The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-31 00:00:00

CHINA

Our advices from Hong Kong are to the 9th ult,
There is nothing authentic respecting the rebellion.
It was generally believed that the Emperor had
left Pekin, and was some distance from it ready
to make his escape. Canton remained quiet, but
a revolt was expected on hearing of the fall of
Pekin There had been some fighting between
the Imperialists and the insurgents near Amoy.
The insurgents were defeated with great slaughter,
and fled in confusion into the city. Horrible
massacre were being committed by both parties.
Head money was given and many innocent people
had been killed for the sake of two dollars given for
their heads. In one day's fight the imperialists
were so encumbered with heads that the General
issued an order that ears would be sufficient to gain
the reward. Since then many poor villagers, women
included, have been seen wandering about without
ears. Altogether it is a horrible warfare and all
parties are equally to blame.
At Canton trade shows no improvement for im-
ports, and money is still excessively scarce.

Exchange on England has further advanced.
Freight to England, £3 and £2 10s.

SHIPWRECKS.-TWO HUNDRED AND
FIFTY LIVES LOST.

LETTERS by the Overland! Mail, convey intelligence of
the lamentable wreck of a British ship, supposed to be the
Lady Evelyn, and a fearful sacrifice of life. She was a fine
vessel, recently built, 748 tons burthen, commanded by
Captain M'Lellan, and was the property of Messrs. Her-
rings, of Liverpool. On her last voyage from England she
was bound to Port Phillip, and on her arrival there she
was taken up for a run to Calcutta and China. She was
then chartered for the conveyance of 250 Chinese emigrants
to San Francisco, and departed in every apparent safety
with her living freight. The catastrophe is reported to
have occurred on the night of the 20th July, on one of the
cluster of Islands known as Tvpingson, in the Eastern or
China Sea, situate some 14 miles west of Loo Choo. She
quickly went to pieces, and we regret to add that out of
290 souls who were on board, including the crew, only six
European sailors and twenty Chinamen were saved. The
advises furnished no further intelligence. The ship was
insured.—Another serious loss has been reported by the
Argo, viz., that of Princess Victoria, while on her voyage
from London to Melbourne. When within a few miles of
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her destination, on the. 13th of August, she was discovered
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of danger, when the explosion took place. It is almost
needless to remark that it was of a most tremendous char-
acter, shivering the ship into atoms. Fortunately a ship
was attracted to the spot by the intense light of the explo-
sion, and picked up the crew in the boats, who were landed
in Melbourne a few days afterwards. The vessel is reported
to be insured. The Princess Victoria sailed from the Downs
on the Bth of April.

THE SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS.—We have received
intelligence that the above celebrated vessel, which sailed
from Liverpool on the 7th ultimo, was passed, Sep• 27, in
lat. 18 N, long. 23 W.
SHOCKING SUICIDE OF AN OFFICER IN TIM SLR.
DINIAN Graffinno Bassani, aged 37 years,
formerly a lieutenant in the Sardinian service, commitl
ted suicide on, Thursday, at the Bridge-house Hotel
leindon, by shooting himself in the dressing-room at;
tached to the bath-room. From letters found in the pos-
session of the deceased, it would appear that private
misfortunes induced him to commit the rash act.

It is evident to all those who look into these
questions, that there are three classes of voters,
whose motives may be styled either corrupt or
unworthy.
In the first may be classed :—Those who actually
receive bribes in the shape of money, dinners,
punch, beer, or promises of public situations for
themselves or their relations. This is a class very
difficult to deal with, except in their own coin. It
is too ignorant to see that, even in electoral mat-
ters, " honesty is the best policy," and that can-
didates who " stump up " (I believe this is the
correct phrase) liberally, to win the post of honour,
expect, and too often succeed, in making it a post
of profit. It is true, its disciples have to pay
indirectly in taxation for what they receive directly
in the shape of a week's jollification—but then
they have this unctious, this sweet, inward source
of gratification, that their more conscientious
fellow-citizens are compelled to pay precisely in
the same ratio for the such nobly-earned plunder.
This, no doubt, is a salvo calculated to cover a
multitude of sins.

