The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-26 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN DAILY TITS.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

PROGRESS OF EVENTS

(From our Second Edition of Saturday.)

The Emperor of Russia has sent au auto-
graph letter to Prince Mqnschikoff, stating
that it is with great joy that he requests
Ilan to communicate to his (the Emperor's) brave
seamen that he thanks them for the success of the
Russianfleet, on behalf of the honour and glory of
ituasia. .

CONSTANTINOPLE, BTH.—The Furious and the
Heron have returned from Varna. An Austrian
steamer left yesterday for the Black Sea. It is
said that she is bound for Sinope, though no one
knows for what purpose.
BUCHAREST, 10TH.—The Emperor of Russia has
granted a pension of 1000 ducats per month to the
Princes Ghikas and Stirley, and has paid Ghikas's
debts to the amount of 50,000 ducats.
The Post has a Vienna dispatch of 19th, contra-
dicting the reports of a sanguinary action near

Orsova accounts of 14th, state that the Turks
left 6000 men at Kalafat, when they voluntarily
retired to Widdin.
A Vienna despatch in the Daily News, dated
says it was rumoured last night that something Fri
day, unfavourable to the Russians had taken place in
the Crimea. At first it was said that an attack had
been made on Sebastopol by the fleets ; and after-
wards a rising in the Crimea was spoken of. Posi-
tive information is wanting.
The Times, in a leading article on the subject of
the battle of Sinope, states, that it has strong rea-
son for believing that on two occasions more vigo
rous measures were proposed, and would have been
taken, if the French officers had acceded to them.
The first was some weeks since, when Lord Strat-
ford proposed to send a steam squadron, of three
vessels of each nation, to cruise in the Black Sea.
M. de Cour agreed to the plan, but the French
admiral, on grounds of his own, first opposed, and
then declined the proposition, which Lord Strat-
ford did not think it expedient to carry into effect,
without the concurrence of the French. The second
was the negative of General Hilliers to Admiral
bundas's proposal to intercept the Russian fleet
after the battle of Sinope. The same paper believels
also that these statements are true, but that recri-
mination should be avoided, the circumstances only
proving more evidently the necessity of a concerted
plan of operations, and of a clear definition of the
engagement we have contracted, or assumed ;
and it is satisfactory to know that such an under-
standing has now been distinctly established, and
that the measures to be taken in common, by the
British and French naval forces have been agreed
upon. Both cabinets have more thoroughly
united upon the course it has become necessary
to pursue, and the fleets are probably already
in the Black Sea, to give effect, if necessary,
to additional instructions they will shortly receive.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
The following telegraphic dispatches were circu-
lated in London on Saturday evening ;-
TRIESTE, Dec. 22.—The dispatches brought from
Constantinople come down to the 12th.
In that capital the dismissal of the Capitan-
Pacha was considered as probable.
The combined fleets were to enter the Black Sea,
if the Russians landed any troops on the Turkish
territory. A violent tempest had taken place in the
Black Sea.
An imperial firman confirms the privileges of
Servia.
The news from Smyrna is to December 14. It
mentions the demonstrations of some ' fanatical
Mussulmans of the interior of the province against
the Christians.
The declaration of war of Persia was expected.
General Prim had returned from the banks of the
Danube. .•

