The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-21 00:00:00

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

The following circular has been addressed by Lord
Palmerston to each of the liberal members :—" Downing-
street, Jan. 16, 1857.—Sir,—T'ne meeting of Parliament
having been fixed for Tuesday, the 3rd February, business
of great importance will then come under the considera-
tion of Parliament ; and I trust, therefore, that you will
allow me to express my earnest hope that it may be con
sistent with your convenience to attend in your place in.
the House of Commons at the opening of the'session.—l
have the honour to be, sir, your obedient and faithful
servant, PAL➢iERSTON."

THE COURT, ,!cc,

WINDSOR, MONDAY, JAN. 19.—The Queen and Princess
Louisa walked in the grounds adjoining the Castle this
morning. Ills Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the
Grunt of Flanders and Prince Edward of L:ainingen, went
out shooting. The Marquis of Abercorn, Rear Admiral
W. A. B. Hamilton, and Lord Burghersh bad the honour
to accompany the Prince. The Prince of Wales went out
hunting. The following visitors have left the Castle :
The Portuguese Minister and Countess L avraclio, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Shelburne, Rear Admiral
W. A. B. Hamilton, and the Rev. Dr. Philpott,
LOYAL THEATRICALS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—The second
perfo-mince of the series will take place to-morrow
evening, and will consist of the coniediatta of " Our Wife;
or, the Rose of Amiens," with the same cast as that
employed in its representation at the Princess's Theatre ;
to be followed by Poole's farce of "Deaf as a Pest," in
which the principal parts will be piled by Mi,s Murray,
Mrs. Daly, Mr Harley, and Mr. J. Cioke. Messrs.
Everett, Danvers, and Raymond, and Misses J. Lovell
and A. Daly. will also appear in subsidiary characters.
THE R9YAL FAMILY OF OUDE.—Oa Monday, General
liirza Secunda Haihuuct Bahadoor and Mizzi Walee
Aubud Bahadoor,'.accompanied by their suite, Captain
Brandon and Allie Ackbar, pail a visit to Sir Fitzroy
Kelly, M.P., at his residence in Piccadilly, and afterwards
called and left cards at Mr. Milner Gibson's. We under-
stand that this day the chairman and several other of the
directors of the East India Company will visit their royal
highnesses at Harley-house, and partake of luncheon.
These visits are of no political importance, but simply those
of courtesy.

THE UNEMPLOYED CLASSNS AND THE Posit
London cotemporary, spookily; of the meeting of the
unemployed in London on Monday, says :—Of the right
of the destitute and unemployed to parochial relief there
can be no question ; and if the right exist, there can be no
fitter time for its exercise than when work cannot be had,
and starvation is staring them in the face. Nevertheless,
if this right be enforced in the way proposed, our poor-
law system is destined to a trial it has never yet endured.
We can imagine the horror with which our workhouse
officials would regard an invasion of their portals by
hundreds of workmen demanding relief, not as a charity,
but as a right; and we should like to see the relieving
officer who would dare to refuse them, if the demand be
peacefully made, and in accrdance with the spirit and
provisions of the law. Then, indeed, the body of
ratepayers, in their alarm at the additional demand on
their pockets, would be aroused to the peril of disregard-
ing the condition of unemployed masses of men, whose
claim to support is not only in itself undeniably just
but, corning before them in so formidable a shape, could
neither be ignored nor staved off. It may be a lamentable
thing that demonstrations of this kind should be absolutely
needed to excite a proper amount of attention on the part
of the more prosperous classes to their suffering brethren.
g. ;t 5., and when we RPP a manifest intention
by the latter to restrict their endeavours to amend their
condition rigidly within the limits of their legal rights, we
cannot blame them should they resolve to test the boasted
power of the Poor-law to afford them that measure of
relief which it was expressly created to supply.

ANOTHER PROCESS AGAINST ADMIRAL SEYMOUR.—We
are indebted to a correspondent for the following state
went :—At the usual meeting of the Bradford Foreign
Affairs Committee it was resolved-1. That Admiral
Seymour has unlawfully destroyed human life in bombard-
ing Canton. 2. That this Committee resolve to co-operate
with the Newcastle Committee,: to proceed against
Admiral Seymour for murder at the Central Criminal
Court. 3. That as Sir John Bowring and Mr. Consul
Parkes were accessory to murder, the Committee therefore
resolve to institute legal proceedings against them.—
London Paper.

