The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-03 00:00:00

GRAND YIN DE CHAMPAGNE

CHARLES FARRE,
Successor to MAX SIIDTAINE, BULL & Co., Rheims,
riIHE Undersigned have the pleasure to announce
that they have undertaken the AGENCY of the above
firm) for the Sale of its Champagne Wines in this town and neigh-
b-•urhood. Their, qualPy is very superior, and prices moderate; and
a First.claes Medal haying been awarded in the manufacturer at the
Great Paris Exhibition of 1835, is a sufficient proof of the pn ity
and goodness of his brands. A trial only will prove them inferior
to to. other brand imported into this kingdom, and ruperia to
many whose names are the principal part of their goodness.
For list of pricesand tern.% of navment apply to
GELLER and CO., 2, Slater-eou: t, Castle-street.

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THE FOLI4P7VINGPRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE
*WITH MUCH PLEASURE.
:intended that a COURSE of LECTURES
shall t,e elivered in HOPE HALL, Hope street, on
..hursfiGy Evenings. at Half-past Seven.
Tiv., following well-known and justly respected Ministers and
G-4ntlemen have very kindly agreed to Lecture as below:
October 9, "The Church of the First Three Centuries; its
Government, Disciplino, and Wor,hip,"—Rev. W. CUNNINGHAM,
Principal, New college, Edinburgh.
October 16, "The Jewiss Theocracy,"—Rev. PATRICK FAIR-
" 13IIRW, D.D., Primarius Professor of Divinity, New College,
Glasgow.
Octolwr !13, " Mahomet an'l the Koran,"—Pelr. Payee Hoye,
Warnphray.
October 30, "The Characteri.tics of Christian Civilisation,"—
Plit'S BAYNB, Esq., M.A., Author of "Christian Life."
November G. "The Eastern Church ; its Points of Resemblance
to, and Difference front, the Western."—Rev. W. M. HETH RIK G.
TON, D.D., Edinburgh; Author of "History of the Cberch of
Scotland," &e.
• November 13, "Tho Ilvocation of the Edict of Nantes,"—Rev.
JULIUS WOOD, 1.D., Dumtres.
November 20. "he Romanism of the Middle Ages,"—Rev.
Es BEOO., D.D., Edinburgh. *
!I.ov7mber 27. "St. Louis and the Waldenses,"—P. E. Dove,
_Esq., Author of "Theory of Human Progression," &C.
Other Lectures to succeed.
• Thomas B. Horsfall, Esq , M.P., Pev. John Kelly, Rev. J. It.
Welsh, John Cropper. Fsq., Wiliam Jones, Esq., and P. M. Don,
Esq., to tike the Cask at earlier Lectures.
Admission Free. Colleciioris to pay Costs. Principal Book-
sellers isme Tickets to ensure places: 2s. 6d. for the Half-course,
(Oct.—Dec.) of Family 'rickets for Four, Bs.: for Seven, 125.;
.Sing e Evening, 6d. :Masters may procu-e Half-course Tickets for
Members of their Establishments at Half-price, from the Prin'ers,
MPesrs. Tortsrea and DosiNILTT, James-street. Surplus ,to Town
Miss!oo.

p J. NODDER,
HATTER.

CHURCH-STREET,
Eegs respectfully to inform the Nubility and Gentry of Liver-
pool that his NEW STYLES fur the Season are NOW READY
for Inspection.

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FRIDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1855,

DAY'S NEWS.

