Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-12 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, DECEM-BER 12 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

In the House of Lords last night, in answer to the
Earl of Shaftsbury, Lord Clarendon stated that it
was true that the French Government had sanc-
tioned a project for the introduction of African
labour into their colonies, but he was afraid that
such colonization would degenerate into slavery
The Bank Issue Indemnity Bill was read a third
time, and the House adjourned.
In the House of Commons several notices of
motion were givrn, including oue by Mr. Duneombe,
that Baron Rothschild should be allowed to take
bis seat in that house. On his taking the oaths
in such a manner as ,would be binding on his con-
science. Mr. V. Smith said that the Government
were inclined to be as lenient as possible
on the Indian Mutineers, and except where
prisoners were captured in that overt act,
they would not be executed. In the course of the
night this gentleman also stated that the life of the
Bing of Delhi would be spared, as Captain Hodson,
when he captured him, promised that his life would
not be forfeited. The Chancellor of the Exchequer,
in moving the adjournment of the discussion on
supply, stated that the Government were desirous
of aiding Dr. Livingstone in his researches in
Africa, and that they should seek a grant of -05,000
this year for that purpose. Lord Palmerston
moved that the House do adjourn until the 4th of
February, and said that the Government would
amend the bill granting to General Havelock a
pension of £l,OOO a year, by extending the pension
to the next succeeding life. The Chancellor of the
Exchequer then moved for a select committee to
inquire into the Bank Charter Act. Both motions
were agreed to, and the House adjourned.
We pubish rather more favourable news from
India this morning. Sir Colin Campbell had
reached Cawnpore with 6000 troops, and would
soon be able to relieve General Havelock. It now
appears that the garrison of Lucknow would shortly
be in possession of large quantities of provisions.
We to-day publish the tietsils of another shock-
ing tragedy. A. lady of some property, and her
two sons, ono a clerk at the Bank of England, with
a salary of £2OO a year, were all yesterday found
dead in bed. The elder son, who was in the Bank,
bad sustained some losses by Share speculations
It is believed, that as he was in the habit of ad-
ministering a draught which his mother took at
night., he infused prussic acid into it, that he next
gave the same poison to his brother while asleep,
and then destroyed himself by another dose. The
name of the faintly is buntners.
The inquest on the body of the man whose will
is alleged to have been forged by Mr. Monk,
surgeon, at Preston, was concluded yesterday. '
After a lengthened investigation, the jury returned
a verdict of died through natural causes.
At the sessions, yesterday, Madam Anna pleaded
guilty to keeping a house of ill fame. The Re-
corder deferred sentence. At the assizes, yesterday.
no case of importance was tried. The judge
announced that & singular mistake had been
committed on the trial of Miller for the murder of
his wife at Bolton.. One juryman had answered to
the same of another, and the prisoner might have
challenged the gentleman who mistook the name.
The prisoner will be respited until all the judges
give an opinion on the matter. At the police court
yesterday, the information against the keeper of
the "Turkish Divaa," Lime-street, for harbouring
unfortunate women, was dismissed. .
We publish the details of the robbery of up-
wards of £3,000 from a merchant's desk in the
Manches'er Corn Exchange. Through the exer-
tions of one of the gentlemen connected with the
business of the Corn Exchange, and a detective
facer, the thief was apprehended on his way to
Liverpool.
The nomination of candidates for Ashton-under-
Lyne took place yesterday. The show of hands
was in favour of Mr. Mason, the Conservative
candidate. _ _

Y‘sterday,. Captain Watkins, of the Northampton
militia, while proceeding by rail to Plymouth, with
his regiment, put his head out of the carriage
window, and came in contact with the buttress of
a wall. His death was instantaneous.
Our foreign news this molning is not of much
importance. The nervousness just now shown by
the French Governmett journals is rather aston-
ishing. Emile Girardin in the Courrier declares
for the empire; they are not content with that; the
Siecie declares it wants no new revolutions ; they
are not content with that either. They ridicule the
little knot of five democratic deputies, who have
taken the oath, for furnishing the Legislative
Body with an Opposition, and yet at the same
time they exhibit great fear of this opposition, and
threaten it.
The Bank Returns, as publishad in last night's
Gazette, are much more favourable. The increase
in the bullion is X 713,026. The total amount now
in the vaults of the Bank is 8,8,063,493.

THE East Indian news received ©n yesterday

afternoon, brings down our record of the great

Indian catastrophe to November 17th. This
intelligence, reaching us by way of Bombay,

leaves us to infer that the telegraph corninunica

lion between the latter place and Agra has been

re-opened. This, coupled with the fact that Sir

COLIN CAmeßzu. reached Cawnpore on the 4th

of November, and crossed the Ganges on the 9th,

e^a route to Lucknow, at the head of 5,000 men

is the most cheering news we have yet received

from India since the commencement of the out.

break. This event will lead to the re-establish

rent of military law in 'dealing with the mu

neers, and warlike order in the direction of our

army in its operation in the field, both of which

were set aside at the onset of the revolt, and with,

we fear, most lamentable consequences to our

fellow-countrymen in India.

That well concerted plans will now be brought