Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-28 00:00:00

ROYAL PROCLAMATION

By THE
KING OF SARDINIA

TO THE ARMY

TURIN, 5 p.m. - The King regards the demand to
disarm as an outrage on himself and the nation, and
has therefore repelled the demand with disdain.
The King calls to mind Italy's cry of anguish, and

says—
" I will be your captain ; I have proved your
valour on the field of fame, by the side of my illus-
trious father.
" This time you will have for your comrades the
gallant French soldiers! Your companions on the
Tchernaya, whom the Emperor has sent to defend
and support our just and civilising cause.
" Forward to Victory,
" Let our banner announce to you that our object,

like our war cry, is Independence of Italy.' "
Up to noon, the Austrians had made no offensive

movement.

ELECTION NEWS.

Mr. Beresford Hope has retired from Cambridge Uni

versity.
Sir A. Ramsay has resigned at Rochdale, and Mr. Cobden
will be returned withcut opposition.
From a table in the Herald it appears that 123 seats helc
by Liberals are assailed by Government candidates, whit
the total seats assailed by Liberal candidates is only 87.
The Times says, by four o'clock on Wednesday after
noon, two gentlemen will divide between themselves th
honour of being in the British House of Commons : th
constituency of Marvlebone will have re-elected its forme,
members, Sir B. Hall and Mr. Edwin James.
LIBERAL SEATS CONTESTED BY CONSERVATIVES.
Subjoined is a list of the places where the seat of a liberal
is contested, marking with an asterisk those constituencies
which the conservatives did not venture to attempt at the
last general election :—Aylesbury—Soiat vacated by Sir R.
Bethell. Bath—Scat vacated by Sir A. Elton. Bedford-
Scats of both the liberal members. Berwick—Seats of both
the liberal members, *Birmingham —One seat contested.
Bodmin—Seat vacated by Mr. Vivian. *Bradford - Seat
vacated by General Thompson. *Brecknock—Seat of sit-
ting member. Bridgewater—Seats of both members
*Bristol—Seats of both members. Bury St. Edmund's -
Mr. Hardcastle's seat. Cardiff—Colonel Stuart's seat
Chester—One of the liberal seats. Dartmouth—Sea
vacated by Mr. Caird. *Devonport—Seats of hot'
members. Durham (South) One seat contested. Esse
(South) Mr. Baker's seat contested. Frome -
Mr. Nicholl's seat contested. Halifax—Seat vacated I
Mr. Crossley contested. Harwich—Seat vacated by R.
Bagshaw contested. *Helstone—Mr. Trueman's seat co
tested. Hull—Seat vacated by Lord Ashley contest(
Ipswich—Mr. Adair's seat contested. Kent (West)
of both members contested. Kidderminster—Seat vacat
by Mr. Lowe contested. Lancashire (South) Seats of be
members contested. Lancaster—One liberal seat contests
Lewes---Seats of both liberal members contested. Liskeard
Mr. Grey's seat contested. Lyme Regis—Mr. Pinney'contested. Maldon—Mr. Western's seat contested. ..
castle-on-Tyne--One seat contested. Newport—Seats of
both members contested. Northallerton—Mr. Wrightson's
seat contested. Northampton—one scat contestei. Norwich
—Seats of both members contested. *Penryn—Seats of both
members contested. *Peterborough—Seat vacated by Mr.
Fitzwilliam. Plymouth One of the seats contested.
*Pontefract -- One of the seats contested. Portsmonth—Sir
F. Baring's seat contested. *Reading—One liberal seat
contested. *Rochester Both seats contested. 4 Salisbury
—One liberal seat contested. Sandwich—Both seats con-
tested. Scarborough—Both seats contested. Shrewsbury
-One liberal contested. Stafford—Mr. Wise's scat con-
tested. *Tamworth—Lord Raynham's scat contested.
Taunton—Mr. Labouchere's seat contested. Totnes - One
liberal seat contested. *Truro —Both seats contested.
*Walsall—Mr. Forster's seat contested. Weymouth—
Both seats contested. Winchester—One seat contested.
*Windsor—Mr. Grenfell's seat contested. Yarmouth—
; Both liberal seats contested.

