Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-10 00:00:00

THE IN ORTITERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1857,

SOCIETY.

THE IRISH GOVERNMENT AND THE ORANGE

Toe following is an extract from a letter addressed to
the Marquis of Londonderry, Lord Lieutenant of the
county of Down, by the Lord Chancellor. It has been
sent for publication o the Northern Trrla;g :
" In reference generally to appointments to the com-
mission of the peace for the county of Down and some
other counties in the north cf Ireland, I feel obliged by
recent events to introduce conditions which seem to me
imperatively called for, with the view to the maintenance
of public teaequility. Your ;,ordship is no doubt well
aware of the science of turbulence and riotous outbreaks
which have so long prevailed in the town of Belfist.
Whatever party may have been to blame for the acts which
more immediately led to these disgraceful tumults,
it is vary manifest that they have sprung from
party feeling, excited on occurrence of certain
anniversaries which for years have been made
the occasion of irritating dem nistrations, too often
attended by violation of the public peace, and dangerous,
sometimes fatal, party co-,flirts. The Orange Society is
mainly instrumental in keeping up this excitement, and
notwithstanding the proceedings respecting that associa-
tion which are now a matter of history, and in consequence
of which it was supposed that it would have been finally
dissolved, it still appears to remain an extensively or-
ganised body, with but some changes of system and rules
under which it is alleged to be secure from any legal
prosecution. However that may be, as it is manifest that
the existence of this society and the conduct of many of
those who belong to it, tend to keep up through large
districts of the North a spirit of bitter and vicious hos-
tility among large classes of Hoe Maj=esty's subjects, and to
pr troke a violent animosity and aggression, it is
impossible rightly to regard an association such
as this as one 'which ought to receive countenance
from any in authority who are responsible for
the preservation of the public peace; and some
individuals of rank and sta ion who hold her Majesty's
commission, may think they can reconcile the obligations
of that offi u 3 with the continuing membership with Orange
society. It does appear to me that the interests of the
public at least in.the north of Ireland, now require that
no sulh encouragement should be 2,4vee to this society by
the appointment of any gentleman to the commission who
is, or intends to become, a member of it, intending the rule
to be of general application. I think it right to ask every
gentleman the assurance that he is not nor while he owns
the commission of the peace will, become a member of the
Orange Society. I think it right to inform your Lordship,
that in expressing the foregoing opinions and determina-
tion, I do so with the entire concurrence of his Excellency
the Lord Lieutenant.

BOYS' CLOTEIING lr ADE.WITH GREAT TASTE, at LEWIS an

COMPANY'S, Ranelagh street.

Our last advices, the Hon. James A Harding, speaker
of the Legislltivs Assembly of New Brunswick, was in
Toronto on business matters pending between the
Governmen's of Canada and of that Province.

Recently, in Pike county, Alabama, thirty-seven persons
were poison, d, six of whom are dead. A negro cook
mixed arsenic with the food of The family at the instigation
of a Hungarian named Cosknia. Thomas Frazell, the
over'eer's wife, two children, Mrs. Claud and Frazell's
grand-daughter were dead, and the others in a critical
condition. The negro woman was burnt, and Cosknia
would undergo the same fate.

A TH lEF APPREHENDED PROM HIS PHOTOGRAPH.—A.
cireumsta ice has just occurred which shows the service
that ph, tog-ephy may tender in the art of thief-taking. A
man named George Sanderson was apprehended for house-
brenkinz, at Tyldesley, on th 3 26.11 ult., and was remanded
to he brought before the magistrates at Lei4h, on the
following. Monday. On the Saturday night, however, he
escaped from the lockups, and was rot heard of until
Tuesday last, when police cons'able Bent, of the county
cot s'abu!ary, who had never seen the min, went to his
fathtea house, ani there found a photographic portrait of
him. By the ai lof this, and some other descripti,in as to
size, &e., he traled the delircpent to Warrington,
and thence to Liverpool, where be saw him standing near
the Sailo-s' Home, in comp ny ' with some wel'-known
Manchester thieves. Wipn apprehended and charged
wti his off.nce he affected to be ignorant of it ; but
acknowledged his identity when on the way to Leigh.

THE PitNSW AT MALTA.—It is well known that in
Malta, thoug a British c ,lony, the Roman Church has
.the pre-eminerce by law. Protestantism is merely tole-
rated. The affairs of the island are transacted by a counei;
exclusively Roman Catholic. Of eight members which
carapace th's council at present, three are priests. Mr. Secre-
tary L ,bouchere has intimated that henceforth ecclesias-
tical persons must be rendered ineli.tible to sit in her
Majesty's counel, where tpon the heal orgin of the Jesuits
characterises the order as an invasion of the rizhts of pro-
tua-mwea as 1.. woull roretuty attest the pi test ;, a
large and infl tential portion of the community, of an im-
portant right as citizens, possessirg, as they do. ore third
of the real prop -rty of the islands of Malta and Gaz)."
There is a fact t open the eyes. even of lay Roman
Catholiea. The priests are proprietors of the third of Malta,
and yet they are net satisfied unless they have a large share
in the government. It is not for nothi; g that priests
interfere in pal tics in any country. In Ireland, however,
the pretence is set up that it is for the protection of their
flocks.

