The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-07 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

years:

The intelligence from the East is of a rather
important and exciting description. Mohammorah
was captured by the English on the 26th of March.
The enemy lost 200 killed and wound, and a large
amount of guns, ammunition, military stores, &c.
The Persian army retreated in great disorder. The
British loss was about ten killed, and from Circassia
we have advises stating that the Tribes had recog-
nised the authority of Schamyl, and were prepar-
ing to break the truce made with Russia and join
the Circassians.

A Paris correspondent conjectures what will be
the next phase of the Swiss question, but doubts
whether the confederation will make a single con-
, cession more. Switzerland accepted the decision
of the Paris Conference, to her great
mortification certainly, but still she was
prepared to abide by that acceptance ;
but the King of Pruasia apparently did not
mean to do so, as he now demands further modifi-
cations. Switzerland can go no further, and it is
not possible that the Federal Council will do any-
thing to add to the existing exasperation. Other
accounts, however, are to the effect that the King
of Prussia has instructed Count Hatzfeldt to sign
the Neufchatel treaty, even if the demands of
Prussia should not be acceded to.

Prince Napoleon is about to pay a visit to the
King of Prussia, and will meet with a reception in
grand military style. It is refreshing, in face of
these displays, to observe that the Prussian Land-
tag seems determined to defeat another of the at-
tempts of the Government to procure more money
for military purposes.
The Vienna correspondent of Le Nord says that
the silk crops in Lombardy this year are lost, and
that the manufacturers have sent agents to London
to buy Chinese silk.

From Paris we learn that the Emperor, on
Wednesday, paid a visit to the Grand Duke Con-
stantine, and presented him with the Grand Cordon
of the Legion of Honour. The frigate which is to
to take out the Plenipotentiary to China is to be
ready by the 11th inst. The A ssemblee Nationale per.
severes in its opposition to the contemplated de-
spatch of trooops to China. It says once engaged
in the quarrel they should be bound to follow it
up, were it to cost them millions of money,
thousands of lives, and some of the best vessels of
that fleet which it is their interest to preserve with
care. The writer states that nothing has been
confirmed in an official manner respecting the
rumoured despatch of troops, and adds that it
appears improbable.
It is stated in a Vienna letter, that the Cabinet
of the Tuilleries, on pressing representations made
to the Court of Sardinia, has received from Turin a

reply, which is represented as being of a nature to
induce the Cabinet of Vienna to consent to the
resumption of diplomatic relations between the

twb courts. The journals of Vienna agree in say
ing, that the elections of members of the Divan.are
udiTitrsilTtest+drdt'i'liTifriele, in Greece, bas pre-
sented a new customs' tariff, based on that of the
principal countries in Europe.

GENERAL and sweeping condemnation of any
class of men is commonly untrue, because
human character is not uniform, but mixed, and
all sections of the community have their share of
the saints as well as of the sinners. It was once
popular to satirise the clergy as being all
hypocrites ; every soldier was a cut-throat ; and
of course all lawyers were special pleaders—their
very profession being to hire themselves out, and
sell their breath in order to make the worse
appear the better reason. Such indiscriminate
censure defeated its own purpose by its extrava-
gance. No doubt there are humane soldiers,
sincere clergymen, and honest lawyers. Though
not sharing in this illiberal prejudice against
any class of our countrymen, we are yet free to
confess that we should be sorry to find that the
New Parliament, from which the nation hopes
so much, contained a disproportionate number
of the men of law. In the last Parliament, the
number of military men, and connections of the
aristocracy, and members of the legal profession,
was quite astonishing. We have not as yet the
means of ascertaining what are the proportions
of these respective classes in the present Parlia-
ment. But we will venture to predict that
notwithstanding the imputed Radicalism of the
masses, and the undeniable reforming tendencies
of the English people, yet the choice of the
nation at the late general election has fallen for
the most part upon men of wealth, birth, and
social status. Even the artisans are not prone
to select members of their own class to represent
them. And were the property qualification
repeated, we believe the result would still be the
same. There is a certain Conservative principle
even in the Radicalism of Great Britain.
Radicalism means thorough going Reform ; it is
eminently Conservative of all that is good in
our constitutions, and is, or aims to be,
destructive only of what is evil. Even if the
suffrage were greatly extended, it would
probably be found then as now that working
people would choose to be represented by rich
men rather than by poor men of their own order,
If men of the legal profession find their way
into Parliament in undue proportion to other
classes, this probably indicates their possession
of greater capacity, or greater ambition. The
highest officer under the Crown, and keeper of
the Royal conscience, is the Lord High Chancellor
of England—this officer is restricted to the legal
profession. The head of the Church, is subject
to the head of the Law ; his Grace, of Canterbury,
is subordinate to England's Chancellor. And it
is wholesome, that so it should be. It reminds
us, that according to the spirit of the British
constitution, the State is above the Church ; the
law of the land is supreme over laity and clergy.
So be it ever. Why, even in constitutional Sar-
dinil, the other day, the law of the land was
found stronger than the rebellious Archbishop
FRAN ZONI.

