The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-27 00:00:00

THE DUNDONALD MEMORIAL IT:tin.

A subscription has been commenced in Liverpool for
the purpose. of erecting a monument to the memory of
the late Earl of Dundonald, better known as Lord
Owl -cane, , A considerable amount of money has already
been ;collet-4A with little or, no solicitation: and the
list Of 'contributors will be found in our advertising
coimuns. We cannot doubt for a moment but that the
people of Liverpool will hasten to come . forward to
share in this just tribute of respect and gratitude_ to the
memory of one of Britain's very greatest naval heroes.
The general talents of the late Earl of Dandonald were
worthy of Ilts professional ones. In his letters and
speeches evidence Will be found of a quick and powerful
mind. He enjoyed a high reputation for his scientific
attainments; and he suggested, as is well known, several
valuable hints for the improvement of-our steam navy.
He was also emphatically the sailors' friend, so that the
object now proposed has peculiar claims upon the
numerous 'mariners who frequent this extensive port.
The personal appearance of Lord Dundonald, in June,
1855, has been thus described :—Fancy to yourself a
broad-built Scotehman, rather 'seared than conquered
by age, with hairs of snowy white and a face' in which
intellect still beams through traces of struggle and
sorrow and the marks of eighty years of active life; a
slight 'stoOp takes away from a height that. is, almost.
comuian4ing. Add to these a vision, of good old-
fashioned, courtesy colouring the whole man, his gestures
and speeches.
There is now being exhibited in the windows
of Messrs, Webb and , Hunt, Castle-street, an
excellent portrait of his lordship, the property of
Admiral. Grenfell, to whom it was, presented by our
public-spirited townsman, Mr. Bramley-Moore. .

AMERICA.

ATIR/VAL OF THE EUROPA.

The- royal tnai4 st carnet Europa, Captain Leitch,
arrived. in the Aersey last evening, with dates
from New York-of the 13th, .Boston the 14th, and
Halifax the 1.50-1.

. The New Yuri:: 11:,:rter! of the 13th inst., in an
article on the administration of Pfcsident Lincoln,
says:,—" The. true policy
.of the President elect is
simple and easy. It is marked out in the federal
constitution, and in the compacts and compro-
mises thereof, touching this peculiar Southern
institution' of slavery. The„Fugitive Slave law
is only a special embodiment of one of these
constitutional compacts between the North and
South. Let it be faithfully adhered to, and let
those other provisions of the constitution re-,
cognising and protecting the sovereignity and
the local institutions of the several States,
slavery and all, be respected by Mr. Lincoln
in all his administrative acts and recom-
mendations. and he will soon have a party
at his back which will not be limited to the
northern side of Mason and Dixon's line. To
this end he should seize the first occasion that
may offer for the proclamation of his• views and
proposes to the country in connection with the
great office to.which he has been promoted, in
order that, on the one hand he may quiet,• With-
out delay, the apprehensions of the South, and,
on the other hand, bring the radical anti-slavery
agitators of his party to a distinct understanding.
He has the power now to silence them. Let him
exercise it' before they can .weave their webs
around him for his destruction."

The general and commercial news is anticipated
►y telegraph.

COTTON.
(.F`rthn 7V. P. Wright g Co.'s Circular.)
NEW YORK, November 13.—During the past week
we have had a moderate inquiry for Cotton, chiefly
from our domestic consumers, who appear to be
determined to get well into stock- Some few pur-
chases have also been made for export to Liver-
pool and the Continent. Prices have been steady
at the quotations of last 'week, and close with more
firmness since the receipt of Liverpool advices to 2nd
November. The sales for the week have amounted to
6,500 bales, and the clearances have been as follow :
To Liverpool, 5,219 bales; Glasgow, 135; Havre,
1,896; Bremen, 823; Antwerp, 65. Total, 8,138 bales.

Crop.—"We have nothing, definite to say in relation to
this subject. Even at this late date the extent of the
crop is still an open question. The tendency during the
past two or three weeks has been towards increased
estimates, and these continue up to our latest advises
from the South.

Receipts for the week, although liberal, 'axe 23,000
below those for the, corresponding week of last season.
The total deficit is now 140,000 bales, and the proba-
bilities are that we shall show a further weekly decrease
for some time to come.

