Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-21 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1857

hot climates, and rations to soldiers' wives. But
above all there was the chance of promotion to non-
commissioned and commissioned ranks, and such
cases were not so rare asraight be imagined.; the
average of the last 12 year;,, exclusive of the Land
Transport 'Corps. had amounted to 36. He thought
therefore it should be more generally known that
we underrated the wages of the soldier.; that every
opportunity was afforded for his mental improve-
ment ; and that with our short servitude of 10
years a young man of 18 could not do better than
serve until he was 28, for he (Mr. Herbert) felt
assured that he would return home mare capable
of supporting himself, and be a more useful
member of society than before he went out."

The City of Dublin Steam Packet Company
continues in a flourishing state. The half-yearly
rnee:ing was held on Wednesday, when a dividend
at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free of income
tax, was agreed to. In the report, the following
passages occur..in reference to the promised
improvement in the passage and passenger corn--
munieation between London and Diiblir via Holy-
head :—" There are to be two mails' daily—one in
the morning, and one in the -.evening—in each
.direction; the morning depavure
.from London.to
be half-past 7; and from K.ngstown 7 o'clock ; the
night departure from London, half-past 8, and from
W.agstoWn half-past 7, The entire distance to be,
accomplished in 11 hours as a maximum, subject to •
the penalty of 345. for each minute's delay;
but such penaltY not to be incurred :or
fogs or other causes certified •as•- beyond the
control of the companies. Fur large packets, at
least 300 feet in length, and with 600 poise power
each, to be built for the service. Special express
trains for the Ii ish mails and passenger trailia to
run between Holyhead and London in connection
with these packets. The contract t(-) be for 14
years from its commencement, which is to
:take
place within two years, subject to a power of
Government of putting an end to it after the first
five years, if they have -reason to be dissatisfied
with the manner in which it is generally performed,
in which ease they will purchase the ships at
cost price•"
A scene that is fortunately novel in this country
has taken 'place in the . Court of Queen's Denial!,
Mr. -Robert Bellamy, a magistrate of the county
of Durham, having been found guilty of a corrupt
act in discharging
,his magisterial functions, was
brought up to receive the sentence of the Court.
That sentence . was. a fine. of. 2001._ and im
prisonment for twelve months. He was con;
vinted on a charge of leaving extorted two sums of
1/. from two mer, who were brought before him
on an accusatioo of having poached on his own
land. . He, threatened that unless they paid the
money he would send them handcuffed to the
prison at Langhester, where they would be fined a
mueh larger sum.

, The local portion of oar columns this morning
contains several interestin7, items or news. Yt stet-
day the decision of the County Court Judge, in the
0/se-of the 11,-)yalOak Burial Society, was delivered.
The
,judge. before wh,,m the case r, as heard, is of
opinion that the rules, &a , &1, which were
recently passed at a public meeting, of the society,
are not legal. Another case of alleged ill-treatment
and cruelty on board a merchantman on the voyage
frAn Africa to Liverpool, will ha brought before
our Stipsn-Hary- Magistrate this day. The captain
and mate of the ship have been arrested, and are
present in 13aidowell„
There is a variety of interesting intelligence from
the Contintat this morning. It is announced that
an English note has beeri• tratismittel to the'
Cabinet of,C ,penhagen.- I.llhli note, it is•said, is
biased upon the reports•of Col. Hodges and Consul
GansraLWad, the Special commissioners of the•
UThreign 011ie, wlio inquired into and reported
on tne grievances of .the Holsteins-is, and
strongly rec.ennsiends.- to-the I)uiish G v-ernment
to rern)ve ;ill ground for complaint .as • soon as
p )ssible. We also learn that Deurnark. in reply,
as it seems, has addressed a !Imp: explanatory
4espatch to her anent:, abroad, whieh she
defends her views on qUestiOns',cons'drtifti.,,i 'the
domains, and the tax at'oan el the .Duchies if par-
ti. The S,Xan Diet 'was op;:ied on Monday
by lie King in person. It will he seen that the
King. who far ex-leads the genera! 'standard of
edueatiGnsl sequirements among the, sovereign,
families of Eiilk)pe,,glorifies in having been able
to preserve peace to his eountry •during the-Eastern
war, and exults over.the las ing blessings it_ has.
son ferred on the -agricuiturc,• industry, and
commerc 3 of Saxony. The reports respect-
ing the critical state of the economical
fabric in the Austrian empire, and parti
cularly in the manufacturing provinces, are
tlightful. Proteeiive taxes,. :paper-money, and
aolait r 3, have ci )no their w,rlc . The latest reports
nom, 'Purin show that the. clerical party has the
strongest pssition among the incsngruous sections
opposing the G.;vernment. The Government
truij nity is,` however, quite safe.

