Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-28 00:00:00

• SMITHSONIAN HO TEL of the peace getting into trouble. A'Mr. Lee, an 13 „,,, e p ee ty, corner of HOUSTON-STSEET, New 'ion H. other magistrates MonmOlithshire, refused to I•'ezned in honour of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITOTION, hear an information preferred against the manager Established at WASHINGTON, by the U. S. CONGRESS, of a mine by a'Government Inspector. A manila With Fun& bequeathed by JAMES SMITSISSN, Of ENGLAND, ntti B has been granted against those gentlemen by Haatae the Friendship of the OFFICERS Of the NATIONAL INSTITUTION the 'Queen's Bench, and Lord Campbell said it was shocking to think that a - sa,lutary enactment of the Is conducted on thelSy S t eM o f H otels i n ENGLAND. CHAS. H. SMITH. legisbature should be rendered nugatory by th ose whose duty it was to administer it. A melancholy boat accident has occurred on the 'river Esk, near Edinburgh. Two fishing boats were capsised in a squall, and all hands, ten in number, perished. At the 'Police Court, yesterday, Messrs. Heath and Hornby presiding, the case of the Newington " Hop" was brought before them. Inspector O'Brien stated that he had visited the Argyle Rooms, Newington, on the night of the 17th inst. He found a number of improper characters were there and thei'' congregated. He apprised Mr. Smith, the proprietor, of the characters he was then harbouring. Mr. Smith said he knew what they were, but that, as they were quiet, and behaved in a becoming manner, he did not think himself justified in turning them out. O'Erien laid an information against him, and yesterday the evidence was gone into. The Bench considered that, as the women conducted themselves in a decent way, the act did not authorise them (the magistrates) to con vict, and the indictment was accordingly dismissed. Mr. Aspinall intimated that it was his intention of appealing to the Queen's Bench and Mr. Heath expressed his approbation at such a proceeding, as the magistrates were divided upon the •question, whether the characters who frequent such places of amusement could be legally.ejected, so long as there was no improper -conduct. The recently-passed Divorce Bill win not become the law of the land before it is wanted. We are almost every day called upon to chronicle the results of dissensions between husband and wife ; and we would just refer our readers to another example of the working of the present system, which oceapied the attention of the •stipendiary magistrate yesterday. The Ist of January will, no doubt, bring joy and happiness to many an ill matched eeuple. There is not much news from abroad this morning. A telegraphic despatch has been re ceived, announcing the departure of Lord de Redcliffe from Constantinople for England ; but it is not confirmed by the latest despatches in the Paris papers ©f last night. A Berlin letter announces the conclusion of a convetion between Egland and Prussia, by which the ZAlverein of Germany is to be placed in its trade with the lonian islands upon the footing of the most favoured nation. It is • confirmed that Mexico 'definitely accepts the arbitration of France in the difference with Spain, • but on condition that previous to the opening of negotiations, M. Lafragua shall be received at Madrid. A denatch dated Athens, 21st November, states that the Ministry have resigned. time drove the enemy's extreme left before them, and their whole line was - ereedily in full retreat." In this action, General nIVELOCK lost 35 men, `and his army slew 300 ! As might be antici pated, the effect of this action was to create a wholesome dread among the enemy, whose main effort was to oppose his embarkation at Cawnpore, an operation which was not effected without the greatest difficulty and danger. The next thing we hear of HAVELOCK and his gallant band, is his encampment at Bithoor, where he finds another force of 4,000 mutineers, among whom was a pardon of NE;TA SAHIB'S troops. The ground which they occupied was a plain, densely covered with thickets, flanked by villages, and having two streams run ning through it. These, be it observed, were unfordable by troops of any arm, and could only be crossed by two narrow bridges, the most distant of which was protected by an entrench ment armed with artillery . . Having passed the second bridge, a turn in the road protected its defenders from direct fire, and behind it were the narrow streets and brick houses of Bithoor. Against these numerous and formidable obstacles the courageous heart and stragetic mind of the noble HAVELOCK resolved • tb combat —aye and conquer. As usual he fought and won, slaying 250 of the enemy, while the loss on his own side was not more than fifty. From the number of casualties on both sides in this engagement, the conflict must have been determined and severe. This General HAVELOCK himself testifies. He says :—" I must do the mutineers justice to pronounce that they fought obstinately ; they could not for a whole hour have held their own, even with such advantages of ground, against my powerful artillery fire. The streams prevented my turning them, and my troops were prevented assaulting them in position by a heavy rifle and musketry fire from the rifle and battalion com panies engaged; but, after a severe struggle, the enemy were driven back, their guns captured, and infantry chased off the field in full retreat towards Serojpore. Had I possessed cavalry, not a rebel or mutineer would have reached that place alive; as it is, they shall not long remain there unmolested." The foregoing quotation is a brier description of his tenth engagement with the mutineers in the short space of six weeks. Victory alone had marked his career, and the last we heard' of him is his being in Lucknow with 1,500 men. Any one reading the despatches from which we have made the foregoing quota. tions, and to which our remarks refer, must admire the modesty which characterises the noble-minded and heroic commander. He briefly tells us that he engaged the enemy, tought and conquered; but we have not one single allusion to the difficulty of his position, the ev AMUSEAIENT3, PUBLIC MEETINGS, &c. THIS DAY. ROYAL AsepurrnEATßE--Drami,i; Performance-7 p.m. GEOEOE'S HALL—The Papple's Concerts-8 p.m. Himan's CinquE VAar ETE, Dale-street-7 p.m. L/VXRPOOL ACADEKY'S EXELIBITION, Postoffice-place. Einem COLossEux—General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. rSTI" For adve•tisemsnts see second pigs. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. .Per Sons seeking Employment, parties requiring' Servant,s, Assistants orClerks, and those in search of Apartmerts, or having Lodgings to Let, can best bring their wants under the notice of the: public, by advertising in the NORTHERN Tom 3, and which, from its large , virulation, is the most efficient mcdium of publicity in thi district. The cash price for this special class. of advertisements is now redtweel to THREEPENCE FOR TWENTY WORDS, end for every additional five wards on penny, THE more we carefully study the despatches from the seat of war in India,znd which were gazetted a few days ago, the more must we admire the military genius of that unparalleled General—HAvELocK. 'We use the term unparal leled in an unreserved sense ; for, since. the days of that ancient, but mighty conqueror— aESAß, no succession of military triumphs have been acquired so rapidly, and under such adverse anti unequal circumstances. This gal lant man has, among all the other distinguished Generals who have played their part so well, and maintaiLed the honour and t!ignity of the British flag. shown himself the „greatest, most persevering, and, without any question or man ner of 'doui,t, the most successful of military commanders. We are so convinced of the truth of our xemarks, that it induces us to make influences of climate and disease upon his band of faithful soldiers, and, above all,, the vast numerical superiority of the enemy. Against all these he has successfully contended, and it now only remains for the nation to demand that such a hero shall receive his legitimate reward. But upon this we shall have more to say hereafter. a few comments upon his numerous engage. ments in and around Cawnpore. 7 In the easy part of the Indian campaign, we were made acquainted with the:unfortunate • expedition to Arrah. This was, .certainly, a : I most unfortunate, and, as .it turned out, fatal undertaking. Although it was left to the peo ple of England to mourn over and bewail the consequences of that expedition, the time was but short during which the mutineers could • i exult in their deeds of treachery and barbarity. The invariable successes which subsequently attended our arms more than compensated for the disaster at Agra. Success, full and corn plete, has attended ;HAVELOCK'S late .career. 1 ' His marches, d ur i ng t h e present mut i ny, are remarkable for the , conquests which he has gained. Actions and battles have been fou.ght and won by him with such astonishing rapidity, that •the future historian will be at a lose to find in all our ancient arrl modern Generals one who has had such an unchecked and truly triumphant career. To substantiate this posi tion, let us glance at his -ewn despatches. By. one, dated Mungulwur, 6th of August, we find him .an-'dous to acquaint the Commander-in • Chief that,he met the enemy in force at Busher at-Gunge. His army, at the time, was not strong, but it mattered not. IL was indifferent whether the foe was five or even ten to one. Like himself, his m n were animated by a spirit of heroism and loyalty-11,117.4L0cK attacks the opposing force, superior in strength and numbers though it was. 1 , There is a class of persons, not inconsiderable in number, who are.tormented by a perpeteal desire to know " what became of . the executioner of erwards," wh:t he had for dinner on the day of the ceremony, how he was dressed, what stimulant; he partook of when his unpleasant task was terminated, how he amused himself in the evening, and how he comported himself in after lice. There are in quirers of a kindred nature, who are less interested in an event than in the state of the weather on the day it oc - nar-ed, and the bodily health of the actors. When Ceck Rabin is killed, they want to know all about the oculist who attended the Fly for his "little eye," and the antece dents of the undertaker who supplied the pail for the unfortunate red-breast. One meets these people every where—social antiquaries, who tell you that Eliza Rnning w:ls hanged inlavender-coloured boots, that Napoleon over ate himself on mutt on aed garlic the night before he signed his abdication at Fontain,bleau, and that the napkin with which the Pope dries the feet of the pilgrims he washes in Easter weak has a double hem, and a tiara worked in gold in the corner. such "notes and queries" are not without their value. Such trivial ite:ns of social life are the chief charms cf the immortal biography of Samuel Pepys, and makes us far more interested now in the venison pasties of the Clerk of the Acts and the pattern7of Nelly Gwynne's farthingales, than in the treaty of Utrecht or the Du'cle in the Medway. How many would forsake the solemn tomes of Clarendon for a graphic description of the inner life of the p - itectorate, did such exist ! Which book is most valuable to the novelist, the essayist, and the social historian —Bishop Burnet's laboured "History of his own Time," or Ned Warti's " London Spy " We could spare Pliny the Younger for the housekeeping book of a Roman matron in Pemoei, and we would surrender half the literature of the E''z ebethan age for one page, in the poet's own hand, of the daily !ifs of William Shakespeare. It bee not, certainly, appear at first sight that any good in the way of graphic description, or anecdote, or amusement, can came out of a panic, than which there would seem to be no drier, more