Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-11 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES, SATURDAY, JUNE 11 1859

THE DIFFICULTIES BETWEEN • ENGLAND
AND AMERICA, RESPECTING CENTRAL
AMERICA.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-YESTERDAY,

A letter from Washington says :—"There is at length a
well assured prospect that our diplomatic complications with
England in Central America are to be relieved, and an
upright understanding established, upon a basis of. mutual
satisfaction. That is to say, the agreement is to be carried
out in good faith,. which the great principle of the Clayton-
Bulwer Treaty contemplated, of free transit at the

The Vexations Indictments Bill, the Debtor• and
Creditor Bill, and the Joint Stock Companies' Bill, were
read respectively a second time.
The Law of Property and Trustees Relief Act Amendment
Bill, was read a third time and passed.
The house then adjourned at a quarter to six o'clock.

Isthmus, abandoum eat of the Mosquito Protectorate

and unconditional recession of the Bay Islands. When
the Senate amended that bungling bargain called
the Dallas-Clarendon Convention

HOUSE OF CO4MONS.---YEsTERDAy

THE WANT OF CONFIDENCE IN THE MINISTRY.
The adjourned debate on the address was resumed by
Mr. Milner Gibson, who declared that, as two parties were
now inevitable, he was compelled to prefer that of the
Liberals. Referring to the late elections, he admitted that

these conditions

were substantially imposed, and after the retirement
of Lord Palmerston's ministry, which refused to accept
the modifications, they were adopted by Lord Malmesbury
as the best means of reaching a solution of this protracted

all parties were in turn amenable to the charge of elector
corruption ; but he charged the Administration with havin

and vexatious controversy: Our treaty with Nicaragua,
known as the Cass-Yrissari, was predicated upon this idea ;
and when Sir George Ouseley went there to conduct his

made use of their executive powers in a manner more

He instanced the Berwick election'
which was influenced by a promise that the barrack in that
town should be repaired and occupied by her Majesty's
troops. In giving his reasons for supporting the amend-
ment, he said that the late Reform Bill, though a retrograde
was not in accordance with the views of the party
who had introduced it. They were now promised a liberal
and comprehensive measure of reform, but, however he

usually improper

negotiations, a copy of it was furnished as the model to be
followed, in order to illustrate the conformity of policy on
both sides. It is not material to inquire now what motives
operated to induce Sir Gore to depart from this direct
course ; but when it was seen that, before relinquishing the
Musquito Protectorate, which was understood here to have

been designed as the starting poi

concluded a treaty of amity and (

a amen.

meats not recognised by ours, and then left Nicaragua
suddenly, the impression was very reasonable that
some change in the programme had occurred which
demanded the prompt and decisive interference of our
government. This led to a correspondence
,witli Mr.
Dallas, which was submitted to Lord Malmesbury, and that

taxed his powers of creaunty, ue cueLu
party would permit the ministry to perform that promise.
The Liberal party, at all events, had no right to put their
trust in any such promises ; and for them to give a vote of
confidence in the government who made them, would be to
trifle with our great parliamentary system. Neither could

he feel confidence in them for their dealings with religious
sl

was followed by assurances, just received, which have given

liberty

They had opposed, during the last session, al

the promise "of adjustments already referred to. While it

attempts to modify the oath taken by Roman Catholics, it
accordance with the feelings of members of that religion

is not improbable that the war in Europe may have, in
some degree, induced a more active desire to have this

