Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-28 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS

Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, the
Princess Frederick William of Prussia and Princess
Royal of England was delivered of a son. She
was married on Monday, the 25th of January, last

year. -
The advices from the Continent this morning
are hardly so warlike as those of late. It is
affirmed that the English government has written
both to the Sardinian and Anstrian Cabinets on
the question of Italy, giving them very good
advice; and the statement comes from Vienna that
Austria is likely to surrender her objections to the
assembling of a Congress, for the purpose of
settling the open qustions of European policy.
Italy remains quiet. Two French ships of the
line have left Toulon for Genoa, probably
to bring home Prince Napoleon and his
bride At the opening of the French Chambers
it is expected that the Emperor Napoleon's speech
will announce the settlement of the question of the
Danube. Austria, if looking to a war in Italy,
must naturally wish to stand as well as possible
with the powers parties to the treaty of Paris upon
all questions properly appertaining to that treaty.
It would be a matter of course to call the conference
together to register the final regulations for the
navigation of the Danube. Bence, probably, the
rumour of the day. But it is, moreover, just
possible that Austria may have devised a form for
hinting her willingness to discuss in the congress
the means of avoiding such a calamity as a

war.
A revolution is impending in the free city of
Hamburgh. A number of the heads of the first
families in the city have already met to determine
on a complete revision of the government. Why
not ? If Hamburgh be infected by the prevailing
spirit for government reform, let her act upon it
by all means, but she will do so peacefully as
becomes her.
It now appears that ' Mr. Gladstone has really
accepted the office of Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands, but only for such a limited
period that he will be back, and be re-eligible for
election by the University of Oxford, by the time
a fresh election can take place.
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torsCaltho East Worcestershire—the Hon. Frederick
Lord
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countychoose ; and that done, the
electors will, of
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An important reform
meeting has been held at
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A banquet to celebrate the anniversay of the
foundation of the Australian colonies. tooki) place
on Wednesday night, at which Sit j
and Sir E. B. Lytton, with many of theakington
Colonial
celebrities were present. Both minister
speeches, and the usual style of glorificationmade
speeches,
prevalent. Sir Edward was eloquent upon the
circumstance that the Australian colonists were
deeply imbued with the feelings of the " English
gentleman," and of affection for the old country,
in contradistinction, apparently, to the Anglo-
Saxon inhabitants of North America.
In a speech at Keighley, Sir James Kay
Shuttleworth gave warning to the managers of
Mechanics' Institutions that those bodies are pro-
bably about to encounter serious opposition from
the working of a recent minute of the Committee
of Council for Education. That department, recog-
nising the importance of promoting good teach-
ing for youths from thirteen upwards who, whilst
actively employed during the day, are desirous
of devoting their leisure hours to learning, has

determined to encourage and give generous
Government aid to evening schools in connectton
with day schools, Sir J. Kay-Shuttleworth
anticipates that from the liberal grants which
these evening schools will now obtain they may
become formidable rivals in many localities to the
Mechanics' Institutions, which have been so
useful in supplying supplementary education to
those who have to earn their own bread at an

early age.
The Birmingham stipendiary magistrate has
committed an ex-policeman, named Brailsford, on
a charge of murder, he having, on the 7th Decem-
ber last, while an inmate of a lunatic asylum,
violently attacked a fellow lunatic, and so severely
injured him that he died in a short time after.
On Wednesday evening, two well-to-do trades-
men in London met, and, being friends, went into
a public-house, and got rather tipsy. They ulti-
mately quarrelled, and one of them, a powerful
man, named Plews, struck his friend, Burrows,
who fell against some furniture, and an internal
vessel of the head was ruptured, causing the almost
instantaneous death of Burrows.
It is alleged that the Government have com-
pleted a contract with three large iron companies
for a supply of 68-pounders as fast as they can be
cast. An important contract for gunpowder has
also been taken.

