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S-4TURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

It is stated in the Paris Pays, semi-official
journal, that Nena Sahib arrived at Lucknow on
the Ist of August, when be was at once made
governor of the town, and commander-in-chief of
the army of Oude. HP had also cut the canal
which supplied the citadel, and the English shut
up in the fortress were besieged by Nena Sahib in
person. The Pays avers that it has receive:l this
intelligence from Lueknow itself. Whether it is
only one of those h4zardous paragraphs for which
the Paris papers are so celebrated, time alone can

tell, but there is every fear that such a calamity
might occur; not, however, without the Indian
government becoming aware of such a movement
on the part of the rebels.
The Globe, which last week state 1 that the
number of re3ruits coming in were not calculated
to meet all our wants, in its issue of last night says
that the ordinary rate of recruiting has very
much improved, the number enlisted within the
last week being considerably in excess of
1,000 men, the general average since the war
ceased. The embodiment at the present time of
fifteen regiments of militia will enable us to send
out another strong reinforcement for India if it be
required, and required it will be, so the sooner
they are sent out the better. The cavalry regiments
likely to be selected for India are the Scots Greys,
and the Inniskillen Dragoons, and of infantry, the
21nd, 25th, 67th, and 99 h Regiments. This will
mike a force of about 5,000 men, which can be dis-
patched at once.
Th 3 conduct of the Home G wernmen', in allow-
ing the civil and military authority to be lodged in
separate hands, is severely con lemned. A writer in
a London cotemparary says that Sir Colin Camp-
bell should at once be nominated Governor General
as well as Commander-in-Chief—" No nation in
the world but our own would commit the folly of
divided power, with all its possible, and not impos-
sible evils, in such a state of things as now exists
in India "

Something has been whispered about the likeli-
hood of the terrible Santhal tribe taking advantage
of the revolt to rise against us, and as they could
"'ouster a stakding force of acme hundred and fifty
thousand depredators, nothing could be more
alartnintz than to find they had let themselves loose
upon the country. We read in the Calcutta papers
that the Santhals have exhibited alarming symp-
toms. The EiViAinan says that advices from
Beerblio:,sm state that they have been committing
great depredations in that quarter.
A letter from Singapore gives some particulars
of a Mahommodan plot whi3h had been detected
there ; and the intelligence from China confirms
the telegraphic announcement of the blockade of
the Canton river.

The Indian Relief Committee have issued an-
other appeal for funds, which should be promp'ly
and effectually responded to by all classes of our
countrymen. It is true that meetings have been
held and committees organised in a very large
number of places throughout Great Britain, but
there are many who have yet to take public action
a the matter.

Particulars of a diabolical murder in Bolton on
Thursday night, are given in another column. A

