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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1857,

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Select Ves-
try was held yesterday. The proceedings were
Wholly in respect to the burial fee question, and
after a long discussion, a decision was come to that
a fee of is fid each burial be paid to Rector Camp.
bell. As the reverend gentlemen has hinted as
Much that he would be satisfied by such a pay-
pent, it is sincerely to be hoped that this vexa-
tious question leas been at once and for ever put
upon the sheer,
The KA Quarterly Sessions were opened
Yeste':day, Lord Stanley acting as chairman. After
:t11:e usual routine business was disposed of, Mr.
Blackburne proposed, and Mr. Theodore Rath-
hone seconded, that an additional Petty Sessions
be established for the townships of Woollen. Child-
wall, Allerton, &c. Sze., and thereby relieve Prescot
from much overwork. Mr. Ilathbone with great
ability advocated the measure, and a conversation
having ensued, it was lir animously agreed that
such additional judicial Petty Sessions should at
once come into operation.
In yesterday's publication, we mentioned that
an affray hail occurred on board the American
packet ship, J. L. Bogart, during which the mate
was severely, if not dangerously, wounded, and that
a number of the crew had been arrested in con-
sequence. Yesterday, they were brought up atthe
Birkenhead Police Court, and the proceedings.
which will be found in another column, prove that
a very lax state of discipline prevailed on board,
that the authorities of the vessel were very domin-
eering, and that the eniute was partially caused by
the overbearing conduct of the mate. Some of the
accused even go so far as to say that the mate was
wounded by the second officer. The investigation
of the case was adjourned till to-morrow. Those
of the crew, who did not possess dangerous
weapons at the time of the difficulty, were dis-
charged.
The Canton affair is not yet ended, either in
China or in England. On Monday night, a town's
meeting was held at Birmingham, in which the
conduct of the British admiral was cehsured in no
measured terms.
Our Irish advices add some slight particulars
to the meagre account in yesterday's paper of the
fire in the Bank of Ireland It would appear that
Miss Roberts, the housekeeper of the establish-
ment, retired to rest about one o'clock on Monday
morning, and at that time all appeared safe. Her
apartments are immediately opposite the account-
ant. general's -office, and at four o'clock she was
awakened hy•the glare of light issuing from the
windows of the bookkeeper's department. Miss
Roberts forthwith gave the alarm, when it was
discovered that the flames were raging with great
fury; but prompt assistance having been speedily
procured, the progress of the fire was fortunately
arrested, and, although the bookkeeper's offices are
utterly devastated, no further mischief has occurred
to the building. The first person aroused was Mr.
Dubedat, the cashier, who resides in the bank.
The first thing he did was to order the steam
engine to work, and thus, shortly after the arrival
of the engines, an ample supply of water was
obtained. The tanks on the roof were fonnd, when
most wanted, to be dry,but the tanks on the ground
floor were soon amply supplied, and thus the devas-
tating power of the flames was soon got under.
Hose had to be carried in the first instance to
Foster place, whence a supply was procured, until
the tanks had been filled. How the fire originated
is a,total mystery. It was rumoured that it occurred
in consequence of an escape of gas, but such is
not the fact. The day previous being Sunday,
access to any of the offices was impossible, and it
appears almost incredible that the fire could have
been smouldering since Saturday evening. Miss
Roberts keeps the keys of all the offices, and she
alleges that no person had entered any of them
since they were closed after business hours on
Saturday. On the whole, the affair is shrouded in
mystery. The only property said to be destroyed
consists of useless blotters; all the valuable books
were locked up in the safes. It would appear
that the electors of Downpatrick will not want
for candidates at the forthcoming election for their
borough. Already, two candidates have addressed
them—gr. Richard Ker and Mr. William Johnston
-and a third appears in the field, in the person of
Mr' E S. Ruthven, of Lincoln Lodge, London,
This gentleman, from his address, seems to be a
thick and thin supporter of the present Govern-
ment, and is, we presume, a Liberal and a Radical.
if is difficult to tell what reception he will meet at
the hands of the Orangemen who constitute a ma-
jority of the electors of Downpatrick. The Tenant
Right movement seems to have died out in
Ireland, not however, before the absurdity of the
clap-trap manoeuvres of the leaders of the scheme

