Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-12 00:00:00

own rule in France

From all sides theitelegraph reports an injurious
influence of the King of
.Sardinia's speech on the
funds. The fall of the Rentes n Parii amounts
to 80c. ; in Vienna, Metalliques- went down lfr.
50e., and the National Loan lfr. '3oe.

The telegraph brings good news from Naples,
An amnesty has been accorded,luidpr which sixty-
one prisoners have been pardoned. Europe will
be glad to learn that among them are Poem and
•Settembrini, who have been released and sent out
of the country.

The reception• by the Pope of General Goyon,
the commander of the French troops Itoine, on
his return to the Holy city, on which occasion
very high-flown compliments were exchanged
between the priest and the:Soldier; who hate each
other with,, hatred that they are not always able
to conceal, makes just now an althost farcical im-
pression by the side of the general discussion in
the press on the .attitude which the,French Govern-
ment has assumed towards the Tope.
M. 'Gladstone will not, it is believed, return
from the lonian Islands in time to take part in the
deliberations of Parliament, which Ministers are
believed to have put off until the beginning of
February. Nevertheless, Mr. Gladstone seems to

to have- completed his inquiry, i

already drawn out his recommendations: to the
Government at. home. But the resignation of Sir
'John-Young,— if he- has resigned, and matters of
more or less importance, may necessitate a further
stay among the lonians. _ _

Among the matters of interest which will be
brought before the next session of parliament, we
may notice that Sir Arthur Elton will move a
series of resolutions, affirming that the House,
considering the law of church rates to be produc-
tive of frequent strife and litigation, deems it
advisable to prohibit the levying of
and to confide the maintenance of the fabric of the

.urch rates

laity ; and that, in order to aiford every Ya'cility
for the free exercise of that zeal and liberality, it
is expedient that, in every parish, the incumbent

and churchwarden's should-foil-if a corporation, with
power, notwithstanding the Mortmain Laws, to
hold property, granted or bequeathed for the pur-
pose of providing for the maintenance of the parish
church. The hon baronet will suggest:that the
authority of the present vestry, in every parish,
with reference to the parish church, shall be trans-
ferred to a new vestry, to be termed the church
vestry, the present vestry retaining its authority
in secular matters ; and that churchwardens should
be chosen exclusively from members of the church
vestry. Mr. Wilson, the Secretary to the Treasury
under _ Lord Palmerston's Administration, will
move for a select committee to inquire into the

state of the funded and unfunded debt, and of the
public income and expenditure, with the view of
devising the best means of discharging in time of
peace the obligations contracted during times of war
and of securing the greatest economy consistent with
efficiency in the public service. Mr. Warren will
submit resolutions expressive of the opinion of the
HouSe as to the principles on which the Queen's
Government in India should henceforth be con-
ducted, with reference to the promotion of
education' .and the adoption of such measures as
could safely be brought into action with a view of
extending Christianity. Mr. H. Berkeley. intends,
on an early day, giving notice of a motion
affirming the necessity of the ballot in the election
of Members of Parliament. Mr. Crawford will
also call the attention of the HOUse to the
practical working of the Merchant Shipping Law
Amendment Act ,of 1853, with a view to the
appointment of a 'select committee to inquire into
the same.

One of the members for Stroud, Mr. G. P. Scrope,
has decliued•to address the electors of that borough,
because " in the present misty and uncertain state
of the political atmosphere, he, has nothing definite
or positive to state to them." He is, he says, a
Parliamentary Reformer, but he will not support
any " extreme or hazardous change in the machi-
nery of our representatiire system." His letter
concludes with an expression of continued confi-
dence in the late ministry.