To the second class belongs :—Those whose
votes are influenced by menaces or intimidation—
unfortunates, who mortgage their honour at the
same time as their property. This is truly a class
which bears " the proud man's contumely, and the

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Finally; in the third class-may be enumerated :
Those who record their votes from motives of
friendship or conviviality; also, those who are
influenced by prejudices, arising from faction or
party-spirit; or who are moved by the flattery of
their. self-esteem ; or even those who feel that
most subtle poison, that very refinement of cruelty,
which delights in seeing weak-minded men exalted
to public positions, feeling assured that the higher
stand they are enabled to attain, the more inflated
and vain they become, and that the ignorance un-
noticed in a private capacity, being published,
makes them the laughing stock of the " world we
live in." This is a fact, long since well-known
to the vendors of the public prints, who find that
the public relishes nothing more keenly than the
ridiculous speech or exhibition,of such a public man.
This is a class really the most unworthy and dan-
gerous of the three. It is like a flunkey who
invites his comrades to a supper, but not at his own
cost—like a foolish citizen, who besieged in a
stronghold, and listening to the entreaties of a sup-
posed friend for admittance, delivers up the keys
to a traitor; or like the crow, who wishing to show
that her voice was even yet more ravishing and
beautiful than her plumage, the moment she opened
her mouth, let fall the lump of cheese, the coveted
prize of the crafty fox. This class is used as a
stalking-horse by the designing, and is looked upon
with pity by the strong-minded. It would sell
either its own birthright or the birthright of pos-
ierity, if the mess only was served up with the
savoury essence of 'gammon.

I now conclude nail another year rolls around,
and in the hope that your votes, recorded on Tues-
day for a man possessed of mind, eloquence, and
energy, based upon constitutional principles, will
prove that you are not criminal enough to belong
to the first, not miserable enough to belong to the
second, and not contemptible enough to belong to
the the third of these classes.

COSMOPOLITAN,
BUT NOT A BURGESS OF THE PITT STREET WARD,
20th October, 1853.

EARLY CLO STNI4-_
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES

SlR,—Permit me to make a few remarks in refer-
ence to the letter of " One Interested," which ap-
peared in your impression of to-day; in which the
writer seems to think, that the " Old-established
concern in Bold-street," ought not to be " stigma-
tised" for having a "wicked thirst for gold," or for
being illiberal or covetous," because they have pre-
vented the Association from putting an end, at the
present, to the iniquitous system of late shoping,
of which that firm are the unenviable advocates.

I will briefly, as possible, state the reasons why
particular allusion has been made to this excep-
tional concern, and will leave " One Interested" and
the public to judge of their validity.
When the deputation from the Society first waited
on the firm in question, one of the three partners
was asked to give his consent to the closing of the
concern, at the hours specified in one of the resolu-
tions transmitted by post a week previously, and
which hours we ascertained would be adopted by
all the proprietors whose names appear in our ad-
vertisement, provided this " Old-established con-
cern in Bold-street" would consent to adopt them
as theirs also. The deputation met with a stiff'
refuSal, the partner adding that—" their present
hours of closing were far too early for young men ;
and that they were far better off twenty years ago,
when the hours of closing were eleven o'clock p.m.
and later ; and that young men could boast of
having a £5 or £lO note then, whereas now they
could not lay hands on a single shilling." This was
the result of an interview with Partner No. 1; and
how far the statement of the gentleman accords
with reason'or truth, let the public decide.
Here then, by the act of this man, a blow was
given to our cause which made us retreat at the
very time when we should be proclaiming our tri-
umph ; and can any one in justice or reason, assert
that any language is too strong, by which to cha-
racterize the individual who would thus defeat a
movement in which the welfare and happiness of
thousands were at stake? It is clear as the sun at
noon day, that THIS partner was " actuated by a
wretched thirst for gold" and that his disposition
was " illiberal and covetous."

