Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-19 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS.

f,T. We again pablish additional details of the
Indian news, which still is the all-absorbing topic.
We are not yet in possession of the Calcutta mails,
but no doubt will be in time for publication in our
Monday's paper. There has been, however,
several telegraphic despatches received, containing
Calcutta intelligence, which we have already given
to our readers. The really serious portion of it is
the reported retreat of Gener.il Havelock, when
half-way between. Cawnpore and Lnekno,.y, in
stonseqowiee of the rapid increase of sickness
among his small forces. If this intelligence be
confirmed it is of the most serious import,
involving as it does the danger of Lucknow, and
arresting that onward movement against Delhi
which the Bombay news inspired us to trust
would be made without delay. We do not put any
faith in a telegraphic despatch stating that
the British had e;ired from before the walls
of Delhi, in consequence of the death of the
general. lane private letter, in alluding to General
Havelock's retreat, adds this reason for the move
menf—" It is supposed he has done so to secure
all the guns he has captured, and which he cannot
take wi,h him." If this be so, the retreat will be
but for a day or so, and bring about no more den-
geroas consequences than delay in the rescue of
our brave countrymen at Lucknow. The same
telegraph, indeed, that reports the retreat, reports
also that Lucknow was safe, whether from the
arrival of Jung Behadoor's Oroorkhas, or from other
causes, we are left to conjecture. Of this much.
however, we may rest satisfied, that all that man
can do will be done by Haveloek and his braves.
His victories must be well known to the British in
Lucknow, and will lead them to dare all, and
endure all, rather than entrust to the natives.
The movement for organising subscriptions
throughout the country in aid of the
sufferers in India, is, we are glad to say,
gaining ground. Already a number of the
more important provincial towns in England, have
held meetings, and at each, sums commensurate
with the standing of the place have been freely
subscribed. We are glad to see Liverpool being
foremost in this mission of mercy, and we would
just ask our readers to read over the subscription
list, so that those who have not already done so,
may be induced to give their mate. The Times of
yesterday, advises religious and other civilizing
missions in India, not to interfere with the present
movement. " Tao cause of Indian missions can
wait ; it has been going on now for many years,
and will go on many years longer. There will be
plenty of opportu,iities of supporting it. The
pressure of the hour has a•natural precedence.
Nor will the Bishop of Salisbury do the cause
of missions itself any good by associating it
with a lukewarm patriotism. We do not mean to
say that the bishop is an indiff-rent patriot him-
self; but we must remind him that when the
public is very much absorbed in a great national
misfortune, and finds an individual, from
however good a motive, diverting, in fact,
attention from that misfortune into an irrelevant
channel, it will be apt to make that reflection.
This is a pity; it is an injury to the very cause
which is thus put forward as a rival one. It is a
bad thing for the missionary cause itself that it
should stand in the way and be interfering with
an urgent national object. Let the present time,
then, be devoted to justice and to sympathy. We
have a work of just and righteous vengeance to do
in India. Let the blood which cries from Delhi,
Cawnpore, Jhansi, Bithoor, and other scenes of
abominable crime and passion be expiated, let
these atrocious criminals be brought to judgment,
let every Hindoo know and feel that justice is
triumphant, and that rebellion against English
rule is not only a crime, but a crime which is sure
of punishment— let this be done, and we may begin
to think of other things, but nothing can be done
ha or for India till this is done. At the London
Caurt of Common Council, notices of motion have
been given on the subject of India ; one that 5001,
and the other that 1,0001. should be presented to
the Mutiny Fund.
The Rev. Dr. Livingston has met with a most
tattering reception in Glasgow. On Thursday he
was presented with the freedom of that city, and
in the evening be was presented wi'h a most
substantial token of the approbation of the citizens
of the commercial metropolis of Scotland. He
had a purse containing L. 280 given to him. Tne
proceedings were of a most interesting character.
In the course of his remarks the Doctor made
some allusion to the Cotton Supply Associations,
but it will require a long time to obtain any
reasonable return for the outlay that they must
occur—yet in the end the olject wlll be obtained.
He thinks that every town consuming cotton
.should have a. Cotton Supply Association. He is
evidently of opinion that if left to private enter.,
prise the mills will soon be left without a single
bale of new material.
Two trials for murder took plane at the Old
Bailey, London, on Thursday. James Preston was
tried for the murder in Horsemonger-lane Gaol,
and was a(cilitted on the ground of insanity.
Core.elius Denny was tried for the murder in the
Hampstead-road ; but the jury found him guilty
of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to ten
years' penal servitude. A woman named Donovan,
tried at the same time, for wounding with
intent to murder a police officer, was found guilty
and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude.
Wit!iam D tvies has been committed for trial on
the charge of wilful murder of an old woman at
Wenlock. A very mysterious case, which has just
come before the Dublin Police Magistrates, will be
found reported at full length.
Of local news this ramming there is an sbsolute
scarcity. There is nothing oceuring of the least
interest or importance.
There is several items of interest from Conti-
nental Europe. The Emperor Alexander left
Berlin on the 16 h, accompanied by the two
Princes Gortschakoff, Count Adlerberg, and Baron
Brunnow.