At the Quarter Sessions of the Hundred of
Salford, a committee of magistrates was appointed
to inquire respecting the establishment and opera-
tion, of Reformatories. •

The County Police;
investigation,
weeks of indefatigable
zeal and searching have been at
length enabled to trace out the friends of the
unfortunate young woman who was found dead in
a pond in Epping Forrest, with. her infant child,
on the sth ultimo ; and therefore, so far as identi-
fication goes, the mystery is solved. But there
still hangs over the.case the presumption that both
the deceased were wilfully murdered by some
third 'party ; and upon this the •coroner's
found a verdict
Wilful murder against some person _or
persons unknown." The identification, indeed; seems
perfect. The unfortunate young .woman appears
to have been the step-daughter of Robert Oswell,
the keeper of the Enfield Lock, on the River Lea.
Her name was Emma Morgan, and her • age 22.
He mother resides with her second husband,
Robert Oswell, at Enfield ; .but, from their state-
ment it seems the deceased was in the service of
Mr. Davies, at 4, :Northumberland-park, Totten-
ham. She had been in Mr. Davis's service two
years and a half, and she left in last July. She
was then .enceinte and was subsequently confined,
in the Edmonton Union, of a male child, and she
left the union on the 20th of August.
According to our advices from Ireland, the mail
contract for the service betvieen London and
Dublin has been at length signed by all the parties
concerned, and nothing now 'remains hut the com-
pletion of the arrangements to carry it into effect.
As a preliminary step a special meeting of the
proprietors .of the City ,of Steampacket
Company will he held on Saturday next to re-
ceive the report of the. directors. It would also
appear that the Anti-Phcenix crusade is not yet
over. A respectable farmer, one Dennis
Shea, residing about three miles

fortni

of Macro3m, has been captured, and is now
an inmate of Cork gaol, on suspicion of
being a member of a secret society. The authori-
ties, it appear, will not permit any communication
between their new prisoner and, his friends. In
Belfast, according to the _Deciliter. of ,Ulsier,
" Barney Boyle, of Barrack-street, still continues
the last of the, captured, and no formal examination
of him has taken place as yet. We hear that ano-
ther person named M'Shane, said to be a leader
among the regenerators, is urgently wanted.' by
Head Constable Madders, but that he knows
it, anti prudently declines the honour intended
for him by keeping, •out of the way,
not unaccompanied by two or three who
has also conic to
can give him the
our • knowledge that collections are being taken
up, more or less secretly,• in the mills and else-
where, to provide for the defence of the incar-
cerated, And for the maintenance of their families
while they lie in prison. Instances are reported
in which pencils who refused to subscribe for such
purposes have been threatened. and anuoyed by
their fallow workers. It is incumbent upon the

Proprietors of mannfactories at once to put a stop
to so shameful a system." ; These statements, our
reader's should remember, are made by parties
very much. opposed to:the D.,-rby Government.
A Belfast paper, in ad.vocating what it calls the
short sea passage between. that city' and Donag-
hadee, in Scotland, says : are,enabled to lay
before our readers some information upon this
subject, from a source the most authentic, and
eairtilty proppsp
every reliance may be placed upon the following
facts. The Acl
S4O .expend from

L 15,000 to LlB,OOO upon the harbour of Portpatrick
—first, in excavating a basin ; and, secondly, in

dredging a channel. The present channel will not
admit, nor the present basin accommodate, steam
vessels of considerable•draught., The proposition
is, to excavate a basin which will enable vessels
of 150 feetiii length, 21 feet beam,' and- seven feet
draught to turn and lie safely, within, it... A' Pier
wilLbe built for landing, passengers and Mails.
Between;the, present and the contemplated pier
there are some considordble rocks; which act
.as a break Water and it is between these
rocks and the old pier that the Channel is to
be dredged. That channel it is intended to have
ten feet in depth below low water mark. At Donag-
hadee, the chief operation to be performed will be
that of dredging the interior of the harbour, and a
sum of £lO,OOO has been proposed for this purpose
by-the Admiralty, and agreed to by the Lords of
the-Treasury. These being the facts in reference
to the Government, we need not say how absurd it
_is to attempt to re-open the question. The 'matter
is fixed and determined on, and very properly so;'