PARIS Goss tr.---The Moniteur has had another sharp
paragraph directed against its old enemy, the foreign
Press. Do what he will, the Emperor, it seems, cannot
silence journals of other countries, although his own are
dumb as need be. Correspondents will arise to describe
what takes place in the capital city of France : to obtain
information of the intentions of the Government, of the
movements of the Court, and of the opinions and state-
ments that are bandied about from mouth to mouth. That
the correspondent makes mistakes sometimes, that he is
misinformed occasionally, that he draws wrong inferences
from time to time, are only so many arguments why there
should be no secresy in public matters, and everything
should be as clear as the noon-day sun. The Moniteur
seems so far to join in the opinion here expressed, that it
deigns to correct certain foreign journals who have
announced that legislative measures are preparing for an
augmentation of the civil list. The Moniteur declares the
report to be false, and says that the civil list " is prepared
for all the duration of the reign:' Will it explain, in a
future number, what this means ?

YOUNG LADIES SHOULD NOT SMOKE IN BED —A young
Russian lady of rank, the Countess N., very nearly lost
her life two or three weeks ago in the house of her lather,
the governor of Moscow, by a very singular accident.
It is stated in La Patrie that the countess had been
indulging, as usual, in the habit of smoking, and at the
same time reading in bed. The double narcotic very soon
set her asleep. She awoke presently in terror to find her
bed on fire, the linen sheets had been ignited by the end
of her cigarette. She jumped out of bed, fortunately
without being burnt, and rushed to the door. It had been
bolted, and in her fright she could not open it. Then
she broke the window, and called loudly for help. The
sentinel on dnty at the gate below instantly gave the
alarm ; the lady's chamber door was forced open, and
the fire was extinguished. She was not hnrt, but only
frightened.

APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—TIIO Jiorizing
Post is authorised to announce that a matrimonial alliance
[the writer means a marriage] is arranged to take place
between the Countess Helene Kielmansegge, daughter of
his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, and the Lord
Arthur Hay, second son of the Marquis of Tweeidale. It
will be solemnised early in February.

THE NIGHTINGALE FUND.—The secretaries to the fund
announce subscriptions amounting, up to this time, in
round figures, to nearly £lO,OOO. The sum is intended to
be " a record of national gratitude to Miss Nightingale for
the invaluable services rendere 1 by her to the sick and
wounded of the British forces ; " and is raised " to enable
her to establish an institution for the training, sustenance,
and protection of nurses and hospital attendants."

VERGER, THE CONVICTED ASSASSIN.—A Paris letter of
yesterday says :—The Court of Caseation will, I am told,
meat to morrow, and the appeal will, doubtless, bo token
into consideration. If the Court come to a decision during
the sitting, and the decision be negative, he moot be

ordered for execution on Thursday. He has intimated a
wish to petition the Emperor for a commutation of the
sentence, or even pardon. N) one believes that the prayer
will be granted, as no extenuating circumstances, real or
imaginary, have been found in his case. The execution
will probably take place some day this week at the prison
of La ftlquette, near the Pere la Chaise, on the esplanade
outside the gates. The dtjec..ion of Verger is greater to day
than yesterday. He signed his appeal to the Court of
Causation to day at twelve The straight waistcoat
was removed for that purpose. Verger then asked the
Director of the prison whether that measure of precaution
might not be dispensed with as it was real torture, and it
prevented him from writing. M. Lev9lle, the director,
said it was impossible to indulge him, ant: he submitted.
He has asked to day to see the physioian of the
prison, as well as the chaplain, and he appears to await
with impatience the result of his appeal to the C,,Nart of
Cessation.

ILLNESS OF, THR IMPERIAL PRINCE—The Moniteur of
Tuesday, states that the Imperial Prince has been
suffering during the last two days from a slight catarrhs./
fever. He was better last evening, and his condition is
not such as to justify uneasiness.

RAJPIOTANA STATES.—We have been requested to state
that the deelavatiou in the Calcutta Morning Chronicle, and
other Indian papers (copied also into some of the London
journals), to the effect that orders have gone out from the
Court of Directors of the East India Company to " annex,"
the Rajpootana States on the first convenient opTortu-
nity, is wholly destitute of truth. The pretended desp atch
of " July 11, 1856," is entirely fabulous, and no despatch
to the above or any similar effect has ever been even con-
templated. In fact, the policy of the home authorities in
respect to the principalities of Rajpootana has been, and
is, of a diametrically opposite character.

THE TYNE.-It has been found that the water in the'
steamer Tyne, which now lies stranded in the Isle of
Purbeck, has never reached higher than the main engine
floor, and the ladies' saloon and upper cabins have not
been in the slightest degree injured. All the lightest
portions of the steam machinery have been removed from:
the steamer. By last night it was expected that the.
workmen would have the ship sufficiently under their'
control to prevent any damage to her, even if bad weather
were to come on, for they would be able to get at her side
plugs and let the sea into her if necessary, which would
render her so immovable that a hurricane even could not
then knock her to pieces on the rocks. The distance it
will be necessary to drag her from the rocks into deep
water is not above sixty yards. Everything looks favour.
ab:sq for her rescue.