic news it would appear that steps are being taken to settle the Danish-Holstein The Simla arrived at Suez on the 12th inst. with Australian dates to the 30th of May. The Oneida left Sydney for Southampton on the sth of May. The Great Britain left Melbourne for Liverpool on the 20th May, with 101,617 ounces of gold ; and the ships Lightning, Sardinian, and Summer Cloud had also left for Liverpool, with 112,482 ounces of gold. We shall have details of the news about Tuesday or Wednesday next. THE rupture with China and the extensive mutiny in India has not failed to create some small alarm relative to the defences of the country. On Monday night Mr. BENTINCK called the attention of the House of Commons to the subject. In the course of the debate which ensued, Lord PAL:SIERSTON was very decided in his opinion, that as far as regarded the defence of the country and the state of Europe generally, there was no reason to call upon Parliament for a greater amount of force, naval and military, than had been voted. At the same time, should any emergency arise for an increase in either branch of service, he would not be slow to ask the House for any augmentation that would be deemed requisite. Although not long since the great Projects of defence which Mr. BENTINCK and his party approved were Channel fleets, " harb ours of refuge," and defences in iron, wood, and stone, their patriotism has now brought them to the conviction that all the foregoing may be very desirable, but that the main . thing is men. Such an idea at once roused the Hon. Member for Lambeth, who cannot see any reason for requiring a larger fore, or expending more money than the Government deem necessary. The recruiting service is to become quite active again, so that the number of men voted by Parliament may be raised ; but according to the opinions of many of the speakers on Monday night, there will be some difficulty in recruiting during the harvest months now approaching, labour being in great demand, high wages will prevail ; so that comparatively few will betake themselves to warlike pursuits, when they can obtain well remunerated employment and unrestricted . liberty at home. Now, although such a state of things may actually occur, it does not follow that we are deficient in population, nor wanting in materiel for a still greater demand for men for the army. If we take into account the vast numbers of young men, all smart, and in every way fitted to serve their Queen and country, we do not require the conscript system of Russia, France, or Austria. The British army is the largest body of volunteers in the world, and this, too, notwithstanding the fact that our past treat ment of the British soldier, has checked and repelled the desire to become one of the brigh t sons of MARS. If, then, the safety of the nation be in that dangerous state which some of Monday night's alarmists asserted, it is a matter of pressing and paramount importance to remedy it, and to make the soldier's life attractive in the way of emolu ment and the sure and certain advancement of the meritorious. There are a variety of ways whereby this could be done, and therefore secure for the service a better class of men than usually resort to the ranks. We could increase the pay, and make a small augmentation to the bounty ; and in every instance where merit and good conduct marked the private's career, he should be eligible, step by step, for the command of a regiment. We have at length extended the advantages of education to the army, and facilities are now offered to the mo,t ignorant recruit to become, if he pleases, an accomplished scholar. By attending more to the soldier's comfort only can we expect the army to be made attractive. He must not be asked to risk his life, not only in the tented field but in inhos pitable climes, for a remuneration not much above the estimated value of a convicted felon's labour. The more intelligent and respectable our recruits are, the more useful, brave, and orderly will they be as soldiers. Consequently, gumnurtfaT Saitg.—tai fg ilean. At tgelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 2, Dale-street, about 6 tons Buffalo Horns.—Browne, Kanter and Co. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office,l6. Exchange-build'ngs, 1,513 barrels Tr, and 300 barrels Spirits Turpentine.—J. H. Rayner and Co. At half-past twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 11, Oldhall-street, about ico p4ckages Tea.—James Bateson, Sons and Co. At twelve o'clock, at the brok-rs' office. 5, Exchange-alley West, 40 bales Persian Yello,v Berries.