Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-12 00:00:00

Exclusively for CLOTHING BOYS from 6 to 20 yew, ILBWIS & COMPANY, Ranelagh-Street. ROBERT MULLINER, (successor to Gong? Co.), (Late with Win. Horne, London), :CARRIAGE AND HARNESS MANUFACTURER, So and RI, GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL, a,IANUFACTOIZEIL 07 ICVSItY DUSCRIPTION OF FASHIONABLE CARRIAGES. (Pe Agent for the Patent Dioraples, for ?chid& a Prize 3fedat teas awarded at the Great Exhibition. "A Great Variety of New and Fashionable CARRIAGES always on iTew, which are ready for immediate use. Estimates given for repairs. CARRIAGES TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. Good Standing on moderate terms. Carriages sold by Com. mission. Merchants suppliel with Carriages for exportation on liberal Stal3. BOYS' CLOTHING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE At LEWIS & COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-street. Coinuicrriat - sates.—Ebb Dan. At one o'clock, 15 barrels and 4 cases India Rubber.—Browne, Hunter and Co. At half-past one o'clock, at Golding and Nash's saleroom, Corn Exchange, Brunswick street, 1,503 barrels Flonr.—J. and M. Harnett. At one o'clock, at the broker's office, 14, Fenwick-street, 280 barrels Western Cased Flour.—Lane and Rigby. • At one o'clock, at the broker's office, 30, Exchange-street East, 54 bales, and a quantity Louse New Orleans Cotton:—Percival, Campbell and Co. At twelve o'clock, on the ground, west side of Brunswick Dock, a quantity of Timber.--:Farnworth ani .13rdine. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 10, Water-street, 1000 bags Rio C,ffee.—Hall and Jones. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' offic', Apsley-buildings, 20 casks Argots, and 6 casks Cream Tartar.—Bower and Slack. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Victorla-buildings. ilackin's hey, 500 bales Jute.—Sower and Slack. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 8, Lancaster-buildings, 92 half-barrels Jamaica Coffee.— and 11Iengens. At twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, 13, Tempest-hey, about 25 tons fine Sapan Wood.—John ttowlinson. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, ApAey-buildings, street, 130 tons Rio Bache Divi Divi.—lto )k.e, Okelt and Speuae. At twelve o'clock, at the broke:'s office, Victoria-baildinp, Hackin's hey, 100 bales Jute, and 1,400 bags Bengal Rice.—T. W. and J. C. Harrop and Co. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 258 casks Australian Tallow, and 31) casks Cocoa Nut 011.-131 gland, Sone, and Jeffreys, For particulars see advertLsements. IMUSEAIE:irS, PUBLIC iMEECINGS,:Scc THIS DAY. P. arm. AmPRITHEATILE—DYMIIatIEPerfOrRISTICO-7 p.m. MINGLES'S GRAND CIRQUE WARMS, Dale-street-7 pan. Tairrortic HALL (Upper), Lime-street—Diorama of India-2 p.m. Clusam's HALL, Bold-street—Valenthie Vonsdea-8 p.m. FaszliAsores HALL--Gallery of Anatomy-11 a.m. to 10 p.m. ALLSOP'S CRYSTAL PALACE, Lime-street-10 a.m. to 10 p.m. ROYAL CoLossaux —General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. ZOOLOGICAL GeaDEms—Grand and Varied Entertainments. SESSIONS HOUSE, Chapel-street—Pablic Afeetting-1 p.m. g 4" For particulars see advertisements. Eke Parton iimpo FRIDAY. JUNE 12, 1857 THE DAY'S NEWS. In the House of Commons, last night, the Vaccination Bill was introduced and read a first time. Mr. V. Smith at some length detailed the alterations which have recently been made in the regulations of the service for officers in the army in India. The New Insurance Bill will, according to Mr, Wilson, be introduced next week. This gentleman stated that, on the first vote of the civil service estimates, he will make a general statement as to the nature and causes of the ineaease of charges under these estimates since 1852. Mr. Wise introduced the subject of the Dutchy of Lancaster. He complained of the very prodigal expenditure indulged in, and at some length proceeded to analyze the receipts and ex penditure. He showed that the revenues of the Duchy were eaten up by burdens, and only existed on paper. During the last 19 years the total revenues were £722,900, of which only £251,000 went into the privy purse, and the outgoings were £171,960. The hon. member enumerated the number of officers, and their salaries, connected with the Duchy, and appealed to the Government to provide a remedy. Mr. M. T. Baines de fended the administration of the affairs of the Duchy, and said that economy for some years past had been exercised. and, after some conversation, the matter dropped. Mr. Kinnaird called attention to the administration of justice in India, and moved resolutions to the effect that the present administration of the lower provinces of Bengal does not secure to the population the advantages of good government, but that the mass of the people suffer from oppression from the police, and the want of proper administration of justice, and that it is desirable that the government should take imme hate steps to inquire into the social condition of the people, and to ascertain what measures of amelioration have been