Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-28 00:00:00

NERVOUS DEBILITY.

DR. ROBERT,1:11110D1E, Member of the
Royal College of Surge, ns London, Edinburgh}
and Paris, author of " I he Guardian of Health," and several medical
works en physical disqualifications, conti nes to bo consulted as
usual at his residence, 72, RuDNEY STBEET. LIVERPOOL, on all
diseases arising from imprudence and excess; also, nervous debility,
involuntary hi fishing, affection of mind and memory, general lan-
gour, consumptive symptoms, and that ndmerous class of disorders
acquired during the critical passage from youth to manhood, which
requires skilful ind confic'ential medical treatment, such as infec-
tion or the effect of climate, which produces misery in youth, degra-
dation in manhood, end prema'ure decay of all stages of life. Dr,
R. J. BRODIE has, after intense study and deep research. ditcovered
a most wonderful remedy for the effectual eradication of the above
complaint; no matter of how virulent a character and how long
standing.
Dr. ROBERT FRODIE is the only practitioner who is in pos.essiod
of these inva'uab'e remedies which, combined with his extensive
practice and acknowledged skill, is the enlOnedical man the afflicted
can apply to with safety and certainty of cure, as his treatment is based
on that pursued by hint when physician to the Hospital Venerien,
Paris ,&c.
Country patients, by forwarding £l, wi'l receive such advice and
medicines as will in trust eases effect a cure. Minute detail of cases
necessary. The u most secrecy may be relied on, and one personal
interview is advisable in all ca: es.
Hours of Attendance from Ten In the Mornirg till Three, and
Five till Nine in the Evenirg ; en Sundays, from Eleven till Two.

OBSERVE-i 2, RuDIVEi-STREET.

Private entrance to the Surgery, 43, Knight-street, near Berry-street

ascending outwards by the coast of the Gst:lf of
Bothnia. Since the invasion of Sweden, it has
carried off 5,000 persons. The Madrid ;journals
express disapprobation at the adjournment of the
Cortes, and regard it as preliminary to a dissolution.
The Sardinian Parliament has been dissolved, and
the new election will take place on the 15th proximo.
The city of Washington arrived last night with
New York dates to the 15th instant, The news is
of a more favourable character.

THE temporary stoppage of the 'Liverpool
Borough Bank, which was publicly announced
in the NORTHERN TIMES of yesterday, would be
an affair of very little importance under ordinary
circumstances. We have no banking facilities
to spare, it is true ; but the most cautious
management of a large monetary establishment,
whose business must, far the .most part, be con-
nected with ships and imported ,produce, cannot
avert the great changes in market values, which
such descriptions of property must of necessity
be subject to from time to time, and correspond-
ing vicissitudes will follow risks. These depre-
ciations, fatal as they must be to the steady
business profits- of banking houses generally,
have, however, been most grieviously increased
in the present instance, by -the very sudden and
unprecedented severity of the Bank of England's
action. The terror of the Bank screw, which
pervaded the commercial world during the whole
of August, and in the early part of September,
caused a very considerrble depreciation in the
value of nearly all kinds of mercantile property
and its subsequent application, coupled with the
intensity of the money panic in America, pro-
duced a still further and more serious deprecia-
tion of prices, while the general aspect of affairs
forbid all hope of speedy relief. Under these
circumstances, those Banks which felt the
pressure with any unusual degree of severity,
acted wisely in succumbing in due time , and we
think that the Directors of the Liverpool Borough
Bank are entitled to the thanks of the merchants
and traders of this town, for having cut short for
the moment a doubtful career, before all had
been endangered in a vain effort to regain a lost
position.

