Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-05 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS

By the arrival of the Overland Bombay Mail, we
have dates from Bombay to the 9th of December.
The intelligence is altogether favourable. Tantia
Topee had been defeated with severe loss. Vigor-
ous efforts were on foot to catch him. Mann
Singh had been defeated in Bundelcund by
Brigadier Smith, with great slaughter. The Oude
Talookdas were coming in everywhere. The
enemy had also been defeated with loss at Gomtee
by General Grant. Nana Sahib it is said is lurk-
ing about the confines of Nepaul. An insurrection
on a small scale had occurred in Burmah.

Some words which were spoken by the Emperor
of the French on New Year's Day to the Austrian
Ambassador, expressive of regret that the rela-
tions between France and Austria were not good,
have created a sensation on the Paris Bourse,
and affected the London Stock Exchange. These
bad relations are at least a year's standing, and
arise out of the state of Italy. France takes
the side, for reasons best known to itself, of a
Reform policy, and has offered to withdraw
her forces from Rome if Austria will also
evacuate the towns it garrisons. The Paris Patrie
saN s that there is no new circumstance in the
relations between Austria and France to justify
alarm.

The indications of outbreak of which we have
heard in Italy, do not subside ; they grow. At
Milan, for example, there is a perpetual display
of a hatred against Austrian rule, which may be
the cause of a revolutionary emeute at any hour,
and the _news the Milanese have received from
Servia, must have helped to inflame their courage.
Venice is also agitated, and so with Modena and
Pavia, and other towns. At I'avia, the head of
the police force has been nearly assassinated. No-
body in Italy believes otherwise than that a crisis
is approaching.
Baron Pennefather at last appears to have
really resigned his seat on the Irish Bench. The

Solicitor-General is named as his successor.
The farmers are manifesting indications of a

of the hop duty

it Faversham and

Ashford

meetings have been held.
Mr. Gladstone reached Athens on the 1 ith, and
was received by Sir T. Wyse, her Majesty's
Minister, at the British Embassy. A dinner and
ball took place the next day and evening, on which
occasions Sir T. Wyse, presented Mr. Gladstone
to the most distinguished politicians of Greece,
excepting those of the Russian party. Many
learned men were also introduced to her Majesty's
Special Envoy • each and all complimenting the
right hon. gentleman in no measured terms. Next
day he took Mr. Finley, an English gentleman,
with him to the s'euate, where he remained more
than two hours listening to the debates, and in the
evening dined with the king and queen, there being
more than eighty persons present. The following
morning, Mr. Gladstone visited the chamber of
deputies, and on the 23rd,.left for Corfu, in order
to spend Christmas day with the Lord High Com-
missioner. A paragraph in the Trieste Gazette would
lead us to infer that Mr. Gladstone, who has to deal
with the popular movement in the lonian Islands,
can ill conceal his real sentiments as to the demands
of the people for permission to join themselves
to Greece. He reported by the paper in question
to have expresi-ed himself to the effect that the
object of his mission was to establish such im-
provements as might preyare. the " union which
appears decreed by Providence."
An announcement in a semi-official Madrid paper
makes it known that Spain is to receive from
Mexico complete satisfaction for the exactions
practised upon Spanish subjects at Tampico. The
declaration of war, therefore, of which we heard
from across the Atlantic, was mere Yankee
imagination.
It is our melancholy duty to chronicle two more
accidents, attended with fatal consequences, at
places of public entertainment, the one in London,
the other at Glasgow.

On Monday night, between ten and eleven
o'clock, an accident, attended with most disastrous
consequences to alaput twenty people, occurred at
the Royal Polyteclbkic Institution, Regent-street,
London. This, as wellas other public buildings in
which popular entertainment has been provided for
the holiday-seeker has, the last few days, been much
crowded, and the unusual INght brought to bear
upon the ga llerics and staircases necessarily involved
much risk to the crowds of persons who day after
day pass through them. On Monday night, it
seems that the Polytechnic Institution was, as
usnal, filled with an anxious and interested crowd,
and everything went well until about half-past
ten &clock, when, on reaching the landing lead-
ing to the upper gallery, the. staircase gave way,
and precipitated to the ground a number vf
young p'ople eager to avail themselves of the
opportunir of inspecting the many objects :in I

science and art with which the place abounds.
Fortunately the lower stairs were not occupied,
or the results would have doubtless been more
serious than they now are. As it is, however, we
learn that, by this terrible accident, no less than
eighteen persons have received very serious inju-
ries, of whom six females and a Loy are now in
Middlesex Hospital, suffering from violent contu-
sions, fractures, and other injuries ; while eleven
others, less wounded, have been sent to their
respective homes in cabs.
On Saturday, the Theatre on the Green, Glas-
gow, occupied by Mr. Parry, during the whole
day was much crowded, performance succeeding
performance in rapid succession, and crowds
waiting to go in so soon as those in were ready to
go out. From the pit there are two doors leading
into a passage of considerable length, and
three feet and a-half wide, which in turn leads in to
Greenhead-street. These doors are kept by a party
who directs his attention solely to the duties of that
office. Shortly after one o'clock, and on the con-
clusion of one of the performances, the keeper
unlocked one' of- the doors, and so great was the
heedless rash out, that he was jammed between
it and the wall, and could not get freed. Mean-
while a girl, named Rebecca Montgomery, thirteen
years of age, and daughter of a shoemaker, residing
at 2, Hall-close, South Pettigrew-street, being
among the first into the passage, somehow
fell, within two yards of the door, and was run over
by the crowd that madly followed, and was only
rescued after having been knocked insensible, by
the dookeeper, Charles Simpson, and other mem-
bers of Mr. Parry's company. She was immediately
conveyed to the shop of Dr. M'Carson, Saltmarket,
but all attempts to restore life failed, and the
unfortunate girl was handed over to her parents
in the Central Police Chambers, a corpse ! It is
but justice to state that Mr. Parry has taken the
means to inter the body with becoming decency,
to pay all expenses connected with the sad event,
and indeed done everything in his power to lessen
the grief thus suddenly brought on a mourning
family.

