Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-30 00:00:00

THE .ZURICH TREATY.
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[REUTER'S TELT:GRA:AI
Ruus, Nov,. .29.
The Moniteur, of this morning, publishes the
text of the treaties signed at Zurich, the stipula-
tions of which are in conformity with these which
have alreaey been 'made known to the public.

ITALY.
. The States of Central Italy have .50,000 men
under arms, , .

The Tuscan .47flooitaur publishes a decree accept-
ing the resignation of General Garibaldi of his
command of, the Tuscan army, but maintaining
him. honorary. rank.
[REUTER'S TFLECRANI.]
MARSEILLES, Nov. 28.
Letters received here from ,Rome confirm the
tumour, that .Cardinal Antonelli will represent
`the Pope at the Congress.
The official journal of R6tyi., of 11-,‘ 94th inst.,
says, certain journals exa4erate the reforms
which are to come into operation.
The Propaganda has received reports from
'Cothin-China that perSraitions and 'ill-treatment
of the missionaries have again taken plagie there.
DISARAIAMENT.

The Presse, a Vienna journal, referring to a
recent rumour of disarmanient, proposed by
France, Says, the 'no British Cabinet either
would or could pay -attention to such a suggestion.
Before the:ltalian -war France proposed to dis-
arm becauke it was then necessary she should
'Appear to be ,pecific and AuStria quarrelsome,
and the same ;game is now being played with
England,
The Times 'shows the different meanings
attached to disarmament in France and England.
Were every. regiment disbanded, and every ship
put out of Commission; France could summon a
.„
new army of strained soldiers and a navy of good
seamen in a 'fortnight, if: neede4l For her to
disarm is only to give her men a- furlough, and
save herself. their pay. Our soldiers and seamen
would leave alown away-beyond the reach of.
re-
call. It is 'the system of .France to- reducudis-
armament -to a mere name. With us it is a
serious reality. The bare suggestion of our dis-
armament-is little more than a jest.

THE FRENCH. PRESS AND EINGLAND.
The Znies says the diatribes which. }rare
rousing the French ariny and people into a lit of
causeless exasperation against this country have
suddenly. ceased at the bidding of the minister.
This shows clearly the artificial nature of these
attacks.

The Mrnes alludes to the real cause of our
complaint against France.' Whether wittingly or
not, the . French have raised throughout .Europc
the belief that they are bent on a war of
aggression, most probably. against. England, but
perhaps against the powers of Central :Europe.
This belief it should. be their ;duty to dissipate.
If the.. French Will restrain their. anger until` they.
have good 'grounds of offence, the -relations of
the two countries-will be far more •-satisfactory
iodt two 'Tear.

NAVAL AND MILITARY 'NEWS.
. All -superfluous sails; as spare sails, are to be
dispensed'. with on board. her Majesty's steam-
ships.
A number of discharged artillerymen-frem the
late East'• India serviCe;. who - arrived nt Graves-
:end; have re-enlisted into the Royal Artillery.
• Theijourt 'Martial,' assembled ;to try-the seven
men tharged with mutiny on board 'the PrinceSs
Royal; on the-12th st., resumed its inquiry yes-
lorday. The case for the prosecution was closed.
The Ariadne, which will be: undocked at
Chatham in a few days, is to -be armed with
Armstrong's
.guns, ofthe largest, calibre, and is
the first vessel of her class .furniShed with that •
tremendous armament,. which, thiii be dis
posed,--4wenty-foUr 84-cwt. guns., each‘,9 feet 4:
inches in length,' on the main deck ; and on the
upper.deck will be placed, two 68-pOtinders,. each
of '9 owt., and 10 feet 2 inches inlength.

