The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-15 00:00:00

TIE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

genuine philanthropy, self denial, and attractive
manners. And the universal reverence in which he
was held for his personal and public virtue and
worth, was, on the day of the funeral, emphatically
attested by the suspension of all public business
throughout the city. High and low, rich and poor,
Catholic and Protestant, alike joined in this well-
earned mark of esteem and regard. There was a
public .proteasion, in which the clergy of the .
diocese ef Cork and Cloyne, and the
civic authorities; .the merchants, and traders of
Cork, and the leading magistrates and gentry of
the surrounding districts
,joined. We read that
the scene presented at the cementery on the art ival
of the body, was affecting and solemn in the exe-
treme. Here many had waited, with a reverential
and an affectionate ankiety, notwithstanding the
torrents of rain,` from an early hour; in order that
they, should witnesses of ale last act of the sad
ceremonial: But over the interment—the en,
tonibment—we must draw a veil. The feel-
ings of grief which here found a voice, and
proclaimed their intensity, ttere too sacred to
become the theme of newspaper parade. Oe.
entering the cemetery, the clergy ranged them
selves at vither sides of the entrance, chanting the
burial-service, arid-accompanied the body to its
last resting-place. The grave ls situted at the
toot of the large stone cross, erected by the very
rev. deceased, a short distance inside the inner
gate, this being the place selected by himself for
his grave. The body was then lowered, and
when the heavy fall of the earth on the coffin
was heard, the feelings of the thirty thousand
people who surrounded the grave, became almost
e Azle 1. ,
Tri..OttitVt;it'pe. r of to-day will' found particulars
of 11:sact cltlatnity WhichlitipPened here yesterday,
namely, the burning to death of a man and woman
in Athol-street, in the north end of the town
What makes the event more melancholy is that, as
far as we know of the case, the sad calamity has
been caused by the intemperate habits of the
unfortunate sufferers. This should be a warning
to all who indulge in the practice of partaking of
the faccursed drug—that which frenaleS reason;
causes, man to overlook all self respect, and renders
him unfit both: fel-tittle and for eternity. Another
matter to which we would here. refer is the horrible
treatment of a female in Peter-street, when a
monster in human form made a most brutal and
murderous assault upon a little girl often years of
age. Such atrocity merits the several punish

to our gallant defenders, than we are to the men
who stood before Sebastopol.

That heroic little army restored the military
prestige which a forty years' peace bad almost
obliterated. They gave to our half-forgotten tra-
ditions all the realities of fact. Poor CHARLES
JACKNIAN may have been one of the least con.
spicuous of the soldiers who took a Part in the
great struggle. Still, he was a Crimean soldier
—a Christian—and some respect ought to have
been shown for his cloth and his creed. He
ought to have been allowed a parish funeral, if
nothing More. The churchyard 4 New Town
should not have been the scene of an ,exhibition
worthy of the days when CHARLES 11. dragged the
body of the gallant BLAKE from his grave, and
cast it into a ditch. It may not have been pos-
sible to have buried the soldier with military
honours, but he was entitled to a shroud and
coffin from the parish in which he died. His
legal claim to these decencies might, probably,
have been disputable, but his title to his country,
men's respect could not have been denied. The
medal he wore placed his claim upon them for so
much, beyond all doubt ; and if the people of the
parish in which he died did really suffer him to
be carried into the 'cl-archyard like a dOg,,,lhe,y,
deserve the reprobation of all England,: But
what were the military authorities about? Are
they wholly irresponsible in such cases ? Is a
soldier on furlough not to have a decent burial ?
This cannot be the cases Why, then, was
CHARLES JACKMAN left to be carried to his grave
unshrouded
The commanding officer of the 33rd Regiment,
or the
,Horse. Guards, must have been com-
municated with by the coroner who presided at
the inquest, or by some of the local authorities ;
but no notice appears to have been taken of-the
matter. What, then, are we to think of the per-
fection of our military system ? We cannot
wonder that everything goes wrong in oiir camps
-abroad when such things can occur when we
merely ape campaigns at home. Here we have
a soldier going from his regiment to 'his home ;
he takes ill on the road and dies, and there is no
one to take any further trouble about him. His
"decorations are saved for his relatives." Con-
siderate age ! The bit of metal and ribbon are
to be preserved as heirlooms, while the corpse of
the gallant wearer is consigned to the tomb with
less regard to decency than we bestow on
criminals after execution. We cannot, however,
persuade ourselves that there is any truth in the
statement we have quoted. We have iaken it
from the London Times, and such a case of bar-
barity, originating in a manifest neglect of duty
in some direction, cannot escape the censure it
deserves, should it really have occurred. If it has,
to the rank and file of the British army,