prosaic, or uninteresting theme in the world. Punch, indeed, managed to eliminate some wit and humour from the railway reign of terror of 1845, and was long hebdom tidally comic upon bankrupt directors reduced to sweep the crossings, imp ecunious "stags," who paid for their dinners in exploded shares , and trade-fallen enginee rs d r i ven to pawn their theodolites. Bu', a p=c, after all, is a very serious affair. Basinghall-street is not fanny; beggary is no j ke. The downfall of merchant princes, the stoppage of long-established banks, the ruin of thousands of men, and women, and children, are subjects which are terribly real, but as terribly common place, and not very susceptible of pieturesqle treatment. So a panic is generally recognised as a topic to be treated in the prosiest and dullest manner, and to be left to Chancellors of the Exchequer, governors of banks, accountants, official assignees. ei ty correspondents, and Commissioners of Bankruptcy ; the only latitude possible with such a theme being extended to the thousand and one visionaries and empirics who start up like Ja on's army whenever a panic exists, and frantically propose their thousand and one financial panaceas. If aey one, however, will take the trouble to go carefully through a file of American newspapers, published since the declaration of the terrific crisis which has temporarily beggared that great country, he will find abundance of materials of the kind hinted at iu the commencement of these remarks. Of course the panic, in all its phases, is the one paramount text dwelt upon by the press, and its interest seems to surpass that hitlierto excited by the Nicaraguan difficulty, Mr. Charles He first turns •its left position, attacks him in front with another part of his force, drives him out of the town across a narrow causeway and bridge, and after .a heavy slaughter, returns to his position at night. His loss on the occasion was 25, and that of the enemy 300 ! Then we find him, six days afterwards, August 12, en- camped at Mungulwur, from which place he narrates, Cwsar-like, his ei g hth b a t t l e s i nce the 12th of July —only one calendar month. They are best told in his own graphic words :—" The insurgents," says he, " were about 4 000 in num ber, with six field-guns. They had varied their mode of defence by entrenching the village of Boorbeeakowkee, in advance of Busherhat. My superior artillery fire would SOJII have crushed them, but I could only slowly bring my batteries and eschelloned troops across the deep and wide morass, which protected their front. Meanwhile their shot and shell caused some loss in my ranks ; but when these obstacles were passed, success was speedily achieved. The Highlanders, with- out firing a shot, prec . pitated themselves, with a a cheer, upon the principal redoubt, and captured two out of the three horse-battery guns With which it was armed. The Fusiliers at the same THE NORTHERN TIC' ES. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 1857 Mathew's impersonations, the mission of Sir William Gore Ouseley, the Woodman abduction case, or the great Oyer of justice anent Mrs. Cunningham's " bogus. baby." Much distress has, it is needless to say, been caused by the com mernial crisis among the labouring clauses, and large meetings of the " unemp'nyed" have been held in New York, as, to our sorrow, they are being held in England. At one of these meetings, held in Tompkins'.square, a patriotic lady, called Theresa G. Runk, announced that she was ready, " like the Nightingale who went to the Cri mea" (a remarkably modest comparison) " to take hold and help the working men out of their trouble," and tint she was "at that moment waiting to be received by a deputation of workmen ;" whereupon uprose Mr. M'Guire, the secretary, who declared fervently, ' Victory has crowned us. The ladies is going to present them selves through this lady present." On this, Miss, or, as she is termed, Madame Rank presented herself, and made a speech from which, although we cannot vote it in cxtense, we cannot refrain from culling a few choice passages. The devoted Runk commenced by intimating that she intended to give a series of concerts for men and women out of employment; and she continued, " If I can sell the shares in the enterprise, I will give you half the money." Hear Runk again :—" There is forty thou sand soldiers—(where, out of an army of ten thou sand ?) ready to shoot you down like dogs. We must get the editors to favour us, and I know they all do ; and I ask you for three cheers for the editors. (Three cheers.) In order to live, a person must eat, and you must live this winter, and you shall live. (Three cheers and a " tiger.") Do you accept of my offer to be manager of these concerts ? (. 1 Yes, ma'am," and cheers.) You must ask the Government for two million dollars, to be paid for in work. You must apply to the millionares; they will all do something . .There must be immense dinners served up in the Crystal Palace, where you can go and eat every day, and the Corporation must pay for it. (Immense applause in " tigers.") You must not starve; and now, fare thee weel." At the termination of this astonishing harangue, Madame Runk retired among lend and prolonged applause, and a German, mounting the chair, pronounced a glowing euloginm upon her, and translated her speech into the language of father. land. We are glad to meet, once more, our o'd friends the " tigers "—whom persons conversant with the expression of American feeling described as a specie of prolonged howl, mingled with shrill screams, and denoting - approbation ; the last we heard of them was on the occasion of the arrival of General Henningsen, and his band of marauding Filibusters, at New York. The tigers, we abserve, have been rampant, not only in Tomkins'- square, but at other "mass" and "indignation" meetings, and especially greeted the Mr. el'Guire aforesaid, who , eulogising the Mayor for his exertions in