Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-09 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS.

It the meeting of the Health Committe, yester-
day, it was stated that the health of the town is
slightly improving. The deaths last week, were
-18 less than the pi eeeeding week. From Diarrl:ce
the deaths same period were 12 less than the pre.
ceeding week. The Medical Officer of Health
states, however, that the deaths in the borough
during the past quarter were 410 more than in the
preceeding quarter. lie says that there is as yet
no signs of cholera in Liverpool, and he expresses
a hope that we may be spared from the ravages
of th's disease. Should it unfortunately reach
Liverpool, it is not likely to do so until next spring,
as it generally takes 11172 months from Hamburgh
to Liverpool, and it has only recently appeared in
the former city.
At the DO3ii Committee, yesterday, no business
of importance W 1.9 transacted. 'Some sympathy
With the relatives of the late Mr. Wainright, who
had acted as the parliamentary agent of the aytk
Committee, and who recently died at St. Leonard's,
was expressed by several of the members An
increase of -..C)0 per annum was made to the
salary of the chief clerk to the secretary to the
committee.

It is somewhat singular that the only, cases upon
which coroner's inquests were held yesterday were
those of children burned to death. Three girls,
sgelrespectively, eleven, five, and three. years, had
set their clothes on fire at their residences, and the
injuries caused death. A verdict of accidental
death was returned in each case.

A meeting was yesterday held at the Savings'
Bank, in Bold-stree►, for the purpose of forming a
West Lancashire Baok Hawking Society, the
Bishop of Chester in the chair. The object is to
supply books which will counteract, if it does not
entirely do away with, the sale of books of au
immoral and irreligious tendency.
The Londos papers are taken up with reports of
the sermons delivered in the metropolis on Wed-
nesday last. Several of them are of a remarkable
character. We give a brief outline of that delivered
by Mr. Spurgeon, at the Crystal Palace. The returns
specify that 23,654 persons were in atteada.nceand
it cannot, therefore, be doubted that of all the
preachers Mr. Spurgeon had the largest audience
nnll.ntinn which was made Jaffa,. tho
will go to the Relief Fund, while the admissio❑
fees paid at the door, will serve the double end of
assisting the Crystal Palace C)mpany, and afford-
ing a precedent for Crystal Palace openings during
the seasons of public wot ship. Mr. Spurgeon urges
that our soldiers are to assume the position
of executioners of British justice. Several
of the leading preachers did not hesitate to
specify the causes that might have brought upon
us the curse of India, and, in doing :this, Dean
Trench, in Westminster Abbey, boldly spoke of
the East India Company's traffi 3 in opium as a
hideous faci., and urged that revenue was thus
raised upon the vice, the misery, the degredation,
in fact, the ruin of the soul and body of a vast
portion of the human race. Several metropolitan
preachers took the same view; they spoke of the
opium traffic as an iniquity which merited Divine
judgment, and they called it the "accursed trade.''
The Rev. Dr. Cumming called for the ut!.r
destruction of every Sepoy found in arms against

The arrival of the steamer Indus at Southamo.
ton, with a number of passengers from India,
supplies us with several scraps of interesting
information from that quarter. An opinion prevails
that as soon as any large reinforcement arrives at
Calcutta or Bombay, the mutiny will suddenly
cease—the rebels will bury their plunder, and lay
down their arms, as they are in ;rent terror of the
English soldiery. It is, however, feared that
Lueknow will fall ere assistance can reach it.
Between Cawnpore and Lucknow there were thirty
five thousand mutineers when the passengers by
the Indus left Calcutta, and it was considered
doubtful whe!her Sir J• Outram would be success-
ful in passing up the river. Great faith is placed
in the Sikhs. Amongst the passengers in the
Indus are several officers and gentlemen who have
been fearfully maltreated, and several ladies who
have had most miraculous escapes from Delhi and
elsewhere. It is said that the only man who
escaped the massacre at Cawnpore has gone raving
mad, from the hardships through which he had
to pass.
The Pays has a correspondence from Maccao of
August 11, which reports that, as was naturally to
be expected, the Viceroy of Canton, as soon as Lord
Elgin had left with his ships fur Calcutta, iSSII3(I
a proclamation stating that he had been frightened
away by the imposing attitude of the Celestial army
" numerous as the countless leaves of the forest "
The proclamation announces the terrible fact that a
new Chinese fleet is in preparation, which will dis-
perse all the enemy's remaining vessels. It ter-
`minates with a violent invective against all foreig-
ners whomsomever, and an intimation that a new
tax has been imposed for the maintenance of the
Celestial troops, which must be paid within ten
days under the most severe penalties•
We have to record another murder. On Tues-
day night, a man named Davis, a carpenter, in
Bali's Bond Road, liingsland, London, cut his
wift's throat from ear to ear, so that she died al-
most in sta ti eously. They had had a quarrel. A
preliminary t xaminatiou of the prisoner took place
at the Islington Police Court, yesterday, and the
inquiry was adjourned until the coroner a inquest
has been held.
Major Beresford, M.P., has merle another speech
at an agricultural meeting in Essox He echoes
the cry of the Time's, which, he -says, echoes the
voice of the country, for the total destruction of
Delhi. Mr. B.Tesford also declares he will sup-
port Lord Pahnerston ; and the tone of.his and toe
other speeches was decidedly in favour of the pr -
sent Premier as the best Canseivative statesman
to lie had.