The city article of the Times announces that a
number of forged bills of exchange have been
successfully put into circulation. They purport to
be drawn by the Barbados branch of the Colonial
Bank on the parent establishment in London, and
are supposed to have been manufactured and nego-
tiated in New York, whence, after having passed
into good hands, they have been remitted here
to several respectable firms for collection. Those
already presented at the Colonial Bank amount to
an aggregate of about 9,0001., and from the manner
in which they are numbered it is inferred that at
least a total of 15,000/. has been put forth. The
plate itself is a forgery of a very clumsy descrip-
tion, and the signatures of the bank manager and
accountant at Barbados have been poorly imitated.
The bills are for amounts ranging from 400/. to
1,4001., and the sufferers are most probably all in
America. _ .

There is every reason to believe that in a day
or two, at farthest, the telegraph line from
Cagliari to Malta will be in complete working
order, as we learn that on Tuesday the line was
ascertained to be perfect between Cagliari and the
west coast of Sicily, near the island of Maritimo,
about one-half the entire length from Cagliari to
Malta.

The weekly meeting of the Dock Board was
held yesterday. It was decided that a superinten-
dent of pilots, at a salary of £2OO a-year, should
be advertised for ; and the treasurer of the pilots'
committee, a lady, who has held the post for a
period of twenty years, was voted an annuity
of 150. A letter was read from Mr. J. B.
Boyden, chairman of the Shipbuilders' Association,
complaining of the utter inadequacy of the present
accommodation, which was referred to the proper
committee. A somewhat animated and lengthened
discussion took place on the motion of Mr. Smith—
" That the names of two gentlemen be substituted
for those of Mr. Bold and Mr. Laird, on the par-
liamentary committee, the declared opinion of these
gentlemen unfitting them to render any assistance
in carrying out the resolution of the board on the
15th inst."—in which Messrs. Bold, Laird, Bushel,
Tobin, Shand, and the Chairman took part, and,
notwithstanding that Messrs. Bold and Laird
voted for the motion, it was negatived by 18 to 5.
At the meeting of the Workhouse Committee
yesterday, only routine business was discussed.
Mr. Denton created some amusement by proposing
that the system of homoeopathy be tried in the
house, as "it would do a great deal of good and
save a vast deal of expense." The number of
deaths in the workhouse last week was 28, and
the total number of inmates is 2,447 against 2,743,
corresponding week last year.
The magistrates yesterday, were engaged in
the investigation of several very serious charges
against Mr. Archibald Mann, the well-known
vocalist. The charges, which are of a most

diabolical nature, were sufficiently proved to
warrant the prisoner being committed for trial at
the next assizes.

MORE• IRISH FACTION,

IRELAND has just furnished another illustration
of the truth of the political axiom, that party is
" the madness of many for the gain of a few." A

public effort was to have been made this week, to
arouse a spirit of patriotism in the landed interest

—to awaken them to a sense of the obligations
they are under to their country—to induce them

to shake off their indifference to its present
disorganised condition—and, most important of
all, to excite them to a right hearty performance of
all that is bound upon them by that great precept,
that " property has its duties as well as its
rights." A meeting was to have been held in
Dublin yesterday with these most praiseworthy
and, from party feeling it is to
be feared, it has had to be abandoned. From
party feeling operating in two different ways.

objects in view

First, because it originated with the supporters
of the present Government; although one can't
see what difference that could make, when the

end in view was one, not of this Government or of
that, but of any Government whatever, that would
really act as such—that is, govern the country,
enforce its laws, preserve its peace, protect the
lives of the people, and give security to their
property. Truly has it been said—
' " Those Governments that cure not evils, cause."

No Government, therefore, that does not grapple
manfully with such evils as those which now curse
Ireland, can well be exonerated from the responsi-
bility of at least occasioning their continuance.
Not that there is the slightest reason to suppose
that the Government had any thing to do with
the public-spirited movement we refer to —beyond,
perhaps, approving of it, as calculated to
strengthen their hands- Only it was suggested,
it appears, by those who give them their support,
as honestly endeavouring, according to the ability
that it is found practicable to exert, to execute
the laws, to maintain order, to give security to life
and property, and to advance the country's real
interests. The opponents of the Government,
therefore, could not bear this. Their party feeling
rose up strongly against it. Not only did they
refuse to co-operate in its patriotic purpose, but
they even threatened to go to the meeting, and
introduce dissension, and create a disturbance.
In the next place, they are a party that make
political capital out of the very evils which this
movement sought to . remove. Ireland tranquil,
secure, and prosperous would not suit their
purpose, just now, at all. They know the value,
as an Opposition to the Government of the day,
of the principle contained in the well-known
apothegem—

"The Sem will gather when the nation boils.