The deputation, thus dispirited, had an interview
with a gentleman—the first on whom they waited,
and who takes a particular interest in their success
—by whose
_counsel they were determined to be
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their.: adoption

Our second endeavour was as signal a failure as the
first; but in this instance we had an interview with
Partner No. 2, who in refusing our request made a
few observations which excited our indignation,
and .which induced us, as a matter of justice, to
point more particularly to the firm. These are a
few of Partner No. 2's, statements to which I invite
public attention !
Ist. That the early closing movement would have
been successful eight years ago, but for the con-
duct of Mr. - who violated his promises and
compact in reference thereto.
2nd. That since the early closing movement gained
ground, they (the firm) could prove that employ-
ers were worse served, and the young men, in
general, were become more dissipated.
3rd. That this was the proper time to discourage
assistants in their efforts to secure earlier hours;
lest they may, in time to come, combine and strike
as the men do in manufacturing districts.
After Solon-like expressions such as these, what
will "One Interested" think of the degree of " intel-
gence which conducts this " Old-established con-
cern in Bold-street." However, the utterance of
these sentiments naturally aroused the deputation
to a sense of their position; and the calumny (for
such we believe it to be) on our best friend and
adviser completed the measure of our indignation,
so we resolved to appeal to public sympathy and
support:.

Yaw that we have done so, we trust the public
will extend to us their liberal support, and upheld
those firms who are actuated by feelings of respect,
of justice, and humanity, to those in their employ.
Let the ladies of Liverpool cease to purchase by
gas-light, and they will prove to this "Old-estab-
lished concern in Bold-street," that the gentle sex
will not be parties in support of this " Eagle" of
inhumanity; and that this " wicked thirst for gold"
must be otherwise quenched, than in the " ruin of
the health, :the hopes,,and the happiness of so many
members of the community?'

IRELAND

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENINC

THE TITHE RENT CHARGE.--A sort of miniature agita-
tion has been got up on this subject, in many parts of the
country. It has, however, the novel feature of being not
only perfectly in accordance with the law, but is actually to
secure the law's exact fulfilment. It appears that, accord-
ing to the various acts of Parliament, regulating the
assessment of the tithe rent-charge, a periodical valuation
on the average price of wheat for seven years is authorised
as a means of rating the amount receivable by the Impro-
prietors. A valuation of this sort however, through the
remissness :of the tithe-payers has not been demanded' for
the last twenty-one years, and the consequence is, that
they have been paying rent-charge for some time at a rate
far beyond that, at which, had the law been strictly
carried out, they would have been assessed. The cases
ontissus has now been suddenly discovered, and in several
counties, the case has been brought before the assistant
banisters, with a view of at length having a new arbitra-
tion. In the Queen's County, I find by the Leins ter
Express, the applicants were defeated on a technicality,
but in the King's County, they have succeeded. In Cork,
Carlow, and other places, similar proceedings were in pro-
gress, and no doubt as the principle has been once estab-
lished, it will sooner or later be carried out universally,
The immediate result will be seriously to diminish the in-
comes of the establishment clergy, though the same weapons
may be yet turned by them on their present opponents.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday last Mr. C. Egan,
second son of Alderman Egan, of Dublin, was killed at
Sutton, near Howth, ty the accidental explosion of a gun.
DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF DERRY.—The Right Rev. D.
Ponsonby, Bishop of Derry, died on Thursday, at the Palace,
London&rry. He was in his 83rd year, and was suffering
from the effects of a fall down stairs. This is the first Irish
mitre in the gift of the Aberdeen government, and the
appointment to the vacant see will be looked forward to
with considerable interest. It has been rumoured for some
time back that Dr. Todd, senior Fellow of Trinity,
.College,
Dublin, had the promise of the first open bishopric. This
would be about the most unpopular appointment that could
be made here, as Dr. Todd's Puseyitical tendencies are
well knewn, and Puseyism is as yet an exotic in this country.
The Reverend Doctor's father is a clerical seceder from the
Church of England, and I believe his nephew also. The
report of his likely promotion is grounded on the existence of
a warm intimacy between himself and the Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
• DUBLIN AND BRAY RAILWAY COMPANY.—A special
meeting of the shareholders of this company was held yes-
terday, at which the agreement of amalgamation with the
aryl ZVinlrinw Company wax unanimously occuan tad to.