relieving the working classes, characterised him as the " star in the firmament of all mayors." The religious community, who in the United States seem to combine devotion and dollars in a manner not quite practicable on this side the Atlantic, have brought piety to bear upon the crisis in a most remark able manner. Tne New York Evening Post tells of a daily noontide prayer meeting, " for gentlemen only," which has been established at the Old North Dutch church ; and which since the commencement of the present financial troubles, has been attended daily in the intervals of bu-inesn by hundreds of men of all religious denominations. We have no wish to disparage the devotimal sincerity of our American cousins, but it is certainly difficult to reconcile with the fitness of things the idea of some hundreds of excited stock-jobbers, bank-presidents, and cotton-brokers, rushing away from the hubbub of Wall-street, from the fury of high 'Change, and tho warfare of " stockboards," to a Methodist prayer -meeting, and then beck again, post haste, to the temple of Mammon. Devotion, however, is as active in literature as is actual life; and, turning to another journal, we find, in the column devoted to poetry, an enthusiastic eulogium of a certain bank, which has not yet suspended, a poetical exercitation slightly irreverent, and somewhat open to the imputation of being a planiarism upon the late Rowland Hill. We dare only emote a stanza or two : "I know a bank will never break, A bank with lots of tin ; Bring in your notes to ZION'S bank ; • The banker is within. "The leper had a little note, Lord, if you will you can ;' The banker cashed this little note, And healed the sickly man !" And so on, through thirty-two stanzas of pecuniary piety. Some organs of the Press devote themselves to agreeable retrospects of the former commercial misfortunes of Eng land, and are eloquent about the South Sea Bubble, the panic of 1825, the railway mania, the suspension of cash payments in 1797, and Mr. Pitt sending a frigate to Ham burg to buy specie. Others, taking the gloomier side of the question, devote whole pages to dreary pictures of fashionable millinery stores closed, from "Broadway to Bleeker- treet, from Bowery to Eighth Avenge ;" of wed dings postponed, and bridal 'bonnets countermanded ; of merchants s off their carriages ;of American youths studying medicine in Paris, or art in . Rouse or Florence ; destitute of tobacco, scalpels, and copal varnish; of New York shoemakers emigrating to Virginia, and Irish immigrants returning to the Emerald Isle ; of house and church building suspended; of the " mantilla busi ness annihilated ," and of Parisian staymakers waiting for the " recuperative power of time." Some of the moralists of journalism administer sharp reproofs to the beaux of Broadway and the elite of the "upper ten thousand," on the enormities of their fast-trotting horses, and lecture the belles of Newport and Sarratoga on the aggravation of their flounces and the intolerable circumference of their crinoline. But with all, and in all this, there is an inex. haustisle vein of Yankee smartness and drollery, a deter. mination to look upon the panic, and the crisis, and the monster "suspension," in a good-humoured light, and a confidence in the elastici'y of the country and the im mensity of its material resources.—Daily Telegraph. ROMANCE IN THE STATES.—A case has lately been brought before the Supreme Ciurt of New York which has excited a considerable amount of local interest, and which is in some respects so characteristic of certain phrases in transatlantic society that it may be as well to lay an outline of the facts before our readers. Mr. Oliver o.is Woodman, a wealthy merchant, of New Orleans took his wife with him to Europe in the summer of 1854. The lady was at that time in infirm health, and Mr. Woodman, on his return to America in the N)vember of that year, left her behind him at Paris, in the family , of a friend, for the benefit of the highest medical advice which the science of the French metropolis could supply. Mrs. Woodman, in tile absence of her husband, soon contracted an unfortunate intimacy with one Gerard F arness, an American adventurer, who, having tritixplued over her conjugal fidelity, speedily commenced •an infamous system of extorting from the weakness aid the fears of his mistress the means of supplying his own exravagances. Tha allowance she received from her husband, though on the most munificent scale, was son found inadequate to supply the incessant demands of her paramour.. Before she quitted Paris, Furness had connived to obtain 1,690 dollars from her in hard cash. She returned to America, and the man followed her. His influence over her appears to have beea unbounded, and he exer:el his power by means truly diabolical. At New Orleans, having incurred a eeb.: o!' some hundred dollars at his hotel, he forced contributions from his infatuve I victim, by threats the most brutal and unmanly. To satisfy his exigencies, the woman sold lace shawls, jewellery, everything with which she could part without fear of detection. As time advanced, his persecutions grew ye more intolerable. He resorted to open plunder and per sonal violence. He would go into her room, open her drawers, and carry off whatever was most valuable. " When I was going to a ball in the evening," says Mrs. Woodman in her di 'writ, . 