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WEDNESDA Y, OCTOBER 28, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The Monetary. horizon is at present rather
*loaded. Yesterday, it was announced that
Borough Bank of this town had suspended pay-
ment, and it is now rumoured that another bank-
ing institution in Liverpool will find it necessary
to close its doors also. The Bank of England has
granted aid-to the former, hut we alio -not-yet- in a
position to state whether the application of. the
latter for assistance has been successful. :It was
intimated at an early hour yesterday that-the elsefts
of the Belfast Northern
,Banking Company, which
had heretofore been paid by the Borough-Bank,
would be honoured by the Bank of Liverpool,: and
that the Borough Bank would resume on !Friday,
and pay out all -their deposits, preparatory to wind-
ing-up. lnethe meantime, the demand for money
increases, and, notwithstanding the glorious news
respecting the fell of Delhi, the funds are declining.
For other descriptions of securities there is little
or no demand, and the settlement, we are afraid,
will not peas off without some severe losses, and a
Dumber of suspensions in consequence. On the
other hand, the Continental money markets are not
-se stringent as they were a few days ago. ;In
France, accommodation can be obtained as low as
7 per cent, and at Hamburgh, the bank rate of.in-
terest has fallen from 9 to 8 per cent. The advice&
from America are, on the whole, deemed more
favourable than otherwise, as it is expected -that the'
suspension of cash payments will ultimately seffect-
some good.
The additional telegraphic despatches from
India, which -we published this morning confirm
the intelligence of the fall of Delhi. The British
troops attacked :the city on the 14th of .s._;eptember,
and on the 20th Delhi was in our complete posses
sion. On the former date it was assaulted, and
positions secured at one or two of the gates. -From
these our heavy artElery was brought to bear upon.
the city, and for- five days aegradual advance was
made. The -fighting must have been severe, forthe
ground was evidently disputed inch by inch. Oue
account stays x that the King escaped in female
attire; another reports him to have been taken. It
would•appear that the troops entered the breach
near the Cashmeragate, without serious opposition.;
advancing along the ramparts to the Cabul gate,
where resistance was very obstinate, and our loss
severe, and that we were advancing gradually
within the city. -The enemy seemed retiring over-
the bridge, and the guns were turned on them. The
news from Bombay.by the Pekin confirmed the in-
telligence per the Nubia, adding that D dhi was '
completely in our possession on the 20th Septem-
ber (the anniversary of the battle of the Alma 9 ;
the loss on both sides very, heavy, but particulars
not known; while from another quarter, Vienna, we
learn that Delhi was attae,kect, on the ltth, and
taken on the 2.0. b, .and that the English remained
masters of the whole. city. The latter, abech was
communicated by the Austrian Government, stated
that "the :King and his two sons fled in female;
and the women in male, disguise;" and that later
accounts -stated that the King had been taken. It
also announced the amount of our loss as 40 offi-
cers and 6100 -soldiers. killed and wounded—thus
corroborating the tidings communicated to the
Foreign-office. The news from Cawnpore and
Lucknovv is satisfactory- • Gen. Outram had j lined
Havelock at4Cawnpore, and on the 19th of Sept.
their united forces crossed the Ganges without
any opposition, with the intention of marching to
the relief -of -Luck now. At leacknow itself all was
reported well. Mr. Colvin, the present governor,
had died at Agra. At Gaya a party of Sikhs hal
been oueenenceavred by the insurgents, and that
city was plundered. The whits of the north-east
frontier was in a disturbed state. By another
despatch, forwarded to the Board of Control from
Calcutta, we learn .that the cerarnunications between
Dehree and Benares had been eat off by the ma.i-
neere of the itaroglaur battalions.,; that the Dina-
pore mutineers had got to Nagoole, and that the
50th Native Infantry, stationed there had mutioiecl,
but the officers were believed to be safe. The
telegraph confirms theetatements reepecting Have-
lock's and Outrana's.movemente. The Indore and
Mhow mutineers, disregarding Seindiah's opposi-
tion, were at Dholeporte on their march to Agra.
The garrison there wasevell on the. 1211 September,
but an attack was expected from the Gwalior con-
tingent.. Tad news from the native-States must be
considered bad. At Mundisore many -.thousands
of followers had been collected for the King of
Delhi The post of Dhar had been saied.by the
rebels, and ltutlam was believed to have been takes.
Western Malwa was greatly disturbed, as was also
Itajpootana by the Joudpore mutineere. The
Punjaub and cis-Suthj Stet esavere, quiet.
The local news this morning is not of ~much
interest. A number of 'Ward eueetings were held
last.r.iglit, ample reports of which will be foiend in
another column. At the Court-of ,Paesaee, yeaster-
day,..a.case of a peculiar nature .was adjudicated
upor. A women of questionable character had
purchased a laree amount of goods from Mr
Hughes, cabinet-maker, Bold-street. 'She agreed
to pay 4Ge. a week until the amount was liquidated.
Thesedustalments she paid every,week she;
was warned out of her house by the,poliee. .Having',
to obey, the-mandate of the civic authoritie,s forth- •
with, she. requested Hughes to takebeek the goods
until she could obtain another house. This was
done, but when the lady had found a real:len:3e to
her liking, Mr. Hughes refused to deliver' up the
goods;, return any of the money he had received, or
have anythiog to do with the unfortunate .won an.
Under these eireurnetances, she brought -an action
against him, ap the jury returned a verdict
for the plaintiff,- damagee, 08i Mr. Hughes
is in the habit, according to his own confession, of
supplying, disreputable females with furniture.
Of domestic news, this morning, there is not -the
least ieem of perscual interest.
The intelligence from abroad this morning is of,
an intereatine description. A Vienna letter in the
Augsburg .oa,zeae, states that an intimation has;
been made to the Russian .ambassador that the
Austrian government consikeed the recent resolu-
tion of the Russian government to open only three
ports in the Black Sea to European commerce, not
in aecorlanee with the treaty eef ,Paris relative to
the Black Sea A -Vienna letter in the Bourse
Gazette, of Berlin, says that the policy of Prussia
relative to the Principalities, bas lately undergone
a very essential modification, and it is
very probable that in the conference
of Paris, Prussia will vote against the urs&on. Too
much importance is, moreover, attached to the
question of the majority in this affair. The Coc-
gress cannot decide by m.jority of votes that a
right belonging to Turkey does not belong to her;
and should the six otb3r persons be in favour of
the union, the refusal of Turkey alone wilt be
sufficient to prevent the union's taking place..
The Independence writes that the French govern-
ment hebitatea about su:..porting the erection
of the Principalities into et, kingdom ; an I
that it is sot, after all, committed on
the question of the union The cholera has
beaux; ;g appljpp in the South of Sweden, but it ig

