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

LIME-STREET WARD.

Yes'erday evening, an adjcuoned meeting of the
committee of this war 3, favourable to the re-election of
Mr. Johnston, was held at Lawton's Bee Hotel Queen's-
square. The meeting was of a private and routine
description, but we understand that a requisition, signed
by upwards of 100 electors of the ward, combining persons
of all shades of Political opinions, was presented to Mr.
Johnston, pledging themselves to support his re election.
It was stared that there is such unanimity in the ward,
that opposition is not expected.

SOIREE AT THE HOPE-STREET CHURCH, TO
WELCOME THE REV. W. H. CHANNING.

The Llopexatreet Unitarian Church congregation held a
soiree last night in the school-rooms attached to the church,
for the purpose of expressing their welcome to their new
minister, the Rev. W. H. Charming. There was a very
'mg) attendance. The roams were tastefully decorated
with evergreens and banners, among which were the fl igs
of Great Britain and the United States ; and with pictures
and engravings, among which was a fice portrait of the
late Dr. Chinning of Roston, unee of the present minister
of the church. Among those present were—Messrs.
Thames B Atoa, C. T. B )wring, Cnarle3 E Rawlins, ju I ,
F ancis Boult, Charles Willanr, Isaac B. Coo'ee, Elward
Estill ; R:v. Mr. Robbards; Messrs. T. Jevens, S irnuel
Bailey, Joseph B init., W. B Jstock, W_ J. Lemport ; Dr
Uiggirson ; Messy. Andrew Ltighton, R. Trimble, 11.
D. Thew, P. Ellen, Yaniewi'z, &c.

After tea had b-ea partaken of the chair was taken by
Thom is BOLTON, El,
The CHAIRALIN, in a tem words, introduced the subject
which had called the meeting together, and expressed the
welcome of the congregati )n to their new minister.
Mr. W. J. LAmraur briefly aidressed the meeting to a
similar effect.