taken, and also that such report be laid -on the table of the House Slr. Dunlop seconded the motion. Mr. V. Smith opposed the motion, and defended both the Government and the India Directors for their proceedings. We are in possession of three day's later news from the United States, and it is rather of an im portant character. General William Walker and staff had arrived at New Orleans in the steamer Empire City, via Havannah,which reached the first named port on the 27th ult., with the California mails. General Walker and the force under his command, two hundred and sixty men—all that remained of his army—abandoned Nicaragua on the Ist May, were received on board of the United States sloop-of-war St. Mary, in which vessel they were convoyed to Panama. The Costa Ricans were permitted to take no part in the terms agreed upon between General Walker and the American commander. It is stated that the immediate cause of Walker's surrender was a threat of the commander of the St. Mary to seize the schooner Granada. Walker was enthusiastically received by the people of New Orleans. The despatch from which we learn these particulars calls it a capitulation, but it was a run for life, and a narrow escape at that. Walker and 260 men—all there were left of the grand " army of liberation," took refuge on hoard the United States sloop of war St. Mary, at San Juan del Sur, and were landed at Panama. Thence they came to Havannah, on the Granada, and connected there with the Empire City from New York for New Orleans Thus ends, for the present at least, one of the most flagrant piratical crusades that ever disgraced a civilised nation. No doubt there will be grand parades and rejoicings over the head filli buster, whose marches through the Isthmus are distinctly marked by the rude groans and bleaching bones of the hundreds of credulous dupes who followed him in his unhallowed career of blood and crime. New Granada has ceded an island in the bay of Panama to the English as an offset to the Mclntosh claim. Lieutenant Strain, the leader of the Darien exploring expedition, died recently on the Isthmus. The news from California is un important. The Illinois left Aspinwall on the 19th, with two millions in treasure. Some of the New York journals publish the inaugural address of the President of New Grenaila, which they pro nounce as " a remarkable document?' He recog nises the necessity of cultivating good relations and intercouse with the nations who, under the influence of Christian civilisation, have become the depositories of science, arts, and power. The causes of the present political degradation of Spanish America are touched with a philosophic and truthful spirit,' and the necessity of time to effect a change in the ideas, prejudices, habits, and social condition of the people, are insisted on in a calm but strong manner. The message closes with some remarks upon the proposed federation of New Granada. In another column we publish a start ling narrative of the villany of Elder Pratt, the Mormon missionary, and his tragic death at the h an d s of an injured hpband. The account put.. ports to give the facts in the case pretty ntich as they occurred up to the last act of the drama, and from it may be learned what ruin may be worked by a .specious scoundrel, and the lures of a false and licentious faith. 4- Pratt, it appears, was a missionary of the Mormons at San Francisco, and while there he fell in with a weak-minded woman, wife of a person named M‘Lean Ultimately, this woman eloped with Pratt, and on the parents of M'Lean's wife learning the heartrending intelligence, they begged that her three children should be sent to them. This the injured husband consented to, and the children, in due time, arrived at New Orleans, and took up their residence with their grind parents. The children's mother, in the meantime, learned these facts, and proceeded to New Orleans and visited her parents. She got hold of two of her children, and departed with them. Her husband leafned this, and immediately left San Francisco, arrived at New Orleans, and passed on to St. Louis, where he had heard the guilty wife, her two children, and Norman elder, were staying. He arrived there, had Pratt arrested, and tried for abduction and seduction. Pratt was acquitted, and left St. Louis, on his way to the Salt Lake City. M`Lean followed, overtook, and shot him, so that he died in two hours. Such is the sequal to this melancholy affair. ' • There is not much domestic news of importance this morning. At a special general meeting of the members of the University College (London), held on. Wednesday, a resolution was adopted con demning the proposal of the Senate to make persons eligible to become candidates for degrees in arts and laws 'who have not received a colle giate education. A conference of ministerial advdcates of the Maine Liquor Law is now sitting at Manches'ter. We are afraid the reverend divines will not do much towards ridding the country of the scourge of intemperance. They would no doubt go much further than Mr. Hardy, "and altogether close up, not only beer-houses, but public houses.. A