A l.yin2ow.ier expl:-,si-on at Thiyenee has resulted
in ki;ling 2i, and w)unding 469 pCrSUES

WE are not exactly " within twelve - hours of
barter." Our commercial condition is not quite
so desperate. Trade may exist three or four
days longer' 'Without our having to -resort: to the
payment of:debts and taxes in kine. Tiidse who
have the command.:of what is called " money"
are paying it away a great disadVantage, with
an honest conviction that things -will mend.
Others, who- cannot, -sell their produce in a
country which stands in the bitterest need of all
they have to dispose of, are sacrificing their
substance to obtain
.money at the usurimis rate
of 10 per cent. discount. This is a state of
things which cannot last. It is useless for
men
,of business to deceive thernselves any
longer.- Chaos has overtaken British commerce:
"trade. is left without a vestige of leg,timate
credit. Meney, as defined , b y law, we have:
next to none. Tne Values of cash
and credit no longer exist. Toe Bank of
England, which was the first .to contract its
business
.to avoid embarrassment, demands 10
per cent. for its' promises " to pay on demand"
From the trader who has in his stores, two, three,
or four pounds in stock to meet every pound he
owes ; and to obtain this credit accommodation the
latter is Dbliged to pledge his substance at from
10 to 25.1 per' cent. below its market value, in
order to leave a broad margin fur systemised
depreciation. "Cash payments" have long since
ceased to exist except in name, and they can
never . again be attempted under our -present
money-laws. Our export trade cannot be thrown
back as it was in the two years immediately
following 1845 In that year our foreign
customers tO.I 145,000,000/., and this vast
amount was cut down by bullion trickery, in:a
precisely similar -manner to that to which the
country is now exposed. to between 70,000,0001.
and 80,000,003/,, within two or three years.
The-exe.use for this was the " over speculation" of
1845, and the famine of 1847. The latter,
certainly, gave a solemn air of consistency •to the
Dullionist's (elk, and crickedness.
Providence has no't afflicted us, however, wit')
famine in 1857; nor can the London Times
accuse the commercial world of having indulged
in " realdess buoyancy." Fiance has been suf-
fering severely from a want of gold and silver to'

execute orders for her manufactures. America
has lost millions, through the inability of her
pEople to forward their produce from the interior
to the seaboard. Austria has lived upon credit,
which its manipulators declared only a few
months ago, was inexhaustible, but which, they
now find, has buried all her substance beneath
many fathoms of debt. Holland has eaten up the
whole of her long cherished metallic currency.
Prussia is dragging on the worst half of a
miserable existence on a shabby allowance of a
nondescript paper money; while Russia flourishes
by her government issue of legal tender paper
roubles. If, then, we look around us, first .on
the Continent of Europe, and then in America,
we cannot find a trace of " over-trading," but, on
the contrary, the natural course of things
has been stopped by the want of some reasonable
medium of interchange. The exhaustion of the
facilities which renders credit a reality, and
industry, seconded by the bounty of Providence,
a blessing, has been followed by. chaos._ •' Con-
vertibility," in its meanest and most illogical
sense, is no longer possible. All the monetary
theories which have been thrust down our throats
for the last forty years have been demolished by
the practical operatiJn of the 'Bank Charter Act
within the last three months. They have added
tea per cent. to taxation by tolerating usury for
credit, and, at least, an average of fifteen per cent.
more by the depreciation of the products from
which taxes are paid. Add twenty-five per cent.
to 80,000,000/. of Imperial and local taxation,
and where, we would ask, is the cash to come
from ? It is in this direction, after all, that the
country is most seriously impoverished, and
unjustly oppressed by our monetary system.
Instead of being able to add taxation to the price
of what we have to sell, we are compelled to
orce sales in depressed markets to pay the
demands of the State.

