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At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 2, Bale-street, aquantity
of 3'dtpetre, Sago Flour, and 31,elder Itoots.—Browne, Hunter
aLd Co.

At twelve o'clock, at tie broke's' office, 16, Exchange-buildhigs, a
quantity of Linseed and Lard. -J. IL Rayner and Co.
At twelve o'clock, at the broker's ooze York-buildings, D3le-street,
157 bigs Pepper.—Patt nson and ilark.
4t twelve ov 0-k. at the broker's officc, Victoria-buildings, Hackin'g -
hey, 31 tons Box Frood.—r W. and J. C. Mirror, and Cu.
At twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, Tithebarn-street, 249
boxi-s Pearl •,ag). —Alfred King, jun.
At twelve o'c'ock, at the hr kers' office, 1, O: all-street, 234 slabs
Tin.—Jo Baron and Sou.
At twelve o'clock, et the broker's ("Tee, Sweeting-street, a quantity
of Ox and Cow Horns.—Arnold Loete Roscoe and Co.
trvelv. o'clock, at the brokers' office, 9, Rumford-street, 2,760
bags Rice.— Whitek-r, Wilda' :ad awl Co.
At twelve o'clock, at ncoe, on the quay of the Harrington Dock,
a quantity of 3t4V.8 —E :ward Chaloaer.

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The adjourned meeting of the Town Council
was held yesterday. The proceedings of the
Water Committee, including the amendments pro-
posed last week on this suijeet, were agreed to.
The proceedings of the Baths and Washhouses
Committee included the resignation of the Master
and Matron of the Cornwallis-street Baths, which
were accepted. An additional assistant inspector
of Gas Meters was appointed, it being found that
the present staff is quite inadequate for the duties
they arc called upon to perform. It appears that
the offee3 will be quite self-supporting. The
proceedings of the Birkenhead Docks Committee
were confirmed. Mr. Stewart was glad of the
release which the Mersey Conservancy Bill caused
the council respecting these docks. He was not,
.however, quite so sanguine of the propriety of the
Liverpool docks to the new trustees, as he believed
that the connexion kept up between the docks and
the corporation to have been of mutual advantage.
A vote of thanks to Mr. Stewart,for his exert'ons in
connection with the Birkenhead dock scheme, was
passed. The memorial of Nit.. James M'Etenald to the
Corporation wag then read, and Mr. Jeffery moved
that the inemerial be referred to a com.nittee, and
he eulogised Mr. M`Donald for his business habits
and ability, and he thought that he had some claim
upon the Council. Mr Banner seconded the mo-
tion ; but Mr. Alderman J. H. Turner, Mr. Tobin,
Mr. Tinue, and Mr. Alderman Cooper opposed, the
latter in a very energetic manner, and after some
discussion the Council came to a division, when
there only appeared four for the motion, and
twenty-seven against.
The usual weekly meeting of the \Vest Derby
Guardians was held yesterday. The business was
of no interest or importance, excepting that por-
tion relating to the medical officer. Dr. Nevins
refuses to attend personally upon the midwifery
cases without an increase o his silary, so as to
enable him to procure further assistance. The
Poor Law Beard have ordered that no midwives are
in future to be engaged ; and the result of the
discussion was, that the letter of Dr. Nev:ns, re-
fusing to comply with the request of the Guardian!,
was referred to the Visiting Committee.

