The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-19 00:00:00

ITALY

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.—The st
ship nansa, one of the German line of steam-ships between
Bremen and the United States, has put into this port for.
coals on her way from New York to Bremen. She left the
former port on the 4th inst., and her advices have been an-
ticipated via Liverpool.
The Sydney, Captain Callaton, from London,
bound for Port Louis, Maurittius, was totally lost on Con-
nonier's Point on the 22nd July ; crew'and about 350 tons
of cargo were saved, but much valuable machinery for sugar
mills lost ; 7,0001. or 8,0001. was fortunately got off the
wreck.

The PiedmonteseGazette of the 14th inst. announ
,es the arrival, at Turin, of the Duke of NemourE
Lnd the Princess of Saxe Cobourg, his sister. The 3
ravelled under the names of Count of Embleur anc

Baronness of Ementhal. • -
" The 'accounts received from the East had excited
considerable agitation among the numerous refu-
gees, residing at Genoa. They were beginning to
plan the invasion of the neighbouring States for the
purpose of rousing the population to insurrection.
To that effect the Republican Committee had
widely circulated a proclamation through several
provinces of Italy, and a Turin journal,. the Voce
della Liberta, contended in one of its last numbers
that.the Piedmontese government ought to alloW
the emigrants liberty to act.

DR. NEWMAN'S LECTURES

DR. NEwMAN delivered the second of his Course of Lec-
tures at the Catholic Institution last night. A very large
audience assembled. Dr. Newman proceeded with the his-
tory of the Tartar, or Scythian race, from the expulsion of
portions of them by' a monarch of China, from the neigh-
bourhood of that country, until they arrived at the Danube,
and terrified the hitherto invincible Goths. The physiolo-
gical characteristic of their race, the lecturer exemplified in
the description history has given of their great chief, Attila
who is pourtrayed as having a large head, swarthy corn-
dexion, small, deep-sunken eyes, a few hairs in place o.
ieard, short square body, and enormous strength. The lea
surer then went through the career of Attila, and describe(
Cis extraordinary rule, for which scarcely any -parallel cal
be found in history, over the Tartar and German race
together, his empire extending from the Chinese extremit
of Asia, to the Rhine, and over as far as the Baltic Sea an,
Sweden. His devastations through Asia and Europe fiver
minutely narrated, until his arrival in Italy, where, havin
laid waste Aquiea, Verona, Vicenza, and other cities, an
driven numbers of the inhabitants to take refuge in tl
islands at the mouth of the Adriatic, to which fact the grei
imperial city of Venice owed its origin; his progress wa
stayed before he arrived at Rome, by the intervention of St
Leo. The meeting of Attila and St. Leo, who came as tin
envoy of Italy, commemorated by Raphael's painting in flu
Vatican, was described by the lecturer, the interview whicl
took place, and the surprising persuasive effect of the look
and speech of St. Leo, which prevailed upon Attila to stay
his-course, and desist from reaching Rome. Having detailed
the principal events of the career of Attila, and his death,
-Tl/41...urm fin won+ on to tho next Tront nnint at which the
Tartar mow wore gathored under one head, the Sway alai
conquests of Zhingis Khan. The conquests of this ruler,
which spread over Tartary, China, Persia, Siberia, Hindos-
tan, Asia Minor, Russia, Hungary, Poland, and indeed the
greater part of the world then nown, which his descendants
held for more than sixty years after his death, were briefly
glanced at. Zhingis Khan is said to have been able to
bring into the field 700,000 men, and to have left upon one
battle plain 160,000 dead bodies. The lecturer remarked
upon the extraordinary daring and indomitable perseverance
which this monarch displayed; and alluded to his having
once taken his whole army into the deserts of Tartary, and
kept them there, without any regular commissariat, for a
period of five months, alone maintained by their success in
the chase, and his extraordinary passage, with his whole army,
over the mountains which formed the barriers of Hindostan.
The lecturer also dwelt upon the extraordinary cruelty which
Zhingis Khan had displayed throughout his career and gave
several instances of the massacres which he caused of
the inhabitants of whole cities. As Attila had boasted that
