Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-15 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

" A Soros " writes—Can you, or any of your readers, inform me
why the summons clerk of our County Court declines to receive
instructions for summonses on Saturday? Surely the delays already
existing in it are sufficiently numerous and vexatious, without being
subject to the will and pleasure of a clerk.

411. c Port4trn witrtP

MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1857

THE DAY'S NEWS,

We are in possession of four days' later news
from the United States, by the arrival of the
Niagara. The advices contain several items of an
interesting description. Civil war reigns in Ohio.
A telegraphtc despatch from Cincinnati furnishes
a brief account of the arrest, by the United States
Marshal and his deputies, of four persons charged
with harbouring fugitive slaves. Subsequently a
writ of habeas corpus was taken out and served by
the Stieriff, who was backed by a large number of
citizens. The Marshal resisted the State officers,
shots were exchanged between the parties ; but
eventually the United States officers were arrested
and conveyed to Springfield, there to answer the
charge of resisting the Sidaeriff while iu the dis-
charge of his duty. Here is a collision of the
stockholders of the Underground Railroad Company
and the federal authorities that will create an intense
commotion. A bloody riot happened at the
municipal election in Washington, on the Ist
instant, between the citizens ou the one side,
and a large number of Baltimore rowdies
on the other. The rioters were well
armed, and took possession of a piece of
artillery, with which they threatened their
opponents. Two companies of marines, ordered
out by the President, were placed at the
disposal of the Mayor, who ordered them to
fire upon the mob, which they did. Five or six
persons were killed, and a number of others were
wounded. The killed and wounded, as is usually
the case on such occasions, were innocent lookers
on, while the rioters escaped almost unhurt. The
accounts of the riot are conflicting, and may be
greatly exaggerated. Governor Walker reached
Lecompton, Kansas, on the 27th ult. His inaugural
address asserts, among other declarations, that the
laws of the territory will be maintained by the
entire force of the government. The administra-
tion have at last decided upon sending a formidable
body of troops to Utah. Orders have been issued
for the despatch to that territory of the 2nd regi-
ment of Dragoons, the sth and 10th regiments of
Infantry, and Captain Phelps' Battery of Light
Artillery, numbering in all some two thousand
men, under the command of General Harney.
This is said to be only the beginning of the move
rent. Mr. Reed, the new Minister for China had
received his instructions. He would leave for the
scene of his future labour in a fortnight. The
signature of the prominent shipping merchants of
New York were daily increasing to the agreement
abolishing the system of advance wages to seamen
after July, 1857, and a general acquiescence in
that measure is now considered certain. Major
M'Culloch, who was appointed Governor of Utah,
declines the honour.
Later news is to hand from the Brazils and River
Plate. Alsina had been elected Governor of the
Argentine Republic, by a vote of 35 to 18. Alsina
had declined his nomination, and tendered
his renunciation to the General Assembly, on
the ground of strong personal opposition to
him, but the renunciation was negatived by 44 to
11, and his acceptance was looked upon as certain.
The revolution in the Rosa Rio had been put
down by the Governor of Santa Fee, and a tempo-
rary arrangement come to with Urquirza. A
Monte Vido business was at a standstill. The
f ever had made great ravages, but was hoped to have
subsided. Yellow fever was daily diminishing at
Pernambuco.
In our paper tc-day will be found a report of a
speial meeting of the proprietors of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company, which took place on Saturday,
W. Brown, Esq., in the chair. The object was to
get their sanction to a bill in Parliament, giving
fresh powers, and making the domicile of the
company in London instead of Liverpool.
The chairman said the Government had
made this a sine qua non. It was not
desirable that Government interference should take
place in private companies, but for political pur-
poses it was deemed requisite by the Government
that they should, in this case, have such power,
or they would give their support to another corn.
party, It appeared that the Government would
subsidize to the extent of £14,000 a-year, and that
a concession would be given for 25 years, the
capital being £350,000. Some opposition was
made as to a few of the clauses by Mr. Moffat, M.P.,
and others, but the bill was eventually carried, the
amendment of Mr. Dixon having been withdrawn
by him.
The Press thinks the abolition of the lord lieute-
nancy of Ireland only a fresh attempt at more
centralisation, but that even in that respect the
measure would fail. A new political organisation
wonld be founded at Dublin on the ruins of the
viceroyalty. " A large ingress of Irish politicians
certainly might be looked for in London, and
feelings similar to those so harshly excited by
Wilkes and Churchill against the Scotch would,
possibly, be raised against a new, noisy, and
exasperated settlement of those whom Lord John
Russell in his Deculiar style called "
deprecate Irish immi-
grants." We all such unsocial feelings ;
but we believe that the extinction of the lord
lieutenancy would be the prelude to a new series