5 ' be would come into the NM end take , my jewellery and put it into his pocket, and refuse to let me have it to wear unless I gave him money, telling-- ma thal, if I went out without it, Mr. Woodman would insist on knowing where it was gone; so I would make every effort to raise money for him; sell everything in my power —my dresses, rich embroideries, icc., &o. Most of the articles I sold to ladies of my acquaintance ; made excuses about my health, about going back to Paris, &c. I sold most of myj very handsome hankerchiefs—some of them cost 25 or 30 dollars apiece, my velvet mantilla, my lace, flowers, &c.; in short, I could not keep my jewellery, or anything valuable in my room." All was in vaia. The drain was incessant and unappeasable, and scenes of less importunity were frequently followed up by acts of the coarest and most unmanly personal violence. During a great part of this time the lady appears to have been living in various hotels in New York, while the husband was immersed in dollar-making at Ne w Orleans. At length the scandal reached his ears. He came unexpectedly upon his wife and her persecutor under circumstances that could leave no possible doubt of the truth of the worst rumours that had reached him. Now comes the most extraordinary part of the narrative. The almighty dollar again put in its claim, and the " wealthy merchant of New ()cleans" was once more hurried south ward by its irresistibile exigency; his wife's state of health forbade her travelling with him, even if he had been inclined under the circumstances to burden himself with such a companion. It was necessary, how ever, to put her out of the reach of Furness, and Mr. Woodman reserted to the expedient (which but for the recent case of Mrs. Talbot in this country we should have considered original) of shutting her up as an insene person in the private lunatic asylum of General M'Donald, at Flushing, in Long Island. Bofore going to the asylum, the wife, in presence of her husband, his friend, and his legal adviser, had made a full statement of her owe criminality and of Furness's persecutions, the substance of which statement was subsequently reduced to writing by the lawyer, and sworn to by Mrs. Woodman, in the presence of a commissioner. She had not- been long in the asylum when an application was made to the Supreme Court of New York—notoriously, if not avowedly, at the instigation of Farness—for a writ of habeas corpus to remove her from the custody of General M'Donald. The application was supported, amongst other grounds, on several letter s purporting to have been written by Mrs. Woodrhen to Furness from the asylum, imploring him in most passionate terms to assist her in escaping from the durance to which, as the writer alleged, the tyranny of a husband had consigned her. Whether these letters were or were not genuine can only be a matter of conjecture. The probabi lay is that they were so, and that the woman found the constraint to which she was subjected so irksome, that as a last and desperate mode of escape from it she betook herself to the man for whom, in spite of his infamous misusage, she still cherished a weak and guilty a ff_ction. Upon this state of facts the Sepreme Court was ob viously placed in a somewhat curious predica ment. Those who applied for the habeas corpus relied on the letters of the lady, as to the genuineness of which grave doubts might possibly be entertained ; those who opposed the concession of the writ were equally urgent to avail themselves of the affidavit, to the authenti city of which considerable suspicion also attached. It had been drawn up from statements made by the wife under a _species of duress, amid tears and sobs, in the presence of an outraged husband, and of the lawyer who consequently redueed it into the form of a narrative. The counsel applying for the habeas cor pus other words, the advocate for Furness, whose object clearly was to get the lady again into his clutches—ad dressed the court in a strain of argument which, on this side of the Atlantic, seems somewhat original Evidently the popular f ee li ng went w i th the lady and the paramour, and the court was sorely puzz'ed whether to receive or not to receive the affidavit of Mrs. Woodmen as evidence. Their deliberations on this point, which they had taken a day's time to consider, were happily cut short by a communication from the lady her self, who announced, throigh her counsel, that she wished all further proceedings to be discontinued, as she had been in the interim released from the asylum, and was about to precced, under the escort of her brother, to the residence of her parents in Mississippi. The reading of this document produced, we are told, an extraordinary sensation, " and the, court and all concerned seemed immensely relieved." It is not for us tc draw any general moral from thee extraordinary proceedings. Our American couisin4 are laudably sensitive to European, and especi ally English, opinion ; and, if we were no venture to suggest that the almighty dollar worship, the free-and-easy hotel and boarding-house lift, continental travel, and cosmopolitan opinions, had somewhat tended to relax the domestic moralities of the upper ten thousand —we should, of course, be vnntering on exceedingly dangerous ground. We will leave the task of improving the occasion to the American press : —" In jading the parties to this scandalous inquiry (says the New York Evening Post) let us beware that we do not visit upon one or two individuals, sins for which all of our fashionable sooiety is more or less responsible. Rich and well dressed profligates are a prominent, and we had almor, said, the favourite feature of the New York drawing room. Oar city is even now rife with other stories of intimacies as disgraceful as anything which has been dis closed in the relations of Mrs. Woodman and Furness, and, we blush to add, quite as mercenary. We have no social standard which sets a mark of infamy upon the roue. If he dances and dresses well, and has leisure to devo'e to the entertainment of idle women, there are always enough to be flattered and beguiled by his attentions into familiari - ties which result in dishonour, if not in disgrace." Our kinsmen ought to be well acquainted with the phenomena of their own social state; but certainly if the facts revealed in this scandalous case are to be taken as not exceptional, but illustrative, then it is quite claer that the great centres of transatlantic opu'ence have not entirely escaped from the cirrupting influence of sudden wealth and boundless extravagance. NEAPOLITAN GOSSIP.