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TUESDAY, DEOEITBER 13, 1837.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

M1T24111
Full details of news is now to hand from India
ley the arrival of the Overland Mail. The dates
--Bombay, November 17; and Calcutta, Nov.
et Sir Cohn Campbell reached Cawnpore on the
Zrd or 4 h of November. It appears certain that
the Commander-in-Chief actually crossed the
Ganges, and commenced his march on Lueknow
Mt the 10th. His force is variously stated at from
1.400 to 5,000 men, but it is probable that Sir
Colin has puehed on with the smaller number, and
thirt the rest would join him at Alumbagh in a few
its after. In such an emergency it cannot be
tlonght that the Commander-in-Chief would take
Mere than four days on the march, and we may,
tlerefore, expect that on the 13th or the 14th he
would come upon the enemy, who had, no doubt,
made preparations_ to receive him in the plain
'vehicle divides Alumbagh from the city. But the
ihnetw, with the Commander-in-Chief, is not the
telly one which was advancing to the rescue.
Colonel Orcathead's column, after marching about
140 miles, gaining two considerable victories, and
-worsting the enemy in four or five smaller en-
counters, arrived at Cawnpore on the 20th of Oct.
On the 18th of November, Brigadier Grant, of the
fah Lancers, had taken the command as senior
officer, aud five days later the force had inflicted a
sirrere defeat on the enemy, capturing five guns.
On the 31St it marched on Lucknow, with, as it
seetos, reinforcements that made it up to 5,000
moue It occupied Alumbagh, and having taken
with it a large supply of provisions, awaited the
&nivel of the Commander-en-Chief. It thus ap•
pears that, by the middle of November, the force
that had reached Lucknow must have amounted to
10,000 men. From the rest of India the accounts
are equally satisfactory. The country was settling
down, and the cause of the mutineers was evidently
telt to be hopeless.
The Niagara arrived hero yesterday afternoon.
The accounts from the United States are rather
nteresting. Another interview had been held
zftween Governor Walker, of Kansas, and the
)president. It would appear that these two per-
cottages are still diametrically opposed to each
qtr in their views regarding the Government of
dot Territory. It was not improbable that a
rapture would take place, and as it was not likely
tleet General Walker would resign, some trouble is
alenost certain to occur, and the next Session of
congress will prove a rather exciting one ; as the
Democratic party will, to a man, take the side of
the Governor, and the Executive may find itself in a
zninority. The news from California is not of much
mportance. One or two failures had occurred. The
:vibes continuo to yield abundantly, and the
acrd of crime is not so large as has been the
saes for many steamers previous. In Mexico, there
is no change for the better. Revolution is the
order of the day, and he who conquers commits
reatrages which rival, if they do not exceed savage
deeds of Indian Sepoyism which we have from
time to time been called upon to relate.
The Continental news this morning is not of much
importance. The list of bankruptcies at Berlin is
still very limited. Two firms only belonging to
the Exchange have stopped payment. The
remainder eonsists of manufacturing houses, whose
hills for m:-rchandise, sent for exportation to Ham-
Imegh, had not been honoured. As wo briefly
iktim ate d in our paper of yesterday would likely
be the case, the Senate of Hamburgh 'has been
invested by the A.ssombly of Citizens with
discretionary power to apply the sum of
2300,000, lent for a year by the National
.auk of Austria to the State of Hai-n-
-gh, to the relief of six to eight of the
01.4 t extensive commercial houses, the bankruptcy
otif which was impending. This loan must be
eassidered an eminently political measure on the
it of Austria. The Hamburgh Senate, in
applying to Prussia for help, and thus theeaten-
'tag Austria with an increase of Prussian influ-
ewe in the North, knew what it was about.
It is, however, very probable that Austria
Ins overreached herself; for it is unlikely
Mat Prussia would have 'advanced the money.
Iha loan, however, is not considered sufficient
eta Ifamburgh, and further measures for pro-
rating capital are contemplated. The Divan
at Bucharest, after resolving to express no other
bisihes than those contained in the national pro-
gramme, has been prorogued for an indefinite
period. The Divan at Jassy hopes to have its
ktbours finished by the 10th of this month.
On Thursday a foreigner, with a female supposed
to be his wife, engaged a lodging at a coffee-house,
racar Eason-square, London. On Sunday, when
139.ey were about to go out, the landlord asked for
roymient of his bill, on which they returned to
*heir room, and nothing was heard of them for
same hours. About noon the door was forced
open, when the man and woman were both found
with their throats cut, the man having a razor in
is right hand. They were both dead.
The trial of Mr. Ouseley, proprietor of the
• vrpool Herald, for a libel on Mr. Robertson
Gladstone, took place yesterday, before Mr. Justice
Wightman. We report the case at very full length.
Mr. Gladstone, at a iueeting of the Town Council,
a few days after the day of humiliation and prayer,
at his seat in the Town Council, took occasion to
sitate his views on the subject, and he was of
opinion that such an observance was uncalled for.
In the first publication of the Herald after this,
.r. Ouseley took occasion to call Mr. B. Gladstone.,
as "English Sepoy," "a brutal specimen of htt• I
nasnity," &e, and indulged in several other coarse