We give the particulars of two innideis Which
were -perpetrated- -—A woman, named
Black, has been murdered by her husband, who
has not yet been apprehended. The circumstances
of the crime are,of, the, most atrocious kind; and
show singular ferbeity and coolness on the part of
the murderer. The corpse of a gentleman' which
Hamiltonhas been identified as that of Mr. Ailing-
ham, son otit Dublin wine -merchant, has been found
in a canal, with it-heavy weight attached_ to the
neck. The body was, discovered by the police,
who were engaged - -in • diagging the canal
for a uirl who had been accidentally
drowned in it. The state of the remains shows
that it must -have- lain . there about three weeks ;
and a little silver and some keys were found on

the corpse. The coroner's jury have returned a
verdict that Mr. Alliugham was found drowned.

From a report of the first public examination of
the men charged with the murder of the game-
keeper. at Bishop Burton, we learn that the two
wounded watchers gave evidence, and the result
was that George Smith, who had been previously
admitted to bail, was finally discharged, and the
other prisoners were remanded, though Thomas
Robson was admitted to bail.

Two women, Maria Spooner the elder, and
Maria Spooner the younger, have been committed
on a charge of the wilful murder of the new-born
infant of the younger Spooner, by the Manchester
Coroner. They are at present at Kirkdale, and
will stand their trial at the ensuing assizes.
We gave the melancholy particulars of the fall
of a house in Great George-street, whereby seve-
ral persons were killed, and a number seriously
wounded.

V OCCOIII

ais fuss that

THE NORTHERN_ TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1859

thing of the kind ? It may be all very true, as
they also tell us, " that the shortest route having
once been adopted, must be continued ; and that
English merchants will call for more rapid postal
intercourse with America, and that they are
already doing so." • But it -has yet to be shown
that via Galway is, practically, the shortest route.
I)oubtless it is‘the shortest route for. Ireland ; but

ere that route can reach England, it has not only
a pretty long stretch of Irish land travel to extend
over, but the Irish channel to cross. And this of

necessity involves transhipments, and consequent
delays, which make the route, as regards for
England, very much the same, in pdint of time, as
tilat, via• Liverpool—even for postal intercourse ;
while for passenger and goods traffic, it necessi-
tates so many , changes, and so much knocking
about, ere any point of destination in England can
be reached, that it is positively, upon the whole, a
much loss desirable route by Galway, for English
purposes, than Liverpool is.

The whole matter of this Galway line, in short,
is very much, in many of its aspects, a sham and, a
delusion. The very fact of its being puffed• off so
much, as it,is, would of itself be enough to excite
suspicion. But when one deliberately examines

its claims, they are found to fall far short of what
is pretended, —when one carefully weighs them in
the balance, they are certainly ascertained to be
most unquestionably wanting. They _ say, that

" no Government is likely or willing to attempt to
pass by such an undertaking as the Galway line."
But we are persuaded that no Government will
ever think of doing for such an undertaking at
Galway what it would not do for a similar one at

Liverpool, at Bristol, at Southampton, or even at

Glasgow

THE Irish Government are following up the
inquisition they have instituted into the preva-
lence of Secret Societies, their character and their
objects, with untiring energy. And although the
more that is known of these confederacies, and the
more that is ascertained of the confederates them-
selves, the less cause would there seem to be for

any great alarm on their account, yet it is quitc

impossible to say what might have been the conse-
quence,—what kind or what extent Nof mischief
might have been perpetrated, had they not
received the check which fortunately, and in good
time, they have done, through the vigilance of the
Executive.