,But, that the Bank of England should afford
assistance to a solvent bank, and that its affairs
should be wound up to the inconvenience of this
large mercantile community, appears most
stran.es,e. If the aid to be afforded to the Bo-
rough Bank is to be "effectual," there is cer-
tainly no need for the suspension of its business.
Thereis not a bank in Lancashire, which has
:discounted for the last two seasons a larger
amount of cotton bills.. The profits on this
•branch of business have been unusually large
and ,if there are securities still in reserve, al-
though." not immediately available," there can
be but little real loss sustained. The principal
injury appears to be reserved for the commerce
of Liverpool, by cutting off one of its most
liberal and spirited banking establishments.
Fortunately, this harsh and apparently unneces-
sary step, might be taken without causing any
uneasiness in the public mind with regard to the
.stabiiity of the other banks. The entire mone-
tary policy of this country, has'been designed to
enrich the ,banking interests, and the long run
of high rates.ofdiscount they have been enjoying
of late, under th 3 operation of our banking
restriction laws, has given them that stability
which is supposed to accompany a rich harvest.
A. few may have miss.:d the right path, but the
bankers of .:the United Kingdom, taken as a
body, were .never more wealthy or in a more
prosperous condition, Moreover, the money-
panic in the United States, may be
said to :have terminated when the
last mail left New York. Depositors in the
American banks emcee receiving notes, under a
promise not to demand specie for them for some
moderate space of time, and the public were
beginning to receive them as usual ; and the
return of confidence in the .States will be a source
of immense profit to our Znglish bankers.
Some temporary inconvenience may be felt
from the scarcity of gold, but this is sure to rec-
tify itself, let merchants and .traders suffer what
they may, by the operation .of those unwise and
oppressive:money laws under which we live. The
Borough Bank, for example, was, if we are to
believe the .offi.eial announcement, in a solvent
state. It idvanced money op securities which
were forthcoming to liquidate bhe derosncls upon
it, but because it,could not convert_thoie securi-
ties into gold at s. :moment when. Coreigners were
paying more for it than it is worth -in this
country, the B tak ,its compelled to wind up
to the manifest injury of a large section, if
not an entire - commercial coma:lenity.
Bankers and merchants .may hold any amount
of ships, foreign or colonial produce, or domestic
products imaginable ; but, unless they can .com-
mand the foreign metal—gold—in moments of
pressure, they must suspend business, and all is
lost. In discussing- this question, we have not
used one word that could lead our readers to sup-
pose that our money laws have a tendency to
impoverish the banker, or to render our Banks
insecure On the contrary, we have always
endems.red to show that where a • Bank
advances money on produce. or securities of an
available character, let the fate of the merchant
or trader be what it may, the banker is sure to be
safe.

immediately available," giie up business, and
submit with becoming fortitude to the mon-
strous doctrine
.propounded in our statutes—
namely, that ,in the absence of gold, the accumu-
lated wealth of the nation, the solvency of its
bankers, merchants, and traders go for nothing.
That so respectable an establishment, with its
safes full of bona fide securities, a long list of
respectable. and wealthy shareholders, and a well
earned popularity, should have fallen a victim to
such a system, and at such a critical moment, is
much to be deplored; and that no effort has been
made by the bankers and capitalists of Liverpool
to sustain so highly creditable and necessary an
institution, cannot fail to excite surprise in the
commercial world. Lancashire, and Liverpool
more particularly, have no banks or monetary
facilities to spare, and we shall not be astonished
if the fact should develope itself in a variety of
painful forms when public confidence is once
more restored, and increased accommodation
required. Since this article was written we are
glad to find that a notice has been posted on the
door of the Liverpool Borough Bank, to the effect
that it will resume business on Friday next, and
it is sincerely to be hoped it will do so as a
banking-house, and not merely to pay off its
liabilities.

WE have on several previous occasions called
attention to the many evils connected with the
Licensing System, and the injustice and incon-
venience to which publican' and beer-sellers
are subjected to by-the Billeting of soldiers and
recruits upon them. A case, an illustration of
the foregoing, was heard at the Police Court, on
Friday. Mr. JOHN LEWTAS, Licensed Victualler,
was summonsed to answer a charge preferred
against him, for refusing to take a soldier,
Corporal BENJAMIN MARTIN, of the Scots
Fusilier Guards. There was no question as to the
refusal of the Billet, but Mr. LEWTAS acted (his
solicitor said) upon principle, and to resist, what
he termed, an attempt at imposition. In support
of the charge, the Corporal and a sergeant who
went with him to Mr. LEWTAS'S, swore that
MARTIN was the soldier named iu the Billet,
which the defendant denied. The magistrates'
placed little reliance upon the evidence for the
defence, which went to show that from what
transpired between the corporal and the barman
at Mr. LEWTAS'S the Billet was intended for
" a dirty recruit, down town." Mr. SYKES,
a publican, was in the bar at the time and heard
the foregoing expression used, but as he would
not swear which of the soldiers—the corporal or
the sergeant—made use of the words we have
quoted, the bench deemed the evidence for the
defence as proving nothing, and fined Mr.
LEWTAS 40s. and costs.