Exports this week are on a liberal scale for Great
Britain. Next week we shall show a marked falling off,
as compared with last year; we look for moderate
exports to England for some time. There is only a
Moderate business doing in Savannah and Charleston,
while at this period last season cotton was being shipped
with unusual freedom. The difficulty in negotiating.
and 'decline in the rate of exchange will cause the export
of cotton to 'fall off, perhaps considerably, during the
coming sixty days.
The following is a statement of the movement in cot-
ton since the Ist September last, as compared with the
previous four years:—

1860. 1859. 1858. 1857. 18564;
Rec. a' Ports... 800,000 910,000 826,000 345,000 632,000
Ex. to G. B. ... 230,000 288,000 '175,000 130,000 86,000
„ Prance 61,000 77,000 93,000 27,000 56,000
„ other F. P. 39,000 39,000 23,000 21,000 25,000
Total Exports._ 330,000 395,000 296,000 178,000 167,000
Sbock on hand... 547,000 575;000 305,000 212,000 390,00)
- - - • - • - •

Of which, during the past week, included in thb above :
Rec. at Ports ... 177,000 156,009 142,000 52,009 93,000
Ex to G. B.
„ France
„ other F. P 14,000 7,000 7,000 5,000 3,000
Total Exports 97,000 83,000 68,000 33,000 33,000
Summary.—Receipts: Decrease at the ports compared
with last year, 140,000 bales. Exports : Decrease to,
Great Britain, 58,000 bales; decrease to France, 16,000;
increase to other foreign ports, 9,000. Total decrease
in exports, 65,000 bales.

LIST OF PASSENGERS ' PER R.M.S. EGROPA..—MPS.
Pendleton, infant, and servant, Miss Mason, Mr. F. A.
de Quesmeder, Mr. R. A. Samuel, Mr. F. Chamberlain
and lady, Mr. and Mrs.. Hogg, Mr. William Lloyd, Mr.
C. J. Brydges and daughter, Mr. R. Henry, Elizabeth
M'Donald and infant, R. Robertson, Mr. L. S. Simmons,
Mr. A Conche, Mr. A. Herz, Eliza. Brume, Thomas ➢.
Burnett, Dr. Montavine and wife, Charles Hayvorth
and two children, two consul passengers, Mr. Allen
M'Lean, Mr. Smyth (63rd Regiment), Mr. Farbanks,
H. B. Paulin and son. R. L. Conney, Jchn Humbles,
Corporal R. Kent (RE.), Mr. Thomas Benson, Rev. J.
C. Grike, wife, and three children. The last-named
six landed at Queenstown. Total, 37.