Several of the rioters -in Belfast have been
brought up before the police magistrates, proved
•to have taken part in the riot, and fined in 40s and
costs—a very severe punishment, indeed, for such
a serious off_mee. The London Times, of yesterday,
has an article on the sul ject of these riots ; it
takes up the idea that where a majority of a people
are of one religion, there such religion may,
without any offence, be advocated in the open air,
but in a place like Belfast, where the R9manists
equal, if not snrnass, Protestants in number, such
a proceeding as the latter preaching is most inde-
corous. The preachers have "succeeded in lashing
the Roman Catholics to fury, and, having excited
these riots by preaching, they will now make these
same riots the material of more sermons. They
will dwell on the meekness of Protestantism and
the ferocity of Romanism. They will describe
themselves as undergoing the persecutions which
the Prophets of old had to endure, as going about
in sheepskins and goatskin!, and living in dens
and caves of the earth. They will speak of the last
times having come, in which the man of s'n is to
triumph and the faithful to suffer. BUt if they will
think seriously for one moment on the matter,
they will see that these rows necessarily follow
such demonstrations as they are making in a
religiously-divided country. They will probably
discover that the Protestant churches and chapels
at Belfast will really accommodate all the Pro-
testants of the place, and that they have sallied
out into the open air more for a religious affray
than for the serious object of the conversion of
souls." _ _

We may now at any moment neeive telegraphic
accounts of further news from' India. In the
mean time Government is far from being supine in
the endeavours to forward troops to India. Every
exertion that is possible is being made, and we
may indulge in the hope that nothing will be left
undone that can at all further the movement for
the suppression of the insurrection. The Rev.
Mr. Hay, the American Missionary who narrowly
escaped with his life from Allahatad, and who has
arrived at Southampton, has given some further
partieulars of the Indian revolt. Mr. Hay suspects
the fidelity of the whole of the Mahommedan
population to British Tula, and considers that the
high Government officials have yielded too much to
the childish prejudice of the Sepoys. He considers
that great benefits will result frem this terrible
rebellion, and that, if the English Government
does its duty after the insurrection is quelled, the
mutiny, notwithstanding the deplorable outrages
which have accompanied it, may ultimately prove a
blessing to England and Indie. A correspondent
of ono of the London morning journals, who has
been a resident of Cawnpore, avers that there are
two individuals belonging to Bithnoor, who take
the terrible name of Nena Sahib, the English
spelling of which has not yet been fixed. The
one is the adopted son of the late Peishwa Bajao
Rao, a stout inactive man ; and the other is the
eldest of three brothers, the son of the la`e
Soobador of the late Peishwa, and an active
vindictive man, who wouli not hesitate, in
the estimation of our informant, to commit
any act of cruelty. This latter Nena Sahib, in
15:55, actually defied the magistrates of Cawupore,
thus showing his capacity for brave deeds. " I
firmly believe." says the correspondent, "that the
public have their eye upon the wrong individual
when they speak of Nena Sahib as the heir of
Bajao Rao, and that the real scoundrel is the Iran
that defied the magistrates" According to letters
received by the last mail, Nena Sahib, whoever ho
may be. is stated to have hung the Nawab Mahom-
reed Ally Khan for having secreted several of his
European friends in his palace; and, this decd of
darkness done, the palace was, as mater of course,
plundered. The gentleman who has written about
this murderer can speak most feelingly on the
matter, for, besides having lost a brother, with his

wife and his babes slaughtered by Nena Sahib, he
has lost all his wealth, upwards of £20,000 in
value, for it unfortunately was invested in property
in the Cawnpoore cantonment. It is a heart-rending
case of calamity, and would entirely justify the
application of what portion of the Nena Sahib's
estate may be in the hands of the British to the
relief of the Cawnpoore sufferers. It will be seen
that the Emperor Napoleon has forwarded the
sum of £l,OOO for the relief of the sufferers in
India, as his "personal subseription2
Of political gossip we are at present but scantily
supplied. We may mention, he,wever, that the
Greenwich vacancy has passed into a new phase,
which will be very vexatious to the half-dozen
Liberal candidates who have been wooing, but•
not winning, the electors. A portion of the poli-
ticians of Woolwich have seen Ye, Townsend and
ascertained' that he has no wish to resign, and they
have resolved to raise a subscription as a means of
extricating their member from his difficulties, arid
enabling hire to remain at his post in the House
of Commons, and hold up his head like any other
gentleman. Should they succeed in such a laud-
able undertaking, the curtain will fall and the
contest will be at an end. A vacancy in the re-
presentaaon of Caine is looked ferward to in eon-
srquence of the contemplated appointment of Sir
Wittiarn Whims to the Governorship of Malta.
The " free and independent"• electors of Caine
have nothing whatever to do with the choice of
their representative, as they are obliged to take
any one who may be provided for them, When
the proper time comes a noble marquis will, no
doubt, honour them with the nomination of Mr
Frederick Peel, Lord Merick, Mr. John Ball, or
some other ono of the Government supporters
whose services the constituents dispensed with at
the late general election.