meat the_ law can inflict.
Another examination of the parties implicated in
the great gold dust robbery took place at the
Mansion House on, Saturdayi Further evidence
of a condemnatory character was given, and
another remand ensued. Like the Great Northern
frauds, the preliminary enquiry into this affair is
not only wearisome but seems interminable. '
The foreign intelligence is not of much moment.
Austria, wehear, is still continuing her amnesties
Political prisoners have been liberated in Venice,
and the events of 1848 and 1849 in Hungary are
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to be entirely forgotten. 0066 Np; to" t e Gazette
de Cologne, the replies of the cabinets --of London
and Vienna to the Russian memorandum were
sent to St. Petersburg, the first on the 23rd of
Novernbcr, and the second- on the 4th of the pre-
sent month. In the Austrian despatch the ques-
tion of the Danubian Principalities is referred to in
a manner
_which necessitates, it is said, a reply
from. -the' Russian government. The Rus-
sian memorandum is said to proceed from
the pen of. the Baron Brunnow. A -Vienna
correspondent of the Nord . says :—The high
oflicials regions. here were divided into two
parties, one of which recommended the adhesion
of the Aus-irian 'Cabinet to the convocation of the
Congress, whilst the second objected with obstin
acy to that course which certainly is the only
means of "solving present difficulties. An auto-
graph letter from the Emperor of the
.French, put
an end to the hesitation of our cabinet, and the
Emperor Francis Joseph, on receiving it, at once
entered into the views of his august ally.
We observe, by a despatch from Naples, touching
the late attempt upon the life of the King, that the
assassin has declared that he acted in conformity
with suggestions made to him, but he does
not state from which these proceeded. The
Oesterreichische Zeitung of Vienna, attributes the at.
tempt to the " Mazzinists," but in the adjoining
column we find the following passage, contained in a
letter written by a Conservative Turin correspon-
dent on the sth inst. :—Naples is said to he in a
state of extreme excitement, and a spirit of insu-
bordination and mutiny is belived to prevail in the
Neapolitan army. A collision between the native
troops and Svdss is considered likely, and the
latter look forwaid to it with sombre resolution.
The letters of our Paris correspondent, which
we give at length in other columns, contain all the
intelligence of moment from that quarter, and will
repay an attentive perusal.
From India and America there islater intelli gen ce.
By the former we learn that war against Persia bad
been proclaimed at Calcutta, and the last division of
the expedition had left Bombay on the 13th ult.
India is represented as being perfectly tranquil.
We have 'already announced that fferat had
.fallen
into the hands of the Persians. It was on the 26th
of October that the town surrendered. Some days
before a considerable breach had been made at the
foot of one of the numerous towers which flank the
walls of the town ; but in order to reoch the spot it
was necessary to carry a work in front of the place,
which had been raised by English -officers. The.
attacking columns, composed of picked troops, rushi-d
to the assault with great intrepidity, and the Aff-
ghans, though resisting the first shock, were soon
cblig. d to give way Then lea Khan, who com•
mended the la, sieged, seeing that further resistance-
was quite impossible, submitted to Murad Mirza,
commander in-chief of the Persian army. The Eng.
lish troops have already begun to operate in the .
Persian Gulf It is said that France offers to mediae
in the dispute, and that Ferukh Khan has,had a Cons
ference with Lord de Redcliffe.

it is due

that proper provision should be immediately
made for the decent interment of soldiers dying
on furlough, as well as if they had died in the
regiments to which they belong, And we cannot
help thinking, that parish authorities over-strain
the law, when they refuse to supply a coffin, and
allow the corpse of a stranger to go " un shrouded"
to the grave. We are hard sticklers for economy
in Liverpool, but we earnestly hope this parish
will never be disgraced by any such anti-Christian
neglect and parochial meanness, as that recorded
against the authorities of New Town.

THERE is no such thing as an eminent pro-
fessional man in Liverpool, according to the
prodigal side of the Council. The late debate
on the proceedings of the Library and Museum
Committee proves this encouraging fact. Spoiled
children always look on their parents with con-
tempt ; they despise their nurses, and tell their
preceptors that they are blockheads the instant
they get an upright collar to their shirts and go
into public alone. From this very troublesome
and ungrateful progeny of Liverpool the great
majority of our Councilmen have been selected.
There are no eminent men in Liverpool but
themselves, and they, as a matter of course, are
pre-eminent in all things. They are liable, how-
ever, to make mistakes as well as less pretending
folk. They have discovered genius among their
professional townsmen. They employed one
Liverpool architect to embellish the exterior of
St. George's Hall, and they are so well satisfied
with his elaborate and classic productions that
they would employ him, again if they were not
afraid of the vengeance of 'the lion family and
unknown monsters he has brought into the
world. The majority of the Council have not
ventured to condemn anything their side of
our provincial artists have produced, and yet
they give the public to understarid that we
have no eminent architects among- us, by their
votes. If they want a library, museum, or
landing-stage built, they offer premiums out of
the Borough .Fund for the best designs; and
after they have awarded prizes for. what they say
is perfect. or best, they directly turn round and
declare that the architect of their choice 4' has
" not the ,confidence of the Council," and that
they must have an eminent man employed who
has not condescended to submit a design of the
work required to those who seek :his services.
This man who keeps his pre-eminence out of
sight gets into his possession the prize designs
of our local artists, and after a little dexterous
manipulatibn of these men's brains, he comes
forward with a great work, remarkable only for
the awkwardness displayed in its compilation.
Mr. Alderman HOLME describes how eminent
men, and those who have the confidence of his
side of the Council, act, in a few words :
"When the landing-stage 'Was about to be built,
"designs were invited by that body, and prizes
" awarded.. The best designs were then handed
" over to Sir WILLIAM CUBIT; and he, with their
" aid, prepared the-design of a stage` satisfactory
to all parties."; =The " best designs " alluded to
by Mr. HOLME were. those of Liverpool men ;
and was it not most unjust to hand over the
drawings of what is essentially a marine
structure to a London builder and architect ? In
Mr. ALLOM'S case, the injustice appears to be
still greater. The Corporation advertised for

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A PARAGRAPH has been going the rounds of
the papers, which is really too appalling to be
generally creditecl.,' The disgusting..episode is
headed, " How to Bury . a Warrior," which,
according to modern usage, appears to be most
inhuman. The story is this Charles Jack_
" man, of the 33rd Foot (the Duke's Own), on
" furlough, left Aldershott Camp on the 2d inst.,
" travelling by' the• Great -Western RailyfiLy;
On the train stopping for refreshment at Swin-
don, he was taken insensible from one of the
" carriages, and, died after a few minutes. An
" inquest was held on the 3rd. On the sth he
" was conveyed in a cart to the churchyard at
" the New Town. Among the guests at the
" Queen's Royal Hotel, chanced to be a clergy-
" man ; and thus, though the unshrouded corpse
" was not *admitted within the church, the
" funeral service 'was read over the grave of a
survivor from Sebastopol, the clasp and medal
" for which he. wore. Those decorations are
" saved for relatives.- Now, can it be possible
that a soldier could have been suffered to be
buried in a Christian country, and within only a
few miles, comparatively, of the head-quarters of
his regiment, or the Horge-Guards, without a
clergyman to bury him, or a shroud 'or coffin to
cover him ? We trust, ,for the credit of the Bri-
tish army, arid the honour of the
.co,untry, that
there is no truth in the report in question.
England has often been indebted to the survivors
of her foreign wars. She owes her present inde-
' pendence and power to the devotion and valour
of those who have long since gone to their
account ; but we were never more deeply indebted

designs for the Public Library. Mr. ALLom's.
drawings took the highest prize. And, yet,
when it comes to be given away, the execution of
the work—the "job" which the Corporation
know so well how to value—Mr. SAMUEL HOLME
stands up and states that, " Mr. ALLoi had been.
" successful in 'carrying off the prize ; but he bad
" not the confidence of the Council, and that
" should be a bar to the execution of the idork being'
" entrusted to him. He (Mr. HomgE) agreed with
" Mr. JOHN tiTEWART, that the liesk course would
"be to instruct the surveyor to prepare their
" desig,nS; at'leastfor the ground planS of the coil-
" striiction, and he could then:get an architect to
" assist him in the preparations of the elevations."
Mr. Holois must have forgotten, when he gave
utterance to these words, that the Council have
to pay less than one-half of the money set apart
for the Library, and that, in treating Mr.
ALtOm with. injustice, he was heaping the
Council's ingratitude on Mr. BROWN, whose
entire confidence Mr. ALLorsi enjoyed, and re-
tained, until worried by every influence which
could be brought to bear upon him, that
truly patriotic and charitable man, abandoned
in disgust, at the Corporation's intriguing, :his.
unqualified preference for, Mr. ALLOM• "tirAati
architect.
Had the Council a less sincere and tolerant
man to deal with than Mr. BROWN, he would
have declined, long since, to have anything

more to say to them or the Library.

money was not offered as a sop to hungry
corporate officials or eminent men, who show
their abilities in working up the designs of
others. It was never intended that the
Borough Surveyor was to be the architect,
who was to " get an architect to assist him in
" the preparation ofthe elevations." This was an
after-thought, and a most cruelly unjust one
towards the Liverpool Architects, whose designs
will be carefully dissected, and made to supply
nine-tenths of the plans produced from the