•
LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY.—Return for week I
ending Nov. 24th. 1860 Admitted: in-patients, 41 ;
out-patients, 26 ; surgical casualties, 31. Discharged :
cured, 1.8 ; relieved, and at own request, 13.; made out-
patients, 1 ; irregular, 0 ; dead, 0. Remain in the
house, 190. Visitors : Messrs. Edward Gibbon and
Thomas Bourne. Physician, Dr. Turnbull ; surgeon,
Mr. , Bickersteth ; house surgeon, Mr. R. Harrison ;
junior house .surgeon, Mr. H. G. Rawdon ; chaplain,
Rev. Edward Poole; treasurer, Mr. Charles Wilson.
NORMAN BREEDS IN THE UNITED STATES.—The
Monies:lr du Calvados says :—"An American gentleman,
Mr. D—,_ well known in the sporting world, states ,
that forty-five years ago, a person of the name of
Morgan bought in France a young horse of the Norman
breed, and took it to America, and ttiet it is from this
horse which was a very handsome animal, and of great
speed, that all the best trotters in the United States are
descended. So highly are the trotters of the Morgan
breed, as it is called, esteemed, that every colt fetches
I,ooof. more than of any other breed. The :celebrated
mare, Flora Temple,' is stated to be so descended."
PALLAVICINO.--It may not be generally known that
Pallavicino, not long ago the pro-dictator of Naples and
Sicily, was a felloW-prisoner and fellow-sufferer of Silvio ,
Pellico in the Austrian fortress Spielberg. A young and
rich man, lie was kept for fifteen years there, in chains,
a "State criminal," No news from his family was per-
mitted to penetrate to his cell, no letter, no book; his
food was scanty, and he had to consider it a favour that
he was allowed to pull charpie (lint) and knit stockings.
Later in 1848, Austria sequestrated his large estates in
Lombardy, where he had been one of the greatest landed
proprietors. In 1856 this measure was withdrawn.
But in all .circumstances his ,patriatism was the same,
and his love for Italy's liberty ruled all his thoughts
and actions.—Athelimum.
A GA:IiEKEEPER SHOT AN GANTON. At a little
before two o'clock on Friday morning,, a messenger
came from Ganton to the police-office at Scarborough,
with the information that one of the keepers on the-
estate of Sir T. D. Legard, Bart., at Ganton, near
Scarborough, had been shot, and desiring that the
police might be on the look-out for suspicious characters
pasaing through the neighbourhood. A slight chic had
been obtained at .the time our correspondent sent off his
parcel; but the particulars we reserve until the sus-
pected party has been apprehended. The man on whom
suspicion so far. rests has got several miles start of the
pollee; but-his dfrection is known, and another day or
two will no doubt see him in custody. The keeper is in
a dangerous condition ; his face, arms, and body being
severely . wounded. He was unable to state arty parti-
culars of the attack.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.---The will of Lieutenant-
General Sir Harry Smith, Bart., G.C.8., colonel-com-
mandant of the Rifle Brigade, and late governor and
commander-in-chief of the Cape of Good Hope, was
proved in London on the 15th of November by his
relict, the sole executrix, the personalty being sworn
under £6,000. . The will is attested by General John
Bell and Lieut.-Col. H. R. Digby • it was executed on'
the 30th of July, 1860, and Sir Harry died on the 12th
of last month, at his residence, 1, Eaton-place, West,
aged seventy-two. The General married, in 1814, a
Spanish lady, Donna Suana de los Dolores de Leon,
of Badajos,, to whom he leaves all his property', both
real and personal, for her own use absolutely.
There being no issue of the marriage rind the
general having no male relative surviving, the
baronetcy becomes extinct. Sir Harry was raised to the
baronetcy. in 1846, for his services in the Affghanistan
campaign, at Moodkee, Sobraon, and Ferozeshah.—The
personal estate of the late Sir John Edward Swinburue,
Bart., was sworn under £Bo,ooo.—The will of the late
John Finlaison, Esq., the late Government actuary and
financier, formerly residing at Gothic House, Richmond,
Surrey, and late of 15, Lansdowne-crescent, Bayswater,
was proved in London on the 13th_November, by his
relict, the sole executrix. The personalty' was sworn
under £2;000. The will is attested 'bv Andrew van
Sandau, solicitor, King-street, Cheapside, 'and It. S.
Tripp, Richmond. It bears date the 16th of April,
1851, and the. testator died at his residence on the 13th
of April last, hi his 77th year. The will is very brief,
and he disposes of the whole of his property to his
relict, " feeling confident," as he has himself expressed
it in his will, "that she will provide for the interests of
their three children to the best of her ability."—llltis-
trated London News.

NEW. LAND REGULATIONS OF VieroniA..—Any man
with from £4O to £320 in his pocket may go
out on
any portion of this 3,000,000 acres of country-land,
when it is surveyed and proclaimed, and choose any
block he pleases, of not less than forty acres, or more
than 320 acres, which- he can'have conveyed-to him
on the payment of ,£1 per acre, if there be no second
applicant at the time for the same block ; but if there
be two or more applicants, it will then be put up to
auction between the applicants themselves at the
.upset
price of £1 per acre, and knocked down to the highest
bidder. All other lands, such as town, suburban, and
other special lands, will be sold as heretofore atbatibli
upset
-pnot ,
price, to be named by the Government. probably 'o4,owii
gereater than £1 per acre,—except
and suburban lands; we should thiiirlikt,haerill these lots
will be open to general competition. We do
.not see
s which are
very clearly what are the great advantage is embodied
to result . from the credit systent,, which' the purchaser
in the Act. The fact of periunting the
payment
of any particular lot• to have it uponb the right of
annually of one slain, g per acre,seven
ycars, amounts
purchase at any period 1
wit
linto purchase the land on
simply to permitting any personie amount of the purchase-
credit, paying interest on ti
nt.
If this is really the
mone.y at the rate of 5
per cent-
would have been better
intention of the Legislature, it
act that Government were
to have stated clearly in
land
at £1 per acre, giving seven
prepared to sell the
purchaser on his paying 5 per cent.
years' credit to theti
purchase-money remained unpaid.
interest so long as
letllat the purchase-money will not
It is clear, howenviel
ncases to be paid down, and this post-
ponementbe required
of the day of payment 'should act as an
.
acrement to persons to settle in the
additional cheft'', I ran and New Zealand Gazette.
country.—ra