Mr. CHARLTS J. BOWRING presented to the Rev. M'.
Channieg, on the part of wardens of the church, an address,
xpressive of their welcome aid cordial co operation.
The Rev. Mr. Ci-lA.N iING' then came for earl, and was
received with enthusiestic applause. 113 s tid: Mr.
Chairman, ladies; and gentle nen—Caristian friends—
among the many pleasant serpoises of my visit to the old
world, there has bee t no surprise greater than co find
myself is this position to-night. If, when I set' my fmt
upon the steamer's deck to bid farewell to my native city,
any one should have fl oiled upon me from the future the
possibility that I saoul l be called here to b 3 for a short
time the successor of y air late pastor, I should h ear e
regarded it as a transient dream, .Six months agee, if any
one had whispered in my ear that by possibility I was to
be the minister of tee Hope-street Sieiety, equally it would
have vanished from me:as a dream. Even when I heard
the first whisper,. that. your thoughts were directed
towards me for the time, to entirely were my own mind and
hear: directed towards my o ma home that it produced scarcely
a transient impression. But when letter after leanr came
to ine laden with what was, extremely sad intelligence
indeed, as Gad knows, the deepest disappointment, which
as a public man I have ever yet been called on to look in
the face—the intelligence that I could not do for my native
laud what h d been the prayer and the thought for years
and years—that t iat great hope must be postponed—then
I remembered the words of a noble English teacher long
age—" take the du v that lies nearest, and all other things
will became clear." (ifeae, hear and applause.) You
have told me that in my short ministry in Liverpool, I
have gained some measure of your confidence. You said
that is your disappeintmene an I on loaning around; you
saw that I oauld, in aomo dogrcv ' nit tho Ttrid tot a tianu•
You asked 1113 to take yaur pulpit. I wrote and w rose,
again and agoie; still lingering wish the desire that I migh,,
carry out my earnest purpose. But when once mere such
letters came as I have mentioned, I simply said—n here-
Providence has apparently ' marked out a w ode
for me I cannot turn my back upon it,
and in Go .'s name I will go.", (Applause). An
now, my friends, that I have spoken of the utter surpriete,
let me say that it is an extremely agreeable surprise. I
wish, in perfect simplicity of soul, to tell you the great
gratification which this call to fill your pulpit for a time
has given me. It is a very deep gratiflearion to sue on
this ground, fi:s:—that having been welcomed so warmly,
`and hnviug been sestained so cordially, I was s ill to have
a more leuglened ministry here, for I felt that the' work
which God had given me to do was far from 'being done,
Standing in yonder pulpit, which has b come so dear to
Me, is Renshaw-street, I hid, frwm fi st to last, always felt
that 1 wis simply occupying the post of my friend and
brother, John Hamilton Thom. (Applause.) Always it
was written upon my soul that he would return to that
position. and it was my desire fiat he should do so. You
can understand how, therefore, there always was the check
of those delicate chords is the relationship to the feelings,
the hopes, the aspirations, the plans of others. One i 3
not free to interp no when he sees that there is a
growing life all around him, by the suge
gestion of other thoughts and schemes. I do
rej nee that when you, hiving received that great bgacy of
the past from year late ministe., felt ;ourselves three an
• npon Tour own resources to cultivate, to nurture, to bring
to maturity, the seed which Gad through him had planted,
that I could come in here to throw in all my energies with
perfect freedom amid your growing and exsauding hopes.
For there are many things to say which I have scarcely
lisped. There are mane plans and objects which I have
much at heart, an I which I wed 1 Ilse at least to
suggest. There are some tru hs which Gad has given one
to sea with some degree of brightness which I would like in
their full aspect to present. An I now that you have given
me the opportunity, with God's grace it shan't:se dose,
(Applause.) There was, therefore, great gratification •to
me personally, but there west another cause also—it eas
that an American had won that degree of cordial
sympathy and coefidenee from British brethren and
sisters. (dear, hear, and applause.) I wish to open my
heart a lion: to you in this m atter. Ido not thick you
know exactly-hove an American feels. Take this ques iou
fairly and frankly. Have you ever wan 'ered far, and then
c sine back and thrown yourselves- into the arms of your
parents? Have you said, I have brought you this, my
father; my mother—do you like it ?" I tell you that is
the feeling of an American whe a he returns to Great
Britain. Yoa say we are sensitive—we are thin-skinned
we are over delicate. Did you ever hear we were thin-
seinned toware's Frenchmen, Ge mans, or Italians? What
is the reason we are so towards Great Britain ? Is it from
indifference ? It is hecause we feel--charge it to vanity,
if you will, to p i le, or anythiog• else—that Great Britain
is not proud enough of her progress. (Hear, hear, laughter,
and loud 'applause.) It is because we do not want any
grudging toleration, any halnway pa'rc.nage—we want. ft
heart to heart recognition of our peerage upon the earth.
(Loud applause.) It is because we do not take anything
which is half-way, that you think we reject the
whole. But we do not—we' only reserve our ac-
ceptaece of the whole until we give it. (Applaus .)
Now, then, I say, that an Armoric in who comes
to Great Britain, and finds himself heartily welcomed, as
many an American has, feels very much at home. He
learns to f el that be is not a stranger. This is not a fore g
speech—this• institutions are not foreign; the life of their
literature is not foreign ; the blood which pulsates at the
very heart aed brain of the people is not foreign. He re-
joices to know that he is one at the very centre of life, with
the lire of this people, of which God made us ito be mem-
bers. I will tell you how I feel in regard to the experi-
ences of the last three years in Great Britain. Twice have
I seen this nation tried deeply—tried Where the iennoet
character was brought out—where the living will was ex-
pressed. Once was in the horrors of the Crimean war--the
other. time in the terrible tragedy of the Indian mutiny.
Aed I cannot tell you how generously proud I, for one, feel,
that I :belong to a race which thus unconsciously has
proved such genuine.heroieas. (Loud applause.) .L
it ail the better that you know so little of it.
When I remember the way in which this nation rose up
amidst the sorrows and' the agonizing aexietiee of the
Crimean campaign, without a single tremor upon its nerves,

