Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-25 00:00:00

Co nnicrciat Rat:.—!btss Day.

At twelve o'clock, at the broker's Vibe 6, Druid-court, Dale-street'
127 bags Valonea.—Euwa,d S. Knowles.
At twelve o'clock, at the brcker's office, Lancaster-buildings, 'I
ithe-
barn-street, 47 bales Hemp.—Henry Wilde.
♦t twelve o'clock, 114 bales Jute, and 164 bales Jute Cuttings.—Cox
Brothers.

At twelve o'clock, at the broker's office Excharge-strest Fast, a
quantity of Irish Moss, and 3 packages &ea' Wax.—Wm. Porter
and Co.
At twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, Victoria-building. Hackin':-
hey, 80 bags White Pepper.—r. W. and J. C. Harrop and Co.
At twelve o'c'ock, at the broker's ofrce, Royal Bank-buildings, a
quantity of Bombay Hemp.—Thornewill and Brcom.
At twelve o', lock, at the brokers' cffice, 27, Tithebarn-street, a
quantity of Hide Cuttings, Cattle Hoofs, and Cow Horns —lsm c
Hadwen jun. and Co.

At twelv o'clock, at the broker's office, 4, S ant:aster-buildings,
4 0 tons Patagonian Guano.— John DAviel an 1 Co.
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 9, Rumford-street, a quan-
tity Annan Rice and Jamaica Coffee.—Wh:tAker, Whitehead and
Co,

At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 18, Hackin's-hey, 2 barrels
and 5 bags St. Lucia Cocoa.---Buchanan, Browne and Co.
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 30, Exchange-alley North,
528 bales Jute.—Shand, Higson and Co.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS

The House of Commons have finished all busi-
ness of importance, they only sat yesterday from
three o'clock until a quarter to four, (though, by-
the-by, it was half-past twelve this morning before
we had the finish of the telegraph report of the
proceedings, just eight hours and three quarters
from the rising of the House.) The case
of the " Annie Wilson," Government emigration
vessel which sailed from Liverpool in November
last, the Secretary of the Colonies said that
nothing further than had been published in the
newspapers had reached the Government, and that
he was certain these accounts were exaggerated.
The ship did not carry out as many passengers as
she was entitled to do, and the provisions were
quite ample and sufficient. However, on the arri-
val of the ship at Liverpool, a full investigation
would be held into the affair. Respect-
ing the rumoured amalgamation of the
West India and Australian Mail Companies, the
Secretary of the Treasury said that the chairman
of the former company had stated to him that they
were desirous of coming to such arrangement, but
that he had been referred to the Lords of the
Admiralty. He also announced that the contract
for increased speed in the communication between
London and Dublin had been arranged, and all
that was required was the formal signing. Every
arrangement had been made for the complete car-
rying on of the seivice between Holyhead and
Kingstown.
In the House of Lords the Earl of Ellen-
borough suggested that government should ap-
point a gentleman to translate the illiterate,
inaccurate, and ambiguous messages forwarded
from India to the government, so that the people
at large should be placed in possession of authentic
intelligence from the East. After some sharp re-
marks from Lord Granville and others respecting
the insinuations thrown out against Lord Powis a
few days ago, the House went into consideration of
the Divorce Bill. Lord Redesdale moved that the
bill be read a second time that day six months, but
this was negatived and all the amendments
of the Commons with exception of that one
giving a right to the wife to sue for a divorce
on the ground of aduiteiy by the husband, were
agreed to.
We are yet without any additional telegraphic
despatch containing further news from India. We
are, however, in hourly expectation of the same,
and it cannot be long ere we are in receipt of full
details of the intelligence brought by the last
steamer to Suez. According to a London cotem-
porary of last night, there is too much reason
to believe that Sir Hugh Wheeler has
fallen in addition to Sir Henry Lawrence. In such
a crisis the loss of two such leaders is a
greater misfortune than the loss of a
whole regiment Apart from the disastrious loss
of two such officers, the news received on Friday
evening by Electric Telegraph is of a chequered
complexion—the bad predominating. It is in so
far satisfactory that the revolt does not apper to be
extending itself over a wider field, A few days
ago we pointed out that—owing partly to the
precautionary measure of disarming the sus-
pected regiments, and partly to the better dis-
position of the inhabitants—Bengal and Behar re
mained comparatively quiet ; that—for the same
reasons—there had been no decidedly mutinous
movement in Scinde; that, with the exception of
isolated movements at Aurungabad and N eg-
pore, the Bombay and Madras Presidencies ware
perfectly tranquil ; that, in short, the active spirit
of revolt was confined to the district of Delhi;
Rohilcund, Oude, some provinces of Bundelcund,
and the territories of Holkar and Scindiah In
this position of affairs nothing had teen altered at
the time of the most recent dispatches. Several
passengers from India were on board the Indus,
which arrived at Southampton on Saturday. They
believe that it is the determination of the authori-
ties in India to destroy Delhi, and that the great
Mosque there, which is sacred in the eyes of the
Mahommedan population, will be razed to the
groirnd. They confirm the statement that the
revolt is a Mussulman inevetnent, and that the
Hindoos have been made a cat's-paw of by the
wily and war-like Nlahommedass- They assert
that if it were not for the deplorable atrocities
committed, the revolt was not be regretted, as
nothing else would have induced the British
public to have given any attention to Indian
affairs, It was well known to the authorities in
India that extensive secret societies had been
farmed in India, and that the natives cenereuni
cated,with each other by signs and symbols. The
authorities thought that these signs and symbe,ls
were connected with some peaceful religious
movement, mid had not the slightest idea that
they related to a well-plumed and gigantic military
insurrection.