Lon. don cotemporary in noticing the discussion . in the House of Commons o n thi s su bj ect , says :—" The multiplication of coffee and beer-shops haS been one great step to social amendment; they have helped to antagonise the gin-palace, and deserve encouragement rather than restrictive and tyranni- cal legislation. The allegation of increased drunkenness, however, is a gross fiction, and we are glad to find it was so pointedly discountenanced by Mr. Ker Seymer and Sir George Grey. The course taken by the latter was highly honourable to the Government, for he, of course, represented their views, as regards the Beer Bill It is well that Ministers should not lend themselves to this system of peddling interference with the interests of large classes, without any solid or suffi cient reason. Nothing would he more likely to damage the popularity of the Government, than straight-laced legislation, under, the pretext of im proving the morals of the humbler orders, whilst a profound deference is shown to the habits and indulgences of the wealthy. The classes who patronise beer-shops are acute enough to detect any one-sided measures for abridging their com forts, and courageous enough, as they have shown, to rssent what they deem insult and injustice. The destruction of property by the fire at Pick ford s warehouse, in London, is much greater than was at first supposed. There are various rumours as to the origin of the fire, but none of a positive character. By some it is alleged that the fire was caused by the sparks from the chimney of one of the'barges igniting some hay or straw in the gal lery ; by others, that it was from one of the men's pipes, or a lucifer match. Certain, however, it is that the premises, with all they contained, are destroyed, and the estimated loss altogether is little short of a quarter of million of money. It is stated that at least 40,000 quarters of corn were in the building, the whole of which has been burned. Yesterday the Hon. and Rev. John Thomas Pelham, D D., was consecrated to the bishopric of Norwich, at St. Marylebone Church, by the Arch bishop of Canterbury, who was assisted by the Bishops of London, Gloucester and Bristol, and Ripon. Prayers having been read, a sermon was preached by the Rev. Henry Venn, D D., Preben dary of St. Paul's. The Bishop elect was then presented to the Archbishop. who went - through the usual form of consecration, and Dr. Pelham is now in unbroken contact with Peter the Fisherman and Paul the Missionary Apostle. In our paper of yesterday we alluded to the exclusion of reporters from the interview with Lord Palmerston on the subject of Medical Re forms. From an account of that deputation which appeared in the columns of three of our contemporaries, it might appear that we had made a mistake as to the exclusion of the reporters. In the Globe we find a notice of the deputation, con cluded by the statement that " the reporters were not admitted." The Morning Post mentions the same fact, and adds that the gentleman sent from that journal was refused admission We beg to assert that no person in the remotest degree con nected with the reporting department of the daily press was present at the interview with that depu tation. Has Lord Palmerston turned reporter? At the Court of Queen's Bench, yesterday, Sir F. Thesiger moved to make the rule absolute which had been obtained in this case against Lord Ernest Vane Tempest upon the prosecution of Cornet Ames for a criminal information. Therule had been enlarged once or twice in consequence of the solicitor for the prosecution not having been able to serve the rule. The rule called upon the defendant to show cause why a criminal informa tion should not be filed against him for assaulting Cornet Ames, and for inciting that officer to com mit a breach of the peace. The learned counsel said that he had the affidavit of a person who had been to the house of the defendant and had attempted to serve the rule. When he went he saw a livery servant, who said that Lord Ernest Vane Tempest was not in, and that he could not give it to him until he came in. He hoped the court would make the rule absolute, as there could be no doubt that Lord Ernest Vane Tempest had purposely got out of the way for the purpose of avoiding the service of the rule. Lord Campbell said there could be no doubt that this was so, and he and his learned br )thers were of opinion that the rule ought, therefore, to be made absolute. Rule absolute accordingly. _ Of local news there is nothing calling for par ticular attention this morning At the approach of the elections, a general lull seems to spread over France. Instead of the bustle, the liveliness, the noise, the debates, the discussions, the vituperations to which we are accustomed in England on such occasions—signs of vigorous health and superabundant energy—a silence like the silence of despair and utter hope lessness, broods over the whole country, from the Rhine to the Mediteranean. The government has spoken words of sham encouragement and unmis takeable menace ; and no real response has been given. Mr. Billault's circular has deceived no