The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-05 00:00:00

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VEST INDIA MAIL.
J'lll:est India royal mail steamer Orinoco ar-
vvi Falmouth on Saturday and landed her
h o fifty passengers, and 1,600,000 dollars in
leason has, as yet, been assigned for
uato Falmouth, nor have we received any
'qf her arrival .at Southampton, the port
West India mails are usually landed,
O. Which place we receive our usual dis-.

AND TURKEY.

'444.'44 our Second Edition of Saturday.) -
1ti,_,..28t11.---The Austrian cabinet binds its
uous support to the Servian. declaration
4e' does not sanction that neutrality, and
.1:!11.ed 'the Servian government that if
'the Sultan would make use of his
fl:Stizerain, and march his troops through
Tt.
Iriksh government has issued a strict pro-
'aPinst the granting of letters of marque.
'St letters state that the Russian army
'ed to be soon in a condition to take the

'q)ect to the contradictory accounts of
ofan engagement between a Russian
'ptiari "steam frigate, the version that
k, as captured appears to be correct.
~11 steamer has arrived at Varna, to take
Vitish Consul to Constantinople.
ptan will arrive at Adrianople towards the
ebruary
-Th
telegraphic quotation of exchange
on Thursday, is 11.20, and denotes the
tee of renewed distrust, such as had been
on occasions when any news transpired
i!able to the Russians
weekly paper, The Press, has the
We have authority to state that the
St Petersburg has addressed a note to the
As of England and France announcing that
ifPfl negotiation, with respect to the affairs
Rat, will be listened to—that the part of
definitively taken, and that part is "La
Tames
has a leading article on the subject of
tted advance of the Turks, from Kalafat
,-tx-rajova, and remarks that this advance,
kith the activity of the Turks along the
the of the Danube, renders it evident that
yet at the beginning of the Walla-
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T -r URT.HER PARTICULARS.
u it•-•r.,1,. '
s 'made an advance from Kalafat on the
'I and constructed a large entrenched
t,point about 12 miles -distant from the
-the direction of Krajowa. This retreat is
'verted into an advance, and, so far is Omar
'Din designing to evacuate Wallacia, that he
ed.., it is said, some distance up the coun-
• established a fortified camp capable of
4,?learly three times the number of his force
,IP,,.as so unsuccessful at Oltenitza. This
4.(4' discloses intentions on the part of the
Ite it‘r.r.Y• material importance. For though it
ttPet the advance of 12 miles is not consider-
',ll4t.f„ ,that the construction *of a camp , might
',.`ttfl,e--f-andicate designs rather of passive than
Ig.lrea, ?Aerations, still, if the plans of the Turkish
knteCtl'ale_r.invo.lved
.n.othi.ng more than.the mere
er,4,11.14c.e of a position in Lesser Wallachia, it
eiti4,l),'sto see how his new camp • could offer
k 1 ti4st°,rement on the strong and convenient.
3a4e.t, 11. e already occupied at -Kalafat ; and in
.4 ttliia it is clear that he neither- intends to re-
eletive, nor to retire ' altogether before the
14,7
t.bd frees of Prince Gortschakoff.
r, . Narie_ from
:to onsi e Kalafat is therefore prelimi-
i'r.ttria it i: operations of a more decisive charac-
,,au,.. tloW plain that not only the yratr:. but.-
ispi•os.ecuted without in .imi:3
‘.trii)lo'Eirail.:ll,,,\!:
atOetla)ei
of the battle of Oltenitza, it
cquiter a NA to infer that the Russians may
' ku, , in°St formidable opposition ; for it is
tie nn that a force of at least 8000 Russians
entrenched
with serious loss by some 3000 or
'renebed Turks. The Russians, in fact,
\e
t•lie as get within 100 yards of the Turkish
IL ,and Omer Pasha himself, in his official
'lto the Ottoman government, describes
0‘,.,,Y only as " advancing with coolness and
un• almost to the brink of the trench." This
k ;"4. any rate, that Omar Pasha can take up
40):1;saions as are' invincible against double his
Itkiltth under Prince Gortschakoff.
tk,qthr evidence of the unremitting energy with