wounded, was obliged to fall back upon Cawn-
pore. To have adopted any other course would
have been attended with disastrous results. At
.this time the force under his command was not
more than twelve hundred strong, and he was
losing not less than fifty men a day by sickness,
As it was impossible, under such circumstances,
to press forward to the aid and relief of the
starving garrison of Lucknow, he re-crossed
the Ganges, but before he could again
occupy Cawnpore, he was compelled to
to encounter two considerable bodies of muti-
neers, one five and the other four thousand
strong. In these engagements, although per-
fectly successful, his little army had dwindled
down to about 900 fighting men, and with
such a force he has to maintain his position
against fully 6,000 mutineers, who have followed
him in his retreat, and threatened him upon the
Northern banks of the Ganges. An army of
5,000 men occupy the Southern bank of the
river, and wee are told that this force were
actually endeavouring- to construct a bridge of
boats for the purpose of attacking him in flank
while he was engaged with the rebel forces of
the North. We have not yet told .the worst.
The Gwalioi' contingent, mustering 10,000 men
at arms, were crossing the Jumna at Calpee,
for the purpose of forming a junction with the
Dude insurgents. Now, we are not disposed to
be alarmists, or to join in the desponding cry of
many of our metropolitan and provincial cotem-
poraries. Nevertheless, the foregoing facts
exhibit a fearful state of things. This will
appear much more apparent when we take into
account the statement of Mr. EDMONSTONE, the
Secretary to the Government of India, who
assures us that the small force sent by steamer to
oppose the passage of the mutineers at Calpee
was quite too weak and insignificant to accom-
plish that important object. Thus it appears
that General HAVELOCK was surrounded and
threatened by the mutineers on three different
sides of his position, and that the numbers of the
enemy were overwhelming when compared with
the force under his command at Cawnpore.
What rendered his position more critical was
the probability that the 4,000 rebels which he
had routed at Bithoor would make an effort to
join the scattered band from Saugor, and, thus
reinforced, would march, not loss than 6,000
strong, to the assistance of their fellow rebels on
the North and South banks of the Ganges.
Although matters may wear the gloomy aspect
which the foregoing facts depict, we have full
confidence that the brave and enduring HAVE-
LOCK will rise superior to all the dangers and
difficulties which hover round his track. L
the gallant Sir HUGH WHEELER, we are certain
that he will keep thousands of mutineers at bay,
and that there is not a single man belonging to
his brigade but will die with arms in their
hands, determined to inflict summary vengeance
upon the merciless butchers of the daughters of
England, and maintain British power and supre-
macy in Hindostan. But the suspense which now
pervades the breast of every true Briton until
the certainty of HAvEeoces-brigade being safe,
and the relief of the garrison of Lucknow is
confirmed, is tremendous in the extreme. If the
former can hold out against the fearful odds
pitted against him, until the end of September,
he and his heroic band are safe. 'Would that
we could indulge the same hope for Lucknow ?
And here we must again refer to the obstinate
and short-sighted policy of Lord CANNING.
Certain we are had his Lordship acted upon the
advice tendered by Lord ELPHINSTONE in May
last, a tithe of the cruelties and disasters which
we have been painfully obliged to narrate would
never have occurred. Had he met the difficulty
fairly in the face, and made the Government at
home aware of the vast conspiracy which existed
against British rule in India, and had he not
previously closed his. eyes to the Magnitude of
the emergency—had he not for two successive
mails obstinately assured the Home Government
that the rebellion was suppressed, when each
succeeding day seemed only to extend and
strengthen it, the latter end of July would have
seen the arrival of those reinforcements which
are now so eagerly looked for by our suffering
countrymen. Lord CANNING cannot plead
ignorance as to the actual state of things. Every
one at all acquainted with the character, disposi-
tion, and principles of the Sepoys, foresaw what
was about to take place, and loud and general
was the demand for military assistance. The
self-willed and haughty Governor-General
despised the necessity for aid ; and when JUNG
BAHODOOR, the ruling Prince of Nepaul, offered
a contingent of 3,000 men, it was insolently
refused. He ha I before him the example of
Lord DALHOUSIE, who did not disdain to press
on the Home authorities the duty of keeping a
considerable force of the Queen's troops in India
Taking the whole of his Lordship's career in
Hindostan into account, we are sorry to say that
he was not " the right man in the right place."
He may be a local statesman of great abilities,
but we have no hesitation in pronouncing him
entirely unfit to rule the destinies of a military
campaign. In every step which he has taken
we perceive a want of political sagacity, futility
of invention, and moral courage. The former is
manifested by his utter inability to realise the
desperate nature of the emergency; the second is
the absence of energetic, efficient, and vigorous
measures to extinguish the rebellion ; and lastly,
in that weak compliance with an unfounded and
counterfeit notion of equality which confounded
the well-disposed and the traitor; in the common
suppression of the native and English Press; and

