Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-24 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1859

that may seem favourable to the realisation of our
ardent desires. We hope, at any rate, not to have
longer to wait than until the 7th of February for
some significant and belligerent demonstration
on the part 'of our big ally at the Tuileries.

VIENNA, Jan. 19

According to reliable advices from Lombardy,
the political ferment is subsiding in the capital, as
well as in the provincial towns. It was here
feared that the troops might be guilty of excesses,
as their patience has long been severely tried, but
information has been received that they have
hitherto obeyed to the letter the strict orders of
their commanders to avoid giving the people
cause for complaint. It is possible that the
Lombards may attribute the moderation of the
Austrians to fear, but they will speedily discover
their mistake should they seriously misbehave
themselves. Before Count Gyulia left this
city he was told to refrain, if possible, from having
recourse to extreme measures, but he took with him
powers which will enable him to proclaim the
state of siege in Lombardy whenever it may be
necessary. Everything being quiet again at
Padua, the citizens have petitioned the government
to allow the students to return to the University.
It is morally certain that foreign students will not
be permitted to study at Padua for some time
to come, but those who are natives of the
neighbouring cities will soon be allowed to
return. When the " row" occurred there were
about a thousand students at Padua, and their tem-
porary absence is said to be severely felt by the
citizens with whom they lodged and boarded. As
soon as the order for the departure of the students
was promulgated, the boys in the, gymna.sial schools
began to make preparations for going to their re-
spective homes, so that the police was obliged to post
bills, in which it was stated that although the young
men studying at the University were to leave the
city, the school-boys were to remain where they
were. During two days Padua was governed by
a General officer (General von INlelczer), but it was
not considered necessary to proclaim martial law,
as the people from the very first expressed their
disapproval of the conduct of the students. A
Trieste correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette
positively asserts that the Archduchess Char-
lotte is about to return to Milan, but the
intelligence does not obtain credit here, as
the Viennese have not forgotten the conduct
of the revolutionary party in Italy in 1848.
The patriots in Treviso threatened to send
Marshal Nugent the head of his daughter,
and their worthy colleagues at Padua forced
Countess Wimpffen to write to her husband, a
General of Division, that if he fired a single shot at
Padua, she and her children would be slaughtered.
Should there be serious disturbances in Italy, the
Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian will probably go to
Verona. For some unknown reason the destination
of Major-General Count Mensdorff Pouilly has
been changed, and the Emperor is now trying to
persuade him to go to Italy as Lord Chamberlain
to the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian. The gal-
lant officer is said to be loth to accept the proffered
honour, but he will probably consent to go to
Italy, as it is difficult to say nay to an Imperial
suitor. I

would conciliate the interests of agriculture,
commerce, and manufactures. A recent statistical
return shows that as many as 1,004,974 children
are now receiving instruction in public and private
schools, and 468,050 of them gratuitously.

The Journal de Constantiimple mentions that it is in
contemplation to have a universal exhibition ut Constan-
tinople in 1860. The proposition is said to have been
favourably received by the different embassies; and a
company had come forward to erect the building for the
purpose.
The magnificent theatre of the Sultan at Constan-
tinople, has just been inaugurated in presence of his
Majesty, his family, and the principal dignitaries of the
empire, and orders were given for the performance, on
the 14th, of the comic opera of the ''Scaramucia," at

which all the ladies of the harem, for the first time in
their lives, were to be prresent in the different boxes.
The contract for the purchase of the Great Eastern by
the Great Ship Company was concluded on- Friday, and
the first instalment of purchase-money paid to the liqui-
dators. £300,000, including the subscriptions of the old
shareholders in the Eastern Steam Company, have been
subscribed, and this, it is believed, will be amply sufficient
not only for the purchase and completion of the ship,
but also to provide workinc, capital. Plans and specifica-
tions are in a state of satisfactory forwardness for
circulation among competent persons to tender upon.
A general meeting of the shareholders is to be convened
in the course of next month, so that no delay may occur
in giving practical effect to all arrangements for the
completion of the ship for sea within the contemplated
period.
-WAGES IN THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.—The
factory operatives in the manufacturing districts of
Lancashire, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Cheshire have
for some time past contemplated a general movement
for securing an increase of wages, considering that the
prosperity of the cotton trade would amply justify them
in such a course. The spinners and self-actor minders
have taken the initiative, and the united body represent-
ing the four counties above-named have made a draught
of a memorial to the employers setting forth the views
of the workers on the subject. The agitation assumes
entirely the characte; of a request to the employers, and
in many instances the amount of the advance of wages
desired is not even named. The masters will be appealed
to individually, and there is little doubt that in most
instances the request will be conceded. In any case, a
" strike," or measures of the kind, will not be resorted
to. The power-loom weavers contemplate a similar
movement, characterised by exactly similar means.
EXTRAORDINARY FOSSIL REMAINS.—There have
recently been discovered in one of the limestone quarries
at Oreston, near Plymouth, the teeth, bones, and other
remains of lions, tigers, elephants, rhinoceroses, horses,
hyenas, and other animals. The discovery has created
quite a sensation in the geological world. The extreme
remoteness of the age when these animals existed in
Britain may be judged from the fact that the cavern
from which the fossils were extracted is situate in the
solid rock in the cliff of a quarry which is about
1,000 feet from the edge of the sea. The cavern was
about seventy feet above the level of high water, and
thirty-five feet below the surface of the field above ; it
was twenty feet long, ten feet high, and about ten feet
wide. There was no aperture or Other indication of its
locality. Among the contents is the jaw of an animal of
the horse species in stalagmite, exceedingly perfect. This
is said to be the first ever found in stalagmite, and if so,
establishes facts, and gives rise to theories entirely new
in geology. The breakwater in the Sound is composed
almost entirely of limestone worked from the Oreston
quarries. The fossils are in the possession of Mr. Joseph,
mineralogist, of Plymonth.
MELANCHOLY AND FATAL OCCURRENCE.—About five
o'clock on Tuesday morning last, a young man named
Thomas Price, butler to Lord Lisburne, 'M.P., Crosswood-
park, met with a watery grave in the river Ystwith, and
several others but narrowly escaped the same fate. Lady
Vaughan, Lady Elizabeth Vaughan, and Master Edward
Vaughan were returning from the ball held in celebration
of the majority of Pryse Loveden, Esq., in a fly driven by
Morgan Mason, the Belle Vue postboy, by the side of
whom sat the deceased. The route via Llanilar was
chosen as being preferable. It had been raining very
heavily during the night. When the carriage reached
the ford crossing the river Ystwith, near Crosswood
there was no perceptible increase in the river, but after
proceeding a few yards across a volume of water came
down all at once, and the current was so strong, that it
turned the fly on one side, when the young man fell over,
and was immediately swept away. The postboy failed to
retreat, and had no alternative but to endeavour to make
for the opposite bank, in which he ultimately succeeded.
He threw the reins over a branch of the tree on the bank,
and happily was able to rescue the inmates of the car-
riage, who, we are glad to say, received no injury,
further than the terrors of their perilous situation.
Assistance was immediately procured, and active search
made. The body was found about ten o'clock, opposite
Glanpetmuth, a distance of two miles down the river.—
Carnarvon Herald.

