The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-25 00:00:00

COURT AND TABLE TALK.

STERNE.--The celebrated writer Sterne, after being
long the idol of this town, died in a mean lodging,
without a single friend who felt interest in his fate
except Becket, his bookseller, who was the only person
that attended his interment. He was buried in a grave-
yard near Tyburn, belonging to the parish of Maryle-
bone, and the
.corpse being marked by some of the
resurrection men (as they are called), was taken up soon
afterwaris, and carried to an anatomy professor of
Cambridge. A gentleman who was present at the dis-
section, told me he recognised Sterne's face the moment
:he saw the body.—Life of 3falone.

EMBELLISHMENTS OF PARIS.—The terrace on the
water side of the garden of the Tuileries is now opened
to the public. On the eastern extremity of this terrace,
before the orangerie, the following works of art have
been placed :—Hercules killing the hydra of Hernaca,
the cowering Venus, and the reposing Cleopatra--in
bronze. The statues of Alexander the Great, Telma in
the role of Augustus, of the Centaur, and the group of
wrestlers, are in white marble ; and so are two groups,
six statues and five groups in basso-relievo from Sebas-
topol, four vases, the Death of Lais, by Meusnier ; Atlas,
by Thisdon; Phmtu.s, and other marbles of great value.
THE KING OF PRUSSIA.—The malady of the King
has become sensibly worse during the last week, and it
is generally feared that the life of the illustrious patient
is now fast drawing to its close. The physical pains
from which his Majesty has been suffering have rather
decreased, but the mental derange rent has become
greater than ever before. The King is now said to
be under the influence of visions and hallucinations
of a fearful nature. Sometimes.at night he will start
up from his couch, and, addressing the imaginary
spirits around him, will fill the air with his cries; and
then, again, at another time, he will sit for whole
days and nights in a state of complete tatit)or, taking no
refreshment and uttering no sound. The gardens of
Sans-Souci, where, until within lately, he used to be.
wheeled about in a chair on rollers, now see him no
more, and he is, to all appearance, dead already to the
outer world. Visitors, walking on the rose-crowned
terraces of the New Palace, sometimes see a thin shadow,
pale and trembling, flitting in front of the windows,
above, and are overcome with involuntary awe, on being
told—" Das its der kranke Konig !" And all this at
the favourite residence of the most genial of Prussian
kings, the place built expressly to banish cares—Sans-
Souci.--Berlen correspondent of the Cowl News,

MANSLAUGHTER BY A SCHOOLMASTER.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

On Monday, at the Lewes Assizes, Thomas Hopley,
forty-one yews old, a person of gentlemanly appearance,
surrendered to take his trial upon a charge of the man-
slaughter of Reginald Channel Cancellor. This case
created the most intense interest, and the circumstances
will he familiar to most of our readers. The following
resume, however, from the Times will revive recollection
of the circumstances. The prisoner, we may state, was
found guilty, and sentenced to four years' penal servi-
tude.