—Pryce and Laee. At twelve o'clock, at the broker.' office, 12, Lancaster-buildings, 5 casks Genuine Lard OlL—Wood and Radish. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 27, Tithebarn-street, a quan tity of Cattle Hoofs, Horns, &c.—lsaac Hadwen, jun., and Co. At twelve o'clock, 2,730 bags Bengal Rice.—Cox Brothers. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Apsley-buildings, Oldhall street, 1,000 bags Rapeseed.—Rooke, Okell and Spence. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Oldhall-street, 1,500 bags New Re Rice.—Buchanan, Browne and Co. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Sweetlng-street, 30 tons Fastic.—Arnold, Leete, Roscoe and Co. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 76 tierces American Lard, and Ity bags Bombay Linseed.—Edward Cox and Sons. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, York buildings, Dale-street, 2,115 bags Linseed.— P.3 + t nson and Clark. At twelve o'c'ock at noon, on the quay. east side of Brunswick Dock' a qua. tity of Timber.—Duncan, Ewing, and Co. C-3" For particulars see aivertisements, AMUSEMENTS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, &C. THIS PAY. ROYAL Am PHITIIZATRE —DramatiE Performance-7 p.m. Re. GEORGE'S HALL—Organ Performances-8 p.m. How. CoLosssou—General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS—Grand and Varied Entertainments. gLarrox HALL, Claytm-square—Gordon Cumming-8 p.lll. ALLso:✓s CRYSTAL PALACE, Lime-street —lO A.M. to 10 p.m. t For particulars see advertisements. THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, JULY 23. 1857. although their pay and allowances be greater, the nation reaps the benefit in the long run. At a time like the present, when such warlike prospects are before us, a parsimonious and niggardly spirit towards the army and navy is policy of a suicidal character. The army, it appears, wants reinforcements. Let the recruit ing service be carried on with energy. Raise the pay, and increase the bounty. That, and that alone, will send thousands of young and daring spirits to join either the infantry or cavalry forces. We know what we have got to contend with and encounter in India. It behoves the army authorities to set about the augmentation of the army at home without an hours delay, and with a determination to succeed in at once restoring it to the effective strength at which Parliament fixed it. This is the more necessary, seeing that just now we are without channel ►feet, or any large naval force in the Mediterranean. The militia, too, will not be embodied to any very large extent this autumn. Beside, without an alteration in the law, they cannot be drafted out of the country, so as to occupy our garrison in the Mediterranean, or settlements of British North America. Although the discussion led to no practical result, it will call the attention of the War Department to the necessity of raising the required number of men, and also of devising means to promote the soldiers' happiness, by rendering the profession of arms more attractive and remunerating ; and, what is equally import ant, when rendered unfit for service, that means shall be taken that he will not, as at present, be steeped in poverty, but have such an allow ance as will place him far beyond the position of an out-door pauper. THE Election Committees are just now very busily engaged, and with some of them short work is made of petitions. Besides this, the decisions have assumed a totally different aspect from what they did at the commencement of these Parliamentary investigations. Then, all was in favour of the sitting members ; now, it is quite the reverse. It has become quite a saying that the law is famous for its glorious uncer tainties. In nothing has the remark become more aptly verified than by the decisions of the Election Committees. Hitherto, the uncertainty of the law of election has been mourned over— sometimes laughed at ; now, however, the com-. mittees are deciding with certainty, but without variation. There is no distinction between Whig and Tory. Reason, however, does not appear to operate upon the minds of the respective com mittees as they agree to deliver judgment. 