man named Aaron Taylor cut his wife's throat in
the street, and afterwards attempted to commit
suicide. The wife died almost instantaneously.
The Central Board of Healsh has issued some
" preliminary advice" relative to cholera. They
address their notification to Local Boards of
Health, and they append a statement of the powers
which these boards possess, in order that they may
be stringently exercised. Cholera, says the General
Board, has appeared in an epidemic form in the
Baltic ports and at Hamburg, and they want every
Local Board to " keep them well informed as to
the amount of bowel complaint prevailing from
time to time within their district.' We are told
that public authorities, armed with the existing
powers of the law, can do almost everything
to render the mysteries influence of cholera inno-
alone -
The Government Commission of Inquiry into
the Belfast riots hive been brought to a close. It
was at first expected that great good would be the
result of their lab aura, but so far as we are able
to judge, such supposition has been wofully
deceived, and it is not going too far, when we say
that the gentlemen appointed as Commissioners
had not the ability required for•the performance of
such a delicate undertaking. The very first duty
incumbent on them, as Commissioners—the duty
of keeping order, of maintaining decorum in their
Court—they, from the very first, failed most
signally in discharging. Anything like the scenes
that occurred on Tuesday and on Wednesday, and
which the Commissioners seemed to take very
much as a matter of course, it would be impossible
to parallel. Witnesses received no protection.
As a local paper says :—' A scurrilous, character-
less,unredeemable slanderer was permitted to make
the Court an arena for the display of his ani-
mosities ; and the Commissioners sat patiently,
while he vented his foul-meuthedness on honour-
able gentlemen. It is such conduct that makes
us believe that the sooner the Cotnmissioners
close their loquiry the better will it be for public
decency. Its utility has expended itself—it is not
probable that any mere practical turn will now be
given to the Investigation."
Now that people have digested the.news per the
Overland Mail, t'tey are turning their atteoton to
the recent meeting of the Emperors at Stuttgardt.
The Daily News looks upon the conduct of the
Russian Emperor and Empress, as a plain and
unmistakable insult to the Empress of France
and the Emperor of the French war, indeed, be
unworthy of the grace and beauty which he has
placed on the throne, if he he do not resent such
Imperial impertinence and rieleness. "When on
the banks of the Rhine, it was the place of the
Czar to have sought an interview at Paris.' Instead,
he !sant th:ther his brother, Constantine, who
disgusted all France by his coarsneas and violence ;
and at Stuttgardt he has had the bad taste to
allow his wife to insult the Empress of the French
Well, under such circumstances, might the inter-
cour.s:e between the two monarchs be of that formal
and reserve i character which is ascribed to it."
The special correspondent of the, Times at Stutt-
gardt, does not look so unfavourably on the
conduct of the Emperor of Russia,—and he sums
up in a few words the result of this meeting. The
two Emperors have had the satisfaction of making
each other's acquaintance, and of exchanging the
expression of their individual views, wishes, and
aspirations, but nothing beyond th:s has been
obtained, except it be some matters of such very
trifling moment as not to be worth citing. The
Emperor Napoleon has not betrayed any inclination
to tamper with or jeopardise the English alliance.
As to any arrangement for the reduction of the
French and Russian armies, it is known that the
latter has been already reduced to a very low pc ale
footing, while it is felt that for the rngintenance of
the Imperial system anti of tranquility at home the
French army could not be materially reduced. It is
said that the French Emperor was more popular
at Stuttgardt than the Czar.

For,ign papers speak of an insurrection in Per-
sia, and of a probable alliance of the Persian Mahorn-
medans with the Indian insurgents, by which the
difficulties of Great Britain in the East would be
increased. But 603 h rumours as that have been
repeatedly put forward and turned out, at last, as
unfounded.

The Diet of the Kingdom of Danmark was
opened on Wednes lay.' The speech of the Prime
Minsster did not allude to the Holstein question. •
The Crown Prince of Sweden, after dissolving
the provincial anvernment, has begun his career as
Regent pf the Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway.
The Otheiontinental news is not of any impor-
tance.

The Bank returns are rather more favourable
:his week, there being an innrease of X 87,528 in
he amount of bullion in the Bank of England.

IT cannot be denied that each succeeding mail
from India furnishes additional proof of the
incompetency of Lord CANNING as Governor-
General. His obstinate and pertinacious refusal
to comply with the earnest entreaties of the
merchants of Calcutta to disarm the brigade
under General LLOYD at Dinapore, is, we regret
to say, likely to lead to serious and sad disasters.
Should the fate of Colonel WHEELER be reserved
for General HavELocK, the country may thank
Lord CANNING for it. It is really sad to con-
template how the safety of the gallant General,
on whose life so much depended, has been fear-
fully and unnecessarily endangered. Had Lord
CANNING paid the least attention to the remon-
strances addressed to him nearly a month before
the Dinapore mutiny, General HAVELOCK would
have been reinforced by the 10th and 37th
Regiments. He would not have been obliged
to make a retrograde movement, nor would that
terrific slaughter have overtaken the former of