The Cabinet of Madrid is in a state of disso-
Narvacz provoked the crisis bj requesting
the Queen to dismiss all those persons at Court
who are suspected of intligning against the Minis-
try. Moreover, he demanded the recall of Concha,
C9pt9in General of Cuba, whose lucrative office
be wished to bestow upon Senor Leirsund. The
Queeen refused to accede to the wishes of the
Premier. On the 11th all the ministers tendered
their resignation, but the Queen did not accept
it. The ministers persisted in their demands,
while the Queen remained as pertinacious. A
complete rupture cannot be avoided. Admiral
Armero will be called upon to form a new cabinet,
and probably he will seek the alliance of Senor

Mon and the Vicalvarists. Martinez de toBa. or
Istnritz will be at the head of the cabinet.

The Nord publishes a letter from its Paris cor-
respondent,
which states that it will be impossible '
for the Emperor of Russia to come to France this
year, inasmuch as he is expected at Kiew at the
beginning of October. It says, also, that an interview
between the Emperor of the French and the King
of Prussia, which had been spoken of, is not likely,
in consequence of the state of the king'shealth. The
same letter adds : " Count de Bayneval,ambassador
of France at St. Petersburg, will accompany the
Emperor of the French to SAittgardt, as will also
Count Walewski, Minister of Foreign Affairs. It
is even said that Count de horny will do the
same. and it is natural that he should, as it was
he who prepared the way for the interview of the
two sovereigns. The Emperor of Russia will be
accompanied by Prtn:,,e Gortsehakoff, his Minister
of Foreign Affairs ; and Count de Kisseleff, Russian
ambassador at Paris, is to join.his sovereign."
The Duke of Cambridge arrived at Paris on
Thursday morning, and quitted the same evening
for Cnalons. The Journal des Bebat3 has corn-.
menced a series of articles on the government of
India. It is of opinion that, whilst the organi-
tion of the East India Company was quite adapted
to the conquest of India, the company is now
standing in the way of solid posseSsion ; and that
the existence of the Company would for the future
produ'e now dangers end rebellions in India.
The Univers continues to exult over the diffi-
culties of England in India, and gives expression
to the following sentiment :—" We were always
aware that the Anglo-Indian Empire was not
eternal, or even of long duration ; and we now bear
witness to the justice of God. This lesson will
prove advantageous to all. As for our hopes, we
do not conceive them to be chimerical ; whatever
may happen, England cannot fail to issue highly
we-Jiened from the struggle—a result we desire
with all our heart"

The Evangelical Conferenc.3 now sitting at Berlin,
on Tuesday discussal the qa,stiou—What moans
of defence Evangelical Christians possess against
the aggressions of the Roman Catholic Church?
Mr. James Lord, fr,74n London, sail that the
Catholic aggression ought to be met by a Protes-
tant aggres.lion, and that the Romanists must be
attacked in their own camps. The assembly
choose a committee, whose task it will be to
watch over the movements of the Catholic Church.

