Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-29 00:00:00

, before God. Look at the question of reformatories fairly
I from this point of view. I myself, is eight mouths from
this time, lost on one occasion; £6, onj another occasion,
12, in all, £lB by pickpockets, but my peohortion of the
rate of reformatories were established, and every bey put
into a reformatory who was now put into the dock, would
not have amounted in the year to £2 10s. (Laughter.)
Is it not a notorious fact, that the whole of the criminal
popu'ation—the whole of this most abject and abando red
class—the whole of these abandoned brothers of ours, for
they are our christi n brothers, live, hut bow do they live ?
they live by piching potatoes in Scotland-road—they live
by stealing bits of beef, and by cutting off the feet
of the dead pigs that a-e hung out at the
shop doors. (Laughter.) I am sorry my sen e
of humour makes me tell you truths like th se, so
that they can be laughed at. They live, and wh it do they
live by ? Why, gentlemen, you the tradesmen of Liverpool,
and especially the small class of tradesman, they live by all
of you. (Hear, hear.) Yi u are the men who are keeping
all of that population talive, and I ask you there fore to
back me in calling upon all the rich and poor of this com-
munity to find asylums to which those children may be
sent. (Hear, hear.) They must live. The law of nature
is strong in them, and live they will, and they will live
upon you if they do not live upon the community at
large. What right have you to ask intellectual,
enlightened and generous men, to come forward and
support reformatories throughout the town, in order
that you may be saved all expense, and all these
children locked up ? I say you, too, have a right
to bear your share in preventing evils anl crimes of this
kind. (Hear, hear.) If you send men into the Town
Council prepared to spend your money to found reforma-
tories, not only will pecuniary god be thine to do you, but
when you go home at night you will not, as Christian men,
have io think as you d now, that there are thousands of
children widiont tether or tno'her for whom you,
as Christian met, for whom y ra, as fellow-towns-
men, are responsible before God, but for whom
you do nothing at all. (Hear, hear, and cheers.)
Gentlem n, the eptstion of reform hiens, the questisn of
parks, the Tees:ion of public libraries, the question of
saei ary arraegeme us—all these questions bring us to he
cne great outs ion from which all she o her questions arise,
and that is the question of education. (Hear, hear.) I
would not propose that one single person, one single child,
sheull be compulsorily sent to any reboot to which its
parents did not wish it to he sent, and where the education,
secular or re'igious, was not what the parents wished it to
be. I would give every parent, every uecle, every guardian,
the power to withdraw any child at any time irom the
school upon the ose couditicn, that he send the child to
school him elf. (Hear, hear.) Bat, gentlemen, for the
5,000 or 6,000 net yet fejevenile de invents," n I yet
prostitutes, but soon to become one or tooth, who are about
the streets at this moment—for these 5,000 or 6,000
chil Men I claim State interference and Municipal impulsion.
(Cheers). I claim for those children that they should be
sent to :mime', if they h the no father or mo her,
no father 'and mo h r in a fit state to be responsible for
them, or in a fit state to guile their prospects in this tif
or their hopes to a bate-. Let the parents, if they with-
draw them from the public schosl, send them to any
school, belonging to whatever sect, In Met sect I believe
which is doirg so got d a wink as this, and to that sect I
will give my most earnest help. (Hear, hear, and cheers.)
Rut if we see that th .y go to no sen al, and have no one
resporsible for their eduemion, that, setting aside our duty
as Christian men, I would ask you tnesely the question,
whether it is for your intern t to allow these chit-limn to
grow up pickpeck es, to be kept in prison at yo:Ir expense,
to become without a spark of educ Olen, drunkards,
crinsioals, and prostitutes, or to seed them to schai 1 and
give them that education which is the one thing needful
at the present del ? We boast. of cur civil and religious
liberty, and we b iast of being the most enlightened nation,
but there is this one foul blot upon as, th at we have
the most uneducat-ed p pulatien in the lowest
ranks of our community which any country in the
world can boast of. (Hear, heir, and applause.) Gett'e-
men, I have POW laid before Toll my views upon all the
subjects which occupy your attention, and the principles
which I have expressed, I believe. Those principles are
hereditary by more than one generation, and the views
which I have laid before you, are not vie:vs busily teksn
up for the occasion, bet sr: such as from long thinking
on the subjects I have deeply matured. (Hear, hear)
If you like them, the course is open to you—to send me
into the Council, as your representative, where I will advo-
cate them whenever I can do it with sense an i judgement.
(Hear, hear). If my views do net rep-esent y nrs—if
my ideas are no'. yotir i teas, send rue back to that retire-
ment fr m which I have c one, and I shal go back gratified
by the honnu- you have done me in bringing me forward,
and grateful for having been prea.nted with the opportunity
of addressing an audience such as this, of pre-claiming the
faith that is in me before the largest, most enlightened,
and most respectab'e werd in Livmpool, and of explairning
my views upon that science which is no v the science of all
others—the science before which all politics must givs
way ; for wh: t are politics but the war to govern f ir the
happiness of the gre,test rusnhur ? (Cheers.) And what
is the happiness of the greatest number this moment in
I Eng'and b the education of the 1 tweet of—l was going
to say our fellow-Christi ns—hut if they are not our own
fellow-Chti,tiars, they are, at least, our brothers. (Rear,
hear.) Geetlemer, I thank you most heattily for the deep
attention wi lo Which you have listmcil to views which
may seem enthusiastic, and which to same el you may
appear nev, but they are views by the dievelopment of
which this country will maintain its intellectu tl suprernecy.
Its muscle and its bore have ever been in the right
pia-e, and is heart, too, is in the right place, if it
could only tear asunder that veil which prevents it
from feeling wh t i e great duty is to that rank
in life which, respectable yourselves, enlightened yoerselves,
all educated yourselves, you try in vain to ignore.
(11r. Melly resumed his seat amid the most enthusiastic
pl ease)
Oa the motion of Mr. C. R. Hall, seconded by Mr.
Ledger, and suppored by Mr. G. AI exwell, a motion was
smardmeusly adopted, declaring Mr. Melly's fitness as a
candidate for the ward.

