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depraved tastes and habits of the immoral are,
unfortunately, nowmost frequently developed in the
numerous trials for crim. con., violent and criminal
assaults, and such like cases of offence. How is
this ? These are the deplorable effects of certain
causes. To arrive at the proper remedy for
public crime as it now prevails should be the
study of all well regulated minds. We send
our missionaries abroad• We institute our clergy
aid societies, our town missions, our hospitals, our
schools, and our colleges ; but these, although not
only desirable, nay, indispensably necessary,are in.
stituted and carried on amidst the hot beds of
iniquity which the executive authorities of the
country license to be nothing more than nurseries
of prolific and enormous crimes. It is time,
then, seeing the state in which society is placed,
to sweep away these mighty avalanches of
iniquity—the dancing and singing saloons—
together with all other dubious resorts of the
dissipated, the dishonest, and the immoral.
Fair be it from us to deny the people recreation and
innocent enjoyment. It is their right, and no
laws or executive power should attempt
its curtailment. When, however, such places
as we have alluded to, become notorious for sending
forth the worst of characters, it is time they were
shut up. We hold that, as it is the duty of the
Government to restrain the vicious, it is no less
their duty to restrain the disposition to be vicious.
This can only be done by a thorough system of
mental and moral culture, imparted by thoroughly
qualified educators. The mind, like the works of
a watch, has its wheels working upon wheels, each
intimately connected with the other; and until this
is perfectly understoorl and carried into practical
operation, 0117: educational efforts will be futile and
nur schools mere machines of letters—where
the giddy, the dissolute, and the gay, will acquire
little or nothing to teach them to curb their
immoral tendencies, whilst they enter upon the busy
haunts of life, prepared for mischief, instead of
acting the part of moral and upright citizens.
These reflections are forced upon us by the current
crimes of the day—the Great Northern Railway
Frauds, the Gold Dust Robbery, the Parliament_
street, the Erith and Wokingham murders, with a
long list of other crimes to which we need not now
specially refer. Let us hope that a proper remedy
will soon be devised and speedily adopted, so that
Great Britain cannot, will not, be regarded as the
most criminal of nations.

" She has drawn upon her imagination for facts,"
was the sedate remark of a certain Scotch meta-
physician, when asked his opinion of Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe's works, Uncle Tom's Cabin and
Dred. Never was the truth of such a sentiment
better or more fully demonstrated than in the
rumour set afloat by a certain " special cor-
respondent" of one of the London papers, when
he stated to our metropolitan cotemporaries
that he had got a telegraphic despatch
stating that Hr. Buchanan was actually
elected President. This sage, and adventurous
Scribe, is bent upon "Hunting" up a livelihood, when
he details such stories. Nothing definite can be
known of the actual votes recorded for Fremont
and Buchanan, until the Atlantic arrives; she was
to sail from New York on the Bth inst., four days
after the votes'were taken. The Atlantic may be
expected here tomorrow, until then, we advise
our readers to place no reliance upon the report
alluded to, and for this reason, that the Captain of
the Arabia could learn nothing new respecting the
election of the President at Halifax on the 7th inst.,
and if the agent of the New York Associated Press
got a telegraph despatch to the effect that Buchan-
nan was elected, why did he not give the exact
words in his " latest telegraph via Halifax,"
instead of putting it at the top of the American
news—an advertisement evidently intended to
" Hunt" up business.

An inquest has been held on the body of Mr.
George, whose melancholy fate was narrated in
yesterday's issue, when, from the evidence, no
doubt existed that the unfortunate gentleman had
been brutally murdered. The instrument with
which his throat had' been cut had disappeared,
nothing with a sharp edge having beer~ found in
the room except a penknife. wh;^l----ao sluice
clean The hey or me door had also vanished,
th. murderer having evidently locked the
door and taken the key with him. A. towel
was found covered with marks of blood and
some cuts, as if the knife with which
the deed was done had been wiped in it in a
hasty manner. But when the body was examined
by medical men no farther evidence was required
that a murder had been perpetrated. The throat
was mangled in a shocking manner, the lobe of one
of the ears was cut off, and one side of the skull
nearly battered in with some blunt instrument, a