the regiments just named. Instead of b •
being
hemmed in, surrounded on all sides by a nume-
rous and ferocious enemy, with his supplies cut
off, he would have been in a position to continue
his victorious career, and to have pressed on to
Lucknow and relieved the unfortunate garrison
at that place. Had wise counsels been adopted
by the Governor-General of India, England would
just now have had ample room to congratulate
itself upon the deliverance of as glorious a band
of heroic soldiers as ever carried arms, and to
thank, with unaffected fervency, the GOD of
BATTLES for bringing- us through all the diffi-
culties and dangers of the mutiny, and crowning
every movement of the gallant HAVELOCK with
complete and unalloyed success. A careful
perusal of the last advices lead us to fear that
the position of that great commander is not free
from serious danger and peril. He is threatened
by the insurgent forces on three sides, and the
manner in which they have moved down upon
him clearly shows that their operations have been
carried on with no small amount of military skill
and ability. The following facts, as recorded in
the last despatches received from the seat of the
rebellion, will enable our readers to form an exact
estimate of General HAVELOCK'S position.

On the 29th of July General HAVELOCK ob-
tained a brilliant and decisive victory at Bussenet
Gunge, but having no cavalry to follow up his
successes, and being hampered by his sick and

THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERTOOL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1857.

in the absurd and timid proclamations, appealing
to a fidelity which did not exist, instead of com-
pelling the unsettled allegiance of time-serving
and unprincipled Hindoos. The' ime is not far
distant when Lord CANNING must explain his
conduct, and give way to a successor able and
willing in every respect to guard and maintain
the supremacy of England in the good and wise
government of India.

THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY'S EXHIBITION.

The general features of this season's exhibition we briefly
pointed out at its opening. More careful observation doe'
not suggest to us any altered opinion. Many of the
pai lungs are, however, of a character which deserve a
further notice, and upon these we purpose to remark
from time to time. Teis we shall endeavour to do with
no affectation of any special illumination upon the
subject of the art of painting, and with as little of the
critic's jargon es we can conveniently employ. We have
but little faith in any rules of art whose cmnprehension
is confined only to a few of the initiated, or, indeed, in
any rul, s of art not based upon the etereal and
universal laws of nature, which are open and simple to
be received by any men who patien ly gives his mind
to understand them. We have still less filth in dogmatic
criticism, founded upon imaginary principles, and cri..-
ple I within arbitrary limit. Therefore, we do not mean
to qua-rel with any picture because it. is named of any
particular school, or to be enraptured about it merely for
a similar cause. The only school whose teachieg ought to
guide us all is th t of nature, and her academy, happ,iy, is
open to every one to enter and learn in. Here are no
mystic, signs or secret pose-words, but a common lesson to
be studied humbly by Itsphaelites and pre-Rephaelites
uli:se, and which any of us who has learned the smallest
part by heart may feaflessly apply as a test, though he
should never have pai'ated a picture or written a poem, to
the picture or the poem of the head of the highest cless.
We are, probably, bound by courtesy to notice, in the
first instance, this yeal'a prize picture. " The Blind
Girl" (Ni. 124), by Mr. d. E. Illillaia, has been the
seccessful competitor. Na priz3 ever yet was given away
without ere icing some dissatisfaction ; but, probably, few
prizes of this kind ever aroused mire grumbling than that
bestossed in this iinnance. The committee must have
had some moral courage to mate the award, and
need more yet to bear up against the acrim mioes
oi-jecii rs which lave been raised to it. Sa much has
been said an I vrrittes in Livereool against this picture,
that we hea-tily wish we could vary the monotony by
defending it. But the thing, as Mac tulay said of poor
" Satan," M mtgomery's poem, is now past a joke.
This painting of the " kglied Gire" seems to us a kind of
elim ex, beyond which no force of putlieg can carry th
efforts of the " sehoat" very far. This is the inevitable
deduction, the reductio ad absurduiii of the " Rescues,"
" Awakenel Conscie-c3s," and the rest. To this com-
plexion it must c )me—and it is by no means difficult now
to make us laugh at that. The " 13iistd Girl" is a small
painting, representing two young females sitting in what
purports to be a field, the elder hiving an accordion in
her lap, and her eyes closed. Nothing in particular
indicates that the girl is blind, or has not merely fallen
asleep. The field rises right up like a greenish-;ellow wa 1
behind the figures. A double rainbow of marvellous,dense
nes. and distlnctles9 spans the sky. Birds of enormous siz 3
and blue colour, popularly believed to lea crows, are dotted
over the fie'd. Houses are seen is the distance,so.ne cows, a
donkes, and a haystack, also make their appearance. We
need not say, that the hair of the blind girl is of that
peculiar yellow tow-like kind, whose beauty appears to
exercise a singular fascination over all faithful pte-Ra
phaelites. A very large butterfly seems affixed to the
cloak of the girl—looking like a naturalist's specimen on
an Egyptian women's mystic ornament. Now, we do not
moan to deny, that out of these materials a very fine
paining might be produced. For all talk about the dig-
nity of art, and its exal'iCion above common-plat;
subjects we entertain nothing but contempt. But a com-
mon-place subject must be represented with truth and
natural simplicity ; and, it may be fairly asked, of any man
who can look-out from his own eyes, whether the marvellous
combination of colours which he saes here before him, is
in the least like any phase of nature his gaze has ever rested
on? Miny of the details are, indeed, worke 1 out
with an almost photographic fidelity. The rents in the
girl's dress, the worn sboes, and other ibjacts, have a
Chinese exactness of imitation. But the whole effect pro-
due el seems to us s!artlingly unreal and unlike to nature.
The subject is presented with, ut a single suggestion of
beauty, even in the sky and the rajah° and surely could
only have been redeemed by faithfulness and ['lntl to life
and objet'. This, indeed, is lel one only merit at which
paintings such as this profess to aim, and in this paintin,l
before us appears to have glaringly and painfully failed.
It may be, inc'eed, that this i 3 no common-place subject at
all. Some deep allegoric meaning, some exalted moral
purpose, may lie buried behind these astonishing masses
of colour. M. Millais and his imitators are fond of pratty
sentimental mysteries wrapped up in their productions ;
but if there be any such in this pointing, we must leave
other eyes than ours to fins it out. Perhaps the butterfly
may indicate something psychic and mysterioess
perhaps the accordion, perhaps even the crows. The
obvious meaning of the picture is, however, only such as
we have described; and we are forced to think it a failure,
because it is not more wanting in beauty of conception
than in faithfulness of execution : beeaus 3 it neither realizes
nor suggests; because it does not fill the mind or give
pleasure to the eye.