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

A good... Playing Card for is. Ed. Said by liawdsley
and Son, 4r Castle-street. • d 22
The Hadion's Bay Seal Skin Cloaks and 'hckets,
One Guinea each, at the New Shawl-and Mantle'Ware=
house, 40, Bold-street.—Shellard and Hodgson, Pris•
prietors.
THE UNITED STATES AND CANADIAN. MAILS.7---Th£
screw steam-ship. Anglo Saxon sails to-day, for Pertland,
U.S., with the above mails. The letterbox at the
General Post office closes this morning 'at 915 a:m. '• •
LrvEnT6or. IiEILDING LAND CO3CFAN*4.—A meeting-
of this company was held at the offices,. Clayton-"
square, yesterday, for the purpose of winding up the
affairs of the company ; but the proceedings were trans
acted in private and therefore we cannot prosent a report
of them.
SAVE OF PAlNTlNGS.—Yesterday; Mr.IS.:F. Griffiths
put up for sale, at his new gallery, 44,.Chure..11-street, a
small select' collection of oil paintings, together with a
few water-colour drawings, formerly part of ;the collec-
tion of J. B. Neilson, 'Esq. The number or lets was
only 'twenty-four, including " Sportsman, with' Dogs
and Dead Game," by Ansdell, which was sold for
£l4 10s.; "Head of a French Peasant Girl," ly Solo-
mons, brought £l5 15s. ; series of eight spiritedly-
painted .Fox Bunting Scenes, by Dolby, £42; .a pair of
extraordinarY water-,colour drawings of Landscapes,
Ruins, and Birds, exquisitely finished, signed 1694,
was dispoSeiref -art 10.
CLArrox HALL.—Thsse clever violinists, the Dele-
pierre children, made their second appearance last even-
ing at the above mentioned hall, to a croirded and
fashionable audience. Theyy were received with marked
„enthusiasm,. and we should recommend all lovers of
music to go and witness the performances of
-
infant wonders. In addition to the Delepierre family,
Miss Grace Egerton and Mr. George Case {the cele-
brated concertina . player) appeared in a very clever
entertainment, entitled " .A Christmas Party."
PF4SEAVATION or Inox SHIPS.—A* paragraph has
been inserted in several papers, professing to give an
account of a trial of certain compositions on the West
India Royal Mail Steam Packet •Company's steamer
Atrato, namely, the coMpositions of Messrs. Peacock
and Buchan, of Southampton, and those of Mr. John
M'lnnes, of Liverpool. We have since learnt that that
report was an ex parte, inaccurate, and unfair one. The;
fact of nearly all the steam and sailing, Shipowners of this
port, including Messrs. Maclver and Co., Bibby 'and
CO. Inman and Co., Gibbs, Bright, and Co.; Allen
Brothers and Co., Bahr and Co., James :Moss and Co:,
Fletcher and Co., Cotesworth John W. IL Dixon
and Co., T'Apayanni and . Co., Laird, Vernon,
James Jack, Jones, Palmer and Co., Prowse
xiandd sod,
garrison and'Co„ W. Jacobs, arid others—,
us. hr. Mr.- Winne?! "green metallic soap," •in pre-
elc94 and Company's and all others, ought
ferenee to R:
of itself to be all disinterested
1:1 that, out of ••
_sulci4pnot eniviadtwenicteis tat:.
fleet. 1f Liverpool,
parties, of its v Ufa qua nx
the whole iron foreea•
hiq owls float arc not
there are not half-a-?".' • 0.%;
s alsOallt
coated with M'lnnes's gulth iron (hips,
ve snpernnosi nothing more
hcluding the far
need be said. Many co
,famed. Marco Polo, have alsolii
PRage iouted M'lnnes's green
metallic soap as a coating over-*: ',•
the copper, and by gettino. —...14-he comer, to preserve •
face—thereby to lessen the frictiOn or resi:Aance, and
necessarily increase their speed. •
a smog
or
and slippery sur-
.

UNIFORH OP THE SCOTTISH VOLUNTEER RIFLE
CORPS.—An opinion seems to have obtained currency
that the cost of the uniform of the Highland Company
of the Scottish Volunteer Rifle Corps, will be very great.
This is a mistake. The price has, we understand, been
arranged so as not to. exceed 10s. per man. This,
we are informed, is in accordance with resolutions passed
by the committee, and confirmed by a general meeting.
The following gentlemen, members of the general com-
mittee, have been appointed to conduct the arrangements
of the Highland Company, vi 7. : —Mr. James Robertson,
chairman ; Messrs. W. D. Eyrie, James Maxwell, L.
Stoddart, John Petrie, G. IL Mackenzie, A. N. Glass-
ford, W. D. Robertson, And C. J. Macdonald, any of
whom will be glad to afford further information.

