Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-23 00:00:00

THE LATE JULY mors IN BELFAST.

Last night, the riots were not renewed, and the
hitherto disturbed and excited districts were as quiet
and tranquil as need be expected. This, indeed, is owing
to the formidable military and police force which was in
the town last night, and the excellent arrangements made
by the authorities to meet any attempt at riot and out-
rage. on the part of the belligerents. Fifty police and
one officer arrived here last night from the County of.
Armagh ; fifty also from the County of Louth ; fifty from
the County of Antrim, and fifty from the County of
Down; and tees!,, with thirty men beloneing to Belfast,
forrnA the larg st number of constabulary that, perhaps,
ever was in this town together, The whole of these men
are under the command of Mr. Williams, County in-
spector for Antrim. There also arrived here, yesterday
evening a troop of the Bth ITu;sara, from Dundalk. We
believe- that still more police are expected in town. The
magistrate: who were actively engaged last night in the'
preservation. of order were Mr. Tracy, R.M., Mr.
11-PClure, Dr. M`Gee, Mr. W. Stevenson, and Mr.
Maenamara. The day and night force of the local police
were also present ; and plevets of both •,eere placed in
approved positions, between the belligerent parties.
lastructions of a nature empowering the magistrates to
resort to extreme measures, in case of need, had been
received : and the effect was to still whatever tendency
to riot might have been otherwise manifested. When it
was made known among the rioters at both sides that
they would be fired upon, if found engaged in conflict, it
is marvellous how quiet they resolved to be. It was not
found necessary, last night, to call out any soldiery. In.
Durham-street, opposite the Pound, at the end of
Stanley-street, and in the lanes and courts aljoining,
sentries were placed, and other measures were taken to
repress any teadeuey to disturbance. We are glad to
say that they were effective. Of the parties injured, the-
two constables in hospital are going on favourably..
There are twelve other constables severely hurt, two of
whom haVe had the skull exposed by blows of stones.—
Belfast Mercury of Tuemlay.