'Fake, for example, the following cases. Mr. STEWART, the Conservative, was unseated for Cambridge Mr. NEATE, the Liberal, was unseated for Oxford —under circumAances as nearly similar as circumstances could be. Again, Mr. MooRE, a member of the Ultramontane party, and Mr. ANTHONY OTLAGHERTY, the steady supporter of LOrd PALMERSTON, were cashiered the House for practices which their respective committees solemnly averred that they had no knowledge of or participation therein. This last feature in the decisions of the committees of this session is worthy of notice. Indeed, so monstrously glaring is the circumstance, that we are sur prised that some independent member of the House of Commons has not directed attention thereto. Any one who has carefully perused the evidence taken before the Oxford, Galway, and Mayo Election Committees—aye, and the Falkirk Burghs, too—must feel satisfied that a few more whitewashing decisions of the same kind cannot fail to bring the jurisdiction of Parliamentary Election Committees into contempt and ridicule. Will any one presume to tell us that no less than 152 messengers, unattached, were paid from two-and-sixpence to twenty shillings, for their special services at Oxford, without the know ledge of the rejected Mr. NEATs, who has to pay the said half-crowns and pounds in question Again, who credits that in Galway two adherents of Mr. O'FLAGHERTY (MILES WARD and JAMES BROWN) bribed several of the electors of the " City of the Tribes" without the knowledge and consent of the immaculate ANTHONY ? And is it not beyond the bounds of human credulity that the fierce and fiery G. H. MOORE, the pet and nominee of the " Lion of the fold of Judah," did not know —aye, and approve of Priest RYAN'S altar denunciations, or that he was ignorant and displeased with tire exertions of Father CoNwAY, et hoc genus omne, as well as the many plans and schemes which were unduly resorted to, so as t,.) carry the Mayo election against Col. HIGGINS ? Lastly, who can come to the conclusion, after the evidence given before the Falkirk Burghs Conk mittee, that Mr. MERRY was unaware that undue means had been resorted to for the purpose of carrying his election ? We have no hesitation in stating that the respective committees which reported on the election proceedings of the places enumerated could not have been sincere in the opinions that they presented to the House on the aforesaid matters; because, if they were actuated by the feeling which they gave utterance to, they inflicted an injury, and did grave injustice to the four gentlemen who have been unseated ; for how could they be held guilty of a misdemeanour which their respective judges say they did not sanction, and of the committal of which they were perfectly ignorant ? We look upon such decisions as nothing but sheer nonsense. The fanciful and unnatural illustra tions and interpretations of the Puseyites are the height of reason, cor.nmon sense, and candour, when compared and contrasted with the studied, transparent sophistry of such decisions as those alluded to. As long as candidates can be found who will open their purse-strings and deliver cash ad libitum, and are no more ashamed or afraid to tell that they did so, than was Mr. OLIVEIRA to disclose his dealings with the snug little borough of Pontefract, so long will there be corrupt electors to accept the bribe, and vote for the candidate who pays the highest price. This is an evil which should be got rid of as speedily as possible ; and hence the inquiry, what means are most likely to put .a complete extinguisher on bribery and corruption at elections—Parlia mentary and municipal ? The latter is more general, and, in its local effect, more injurious than the former. We have repeatedly urged the ballot as a grand panacea for the evils complained of ; but, seeing that that measure of Parliamentary Reform is still resisted on the ground of its being un- English, and not wanted by the people, there is another way of mitigating the offences. The whole tribe of venal voters would soon become extinct if they who go about as agents for Parliamentary candidates, and, serpent-like, corrupt and seduce the voters, were made amenable to the penalties with which they are threatened in the recent statutes against cor ruption at Parliamentary elections. These statutes, if really intended to suppress electoral corruption, it is at the real criminal the blow should be aimed. Besides, the penalty should be such a would deter the culprits from the perpetration of electoral crime. The punish ment now awarded is not sufficient to meet the ends in view. Let such persons as we have alluded to be subjected to one year's penal servitude—give them a twelve month's practice on the tread-mill—apprentice them for that period at picking oakum in a model prison, where the systems of "silence' and occasional " solitude" are part of the prison discipline, and we have no doubt one or two examples would be quite sufficient to effect a radical, permanent, and effective cure. Nor is such punishment too heavy. The crimes are, corruption and a suborn ing of-perjury. Although not as great an