--. A Paris correspondent, writing under date of Nov. 17th, says :—" Amidst the press of other matter we seem to have forgotten the many politi- cal prisoners in Naples almost as much as the government itself has forgotten them. To remove any man, and put him into darkness and silence, when suspected of liberalism, seems to be the great object ; and then, for the future—why, let him lie and rot. This is no exanora tion, for many, alas, limo I known to have thus pined away in imprisonment or exile until death has come as a relief to them. Many are at this moment in this position. I shall head my list with the name of an old man, called D 3 Lnna, who is eighty-one years' of age, and is imprisoned in St. Maria Apparente; he has fallen into his second childhood. Then there is the son of an Englishman, caled Thither, and anoter man, called Aiascilli, who have been ten or eleven mmths in close coafi a moent ; the former is the only son of his mother, the latter has a wife and family; and many members of the family of Angesilao Milano, who was hanged last year, are configed there; and one called Gentili, his cousin, has been taken from the underground prisons, and confined as a hectic patient to the prison hospital of St. Francisco. There are a great many more there on suspicion and without trial, and whom it is never intended to bring to tri 11. When their families are ruined, and they are broken hearted, or enfreloled, they will be let out, per haps, to celebrate the bir.h of another Bourbon under the surveillance of the police. I have news also from Montesarchic, where a lady bas lately been to see her husband behind the bars. Poerio was present in hie prison dress, he having refused to ask for any favour. The other prisoners were in plain dress; but all wore a chain. And now for a visit to the prisoners of Salerno. The sdrocete for the defence is no longer permitted to see TO PUBLICANS. AN experienced Married Man, without incumb ranee, is desirous of a SITUATION as Manager of, or Barman in, aWi e and Spirit Vaults. Can haveAtnerseeptionable references.-I,:pply, to W.• 0... N., 13, Myrtle-street, Liverpool. OT4t ilortijrni Titan SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 38, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. The Bank Returns published in last night's Gazette, exhibit an increase of X7BB;CTS in the stock of coin and bullion. There is an increase •of - £870,655 in the reserve of notes, and the total reserve of coin in the Banking departments amounts to £:2,308,368. The Government note of Nov. '1.2, has, therefore, become a dead letter, the total amount of notes being, now conformable to the Bank Charter. A very influential meeting for the furtherance of India Missions has just been held in London. The Archbishop of Canterbury presided. It was pro posed to double the number of emissionariea; to urge upon the Indian Government the necessity of subdividing the bishoprics of Calcutta and Madras, and of establishing bishoprics in the Punj rub and elsewhere; to encourage the establishment of industrial boarding schools for the benefit of native children ; to erect memorial churches at Delhi and Cawnpore; • and to promote other collateral objects.. The resolutions said nothing specifically about any of these objects, but in general terms supported the -Society for the Propoz,ation of the Gospel in its efforts to evan gelise the natives, and recommended that missions should be established in the principal cities of India, and that every available Means should be employed to prepare native Christians for the work of the ministry. The Bishop of London spoke of the insurrection as "a great and mys*.er7ous disaster." Th e Bishop of Oxford looked upon it as a proof that the Almighty had quarrelled" with England for having " cowered before time Pagan Idolatry of India.. " Vim,Chan cellor Page Wood strongly advocated the extension of the-episcopate in India. The London Times is out in a "thunderer" upon the East India Company, denouncing its ruledn nu very measured terms It says :—" The double . Government, which is the type of obstruction and circumlocution, has had its day, and must now give way to something better suited to the present time and to actual wants. . We are. happy to .say that as soon as Parliament meets for the despatch 'of general business the total abolition .of the Company's Government will be proposed by Ministers. India will be brought immediately under the control of the Crown and Parliament, with such a machinery o' administration as shall be thought conducive to its welfare." The Morning Post, however, comes out very warmly. in - the defence of the Company. What does this mean - ? One Ministerialist organ attacking, another defending, the rule of the .Leadenhall street potentates. In the year 1852, when Lord Derby . was. Premier, he delivered a • speech on the. East Conpny's charter, in which he is alleged to- have'kitnted that " with the act of 1833, the Court of Proprietor.; ceased. to have any' control or interest whatever in the affairs of India. The whole business of the court of proprie tors at this moment consists in receiving the divi' dends upon their stock, and in electing the main bers,of the Court of Directors ; further than that, they have no function whatever to perform. It is true they may meet and discuss together, but, with regard to the legislation of India, any decision or vote of the whole court of proprietors need not exercise the slightest influence over the conduct of the Government." The Secretary of the Sheffield Foreign Affairs Cammittee lately wrote to Lord Derby to know if he really expressed himself in these words. That nobleman answers that he haS no doubt he did; 'bu at any rate he believes the, statement itself to he in substance correct.' The Lord Advocate of Scotland has been enlight ening the inhabitants of Leith on his opinions And prejudices