. Reginald Channel Cancellor was the son of a man
of fair position in society. His father sought out
for him a school of reputation and a master
who had the credit of being a man of high
attainments and a successful teacher of youth. Mr.'
Hopley was to receive £lBO a-year with his
pupil, and there was every incentive, therefore, to
the tutor to endeavour to do his best by the boy.
Unfortunately, he did not understand the, lad who had
come under his control. Young Cancellor was labotir-
ing under disease. He had water on the brain. He
was stolid and stupid, and he could not learn. He was
silent when asked to repeat a sum in arithmetic which
he had just been taught, and he did not know, or, as his
schoolmaster thought, affected not to know, the difference
between a sixpence and a shilling. This was a case for
medical custody and gentle treatment. Mr. Hopley took
a pedagogue's view of it, and thought it was a case
of obduracy, to be broken down by force. He flogged
the boy, and, as it did him no good, he told the father
that the punishment must be increased until the autho-
rity of the schoolmaster was established. One morning
young Cancellor was found dead in his bed. The body
was carefully covered over. It had white kid gloves
upon its hands, and long stockings drawn far up over
the thighs ; nothing was visible but the face. Hopley
suggested that the boy had died of the disease of the
heart, and wished a certificate from the surgeon, and
immediate burial. At one moment it appeared likely
that the whole affair would be hushed up. But myste-
riOus stories of midnight shrieks and blood-stained in-
struments of punishment began to be whispered about.
The servants had seen blood upon the linen in Mrs.
Ilopley's room, and had heard sounds which convinced
them that the miserable wife had spent the night in the
frightful task of preparing the body to pass a superficial
investigation, and in getting rid of the traces oT vio-
lence which would testify against her husband. Then
came the real investigation. The gloves and the stockings
were stripped off, and the legs and the arms of the
corpse were found to be coated with extravasated blood,
" the cellular membranes under the skin of the thighs
were reduced to a perfect jelly; in fact, all torn to
pieces and lacerated by the blows that had been
inflicted." There were two holes in the right leg, about
the size of a sixpence and an inch deep,
which appeared
to have been made by jobbing a thick stick into the
flesh. The appearance was that of a human creature
who had been mangled by an infuriated and merciless
assailant. 411 these appearances coincided but too
faithfully with what was now learnt of the oonduot of
the schoolmaster. A servant girl who slept next to the
pupil.voom heard the boy crying and screaming Under
blows, and her master talking and beating. She listened
at ten o'clock, when the torture was going on,
and she awoke at twelve, and it was still proceed-
ing. Then the cries suddenly ceased, and nothing
after was heard during that unquiet night hut
the stealthy movements of thg wife, who was,
with womanly devotion, doing her fearful task of hiding
the traces Qt the tragedy. There is nothing to be said
for this man. Every one must feel that four years of
penal servitude' is by no means too severe a sentence for
the crime he has committed. It may be true that Hop-
ley thinks that severity is the only way to break in
stubborn boys. But to beat a boy for two hours with a
thick stick and a skipping rope, to macerate him, to
"prod " him, in private and at midnight, is not disci-
pline, but murder. The case has come out much worse
than the preliminary investigation prepared us to expect,
and we hold it up as a warning, not loss to parents than
to schoolmasters,

At Stafford Assizes, on Monday, three chain-makers
were sentenced to five years' penal servitude for the
wilful destruction of the bellows at a manufactory in
Brierley Hill, belonging to Messrs. William Stewart, of
Liverpool, and where non-unionists were employed, the
prisoners at the time being oiit on strike.
ANOTHER STEAWiER WRECKED. -On Saturday a
telegram was received from Vigo, communicating the
wreck of the screw steamer Jovellanos, which got on a
reef of rocks in the bay of that port on Friday, and re-
mained. She was on a voyage to London, and left
Barcelona on the 7th, Her keel is reported to have
been carried away, and the ship is dichqgiug her cargo.

DESTRITCTIVE FIAT:. IN NOTTINGHAM.—OR Saturday
night the premises of Messrs. White Brothers, lace
manufacturers and merchants, Warser-gate, Notting-
ham, were almost entirely destroyed by tile ; and goods,
consisting of fancy laces and edgings, Spanish mantillas,
&c., were consumed or irreparably damaged to the
amount of from £6,000 to £414(100.
THE COAL SUPPLY TO THE METROPOLIS.—The
quantity of coal carried to the metropolis for the. six
months ending July 1 has been 714,838 tons, 3 cwt.,
against 582,054 tons 13 cwt. for the corresponding period
of 1859. Of this the London and North Western car-
ried (in round numbers) 324,619 tons ; the Great North-
ern, 255,120 tons ; the Eastern Counties, 56,061 tons ;
the Great Western, 32,686 tuns; the Midland, 24,931
tons ; the South Western, 9,438 tons ; the South Eastern
8,221 tons; the Hertford, Luton, and Dunstable, 3,283
tons.