was made manifest to the tenant farmers of that
portion of her majesty's dominions. A case in
point will show our readers that the measure
advocated by the Dublin Nation, and other ultra-
radical journals, is not necessary is now before
us. A farm of land containing forty-five acres,.
situated within one mile of Belfast, held at wilt:,
under D. S. Ker, Esq , M.P., at the yearly rent of
431., or 20s. an acre, was put up to public com-
petition in that town, and sold (by permission of
the landlord) at the enormous sum of 750/ ! ! The
land is by no means in good condition. and the
houses are considerably dilapidated. What
statute giving compensation for bona fide improve-
ments made on the farm could be expected to
come up to this? Nay, if such a statute were in
existence, the tenant who pocketed the sum of
7301. would not, we aver, on a view of the houses
and land, by honest arbitrators, be awarded one
shilling !
Affairs on the continent are in -a most critical
condition. The assassination of the At bishop
of Paris has made a great imPressiGn on the mind
of the Emperor, and no wonder, for his own fate
might be similar, and the peace of France hangs
on a mere thrml—the life of Louis Napoleon
Did he die to-morrow the nation would be con-
vulsed with civil war--.war that might ere long end
distroLts rupture with England. As it is
I'Vellltionary societies abound in France, some of
them hiving immense influence and magnitude.
Fcrukh Khan, the Persian Ambassador Extraordi-
nary, arrived in Paris on Sunday night. M. Du-
bersten, an interpreter atta.-led to the ministry
of foreign affairs was sent to the Lyons railway
station to receive him. Ferukh Khan is a man of
about forty years of age, very tail and plump, with
a dark complexion, and very black beard and eyes.
He wore an Astrakan cap and a light coloured silk
pelisse, bordered with fur. Among his suite were
serving men bearing:the arms and narguilhey, or
' khalyoun" of his Excellency. The ambassador
and suite, in several carriages, went to the Turkish
embassy to supper, and were afterwards conducted
to the house No. 45, Avenue Montagne, which had
been taken for them.

The Neuchatel difficulty, so far as the release of
the prisoners is concerned, is at an end. Pourtales
and his friends are free, and already in France.
The General had infermed the army that the quar-
rel was over, and that they would be sent home. All
fears of a war between Switzerland and Prussia
are therefore at an end. We never supposed
that the King of Prussia would madly engage
in the conflict ; and events have occurred
as we anticipated. The dark gathering clouds
of war have rolled away, and peace continues
to prevail on the Continent. But how long
is that to continue ? Is the peace likely
to be abiding ? We fear not. There are smoul-
dering elements in some of the Continental nations
that may be repressed for a period, but cannot be
extinguished. Just as sure as iron despotism, and
cruety, and corruption now characterises the
Governments of those kingdoms, so surely will
those Governments be resisted and overthrown.
There has been a debate in the Sardinian
Chambers on the Anglo French Alliance. M. Brof-
ferio has questioned Count Cavour in the Chamber,
but that !functionary was too much for him; and
the debate ended in nothing.
News from Constantinople confirm the statement
of the concession of the Rustschuk-Saros Railway
to Mr. Layard. The assertion is repeated that
Mr. Wilkins has secured the Turkish loan by pay-
ing down the caution money. The diplomatic
conference on the Principalities had completed its
task of revising the firman.

There is nothing new of importance from the
Neapolitan kingdom. The King, having subdued
the revolt in Sicily, that reckless despot continues
to exercise his tyranny and oppression over his
subjects. The captured revolutionists have been
dealt with mercilessly ; and many of them have
been put to cruel death, and the Neapolitan
dungeons are said to be groaning with crowds
of six or seven hundreds of suffering pri
soners. But the spirit of insurrection in that
ill-fated kingdom is not destroyed. It will yet
break forth with irrepressible and overwhelming
fury. King Bomba knows that his tenure of the
throne he has disgraced is most uncertain ; and
for the sake of the sacred cause of that liberty,
which he has outraged, and the speedy emancipa-
tion of his enslaved and oppressed subjects,
trust the time is not far distant when the tyrant
will be hurled from his present position, and
another be exalted to occupy his place more
fitted for it.

Our Spanish advices inform us that Gen. Prim
will really be placed before a court martial. In
the meantime, menacing symptoms of an impend-
ing republican outbreak appear on all sides in that
kingdom. The depraved Queen is despised by her
subjects. In public they do not conceal their
feelings towards her; and, therefore, she receives
not the courtesy and respect always manifested by
the Spanish towards their Sovereigns. Whether
the Queen will resign the Throne, as has been
reported, or be driven from it by her indignant
subjects, we do not pretend to say ; but of
this fact there can be no doubt, that in the
cities, and towns, and provinces, there is
a general feeling of discontent, and incli-
nation to revolt; and the continued changes
of Government—the fierce contention of parties
and their mutual duplicity—=the tumults and
bloodshed. so frequently occurring—all presage
that peace, and order, and prosperity, are blessings
not likely to be soon enjoyed by this once illustrious
and omnipotent, but now degraded and fallen,
nation.
Italy is at present in a very volcanic stata. The
Papal dominions are ripe for revolt. Contrary to
the laws of nations the French army holds in sub-
jection the subjects of the Pope, and by force of
arms compels them to submit to his allegiance.
But they abhor his iniquitus rule and arr deter-
mined to achieve their liberty. " Relieve us from
the French army," said a gallant Italian lately,
" and we will speedily be rid of the Pope and his
infamous Government." And the French army
must sooner or later abandon Rome; it is a huge
evil that they have been allowed so long to remain
there ; and the moment they turn their faces to
their own country the Sovereignty of the Pope will
be abolished for over. The Pope's Throne in
Rome will then be cast to the dust. In that portion
of that fair country over which the Austrian
Government holds sway, .there is also much dis•
content smouldering, yet fearful when it bursts
out. The Emperor Francis Joseph has been
making a hurried journey over those regions,
but his reception was anything but flatter-
ing to a crowned and annointed head. At
Brescia the Emperor only stopped for one hour,
because only one lady, the wife of an old
employe, was found in the whole town to wait upon
the Empress. The determination of the whole
Lombard population in showing its to the
Autocrat and to his troops exceeds all belief. Lam-
poons and pasquinades,some of them so outrageous
into
English, they could not be translated literally
English, and would convey no meaning except
to those initiated in the worst slang of these
Italian dialects, are posted up every night at
every street corner in Milan. A triumphal arch
made with human skulls, drawn with the
very greatest skill in the Fischietto, the
Italian Panels, was published in Turin a few weeks
ago. It was a master-piece of Sardinic satire, and
would, no doubt, cost any Lombard subject his life
who could be found with such an object of the fine
arts in his possession, The government deemed
it right to seize the paper for that day, so that it
might be supposed that the obnoxious print was
out of circulation. Nevertheless, hundreds and
thousands of copies have found their way into
Lombardy : they were stuck up at every corner of
the streets, almost daily; and they were seen at
every street corner when the Etnperor passed,
notwithstanding the efforts of the police to tear
thorn down. A crown, made of real human skulls,
had been hanged, in the night, on one of the
many triumphal arches with which the Lombard
capital had been decorated for the occasion.
It will be remembered that the S. econd
Chamber of Hanover, already several times
dissolved for its refusal to acquiesce in the
modifications which the Government seeks, at
the demand of the Germanic Diet, to 'in•
troduce into the Constitution. was, a short

time ago, again dispersed for shnilar reasons.
The elections to the new Assembly commenced on
Sunday, and if we are to judge of the whole by the
earliest results, the governments will find its rela-
tions towards the Chamber unchanged. A
despatch from the capital informs us that out of
eignteen districts, the elections in which are
already known, ten have elected members of the
opposition, and this, notwithstanding the fact that
the elections occur under the new octroyed law.
Since the foregoing was written, we have received
the following telegraphic despatch, dated Mad-
rid, January 17 :—" The Gazette publishes a
Royal decree of Convocation of the Cortes for the
first of May. The elections will be made con-
formably to the law of the 18th March, 1840."

AT the late banuet given to the French heroes
who served in the Crimea, the name of England
or of the British Army was never mentioned
This is a most remarkable circumstance, and
must be taken for what it is worth. At one time
its significance would have made a deep impres-
sion on the people of this country ; but seeing
that the Emperor NAPOLEON was a party to the
Western Alliance, it would appear as if the re-
union was meant to give the guests an opportu-
nity of passing a silent vote of censure on the
Imperial policy. It could scarcely have been
meant to give offence to Great Britain, and
cause alarm throughout Continental Europe. It
would therefore be very wrong on our part to
put any such construction on the whims of tLe
military chiefs of France. We have bestowed
upon them all the praise and thanks due to their
valiant services, and we can well afford to put
up with silence on the part of the Imperial
officers when the Crimea is mentioned.

Were it necessary to deny their claim to being
the capturers of Sebastopol, we:might do so with
very great consistency. One British regiment,
the 18th Royal Irish, were the first of the Allied
Armies to enter the town of Sebastopol, and they
held their ground for several hours, and
only relinquished it when they found that
the French, or their own countrymen, were
not coming to their succour. This has now be-
come a simple matter of history, and is one of
the most glorious records connected with the
Crimean campaign• The military authorities of
France may put a very different construction on
this/interesting episode to what we English do ;
but that will not alter the complexion or true
nature of the fact. The French did their share
of the work before Sebastopol, but nothing more.
They fought like heroes ; our men were left to
defend themselves like demons. There was some
show of generalship in the French army ; but
there was an overwhelming warlike spirit, and no
mean display of skill in the British ranks.

General PELISSIER may have had no competi-
tor among the commanders on our side ; yet the
devotion, endurance, determination, and valour
which pervaded our ranks was equal to all the
martial attainments shown before the enemy,
whether they had to be confronted in the
trenches and batteries before Sebastopol, or on the
open field. It is, in truth, very remarkable, that
we seldom read of a campaign in which the real
merits of victory were so equally divided between
the bayonet and the batoon, the sentry and the
marshal. This may, possibly, be ascribed to the
very peculiar nature of the duty which was to be
performed. in a uk,sc and wcll-cuutested siege
there is little for the master-mind to do. A
subaltern may surprise an outpost, and a reck-
less, wandering sailor capture a battery single-
handed. A siege is the field for such
daring exploits. The breaching of walls and
taking redoubts by assault are mere effprts of
brute force, in which a general-in-chief should
play a reserved part. His presence is not re-
quired where scaling ladders are used, and the
greatest number of bullets and bayonets must
win the day.

The Duke of MALAKHOFF must consequently
have exposed himself unnecessarily if his Grace
maintains that he was the chief who captured
the Russian citadel. But we have no wish to
rob a valorous commander of any of the
agreeable reflections and delights which he
may find to while away the monotony of peace.
The Duke of MALAKHOFF has to make peace
with his imperial master. His British comrades
have little reason to regret the compliments they
have paid the French flag and the army of the
Empire. The repetition of these acknowledg-
ments of the prowess, and indeed superiority, of
the French soldiers in very many respects, may
have been somewhat troublesome to the Imperial
commanders ; yet it does seem as though the
general aspect of the semi-diplomatic banquet in
question would be far more annoying to the
Emperor NAPOLEON, who we cannot believe is
prepared to endorse the very singular and un-
grateful absence of mind which has given to the
dinner of the French Marshals its sole interest.
The nation whose uniform those officers wore on
the occasion must have been annoyed at the
singularity of the whole affair; and we are quite
certain that the great majority of French people
feel that their habitual politeness and character-
istic hospitality were but very poorly represented
at the Crimean festival of Sebastopol heroes.

THE Manchester Commercial Association's
Annual Report, which we published yesterday,
is a very important document. The report itself
is devoted to what may be called ". Local diplo-
" macy," and it is a very clever production of its
kind. Had its authors been at liberty to call
in the French language to their aid, they might
have been able to disguise their object in the
verbiage of the Parisian bureau. They might
have assured us that their profound consideration
for our exalted respect for the rights of property
was opposed to the very idea of subverting that
purity of the public mind which is so essential to
the safety of the individual subject; and im
pressed with the wisdom and propriety of keep-
ing her Majesty's Government beyond the reach
of contamination and collateral consequences,
they had devised measures in order to make that
which was once a public measure, alike embar-
rassing to the Cabinet and Parliament, a private
bill, for which the Corporation of Manchester
alone would be responsible. Had this part ofl