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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-28 00:00:00

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At twelve o'c!ock, at the brokers' office. 30, Exchange-alley North,
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At t valve o'clock, at the broker,' office, 2, Da'e-street' 250 bales Jute,
and 5,234 pieces Goir Junk —Hrovrne, Hunter and Co.
At twelve o'clock, 7,6 bales Jute.—Cox Brothers.
At twelve o'clock, at the broktrs' office, Oldhall-street, 3,500 bags
Rice.—Buchanan, Brcwns and Co.
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 1, Oldhall-street, 35 bags
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At twelve o'c'ock, at the brokers' 011ie, 8, Lancaster-buildings,
21thebarn-street, 160 tierces Caroline Rice.— Sill and Meugens.

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TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1857.

making the passage regularly from South-
ampton to Sydney, and vice versa, in fifty
two days for eight months in the year,
and in fifty-five days during the remaining
four months. During the months of November.
December, January, and February, the south-eas
tiades in the' Pacific, which are relied upon To
help the outward bound steamer, are light, and
during the same four months the w3sterly
breezes which prevail in the latitude of New
Zealand, and which are trusted to favour
the homeward bound mail, are also light, and for
this reason taree days extra would he gene-
rally required to make the passage. The out-
ward and homeward routes are not identical,
nor do either of them lie in a straight line'from
Panama to Sydney. The former passes to the
northward of Tahiti, at which island it is not
intended to call, and the latter follows a much
more southerly course. But acecoraing to
principles of great circle sailing, these routes,
though apparently circuitous, when drawn
on a chart, are really but little longer
!him a direct line, though much more
favourable as regards the prevailing set
of the winds. The vessels to be employe.' in the
service would be 2,500 tons burden, of 400 horse-
power, and propelled by screws. This route we
have advocated for years, and we can only say that
we hope it will be in opera ion e e long.
Yesterday, a public banquet was given to Mr J.
B. Gough, the great temperance lecturer, by his
friends in Liverpool. After the breakfast. a public
meeting was held at the Queen's-'call, Bold-street.
Several complimentary addresses were presented to
Mr. Gough, and that gentleman spoke for some
time on the besetting sin of intemperance. A full
report will be found in anothtr column.

At the police-court, yesterday, a man, named
Swift, was brought up on a charge of murdering
his wife; but the medical evidence not being
forthcoming (the Coroner having him at his court)
the ease was adjourned till Wodnesday. In the
meantime, the coroner's jury had returned a varcliot.
of manslaughter.
A. destructive fire broke out in London yesterday,
acid we regret to say two lives were lost. In the
afternoon another fire severely burned two children.
The Continental news this morning is meagre and
unimportant. A despatch from Naples of the 23rd
states that the legal investigation is still proceeding
No prisoner has been shot. Nicotera has reveakd
the plan, and has announced new attempts. He
acquits the crew of the Cagliari of any knowhole
of tha plot. The papers seized on PisaeanH,
of which a part is in cypher, have not yet been
included in the process. Fosehini, the
refugee who escaped from London atter com-
mitting a double assassination, is among
the wounded. Padula has blown out his brains.
The Austrian government is said to have signed
a convention with various Italian States, the (*Pet
of which is to resist in future aoy revolutionary
attacks. The whole country along the Moselle, or
Rhenish Prussia, has been thrown into a state or
painful excitement by a series of conflagrations,
by which small towns, villages, and forests have
bee❑ destroyed, and for which no other explanation
is possible, but that they are the work of a
regular gang of incendiaries.

How much soever we in England may condemn
the violent means .by• which the Emperor Louis
NAPOLEON [cut his way to a throne, yet we cannot
deny that be has used his power to a better
purpose, than such a bloody initiative seemed
to promise. And however much we may regret
that the iFrench people are not living under
a constitutional government, we yet cannot
approve of insane attempts to assassinate the
despot; nor are we of opinion that this is the
true path of liberty for France. The stern rule
of Louis NAPOLEON is many degrees better than
a reign of terror ; and, though he has bound
liberty in fetters, and gagged her for a time, he
has yet given some degree of security to the
mercantile and working classes, and protection
against utter and lawless anarchy. His foreign
policy is far more defensible than his domestic
administration ; but his greatest merit is, that he
has seen the wisdom of the alliance with England.
True, indeed, that his own interest lies in the
direction of this alliance; •and that what is
propitious to France, is also advantageous to his
own family. It issomething to see where one's true
interest lies, and to pursue it with constancy.
Perhaps, till the virtue of mankind be far _Treater
than it is now, itwill be happy for them if prudence •
or an enlightened self love, can supply the place
of the noble virtues. It', without being generous
and disinterested, men could be only wise,
prudent, and judiciously love themselves, and
pursue their own interest discreetly, the world
would be much nearer the Millennium. The
Emperor of the French has at least the merit of
prudence and firmness. Ite saw the meeting
point of his own interest with that of France,
and he has wisely and firmly kept his eye fixed
on that. No other policy, we venture to affirm,
could have been so beneficial to himself, to the
French people, and, we will add, to Europe.
Loris NAPOLEON might have thrown his in-
fluence into the scale with Russia, and thereby
complicated European politics, and strengthened
the confederacy of despotism against England.
We are not holding- up the French Emperor as
an enlightened friend of freedom; but we say,
give the unholy one his doe, and while we could
earnestly desire that the French had a more
liberal and liberty-loving ruhe-, we are bound
also to own that they might have found a worse
master.