LIME-STREET WARD.

AMUSEMENTS, &c.

The visitor will naturally turn from this painting to that
of Sir Isumbras at the Ford," (217), the other contribu-
tion of Mr. Millais's to the exhibi.ion. This is, we believe,
the picture which Mr. Ruskin described as a catastrophe
in art. Without feeling all the warmth of that very ene -
getic and impassioned critic, we cannot help thinking
the painting a very waste of talent; a latish flinging
away of patient labour and great strength for a result
all but worthless. One could bear very calmly with
Mr. Millais's more recent productions, if the very worst
of them did not display talents of the most valuable
character, which only absJlate perversion of their use
could keep from enriching the world whit images
of beauty, power, and life. Mr. Millais has gone far out,
of the ordinary track to find a subject, and has h-re
selected one which surely scarcely merited so elaborate
and pretentioas an illustration. Sir Isumbras, like a
kindly old knight, takes a boy and a girl upon his war-
horse, Dextrier, over a ford, and this poi- ion of the ballad
alone the artist has selected as his subject. The face n
Sir Isumbras is exquisitely painted—bmovolent, simple,
and quaint—perfectly natural, so far as every day life
and character are concerned—not at all after any chivalric '
or herein model. The reverent wonder in the eyes of the
little girl is child like and touching. Her costume, how-
ever, seems to us to be perfectly modern, and her attitude
too easy and unconcerned for a child on the pommel of
a war-horse's saddle. The knight bestrides his horse in a
ingularly wooden fashion, and his lower limbs are short
and awkward. The horse Dextrier is an animal of a blue-
black colour, and a very crane like neck. His position is a'
stiff as that of the Commandec's horse in "Don Giovanni" I
might be. There are marvellous blue hills in the distance,
and skies of wonderful tiflge. There is a castle, trees 2re
seen, and upon a bank two nuns are walking. We are
wholly unable to account for a large bridge which is also
visible, and which one would have thought the builder
might have managed to make available for the better
crossing of the ford. The bundle of sticks which the boy
carries, the helmet of the knight, the peacock's feathers,
and other minor objects, are represented as usual with
singular correctness. But the picture, taken as a while,
only moves us to astonishment, and not to admiration. The
attitudes of the figures, the skies, the hills, the colouring
gaserilly, seem to as utterly, and sometimes fanttstioal ly