LIE BALL FOR THE INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM.—
The ball in aid of the funds of that excellent institution
—the Infant Orphan Asylum—has been fixed to take
place on Tuesday, the 20th of December, under the
patronage of the Aldermen and Councilors of Great
George Ward. The ball, for which the concert-room of
St. George's-hall has been engaged, is likely, we under-
stand, to be a very brilliant affair. And when it is
considered to what a charitable and humane purpose its
proceeds are to be appropriated, there cannot fail to be
a strong inducement felt on the part of those who enjoy
such assemblies to give it their patronage. There is,
perhaps, no institution among the many which do honour
to Liverpool that presents stronger claims to the support
of the benevolent than the Infant Orphan Asylum. Its
object- is to afford a home for those who are bereft of
parental care, and who, but .for the shelter and comfort
afforded them at this asylum, might be lett to perish,
or become outcasts of seciety. The recollection, then,
that the ball is for such an object as this, must enhance
its enjoyment in no slight degree..
WRECK OF THU ROYAL CHARTER.—SINGULAR
COINCIDENCE.—We have beedme acquainted with
rather a ~;,-,mestanee in connexion with the
lamentable wreck of the Royal Charter, more especially
as-the party immediately concerned is. Mr, O'Dowd, the
gentleman deputed by the Board of Trade to enquire
Into the wreck'of that ship, and it is only by a fortu-
nate intervention that he was prevented from 'being one
of the unfortunate persons in her, the majority, of
whom met an untimely death. At the time the Royal
Charter was at •Queenstown, on her way to Liverpool,
Mr. &Dowd and his family were staying there with
some friends, and -as he had occasion to visit Liverpool,
Mr. O'Dowd thought it would be a most favourable
opportunity to sail from Queenstown in the Royal
Charter, as he would then have the somewhat rare
opportunity of a short voyage in a large steam emigrant
ship, and also be more free from the ilioagre'ments
of a more lengthened passage. By the interposition of
his family, he having also some business of importance
in Dublin, Mr. O'Dowd gave up the -idea of going in
the ill-fated vessel, and he has thus,•doubtless, escaped
the fate of the majority of the unfortunate passengers.
SERIOUS COLLISION AT SEA.—The following letter
was posted at the Underwriters' rooms yesterday:—

-" Nov. 29, 1859.
"Dear Sir,—l write in haste the following particu-
lars, having only just come to hand from the pilot of
the. Liverpool. William Evans, apprentice, No. 5,
reports that the Neapolitan schooner Liverpool, ran
into No. .5 Pilot-boat yesterday evening, while she was
lying to, and the punt out, with the object of boarding
the. Liverpool. Much damage was done to the pilot-
boat; the fore and main rigging on the starboard side,
and bulwarks, were carried away. The Liverpool lost
jibboom.
.When the Liverpool .proceeded, No. 5 was
not making water, and No. 1 Tilot-boat was lying 'by
her. We have great hopes that she is in safety. When
any further intelligence arrive, I, will advise you.—
Yours, &c , ROBERT SI3IrSON, Superintendent.
" Thomas Court, Esq."
A later dispatch stated, that ,at 9 a.m. yesterday, the
Pilot-boat No. 5 was off the Ormes Head, The in-
jured boat arrived in port- in the evening, and we are
sorry to learn that several pilots on board, of her had
received injuries during the collision.

THE GREAT STORM IN OCTOBER.—We believe some
records are being taken with reference to. the storm of
-the end of last month, and William Inman, Esq., the
agent of the Liverpool, New York, and Philadephia
Steamship Companies, has very thoughtfully-furnished
the Liverpool Underwriters with an abstract'. of the log
of the screw-steamship Cityof Baltimore, on .her last
passage out to New York. This splendid vessel left
Liverpool on the 27th of October last, at nine a.m., and
taree Lu uuu C41.4V1.
when there was a moderate breeze. On the 29th and
30th, there way a fresh breeze, and it was squally, with
a cross sea. On the 31st, the wind _was strong from
N.W. to S.E. and W. ; but at six a.m. the *lnd sud-
denly chopped to W., blowing a very strong gale veering
to N., and approaching a hurricane. The barometer
was 27.95. On the following day early, there were
strong gales and a cross sea, and at midnight it was
blowing afresh gale, and' hard squalls. At noon en the
second,' it was calm. During the three folloNVing days,
strong gales, at times almost amounting to a hurricane,
and cross seas tried the capacity of the noble ship ; but
she braved the dreadful storm, and, .on the-10th of
November, came to an anchor off Castle Garden, New
York. The. City of
,Baltimore would appear to have
passed through the centre Of the storm at noon on the
2nd of November.