circumstance which was further explained by some
clotted blood and hair found on the poker. Some
of the mysterious circumstances of the case
remain, however, still unexplained. Thus, the large
sum of money, amounting to several hundred
pounds in gold and notes, which still lay on the
table, would not indicate that a robbery had been
committed, although it is stated that a large sum
besides that thus undisturbed is missing. The
secretary of the company was examined, and
showed that the deceased had made up his accounts
in a satisfactory manner up to Wednesday last,
and that no circumstances could be discovered to
impeach his character in the slightest degree.
The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder
against some person or persons unknown. In
connection with this deplorable case, we cannot
but regret that some of the London papers have
been guilty of great indiscretion in at once
stamping Mr. Little as another heavy railway
defaulter, and attributing his death to that cause
which forced him to commit suicide. We hope
that all our cotemporaries, who have given pub-
licity to such insinuations, will so far do justice to
the murdered man, and to his sorrowing friends
and relations, as to retract the imputation, and
apologise for their indiscretion.
Our Continental advices begin to give hope that
the King of Naples is in a repenting mood, and
that at the eleventh hour he is disposed to make
a few concessions for the purpose of showing to
Europe that when he refused to follow the advice
of the allied powers he acted as an indepen-
dent prince, but that the acts of grace
which he contemplates emanate from his own
sovereign will, uncontrolled and untimidated.

The letters of our Paris correspondent give
full details upon all matters of interest in France.

From Vienna we learn that the Bassarabian
question makes no progress in Austria, and that
England steadily refuses to agree to the resump•
tion of the Conferences, until they come
to a satisfactory understanding. with France,
regarding Bolgrade, and the Isle of Ser.
pents. It is said that the firmness dis•
played by the Austrian Cabinet in the matter
has excited equal astonishment and anger at Paris,
and Baron de Bourgueney has received instructions
to appeal from Count Buol to the Emperor Joseph.
The latest advices state that the reply of the
Emperor Napoleon to M. de Kissleff does not pro-
duce any great impression at Vienna, as the speech
which he made to Baron Hubner, when he was
appointed ambassador, is still fresh in the recollee•
tion of the Austrians.

Atitt4trn fituts

TUESDAY,

NOVEMBER 18, 1856.

THE DAY'S NEWS

f The columns of this day's NORTHERN TIMES,
present a fearful catalogue of Crime. Murders,
abberies, Railway Frauds, Criminal Assaults,
and other offences of less magnitude seem to be
the order of the day. Such atrocious crimes as it
is our duty to record must prove a source of much
pain to the philanthropist and the Christian,—
that class who, from the most benevolent
motives, are never weary in well doing, that
they may feed the hungry, clothe the
naked, and instruct the ignorant, so that the needy,
the distressed, and the outcasts of society may be
Provided for and reclaimed. Our " model prisons,"
our "reformatories," "penal servitude," and "ticket.
°f•leave" systems must be pronounced failures.
They have not—if reliance can be placed upon the
assize and sessions calandars—effected much, if any
improvement, in the morals or outward demeanour
of a no inconsiderable portion of
community. It therefore becomes not only an
important, but a pressing duty for the public
to take up the matter, and devise some means for
an instant and effectual stoppage of crime. We
have but too many glaring instances proving that
the gallows has no terrors to awe the murderer.
The bravado of a Palmer,, or a Dove, when led out
before thousands of their fellow creatures to tread
the scaffold's drop, and in a moment after.
wards face their Maker, seems as if to create
in the hardened and depraved a thirst for
blood, regardless of the consequence: and to
think no more of legal strangulation than
they would of an hour's laborious exercise
upon the treadmill. Nor does transportation or
penal servitude intimidate the dishonest. They
know that a year or two of correct conduct will
gain for them a " ticket of leave," and enable them
to return to their former haunts to practice still
darker deeds of deception and roguery, planned
and arranged upon improved principles. amidst
the lonely quietude of the solitary cell. The

There is nothing new from Madrid. Various
silly rumours are afloat respecting the Queen and
her recognition of the children of Don Carlos, and
their consequent return to Spain.
The Honourable S. Wortley having accepted the
office of Solicitor General, the Recordership of the
City of London becomes vacant as a matter of
course. The honourable and learned gentleman
will, in a few days, officially notify his resignation
to the city authorities, and there is every reason to
believe that Mr. Bodkin, the well known criminal
practitioner, will be his successor.
The non arrival of the James Baines, begins to
extite some apprehension for her safety. The
underwriters, taking advantage of the same, have
raised the rate of insurance to 10 guineas per cent.
Considering the character of the ship, and the
abilities of the captain and officers, we still indulge
the hope that she will, ere many tides pass by,
enter the Mersey safe and sound, with all on
board in the enjoyment of good health.