expressions. Mr. Gladstone commenced a cri-
minal action against Mr. Ouseley, and accordingly
it came before the proper tribunal yesterday.
After the jury had considered the case for four
hours, they intimated that there was no possibility
of their agreeing, and they were accordit gly called
into court. After a great deal of conversation
between the Judge, the jury, and the counsel
engaged in the case, it was agreed that the Judge
should draw up au apology from Mr. Ouseley, and
ultimately this apology was signed on behalf of the
prosecution and the defence, and Mr. Ouseley was
discharged. The trial created much excitement.
Yesterday, Madame Annie, the noted proeuress
and brothel-keeper in this town, was sentenced to
four months' imprisonment with hard labour, and
to a fine of £25. To be further imprisoned until
the fine is paid.

THE Government Currency Motion has suc-
ceeded. Out of a House of 412 members, 295
voted for Panics. Mr. DISRAELI could only find
117 followers. There is no room here for sur-
prise. Mr. DISRAELI'S object was, to upset the
Government lantern, while his own light was
wasting away under a bushel. But his opposition
provoked a debate. The legislative mind, ever
pregnant with speeches, poured fourth a perfect
deluge of rubbish. The object of every speaker
was to show that he understood the entire opera-
tion of our money laws. These statutes had no
one to defend them. The ten per cent. Whigs
dread them, and demand inquiry before they trust
them again. The usury Conservatives were for
immediate legislation. But they were too bashful
to tell us in what spirit they would legislate.
The Railway members, blind to their own interest,
voted any how. We must, then, submit to the
further mockery of inquiry and ten per cent.
Now, we are by no means disheartened at all
this. Our money-laws swindle the nation. This
has been shown to the people at large within the
last two moaths. Thousands of men have been
made to feel their plundering operation, and now
they have wholesome ideas with regard to banking
and currency. Yet we look, in very different
directions, for relief from base national wrongs.
Accumulative forces must be governed by those
natural laws which regulate expansion. Air,
fire, and water, are the ruling elements of the
physical world. These are faithfully represented
in our social organisation, by population, indus-
try, and commerce. With these three the incen-
tive to motion is an instinctive dread of want,
They move forward in obedience to the Divine
precept, "go forth, increase, multiply, and re-
plenish the earth," They expand as enlighten-
ment swells the current of our wants, and in-
flames the ardour of our desires. Men
question the wisdom of this progressional order
of things. Legislation may forbid the winds to
blow, Mount Etna to pour forth its flames, and
the tide to flow. Popular prejudice and igno-
rance,may conspire to hurry on Whigs and Tories
in the, execution of their supernatural designs.
We need not now be told of the large amount of
insanity there is in human nature. The darkest
of the day passing over our head, would, if truth-
fully written, be Mau mum illau a reprint of
"Paradise Lost." Men's minds are so deeply en-
gaged in carrying out the great work expansion it.
self, that they have not time to think of what their
labour is producing. Expansion of numbers,expan-
sion of education, expansion of consumption, and
the expansion of wants go on increasing day by
day. Mortality has ceased to interrupt the geo•
metrical ratio of increase in the number of our
species and requirements of population. Men
may pass barbarous laws. The science of legis-
lation may be abandoned for an open outrage on
the law of numbers. Political, religious, and
secular education be all wrapped to suit the
nonce of the times ; but the inevitable order of
things, "as it was in the beginning," must pre-
vail. In another ten years, there will be
2,000,000 more people in England to share our
money panics. Another twenty-five years will
have called a new public into existence.
Another half century will see Great Britain in
the hands of 40,000,000 of strangers, aliens to
our present laws, and to be governed only by
those wants which their numbers will bring with
them,

We may, then, safely leave the ten per cent.
Whig Ministry to use the power popular ignor-
ance gives them, as they think proper. The
utmost amount of social injustice political
folly can inflict on society goes for nought. We
require false lights to lead us to shipwreck, in
order to make us acquainted with danger. If
there were no rocks in smooth water, we could
dispense with beacons. The existence of a ten
per cent. Cabinet, and a panic-loving House of
Commons, must, therefore, be looked on as
national calamities, which contribute to the
universal good. If they shipwreck the State and
commerce, what then ? We may console ourselves
with the thought that posterity will be warned
by our disasters. Lord PALMERSTON is to be
a beacon to all ages to come. Mr.,DisnAELI will
take his place among the revolving lights of
"all nations." The former will be used to mark
quicksands. The other, a hidden rock. Fame
belongs only to the originality of great and good
deeds. Notoriety is the sole portion of the
verbose spouter and retailer of second-hand
notions. The vanity_ of the day leads our
aspirants to immortal distinction to think other-
wise. The social catastrophies which have over-
taken England in 18.57, must, however, brand the
memory of our professional statesmen with gross
incompetency or insincerity. There never were
a people so cruelly punished for being industrious,
or so glaringly fleeced of their substance to fill
the pockets of a clique of notorious SIFYLOCKS..
To get an accommodation of 2,000,0 V. of credit
paper from a Whig Cabinet, the commerce of the
country is made to pay TEN per cent, on