one, but it has angered no one. The electors saw bayonets and cannons bristling between its periods; but this has always been the case with Imperial proclamations and addresses. They learned nothing from the carefully con structed sentences—nothing,' save that the cha racter of the government under which they suffer is unchanged ; that it is sternly resolved, whilst making the most moderate professions and uttering the most honeyed language, to stifle in its birth an y aspiratio❑ after liberty, to trample out every reviving spark of eourage ere it is fanned into a flame. The other d.iy the Swiss Federal Assembly met at Berne, and a committee was appointed to con sider the message .of the council proposing the acceptance of the treaty relative to Neufchatel The President of the Assembly spoke strongly in favour of accepting it. WE are not among that class who entertain doubts as to our supremacy in India ; neverthe less it is but fair to admit that the accounts received by the last few Overland Mails, justify an uneasy feeling respecting certain revolts which are reported to have taken place among the native troops. According to advices from Umballah, dated April 21, they had burned their lines, and .killed or wounded several European officers. At that date we are told that the sepoys were in a dreadful state of excitement. Meetings and discussions on the all-absorbing topic: were frequent, and the worst was anticipated. "Where the matter will end," writes a corres pondent at Umballah, .‘ it is impossible to say, but that the crisis is at hand, which will see either the destruction of the growing hydra, or the subversion, in some measure, of the authority of the British Government, is apparent from existing circumstances." This is, no doubt, an overdrawn and highly coloured pictuie. Still it contains as much of truth in it as must satisfy the most sceptical, that there is among the native army of India a disaffection sufficiently strong, and extensively spread, as to be dangerous to the existence or interests of the Government.- The occurrence of mutinies is not unusual, but their extinction has been effected with comparative facility. All military history shows that they are common incidents connected with an army. Hence it is that they are calculated upon, and the means to be taken for their repres sion provided. The most unsatisfactory portion of the late news from India is not of a mutiny, but the fact that similar incidents had taken place at distant points of the territory, Coupled with the no less disagree able idea, that where direct insubordination had not been shown, there were unmistakeable signs of turbulence and discontent. As far as the information which has reached us, 'the cause assigned for the disaffection of the native troops, is " the uncleanly nature of the cartridges given them to use." To us this may appear flimsy and fallacious. Not so to the native soldier in India, who is influenced by religious prejudices, and ideas of ancient date. To interfere with either would be both impolitic and dangerous. In such a case, the better remedy to apply would be a timely and graceful concession, attended by some measure which would teach the people whom we have to rule, a salutary lesson of obedience to the constituted autho- rifles. But we fear we must look beyond the issue of " uncleanly cartridges" for the origin of the entemtes among the Indian sepoys, Our experience of this arm of the British service tells us that it is not because they are idle" that they have become discontented; and that the discon tent and disorders which have taken place cannot be traced to the fact that they have no more kingdoms or territories to conquer. Although brave and hardy in the hour of battle, and ready to sacrifice the last drop of his blood in vindication of his Sovereign, we cannot regard the sepoy as a soldier in the ordinary accepta tion of the term. He enrols himself as a soldier not for the sake of fighting, but simply that he may belong to what he regards a profession, and which will impart to him more comfort, and give him better pay, than any other to which he could resort. It, too, gives him a life of semi -idleness, and ensures him, provided he outlives the service, a /small provision for old age. This feeling accounts for the fact that there is: no lack of recruits for the Indian army. Under such cir cumstances, we think that it is unfair to accuse such an army of being instigated in their late conduct at Meerut, Barrackpore, and Umballah, from a sheer desire of military glory and dissa tisfaction, with their position as a soldiers. We must, therefore, seek for other causes—and that, too, in a different region. Any reflecting mind who has watched narrowly the policy of Russia—its overweening anxiety to strip England of a portion of her Indian Possessions—will at once confess, in all probability, that Russian gold and Russian influence is at the bottom of the matters upon which we write. At resent they may not be practically engaged in the perfidious dzsiga of attempting an attack upon our Asiatic Posses sions; but we all know that in times of