We are not going to justify Mr. LEWTAS for
refusing to accept the Billet addressed to him.,
although we have our own opinion as to the real
merits of the case, which the magistrates'
decided against him. Our object is to direct
public attention to the hardships which the
' Billeting system impose upon all persons licensed
to sell spiritous and malt liquors. In the first
place, the requirements of the Billeting system
are one-sided, and notoriously partial. No class
in the community is obliged to accept a Billet
but publicans. Most other trades and
prefessions are at liberty to exercise their
callings without let or ;hindrance, and
particularly without having to •pay the Crown
a license for permission to deal in spirits, wines,
and malt liquors. The bookseller and the
stationer, the printer, the hatter, the tailor, • the
butcher and the baker, the grocer, haberdasher,
the broker and merchant—dealing in all sorts of
`produce, home, foreign and colonial—lo not
require a Crown License to follow their
particular avocations. It is different with the
publican ; he must pay an annual tax to enable
hiin, to follow that line of business. This, of
itself, should entitle him to be exonerated from
being obliged to keep a house of entertainment
for soldiers on their march, or a regiment of
Militia assembled for a month's drill. On this
ground, alone, we 'think the Billeting system
partial and unfair, for the very men who could
claim exemption on the ground that they pay
to the State an annual tax, from which all other
classes of the community are exempted, are
those whom the law compels to receive soldiers
on Billet. The great beauty of National Taxation
is the adoption of a • scheme, whereby every
member of the community contributes, directly
and indirectly, his just quota to the revenues of
the country. ;By the term just, we mean such
sum or sums as are in keeping with his means
and position is society. This is not so in the
case of the Licensed Victualler. He is taxed
beyond that of any other class in the kingdom,
for, in addition to all the imposts, direct and
indirect, levied for the support of the Queen's
Government, he has the additional annual tax of
a spirit or beer license, and to keep his house
open at all hours to• admit such soldiers' or
rough reeruits as may be Billeted upon them.
Independent of the injustice of the Billetting
system, it becomes vexatious from the inconve-
niences to which it subjects publicans. It is
well known that the great majority of raw
recruits, before being subjected to military
discipline and drill, are, to people of any preten-
sions to respectability, somewhat obnoxious, on
aceOunt of their immoral. habits and filthy prac-
tices. Again, soldiers in general are noted for
their swearing propensities and other language of
a revolting character. This, too, they are more
prone to indulge in tvhen not in barracks. Now,
to any publican who has a wife and family, it is
at all times a painful thing to be obliged to admit ,

He measures all his steps, totally irrespective
of the wants of trade by the supply of gold in
the country, and the Liverpool Borough Bank
appear to have adhered to this practice by sus-
pending business while in a solvent position.
The Directors, finding that the stock of bullion
was decreasing daily, at a period when their
capital was Locked up in securities which were "not

THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1857

such persons to his house. lie desires not to
have their ears shocked by profane or obscene
language, still the law compels him, and that, too,
to rise at midnight, and though his beds were
completely full, to give up his own, if no other
can be had, to the soldier or th.t recruit. The
arbitrary character of the Billetting system is
fully as reprehensible as its partiality and injus-
tice. Viewed in whatever light we may, the law
is one which should either be repealed or modified
to a very great extent.

We are not among those who would deny to
the soldier and the recruit every accomodation,
consistent with the convenience of all classes of
the people. We hold that every person who has
the means should be equally liable, when neces-
sary, to provide lodgings for the soldier. The
Licensed Victualler has no more right in equity to
have a soldier Billetted upon him than the retired
gentleman who lives upon his independence.
But we think the time for such a system has
passed away. In all large towns to which regi
ments or recruiting parties are called, there
should be provided, at the public cost, a building
capable Of affording such lodging accommodation
as the military
.wants of the. country: required.
Take Liverpool for example. What is there to
hinder the two great police depots—Rose-hill and
Seel-street—being fitt.cd up with portable beds to
accommodate an entire regiment. If it came in
—as is often the case—in the middle of the
night, the men would be sent to these stations,
and there rest themselves and prepare f)r renew-
ing their march. The salary now paid to the
Billet master and his deputy would go pretty far
in providing the beds and keeping them in clean
and proper order. Any plan would work more
satisfactorily than the present one; and we
earnestly hope that an efficient amendment will
be applied to a law that is so unsuited to the
wants and requirements of the country, and
which imposes unwarrantable grievances upon
the Licensed Victuallers as a body.