Now, if the Bank of England is worthy of
14,000,0001. of credit, to how much more must the
State be entitled ? The Crown can form a basis
of currency which all its subjects must respect so
long as it is confined to its own legitimate
wants; and, if the tax ttion of each year was
,added to the available means of trade in the
shape of legal tender, in payment of taxes and
,duties, instead of being taken directly out of the
traders cash balances, which are not, in many
instances hi own, what a substantial and per-
manent relief it would give to the whole Empie.
Our Colonies stand more in need of this Imperial
or taxation money, than even-the mother country.
They are left in the most woeful and hopeless
condition by our disreputable bullion quackery.
By far the greatest number of them drag on
existence in la' perpetual state of bankruptcy.
The dangers impending are therefore, of a
national character. Tney are universal and Itn-
, perial as regards Great Britain. But, such is
the blindness of selfishness, and such the homage
we pay. to fallacies when once launched before the
world, that, men of mind and intense loyalty,
are not wanted to make it appear to a credulous
public, that the failure of Bank, and the
want of caution on the .part of some half-dozen
commercial houses, have produced the collapse
of the entire social system of Caristendom. The
London nines for example, would have Scotland
believe that the Western Bank of Scotland was
the cause of all the commercial diStress cf that
country; and it would have us to understand
that the Liverpool
.Borough B tnk had beggared
Liverpool, and had helped, not a litte, to break
up the trade credit of America But these
paltry-subterfurTes, can only serve to outrage the
good sense and the good feeling of the country.

It is quite certain they will not remove the;
black clouds which are hanging; over the realm,,
or help the State to get its --SOOOO,OOO/. of
revenue. If they'; would do 'either of these
things,—we -might excuse the Bullionists for
demanding ten per cent. for credit, based on
eighteen-pence of cash inthe pound.- But since
they will do neither one or the other, and since
there is no bullion to pay debts; it behoves the
advisers of the Crown to see instantly that so.
'dangerous a vacuum in the heart of the
Empire, is filled up. The suspension
.of the Bank Charter Act came just
three weeks too, late, and it is to be hoped
the 3rd of December next will not prove three
months too. late for the meeting of Parliament.
The State and commerce of England can never.
-right themselves on a bullion basis. It has
humiliated and prostrated both, and before either,
can rise again it must be given up by either one
Qr other. It could never have been seriously
meant for a basis of taxation. NO dynasty
would entrust its throne to so uncertain a foun-
dation. Nor should empires risk theirexistence
on quick-sands., We have had enough of the
Bulliopist's shallow artifice, and empty, national
vanity. The latter has betrayed us, while the
former has robbed us of our real wealth and good
name. We are not rich in bullion, nor never
shall be,: in proportion to our numbers and
growing necessities, and some means of existence
mus,t, be promptly found for our millions of
working hands, that will be wholly independent
of a metal which we can never control. We
can, and do, govern taxation, and if it were made
-the basis of our paper-currency, it could only be
in excess of the demandl; when the Government
economised theirexpendi•ure, and we should have
money for all domestic purpos6, which would
not be taken (rein us by the Movements of tracle,
under any other pretext. We should then hear no
more of the impropriety of granting gigantic
relief to " first class houses," while less extensive
traders of irreproachable character, and with

an abundance of property are suffered to go to
the wall. The'Crown would then be exercising its
highest prerogative in fostering constant employ-
ment, and the increased power of production we
should derive from measuring the wants of in-
dustry by the taxes it has to pay, would enable
us to command two-thirds of the bullion of
the world. But not a moment must be lost in
bringing some really comprehensive and rational
scheme of relief, into practical operation.