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resolved to help to the utmost, determined if net:l,4lolf
die together—l can only say that it gained 111,1 platl4l
reepect, once and for ever, never to fade or die. leer
And I say the same in regard to this latest terrl
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rience. is beautiful, it is pleasant,
recognition on the part of a community pope
community inrstruggle—of the indomitable ,foritil.
purpose for good. lam not saying t'nese sora,stbeig
sake of any passing adulation, I say them becaps'3o,lo
true to the facts. The nation felt on such an •acraticalll
beyonl any political ambition—far from anYto lt
of the conscionsress of power. The 1101, e so'j
Providence had called Great Britain to u,"„ileug;
and that, live or die, she must do it. it is 04,1
What, in regard to this desperte affdif„ll-earafri
working in the heart of the nation ? A desire ''„perla
to see sueboruoifiti
Lesson presented by Providence. Read the foe
to-day, and see the frank expositions which onlYloterdif
were mad ,in so many pulpit.. I bat a listeneri°l 1'0(1
gratified in my inmost heart by the presentat!.
simple-he tiled sincerity upon this great questiote
said to mysel--11,s it often happenEd uPo„at ritl
that a nation so tried has thus met in its grl-6-piro,'"he
places to utter, as in the very car of the •L' 301..5
lessons which were working in its conscience' tie'
hearers thus patcentiv and earnestly to r6l,,cilif:f PIS;
Surely this is a great fact. It' is a great 3IF. 0 4
advancement, and when a nation has attillferefit
d,gree of sincerity, depend upon it GAI has a o ;iiiso.Er
fn. that nation to do. (Applause.) The life of to t,
el
never beat higher for at its inmost sources it
purer. I grant all the sirs which any man 0%0115
confes ; I grant all the worldliness; all thehnltt
AI lcve cf priwr, all the other
will intermingle; but still I sly th t
a tuicb
purpose of chi, people is to take the pc,sititn iv
widence has assigned them amidst the natiorS; ~"
responsibiqty and to di,char e the trust to tu.e 'l,"
(Applause.) A great crisis'hegs called up i'llignstidlWl:4 .01
great cisis will never leave the nation as it ftli.ni
nation sea that the work is to be done of L''',6tte'ne,#9l,
and civilising arother will bend lob' Vlit
to the work, and God w 11 bless it.
ge itleman then prcceeded s)eak (oAfPtPlitanugl2i)sAspllB:°al.ll4
Unitarian Church, which he declared he regar;;;blif;tt i
just begun, and to urge a more closely knit unw" 1100(
the b)cly in Great Britai: and that inAmerico. 041°'tis
occasion to pay an eloquent tribute to the late riebotso
that caugrega ion, the Rev. James M trtineth d 14.0,
decla el they had not valued highly P 1
he pronounced to be the foretm sr man, withontrit°,ofroi
in the Uditarian body of G eat Britain al' ied
lle I,
tnanysi
illustrate=d, in brilliant lan
comprehensive character of Mr. tiirtin2,all,;(ol4°'
talents, and loftiness of religious eluciaa.:ooll'i,l
ideclared his convic'ion that ail they had hell: weirs
to know,
pastor was bat the beginning of what tht.tp.'.,
know, for if opportunity wero wed hit'porB4olll
ineau, he felt satisfied, would yet °leavu ae itei6ii
in regard to the Christian religion far higher (LOU?''
be given by any living man in 'Great Britain, yart.if
,nt'nusiastic applause.) The Rev Mr. Cba,nillir,
Ipelexrvepes.lteen;stsaentdod
vncito r4tdhiBa9al
ictd,opnpagr approval
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The CuurtmAry, i t a few words, conclude-I;tbi°P
of tire evening's bu s
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Sereral songs hmns were sung vs't
ing, and the utmost enjoyment • '.d to
prestnt up to the conclusion. • seemed
It may be stated that Mr. Bolton oe cuPitablvitr"(
sin theabsence
v ia prevented
s of
fMernd from
.teAvi'° attending °'
awthouwng was
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idei, but
calamity.