VIENNA, DEC. 22.—Intelligence from Constanti-
nople, received by electric telegraph, announces
that the combined fleets have definitively entered
the Black Sea, to protect the territory of Turkey.
It is not true that there has been a sanguinary-
action near Kalafat. According to accounts from
Orsova of the 14th, the Turks left 6,000 men at Ka-
hifa,t, when they voluntarily retired to Widdin.
Among the correspondence upon the subject of
the Eastern war in the journals received yesterday,
We find the following :—Official news has been re-
ceived of the combined fleets having entered the
Black Sea. I was assured this morning by a high
Public functionary that an order to that effect was
sent by the French and English governments se-
veral days ago, the instructions being not to attack
the Russians, either at sea or in their ports, but
Merely to prevent any new attempts being made
upon the Turks in or on the coast of the Black Sea.
If no attempt of this kind be made, and none is
now probable, there will be no collision between
the Russians and the combined fleets.
The Patrie of Tuesday evening states that the
Russians lost in the battle of Sinope a 90-gun
Ship of the line, the Jagondib; she blew up at
the same time with the Turkish frigate by which
the was attacked. According to the letters from
the coast of the Black Sea communicating this
account to the Patrie, one of the aides-de-camp
of the Turkish admiral lies dead of his wounds at
Sehastopol,, and the admiral himself has had to
underdo amputation.
The first aide-de-camp of the minister of the
marine is under orders to start at a moment's
notice for Constantinople. The Vauban steam-
frigate is at Toulon prepared to start the moment
'4f his arrival. This gentleman will be the bearer
Of the final instructions of the French Govern-
kent to its representative at the Porte, and they
are of a character which will put an end to all
doubts as to the future policy of France, and show
that she is determined to act with the energy
Which the position of affairs requires.
It is a fact of some significance; that in all the
plans brought forward for the settlement of the
question, the Russians always maintain that the
Czar' will never withdraw till he obtains the full
satisfaction that he has demanded. Surely this
ought to show the other Powers that it is only to
force that he will give way.
The correspondent of another London journal
" I am informed that the French govern-
ment have received last night the official intelli-
gence of the entry .of the combined fleets into the
Black Sea. The same dispatch which announces
that fact mentions also that a great deal of excite-
ment prevails at Constantinople, particularly
among the fanatical party The discontent and
irritation prevailing among the general population
is easily traced to the catastrophe of Sinope. It is
not stated that any disturbance had taken place,
and it was hoped that the entry of the fleets would
allay the irritation, and show to .the Turks that
they are not, as had been reported, abandoned at
their utmost need by their allies."
The Turkish Government, as well as the people,
Were disconcerted at the result of the Conference
of the Representatives at Constantinople. It was
looked upon as so certain that the fleets would
enter the Black Sea after the news from Sinope,
that, as is mentioned in a letter from Constanti-
nople, the Sultan himself proceeded to a spot as
Floss as possible to where the fleets were anchored,
in order to be one of the first to witness their de
Parture. When no movement took place, in con-
sequence, as is again asserted, of the opposition of
General Baraguay Highness returned
overwhelmed with sorrow and indignation ; sorrow
for the terrible disaster of Sinop °, and indignation
at the conduct of the ambassador. It was asked
What possible motive could have existed for the
recall of M. de Lacour, if a second AI. de Latour
Was sent to succeed him ?

THE ASIATIC DOMINIONS OF ENGLAND.
A. large exedition, says the correspondent of
the Kolner Zeituny, has long been preparing, under
Pretence of an intended campaign again the Khan
Of lihiva. Russian agents have for the last
Years been busy among the Mongolian and Is.rgi-
kan hordes ; they were bribed and organised,
,iippledi with money, weapons, and officers, and
lained to act in concert, according to the require-
ments of modern civilized warfare. It is now
,I..serted, on the best authority, that the various
A.irisiau hordes which camp on the shores of
dreg Caspian and infest the Altai, together with
t Tartar tribes of Central Asia, 6an supply
Russia not less than two hundred thon,and
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v\o'ilti be easy for Russia to make a most ineon-
betient diversion by supporting the hardy and
'Ntile tribes of India. The enormous steppes of

Central Asia separate, indeed, the Russian terri-
tories from the possessions of the British crown,
but those steppes are inhabited by vagrant hordes
of Tartar horsemen, and they are not, therefore,
altogether impassable for a small Russian army
with a large body of Tartar auxiliaries.

APPLICATION OF GALVANISM, AS A POWER
FOR VESSELS, TO SUPERSEDE STEAM.

Dr. De L' Huynes, the French physician, who is now in
Liverpool, and who Is the inventor of patented electro-medi-
cal apparatus, has not only studied ele:;tro-galvanism in a
medical point of view, but for the object of general science ;
and we learn that he has just made, amongst us, experiments
of the highest interest, upon the application of galvanism to
the locomotion of ships ; and that his experiments, made in
the presence of five competent persons, have been crowned
with full success.