Of the other two learned professions—the
Clerical and the Medical, comparatively few
enter Parliament. Of course, we refer to Dis-

has ever hinted a doubt of Mansell's guilt. The
ease is, therefore, not one for protest, except upon
the broad ground applicable to all cases of capital
that it is irnno' ..f, -o puni:h
eon vietioo e—namely,
even. deliberate murder with death.
The connection between the sons of the late Sir
Robert Peel and. the Palmerston Administration
has ceased. We have already mentioned that
Frederick Peel has left the War Office; the resig-
nation of Sir Robert Peel of his office of Lord of
the Admiralty is now announced. These changes,
we should think, must be for the advantage of
both the parties concerned. There is a rumour
of Mr. Monsell, another Peefite gentleman, quit
ting the Ordnance Office,
The Queen's speech will be delivered shortly
after four o'clock this afternoon. is yet there
are only about 430 members of the new parliament
sworn in. Those members who have not been
sworn will not be able to vote, in the event of a
division taking place that evening, indeed, they
'will be disputlfied from taking their 'seats during
the progress of the debate. The address in the
House of Lords will be seconded by the Earl of
Portsmouth.

senting Ministers, in speaking of the clergy ;
and do not forget, that the maxim,
priest, a priest for ever," excludes the clergy of
the Established Church, whose bishops sit in the
Upper House. But the men of law usurp the
lion's share of the representation. It is quite
consistent with the highest respect for law, to
wish this state of things altered. It is true, that
law reform, as well as army reform, are among
the earliest subjects that must come before Par-
liament ; and the advice of experienced jurists
might be useful in the House of Commons.
But then, we can have that advice through our
law lords, and retired chancellors, and learned
judges—and so, we can do with fewer lawyer's
in the people's house. Without indulging in
illiberal imputation, we should prefer to see
soldiers with their regiments, and barristers con-
ning their briefs and studying their precedents
—and well educated men, of good business
habits, sound common sense, and unswerving
integrity, forming the great mass of our repre-
sentatives in Parliament.

" o -,.ce a

Lawyers are too apt to rest in precedent, and
stop short of equity. It is the tendency of their
professional habits. They ask not so much what
ought to be, but what has been. Men of pre-
cedent are not the best material of which to make

reformers. We need men who can read the signs
of the times, who can comprehend the wants of
the people, see what needs to be done, and can