The Jewish claims do not make much way in the House
of Lords. Lest year the bill was rejected by a mojerity of
32-110 to 78. This year the adverse majority is 34, and
' the house on both sides mustered more strongly, the num-
bers being 173 to 139.
'Teem' OF LONDON.—The deaths registered in London
in the week that ended on Saturday (July 18th) exhibit as
increase on those of nine previous weeks. The number is-
-1,061, of which 550 are deaths of males, and 511 those of
females. In the ten years 1847-56, the average number of
dea:he in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1,028.
Bat as the deaths of last week occurred in an increased
population, the average, to admit of comparison, must be
raised proportionally to the increase, in which case it will
become 1,130. From these statements it may be inferred
that the present condition of the public health is at least
as good as is usual at this period of the year. The deaths
from diarrhoea, which is in the three previous weeks were
33, 65, and 133, rose last week to 150. The increase
which this disease now shows is therefore not so great as
that which appeared in the preceding return. Last week
the births of 860 boys and 826 girls, in all 1,686 children,
were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks
of the years 1817-56, the average number was 1,379.
PROPOSED STATUS TO ROBERT HALL, ESQ M.P. FOR
LEEDS.—A meeting was held in the Council Chamber of
i the Leeds Court House, on Tuesday, John Hope Shaw,
Esq. in the chair, for the purpsse of initiating a suescrip-
. tiers for erecting a handsome marble memorial of the late
1, Robert Hall, Esq., MP. Mr. Hall, whose eminent legal
and literary services are well 'clown in the West Riding,
had always taken an active part in the social and *lam-
, thropic movements of the day, and had eseecially devoted
himself to the prevention of elme. It is proposed to
raise a statue, which shall cost abaut £l.OOO, to his
mem ery, and to place it in the noble Town Hall of Leeds.
Oa the motion of J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq.. seconded by
E. Irwin. Esq., the following resolution was passed :-
1 " That the high character, public and private, of the late
Robert Hall, Esq., M.P., his great literary and legal
attainments, and the eminent services he rendered to this
borough, are, in the opinion of this meeting, worthy of
! being commemorated by the erection of a suitable monu-
ment its Leeds." A committee, a treasurer, sect. Lary, and
three trustees were subsequently appointed to carry out
the obj'ct of tee mee•ing.
THE FUTURE EUROPEAN SUMMERS.—III a scientific-
article in the Journal des Debes, M. Bahinet, of the
Institute, expresses his conviction that for many future
years this country will enjoy a regular succession of
seasons;--that spring will be no longer a continuation, if
not an aggravation, of winter; and that summer will not
any more be cooler than autumn. He says :—lu the
norm al meteorological state of France and Europe the west
wind, which is the counter-current of the trade winds that
constantly bloN from the east under the tropics—the west
wind, I say, after having touched France and Europe by
the western shores, re-descends by Marseilles and the
Mediterranean, Constantinople and-the Archipelago, As-
krakan and the Caspian Sea, in order to merge again into
the great circuit of the general winds, and be thus carried
again into the equatorial current. Whenever these masses
of air, impregnated with humidity during their passage
over the ocean, meet with al obstacle, such as a chain of
mountains, for example, they slide up the acclivity, and
when they reach the crest, find themselves relieved from a.
portion of the column of air which pressed upon them.
Thus, dilating by reason of their elasticity, they cause a
considerable degree of cold, and a vecipitation of humidity
in the form of fogs, clouds, rain, or snow. A similar effect
occurs, whatever be the obstacle they find in their way.
Now, this is what had gradually taken place before 18.56.
By some cause or other connected with the currents of the
atmosphere the warm current from the west had annually
ascended northwerd, so that, instead of passing through
France, it came from the Baltic and the north of Ger-
many, thus momentarily distu bin; the ordinary law of
the temperature of Europe. But in 1856 a sudden change
occurred. Tee western current again passed, as bsfore,
through the centre of France. It met with an obstacle in
the air which bad not yet found its usual outlet towards
the west and south. Hence a stoppage, a rising, a conse-
quent dilation and fall of temperature, extraordinary rains,
and inundations. But now that the natural state of
things is restored, nothing appears to prognosticate the
return of similar disasters Were the western current
found annually to move further north we might again
experience meteorological effects similar to those of 1856.
Hence the regular seasons may be considered in-established
iu France for several years to come.
Tue IJuosoec's BAY COMPANY AND CANADA.—The "
Hudson's Bay Company have not been insensible to
the slender tenure by which they hold the exclusive privi-
leges they have too long enjoyed ; nor to the obstacles
that might arise to an extension of them beyond the time
comprshended within their lease. They have been pre-
poring for the crisis that they saw must arise. Upon the
validity of the charter, granted by Charles the First, upon
which they claim a certain portion of their rights in the
north-west, they evidently do not rely much; and are
unwilling to test it before a competent legal tribunal.
They arc, therefore, chiefly solicitous In obtain a renewal
of their lease, soon now to expire by tile efiluxion of time._
For this they hove been making every preparation. To
facilitate their objects they have adopted the policy of
concealing from the world all correct information with
respect to it ; and inculcating, through their agents, the
most erroneous views as to the real character and capabili-
ties of the territory. Its soil, climate, and accessibility
have been systematically misrepresented. These in the
interests of the company have represented it as unfit for
settlement and civilisation—fit only to be, and destined
only to be, a " howling wilcleracss"—the natural abode of
the wild beasts of the forest. Their lurid pictureSque,
however, have been proved unreal by the acquisition of
more correct information ; and it is now ascertained, upon
the reliable tea imeny of distinguished witnesses, that
these fertile forests, doomed by the company to endless
sterility and barbarism, contain vast territories capable ne
a high state of cultivations, and of being c-nverted into the
happy homes of countless multitudes. It has also been the
policy of the comp any to rep. esent the road to Red River,
through Canada, by way of Lake Superior, as entirely •
impracticable. Sir George Simpson, an active agent of
too compauy, avers that it would require the treasures of
the Bank of England to render this route passable. And
in conformity with this idea, the British Government has
been induced to send a company of the Canadiah
anada
destined to the Red River settlement, by the circuitous
route of the Hudson's Bay. This, no doubt, was
c.intendedh
to produce the desired impression in England, and to show
those who have a voice in tee (ries ion,
formidable rival of the claims of the monopolists, was cut
off, by impassable harriers of nature,. from all trade and
commerce with tfiees territories, and from all facilities for
the transmission of settlers. They ascertained, beyond
doubt, that not only is the route by Lake Superior practi-
cable, but vastly shorter and cheaper, than either by way
of Hudson's Bay or ,Minnesota. These ,übterfuges are
clearly seen through ; and tale disingenuous spirit dis-
played by the company and., its agents will cnly excite a
more intense desire in Canada to put ourselves fully in
possession of all the facts connected with the north-west,
maintain our jehe rights, and eetsnd our territorial boun-
daries to the full lutivs to which we are entitled. " West-
ward the side of empire flows," and strange it would be
if we should tamely allow our provincial boundaries to be
encroached upon by a company of English monopolists,
whose only object is pecuniary gaire—gain at any cost—at
the expense of colonisation, which they prevent, civilisa-
tion which they rane—of the poor Indian, the fruits of
whose labour they wrest from him for an inadequate
remuneration, and whose natural wants they fail to supply
—of Canada, whose hardy sons they deprive of the right
of trading in the products of their own country, and of
holding commercial relations with the aboriginal inhabi-
tants of their Own eoil.—London Prototype (Canada).