Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-15 00:00:00

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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 18.57.

THE DAY'$ NEWS.

The main topic of news relates to the state of af-
fairs in India. The Globe of last night contains some
fur,her particulars than that Liven in the telegra-
phic despatch published in yesterday's NORTHERN
MIES, from which it appears that Bith .ior is re-
port( d to be destroyed.by General Havelock, who
afterwards had proceeded on to the relief of Luck-
now. It is also said that there were sorties by
the rebel garrison of Delhi on the 14th, 18. h, and
23rd July, with what result we have not heard.
Taster lay there was a Towns M eting held in the
Sessions House, at which the Mayor presided.
The object of the meeting was to raise subscrip-
tions to aid the sufferers in India. Among the
gentlemen who addressed the meeting were
Mr. William Benn, M.P., Mr. Mackay
the Rev. Dr. M'Neill, Mr. Stitt, archdeacon Jones
and Mr. William RAthbonc- All the addresses were
temperate and suitable to the of j pct of meeting. A
subscription list was opened, and before the close
of tho proceedings, upwards of £2.000 was sub-
.scribed ; certainly, in point, of numbers, the meet-
was a failure, but this must .not be matter of
wonder, seeing that the hour appointed was the
busiest and most important portion of the day to
commercial people. They who did attend,
seemed quite enthusiastic in he cause, and Ire.
quontly applauded each speaker as he announciatcd
a patriotic or benevolent sentiment. The intelli-
genco contained in the telegraphic; despatch was
decmed, on the whole, as good as could be
.expected.

The people of Belfast had another field day on
Sunday. The magistrates read the riot act
Some of the more vicious persons kept firing guns
and pistols, to the great annoyance and terror of
tha well disposed inhabitants. It is somewhat
singular that the magistrates should have been so
remiss in not repressing with a high hand the
weekly attempt of these fanatics to ft:l the town
with riot and blaAshe,(l. We hope now that the
-Commissioners have commenced to investigstit
these inexcusdlle, tumults that the authorities
will not fail to adopt stringent measures to put
down a course of procedure which wouli di&grace
the Hottentots of Caffir Land. _ .

Turning to matters of a heal character, we
observe that a man called J,,hn I:3l,,lancy, a labourer,
was charged before Mr. Mansfield yesterday, with
murdering a man name] Michael Lyons, on Satur-
day week. As yet th, invesliation is not complete,
but the evilence produced give the case an ex.;eed-
ingly ugly aspect.

Among th© miscellaneous news of the day will
be found an account of a dreadful collision in the
channel, accona?anled by a great loss of life. The
vessel run down was the Dutch steamer Sophia,
snd the ship causing the disaster was the screw-
Ateamer Willikan Hutt. No less than twelve ou
tof a crew, including the captain and his wiro, Were
drowned. . . . _ _

For some time the fri.mds and admirers of the
late Douglas Jerrold have been getting u? a
commemoration of the gifted writer. Mr. Blanchard
Jerrold has at last felt it his duty, out of respect
to ;the memory of his father, to repudiate the