Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-10 00:00:00

notwithstanding the article of the Vienna

and Fe
se firm

Rentes

.e risen to 68.9 Q, 13

animated.
3.40 p.m

,
It is reported that Count Cavou'
rr'signdtion. The. Bourse closes fito
ill in Vienna prices: ltente's 6°

tendered his

consequence o

for Money

68.90 for the Amount.

INTELLIGENO"

FOREIGN

INDIA.

MADRAS RIOTS.
.bances in the Madras Pres" 01
springing, as is alleged, out of a faulty tralllll°
of her Majesty's proclamation, still continulrtbe
facts of the Tinnevelly riot have received 13° '7lOO
• 1-,tion; but in Travancore the
ses have been perpetrated by the SoodriLsAi.totir
the native Christians of thatprovince. The `-,-;Pfil
races that have occurred have been as

THE
The caste clistur

elucid:

outra

Y lot
-01?"

then part orTravancore. The
composed :mainly of two 'classes, the
(Nairs) and the Shanars. The former ,1111.0-ffices
ohief landowners, and monopolise nearly P.*.4'irost'
under the Sircar, to none of which is al: lboaf:
however, intelligent, ever admitted. As `:.„ffsb"
though no doubt there are a few .11011,,%." co
r
exceptions, the Soodras are proud, oppress tree'
rapt, and. cowardly ; ignorant in the
and no,'
scarcely ever leaving their own district, anar,,oo,4l'
the lower castes with great insolence and
On the other hand, the Shanars have been for
r
increasing in intelligence, wealth, and ffell—of fr-
specta,bility, Many have availed themselves
the 4
education offered them, and many have Pu. t
elves under regular Christian instructio,
Southern India it is the custom for I°W.viarck:
females to go naked from the waist 111),I,
'and the Soodras have thought till fret
justified, under the terms of the reee,°,urioll
clamation, in attempting to force l'o,e,iel
women of the Shanar caste to conform to the
practice. The attempt was very properlr
t1;0;
under the advice of the missionaries, ant'
sequence is that many of the mission dial); slyi`
been burnt down, and an attempt m: ode
Shanar women in public. The. Resident's ",'l+,oifi"h'j
at Nagercoil ; some houses of Shanars at Tit's-of
north of Nagercoil, amongst others that -fatt
Resident's gardener, have also been burnt.
worst affair that has happened is the burniriltoOld
of between '7O and 80. houses, inhabited bY 9011.tht/
Catholics, at Kotar, near Nagercoil. A `c,,°lll,ololj
her child are said to have perished in
This is the intolerance of caste, and, subveP"
is of decency, must be put down by law.

MISCELLANEOUS. tea;
-
The announcement of the guarantee, ranted of,'
Lord Stanley .to the Madras Irrigation
has been received with much satisfaction Ire
is hoped that the Bombay copartnery forbf
poses, which has. been deterred for Yeal.,.s,ol'ej
lukewarmness of the government from eq".ot 7,44
operations, may have similar privileges rs s'o
conceded to it. .It is now nearly five :r%pitfe
this coinpany-canie into existence, and lanbtso
every effort made by its directors t°sl
governmental decision on their behalf, bltilv,,Joi.)
far from securing it now as when they le- iiors„..j e
.A most important
measure for the ag",-,ii,2e
of our judicial system in the Mofussil is IVe
deliberation in the Legislative Couneii. „.11
to the contemplated establishment of ii.,l„-ri4clic.of
Courts in every Zillah, with sunmary J' -al5
"tribi"l ctit'rj
in all suits under fifty rupees. These. .11 5 di'
also to possess original jurisdiction all
enumerated in the- bill, where the alti°ll';',obie..;,.o
pute does not exceed 500 rupees, but thell,l" de:o4l
provision of permitting appeal agair's,.i ticirr,g6
thereon to the Zillah Courts should be 'viitesti.o,-.0
except where the point in dispute is 3,.,c1„-oagrou
mere law, that the lower court may not
.%-pes`,o-iie
competent to decide. By permitting an,76:cr at
the question of fact, determined by the ".°,4opt"°l
the record has to be preserved—that C°„:,ivet'
taro of all the sources of the AMiall'S t°
A. Buller has expressed himself stre"'
,„ fl,di
"„
effect in the Council.
Lord Canning has returned to Calcabroi
sumed his seat as President of the Comic/.
on the 24th ultimo. b 0
I
The import market is depressed ; 111°,..11,5e
very
scarce; and the rates of freight
slight improvement.

TDADE WITH INDIA.—The Shanghae ul3l.l‘eatttjel4;tei;‘;
January 7th says that Japan is now attraetingbeeo,e:Will(
to an opening for foreign trade. There hate trea9:t,
ten ships cleared for Nagasaki since the la 'e the-
made with the Japanese Government admittioiLj. r
the Dutch treaty until ratifications are exellall7let d
SMUGGLING BY MEANS OF CRINOLINE*-; $
Verviers states that a lady who arrived ther; crio"Of .4%
ago by a railway train from Prussia l'Oreniciont
seuucshtomam-hpoleusdeimoffieneseirson.s
Aas
steoarecxh oneictetshe stisr tOrieff
equentilifs, io a ;Do
havele
saln d7ugpt hgvalierr
yfsia snosthfkoiwiol
Bfhnuaieltbllesi attached
omcokr. ti inonsh,
etowof
stockingshi fitecsmha tnl
hepeiae tsavtficsieur.:
eaes
grai
au
confiscated, and the lady handed over to the of" ef
for prosecution. go foci
SUICIDE THROUGH THE DREAD OF TO NST,°lrhe 0615,,teeeIC'
Information has been forwarded to Mr. rarilliotn.,tie P:1
for the city of London, of the death of 31r• .0 w e 1
aged 58, a boot and shoemaker, who resided 1.0 3• 10,„ CPO!
alley, London-wall. The deceased had heel'
of mind for some time, in consequence °f thethatbiet°,/ I
trade, and he had remarked to his eldest se „.0igt5.1.0,
have to go to the workhouse. Upon his woebTs Woe
bad room, she discovered him hanging 11 d 3r.
nail in the wall. He was cut downy 511
geon, sent for,_ but he was quite dead• ce thei"cer;€e,to
JOSEPHINE'S INFLUENCE.—Let it saftr.;oo ge pel;' tbs
wife of the First Consul thoroughly ~ -she ‘vil'ios
tation of his mind and temper tn'iltienec pis f
aware of the moment when her own ill otter joiool
ascendant. She knew precisely when New pia oat %/1.,.
and when to win him to her purpose bY tore sllol°ll3s°`3
and caresses which even the most irou aarld for sol
t mes resist. Mark Antony lost the nveptariocoo4
what wonder, then, that the Corsiealleageepq 090 Le;
casionally swayed by the soft tones, th ,osephi,irPa•
the tender professions of a Creole ? J of. Chl_s% ban
aware that there was not one particle ~her 'bie
garded her own sex, in the character °I ogof re
ts
re h
she also knew that he was always now" ot-elet
had indulged in an exhil;ltion of at all at 5081.1
others had been coweel:led to quail, thauscould Jr
and she conseor.:ently resolved that slira to a,` of
etut to be VA before she had induced
___v,isoef
terview solicited by Madame Tnllien.
History, By Miss Pancloe.