.STh-GULA.Ift ACCIDENT ON
,THE LANDING-STAGE.—An
extraordinary accident took place at the Great Landing-
stage, 'yesterday. At, half-past eleven o'clock, a van
belonging ,to Mr. Cerkhill, of .Birkeuhead,. laden with
more than a hundred pounds' .worth of furniture, and
urawn by a horse; worth about £5O, proceeded to the
north end- of the Landing-stage, in order to be taken
across -by the ferry-boat William Fawcett. The stage
was very 'slippery; and there being an incline towards the
edge, the vehicle became too heavy for theliorse and pushed
him, on towards the,water's edge. AU would have gone
over, Vit.- the van coming in contact with one of the slage
staunphions, its progress was arrested. The horse, how-
. eizer,; plunged over the stage, and was hung by the
harness suspended in the air. The only chance to save
,him was .to . cut the harness, which was done, and the
horse fell into the river, between the Stage and the
paddle- of the boat. By. directions, of Mr. William
Rowlands, a, gentleman who was present, ropes were
passed round the neck and under the body, of the horse;
and, after great exertions, the horse was hoisted on
, board the steamer in a very exhausted.'state, but was
t i,s'oon after revived by attention. Much credit is due to
1
Mr. IloWland.s for his exertions.
• CORONER'S iCounx.—The following inquests were
I held yesterday, -before P. F. Curry, Esq., the borough
coroner :—On- the body of Joseph Edward Bailey, a
little boy,, who .resided in 15, Dalrymple-street. For
some time previotio to his death, the "deeeased had been
suffering from ;the effects of a violent cold, and on
Saturday night he Partook of some paregoric, and died
.on :Sunday morning: From the evidence which was
;adduced yesterday, ut would appear that the deceased
.olied from an oTerdose.of paregoric, but the case has been
'adjouned till this day for a post mortem examination.—
On the..bodv of John ,Dillon, a bricklayer, who fell to
the ground from a height of about thirty-eight feet,
sustaining injuries from which he died -shortly after his
fall. Verdict, " Accidental death."—On the body of
WilliaM Hewitt, who committed suicide, as stated in
our yesterday's paper. 'Verdict, " Death from temporary
insanity."--On the body of Mary 'Ann Hughes, a
servant, aged sixty-four. She appears to have been .a
strong, sober woman; but nn Sunday last, while per-
forming her.domestic duties, ,she fell downstairs 'head
first, and died almost instantaneously. , A verdict of
" Accidental death" was returned.-.=-Also, on the body.of
William Woolfit, a coachman to Elkington, of Church-.
street. The deceased fell into a: parry while returning
, .
home on -Saturday evening. A verdict of "Accidental
death" was returned.:
'PEOPLE'S LECTURES.—A spirited-effort is being made
by a number of gentlemen in this town, under the pre,
.sidency of our respected chief magistrate, Thomas Darn-
ley Anderson, Esq., to provide for all :classes of the com-
munity first class literary and scientific lectures, to be ,
delivered by. men. of eminence from the metropolis. As
onr:readers will. have seen in our advertising columns,.
the first course of these lectures is to be delivered by
the well known eminent lecturer' Dr. Edwin Lankester,
F.R.S., the subject- being Food." The charge for ad-.
mission, to the .20UFSC: of six lectures- is tube &shilling.
On Friday, the worshipful the Mayor , presiding, I)r.
Lankester will lecture upon " Water," at the Concert-
hall; Lord Nelson-street, and •we entertain no doubt
that-the mode in which the subject- will be treated will
repay all who: are disposed to give their attendance.
Dr. Lankester was one of the ," Adulteration. Cr:pails-
. sion," and, therefore, may be considered_ well able to ex-
press an opinion, which must ,buvaluable on-all matters
relating to,g,ood and sound articles of nutriment. It is
also a subject of somewhat curious interest to know how
the various gentlemen who hive so kindly,come.forwaid
to support the undertaking and the lecturer, by, praC-
tical observations, -, will deal
.with their respective
articles of produce. _Altogether, we think this course
of lectures will be fraught with great interest and
instruction,