THE approaching meeting of Parliament
suggests to the politician the duty of urging upon
the congregated wisdom of the nation, the para-
mount importance of procuring a real and
substantial reform in the representation of the
people. Statesmen of eminence, and even
different classes have given the question their
best and most earnest consideration. And it is
now pretty well understood that an extension of
the Franchise must be conceded, and that those
who contribute, directly or indirectly, towards
the taxation of the country shall have a voice less
or more, as to the mode, manner, and extent of how
their contributions to the support of the State,
shall be expended. We are not on the present
occasion going to urge the validity of the propo--
. sition contained in the foregoing remarks. It is
too self evident to require any elucidation--that
the minority should rule the majority is monstrous
in the extreme, nevertheless it is, and all our
legislation'has gone upon this, a most objection-;
able principle. . It appears, however, that that
' principle is doomed to a short existence, and
that a scheme more in union with the spirit of
the age, and the wants and political, desires of
the people will be concocted and brought forward
in the ensuing session of Parliament. As Re-
formers, we are glad of this. We rejoice to know
that the people of the United Kingdom, are
prepared and determined to take their stand upon
the grand question of Reform. Already meetings
upon the subject haVe taken place, and reso-
lutions, earnest and emphatic, have been proposed,
seconded, and carried unanimously, all of which
urge upon the country and the government the
duty of devising s scheme of political representa-
tion in Parliament, which will give to all classes and
creeds of the people, a right, and a voice, as to the
nature and principles of our legislative enact-
ments. We regard this as a wholesome sign of
the times, one evidence of the progress of society,
and a determination of the masses to take up and
exercise their proper position in the body politic.
It has .been the constant aim and study of this
journal, to advocate an extension of the suffrage.;
in fact it is one of our finest principles; and hence
it is that we regard the movement in the Reform
ranks with much satisfaction. The people of this
country have too long been trampled upon by. an
oligarchy, which has neither sympathy or feeling
with the masses. It is the interest and earnest
desire of that order, to trample upon every attempt
to ameliorate and imorove the political condition
of the people. For these reasons we rejoice to
know that the ensuing session will not be allowed
to pass over without steps being taken to enforce,
and, if possible, carry through Parliament an act,
aiming at the reformed representation of the
people, giving to a great proportion of the rate-
payers of the United Kingdom, a voice as
to the tone and tenor of the legislature of the
Country:
We should hail such a measure as a step in
the right direction; but to be complete it must he
accompanied .by a clause enabling the voter to
pronounce his opinions by ballot as to the
fitness of parliamentary candidates. We are
glad to see that this very topic is beginning.
I to be considered a sine qua non in gentlemen
who aspire to take their seats in the House of
Commons. Reading' has set us the example.
The electors then are fully alive to the subject ;
and although they cannot induce the illustrious
COBDEN tO enter Parliament, they seem deter_
mined not to allow any man to become their
representative who does not only pledge himself
to Parliamentary Reform, but vote by ballot.
The justice and expediency of this movement
we have, over and over again, urged upon our
readers ; consequently, the movement has our
warmest and best sympathies ; and rejoiced
shall we be to find that after a long, an earnest,
and an energetic struggle, truth and justice have
effectually assailed the barriers of aristocracy,
and compelled the wornout system of bygone
dnys•to-give place to a better and more legitimate
order of things.

We regard the extension of the franchise as
most important, and essential to the age in
which we live; but any extension of the suffrage,
without the shield of the ballot, would be not
only • useless, but positively injurious, in a
political point of view. If we entrust the
manhood of the nation with the power of
selecting our senators—they who frame and
make our laws—it is decidedly essential that
that manhood should posssss free power, scope
and will, to exercise their electoral privileges
as may seem to them the most desirable and
conscientious cause. Nothing but the ballot can
secure this. The influence of press, age, and
prelates, as well as commoners, now step in and
mar the best and liberal designs of voters.
Intimidation, too, is resorted to, and a few dayS
more will show us the final and most conclusive
argument ever urged in favour of the ballot ;
we allude to the government prosecution of the
Galway priests, about to open in the Queen'S
Bench, in Dublin.