A MURDERER'S LETTER. - The Stamford Mercury
publishes two letters, written by Whitworth, who was
lately executed at York, to the parents of his victim,
Sarah Hare, who reside in Coningsby. The one of latest
date is as follows :—" York Castle, January 7, 1859.

•
My dear Injured Friend : I was very glad to hear from
you, but more so to receive your forgiveness before I die.
My time is short ; in a little time I shall be launched out
of time into eternity. But, thank God, that does not dis-
turb me : for God, for Christ's sake, has pardoned all my
sins, so that for me to die will be gain, and .I hope to
meet her that is gone before at God's right hand that
we might welcome you all when you arrive at home.
It may be a few years before you all come, so I
bid you a long farewell till we wake up at the
last day. May God help you till your journey's
end, ana I sincerely hope that our love will be a sufficient
warning to all young lovers that are left behind. So now
I wish you all a long farewell, and in a very few hours
I shall have changed this world for a much better.
Indeed it iS most astonishing to think how wonderfully
well God supports me in my last hours, so unworthy as
I am, and I humbly thank the Almighty for the good he
has done me, and I declare to you I am at variance with
no person. God has taught me to forget and forgive all.
So I must bid you all a bug farewell in this world, for I
am at peace with all the world now, and in a short time
I hope to be in Heaven, when I trust I shall meet you
all again. So good bve, and God bless you all.—From
your well wisher, 01IN T. WHITIVORTIL—TO Mr.
Thomas Hare."

Scorrisie MORALITY.—The following rich specimen of
hot blood is from our irascible contemporary, the
Northern Whig : ".The most recent outrage on public
decency of which the Mail has been guilty, is an attack
on the chastity of Irish women, involved in a comment
on the arrangement of marriages, births, and deaths in
this paper.. The Mail says, fancying itself very funny :
' The Northern Whig is very systematic in its announce-
ments. It places marriages before births, contrary to the
general rule amongst the conductors of the broadsheet.
But what of all• those births that take place in Ireland
before marriage ?' The Mail should not have put a
question, which we beg to retort on Scotland,
famous as she is, in addition to her drunkenness,
her commercial dishonesty, and her religious hy-
pocrisy, for her large swarms of unwedded mothers—a
class which is much scarcer in Ireland than it is in Eng-
land, and which, in Scotland, is more numerous than in
any other country in Europe. It is some few years ago
since Sir Archibald Alison, sitting as a judge in Glasgow
(which is stated the headquarters of Scottish piety and
criminality), stated his reprobation and horror of the
picture of immorality presented by the enormous propor-
tion of illegitimate births, in that corner of the vineyard

over which- he had been called to preside. He spoke
much wholesome truth on the wickedness of Glasgow, for
which the people thereabouts have never forgiven him,
and never will, for they are a generation who, 'if you
praise and flatter them, will let you do with them what
you like, but who hate the truth with a perfect and im-
placable hate with a hatred equal to the love which
they bear to whisky." •

Commenting on' the proposed Dramatic College, the
Critic says :—What con.solation will it be for an, old man,
who has used himself to gaslight and his quiet' pipe in his
favourite tavern, until these matters have become second
nature to him, to take him away into the country and when
he is weary of his life ask him to look upoirthe spot where.
Milton- probably read "Paradise Lost" to- Mr. Elwood ?
Who can doubt that to tear up old people by the roots from
the soil in which they are grown and transport them suddenly
would be to render them intensely miserable ? Let us hope
that the committee will pause before- they are guilty of
such cruelty as this., How does it IKtppen that decayed
literary men, even those who have once held a respectable
standing, avail themselves of the refuge of tha Charter
House ? Simply because .it is London ; because they
are not violently torn away from their old haunts
and associations. But there is another proposition
more monstrous even than that of .fixing the site in
a neighbourhood hallowed by the memory of the divine
Milton, and that is to build the College next door
to the Working Necropolis. Here is a prospect
for the poor old actor in the fall of life I He has but to
look across the road to see his final resting place. His
grave is there for him, and it is but a few yards to walk
into it. Perhaps, too, the burying company would con-
sent to some arrangement to allow the coll'gians to come
up to town in the empty hearses, Or they might evm
find employment for the old histrin—such as were able-
bodied as the grave,clipers (not in Hamlet), ancl the
- rest as mutes,