The intelligence from the Cont'n ant this morn-
ing is important. L'.:qters from Italy prepare us
for new cutbreaks. The national party, falsely
believing that there exists a serious rup•ure
between France and Austria, lends itself to the
machinations of some adventurers who are believed
to be instigated by influential persons at Paris.
The military police of the Austrians at Bologna
has arrested a number of suspected persons.
Unusual measures of precaution have been taken
by the authorities at Forli, Rimini, and other

places ; at Carrara, on the 25th of September, a
revolutionary movement was attempted at the
theatre ; at Faenzi an insurrection has been sup-
pressed ; even in Sardinia the government has been
frightened by symptoms of an impending explosion.
In short, the predictions of continental journals,
that the events of Stuttgardt inaugurated a time of
undisturbed rest, seem to be. doomed to a speedy
refutation

A deluge of rumours of intended conferences and
conaresse3 pours upon us. Plenipotentiaries will
be °Ailed to Paris to deliberate on the Danish
question, on the state of Ita'y, on the union of the
Principalities, on a general reduction of armaments.
Thus, the meetings of the Emperors leave behlnd
them nothing save LIT f mnded news ; anybody NS ho
expected something more substantial or more im-
porlant, has indulged in vain illusions.
Marshal Narvaez, it is said, wished to ward of
the blow with which he is threatend, by turning
Liberal. He will seek the alliance of a reorganised
national guard, of a free press, and of an enfran-
chised people.
The African mails have arrived at Plymouth, but
have not yet reached us.

THE Fast and Humiliation Day has passed
away. The people of the United Kingdom have,
in accordance with the command of Her Majesty,
assembled in the House of Prayer, and have
supplicated the Deity for power and strength to
destroy His own image. This was but a repeti-
tion of our invocations when we were engaged
in the struggle with Russia. We must be the

purest, most religious and godly-minded people
on the face of creation, when we can so frequently
make our approach to the sanctuary, and ask the
Almighty to make us conquerors in every
country and in every clime. Patriotism, to be
pure, to be good, to be just, to be defensible,
must have sanction from a higher than an earthly
throne. When we sent forth our mighty batta-
lions' to the Crimea, our object was to repel
aggression ; we go to India fur the purpose of
promoting aggression—we are sorry to say, by
means of the East India Company, England's
rule in the East Indies has been that of aggres-
sion—an invasion of the rights, privileges, and
property of a people whose numerical force is
almost ten times greater than that of England.
The Humiliation Day's sermons have given us
an ecclesiastical idea of the subject. Some
important truths we:•e 'enunciated, and although
we could have wished that fathers who have
sons•serving in the army of Her Majesty or the
East India C impany, had not ascended. the
pulpit to proclaim therein their individual feeling
rather than the gospel truths of salvation, we
believe that much good may arise out of the
religious occurrences of Wednesday. It would
be impossible to review in detail the various
sermons delivered in Liverpool. We may,
however, remark, that among the more
prominent are those of Dr. MCNEILE,
Mr. MACNAUGHT, and Professor ISAACS
at the Jewish Synagogue. With the pecu-
liar religious -and political principles laid
down by those respective divines we do not
entirely concur; each contains within it some-
thing that is commendable and good ; at the
°amt. time +bo.. is ....-17.Z0L blic Lt Lie philo-
sopher must always discard. Dr. MeNEILE's
earnest anxiety for missionary efforts is very
plausible, but until he can prove that we are the
people whom GOD hath chosen to force His gospel
upon heathen lands, all his eloquence respecting
CLIVE and , the propagation of Christianity in
India go for naught. The Rev. Incumbent of
St. Chrysostom's was, as usual, able, eloquent,
and logical; and his text evinced the peculiar
and penetrating character of his mind —"Be not
overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."
This text suggested an apt reply to the pug.
nacious remarks of the " angry boy," Mr.
BERNA L OSBORNE, at Diver last week, who, on
the part of the Government, encouraged the idea
of vengeance, and the extermination of the people
of India•from their own sail, It is peculiarly
gratifying to notice the benevolent and philan •
thropic sentiments uttered by the Jewish
preachers, Professor IsAacs delivered a sermon
replete with everything that betokened the
scholar and the expounder of G.:l3'S word.

Apart from the theological ideas promulgated
by the various mini,t2rs who preached on
Wednesday, we have still to ask ourselves the
question—What has caused the mutiny in India ?
and to solve the important problem—Have we
done our duty to the people of that conquered
country ? We fear not ; and although we
may deem it our duty to struggle to the end for
our supremacy in India, we must, at the same
time, be influenced by the wholesome maxim
which the lamented DRUMMOND propounded—
" Property has its duties as well as its rights."
We have gone forth and conquered India ; we
have taken possession of that country contrary
to the wishes of its people ; we did so for the
purpose of adding to our commercial prosperity,
not fora desire to civilise or evangelise its inha-
bitants,—for civilisation, if we understand it
aright, is not to be compelled by the sword.
Enghnd has held that country for over a century,
and year after year has added to the complaints
and murmurs of its population, until at last the
flood of disaffection has burst forth, and almost
every hearth and home in England is sorrowing
and :weeping for the murderous doings of the
Sepoys. - _

As many of the sermons which have been deli-
vered suggest the hope that the present crisis
may induce our rulers to look well to the future
government of India, we sincerely desire that the
people of the United Kingdom, and through them
the Legislature of the empire, will earnestly and
faithfully see to the better government of a coun-
try so highly prized, and so important in every
commercial point of view. Let us do to India
as we would have India do to us—promote the
moral, social, and:religious position of its people,
giving to them a full return for everything which