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MONDAY:

NOVEMBER 24, 1856,

THE DAY'S NEWS

Our home news this morning is of an interesting
character. Among the principal topics of conver-
sation is the late barbarous murder of Mr. Little,
of the Great Southern and Western Rail%ay. Our
Dublin advices inform us that the greatest excite-
ment still prevails in that city respecting the affair.
The canal has been dragged, and a hammer and
razor have been found. On applying the former to
the skull of the unfortunate deceased, his remains
having been disinterred for that purpose, it was
found to fit the fractured part and wounds. The
parties suspected, or likely to afford a clue to the
discovery of the murderer, are still under examina-
tion. No arrests have yet been made ; but the
police are possessed of information which will no
doubt give a clue to their discovery. Yesterday
considerable consternation was created here by
the rumour that the supposed murderer of
Mr. Little had been arrested in a hotel in
Dale street. Our reporter furnishes us with par-
ticulars of the arrest ; unfortunately it was not the
miscreant which justice, and the blood of an
innocent victim, for whose capture and condign
punishment both call aloud. It is now proved
beyond doubt, that a robbery, amounting to £2OO
in silver, and £l5O in gold, was effected by the
murderer. One of our Dublin cotemporaries fur-
nishes the following late particulars respecting this :
Suspicion still attaches to some of the employes,
for the more the circumstances of the crime are
considered, the firmer becomes the conviction that
no one but a person well acquainted with the
building and the entire locality could have done the
deed, which, of course, a mere stranger could not
be. The conduct of the police would also lead to
the inference that they entertain a similar opinion.
- search which. was made in the harbour ceased
-day night, after the finding of the razor,
has been allowed to flow

Th
on Thurs
and the

back to its former position. It was considered
that the key, to
gain which would be the
object of a continuance of the search, was not
likely to be got in the immense deposit of
mud. The possession of it would not only be
valuable as affording evidence that the other two
implements were the ones employed by the
assassin in the execution of his diabolical purpose.
Respecting the razor, it is now ascertained that the
blade was set in a whit..., not a black haft, and it
appears to be such a one as might have been taken
out of a dressing case the property of a gentleman.
It bears the name of "Reid," the celebrated cutler,
as manufacturer. No trace of blood is apparent on
the blade or handle; but from its having remained
in the water for, it is presumed, some few days, all
appearance of blood must, no doubt, have been
washed away. It will, however, be subjected to a
microscopic examination.
The Great Northern Frauds have been clearly
traced to Redpath, and his associate Kent.

They are, therefore, committed for trial on a
charge of forgery, and the former has been
made a bankrupt. The total losses which
the company has sustained is not known. The
circumstance that the large proportion of the stock
improperly issued was the "A" stock of the com-
pany, which carries no dividend until the "B"
stock is paid six per cent , renders it more diffi-
cult to arrive at an exact knowledge of the extent
of the frauds committed by the prisoner. In con-
nection with these frauds there are some very
awkward questions which will no doubt be put to
the directors at the next half yearly meeting, and
Mr. Denison will no doubt feel some difficulty in
reconciling the recent occurrences with the boast
which he made at the last meeting respecting the
valuable and faithful services which were rendered
to the company by what he called par excellence
" the gentlemen" connected with the railway. It
is very distressing to have offences against the
laws committed by persons whose distress has
driven them into a disregard of meunt and tuum,
but it is still more galling to find, as in this case,
that the offender was one of the well-paid class of
officials, and one who was trusted because of his
wealth.

The railway tragedy, which took place near

Waterford, has been the subject of a coroner's
inquest, and from the evidence already adduced it
would appear that the cause of the disaster was
owing to some negligence on the part of some of
the officials. Up to the latest advices no further
deaths had occurred, but several parties were still
dangerously ill from the effects of the injuries
which they received. _

Our Sunday cotemporary, the London Observer,
states that a Royal Commission has been issued to
enquire into the present arrangements for trans
acting the civil and criminal business of the supe-
rior courts of law at 'Westminster, and into the
manner and times of holding the circuits ; and to
report to her Majesty whether any and what
improvements can be effected therein ; and par-
ticularly whether the number of the common law
judges can be reduced without detriment to the
public service. The Commissioners appointed are
the Lord Chief Justice Campbell, Lord Wensley-
dale, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Justice Cresswell,
the Right Hon. J. Stuart Wortley, Solicitor-general ;
Sir Frederick Thesiger, and Mr. Horatio Wadding-
ton, Under Secretary of State. With regard to Mr.
Wortley,- it was only on Saturday that he had an
interview with Lord Palmerston, and accepted the
office of Solicitor-General. It is now considered cer-
tain that Mr. Russell Gurney will be appointed
Recorder of London. It is expected that there
will be great competition for the office of Common
Sergeant, if vacated by Mr. Gurney, and
rumour already points to several leading barristers
as being very likely to become candidates fot the
situation in question.
It is now certain that the General Commanding-
in-Chief, the Duke of Cambridge, has ordered a
court of Enquiry to assemble in London, to investi-
gate the serious charges and accusations made,
during the recent war, by General Shirty against
General Bateson, and which charge led to the
removal of the 'latter officer from his command.
The court is to be composed of Sir Colin Campbell,
president ; Major-General Lord Paulet, Major-
General Lawrenson, Major-General Cameron, and
Colonel Norcott.