I Th© Birmingham meeting of what is called the
National Association for the Promotion of Social
Science promises to be a very grave and pompous
affair, if we may judge by the published programme
of the proceedings. " The object is to aid the
development of the social sciences, and to guide
the public mind to the most practiLable means of
promoting the amendment of the law, the advance-
ment of education, the prevention and repression
of crime, the reformation of criminals, the estab-
lishment of due sanitary regulations, and tlse.
recognition of sound prineiples in all questions of
social economy ;" and to forward this object the
Right Hon Lord John Russell, M.P. is to preside
over the Department of Jurisprudence and the
Amendment of the Law, the Right Hon. Sir John
S. Pakingtor, M.P., over that of Education, the
Most Rev. Father in God the Bishop of London
over that of Punishment and Reforma.tion, &c., &c
" In fact," says an evening cotemporary, "the whole
thing reads like the announcement of Mr. R
Owen's conferences at St. Martin's Hall, for the
purpose of solving every problem that ever baffled
the mind of man, as welt as for inaugurating the
new kingdom of Utopia all over the earth. We sin-
cerely hope this great [Lad important gathering may
pros;e universally successful, and destroy any
necessity that may exist for the discussion of
political Reform Bills."

There-are at present many surmises of the ob-
jects of the meeting between the Emperors of the
French and Alexander of Russia. The supposition
is by no means gratuitous that France and Russia,
represented by their Emperors at Stuttgardt, will
scan with critical severity the plans of England for
restoring her dominions in India. " Therefore,'
says a metropolitan cotemporary, "while they are
engaged in their secret negotiations, whatever their
purport may be, it 3;611 b_! true policy to keep our
ereat administeative departments at work pouring
additional forces into the East, and proving that,
whatever demonstrations can be made at Chalons,
Great Britain, with a real military work upon her
hands, is equal to any and every emergency that
may arise. It may appear, at a superficial glance,
that such considerations are remote, and that we
are disposed to conjure up visionary suggestions
of European statemanship. Far from it. The
British Cabinet undoubtedly recognises the em-
barrassing position of this country, almost denuded
of troops, with so serious a drain upon her effective
artillery, and more than one Continental Power
disposed to imagine that, iu our present circum-
stances, we would scarcely insist upon exerting
our ordinary influence in Europe. The fear is not
that of actual invasion or. war; but that, in the
event of any European league being formed with
views contrary to British policy, an attempt may
be made to take advantage of our situation,
engaged as we are in China and India, and
deprived as we have been of our paramount in-
fluence in Turkey."
Yesterday,. an answer was received from the
Home Secretary with regard to Captain Rogers
and his two mates, Miles and Seymour, convicted
of murder at the last assizes. The murder, it will
be remembered, was committed by means of a
long course of mi:l punishments inflicted on one
of the sailors. The Botne Secretary sees no reason
to order that the law shall not take its course 'in
respect to the captain. He will be hanged on
Saturday. The two mates arerespited..

The advices from France this -morning, are not
of any importance. The A sserablee National, has
been obliged by the French Government to east
off that " unconstitutional name," and this journal
now cornea out u,tder the title of Le Spectateur.

The Madrid journals of the 4uh contain no
political news. It had been decided that sill?,
woollen, awl cotton fabrics prepared with gum
shall pay an import duty of from 40 to 48 per cent
on their value.

The Corriere Mercantile states from Florence that
the investigation into the late insurrection at Leg-
horn is terminated, and that 27 prisoners era to be
tried for the murder or maiming of soldiers, and
the remainder for high treason.