INDIAN MUTINIES.

FALL OF DELHI.

We have received advices in anticipation of the
Overland Mail, from Calcutta, Sept. 24 ; Madras'
Sept, 30; Hong Kong, Sept. 10, and Bombay.
The following is a complete sum:nary of the
important news by this mail:—

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph,

THE CAPTURE OF DELHI,

The Bmllay portion of the India Mail has arrived.
The Bombay Times of October 3,:d, expects that the
rebellion will now be speedily crushed.
The following additional details are g:v3n respecting the
fall of Delhi:

The siege-train arrived Sept. sth. Several batteries,
armed with heavy guns, were established in cimnanding
positions within a shirt distence from the city walls, so
that the bastions could be destroyed by our fire. This was
successfully accomplished. The bombardment of the city
then commenced, and the Cashmere and Nioree bastions
suffered severely from our shot and shell. The enemy
replied smartly with wept, and musketry, but our loss
was inconsiderable, and our fire was kept up with undi-
minished vigour.
On the 10th and 11th September, one or two sorties
were ma 'e by the enemy, but without any result. For two
days longer our artillery continued to play on the city,
until the 12th, when the Cashmere Battery, and half the
adjacent buildings, were in rains. ThO preparations were
no v made for the assaule and General Wils et, in an order
issued a fee days previous, laid down the line of conduct
to be pursued by the troops. N) quarter was to be given
to the mutineers, but the women and children were to be
spared.
:::On the 14th September the assault was made on the
city, which was entered by a divieion of our troops, who
succeeded in effectine• a lodgneut, and driving the enemy
before them.

Chief Commissioner's Office, Mahon. Sept. 16 1857.

Me4seges were received from Delhi during the course of
yesterday and this morning from the office cf the Aiju-
taut General of the army.
Seven, a m., 15th Sept. We continue to hold the city,
from th. College to the Cabool Crate, and the enemy
holds the mag,,z'ne which we are now shell.ng. rl he
Palace is also being bhelled. Many of the mutineers had
fled yesterday.
Eight, p.m. All well We hsv made a breach in the
magazine and storm it at dawn. Th 3 enemy's musketry
fire rats much reduced

Seven. p.m., S apt. . The magazine was stormed at
daylight by 61st foot, BelooCh, and part of Wilio's Regi •
ment. We had only a few wounded, and the enemy about
forty killed 125 gins were taken in the magazine.
Two, p.m. Our mortars continue to play upon the
Palace from the magazine enclosure. The enemy entirely
abandoned the Kishengung battery, and we have found in
it in position, five 18-pounder mortars, making a total
number of pieces of ordinance taken in and before
Delhi, upwards of 200 The batt:ry across the
river opposite Kingurh is also reported to have
been abandoned by the mutineers, who are in
detached groups fighting from the tops of houses ; their
organisation into regiments is fast being broken up
One p.m. --We have now establi,hed a line of posts
from the Cabcol Gate to the inag,tz:ne. An attack was
made on the magazine to day, which was repubie,d, but we
had some men ktiied and wounded
(S grind) J. D. MacrtizasoNt,
Lieu`.-Col , Military Sec to Chief CJ imisiioner

THE AI

On the motion of Mr. Unwin, a reeolution, pledging the
meeting to the return of Mr. Melley he a representative
for the ward, was carried by acclamation.
The preceedings were soon after brought to a close.

