Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-17 00:00:00

compared with 1856, they show an increase of
3,739,000 f. for the month of June, and of 26,285,000 f.
for the six months.

A telegraph, dated Madrid, the 14th inst., states
that the Royal authorisation to enforce the new
law on the press has been published. In conse-
quence of the numerous arrests made in Madrid
the prisons were so full that the breaking out of
maladies was apprehended. Most of these persons
had been arrested on the pretext of being vaga-
bonds, and yet amongst them were many in good
circumstances. some even who paid as much as
2,000 rears in taxes. At Malaga numerous arrests
of persons goted for the violence of their political
opinion, continued to be made.
A letter from Cettinguen, in the Agram Gazette,
gives some details of the late execution in Mon-
tenegro. It appears that on the evening of the
26th ult. ten agents of Prince Danilo made their
appearance in the village of Berceli, and seizing
on the Pope Gjuro Popovic and his eldest son,
shot them on the market-place, and then hanged
their bodies to a gibbet. The crime of these un-
happy men is not stated.
A Naples letter of the sth says that the steamer
Cagliari had been brought there and moored near
the pier, and a detachment of gendarmerie placed
on board her. The captain of the vessel had
undergone an examination, at which he protested
his good faith, and declared that both he and his
crew had acted from compulsion, The sailors
were afterwards interrogated seperately, and they
all made a similar declaration. The investigation
into the affair was going on with the utmost
minuteness.

AUSTRALIAN EMIGIZATION.—TheIide of Emigration to
Australia continues. Day after day the quays of Liverpool
swarm with crowds of our fellow countrymen and women
en route to the and of geld. With such an of of the
population, there has sprung up a very superior class of
vessels engaged in the Australian Emigration trade. We
need hardly remind our readers that Messrs Gibbs, Bright,
and Company, of Liverpool, have for a series of years been
famed for dispatching ships not only large, strong, and of
superior sailing qualities, but fitted up in a manner which
surpasses all other vessels enteagel in the same trade. It
was on'y yesterday that this eminent and respectable
firm dispatched a very superior clipper, the Fioreuce
Nightingale, well filled with goods and passengers ; and
they have now on berth as the packet of the 15th of
August, a vessel which for strength and beauty of arrange-
ment has cot had an equal in the port of Liverpool. She
is named the Carrier D,ve, is a ship, Baltimore clipper, of
350) tons burthen, and fleet' up in every department in a
manner that defies competition. In a vessel engag,el in the
Australian emigration trade, there are certain qualities re_
quisite, without which it would be reprehensible to go to sea.
These are strength, ample, and properly ventilated pas-
senger accomodation. The Carrier Dove has all these in a
moat remarkable and unusual degree ; she is knit together as
strongly as iron and oak timber, for every plank in her is of
that world-renowned wood, can make her. Her ventilating
apparatus is not only ingenious but truly efficient, and such
as cannot be disarranged, or impeded in its functions by any
of the many circumstances which interfere with the general
modes of ship ventilation. The berths for every class of
Emigrants are unusually ample, each of which has in the
most sultry of climates abundance of pure air. Cleanli-
ness and neatness of arrangement seem to predominate in the
minutest part of this splendid ship. Her Captain is evi-
dently a gentleman of taste and refinement, and studies in
all his plans the comfort and convenience of every indivi-
dual under his care and keeping. Balls are arranged all over
the ship, by which means the Cabin passengers can without
let or hindrance communicate with the steward and
stewardess, or the Captain with his otficere. Every thing
in each department is a mole! far cleanliness, efficiency
and general usefulness. A Captain who earns the thanks
of the underwriters of his ship must be a seaman and a
navigator in the true sense of the word. Such a man is the
Commander of the Carrier Dove. Captain Montell, under
trying and difficult circumstances in 1856, when in com-
mand of the clipper ship Atlantic, on a voyage from Callao
to Spain, he took his vessel into Marseilles, his crew having
mutinied. The authorities of that port have testified as to
his courage, and the care ha took of the underwriters' in-
terests. Besides this he is a renowned sailor. He has
made passages from China to New York in 78 days, and on
one occasion beat the far-famed Clipper ship Flying Cloud,
15 days, on the run from San Francisco to New York.
And•he has also brought the ship John Cumming from the
longitude of Charleston to the Liverpool docks in 16 days
20 hours. Any one who examines the build of the Carrier
Dove, and looks at her peculiar rig, must admit that she is
constructed with the view of swift sailing. Bat when com-
manded by such a gentleman as Captain Monte!! has
proved himself, and aided, as he is, by a first officer who has
beentho sailing master of some of the fastest clipper ships in
the world, it cannot be doubted that, if the Carrier
Dove gels a chance, she will astonish the people of Me!-
bourne by the rapidity of her run from Liverpool. We
know of no vessel possessing a tithe of her passenger
accommodation, nor one more likely to make a swift run
or a Captain and mate so celebrated far their seaman-
ship, gentlemeuly manners and feelings of benevolence,
to every grade and deicriptioa of passengers. Tae first
mate, steward, and stewardess, have been selected not only
fur lengthened experience, but civility and obliging die-
position. As already remarked, the Florence Nigb.tiug ale
sailed yesterday afternoon.. It was a perfect treat to
witness the order and regularity of everything on board.
The Rev. Mr Buck, who held Divine Service shortly before
the weighing of anchor, was heard to declare he never saw
such a splendid vessel, ncr a more interesting group of
passengers. May she have a swift and a speedy passage
to the other side of the globe.

TER UNSEATING OT MR. G. K. MOOSE, LATE M.P. FOR
MAYO.—The Committee on the Mayo Election have decided
that Mr. George Henry Moore was not duly elected, on
account of the undue influence exercised by his agents.
Tao importance of this judgment can hardly be overrated.
The power of recent legislation to put a stop to such prac-
tices as have for years disgraced Irish elections is now
established. The Committee declare " that undue influence
and spiritual intimidation prevailed to a considerable extent
at the last election for the county of Mayo," and that " the
Rev. Peter Conway and the Rev. Luke Ryan were so pro-
minently active that the Committee deem it their duty to
report their conduct to the House, in order that such steps
may be taken as may seem to the House to be proper and
necessary." It is to be hoped that the precedent of this
case will govern the decisions of all future Committees, and
that " spiritual intimidation" may take its place among
the offences for which a seat is forfeited. Should the House
be able to inflict any punishment on Fathers Conway and
Ryan for their gross abuse of their sacred functions, we
shall rejoice extremely ; but, in any case, let it be known
that such transgressions will only bring defeat on the
parties whom they are intended to befriend. The great
thing is to establish that such interference and such terror-
ism as have been proved against these Irish priests is
illegal, and vitiates an election. The present decision
makes this point no longer doubtful, and from this time we
may look for the abatement of a most scandalous evil. As
to Archbishop M'Hale's theory, that the vote of a Catholic
should bs determined by the opinion of his priest, it cannot
be assented to for a moment. Certainly, with any colloquy
between shepherd and sheep we have nothing to do. If
every voter in Mayo were to consult his parish priest or
his bishop, and willingly follow his advice, no one would
have the right to interfere, or could prove any cause for
interference ; but when the clergyman seeks to impose his
wishes on unwilling laymen, when he denounces future
perdition to the ignorant, in order to terrify them into com-
pliance, still more when directly or indirectly he threatens
them with popular vengeance or social excommunication,
then the country will interfere. It is decided that
" spiritual intimidation " comes within the meaning of the
term "undue influence," and, as undue influence unseats
the candidate in whose favour it is employed, the holy can-
vassers of the sister island must learn what prudence they
can. In the present case it was pro,* trot the priests