profound peace, and when we were on terms of the closest friondship with St. Petersburg, aggressive designs such as we have suggested were entertained, and engaged the serious attention of the late Czar; and that now we are only feeling the influence of schemes concocted during our occupation of the Crimea—a period when reinforcements to our decimated army were on their way to the Red Sea and through Egypt. We also know how the military deeds of the allied army before Sebastopol were• chronicled in India. England was always held up as weak and ineffective, France all power and efficiency. When a field was fought, and the truth narrated. the Russian version instantly appeared, so that one would almost suppose it had been an extraordinary edition of the St. Petersburg Gazette, supplied by electric tele graph. It is to this that we are disposed to trace the present spirit of turbulence which reigns in the Indian army. The masses of the population; who always have some grievance to put forth, influence and act upon the army. One supposed weakness instigates ignorant and desperate men to gain th . eir objects by force and violence. If not curbed in time, it may go too far,. and the peace and welfare of 150 millions of people— not to speak of our mighty commercial interests which are at stake—demand instant, energetic, and, severe measures of repression. On those who have charge of our affairs rests a deep and weighty responsibility in this mo mentous matter, If there be anything in #49 igrqr t : rtr 4f iry , THE NORTHERN TEVIES.---LIVERPOOL - VRI'DAY, UN '147: treatment of the Indian soldier which causes him to feel discontent, in GOD'S name let it be remedied ; but if, on the other hand, he has been, as some of the Indian journals would lead us to believe, " pampered into insolence, flattered into unfounded pride, and bribed into doing his duty by pecuniany largeeses," it is only a reason for our fears that it is foreign influence, and not social grievance, which has set in train the series of mutinies which have taken place.. THE Guardians of the West Derby Union have had another meeting, and another display of that coarse and ungentlemanly demeanour for which many of them are noted. Elevated t) a position which places in their hands a little bit of patronage, and the exercise of a small modicum of power, they seem to forget what they were, and who they are. Many of them exhibit a sensativeness bordering upon the ridiculous, and in the vindication of what they deem their honour and rectitude, make themselves laughing stocks before the world, and most clearly demonstrate that they cannot interpret the legitimate meaning of a simple sentence ; in a word, that they do not understand common English. The random shots of such feeble intellects as that of Mr. I. EDWARDS should not have caused Mr. PITTS to exhibit so much impatience, and give to the public food for a hearty good laugh. The sallies of wit to which persons of Mr. I. EDWARDS' mental calibre give utterance, should be treated as they merit — with silence. A yea or a nay should be given to his questions : nothing more. This is the way such characters are treated in more august assemblies, and it very soon cures thein 'of their contemptible satire. Passing by this interlude of last 'Wednesday's proceedings, we come to the more important matter of Dr. NEVIN'S case; and here again, we find at full work a spirit of extreme illiberality, bordering, we would say; upon petty persecution. This case was introduced by the clerk reading a letter from Dr.NEvists, acknowledging a resolution of the board passed at its meeting on Wednesday se'nnight. This resolution, it will be recollected, referred to the report of the Poor-Law Board on the investigaton made by Mr. MA.NWARING, as to the allegations contained in an article which appeared in these:columns headed, for the purpose of attracting attention, " Rattle his bones over the stones," and which was written by Dr. NEvINS, and called upon the Doctor to do one of two things—apologise or resign. The reading of the Doctor's reply, of course, caused the deepest attention. Many of the Guardians had already quailed before his ejaculatory effusions, and, being unable to controvert his statements, have become his bitter and determined opponents. To use a homely phrase, every " ear was cocked," to learn whether apology or resignation was the word of adoption. His friends looked for the former, and his enemies prayed that it might be the latter. But when the clerk came to that manly declaration, " Apologise further, I shall not —resign, I will not," consternation seized the ranks of Messrs. Shaw and Company, and upon the countenance of each might be observed the gathering storm—a last effort to rid themselves of a gentleman who despised to act the part of a coward, and nobly told his masters—" If I adopted either course"—apology or resignation —" my conduct would be attributed to fear —a sentiment with which I have yet to become acquainted." Now, as Dr. NEVINS has determined to refuse any further apology, or to resign, let us see how far he is correct in the course he has adopted, and whether the resolution which Mr. SHAW carried, by a majority of one vote, is warranted under the circumstances. In doing this, we have only to refer to two documents read at last Wednesday's Board, viz., the Report of the Poor Law Board, and Dr. NEVINS' letter. The first is, as Mr. SHAW termed it, " the decision of the judges who tried the case." What do the Poor Law Commisioners say, after having " carefully considered Mr. MANWARING'S report, and the evidence by which it is accompanied ?" Why that Dr. NEVINS "wholly failed to substantiate the charges preferred by him against the Board." This, however, be it observed, does not do away with the fact that there were just and reasonable grounds for the charge. The case to which we alluded in yesterday's issue, respecting the petition of Mr. SIIEDDON to the House of Lords, on Monday, is a convincing proof that charges, although not absolutely proved in law, may be strictly correct. Men generally come to the consideration of judicial matters with a mind predisposed to support the ruling powers ; and hence it is but natural to 'expect that Mr. MANWARING would report in favour of the Guardians, gentlemen with whom he is in some degree obliged to associate, but cannot control. Now, although Dr. NEVINS may not have proved his case, it does not follow that the statements which he made were entirely without foundation. The next point in the Poor Law Commission ers' Report, is the statement that Dr. NEVINS, by publishing the charges which he did, was guilty of disrespect to the Board, and considers that it is questionable whether he should be permitted to retain his office. To this, however, they add a saving clause, and intimate that quite enough has been made of the case, and that as Dr. NnvrNs has well and truly discharged the duties of his office, the Guardians " should be satisfied with the expression of their opinion'.' contained in the report, trtoting that Dr. NEVINS would "in future confine any complaint he has to make, ks to defective medical arrangements, to the proper channel." All this amounts nothing more than that Dr. NEVINS, in his anxiety to have the medical wants of the paupers properly attended to, was over zealous, and that those who now seek for his dismissal are only getting up a " tempest in a tea-pot." The Doctor's letter, which called forth the debate on Wednesday, is next to be considered. In that communization he notices the origin of the quarrel between himself and a section of the Board, and reiterates the charge that it "is neglecting its duty to the sick who are under its care in the workhouse," and in proof of the statement, asserts that he is still left without the necessary assistance which he requires, unless he pays for it out of his own pocket. The other part of the Doctor's letter is a frank and an honourable expression of regret, that if anything which he has written during the controversy has wounded or hurt the feelings of any Guardian, he is sorry, and desires to retract it. What, we ask, could be more honest, open, and honourable. He still complains, and justly too, that he is not afforded the proper help which the medical department of the workhonse requires. Recti tude, and a determination not to be bullied by a section of the Board, induce him to decline further apology. What he wrote served to satisfy gentlemen of education, standing, and position in society ; for we find when Mr. SaAw moved his resolution of "expulsion," that the Rev. Mr. TATTERSALL said that from what he could learn of the case "he thought Dr. NEVINS had made as much apology as he could in the letter that had that day been read." Mr. SHAW, our readers will observe, is the fugleman of the party who is thus endeavouring to hunt the Doctor down. Well, this gentleman was the leader of the onslaught on the medical officer on Wednesday. He made a speech which contained :nothing but a tissue of vague and illogical assertions, evidently showing that before he aspires to be a debater, even in a Workhouse Board-room, he should get lessons in some elementary discussion class, where he will learn the first principles of disputation- Mr. SHAW upset his own argu ment—at least what he pretended to be an argument—in supporting the resolution which he proposed, by stating, " I will not say that the Board was right in refusing him the assist ance, nor will I say that they were wrong." This is Jesuitry of no mean order. Mr. SHAW voted that the assistance Dr. NEVINS asked for should be refused ; yet he is not in a position to say whether that act was right or wrong. This statement places Mr. SHAW on the horns of a dilemma—he may chose which he will sit upon. Either he is so ignorant of the question of right or wrong, or he is a coward, and dare not vindi cate the course he pursued with reference to the matter. If Mr. SHAW cannot—or will not —say that the Board was justified in the course it has adopted, his whole harangue against Dr. NEVINS goes for nought. The resolution moved by Mr. SHAW was carried, as we have said, by a majority of one vote. That resolution requested the Poor-law Board to call upon Dr. NEVINS to