find the fit time and way to do it. Perhaps law
studies, while they sharpen, may narrow the
mind. This is likely to be the case, unless all
human laws and institutions are composed with
that older and divine law which is the foundation
of all human law. Studied thus, law might ex-
pand the mind and widen the sympathies. How
far this is the case we do not undertake to deter.
mine. Bnt the popular instinct is against too
many lawyers in the peoples' house. The Law
Amendment Society, including many profes-
sional and unprofessional men, has prepared the
way for many a reform in our laws ; and we
trust the legal men in the house will lend their
help to make the improvements at once safe and
complete. We need law to be made simple,
inexpensive, and accessible--the same law for
rich and poor. We are looking for improvement
in our marriage laws, in the laws that regulate
the sale of land and property, in the laws touch-
ing the property of married women, and in a
hundred other directions. Will the lawyer men
in the House obstruct or forward these improve-
ments ? Time will determine. We shall see
which part they will choose; whether the better
part, of Public good, or the worse part, of

selfish ambition and private ends. Charity hopes
the best; and let us hope that they will
employ their undeniably great power in rernov-

ing many an abuse and anomaly from our statute
books, cheapening and simplifying legal proceed-
ings, and making the law of England approach

more and mare to coincide with the ultimate
id,141-IMIUILy.

The .tate of the Money Market is still far
from wearing an improving aspect. Indeed,
there are just now symptoms in our Monetary
and Commercial position, which, are well cal-
culated, to arouse feelings of great uneasi-
ness, and almost create alarm with respect to the
future. The Bankruptcies gazetted, are becom-
ing somewhat numerous. During the week end-
ing May 1, no less than twenty-six names were
published under that head. Among them, we
notice a timber, a corn, and a wine merchant,
a shipowner, and two shipbuilders, a silversmith,
three grocers, and three chemists and druggists.
This is discouraging enough. In Manchester, we
learn, that matters are even worse, for it is
represented that " manufacturers who have
striven hard to turn their capital and labour to
profitable account, are failing and compounding
with their creditors." This cannot be wondered
at, when we take into account the testimony of
Messrs. M`NAIR, GREENHOW, and IRVING, of
Manchester. In their monthly circular, alluding
to the state of the Money Market, and its effect
upon trade, they observe, " Since the last
named period," the .2nd of April, " the conse-
quences have been rendered gradually more
apparent, and telling, and the tone and action of
the market have bzen decidedly altered for the
worse, the consequence of considerable uneasi-
ness and apprehension as to the future course
and value of money. There is also much
anxiety connected with the future position and
value of cotton, which, with that of money, are
jointly responsible for the declining energy in
matters here, and the future bearing and position
of this district. As to the money consideration,
no immediate hope of relief can be entertained ;
seeing, in all probability, its value must remain
high for a long time to come, when viewed in
connection with the legitimate requirements of our
expanding commerce, and the many real and
speculative schemes afloat at home and on the
continent of, and in Europe, and continuous
demands for specie for India 4rid China." After
reviewing in detail the movements of the cloth
and yarn markets, in Manchester during the
month of April, the circular in question concludes
thus :—" We close the month gloomily and
depressed, without any immediate prospect of
relief, unless from a cheaper rate of money, and
a decline in the value of cotton, and the deter-
mined disinclination of merchants to operate only
for actual or itnmediately prospective wants.
This is the principle upon which they have been
acting during the last fortnight, and such will
be their system generally until clearer prospects
arrive."

Du FAY and Company take almost a similar
view of matters. The well-known and excellent
circular of Messrs. CONAL and Company of
Glasgow is not less emphatic as to the conse-
quences of the stringency of the Money Market,
whilst GOODLIFFE and SMART of London, in
their semi-monthly report on freights, declare
that during the last fortnight there has not been
any improvement in rates, and that merchants