INCUMBERED ESTATES COURT.—Two properties were sold
by the Commissioners yesterday. The first was that of D.
B. Foley Esq., County Cork awl Waterford. It consisted
of about 1000 acres divided into eight lots. Only two were
sold, at over twenty years' purchase, the rest being ad-
journed for want of bidders. The estate of the Knight of
Kerry was next set up, and realised, as a total, within a
trifle of £60,000, being: from twenty to twenty-five years'
purchase on the average.

INCREASE OF BELFAST SIIIPPINC.— The Banner of Ulster
says :—We learn that the return of tonnage registered at
this port, for the current year, will show a very gratifying
increase upon that for 1852: and that the additions of new
shipping are principally vessels of a large size, suited for the
Australian and East India trades, which are "paying"
much better than ever they did before. There is at present
in Prince's Dock a very fine full-pooped new ship, the
Maryann, built at a colonial port for Mr. Hugh Ward-
low, one of our principal shipowners. She registers 957
tons, and will be put into this trade when she has been
docked, coppered, &c.
MAYNOOTH 001CYLISSION.—The commissioners, at their
meeting on Wednesday last, adjourned until after Christmas,
and the chairman (the Earl of Harrowby) returned to Eng-
land that evening. The commissioners have already ex-
amined a clergyman, now of the Established Church, who
received some years of his education at Maynooth ; and the
secretaries of two important societies in this city have fur-
nished lists of clergymen so circumstanced, who are to come
forward when the commission re-assembles in December. In
the mean time it is incumbent on any person who can give
specific :information on the different heads of inquiry di-
rected by the commission to send in his name and address to
the office of the commission in the Castle, which will remain
open in the interval. The evidence of such person will, at
all events, be fairly taken and fairly printed, and, if it do
not sufficiently influence the report finally, the public will
have no difficulty in arriving at the truth, and in framing a
report for themselves.

ARREST OF A MIIRDERER.—The Westmeath Guardian
says :—ln June, 1852, a boy named Thomas Cooney,
baker and storekeeper to George Booker, Esq., was waylaid,
beaten, and robbed of a sum of £l5, by a man armed with
a pistol, within a few miles of the police barrack at Fore, in
this county. Cooney was beaten and robbed between four
and five o'clock in the evening of the 15th of June, and he
died on the morning of the 17th, from the injuries he received.
An inquest was held on his remains, and a verdict of "wilful
murder" returned against some persons unknown. We learn
that, through the exertions of Head-constable Ebbitt, a man
named Hugh Lunny has been arrested, charged with the
murder of Cooney, and committed to our county gaol to
abide his trial at next assizes.

DEATH OE LORD CLONCURRY.—The Right Honourable
Valentine Brown Lawless, Lord Cloncurry, breathed his
last this morning at his residence, Maretimo Blackrock.
He was in his 81st year, and had passed a life more eventful
than most men of his time. During his closing days, he
was invalided, and lived within the retired circle of a few
friends, but when younger his n ime was oftener than
once prominently before the public. He first attracted
notice in 1795, as the author of a pamphlet aganist
the new projected Union of Ireland with England, which
drew forth a reply from Edward Cooke, Under Secretary of
State. From thence forward he became an object of suspicion
to the existing government, and having became a member of

the United Irish Society, he was in 1-790 imprisoned in the
Tower, where he remained until 1801. During his im-
prisonment his father died, aid he succeeded to the title
In 1805, he was again subject to some annoyances on
being suspected of a connection with Robert Emmett, bu.
this proved to be a groundless belief. He afterwards wa nas
ardent advocate of Roman Catholic Emancipation, and
during the Marquis of Anglesea's Irish Administration, was
much esteemed and consulted by that nobleman. Lord Clon-
curry, in his latter years, commanded the respect of men of
all parties ; he continued to believe the Union an unfortunate
measure, but after circumstances have gone to show that the
doubts thrown on his loyalty formerly were of little or no
foundation. Indeed it appears that his obnoxiousness to
the powers that be, had its origin chiefly in his associa-
tions, for acquaintances included the following amongst
others,—William Duke of Leinster, (who was also confined
in the Tower,) Lord Edward Fitzgerald, (convicted of high
treason,) Horne Tooke, Arthur O'Connor, Robeat Emmett,
and no less distinguished a man than Napoleon when first con-
sul. His lordship was afterwards also intimate with O'Con-
nell but his quiet demeanour was too tranquil for that dashing
agitator. His lordship is succeeded by Albert, son of the
Hon. Edward Lawless, of Lyons, county Kildare.

