Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-28 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES', MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1859.

tianity—and the next state is freedom : the creator
has arranged it, and Nature declines going into
details.

"Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love per-
fecteth it ; but wanton love corrupteth and imbaseth it,"
is Baconian philosophy.
Under the latter I place the negropolists affection
for the negro ! as Sydney Smith said when proving
Canning's unfitness for office—
" Butterflies can't teach bees how to suck honey."

Abolitionism was a hot-house plant—a nine clay
wonder. It was fashionable, but just now it is a
little out of date. Negromania has gone to seed,
nay more, it is undergoing decomposition. Like
Pharoah's lean kine, the negropolists grow thinner
and thinner.

Vice and misery are the children of ignorance.
So misrepresentation of America grew out of aboli-
tion exaggerations. _

Polygamy was once sacred, now it is secular.
Negromania was once a party cry, now it is began
to decay. The world has opened its eyes, A leaf
close to the sight may obstruct a distant mountain.
So this Exeter-hall movement has prevented the
English people from fraternizing with their blood
relations in America. How can they love black
strangers better than white kindred ? The aboli-
tionists were always picking up Pawns on the chess
board, and always getting checkmated. They
played badly notwithstanding they packed the
cards.

All colours are the same in the dark. So in the
ebony closet white Americans appeared like black
Africans to eye glassed Europeans. It became a
fashion to abuse America. Let us change it and
be friends ?

I was astonished to find that in Constantinople
dogs were sacred to the Turks, and in Cairo
that cats were cherished by the Egyptians.
In Canton that vermin were protected against harm
by the Chinese beggars ! In Calcutta that reptiles
were not molested by the Hindoos, but none of these
strange habits are so surprising as the fact that
negroes are allowed the first class seat in the abo-
lition mind, while Americans are stowed away in the
luggage van !

Abolitionism was as all the fashion a quarter of a
century since. Old maids drank it with their tea ;
old bachelors ate it with their soup ; school girls
curled with it their hair ; school-boys spun it with
their top ; babies drank in the sentiment with their
mother's milk ; it helped statesmen into. power ;
furnished matter for the journals ; and, at one time,
absorbed public opinion. Not to be an abolitionist
was not to be in fashion.

What do you say for changing the sympathy from
comparatively happy slaves in America to unhappy
negroes in Africa ? Make it fashionable to praise
America and abuse Africa. The former country has a
better army and a better navy than the latter, in case
of any trickery on the Continent. Make it as fashion-
able to treat an American merchant as well in fact
as you do an African slave in sentiment.

Fashion can do anything, even to making England
like America. Fashion permits a lady to denude her
neck and bosom, but it would be horrible were 'she
to expose her ankles! How much more elegant they
would appear if fashion would take about four inches
from the bottom of the dress and sew it on the ton.
Even Eve was shamed when she saw her nakedness,
hence the fig leaf which so astonished Adam!!

Claudius Cesar could not, by royal decree, reverse
the letter F in the Roman alphabet, nor can Russia's
Emperor reverse the style ; but fashion can make
taigiisnmen iixe tne Americans as much as they like
their cotton.

"YOUNG AMERICA ON SLVAERY."
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES

Sir,—The reasoning of " Young America" has been
puzzling me for some time past. I cannot under-
stand him and I don't know who can—for I don't
know how long he has been harping upon the fact
of negro slavery having existed, and been encouraged
by England; and. would seem to draw the inference
that, because such was the case, Englishmen at the
present day have no right to abuse America for the
slavery that exists in their country. To-dav, for in-
stance,he quotes an advertisement for the sale of a negro
girl in Liverpool (date 1766), with the evident
intention of saying, " See what was done in your
own land, so don't sneer at us."—upon the same
reasoning, because the Ancient Britons tatoed their
bodies and lived as savages, their enlightened
descendants at the present day should not attempt
to spread the blessings of civilisation to the poor
savages of Australia, or the inhabitants of the
islands in the Pacific Ocean. Wise men change
their opinions, but fools don't.
England once allowed slavery, but she found her
mistake, changed her opinion, and abolished it, at
least in her own dominions, at a most incalculable
loss.

