Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-14 00:00:00

OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.

Prom Vice-Consul Raven, dated Trieste, Wednesday,
August 12, noon—Received, 5.26 p.m.
Subjoined is a message to Sir James Melville, London,
forwarded by me from Captain Johnson, Alexandria,
tinder date from Alexandria, August 7.
The Indian mail has arrived, with news from Bombay
to July 14.
Delhi had not fallen up to the 27th of June. There
had been a good deal of fighting outside the fort walls.
The rebels were repulsed with loss on every occasion.
General van Cortlandt, when marching upon Sirsa and
Hissar, had two engagements with the rebels near Sirsa,
the last being a very decide I one. The rebels fled in
-disorder, leaving two hundred dead on the field, besides
prisoners.
The Punjaub remains quiet.
General Woodburn's column crushed the rebellion at
Aurungabad.
Intelligence has been received of the mutiny of the
troops at Moradabad, Fyza.bad, Seeiapore, Agore,
Nowgaon, Banda, Futtyghur, Mhow, and Indere.
The Governors of the Presidenoies are at their respec-
tive seats.
The money market was in a very unsettled state.
Money difficult to be bad on any terms. Government
securities have given way considerably. Import market
.very quiet; business done to a moderate extent. Freights
advanced a little.
The first batch of China troops arrived in Calcutta, per
Sintoom, about the 2nd of July.
Calcutta—Exchange on England, 2i.
(Signed) RAVEN.
The following despatch was received yesterday after-
noon at the Foreign-office :
TRIESTE, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12, 2 P.M.
(Received Aug. 12, 8.10 p ro.)
Mr. CONSUL GREEN'S DESPATCH.
ALEXANDRIA, AUG 7.
Our force before 'Delhi is stated to be from 7,000 to
8,000 Europeans and 5,000 natives.
The native portion of the force is proved to be trust-
worthy.
Calcutta is more tranquil, and native bankers regain-
ing confidence.
the papers say we have seen the worst of it, for there
are no more regiments to mutiny, except those of Bombay
and Madras, the fidelity of which there is no cause to
suspect,"

Tile Spanish government has addressed a note to the
Spanish
government, asking for the extradition of
refugees, known to be on the Portuguese terri-
tory, It is believed that the Portuguese w.ll not consent
to this.

The Russian government, on makieg a nomination- to
all of its orders, is accustomed to give the iusognia of the
order, and it has hithert requ'red, in case of death, to
have them restored. It has now decided that this restitu-
Con is no longer to be insisted on.
SUDDEN DEATH OF AN ARTILLERYMAN.—A gunner of
Captain Gibbons's Q battery Royal Artillery, stationed at
the cantonment on Woolwich-common, and under orders
for India, was on Tueslay morning discovered y a
comrade dead labia hut. The poor fellow is supposd to
have died of disease of the heart, and has left a widow
and family.
reA PROMPT SOLDIER.—The Ipswich Express says :
." We understand that, in the early part of the week,
whilst walking on the beach near Cromer, Major-General
Windham received a communic .tion from the Commander-
in-Chief, giving him orders to proceed to the East. lie
'bade his friends who surraund-d him farewell, and started
`off without a moment's delay."
GHousis SH romo.—Wednesday was the opening of
u”ttrouse shooting season in Scotland. The reports
from the moors are that genie is very abandant and in
-goad.
inhabited,
The shooting (porters are already
Led, and the "shootings" have let at high prices this
year' The old sport of deer stalking is gradually reviving,
and this /ear offers good sport, as deer have been well
wintered and are in high fettle.
TIT LAW OF jUDGMEYTS.-1 bill for amending the
law with respect to judgments, brought in by Mr. Fitz-
gerald, would enact that judgment already or hereafter
rSistered by the Senior Master of the Court of Common
Pleas may from time to time be satisfied, either with
respect to part only of the amount thereby recovered, or
to be levied thereunder, or with respect to part only
of
the property which it from time to time affects, or
respect to part only both of the amount and of
the property.
THE GRAND TRUNK BOOTS FROM THE EASTER'S TO
ViresTzax Ezazes.—We find the following in a St. Albans
Vt.. Paper :
-,.„.
NY eSt, says
Quick Time —A friend writing us from the
I was 36 hours Irom St. Albans to Chi-
ragn, which
call pretty fast travelling. I came by
the Grand Trunk and Great Western. and the Michigan
Central, a very pleasanl route and well arranged. Bag
Page checked through from Ogdensburgh without change.'
This new route to the West seems to give very general
satisfaction for a new one, and will doubtless receive a
liberal share of patronage."
A report on the affairs of Messrs Carr, Brothers and Co,
of Newcastle, has been submitted to the principal creditors
by Mr. Coleman, the accountant. It appears that the
debts of the firm amount to £700,000, and that Mr. Cole-
man considers the assets will yield 20s in the pound, pro-
vided the'collieries are carried on. Toe latter point is one
of great moment, not only to the creditors, but to the
people of Newcastle, since the nemb3r of men employed on
the works is upwards of 2,000. On the whole, a favour -
able view was taken of the case.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(By British and Iriih ...I.Tanetie Telegraph.)