We cannot, therefore, approve, and we are sure
the public opinion in E I,4land, will condemn, all
attempts at secret c )nspira-_:y and assassin ition

irec'ted aglinst the E ap3ror.

Ttoil is not the

way to curb tyranny or reitore trampk.,l

liberties of a nation. What is the u3e of destroy-
ing tha man while you ivy the syst.tai
untouched, of striling down the tyrant while

the tyranny lives on. When BRUTUS and
CAsslus struck at C.EsAR in the Senate house,
they but removed the intvidual, but the vicious
system was perpetuated, and the death of the one
tyrant but prepared the way fir the long
succession of miscreants anj monsters—with a
few brilliant exceptions—that continued to wear
the imperial purple and oppress mankind. We
know it sounds gloriously to rave and spout
about 4' death to the tyrant:," and again and
again will this deed of the Rnnan conspirators

he canvassed and 11-I I up to admiration, till the
general diffusion of a scientific morality shall
finally settle the question among all educated

minds.

But it is unfortunate that too ardent reformers

and minds too sanguine and impetuous will not
give themselves time to consider the conse-
quences of these acts. If by destroying the
one man' you could overturn the whole vicious
system, the argument in favour of tyranicide
would be much stronger. Here is a fatal mis-
calculation. When one tyrant falls another is
ready to take his place. You are as remote
from your object as ever. The violent death of
Louts NAPOLEON' at this moment would be a
signal for fresh confusion and disasters to
France. We fear that we may add his death in
any shape would leave France exposed to the
utmost peril, as the inevitable consequence of
that unrelaxing despotism which he has un-
fortunately seen fit to establish. But assissina-
tion will never correct it—secret conspiracy will
never restore French freedom. A far better
and more hopeful method would be for such
men as CAVAIGNAC, CARNOT, and GOUDCHOUX,
lately elected as members for Paris, to enter the
Chambers, Introduce the thin end of the wedge,
try to create a public opinion outside, act as the
representatives of the liberal portion of the
French nation, and thus constitutionally oppose
the Emperor by pen, and voice, and press, and
not conspirator-like by dagger and revolver.
Such cowardly deeds of darkness will find no
echo of approval in England. We disapprove of
mnrh ;n thN F..,.porcsr hat like Britons WP
would oppose him openly where we think him
to be blamed. The name of MAZZINI is con-

general law, which has for the last 200 years been
legal for those who could afford to pay for a spe-
cial law. •

The adultery of the wife, with or without
aggravating circumstances, is to release the hus-
band from the marriage bond by kw, as for the
last two centuries it has released him by Act of
Parliament ; on the other hand, the adultery of
the husband, accompanied by incest, bigamy, con-
tinued desertion, and cruelty, is to be visited
by a similar release. The bill of the Loa])
CHANCELLOR introduces a new, simple, and expe-
ditious procedure for the old, tedious, and clumsy
one. Heretofore not less than three courts of law
had to complete a divorce. By the bill
tn ques-
tion one is to effect the legal pr:,cess of sepa,,
ration. Instead of a trim. co '.'o, action there is to
followed, on conviction,
be a criminal informat;,-,,n,
by fine. Such are
h
eChain features of the Divorce
t
and Matrimonial (pauses Bill. They are reason-
able and just. We do not see why the poorest
man in the realm should not have a cheap and
expeditious remedy against his wife's infidelity as
any enobled peer, aye or mitered prelate. Law,
to be just and salutary, must be universal in its
application—hence the expediency of the mea-
sure now under consideration.