resign. When it reaches London, the Commissioners will naturally enough look at the yeas and the nays, and as men of the world will say, why Dr. NEVINS is not the obnoxious animal that Mr. SHAW represents him. Ten vote that his letter is an ample apology ; eleven, including the wicked " IIAMAN" of the Board, are all that condemn his proceedings. We cannot—we will not—order the resignation; for it may be, on looking at the names of the minority, these ten men are, on the whole, persons of much greater intelligence and influence. To grant the prayer of the " Eleven of all West Derby" would he an insult to the minority. Such, we say, will be, in all probability, the feelings and opinions of the Poor-law Commissioners, when they read the resolution passed in the Board-room of the West Derby Workhouse, on Wednesday ; and as they have already, in an indirect manner, r ea d a lecture to Dr. NEVINS, they will, no doubt, find occasion, and justly too, to snub the majority of eleven, of which the leaders are Messrs. SHAW and EDWARDS. The public are weary and sick of this unprofi table squabble—controversy it cannot be called; and we trust that, seeing that Dr. NEVINS has done all in his power to heal the wound that has been opened, they will sustain a gentleman whose professional attention and solicitude for the well-being of his patients, the bitterest enemy which he has upon the Board dare not question, and confirm him in his position as the medical officer, irrespective of the snarls and yelps of certain self-sufficient but ill-natured Guardians; and that they will discountenance the reported project of employing a resident medical officer, who will do their bidding whether it tends to the benefit of the Union or not. CONSECRATION OF THE BISHOP OF NORWICH.---Yester day morning, the Hon. and Rev. John Thomas Pelham, D.D., was consecrated to the bishopric of Norwich, at S . Marylebone Church by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was assisted by the Bishops of London, Gloucester, and Bristol, and Ripon. Prayers having been read, a sermon was preached by the Rev. Henry Veun, D.D., Prebendary of St. Paul's. The bishop elect was then presented to the Archbishop, who went through the usual form of conseora tion, saying—" Receive the Holy Gh-Jst for the office and work of a bishop in the church of God, 110 W committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands, in the name a the Father, and of the So;,, and of the Holy Ghost Amen. And rememb; r that thou stir up the grace of God which IS I.t thee by this imposition of our hands, for God but of power i ll o a T t s h: nd ot so g b i e v r e n n es u s s . is a brother of is f h ea o r p , ce as an ecclesias tb.S Earl of Chichester, to whose influen ce, his appointment. " the Th sp e tr n i e t new bishop tieslcommissioner, he is said to come by TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. [By BritiA and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.] FRANCE. M. de Fould has left Paris for England, with the object of visiting the Manchester Exhibition. Marshal Randon, after reporting his own losses in the expedition against the Kabyles, estimates the number of the enemy killed at 400, and wounded at 800. The Pope arrived at Bologna on the 9th instant. The crowd was immense. The Paris Three Per Cents closed yesterday (Thursday), at 68f. 10c. HEALTH COMMITTEE ACCOUNTS. --- Yesterday were issued, the annual accounts of the Liverpool Health Committee, in the form of an octavo pamphlet of some twenty-four pages. Respecting the - township of Liverpool, we learn that the amount in the hands of the bankers, Messrs. A. Heywood, Sons and Co., on- the 31st March, to the credit of the Health - Committee was £7,139 14s. Bd. The net income derived from the paving rate, (including a sum of £4,900 received from the Treasurer of the Borough fund) was £40,358' 19s. - 4id. The ordinary expenditure of the year, on account of paving, was £37,799 153 id, (in cluding £4,063 Hs 51 due to the bankers on the 31st March, 1856), and the extraordinary expenditure at £9,547 lis 2d, making a total gross expenditure of £47,430 is 9d, or £7,071 2s 4jd more than the income. The amount received for the sewrage rate was £12,709, against an outlay of £15,707. The general rate collected amounted to £16,079, against .416,936 expended. The amount received for the paving rate for Kirkdale was £4,644 (including £1,843 in the hands of the bankers at the beginning of the official year). The expenditure under this head was £2,450. The sewer rate collected was £4,332, and the expenditure £5,007. The general rate was £584, and the expenditure £531. With regard to the township of Everton, we learn that the paving rate collected was £5,647, which with £3,000 in the hands of the bankers, amounted to £8,647, against an outlay of £5,646. The sewer rate collected was £6,592, and the expenditure £6,431. The genera rte reached £1,774, against an expenditure of £1,583. The paving rate for West Derby collected was £9,313, which, with £2,126 in the hands of the bankers, made a sum of £11,439, against an expenditure of £13,723. The