Surveyor's office. It is also taking from the non-
official professional men of the Borough a large
amountof employment which belongs to them, and
centralising, it in the Corporation. What right
have the Council to be architects and builders ?,‘
They have, it is true, gleaned the architectural
brains of the town by. offering a few paltry
prizes, to enable their officials to understand
what is wanted ; but who will get the contract—
the fair commercial remuneration and encourage-
ment due to talent ? Some man who has the
confidence of Mr. SAMUEL HOLME'S side of the
Council Chamber will get all that is to be made
of Mr. BROWN'S munificence and the public's

lighter share of the money. The whole affair
has already assumed the unmistakeable features
of a corporate job, and it will not be a little amus-
ing to watch its growth, and note its ultimate
magnitude. Mr. ALLOM may have sinned with
regard to cost ; but it is, to be hoped the econo-
mical side of the Chamber will not let those
eminent men " who have the confidence of the
majority run into the same error. In the mean-
time, we would recommend the architects and
other professional men of Liverpool, whose
business is now monopolised by the Corporation,
to make common cause with the Ref3rm Electors,
in an effort to purify the atmcsphere of the
Town Hall.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.

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The ROyal Mail steani-Ship, from BoStori via Hali-
fax, arrived here this morning,and landed tier maile
at two o'clock. she.brings 61:passengers, tbe usual
and a quintiey Of. specie. The news by this
arrival is important, containing, as it does, the Pre-
`sident's message. -It is as usual a lengthy docu-,
meat: Affer a brief introdpction,in wh'ob he alludes
to his official position enabling him to speak-of the
past-,and prevent poSitionatti futUre Prospecti of
the Union, he remarks that the internal condition
of all the States, their trade, commerce and agri-
culture, are in a satisfactory condition. He deplores
the bickerings between the North and -the—South
respecting slavery. The outrages in the territory
of Kansas are referred to, and a hope expressed that
everything will run smooth, and peace and order,
and, happines,s among the_ people , rule supreme.
The- efficiency of the 'army and are eulogised; -
and a further increase of, the-latter recommended.
Both the Treasury arid O-eneral POst-offica 'reports
Present,satisfactory results.
The United: States continue in- the. enjoyment of
amicable relations with all foreign powers. On
the late diffeiences with Greitt'Britain, the Presi-
dent "says_: that, occasion of con trovergy ~ on this:
' point has been removed by an additional treaty,
which will be immediately subibitted to the Senate
for its consideratiOut...The effeirti to.`relieve the
American tracle,in,the Baltic from the S.ound Dues,
babe not yet-been attended with success. Mexican
affairs are touched-upon, and the Political•ciidition
of the country stated:4o be the eause of forbear-
ance on the part of the United States.
With regard to Nicaragua, he states that.
as matters at present exist, and awaiting
further developments, he had refused to
receive either of the _contending _diplomatic repre—
sentatives from that country. The exaction of the
mail tax by New Grenada he considered exor-
bitant, and must not be submitted to by the Unite(
States _ Redress Jorrthe outrages at the Isttnnusc
Of Panama must be 'insisted tipon, and satisfactory
Security obtained for the general interests of the
United States. Such are the leading points of the
message, which we shall give in extenso in ajseeond
edition.
News frorn California to -the- sth- November bad
reached New York by the Illinois, which brouptl
1,830,222 dols. in treasure, The election forTresi•
dent had taken place in that State, and the returns
as sent in, gave Mr. Buchanan fully s;ooCrpliiratitya
In the city
,of San Francisco, the vote was closti
between Buchanan and Fiement; thelo'rmer having
only between 100 and 200_ majority ; 'the Whole
opposititin charto.:: tickg, ,however, was successful
by about 1,000 Notei,over the democrats. The-
Governor had withdrawn his proclamation declar:
ing the city of San Francisco in a state of siege,"
and the Vigilance COmmiltee,had surrandeied- the'
captured Spate arms. Two opposing parties of.
Chinese; numbering in all: about' 2,500, hail been
engaged in a battle near Mound Spring, on
the Sonora road. The • affair resulted, as the
accounts state, in four being killed fr a four
wounded. Two hundred 'dere-taken prisdners by'
the civil authorities..; SevEraL attacks had *been
made in the newspapers upon P. T. Herbert, the-
Present member of
canfirelsfrAtrcgalifornio,; which"
elicited from him a card of explanation in regard to
his antecedents and course in Washington.
From Nicaragua we learn that all was quiet, and
the report that the San Juan river was to be
blockaded by General Walker's troops was contra-
dieted. The general had been reinforced by four
hundred and ninety men, and occupied San Carlos