—Seats

Major Sir F. Williams, of Kars, is appointed commander-
in-chief of the forces in Canada.
No SHIP SHOULD GO TO SEA without• one of Saunders
find Co.'s Patent Self-cleansing Charcoal Filters, cased and
atted-up expressly for use on board ship. Note the address,
SAUNDERS. & Co., 16, Parker-street, Liverpool.
As compared with 1858, the number of paupers in Eng-
land and Wales, at the end of the fourth week of March,
showed a diminution of 96,448. In the metropolis alone
the diminution was 13,680. The number of paupers relieved
in the 645 unions of England and Wales was 856,496, •of
whom 117,054 were in-door, and 739,440 out-door

recipients.
We are sorry to learn that the Right Hon. Sir Edward
B. Lytton, who has resorted to Malvern with the view to
benefit his health, remains in a very bad state. Since his
sojourn there during the last six days, his friends will
deplore to learn that but slight amendment is perceptible in
the malady from which the right honourable baronet

suffers.
Sir Moses NI ontefiore has reached Rome in the vain hope
of convincing people there that they had no right to
confiscate the boy Mortara from his family. He is
comforted by the Tablet ccorrespondent, by the assurance
that the authorities will not "lock up so worthy a baronet
in the Ghetto, " as they have a perfect right to do (in virtue
of the treaties of 1815.) He actually is " allowed to live
in well-furnished lodgings, via Babuino. "—Globe Cor-

respondent
If but 100,000 men could be now marched out in Eng-
land, possessing as good a command of the rifle as their
forefathers had of the bow, we might laugh at the very
notion of invasion. There is not the least reason why this
should not come to pass. Mr. Whitworth declares that he
will make a rifle send a ball into the very muzzle of another
rifle at 500 yards' distance, the exact counterpart of Robin
Hood's famous feat of sending one arrow into the centre of
a target and then splitting it with another.—Times.
Advices from Auckland, New Zealand, confirm the state-
ments of the discovery of good coal in that province. The
Novara, with the Austrian Scientific Expedition, c, havin
touched at the islands, the government requested Dr. Hoch.-
stetter, the geologist of the expedition, to make a formal
survey of the field. His report was published in the New
Zealand Gazette, and leads to the conclusion that "there
exists no doubt that the province of Auckland is rich in the
possession of abundance of good workable coal, which will
prove of the greatest importance both for steam navigation
and manufacturing purposes."
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER ORWELL. —Two
LIVES LOST. - On Saturday afternoon, about two o'clock,
two men, Charles Girling, aged about 50, who was made
a Trinity pilot in 1836 ; and his son, Lancelot Girling, aged
19, who was apprentice to his father, were proceeding
down the river from the upper to the lower pilot boat, and
when near the Long Reach, and opposite what is known
amongst the pilots and boatmen, as " the Crowe House,"
below Pin Mill (at least, that is the place where they were
last seen by one of the Harwich steamers, and where there
is every, reason to suppose the fatal occarrence took
yil.rel they were drowned by the upsetting of their boat.

Lucy v. ,
.e fatal occurrence at first became known by a jacket

two caps, and a pair of oars, well known to belong to
the poor fellows, being picked up, and the clothes instantly
recognised as being worn by the Girlings when last seen,
or; at least, when they started. News of the accident was
soon made known at the Pilot-office and other places, and a

party of pilots and other persons instantly proceeded to the '
spot where the caps and jackets were picked np, and used
every available means to find the bodies, but up to last
evening all attempts proved fruitless. The water where the
boat is supposed to have upset is tv;enty-four feet deep at
low tide, The boat has not been found.
If "uneasy lies the head" which wears an ordinary
crown, what must be the rest granted to one who has gained
his own diadem by boldness and intrigue, and preserves
been
by the same means ? The Emperor Napoleon 111. has
a successful man ; he has proved himself sagacious and
astute; his worst enemies can say nothing against his
courage ; and the far-sighted believe, according to their
prepossessions, that he is destined to work much
good or no little mischief in Europe. The object
of all these expectations,
no the centre of allt
as Lmeehn'ass
thoughts, leads, however, easy life. year
it was the bullets, daggers. and bombs of the
Italians which he had to fear. He has removed this
danger by taking up the cause Italy,ofositio n now,
and
fdt now h
made common cause with Russia, and has to dread the gene-
ulseerveonf
ra l
years
o f reprobation
absolute
power,
is Europe.
the p Whatafter
France ? He sets off, perhaps this very day, to take the com-
mand of a great army, hurriedly brought together to
oppose an invasion by a Power which was looked upon
as the type of sluggishness and lon uffering. In this
enterprise he may carry with him the good wishes of a few
extreme
sympathies. partisans in England whose memory for the rights
and interests of their own country. has been lost in the
indulgence of foreign ies. But the great mass of
the English as well as of his own
peace of Europe people are cold, and even
hostile, to the ruler who has not scrupled to endanger the
by openly making. preparations for a
gigantic war, and who has taken Russia as his comrade.—
Times.