offender as the briber, the bribed, too, should taste a little of the terrors, but, at the same time, wholesome influence, of prison discipline, combined with hard labour. Until this is done, and the ballot adopted, it is vain to expect any amelioration of the eleetoral evils complained of, for as long as the agent and the briber can enter his club, fresh from the commitee-room where his delinquencies have been demonstrated beyond a doubt—and as long as society does not regard these delinquencies with aversion—so long will bribery, corruption, and intimidation prevail. We regard the late decisions of the Election Committees, as aiding and abetting the nefarious and corrupt practices at elections, for in all the cases alluded to, the very parties who have been the main cause of bribery, corruption, and inti midation, have been screened in the committee's report to the House. Surely such judgments condemn those who deliver them. damnatur cum nocens absolvitur. Lord PALMER STON promises us a new Reform Bill. Let us hope he will, in settling its details, take the question of bribery, corruption, and intimida tion into his consideration, and engraft upon his measure such provisions as will remedy all the evils of cur present electoral system. Juclex THE COURT, &c. Osuoarre, TUESDAY. —The Qleen and the Prince Con sort, accompanied by the Princess Alice and Prince Arthur, drove out in an open carriage yesterday afternoon; THE IMPERIAL VlSlT.—Since the visit of the Emperor and Empress to England has been spoken of, much doubt has arisen relative to the port at which their Majesties are to embark. At present we learn from persons well informed that the Emperor, in order to examine personally the works of canalisation effected lately in the Seine, has resolved to come down the river to Havre. ORDNANCE SURVEY.—Yesterday there was issued the report of Lieutenant—Colonel James, to the Inspector— General of Fortificatens, of the progress of the Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom up to December last, to which are added some remarks upon the differentbranches of the work, and the methods of conducting the opera tions of the survey. This is the first detailed report on the survey which has been presented to parliament. The head quarters of the survey of the United Kingdom are at Southampton, and from thence all orders connected with the administration and conduct of the survey are iisued, and all the plans and maps of Great Britain are there engraved and printed : the plans and maps of Ireland are engraved and published at the Survey Office, in the Pheenix Park, Dublin. But it is in contemplation to remove the head quarters of the survey to London, still keeping at Southampton the engraving and publica tion in the same way as is now done in Dublin. The number of persons employed on the survey on the 31st March last was :-1 lieutenant-colonel superintending, 16 captains, 2 lieutenants, 1 quartermaster, and 480 non-commissioned officers and sappers of the corps cf Royal Engineers, 960 civil assistants, and 609 labourers, making a total of 2,069 persons ; but, in consequence of the reduction in the amount of the grants for the survey, this nnmber is now 'reduced to 1,282. " The survey as it is now proceeding," writes Colonel James, "is admirably suited to meet the wants of the community at large. The plans of the towns are on a sufficiently large scale to admit of admeasurements in feet, and the inser tion of every detail, the plans of the cultivated districts, with the areas of every inclosure given, and on the scale of one square inch to one acre, is remarkably well suited for every public or private purpose connected with land whilst the 6 inch map of counties and the 1-inch map of the kingdom are equally well suited for the engineer, the hydrographer, and the geologist. These plans will enable the goverhment to carry into effect measures for faciitat ing the transfer of landed property, for the valuation of property, and many other important measures, for which an accurate detailed survey is the necessary basis. I have asked for additions to the grants for the survey, to expedite it as, much as possible. Wo already have a large number of reople (1,282) employed but there will be no difficulty in gradually augmenting the number in proportion to the extent to which parliament may be pleased to augment the grants; and it will be the truest economy in the end to complete the survey as soon as possible. The great drawback to the survey the frequent change of orders relative to it. I believe these under which we are now acting are most judicious ; and after the full discussions upon this subject which have taken place by correspondence, in eommittees, and in parliament, I trust that this "great work (which will certainly be the most perfect of its kind ever executed) will now be pushed on steadily and rapidly, and without any further material changes." OP I P . OM. LANCASHIRE INDEPENDENT COLLEGE.