-iltf!,f, ()stilities are continued is furnished in the
14felt;,,In Giurgevo. The fort opposite that of
t, .4p,' i 8 the only point at which the Turks, at
ti sill
ttlt,,,tl, g of the campaign, failed to accomplish
th,7.L ly relinquished
of the Danube. They never, however,
tti,(4%eivennquished the attempt, but maintained
kihtki, h", for some time on an island in the
ttiii` the b'nf way between the two forts. This posi-
V ittl'‘ussians repeatedly and at last success-
tlifr,"°\'el•„,aeked ; but on the 21st ult., the Turks
41'4.1-1,0 the island and held it, in spite of two
4,,i,''.),44saults, until the 24th, when the Russian
rtit,,sl's got possession of it. . The desperate
elit'-'i't, this point indicates that both parties
.")-1111k7:.11ts in which its importance would be
36.-r,t,,,,
tu, 100` from Widdin and Kalafat reach to Nov.
oci, 't tins are planted on the ramparts at Kala-
ito '6l, ' explains the return of a great. portion
cO4 li. h
t, tee,, Is forces to Widdin for better quarters.
•1014,1 are left at Kalafat, thus strongly fortified,
11,"61.;uer being sufficient for its defence.
pi.- ,neold in Asia has been injurious to the
t„,Clany cases of death and sickness have
Itt
t,eN
from Bucharest state that large masses
'"11 trrops were expected, and that the
ke4ikk
tivei,,,Preparations decreed by Prince Gortscha-
lira, Cl),eing executed on a large, scale. The
t,'ll, 41Thy was expected to be soon in a con-
, . to
, take the offensive.
, -
% (p TRADE AND COMMERCE..
k. 4
l°k r 6714 our Second Edition of Saturday.)
t.,;, N
AttiNt °f Trade returns for the month ending
N., Oier sth, show an increase in the declared
`46,'N')(Ports as compared with the same month
'ttiktys'' of £1,312,360, and metals and haber
Ti‘l,,are again the two items in which the
!hit Cerease is observable. ,
'l'ti4/I),i'lerease in exports during the first ten
A`lo this year over a similar period .in 1852
iilt,f)!VAlsl.
' eons articles of food imported and taken
L ''. ~ '4lption there is no particular alteration.
ikR SPAIN.
'h. itriiBh government has received. a dispatch
4i4t7te,j4l-; announcing the probability that the
:thjiei-,government will, in a few days, pro-
`, 4 lines Royal of age.
0 kg A • ITALY.
tiii i c 1)4,1111E81'S AT ROME.—ROME, NOV. 24.—A
„,,'-o'itclieen°f Romans, belonging to the respecta-
,*ita class, fell into the clutches of the sbirri
Vieof t1!,,,g.0, arrested, as is supposed, on
.ac-
(44 in their political principles, they being
hi,,i4;.::,,,ittliorileilb.eedrs of the fusionist party. It may
that, after the last outbreak at
titti-ar,a,. ge majority of the Italian liberals pro-
e, ° ilist the ado tion of such •measures in
V4l•‘" Pr 13 •
14 14, Ist °Posed a fusion of constitutionalists,
4.,hr're iand republicans, to the exclusion of
7,t4',q's salted friends of Young Italy, for the
Vq.e'lloof- their future conduct. The expedition
t*A.as eae, 4.° exiles to Rome, on the 15th August
tt, N 6 inesny opposed by the fusionists, and
114
•N,,i,• (inrice
Ltts then
_,... they were not comprised in the
T.N.Toat, then don the discovery of the plot.
V3,14i %et,: dike shown them, however, appears to
Itt:s
,I\!'ke that granted by Polypheme to
k ki4 iiadiv9inan shall be the last I will devour."'
',;+ec.i Rlit v, 'duals were dragged off to prison on
1111, uefore
whom
1 t "'Si, who last, amongst are Signors
h•.'fija !vo y Was nearly beaten to death by the
ik. hiltsnag'se
i,, MI „a6°—Mazzoni, who was arrested
qtll„„eonsur, e, 1851, just as he was entering the
ki,
.t.,.,r of di to join a dinner party—Gigli, an
01.1k,"lia,„co`-'_
administration—and
a clerk in the salt
l'l,l Ly ICI the arartnnistration—and Berni, a poet,
kl,aii r ettz. libretto of a new opera just brought
CN- ttttc, eq l' the IT'itch of Endor. This morning
-'S 18 a
Ili 4R- 'le , re spoken of, and the names of Sig-
thMl •Itte 4relli
13,. oil and Tittoni are mentioned as
e re Rst the • •
th.; Sh e victims. They both belong to
•kae•-eetable . . •
\ toe families, and the first is one of
eaPitalißtB of Rome.

THE PRESTON STRIKE.-=APPEAL TO THE
MAST.ERS.