where the hoof of his horse had trodden, the grass never
grew, so Zhingis made use of the boast that when he razed
a city it was levelled to the ground so completely that his
horse could gallop over the place where it had stood without
stumbling. Next the lecturer traced out the career and
onquests of Tamerlana, or Timour the Tartar, whose cruelty
.e described as ever surpassing that of his predecessors, and
rho massacred at Delhi 100,000 people, built a wall of
0,000 skulls at Ispahan, sacked and burned to the ground
Lshacar, Ispahan, Bagdad, Aleppo, Damascus, Smyrna, and
iumberless other cities. When reading of these things, the
ecturer observed, one appeared rather to hear of the deeds
)f some monstrous antidiluvian giant, than of a man who
ived, as Timour had done only 450 years ago. The
ecturer then exemplified the characteristics of the Tartar
mce. No power had ever succeeded in converting them to
Christianity. The effects of successive Popes of St. Louis,
the ninth King of France, and of sovereigns of Spain,• to
convert them through the agency of missionaries, had been
in vain. Here the lecturer passingly touched upon the
history of Marco Polo, who left Venice with his family, and
lived twenty five years among the Tartars, and who, after his
return to Venice having been made prisoner in Genoa, wrote
there his celebrated history, the veracity of which was long
denied, until travellers within the last half century had es-
tablished it, and it was now held as remarkable for truth,
as then for its supposed falsehoods. This history, the lecturer
stated and the narratives of missionaries and others, exactly bore
out the statements of former historians, regarding the Tartar
race. Having spoken of their cruelty, the lecturer illustrated
by several instances the gluttony and the barbaric pomp whicl
characterized them. Their feasts, served up with the moss
gorgeous profusion of gold and silver, but consisting of the
flesh of horses, and even of dogs, foxes, and wolves, were
described from the narratives of different travellers and embas-
sadors. Returning to the history of the three great con-
querors, whose career formed the leading topic of his dis-
course, 'Dr. Newman remarked upon the singularity of the
fact that each of these men unlike the greater number of
those who by sudden victories acquired immense sway, died
at the full height of his fame and in the possession of the
most extended power. Yet it was not less remarkable that
a misgiving seemed to have seized upon each, a shadow to
have passed over him, before his death. This was exempli-
fied in the sudden and surprising effect which the intercession
of St. Leo had in checking the apparently' untamabl(
ferocity of Attila. Of Zhingis it was recorded, that shortll
before his death, he declared he would build up. every city
which he had destroyed. Compunction was upon him—
but it was much easier to destroy than to construct. 11€
could pull down, but he could not build up—his ruins re-
mained to this day—he went home qnd died. Timour when
an old man, was going to China to pursue his conquests there;
after splendid success in other parts of Asia. He came to
Aleppo, which he burned down. While the flames wer(
raging, and the shrieks of the dying were sounding in MI
ears, he called one of his officers, and declared that he wa
not a man of blood, and called God to witness, that never
in all his wars had he been the aggressor. He died soon
after in the city of Samarcand. All the deeds of these men,
the lecturer observed, made it seem but too true that the
best effects of what was deemed earthly glory, were 'but a
.poor imitation of the ambition of the So.fon of Milton.
• Shortly after the death of Timour, arose John Paskkwitch,
• the founder of the Russian empire. Just as the power of
; the Tartars fell,, so the power of Russia began, and having
brought the audience to this point, the lecturer concluded
his discourse for the night.
Dr. Newman will deliver the third of his course of lectures
eam-
on Monday evening.

ACCIDENTS.—Richard Taylor, of Highfield-street,
labourer, was yesterday working at the London and North
Western Railway, when a weight of 601bs. fell from an up-
per storey on his head, producing a severe scalp wound.—
.William Clarkson, whilst working in the Queen's Dock,
yesterday, was severely scalded by some boiling pitch spilling
over him.
MEETING OF CREDITORS, at the Manchester Bank-
ruptcy Courts :—Wednesday, 19th October, at 12 o'clock :
idiz Mines, wc.olstapler adiourned wait*.