The intelligence from America brought by the
Calabria, arrived here yesterday afternoon, is of
little importance. The Presidency question was
the all-engrossing topic. Fremont was gaining
adherents by hundreds, and Buchanan's friends
were fast diminishing in numbers. As to Fillmore,
his chance of success is very slender indeed. Gover-
nor 13,,,eder had, in a letter to the New York
iourna!s, given his reasons for quitting the
democratic party, and supporting Colonel Fremont.
An.abstract of his letter will be found in our news
columns. By a despatch from Washington, it
seems prObable that a treaty upon Central
American affairs has been concluded- between
England and the United States Government, and
that Mr. Dallas had plenipotentiary power. From
Kansas we have a synopsis of Gov. Geary's in-
augural address, delivered at Lecompton on the
11th ult. He promises to do justice to all without
regard to party considerations, but expects
obedience to the laws of the territorial legislature
until they are repealed. He has ordered the dis-
Charge of the volunteer militia, and commanded all
bodies of armed men to disband or quit the terri-
tory. The President of the San Francisco Vigilance
uCommittee had been arrested at New York,
pon the charge of assisting to expel a
an frorn San Francisco. As the committee
have expelled a great many men from
that city, the result of the trial will no doubt,
be awaited with considerable interest.' We have
reports from Mexico stating that a serious difficulty
had arisen between the Government of that country
and the British Minister. That gentleman is said
to have demanded his passports, and to have
ordered a naval squadron to proceed to Vera Cruz
to enforce the demands of England. This, how-
ever, requires confirmation, taking into account the
very questionable source from whence the informs.-
tion is said to have been received.
Our Continental advices are varied and inter-
esting. The French jou taken up with
the Gortschakoff cireuillalsonarethe Neapolitan
question. A portion of our Paris cotemporaries
seem to be of opinion that the said document
ig spurious—in fact, a forgery—but
there
seems to be no doubt that the document
in question is authentic, rrornulaated by
the
order of the Russian Executive. It may
be true that the classic vigour of the French ill
which the celebrated Nesselrode manifesto was
couched has not been equalled by the production
of Prince GortschakotT, but the internal evi-
dences aro sufficient to convince the most sceptic
that Czar Alexander would wish to turn the
present
state of Naples to account. The conduct ofßussia
is, and always has been, double faced. To us, Russia
has been the same since the signing of the treaty
at Paris, that she was before Nicholas sent the first

battalions of his army across the Pruth. It has
been, and is; an instinct with all Russians, as it
has been the secret and ' constant policy of the
Czars, to ettend the empire east, west, andiouth,
and to insidiously prosecute their aggressive pur-
poses in whatever manner was most suital;le to the
time and place in which these ini_;!lt be secured.,
Taking the circular Mentioned us a whole, the
hollow pretence of obedience to the details of inter
national law and justice which urges the Czar's
Government now to declare its " never dissembled
opinion" with regard to_ the interference of the
Western Powers in Italy and Greece will not de-
ceive any one. The real object which Russia ha's
in view in this circular is to maintain despotism,
and to oppose the influence of the Western Allies
at all hazards, wherever it exists. A. report is cur-
rent to the effect that a Russian squadron has
received orders to take up its winter quarters in
the Bay of Naples. If this he true, it is difficult to
believe that Russia has no inteution of making
this naval force est as a counter-balance to the ships
of France and _ Great Britain, and, as we are
informed, of Sardinia, which are to be despatched
to the same quarter. Is Russia not yet tired of
war? Does she not own that she was beaten in the
Crimea ? The circular, and this threatened naval
squadron, appear very like a negative reply. As
regards the state of affairs between the Allies and
Naples, we may mention that, in accordance with
the opinions uttered at the Paris Conferences, by
the various plenipotentiaries respecting the affairs
of the latter kingdom, and the general opinion of
all the diplomatists that opportune measures of
-clemency in Naples would be desirable, communi-
cations were recently made to Naples by Austria,
France, and England. The Cabinet of the Tuileries
used, it is said, a tone more firm and decisive than
' that of Austria, but preserving, at the same time; a
manner conciliatory and moderate. As to the
English notes they were very peremptory, almost
imperious. That which accounts for the tone of
_tho English notes is, that in tondom it is 'still
remembered that certain engagements were con-
tracted by the Neapolitan Government towards the
Sicilians, and that these engagements were in some
degree guaranteed by England. It is said that the
King of Naples is painfully impressed by the lan-
guage of England, and that at first he replied in
terms not likely to lead to an arrangement. It is
als.o said that he made nearly the same reply to
France as to England, Without considering the
difference in the tone held by the two countries.
Finally, it is stated that Austria, struck with the
dangers to which the King of Naples is exposed,
has formally expressed its disapproval of his
course, and has intimated that, if he does not make
a fair measure of concession, it cannot support
hire in his resistance to the Western Powers. The
King of Naples subsequently. moderated his lan-
guage, but declined to enter into any engagement.
The relations between the Austrian Government
and the St. Petersburg Cabinet are stilt extremely
cool, and no rapprochement has- yet taken place
between the two courts, although the two monarchs
are believed to wish for a reconciliation.
Our Constantinople advises inform- us that the
affair of Montenegro is not yet arranged. Fresh
troops are under orders for that country._ Both
England and France are much annoyed at the con-
tinued stay of the Austrians in the Principalities.
It will be hardly possible for the Divan to carry on
its deliberations with Austrian troops close to
them. Fresh communications have been made on
the subject.
The intelligence received from Athens describes
the state of affairs there as calm. The difficulties
which had arisen between Admiral Bouet Willamez
and the Court are adjourned and not settled.
The domestic incidents of the day are numerous,
and somewhat melancholy. A coal mine near
Wrexham was inundated on Wednesday, and
fifteen lives lost thereby. The particulars of this.
heartrending disaster will be found in another part
of to_day's impression. Meantime we learn that
the government inspector of mines is coming down
next week, and it is said that a rigid investigation
into the cause of the accident will be instituted.
It is confidently stated, that the rules for the regu-
lation of collieries have been violated by one of the
workmen driving his pick too near an old working,
without first boring to see if water was near.
A horrid murder has been committed at the
Sampson Colliery, Oldbury, near Birmingham.
Two of the men were engaged in sharpen-
ing their tools, when a dispute took place,
and one of them, named Alimark, set upon the
other, a mats named Dunn, and inflicted the most
frightful injuries on him with a pickaxe.• Dunn
expired immediately afterwards, and Alimark made
off, and has not yet been apprehended.
That scion of the house of Londonderry, Lord
Ernest Vane, is again in trouble. He and a number
of his brother officers and gentlemen have been
playing off practical jokes on a Cornet of the 4th
Light Dragoons, now stationed in Brighton. Vane
and his associates set upon the Cornet, denuded
one side of his face of his whiskers and moustaches,
broke his furniture, damaged his clothes, and took
his bed from under him, and put it in a quantity of
water. In consequence of these disgraceful pro-
ceedings, on Monday last, General Lawrenson, the
General of Brigade, went down to Brighton, and
the following officers were ordered under close
arrest, viz :—Lord Ernest Vane Tempest, Captain
Burt, and Cornet Winstanley, and their swords
taken from them. One or two others, who either
aided or countenanced the affair, it is said, have
slipped themselves out of it. The whole matter,
however, will, of course, undergo strict investiga-
tion, and we hope the parties implicated will
receive such measure of punishment as is their due.
The funeral of Lord Hardinge took place yesterday.
He was buried in the churchyard of the little
village of Fordcomte. The funeral was strictly
private.
The proceedings of the Dock and Health Com-
mittees call for no comment of ours this week.