According to a telegraphic despatch from Paris,
dated last night, we learn that advises from St.
Petersburg state that a rather large corps of
Russian troops is concentrating near the frontiers
of Persia and Turkey, in order to make Russian
influence prevail, should the affairs of Persia
and Affghanistan assume a serious character.

elected President of the United States. His return
had not been officially announced, but the general
impression was that he would be selected as the
future ruler of the Union by a considerable
majority. Of such triumphs of opinion few men
would like to boast about in any civilised society.
The enemies of humanity have but a contemptible
number of sympathisers, Thero can be only a
very trifling modicum of honour about tricksters
who would accept place at the hands of a
minority of a nation of free men. A
majority of millions of votes, that is the votes
of the American people, would not secure
the return of the representative of the people
if FREMONT has really been defeated. The
Southern slavers have the whip hand of the Free
States. They can ride over the Constitution, and
cheat the majority, whom WASHINGTON meant to
rule, out of their birthright; and, what's more, out

of that high, moral, and political character they
ought to be able to claim all over the world. To
represent, in the face of civilisation, such a base
political juggle, is not ono of those unmixed marks
of distinction to which a true and enlightened
republican statesman would aspire. It shows to
mankind, that, under the " Star Spangled nanner:'
great and grievous political frauds can be per-
petrated on the people of a Republic. The
ambition of a true patriot generally takes a
loftier flight. It has at all times sided with the
oppressed, and sought to deliver the captive and

We do not look for many very God-like attri-
butes in the politicians of this age, nor do we claim
for Europe more than is due to the civilised por-
tions of America; still we cannot believe that
there is a right-minded man in the British Isles,
no matter what his politics may be, who would
accept the honours which we are now left to believe
have been conferred on Mr. Buchanan. No
Englishman, we feel convinced, would seek the
questionable dignity of representing a constituency
of slave-drivers, in opposition to a majority of the
people of a free country. And we do not hesitate
to say that the day will come when the desendants
of the successful slave-President will blush at the
triumph of their ancestor. Public opinion is
rising to a high standard—morality is spreading
and religion is growing rapidly. Progress is the
word—the business of this generation ; and what
a paradox Mr. Buchanan's election must inevi-
tably appear to the readers of history twenty
or thirty years hence. The horrors and disgust
with which the Englishmen of the present day
look back upon the names associated with
our slave traffic., are nothing to what the
rising generation of American freemen will be,
when they recount the atrocities of the negro's
bondage in the States. They will ask, " Who
" dared to disgrace our Republican soil—our spot-
" less and heroic ancestors, by such deeds ?"
May the answer end with the name last on the
list of slave driving President's—BUCHANAN.
May we hear no more of " mistaken men." It is
too late in this Christian era for the rulers of the
earth to be losing their way, when humanity and
all else that qualifies a man for the conduct of a
nation's affairs, is at stake.

Mr. BUCHANAN is, possibly, a good and kind
man in all the relations of private life—a man of
the nicest honour, area ; 1 grnant—hip,ll Pducation

unimpeachable morality, and confiding in reli-
gion. But, what of all that ? What is he in
politics ? What are his predelictions as the guide
of a nation's destiny ? What precepts has he to
leave after him to his country ? What maxims will
he bequeath to posterity ? Does he seek power to
banish a plaguo from the core of civilised society
—to clip the wings of what was once an
European abomination—to grant the prayer of
humanity—and to remove the wrath of God from
the land that may be committed to his care ? We
fear not. We" question his political honesty. The
means by which alone he can have won a triumph
will be enough to shake our faith in
in his virtues as a public man. Happily, his
supporters cannot raise him to a hereditary
throne. His reign of power will be typical of
the duration of the system to which he owes his
elevation to office. He is about the last of
slaveholding minority men who will be suffered
to rule over the millions of freemen who are now
practically disfranchised. The contest has been
too fierce this time for pigmy statesmen, and
too instructive for really generous and enobled
American spirits to attempt to identify their
names with a cause which need only be whispered
abroad to excite universal execration.