It is confi.lently asserted, in certain quarters
which profess to be well il.,Cormed, that Lord It.
Grosvenor, Lord Harty Vat e, and Mr. Compton
Cavendish are to be immellately raised to the
peerage.; and that the writs fo r Middlesex, South
Durham, and Bucks will be isst ied before the pro-
rogation. We should like to la low what services
to the country any one of these three gentlemen
have done that thny are to be rep
vardid with the
peerage. Lord hurry Vane, thei 'e is no doubt,
through thick
has upheld the present ministry
and thin. Lord Robert Grosve n'r brought
in the Sunday Tra ling Bill, wh ioh created
such disturbance in the Metropolis, ai
-id had ulti
mately to be withdrawn. A 3 for M Cavendish,r.
we will leave him in his obscurity.
Some of the Paris papers repeat the rt ,port that
Prince Albert and the Duke of CainLri, We will
visit the camp at Chalons, and add that gr eat pre-
parations are being made at Rheims for tlak 'ir re-
ception.
The criminal business of the Assizes terming,

yesterday, after the hearing of the case against
Doraville, the proprietor of that nuisance, the
Lime-street " Hop." We report the pro-
ceedings at some length. It was proved
by many respectable inhabitants in Lime-street,
including the respected proprietor of the Adeiphi
Hotel, Mr. Radley, that the " Hop" was a complete
nuisance, and after a abort consultation the jury
found Domville guilty of misdemeanour. Domville
then promised that he should close the establish-
ment at once, and not open another in the neigh-
bourhood, and he was bound in recognisances of
1,0001. to come up for judgment when called upon. In
the Nisi Prins Court, the case of the Queen v. Spence
came to a conclusion, the jury being of opinion
that the chemical works complained of were a
nuisance. A case of breach of promise of marriage
against an old man, 70
not yet 30, ended years of age, by a widow
in a verdict of £250 damages
with costs. Another
made in attempt at murder was
London on Sunday. Full par-
ticalars will b 3 found in an ether column.
Mr. Robinson, the gentleman who was so
severely stabbed in the Queen's Bench prison
by Salvi, died on Saturday evening. De. Salvi
was tried on Friday on the charge of stabbing
with a felonious intent, and was found guilty and
sentenced to 15 years' transportation. If he had
been tried yesterday, the case would have wore a
very different appearance, and he would not have
got eff so easily.
The Wirral Court Leete continues its sitting. It
still keeps up the crusade against what it calls
nuisances. A full report of its last session will be
fcund in to-day's paper.
Yesterday was the annual licensing day. A
very singular correspondence in relation thereto,
will be found in another column.
The proceedings at the police court yesterday do
not call for comment.

We give to day a short account of the state of the
affairs of the Royal Surrey Gardens, in London.
It would be premature to pass any opinion upon
the circumstances which havo led to the present
disastrous state of affairs, but the disclosures pro-
mise to be of a very remarkable character. We
hope, however, that the aspect in which the failure
appears to be viewed by the shareholders may
prove to ba incorrect or distorted.