are tempted to operate only by low offers. This
is a state of things far from being satisfacto • ty.
How can all this be accounted for ? Although
the imports of foreign and colonial produce are
large, the price of each commodity rules high,
whilst the scarcity of money exercises a very
sensible effect upon the value of British manu-
factures, The circulars just referred to show that
the products of British industry are receding in
value, while the raw materials, cotton, silk, flax,
hemp, hides, &c., are moving upwards. It
might be expected that the existence of a falling
value for the manufactured article would operate
in the same manner, and to a corresponding ex-
tent, with regard to the raw materials of which it
is composed. This, however, we cannot expect
so long as our monetary system is so faulty and
so erroneous as it has been proved to be. The
working of the gold mines in Australia and Ca-
lifornia has given a great impulse to the demand
for British manufactures, and as long as the yield
is so productive the price of all raw produce and
foreign commodities will remain high, were the
Bank ofEngland to turn its discount screw until
the rate reached 10 or 12 per cent. The prin-
ciple, however, is different when we apply it to
British manufactures, and to that value which is
the result of the labour, machinery and skill of
this country. They must, it is true, follow, in
the same degree, the movements in raw materials
and articles: of consumption; but thatdiffer-
enee, which forms matter of dispute between the
value of such Materials, on the one side, and
wages and profits on the other, is instantly
affected by the state of the money market,
This is to be expected, seeing that while every
other nation, near and remote, is enjoying, the
beneficial advantages arising from an increased
production of gold, our laws create for it an arti-
ficial demand, and instead of treating it as any
other commercial commodity, mix it up with
our currency, and make it not only the standard
of value,' but the index of capital. The banking
system of this country as regulated by Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S Act of 1844, subjects us to ex-
perience such depressions, alarmS, and sinking
prices, as gave for a long time past been the
ruling feeling in the trading and commercial
circles in this country. __These ideas have been
frequently urged in these columns, and the more
we ponder over the Bank Charter, and examine
its results, the more confident are we of the
soundness of our views regarding the imperfect
character of our currency laws. Any one who
peruses the evidence given before the Select Com-
mittee of both Houses of Parliament on the
commercial distress of 1847, must also agree as
to the mischievous tendency of the present Bank
Act regulating paper issues, and concur in the
propriety and truth of Mr. HUME'S proposal in
the Commons Committee, that " the laws for
regulating the issues of bank-notes payable on
demand, aggravated the commercial distress of
1847." _We hope that .the new Parliament will
Lcul.lLl6 up cuts matter. ine
present position of our monetary affairs has
evoked a strong desire for a speedy and salutary
change. The interests of commerce imperatively
require, and the success and prosperity of the
nation at large demand. that we shall press
forward an extensive and complete measure o
Banking Reform.

IT is with much regret we learn that Messrs.
BIBBY and Company are in negociation with the
Southampton Dock Company for dock accommo-
dation for their fleet of steamers, which they have
engaged in the Mediterranean trade. Messrs.
BIBBY and Company gave as their reason, and
justification for diverting the legitimate trade of
the port to Southampton, the want of proper
dock accommodation, and the insufficient charac-
ter of the discharging apparatus at all our docks.
When we heard the complaint of the above firm,
and the fact of their intention to sail their

steamers to and from Southampton, we purposely
avoided making any comment upon the subject,
in the hope that the -Dock Committee would
take the matter up, and show to the people of
Liverpool, that if there was any injury to be
sustained by the removal in question, the fault
did not rest with the dock authorities. In this
expectation, we have been disappointed. Al-
though the matter has been before the public for
some days, the Dock Committee has maintained
a very careful silence, and did not at their
meeting on Thursday, even allude to it. The
subject is, however, one of such paramount
importance, and the fact of a firm so extensive

n the shipping trade of Liverpoul endeavouring

to leave the port and take to the rival bantling at
Southampton, all their steamers trading with the
Mediterranean, it becomes our duty to protest
against the indifference and supineness of the
Dock Committee, and to warn them against the
ruinous consequences which that indifference
and supineness must inflict upon Liverpool.
From the complaints which Messrs. BIBBY
and Company have ihade of insufficient dock
accommodation, we cannot help thinking that
there is gross mismanagement, and that the
mode in which the Stanley 11,1odel Dock is con-
ducted, is only of a piece with that notorious
scheme of jobbing which has for years past been
reputed to our Dock management.
The Albert and Stanley Docks were built at an
enormous cost, and to justify the great amount
paid for their construction they were to afford
not only vast facilities for docking, plenty of
berthing room, and the most ingenious as well
as expeditious means of loading and unloading
vessels. Experience, however, has demonstrated
that, notwithstanding all the cost, and all the
trouble incurred in the erection of the Stanley
Dock, at least, it is a failure in the two grand
designs—dock accommoiation and loading and
unloading facilities. At least, Messrs. BIBBY
and Company say so, and there has not been
any attempt to deny the charge, a pretty good
evidence that there is nothing tangible to urge
against it.

