Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-18 00:00:00

Co -iinurctal 21015.—Ebt5. Elm).

At twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, 380 bal s Man'lla Hem.—
T. ant H. i.itti ds e and C t.
At twelvo o'clock, at the broker's office, 18, Hackin's-hey, 4000
bags Madras Riei.—A. and S. H Sleigh.
At twelve o clock, at tl,e brokers' office, 16, Exchange-buildifigs, 87
big, Nittatc of ode.—J. H. Rayner and Co
At twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, F.xchaige-chambers, 72
ba'es ottot.-- bomas Po,tlethwaita and Co.
At twelve o'clock, in the broker's Mahogany Shed, east side Bruns-
wick Dock, a quan i'y of Ti ober —James tlongaton•
At twelve o'cl e , a quantity or Manganese, Linseed, and Castor Oil
—J3I Brothers,
At twelve o'c octr, at the brekers' office, Lancaster-buildings, 124
ba'es Mexican Bark.—James Gordon and Co.
At one o'c'o..k, at the broken' office. 14, EacJaange-buildiogs, a quan-
tity of Su nac —S. Dutton and Nephew.
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers office, Apsley-bulltlings, 50 tons
Savant I.i Favic.-L-Rower an I Slack.
At ose o'c'ock, at the broker's o fee, Sweting-street, 10 tons
Silos sa Bars.—ArnAd, Leete, Itoscoc and Co.

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4Sle kottlifni iiut

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

We again devote a large space to further
interesting details of news from, India ; also two
telegraphic despatches received yesterday. The
rumour which was current that a disaster had
befallen a pertion of the 10th Earopean Regiment,
'in an enceuater with the mutineers out of Dina.
.pore, is fully confirmed by this despatch. Her
Majesty's 37th was also in the fight, which, says
the telegraph, " was not successful, and our loss
very he ney." This disaster occurred at a place
called Arrak, at a short distance from Dinapore.
Nothing is said of the previously reported slaughter
of 800 of these revolted Sepoys. Many more of
the native regiments have been disarmed, among
them the Governor-Genera?e Body Guard. Gen
Outram had succeeded Gen. Lloyd in his com-
mand, an effi.2lent for an inefficient officer. The
most singular, if not the rer)s; inexplicable piece
of intelligence communicated by this telegraph,
however, is the arrival at Calcutta of Lord Elgin,
on board the Shannon. The Times looks
upon the news just arrived as of a
much more satisfactory character. " One may
feel justly prouri of one's countrymen as one
glances first at the forced marches and successive
victories of General Havelock and his invincible
band under a sun which even the Sepoy finds as
fatal as the artillery of the, foe; then at the stern
repose and vigorous preparation of the Supreme
Government ; then at. the quick vengence taken at
Dinapore ; then at the pati:mt wai ing of our
beleaguered countrymen at Agra and Taieknow, the
latter hoping immediate aid, the former able to hold
out long ; then at the prompt measures taken to
meet formidable outbreaks and lurking conspiracies
in the Bombay Presidency; then at the universal
stamping out of the sparks in the Punjaub ;
and, lastly, at those rocky heights whereon
sits the Avenger, still keeping his eye
on the accursed city, gathering his strengl3,
and biding his time." It concludes,
in the following strain. "No doubt—and here we
only express the heartfelt confidence of everybody
in Inlia—all will be right in the end. We shall
destroy the whole of this foul craven mob, that
reserves its fury for women and children, and its
courage for the ramparts, but always flies be'ore an
Englishman in the open field. But what may not
happen in the meantime? What terrible gaps may
not occur between the expiring efforts of an heroic
resistance and the tardy arrival of long expected
succour. A fortnight is not much on paper.
Wind or rain, a trifling mistake, a moment of false
security, the illness of a General, or any trifling
cause, may interpose that delay, and cost us a
massacre of Cawnpore.
Throughout the country great exertions are
being m ado for the purpose of raising money for
the relief of the sufferers in India, and we are glad
to see that Liverpo )1 is one of the foremost towns
in this respect. Already nearly X 3,000 has been
subscribed by her inhabitants. We are glad to
learn that, although late in comparison with other
places, Manchester is moving in the matter of
affording relief to the sufferers by the Soppy
mutiny in India. A requisiton, signed already by
many influential names, is in course of signatuae
to his Worship the Mayor, calling upon him to
convene a town's meeting in aid of the persons
reduced to a state of destitution by the recent
mutinies in Bengal. The Mayor ha's, in accordance
with the request thus urged on him, called a
town's meeting for Thursday next, at the Town
'Hall, for the promotion of this object. In London
a sum approaching to .240,000 has been subscribed.
The Belfast r ots may be sail to be at an end.
The determ'natioa of the Government to put down
the turbulent scenes which, of late, have been so
prevalent there, together with the prompt and
energetic conduct of the Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land in " proclaiming" Belfast, has viven welt
satisfaction to the peaceable inhabitants, and it is
to be hoped that the police authorities will insist
upon. a complete and thorough disarming of the
disaffected characters.