THE BERKELEY FEUDS.—Mr. Grantley F. Berkeley
has addressed a letter to the Morning:Post, describing:in
a somewhat incoherent manner the reasons which induced
him to abstain from attending the funeral ceremony:of
the late Earl Fitahardinge. Ha states that on attending
at the. castle on the morning of the funeral, at the express
invitation of Sir Maurice Berkeley, the latter in the
presence of the other brothers charged !him with false-
hood, concluding by asking Mr. Thomas Moreton
Berkeley (who throughout the letter is called the Earl of
Berkeley) "if it was true that he had been • cajoled and
cheated' in regard to the matter of the peerage ? " Lord
Berkeley replied, " that he had pot." Mr. Grantley
Berkeley continues :—Astoniehel and outraged as I was
at this sudden and unexplained attack at such a moment,
and when I was prepared to have seen the grave close
over all past animosity and oppression—all unrepented
of as I feared them to be—l immediately cast from me
with disdain the false charges of which I had been
accused, and turned my attention simply to the fact
which was so evident—namely, an attempt to overreach
as in the presence of witnesses, and I addressed Lord
Berkeley and said, 'Now, answer me this simple question
—Have von not all year life toll me, an 1 did you not tell
ma so late as yesterday, that I might set my heart at
rest, for that nothing you had done in the matter of the
peerage mid affect my future interests and those
of my sons—that all you had dons was but for
your life ? ' Lord Berkeley distinctly, • and without
hesitation, replied, hive, and did tell you so.' I
then turns! round OA what at once assumed the
appearance of a peeked meeting for an especial purpose,.
and said, ' What more, gentleman, do you require?' Thea
arose a B abet of voices, for the reply of Lord Berkeley
seemed to be most distasteful to meny:of the bystanders.
Mr. Augustus Berkeley ani Mr. Henry Berkeley ex-
claimed together, addeessing we, ' We deny that you are
the heir-presumptive,' &e, while C shnel Kingseote
inq sired of Mr. B Jodie if Moreton Berkeley' (the pre-
seat earl) had power to cut of the entail, and if he had
done so.' Mr. Beadle replied that he had, and that he had
done so. 0 a this, I said to Lord Berkeley, Just answer
me another simple qeestion. Hai you ever a deed placed
before you and explained to you for that purpose ?
Have you ever had in your possession any such deeds, or
copies of this deed, or any whet paeans whatever relating
to it in your possession ?' Hi 3 reply to this was—' No,
I don't know, I am no lawyer, I know of no deeds nor
papers.' Mr. Henry Berkeley then, among the confusion
of voices, put a question so dictatorial and so ridiculous
that I thought it needed no notice fro .n me; he said,
addressing the Earl of B wkeley, That is, M weton, you
know. when you slid you did not mean to affect your
brother, Geantley's interest you meant, of course, his
interests as .a younger brother. The earl replied, Yes,'
anti then added, as if recollectiae some lesson, Oh I yes,
I believe what my mother told me in preference to any-
body,' or words to that effect. Utterly false as these gross
charges made against me by Sir Maurice ware, for I had
never attacke i him in any way, nor been guilty of
one act towards him which was not in kindness and
affection—and enraged by the fact that the words cajoled
Jeri cheated' had been furnished him f-o:n a letter of
mile, marked privee and confidential,' to Colonel
Kingscote, I edit-else 1 the assembly to the following
effect. .1 toll them I had come to Berkeley Pestle :seder
the most friendly ail affectionate feelings, and on a civi
invitation from Sir Maurice Berkeley, and that I littlel
expected to find myself and to see my brother, Lord
Berkeley, on so solemn an oeei3iol, clisgalerully and
indecently entrapped, to aid the continuous designs on
the:inheritance of the earldom, myself, and my children
Time, place, and persons wore equally improper. I knew
that I stop 1 alma amoa them, an I had not a friend
present, and that, under fe.elid;s so in leeeat:ly oVreged
as mine were, C world not stay one me neat longer there
than I could help. I sleeted decline the funeral and
retire to my roein till the care n sly was Ore", an I then
order ray carriage and retura hone le toile them to
attend the house of God, and to reconcile prayer and
their recent act, if their conscience would perm t them to
do so. Alas ! I Wt 3 now no longer surprised that my
sons were not asked to attend the funeral, for it was bet
too evident but one class of witnesses were desired. Tee
public and the county of Gloucester will now know why
I felt myself forced to take a painful step, an :1 the false
rumours that seen to have been pump ssely set abroad for
my injury will receive a refutation.
•