It is alleged by Messrs. BIBBY and Company
that the Dock Committee will not permit any
unloading machines but two, on the hydraulic

principle, which they have erected in the Stanley--
Dock. The consequence of ,ti is ill-considered
and very injudicious rezu:ation is that steam
vessels which could, by the employment of
shifting apparatus, be discharging`ip three or four
parts of the ship at one time,• can only unload at
one place with the Dock Committee's Machine.
Hence, the process of , unloading becomes a
tedious operation, the vessel is unnecessarily de-
layed in port, and, as a matter of course, the
owners suffer' heavily by the imperfect arrange-
ments of the Dock authorities. There is an gold
adage which in this case is incontrovertibly
true—" Time is money." It is, however, not a
gain but the loss of money. We believe that
Messrs. BrpsY and Company have repeatedly
urged complaints against the accommodations
at the Stanley Dock, and pointed out the serious
loss which they encounter, by being obliged to"
load and unload in the dock in question, and at
the same time have requested that the evils
alluded to should be removed. This has not
been done, and now we see the result.
The Dock Committee cannot have thought of
the injurious consequences of the removal of any
part of the trade of Liverpool to Southampton.
By the perseverance and energy of their mer-

chants and traders they have succeeded in depri-
ving us or all the foreign mail service, Ame-

rica excepted ;,, and, from -vvhat is ,no* going
- on, we' should' not be surprised;,
`should ere long he made .to absorb it -also. -IA
Liverpool firm is justly disSttiified with
the dock accommodatiOn afforded for their
vessels, they make proposals to. Southampton,
the dock authorities of Which invite them with
bpen arms, well' knowing that if once they can
obtain the traffic of Messrs. B r 138 Y & Company's
steamers to and'from'their'port, it will,be
of decoy duck for others.to follow their example,
and that, ultimately, this 'javViii-re emporium of
commerce may yet rival the world-renowned
depot of trade and shipping on .tbe;banksfor:th e
Mersey. When the Northern docks We re -
structed , it was with the view of extending. the
trade of the port. But the construction of those
magnificent harbours--fcT each by itself is 'a
harbour--appears to, have disappointed the ex-
pectations of those most directly interested in
their erection—the shipowners; and their regula-
tions threaten to drive from the port a new, but at
the same time very profitable trade with the
fruit growing countries on the continent of
Europe, and the districts washed by the waters
of the Mediterranean.

It is not yet too late to retrieve the- errors of
the past. We cannot believe that 'the Dock
Committee, by and through their officials, are
unable to afford the dock accommodation which
Messrs. BIBBY & Co. require. It cannot be that
we have been squandering millions of good and
lawful money fur the construction of harbours,
the extent and beauty of which are, uneaualled
ct:iy part or tne world, and that we cannot
afford to attend to the wants of a number of
moderate sized screw steamers trading to and
from the Levant. If so, the money has been ill
employed, the architects unskilful, and the saga.
city of our clock authorities not much removed
from that species of intelligence which earns for
the school-boy the unenviable title of blockhead.
The Dock Committee may rest assured that the
people of Liverpool look to them for some expla-

nation of the matter. They cannot see the policy
of throwing away thousands every year to be
paid to our rival at Southampton, nor will they
permit the dock authorities to be composed of
men who will play into the hands of that rival,

and thereby inflict "a heavy blow," and great
discouragement on the port and trade of Liver•

pool. It will be seen on reference to the
Council proceedings reported in another column
that the facts, as stated, are admitted by the
Chairman of the Dock Committee.