He called upon the house to put aside personal prejudices,
and to decide the great question before it on constitntional
grounds. As to the foreign policy of the country,
while he would not charge the government with
openly espousing either side, he averred that it had
Austrian sympathies. Lord Derby had, in his place in
Parliament, insinuated that France, in her late proceedings,
entertained ambitious views. Was this consistent with
that perfect neutrality he had so loudly professed. Con-
sidering the French alliances as essential to the interests of
the country, he asked if the alarm excited, and the prepara-
tions now going on in the country, was not prejudcial to that
alliance. He protested against the imaginary
conjured up, and.tke unfavourable construction put upon
the acts of the French government. He did not believe
that much that was satisfactory would be learned from the
papers which the government had promised to produce to
parliament. He protested against, the allegations made
against the supporters of Lord John Rnssell's resolutions,
that it had been the cause of the present war, by weakening
the hands of her Majesty's government. He believed
the war to have been inevitable, after the declarations
of the Paris Conference in respect of the States of Italy.
Believing that the cause of Reform was safer in other
hands than those of the present government, he gave his
cordial support to the amendment.
Mr. Lindsay, as a reformer, felt conscientiously bound
to vote against the amendment. Why should a Conserva-
tive government fail in passing a ReforM Bill ? It was the
government of the Duke of 'Wellington who passed Catholic
Emancipation. It was the government of Sir R. Peel that
repealed the Corn Laws.; It was the government of Lord
Derby who admitted the Jews. Who was to' say if a
Reform Bill introduced by the Liberals might not involve

cause of embarrassment removed, candour requires it to be

said that declarations of Lord Malmesbury, before the war
was precipitated, gave abundant confidence that the original

purpose would be carried out, no matter what arrangements
Sir Gore Ouseley might make, or had made.

The Hon. Henry Elliott; the English Minister Extra-
ordinary, arrived at Naples last Sunday.

A POLECAT AND A PIiARISEE.-A: short time since, a
huntsman and his whipper-in were returning from chnreh,
when the whip said, very seriously, "What is a pharisee?"
" Why," said the huntsman, equally serious, "it is bigger
than a weasel and not so big as a fox." "Then that is a
polecat," said the whip. "No," said the huntsman, "a
pharisee is not a polecat, but is very much like one."
Michigan is becoming famous for "classic horrors." The
other day, an unmarried German lady, resident at Saginaw,
invited all her neighbours to a
.sumptuous banquet. The
guests arrived and the genial hostess herself duly received
them. When summoned from the drawing-room to the
dining-room they found the fair lady a corpse. She had
taken arsenic at the critical moment, and they had to-take a
melancholy departure.

At a Broadway Club, the question of Prince Albert's official
position in England was lately debated. The discussion led
to no result, but it was to be regretted that a person present,
not being a member, was precluCled by the rules from saying
that, when a celebrated artist had to paint the Prince Con-
sort in his official garb, he sketched him in his robe de nuit.
The knowledge of that fact might have safely guided the
disputants to a satisfactory conclusion. New York paper.
A PEDAGOGUE had two pupils—to one he was very partial,
and to the other very severe. One morning it happened
that both were late, and were called out to account for it.
" You must have heard the hell, boys. Why did you not
come ?" " Please, Sir, " said his favourite, "I was dreamin'
that I was going to Calyforney, and I thought the school
bell was the steamboat bell that I was goin' in." " Very
well, Sir (glad of any pretext to excuse his favourite) ; and
turning to the other, " what have you to say ?"
said the puzzled boy, " I - 1 was waiting to

now, Sir
"Please Sir
see Tom off."

