The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

ITALY.

The intrigues of the clerical and retrogade party
are beginning to get their efforts felt. In the last
municipal elections several names belonging to
that party issued from the electoral urn. The Li-
berals must close up their ranks and come to some
understanding at once, if they have had any desire
to triumph in the general elections of 1854.
A letter from Florence states that the son of the
Duke de Cassigliano, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
is about to marry one of the daughters of Queen
Maria-Christina, and that the marriage is to take
place at Paris- The Moniteur ' of Tuscany,
merely announces that Prince Corsino, Duke de
Cassigliano, has obtained leave of absence. for
forty days, and the, Duke Baldasseroni, Presi-
dent of the council, will have the department of
Foreign affairs ad interim during his absence,

PIEDMONT,
TURIN, SEPT. 24

Yesterday the King held a review of three divi-
sions of the army in the plain of Alexandria. After
a short and energetic speech which the Duke of
Genoa addressed to the troops, the Camp at Marengo
was br ken up,

RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT 17

The Czar and the Grand Duke Alexander, heir
to the Crown, arrived at Moscow on the 13th inst.
WARSAW, SEPT. 19,

The Chancellor, Count Nesselrode, and Baron
Meyendorff, the Russian Ambassador at Vienna,
b.ave arrived at Warsaw.

THE NORTHE

SPAIF'

The new Cabinet met on the 20th, and its first
act was to order the seizure of two journals, the
Diario 17spiiizol and Tribuno. They afterwards de-
liberated on the appointment of the authorities of
Madrid and of several high functionaries of the
State, General Pezuela was spoken of as Captain
General of that capital; and M. Zaragoza as its
political chief.
The Three per Cents. were done at 431 ; the
New Three per Cents: at 231; the Debt of the First
Class, at 10 340; and that of the Second, at 51.

THE HON. MRS. NORTON'S WRONGS

(FROM THE LEADER.)

Our readers have had a week to reflect upon the
letter of Sir John Bailey, and they will probably
agree with us in thinking that the statement by
that gentleman, who was appointed as judge be-
tween husband and wife by Mr. Norton himself, is
conclusive. Mrs. Norton has declared that she
will write no more, and Mr. Norton, we anticipate,
could not benefit his case by adding another word
to it. We will treat the latest letter by the umpire
exactly as we treated the letter on both sides, pre-
suming its representations to be true, without sup-
posing that we can do anything to add lo its au-
thenthety or credibility. We take it as it stands.
According to this statement, then, Mr. Norton
invited counsel to give him an " opinion," and sup-
plied that counsel, not with a real case, but with
" a series of invented fables which he had strung
together," and it is the opinion upon these fables
which he advanced in his letters to Sir John
Bailey's. Mrs. Norton was " anxious only on one
point—the restoration of her children ;" the hus-
band was " anxious only about the pecuniary part
of the arrangement, and obviously making the love
of the mother for her offspring the means of bar-
ter and gain." While Mr. Norton made undue
statements of his wife's expenses and extrava-
gancies, he detained her wardrobe, jewellery, and

books. She offered to pay her own bills, kit Mr.
Norton's solicitor replied that " there was no under-
taking that, even if she did pay her bills, her pro-
perty should be returned to her." Mr. Norton
confesses to gross personal violence towards his
wife—on one occasion kicking her room door from
its hinges, and dragging her out by force, not long
before the birth of her youngest son. The wife
was " reasonable " in her language, and desirous
to be at peaee with " her children's father." He pro-
mised to return her children, and at his counsel's
dictation wrote a letter, which that gentleman
posted, Mr. Noiton being "base enough to write a
second letter," unknown to the arbitrator, to forbid
the coming of the children, " and come they did
not" Mr. Norton admitted his firm belief of his
wife's innocence of the charge he had brought
against her and Lord Melbourne, and then adver-
tised it in the papers !
" I then," says Sir, John Bailey, " certainly
changed my opinion." The public had been some-
what impressed with the rights of the husband,
and the confident statement put forth by Mr. Nor-
ton; but the public will henceforward read Mr.
Norton's statement by the light of Sir John Bai-
ley's commentaries.

What, then, do we find to be, according to the
statement of the judical authority, his true story

of an English wife ? She is deprived of her
children, and falsely accused of extravagance by
her husband, who withholds her property—even
her personal effects ; she is advertised in the paper
by her husband, who confesses her Innocence ; she
is subjected to personal violence by her husband
who had endearingly besought her to return; and
ultimately, when he is made answerable for the
debts of a wife who he has persisted to hold in
bondage, he permits her to be dragged into a pub-
lic court, and meets the exposure of the facts by a
reiteration of all that has been refuted by his own
arbitrator.