Mr. BUCHANAN must, therefore, make the most
of his opportunity, should it prove that he
has been returned. He must annex all he can,
and carry the acquisitive principle out with all
despatch. Kansas must be made a Slave State
at the point of the bayonet. Her Free
Soilers must be all shot down without
delay. Cuba can be bought, as money
is wanted to Russianise Spain, and bring
despotism as near the heart of Western
Europe as possible. Mexican heroes are always
in want of ready money, and another slice of their
native land may be had a bargain. Slavery, with
its boundaries and immunities, may be spread
south and west, within the next few years, to a
prodigious extent. But if Mr. BUCHANAN be a
republican—an American full of penetration and
matured political convictions—how long will he
give all this foul political play—all this social
abomination, and debasing depravity—to last?
Can ho not see that it is all a flash in the pan—
a benighted crusade against reason—a childish
hood-winking of the certainty of retributive
justice—an infamous hoax on the world at
large, and his own countrymen in par-
ticular? We fear his sojourns on this side
of the Atlantic have made him more
European than the CZAR, more incomprehensible
them a HApsnuaen, and less Republican than a
DERBY. Still, should he win the big fight, we
shall lose nothing in a material point of view. If
he will prolong the curse of slavery in America, we
shall have more cotton, rice, and sugar, and the
planter less money. And as political prejudice
runs high in this country at times, our capitalists
and philantropists may combine their strength, and
endeavour to promote the growth of those tropical
products where free labour abounds.

TILE secret policy which led to the Paris Con-
ference, and the conclusion of Peace, has at last
leaked out. "It was," says; the London Times,
" not for our convenience, but to save Russia from the
" first shock of a campaign which she was totally
" unable to meet, that these matters were allowed
" to stand over for the decision of a commission ;
" and we see no reason why she should be. allowed
" to profit by her abuse of a regulation designed
" exclusively for her own benefit." The " matters"
here referred to embrace all that for which we went
to war—the maintenance of the SULTAN'S rights

and independence, the preservation of the sove-
THE intelligence received by the last American reignty of the Principalities, and the free navi-
mail, which we published yesterday, leaves butvery gation of the Danube. These are the " matters "
little room to doubt that BUCHANAN has been which the Conference left to be settled by com-

mission. The policy which led to the meeting of
Congress is now before the world, and the result

of " a regulation designed exclusively " for " the
" benefit" of our enemy is worthy of the spirit in

which it was conceived. Treachery was never
more barren. Its mission is to multiply human
Borrows.. Was it to save the Russian army that
we lost 30,000 of England's best men ? We may
safely ask this question, now that we are informed
that, to " save Russia the shock of a campaign,
" which she was totally unable to meet," we con-
sented in the hour of victory to the shallow terms
of peace, proposed by foreign diplomatists. War
is as imminent at this moment as it was in NoVem4
ber, 1853, and should war be openly proclaimed in
April next, we shall know what we have to thank
for its recurrence, and those whose policy we can
trust in the hour of danger, and on the day of