STEAM To ArsTama/L.—Among the earlier departures
for Australia during the present month is the splendid
steam-clipper Royal Charter. She is appointed to sail
hence for Melbourne on Friday, the 15th inst. Prepara-
tory to setting out on her next voyage, the decorations of
the grand saloon, the ladies cabin, &c, hve been renovated,
and in this department she has a fresh and cheerful
a?pearance. We have already given a full description of
the Royal Charter, so that is unnecessary to repeat her
size, tonnage, steam power, and such like matter's! we
would now merely direct attention to the fact that for
passenger accommodation, particularly the first class, the
Royal Charter has only the one equal, namely, her consort
the steamship Great Britain. The beauty, arrangements,
and extent of the grand saloon, the convenience and capa-
city of the state rooms and first cabin berths, as well as the
neat and convenient ladies cabin, the gentlemens smoking
rooms, and the number and excellence of the baths and
washing rooms, demonstrate that for persons able
to take a first cabin passage to Australia, a more desirable
vessel is not afloat. The bountiful supply of all sorts of
the best and most varied kinds of provisions with which
the a.vners, Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., furnish their
ships, is another inducement to take passage by the Royal
Charter. The second cabin and intermediate passengers
are provided with large, lofty, and well ventilated berths ;
and their dining tables are well arranged, and afford com-
fort to all. Captain Taylor, late of the Falcon, one of the
Eagle line of Australian packets, takes command of the
Royal Charter this voyage. He has made many passages
to and from Australia, and has ever distinguished himself
by the rapid and steady character of his voyages. With
passengers of all classes he is a great favourite; his con-
stant study being to make them contented and comfortable
whilst under his care. Captain Taylor has sailed in the
iyal Charter. He knows her sailing powers
and, although cautious where caution is necessary,
he is the sort of navig dor to give her pleiry
of canvass wherever there is a suitable opportunity of
using it. His chief offs ier is Mr. Kirby, a gentleman whom
passengers always respect and appreciate, not less for the
urbanity of his manners and his attention and kindness
than for his acknowledged abilities as a seaman and a
navigator. The Royal Charter starts at a favourable season
of the year, and confident hopes ,are entertained that she
will make one of the shortest passages on record, and
demonstrate once more that there is no sailing clippez
afloat can approach her in the rapidity of her runs from
England to Melbourne. We may just mention that the
Commodore Perry, one of the Black Ball Line of Austra-
lian clippers, is on the point of sailing for Melbourne,
having a large number of passengers, and a heavy cargo of
goods. After the Royal Charter, the Titan, on the 20th,
and the Ben Nevis will sail for Melbourne. The Dragoon
will sail on the 27th, and the Marco Polo the sth of June
—all for Melbourne.

PIIIcHNEWs
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friash 024.4ri,,14 Telegraph.
THE BANK :OF FRANCE.

1-6111" b PARIS, W.EnNiisto EVENING.
The specie tht;;Bank of Frince; which had
diminished ;to the extent. of 10,000,000 f during the
eight days succeeding the last return, has not only
recovered
g,
this amount, but 140 NY ,„3Fceeds by two
or 'three million francs the. sitin:eithibited in the
`monthly balance sheet of April.
The-Three 'per Cents closed this evening at
69170 c, showing tt still further improvement.