aThe attempt of Mr. HENLEY and his party failed
as far as postponing the second reading for a
month, nevertheless it had the effect of delaying
the further progress of the bill for a week.
Another such attempt may possibly effect the
object of delaying the final passage of the bill,
but it cannot permanently set aside a measure so
legitimate and much required in every sense of
the word.

nected, we observe, with this conspiracy ;—we
hope and believe without foundation. Cam-
ANELLA—another of the seven names put
forward by the French Mortiteur as instigators
of the conspiracy, has written a letter in the
Times, of Friday, July 21th, to disclaim all
complicity. It is, of course, easy for French
officials to throw the blame of inciting to
assassination on refugees resident in England,
but with us every man is presumed innocent
till he is proved guilty. We wait for proofs.
Meanwhile English law, while it protects the
persecuted refugee has no shelter for the con-
spiring assassin ; and while the usages of our
hospitality will not be contracted at the bid-
ding of a foreign sovereign, or even at the
request of a prime minister, we shall be
equally far from wishing to abet the secret
striker, who, like the pestilence, walketh in
darkness ;" and the open murderer who stops
us in broad noon on the Queen's highway,

THE NEW SYSTEM OF NAVTGATION.—When in any
branch of science its practical members, of even ordinary
repute, attempt the introduction of a " new system," it is
the bounden duty of the Press to assist in facilitating its
development, in order that, if erroneous, it may the sooner
be shelved, or if of public importance, it may the sooner
be made known. Where every man may register or
"patent" a supposed and untried or evcn questionab!e im-
provement, as in England, without any competent public
functionaries to report upon or examine such crotchets as
are brought forth under sanction of the Great Seal of
Britain, the most valuable newly-born discoveries are too
often lost in the crowd, or left to wither and decay for
want of fostering nurture, or what is evert:worse, are often
consigned to the strong-box of some monied speculator,
whose stringent and grasping hand stops the freedom of
its breath, and prevents a healthy circulation in its infant
system; thus the meritorious inventor, rich only in talent
and experience, too often is left
,to linger in disappoint-
ment, and perhaps late in life, when years have matured
the strength of his intellect, finds himself the more keenly
sorrowing victim of too confiding a dependence on the
appreciative powers of a slothful public, and of too ready
an investment of the means which he:had otherwise stored
to meet the pecuniary needs of declining life, we say,
therefore, the Press, from their facilities of access to the
public, have a humane duty to perform towards those
whose midnight labours and aching heads need only such
kind of help to insure timely aid. We cannot agree with
those who deny to many votaries of science a disinterested
desire of scientific progress. In the case to which, how-
ever, we are about to apply the above remarks, so far as
regards the duty of journalists, and which case is a success-
ful exception in pecuniary matters, we find that Mr.
Saxby has, through a series of years, turned his distnteres-
ted attention' towards improvements in the condition of
sailors, and especially in the simplifying of the art of
navigation. Under this conviction, a few weeks since
(11th May last), an article appeared in.the NORTHERN
1 TIMES on a " New System of Navigation," as proposed by
him, and we ventured to express a hope that the apparent
value of the epherograph, " were it only in checking
calculation" at sea, would " entitle it and its persever-
ing inventor to every public encouragement." A correspon-
dent of indisputable judgment and veracity has informed
us that on visiting, on Saturday last, the U.S. frigate
Niagara, to take a last look at that extraordinary ship, and
her most extraordinary burden, he was casually with
several other persons on the forecastle, viewing from 1
that eminence the most curious spectacle a ship's deck
could present, from her singular adaptation for special
and novel purposes, when Mr. Saxby was there, stand-
ing near a binnacle, and accepting apparently a friendly
challenge from a superior officer of the ship, to " tell
him the true bearing of the ship's head," with a view
to determine the amosot of local attraction and error
of the compass. It is of no small moment to the port
of Liverpool, and our nautical readers, to know that
without Mr. Saxby even using a pencil, and in a few
seconds he, by simply turning an inetrament, answered
"South, two degrees, 40 east." The sailiag-:vaster (for
such he must have been) qu'ckly replied, "South two,
forty East—you see I had just marked it on my
paper, from the sights I have been working ;" and
added, " Why, then, it saves me the trouble of working
an azimuth I."—to which Mr. Saxby answered, " Not
only the trouble of working an azimuth, but you don't
want an altitude at all." Now, to us who make no
pretence to knowledge of navigation, there is something
in this which seems to claim, at leest, a close and accu-
rate scrutiny. If there b 3 no misnke in our informa-
tion, the most dangerous and most trying ship as to
loot' attraction which ever floated on salt water, has
thus by Mr. Saxby been enabled lo depart to bind
together the Old and New Worlds under more favoura-
ble auspices, as regards her probable safety ; for without
that gentleman's timely assistance with his simple
invention, so dangerous was the Niagara, haying no
correcting magnet, and from the presanee of some 150
miles of cable stowed actually upon deck, besides on the
quarter-deck a very perfect steam-angine, with very
massive machinery for lifting oat the cable, added to
which there was the prospect of continual change in
local attraction from the constant diminution in the
quantity of cable on board, that it was feared by the
officers it might be even necessary, when upon the ocean,
to steer the Niagara by signals from her consort ! and
this on the proverbially " rude" Atlantic, where thick
mists prevail. God speed the noble ship and her gallant
officers ! Their work will be one of difficulty, but of
merit, even under the most favourable circumstances.
We shall shortly recur to the subject of patents, and
the influence which a proper and timely examination of
them might have in extensive public influences ; mean-
while, we rejoice to see our expectations as to Mr.
Saxby's sphcreograph so fully juttificd.