triumph.
Diplomatic Conferences, " designed exclusively
"to save" the lawless disturbers of the world's
peace, must be for ever repudiated after what
we have just heard. We have less reason to
fear war than any people upon earth. It can
neither disturb our dynasty, or overthrow our civil
and political freedom. By using our power to
enforce our rights and interests as a commercial
and free nation, we might be able to count great
gains in favour of industry and civilization at the
end of another war. It is Europe—Continen-
tal Europe—that needs repose—time to reform,
tranquilise, comfort, and enrich itself. We
.may
not have the twelve moral virtues, so highly
extolled by ARISTOTLE, but we have attained Mag
nificence as a Power, which, according to the same
philosopher, is the perfection of all the rest. We
now show this in our diplomacy as revealed by the
London Times; for it has reached the magnificence of
absurdity, and the utmost gorgeousness of treason
towards the peace of the world. We have, how-
ever, but these political sins to set against our
magnificence as a people, a State, and an
Empire. We were in a position to prove
the stupendousness of our power, when dipk-
macy stepped forward to design the exclusive
salvation of Russia. We were ready for a second
campaign, and its first shock would have made the
Kremlin shake to its foundation. We delight in
the recital of such facts. They give so much consis-
tency to what may be looked upon as the idle
boastings of a vain-glorious race.
We can join the rest of mankind in their admi-
ration of the Platonic school as the teachers of
government and things as they might be ; but still
we must side with the more sober critics of an-
tiquity, in their preference for those who have
enabled us to skew, in the hour of need, what a
commonwealth should be. Despite all our domestic
feuds, Great Britain set a glorious example to all
the nations upon earth. Her union and patriotism,
her endurance, forbearance, and sacrifices, may be
wholly ascribed to her love of humanity. We may
even venture to attribute the fatal follies and weak-
ness of our diplomatic servants to this love of
mercy. We dare not, in the face of Heaven, ascribe
them to any other cause. Moral weakness is the
parent of all political anomalies. But we would
have the insincere, the heartless and vicious,
beware how they tamper with the apparently un-
accountable developments of the force of a national
virtue. The popular intellect, spirit, and determi-
nation of Great Britain are equal to any human emer-
gency. Our Whigs may have no faith in the policy
of PITT. Our Conservatives may have departed from
the precepts and examples of the fathers of their
party—the Radicals may be too impulsive and pro-
gessive—the Chartists too impatient and trouble-
some—but they will find us united to a man, if it
should be found necessary to take up arms again iu
the cause of humanity and justice. Diplomacy may
be capable of the crime of misleading. It may paint
nations in false colours. Yet the current expres-
sion of public opinion in this country ought not
to be despised by foreign rulers.
We are bent on having our rights secured to us

by a permanent peace. Others can go to war if
they please, if they will not drag us into a partici-
pation in their bloody deeds. We, as a mercantile
people, must have all that freedom which belongs
to commerce. We must be allowed to enjoy all
those immunities which belong to civilization.
We care but little for the fiscal blunders, the
economic hallucinations, the political mistakes,
and civil and religious errors, and feuds of others,
so long as they do not defeat the social progress
and material happiness and prosperity of the great
family of peoples, by whose good will we live, and
in whose wealth and peace we prosper. Leave us
wholly out of continental conferences and diplo-
matic plots—leave us our trade—our right of way
' on seas, and navigable rivers, and bloodshed may
be the pastime of those who do not fear the arrival
of a day of worldly retribution. The Russo-Turkish
war ought to have taught France prudence. It
has shown her the depth of our sincerity, the
purity of our friendship, and the real magnitude of
our power. If we had not experienced incalculable
reverses, she could not have observed our Phcenix
like character, our slow, lout certain, means of
victory. Her rulers may be laughing in their
sleeve, like children, at the " wit" and chicanery
of diplomacy. They may scoff at those that stood
by and saw us duped, still the Treaty of Peace to
which they attached their signatures in the name
of Great Britain, must be fulfilled in spirit and to
the letter. Our commerce demands it, and trifling
with the freedom we seek for our industry is play
ing with the peace of the world.
For such gambols we scarcely know a better
schoolroom than the majestic saloon in which the
International Congress held their sittings, in March
last. The same curtains and secresy could be
employed, and the entire farce might be re-enacted
by the favourite stars in the late burlesque. Each
dancer would probably be left to pay his own piper,
and the divertissement would, no doubt, pass off with
great eclat. We should have another six months'
truce, and another attempt, on the part of French
capitalists, to get 40,000,0001. of British gold, or its
equivelent, into Russia. We should have breathing
time allowed to the Czatt to make a railway from
St. Petersburg to the mouth of the Danube !—to
fortify the Isle of Serpents, a la Cronstadt and
Sebastopol—to prepare for another invasion of the
Principalities. Austria has much need of a second
Conference to explain her motives for continuing
the military occupation of all the fortresses on the
banks of the Lower Danube, and wriggling out per_
mission to prolong her perfidious breach of public
faith. But what France and Great Britain can
want of such " talk" must be a profound puzzle
to every sane nation. The Treaty of Paris is a part
and parcel of the public law of Europe. Will not
Russia and Austria obey it ? Do they declare that
they will persist in treating it as :so much waste
Paper ? If so, are we to fight them in a Paris
salon de campagnie .2 and to enforce our rights with
ink which cannot bind a bear or an eagle for one
hour ? Should this rampant folly be repeated, we
trust that our Constitutional Peers and Commons
will put 'their united veto on acts which can only
have been " designed exclusively for the benefit
of those who trample with wanton impudence on
the laws which bind them to Christian moderation
and political decency.