We publish, at some length, the report of an
interesting agricultural meeting held at Chester,
on Saturday. These with our general police, and
other local matters, will be found worthy of
perusal.
Matters begin to run rather more smoothly on
the continent, although the reports as to the real
intentions of Russia, are still of a contradictory
character, still it is satisfactory to know that the
Palmerston Cabinet has made up its mind
to permit Russia to depart from the expressed
and implied terms of the Paris treaty, and, accord-
ing to one of the Ministerialist journals, the Go-
vernment feel no necessity for a new European
Congress to settle the Bessarabian frontier and
the Isle of Serpents difficulties, inasmuch as it
would be absurd to summon a Congress to open
up questions already settled by the general Con-
gress of Paris.
Spain is still in an unsettled state. According
to Madrid adviceti of the 18th inst. the Absolutists
who surround the Queen have lately demanded her
consent to a union between her daughter and the

young Prince Charles, Infant of Spain, eldest son
of the Infant Don Juan, brother of Count de
Montemolin. The Queen was ready to assent to
the proposal, but the Absolutists went further, and
demanded that the Queen should abdicate in
favour of her child, and that, during the minority
of the new Queen, the Government of Spain be
confided to a council of regency, composed of three
members, two of them being the husband of Queen
Isabella and the Infant Don Juan—that is to say,
the father of the future queen and the father of her
intended husband.

lievcd at their own dwellinz

Mr. E. Watts and Mr. T. Kirk

We hear that the Governor of Palermo has
ordered a strict surveillance to be exercised upon
all English and French commercial vessels.
From Rome we learn that a Jesuit priest has
just quitted Italy for England ; the instructions
which he has received from his superiors are to the
following effect :—To publicly abjure in London
the Roman creed, and embrace the English Protes
tant faith. Having thereby gained popularity to
lecture upon Italy, to denounce the Romish
Church and its priests, but at the same time to
affirm the utter impossibility of destroying the
temporal power of the Pope ; to contend that
Italy can only be saved by monarchy, and that
in consequence of the political camplication with
the Western Powers in the South of Italy, a change
of dynasty will, in all probability, take place at
Naples.
By St. Petersburg advices of the 20th inst., we
are informed that Prince Gortschakoff has issued
another diplomatic circular. In this new note the
Russian Government assumes a temperate lan-
guage, and lays particular emphasis on the unifor-
mity of views which exists between it and the
French and Prussian Governments. Prince Gort-
schakoff declares that his Government is prepared
to waive all claims on the Serpents' Island ; but
that the more important question of Bolgrad must
be discussed by a congress, to whose decision his
imperial master will bow.
By the Asia, which arrived here last evening, we
are in, receipt of advices from New York to the
12th inst. In a political point of view they do not
add much to our previous political intelligence.
One thing, however, is certain, that Mr. Buchanan
will, on the 21st inst , be chosen President Elect
of the United States, and, according to
some of the New York papers, the majority
is not only insignificant, but very improperly
achieved. According to the advices in the New
York papers, the result of the election was any
thing but agreeable to the people of the Union,
who were so well divided upon the subject of the
canvas. The letter of our New York correspondent,
and our summary of news, inserted in oiler
columns, contain all that is worthy of notice
therein.

THE CABINET DIFFICULTIEB.—The Cabinet appears to
be in a quandary just now. On Friday another meeting
was held, which was fully attended, and ministers, it is
said, had a protracted deliberation. It is impossible to
say what particular question or questions engross the
attention of her Majesty's advisers at these frequent
meetings. It is bat reasonable to suppose the state of
our foreign relations will come in for a share of their
deliberation and discussion. Tt is satisfactory to be able

to state that it is a positive fact that the most perfect
unanimity prevails with respect to the points of dispute
wi•li Russia, consequently, there is no ground to fear
any abandonment of the high and firm ground taken up
by the Premier awl Lord Clarendon. Ministers, it is
said, feel it incumbent upon them to watch, with a keen
eye, the " sayings and doings" of the Emperor Napo-
leon, inasmuch as his present mode of action is calcu-
lated to stamp great uncertainty upon our alliance with
France. The election of Mr. Buchanan as President of
the United States, and the probable line of policy he
will adopt with regard to slavery and the principles
enunciated in the Ostend manifesto, have, it is said, been
brought before the attention of the Cabinet. It is
rumoured that the propriety of resuming diplomatic
relations with the American Government has been con-
sidered and approved of, and that almost coincident
with the election of the new president will be the
re-establishment of a new British Embassage at Wash-