Full details of the news per the North Star,
arrivcd at Southmiptort, from New York, will be
found in another part of to-lay's paper. The
intrlligence.ig not of much importance. The panic
in New York had considerady subsided, and it
was hoped that in a few day's confidence would be
restored.

Last nigh:s returns of the Bank of Enciland are
unfavourab,4; the stock of Bullion having de-
creased 272.8531. The total bullion in the Bank is
iower than for any week since June 20th.

THE Rev. Mr. HANNA, of the Presbyterian
Church in Ireland, showed more valour than
sound discretiln, when, on Sunday, Sept. 6,
he presisted in preaching in the open air, at
Belfast, the result of which was a breach of the
peace ; certain hot-headed parties of the op-
posing churches of Rome and England, having
resorted to the argument of force, in deficiency
of the force of argument. How deplorable that
we should have still to chronicle these street
fights between Orangemen and Romanists, both
professing the same religion, under different
forms, appealing to the same Scriptures, follow
ing the same Master, and living under the pro-
tection of the same laws. can anything be more
discreditable than to learn that a Mahornmedan
police is sometimes obliged to keep the peace
between Eastern and Western Christians, fight-
ing with carnal weapons at the very tomb of
CHRIST? how must the followers of the Arabian
prophet sneer at the pugnacity of the followers
of CHRIST ? How must the unbeliever smile at
the narrow bigo•ry and unholy passions that
divide the Romanist and the Protestant ? Surely
the great principles which all Christians hold
in common ought to be sufficient to combine
them in one holy crusade against vice and
ignorance. With all the errors of Romanism, it
also holds in solution many true and noble
principles ; and, notwithstanding the alleged
purity of the opposite faith, there is no need to
borrow the worst part of Popery, its dogmatising
and persecuting spirit. We pray to be saved
from the Popery of Protestants, not less than
from the errors of Rome.

We do not question that Mr. HANNA and,his
supporters were animated by good intentions.
They were resolved, they say, to establish the
right of freely preaching the Gospel. We have
no wish to deny that right, the right of free
speech and unpunished discussion ; we claim it
for all men of all parties and all opinions; and
we suspect that we should carry that freedom far
beyond the limits of Mr. HANNA. and his friends.
What we now question is not the abstract right
to preach in the open air, on a Sunday afternoon,
at Belfast, but the wisdom, the discretion, the
enlightened Christian feeling of doing so under
the circumstances. A breach of the peace seemed
so highly probable that two magistrates, justices
of the peace, appealed to the Rev. Gentleman,
asking him to reconsider his determination to
hold forth under circumstances of so much pro-
bable excitement. His Reverence was inexorable
—the expected result followed. Instead of wor-
shipping the LORD in the " temple not made with
hands," soon a sharp whistle was heard at one
part of the crowd, answered by another else-
where ; immediately the mob separated into
two fighting parties. Wounds and bruises were
multiplied, the whole town was disturbed ;
constables and military were called out, the riot
act was read, the order was given to load with
ball. At length the soldiers fired ; many were
wounded—some innocent people, of course.
Next day, eight men were sentenced to punish-
ment as having shared in the disturbance. All
this is stupid, deplorable, and a disgrace to our
common Christianity. When will Irishmen
learn to settle their differences amicably by the
arms of the Spirit, and not by the arm of the
flesh. A thing may be right in itself, and yet
not expedient at a certain time and place. Such,
in our judgment, was the case here. A Christian
missionary has the abstract right to go and
hold forth against JUGGERNAUT, while the car of
the idol is passing by, crushing pilgrims in their
path to the holy Ganges. But would such
proceeding be expedient ? Would it be adapted

to answer the end o► converting the benighted
devotee to a purer faith ? Mr. HANNA, to
be consistent, should go to India and try
the experiment ; and the present moment of
Indian anarchy ought to be specially inviting.
Why should not the Gospel be freely preached
in India as well as in Ireland; for there also it is-
the " power of God unto salvation to every one
that believeth !" Let •the Reverend Gentleman
give his fears to the winds, seeing his maxim
appears to be, that all things which are right
are also expedient—and at all times, too,
and under all circumstances. The Reverend
Preacher might easily have seen that he could
not reasonably expect to advance real religion
by any such proceeding. The quiet, moral, and
Christian part of his audience did not need this
demonstration, and the unruly part would not
be influenced by it for good. It was, therefore,
a somewhat needless, indiscreet, and inexpedient
temptation to a breach of the peace of our
Sovereign Lady the Queen. The peace was
accordingly broken, and many Irish heads were
broken also.