TUE COTTON. PLANT OF SOUTH: CAROLINA. The above has
been beautifully illustrated an the back of a playing card for
the present season, by Messrs. Dc La Rue and Co. from an
original drawing by a Liverpool gentleman, and published by
Messrs. Agnew and Son. .1. M. and Son haVe received a large
stock. N.B.—A good playing card from is 6d. ,J.Mawdsley
and Son, 4, Qastle-street.

REMARKABLE CASE- OF- POISONING IN

SUFFOLK.

BURY Bf. EMIUNDS, Nov. 24.—A long-pending
inquiry, attending the death of a poor boy named
Robert Murton,at Fornham .13t, Genevieve, near this
town, on Friday, the 7th of September, Was resumed
and concluded last evening, by Mr. G. A. Partridge,- the
local: coroner. The deceased lodged with a labourer
named Curtis, and his wife, at Fornhara. Curtis is in
the service of Mr..C. Nunn, a farmer in the village,, and
had for some time been on bad terms with a fellow
farm servant, named Hawkins, who lived near
. him. The' deceased boy kept a little stock of
flour apart from that of the Curtiss, and on his re-
turning home on the 7th of September, a pudding
was made for him by Mrs. Curtis. After having eaten
part of the pudding, he-exhibited symptoms of having
been
.poisoned, and died after a few hours' severe suffer-
ing. On the Sunday following the Curtises were also
attacked with similar symptoms, and an examination of
their flour, as well as that which belonged to the deceased
boy, showed that it contained arsenic in cojasiderable
quantities. Arsenic was also found on a post-mortem
examination of the body of the deceased, and in the
crops of several fowls which ate some of the pudding
the boy left. Hawkins had had in his possession—
for agricultural purposes—a quantity of arsenic, and
on the' , police searching for it the packet was found
open, although Hawkins stated that he was unaware
of 'the circumstance. It is singular that on the
morning of the Bth of September, the day on which the
boy died, .Hawkins in person borrowed some flour of
Mrs. Curtis, a thing which he had never done before,
for the purpose, as he said, of entertaining some frien&,
who did not Come' to see him after all; and the greater
part .the borrowed flour was found in his house un-
touched, although a little was used for a pudding made
Sunday and Tnesday following Friday the 7th of
September. On the resumption of the inquiry last
evening, it appeared that the police had not been able
to show conclusively how arsenic becaree mixed with
the flour in Curtis's house ; but several witnesses
were called to prove that Hawkins was fully em-
ployed in. carting and turning barley on the Friday
on which the poison was administered. On the
other hand, Curtis stated that Hawkins had threatened
him' several times, and that he had sent him about the
yards on the Friday, twice in the forenoon, and once in
the afternoon. On the whole, however, the evidence
adduced was iu favour of Hawkins, who admitted that
he had gone once in the day to his house for some forks.
—After two or three hours devoted to the hearing of
the witnesses examined, the room was cleared, to enable
the jury to deliberate in private. On the re-admission
of the public, the coroner announced that a verdict had
been returned to the effect that the deceased had died
from the effects of arsenical poison, but that there was
not sufficient evidence to shew whether the poison was
administered by himself or the hand of another.

