The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-13 00:00:00

DINNER AT THE MANSION HOUSE TO THE
AMERICAN MINISTER.

On Tuesday evening the Lord Mayor entertained it
distinguished party, in honour of the American Minister.
The guests numbered upwards of 300 ladies and gentle-
men. The Lord Mayer, in proposing the health of Mr.
Buchanan, the American Minister, said he should hare
felt it a very great reflection upon him if, during his
mayoralty, he had not received as a guest, at the Mansion
House, the Minister from the United S'ates of America.
(Hear, hear.) Mr. Buchanan was particularly welcome
amongst them, partly because he was about to return to
his native land, and he trusted he would take with hint
the good wishes of the people of this country. (Cheers.)
The American Minister in returning thanks said, he
received with profound and grateful feelings this testi-
monial of the friendship and regard in which they held
his country. He should ever preserve a grateful memory
of the kindness he had experienced in England. (Hear,
hear.) He had yet to meet the first English gentleman
who had not treated him as if lie had bean a countryman
of his own. He should carry with him every sort of
grateful feeling towards the pe rple of this country. In
regard to the two countries, what a dreadful misfortune
it would be to the human race if they should ever again
he involved in war. (Rear, hear.) What an unfortunate
blow to the cause of civilization and human liberty.
Flow it would delight the despots of the earth to find
these two nations destroying each other, and, at the same
time, every hone of the progress of mankind. (Cberrs.)
l'here could be no political slavery where the English
language was the language of the country. It wag
impossible ; and so far from there being any jealousy,
either on the part of England or the United States, as
to the honest extension of their borders, it ought to be
a blessing to mankind that they should extend them
over all the unsettled parts of the earth. He was sorry
to say that there had been, from the first, a number of
unfortunate questions unsettled between the two
countries. There was, at the present moment, x
difference existing between them, hut he trusted in God,
anti he believed, that the cloud which was now hovering
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over them would be speedily dissipated, and that the
sunshine of peace and friendship would become more
and more bright, till all dissensions had passed away.
and only lived in history as recording the folly of two
people threatening for a moment to engage in fratricidal
war. (Loud cheers.)

Typhus fever is committing fearful ravages at Odessa;
there is sad mortality among the physicians ; the long-
ing for peace is general.
Mr. W. J. Fox, M P., has given notice of various amend-
ments intended to be moved by him in committee on
education on Lord Jahn Russell's resolutions.

The Northern Bee, of St. Petersburg, describes the
advantages of Odessa ceasing to be a free port, seeing
tha► as such it only benefits foreign commerce.
At Braila and Galatz, captains of vessels have offered
to reduce freights to EnglAnd to 15s. the quarter, but
the corn merchants are resolved to hold back for a time,
There is no truth in the report that a Russian
squadron had put to sea; and the announcement of an
impending collision, in th; Patrie, copied into the Globe,
is unfounried.
The Queen of Sweden, who is spoken of ns the probable
godmother of the first-born of the Empress Eugenic, is first
cousin to the Emperor. Her Majesty is the daughter of
Eugene Beauharnais, brother of the Queen Hortense.
The Russian Chancellor of State, Jakowleff, who is the
proprietor of large metallurjcal works in that country, has
just given the government about two millions of Lilogrammes
of metal for the extraordinary wants of the army and navy.
The Journal de St. Petersburg, of March 2, in announce
ing the signing of an armistice at Paris, says that,
although it will not prevent the blockade of the Baltic,
the co.nmanders of the maritime forces of the enemy
will receive orders not to undertake any act of hostility
on the Russian shores _ _ _