The simple statement of this case is enough to
excite indignation, wherever natural feeling has
not been stifled by the custom of the country.
But, we are to reflect that, this case had in it
something peculiar. Mrs. Norton is, no doubt, a
woman sharing the ordinary feeling of her sex,
and, on that account alone, to be the object of
tenderness and honour. But, besides that, she is
a woman endowed with many gifts of nature,
which point her out as peculiarly calling for
honour from any man upon whom she bestowed
her hand. In this sense, although beauty cannot
claim to have rights of its own, yet as enhancing,
the sacrifice, it might, at all events, have consti-
tuted, with other reasons, a ground why she
should have been received to the heart and hearth
of any man as an object more precious than an
ordinary gift, especially when she had united
herself to a man who has taken the pains to stamp
his own grade before the public. But, besides
beauty, Mrs. Norton is also endowed with the
rarer charms of genius, and its most refined
accomplishments ; she has wedded feeling and
grace to the English language, both in its prose
and verse ; and has a reputation far transcending
the bounds of her native country. To be permitted
to provide a home for one of the most distin-
guished living intellectual celebrities of a country
renowned in letters ; to be chosen as the companion
of one of the most beautiful women, in a country
celebrated for its beautiful women, might have ex-
torted a sense of proud gratitude in the heart of
any man fully endowed with the faculties of man's
nature. Mr. Norton, it appears, did not acknw-
ledge any such sense. The woman who is received
with homage in the highest society in the land, who
is honoured by the whole people, was by him sub-
jected to a shuffling avoidance of promises, to the
" Greenacre" correspondence, to charges which he
confessed to be false, to advertisements in the
newspapers, pointing her out for the contempt of
the virtuous and the discredit of the commercial
world, and to personal violence. _ . .

And yet, we have a right to say, such stories are
discovered in good society, are not treated as in-
credible, not as unparalleled monstrosities, but are
only matters of debate and of evidence, like any
ordinary quarrel. The husband in this case, who
thus treats his wife and judge, is still himself a
judge of summary jurisdiction in cases of wife and
husband ! And although this wrong stands fla-
grant before the public, there is, it appears, no law
which can procure redress, or even the common
justice of independent industry for the woman,
although that woman is a Caroline Norton.

BURGLARY AT KNO WSLEY, THE SEAT
OF THE EARL OF DERBY.

Yesterday morning, Knowsley Hall, the seat of the
Right Hon. Earl of Derby, was burglariously entered and
several valuable articles stolen from the dressing rooms of
the Earl and Countess. It would appear that an entrance
woe fire+ offootod by the burglars through the ennlung houao
window, in which two panes of glass were broken to permit
ingress. On getting through the window, however, the
burglars found that the door leading to the hall was well
secured, and this induced them to retrace their steps and
seek another means of entrance. In their second attempt,
they were far more successful, having gained access to the
hall by means of a window which had been left unfastened,
opening into the main corridor leading to Lord and Lady
Derby's bed and dressing-rooms. The burglars entered his
lordship's dressing-room, and stole from his dressing-case
a large bunch of seals, six sovereigns, the silver tops of the
various articles in the dressing case, and a variety of small
but valuable articles. From her ladyship's dressing-case
several articles were also stolen. The thieves retired with
their booty, without causing the slightest disturbance, and
the fact of the hall having been entered, and a robbery
committed, was not known until an advanced hour in the
morning. On the discovery of the robbery, information was
at once forwarded to the Central Police Office, and detective
officers Murphy and Sullivan were at once despatched to
Knowsley. After a very minute examination of the pre-
mises, the officers returned to town in the course of the
afternoon; but, we believe, as yet no clue has been got to
the perpetrators of the robbery. It is a singular circum-
stance connected with this affair that there were large
quantities of silver plate lying about the house, not an
article of which was touched.

THE BONES OF PAGININI.—It may be recollected
that the celebrated violinist, Paginini, died at Nice
about 14 years ago, and that the bishop refused to
allow him to be interred in the consecrated ground,
on account of his having died without receiving the
sacraments. His executors had the body removed
to a private place, and commenced legal proceed-
ings. The Court of Nice having decided against
them, they applied to the Archipiscopal Court of
Genoa, which reversed the judgment of the lower
court, and ordered the remains of Paginini to be
interred in the cemetry. The Episcopal Court of
Nice appealed against this decision to the Court of
Turin, which has since confirmed it. Now, as three
appeals are allowed in ecclesiastical matters, the
Court of Nice has appealed, as the last resort, to
a tribunal of judges to be appointed by the Holy
See, and there the matter rests for the present.

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