The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-21 00:00:00

RUSSIA

The St. Petersburg papers, to the date of the
31st Dec. (January 11) have reached us. •
The Invalide liusse publishes the following
extracts &Obi Prince Gortschakoff's journal of the
military operations from the 4th to the 14th (16th
to the 26th) of December.
During this period of time the operations have
been confined, on both sides, to outpost skirmishes.
On the 9th (21st) of December, Colonel Oklobjio
commander of the detachment of the advanced
guard on the left flank of our position, made an
excursion towards the village of Urkusta. With
this object in view a detachment of men, -armed
with carbines, and a portion of the 72d cohort of
the militia of Kalouga, left the lighthouse in the
direction of that village. This movement spread
an alarm hi the whole of the neighbouring enemy's
camp. Three battalions of infantry assembled on
the heights where the Zouaves are encamped, with
the object o turning the right flank o Colonel
Oklobjio's detachment ; but he had, meantime,
effected his retreat, without having attained his
object.
On the 14th! (26th) of Dec., at five in the morn-
ing, a party of Frenchmen covered With white
cloaks, shod with list, and with cotton caps on,
turned secretly the left flank of our advanced
line in .the pass leading to the Baidar valley,
attacked the nearest post at the point of the
ti bayonet without firing a • shot, and at the same
me blew a trumpet signal, upon which a battalion
andi two squadrons, with, led hares, came down to
take the men who had made the attack,
command; iodf
Colonelappearance
o k olofbuiu r
o n reserves,th e side underico n
ttilel the
l'Fot-Sala, compelled the ernjeim°'y to retreat. Two
Cossacks and one soldier
'and Smolenskltoioetdhre e
Cossacksb
th
of infantry were
regiment
w e were
wounded, The traces
in his retreat, and the left°`v
y e
enemy
picked up by the
battalions which left the heights,
prove that our
loss cost the French dear.
On

ue
otner points of the Crimea nothing of
_Glenlar importance hasoccurred; ot
woriis of
cue enemy on the south side of Sebastopol have
been discontinued, on account of the severe frost ;
in general, according to the information gathered, the Allies stiffer fromlthe want of warm Clothing,
--sitals have received many

and, latterly, their

patients with frozen

From Genitehi it is r
(18th) of be.eernber the •
Sea) has been frozen
Azar is froz--

ed that since the Gth
of the Sivash (Putrid

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Table distance from the

The Gazette thus announces the appointment of
General Luders :

Aide-de-Camp General de Ludo rs, charged with

the command of the army of the south, and of the
marine service at Nicolaieff, is appointed Com-
mander-iii-Chief of the army of the south, and of
the land and sea forces in the Crimea, with all the
rights, powers, and prerogatives enjoyed by the
Commander-in-Chief of an army in time of war,
retaining his rank of Aide-de Camp General. He
replaces Aide-de-Camp-General Prince Gortschakeff
11., who receives another appointment.

General Soukhozanet II: succeeds General
Luders at Nicolaieff, under the order of General
Luders.

Aide-de-Camp-General de Kotzebue 11., chief of
the staff of the army of the south, and of the troops
in the Crimea, is appointed Commander of the sth
corps of Infantry, retaining the dignity Of Aide-
d& Camp-Genet al.
Lieutenant-General Nepokitchit sky succeeds
him as Chief of the Staff of the troops in the
Crimea.

The Gazette publishes a long list of promotions
and appointments.

AUSTRIA

Our advices from Vienna are to the 15th instant,
and though they are silent on the subject of the
acceptance by Russia of the propositions last
made by the Cabiaet of Vienna, they announce
that Count Stackelberg was expected in that city
on the following day.

We learn that all the Chambers of Trade have
received orders to send in their opinions on the
subject of free competition in trade.

The official Milan Gazette contains the following
article :

In the Concordat it was said th
of the Roman Catholic religion she
hut nothing more. Besides, now-a-days, the
Popes could not, if they would, endanger the
independence of States. Let us, however, suppose
the worst ! Let us suppose that the clergy, by
means of book and ban, should endeavour to over-
come the bayonet and the administrative organiza-
tion, would the attempt succeed? We doubt it !
For ecclesiastical authority can effect little if
justice is not with it, and the people behind it !
The times are past in which a clerical ordinance or
the stake, could annihilate a book, or an idea. The
press can produce thousands and thousands of
copies of a work, and if it is suppressed in one
place it is sure to appear in another. As the
dungeon and the rack cannot now be weapons in
the hands of-the Church, thoughts must in future
be combated by thoughts, and arguments by
arguments.