—INTENDED RE ma/gamic OF DR. VAUGHA N. —Dr. Vaughan has written to the Rev. Dr. Raffles, Chairman of the Committee of the Lancashire Independent College, stating that from personal and domestic consieerations, as well as on some public grounds, it is his intention to resign his office as President of that institution at Christmas next.—Man ehester Examiner. NEW PATENT FAMILY FIRE E3CAPE.—With the sanction of the Mayor.—A public trial will take place this day (Thursday), in Exchange-street West, at twelve o'clock, under the management of Mr. Superintendent Hewitt and girt of his fire brigade, when the public may witness its efficiency in cases of fire, in the absence of any other assistance. Orders received by Messrs. Mawdsley & Son, Castle-street, or William Odell, Bold-street, sole agent for Liverpool. EXTEAORDINARY FLIGHT OF A PIGEON.—One of the excursionists who accompanied the Rector in the late trip to London, took up in a basket a pigeon to let off, to let his mother know of his safe arrival. The pigeon was let out of the basket on London Bridge at half-past twelve o'clock, and reached Warrington at half-past six o'clock in the evening—having flown the distance of 190 miles in about six hours, or upwards of thirty miles an hour, for the whole distance. These who were watching for it observed it first over Messrs. Rylands' tall chimney, no doubt its making point for its cote close at hand. It appeared rather tired on arrival, but next day was as lively and brisk as ever.—Warrington Guardian. PRESENTATION.—NORIII SHORE, BOOTLE.—On Monday evening the young ladies and gentlemen of this district, who were confirmed at the late confirmation, met in their newly-erected school-room, and presented their worthy pastor, the Rev. George Troughton, L.L.8., with an elegant and beautifully chased inkstand, an acknowledge ment of his kind services and unwearied exertions whilst preparing, instructing, and examining them for that Sacred Rite. The Rev. gentlemen, in thanking them for their kind and unexpected presen', expressed the pleasure he had is again meeting his young friends, and urged upon them the necssity of pursuing that course, as the only way to Salvation, which he had endeavoured faith fully to expound to them ; and of the still greater pleasure it gave him at seeing so many of them partaking with him of the Holy Sacrament, and at which he trusted often to meet them. _ _ . ACCIDENTAL Dig kTIIS —John Thomplon, forty-two years old, was found dead in bed at 105, Hill-street, yesterday morning. The deceased was inspector of meat in St. James's market. He went to bed about half-past ten c'clock on Tuesday night. - He then complained of a pain in his left temple. His temples were bathed with cold water, and he then appeared better. Not making his appearance at the usual time, a man named 'Hughes went into the bed-room of the deceased, and found him dead in bei about half-past seven o'clock.-- William Spencer, aged two years, son of William Spencer, plasterer, 4 Court, Wright-street, fell down stairs and fractured his skull on the 13th instant, and died on the 20th. The father of the deceased stands No. 162 on the calendar for trial at the present Sessions, charged with stealing lead.—A man unanown, in a decomposed state, supposed to be one of the men from the flat that sunk in the river a fortnight since, was picked up about the Potteries and removed to the dead house.—A bay, named James Williams, residing at No. 17, Edward-street, Toxteth Park, fell out of a boat whilst amusing himself skulling in the Queen's Dock basin on Tuesday evening, and was drowned. 'the body was removed to the Southern Hospital, where every means were resorted to by Mr. Pope, the house surgeon, for restoring suspended animation without success. The body was afterwards removed to the house of his parents.—lnquests will be held on these four cases to-day. TLIE NEW Man ESCAPE.