ESCAPE OF A CONVICT FROM ARNLEY GAOL, NEAR
LEEDS.—On. Sunday morning, Thomas Foggy, 28 years
of age, and a convict undergoing sentence in the above
prison, escaped by scaling the walls during the time the
other prisoners were at chapel. It would appear that
when the chapel time arrived, all the prisoners, except
those incapacitated by illness, are expected to attend
divine worship, and it is the duty of a warder to see that
the proper number passes him on their way. Foggy
appears to have stayed in his cell, and when the other
convicts were in chapel, along with the warders, he
made his way into the yard, and scaled the wall with
the assistance of a rope, probably constructed from the
matting fibre he was engaged in weaving. He was
seen on the Hoisforth road almost immediately after by
Mr. John Rayson, of Lloyd-street, Kirkstall-road, and
he was then proceeding northwards. Foggy, who was
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment at the last
Leeds -sessions, for uttering base coin (and who had,
consequently, ten months yet to serve), is a native of
Appleton Wiske, in the North Riding of York.
FLOOD IN NORTH YORKSHIRE.—The recent heavy
rains have caused the Derwent and its tributariea to
overflow their banks, and on Friday and Saturday the
vast tract of country watered by that river and the
smaller streams was laid underwater. In many places
the waters rose to a depth of four feet and even more,
the hedges having for miles quite disappeared. The
consequence of the inundation -will prove most destruc-
tive tO" the lowland farmers, the unusually rainy season
having already done much injury in retarding the
sowing of the wheat crop, -which will now be rendered
quite impossible. Many thousands of acres will thus be
thrown under spring crops. The aftermath in the grass
lands will be quite spoilt by the deposit of sand and
mud, and the cattle will now be totally dependent upon
the scanty root crops. , Several stocks are floating down
the stream, one farmer alone being said to have lost
npwarels Of 20 'acres of Oats. In the marshes several
beasts are reported as having been found drowned.
FALLING-IN OF A RAILWAY TUNNEL.—An accident,
which, had it taken place an hour sooner, would have.
sacrificed the lives of sixteen human beings, occurred
on the Severn Valley Railway, a new line in course of
construction from Shrewsbury to Stourport. Close to
Bridgnerth an extensive tunnel is in course of excava-
tion, which will partially run. under the town. Above
the entrance, and for some distance into the tunnel,
there -was a' thickness of thirty or forty feet of soil,
in which a number of- large trees were rooted. -Tile
usual props and supports bad been used to keep up this
mass while the brickwork was being executed.. Six-
teen men were employed in the tunnel, and these had
only left work about an hour when the superincumbent
mass fell in, choking up the tunnel with earth, rock,
and trees, for a distance of fifty feet. It is expected
that this accident will somewhat retard the opening, of
the line, which was fixed for next May._

A BOY ACCIDENTALLY SHOT AT HULL.—Between
two and three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, a lad,
aged 11 years, named Henry Watson, son of a labouring
man residing in Broadly-street, Hull, met his death
under the following circumstances. Deceased, and
another boy, named Robert Ledgard, were in the cabin
of the keel Mary, of Hull, lying in Salthouse-lane Staith,
in- which a gun had been left by the master of the keel
olin Ostrich, who, on the previous night, had loaded it.
Ile very incautiously,lett the gun loaded in the cabin,
and Watson, not knowing that it was loaded, took it up
and, in a playful manner, threatened to shoot his com-
panion Ledgard; and, whilst dodging about under the
pretence of getting in the right position to take aim, he
accidentally let the gun fall, when it went off, and the
charge lodged in the left side of his head. Ledgard was
so terrified at what had happened, that he made off, and
was not heard of until some time afterwards, when he
gave the above explanation of the occurrence. The
dead body of Watson was found on board the keel
shortly after the accident.
WHAT TO DO WITFI DESERTERS.—What to do with
their deserters and bad characters is 'no doubt a diffi-
culty with our military administrators. If we might
suggest an expedient, it would be to form a corps. for
foreign service, into which disconten'ed or disgraced
men could be drafted—a sort of English Bashi-Bazouks.
They might be called the "Retrievers" .or the "Re-,
formers," with the motto on their ensign, " Not so bad
'as we seem," or, " Never too late. to mend." There is
not the least doubt these fellows would fight and follow
their officers as • bravely and truly as any, if selected
with anything like judgment; and officers would be
found ready and willing to command them. During
the Crimean war a proposition was made to form a cor.-
vict corps, and several officers of experience viewed the
project favourably, more than one. offerinz to take them
in " Temple Bar,"