FRIDAY'S Parliamentary proceedings were not
without special interest, particularly as regards
the tactics of the opposition, in attempting to
defeat by a side wind the second reading of
the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill. Oar
readers will recollect this measure underwent
protracted and minute discussion in the House
of Lords, and although some objections were
put forward to a few details of the Bill, the
general opinion was that its requirements ought
to be of a much more stronger character.

On the proposition for the second reading of
the Bill on Friday, Mr. HENLEY adopted a course
which was as unusual as it was inconvenient.
Generally, nay •always, when a measure is
opposed with the view to its rejection, the second
or third reading is moved to take place that day
three or six months, which, if carried, is tanta-
mount to the rejection 01 the Bill. Mr. HENLEY
does not adopt this open and manly course.
lle goes over the leading features of the measure,
enlarges upon its importance to society, and urges
that the House has not had time to give all its
clauses a calm and deliberate consideration.
Under these circumstances he asks the House to
postpone the second reading for a month. Now
will any one be simple enough to believe that
Mr. HENLEY and his one hundred and thirty
supporters, would be one iota better informed,
as to the principles and objects of the Bill at the
end of a month, than they were on Friday night.
Certainly not. The sole object of the amend-
ment proposed by Mr. HENLEY, was not to
obtain time fur reflection and to canvass all the
details of the measure, but simply to cast it out
by a species of Parliamentary fencing, which
adds but littld to his credit as a statesman, or
those who voted for his amendment. In the
early part of the debate this was not so transpa-
rent as when Lord Jour MANNERS got up and
argued that inasmuch as there had not been any
petitions presented in favour of the Bill, it was
quite evident that the people were indifferent, if
not altogether opposed, to its provisions.

This was a statement which at once showed
the cloven foot of the opposition, added to which
Cardinal IVISEM,IN's Parliamentary lieutenant,
\lr. Blwyea, believing that the Bill would, by
no means, maintain intact the spiritual supre-
macy of the Romish Church in these kingdoms,
came forward as the seconder of the amend-
ment, and lent the aid of himself and
his party to defaat a measure which 'is not
only imperatively called for, but which is just
and equitable in principle, and calculated to
promote social happiness and comfort where'
nothing but the demon of discord and jealousy
reign supreme. What is the nature of this bill
.vhich has provoked the -hostility of the Tory
party and the Parliamentary mouthpiece of
C Osnonxn, JULY 25.—The Queen and Prince and the
Cardinal WISEMAN ? Does it infringe upon the
Rlal children walked and drove iu the grounds yesterlay.
well-being of society, and aim a deadly blow at JuLv 26.—The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied
public and private morality ? We answer no. by Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, Princess Alice, Princess
Its grand aim and end is to extend to the middle. Helena, and Princess Louisa, embarked on board the
Fairy yesterday afternoon, and steamed to Portsmouth.
and lower classes of society a legal remedy for Royal Highness went oa board the Aliquis pship
social grievances which the rich. can purchase for inHis the harbour to visit the detachment of the 3rdtroo battalion
money, but are beyond the reach of the poor in of the Rifle Brigade, embarked for India. The Marquis
oAbercern arrived at Osborne yesterday on a visit, and
consequence of their poverty. It is purely and
had the honour of dining with her Majesty. Captain the
simply a prOposal to maks that legal for all, by a l Hon. J. Denman and Lieutenant-Colonel Jeffreys, C. 11.3

THE COURT, &c.•