GREAT MEETING OF OPERATIVES.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PRESTON, SATURDAY EVENING. —There was an immense
gathering of the factory operatives of this town in the
Orchard, at three o'clock this afternoon ; it being under-
stood that their favourite chieftain, Mr. George Cowell,
would deliver an address. Mr. Rhodes, of Stockport, was
installed in the office of chairman. Most of the delegates
were in attendance, but few of them had an opportunity of
speaking, in consequence of the unlimited time available for
the proceedings: The meeting was very spirited and en-
thusiastic, and evinced a strong determination not to accept
the terms proposed by the Masters' Association, in their
resolutions of the Ist instant.

The CHAIRMAN said the millocracy of Preston were now
resorting to their last expedient, and if the operatives would
only be :firm and determined, and above all things keep the
peace, victory was certain, and that ere long. (Cheers.)
Let them be of good cheer, despite the resolutions issued by
the Masters' Association on Thursday last. They thought
that as Christmas was coming on, the mills in some of the
manufacturing districts would cease labour for two days,
and in some instances for a week, and that as a result there
would be a small subscription coming into Preston, which
would have the effect of starving the operatives into sub-
mission. He, however, begged to state that the people of
those districts were retaining sufficient funds in hand.to en-
able them to send a larger sum than ever in Christmas week.
(Cheers.)
Mr. WADDINGTON having briefly addressed the assembly,
assuring them that they had a glorious prospect in view.
Mr. COWELL was introduced amid general acclamations.
He observed that after a struggle of eight weeks, they had
gained one victory. The primary object of the masters in
closing their mills was to crush the operatives' union. Now
(said he), when they have thrown us in the streets, and find
that they cannot crush our union, what do they say ? They
will let us go back to our work, and we must not have our
union ! (Shouts of derision.) The speaker -proceeded to
criticise a placard headed "The mills re-opened," and ad-
dressed "To the factory operatives of Preston," which had
not then appeared upon the walls, but which was issued in
the course of the evening, and. created considerable excite-
ment amongst the unemployed. This placard (said Mr.
Cowell) admits that we have gained the victory. Our mas-
ters declared emphatically tat they were determined to
crush combination amongst the working classes. But now
that we are locked out, and find that we are gaining sym-
pathy on every hand; when we find the people in the rural
districts, and not only there, but in such towns as Liverpool,
and Glasgow, and London, not promising us support, but
sending its plenty of money, I say, when we have these
things before our eyes, it is evident that the victory is almost
gained, and that the manufacturers are going on their last
crutches. Those crutches will soon break, and then you
will be freed from your fetters, and be enabled to sing with
truth " Britons never shall be slaves." (Cheers.) The
placard thus commences—" The Preston lock-out is at an
end." I wonder who told the writer so. The Preston lock-
out is not at an end. Why were you locked out ? In the
first place, because they wished to destroy combination
amongst the working classes ; and 'secondly, because they
desired to deprive you of the 10 per cent. which they had
just yielded. Now, when they find they cannot starve you
into submission' they will forego the abolition of the union,
but they will take from you the 10 per cent., and
you may depend upon it the battle is ours. (Cheers.)
" You may, if you please, return to work ; you may, if
you please, again earn your daily bread, and be no
longer dependant upon the charity of others ; and
you may do all this without being humbled, without any
compromise of your feelings, your principles, or your rights."
But the Blackburn masters can find a vent for their goods ;
and I will tell you how I know this, if a weaver can't turn
off enough work in Blackburn, he must put on his coat and
go about his business. Now I ask, is it reasonable to sup-
pose if the masters did not buy the cloth they would " bag"
people because they could not get a sufficient quantity off
their looms ? (Hear, hear.) The press wants us to sur-
render and give the masters the victory. We say, in reply,
give us the ten per cent. and our union, or if you don't like
that, pay us according to the Blackburn standard list of
prices; we'll have either one or the other, and then we'll
go in. You may depend upon it we are determined to have
as much for our labour in Preston as they have in other
places. (Cheers.) " The battle between capital and labour,"
says the placard, "has been fairly fought so far in Preston.
The masters have put forth their strength, and the latent
energies of the working classes have also been displayed;
proving most clearly that such a conflict is most unnatural
and equally ruinous to both sides. Circumstances have,
however, arisen which give the masters an immense ad-
vantage in the conflict. They are nevertheless willing,
upon two indispensable conditions, to abandon the conflict,
and it will be nothing less than self-ruining madness if
you decline the peace or truce they offer. Upon former
occasions, harder terms have been successfully im-
posed upon you, and it has even now been said that the
masters woad not re-open their mills until the workmens'
committees were broken up and their unions dissolved. "
They know they can't do that, said Mr. Cowell. The
remainder of the placard was as follows :—" But observe
well, no condition is required; the hours are left untouched,
you may resume work and maintain your unions, and can
you reasonably require more ? " True, it may be that
neither party can claim a victory—true it may be that the
artizans lose the ten per cent—but you preserve your unions ;
and surely, far-seeing people must perceive that this is
incomparably the most important point for you. Hitherto,
the operations of the unions have been, beyond expectation,
successful ; under a compulsory " lock-out" the sympathies
of the public have been expected in your favour ; hut the
masters have now, upon very reasonable and only necessary
conditions, proposed to re-open the mills. The public will
condemn you for refusing those conditions; you will lose
the public sympathy; short time will lessen the wages of
your warmest friends ; your collections will in consequence
diminish ; and then on your side defeat commences. Now,
in the full tide of your prosperity, honourable terms are
proposed to you ; and surely, common sense says, accept
them ! Ask yourselves calmly, is there any prospect of
better terms ? -With the civil war in China, and with war
in Europe ; with scarcity and high prices in France and
England ; what prospect is there of any improvement in
the cotton trade, either home or foreign, during the coming
year ? It has been said that the Preston masters were only
bound together for three months ; and it has been hoped,
that after Christmas, some mills would be re-opened, but
this is a false impression. It is now known that the associ-
ated masters are bound together for twelve months, so that,
with the bad prospect of trade, and under the power of the
masters' bond, there is no probability whatever that better
terms can be offered to the artizans of Preston for the next
nine months, than those now proposed to you. Then, be
wise ; return to your work ; put an end to the misery, want,
and ruin which is now overwhelming to many families
in Preston. Cease to oppress your brethren, who, in
all parts of the country, have so generously supported
thousands of you, - when you could not work. Remember
the masters proposal is one which all impartial people will
consider reasonable, under existing circumstances ; if you
refuse it, the responsibility will rest entirely upon your-
selves of starving and ruining the many thousands of men,
wo man, and children of Preston, who are dependent upon
factory labour for their subsistence and comfort. Consider
th ese facts I beseech you, and act with common sense. It
is remoured that the mills will be re-opened when half the
men of each branch, in each mill, shall have given in their
names." (Cheers). Mr. Cowell concluded by moving a vote
of thanks to the Blackburn manufacturers for the noble
. .