Accounts from Holstein, state that the majority
of the Diet is hostile to an agreement with the
Danish government, and ....A.ll probably sanction the
report which th 3 select committee has drawn up.
One of the speakers of the minority, M. Bargum,
called the proceedings of the Diet very impolitic,
because they justified the government in drawing
back the hand which it had stretched out for the
sake of internal peace. The majority relies on the
aid of the German, powers. But the integrity of
the Danish Monarchy having been establisbed and
guaranteed by treaty, it is not easily to be under-
stood, how Austria and Pruss!a can countenance
the endeavai r 3 of a provin&al opposition to untie
the bonds which the common accord of the Euro
peat) Powers has formed.
A Telegraphic ?espatch from Jassy, states that
the !Moldavian Minister of the Interior, Basin
Ghika, anal seven Prefects, are deprived of their
offices for abuses in the exercise of their function .

Aeconnts from Sweden, to 'the 5!.b, state ..that
his Msjosty, owing to the infirm state of his health,
cannot in any ties sustain the burden of public
of airs for it year to come. The King has therefore
felt it his duty to request th States to provide for
the government during his illness, according to the
mode p►escribed by the Constitution. _

Wo have Constantinople dates to the 29th ult.
Diplomatic relations had not been officially
resumed up to that date.
Intelligenee has ben received from Persia to
the effect that Mr. Murray, the English ambassador,
had been reebived by the Shah at his summer camp
in the mountains.

THE solemn service 3 of religion, and particularly
the dedication of a temple to GOD'S service, are
matters that interest all classes, the old and the
young, rich and poor, the believer, aye ! and the
unbeliever. Everything that aims at promoting
GOD'S glory on earth, and the happiness of his
child, en hereafter, is to be looked upon with
more than usual solicitude. Unfortunately, in
this world of ours, we are too prone to regard
with favourable eye that which squares in with
our own ideas of the present, the past, and the
future. It has been the custom of the British
people, althoug.h they claim for themselves the

character of Advocates of Civil and Religious

Liberty, to treat with contempt and scorn any
and every thing that does nob agree with their
peculiar ideas of Redemption, GOD'S Omnipo-
tence, Omniscience, and all the other Holy attri-
butes appertaining to the Supreme Deity. One
portion of the community sits on judgment upon
the other, and unless we. can swallow all the
dogmas of ATHANASIUS, discard the doctrines of
Arms, or pronounce baptism and regeneration a
bore, we don't merit the name of real Christians.
Such an idea seems to indulge in the principle
that men should be of one, mind in religion , that
politics should follow, and, as a necessary con-
sequence, our social habits and principles would
be the ne plus ultra of this world's requirements.
Experience, alas ! proves that, in religion, men
differ as much as they do in their physical con-
tour; and that that scheme which common
acceptation may pronounce to be irreligious, is at
least a system approximating to truth. The
realities atict the designs of Heaven are problems
difficult to understand ; nevertheless, holiness,
and feeling for our fellow man, is something akin
to the ruling attributes of the DEITY. And when
we find these called into constant exercise, and
benevolent play, we must anticipate that the GOD
of mercy and love is operating.
We do not agree with Judaism as a religious
principle. That dissention, however, does not
prevent us from admiring all that is good, pro-
per, aye, and holy in its rites and ceremonies.
The people of that creed cling to their ancient
faith ; and, what is more, they observe it with a
fidelity, an earnestness, and a zeal which Chris-
tians would do well to imitate. The columns of
this journal have been open to advocate their
claims, civil and religious ; and we have ever
denounced the idea that the enfranchisement of
these people could inflict harm—political or
social—on the subjects of the British throne. If
any thing could confirm us in these ideas, it is
the fact that we have had an opportunity of
estimating the outward form; and religious sere••
monies of the Jewish faith. Certainly, they
contain nothing which can offend •the Christian
feelings of even a Ca.evrNrsie a disciple of
LUTHER, the leading representative of JOHN
WESLEY, or any other sect who declaim upon
the excellence of the Christian religion.
These remarks have been suggested to us by
an attendance at the new Jewish Synagogue in
Hope-place yesterday. We entered that build-
ing under the impression—that is, if we had been
guided by the reports of the world—that the
Jewish faith was one of danger, and obsolete in
its character. When we witnessed the simple,
but solemn ceremonies, heard the sentiments of
the able, eloquent, and enlightened minister, and
thought of all thet Holy Writ speaks of this out-
cast, but not neglected people, we were forced
to ask ourselves de novo—Why refuse a Jew his
seat in Parliament ? Any one who reads the
ceremonial of the comeeru.tion of the Synagogue,
and marks the deep and reverential awe with
which these ".outcasts" go to work in matters
religious, must be satisfied that they are a people
more anxious, earnest, and zealous in their
peculiar religious faith than many who call
" Lord, Lord," but to whom the G )spel of salva-
tion will not open the g:ttes of happiness, as
their prayers and practices have been hypocritical
in the extreme.