TOE PRINCESS ROY AL'S MARRIAGE.—AIter detailing
the circumstances of the assumption of the Regency by
the Prince of Prussia, the Berlin correspondent of the
Time; slys, " This form of settlement of the crisis at
Potsdam will not be without a very disturbing influence
on the wedding arrangements of the Princess Royal and
Prince Frederick William. Its the Prince of Prussia will,
in consequen,le of his holding this power of attorney, be
prevented front corning over to England to be present at
his son's nuptials, it is more than possible that the mar-
riage itself will be postponed for a short time. Such a
postponement would in many respects be desirable, inas-
much as, among other reasons, if the ceremony takes
pace later in the year, there will be a better chance of
its being favoured with fine 11/3ither, which, as far as the
Berlin portion of the cerecavies is concerned, is a con-
sideration of very great importance, inasmuch as the
entry into Berlin of the bridal couple entails upon a large
number of old civic notabilities the neoessity of confront •
ing the severities of the open air in those curtailed
Wltnentionables that SeOM every whin** t 9 fort an essential

of court costume. Quantities of young girls, too, will go
out of the city gates to receive the bride, themselves
dressed in bridal attire, and it would be a grievous pity
if rain or other inclemency of the weather should mar the
effect of white satin shoes and low dresses, and consign
their wearers to a bed of sickness or an untimely grave.
It is also very desirable for the position that the youthful
couple shall subsequently occupy iu the hearts of their
future subjects that all Prussia should be able to look
back to that day of their entry into Berlin as a day of
sunshine." According to the latest arrangements, Prince
Frederick William will come to England in the course of
next month, and stay at our court until after the birthday
of the Princess Royal.

THE ACTION OF Tim NE V? YORK B ANKS.—The writer
of the City Article, in yesterday's Times, thus alludes to
the action of the New York and Boston banks :—The
entire suspension of specie payments by the New York
and Boston banks, reported this morning by the American
mail, is the most satisfactory announcement that coul
have been looked for. Hal the step been taken a fort-
night earlier, an immense amount of ruin might have bee n
averted. The banks, after having by their mismanage-
ment brought about the state of affairs which rendered
the panic possible, sought to save themselves by the
sacrifice of the whole mercantile community, but the
public at last have taken the matter into their own
hands, and forced them to a stoppage, which will place
them in the same con ditiea with their victims, and thus
terminate the struggle. Their c mrse hal been simply
this—By a system Lf most imprudent advances,
they had encouraged the public to rely on
abundant accommodation, not only on bills of
exchange, but on the bonds and promissory notes of
railway and other corp )rations. Wnen the over issues
of this latter class of securities began to excite an alarm,
and it was seen by a knot of speculators that if they could
be brought into sudden discredit general confusion would
ensue, the banks turned round upon those they had
deluded, and not merely refused further accommodation,
but called in, as far as possible, all that had been granted.
Or course, universal fright followed, but as firm after firm
went down, the banks still boasted that they were
determined to maintain themselves, and actually excited
some sort of ad titration at the grandeur of their resolve.
Bat it was plain they could net succeed, and that even
supposing their preservation possible, it might be paid for
too dearly. In the opinion of calm lookers on another
week was only req aired to stop every house throughout
the State. Apprehensive, however, of the penalty of
losing their charters, and animated by individual
rivalry, they continued blindly stubborn. The community
at last, it appears, with an instinct of despair. resolved
to' bring them to an end. A concerted run was
arranged by the depositors, and on the evening before
the departure of the packet a general stoppage was
ascertained to be inevitable. Eighteen of these establish
ments had already been brought down, and the thirty-three
that remained saw that another day would seal their fate.
A deputation of the presidents of three of the largest
was therefore clasp at .1.3,1 to the Governor of the State at
Albany to pray far the access try legislative stop 3 to
legalise the ea-yeas:oe, and meanwhile a notification of
the event was given in all the New York papers of the
morning of the 14th inst. Its effect was instantaneous.
Every one, it is said, seem te feel that the ordinary
channels of business would forth with be restored, and
that from that moment the progress of recovery would
commence. The steamer saile 1 at noon, and the last
accounts therefore reach only to 11 o'clock a.m., but a
postscript of that date announces that everything was going
on quietly, and that all excitement had passed away. This
result was perfectly natural. The inconvertible paper of
the banks would now circulate at a value in proportion to
the discretion with which it might be issued, and
supposing it to be kept within close limits, there is no
reason that it should fall much, if at all, below par. No
doubt was entertained that the Legislation of New York
would sanction the .novernent, and the period of
resumption is contemplated to bo the sth of April. In
the interval about £3.0)1,000 or A'4,003,00) of gold may
be expected from Califoreia, and speculative shipments
of specie from this side must result only in loss. Tho
great danger which has pressed upon our money marke t
during the past two or three weeks is therefore lig'vened.
It is also believed that in my failures that must have
occurred here if the present event had not taken place
will be averted, an I that news may arrive by future
packets of the resumption of business by several of those
among the New York firms whose fall was occasioned
solely by the inability to sell pro lace, or ovea to negotiate
undoubted bills.