—We urgently desire to recom mend to the notice of every householder " The Family Fire Escape" (supplied in Liverpool by Mr. Odell, Bold streei), as a certain means of rescuing inmates from burning houses. The ladder-escapes, which have for some time been used by the Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, are in themselves perfect machines, and admir ably answer the purpose for which they are intended. But it must often necessarily happen that all portable escapes will arrive at the scene of disaster too late to reader help at the critical moment. Each second of time is of vital importance when a dwelling is in flames. Besides, it con stantly happens that the only side of the burning house from which, at the moment, it is possible for the threatened victims to descend, is rendered inaccessible to the approach of the otherwise useful ladders by reason of the many walls, yards, and other obstructions within which the backs of our houses are usually enclosed. It is obvious, then, that all dwellings should be provided with such escapes as, being fixtures, are always at hand, and ready for instant emergency. We, therefore, forewarn the public to make timely preparations against coming casualties. Let the new fixed fire-escapes be provided to co-operate with the old portable ones, and then, in recording the almost nightly fires that occur, we shall no longer have the dismal task of recounting harrowing scenes of deaths by burning, nor to add our unavailing regrets at the loss of valuable lives. Property is now universally secured against fire, and yet we are utterly neglectful of securing our lives against the dangerous element. Nearly all prudent men purchase fire proof boxes to preserve deeds, cash, &c., though it may be hoped, or even believed, their houses will never be C 31 3- Burned by fire. Surely, then, these same people cannot hesitate to provide themselves, at a less cost, with the certain means of preserving their lives, which are even more liable than their deeds to be destroyed by fire, since papers can frequently be thrown through the windows. Every householder should remember, that all the vigilance and precaution which it is possible for himself and his household to exercise are ever liable to be frustrated by the negligence of his neighbour. In this cue self-reliance becomes the height of rashness, while a wholesome dread of our neighbour becomes at once our wisdom and our safeguard. " Nam tua res agitur paries cunzproximus ardet." ROBBERY AT ex HOTEL. —On Thursday morning last a very serious robbery was committed at the Peacock Hotel, Snowhill, in this town, a cash box, containing £B2 in notes, gold, and silver, being stolen. It op; eirs that it is the costom of Miss Hawkins, daughter of Mr. John Hawkins, the landlord, nightly to convey the cash box to her bedroom, and to secure the door, but on Wednesday night she neglected to perform th's act of care, and on the following morning the cash box was missed from its place iu the bar. It is supposed that two young men who had located themselves at the Peacock since Monday are the thieves, for at six o'clock on Thursday morning they left the inn in a very sudden manner, making their way out of the premises by scaling a wall which broughs them into a yard adjacent to the street. Since their departure it has been nmembe:ed that one of them was partlcalarly f nd of occupying a certain seat in the smoking room from which could be ob aired a viD.w of the bar and the cash box. They left two caps behind them, and in a room ad joining that which they occupied as a bedroom was found a cash box resembling the one stolen, filled wiih stones. This, it is presumed, was purhcased in Birmingham by the thieves, who on a previous day had paid a visit to that towr, and was intended to reptece the one stolen hal cir cumstrnces required this to be done.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. Bow OUR ANCESTORS BRIBED. —There is a variety most creditable to English invention in the way in which our ancestors adminiNered their bribes. At one place a mys terious person used to arrive with the cash, known as the " Man in the Moon," who approached at nightfall, and was at once met with " What news from the moon ?" This was a poetic form. Then there was the humorous form. " I'll lay you five guineas." said a celebrated canvasser in Fox's contest of 1784, " and stake the money in your own hands, that you will not vote for Mr. Fox." " Done !" says the free and independent, and wins his bet—and bribe. Another playful plan was to buy the elector's canary at a price that would have been handsome for a bird of paradise—a very pretty kind of bird-fancying ! Sometimes men tshowed perfect genius in availing them selves of profesional advantages :—thus a military gen tleman employed in the recruiting service once stood for Great Grimsby, and enlisted a majority of the voters for soldiers with a liberal bounty ! Such anecdotes as these constitute the literature of electioneering; and there is probably not a town or county in England where there is not an e'.derly gentleman with a small batch of them. In a contest a good many years ago in North Britain one of the parties had strong reason to suspect a particular voter of having taken a bribe—a considerable bribe ton—for votes were valuible. A she.rp enemy resolved to make an attempt on him. Accordingly, as the mare entered to poll, he whispend in his ear rapidly, "They're making a fule of ye Jock—they're a' bad ! ' " The scoundrels, exclaimed his dupe; and down on the table he flung a batch of notes, They wsre impounded at once by authoetaes, and the man's n suffrage invalidated. — Quarterly Review, n ew number. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The three per cent. rents have to-day fallen one half per cent, closing at 66-95. The French customs revenue for the first six months of this year, shows an increase of 142 per cent. over same period in 1856. THE CAMPAIGN IN ALGERIA. The campaign in Algeria has been brought to a most successful termination. Marshal Bandon was to return to Algiers on the 18th: SPAIN. The Seine Official Journal of Madrid gives no hope whatever of the success of the Mexican Envoy in arranging the dispute between Mexico and Spain. ITALY. The Pope was expected at Florence on the 20th instant. DENMARK. The Cabinet of Turin is about to address a cir cular to its agents abroad, in which an opinion will be expressed that the concession of reforms, declared at the Congress of Paris to be necessary for the welfare of Italy, can alone prevent future conspiracies. The Journal des Debats states positively that Nlazzini was in favour of the adjournment of the late movement in Italy, which broke out in spite of his exertion!. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES, The Provincial Assembly of the Holstein is convoked for the 15th of August, when the Copen hagen Cabinet will submit its propositions for terminating the differences existing between Denmark and the two great German powers, as to the position in which the General Constitution of the Danish Monarchy places the Duchies. THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS, Yesterday afternoon, a telegraphic despatch was received in Liverpool by Messrs. D. and J. Maclver, announcing that the European and Australian Steam-ship Company's steamer Simla arrived at Suez on the 12th instant, with 35 passengers, 14 boxes of gold, valued at X 40,581, and 43 packages of cargo. The Simla arrived out at Sydney, on her out ward passage, on the 9th of May, and left Mel bourne on her return on the 30th of the same month. She sailed from King George's Sound on the 6th of June, and Ceylon on the 2nd of July, arriving at Suez, as already stated, on the 12th. The Simla's mails were forwarded from Alexan dria to Malta by the screw-steamer Scamander, by the Consular authority. The Oneida left Sydney for Southampton on the sth of May. The steamer Columbian, with the out ward mails, left Galle for Melbourne on the 15th of June. The European (steamer) was at King George's Sound on the Ist of June. The following vessels had sailed from Mel- bourne : FOR LONDON—The Indomitable and Swiftsure, with 106,486 ounces of gold. FOR LIVERPOOL—The Lightning, Summer Cloud, and Sardinian, with 112,482 ounces of gold. The steamer Great Britain left Melbourne for Liverpool on tho 20t of May, with 101,647 ounces k., of gold. The following vessels had arrived at Melbourne from Liverpool :—lndia, Dee, Broughton, David M'lver, Morning Glory, Montmorency, Salem, and Pomona. PLOT TO ASSASSINATE THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. The Moniteur of yesterday contains the follow- Lng : " For more than a month the police has had proof that a plot had been formed in London to make an attempt on the life of the Emperor. Three Italians, charged with the execution of this horrible project, were at Paris, and arrested. The arms also which were to have been used for the perpetration of the crime have been seized ; they consist of poniards, revolvers, &C. Brought to justice, the prisoners had already confessed their crime ; and revealed the names of their (mom- plices. The Government notwithstanding sus• pended the proceedings against them, in order that the eclat of the process might not be regarded as a means of influencing the result of the elec tions which were about to take place, The pro- ceedings are now resumed, and an ordinance of the Judge of Instruction has sent before the Chamber of Accusation all the prisoners arrested, with their accomplices. Their names are Tibaldi , Bartolotti, Grilli (otherwise Saro), Mazzini, Ledry, Rollin, Mazarenti l and Campanella."