Ou-r local intelligence will be found interesting
this morning.
The fortnightly meeting of the Select Vestry
was held at ten o'clock yesterday, the Rev. Rector
Campbell in the chair. A discussion took place in
reference to the manner in which the services of
the dissenters had been neglected by the ministers
of that denomination, since permission had been
given to hold them in the house. But
according to the statements of several of
the speakers, there appeared to have been
some misunderstanding in the matter, but for
the future it would no doubt be better looked
after. The usual monthly meeting of the Toxteth
Board of Guardians, was held yesterday, at the
Public Offices, Park-place. Mr. H. g. Alpass
occupied the chair. A letter was read from Mr. J.,
R. Jeffery, resigning his seat at the board, to the
following effect:—"l am sorry I am obliged to ten-
der my resignation as a member of the Board,
feeling that I cannot do justice to my public duties,
and therefore make way for a better man." A
communication from Mr. J. Newlands, the borough
engineer, was also read, from which it appeared
that that gentleman had a notion of his not having
been treated with proper courtesy, but after a long
and rather warm discussion, a resolution was
passed, expressive of confidence in Mr. Newlands
and requesting him to retain his office.
The Court of Passage, presided over by Edward
James Esq., the assessor, commenced its sittings
yesterday, when several interesting cases were
adjudicated upon, but that of a libel case, in
which our contemporary figured as one of the
principals, was ' adjourned to this (Wednesday)
morning._ _ . - -

Yesterday, the Quarter Sessions for the borough
of Liverpool were opened in the Crown Court, St.
George's Hall, at ten a.m., by Gilbert Henderson,
Esq., the Recorder. The learned gentleman
delivered a brief but able address to the grand
jury, in which he reviewed the state of crime in
the borough, drawing from statistics rather a
favourable conclusion.

In the Bankruptcy Court, yesterday, in the case
of Henry Tristram, a new assignee was chosen in
the place of Mr. Hunter, who had been removed
upon his own petition. Mr. George O'Neil, of
Liverpool, broker, a creditor on the estate, was
appointed as the new assignee.

THERE can no greater kindness be done to the
poor, and no more positive benefit, at the same
time, be conferred on society, than by improving
their dwellings. And not merely those who are,
strictly speaking, the poor —that is, those who are
in the lowest ranks of the community. For many

of the working classes, who ought to be in rather
comfortable circumstances, are not accommodated
with homes such as they ought to have, and could
afford to have, were they to be obtained at reason-

able rents. Their home should be to them, in
particular, from the circumstances of 'their condi-
tion, what has been so glowingly yet truthfully
described as

—that spot on earth supremely blest

Yet how often—may we• not say how generally,

with the poor in our large towns—is it not com-
pletely the reverse ! Home ought to be the happy
refuge of their life—the sacred centre of all their
affections, and all their joys
home should ever be endearing ; for just in propor-

The very name of

tion as it is so, will a man's heart be in the right

place. Not in his domestic relations only, but in
his whole social character and position, will a man
be worthy and estimible, according as he can
appreciate and enjoy his home, finding there that

which the world without can neither give nor take
"The faithful, prulent husband," says an

old writer,

" is an honest, tractable, and domestic

animal," —and he would not probably be the
former, were he not the latter. His very nature

becomes softened, not to say sanctified, by the

influences of his happy h(ame ; and he finds there,
or ought to do, his highest and best compensation
and comfort. As BURNS has so truly and affect-
ingly pourtrayed it,—

" His wee-bit ingle blinkin bonnilie,
His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie wife's smile,
The lisping infant prattling on his knee,
Does a' his weary, carking cares beguile,

An' makes him quite forget his labour and his toil."
Such should be the domestic happiness of every
honest, industrious man—even of the humblest
degree ; for such is just what will do more than
any thing else to make him, and to keep him,
honest and industrious. He has then an object in
being so—and the most powerful of all incentives
to it,. at the same time. Yet how comparatively
rare are such homes of the poor, now-a-days, in
populous places. Their dwellings, in fact, are too
often almost incapable. of being made such ; and
the habits of slovenliness, untidiness, and dirtiness
which their contracted accommodation, and general
inconvenience, more perhaps than anything else,
may be said to engender, would seem to preclude
all hope of their ever being converted into homes
of that character—of any thing, indeed, really
deserving so endearing a name.
The subject was feelingly and forcibly alluded
to by the Recorder of Hull (Mr. WARREN, M.P.)
.
the other day, in his Charge to the Grand Jury of
the Borough Sessions. " The physical description
of the poor," he observed, 4' =mot be viewed as
separated from the moral. The ;want of a proper