A FEW DAYS since we had occasion to
allude to a serious and systematic plan of
monetary embezzlement which has been going
on in London for some time past. We have
now to turn our attention to another quarter of
the globe—the West. The news from the
United States, by the last four or five steamers,
has told us of the prevalence of a money panic
in the city of New York, and, according to the
ad vices brought by the Arabia, the crisis had
hardly reached it culminating point, so that,
although its consequences may have been dis-
astrous, the worst results were not experienced.
Deeply interested although our American
brethren felt in the progress and completion of
the transatlantic cable, the mishap which it sus-
tained, although entirely unlooked for, was with
them a matter of minor consideration, and
entirely absorbed by the monetary disasters,
which had become matters of almost daily occur-

rence.

Brother Jc,nathan, in alluding to " go •a-head"
propensity and disposition, is apt to make a
boast, for the benefit of the "Britishers," that he
" can lick all creation." Certain it is that his
onward progress on the " road to ruin" is just
now rapid, and would seem to verify to the
letter his own peculiar and emphatic designa-
tion—" lick all creation." The readers of this
journal are but too well aware that bank failures
—the crashes of commercial firms of reputed
eminence and honour—have lately been frequent
items in our domestic intelligence. But what
we read in our New York advices convince us
that, in these important matters, we are com-
pletely beaten by the merchants, bankers, and
traders, in the United States. The first of
these disasters was the breaking down of the
Ohio Life and Trust Company. This was
followed by the suspension of the Mechanics'
Banking Association ; then came the downfall
of several private banks, and subsequently
numerous commercial houses, whose prosperity
was, to a considerable extent, both directly and
indirectly bound up with them. Viewed in all
its aspects, a more unfortunate, nay deplorable,
collapse had not taken place for a long series of
year:. After wreaking its vengeance upon Wall-
street and its speculators, the panic, we find, had
extended itself to nearly all the banks connected
with those of New York. In Buffalo we learn
that bank suspensions had become the order of
the day; and from the indications contained in
the .4rabia's advices, the possibility is that the
" panic" would, before its progress was com-
pletely arrested, and the alarm and excitement
connected therewith, visit most of the commercial
states in the Union. •

We are all aware that, in times like those pre-
vailing in New York, there is a " general run"
upon the banks which perpetuates the excite-
ment, and greatly augments the mischief, with-
out any tangible grounds for such undesirable
results. In such a state of things, the bank most
plethoric of gold. or the commercial firm rich in
securities and various consignments of produce,
cannot stand the brunt of a strong pecuniary
pressure. According to the city articles in the
New York papers of the 31st ult., and Ist inst.,
Saturday, the 29th of August, was a day of
the most intense excitement and wild confusion.
and adding to the results attendant on monetary
panics, complete disbelief in the resources of the
great monetary establishments of the commercial
metropolis of the United States, and, as a matter
of course, to the pecuniary prostration of not a
few. One distinguishing characteristic of the
panic now under consideration is that of defal-
cation and embezzlement. In many of the States,
many of the American people are not over sensi-
tive how they act on these points. Excessive
trading, reckless trading, and railway extrava-

Bence, appear to be among the prime causes
which have induced the monetary pressure now
going on in the United States. As to the share
which the American railways have to bear of
this disaster, we are told that not only has a vast
amount of capital been absorbed in the construcL
tion of lines, but the leading companies have
been large borrowers upon their own acceptances.
hence it was that railway paper floated in large
quantities on the New York money market.- To
to this unfavourable circumstance we may add
that, from a variety of causes, the receipts on
the great railway lines have been diminishing, so
that the difficulties of meeting •the increasing
liabilities has been proportionably augmented.
We need not wonder, therefore, that the banka