spirit they had oyinced during this agitation.

- Mr. GRLMSHAW reported that during the week he had
addressed large meetings of various trades as well as factory
operatives, at Church Parish, Over Darwin, Great Hare-
wood, and Lancaster and the most cordial sympathy was
manifested on behalf of the down-trodden people of
Prest on.

Mr. Cowzm, again stood forward and said Monday mor-
ning is coming, when the great doors are to be opened ;
and you are told that when the masters get as many hands
as will set half their machinery agoing, they will resume
work. Now all you who are determined to stand by your
committee and to have an unconditional ten per cent, hold
up your hands. (An immense array of hands responded to
this appeal, and reiterated cheering followed.)
The vast assembly then separated.

Mr. William Brands Pollard is appointed financial as
countant in British Guiana.

Mr. David C. Smith is appointed a member of the legisla.
tive council of the Turks islands.

Mr. Pownal Dale is appointed consul for Hamburg, at
Port Stanley,
PRIZE MoNzy.—Notice is given of the payment of prize
money to the Cygnet, for slave captures in 1845. The cap-
ture of the Levin Bank, in 1860, by the Ranger, has been
paid.
BRITISH SEAMEN AT NAPLES, &c.—The King of Naples
has signed a law facilitating the apprehension of British
seamen deserting their ships in the dominions of Naples and
Sicily.
The Hon. W. C. Eliot (son of Earl St. Germans, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland) now unpaid attache at Lisbon, is
appointed second paid attache to her Majesty's mission at
Berlin, in the room of the Hon. Vesey Bligh, resigned.
Hercules J. Robertston, Esq. (advocate, 1817), sheriff
depute of Renfrewshire, is appointed a judge of the court of
session in Scotland, in the room of Lord Fullerton, re-
signed. Mr. Robertson will take his seat as Lord Benholm.
The two senior masters in chancery, Mr. Senior and Sir
W. Home, have been released by the Lord Chancellor,
under the powers of the masters in chancery abolition act,
and the causes remaining unfinished in their offices have
been transferred to the five continuing masters.
The South American and General Steam Navigation
Company's steamer Lusitania, which left Liverpool at 3 p.m.
on the 24th November, arrived at Lisbon at 8 a.m on the
29th inst., being a passage of 4 days 17 hours ; she would
leave Lisbon for Brazils, &c., .the same day. The home-
ward-bound vessel the Olinda, may be expected this week,
with dates from Monte Video to the Ist, and Rio to the
10th November,