THE CASE OF MISS CARTWELL. —This lady's trial came
on to-day, but is not over yet. There is much excitement
abroad, and the court was crowded, there being a large
number of ladies present, and also of Roman Catholic
Clergymen, including Bishop Cantwell. The prosecution
has closed, and the defence will be chiefly one of character.

LIVERPOOL AND

AUSTRALIAN PACKETS

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"Miles Barton," belonging to Miller and Thompson's Golden
Line, has arrived out at Port Phillip, after a splendid passage
of 82 days. The passengers presented Capt. Kelly with a
letter accompanied with a gold watch and chain, testifying to
the satisfaction of their treatment on board.

" My experience of more than forty years with masters
and workmen—with capital and wages—authorises me to
give a decided opinion that all strikes, whether of workmen
or of masters, are injurious to both, and detrimental to the
public interests, and therefore ought to be avoided. Before
1824, when three men and more could not meet and consult
about their wages or the laws of working, there were just
grounds of complaint, and the working classes had recourse
to secret clubs and to strikes in their own defence. These
evils were
.general and much complained of; and with the
view of giving freedom to labour, and at the same time pros-
perity to all classes employed in labour, I obtained a com-
mittee of the House of Commons in 1834 ; and so com-
menced the committee of the House of Commons, by the
testimony of masters and of workmen, that by an act at the
end of the session, the whole of the acts on the statute book
against combinations of workmen were repealed; and the
employers of labour, as well as the workmen employed, were,
from that time, left perfectly free to meet and to agree to
co-operate, or (as some say) to combine, to obtain, by mu-
tual discussion and argument, such rates of wages and such
hours of labour as might be mutually agreed upon; and
when the ordinary meetings of masters and men could not
adjust these matters, peaceable arbitration would bo had re-
course to effect a compromise and agreement. For twenty-
eight years there have been few strikes ; and, every
strike that has, from want of management, taken
place, both masters and men have suffered; and I have seen
with deep regret, that the exyerience of all these years has
not had the effect which I considered certain with an en-
lightened public. Since 1824, the working classes and
masters have both increased in knowledge of political economy
and in worth; and they ought, in these times of increasing
trade and prosperity, to have settled all their differences by
arbitration. You declare that the workmen have always
been for arbitration and that the masters have refused that
fair course. lam not in a condition to know whether you
are correct or not; but whichever party have refused to re-
fer their differences to arbitration have much to answer for,
both to the public and to the parties who have become the
sufferers thereby. I consider the benefits of free-trade to
be great, and to be increasing. The freeing, o f labour, in
1824, from the shackles that then interfered with and bound
the working classes, was the commencement of that great
movement ; I do yet hope that the good sense of the masters
and men will see the advantage of doing what was the
object in view by the repeal of the combination laws—of
refering all disputes to arbitration."
In a postecnpt, the writer adds—

" I see on the list of advocates for arbitration to settle the
disputes of nations, instead of having recourse to war, many
master manufacturers who are at this moment in strike
against their men ; and I do hope that a little consideration
will induce those masters and all masters, to meet with the
readiest means every application from the men for the settle-
ment of these ruinous strikes, in which innocent women and
children become the victims."

From five to six thousand of the unemployed assembled
in Chadwick's orchard this afternoon, to hear addresses from
a number of delegates from Blackburn, Stockport, and other
places. At a meeting it was announced that the mills in
Bacauh and Barnley had been closed, but that the masters
would open them again on Monday (this) morning, if the
hands would sign a paper, pledging themselves not to ren-
der any more support to Preston.