a contest between the two Houses of Parliament for twenty
years to come ? The present government had the means of
passing their measures through the House of Lords, which
their opponents did not possess. As to the foreign policy
of the government, it had at least done as much to preserve
peace as Lord Palmerston. Again; how could he vote against
an address with the sentiments expressed in which the
whole house was disposed to agree. The Chancellor of the
Exchequer had taken the earliest opportunity of expound-
ing his sentiments in a candid and earnest manner, and now
he was not to be allowed Oren to introduce his Measures.
He should therefore give his vote in support of government.
Mr. S. Herbert said that, as the cry of the government
had been men not measures, they could not complain if the
debate took a personal turn. The government bad proposed
a Reform Bill, in accordance with their principles, they now
promised a bill contrary to these principles, they were
general dealets, keeping a shop for the supply of any article
demanded, was he to be asked to vote confidence in a
government so acting. He preferred seeing Reform
in the hands of Reformers, and ' put no trust
in those who had the business of others.
NO Bill of the Conservatives, introduced with the reluctant
consent of the party, could be either permanent or satis-
factory. He deprecated the taking up of strictures made
in former times by one member against another for the
purpose of influencing the great question by whont the
offices of this country were to be managed. Commenting
I on the state of parties, he observed, that the field for liberal
opinions was necessarily more wide than that of its
opponents, and that the liberal government was more ex-
clusive, because liberal members were frequently more
engaged in business who had no leisure for the duties.
Under present circumstances, what was anciently called a
strong government, was no longer possible. but whatever
party obtained the victory, he was sure that the patriotism
and good sense of the country would come to its aid, and
that on its foreign policy it would not forget that there was
in Italy a people struggling for freedom.
Mr. Bentinck opposed the amendment, the success of
which he regarded with great apprehension. It would not
have been supported by Mr. Bright without a guarantee
that his views on parliamentary reform would be carried
out. Tie demanded that they should have clear views as to
the policy of the government which would be incoming if
the amendment were successful. lie trusted, however, that
the vote of the House would signify their approval of the
)licy of the government.
Mr. Danby, Seymour adverted to the danger which would

Vv
An elopement of a lover with a wealthy ward, and a sub-
sequent marriage tif- the parties in Cincinnati, is the latest
piece of personal gossip from the West. The runaway
pair were Miss Eliza M'Donnel and Thomas P. Bryant, of
Nelson County, Ky. The young lady, it appears, is the
heiress of a large property, and was the ward of a stern
guardian, who determined she should, not wed her suitor,
because he had met with some financial reverses. So
much opposed was he to the match he had •at one time
favoured, that he forbade the lady seeing her lover at all,
and began a series of persecutions that resulted in open
rebellion, and a firm resolution to run away. The wedding
. .

was performed last week at the Spencer House in Cincinnati,
in the lady's bedchamber, the Rev. Dr. Scott officiating

The bride

and gioona then went back comfortably to

Kentucky.
EXPENSE OF THE COLONrES.--The cost of the several
colonies of the British Empire at the expense of the British
Exchequer, in the year 1857, amounted to no less than
£4;115.757 against £4,887,957 in 1856, £4,804.956 in
1855, £4,466,201 in 1854, and /3,845,018 in 1853. In
1847 the list was as follows :—Gibraltar, £423,589 ; Malta,
L 442,722; the Cape of Good Hope, /682,015; Mauritius,
£74,881 ; Bermuda, £158,061; St. Helena, £62,640 ;
Heligoland, £1,274 ; the lonian Islands, £199,470 ; the

-in- 7 • .
Falklands, £6,523; Ming Kong, £303.735; Jamaica,
£193,711 ; the Bahamas, £52,045; Honduras, £33,802 ;
'West Indies, £305,981; Canada, £236,484 ; Nova Scotia,
£154,605 ; NeW Brunswick, £9,430 ; Prince Edward's
Island. £1,500 ; Newfoundland, £20,114 ; Vancouver's
Island, £213 ; the West Coast of Africa, £126.039 ; Ceylon,
£119,279 ; Labuan, £12.445; North Australia, -£5,666 ;
West Australia, £94,769; South Australia, £9,940;
Victoria, £44.113 ; New South Wales, £59,646 ; Tasmania,
£96,936 ; and New Zealand, £112,395.
A NOVELTY IN MUSIC AND lIECIIANICS. —Every piano-