The political ,gossips assure us that the Premier
has offJred peerages to several individuals, and
that his kind offers have either been waived for the
present or declined altogether. It appears pretty
certain that the Marquis of Lansdowne has re-
fused to become a Duke. It would b 3 most inter-
esting if the noble Marquis woull make the
public acquainted with the reasons which have
induced hi►n conscientiously to decline what the
most of people would have regarded as a great

honour.
The trial of the driver and stoker whose negli-
gence was said to have occasioned the deplorable
railway accident, near Lewisham in June last, took
pier(' on Wednesday, and resulted in an immediate
-verdict of Nut Guilty. The evidence, so far as it
was supposed to implicate the prisoners, corn
pletely broke down. Gorman, who was accused of
wounding with intent to murder one of the
assistant wardens of the Milthank prison
has been found guilty of that offence. The
,prisoner had been three times convicted of burglary,
and while undergoing his ser.t qtce, had wounded
one of the officers who had him in charge. Fur
this offence he was tried at the assizes at Reading,
and sentenced to 14 years' transportation. He
was then removed to Pentonvilie prison, and here
he committed several assaults upon the offl 3ers,
and was, in eonsequenco, removed to the Poniten-
tia..:y, where he committed the act for which be
had now been c nivieted. Mr. Baron Watson said,
the prisoner hai boon incorrigilfy wicked, and
the case was one of the worst that had ever come
before him. He therefore felt it to be his duty to
pass the highest sentence fixed by the law for this
offence, which was, that he be kept in penal servi-
tude for the remainder of his life.
Our Manchester friends are certainly a very
modest people. They have been agitating for some
time on the necessity of assizes being held in that
city, as Liverpool was too far cff. They have
memorialised the Home-office in favour of the pro-
ject, and promised almost anything and everything
that could be at all demanded of them. Sir George
Grey wrote to ask them if they would supply proper
Civil and Crown C iurts. judges' loigings,and other
accommodation, should it please her Majesty's
Government to grant their prayer. This
communication is decidedly not of the tone and
character they bad wished for, but the council
came to the resoluti)n that it is fully prepared, in
conjunction with the borough and hundred of
Salford, to adopt all necessary measures for making
ouch provlsion. In reply to Alderman Pilling, the
Town-clerk said that the motion did not bind the
corporation of Manchester to provide courts ; the
suggestion had always been that provision should
be made out of the hundred rate. Manchester
and Salford had been memorialising for this change,
and they included at least one-third of the whole
assessment of the hundred. But besides Man-
chester and Salford, the corporations of Bolton,
Rochdale, Bury, Ashton, Oldham, Stalybridge, and

all the towns in the hundred had been movingin the
matter. But listen to the impudent climax of Mr.
Heron. He believed that at present the magis-
trates of the hundred had not power to order a
rate for the purpose, but he hoped government
would bring in a bill to give them the necessary
powers, and that they might have, at a compara-
tively trifling cost, so great a convenience as
assizes ix Manchester for the Salford Hundred.
Very likely, indeed. C•)uld they not get some
railway company to pay the costs, as has been done
in the Meraey Conservancy Bill?
The usual weekly meetings of the Dock and
Health Committees were held yesterday, but
nothing of importance transpired At the latter
it was stated that the deaths last week were 272,
being 14 more than the corrected average. The
Medical Officer says that the mortality from
diarrhoea is considerably less than that of last
week—viz , 50 against 73.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Bank of Eng-
land held yesterday, a dividend of 5i per cont.
for the half-year was declared. The dividend has
not reached so high an amount since April, 1849.
We learn that, in addition to the two bishoprics
already existing in New Zealaad, three others are
to be immediately formed—one for Wellington,
for Nelson, and one for Tauranga, the last being,
an exclusively Maori district. The Rev. 0. Had-
field, Archdeacon of Kapiti, will be Bishop of
Wellington ; the Rev. William Williams, Archdea-
con of Wiapu, will be Bishop of Touranga; and the
Bishopric of Nelson N 1 ill probably be conferred
Upon the Ray. C. J. Abraham, 8.D., Archdeacon of
Waitemata.
The foreign news this morning is not of much
moment. The French papers comment on the
Indian news. The Debats very rightly begins
to advocate the abolition of the East India Com-
pany. The same papers says that it has reason to
believe that Agra has fallen, though it does not give
its authority. We find a rather obscure despatch
in the French papers, which affirms that the States
of the Duchy of Lauenbourg have resolved to lay a
complaint before the Germanic Diet, to the effeuip
that the negotiations ordered by the King for
the arrangement of constitutional affairs have not
yet taken place. If this be so the matter will
easily be arranged, as the question is only one of
time.