It is this " scum" of the Irish nation that
gathers under the boiling process of its political agi-
tators and incendiaries, with which they work out
their party stratagems, and carry off their party
spoils. Ireland, in skort, must be made to con-
tinue the " great difficulty " of any Government
with which their party is not politically identified,
and by which it is not personally advantaged,

This is Ilat secret, then, of their aversion to any
moveritient, at the present moment, the object
of which was to tranquillise, and to improve
Ireland.

Of the factions nature of the objections to such
a course as it was proposed to pursue, some idea
may be formed from what has been furnished in
a communication to the originators of the move-
ment, to the effect, that although there really was
a band of treason-mongers, and common disturbers,
in the country, yet as they were in a minority, and
therefore could not accomplish their mischievous
objects, they might safely be left to carry on their
seditious, and often sanguinary designs, unmo-
lested ! " There is, in almost all countries, a
portion of the people which, either from natural
temperament or other causes, is disaffected to the
Government, and desirous of change.; and that such'
a class, rapidly, however, diminishing both in
numbers and in moral and intellectual weight,
exists in Ire'land, no one can deny." Such are the
very words of the communication we refer to ;
and they amount to an admission that there is a
body of the people of Ireland bent on the most

incendiary mischief. Still more explicitly is this
acknowledged in what follows, in the same docu-
ment :—" Political revolution, not agrarian out-
rage, is the end aimed at by those societies, the

members of which have been lately arrested by the.
orders of the Government ; and, as I have already
endeavoured to show that for such purposes they
are entirely powerless, I think they may be safely
left to the ordinary operation of the law." We
say nothing of the writer's Sir-Oracle style of
treating such a subject ; but it is quite evident,
that a view like this of so serious a question is not
one that dm be taken by any patriotic mind, but
only by a sinister-souled, popularity-hunting, and
party politician.
The object, however, of the movement is likely
to be attained, in part at least, notwithstanding it
has been found expedient to abandon the intended
meeting. The Committee, we learn, having
received hundreds of letters containing expressions
of approval and support from
.all parts of the
country, a deputation, consisting of the secretaries
and two other members of the Committee, on
Saturday had an interview with his Excellency the
Lord Lieutenant, at the Castle, of a most satisfac-
tory nature ; and the real objects of the contem-
plated meeting having been virtually obtained, the
Committee have determined to substitute an
address to his Excellency instead. This address
is to embody the. Resolutions which were to have
been proposed to the public meeting, and which
were as follow,—

1. Acknowledging as we do the earnest desire and
the activity displayed by her Majesty's Government for
the suppression of illegal societies, yet, from the impunity
which has for several years attended the most atrocious
agrarian crimes in the country, and the recent revival of
Ribbon and other illegal associations, this meeting con-
siders it right to press earnestly upon the consideration of
the Government the feeling of insecurity for life arid
property which pervades the minds of many of her
Majesty's most loyal and peaceful subjects ; and to ex-
press their readiness to support the Executive in their
endeavours to preserve the peace of the country.

2. While we are anxious to see the laws repressing
crime made more effective, we are not unmindful of the
necessity of improving the social condition and habits of
the humbler classes The improvement of the dwellings
of the labouring population of the farmers of Ireland are
matters of vital importance, and an association of persons
interested in property, would feel it their duty as well,as
interest to give their best consideration to questions
bearing so immediately on the means that may promote
the suppression of those secret societies, which have
hitherto counteracted every effort towards amelioration.

. There is nothing whatever of a party character
about this—nothing but what is patriotic and
proper—but everything in which all classes of the
people, save the evil-disposed, are deeply inte-
rested. The spirit of the Address, therefore, if not
the letter, can scarcely fail to be concurred in by
all who would seek their country's prosperity and
happiness.