THE NORTITERN TIMESeum.LIVERPOOL,

club gossippers will have it, Baron Langton, took his
seat as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas on Saturday,
and at once proceeded to discharge his judicial duties with
much ease and dignity. With respect to his elevation to the
House of Peers, there is a strong objection. The late outcry
respecting the Wensleydale peerage, should have taught
ministers to be a little more cautious in matters of this
kind, besides it is a very difficult thing for one person to
discharge the duties of a peer of the realm, and the
onerous and never ceasing functions of a chief judge of
the land. No doubt, should Sir A. Cockburn be
actually gazetted as Baron Langton, ministers will be
severely catechised in both houses of Parliament about
the creation ; for, although none deny the new Chief
Justice all credit for his brilliant public career, few
admit the principle of creating a judge and a peer in
the same person, at one and the same time.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.—ThiS important project
appears to progress most satisfactorily, and to justify
the hope that, ere long, all the beneficial and important
results which its founders glaringly pourtray, will be
fully realised. As some statements have been put forth
respecting the aid which the British Government intend to
grant to the undertaking, we believe the following are the
main features of the understanding between the Govern-
ment and the Atlantic Telegraph Company :—Her
Majesty's vessels will assist the company as far as pos.
sible in correcting soundings, and laying down the
electric cable. The government will give a fixed price
of £14,000 per annum for the transmission of their
messages until a dividend of six per cent, is declared'
when this sum will be reduced to £lO,OOO, to be con
tinued for 25 years. If, however, the number of govern-
ment messages sent should be so large that, if charged
for at the usual tariff, the amount would exceed these
sums, the full price is to be paid to the company. The
British Government are to have a right of prior trans-
mission, unless the United States' government should
join in the contract. In that case the messages of the
two governments are to be sent off in the orler of their
arrival at the station. The tariff for messages, when
fixed and approved by the Treasury, is not to be varied
during the existence of the contract.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS.—The public mind is still
dissatisfied with the infliction of capital punishments,
at least as now carried out. At Manchester, a few
evenings ago, a meeting was held, at which a resolution
was agreed to which set forth, that capital punishment
fails to effect the purpose for which it is inflicted, viz.,
the prevention of the crime of murder ; that the exist-
ence of such a law creates anomalies, and inconsistency
in the administration of justice; and that justice and
sound policy require its immediate repeal. To any one
who reflects seriously upon this subject—considers the
ultimate effect which legal strangulation has upon the
masses who flock to the foot of the gallows to witness-
the barbarous operation and revolting spectacle —but
must admit, that the foregoing premises are difficult to
be overturned. One thing is certain, that the present
law must either be repealed or very considerably modi-
fied, ere it can answer the purposes fur which it was
intended, or satisfy the influential, the moral, and the
well-disposed portion of society. The advocates of capital
punishment must cease from grounding their authority
to hang a fellow-mortal upon the requirements of the
Levitical law—" Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man
shall his blood also be shed." The same law emphati
tally declares, " Whoso breaketh the Sabbath, shall
surely be stoned to death." If this law is binding at all,
it must be so in the case of every crime which it enume-
rates. Yet, who would be fool-hardy enough to ask the
Government of this country to inflict capital punishment
for Sunday trading, in the many and varied phrases in
which they present themselves to us week after week,
and Sunday after Sunday.

ACCIDENT.—On Saturday, Robert Wardell, an appren-
tice on board the ship Mona, fell into the hold of that
vessel, and received a serious wound on the head. He lies
at present in the Northern Hospital, but with hopes of his
recovery.

ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAR INSTITUTION
9, Rose Hill.—New patients entered on the books last week
viz., November 22 :—Relieved at the institution, 154 ; re

76; total, 230. Visitors
lion. sec. and treasurer

Joseph Kitchen, Esq.
FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday, a man named Robert
Simon, who resided at 89, Park-street, Park, died in the
Northern Hospital, in consequence of injuries received, on
Tuesday, at the Tiuskinson Duck, where a piece of timber
fell on and caused a compound fracture of the thigh. An
inquest will be held on the body to-day.
HOUSE ROBEERY.—On Saturday night the house of
Thomas Clegg, Esq., a highly respectable gentleman, con-
nected with the press of this town, residing at Wellington
road, was broken into by a ruffian named Lawrence Cleary,
whe abstracted a large quantity of wearing apparel and
other property. The fellow has been captured, and will be
brought up to-day.