on the Indian mutinies. The Lord Advocate is M P for Leith Burghs, and, in his address, he thought all ought to be very cautious in forming He opini o n s as t o w ha t h a d led to the H mutiny. e did not believe there were ten men in the country who had such a knowledge of our Indian possessions and the Indian government as Would entitle them to speak in a tone of ordinary confidence. The whole smbject- was a matter for solar inquiry. He had real and heard a great deal about India, but the moral he drew from all was, that in regard to India, as a matter of. political government, he knew absolutely nothing. Give him the men who had been there—such men as Sir John Lawrence, Mountste - ,vart, Elphinstone, or Sir Thomas Munro—who knew the people, and were capable of understauling the races they dealt with; he would listen to these men with the deep est respect. Dr. Livingstone has not yet 'left the shores of Old England. He was to have proceeded by the Peninsular Mail for Lisbon, which left South ampton on Thursday, but the epidemic is makinc , such fearful ravag e* i n th e cap i tal of Portugal. ' that the celebrated traveller has considered it best to pogtpone his visit. The :Seott.ish Hospital Anniversary. which is to take place in London on Monday, is to be a great national pageant. Lords Russell and Macaulay will be present ; and the Bishop of London, wh) is a Scotchman, and a dcfscendant of King Robert Bruce, will also at tend. It is stated that the manifesto recently issued on the subject of Reform, is now lying for signature in London It has already received the approbation of a large number of- Reformers of various sections. It was not intended for publication before the names were attache:!, but did not escape the vigilance of the public press. When signed it will be placed before the country to be ap proved or modified as the public may determine. Its reception by the press in London and the provinces has been remarkable, and the sig na t ures, when published, are, we are informed, lik e l y to remr.ve any suspicion of its being a party m ove . went. Mr. Roebu.;k, al. hough thoroughly identified with the proceeding, has no other prominence than having convened the first meeting at Palace-yard, of which he was chairman. A London paper adls that no arrangement has been made for any permanent leadership, either in the Hottse of Commons or outside it. It was only the other day that we mentioned that a magistrate had been struck off the rolls, fined in a heaty sum, and was sentenced to imprisonment for 12 months. This is not the only ease of Justices the captain of the Cagliari, though he has seen him tae before. The other prisoners he has never seen, and het their defence is to be conducted it is difficultste conceive, On the 28th inst. a commission will try the cause as to whether the Cagliari is to be confiscated ; and it to said that so many obstacles have been thrown in the will IP justice that the case will not be defended. The opirlie n of those who have studied the case is, that in law it he ler , can be maintained that the Caglia r i i s a l aw f u l capture; b e, we must act according to orders, said one of the cemtniggi° n " Last Friday, the 13th inst., a telegraphic message W l ' sent to Naples, ordering the instant dismissal of De Falco, the chief custode of the Vicaria. It has made some sensation here, because everything almost assumes political character, and the opinion of some is, t hat 11 : will be made to bear the sirs of his su p er i o rs in hat rin f denied to • the prisoners at Cagliari the privileges i t which they were justly entitled. I see no grounds, however, for this supposition, as the refusal to permit the prisoners to see their counsel, has b ees made by the Minister of foreign affairs to the Sarah li f i r minister, and to the B r itish a cti ng consu l. M in t opinion, and amongst I , ga l men t oo , i s , th a t when - grand criminal court of S a l erno mee t t o cons id er the ne"- f ..accusation of the Attorney General, the English prisone rg will be relieved. It is t o b e t rus t e d, h owever , that tiled matter will not be permitted t o e n d th ere , f or th e insults ° the injury have been b o th comm i t t e d, an d are not to be atoned for by tardy liberation. Th e governmen t has againbegun to distribute books, to th e num b er o f 6,000 coP ieli containing the documents presented by L or d P e ltnersten ° l : Neapolitan affairs, accompanied by cr iti c i s ms on British Government. The box containing these boob • arrived in Napl es a b ou t two mon th s s i nce, a nd consigned to the police, i s w h ose h an d s i t h as b een detain ed ever since. PCALIC DINNER TO THE MAYOR OF LEICESTER b oa Wednesday evening, o n e o f th e l argest pu bli c di nn ers e ve ' ,, held at Leicester was given to Joseph Underwood, to celebrate his re-election to the office of mayor; similar event haviog only occurred once before in the municipal history of the borough during the last 400 Ye° r l The dinner was given at the Three Crowns Hotel, upwards of 200 gentlemen sat down, including the 1 80° of all the parties in the town. Alderman Whetstone I °° ' sided. Amongst the sp ea k ers were L or d B :rners , 'i' H. Frewen, and Mr. J. Briggs, M.P.—Lord Berner° , 7 3 the course of his address, s t a t e d th a t h e h a d j us t receiv e intelligence, that the health of his nephew, Ge nera Wilson, at Delhi, was completely res t ore d. H e eongr°""; lated himself that s o near a re l a tive of We had b e A e et permitted to propose the health of Her DlRjesty in palace of the Great Mogals.—Mr. Edward Ellis, in 114 ; ponding to " The trade of Leicester," narrated l a incidents he had met w ith i n a recent tour i n t h e rfn i m States ; and express e d hi s sa ti s f act i on th at , d u ring w . present commercial panic, there h a d b een no White I 0 Leicester. AMUSEMENTS, &c. TILE AMPHITHEATRE.