,t the privileges
ild be inviolate.

The foregoing extract will suffice to prove that
the arbitrary measures of the Italian bishops have
given great offence in the most influential non-
ecclesiastical circles. The Bohemian bishops, in
one and the same pasto-ral letter, assure their flocks
that the conclusion of the Concordat was . a great
triumph for all true Catholics, but the Bohemians
are still incredulous. The " mixed marriage"
question has already brought the Hungarian
bishops into the field. A Catholic was about to
marry a Protestant girl, and the latter wished to
have the nuptial ceremony performed by a clergy-
man of her own Church. The Catholic priest,
however, refused to give the bridegroom a certificate
that the banns had been regularly published,
because be had received the following instructions
from his bishop :
" By the recently concluded Concordat, all laws
and ordinances which are opposed to the same are
annulled, and therefore it cannot be doubted that
a Catholic bridegroom can only be married
.in the
manner prescribed by the Council of Trent, that
is, in a Catholic Church. Should a Catholic bride.
groom be induced by love to dare enter into a

matrimonial engagenient in open contempt of the
canonical laws, he would be guilty of an unlawful
and impious (illicitunt et implant) act, and the neces-
sary conditions to a legal matrimonial union would

be -wanting

NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1850.

THE RUGELEY POISONING

CASES.

(FROM OUR GIVN REPORTER:)

STAFFORD, SUNDAI'

Palmer was taken to London this morning, in order to
be in attendance as a witness, in a cause appointed to be
tried to-morrow (Monday), at Westminster-hall, in which
the validity of an acceptance in the name of his mother,
is involved. He was apparently in good health and
spirits, but complains of the many "misrepresentations "
which have gone forth to his prejudice. His brother, who
is a clergyman in the Midland Counties, and much
esteemed, came to Stafford on Saturday to visit him,
and to afford him the benefit of his advice. It is expected
that Palmer will state, on the trial at Westminster-hall,
that the acceptances are by the authority of his mother ;
but, if he even admitted his own criminality as to them,
no proceedings could be' founded on such admissions, as
they are " protected" by a recent act of parliament for
the administration ofjastice iu suits at law. A represen-
tation as to the conduct of the Coroner, has been
made to the Secretary of State, and confidence is
felt that he will interfere, it he has the power to do so.
The deceased Walter Palmer was in business a few years
since as a corn broker, and was well known at the Liver-
-12.0,0l and Stafford 'Changes; he was what is termed a

" fast " man, mixing with some of the junior mercantile
until his bankruptcy. The bail of only
£5O for Cheshire, the postmaster, has excited some sus-
picion on account of its smallness. He argues confidently
on the fact of the letter being opened when received by
him. It is understood that many facts could be laid be-
fore the jury, if those connected with the turf would but
make it a matter of duty to come forward, as they ought,
to state them. The local authorities who have the exclu-
sive conduct of the matter, without any aid, or occasion
for, the socalled London detectives, find much difficulty in
getting at facts, such is the extent of the Palmer influence,
and the obliviousness to their duty of those in the locality.
With regard of Palmer's appearance in court to-day, the
following regulations have been agreed to :—That the
police assemble at ten o'clock, the hour the various courts
open, and remain in attendance until the termination of
the proceedings. That Palmer be brought to the court
between ten and eleven o'clock, that he shall not enter by

men on

the ordinary way, but by the judges' private entrance ;
and that he shall remain in the judges' private room until
he is called to give evidence. That immediately upon the
case being over, Palmer shall be conducted through the
private apartments to
,a vehicle in'waiting, and that he
shall be conveyed immediately to Euston-square station,
to return to Stafford by the first available train.
THE INS URANC ES.—The following narrative of the inter-
views with the prisoner and his deceased brother Walter
Palmer, with reference to the policy on the life of the
latter with the Gresham Insurance office, is given by Mr.
Farren, the actuary and secretary of that company:—lt
appears that the proposal for insuring the life of Walter
Palmer for £15,000 was left at the offices of the company
by a person who was not known there. It was stated in
the proposal paper that Walter Palmer had suffered from
one attack of delirium tremens; that he was unmarried ;
that his general health was good, and that he was not then
addicted to habits of intemperance. Mr. Farren, thinking
the proposal for insurance a peculiar one, required
that Walter Palmer should attend in London and be exa.
mined by their own medical man. He also directed an
inquiry to be made at Rugeley as to his habits of life. A
communcation was, in consequence, made to the office by
Mr. Fawke, a respectable chemist and druggist residing in
Rugelev—