Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-22 00:00:00

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MONDAY, JUNE 22, 18r)7.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

Sattrr3ay last was the anniversary of 'her Majesty's
secession to the throne. She has r low completed
a 'reign of twenty years, and he r virtues as a
sovereign, a lady, and a mother, I ;'n cleaT her still
more and more to all classes c her subjects
Under such circumstances, the ds r in all parts of
the United Kingdom was marked by demonstra-
tions of loyalty. Both in Lond on, and all the
leading cities and towns of the em pire, bells pealed
merrily, flags were hoisted, and in the shipping
ports the vessels were dressed . out gaily ,with
variegated ermigns, and fens de jo is were fired from
the several military forts.

The Educational Conference, under the presi-
dency of His Royal Highness, co ,mmences this day,
and will continue its sittings fo r three days; when
important papers on this trill y important topic
will be read. It is -,gratify in g to see •such
an illustrious personage as ti to Prince CoLeert
taking the lead in such an irnl )ortant movement,
and we sincerely hope that the leliberations of the
Conference will be attended wit h beneficial results.
The prosecution of the Brith )11 Bank Directors
still engrosses public attention i. Two more, Mr.
Alderman Kennedy, and Mr. Ai_ caeleod, are said to
be arrested. It will be in the recollection of our
readers that Mr. Apsley,Pellatt , late M.P. for the
borough of Southwark, was o cie of the original
directors of the Royal British Bank. It appears
from his examinatioir in the Ban kruptey Court, that
be was a party in some proceed ings in connection
with the formation of the bank ; • but he left it in
the year 1850, without taking an ything from it, and
without sharing in the plunder.. We understand
Mr. Pelates case has been coniddered by the law
officers of the Crown ; and that,. after a full con-
sideration of all the cironmsta nces, it has been
determined not to make any ch arge against that
gentleman. The followir.g are• the latest par-
ticulars respecting the matter given in yesterday's
Vbserner

Mr. Alderman Kennedy is on his way to this
country, and will arrive in. London to-day in cus-
tody of one of the assistants of Inspector Field.
Bail is re.acty to be given to the required amount
for Mr. Kennedy. Alderman Kennedy was cap-
tured in .the.south of Germany by Inspector Field.
He had for some time past been suffering consider-
ably in health, and was about to leave the residence
he had occupied for some time for one in Italy.
The Alderman was, it is stated, considerably
alarmed on being arrested. =lie was first taken to
Wiesbaden, -where he was left by the officer and a
marnber of the firm of Messrs. Linklater and
Hackwood, in 'charge of an assistant, instructed
to accompany him to London. Mr. H. D.
Macleod, who was a director of the bank in the
earliest stages, surrendered himself at Boulogne
on Thursday morning last to REr. Hosgood, who
held the warrant for his apprehension, and in
whose company he arrived in town on the after-
noon of that day. Macleod was subsequently
brought up `;before' Mr. Justice Erie, at Judges'
chambete, when the. amount of his` bail was fixed at
£8;000, _himself in. _e114,000, and ;two sureties o'
52,000. each. Mr. Humphrey Brown, it appears,
succeeded for some time in evading being taken,
by wearing green spectacles and a wig, which most
effectually altered his personal appearance. No
proceedings will bo taken against Mr. Apsley
Pellatt; his connection . with the concern, and the
acts which he performed having been doubtless
influeneed.hy a feeling of the most perfect confi-
dence in the integrity of those with whom he was
associated. -He was in no way btinefited by the
fraudulent transactions •of the bank, and the
Attorney-General feeling convinced that the prose-
cution of that gentlematt would be attended with
failure, has decided not to take steps against him.
The indict/needs against the parties are for having
conspired frauchnlently to .obtain a charter from her
Majesty's Privy Ocuneil, wed also for conspiring to
obtain money by IFrauduliant representations. The
trials will not, it is ex,pected, come off before
November, and they will take pace in the Court
of Qaeen's Bench. The bill. to enable the assignees
of the bank to effect a connprornise between the
shareholders and dsplasitortT, bas passed the House
of Commons, and now awaits a second reading in
the House of Lords. It is stated,, however, that
Lord St. Leonards and some other of the law lords
are opposed to the further pvogresa of the bill
until the appeal from the deci.lion of the Master
of the Rolls in Ireland, respectieig the liability of
the shareholders of the .Tipperar.y bank, has been
decided. A telegraph despatch areived.in. London
last night, stating that Mr. -Camelron, the late
manager of the bank, had been arrest ed at Lausane;
and it .W 43 also reported that Mr. Esdale, the
governor of the bank, had been captured.
The Select Committee of the House cif Commons
appointed to investigate the petition of Wlr. Newall
respecting the Rochdale Election, met on Satur-
day; but as the proceedings were conducted with
closed doors, we are nimble to communicate what
took place. No doubt fteae_exclusion of members
of the House will formo'a—subject of a keen
debate te-night.
The Committee .of the House of Commons ap-
pointed-to consider the petition of Mr. Bert:laces
respecting the Ducky of Lancaster, have com-
menced their inquiry. The petitioner wa& the first
witness examined.

