Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-11 00:00:00

HEALTH

Wednesday.
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bulletin, have
rious apprehensions. The

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f our impression of

AND CHINA

will be delivered in London on

August 9.—The Calcutta mail brings the
:---Letters from commercial correspondents
id the example of the mutiny of the Euro-
Formerly in the Company's service, would
itation among the natives. It is asserted
f the mutined soldiers would ask for their
is also reported that the mutiny is not yet
at Berhampore. Four hundred European
rly of the Company's service, are said to have

Rea at Cawnporc

-1 the mutineers

agreed by
to a nier

—Sham fights have been exe-
Emperor at the Camp of Chalons,
were stationed. They were intended
episode of the battle of Solferino. The
neral Fleurs is to be raised to the rank of

kugust 9

Dnamanc

The Emperor is to retire to

:ptember, to to
ist 9th.—Prin

Ice command of the manoeuvre

STapoleon. returned. yest

Emperor is One to Plombiers, and will

to-morrow
of Malakoff

Commander in Chief of the
ing Nancy on Saturday, issued

r of the day

in quitting you I take with me the pleasing
if the Em_ peror had found it necessary to
would have shown

rvation, y

`"lthy rivals of Yoiir predecessors, and of
querors of Montebello, Valestro, Magenta,

lue to set an example of that discipline
Ty virtues which foreigners admire, and

C_ you the eternalglory of the country. If
forbid) the country should be menaced, I shall
Emperor, as the greatest favour, the honour of
Your head, and of attaching an additional
-our eagles.

MARSHAL PRLISSIER, Duo de Malakoff

THE CONFERENCE,

August -Bth

-To-day the second sit-

of
th-6
the
t 6

Conference took place. Yesterday the Chief of
ment of Zurich paid a visit to the members of
nee, who assured him that they fully appreciated
Dt.trality Switzerlaud has preserved.

NAPLES,

LI.Es, August 9th.—Advices have been received
CS to the 6th instant. The Envoy Extraordinary
laud at the Court of the King of Naples has pre-

the Neapolitan Government certain demands,
Swiss standards be given up,. the uniform and the
f'
the foreign legions be altered, and that they are
to be called Swiss. The Duke of Serracaprilola,
Prime minister, goes on an extraordinary mission

The.l
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THE ITALIAN DUCHIES.
)rrespondent of the Post telegraphs the result
elections. They took place amidst the greatest
ave given the majority to men of moderate
but quite opposed to the restoration of the old

(RETTTER'S 'TELEGRAM.)
Lgligt 10th.—An official message dated Florence,
hat the elections were concluded with perfect

largenumleTorvoters -attended to give their
The electors belonged to all classes of the
le Assembly is convoked for Thursday next.
Is quiet, and the inhabit,..mts full of confidence.

BA_N'ARIA

'uesday, to-day sittino. of
of P'eputies the proposal of 27 members for
ra, by creating a central power and national
in Germany, was referredlo a committee.

tit PRUSSIA.
(Yught that the King of Prussia may ling3r for
His mind has become clearer, but his bodily

are weaker

THE SUEZ CANAL.
.6,?1t1t sTP
eXatil A-ugust 9th.—Advices" have been received from
7'4 to the 31st ult. According to agreement effected

Mr. BRIGHT moved fora select committee to inquiro into
the allegation of a petition prese-ated by Mr. Childers, the
late candidate for Pontefract, in reference to the conduct of
the sitting-member, Mr. Overend. The allegation was, that
had been presented against the return of Mr
ie command of i Overend. In order to sai

expenses of a scrutiny, it was
Parties that the matter should be referred

... __her of' the late Government; that the petition
was withdrawn on that understanding, and' that Mr.
Overend subsequently refused to submit to the referenee.
Mr. OVEREND entered into an explanation of his view of
the case, expressing, his regret that his first address to the
House should be in vindication' of his ownhoUotir. He
received notice that on Friday last the subject of this
petition would be brought under the notice of the Rollie,
and he took care accordingly to be 'in his place. Nothing,
however, was said on the subject ; and, thinking the
matter had dropped, he left London the next day to
attend his professional duties on circuit. He received a
telegraphic 'communication at Lancaster of what occurred
yesterday,• and straightway he returned to town. There
was , one word which the hori. member for • Manchester
used on the presentation of the petition, which he had
good right to complain of. It was the first time that the
term friend had been connected with his name. (Hear,
hear.) The facts of the case, as far as he was cogniSant of
them, would prove that he had committed no fraud, and
that he had been guilty of na malia fides. .It was true as
stated in the petition that at the last election he successfully
contested Pontefract with Mr. Childers, and that afterwards
Mr. Childers presented a petition against his return.
was advised, however, that there was no pretence for the
petition, and he determined to defend his seat to the last.
Accordingly he gave his agents instructions to make
the - necessary preparations for going into committee,
and then left town to attend the assizes at York. On the
19th of July he received a telegraphic message at York,
stating that Mr. Childers' would consent to withdraw his
petition on an understanding that the scrutiny should be
referred to the arbitration of a Conservative member of the
House. He declined the arbitration, knowing that the case
could not be investigated by that means so thoroughly as by
a committee: The arbitrator would have no power to admi-
nister an oath to the witnesses, nor . could the witnesses be
prosecuted in event of their. committing perjury; and
therefore, he entertained a strong objection to the pro-
posed arbitration. He, however, communicated with his
friend Mr. Rose on the subject, and left the matter
in his hands to negociate with Mr. Leeman, the agent of
Mr. Childers ; but he protested against referring the seat
to arbitration, and declared that he never would give his
consent to such a proposal. Mr. Rose had several inter-
views with Mr. I eeman and Mr. Childers, and eventually
it. was arranged that all the points in dispute, except the
question of the seat, should be submitted to arbitration.
He had, throughout refused point blank to refer the peti-
tion, pier et ample, to arbitration, and in several meetings
between his own agents and those of Mr. Childers, it was
distinctly impressed upon the agents of Mr. Childers that
the question of the seat had nothing to do with the nego-
ciations going on with a view to an honourable arbitration.
The last meeting of the agents was held at Pontefract, and
it appeared that they fell into a misunderstanding about the
scat. Nevertheless a verbal agreement of reference was
come to, and on Friday last he and Mr. Childers went
before the referee. Mr. Rose and Mr. Leeman gave each
his own version of the Understanding. One said the seat
was not to be referred ; the other, that it was. There was
nothing positive, then, to show that the seat had' to be
referred, and that the referee ultimately came to the con-
clusion that there.was no other point in the case for him to'
decide. (Hear.)
IhuGurr protested that he had never attributed fraud
to the hon. and learned member. What he bad' said was
that Mr. Childers, appeared to have been jockeyed or de-
frauded out Of his petition, and he thought the explanation
of the hon. and learned gentleinan bore out that impression.
Mr. Rose, the agent of the hon and learned gentleman,
had made an " illusory" engagement with Mr. Leeman--in-
deed it appeared Mr. Rose himself so characterised the un-
derstanding he had come to with Mr. Leeman ; and that,
being so, he contended that Mr, .Rose's conduct as a parlia-
mentary agent deserved the severest censure of the House.
. Mr. Leeman had, over and over again, refused to arbitrate
I upon mere matters of expense; and that being so, what was