The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-27 00:00:00

nephew, has instituted an action to have it found,
under the destination of a codicil, that he is entitled to
the whole of the testator's personal estate, valued at
£37,509. The Lord Ordinary (Mackenzie) has reported the
whole circumstances of the case to the Inner House, ex..
pressing his own opinion that, there is thus strong pre-
riymptive evidence, that Lieutenant Gairholme perishod,
together with his companions, sometime prior to the end of
1852 ; and, consequently, that he predeceased his uncle,
the testator, who died in May, 1853. His lordship thinks
that'in these circumstances the pursuer, George Fairholme,
is entitled to decree in his favour, but qualified by this
condition, that before - Payment, he should grant a bond
with sufficient seeurity, to warrant the defender against all
hazard from any claim to the money decreed for by Lieu-
tenant Fairholme, or others in his tight. •

A letter from Genoa, of the 22ad, says that. Lord John
Russell has left Florence for Nice, and that his visit to
that town at the moment when the King of Sardinia has
gone there to see the royal family of „Russia is not uncoil-
nested with politics.

The last accounts from Vigo state the injury sustained
by the royal mail steamer Taniar to be trifling, although,
from•the absence of the means of repair at Vigo, her passage
to Brazil will be greatly delayed.
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MIITLNY AT CORFU.—A vessel which arriv el at Marseilles
on Friday evening, from Corfu, brought word that a com-
pany of artillery Men, stationed at Corfu, had mutinied, and
attempted to blow up the powder magazine. No other
particulars were stated. a

OPENING OF THE PARLIAMENTARY "PRIVATE BILL"
CAMPAIGN.—The parliamentary campaign of 1857 com-
meneed yesterday, by the hearing of sums dozen private bills
by the examiners, at the House of Commons. The case of
the Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Railway will be
heard before Mr. Smith, and that of the Chester Waterworks
before Mr. Frere ; both these applications are opposed.
Mr. Frere also hears the case of the Victoria (London)
Docks, the company to whom that important undertaking
belongs being applicants for power to extend their water
area and make other improvements.

MANCHESTER AND SALFORD ART EXHIBITION:—On
Saturday, evening a general meeting of the local and
resident artiste in Manchester and Salford was held in the
Mayor's parlour, Salford. When the Art Treasures
Exhibition
,in Manchester was projected, the suggestion of
a special and separate exhibition of the works of heal and
resident, artists, deceased as well as lrving, was made by
the corporate authorities of Salford, who are erecting a
handsome and spacious new picture gallery in Peel Park,
and offered the use of it for this purpose. The local artists
gladly availed themselves of the offer, and the. second
me2ting, in the Mayor's parlour, when no less than forty-
nine of these gentlemen were present, shows the unanimity
with which the scheme has been adopted. The exhibition
is to be opened before the end of March, and is to remain
open during the summer, so that visitors to the Art Trea-
sures Exhibition will have an opportunity of seeing it.
The admission is to be free, but the committee have
determined upon connecting an art union with it.

SIGNS OF THR TlMES.—There is one sign of the times
about which mistake is impossible, and that is the rapid,
steady, and victorious growth of intolerance in Great Bri-
tain. The decline of English respect for liberty of conscience
in the last twelve years has been criite prodigious. The
Roman Catholics have quite deserted the position which
they took up, even in the worst period of O'Connell's domi-
nation. They no longer call for a fair stage and no favour.
They have learned to speak another and a- foreign tongue—
the language of the cruel continental alliance between
priestcraft and despotism. They publish apologies for; the
Neapolitan tyrant. They glorify the faithless indecision of
Pius IX. They anathematise secular teaching. They
hint, almost openly, a disdain of scientific discovery, and
insinuate that Papal infallibility was not even at fault in the
matter of Galileo. English popular Protestantism, on the
other hand, has ceased to uplift its glorious protest against
spiritual tyranny. It has borrowed the whole artillery of
the church it hates. It publicly persecutes and estentatiously
proscribes. It maintains the despotism of the letter, and
clamorously calls for the rigour of the law ; and, while
filching the sword from the side, it has stolen the every day
clothes from the wardrobe of its antagonist. With a zeal
for the persecution which would have honoured a Grand
Inquisitor—with an appetite for the marvellous, and a
paltry curiosity about the future, whieh are not exceeded in
a Calabrian peasant—with a flimsiness of learning which
would disgrace the laureate of a modern Jesuit seminary,
Dr. Cumming is publicly recognised as the Chillingworth
of the hour.—Tel roi, tel peuple.—Saturday Review.

THE Banc". of LONDON.—Dr. Tait, the new Bishop of
London, took the customary oaths in the Court of Queen's
Bench cn Saturday.

AN ORLEANS LAWSUIT.—The lawsuit brought by the
Princes of the House of Orleans against Monsieur Valette,
for the recovery of certain manuscript volumes written by
Louis Philippe, has been decided. The Princes have been
nonsuited and condemed to the costs. It was proved to the
satisfaction of the court that the two first volumes of this
work were mere copies; but the third volume being written
in the handwriting of Count Girardin. secretary to Louis
Philippe, will, by order of the tribunal, be handed bver to
the son of the Count. This case has excited a lively
interest in Paris and even in all France.

THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION ON THE LANCASHIRE
AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.-At the inquest, held at Bol-
ton, on Tuesday last, on the body of the guard who was
killed the day previous, at Sough, near Blackburn, as
previously stated,' an adjournment took place, in order
that Mr. Fairbairn, C.E., of Manchester, should make an
examination of the boiler, and report to the jary on the
Wednesday following; but at the inquest held on the body
of the engine driver, at Sough, on Thursday last, the
enquiry was adjourned until Friday next, and it was
arranged between Mr. Taylo", the coroner for B )lton,
and Mr. Hargreaves, coroner for the Blackburn division,
that both juries should assemble together at the Borough
Court, Bolton, on Friday next at noon, when Mr. Fair-
bairn will be ready with his report, that gentleman having
inspected the exploded boiler, and thereby, no doubt, a
simultaneous verdict will be returned by the two juries.

TELE COTTON TRADE.—EXTENSION OF MILL POWF,R.—
During the past year five new cotton mills were com-
menced in Bolton and the district—one, a large and hand.
some mill at Gilnow, belonging to P. R. Arrowswith, Esq.,
for 65,000 spindles; another in Lostock, for 60,000 spindles,
belongis:g to Messrs. Heaton, of Doffcocker ; one in West-
houghton, belonging to Mr. Pilkington, for 30,000 spindles ;
another is Great Bolton, belonging to Mr. Jas. Marsden ;
and one in Little Bolton, belonging to Messrs. Ileaton. in
addition to this, we believe, there are at least fuur other
new mills in course of construction. Messrs. Cannon and
Haslam are also about to erect another mill in Halliwell,
for 40,000 spindles ; Mr. John Harwood, one for 30,000
spindles, near Tanner's Hole ; Messrs. Walwork and
Sussum, one at Farnworth, for 30,000 spindles; Mr. Jos,
Ainsworth, a large one in llalliwell ; and the Mount
Pleasant mills, which have been standing a considerable
time, are undergoing alterations, under the superintendence
of Mr. James Lomax, surveyor, and are intended to be
worked by Messrs. Hoyle and Vicars. The total addition
will be ten mills, and several others are talked of.