It is now rumoured in fashionable circles, that
Prints Frederick William of Prussia and the
Princess Royal will be married on the 18ih of
January next, or thereabouts. At 17 years of age,
the eldest daughter of the Queen will be a young
bride, too young, there can be no doubt, but it is a
matter with which we have no right to interfere.
We understand that Mr. H. W. Schneider, M P
for Norwich, has announced his hope that at an
early day he may be enabled to brine the whole
subject of poor-law reform, including an equitable
adjustment of the mode of assessment, an enlarge-
ment of area from which the rates for relief c.‘f the
poor are levied, and an entire abolition of the law
of removal and settlement, before the House of
Commons, in conjunction with an experienced
member, who takes a deep interest in the question.
The French elections are to take place during
the early part of the present week, so that the
electoral " fever" absorbs everythingin that country..
The extent to which this fever has gone proves the
existence of a large democratic and constitutional

feeling which the heavy pressu
has failed to extinguish. A of imperial rule
--circular of the Prefect
of the Seine on the subject, adds another to a
thousand proofs tlat freedom of election in France
means freedom to vote for the government can-
didates, and nothing more. The Emperor is un-
derstood to be uneasy.
The Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France, Eng.
land, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey, met
on Friday at the Ministry of Foreign Affiairs, for
the purpose of signing the treaty for the frontier
settlement in Bessarabia, and for regulating the
question of the Isle of Serpents and of the Delta
of the Danube. The Moniteur confirms the
fact, teat a treaty of commerce was signed between
France and Russia on the 14th of the present
month.

Our latest intelligence from Madrid informs us,
that at Sastago disturbances to the cry of " Long
live Charles VIA " had taken place, but no details
of them are given. Republican proclamations had
again been put in circulation in the capital, but
they preduced little effect. More troops had
been sent off to the Havannab; The guano dis-
covered in Estramadura is stated to be equal in
quality to that of Peru.
Growing complications about the Principalities
will shortly compel attention to that quarter. The
complaints in the French Moniteur of the arbitrary
proceedings of Kaimakam Vogorides are flatly
termed falsehoods by the Austrian government
organ, while direct, news from the Danube de-
scribes the Kaimakams as openly refusing to be
controlled by the European Commissioners, four
of whom, representing France, Prussia, Sardinia,
and Russia, have addressed a protest to the Porte
against thir contemptuous treatment of their office.
The Pope has pardoned two eminent persons
the President of the Roman Constituent Assembly,
and one of the Command€rs of the fortes of the
late Roman Republic. _