' 200,000,0001. of bills of exchange, to usurers !
To double the Fundholder's income, labour is
thrown out of employment. To give gentlemen
with fixed incomes an opportunity of making
" profitable investments," the prices of all com-
modities, according to the London Times, must
be depreciated 50 per cent. But it is useless to
repeat these grievances. Let us have a committee
to inquire about what every man knows. Accept
all the twaddle of Ministers, party, and Parlia-
ment. There is a law transcendent to which
they must all bow. And when it asserts its
power we shall have a Reformed Legislature, and
a speedy repeal of our iniquitous money statutes
—but, we fear, not until then.

THE Pike scheme is now before the public in
its true light. We have repeatedly pronounced
it a flagrant imposition. Time has stamped our
assertion as true. But where is the responsibility
of its authors and promoters ? The nefarious
job will cost Liverpool close on 1,500,000/.
before we are done with its poison. That it
should be possible for any set of public men to
take such a sum from a comparatively small
community, and scatter it before the winds, is
perfectly monstrous. That a Corporation should
be suffered to bring engineers down from London
to undertake works, without having bona fide
security for their competency and the efficient ful-
filment of their contracts, is equally outrageous.
The Ratepayers have no money to lavish on
jobbing Councilmen and their incompetent
hirelings. It is positive robbery to exact money,
even by force of law, from the inhabitants of a
town for experiments in hydraulics and the
accumulation of poisons. The rudest nations
upon earth know enough about water and water
works to supply themselves with this necessary.
Our Town Council are, in fact, the only body of
men in existence who could be duped as to the
quality and quantity of water required for any
specific purpose. Their ignorance on these
common-place matters is a monopoly, and, like
most high privileges of the kind, is associated
with consummate vanity and impertinence—a
profound love of self and impenetrable secrecy.
They take the public's money under the pre-
tence of giving them wholesome water, and they
produce us poisonous filth. They ask their
constituents indulgence, and then exclude the
public Press from their conclaves ! The Rate-
payers are left to collect some idea of what is
going on behind the black curtain of the Water

Committee from wretched reports supplied by
misery toadies—men who have not nerve enough
to keep a public secret, nor the manliness to
give impartial and universal publicity to what
they only know through their official capacity.
The first incubation of unclean birds took place
in a Star Chamber. Where there are men who
are ready for desperate or foul deeds, there are
sure to be gentlemen waiting to give the alarm and
betray the plot. To this species of Corporate
fidelity we are indebted for a deplorably garbled
account of what took place at the Water
Committee's meeting of Saturday last. The
majority of the members present- appear
to have been anxious to have a full
Supply of the Rivington ditch-water brought
into the town, but for what purpose is diffi-
cult to discover. It was not as an experiment
to test the works, because this was repudiated on
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behalf of the Committee. The majority then
were merely desiratts of having 16,000,000
gallons of this precious filth brought into the
town in one day. They, therefore, caused the
engineer, Mr. HAWKSLEY, to be applied to for

some information on the subject of the contem-
plated deluge of bog-water. The Committee
simply wished to know if the pipes and water-
works at Rivington would permit a flow of
16,000,000 gallons of water into Liverpool.

On the 2nd instant Mr. HAWKSLEY wrote to

to his generous. and confiding employers in
return, informing the Committee that he was not
responsible for the pipes since January last, but
that the pipes and works were perfectly compe-
tent to carry 16,000,000 gallons of water in
the day: into Liverpool. This assurance
must have been highly satisfactory to the
Committee. But, unfortunately, it was of a
very transitory character; for in a few se-
conds after the first letter had been
read, a second was produced of a subsequent
date, in which Mr. HAWKSLEY urged delay in
" trying to bring 16,000,000 gallons per day
into Liverpool from Rivington, first, because of
the expense, and, secondly, because it was unne-
cessary. Any one having the diameter of the
pipes could calculate the quantity of water they
would convey, and, as the valves are adjusted
for a much smaller quantity, the alteration
would be expensive. He, therefore, asked was

it absolutely necessary to make the experiment ?
Mr. DOCKWRAY had contracted to keep the pipes
in order, and pay for all damage, in the year
1857, for 1,6001. but, as his contract would not
expire before the Ist of January next, his respon-
sibility might be effected in the event of any
damage to the pipes or the property through
which they passed." The business public of
Liverpool will be at a loss to know what all this
means. Does Mr. HAWKSLEY pretend to say that
he adjusted the valves in question to supply only
10,000,000 gallons of water, when the pipes were
required to convey 16,000,000 ? Does he, or
Mr. DOCKWRAY, pretend that he was not bound to
keep the pipes in working order, to the full
extent of the duty they were meant to
perform ?

Will the Ratepayers never see through all
his, and take some steps to put an end to the