The disaffected on both sides of the channel
have been trying to produce the persuasion, that
Government have treated the matter too seriously,
—that the affair was contemptible, and ought to
have been treated accordingly,—for, if let alone,
that it would 'have died out of its own accord.
But there is nothing whatever to favour such:a
conclusion as this. The Government receives
information, on oath, that such Societies are in
existence—that they are designed to carry out
treasonable objects—and that such and such
persons are members of one or more of them. The
matter, therefore, was forced upon them. They
had no alternative but to sift the case. And• one
of the first duties they necessarily had to dis-
charge, was to arrest those whose names were
communicated to them, as persons charged with
violating the law, and conspiring to produce still
further and more mischievous violations of the
law. Certainly the Government •would have
been highly culpable, had they turned a
deaf ear to such representations as were
made to them. However foolish an affair
it might seem to be, it was one fraught with
so much mischief, and involving such positive dis-
regard of all moral and legal obligations, on the
part of the accused, that the authorities would
have been guilty of a sad dereliction of duty, had
they refused to look into it. And having taken it
up, as in duty they were bound to do, and finding
that it embraced very treasonable designs, a
thorough examination into which was important
for their entire suppression, root and branch, and
which could only be effectually accomplished, in
the first instance, `by a private procedure, they
were not only justified, we humbly conceive, in
adopting such a course, but the ends of justice
would most likely have been defeated had they
adopted any other.

It does not at all alter the case that the Society
to which the prisoners belong is found to be neither
serious nor formidable, either in its character or its
constitution. Nor are we at all surprised to see it
stated, that " the station in society and ages of the
several persons already arrested evidence two mat-.

ters of great importance,—namely, the personal
meanness and ob.scurity- of the general members,
and their accessibility to external and factious
influence, owing to their want of experience and to
that enthusiasm which belongs to youth, and is
sure to be, in most cases, unaccompanied by discre-
tion." We have ourselves been of opinion, from
the first, that it might be found so, and have
expressed ourselves to that effect. One may be
glad to find that it is so. But it does not render
it any the less necessary that the parties should be
brought to account for their illegal and mischievous
conduct. The Club to which they belonged, we
are further told, " appears to be eschewed alike by
• men of any position in society and by almost all
but silly youths or overgrown boys of the mani-
kin bent, who would be men, and even heroes or
martyrs, before their time, without ever looking
before they leaped, calculating consequences, or
considering the difficulties to be surmounted
before the Phccnix or resurrection, or rather insur-
gent theory could be realised." This shows that
there is no lack of common sense, as well as of
loyal and constitutional feeling, among the "men
of any position in society" in the places where
these Clubs are established. But it argues
nothing whatever in favour of treasonable
despisers and breakers of the law being allowed to
carry on their mischievous vagaries with impunity,
just because they happen, in some instances, to be
"but silly youtbs, or overgrown boys of the
manikin bent."

There is one circumstance which, if it can be
relied upon as true,. is very satisfactory and
hopeful,—that, namely, of the Romanist clergy-
continuing to exhort their flocks to ,discountenance
all Secret Societies. It is stated that' at' Athlone,
on New Year's Day, after the celebration a Mass,
the Venerable Archdeacon O'REILLY .agai4

warned the congregation against having anything

to do, with Secret Societies, pointing out to them
the evil consequences which were certain to result
from such illegal confederacies—denouncing them
as opposed to the laws of God and man, and
referring to the arrests made as instances of
,the
danger which attend' those who would connect
themselves with Secret Associations." The account
adds, that his words appeared to make a deep
impression on those who heard. him. And we
would fain hope that thus the' Clergy of the
Church of Rome generally may be enabled 'to

exert their influence towards the maintenance of
peace and good_ order, of respect for: the taw, and
attachment to authentic .rule,' among .the Irish

people

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

CRESCENT CHAPEL LITERARY SOCIETY.—This society
heldits usualweekly meeting ou Wednesday evening, last, in
the school-rooms, William Hetity-street, 'when Mr. Josiah
Smith -read an essay entitled, «A Glance at the public
career of Lord Paltnerston," in which' he defended the
gemeral policy of the noble lord.
_ _

-
ALARM OF FlRE.—Yesterday morning, a repot reached
the fire station in Hatton-garden, , that a shop in
Richmond-street, was on fire. It appears that the shop
was not regularly occupied, but same one having been in
and using naptha, an explosion occurred from the same.
Considerable damage is done to the property, but no one
is 'hint.