THE INDIAN MAILS.
4 0
Mrev' of 1
STUTHAIIIPTOS, ion #l,
The Indus has arrived with the heavy Perdloo
Indian, China, and Austtalian mails. Her mt. 1' or
Alexandria, Sept. 23 ; Malta, 27 ; Gibraltar, `l,-0
Her Majesty's ships Desperate and CaraB7,,,V
Alexandria, waiting the arrival of the Sian!: pPiiif
The Hibernia, Ariel, and Coquette were a",ittej,
the Curlew was at Gibraltar. The Indus pass
off Galata on the 28th ult , and the Alhambra dlef
on the 3rd inst. The Tamar left Malta for 1
with the Australian mails on the 21et ult. f Atis
Amongst her cargo is £370,516 worth e-
odi
gold. r„,dlt
She has brought home aboit 150 passengB:l6ornei
whom see refugees from India The scene Pr", ol",
their friends meeting these passengers via 52,134 eft
whelming excitement. Many burst into a IL'„,ere'd,
and were deprived almost of .he ower of Sit
- The Lady Mayoress of Lend n, the Yea„,,lieer°,ie'
Alderman Andrews, and a Du— reCqj
and gentlemen, went on board the Indus to "OA"'
refugees. Many of the fugitives were frosl
Allahabad, and other places in the upper eerte
Bengal. 14 unthars also have fled from I3oinu,,'ol ,
and Calcutta in alarm. About 40 children
home in the Indus. Aho
Amongst the passengers is Lieut. chapou'ullq
shot by the mutineers at B.eaares A bullet A hil to pd
his cheek end carried away part of the roof el, •I"
his speech is 'scarcely in elligible. He is clll1-e
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not above nineteen sears of age.le
Another of the passengers is Captaill
and his wjfe ; he belonged to the Irreg beg:
. r,
h
was in command of a company of Sikhs ;
jured in the should r and side. Ire tilefe
General Havelock's army, and fought on t-helot"(
Cawnpore. He lost his two children .th.rouPooll
exposure while coming down the Ganges /03'06
tri%
He knew Nana :Sahib, and was present at a -riiiice•
inne at Cawnpere about a month before the ei gt,
out. It was the .mast magnificent ball el`3,t 0104
Cawnpore ; all the English were present, nt, Fe 0,11.1
were afterwards merciless) y slaughtered by 1"",,, 6°'
Captain Montague and his wife left CaivllP3.-
was captured by the mutineers. , fatal
The passengers say that almost the only —4o'4
caped the massacre of Cewnpore has gone '-fie el:0e
Tais was an officer, a Mr. Brown, who after 4,
suffered great hardships, and lay hidden ia
food, during three days and nights. A Miss (3°,liip
beautiful young lady, was taken ,by Nana a ,1:1)
harem, and is believed to be alive now. patio
A lady named Collett came home in di?. a tti,s
- escaped from Allahabad ; she was one of
into the fort at that place for safety. ManY ().
who have come home in the Indus have thelrola
now before Delhi, and scarcely expect to met/Ariel
Wnen the passengers in the Indus left v4;i/ootil,
three thousand troops had arrived there since riftoo,ol
Unleis Cspt. Peel makes his way up weoly word,
quickly, and before the rains cease, it is searc.fliede
tnat he will get his guns up to Delhi; but 1;004r of
carry his guns beyond Allahabad he will, it 'aett'cf
push on for Delhi without them. &mid the 019
*"" rings fail, it woull be extremely difficult, on 00‘
badness of the roads, to convey such hea/Y' lb
hwi
them a 81-pounder) to Delhi by land. ' acre 6eo;
Between Cawnpore and Luelceow there ftii 03
35 000 mutineers, and it is cuisidared doubtbetiofi,
Sir J: Ontram will be successful in passing tele??
the river is heel with forts, wall manned I/4i it l'oe
Ontram'e advance, however, to the Gogral"A" eoPhlo
draw off the mutineers from Havelock, a'3' }lie' 0
probably to escape from the dilemma in
‘f
placed.
No fear is entertained but that the S,llclittsbd!Vol
true to the Engl sh in fighting against bowtreof:det
medans and iiindoos ; but, unless English they` out soon in India, the Sikhs may, after ,
f)
-down the Sepoys, turn against the English. to,tbgoi
Nana Sahib has resolved not tofall alive in ige,..e
of the English. He has a bodyguard, will, be
to deprive him of life, should he be
prisoner by the English. th%~ipf lo'l
It is believed by many pers.onr at Calentt* 00 Ael,
as tie Tn;lish troops arrive out in India evi lt
suddenly ea ). The Sepoys will burl t 00,10./
treasure they have obtained, and lay do,vt ca
They are in the utmost terror of the Englissisw ttie
Lueknow, it is feared, will fall before "
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Come to it.
rhere were many English at e e
tmtl
Indus left that port, who had had P are do of
from the Upper Provinces, :And wh°Et 10 peree;')
to arrive at Southampton by the lie' hail, pi,p
packet. A lady is' at Calcutta who fit!, ePirj
cut off by the reutit.eA's. One of t,"'„, elnki;(
eers on board the Indus says that here' Ow
a soldier's wife came up to her one dal' ScPaeceliie
with the utmest glee that she had killeun abed pig 0,1
toot ;+
this turned out to be true ; the poor w0°180101,1100,31
rushed upon a Sepoy, pinioned him, v'erst i.
Such is the fierceness and stern resole oa
hideous atrocities of the Bengal ra
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the breast of a woman. ci, a #0,34
The' Collector of Customs at ---uee, tie
Clarke, of the landing-waiters' dopartati
Obree and Knowler, of the tide-surver."„onlfloci
were early on board the Indus this 14 to
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under special orders from the Goverrinhe itio"
'CAW utritaloto
in every possible manner landin.hat
the Inian refugees. It was ascertained Lst efe6,oB4f,
bttlo
passengers, brought up gentlerolks, had I%ificel:erifreed
India ; that ladies, whose husbands wererot
in India, on limited income, bad made g' Thlaweree
send their families out of that country sans IsP
Inculcated to the Lady Mayoress, and nes. 1.
to afford to many pecuniary assista.siblee
managed in the most delicate manner Pe'

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TELEGRAPHIC E WS.

By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.

THE SPANISH CABINET.

MADRID, Ocr. 5
14'111° burnals fully confirm the acceptance, by
6 Queen, of the resignation of the Narvaez
Cabinet.

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OTTO:II.k.N TROOPS FOR SERVICE IN INDIA

TRIESTE, OCT B.
itA desPateh from Constantinople, dated the 3rd
stant, states that Lord Stratford de Radcliffe has
obtained permission to enlist in Apia Minor for
~erv`(•; ,
° in India.

FRANCE.

e Paris Three per Cents. closed yesterday
'l.hured
a 3) at 67f. 70c.