ThB Sardinia Chambers are to assemble on the 14 th
December.

AIIDACIOITS OUTRAGE.—"n Thursday, a young woman,
who is a domestic servant of Mr. Preaton, of Personstown,
whilst lookirg into tha window of a shop, wes, without the
slightest provoca►ion, violently struck with his clenched
fist, by the Rev. John Eger, P.P., of liirr parish ; at►er
she fill he repeated tho assault, and she took refuge from
in the shop of Miss Rickmar, where she fell lots a fit of
hysterics. She was conve3ol to her m stet's house, aul
there attendel by a d actor ; she was for some time confine,l
to her bed from the eff,..ets of the injuries end of fright.
We are not aware that any steps are tieing taken to bring
this ontrage under judici.il investigstinr; !hough we have
he trd that it was witnessed by some of the police on duty
during the fair.-King's Cs. Chronicle.
The East India Company have succeeded in rasing
another large loan, upon she securities held by them. The
amount of the loan is, we understand, one million sterling.
It is believed that the million obtained will be despatched
to India exclusively in silver. Thus the point has been
reached when the deficit occasioned in the treasury on
India, by the war, is now being met by large and direct
withdrawals of treasure from the English market. As
these supplies, moreover, are taken in the shape of silver,
the effect produced here must be the more important, and
it would scarcely be a❑ exaggeration to say that the mil-
lion in silver which the East India Compady are employing
agents to procure from the Continent will involve exporta-
tion of a million in gold.

FIRE AT THE LIVERPOOL STEAM PACKET COMPANY'S
ST(REc.—Short'y before ten o'clock on S.turday night a
fire broke out in•the s ores of the Liverp Steam-Packet
Company North Wall The fir., would appear to have
attained considerable strength in the interior of the building
berore any eytnptons were perceived outside, and it was
almost half-an-honr after the flimea were first seer,before
assistance of an Effective character was forthcoming. The
Police Brigade, with their powerful engine, were the first
to arrive, but, owing to he diffiiulty experienced in
obtaining a proper supply of water, it was some time before
the horse could be brought to bear with effect. The water,
in the first instance, had to be bailed out of watering
carts in buckets to the men in attesdancs on the engines ;
bet this method of supplying being 'round totally insdecriate
tte police engine backed to the river side, and by that
nreaue was enabled to keep a continous and powerful j.t on
the building. The engines of the Steam-Packet Company
and St. Mary's parish got into play soon after, and rendered
good service. The fire-plug near the Castom-house was
found entirely useless, there being no pressure, and but for
the immediate proximity of the river it is probable that,
, instead of a partial conflagration, there would have been a
total destruciion of the entire premises belonging to the
Steam-Packet Company, as wall as 'of those adj rising.
As it is, property, to a very serious extent, has 'vela con-
sumed. It is sated that the premises were in-ured. Mr.
Criton, of the Pipe Water Office, was in attendanceshortly
after the alarm was given, and the greatest desire was
manifested by all present to aid the authorities in pre-
serving order, and to give assistance in working the severe
engines. The alarm was first given at C Bege-street Polic
office by Mr. J. W. Gregz, T. C., who returned with the
Coropra-ian engine, and remained on the ground until the
flames were CJIIIpI ttely ertinguished—about twelve
o'clock.—Saunders's News Letter.

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1857.

E CALCUTTA MAIL,

received quarters. The sapoya wanted to come also,
but they were norpermitted. The casualtie3 are said to
be heavy. No artillery officers, however, were killed or
wounded. A great many of the mutineers have escaped
The cavalry left last night it is said for Rewaree. Our
news from the Punjaub and the North ganerally, as also
from Meerut, is satisfactory. A petty rajah and his son
blown frem guns at Jubbulpore, on the 18th, for plotting
the destruction of Europeans."
" Bombay, Tuesday, Sept. 29.
"'No further news of DAht ; Dawks been revived
about Moolkee ; report that oar loss was six hundred
men, and forty or fifty officers kills I and wounded, authen-
ticity doub•fal. Wing of her Maje:.•ty'd 95th arrived.
Dussara passed off quietly.,"