unnatural. Many of the details appear quite inconsistent
with each other. Again we are tempted to seek for some
hidden allegorical meaning, not obvious at the first glance
eitheron the ballad or the painting. Why, if therebe no such
meaning, introduce some of the objects here represented ?
And, if there is any mysterious purpose in the picture, can
any one tell us what it is? Being only Davus, and not
Edipus, and having a strong objection to involvement in
bewildering speculations,. we can only g:ve the considera-
tion of the p'ct tre up, not without regret that so much
talent should be prodigally flung away upon unintelligible
conceits, and laboured' efforts to amaz3 and startle.

More space has been consumed in remarking, even thus
briefly, thess pictures than we had at first intended, We
shall proceed to noti3o several other paintings in the same
po-tion of the exhibition at the earliest opportunity.
It is to be regretted that the attendance of visi'ors
should not be more numerous. Sufficient reason for this
fact wit'', however, be foan I in the attractions of the Art
Treasures Exhibition in Manchester, and the singuler;y
fine weather we now enjoy, which tempts many to posf.p )ne
their return to town from the country and the sea-side.

THE MUNICIPAL ILEC TION.

Last evening, the fri,mds favourable t 3 the return of Mr.
Junes Johnso!!, the councillor for this ward, who ntires
on the Ist of November next, by rotation, assembled at the
Bee II tel, Q ieen's-scriare, for the purpose of taking pre_
liminary 6teps to secure Oat gerAleman's re-election.

THEATRE ROYAL-MIS, AND MRS. BARN.Ar WILLIAMS.

The benefit of these most popular performers took place
in an overfi wing house last night. This is the lad
evening of their appearance in the Theatre Royal, where,
for a long time no actors have been more successful in

attracting crowded au iences, and in winning fhe most
enthusiastic applause. The engagement of these clever
performer 3 will close this evoning with " Rory O'More,”
" Law for Ladies, and "Mephistopheles," a "domestic
demoniacal txtravaganza," written expressly for Mr. and
Mrs. Barney Williams, and introduced at their benefit,
which took place last night, and drew a crowled house.
We hope, in justice to Mr. Copeland, who appears to be
unremitting in his endeavours to provide varied entertain-
ments fit the Liverpool public, that the audience will be
as largo to-night. For those who appreciate Irish humour
and Yankee peculiarities, these performers provide a
rich treat, and such as since Power's time has not been
approachel. Mr. Copeland has been disappointed in his
endeavour to obtain another performan:e of " La Traviata."
Railways and steam-boats, though, on some occasions,
extremely c have proved unpropitious, and for
this particular occasion hays failed to annihilate time and
space. The lovers of Italian opera will have to wait for
the arrangements with M. Beale, which are pending, for
three performances, in a week or two.