Her sincerity is sufficiently proved, I think, by
the thousands she has expended in her endeavours to
sweep the accursed trade from off the face of the
earth, and she should not now be taunted with the
fact, that she once permitted slavery herself. Besides
which, 'tis no excuse whatever for America to say,
"England once allowed it, and so we will too." That
is childish in the extreme ; but if they are so fond
of imitating what England does, let them take
pattern _ by the
_negro
_emancipation in the West
N. BRITON.

dia Islands.—Yours, &c.
Liverpool, March 23rd, 1859.

Lie inventor of

gun is

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literary men of Paris desirous of honouring the
on his return from the_ Caspian and the Caucasus :
znd of April is the day, as the first falls on Friday, and
is otherwise liable to cavil.
HAIRS OF THE HEAD NUMBERED. —The Medical Times
says—" A German savant has taken the trouble to count
the number of hairs existing in four heads of hair, of
different colours. He found in a blonde, 140,409 distinct
hairs ; in a brown, 109,440 ; in a black, 102,960 ; in a red,
88.740.

Neapolitan exiles (twenty-four in number) arrived at Bristol
from Cork on Saturday, by the Juverna steamer. Poerio
has proceeded to London vi 4 Dublin. The Mayor and the
Town Council gave the exiles a hearty welcome ; they left
for London in the course of the day.

There is a rumour (says the Literary Gazette) that
ndelssohn's symphony in D major (composed for a festi-
, held in commemoration of the Reformation, in one of the
rman cities), which is still unpublished, and has never
m heard in England, may be produced at the fourth and
it concert of the Musical Society of London.

the Rev. Dr. Binney has been lecturing in Melbourne

►d its suburbs with great success. The-rev. gentleman
;livered last evening what is feared to be his farewell
rmon, at the Wesley Church---one of the most magnificent
it the city can boast of. The congregation was
---Melbourne Herald, Feb. 4.
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(Or POSITIVELY THE LAST SIX NIGHTS of
MADAME CELESTE,—"--r.
She having to appear at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, on
Monday, April 4th.
THIS EVENING (MONDAY), the 28th instant.
Will be produced the startling Drama, from Cooper's celebrated
novel of " The Borderers," entitled,
THE WEPT- OF THE WISH-TON-WISH.
Narramatagh......(the Indian Girl)., ... Madame Celeste.
As originally performed by her.
To conclude with, for the last time,
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER.
The Mysterious Stranger Madame Celeste !
Cartouche, a wild French boy Madame Celeste ! !
Italian Prima Donna Madame Celeste ! ! !
Polish Princess . Madame Celeste!! ! ! !
Young French Officer
On Tuesday,— THE LAST HOPE.
Marie.. (her original character) .. Madame Celeste.
And ST. MARY'S EVE.
Madeline . (her original character).. Madame Celeste.
On Wednesday,—
THE WEPT OF THE WISH-TON-WISH.
Narramatagh.... .. (the Indian Gir1)...... Madame Celeste.
And, for the last time,
A SISTER'S SACRIFICE.
Genevieve......... Madame Celeste.
On Thursday,— THE LAST HOPE.
Marie •
With other Entertainments.
On Friday,—For the BENEFIT of Madame CELESTE, and the
Last Night but One of her Engrgement,
MARION DE LORME.
Marion de Lorme Madame Celeste.
And THE LITTLE SUTLER.
Natalie
On Saturday,— GREEN BUSHES.
Miami Madame Celeste.
With other Entertainments,
In which Madame Celeste will appear, being positively the Last
Night of her Engagement.

Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the Performances comment.
at Seven o'clock precisely.
Admission :—Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Side Boxes, 25. ed. ; Pit, Is. 6d.
Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Dress Boxes 2s. ; Side Boxes, Is. 6d.
Pit, Is.
The Box-office is open from Ten to Three for securing Seats b
the Dress Circle and taking Private Boxes, which may be ha,
under the direction of Mr. Geo. Weston.

FOR FOUR NIGHTS AT HOPE HALL.
MR. T. MASON JONES
APRIL 12Th, 15TH, 18Th, 2Orra,
Further Particulars to be Announced.