The case of David Wemyss J obson, who has been
under examination at the Westminster Police Court for
some time past on the charge of having published some
gross libels on Sir James Fergusson, M.P., was again
gone into on Monday. The major portion of the sitting
was occupied with the examination of Sir James Fer-
gusson, who gave a point-blank denial to all the state-
ments vOiich had been made against him by the defendant.
Sir James was subjected to a long and extraordinary
cross-examination, after which Mr. Jobson was commit-
ted flu trial.
THE ZOUAVES LONDON.—The Zouaves—who are
announced as about to commence at the Princess's
Theatre a series of performances in Landon, will, we
have no doubt, produce a considerable sensation. Their
theatrical entertainments in the Crimea were patronised
by the Commander-in-Chief of the allied armies, and
tended, more than anything else, to divert the minds
of the soldiers from the misery which surrounded
them, and to prevent the demoralisation which accom-
panies military inactivity. At Varna, at Gallipoli,
at the Tchernaya, and before Sebastopol, the extem-
porised performances of the Zouaves were the chief
recreation the French troops had ; and so important an
element of discipline did the Zouave theatrical troupe
become, that towards the close of the campaign, the
members of it were prohibited from arswering the
call to arms, lest any of them Should be killed. But
the bullets of the enemy did their work, neverthe-
less. Qriginally numerous, their numbers gradually
diminished. The sorties of the Batterie Blanch, the
Carenage, and the Malakoff, were sericeA aff,airs,
which interrupted the perfortna,nees,
and cost ,...,0re0,
July, -Marie, Deleuze, and others, their lives. But
Glatigny, Sebastien, Frederick, Lucien, Hetinger, and
teOn; escaped, and are now in London, to
away from the smoke and hubbub of tie battle-tiel4,
those episodes which cheereci their conipatiion% and
helped them to kill Vine itl4!l,l4ei were 41 th,;... :latches
befoie
troupe I,s ;oroplete in itself,
the I,eru* personages Ltelng represented by one or two
of ite Male members.

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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY.

KOSSUTH IN PARIS.—According to the Opinion
Nationale, Kossuth and his family have arrived in Paris.
Alberto Mario has just been appointed by Garibaldi
head of the National College of Palermo.
Spurgeon's sermons, some of which contain severe
remarks on the slave institutions of the United States,
had been burnt in the Virginia Court-house.
Chateaubriand's sister, the Cauntess de Marigny,

whose 100th birthday was notieed some few weeks ago
as having made a sensation at Dinan, died at that place
on July 17.

In the "Almanach Imperial" for 1861, just published,
the Duchies of Tuscany, Parma, and Modena, are no
longer down in the list of independent States. Their

names are not even mentioned.

The Quirinal, which arrived at Marseilles on Thurs-
day from Civita Vecchia, had on board two sons of
Queen Christina from Rome, Count Munoz, captain of
cavalry, and Count de Orlino.
THE FRENCH EXPEDITION TO CHINA.—On the 25th
of May the various ships, which had sailed from French
ports, had brought to China 6,800 men, or a total of
7,500, of which the French expeditionary corps is to he
composed. It is stated that part of the artillery,
embarked on board the Frets, has been recovered.
POSTPONEMENT OF THE ENROLMENT OF RECRUITS
IN FRANCE.—If we are to believe affirmations which
seem to be well-founded, says the Penpagatear de
Lille, the call to active service of the recruits of 1859,
which ought to happen at the end of July, has now
been ordered to take place after the harvest only, that
is to say, in the last two weeks of September. At the
same time the municipal councils are to be elected all
over the French empire.
WILD ANIMALS IN THE PUNJAUE.—The news from
the Punjaub is not of any importance, if we except the
alarMing annual loss of life occasioned by the ravages
of wild animals. From a tabular statement showing
the number of wild beasts destroyed, and the loss of
human life caused by them in this province during the
past year, we learn, with great regret, that the latter is
absolutely appalling. The number of children alone
amounts to 467. The largest casualties are principally
in the Umritsur division, for the city of that name lost
42 ; Goordaspore, 144 ; and Sealkote, 161.—Bombay
Telegraph, Jane 22.