BLUE COAT 110SPITAL.—We learn that a special ser-
vice will be held in St. Peter's Church, to-morrow, at 11
o'clock, in' thankful commemoration of the 150th anni-
versary of the foundatioß of this institution, and that the
Lord Bishop of the Diocese will preach on the occasion.
The Mayor will be present, and the trustees and the
friends of this old-established charity::Will assemble at the
Town-hall, and accompany him to chtirch.,.
EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, 126, --top—of- Mount
Pleasant. —Weekly Report.---Eye Department : New
patients admitted in the week ending January g,

:e-ceived
New

uts prescribed for, and who— hair(
assistance, 427. Ear Department
admitted;in the week ending January 8,
)rescribed for, and who have received sur-

patients

gical- assistance, 149. Consulting " Surgeon ; Hugh
Neill, Esq. Surgeons : Johh Poole, Esq.,. Dr. .Hibbert
Taylor, and, Dr. Nevins. Assistant-Surgeon:. Thomas
Bickerton, Ng. Treasurer : J. G. Livingston, .Esq.

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS CO3I3IITTE/
nightly meeting of this Committee was I
Mr. Bairstow in the chair. The other members present,
were—Messrs. Jackson, Owen, Cook, Churchwarden
Cropper, Williams, Syred, Turner, Chesney, Scott. 111-r:
Coates, the master, reported that the number 'of children
in the school the last fUrtnight, was 475 boys, and. 445
girls, making a total of 920. Discharged and sent to
friends during the fortnight, 6 boys and died
girl, placed in service
.6 boys and- 5 girls, leaving in the
establishment 463 boys, and 429 girls, total 892, includ-

The usual fort
'd yesterday

in,g.52 in the infirma:
character.

The business ivas of .a
formal

BRADFORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.--At a meeting of
the council of this chamber, on MOnday, Mr- H. W.
Ripley, the president, in the chair, Mr. John Rand, of
Bradford, and Mr. William Morris, of Triangle, near
Halifax, appeared as a deputation from the worsted
district, to impress upon the council the necessity of
taking active steps to encourage the increase of the supply
of wool. A resolution, passed at the quarterly meeting of
the worsted committee, last week, at Halifax, stated that
measures to increase the growth of wool, as well as to im-
prove its quality, were of urgent cpsequence, especially

as so many facilities were now offering themselves for this
purpose, in the pacification of India, and the satisfactory
intercourse established with China and Japan. .Both Mr.
Rand and Mr. Morris urged the chamber to take up the
question. Mr. John Whitworth, of Halifax, introduced
the question in a speech of great length, concluding by
proposing a resolution that, at the annual meeting of the
chamber, on Monday next, a committee be appointed to
form an association for the purpose of encouraging the
growth of wool. The Mayor of Bradford seconded the
motion. Mt. Alderman-Mitchell and ,Mr. T. Salt both
urged that the association, if formed, should confine its
province simply to imparting information and stimulating
the growers of wool to give an increased supply. This
view met with general concurrence. The resolution was
carried unanimously.

following inquests :—On the 13,34 of Luke Papen, who
was engaged• in Mr. Macfie's sugar-house, who cut his
throat, as reported in our paper of yesterday. The wife
of the deceased stated that, about a month since, he went
to take the Sacrament at the German Church, Sir
Thomas's Buildings, and that since then his mind
has gone quite astray, and he hardly ever
ceased talking on religious subjects'; in fact he got quite
insane on these matters, and, whilst so, cut his throat.
Verdict':_ " Temporary insanity." On the body of Wm.
Bell, 36 years of age, who was a porter at the Wanoing

