The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-23 00:00:00

I TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.]

DEATH OF THE EARL OF HAREWOOD.

The .I?,arl of Harewood died yesterday (Sudsy) morning,
at three 0',,100k.

BAPTISM OP ONE HUNDRED NORMONITES:

~ A singular, and, it ro,:v be added, 'a most disgraceful
scene took place on Thursday evening. On the outekirte
of the town of Chesterfield ruCs a narrow stream among
the fields, called the river Rothe,. over which, on the
Llsland road, is a bridge, called ,sthny bridge. This
was the spot fixed upon for the perform:mice of the cere-
mony we are about to describe. About :00 or 150 per-
sons, chiefly women, are scattered on the 7erge of the
water, waiting for the appearance of the delude)l fanatics
who are to be dipped. They call to each other from'` oppo-
site sides, and crackjekes of a most indecent and shan.'elesg
character. It is past eight, and quite dark; the mt.'oll
being obscured. and not a single star out to shed even a"
glimmer of, light. Two or three candles are brought
down to the water, and stuck in the mud by the side,
and presently a coarseish featured man descends into the
middle of the stream, and takes up his position under the
arch of the bridge. This is the priest, who is to perform
the ceremony. He has nothing on but a pair of trowsers,
tucked up at the knee, and a waistcoat with sleeves. He
intimates to the attendants that he is ready, and in a
few, minutes emerge from a house two or three hundred
yards off men (some half, and others entirely naked),
and they walk over the ground, which is strewed with
pieces of broken bottles, bricks, and tiles, to the water.
They were compelled to pass through the women who
lire, the banks, and the remarks which ensue are revolt.
log and indelicate beyond description. One by one they
are receivedby the priest, who, amid shouts of laughter,
dips each ind Yid nal, pronouncing over them the
formula—" I, being commissioned by Jeans Christ,
baptize thee for the ;emission of thy sins, in the
name of. the Father, the S-on, and the Holy Ghost."
As he utters these words he lays item beneath the water,
and the individual who is being baptised being in every
case blinded by the water, there is a strt;zgle to rise, and
on several occasions both priest and baptised rolled over
together in the stream. As may be imagined, this
affords immense amusement to the mob, who testify their
approbation by clapping of bands, shrieks, and roars of
merrimenP.. •We will not shock the reader with any
attempt at degaription of 'the scene amid which the
women were baptised. Enough has been said to show
the disgraceful travestie of religion which took place on
that evening, and from which every man with a remnant
of decency in his composjtion returned with feelings of
deep shame and disgust.

The following appeared in 06.10 Second Edition of
Saturday
THE BUDGET DEBA.TE:I

The Daily News says—The enthusiasm wit:Ct which Mr.
Gladstone was greeted by the bulk of the Cc.maservative
party throughout his address is not to be itistakelc-
There can no longer remain any room to doubt the terms
of alliance, offensive and defensive, contracted bets.vec,a
the hitherto alienated leaders of the Tory party. •
The Tines, after adverting to the speeches of Mr.
Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone, asks what they want—
what is the precise fault they find with the finan-
cial statement—what change do they propose ? They
were evidently playing into one another's hands—but
what do they want ? Ten words would have been suffiw
cleat to explain what is wrong in the budget, and tett
more might have told us how to mend it. Do they say
that the war ninepence ought not to be taken off. Mr.
Disraeli has already committed himself to the contrary,
nor does Mr. Gladstone venture on so unpopular a line.
Next, as to the estimates, Messrs. Disraeli and Gladstone
do not insist on the wisdom or necessity of an immediate
further reduction. Then we cannot, for the life of us,
find out what they do insist on.
The Morning Post insists that it is to the delusive hopes
and expectations which Mr. Gladstone himself raised its
his budget of 1853, that we owe whatever difficulty and
embarrasment attaches to the financial arrangements of
the present time.