sewer rate reached £9,451, against an expenditure of £10,226. Toe general rate collected was £1,559 against £1,802. In Toxteth Park the paving rata collected was £6 785, and an extraordinary income of 294. The expenditure was £2,867. Tho sewer rate collected was £13,271, and the expenditure £13,781.. The general rate reached £3,198, and the expenditure £3,501 • The total income of the year was £161,714, and the -total expenditure £175,924, leaving a balance due to the bankers a sum of £14,224. THE COTTON SUPPLY ASSOCIATIONS MEETING TO-DAY. Today there is to be a meeting of the association for promoting the increase of the supply of cotton. The question is one of deep importance to the country, and we have no doubt that the gentlemen who are to take part will satisfactorily demonstrate that the ideas which the association contemplate are quite practicable, and will not be attended with the serious consequences which some of our correspondents fear. The state of oar cotton supplies, and the latest accounts respecting the growing crop in the United States, are sufficient to induce merchants and manufacturers to look a-head, and not only to inquire what is the remedy for the apprehended evil, but to act with promptitude in the matter. This consideration should pervade the breasts of all who attend the meeting—namely, that whenever we can draw a supply from oar own Colonies it should be done. We should not foster and feed the foreigner at the expense of our own enterprising fellow countrymen, scat tered over the entire globe in the various British pos sessions. But while we are anxious for the extended cultivation of cotton, wad deem it essential to the prosperity of the United King.lom, the meeting to-day will do well to ask themselves if there is not any fibre which can be obtained aad mindfactured that will decrease the demand for Cotton, and, at the same time. open new fields of enterprise and pecuniary advantage to all persona co icerned. We believe that there are. And we understand that Mr. Smith, from Wel lington, New Zealand, wi:l attend the meeting to-lay, and submit specimens of New Zealand Flax, in its living state, and also when cut down ands dried. Oar readers wilt recollect that Mr. Smith attended the banquet given on board the Great Tasmania, prepa ratory to the sailing of the Oliver Lang for Wellington, in September last, and delivered an interesting speech, as to the capabilities and encouraging character of the Colony. Mr. Smith, who has been a resident of some sixteen or seventeen years in the col .ny, tells us that there are millions of tons of New Zealand flax growing wild ; that it can be applied to a variety of purposes for which cotton is used,—from the finest cambric down to the strongest cable rope. Now if this is so—and we hare no reason to doubt it it becomes a question of the deepest importance to this country to take the matter up, and see how far the skill and ingenuity of Great Britain can turn this important article ta advantage. Indeed, infantile though the Government of New Zealand be, we learn that it has offered a reward of £4,000 for the discovery of any process by which the native flax can be converted into an article suitable for the looms of England. Specimens of the . fl -tx will be sub mitted to the meeting. These, although small, will, - we have no doubt, be deemed sufficient to satisfy all coneerned that the New Zealand flax contains all the useful and important properties which the colonists set forth, and when the meeting hears the statements which will be made by parties who have resided there, we feel satisfied that some steps will be devised to test the practicability of employing it in many useful and important commercial purposes. We shall enter more at length upon this subject on an early occasion. THE COURT, WIND96I, Jur 10.—The DuChess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge, arriv e d yes terday Lady Geraldine afternoon on a vi visit x toal her Home Somerset,Tyrwhitt. The Hereditary Prince of Saxe Meining en an d Prince Edward of Saxe Wei m ar also arrived on a visit to l o e M a jesty, i at ten d e d b y ne Par r i s, an d C o l. the Queen. The Duchess of Sutherland, the Marquis o f Breadalbane, the Marquis of Abercorn, and Earl Spencer, lik ew i s e arrived at the Castle, The Duchess of Kent (at tended by Lady Augusta Braes) and the Prince of Leinin gen dined with her Majesty in the evening. The dinner party comprised the visitors staying in the Castle. The band of the Royal Horse Guards played during dinner. The Queen's private band afterwards attended. Prince Frederick William of Prussia arrived at Dover on Wednesday, and immediately proceeded to Windsor Castle. The Archduke Maximilian, brother of the Emperor of Austria, is hourly expected at the Castle. The confinement of the Queen of Spain is expected to take place in the middle of October. . THZ ARCHDUZI MAXIXILTAN OF AUSTRIA.—A govern. meat telegraphic message was received at Portsmouth, on Wednesday afternoon, intimating that the Grand Duke ArAnitnilian of Austria might be expected to arrive every hour, by an Austrian war steamer.