Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-14 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES,----LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1857

Company, for having suffered, annoyance in one of
the second-class carriages of the company while
on his way to Scarbo-rough, by the company
allowing a number of lal4ourers, who had only third-
class tickets, to eve, •crowd the carriage in which
Breary was in, and otherwise cause annoyance.
The coroner's jury, at Bradford, have found a
verdiet of wilful murder against Margaret Dinsay,
aged 24, for prAsoning her child with essential oil
of almonds.

We regret to nay that another Bankhas suspended
payment —that known as " Farley's Worcester
Bank." The Bank was established upwards of 60
years ago, and was authorised to issue notes to the
amount of £15,600, but the actual issue fell far
shcirt of this figure. The liabilities of the Bank are
estimated at £120,000, and the assets at £50,000,
leaving a difference of k!70,000.
The foreigner who was apprehended in a railway
carriage between Manchester and Liverpool, on a
charge of stealing a pocket-book containing
upwards of £3,000 in notes -and other securities,
has undergone an examination at the Manchester
City Police Court. The narrative of the robbery
and clever capture, will be found detailed at length
in another column. It will be seen that all the
money stolen, £3,111 ISs , has been recovered.
The thief is a Wallachian by birth, and 'gives his
name as Charles Browness.

The crisis at Hamburgh continues, but we are
informed that the general feeling is decidedly more
favourable. The crisis cannot be pronounced over
till the end of January next, when the acceptances
will have run off, and it will be ascertained which
are goad and which are rotten. In the meantime,
the wrecks caused by the storms of the last fortnight
are beginning to become painfully apparent in the
domestic arrangements of private families. Every-
where retrenchment is the order of the day,
equipages and horses are sold off, tutors and
governesses have notice to leave, servants are
discharged, the theatres are deserted, and no one
has the covrage to give the bads and dinner
parties usual at this season. The Austrian
Government: has advanced a loan of 10,000,000 of
florins to the city of Hamburgh at 6 per cent. The
amount is to be paid into the Hamburgh Treasury
in silver. The loan is for twelve month,.

An extraordinary degree has been promulgated
in Paris, granting the credit of one million francs
towards alleviating the sufferings of the work
people,,and finding them in the communes means
of employment and food.
In Norway and Sweden the crisis is beginning
to be felt, and numerous important failures are
annormced from Poland.
Accounts from Lisbon announce that the fever
is gradually decreasing, and there is every
probability that, at the end of a few weeks, it will
be extinct.
We have some interesting news from America.
The President and Governor Walker had had a
long and friendly interview relative to Kansas
bfrairs, in which the propriety of sustaining the
action of the Constitufional Convention was fully
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discussed

It is understood that the difference of

opinion between them is so radical that open
hostility is considered inevitable, involving a split
of a National Democracy—Governor Walker
heading the conservatives and President Buchanan
the radicals. The President holds that as the
Convention was authorised by Congress, he is
bound to sustain its action, while the Governor
contends that this amounts to an assertion of the
right of Congress to force any constitution on the
territory, instead of leaving it to the people. It is
believed that in any event Governor Walker will not
reiign, and if the President should remove him, a
direct issue on this ground will be made, which

will divide the Democracy in the next Congress, in
which event the President will be in the minority.

THE news from India which we published on
Saturday, is of a cheering and encouraging cha-
racter. In fact, it is much better than the most
sanguine could have anticipated. These tele-
graphs show that important events have been
taking place in several parts of Hindostan.
Among the great movements which are chro-
nicled, are the following: A British army has
invaded the Kingdom of Oude, and taken the
road to Lucknow. Five thousand troops, under
the command of Brigadier GRANT, had reached
Alumbagh, three miles distant from the be_
leaguered residency, and a similar force under
Sir COLIN CAMPBELL, has crossed the Ganges at
Cawnpore. These facts show that the last crises
of the mutiny had arrived. Various conjectures
are put forth as to the possibility of Generals
OUTRAM and IhvELocx being able to hold out
until Sir COLIN CAMPBELL would be able to
march up to their rescue. Considering the ex-
ploits of HA VELOCK'S gallant band, and the deeds
of heroism which the British forces have every-
where performed in the present struggle, we have
no .fear that when Sir COLIN CAMPBELL

makes his attack on the mutineers now
before Lucknow, the carnage will be
fearful, and the victory decided and brilliant
on the part of the British. We are also of
opinion that the garrison at Lucknow would be
able to hold out until the 10th November, when
it was expected the final struggle would terminate
by the relief of the garrison at Lucknow, and the
complete discomfiture of the enemy. It is true
that the mutineers are in full force before Luck-
now, numbering, it is said, from fifty to seventy
thousand men at arms, and possessing no less
than 300 cannon ; nevertheless, there is nothing
to justify any fear as to the result of the engage-
ment. When Sir COLIN CAMPBELL and his army
reach Lucknow, there cannot be less than
10,000 British soldiers on the ground to avenge
the bloody and atrocious deeds 4f the mutinous
Sepoys ; and, in the course of a week or so, we
shall hear of the most complete victory which
has ever attended the British arms.