It is known that galvanism is produced by the presence of
two metals, put in contact by a liquid acid, or 'water, keep-
ing salt in solution. The discovery of the doctor consists in
lining the vessel with zinc and with copper, according. to a
given plan ; and in forming, by them, an immense series of
galvanic piles, or batteries, of which the liquid electro-motor
shall be the salt water of the sea. _ _ _

This immense battery acts upon electro-magnets, of which
the movement of attraction and repulsion much surpasses
the force of our greatest steam-engines.
This invention presents immense economical advantages ;
the alleviation of the ship from the weight of the machinery
and engines, besides obviating all danger from the fire, and
saving the transport of coals, &c.
Dr. De L' Huynes is a man of acknowledged merit as a
man and a writer, and the remarkable cures which he has
effected in Liverpool and other towns and cities afford incon-
testible proof of his great talents as a physician.
The doe tor is soon to leave Liverpool on a visit to York,
where he is expected; but in a few weeks he will return to
our town, in which to form an establishment for the manu-
facture of his electro-galvanic and medical apparatus, and
also to bring out his immense discovery. His fortune per-
mits him to do all, by himself, without the aid of partner-
ship ; and he is,. in this respect, in a position which makes
an exception to inventors, who, for the most part, cannot
push out their inventions for want of sufficient resources;
for, besides a fortune parental, sufficiently ample, the doctor
has a real one in the patients who, every day, flock to con-
sult him in all the towns through which he travels.
We shall have occasion to speak again of his important
invention, of which we shall follow the results with interest.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF FRIBURG v. THE ENG-
LISH ROMAN CATHOLICS.

To the Editor of the Times

Sin—l see in your columns that the controversy awakened
in the Grand Duchy of Baden is attracting the notice of the
leading members of the Roman Catholic church in this
country. An address has been forwarded to the episcopal
Ultramontane of Friburg by such respectable noblemen as
Lord Arundel and Surrey, Lord Charles Thynne, Viscount
Fielding, Lord Petre, and many others of exemplary loyalty,
expressive of their sympathy, their admiration, and respect.
Had Dr. Wiseman or Dr. Paul Cullen sent such an address,
it would have passed without notice, as at once natural and
to be expected. But it does seem strange that laymen
should sympathise with a proud priest fulminating the
thunders of the Papacy against a civil government which
refuses to be the serf of the Papacy. I always supposed
that our English and Scottish laity, even though members
of the church of Rome, had that love of civil freedom and
British law that they would now, as they have often done
before, side with their order, with the constitution, and with
the laity, against the intrusion of extrinsic jurisdiction of
any sort. But, for ' the first time in the course of many
years, a body of noblemen and gentlemen have, in a public
document, set forth their sympathy with principles which,
if applied at home, would lay waste all the blessings of our
great and cherished constitution. For the first time, and
to my great surprise, I see Ultramontane sympathies where
I thought they were unknown—among the Roman Catholic
laity of England. I cannot suppose that the noblemen and
gentlemen who sign this address to the Archbishop of Fri-
burg are ignorant of his published sentiments or of his
claims. They have, however, endorsed the following pre-
tensions, published by the archbishop, in his protest of No-
vember, and are ready in similar circumstances at home and
abroad stand by them :
" According to the doctrine of the Catholic Church, her
teaching, her worship, her government, belong to the Pope
and bishops.
" All laws of the country, to which the government ap-
peals, when contrary to this doctrine are usurpations ; the
existing relations of Church and State were formed on a
Protestant model,
The State has no rights over the church. We loudly
protest against the pretended rights which it assumes.
" The bishop must do all in his power to bring about
a repeal of the existing laws ; if he cannot do this by
entreaties, the duty of resistance at once devolves upon him,
and then the responsibility of a conflict like this falls not on
him, but on the power which usurps the government of the
church. _ _ _ .

"As to the ordinance of the 7th of November in particu-
lar, the archbishop protests against being obliged to submit
his mandates to the commissioner of the government ; this
were to subject the church to a layman. He pretests
against all the penalties which follow the violation of this
command.

" To apply laws of police to priests who should obey their
bishops, is, in the eyes of all the world, neither more nor
less than an act of violence.

" To promise priests who obey the laws of the country
protection against the censure of their bishops is as dange-
rous as impossible. No power in existence can conserve
the funcions of a priest when his bishop withdraws those
functions.