Our remarks are not intended to- bolster up
one system of politics or religion at the expense
of others. They are intended to enforce the duty
of the nation in removing the Jewish Disabili-
ties ; for when a people, whose national creed
and religious principles are so developed as Mr.
ISAAC'S sermon yesterday pourtrayed, exists,
they are good and virtuous citizens, and should
enjoy the full and proper franchise, not only as
voters, but Members of Parliament.

THE LAT& PIiOCRIMING3 IN CANTON RIVIR. —The
following is an extract from a private letter of Commodore
Keppel, giving a description of the action of the Ist of
June in Canton river :—The first division of the Chinese
fleet were simultaneously attacked by about 1,900 men,
spread over a large surface, and soon gave way ; but I
did not take up more than a quarter of that number to
attack their second division. which was three:miles higher
up the river in a well-selected plats, and evidently the
elite of their fleet. They numbered 20 in one compact
row ; they mounted from 10 to 14 guns each, two of them
in stern and bow being heavy 32-poUndera • I saw that
I had all the Raleigh's boats well up, and determined
push on. They fired occasional shots, as if to ascertain
our exact dio uncle, hot did not open their heaviest fire
until we were within 600 yards, and then I soft saw how
impossible it would be to force our way until I had rein-
forcements. Nearly the first poor fellow whose head was
knocked off we an amateur—Major Kearney. I had known
him many years. We cheered, and I tried to get on,when a
shot struck my boat right amidships, cut one man in two,
and took off the arm of another. Prince Victor, who was
with me jumped forward to bind the man's arm up with
his neckcloth. While he was doing So, another round
shot passed through both sides of the boat, wounding two
others of the crew. The boat was filling with water, and
I got on one of the seats to keep my legs out of the water,
and just as I stepped up a third round shot went through
both sides of the boat, not more than one inch below the
seat on which
.I was standing. Many of our boats had
now got huddled together, the oars of most being shot
away. A boat of the Calcutta being nearest, we got in,
pulling our wounded men with us. My dog Mike refusing
to leave the dead body of the man who had been his
favourite, we were obliged to leave him. I then gave the
order to retire on the Hong Kong, and re-form abreast of
her. While we were going down, a shot cut away all the
oars on ono side. I called to Lieutenttnt Graham to get
his boat ready, as I would hoist my broad pendant, and
lead the next attack in his boat. I had no sooner spoken
than a shot disabled his boat, wounding him, and killing
and wounding 4 others. I saw Graham one mass of blood,
but it was from a marine who steed next to hlm, and part
of whose skull was forced three Inches into another man's
shoulder. When I reached the Hong Kong the whole of
the enemy's fire appeared to be centred upon her. She was
hulled twelve times in a few minutes ; her deck was covered
with the wounded who had been brought on board from
the boats. I was looking at them, when a round shot
oat down a marine, and he fell among them. From
the paddle-box I saw that our heavy firing was now btiosy:..
lag up a strong reinforcement, The account of my
having been obliged to retire had reached them, and
they were pulling up like mad. The HOD 4 Kong had
floated and grounded again. I ordered a bit of blue
i hunting to 12e got ready to reprmit my broad pendant;