PRESS TRIALS IN FRANCE.—The affair of the
Opinion Nationale, about which so much has been said,
came on before the Tribunal of Correctional Police.. M.
'Gueroult, the editor, and M. Dubuisson, the printer of
that journal, were proceeded' against for having pub.
lished, in the number of the 27th of last month, an
artiele entitled "Un Cases. Belli," affirMing that "a
warlike note had been or was to be presented by the
Austrian Embassy to the French Government ;" that
statement being erroneous, and consequently constituting
what the French law calls "publication of false news."
M. Gueroult and M. Dubuisson, who were both present,
• were defended by M. Marie and M. Lachaud. No
. report of the proceedings cL+n. be given, the law prohi-
biting journals from producing detailed accounts of such
'matters. The judgment of the tribunal was to the effect
that "it results from the circumstances of the case that
• the news contained in the article was false ; that it also
results that the article was of a character to disturb the
public peace,
but that it was not proved that it had been
published with bad faith." - The, tribunal, in virtue of
Article 15 of, the decree of the 17th Feb., 1852, and of
certain artiele.s, of. the Penal Code, fined M. Gueroult
I,ooofa and M. Dubuisson 100 f., and ordered them
jointly to pay the
SOLDIERS AND Ycosts.
OLUNTEERS.—Large, standing armies
have never been exactly agreeable to a people like us,
who practise the arts of peace on rather an extensive
scale. We are proud enough of our soldiers, when they
do anythinc, glorious; we
,welcome them home with
tears of joyful gratitude; we' decorate them by the royal
hand of our Queen • pension them—do all we can with
money to supply the loss of health or limb; subscribe
for their widows and orphans in princely style; and
employ our sculptors'to raise monuments to their valour.
We insist that. our island home must be inviolable: that
our colonies are to be protected ; and, occasionally; that
the cause of freedom should be countenanced when in
difficulties abroad; but if we ask any one of the '"gentle-
men who live at home at ease" what he thinks about war
and soldiering, the chaneeS ire that while a serious cloud
passes over his Ceuntenance, his hand involuntarily
moves towards his pocket. Ilere we come upon a
reserve,force in. the citadel heart of the wealthy civilian.
Of course he knows well where his interest lies, and is
rather disposed to boast that he has a stake in the
country ; and this leads hiM to look a little -shyly at his
military friend, whose sole business is fighting. Peace
and Industry make a very pretty tableau, and so do War
and Glory; but it is not easy to compose an allegory of
the discordant elementFi without running the risk of
I being offensive or ridicuously insipid to those of the
community who, love and emulate chivalry of heroes,
and those who think every thing a folly but
the golden glories of commerce. But how does
the picture- look under the new light shell
by the volunteer movement ? Does it not promise to
throw a warm harmony over the subject ? We imagine
the comfortable classes may find- very deep sources of
congratulation in our new institution of social defence.
They may be assured that certainly no increase of the
army can be entertained ; and; possibly, with the expan-
sion,and perfection of the volunteer 'folic, some consi-
derable reduction may eventually be effected, and even
that terrible invader; the income-tax collector, may
be kept off the premises. The movement, which
n9w advanehig so favourably, cannot be estimated
by ‘that which, to use the expression, broke out in 1800,
although the old :" Bony "
same instinctive of those days called up the
e energy of self-defence. Events abroad
have stirred up
to a fresh sympathy in us for all efforts to
improve d overthrow all powers used against the
natural expansive tendencies and aspirations of humanity,
whether the peoples may be suffering under the actual
evils of foreign armies in their native land or not. This
alone .favour a military feeling Then we have still
alive amongst us the memories of the Crimean war, the
Indian campaign, and the Luekno iv heroism. These
haVe infected us anew with admiration for the noble
deeds and perilous adventure of the soldier's life,—
grafted a new flower of, chivalry, upon the old. stock.—
Front " Bar," Na. I.