We observe that the Naval Brigade has at
length gone into action. A portion of this gal-
lant force, together with some battalions of the
93rd Highlanders, engaged the Dinapore muti-
neers on the Ist of November, at Kudjuai, in the
valley of the Ganges, and obtained a complete
victory—not, however, without sustaining a
severe loss. Colonel POWER was amongst the
killed. There had also been another severe conflict
in Central India. Up to the Bth of November,
the united Malwa Contingent, composed of
infantry, cavalry, and artillery, had remained
faithful, and had been entrusted with the protec-
tion of their head quarters at Mehidpore, some
hundred miles or so to the south-east of Nee-
much, and nearly four hundred miles from Delhi.
These men, overcome by the loe of mutiny,
joined the rebels, murdered four of their European
officers, captured the guns, and drove out the
loyal troops, They enjoyed their triumph but
a short time only, for the Mhow field force
descending upon this eager and unexpecOd

enemy, recaptured the artillery, dispersed the
mutineers, killed a hundred, took upwards of
seventy prisoners, and again established
British rule and authority. The accounts
from other part; although not satisfactory,
do not warrant anything partaking of despon-
dency. The engagements may be numerous,
and severs, but beyond all question, the advan-
tage is altogether in favour of the British, and if
anything was wanting to confirm us in this
opinion, we have only to consider the energy
and promptitude which all the commanding
officers were using to effect the speedy and
effectual tranquillity of India. Sir COLIN
C iMPBELL deserves the height of praise for the
rapidity of his movements, whilst Sir JOHN
LAWRENCE has not been a whit behind the
Highland General, or the courageous HAVELOCK
and gallant OUTRAM. It is also a subject of
sincere gratification to find that such feelings of
confidence and cordiality exist between all the
generals engaged in repressing the aims and
objects of the rebellious Sepoys. Their whole
career shows that the honour of their QUEEN and
country is the darling object of their existence.
Let us hope and trust that the next advices will
tell of the relief of Lucknow, and the utter
prostration of an enemy as treacherous as they
are atrocious and blood-thirsty. When this is
done, they who have earned the laurels of the
campaign should be justly rewarded for their
invaluable services.

IT is only a day or two since we animadverted
upon the flippant style of my Lord PALMERS-
TON in applying to Mr. MONCICTON MILNES'
question respecting the English Engineers. In
that answer there was an amount of self-sufficiency
which none but the Premier can attempt to
approach. But, independent of that, he also
gainsaid ts, and stated that the unfortunate
men whom the Neapolitan authorities have
maliciously and most unjustly imprisoned for a
space of nearly six months. From the infor
mation which we possessed we boldly stigmatised
his Lordship's assertion. It only required a few
days to convincethe world that what we wrote was
nothing but a matter of fact, and that instead of the
prisoners being comfortable and contented, they
had been most ignominiously treated, and were
confined in damp, dismal, and:unhealthy dungeons,
such as Naples alone can boast of. Now what was
Lord PALMERSTON required to do on Monday
night. He knew that his statement was by no
means correct, and therefore by a species of
dodging which a theatrical performer would be
disposed to regard as " side play," he goes
down to the House on Monday night, " eats his
like leek," like Pistol in the play, recants all he
has said respecting the treatment the English
prisoners had received, and admits that they
were confined in Neapolitan prisons which, said
his Lordship, " were really a disgrace to a
civilized world." But 'Lord PALMERSTON said
more, he distinctly said that the treatment to
which the prisoners are sub jetted (including our
fellow-countrymen of course, the English engi
neers) " would be more fitting to a barbarous
age than it is to the present time." But the
reader must again mark the special pleading of
the Premier to get out of his dilemma of Friday
night. He stated that the English Engineers
" hail not been subjected to anything like torture,"
except band-cuffed, and straps where no such
security was required, and then in the same breath
admits that "one of the prison 2rs in a fitof despera-
tion at the treatment they were suffering, and the
prospect before them, did attempt to take his
own life." Furthermore it turns out that the
Neapolitan authorities had made an attempt to
falsify the evidence so as to give a semblance of
justice to the misery and indignities h eaped upon
these poor unfortunate men. Having these ad-
missions from the head of Her Majesty's Govern-
ment we ask in the name of everything that is
sacred, first and dear to the breast of English-
men, should such a state of things be tolerated
an hour longer. We ask with CONYNGIIAM, is
it to be permitted that the lives and liberties of
Englishmen shall be trifled with in this manner ?
Let the men of England, and of Scotland, aye,
and Ireland too, answer the interrogatory.
There is no doubt but each one and all would
reply. Their response would be given with
that bold determined and spirit-stirring shout
which made the ramparts of Delhi ring, and
compelled her mutinous Coharts scamper off as
the gr.eatest of cowards, and the most disgust-
ing and worthless scum of humanity.

