Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-09 00:00:00

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be' determined whether monsters be not really a
distinct species ;" since it is found, that " some of
these monstrous productions have none of those
qualities that accompany the essence of that species
whence they derive." Well, therefore, may their
humanity be questioned. A human creature is one
having the qualities of a man. And Ow most pre-
dominant of such qualities,—or rather that collection
of them which distinguish man, or ought to do, from
the beast of the forest,—is called humanity, 'an
attribute which certainly cannot but revolt at that
wanton and . wholesale destruction of human kind
that is the immediate and inevitable conse-
quence of war. Men set up in close, compact
bodies to be shot or hewn down, like so
many inanimate obstacles in the way of a criminal
and most brutal lust of conquest, or spirit of revenge.
" Oh, misfortune, ever deplorable and yet common !"
exclaims a great satirist of inhuman follies,—" for
men in all ages have agreed to destroy, plunder, and
butcher one another for a. tract of land, or a parcel of
houses, or an empty punctilio ; which, to accomplish
with the greater certainty and despatch, they have
invented curious rules and engines of destruction,
which they call the art of war; the practice of which
is rewarded with the highest honours, and most
splendid reputations ; and thus every age improves
in the art of desolation." Judging from the enormous
slaughter, the dreadful desolation, that have already
been perpetrated on the frontiers of Austrian-
Lombardy, one must of course cone'ude, that the
present enlightened age has most signally improved
upon the past in that diabolical " art of desolation."
And what a sight it is to see—

" Most Christian kings inflamed by black desire ;
With honourable ruffians in their hire,
Cause war to rage, and blood around to pour."
Christian Kings! Potentates who ought, as such,

to be examples to their people of all that it is worthy
in a man and a Christian to be ! But instead of that,
setting examples of inhumanities and atrocities
which are worthier of brutes than of men —of
demons than of Christians.
The Emperor of the French, for instance, has
made the horrid war in which he is so ruthlessly
engaged, quite a subject of (so-called) Christian
consideration. Even the Pope has been specially
applied to, we believe, to do what they pro-
fanely style, "bless his arms ;" and in all the
Churches of the Empire prayers are just now being
daily offered up for the blessing of Heaven upon the
fearful slaughter they are so diabolically committing !
And mark with what cold-blooded complacency the
work of human butchery is proclaimed. The first
account of this late great battle beyond the Ticino
was thus given in a despatch from the Emperor at
Novara to the Empress at Paris :—" At 11 30 a great
victory was won at the bridge of Magenta. 5,000

prisoners are taken, and' 15,000 of the enemy are
killed or wounded." The "great victory" is every-
thing. The fifteen thousand human beings killed or
wounded are as nothing ! No horror is shown at so
dreadful a sacrifice of human life to his criminal
ambition,—no regrets, no concern whatever. Fifteen
thousand of his fellow-creatures " killed or wounded,"
who were, doubtless, as precious in the eyes of the
God of Heaven as is Louis NAPOLEON himself,—
and all in a war to gratify his own arbitrary will.
It may with only too much truth be said of the
whole of those hostile legions that he has been the
cause of calling into the field of deadly strife,—the
legions of both sides,—that
" They're but ambition's tools, to cut a way
To their unlawful ends."
But then, as the French Emperor exultingly pro-
claims, it is "a great victory !" Not a great sacrifice
of human life,—not a wholesale manufacture of
widows and orphans,—not a fearful calamity, carry-
ing " lamentation, and mourning, and woe" into
countless humble homes —desolation and misery to
innumerable homely hearths ; hut only " a great
victory,"—
that is to say, a few step,; i Pt advance
towards the consummation of h; ambitious, his

"unlawful ends." And there is, consequently, no
public manifestation of sorrow for the thousands it
has hurried into eternity, or thousands more it has
mauled and tortured and rendered useless for the
rest of their lives, should they be prolonged, but
only joy and rejoicing for the great victory! "At
seven o'clock this (Sunday) evening the cannon at
the Hotel des Invalides announced the vict
Magenta. Paris is brilliantly illuminated." So says
the Telegram. But nothing of sorrow—nothing of
shame—for the slaughter that took place.

,ory at

It was but a day or so before that another grwat

human slaughter was committed in the same neigh-
bourhood. A letter from one on the spot thus
alludes to it,—" This victory cost dear to the Allies
—especially among the &naves.. Captain Adjutant-
Major Dnu had his head carried off by a cannon
ball, and some other officers were badly wounded
The Piedmontese have also suffered sc

ire losses.

As to the Austrians, it is no exaggeration to say
that they had at least 4,000 men hors de r.nnbat.
A great number of their soldiers, being hotly
I pursued, sword in hand, were drowned in crossing
the river. 'At one moment,' said to me a Zonave,

who took part in the combat, the• river was blacked
up by the dead bodies of men and horses !' Add to
this 1,100 prisoners who were taken either by the
Teuaves or the Piedmontese. Vercelli. in fact, is
now full of prisoners. Among the enemies killed were
one general and several officers." Such, we say, is
the horrible slaughter that is going on in LombardT
And all for what?
Well-
which, howo

—suppose it be for the independ

we very much doubt,—

he sacrific

had his hand hurt by some, machinery, and the result
was death. Verdict : " Accidental death.". On
the body of Patrick Martin, a labourer, fifty years of
age, who died suddenly in Mr. Gardiner's public house,
Cockspur-street, Vauxhall-road. The deceased was a great
drunkard, and died whilst drinking in the house. Verdict,
" Died of excessive drinking!'

A NUISANCE.-Mr. John Fairclough, the owner of con-
siderable, property in Evertor, was yesterday summoned
before Messrs.. Tobin and Chilton' by the Health Com-
mittee,. for having a nuisance en his land—an exhausted
quarry—in Everton, which has now become very offensive to
the people in that locality. Mr.. J. M'Gowan was for the
prosecution, and Mr. Roby for the defence. Mr Egan, an
officer of the Health Committee, proved that the place was
a nuisance and full of dead animals. In reply to Mr. Roby,
he said there was a wall around the place, but stillit was a
nuisance—it was very offensive. Fined £1 and tests, with
a caution.

SMi3KE NUISANCES. —Yesterday, atthe Police-court, before
Messrs. Tobin and Chilton, Mr. MGo wan appeared on the part
of the health committee to prosecute the following iNri3ofis
for breaches of the act. Mr. Wignalt. the smoke inspector,
was the complainant in each case. Messrs. Leitch, sugar
refiners, of Ellenborough-street, were- summoned for an
offence committed on the 21st May. Fined £1 and costs.
William M'Caul, steam printer, Cartwright-place, Byrom-
street, was charged with a like offence. The inspector
proved the case, and said he had given five notices already
The defendant said the notices ran over four year

£1 lOs and costs. Messrs. Storey and Co., iron founders,
Jordan-street, were charged with a like offence on the 18th
May. Fined a and costs.

THE "FUN" IN

,NTENOY-STIL RT.—Two savage-looking

young fellows; named Johri Adams and Michael Lyons,
two " bloods" of Fontenoy-street, were brought up,
yesterday, before Mr. Mansfield, at the Police-court, by
Officers Mason, 51'6, and Jones, 4291 on charges of
having assaulted them. The officers stated that at half-past
seven the previous evening, there was a clothes-line hanging
by a wall in the street, when the prisoners-cut it down, and
began trampling the things that were on it. The officers
interfered, when Adams tore Mason's cape.off his shoulders
)ns. , Ile also broke liis numbers.
when Lyons knocked him down. A

Jones then came I

roughs" assembled, an& the officers . were
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