"Lastly, the archbishop demands from the state a repeal
of all laws in force upon this matter, and the abandonment
of all sovereignty over the church, for no partial concessions
will suffice for the restoration of peace."
I am not surprised at the archbishop's assertion of these
principles. He is most consistent. But what amazes me
is the fact that Lord Arundel and Surrey, Lord Charles
Thynne, and other eminent persons, should accept them.
The archbishop took a solemn oath to the Pope, in which
he swore, " The rights, honors, privileges, and authority of
the Holy Roman Church and of our Lord the Pope, I will
endeavour to defend, preserve, increase, and advance." He
has also sworn to uphold the canon law and conciliar de-
crees. In the canon law the Archbishop of Friburg reads
and fearlessly acts on what he reads, as follows :—"Ne de-
clare that you ecclesiastics are not bound by your oath of
allegiance to your prince, but that you may freely resist
even your prince himself in defence of the rights and honors
of the church, and even of your own private advantage."—
Corp furls Canonici, c, 31, p. 360, Leips., 1839. " The
Kingly power is subject to the Pontifical, and is bound to
obey it."--P. 190, vol. ii., Leips., 1839.
Nothing can be more consistent and pontifically exemplary
than the conduct of the archbishop. But I cannot believe
that the loyal and eminent personages who sign the address
to him in your columns are aware of the destructive prin-
ciples to which they have comm7.tted themselves.—l am,
Sir, your obedient servant,

JOHN. CUMMING.
P.S.—I observe that some of your cotemporarios are
wondering and speculating. about br. Wiseman's absence
from England and sojourning at Rome. It will set them
right if I inform them that, in the oaths taken by him at
his consecration, he swore, " I will, by myself, in person
visit the threshold of the apostles (i. e. Rome) every three
years, and give account to our lord of my pastoral office,
and of all things belonging to the state of my church."
The cardinal is, therefore, reporting to his sovereign in
Rome, the condition of his proconsulate in England, and
receiving orders for the next three years.

A HINT TO SIR JAMES GRAHAM.

To the Editor of the Times

Sin,—The value of property lying in the 'docks at Liver-
pool is reckoned by. millions. Its only defence is a small
and not over strong fort at New Brighton. In case of the
outbreak of hostilities with Russia, what is to prevent a
Russian steamer, commanded by another Paul Jones, and
under a false flag, entering the Mersey ?

Half an hour would suffice, and ion would publish, in a
third edition, by telegraph, that "the docks were in flames."
It is not an invasion by a squadron, whose movements
would be known and therefore intercepted, that we have to
fear ; it is the possible mischief that a single armed vessel
could inflict that has to be guarded against.
Let our energetic head of the Admiralty send a single
block-ship to be moored in the Mersey until the horizon of
European politics brightens,—Your obedient servant,
Manchester, Dec. 22. VIGILANS.

Miss Burdett Coutts has arrived at Brighton, from Paris.
The Duke of Newcastle left town on Thursday for Clum-
ber, for the Christmas holidays.
len the Shrewsbury School case judgment has been given
for the relations, and against the Rev. Mr. Morse.
The Marquis of Lansdowne has a select circle assembled
at Bowood for the festive season. The noble marquis, it is
said, does not purpose coming to town until the latter end of
January.

CHOLERA IN SCOTLAND.—ChoIera, which hovered on the
eastern coast of Scotland, is rapidly coming westward:
and has at length reached this city, although not in its
most virulent form. In Glasgow we learn several cases
have been reported since Saturday. On that day a case
occurred in Tylefield-strect, Gallogate. On Monday morn-
ing there was another case in Garngad-road. On Tuesday
a second case occurred in Garngad-road. In the afternoon
a second case occurred in the Back Wend. Three other
cases have been reported, one near the Cross, another in
Coweaddens, and the third in Bishop-street. The parochial
boards have, greatly to their honour, completed their
arrangements for energetic action.—Glasgow Constitutional.
SHOCKING MURDER. AT GlRVAN.—Scarcely had the public
mind in Ayrshire recovered from the sensation produced by
the blind and atrocious affair which took place at Tfillinte, in

(%"""i".411,11,1, was ,ittiti2; at the loon', near the window of lier
own house, in the town of Girvan, ,lie was shut at and killed.
We have not yet received further particulars, beyond the fact
that her husband was immediately apprehended, on suspicion of
being the perpetrator of the murder,--North British Mail.