GAS AND WATER, AT BIRKENHEAD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
, Sir,.—Tllo GHalllllitll ut , tile Birkenhead Com-
Missiners wishes to make people believe that the
present gas and water act was passed by a coup de-
'ntain ."
belore the commissioners could turn
TOund.'i ,
Now, Sir, I happen to have some reoollection of
what really occurred, and I know that the com-
missioners had time not.olily " to turn round" but
also advisedly and deliberately to oppose the bill.
They met,. and 'resolved `upon adopting decided
steps in opposition, and to appoint a solicitor for
that purpose, following up their resolutions by
presenting one -petition against• the bill upon
.standing orders,.and. subsequently; another to the
select committee upon the merits.—l am, Sir,
,Birkenhead; May 6thedBb C
74 , • ,
I,oanuatinms 05 Tani ITORTHEIIN TIMES.
ir,—it,:ayipeara,troatiOexepett. of the Birken-
head Commis4iilmirs nietting;,• held hitit night, that
Tx '-• -he 0144194ar1-is ittiLmepting to wriggle out of the
r
..ft,l4,tbAkhg,itty;orie timeitignly approved of the act
.pfr pojilic,ipen4, under' which the i Gas and Water
".Company isconstittitedo The.fellowing is the
~alyepdruetit , which,
_he :secondert at the
meeting
( c4.oel;l9APPClSe,thetAngasurein 1841:
-Tlifltn!,Alile eliinioni,of.thiaL meeting the Gas
aitol/41.0)' Pal ,will bieheneficialitoithis• township,
and paght-t4,4e s.uppotted-by the ratepayers sign-
.ing,:the,,petition.;:iit favoni of it, now in course of
~ siguatnre,;„- ii.n:C4bat,,tho,rerision of its clauses be
icitcwit4.olV,X9lntnissiDners.". ~ -
This,,,anien,dnientalvicarried by a majority of
-two to imp.,; ,The Crisointnissioners petitioned against
the bill inytho Lords ;the clauses were revised, and
a few. trifling:amentinients:lnade;; the petition was
therefore,withdc.totin.and, the bill passed into a law.
Is it. 9Priti*.ent for the' chairman of the commis-
,s 69 violently to attack the act in ques -
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eril FATAL EXPLO3IOIc. -1" '1 -
WoLvintilemprozi; Tuaaday Evening.--At the blast fur-
naces of Riley and Bon, hiitifields, there oecnrrel there,
this afternoon, an,explosion,of hydrogen gas, which caused
the death of three persons, the Supposed fatal injury of a
fourth, and the serious injury of four (Atter persons.
SIR PEEL AND RR F. PEEL.
The TiNes says—Sir B: Peel has, we are informed,
resigned his office as Lord of the Adhairalty. His brother,
Mr. F. Peel, having failed to obtain re-election, has been
compelled to leave the war department, and the estimates
will be moved ipt' Sir John Itartriden, who will not, how-
ever, be to present himself to his constituents for
re-election until fourteen days of the meeting of Parlia-
ment. Mr. F. Peel will, we believe, he sworn to the Privy
Council.

VISIT OF PRINCE NAPOLEON TO MANCHESTER.
PARIS, Tuesday Evening.—Prinee Napoleon will go to
visit the Art Treasures at Manchester,

".oro rrvwc, 11 lICULEVA TO BERLIN.
The Prince will arrive at Be lin on Thursday even,ng—
return the visit made last year by Prince Frederick.
William of Prussia.

NEW MEMBERS AND THEIR VOTES.—About 400 monsters
have been sworn, leaving stilt more than 250 to take the
oaths. If the latter do not subscribe before Thursday they
will not be able to vote in the event of a division on the
address.

DEATH OP LADY ASHBURTON.—The Times announces the
death of this lady, at Pari.., on Monday. She was marred
to the present Lord Ashburton, the Mr. Bingham Baring,
in 1823.
A. DOUBLE CONTEST AT OXPORD.—Yesteqlay (Tuesday),
a double contest took place. For the poetry profes,,or-
ship —Mr. Mathew Arnold, 363 ; Rev. J. E. Erode, 278.
For the professorship of political economy Mr. C. Neate,
M.P., 194 ; Rev. J. E. T. Rogers, 130 ; Mr. W. Senior, 128.
_

LONDIIILL
COLLIERY .EXPLOSION.—LutforirtL, Tuesday.—
Eight bodies exhumed to-day, increasing the total number
recovered to 31—none personally recognised, but six out
of the eight identified by the peculiaritizs of dress.

