The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-04 00:00:00

their fellow creatures, whose lives were sacrificed
on that melancholy occasion ; but, if such was
their intention, then might God forgive them as he
did. It should, however, not stop him; he should
preach at the Surrey Gardens again. God was
with him, and who should be against him. In the
course of his remarks he took occasion to say that
God would overrule that °vont for good.
The disbanded soldiers of the Anglo-German

Legion are a sad lot. They have given the police
a good deal of trouble wherever they have
happened to be, and murder, in more in stances
than one, has been laid at their door. On Saturday

night another of their diabolical deeds was corn_
mitted. A disbanded Jager, in a quarrel with an
Englishman, in Commercial-street, Spitalfields,
London, deliberately cut—with a knife—a person
named Mole, inflicting a terrible gash, extending
from the top to the bottom of the face. A police-
man came up to his assistance, and the German
turned on him, and inflicted two very serious

wounds—one on the left side of the breast, the
other on the thigh. The assailant was ultimately
captured, and the wounded men taken to an hos-
pital. Yesterday the police officer was in a highly
dangerous condition, but the other man was not in

imminent danger.
Our obituary to-day; contains the announcement
of the death of Sir John Jervis, Chief Justice of the
Court of Common Pleas, which took place on
Sunday ; also the demise of the Earl of Bandon,
on Friday last. The age of the former was fifty-
four, and that of the latter seventy one years.
Our Continental advices are not of much import-
ance. Baron Brenier, and, Mr. Petre, the French
and British Neapolitan Ambassadors, arrived at
Marseilles on Saturday evening. Naples was
tranquil ; but the Government had . taken
extraordinary measures (of precaution) on the
day of the departure of the Ambassadors.
According to letters from St. Petersburg, written
in a spirit hostile to the English and Austrian
pretensions, it is probable that Russia, assuming
that the question of-Bolgrad is the only one which
gives rise to any serious difficulty, is prepared to
make concessions on that point, which will take
away from Austria and England any excuse for
remaining in their positions. In fact, it is repre-
sented that they have as good as promised to
withdraw at once, if Bolgrad be ceded to Moldavia.
We have advices which state that on the 23rd of
October it was definitely settled at Constantinople
between the Porte, England, and Austria that the
occupation of the Black Sea and Danubian Prin.
cipalities should be prolonged.
From Constantinople we learn that an tatinurtum
from England has been forwarded to the Shah of
Persia; the Indian squadron was to sail in the
beginning of October ; and that the capture of
Bushire was considered inevitable. Notwithstand
ing the efforts of England, the Persian army was
actively pressing the siege of Herat. It was forti-
fying the environs, of which it had obtained
possession after having defeated the Affghans,
6,000 of whom had surrendered.
Madrid accounts state the Gazette of that city
contradicts the rumours relative to the conferences
which were said to have taken place between the
Queen and the Marquis of Viluma, and declares
that the government will respect the contracts for
sales of the national property made before the
decree of suspension. The payment of the
approaching half-yearly dividend is assurod.
We pLiblisla details of the West India news, also
intelligence from the West Coast of South America,
in to-day's impression, to which we would invite
our readers attention.

ther another Inter-
national Congress has not been abandoned. The
only thing that remains to be decided is where the
diplomatic gathering shall meet. The Emperor
NAPOLEON expects it to be held at Paris, and he,
certainly, does need some idle diversion for the
public mind of his country more than any other
European ruler ; and this is the only feasible
reason which can be assigned for the emphatic tone
in which the Court of France speaks on the subject.
But to these conclaves, sitting with closed doors
in a foreign capital. the people of this country
must be most strenously opposed. Our Statesmen
are not yet sufficiently independent of Parlia-
mentary restraint and popular favour to presume to
take upon themselves to deal with the moral and mate-
rial interests of Great Britain in secret Councils
held beyond our shores. It may be wise policy to
uphold the reigning dynasty of France, as a check
to the demagogues of the Continent; but it is most
unwise and dangerous to humiliate England and
make her appear a second or third class Power in the
eyes of the world. This is, certainly, not the way to
increase the number of her allies, to give strength
to the cause of Constitutional Government, and
revive the lost confidence of other nations in our
political power and foresight. We have no right
to place reliance on the wisdom and success of a
second Paris Congress, after the signal failure
which has attended the promises and labours of
the first.

lly idea of calling t

The position of Europe is much worse than it
was in April last. The chronic disorders, both
social and political, of the Continent are spreading
rapidly, and the general confusion and alarm
appears to be approaching nearer to the culmina-
ting point daily. Russia, the hot-bed of intrigue,
is no longer hemmed in by foreign broadsides and
bayonets. Her heralds of discord and turmoil are
again scattered widely over the face of every country,
counselling the fool, the knave, and the Reac-
tionist. Austria presumes upon her advice. Prussia
would attack Switzerland in obedience to her
orders. Naples, relying on her succour, continues
to outrage humanity, and set England and France
at defiance. Italy stands on the brink of a volcano,
Spain has become a little Muscovite barbarian,
and swindles her British creditors. With such a
state of things before us, is it prudent, is it digni-
fied, for Great Britain to be playing second to any
Power? We may appreciate the value of the
French alliance very highly, but we must not lose
sight of the importance attached by others to ap-
pearances. We have just lost the most valuable sea -
board of the Euxine, with its 2,000,000 Circassians,
as customers, by the shuffling at Conferences, and
we may be sure that some further surrender of

rights and interest will be demanded from us in
another gathering, where Constitutional States will
be in a minority. Publicity might secure us some-
thing in such cases ; but this is determinedly for-
bidden. The mischief is done, as in the case of
Circassia; before we can protest against it. But
that which was done so recently as April last, with
impunity, cannot be attempted with safety now.
Europe cannot be placed in the position she was
in seven months ago, by a flourish of the diplo-
matic quill; and our great study should be to keep
) out of political engagements, which the events of

to-morrow may compel us to abandon witli greater
precipitancy than we may have entered into them.
The Emperor NAPOLEON will scarcely ask the
British creditors of Spain to forego their dividends,
because the Queen ISABELLA thinks proper to
become an absolute ruler, and to raise such
butchers as O'DONNELL and NARVAEZ to power ?
He will not expect the Papal world, to say nothing