—A
letter from Copenhagen, in the Hamburg Correspon-
dent, states :—The Supreme Council has decided to-day
on the establishment of a journal to give short-hand reports
of the proceedings, and the admission of the public to the
sittings. The speeches will be reported in the language in
t‘hich they are delivered.
RIBANDISM.—A letter from Roscommon announces the
capture, on the 7th instant, of a band of fifteen Ribaudmen.
They formed part of a gang who for some time past have
been traversing the county, attacking houses, and demanding
arms. Their arrest has caused great consternation among
their associates yet at large, many of whom have fled the
neighbourhood of their exploits.
At the fair of Nishni Novogorod,the cotton manufac-
tures of Russia have been in great demand, as there were
buyers from the Trans-Caucasian province, who formerly
were supplied by Turkish merchants. Cotton-wool
formerly imparted from America via England, was
brought from B9khara and Persia. The business of this
year's fair was done only for ready money.
The Paris correspondent of the Toner says, that Count
Orloff and Count Bum continue to show marked cold..
ness in their intercourse with each other. Both the
Independance and the Paris correspondent of the Times,
agree in stating, that the termination of the Conferences
will be hastened by coming to an understanding on the
more important questions, leaving other paints to be
settled by a commission.
THE MORMONS.-From the report of the Conference held
.t Great Salt Lake City, we learn that the Mormon rulers
ere enumerated as follows .—First Presidency, 3 ; Apostles,
7 ; Seventi. s, 2,086; High Priests. 715 ; Elders, 994 ;
Priests, 514 ; Teachers, 471 ; Deacons, 227. There are
331 Mormon missionaries from Utah Territory in different
portions of the earth, and 156 were elected by the Confe-
rence in April who were to be despatched immediately.
A Russian government journal contains an invitation
to contractors to bid for the carriage of several millions
of peods—one pood equals 40 lbs —of copper, iron, lead,
tin, and other raw produce, in the Siberian mines, on
the Don, the Wolga, and the Dnieper—to Nicolaieff, for
the use of the Superintendent of the Black Sea fleet.
The preparations making everywhere for a fresh cam-
paign are carried on with a degree of energy and
spirit hitherto unknown in Russia.
THE ALLEGED POISOXINGS •T RUGELEY.—It is under-
stood that indictments, in addition to the charge under the
coronet's inquisitions, will be preferred against William
Palmer, before the grand jury, at the assizes next week.
With respect to Palmer's defence, it is represented that it
will be mainly a scifntific one ; and that eminent chemists
an I anatomists (including Majendie, of Paris) have been
retained, to resist, as far as p )ssible, the deductions of Dr.
Taylor and Dr. ltees.—Staffordshire Advertiser.
The principle of the rectification of the Ottoman
frontier being admitted by Russia, a provisional line
will be drawn, which will subsequently be settled upon
after a topographical survey has been made. The organi-
sation of the Principalities, with its details, will be in
like manner reserved until after the definitive treaty of
Peace has been signed A correspondent of the Inds-
pendance even says, that inlabout 10 days the Moniteur will
announce that peace is concluded. Only those points
will now be taken, the rejection of which involves a
easus Belli. The Times correspondent says, that this
acceleration of business, and the change in the course of
proceedings, are due to the Emperor Napoleon.
PAUPERS IN ENGLAND AND WALES.—Yesterday morning
a Parliamentary return was issued which shows that in
624 unions the total number of paupers in-door and out-
door, in receipt of relief on the Ist of January 1856, was
876,655; on the Ist of January, 1855, 850,453. The total
number of adult able-bodied paupers (male and female),
exclusive of vagrants, in receipt of relief iu-door and out-
door, was, on January 1, 1856, 152,174 ; on January 1,
1855, 144,500. The amount of money expended for in-
maintenance and out-door eelief in 623 unions and parishes
under the Poor Law Amendment Act in England and
Wales during the half-years ended at Michaelmas 1854
and Michaelmas 15, was, in the half-year ended Michael-
mas 1855, £1.975,832 ;in the half-year ended Michaelmas
1854, £1,946,208.
JUDGES' CHAMBERS, MARCH 10.— IN THE MATTER OP
MARY ANN KING.—APPLICATION AGAINST A CONVENT.—A.
writ of habeas corpus had been issued a few days since,
and was to-day made returnable to produce the body of a
girl named Mary King, supposed to be detained at the
convent of " Our Lady, at Norwood. The return to the
writ set forth that M try Ann King had been placed at the
convent in 1850, for the purpose of being educated, and
put out to some respectable situation. That in the year
1855 the girl had of her own free will gone to Havre, in
France, and had obtained a situation there, and that
n
Mother
ntthceorSroul orper authorityior, nora any one
one in the said
her, nor hadn
convent,
theed
any
they the custody of the girl at the time the writ was
issued. Further, the return showed that the Lady Supe-
rior had no authority over her for twelve months pre-
viously, nor since the writ was granted. The learned
Judge having read the return, said he considered it a good
and sufficient answer to the application. Mr. Clarke
concurred with the view taken by his lordship, observing
that they had obtained the information which they could
not procure before the return of the writ. The return
was ordered to be filed, and the parties retired.
MANSLAUGHTER. An inquest was held before Mr.
lierforti, coroner, at Manchester, on Friday evening, on the
boly of a girl four years old, named Ann Syddal, whose
death was alleged to have resulted from cruelty and neglect.
The child was the daughter of John Syddal, dyer, Mason-
street, but had died at the house of an old woman named
Hannah Harrison, of Hardman-street, Manchester. The
deceased was in a burial club, and the parents were, entitled
£4 16s. at its death. The principal witness was Margaret
Dellahoit, a widow, who said the child was well used by the
other, brit the saw the stepmother, after beating the child,
it upon the floor and tread upon one ear till the blood
sowed from its nose. The child had the
measles about flue
weeks ago. and the mother immersed it in a cistern of cold
water, which she said was to punish it for crying and
howling in the night. Mr. John Lang, house surgeon at
the Royal Infirmary, said consumption was the cause of
death, which would he accelerated by the treatment the
child had received. There was other evidence of cruelty,
and the jury found a verdict of " Died from tubercular
disease, accelerated by the ill-usage of the stepmother,"
which the coroner said was a verdict of manslaughter.
Elizabeth Syddal, the stepmother, was then committed for
trial at the Mine.