STEAM TO NEWFOUNDLAND.— Yesterday, the screw
steamer, Circassian,sailed for Newfoundland, Halifax and.
Portland, U.S, She carded out 392 passengers, and a
heavy cargo of ponds.
THE LATE ACCIDENT AT EDOE-lIILL.--The inquest on the
body of the poor fellow, Ford, has been fixed for this day,
at half-past one o'clock. This unfortunate man bas left a
wife anti four children, and his poor wife is just near her
confinement again.
ACCIDENTAL DEATIL—On the 17th March, a man named
John Taylor, who was in the employment of a bricklayer,
and was cutting a drain in a street to lay a pipe to a water
closet, was nearly suffocated by the soil running on him..
He linpred up to yesterday, when he died.
FIRE YIiSTERDAY.—A very serious fire broke out yester..
day in G-regson street, Everton, by which the shop and the
adjoining dwelling house of Mr. John Jones, joiner and
contractor, were completely destroyed. The fire began
about mid-day, and it was late la•t evening before it was
reduced. Mr. Hewitt with the engines from Temple court,
was promptly in attendance, and reels from Prescott street
and Rase hill were also brought to the spot. Major Greig
rendered active assistance with some of the police force
under his command. The shop and the dwelling house
were reduced to bare and roofiess• walls befOre the fire
could be checked. The stock was insured, we understa, d,
in the Yorkshire Insurance Company for £5OO ; and the
building in the Liverpool and London Company for
£l5O.

UNI-Howlsoitz MEAT.—At Glasgow, George M'AuTen,
ham-curer, 96, Candleriggs, was fined £lO, on Satur-
day, for having in his premises a quantity (24 stones
weight) of unsound:and unwholesonle be.-f." The effluvium
from it, according to the statements of witnesses before the
bailie, was most offensive. [ln Liverpool there would
likely be a fine of only 55.; or 10s.)
The electric wires from Manctieqier Carried the other
day an order front Mr .Agnew to buy Mr. Mill4ii's
smaller picture in the approaching Royal Academy Exhi-
bition, for a thousand:gPineas. Wires from London said
it was worth that am; unt, and Mr. Agnew, with seeing-
the picture, replied, ‘, Hoy, and sign a cheque for the:
amount ',---I;lustritted London Views. Calms A.No CaerURE OF AN ALLIGED
' . Frederick William Wright was brought
Swirroustt.—
before the sitting migistraies, at the ToWn-ball, Prest,n,
on Monday. Mr. Watson, for the prosecution, applied for a remand until Wednewtay, Stating that the
prisoner declined to tell . the pollee' whether he intended
to apply him-elf fora remand, and therefore he (Mr. Wp:r..
sou) did not feel justifibringing to the court a )urge
number of witnesses, whose presence, if the -- tu rdrisoner
should apply for a remand, would be unneeew,,i The
magistrates granted the remand, and on the prisoner heir g
in order to inc; ease the number of
aski. d if he had any objections to being
answered in the negative.
A mordant of INuttii.ehan, !
'---. has signified his intention
remanded, he
to give £360 a year,
lay egent.i, or Scripture readers, who are labouring under
the direction of ,he clere.y in that place,
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—A few (I,,ys ago a melancholy
and fatal accident occurred to a polifier (belonging to the
60th depot at Fert•Regent; JeraeN) named Norrits, a native
of Axtuinstr r, Devonstire, and a young woman to whom
he was engaged. it appears that in the afternoon Norma
walked towards the coast. They were absent until after
left the barracks in company with his sweetheart, end
nightfall, when a search was made for them, and they were
di,e woad at tae foot of some precipiinus rocks. The poor
girl was dead, and the
a ddier was suffering agonies irony
a fracture of two ribs, which penetrated his lungs, and from
a fracture of the spine. Ife lingered epe(ehles for f out teen
hours, and then died. It is supposed that the young coui le
must have missed their footing in the dark, and hair e falleu over the rook.