MISGUIDED PATRIOTISM.—A letter from Pesth of the
13th July reports the following •—" Yesterday evening
most of the students took part in a eharivari.' with
which they regaled the ears of the once much cele-
brated Hungarian actress, Miss Bulyovsky, who lives in
this town, and is just now seriously ill. Thisnrtiste has
of late gone over to the German stage, and is to enter
her new engagement at the Royal Theatre, Dresden, on
the Ist of September. When the riot was at its highest,
an officer of the police arrived, and ordered the young
men to withdraw, but they would not do so until a
party of 'soldiers made their appearance."
A STRIKE IN LONIBARDY.—A communication by the
Messager du Midi states that the operatives in Lombardy
are striking for an advance of wages. The printers
began, and their example was soon followed by the
masons and smiths, who have compelled employers to
accede to their demands. Domestic -servants afterwards
turned out, and demanded to be paid in francs instead
of Milan line of 77e. each. At Modena and Bologna
the market people tried to raise their prices, and the
consequence was that a number of disorderly boys
joined the servants in an attack on the provision stalls,
and the pavement was soon covered with broken eggs,
fruit, and vegetables. At Como there are nearly 4,000
persons usually engaged in the silk manufacture, who
have all struck for higher wages, and as they hays
nothing, to live on, the town is obliged to feed them:
TRH JESUITS.—A letter from Rome, of the 14th, pub-
lished by the Monde, says :—" The Jesuits are merci-
lessly expelled from Sicily. There were 308 of them,
and they left, followed by the regret of every respectable
person in the island. They were compelled to pay an
exorbitant surn for their passage from Palermo to
Rome, in a sailing vessel, which was five' days making
the voyage. A Maltese, whose piety recalls the days of
Pagan persecution, entreated several of these worthy
monks to go on board his ship, and to sanctify his house
by living with him at Malta till the return of peace. A
few of them accepted the offer. Others, whose health
and age require a southern climate, are gone to Spain ;
the younger portion, on leaving Rome, proceeded to
Louvane, and Presburg, in Hungary. The same 'fate
will befall the Jesuits of the kingdom of Naples, 196 in
number. The Constitutional Government has already
dismissed them from the colleges of which they had the
direction."

THE REBELS IN INDIA.—We understand that a party
of Mayne's Horse, under Captain Bradford, had a fight
with a body of rebels on the ith instant, near Ragoo-
ghur, in which Lieuenant Jennings was shot through
the heart. The rebels, supposed to be the debris of
Tantia Topee's followers, came down from Jaktun,
crossing the Betwa river, near Bhilsa, and then passed
up by Seronje. We presume that this is the same body
that has been disturbing the little Raj of Banswarra.—
Bombay Standard, June 22. The Bonbay Telealaph
of the same date says :—" The Begum of Elude is not
dead as was reported. She is alive, and is hale and
hearty ; but apparently quite sick of the miserable life
she is leading in the hills, where she is deprived of all
Asiatic luxuries. Her son, Birjiskuddur, is said to be
unwell. The native impression is that the Goorkhas
will, on no account, give up the Begun], because the
Ranee of Lahore was not given up by them when she
was demanded by government. Ferozeshali, one of the
Delhi Shazadahs, and the colleague of Tantia Topee
during his declining fortunes, has managed to elude all
his pursuers, and to reach a haven of temporary safety.
He arrived at Candahar in March last ; and after a
short sojourn there, proceeded on to Persia ; whence,
we suppose, he will proceed Mecca-wards—being a
religions zealot, rather than a political intriguer."

How TO CURE MONOMANI A.-A painful case has
been submitted to the Tribunal of Correctional Police
of Roehefort :—" A Spaniard, represented to be of ex-
cellent family, and possessed of a good income, named
de la I 3 was accused of stealing a silver spoon and
fork from the table d'h3te of the Hotel du Bacha,
in that town. The robbery was clearly proved, and the
man himself admitted the fact. Moreover, various
articles of plate, which also turned out to be stolen,
were found irk his trunks. But his advocate contended
that he ought not be condemned, inasmuch as he
had committed the robbery under the influence of
monomania, which he could not resist. In proof of
this, the learned gentleman stated that in Spain, for
numerous robberies of the like kind, he bad been con-
demned altogether to not fewer than thirty-two years'
imprisonment; but, in consideration of his mental
infirmity, had been pardoned by the Crown. He stated,
too, that though unable to abstain from stealing, the
prisoner never sold the articles abstracted, but kept
them for a time, and then sent them back, carriage
paid, to the owners. As a further proof that the unfor-
tunate man was not a thief, but a monomaniac, the
counsel mentioned that when he came into France he
was charged by a friend to remit 11,000 f. to a banker
at Marseilles, and that he executed the mission with the
strictest fidelity, but could not resist stealing a silver
fbrk at a table d'h3te ! Notwithstanding all tins, the
tribunal held that the monomania was not sufficiently
proved, and condemned the prisoner to five years'
imprisonment."