Sam CowELL —We would remind our readers that this
evening Sam Cowell and His Little Party" conclude
the present aeries of their entertainment at the Queen's
Hall, Mid-street. To say that this "genius" has been
appreciated by all who have seen him in Liverpool, would
only be informing the whole town of what is well known
to be a fact " where'er his footsteps wander," and that
large numbers have been unable to visit his salle, simply for
want of room. We may also mention that, in consequence
of the enthusiastic reception uprn the first appearance of
Miss Sidney Cowell, the " eccentric Sam ' has been
induced to again announce her fur this evening, when, no
doubt, her artless manner and really pleasing vocalisation
will be as rapturo illy received. Returning to the " regu-
lar stock company," we can say that the appetite of the
audiences appear to increase by the nature of their food,
as repetitions of the famed " Alorz) the Brave," " Life
and Death of Macbeth," &e., have been nightly re-demanded,
and as cheerfully e naplied with. Mr. F. Bisig Dan also
contributed no small share to the evening's entertainmen t
by his " fiogaring" on the piano•f)rte, and his i",,Som-
nambula" variations on the concertina, which invariably
meet with a rap uro-as encore. His imitation of the bag-
pipes we never heard equalled. Miss Wight has more
and more improved, upon a closer acquaintance, and
afforded us great pleasure when listening to her swat
notes and clear intonation. We trust that the visit may
prove as pecuniarily profitable to " the party" as it has
been satisfactory to the public.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—By advertisement in another
column, it will be seen that three Extra Galas, of the most
monstre description, are to be given in these gardens on
the days of Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. The attrac-
tions set forth are of so brilliant and multiform a descrip•
tion that it is impossible here even to enumerate them;
but, from the talent of the artistes engaged, "at an
enormous expense,' we can confidently recommend " an
afternoon at the Zoological." Health, pleasure and insti uc-
tion mey here be found. To say that it will be a " gather-
ing of the million" is almost superfluou I, when we state
th It the price of admission is reduced to sixpence.

LITERARY AND DatMATIC SOCIErY —The annual general
meeting of the above boiy was held on Thursday even-
ing last, at the society's rooms, when the fallowing
gentlemen ware elec el for the ensuing year :
Mr. James Knox
Mr. John F. Tafe . Vice• President and Editor.
Mr. Frederick Clark... Treasurer.
Mr. Edwin Young ..... Honorary Secretary.
Mr. Robert Crompton.. Stage Director.
Several interesting papers are announced, and negotiation
are pending far a series of lectures by eminent literati,
under the auspices of this popular local society.

COUNTY COURT. —Mr. T. S. BAIA presided in this
court yesterday. Upwards of 300 cases were disp.ised of,
bat were almost all undefended. No case of any
importance came on for hearing.
Peres EtNrATI")N TO JAMES PENDLEBURY, Es Q. —Oh
Tuesday last, the clerks. workmen, and others connected
with the trustees of the late Duke of Bridgewater pre-
sented the abov.:-named gentleman with an elegant time-
piece and gold pencil-e ts^, together with an address, on
his retiring from the Liverpool agency, after having acted
as their representative he'e for a periol of nearly twenty•
five years. Mr. Pendlebury has been appointed to the office
of principal cashier of the Bridgewater Trust Estates, a
position which he is eminently qualified to fulfil.
ST. RYSOSTOM'S WORKING MEN'S AS 30C lA.TION. -
It is with pleasure we perceive that this valuable institu-
tion i 3 just about to re-open for its fourth winter session.
The proceedings will be inaugurated by a tea party, in the
Mi'l Lane School-rooms, on Mon lay evening, the sth inst.,
under the chairmanship of William Brown, Esq., M.P.
It is proposed that the reading roam and library shall be
open every night, crstept Sunday. Each night will have
its own class.is for reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Singing will be taught on Thursday evenings. Twice a
month there will be lee ures and debates, and every S
stur-
day evening tiers will be a concert for the recreation of
the working classes.
A PROPM ETPSS AT DRUM—During one of the recent
engagements before Delhi, a female dressed in green, was
seen leading on the rebels. She was at first taken for the
Baz,e Bale, and a rumour, of course, spread that she
headed the Gwalior troops ; she, however, had not left
G.valior at the time, and may still be there. The female
in green, or the very green female, was taken prisoner, and
coefiaed in secure quarters in our camp. She is described
as an ugly old woman, short, and fat, and is said to be a
prophetess of some note in the degraded city. It was
first intended to release this woman, but hr the last
accou tts she was still kept a prisoner, in the hope, we
presume, of eliciting some impartant iufermltion from
her.

DANGSR TO TRUAX% —The Morning Advertiser, which
is, unquestionably, the most ludicrous journal of these
realms, had an article on the Belfast riots in its number
of Saturday, and the or :an of the cry of "No Popery"
protests against the removal, for the pres:nt, of any
military now in this country. Our imbecile cotemporary
says :—" We trust that our fears will have been ground-
less ; but a removal of the military is, in the same
proparti3n, the surrender of Ireland to the M tynaoth
Priests." Tois could not go down in London; eve►, a
local Orange paper would be bless insane, Northern
Whig,