ROUSE OF LORDS.—Thunsp.ty.
The House met at five o'e'oek.

TILE BISHOP OF NORWICH.

Lord D ingannon gave notice that on the following day
he should ask the Lord. Privy Seal whether, out of the
fond which would como into the hands of the-Eccicsi-
astical Commissioners by the death of Bishop Bloomfield,
it was intended to grout an allowance to the late Bishop
of Norwich.

ECINDR RAILWAY.
„The sessional order having been suspended for the
purpose, the Scinde Railway Bill was read the second
time.
On the motion for going into committee on the Burial
Acts Amendment Bill,

THE NORTHERN TIMES.--LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY,, AUGUST 14,, 1857.

positions of hor. members, in which no cone could believe
they were sincere.
Mr. Gladitoue said that the rematlcs of the right hon.
and learned gentleman would not deter him from doing his
duty in regard-to-tbie measure, which was now beginning
to show it, was not-e fit subject far discussion in that house.
He complained of the remarks of the Attorney-General in
raference to the sincerity of honourable members, and,said
that that learned- gentleman very Eeerly, if he had not in
fact crossed the line, when he ought to have been called to
order by the chairman as a disorderly member, who had
abuired the liberty of speech. (Hear, and laughter.) It
wes not usual for one member to challenge the sincerity of
other members in the propositions they advanced. The
statement of the Attorney-General, in reference to this
measure, showed that he did not appear as au inde-
pendent English gentlemen in the debate,.but the official
organ of another, and that the observatioas he had made
did not emanate in his own breast and conscience, bat that
they were delivered as the pure organ of a commander,who
snit his command from above. The Attorney-General bad,
however, given tongue in reference to the bill,.and whilst
admitting the equality of man and woman, he was det r-
miEed to precipitately pass a measure that would place
women in an inferior and unjust position.
. Lord Palmerston defended the conduct of the Attorney-
General, and said that, if those who voted against the
secand reading' of the bill sow voted for the amendment,
they would be making, in affect, a recantation, of their
previously expressed opinion of the indisiolnbility of reir-
nage. (Cries.of " No, no.") He, however; repeated the
asset lion, and. proceeded to say that he was opposed to the
equality of man and woman in reference to divorce, from
a belief that there was a difference in the nature of the
social offence of adultery. He approved the amendment
from a belief that it would give rise to. opportunity of eau-
, sion between the parties, and much assist the hriesband
and wife who wished to get rid of each other by a legal
process, more easy. under the amendment than the bill as
it now stood. He agreed with the Attorney-General that
it would be better to pass the bill as. it at present stood,
but being anxious to pass the bill he would not press the
question to a division, but give way, protesting, however,
against his giving way being made a precedent in more
objectionable cases.
Lord John Russell would have voted for the amendment
had it gone to a division, because he thouzht it was
appropriate and necessary to the measure, which it was
their duty to render as perfect as possible.
After some further discussion, the amendment was
added to the clause.
A conversation then arose as to the meaning of the word

" bigamy" in the clause.
The A'torney-General explained that what was meant
Avis bigamy with adultery, and suggested the insertion of
‘lsrds to that effect.
The words proposed were under discussion when, at ten
minutes to fair, the chairman reported progrcss, and ob-
tained leave to sit again at the evening sitting.

C.MMITTER REPORTS•
The report of the committee of ways ,and means, and of
the committee upon the Customs' Acts, were brought up,
and leave was given to bring in bills founded upon the
resolutions adopted on the previous day.
The sitting was then suspended.
EVENING SITTING.
OFFICIAL DEBTORS' (IRELAND) BILL.
In reply to Mr. Hatchet,
The Attorney-General for Ireland stated that it was
the intention of government to introduce a bill next session,
for the purpose of withdrawing pro`ection from arrest
from official debtors in Ireland, in accordance with the
recommendation of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce.