Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-27 00:00:00

TO THE LADIES.

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Many of the fair sex in particular are martyrs to bunions. a
description of corns to which the faculty have not hitherto paid the
attention, which a source of so much discomfort and pain deserves.
In consequence of this it is necessary to submit to a long confine-
ment in order to have them eradicated. Mr. Siemms, has the
satisfaction of stating that be can speedily remove them by a
simple application, of which he is the sole inventor. Ladies will
do well to avail themselves of this opportunity of getting rid of
this troublesome description of corn so often neglected in its earliest
stages.
A nominal charge will be made to operatives of this town from
six to eight o'clock in the evening. An early call is solicited.
Mr. S's celebrated Chilblain Lotion may be had at his consulting
rooms.
Mr. S. will devote Wednesday and Saturday mornings, from
Nine till Ten, gratuitously, by ticket of recommendation from any
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ending Saturday, April 23rd, 810: corresponding
week last year, 767.—Increase, 43 boys.
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Board of Health having proof of the same, urgently
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DROPSICAL SWELLINGS. TURN OF LlFE.—This is a most
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1859.

THE DAY'S NEWS.
Yesterday, the Conservative candidates for South
Lancashire held a meeting of their supporters in the
Amphitheatre, the chair being occupied by F. Shand,
Esq. Both Messrs. Egerton and Legh addressed
the meeting, but certainly failed to produce any
exalted opinion as to their oratorical fitness for the
position to which they aspire. Considering the vast
commercial and manufacturing interests of South
Lancashire, it would, indeed, be an anomaly if two
gentlemen so totally ignorant of commercial pursuits
should be elected as the exponents of its claims and
interests in the House of Commons. The meeting
was not so largely attended as usual at the Amphi-
theatre. T. B. Horsfall, Esq., moved a resolution
pledging the meeting to support Messrs. Egerton.and
Legh, and, in doing so, utterly shattered
the notion which has prevailed in some
quarters that he was making rapid advances to the
Reform ranks. A more Tory speech has not been
delivered since the dissolution, and yet, at the same
time, it was characterised by considerable ability,
and delivered in his usual happy stile. The meet-
ing was also addressed by J. A. 1 obin, Esq., and
Mr. James Holme. The proceedings did not occupy
quite two hours. The electors of the City of London
held another meeting on Monday afternoon,
Lord John Russell being present. During
his speech, he criticised Lord Derby's decla-
ration in the House of Lords, about an armed
neutrality, and remarked that there was a wide dif-
ference between an armed neutrality and an efficient
state of defence. The former implied.an interference
on the one side or the other. In conclusion, he said,
!` He thought that, instead of an armed neutrality—
in which case other powers would naturally ask,
what
are your ultimate intentions P---we should be
satisfied in keeping ourselves in a complete state of
defence, in place of our present inefficient armament.
was, that His advice this country should take no
part in the contest,but
of sue that policy which
would promote the ,
peaceand the welfare,
he might say, of mankind at laurrgoep.
A very enthusiastic reception
was given • to Mr.
George Thompson, late M.P. for the Tower Hamlets,
by the Reformers of Liverpool, at the Concert Hall,'
last night. Mr, Thompson delivered one of his
eloquent speeches on the subject of Reform, which
will be found fully reported in our columns of to-day.
Last night's Globe estimates the political character
of the new Parliament. The Ministerial gain is
reckoned at 13, =lcing tiwir fet4l strength 273, but

as their opponents would number 381, Ministers
Would be in a. minority of 108.
The Lord Mayor of London gave his usual Easter
banquet at the Mansion House on Monday evening,
upon which occasion Lord Derby was present, and
in responding to the toast of her Majesty's Ministers
he announced that England had within the last
twelve hours made one more effort for peace. He
stated that the Ministers had transmitted a pro-
posal to Paris and Vienna, offering to settle the
points in dispute by mediation, on one of these two
points, viz.., either the immediate disarmament of the
three Powers—Austria, France, and Sardinia--or an
agreement that each army shall remain in its present
position, and a state of truce, if not of peace, pending
the mediation. Lord Derby insisted that our neu-
trality must be an armed neutrality; but he dis-
claim-ed all desire to commit this country one way or
another, -while casting upon Austria the 'responsibility
of taking the first step to promote hostilities. What-
ever 'the .consequences of that step may be, Austria
will have brought them on herself; but Lord Derby
did not intend by any means to exonerate Sardinia
from blame.

The Easter Vestry was held at the Sessions House,
yesterday, Rector Campbell presiding. Some discus-
sion took place concerning the Walton Cemetery,
from which it appears that at least £2,000 will be
required to put the place in proper order. A rather
warm discussion was caused by the churchwardens
refusing to state whether they intended to propose,
or oppose, Mr. Whitty, for election as Select Vestry-
man, and amendments were carried, ousting Messrs.
Jones and Cropper from the office of churchwardens.
Afterwards, Mr. Jones stated that they did not in-
tend to nominate anyone in the room of Mr. Whitty,
whose election was carried with much enthusiasm,
and the motion against Messrs. Jones and Cropper
was withdrawn. All the Select Vestrymen proposed
were eleeted, with the exception of Mr. Satchell, of
Lord-street. A poll was demanded on behalf of the
latter gentleman, and the voting will commence at
St. Nicholas Church, this morning.
Although the London Stock Exchange was much
firmer yesterday, and an advance established in the
Funds and Railway Shares, the advices from the
Continent do not tend to a pacific conclusion. On
the contrary there appears to be an almost
certainty of war. Sardinia, we are assured,
has refused the ultimatum of Austria, and a
grand mass is to be celebrated at Turin,
this day, at which the King and his Ministers will
attend. No doubt, this religious observance is to
invoke success to the arms of the Piedmontese
so/fliers. _ _

A Paris newspaper, of local weight, is assured
that French ships of war have arrived in Genoese
Waters. This all tends to confirm the impression
that war is imminent.
The.. Austrian Correspondenz states that the Prus-
sian Cabinet had received previous information of the
intention of Austria to deliver an ultimatum to Pied-
mont, and that therefore the continued and faithful
union of Austria and Prussia is still to be hoped for.
The Genoa correspondent of the Express says, that
the volunteers who have already entered the Pied-:
montese service are more than eighteen thousand,'
and you may add to the number from seven hundred
to one thousand new arrivals daily. I am assured,
upon the very best authority, that the spirit of these
adventurous young men is the very best imaginable.
They arrive at this part of the country often
after enduring a variety of hardships and
dangers in their flight; most of them, also, severing
those domestic ties and breaking through those
habits and associations which root the Italians to
their native place more than any other people on
earth ; and on reaching their depots, they all, even
youths of family and education, willingly enter
the ranks as mere private soldiers, and submit to an
amount of drilling which would be intolerable to the
hardest recruits. The Brussels Independence pub-
lishes the following from Berlin :—" There is a marked
difference between the protests sent to Vienna by the
three Powers mentioned by the French 3loniteur.
The Russian protest is the most energetic. Prince
Gortschakoff declares that the conduct of Austria is
' offensive.' The Prussian government has not posi-
tively protested, but has expressed regret, and de-
clined all the responsibility of the consequences of
Austria's proceedings."
The Lord Lieutenat of Ireland, and the Countess
of Eglinton, will return to Ireland this day,
(Wednesday.)
Her Majesty is to hold a levee on the 11 th of
May.

LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.—MT. Stermittle
Bennett's " May Queen" was performed at the Liverpool
Philharmonic Hall last night, as the first part of the society's
concert. The composer conduCted it, and the hall was
crowded, but the enthusiasm amongst either performers or
audience was very slight. The singers, Miss Stabbach, Miss
Lascelles, Mr. Wilbye Cooper, and Mr. Santley, had very
ungrateful parts, and the accompaniments were far too loud
and complicated. They might be very learned, but they
were very far from being intelligible or harmonious. ,We
listened in vain for anything characteristic of the gaiety of
May, or the bold forester Robin Hood, who, by name, at
least, figures among the dramatis personce. The progres-
sions are very Mendelsohnie, which may be accounted for
by the devotion of Mr. Sterndale Bennett to the
performance of Mendelsohn's - " Lieder ohne worte."
The same peculiarities may be traced in the overture to
the " Wood Nymphs," which commenced the second part.
The effect was, on the whole, more pleasing, but there was
nothing of a woodland or fairy-like character, except a few .
bars borrowed from the "Wedding March." "A to riedi,"
by Mercadante, was admirably sung by„Miss Lascelles, and
formed an admirable relief from the dreary pastorals we
had left behind. Next, a trio, from "Roberto DevereuX," by
Donizetti---" Alma bifida" --and "Ah perdona," from
Mozart's " La Clemenza di Tito," sung by Miss Stabbach
and Miss Lascelles---were the vocal gems of the evening.
Mr. Wilbye Cooper and Mr. Santley were both rather tame,
probably on account of their merry (?) makings with the
May Queen. Mr. E. W. Thomas played a solo on the
violin---" variations," by Ferdinand David, on a theme
by Schuberg---with great elegance ; and the chorus
sung, " Come, again, sweet love," very nicely, but
commenced in a most unpromising way. Altogether, the
concert cannot be said to rank high among the usual per-
formances of this society. A second undress concert will be
given on the 17th of May, when the first part of Haydn's
Seasons, Spring, will be given with other vocal and instru-
mental pieces.
A LEC CURE ON JOHN PHTLPOT CURRAN.-On Monday
night, Mr. T. E. Bradley delivered, in the Eldon-street
School-room, to a crowded audience, his second lecture on
" Illustrious Irishmen," the subject being John Philpot
Curran, as,:a patriot and a senator. the Rev. R. Vande-
pitte moved that Mr. Tumilty, jun., should take the chair.
The lecture occupied nearly two hours in the delivery, and
was received throughout with repeated bursts of applause,
often swelling into enthusiastic cheers. The usual vote of
thanks was passed to the able lecturer, who, on reverting
to Curran's dloquent and crushing denunciations of the
infamous Jemmy O'Brien, Armstrong, and Reynolds,
apologised for stepping out' of his way, and said : " One
fondly hoped that the day when such rascally bloodsuckers,
who were paid for their fiend-like services from the Treasury
of a civilised government, had passed away for ever, but,
alas ! it is not so, as the recent events in Ireland have too
clearly demonstrated. The Phoenix trials of yesterday have
disclosed to the astonished gazer of civilised lnrope the fact,
that jury-Tacking, and the services, of the assassin of
the witness box rival the days when Curran denounced those
twin miscreants, Armstrong and Reynolds." After con-
trasting English sympathy with the Neapolitan exiles, and
the young men so unconstitutionally and shamefully incar-
cerated in dungeons in Ireland without a trial, he asked,
." What have you done, Irishmen in Liverpool, by the way
of earnest protest against that gross outrage upon the
liberty of your cdnntrymen, and the equal gross outrage
upon that institution of the country called ' trial by jury ?'
What have you dune to hurl with righteous indignation into
the teeth of those well-paid minions of injustice the implied
and odious charge that, because you hold the faith to God
your father's held, you are not eligible to sit upon a jury
when your fellow Catholic brethren may be charged with
any trumped-up political offence ? What bare the tens of
thousands of Irishmen in Liverpool done ? o an w rs
what ! Where are your leaders, to marshal you
on the way that you should go ? There is said
to exist in Liverpool, a body of men calling
themselves " The Irish Catholic Club." What
has that club done, individually or collectively, towards
vindicating the outraged liberties of their countrymen, and
in evincing a kindly sympathy with the victims of those
nefarious proceedings ? With a few solitary exceptions—
nothing ! Surely if ever there was a time when such a club
should use its influence for good (if it possess any), this
was the time. Perhaps at the next patriotic dinner, at the
Adelphi-hotel, we shall be favoured with patriotic senti-
ments galore, when the would-be eloquent gentlemen.
waxing warm in patriotic sentimentality, And wiping the
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