Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-10 00:00:00

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AND;
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THE FRENCH IN CANADA.—A letter from Toronto
says: " Some parties here think that the French are
meditating an invasion of the maritime provinces, if not
of Canada. It seems that they are fortifying islands
in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, contrary to treaty specifi-
cations,-and further that immense stores of coal have
been amassed on a portion of the coast of Newfoundland,
reserved exclusively for French fishermen. It is added
that the latter fact was accidentally discovered, great
pains having been taken to keep it from being known."
BONDED GOODS AT MELBOURNE.—The following iS a
statement of the stock of all goods in bond at this port
on the 9th November :—Brandy, 10,207 hhds., 100,854
cases ; rum, 2,412 hhds., 441 cases ; geneva, 98 hhds„
37,391 cases ; whisky, 983 hhds., 60,129 cases ; Old
Tom, 1,753 hhds., 26,173 cases ; cordial, 3,771 cases ;
spirits of wine, 211 hlids.• ' other spirits, 414 hhds.,
5,762 cases; wine, 4,2154 hhds., 32,343 caies; . beer,
3,504 hhds., 920 casks and cases; tobacco, 887 hhds.,
2,319 bales, 2924 tierces, 3,942 1-boxes, 6,132 cases and
boxes ; cigars, '531 cases ; snuff, 154 packages ; tea, 2,444
chests; coffee, 3,169 bags, 535 barrels ; sugar, raw,
38,539 bags, 33 packages; molasses, 42 hhds. ; chicory,
495 packages; opitun,4 chests, 29 packages.—Melbourne
_Argus.
THE STEAM TRANSPORT ADELAIDE.—The steam
transport Adelaide, No. 5, left Woolwich Pier on
Saturday morning, at 11 o'clock, and steamed down to
Greenhitbe, and was attached to the Government buoys
at 1 o'clock, where she will adjust compasses, and then
proceed on her voyage to China. This vessel was
delivered to tha Government on the 22nd ult., since
which she has taken in upwards of 3,000 tons of
materiel and coals; and out of the fleet 'of transports up
to her nnmber, with the exception of the Thunder, No.
1, she is the first under way from her loading berth.
The Adelaide is 2,060 tons gross register, and 450
horse-power, with full poop and forecastle. She is
bound for Hongkong, and has on board the principal
agent for transports.

THE ORLEANS PRINCES IN EDINBURGH.---The three
Frenchiprinces, the Due d' Alencon, the Due de Penthievre,
and the Prince de Conde' have commenced their studies
at the High School, and have been enrolled as regular
pupilsin Dr. Schmitz's senior class. Their course ofstudy is,
we believe, confined to the classics and history, and in both
departments their Royal Highnesses are said to be. already
well advanced, and may hope to carry off the highest ho-
nours of the school. In accordance with the wish of their
Royal parents, the youthful Princes join with the other
pupils, in regular schoolboy fashion, in the amusements
and sports of the playground, and they are said to be
highly pleased with, and very popular among, their new
companions. The dukes, we believe, have requested
that They should be known and addressed among their
schoolfellows merely by their territorial titles—Alencon,
Penthievre, and Conde,—as was the case with their
royal parents when attending the College de Henri IV.
in Parts.—Edinburgh Daily Courant.

DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY A YOUNG
WOMAN.—A respectable-looking young woman, named
Martha Deakin, was brought before the magistrates at
Wakefield, on Friday, charged with attempting to com-
mit suicide. From the evidence it appeared that the
defendant was formerly a waitress at the refreshment-
rooms at the railway station; but had lately been cohabit-
ing with a bootmaker named George Birkett, who keeps
a shop in Northgate, and to whom she had lately borne
a child. On Thursday evening she and her paramour
had had a serious quarrel, during which she pulled out
of her pocket a bottle of laudanum, drank the contents,
and threw the bottle at Birkett's head. Birkett gave
information to the police, who removed her to the
station-house in an insensible state. The surgeon was
sent for, and the stomach-pump applied, and a large
quantity of laudanum removed. One or two policemen
had to remain up with her all night to keep her awake.
She was remanded till Monday.
BURGLARY.--A daring attempt at robbery was perpe-
trated on Friday morning last, between two and three
o'clock, on the premises occupied by Mr. Williams, the
New Inn, '\Vhitecross-street, Monmouth. It appears
that the burglar effected an entrance into the house by
taking out a pane of glass from the window of a room
on the ground floor at the rear of the premises, and
which opens into a yard used by a coach-builder named
Morgan, and to which easy access can be had from
the street. Having succeeded in obtaining admittance by
this means, he proceeded to the kitchen, where he took off
his boots, and not finding anything to suit him below, he
went up stairs, and got into the bedroom of Miss Frances
Williams,-youngest daughter of the landlord. She heard
some one walking about the room in the dark, and,
thinking it was her mother, asked if it was her, but not
receiving any reply, and observing a silent lucifer match
struck, but which did not ignite, she screamed out that
somebody was in the room. Mr. Williams immediately
jamped out of bed in his shirt, and was just in time to
catch hold of the ruffian as he was making-his escape
from the room. A deadly encounter here took place in
the dark, but Mr. Williams kept his hold, and down the
stairs they rolled one over the other, struggling most
desperately. Having got the burglar down the stairs, he
was dragged into the yard, the door of which had just been
opened by Mrs. Williams, who rushed out to alarm the
neighbours. The screams of Miss Williams brought
the superintendent of police to the spot, and the ruffian
was secured and safely lodged in the station-house. On
the application of Superintendent Wheeldon, of the
borough police, the prisoner was remanded to the fol-
lowing Tuesday, the superintendent statingto the bench
that he thought he could prove other charges against
the prisoner' as well as a previous conviction. 'The
prisoner is a ticket-of-leave man, having been previously
sentenced to ten years' transportation. Mr. Williams,
during the struggle, narrowly escaped being stabbed
with • a butcher's knife which the prisoner had in his
hand at the time.

rD THE PRES

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In despotic countries, where the,preekis slepen-
dent on the will of one man, or on the whims of
an irresponsible censorship,, greater freedom is•
allowed to military and naval men in their inter-
course with its organs than in our own, for the-
very,' obvious reason that the expression of their
opinions is there subjected to official control. In
India, where the forms of government closely
resemble these of pure monarchical States, officers
of the highest rank make large use of the press
for the diffusion of their views ; and many of
them, such as Mansfield and Edwardes, gained
reputation by their pe'ns ere they won it by•the
sword. During the lait war the old Muscovite
world was astonished by seeing long letters in
the Inralide .Russe from officers serving in Sebas-
topol, mingled with official reports and announce-
ments ; and at its close they were flighted from
their propriety by the spectacle of two officers
of the highest rank, who had headed great
armies in the field, leading their columns down
Almas of letter-press, till the contest, which raged
for some time by the permission of the Czar, was
terminated by his orders. - Nor was Austria in-
different to the uses of the press during her
struggle with Hungary, or in the recent war
with France. 'Appeals to the loyalty, traditional
attachment, or religious fervour of the various
races subject to her rule, were promulgated by
official sanction—for without it they could not
have been issued at all—in the narrow sheets of
Tyrolese, Illyrian, and Croat journals. The
representatives of the public papers who followed
the French army, Were decorated by the Emperor,
and if we admit that free and constitutional
Sardinia has by no means imitated the liberality
of her Imperial ally, we must attribute the
course she adopted to the supreme exigencies
of the State. For us in England there is the
one great fact—freedom of the press, untrammelled
by the smallest ligament of official supervision. The
tame eagle is sure of being fed, but. ,he were a
sorry bird who would exchange the noble flight
and the easy soar of outspread pinion for the cage
and chain, even though with them came the cer-
tain daily prey, safety from the fowler's snares
and a refuge from the tempest. We have thus to -
make the best of our position—to accept the situa-
tion
as it exists. It would be treason to forfeit
the smallest particle of the most absolute inde-
pendence, or to contract by a hair's-breadth the
freedom of thought and utterance for the sake of
enjoying—if that were possible—the entire confi-
dence of the authorities. But it is quite com-
patible with the maintenance of these essen-
tials to evince every disposition to appreciate
and allow for the difficulties of official life
and the necessities of the public service.
It may be safely affirmed that the English press
has hitherto not fai .d to exhibit patriotism in its
largest sense in de• .ng with such subjects. The
exceptions are fe , and small even when it ap-
peared to men in office that they were many and
large. As we were once told by a high military
authority in Austria, if it had not been for the
English press, all Germany, believing the accounts
in the French and Russian papers, would have
concluded that the English army was late at the
Alma, mad at Balaklava, asleep at Ibkermann,
disgraced on the 18th of June, and annihilated on.
the Bth of September. But the English journals,
which could not be suspected of any official sup-
pressions, were accepted as accurate expositors of
the facts, and throughout the cognate Fatherland
it was known that, amid great disasters, the army
and navy had displayed the highest qualities of
which British soldiers and sailors are capable, and
none are capable of higher—that Alma was glo-
rious for our arms—that Inkermann was as grand.
as ;Thermopylae—that it was owing to circum-
stances which in no degree affected the character
of our infantry, though they might be damaging
to the judgment of their chiefs, we were not suc-
cessful in the assaults on the place, which were
unsuccessful in every point except one—and that,
at the end of the war, " we were ready to go on,"
while our ally evinced his sense of failing powers
by a patent anxiety for place. It is strange
enough that a nation which is the offspring of
war and conquest—the essence of fighting races
—with the blood of Viking, Norman, Saxon, and
Celt—and who knors what infusion of Roman ?