•,,.
• ______
TtST INDIA MA.1.1.
Es-to, .:
I Sit . I,,•l\rest in •
ssenb i at porn India royal mail steamer Or
pa S;
_. : , is,i,,, , . outh on Saturday and lan
lig T',.„ ~,' T.,ilitY passengers, and 1,600,000 d
itho.,in.r,- ‘,.,ca,,,,..,,,0 reason has, as yet, been assi
co ti°"- , -061,11t0 Falmouth, nor have we rece
.f a" , 4','' tja,t, her arrival *at Southampton,
,41t132'„ ',.i,07„4e., NVest India mails are usually
eoteeo, ~e-7 \1 inch place we receive our u.:
0 may
Stralitt j c.,:
UR. Q r 7--
a "ing '6,:43.-LA AND TURK.
•he'' g°l' f-,it• : - •
ion On, ‘41;;4; :AFFAIRS OF THE EAST.
a take 4„,-
,ksii, 1w44,. ), our Second Edition of Sctturde
ifing°,' 4&,- ':2 Bth ----The Austrian cabinet- 1:
i 47, 1110 us support to the Servian de,
al, Of 414tit..dees not sanction that neutra
rett.o.. "..i.::ll.ed 'the Servitin . government
, sticF'
,•
~iii,„'the Sultan would make use
to •• , -:• :•Izerain, and march his troops
of ; lt,. I.
day, • , i cnri.,..risisli government has issued ast
01‘34 ' ' li4:Phist the granting of letters of i
loop tl4'-est letters state that the- Russit
,ed,.' . i ~,.4„7,t(1 to be soon in a condition to
its-, t 'A
[3ills.or' kAIV76Pect to the contradictory ace
ii 14,N1 of an engagement between a
witit''''t ,I•AVYPtiari 'steam frigate, the vers
erVf,;( ofillf, "as captured appears to be coil
P ur ti.t' kill
jay IL7-1314,. steamer has arrived at Varna
ti,,i• , 4,`;,ltsh Consul to Constantinople.
„ei• t?f i,4...1an will arrive at Adrianople tow
Ate29lo ut
‘7oruary.
• Po; Tle44'.----The telegraphic quotation of E
'1
1.11 1. le ha on Thursday, is 11.20, and den
t,t
)0;0 , e"ciee of renewed distrust, such as 1
;• ',O oii, .;_)° occasions when any news tr
'. 1)1?-rif Ve taule to the Russians
1 y 0,-, 1
tities4o 0111
J."; (ton weekly paper, The Press,
eelloir i'llbf..-----" We have authority to state
esccis ks.tlltz, t• Petersburg has addressed a no
as 10 + ililith,,entsofEnglandaud France announ
,0)
itlit,e D'l'n negotiation, with respect to tl
in c4i, i, t'afit, will be listened to—that the
00011 litte,,,'3 definitively taken, and that par'
s s'lo l!'7'i
Lversretl No Tes has a leading article on the s
ostP ttts .I•7'ed advance of the Turks, fron
ee?' , le' ,-(\a'aj ova, and remarks that this
lide... ,•iii.,\‘'ith the activity of the Turks a.
0 g%., Le of the Danube, renders it evict
crallito : ,„'1.13' as yet at the beginning of tL
sek's°o6l ',,, 'lllPaign•
001Tr'' i)11,, FURTHER PARTICULARS.
ti,ivos,!.., v*,4,,uyks-,made an advance from Kalafi
till I" 11- ",, and constructed a large en
In - Oa •
1 41 Point about 12 miles distant- f
rts• 4 Ilk the direction of Krajowa. This i
tt-fc i'll4 kilcN7ert d into
0,. i e an advance, and, so far
~15, ffli I,y kar",lll designing to evacuate Wallaci
iilli oo 4 e4ed, it is said, some distance up t
ester, 0 14 t 1 ei
jao tablished a fortified camp ca
c'l`" .. '4,,411',,t1; earlY three times the number of