The attempt to move the Great Eastern, on Thursday, was
not suelessful.
The Tinzes defends the English soldiers at Delhi, against
the accusation" of the foreign press.

THE COURT.

MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL.—A Berlin corres-
pondent, writing under date of the 17th inst., says:—
"Prince Frederick William will stay at our Court till the
end of this month. The day that has been hitherto spoken
of as fixed for the marriage was January 18, the anniver-
sary of the elevation of Prussia into a kingdom ; but it is
to be hoped that, even should various eventualities, easily
to be foreseen as probable, not render any alteration of the
day imperatively necessary, the decision now about to be
made on this point may be in favour of a somewhat later
day in the season. The police that has been almost
rebuilt for the young couple will not, although the
building has been carried on with the greatest possible
despatch (and throughout the greater part of this year
the bricklayers have been kept at work till midnight), be
ready for occupation till late in the summer. It is true
that the apartments to be occupied by the Princess Royal
consist of that portion of the old palace which was
too handsome and too commodious to require any
alteration, and, consequentlY, cannot be included under
the category of freshly-built rooms; but, nevertheless,
the medical men who have bean consulted on the subject
have pointed out that the vicinity of se much brickwork'
which at the commencement of spring must be still damp,
would alone suffice to produce injurious effects on the
health of the young couple; and that the rest of the palace,
which is almost entirely new, would be perfectly unin-
habitable for the members of the househol I, unless they
should expose their health to almost certain injury. The
young Prince has, therefore, yielded to those represe eta-
dons, and it has been arranged that the briial couple
shall, on their arrival at Berlin, occupy the suite of
apartments in the Royal Schloss known as King Frederick
William the Second's apartments, and which the Prince
and Princess of Prussia, and their daughter, the Grand
Duchess of Baden, with the Grand Deka, occupied as
newly married couples. The general effect produced upon
the people here will be certainly much diminished by
the young couple not taking possession at once of
their own kingly palace which is rapidly gaining in ex:
ternal and internal beauty and importance, and is
admirably situate 1 as the future cinosure of a
nation's hope's. One of the most attractive features of
the ceremony of the bridal couple's entry into Berlin has
already been struck out from the programme, viz.—the
groups of young girls who, according to ancient cuetom,
were to receive the bride, themselves in bridal costume.
The Prince of Prussia has expunged this from the future
programme, to keep his own heart free from the responsi-
bility of having exposed so many persons of tender age
and constitution to the probable inclemency of a February
day in Berlin. The Hon. Miss Seymour, sister of Colonel
Seymour, is the only English lady of honou: who wtll
accompany the Princess Royal to this country. As I have
mentioned before, the Countess Perpoucher is to • be
Mistress of the Robes (Oberhofineisterinn), and the only
other appointed that I have heard of is that of Countess
Itynar, of a noble Silesian family, to be Lady in
Waiting. The debates that took place in both Houses
of Parliament last spring on the subject of the
dowry to be voted to the Princess Royal have been
translated here by order of the Court, but whether for
the purpose of forming the commencement of an archive
for the future house of .the young. Prince, or merely to
enable certain persons not conversant with English to
read them, has not transpired. The building of the
Gedeuk Halle, or commemorative saloon, in the new
palace, is cempleesd, and it remains now only to be deco-
rated with works of art, a task which a committee of the
most eminent persons of the industrial and fine arts have
taken upon themselves to execute, as a testimonial of their
feelings towards the future occupants- of the palace
Subscriptions are being collected now from the elite of the
population for this purpose. The city of Berlin intends
to present the young Yriace on his marriage with a table,
a vase, and two candelabra (probably branch candlestick,)
of silver ohey have been designed by a very eminent
sculptor, and are now being modelled by very skilfal hands,
after which they wia be submitted to the galvano plastic
process, The Bargermeisters of the diffe Int large towns
on the Rhine, such as Cologne, Ceblentz, Dthseldorf,
Barmen, Krefeld, and Troves, have also met together to
consult as to what offering their towns can collectively
offer on this auspicious occasion. Tile committee the: has
been formed of the nobility, the representatives of the
towns and.of the rural communes of Silesia, have met in
deliberation as to the best msnner of expressing their
feelings of affection and respect to the young Prince on
occasion of his, marriage, and have decided on founding a
charitable institution of some kind, that shall be far removed
from any nepotism or connection with any perzieuler class
or interest. On occasion of the Prince of Prussia's jubilee
at the beginning of this year (the fiftieth anniversary of
his entrance into she army) the programme was formed
also of a charity to be called Friedrich- WilholtnVictoria-
Landes Stifung, which shall, on the coming wedding-day
of the princely couple, and on every recurring anniversary,
confer on one young wedding couple out of each
of the eight provinces of Prussic, without dis-
tinction of religion, the sum of ono hundred th.alers,
as a help to wards commencing housekeeping. There has
also been another committee formed here, chiefly of -men
connected with the landed and agricultural interests, for
collecting from the agriculturists of the whole kingdom a
sufficient capital to furnish interest enough to supply
deserving young men, of not more than 22 years of age,
who have devoted themselves to the study of agriculture,