Now there is in the Premier's explanation of
Monday night, enough to satisfy the country at
large that twoj unoffending—for we well know
that they were guiltless of any attempt to disturb
the power or prerogatives of the King of Naples,
—fellow-countrymen have been unjustly incar-
cerated, subjecteil to the indignities and tortures
of a Neapolitan dungeon, that their sham trial
has been purposely delayed, so that the police
and magisterial authorities of the King of Naples,
may, practice their barbarious and uncivilized
deeds of prison discipline upon their victims.
Talk of Delhi and Cawnpore atrocities, but they
seemed atrocious and blood-thirsty, though they
may be mixed with a species of mercy when
compared to the case of the English En-
gineers imprisoned at Naples,—only think
of men imprisoned for such a lengthened period,
subjected to all kinds of indignities, privations,
and tortures, labouring under the consciousness
of innocence, denied the counsel of an interview
with eitlier the English Consul, the advocates,
or their relations, and when goaded on for
months and months, one of them as Lord PAL-

MERSTON feelingly remarks in a fit of desperation,
attempted to put an end to his life,
and thereby terminate all his earthly sufferings.

But what is the ultimate statement of the
noble Lord, respecting this most unpleasant
affair. He tells us, in a very cool manner
indeed, that they must take their trial upon a
" definite charge." He talks of that trial being
" fair," " open," and " speedy." But who, that
knows anything of Naples, could expect such.
Nay, more, from the Premier's statement, such
could not be anticipated, seeing that the
Procuratore General has already attempted to
falsify the evidence. Once again, do we say,
the Goverment of Lord PALMERSTON has betrayed
cowardice upon this most important matter,
subjected two Englishmen to foreign atrocities
and indignities, both unjust and uncalled for. It
yet remains for the Majesty of England to rouse
itself, and demand reparation for the sufferings
inflicted upon their fellow-subjects.

"MADAME ANNNIE," THE RECORDER,

AND THE PRESS.

The writer of the proverb " There is nothing new
under the sun," must have lived in some place in the
locality of the tropic's, were the :lure's rays were verticle,
and in that sense he was right, for nothing could exist in
such a place, and hence " nothing new was under that
sun." We, however, who live in the oblique or slanting
direction from the sun, do not come under the truth of the
quotation, for in the revolution of our planet round the
sun, we witness a good many strange things—even in
Liverpool—that are, as our friend Paddy Branagan says,
" bran new intirely." 'We had a peep at one of the
latest new productions, in the Recorder's court, on Friday,
and we cannot choose but admire it vastly. While the
case of Madame Annie—" that notorious and infamous
woman," as Mr. Mansfield called her where brought before
him a short time ago was sub judce, we cautiously
abstained from saying a word, pro or con, on the subject.
Now that her case has virtually concluded, we should take
blame to ourselves if we let it pass unnoticed—for it is
something very new under the sun—at least under the sun
of England. We could trace the frightful career of crime
of this woman, from the time she was a shoeless starving
wretch, selling oranges at the door of the Hanaburgh Thea-
tre, to the day she was arrested (the other day) by detec-
tive officer Smith, on her arrival here from the last named
city, with her last batch of sietiaas, but our purpose is not
to do so, but just to taker a glance at the last day's pro-
ceedings, where she has played so prominent a part upon
the stage. We do this in order to show how gilded crime
will attempt to play with stern justice, and the effect money
may sometimes have in the eyes of the public. In the
month of July, 1854, we published same startling revela-
tions in regard to the traffic in females carried on by this
" iufamous woman" between Germany and Liverpool—
that was the first intimation the public had of the mystery
that hung around her, as regarded the " new faces" that
she so frequently paraded in Bold, Church, Lord, and
other ton streets of the tows. In consequence
of this, the eyes of the police were fixed on
her, and frequently since she has figured in the
police-court. On one occasion she was fined £5O for sell-
ing wine and other liquor without license, and she in a
dignified (if such a being was capable of dignity) and
indignant manner, laid a fifty pound note on the table,
and walked off. Her march of infamy was, however, to
be ended some time. But here we have a woman who, a
few years ago, was shivering with cold and starving with
hangar at the door of a Hamburgle theatre, basking in the
full effulgence of wealth—and that is something new
under the sun. How did she ;rain this wealth ? We blush
to record the reply, but truth. demands it : by the positive
sale of wretched girls, from her own country, for whom
the found ready and degraled purchasers in this. Our
law knows no difference between the receiver and the
thief—in her case she was the thief, and the receivers
were eqoally culpable ; but if our law had no provision for
such an offaice, the immutable law of public opinion
convicted both parties. Without entering more minutely
into this portion of her history, which is well known, we
t cnn3 to her recent exploits. Her pranks having become
too broad to bear with, a bill is preferred against her before
the grand jury, and that body, in the technical words of
the law, "find the bills against her for keeping an iou-
proper house in Hotham-street." Meantime, this indus-
trious 111 ademe, growing bold in her iniquity, is on a
trafficking or " trapping " excursion to Germany, and at
three o'clock see fine morning she arrives here from
Hamburgh with three girls, whom she had procured—
none know how or where. Having despatched her victims
to a place already provided for them, she proceeds to her
own filthy stye in Hotham-store`, where she is engaged in
a snag tete.a-tete, with a men who keeps a large
establishment in B— street, who had come to welcome
hoe—being, no doubt, forewarned of her arrival. The
detective police are great disturbers of cozy little meetings,
for, at this interesting period, when she was receiving the
gratuletious of her friend of B— street, Mr. Thernas
Smith walked in with a warrant signed by the Right
Worshipful Gilbert Henderson, Recorder of Liverpool,
for her arrest, on the aforesaid bill found against her. The
scene changes, and she is next day before Mr.Mansfield,who
studs her for trial. Sebsequent to this, an application was
made to have her admitted to bail, but a difficulty hero pre-
sented itself. The law says the bail must be householders,
and so on ; but here, even, the Madame's B— street friend
was asked to come forward to bail her ; his reasons no
doubt were obvious. Agaio, an application was made to
take £2OO in cash for her appearance—and Mr. Mansfield
—we do not say whether right or wrong—accepted of
the security, on the authority of a case cited. Our im-
pression is, that Mr. Mansfield did not exercise a sound
discretion, but as he did admit that sort of security, we
now pose onward, without saying a word on the character
of the persons who came forward to be the sareties. Those
men, who deposited one hundred pounds each, never saw
a hundred pounds before; the money was provided by
sone one, the Madame herself, and the men having received
a gratuity, went their way rej Acing, All this looked very
like a juggle with justice, and certainly was something new
under the criminal sun of Chapel-street. Toe next attempt
of this "infamous woman"—we quote Train Mr. Mansfield
—out-Herods Herod in the annals of infamy ; it is so
monstrous that it behoves one to consider it well before
giving it credence. She comes before the Recorder, pleads
guilty to the charge preferred against her, and teen has
the unparalleled audacity to offer terms, as it were, by way
of compromising justice directly to the face. She offers
to give £.50 to an asylum, and to leave the country. If
such a proposition should be accepted, we say with Lord
I Denman, that trial by jury in this country is a mockery, a
delusion, and a snare, and that Liverpool would cover itself
with undying disgrace in the records of criminal j erispru-
deuce. Only think of an 'asylum accepting, at the hands
of this polluted wretch, money procured—but no, sour
gorge rises at it, and we pursue this disgusting offer no
further. There is another point in this case that we
cannot by any means allow to pass, and that is the
reference made to the Liverpool Press. We were
told, in the course of the preliminary enquiry, and
pending- the question of bail, that this degraded
dealer in human beings said, " The Press of Liver-
pool would not allow her to get bail, because she was
a poor foreigner trying to earn an honest living ! " We
said nothing in reference to her case, execpt publish the
police proceedings ; but we now say boldly, broadly, cod
and unmistakeably, that the law should be meted to its

fullest extent to such a criminal as this woman—not
because she is a foreigner, but because she has attempted to
evade the stern sword of justice, by offering a bribe out of
the money procured in the destruction of virtue and the
propagation of immorality.