THE NEAPOLITAN PRISONS.—A Naples correspon-
dent of the Nord gives details of the horrors of the
Neapolitan prisons :—" The recent. amnesty, by opening
the doors of numerous prisons, has revealed the horrors
which took place there, and the state in which they were
kept, a state far surpassing the frightful description
given of them by Mr. Gladstone. Many of the unfor-
tunates who have just emerged into daylight were fear-
ful to see-,emaciated, stupid, 'indecently naked, as they
Were. Hair, and beard, and nails of many years' growth,
rendered still more frightful these victims of police
ferocity. Fourteen young men had been kept four
years in solitary confinement, and their sole fault was
that of having been at college with Agesilao Milano,
who had.left college six years when he attempted. the
late king's life. Many of these, though they were not
30 years old, had quite grey hai,r. rant all their suffer-
ings are nothing in comparison to those of the gendarme
Attanasio D,ranitrus, a friend of Milano's. Solely and
unjustly inculpated in the attempt of the latter by
friendly letters which he had addressed to him, in
perfect ignorance of his intentions, this unfortunate wan
was kept shut up in the damp and filthy daxigeous of
Santa Maria Apparente for four years, without seeing a
living soul or hearing a humaa, wkioe. Once in 24 hours
an invisible hand gave him a morsel of bread and a drop
of water For some time after his release this Irian re,
niained in a state of bewilderment at the daylight and
life aronnd him. He has now set off to serve under
Garibaldi, and .Longo and Dilifrarki, who were 13 years
in prison, have also left with the smile intention."
EMIGRATION Tu CANADA.—The whole number of
emigrants who sailed for Canada in 1859 was 8,781,
and, 12 births and 15th deaths having occurred on the
voyage, the number that landed in .the colony veal 8,778;
of these 1,720. were cabin and 7,058 steerage passengers ;
1,583, or 92 per cent., of the catii.p passengers, and 2,724,
or 38.49, per cent., of the steerage passengers were con-
veyed in the steam,ships which sail periodically irese
Liverpool and Glasgow for the St. Lawrence. Thee.
vessels made the voyage on an average fromeration of
1858 in 11 days, and from Glasgow in id. Th
that of 1859 showed a
1858 having amounted to 12,506,
decrease of 3,81,5 ; the decrease
iwaasyifirionitheteemi:dr)e:taionnd
from the Invited Kingdom (especially from
itl thittle
former
from Sweden and Norway,eat ail "
the latter to nearly
c,___.o; those assisted to emigrate
case to nearly 33
34 per cent. The. nikrAucd:w,as
142,
among whom were
Ql by public. or. Ark:: t'Llohn don ragged schools, for whom
PAtll,`l from • found, as
q readily they were generally
stout,B-AultiaTtive lads, willing and anxious to make tivsoai,,
selves useful. The whole number of persons who entered
Canada last year by the St. Lawrence.
aPoil fora the
United States is estimated at 20,249, the munher who
left 13,940, leaving in the colony 6,309,

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ABANDONMENT OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY'I
POSSESSIONS IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY.—We under-
stand a notification has been sent, on behalf of the Hud-
son Bay Company,
to General Harney, informing him
that the company intend to abandon their possessions at
Vancouver, on the hank of the Columbia river, in Wash-
ington Territory. This abandonment, it is said, is caused
by General Harney's forcible seizure of some of the com-
pany's property, and his declaration that the company
has no right, and has had none during the last year, to
occupy the :End which they claim in the territory. The
abandonment is accompanied by a protest, which, we
presume, must go to headquarters ; so here is another
subject, for international grumbling and quarrel betwe to
John Bull and Brother Jonathan.—Alta California.
CAUSE OF THE RECENT INDIAN WAR--Sever
San Francisco newspapers attribute the recent Carson
Valley war against the Indians to the brutal treat-
ment of the aborigines by the frontiersmen. Tb
original is represented to have been the finding of :
house lately inhabited by white people burned to th
ground, with the bones of its former oecupan
among the ashes. This occurred at Williams station
in Carson Valley. The conclusion was at oa e
formed that the Indians were the aggressors— a
assumption that seems to have had no valid foundation
The frontier settlements are infested by reckless adven-
turers, who shoot down or otherwise maltreat the
Indians without the least compunction. The San
Francisco Herald well says that "the savages requ
protection from the more brutal of their white neigh
bolus quite as much as the whites require it from Is
Indians. It is evident that the government :thou