We understand that the letters and papers by
the Overland Mail, which arrived at Marseilles on
Wednesday, will be delivered in Liverpool on
Saturday morning.

From Dublin, we learn that Baron de Robec k
has drowned nimself in the Liffey. He was related
by marriage to the Duke of Leicester and Lord
Cloncurry.

THE advance in the Bank of England's rate of
discount is said to be well timed, and coupled with
the Revenue Returns—which are "highly satis-
factory "—no less necessary. These assurances
coming from " leading' sources will not, however,
avert the crash so long predicted as im-
minent. It lacks the rationality which pervades
the commercial world. Men will reason, and act
as their practical experience dictates. The Bank's
rates of discount have long- ruled this country,
and we never remember a moment when the
movements of Threadneedle-street had a more
remarkable political significance. _ The Bank
must comply with the law under which it'
exists. It can run no risks. The hazards
of the day must be borne by the country.
The stock of bullion held in. their coffers must
decide the action of its directors. They have no
means of ascertaining, any more than we have,
whether the Private and Joint Stock Banks
throughout the kingdom hold more gold at the
present moment than they ever did before. They
are as much in the dark as the public are as
regards the extent to which the recent drain has
operated on the other Banks. They have parted
with a certain amount of precious metal, and as
the foreign exchanges had turned against this
country, they were compelled to raise the minimum
discount to 5 per cent.
Parliament will have it so at all times, and
under all circumstances. It matters not what
budgets they vote, or what absorption of our
trading and industrial capital they create by
excessive taxation, they will,. have money scarce
and dear, as by law provided. The Revenue
Returns, published on the Ist instant, show that
we bad paid within the year ending the 30th of
September;
no less than 3,211,708/. more
than
had paid
aid at the corresponding period
14,624,6521. in excess of 1854,
p we ber,
hlB5
of 1855, and
and 14,641,232/. more than the total of
1853. Now, is it possible to suppose
1 that these large excesses of taxation can be

taken from the available means of trade, without
prOducing a stringency in the Money Market—
calling for an advance in the rate df discount, Ethd
bringing about a panic;? The 5,000,000/. loan
raised within the current year, has helped to
increase the intensity of the pressure on the
Money Market,.and these things, totally indepen.
dent of whatlre see going on. on the Continent,
were quite sufficient of themseltes to produce the
crisis at hand. The effect the Bank's action will
have on the prices of produce, the labour market;
and consumption, neddsno enlightened oracle to
prognostiCata. "We must economise," is the philo-
sophical slang of the clay, when such social revul-
Sion odollt'iana this econotnising- simply means,•
that we must pay less for our necessaries.of life,
employ fewer hands, and eat and drink spaiingly.
Such counsel must. be taken for what it is worth, and
right well the Bears,.whase harvest i•s at hand,TcnOw.
it. They are aware_that there is but one prescrip-
tion for our organic diseaBes, and that w.e must
either submit to a prostrate Money Market, and
excessive taxation; or leave all for the then who
have their money 'ready to, invest in the general
sacrifice of the nation's substance. • •