-11.r. Anderson, the wizari of lest week, and tragedean o f th e presen t, per f orme d at the Amphitheatre on Thursday night, and last night. part of Rolla, in Pizarro," Jock Howieson, in craelon'o Brig," Rob Roy, and William, in Black-Eyed Suga rs ' t were the characters selectei by Mr. Anderson to disP ikr i his capabilities as an actor. Our crowded space will allow us to enter into any len g th ene d not i ce o f M r . Anee", son's performances, of which we shall only ray that al° are spirited and effective, the Scottish characters espeni ell j e so, and that they indicat e a ca p ac i ty on t h e pa rt of I ' o actor to have attained a very high degree of distinotinnt i % in this path of art, had h e th oug h t fi t to co nfine b i attention and study wholly to it. T o - n i g ht M c . Anders °n 0 makes his last appearance f or a lengthened ' , vie d .. l o f Liverpool, and we feel no d ou bt th at an apprediati" the merits of the performer, as well as a natural desire. see the wizard in a character out of his wonted line) wi mr gather together a large audience. ,The prineipal.oloor in which Mr. Anderson will app e a r tonight, is fra tiu ' rl Steenie, in the " Rose of Ettrick Vale:" HENGLER'S CIRQUE, DALE STREET.—The attractio ns the circus during the week have, as we a nticiPe t L brought full" and fashionable at en d ance i, an d '— universal expression of all, was unbounded approbation; In the annals of equestrian entertainments there a e l , was a greater no ve l l y th an t h e rea l stag hunt introdneeo bli and the immense s uc c ess it h as attained. in Pu b estimation is a proof of its excellence. We have alt e the given our opinion of it o n more t h an one occasion:end' enthusiasism of the crowded houses nightly, is a P r° we were right. Everyone should see it. SATURDAY EVENING PEOPLE'S CONCERTS AT ST. GEORGE'S HALL. Notwithstanding the chance of the opening of ihe Ass i by the Judge's airival at an inconvenient time to-1 0 10 the organ performance will take place in St. Georgd° ; 1 1 this afternoon, and Mr. Hime's " People's Concert' ba given in the eveni ng . Th e great attraction at the 111/to ge' will, doubtless, b 3 the " Orpheus Gl ee U n i on ," an Distin's solo on the horn, for pe formances such as thel combining excellence with novelty, will always Com m si as preference, however goo d o th er perfoanances, vra' e3, " hie be heard every wee k, may b e . W e hear that is proll is , that an attraction of a different kind will also be f 3llll for St. George's Hall to-day. Mr. Frank Howard's dolg a ir one of the windows i n th e was . s id e w i ll be put up °roof; spsction. It will be remembered that this transparencl,oo - exhibited on the day that H.R.H. the Duchess of %). orc l b idge, with the Princess Mary, the Countess of Derbyt. Es cl Stanley, and a fa s hi ona bl e party f rom Knowsley, 'rls„llf the Hall. The subject represented happened accideerrtir to be highly app ro p r i ate , v i z., " L ord Stanley at 13 0 " 1 of field, putting th e crown upon the head of the -El Richmond," and her Royal Highness complireent e '„„hicl/ Frank Howa r d upon hi s d es i zn, and the mode i° ”.„011 he proposed to ca rr y it out . L or d S tanley was a lso w o f interested in the later, which is quite different to o s previous adaptation of s t a i ne d g l ass to w i n d ows of : 11 , to character and si ze . Mr. Frank Howard proPa -e ot ter dispense with all sash-frames, saddle-bars, or all t tie°, arbarary divi s i ons o f the window, and to make the 0 ' „ ' a of an historical subject carry the different Pi ec ,hele coloured gl ass , so as to suggest the idea of the ' t i n ier window b e i ng cn one p l ate of glass, but, at the ssra e w bicli ensuring an a mount o f li g h t and richness of colou r ,_ t he can only be att a i ne d b y the use of glass coloure d I ' l o l, making, instead o f b y t h e use of semi-opaque ens painted on white glass. HALODZY'S HUNGARIAN BAND AT ST . GEORGE'S S - We have received a programme of the intended Ptbe formances of this celebrated military band- i ' ll ,,J)er morning they will commence w i th the overture taw gill W ill Freischii' z ," a n d a f ter a quadrille and a polkas tore' a selection fro m V er di' s popular opera ~n TroVs tO The second part w ill open w i t h R oss i n i' s g ri lle.Qvgt " Guilla ume Tell," and after so me wa lt zes an d a ( 1?, - )10 finish with th e f avor i te march from " Le Prophet°. Ole Armstrong will sing the "The Minstrel Boy," and sa d Dream of Joy," In the mornirg,—Miss S tlu ' s •arat ' Mrs. Molt will si ng Kii c k en ' s duet, "Onward, ua o f and Mendelssohn's duet, "The May Bells," 00 0 1it i r elf prettiest compositions. Th ere w ill b e en en different programme for the evening. A d Alb er f A CHILD SCAL D E D .—Yesterday a child, nam - ti y °- Edward Monday, was scalded to death by a cl u3n hot water falling on him. „Av. s mac ACCIDENTAL D E A TH ----Yesterday George Via—di ve d 10 aged 70 years, wh o res id e d at S t. A nne ' s alley, consequence of injuries he received by Wing de w.° some time ago. , Bolt, LEWIS AND COMPA NY ' S N EW E STABLISIM ENT CLOTHING.—Number of boys clothed for the wee k p e k 13 0 Saturday, November 21st, 675; corresponding we year, 395 ; ircrease, 280. rat her Tan WEATHER, fo r th e l ast few d ays , has Wo w the variable and severe. Although, during the dal, frost last week, it was fine overhead, there was he a l, odd at night, and s ome slight falls of snow. The re indication of a smart winter. $ O l AMERICAN AND CANADIAN MAILS —The E ur° • a ith t he Mail Steamer, Fails this day for New York, w st the American and Canadian Mails. The letter 11 the General Post-office will be open to one o ' cl ock gee usual course, and till two with fees. The box 011 ditioo will remain open up to three for letters, with all i r e i s sdivo stage by late fee of la each. The passengers leave tender at two o'clock. T he COI 1 4gi nl T he' b 4 n , 41 Mitta , ^ph k • , I e 't f '4 m al 41°41 th e a , ktl.tn., te i 4t ikteh :