7orte amateur has longed for some supernatural agency
which should note down and preserve a record of the sound
rhich he calls forth from his instrument, when the divine
Hiatus is on him, and the spirit of melody takes possession
f his brain. To adopt a more chastened style of rhetoric,
very player improvises some strains which he would be
glad to repeat, which, perhaps, contains ideas worthy of
urther development,. but which, once played, cannot be
'ecalled, and are lost. Mr. Henry F. Bond has invented a
ieautifully simple apparatus, which is easily to be applied
o any piano-forte, and by which every note played, whether
w design or accident, is recorded in its proper place upon a
lip of music paper. In a few words the plan of this appa-
•atus may thus be described :—Upon a cylinder placed in
irke end of the piano-forte, the ruled music paper is wound ;
)y means of clock-work this cylinder .is made to revolve at
uniform rate of speed, the paper thus unwound, passes by
mother cylinder prepared with a surface of. ink ; each key
If the instrument, acting upon a lever, raises a metal point
against the paper, presses it upon the inky surface and
3auses a mark to be made, the length of the mark showing
accurately the duration of the note. A pedal, by a similar
action, marks the bars. With five minutes of practice, any
person who understands music can rapidly translate these
marks into the usual system of notes. The whole arrange-
ment is so simple, that the first feeling is astonishment that
the invention has never been born before.--Boston Courier.
PAISLEY FoLxs.--Soiree thirty years ago, an English
tourist was standing on the Castle Rock, with a lank, keen
visaged Scotchman for interpreter and guide. "Now, my
good friend," said the southron, " you have talked . quite
enough about your native town. Pray, forget Paisley for-a
moment, and let us look at Edinbtirgh." " It's no that
easy to forget Paisley when ye look at Embro," replied the
offended cicerone. " Seest 'ou ?" and he pointed towards
the University buildings, "that's Embro' College, where
they come from England and a' parts to learn to .be
doctors, and chancellors, and members o' parliament ;
and it has the cleverest men in the three kingdoms
for its professors ; but far the cleverest of them a' is
ane John Wilson, and he's a Paisley man. And seest
'on ? " pointing to a distant spire, "t'on's the steeple
o' North Leith. It's the best stipend in Scotland,
and it's allowed to have the best preacher in Scotland
for it's minister. Ye must have heard tell of the
Rev. James • Buchanan ; but ye may have forgotten
that he's a Paisley mail. And seest 'on that kirk wi'
the doom on't ?. That's St. George's, where a' the
gentry attend for the sake of the singing ; and I'se
warrant yell no hear the like o' the precentor in a' England.
They ea' him R. A. Smith, and he's a Paisley man. And
seest 'on where a' thee coaches are waiting to ;tart ? That's
the Register-office. Ye may say it's the keystane of the
kingdom, for lairds and lands a' hang by it. But though
its the vim* where dukes and earls keep their titles, and the
Ring himself keeps his papers, every day, when the clerks
qp lime, and the door is steekit. the entire place is left in
I oharge of an auld wife, and she's a Vaksley woman,'
Hilmoirs of James Fiwn,

accrue to the country if its government indulged either in
Austrian or French sympathies. lie approved of the
amendment, considering Conservatism always in favour of

taken into account. When the present governmen

into office, the nation was in a state in which it never
was before, and in which, he trusted, it never -would be
found again. He contrasted that state with the impos-

/ -
ing condition of the navy at the present moment. The
number of line-of-battle ships would, before long, double

the number in service fi

a months a:4-o. They

taken unusual measures on th
challenged either the gratitude or the condemnation of
the country. He justifted the adoption of the increased

subject, on which they

bounty against the attacks

ing that it was absolutely necessary for the requirements
of the service. 11,3 demanded of the house that it should
support a government which had done so much for the

mon
Marbli

giving

arbitrary principles.
Captain Vernon asked if the heads of the future govern-
ment •were to be double, like the two kings of Bradford, or
like Ceberus, three gentlemen at oneo. No power on earth
would induce Lord Palmerston to go forward with Mr.
Bright, or Mr. Bright to go backward with Lord Palmerston.
How could an administration stand, composed under such
circumstances, or with such supporters.
Mr. W. H. Leatham felt compelled to vote, for the
amendment, believing that the government had failed in all
its administrative measures, especially in that for political
"reform.
Sir G. C. Lewis declared the present amendment to have
been forced upon the opposition by the. 'conduct of the
government. The late disssolution compelled the issue
of a Liberal or a Conservative government, to
be raised immediately on the meeting of the new
Parliament. The opposition, if it had not accepted
the challenge then thrown out to them, would have been
guilty of political cowardice. It was true that there was a
party move, but it was by party mores that all great ques-
tions were settled in that house. He reviewed at length the
conduct of the Government, contending that it was not sulk
as to entitle them to the confidence of the house, espeei4)lY
in reference to its financial mensures.,
Sir J, 11041)31On said tl. to in any considerat!,op affecting