It can be no gratification to us to speak thus
4
forcibly on a subject of deep interest to every class
of the community; but" there is incalculable
danger in allowing these gigantic social anomalies
to pass unnoticed. The unsettled state of the

Continent—the natural combustibility of des-
potism,. and its °Len .recurring explosions—the
growing pressure of numbers on the sources of sup-
ply—the poverty, wretchedness, and ever-festering'
discontent of the massf.s, are all matters which
must have a most discouraginginfluence on Great.
Britain. But why multiply the evils of such a
lamentable state of things, by taking from all the
great commercial communities, as if by one signal,
the means of keeping the springs of industry in
motion ? Why leave England dependant on a
foreign commodity for mercantile stability, and on
the Bank of England for a legal tender circulation ?
Gold, Which is at a premium abroad, is mainly
the produce of our own dominions; and the silver,
which is said to be disappearing from Europe,
is. going to enrich our Indian subjects. -The
Exchanges, instead of being what is technically
called " against us," are, on the contrary.
in our favour of British ;India. Our gold
will buy more silver , per ounce than if the
rate exchange at Paris was in " our favour" as it
is termed. And yet, with all this staring us in the
face—with the most conclusive proof that British
industry, enterprise, and trade, is sweeping away
the bullion wealth of every other country, we take
alaxm, raise our rates on commerciul accommoda-
tion, and treat the Empire as though it were on the
verge of. bankruptcy. Let our practical business
men ponder well over these facts, and ask them-
selves dispassionately, "how long can such a system
" exist ?"

BIRKENHEAD POLICE COURT. —This court sat yesterday,
when the magistrates disposed of the usual business. There
was not one case that came before them that possessed the
slightest public Interest.
ROYAL INFIRMARY SCHOOL OF DIEDICINE.—The open-
ing of the session of 1856-7 took place on Wednesday last,
when an admirable address was delivered by Mr. Grims-
dale, one of the lecturers of the school. The lecture room
was crowded, and among the anditary. we recognised a large
number of the -principal practitioners of the town and
neighbourhood.
SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL.—WEEKLY REPORT.
.October, 1,1856.—1 n patients :—Discharged : cured, 26 ;
relieved, 1; at own request, 2 ; irregular, 0. Dead, 0 ;
entered, 20; under treatment, 60. Out patients : cured,
40 ; entered, 36 ; under treatment, 33. Treasurer, James
Houghton, Esq. Visitors, Chas. Challinor, Esq., and Rev.
J. Robberds. Honorary chaplain, Rev. D. T. arry, B.A.
Physicians and surgeons for the week, Dr. Cameron,
and Dr. Petrie. House surgeons, Mr. E. C. Garland,
and Mr. William Townsend.
MONTHLY REPORT.—EYE AND EAR INFIRMERY, No. 126,
Mouat-pleaiant.—Surgeons : Hugh Neill, Esq , John Poole,
Esq., Dr. R. Hibbert Taylor. Assistant-Surgeon : Dr.
Nevins. Treasurer : Wilii3m Langton, Esq Eye Depart.
ment.;—New patients admitted in the month of Sept.,
326 ; patients prescribed for, and who have received surgi-
-6%1 assistance daring the month of Sept., 1,425. Ear
Department : New patients admitted in the month of
Sept., 127; patients' prescribed for, and who have received
surgical assistance during the month of Sept., 422.
DESPERATE ASSAULTS.—James Wallace, who said he was
a clerk, was charged yesterday before the magistrates, at the
police court, for having committed a desperate assault on a
female, named Mary C mnor, in a house of bad repute in
Shaw's alley. The prisoner, without any apparent provn
cation, gave the girl a kick in the hip, and Surgeon Davies,
from the Northern dispensary, proved that the hip was
completely divided. The prisoner was sent to gaol for three
months.—Thomas Griffin, a sailor, was sent to gaol for
three months, for haring committed a violent assault on
police officer Lowrie, 647, on the 21st lust, at Lower Har-
rington. The prisoner howled like a bear when he hea d
the sentence.

