Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-24 00:00:00

SMITHSONIAN HOTEL,
BROADWAY, Corner of HOUSTON-STREET, Nsw Yoss.
Named In honour of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION,
Established at WASHINGTON, by the U. S. CONGRESS,
With Fnnds bequeathed. by JAMSS SMITH3ON, of ENGLAND,
Ravin the Friendship of the Orpicess of the NATIONAL INstirurin N
Is conducted on the EUROPEAN PLAN.
caAs. H. SMITH.

ea ',lurk-tat Vale.—rbfl Orin.

t twelve o'c'ock, at the hrok,lT's offhe, I. O'dhall-street. 24 bags
damaged Sago Flour, and 93 bags damaged ltice.—John Baron
ar-d Sou.

At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Colonic'-buildings, Dale
street, 1955 bags Saltpe're.—Bashby and Co.
At twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, 18, Ilackin's-hey, 44 barrels
➢alsaa Capivi.—Balmain and
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 10, Water-street, i 2 bags
Saltpetre.—Hall and Jones.
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Exchan;e-street Past, le
e iska Palm Nut Oit.—Edmund Bowes.
At twelve o'clock, at the commercial saleroom, Temple-court, 100
boxes Almonds.—Thomas Parry.
At twelve o'clock, at the commercial saleroom, a quantity of Fruit.—
Ge. Badenach and Son.

♦t twe ve o'clock, at the broklrs' office, 9, Temple-court, a quantity of
Fruit.—Houghton ard Levy.

eg' For particulars see frivertisenant,.

AMUSE,4 ENTS, PUBLIC MEENNGS, &c.

THIS PAY.

Tax ATRE ROYAL—Dramatic Performnn e-7 p.m.

ROYAL AsiparruckraE—Dramatic Performance-7 p.m.
LIVERPOOL ACADEET's EXIIIBIT ON, Po4toffice-place.
ALLSOP'i WACWORK EXHIBITION-10 a m. to 10 p.m.
i"....1T0N HALL, Clayton-squi.re— Gardon Cumming-3 p.m.
LOYAL COLO43BUN —Gener..ll Entertainment-6.30 p.m.
TooLootcm. GARDEN3—Grand .nd Varied Ent,rtainmentr.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The weekly meeting of the West Darby Guar-
dians was held yesterday. The proceedings were
not, however, of the slightest public interest. The
Board have determined to meet at two o'clock in
the afternoor, in future, instead of at ten o'clock in
the morning, as at present.
At the Police Court, yesterday, a 44fortune
teller" Has sent to prison for three mpriths, as a
rogue and vagabond. A full report of fire
case will be found in another column. The reve-
lations are of a curious character, and say but
little for the enlightenment of the nineteenth
century.
A dinner was held in honour of Mr. MeThi, late
sheriff of the city of London, and the well-known
cutler and awiculturist, in the London Tavern, on
Tuesday ❑ight ; and an elegant testimonial, sub-
scribed for by nearly 500 of his friends, was pre-
sented to him, as an acknowledgement of the dis-
tinguished services which he has rendered to the
cause of British agriculture.
The Mutiny in the Indian army seems
to have spread to the British forces in
Canada. We learn by the North Ameri-
can, arrived here yesterday, that the 39th
Regiment, quartered in Montreal, was i❑ a com-
plete state of disorganisation. There were• 29
desertions from that one regiment in one day, and
the s3enes that were being enacted were of a rather

threatening character. The Volunteers had been
called out to " regulate the regulars,'' and the
barracks had been mobbed by about 1,000
men and women ; and this, too, in Mon-
treal, claiming for itself to be the most
fitting place for the seat of government, and now
being the head quarters of the army. The worst,
however, is not told, for we are further informed
that the soldiers of the 39th regiment are almost
in a sta'e of mutiny, smashing barrack furniture,
and setting the authority of their offioers at defiance.
Desertions, insubordina`ion, and Montreal frater-
nization with the Mutineers, if all true, or but only
half tru., lead us to take a somewhat alarming
view of things. No lel,s than 300 men h:ve
deserted from one corps. Men potjare themselves
by wholesa'e. for every man on taking the Queen's
shilling swears that he will be faith'ul to her.
This is not even yet the worst—bad as it is—
and requires an er.ample to be made: Montreal,
or the rowdy portion of it, and that is nearly the
whole of it, is decidedly as disloyal as she wits in
1840, when she issued tint celehriVed manifesto
concerning a peaceable separati,-,n from the mother
country. What were the civic authorities about,
to suffer So tinny men and so many women to mob
the barracks ? The remainder of the regiment
had been packed off to Qiebee in companies, and
they had a chain gang of 18 for the hulks at Ber-
muda, and some o her forty.prisoners. It is to be
hoped that an example will be made of these
mutineers. In connection with the desertions we
may mention that a lieutenant who went in search
of some of them was attacked by a number of
rowdies, and in self-defence ha shot one of them
deal

All this is very disheartening in the present state
of affairs. It, seems we cannot rely upon our
troops in India or Canada ; and, to make the
matter worse, we find great difficulty in raising
recruits. The recruiting movement is a failure ;
the authorities at the Horse Guards are pet-pl.-zed,
and no one has the moral courage to raise the
nation out of this embarrassing position. At the
rate at which the decorated sergeants are now
enlisting, it is certain that the augmentations
required for the existing regiments will scarcely
be obtained; whilst for the fifteen fresh battalions
it will take at least eighteen months to raise them
to their proper complement. We say raise them
to their proper complement, because officers have
already been appointed to four of those corps, and
yet it may safely be asserted that they have not
eight hundred men to divide amongst them,
The limes is out in favour o f the C ;ntinen'al
system of having the whole population trained to
arms. It will next advise conscription. In yes
terday's publication the editor says :—" Two great
objects must be attained if we would give security
to the empire. We must popularise the army and
martialise the population. The gulf must ba nar-
rowed between the soldier and the civilian ; the
notion of hiring a man to fight for us, which sprang
up during the last century, must give place
again to the good old principle of fighting
for ourselves. Why should not the preparati m
of boys and young men for a share in military
duty be begun in our schools and colleges ?
Surely cricket, football, and rowing might be
varied occasionally by drill, in the case of
young men, by practice whir firearms. 14Ivery
city or agricultural district might well have iii com-
pany of volunteers, electing their own officers,
or receiving them by nomination of some compe-
tent authority. Suppose that only 30 000 such
trustworthy soldiers were known to exist through
Great Britain, how much stronger would be the
national confilence at this moment ; and it i 3
not only the immediate access'on of strenLth
which makes such a forLe valuable, but the spit it
which it infuses into the community. Now, if
ever, Eagland requires the services of all classes
and conditions of its people, and can little afford
to loso any of the energy and devotion with which
Heaven has gifted them. We are few in number
considering the extent and population of the
empire, and we are exposed to all that envy can
ow2t and subtlety accomplish. Every year the
numbers which these narrow islands can hold
must lessen in propottion to the populations of
other States,—our rivals, if not our enemies
Placed among nations whom nature allows to be
greater and mightier than us, we are indeed unwise
if we neglect any means by which our hard-won
supremacy may he maintained."
The way in which justice is administered in the
British possessions on the West Coast of Africa is
said to be disgraceful. Some facts of individual
oppression and cruelty, especially affecting the
administration of justice in the colony of Sierra