with a yearly alloVance of Zi(V'thalers, to enable them to
travel in countries in which farming is carried on to a
higher pitch of perfection than it is here. This, of course,
is with a view to their acquiring a greater knowledge
of the improvements in use elsewhereeand on their return
home spreading that knowledge. This institution is also
being got up in honour of the app -oaching marriage, and
is to be named the Frederich-WilhelerVietoire Stiftung
COURT RECEPTION 011 TIM SIASISSE AXIB IS 3ADORS.—
Her Majesty the Qaee-, on Thursday, at Windsor Castle,
held a Court for the reception of the Ambassadors from
the King; of Siam. The Ambassadors arrived at Windsor
Castle shortly before one o'clock, attends I by Mr. Fowlo
and Cap-ain Clavering, royal navy. Phya Mintei Ssuriy-
wanse and Chan Man Sarbbedh Bhacty ware the repra
sentatives of the first or major King of Siam. Chamun
Bidaclo was the representative of the second
King of Siam. In the suite of their Excellencies
were Chamun Rajamate and Nai L'iehae Sare.bskich,
officers in charge of presents, Mom Rajoday,
Royal Interpreter, Captain Achune, and Captain Dak.
Their Excellencies were passed up the grand .staircase,
and into the Gaard'astatber (which ware lined by the
Yeomen of the Guard, under the command of Cap ain
Morton Herbert, the Exon in Wai-ing) and were conducted
into the Tapestry Room. Sohn aLer one o'clock the
Queen was condacte 1 by the Lori Steward and the other
officers of state to the Throne Room. Her Majesty was
accompanied by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort
and her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, and was
attended by the Ditches of Athol and Lady Caroline
Barrington, Ladies in iVaitirg, and the Gentlemen in
Waiting His Royal Highness Prince Frederick William
of Prussia, attended by the gent!emen, of his suite, was
present at the reception in the Throne Rope). The
Earl of Clarendon, K.G., the Queen's principal Secretary
of State for Fore'ga -Affairs, steed in attendance
near her Majesty, at the audience. The Ambassadors
were conducted by Major-General the Hen. Sir Edward
Cust, K.C.I-1., Her Majesty's .faster of the Ceremonies,
and Mr. Norman Macdonald. Gentleman Usher, from the
Tapestry-room, through St. George's hall an -1 the G:and
R sception-room, to the door of the Throue•room, where they
were received by Lord Ernest Brace, Vice-Caamberlain, Sir
William Martins and Sir Frederick Smith, Gentlemen
Ushers, by whom their Excellencies were conducted to the
Queen on the throne. Phya Mantri Sariy ;cause, one of
the representatives of the First or Major King of Siam,
bore autograph letters from the kings, written in gold.