station of the London and North Western Railwai,.ana
who dropped suddenly dead, whilst engaged at his work.
Verdict : " Died of natural causes, by the visitation of God."
On the body of Anne Jane M'Donnell, 32 years old, who
resided in Prince Edwin-street. On Sunday, the deceased
and her husband went out and deliberately got drunk,
and, whilst in a state of beastly intoxication, it is
supposed, she got a fall in her own cellar, . and
died from the effects of the injuries. Verdict, "Accidental
death." On the body of a child, named Margaret
Jane Rosborough, nine months old, that died in conse-
quence of injuries received by her clothes catching fire.
Verdict, " Accidentally burnt." On the body of F. Gallagher,
26 years of age, who lived in Ford-street. The deceased
was addicted to drinking and died suddenly, and from
the evidence of Surgeon R. J. Campion, who made a
post-mortem examination of the body, it appeared that
death was the result of congestion of the brain, brought
on by excessive drinking. Verdict accordingly.
A SEA TIGER.—WONDERFUL NATURAL CURIOSITY.—
A sea or marine tiger,- is the name—though why or
wherefore we know not given to an animal—a real live
animal—now exhibiting at 30, Elliott-street. Yesterday,
along with many scientific gentlemen, and some connected
with natural history, and a host of others, we had a long
and interesting view of this most extraordinary and at pre-
sent very unaccounted for animal. We have seen so many
strange things done up after natural fashion and en mfinil

0 mucu
humbug practised successfully, that we went more for the
purpose of exposing what "we considered an impOsition,
than recording a great natural wonder. __We were, how-
ever, more than mistaken—we were truly astonished—

.017 cbounku,:.l2 wt!ttl, NVt saw. w e can nanny attempt
to describe this amphibious semi-fish, semi-tiger ; but, as
best we can, it resembles nothing that we know, of
animals, partaking of that name. It is a sort of
combination of several animals. The head and
neck resemble a seal, but the mouth and eyes are differ-
ent—the eyes particularly are remarkable, and frequently
brilliant, and the animal possesses the faculty of looking
in all directions without turning the head. It has no
ears, but it seems it hears through two curiously formed
slits in the upper lip, which also act as breathing
apertures. The mouth is not large, but very strong, and
the jaws are formed with curious whiskers of the feline
race. The interior of the mouth presents formidable
rows of ivory-white teeth, and, from ,the construction
of the palate and glands, we should say the animal is
warm-blooded. The face—if we may call it so—

is intelligent, and this is manifest by the sagacity

displayed by the animal .It is about eleven feet long,
anal of great girth, the tail is a double split fan like a
salMon, with a dwarf tail, between the seperation of the
fans, which are horozontal and of great power. There
are two fins, under what may be called the shoulders, and
the extremities of these are very like human hands, covered
by unfingered gloves. The weight of this strange and quite
new (to our naturalists) animal, is about 8 cwt., but it
is as. nimble as an eel. The skin is of a peculiarly
handsome colour, and to say truly, the intelligent face
of this nondescript, is quite interesting.. It lies in a large
wooden oblong vessel, in about two feet of water, and
the most astonishing thing about 'it is, that at
the command of the keeper, it goes through
a variety of wonderful evolutions, and actually emits
sounds resembling the words " mamma " and " papa."
We were at first impressed with the notion that it was a
skin, done up with a boy inside, but this soon vanished, and
we believe it is one of the most astonishing things ever seen
—one of the things that exist beyond the comprehension of
our philosophy. It lives in and out of water. Its food is
fish, of which it takes about 401bs daily. It is a bona
fide lucis natucara of an unknown description, and all
we can say to day about it is the above ; but, we may
add, that all who wish to see an extraordinary freak of
nature, should see this at once; and we promise they will
thank us for pointing it out to their notice.
MR. J. R. SMITH'S PANORAMIC TOUR OF EUROPE.—
One of the finest panoramic exhibitions We have ever
seen in Liverpool is the " Tour of Europe," by, Mr. J.
R. Smith, at present being exhibited in the Teutonic
Hall, Lime-street. Mr. Smith is well known to the
public as the artist of, we believe, the, first panoramic
exhibition of the Mississippi and American scenery. The
present exhibition opens with the arrival of the tourist at
Rouen, of which there are several fine views given, from
which we proceed to Paris, whose streets, gardens,
places, palaces, and river, are shown to the spectator