A number of letters appears in our London co-
temporaries on the Divorce question. Amongst
them is one from Archdeac,:n Denison, who states,
with much clearness, the precise position which he
takes in reference to the Governmsnt compromise.
So long as he is incumbent of an English parish
he will neither marry in his church, nor allow
any other clergyman to marry there, one who has
been once lawfully married, and whose marriage
has been legally dissolved, during the lifetime
of the other party.
Spollen, lately acquitted on the charge of mur-
dering Mr. Little, at Dublin, was re-arrested on
Sunday, charged with robbing the office of that
late gentleman, a measure which appears to have
been provoked 'by Spollen's offensive displays
before the public since his acquittal. Of the
probabilities of his conviction we cannot, of course,
speak until we are in possession of the evidence.
The foreign news this morning is not of much
moment. In Paris, the liberty of the press is
regulated by a Board of Government Directors,
and it appears that this board ordered Monsieur
the editor of the Assembles National into its
august presence, and told him he must
change the name of his paper. The editor
bad the liberty to comply, and he presented a
new name for the decision of the Government.
In France, there is something in a name. A Paris
correspondent says that the French government
thinks it expedient to deny any present intention
of occupying a position in Cochin China, but the
government organs are instructed to insist upon
the perfect right of France to go there whenever
she chooses, and that by virtue of an old claim.
It will be admitted, however, that the claim can
only be enforced by cannon, and while credit is
taken for momentary forbearance, the public will
be told that the government alone is in a position
to determine what may be the proper time for
enforcing its rights.

From Naples we have advices via Genoa, which
state that two schooners under Neapolitan colours,
coming from Marseilles, bad been seized at the
former city, there having been found several chests
of muskets on board, which had been declared to
contain sugar. The captains and several officials
of the custom-house are stated to have been
arrested in consequence.
The sanguinary disturbances mentioned in a
short notice from Jerusalem, had broken out near
that city within about three leagues to the north,
at a place called El Birch, in consequence of an
old family quarrel having been resuscitate I. The
opposing parties had come to actual hostilities, 22
men and two women were killed. The consequence
was that all the neighbourhood of Jerusalem was
in agitation, and the surrounding villages were
preparing to take up arms. The governor was
absent at Dejannin, on the northern boundary of
the province. His presence was anxiously looked
for at Jerusalem, as the most likely means of
putting an end to the disturbances.

ELSEWHERE will be found a paragraph which
appeared in the City Article of yesterday's
Times, reflecting upon the commercial morality
of Liverpool. The observations of the writer
have been called forth by the late failures in
this town, and which were noticed in the columns
of this journal. It seems a fixed principle of
the conductors of the leading journal never to
acknowledge, much less to recant an error, no
matter who may suffer by its publication.
Accordingly, we find the City Editor on Satur-
day, in alluding to the failures of Messrs.
BUCHANAN, B)WNE & Co., the late Mr. DAVIS,
and Mr. HAYES, stating that his previous mis-
statements respecting these gentlemen, were only
errors of detail, "owing apparently to efforts
made by the persons interested to suppress the
inquiry." This is a statement too serious in its
character to be allowed to pass unnoticed and
unccntradicted. As at present advised, no such
effort was made, and we call upon the writer of
the article in question to be a little more explicit.
The character of the mercantile body of Liver-
pool must not be blasted by the mere ips-i dixit
of the mercantile Editor of the Times. From
what we have seen in that particular department
of the leading journal, we are not disposed to
attach any more credit to his assertion than any
other person occupying a similar position and
fulfilling like duties. It is not the case that any
parties here went about to suppress the facts
connected with these failures. They were
known to us several days before the Times had
any intimation of them, but we are not just so
fond of Gazetting every commercial rumour
which reaches us.

Priority of intelligence is, no doubt, a matter
Of moment to the contributors to and conductors
of public journals ; but we have made it a
standing anl unalterable rule not to rush into
print upon, the authority of hearsay reports.
The Tines. 'City Editor did this. He committed

an error,. -made a sort of explanation, and ou'c of
revenge that he was compelled to humble his
commercial pride, he returns t', the charge on
Satiarday. What is his object in doing so ?