M. Allari Irving, a debutant, now to London, sang
Verdi's " Balen," in a minner_hwortby of Graziani himself,
and won a boisterous encore.
voice The vibrative qualities of the
higher notes of this gentleman's iu
the spacious hall (St. Martin's). His
sce toldwonderfully
secondsg was
a great success, and vus hailed at the conclusioonn by obstre-
perous also
acclamations.—lllustrated London _News. rhis
gentleman appears, for the first time in Liverpool, this
evening and to-morrow, at the 'Amphitheatre.]
A course of three most interesting lectures were delivered
last week in the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel of
this town, by the Rev. John Mills, author of the British
Jews, &c., highly instructive and edifying, illustrated by
maps, diagrams, costumes, &c. Additional interest was
felt, from the fact of the lecturer stating what he saw and
experienced, on a missionary visit, last year, to the Oriental
Jews. His travels through Egypt, Palestine, &c., were
narrated, showing, the moral, physical, and political condi-
tion of the people, and the important inducements to
emigrate and colonise tilos, countries.
ARREST IN LIVERPOOL OF A. DECAMPING CLERK.-013
Saturday evening, Detective officer Sullivan arrested a.per_
son named James Kelsey, on a charge of having absconded
from Wellingborough, and taken from his employer, whose
name is stated as Mr. Dunmore, a considerable sum of
money and property. The officer baying received informa-
tion of the plunder, and a description of the person, saw him
in Park lane on Saturday night. Ho followed and arrested
him in an American ship, in which he had paid his passage
to that country. The prisoner admitted that he was
the person sought for, and that he was guilty of the
offence. He was sent, last night, with the officer to
Wellingborough.
CortoNsits' ImauzsTs.—On Saturday the Coroner held the
following inquests. On the body of Lawrence Welch, a
labourer, 31 years of age. The deceased was engaged in
loading sugar on board the ship Prince of Wales, when by
some accident he lost his balance and fell, and a cask of
sugar two cwt. crushed his head, and he died almost imme•
diately. There was no blame attached to any one. Verdict
accidental death. On the body of a childnamed Catherine
Davies two and a-half years old. The mother of deceased
was in the act of pouring out some boiling water into a pan,
when the child fell backwards into it, and was scalded so
dreadfully that she died from the injuries received. Verdict,
accidental death.
LIST OF PASSENGERS PER ASIA, FROM NEW YORK.—
Mr. W. S. Hammond, Mr. E. W. Robbins, Mr. K. W.
Lear, Mr. E. A. Grattan, British consul at Boston ; Mr.
Henry Kan ie, Mr. P. 'Williams, Mr. A. Redon, Mr. B.
Fournie, Mr. John Ball, Mr. George Wilson, Mr. Frede-
rßicaknyDareda,n,MNrl.r.ET. aTreisrhryM, A
Mr. William F. Jmohrsn.
H. Game and four children, Miss Churchill, Mr. and Mrs.
L. C. Stuart, Mrs. Turnbull, Mr. and Mrs. Page, Mr.
Elliot, Mr. D. A. Sargent, Mr. John F. Bibado, Mr. F. J.
Coltman, Mr. John Katz, Mr, A. L. Ward, Mr. S.
Buckley, Mr. W. Grain, Mr. J. S. Sims, Mr. E. Jamson,
Mr. J. P. Lobo, Mr. D. C. Moorhead, Mr. A. Smith, Mr.
P. Clarke, Mr. Law, Miss H. Hayes, Miss Law, Mr. John
J. Delano, Mr. and Mrs. Hughes and son, Mr. Jones, Mr. W.
Jolly, Mr. W. Buchnell, Mr. J. A. Phillips, Mr. Wilson,
and Mr. and Mrs. A. I'. W. Farish.

Mr. Henry Davison, of the Inner Temple, and the Welsh
and Chester Circuit, is appointed a Puisne Judge of the
Supreme Court of Madras.
EASTERN COUNTIES RumwAv.—The election of Chair-
man will take place at the London Tave
alinsrn, this day, and
as two such energetic me as Mr. M and MLove
are candidates, there will, no doubt, be some important
explanations. We trust that the shareholders will duly
appreciate the clear and straitforward observations of Mr.
Matins, with respect to an improved system of accounts,
and a better audit.
THE CABINET.—The Duke of Argyll, who has been
absent from London for some time past, returns tot own
to-morrow (this day) from Scotland, and will attend the
Cabinet Councils, which are expected to be resumed. Lord
Harrowby, who is out of town, also returns on Monday to
London. The Marquis of Lansdowne has been suffering,
since Tuesday last, from an attack of gout in his feet. Ms
lordship is staying at his town house in Berkeley square,
and did not proceed to Botvood, as erroneously stated. The
noble Marquis, we are happy to announce, was better
yesterday. The other members of the Cabinet are either in
town or at their country seats, in the vicinity of the metro-
polis,—Observer, of Sunday,

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