The elections in Wallachii are, like those in
Moldavia, favourable to the unionist party. A
despatch from Bucharest states that the clergy
have ele3ted nine unionists, and the great landed
proprietors 20 deputies, of whom 22 are unionists.
A des:A:eh from Madrid, of the 26th instant, an.
nounces that the members of the cabinet had ten-
dered their resignation ; the Queen, however, had
nt•t accepted it.
The Australian mails will in all probability be
delivered here to-morrow morning.

WE return to the subject of Mormonism
because efforts are at present made to push it
into public no:ice, with concealment of its real
eatures ; and so many of our countrymen and
Jcountrywomen have fallen into the snare of this
organised sensualism. We blush to read that
its chief converts in Europe are from our own
country. We are ashamed that it speaks the
English language. What an argument is this
for increased efforts to spread popular education.
Here are our people leaving England by hun-
dreds, the victims of a transparent delusion,
which is distinguished by its appeals to the
lowest feelings, by its coarse dogmatism, and its
hypocritical assumption of religious phraseology.
It would be curious, and perhaps instructive,
to know the proportions which other nations
besides our own have contributed to swell the
ranks of Mormonism. Several have gone from
Sweden to Utah, and there are proselytes from
Germany; but, according to the latest informa-
tion, the largest proportion is furnished by Eng-
land, Wales, and Scotland. Ireland is honour-
ably distinguished in this matter. To abate
the somewhat disparaging conclusion which
might be drawn from this fact, in comparison
with the quota furnished by other. European
nations, it must be remembered that Mormon
ideas are clothed in the English language; its
territory is within the dominions of an Anglo-
Saxon race, and the people of this country are
the world's best colonists and missionaries.

Had Mormonism used principally the lan-
guages of France, Spain, or Germany, it is
probable that a larger proportion of the people
of those countries would have found their way
to the city of the Salt Lake. Oa second view,
then, the fact, however discreditable, is not
quite so sh imeful to us as might at first
appear—still, as they say in the House of
Lords, it is too bad. We acknowledge our
surprise that two classes of persons should be
found in an' considerable numbers among the
Mormon saints—First, women ; and then Scots-
men. Surely no Englishwoman, who really
knows the facts of the case, the fact of poly-
gamy, the fact of woman's domestic degrada-
tion, into a mere thing and satellite of Mormon
voluptuousness, losing half her own personality
and womanly dignity—surely no English
woman who is distinctly aware of this can
deliberately commit herself to such a condition
of society. What is this but domestic slavery
and dishonour to the woman ? How can any
English woman consent to ba counted the
third part, or tenth part, of a wife ? Why not
the entire wife—queen and mistress of the house-
hold ? We appeal to woman's sense of honour,
to their vanity, to their ambition, to any thing
that may save them from these precious
" Saints." Why, we demand, may not the
opposite doctrine of a plurality of husbands be
set up ? It would sound as well, and
might have something to say for itself.
Will no strong-minded woman inaugurate
the heresy ? We promise to bear them
a hand in this laudable work, and we will stake
the log :c of it against the logic of Mormonism.
This would, at least, be a reductio ad absurdum
of the Mormon theory. We claim the honours
of an inventor. Here is the thing ready for use,
and we will quote Scripture for it—" I will show
it thee to-morrow in the Scripture, said my
Uncle Toby to the Corporal." We offer this
revelation to the Saints. Creation was gradually
unfolded into the nobler forms. Man came
after the lower animals—therefore he is nobler
and higher than they. But accordirig to one
account of the Creation in Genesis, woman was
formed later than man—therefore she is nobler