Ova RAILWAY EXPENDITURZ —There is something
sta-t•ing in the fact that in little more ihin a quarter of a
century, a full third of the amount of the capital Of the
debt has been exnencled nil about 10,000 miles of railway.
The length is about half the di rmeter of the globe, and
exceels that of a dozen of the longest rivers in Europe.
Tt e grandeur of figures is to be seen in individaal lines as
w‘ll as in the general system. The capital of the North
Western is over three-and-thirty million=, an.! its annual
revenue is about a third of its capital. Its servants are
more numerous than some armies that have fought decisive
b tttles ; they amount to thirteen thousand. The stations
or, this single line are about three hundred and fifq.
[Towards of two hundred thousand tr ains, annually, convey,
(i I rimuti numbers) ten milions of pavengers, and ruu
over, in the time, nearly as many millions of mile..
Ace tun to each passe.nzer the number of miles tra-
versed by him, the sum total to all, still annually, is two
hun'lrel xnd fo-ty-two milli ins. This comon), has int r-
chinged by traffil ill sixty- me railways, and five million
tons of goods and coes find an easy and rapid conveyance
that would hive astounded the west countryman, who
thought that roads were only of uio for the labming
wain I—Atheneum.

Tea AMERICtN INIONETtRY CRIS'S AND VIE ENGLISH
MOSEY aletticer.—ln the Times ciiy article it is stated
that the trade of this country with the United States re-
presents an annual total of £40,000,000, and it is impassi-
ble for any financial trouble to occur on one side without
its being deeply felt on the other. A panic in New York,
therefve, which sends the rate of discount to a point
ranging between 20 and .50 par cent, and which is con-
tinued with intensity for five or six weeks, must necessarily
subject us to severe temporary pressure. For more than
a month past not only has every payment due to us from
America been so far as possible suspended but special
credits have been eagerly made use of. Calls on railway
stocks, largely he'd, have been announced In one case,
a loan for an amount approaching a quarter of a million,
and draughts authorised foe the purchase of securities by
English capitalists, temp•ed by a fall in prices, from which
they conceive there cannot fail to be an early reaction. It
is scarcely too much to assume that, in this way, a million
or a million and a half ste ding has been already withheld
or absoe)ed fr)m us that would otherwise have been in our
possession at this very moment, and the prospect is that
the prccess will go on for some time longer.
Tst CHOLEEA.— We know now what class of persons
will furnish by far the greater number of victims to
cholera, and on whit street—it may aim( st ba said on whit
house—it will descend. The season at which its ap-
pearance may be expected is a sutject of somewhat less
certainty ; but the unimportant doubt to which ix is open
cannot be supposed to affect the necessity of our prec tu-
lions. On one occasion, after maeiresting itself at Ham-
burg in Septembea, it has been among us in November;
while, on others, it has been held in check for a time by
the early edvene ef a cold season, only to break out at the
beginning of the following sainmer. We cannot predict
which precedent will be followed now, but we know that
the disease will come; and we can ley our fingers, without
the slightest liability to error, on the weak places which
it will assail and invest. Were any experienced officer
of health to go, for instance, through Manchester, he
could ma k out every squ .re yard of space on which t•e
raise-..se will probably settle, and trace the course which it
will tnke as soon as the congenial season gives the sigeal
for its ding. If such knowledge as this had been im-
p <rt d to us without power of averting the danger we must
foresee it is hardly possible that a greater curse could have
desceFde l upon man. Si far, howere,, is this t rrible
sate of impotent antic'pation from lieing our real con-
dition, that j'ist as surely as we know %hen the cholera
will burst forth from its smouldering ashes aid where it
rill make its most destructive ravage, so surely we kbow
how to check i.s appearance in some quarters and mitigate
its force in all ; and the precautions wlach we may adopt
for thin purpose will not be siperfluou., if the visitation
which we apprehend should be withheld, inasmuch as they
will bar the progress of other diseases which are Lever
absent from among ur, and increase the moral as well as
the physical wiltbeing otsociety.—Afanchester Guardian

At LEWIS & OMPA IY'S, Ranelsgh-street,
BOYS are CLOTHED tram the •goa of Six to Tgonty years.