Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-10 00:00:00

I called out, " Let us try the row-boats once mire,
boys," and went ever the side into our cutter (the Ra-
leigh's), in which wasTurnour, the faithful Spurrier, bring-
lag the bit of blue flag. At this moment there arose from
the boats, as if every man took it up at the same instant,
one of those British cheers so full of meaning that I knew
at once that it was all up with John Chinaman. They
might sink 20 boats, but there was 30 others who would
go ahead all the faster. O.a we went. It was indeed a
lovely and exciting sight. I saw the move among the
junks. They were breaking ground and moving off, the
outermost first. This manceavro they performed in beau.
tiful order. They never ceased to fire. Three more
cheers, and then commenced an exciting chase for seven
miles. As our shot told on them they ran on shore, and
their crews forsook them. Seventeen were come up with
and captured this way ; three only escaped. It was in this
I set chase that my poor Spurrier was shot do sn by my side.
I saw his bowels protrude as he lay in the bottom of the
boat holding my hand. Ho asked me if I thought there
was any hope. I could only say, " Where there's life there
is hope;" but I had none. Strange to say, the good
Crawford sewed ishn up, and the admiral's last letter
from Hong-Kong states that Spurrier hoped to return to
his duty in a few days. What a long yarn I have spun
you; but as I began the little affair came fresh to my
memory, and I have filled no end of paper all about self.
My own prospects for the future I cannot guess at, but
going on with self, I may bo allowed to say to you, whom
it is so surd to gratify, that the admiral speaks highly of
my services in the late boat affair. Whether he overrates
them or not is not my business, but I do think that they
ought to insure my cotinued employment out here, even
should I be on the flag :list. There is a fleet out and
coming sufficiently large for two admirals. I see the
French have rewarded my services in the Crimea higher
than our own Government has done.

UNITED GERMANY!—The East German Post expresses
Ps astonishment and sincere regret at the absence of a
Prussian delegate from the statistical congress of Vienna,
Twenty-seven governments, and amongst them Turkey
and Russia, have sent representatives to 'Vienna. Prussia
alone has not done so. The Augsburg Gazette says :
It is sad to be obliged to confess that the third inter-
national statistical congress gives to Europe the oppor-
tunity of witnessing a picture of the disunion of Germany.
Although the Austrian government sent an express invita-
tion to Prussia, the latter has thought it expedient not to
have any representative at the congress." The absence of
a Prussia': delegate from Vienna isthe more remarkable,
as Prussia was represented at the statistical congress
which was held two years ago in Paris.

LIBERTY OF THE PRESS IN FRANCE.—WEIAT'S:IN A
NAME ?—The wretched dulness in political matters, has
teen somewhat relieved to-day by an incident in the Paris
press, being the re-appearance of the .43sentb:ce Natronale,
after an interment of two months, by order of the powers
that be, in consequence of an article which appeared in

its number of the 7th Ju'y, in which the writer presumed
to make some remarks on the elections, which were then
in progress, and which were exactly suited to the palate
of the high functionary whose mission it is to keep a watch
over such matters. The journal has assumed a new
name,lthat of the Spectateur, as it appears that the direc-
tors of the paper had been given to• understand that it
would not be allowed to re-appear under its ell appella-
tion. The case of a journal being obliged by the
higher powers to change its name is- so unusual that
I think it best to let the director tell his own
story, which he does in the following terms :—" On
the Bth of August, M. Lcthllier, one of our editors,
was summoned to the hotel of the Minister of the Interior,
and the head of the division of the press- informed him
that by order of the Government,' the gerant of the
Assembles Aationale was forbidden to again bring out the
journal with that name, which was considered as uncon-
stitutional. As soon as. that notification was made to
me, I hastened, as representative of the company of
which the journal is -the property, to make representa-
tions against that measure in two lqtters which
I sent to the Minister, and when I observed that the
existence of the Assembles Nationale, was legally estab-