the confidence -of the country in the administration, A FACTORY GIRL CLA 111 TVG lIER
the measures- fix the defence of the country ILL.EGITIMATE CHILD.
be taken into account. He admit- The Salem otassaellassets) Gazette has the following
ought to,
curious
iic w andirsetor3. :---.. The case of Eliza. Ann Bailey, petitioner,
ted the propriety of the course now punned by the v A
Jessiee
18th of \
Conners,
cittillmebefoli.e,rit tl(r,
opposition; and contended that no case had been made Supreme Court on t
out againstthe-government. He instanced many measures orpus, granted on the petition of the. nt on a lother for r
f her minor child
introducedby the government, which bad 'obtained public who
oelaimed
thieri,ttnna Bailey, against the
to heri i
custody. under
approbation, especially that of the Transfer of Land. In circumstances, as disclosed i
defence of the late Reform Bill, he declared that, if it had the evidence at the hearing
iLtfoT petition
defence
ei,r
been left toits- own merits, it would have passed its second that the child was illegitimate, and ww-
some thirteen .years ago, a short tir
reading, and he protested against the exaggerated' phrases she mother from Ireland, Wl-
which had beemusedin its condemnation. Adducing the
declaration, made- on the subject of Reform by Lord's
Palmerston and Russell, he pointed out the danger of the
future cabinet which, should undertake to deal with the
question. He complained with much warmth of those who con-
demned the cabinet unheard, on account of its foreign policy.
He demanded that the manner in which the government
had dealt with the defences of the country she

is, an unmarried woman, and
by her labour, principally in

to find crop:

in this ca.

of the child was

Leh' OWil

now

arrival hen
led. The c

ad, one of the -respondent
has been nurtured, educate

to remain a
design, or wi
She has is

ie tim

were b

always allowed to see her, unti
threatened to take her away by force.

fested any fondness for th

trary, strong repugnance, E

the control or

this country, or
stand, that her

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the respondents wer

abundantly able to I

Judge (Bi

rival ofi
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ut three
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thus entitled

petitior

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nd her

one of

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The cliild has never

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I learn

SOLD AGAIN !--Lord Barrim

14 Who wants to buy a clever horse, that c
rtn hour, trot eighteen, and gallop twenty

ther in

for any
learned

is were

ms practical
n, he asked,

five miles'
I do," said

a gentleman, eagerly-. "Then," replied Laird Barri
" If I see any such animal to be sold, I will t
you knoiN

re to let

SERIOUS RIOT AT COVENT

on Thurs
custody.

the.stieets, broke the wit

lows of tl

sent to

several policemen
Warwick for an additional force of -police, and the military
detachment were in hourly expectation of being called out.
The ladies' shoemaker 3 in Philachilßhia recently met hi
convention, and adopted the following pungent resolution,
among others: " That we recommend the unmarried melt
of the trade to accept the invitation the God of Naturp gives
them, to seek employment in the invigorating and health-
atmosphere of the country, therbln
city by TIC(

those who
site, the ability to

have to stay it

maintain intact the hi
Colonel Hiram Fal
the New York Mirror, is now at Malvern, ur

11 of wa

propri

the care of

Dr. Wilson, the eminent .hydropatbiA for the recovery of
his health, which has been injured by-excessive application
to literary labour. The Colonel, as,,ge learn by a letter
s been sweated in g

from him in ti
chair formerly occupied for t

Kew York, .E.rprcbs.li

ful purpose !)]

Colonel will now recover from any m3iposition with whiet
be may have been afflicted, caused by excessive application
to literary labour, and be able to returii to his family duties