—running in its viens—should have always
exhibited a certain amount of contempt for
military sciences and for pure soldiery. No
people on earth are more martial ; but none
know so little' or care less, -about the principles -
of war. We English have never invented a sys-
tem of fortification, though it cannot be said we
did not need castles even when our fleet protected
our shores. We have never organised a military
system, or even an order of battle. All improve-
ments in implements of war, except Armstrong's
gun, which has yet to be tested in actual service,
have come from abroad ; and such grand dis-
coveries and immense improvements as we have
made in the mechanical arts are, in a military
sense, apparently more advantageous to our neigh-
bours than to ourselves. Our treatises on the-
science of war are translations, mere fragmentayy
essays or dry text-books and manuals. It seems
as if, in our undoubted power of fighting,
we scorned all adjuncts ; and, indeed,
not a few even now maintain that • the
introduction of Minerva to the British
Mars will terminate in the youth's entire
ruin. There is a large mass of the public which
has yet to find out that the British officer is more
intelligent, better educated, and more accom-
plished in all manly arts and useful acquirements
than three-fourths of those whom they -call the
educated classes in civil life. As the officers of
the services advance in the estimation of their
fellow-countrymen, and feel that they are elevated
from the empty popularity of a passing enthusiasm
for some bloody victory, to the higher level of
permanent national esteem, they will seek to
vindicate their position by a thorough acquaint-
ance with the principles of their art ; and we
shall see them elucidated with all the clearness
and vigour of the English intellect.—Army and
Nary Gazette.

RETURN Or LORD CLIMS Some of our contem-
poraries announce that Lord Clyde may be expected in
England about the middle of this month. We are,
more inclined to think, however, that the gallant gene-
ral will arrive about the end of February, when, doubt-
less, the country will give him such a reception as his
great-services deserve.—Arnzy and Navy Casette.
EMIGRATION FROM THE CLYDE.—The following is a
statement of the emigration from the ports of the.
Clyde in the course of the year 1859 :—United States,
1,516 ; New Zealand, 1,088; Tasmania; 485 ; Canada,
.510 ; total for the year, 4,317. Total for
-- 1858 4867 ;
decrease, 550. North British Daily Mail. , ,
ZANZIBAR.—By advicea from the east coast of Africa,
vid Bombay, we learn that a rebellion had broken out.
in the dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar, a potentate
who renders every assistance to the British Government
in suppressing the slave trade. By the activity of
Captain Rigby, the British Consul, who placed the
naval force of his Government at the disposal of the
Sultan, the rebellion had been suppressed, and the
ringleader the Sultan's own brother, Syed Burghash,
made prisoner. Her Majesty's sloop of war Lynx
and the Assaye steam frigate, of her Majesty's Indian •
navy, happened to .be in the port of Zanzibar,
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Berkeley, of the Lyux. There had been some sharp
fighting, the Sultan losing in killed and wounded 100
men ; the rebels about 40. A high tribute had been
paid by the Consul to the distinguished gallantry of the
officers of Her Majesty's ships, who alone worked the
guns for the Sultan, under a heavy fire, and to whose
assistance the Sultan handsomely acknowledged himself
indebted for the security of his throne and dominions.
The Assaye carried the prisoner into banishment, and
bore the Consul's despatches.to the Indian Government.
The Lynx had sailed for the Cape ; the latter had cap-
tured two slavers,