lished as well as that of the other journals in
the year 1852 r by terms of the Article 33 of the
organic decree of Feb. 17 of that year, I also invoked an
uncontested possession of nearly six years, dating only
from the accession of the present government. These
observations did not alter the determination of the go-
vernment, and I was forced to submit, as otherwise I
exposed the property confided to my management to an
immediate suppression. In that situation, I. remembered
that we had given a formal pro laise to our supporters to
pursue our task to the end, and, therefore, I had only to
yield. I proposed several titles to the sanction of the
Minister, but all were refused, but at last he accepted
that under which we reappear to-day. The journal wilt
be henceforth called the Spectatevr, and we are authorised
to add the words Founded in February 29, 1848, under the

the title of -Assembles Nationals•' It is in fact the same
journal that we are continuing, and have stated that fact
clearly to the functionary who is charged with the super-
intendence of the press. Our principles, as our writers.
remain the same. and we shall be under our new title
what we were under the old. This affair has
caused a very considerable sensation among tne journal-
ists of the capital; but if the Speetatour acts up to
what it promises in the above declaration, it is more
than probable that it wilt 'not long keep itself out of the
clutches of power.—Puris Letter

A CLERGYMAN IMPRISONED. is nt ITBSTRY.—In a rural
distrie, not a hundred miles from our nrcient city, stands
a venerable edifice, which is now undergoing internal reno-
vation, end in which, consequently, service has not been
performET for some number of Sabbaths; but on Sunday
afterneoa last the clergyman's a;cl was called into reqpiti-
tion to anoint the haad of a babe by christening. The
sexton., a hale old man of more than seventy summers,
after the ceremony, received a kind invitation to partake
of refreshment with the blessed parents. In his anxiety
not to be behind haul at U.° feast, forgetful of the clergy-
man unrobing himself in the vestry, bolts were turned, the
key safely deposited in his pocke', and off walked the old
man. Not many ssclnds elapsed before rappings were
beard at one of the windows, and the attention of passers•
by was attracted Speedily it was ascertained• how matters
stood; and the old sexton, to hi; chagrin, was baoupht
back to relieve the pent-up E:hcpberd.—Carlisle Examiner

THE FRENCH EM.PEROR AND THE INDIAN REVOLT.—
In vain do some journals endeavour to make a markes
out of the revolt in India. Evi,lentiv they have no synr-
patny in their own cauutry. The Uniuers may think it it
congenial to the feelings of its own readers when it ex.
presses the charitable hope that the English, who are
heretics because they are Protestants, and are, therefore,
as 1 arbaross as the Hindcos—should be defeated in India,
and leave room for Roman Catholic missionaries—as if
victorious Brahmins would admit the nice distinction !
We see the same attempt to get up a variety among the
hackneyed topics of the day in other Ultra-Catholic
organs ; bit manifestly the feeling of important countries ,
on the enotirvint is with England ; as indeed it most be,
since, whatev,,r, rosy be the detes of the question in India,.
the conflict has broadly become one between civilisation
and barbarism. We might find the proofs in the sentiments
of our contemporaries, not only in France, but in Italy
and Germany—wherever, in fact, the language of civilisa-
tion is spoken; A morning contemporary publishes an
extract from a letter of a distinguished Prussian officer,
who simply differs from our present policy in considering
it necessary to precipitate the conclusion of the " double
Goveremeut," and thinks that the conversation of the
natives has been hastened by the outbreak. But indeed
we need not hunt up for evidences of this feeling, they
come to us stontaneously. While our journals are
calling for subscriptions to the fund for the sufferers
by the rebellion in India,—while appeals are made
to the clergy to assist in this national movement
from the pulpit, one of the first to give his
subscription is the French Ambassador, in the
handsqmo form of £100; and his Excellency is instantly
followed by the Emperor of the French, who sends his
own subscription of £l,OOO,
accompanied by £4OO, the
s alt of a subscription of the Imperial Guard. The
money indeed is not the most graceful part of this vary
handsome gift. "We have not forgotten." adds the Em-
geror, "the generous subscription of the Queen and of the
English people at the tine ,of the inundations." Nor does
he send his aid only as a cold official return ; he is care:
ful to note that, the handsome gilt is "my personal sub'
scriptian in favour of the ofileers and soldiers so cruelly
afflicted in India." We may fairly say, therefore, that
along with a valuable contribution :towards the Rational
fund, has come g Stitt more _Weic9l3l9 COUtri!oution.of
feel nip