; or
wild conjecture, expression of feeling, and cl,lLeoribtr
odpoionrion, indulged in. A notice was at once poso,.
nrtp.
doors. and was in substance to the effect that 10.1,14talacce
tion been made to the Bank of England forassls
,„,, teat
under the circumstances, and that such had baw 63.4
asor the Bank of England was satisfied with the s°l7-00
the eorcern, and that business would be restlise:git,
Friday. This, in some measure, allayel the ezeit,""g;
so far as the crowd was concerned, but the feeling tbr°°;;(l
town all day was of a painful nature. The clo
remainedno
00 about the bank up to a late hour, but thereAst
utburst of feeling beyond the conversation ;11
naturally took place amongst the people. There / 0
good deal of speculative talk about the effect PO t°s„;)
veto. Woo'
producednirnu on the Corn Market by this Wl' '.
mstance," but., like most other affairs of a o°l_o
tohdescription, all was theory. Towards night there seePo
would
strong confidence in the assertion that the b of
unmeaning
dagain resume on Friday. There area varlet:o' 14
rumours afloat, in consequence of til arise'
but we give them no credence, as such are sure
t°
a -,,i-tilr
veryott like
i often without any foundation, when an esto
m 3,
t
heßnoartonurgahl Bp
rannsks
uirs
n.
tary and very coo

AMUSEMENTS, &C•'
Last
night
/pa
THE AMPHITHEATRE.—ME. ROBSON.—
Robson made his second appearance before spht
audience in the Amphitheatre. The radon:oo3loe
he appeared were " Daddy Hardacre " and t 11,1.3 b„i• eso 10
of " Medea." The first of these is one of We reseal,
which Mr. Robson earned his peculiar fame al crlii
unlike any other en the stage, and filled with an °-g
effect, tilt
most remarkable, at a time when merely
result of careful study, and imitation is the lecaing`lV
ture which characterises dramatic perforate°. reco,
merit to
itiots
little drama itself has not much of literary
mend it. Its principal characteristic is that itiogoel
remarkable opportunities for the display of OseOr; 7. is
powers. The chief character, that of the old
doubtedly an exaggeration, although not slore e",:f
such a character has been made by dranlatiett4 Of
artistic ft
the
highest genius—not more extravagant than Sir Gi'-or 001 r
reach or Moliere'a Harioagon. But, extravaglll the Fs°
probably no one Rho tees Mr. Robson PlBlstar
will at the time believe it unnatural. A 133°- stsrP
ling, and, at the same time, snn2ll -1,111 Ott
performance cannot be seen upon the stags. "tastot
actor we know of can combine such apparently
the 11101,C
effects. Mr. Robson can chew in a moment pi 0111:
scale of human passion, grief, and despair, in e ogefir
which thrills every listener, and at the same tintfPuiejili
the simplicity of very nature, joined to a P'e.,eji
trastiog sense of the ludicrous. One can Bei-00°1
to
Ist opa
which emotion, the comic or the terrifying, is
lead in his sensations, when he looks on so singooool
marvellous a combination. The whole effect is °Le, aoi,
which no one who sees Mr. Robson for the first
IoP
have seen before Criticism has already
on this remarkable performance so often, that rin eOO4
coaiSt
little of it. Indeed some of the passages in tile c°,,ljas 10°
portion of the drama, where the miser finds out ":tiditall
l
.
and hears his daughter's confession, almost Of Ito° bsen
or description. We need hardly add, that 30. ogeo
success was complete, and the applause t.: -$310°5
overwhelming. In the burlesque of "Medea," wail/
was so singularly like the great actress he parodie% eel
his most extravagant comicaliti es, that the parfarl44a• 0 r
frequently anything but a laughing matter. iillThg'tregt.i
most of his other performances, the comic and -1,08
fort
are divided by quite a slight distinction, as the paa- tie°
sublime and ridiculous. Mr. Robson was entlin6-roact.
calledsv before the curtain at the close of each Irat.aserth_s
We must not omit to add, that in "Daddy ppoll
Mr. Villiers, Mr. Neville, and Miss galasll fan- .1.91-w
Mr. R ,bson. In " Medea," Mrs. Powe an "'fills irt
Jason, Mr. Holston a good Crean, and Miss Olivet,d-adfc.
Orpheus. The performances concluded with the a'.- nigo
ared• fio
.31'.Uncle John," in which Mr. Biker kV
r. Robson appears in " Daddy Hardacre
other entertainments.