The Arabia arrived here yesterday, with New
York dates to the 10th inst. inclusive, 151 passen-
gers, and the largest amount of specie brough,
over by one steamer this season, viz., 2,225,624
dollars. The news is interesting. Colonel Cum-
mings had received the appointment of Governor
of Utah. The latest news from that territory is to
the effect that great excitement prevailed there.
The reports from previous sources of the growing
tyranny of Brigham Young, and his settled hostility
to the Gentiles, and &termination to resist the
government are fully confirmed. The expected
address of General William Walker was delivered
in New Orleans on the 30th ult., in presence of a
multitude of people, who appeared to sympathise
deeply with the general's filibustering tendencies.
Walker's speech is not long, but sharp—what there
is of it. He reviews briefly the course of events in
Nicaragua from the period he set his foot on its
shores ; declares that he was elected president by
the unanimous voice of the people, and but for
American influence would have carried the day,
and remained in power. He regrets that
any one bearing the name of an Americam
should have conducted himself as Captain
Davis did, and speaks of that officer in terms
of unmeasured condemnation; The prospects
of the coming campaign—for the General
promises to return, feeling it his duty to
do so—are looked upon as peculiarly prom-
ising, and all patriots .who love their country,
are affectionately desired to buckle on their armour,
join his standard, and renew the struggle for what
the General terms " Americanization of Central
America." The New York papers contain the par-
ticulars of the burning of the steamer Louisanain
the Gulf of Mexico. The event occurred some six of
eight miles southward of _Galveston, Texas, the fire
h aving broke out about one o'ciock on the morning
of May 31. There were fifty or sixty passengers
on board, besides the crew, the greater number of
wbtom perished. The .fire being amid-ships, all
communication between the forward and after part
of tthe ship was cut off, and the teller-ropes being
burnt, she was entirely unmanagable, although the
en,, tines contrived to run. for some time. Among
tipa se who perished was Colonel Bainbridge, of the
United States army. The Hon. William B. Prestob,
of Virginia, had been appointed, by about a dozen
of irailroad companies, to proceed on a mission
to E ngland to negotiate with the commander of
the Great Eastern, and to secure, if possible, her first
trip a cross the Atlantic to the port of Norfolk. By
the Ir ,st news from Mexico we learn that the presi
denti. it election, though not determined, was pro-
gressing favourably for General Comonfort. This
is an encouraging omen for the future peace and
prospt tray of the republic. It was a matter of
extreme doubt whether the people of Mexico were
sufficiently enlightened, and sufficiently indepen-
dent of the priesthood, to .I'e-elect to the presi-
dency a man whose chief aim, has been to establish
the sup: remany of the state over the church, and
to break 'down that exorbitant and unwholesome
power v thich the latter has nowhere more arro-
gantly e xercised than in the Mexican Republic.
The cent est between President Comonfort and the
Mexican church has been long and severe.

THE year
.1857 will witness'New Houses of
, Parliament in England, France, and Belgium.
' According to the latest accounts from Belgium,
• the king, exercising at once his wisdom and his
prerogative, has changed the prorogation into a
dissolution- The obnoxious Charitable Bequests
Bill will be dropped, and then a serious
national danger will be averted. It will be
very instructive to Europe, and ,especially to
OJI who are interested in the success of constitu-
tisonal government, to watch the elections in
Belgium, a country in which the suffrage is
nearly univeral, and given by ballot. Not less
instructive and interesting, though in a different
way, will be the French elections, where nine
and a half millions of electors will be invited to
go through the form of voting for men almost
dictated to them by the Government—that is,
by the Emperor. A short time since it appeared
as if the mass of the people meant to abstain
from voting, being indifferent to the senseless
formality of an appearance behind which there
was nothing real. If we may trust later
accounts, more interest is taken in the coming
event ; lists of opposition candidates are being
prepared.; and among the names will appear that
of General CAVAIGNAC, as one of the members
for the metropolis ; and other liberals will also
appear in other parts of the country, Even this
slight movement is better and more hopeful than
absolute stagnation and complete indifference.
But the question occurs, what can they do,
even :supposing them returned, in opposition
to Government Candidates, in a legislative body
where no free discussion is allowed, no
popular petitions are received, and no press
records the proceedings ? We, in England,
cannot regard the future of France without the
gravest apprehension. We\can harbour no
ill wishes for the French nation or the Emperor.
The prosperity of the two nations is intimately
connected. England is closely linked to France
as to America, and though we should safely ride
out the storm as we have done before, yet a
servile or a civil war in the United states,
and another revolution in France, would be
powerfully felt in England. Every year the
interests and prosperity" of nations are becoming