THE ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE ROYAL CH ‘RTER.—To
one of the unfortunate sufferers, John Ganning, thi s
accident has proved fatal, as, after great suffering, he
died in the Northern Hospital yesterday. The other two,
Edward Atkins and John Croas'ey, who are likewise in
the same establishment, we found, on makieg enquiries
last night, that although very severely injured, hopes are
entertained of their ultimate recovery. From full investi-
gation into the cause of the accident, no blame can be
attached to any person connected with the ship. These
men, with a number of others, were at work at the
capstan, when, from some unexplained cause, they were
overpowered, and hurled together, all receiving more or
less injuries, while some were thrown into the water, but
were speedily extricated. The other injured parties
were taken to their homes, and are fast recovering. This
accident did not prevent the ship from sailing, as none of
the men belonged to the regular crew of the vessel.
THE LATE COLLISION BETWEEN THE MAIL AND ExCEL-
sIOR
STEAMERS.—In reference to the late collision between
the above-named steamers, a very lengthened report, by
Mr. Mansfield and Captain Schomberg, has just been
made to the Board of Trade. The substance of this report
is embodied in the following concluding paragraph :.—" In
conclusion, we have the honour to report, for the informa-
tion of the Board of Trade, that the collision of the Mail
with the Excelsior is to be attributed to the neglect of the
pilot of the latter, first, to keep to starboard of the mid-
channel of the Mersey ; and, secondly, his neglect to port
his helm when he saw the masthead light of the Mail ;
that the effect of the collision might have been less serious
if the Mail had taken the precaution which she should
have done to reduce her speed on entering the Mersey ;
and that the collision would not have taken place if the
lights of the Mail had, according to the regulations
of the Admiralty notice, been placed in such a position as
to be all three visible when she was end on to the
Excelsior."

CORONER'S INQUESTS.—Yesterday the coroner held the
followieg inquests :—On the body of John Gaining, aged
31, who died in the Northern Hospital in cons qaence of a
hurt received on blard the Royal Charter, whilst raising the
anchor. *The deceased, who was a lumper, was on board
the vessel, and was ungagel with other men raising the
anchor, when the chain got foul of something, and the cap-
stan stated back, the rope or chain chuc'.ing the deceased
and' other men over. The jury, in finding a verdict of
accidental death, did not think the officer in charge of the
department at the time quite blameless. The deceased has
lett a young wife and three young children quite unprovided
for, and, what adds to the poor woman's misery, is that she
' is near her confinement of A fourth child.—On the body of
a foreigner, named Denito. who died suddenly in Frcderick-
street. Verdict, died by the visitation of Geed.—On the
body of Patrick Dooly, who died suddenly in B'enheitn-
street. On due investigation it was found that death was
the result of natural causee. Verdict ace aelingiv.
MORE GAROTTINO IN THE STREETS.—It appears that
the town is full of desperate ruffians, who go about at
night committing most violent outrages in the streets.
Our police reports every day attest the fact. Yesterday
morning, two well-dressed but ruffianly-looking young
men, named John Garnett, and James Johnston, were
brought up by detectives Povey and M'Cu loch; on a charge
of having committed a desperate assault on Robert Smith,
and with having robbed him of his watch. Mr. !illicit de-
fended the prisouers. On Sunday night, about half-past
eight, the prosecutor was going to Edgehill stasisn to
meet a friend, when he met the prisoners, who told him
they were strangers, and asked him to show them the way
to some street, and they would give him a glass. He
refused the latter, but went to show them the way, when
they seized him by the neck and treated him very badly,
robbing him of his watch and 6s. in money. Next day,
the prisoners were seen in Rupert-street, and were
recognised by the prosecutor, who swore most positively
as to the identity of John Garnett as one of the persons
who robbed him ; and although he was morally certain
of the other, he would not swear beyond doubt to his
identity." Mr. Bluck said there was no evidence against
Johnston, and as to the other prisoner, he would produce
htr.Se,
Bolton
respectable man, who would show that he could not have
been at the place of the robbery at the time stated. He
past eight in the evening.
.sori
called Henry Pashley, a die sinker, of 108, Browntew,
hill who said Garnett dined and spent the evening at his
' left
did anbootutthai
nquarter v i d e
ii c e
given at all effected
the complainant's testimony. He would remand them for
and
a week, in order to look for the watch. Remanded
accordingly.