_
Ms. ALLAN IRV IN G . P..'dr)"
---• ,
We are decidedly becoming a musical na'-'o'"n pre ),
thing passing around proves this. During the oie,l-
PI tlf
week in Liverpool we have had two operatic e rlceier
a al' ,1171
one exclusively native, the other partly natty-
coif, 0
r
foreign, and although the amount of support e Oct
tee bss
each has been worthy of their high merits, ". suer, ot
significant of the hold which music, as 3 SeluraleSlADlC
taken of the miscellaneous public. This ene"n; esP-
of music will naturally bring out native sill to
1.10
of doing it ample justice. eor3. 60
We were the amongst the first of our COteol, eotle- .5
recognise the fine professional talents of the ?Pe 13,3;c1
whose name heads this article. Ile possess -toss, ;5t
voice, which combines both power and sweettehigh-tbe
the London papers of Friday, thus speak le the
oe -
terms of his appearance at St. Martin's 114. -,1(
evening. of Wednesday last : hi e:":',s
•,heti hi ti"
Morning Herald.—Allan Irving distiagele ,sps 0'34
above all the artists, and betoken-el no mean he, age
for sacred music. In the solo with chorasi sorrel
exceedingly impressive, and won the univers3io s,citli
of the audience. A good bass, more especi2,llri a LI.; 0`
song, is a desideratum now-a-days, and ''',.."31)011"
would not throw away his time in making this
rt.
5Pi
the art his chief study. , the bi'i A°
Daily News—Allan Irving who sustained ''" one" tie
a well-At 00911,0
is a singer of greet merit.' He has
powerful vole:, and is remarkaable for clear et3;taliti
elocution—a great and by no means corne3°l3 " r/01
vocal performer. 0'
Morning Advertiser.—Allan Irving in the 1599 PO
hig" tili'
repeatedly applauded. toe
Morning Chronicle—We cannot praise I§
- Oldershaw and Allan Irvine the hlie
.
Illustrated Landon News.—Mr. Allan Irving, „foe. 530.
a performer of great merit and rising rep, he posSee ill
voice is strong, and at the same time sweet t , iligene. jet
delicacy as well as force,- and shows his 111`e }feel:oo2,l
the clearness and emphasis of hie utterer:tee; 0 01,, tP;
remarkable impression in the pathetic athiog utter
have mercy upon me." the most beautiful ~, earn
oratorio, which we have scarcely ever '-`e- tile'
sung. tif
~„n of .to 0
A. singer whose attainments are thus s 13.1""," e%ol` of
first critics in the metropolis, must necessaraio is Pio
sensation in the provinces, and we hope the,ilt hafeh 15
distant when the people of this locality rr'.,,,n 1/".:0.
gentie'rofeosl
opportunity of seeing and hearing a
evidently destined to fill a high position in hist) Ing"
Atrertitt3
—Liverpool Chronicle.
[lt will be seen, on er ne to our rreoP;t„
columns, that Mr. Allan Irvring'rwe illeaPPear evenl4 netlis
Concerts, S. George's Rail, on saturdayogder
when he will sine Hutton's- beautiful ballad,
Greenwood Tree."] , ho
4*.
TIBIvERSITY INTELLIGENCE —Mr. John „.'e ito, ;,., 5.
la•ely obtained the Canning Scholarship a'. h'holersb'r
stitntion School, was elected to a Rusts& '4ll just' pie
Jesus C liege, Cambridge, en Saturday, the -;.,i yet( riitief
CORONER'S INQuesT.—An inquest was 11 ,`: rot , u ,rbe
on the body :if Martha Wilkes, who cut
the circerns!ances sta'ed in our paper of yeste g ibe j
f
.
evidence was the same as already bli•he°l ari
pu - Vol'
folni a verdict of " Tetnporary insanity." ,4,091' ti dig
LEWIS AND COMPANY'S NEW DTABLISIII"vieek e-vellrr
Cr.ornnio —Number of boys clothed for
iek. isst.4o,
Sa,ur lay, October 24th, 475 ; corresponding 'l'. went
establ's 00'
280, which was the first week this Pp
her "'Tao. :of
epenel ; incre ise 195 boys. „nu a a cor
MUTINIES IN iNDIA --DREADFUL 111135'7,,11 Orli 3 t 9
AND CHILDREN BY NANA 5A11113.--A fell-!e„11:0, At-lifer-
rect Likeness of the above Monster
Allsop's Royal Wax-work Exhibition,
pool, toe,ether with upwards of 1000 WO fiiiireoci. 11A. ice,.
views, &c. &c., attended by a good qurdrille ha lii.-Pr
sien 61 each. Children under tea 5 ear sof g''' aloe'`"
a
Open from !en am. to ten p.m. , „ d the ash lb:
R am; of THE Doces.--Ne two3lloo b , 01 p-
ing of the Overseers of the parish, to-le_toschips rasi
()veneers of such of the neighbiuring.o" 05 yeo etia
interestei in the question of Dock-rating, The eleofloi;
hell at the Perish Offices, Brownl ,v, Hill* ere 11- oi°
at if oho ,
was numerously attended, and thole prei,, „sires cool-
mou:iy of opinion that it is desirable that nl-u, , to e i-0
l!ianie"strseest,taPtaaliarils:
be taken in the ensuing Session 0 eg rde
the rating of the Docks and Dock property ~,b4j
cry
The ()Pull. irk of
of the R ver Mersey, '
to kcal ra es. 8 o rose
and Overseers of the pari,h, and the Oversef,,re pa,,a(.
head were appointed a sub.cemnaittee for t`,„3l sub'
conference upon the huhject with the Ailln Wr
of Parli:o36 0. th E dos
ties ani the Birkenhead Cuministioners.