Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-12 00:00:00

NORTHERN DAILY, TIMES,

MUSICAL, DRAMATIC,:LIIERARY, AND
ARTISTIC NEWS AND .GOSSIP.

Madame GOla

Sig-nor Belletti, and Herr
Joachim, -0 part in concerts announced at Belfast
for the 12th, 14th, and loth October.
Messrs. Lawieace and Stolber, the well-known melo-
digs of the *principal coneert4oortis, hare accepted a
lucrative engagement to appear :at St. Petersburgh,
with a troop, of nigger melodists. _

The lovers of r-e‘'ally good Music were 'to have a rich
treat at the grand 'concert at the Crystal Palace on
Saturday,.for which Mdlle. Piccalomini, _Mc:llle.. Titiens,

Signor -Ginglini, and the other artistes of the 4alian
opera, returned to town expressly. The programme,
was of a highly classical character; and included selec-
tions from Auber, Bellini, Verdi, Rossini, Mozart, Doni=
zetti, and Neyerbeer.

Mr. Phelps renewed his management at Sadler's Wells
Theatrd on Saturday, having strengthened his company
by time addition of several well-knoWn actors, and one
or two new competitors for theatrical honours.

The prospectUs of the new managers of the St. James's
Theatre (Messrs. F. N. Cliatterton and Willett) has
been iisuedP. Drama, farce, ballet,' and bUrlesque are to
be the staple attraction. Among the company are Mr.
Leigh -Murray, Mrs.' Charles Young, Mrs. Frank Mat-
thews, Miss Murray (trona the Priucess's), Miss Arden
(from the Adelphi) Misi Kate Hickson (of whom report
speaks highly), and Miss Lydia, Thomson, a danseuse,
whose performance in a pantomime at the Haymarket
some years ago treated a sensation, and who has since
earned many laurels in the principal Continental cities.
The interior of the house 'has been thoroughly re-ar-
ranged, a new gallery and dress circle built, the pit
greatly enlarged, &c. _ ,

A ciirithis mistake occurred on Thursday in an editorial
article in the Times which must have puzzled some of
its readers, especially as 'it is several times repeated.
The article we. allude to is headed " The French

Amnesty," in which the writer says.;:—'' We have re-
ceived. two . additional declarations, drawn forth by the
amnesty—ore from M. Edgar Guinet, dated from Vey-
taus,-in Switzerland ; the second from ibi. Feliz Pyat,"
&c. It. is not to be expected that every one will re-
cognise in the former of these names the celebrated
Edgar Quinet, whose lectures'. upon the Jesuits at the
College de France; and his book upon " -Ultramontanism,"
attracted so much attention during the regime of Louis
Philippe, and finally led to M. Quinet's deposition frem
his professorship.

The Rev: Alexander Dyce (pleasantly gossips the
Town-and-:Table•Talker), the learned editor of Shaks-
peare, of Beaumont and Fletcher,. and of many of those
great men's friends and associates, has been flitting with
a noble library from Gray's-inn toraddington. Rumour
asserts that a library was never before removed in so
piecemeal a manner. Trust a professed packer of books
—No, not Mr. Dyce. Trust a long-loved and still-loved
friend to assist him in the removal of his books !No
not Mr. Dyce. Om. well-skilled Englis
to his pockets—and ample "they are—his arm-pits, and
his hands. It is in this careful way that a careful
scholar removes volumes not readily to be replaced—
volumes, it is said, designed for the 'Bodleian.

scholar trusts

There is. a story' told that a German, after visiting
our /I ous es of Legislature, made the profound observa-
tion, that in the House of Commons some of the mem-

seems a correspondent or thi

Philadelphia

AMU/Call, who, in describing. the Bostonlboak sales,
says that he has been "struck with the appearance of
one or two hundred of book merchants. They are a

y of men, and wit

le intellectual
Ther

literary look than ordinary merchants have. ar
some Websterian heads among them, and they certainly
evince that their trade is a remarkably good one for the

A new addition of the complete works of Lady. Mary
Wortley Montague, comprising all Lord Wharncliffe
and Lady Stuart's additions, will shortly be published
by Mr. Bohn. The editor, who has been long engaged
upon the task, is Mr. Moy, Thomas, a gentleman whose
labours in editing some of the series of the " Aldine
Poets" have been very favourably received. It is said
that his edition of the works of Lady Mary,, to which
a "life" will be prefixed, will contain much curious and
original matter concerning the letters; the doings, and
the quarrels of that singular woman. Lady Mary's
works, as we know to our cost (having recently bought
a copy), have been long out of print. The last edition
(1837) fetches at our Loudon book sales more than its
original publishing pFice.
Cheap journalism is to have another representative in

Everybody's Journal, which is to be published in a few
weeks. Among the writers mentioned in the prospectus
we find :the names of Mr. G. A. Sala, Messrs. R. and W.
Brough, Captains Mayne Reid and Wraxall, Mr. Albany
Foxblanque, jun., Mr. Gerald Massey, Mr. Edmund
Yates, Mr. and Mrs. Howitt, Mr. Dudley Costello; Mr.
W. C. Bennett, Miss Power, Miss Pardoe, and Mr. W.
H. Davenport Adams ; while among the artists are Mr.
-John, Gilbert, Mr. Harrison Weir, Mr. C. H. Bmnett,
Mr. E. Weedon, Mr. J. Scott, and Mr. F. J. Skill.
A collection of the -works of David Roberts is to be
exhibited during the winter in London.
An exhibition of works of' art by British amateur
artists is, it is rumoured, to be opened early in the
ensuing year for the benefit of the " Home for Young
Women engaged as Day-workers," an institution founded
about four , years since by some benevolent ladies of
distinction. Art could not do a nobler service.
The Royal Hibernian Academy of Art has tried the
bold project of opening its annual exhibition at the
nominal charge of a penny for admission for each
person,- and it has been completely- saccessful.
Mr. Lake Price, the photographer, has been engaged,
by command of the Queen, in .photographing the apart-
ments and artistic treasure* of Osborne. House,

RECRUITING FOR THE ARMY.—A letter from Drif-
field, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, says Now
that the 'harvest is over; there seems a mania among
farm servants for entering the army, and the recruiting
sergeants are continually taking off batches of fine
healthy young fellows to the different regiments.. One
sergeant, who has been here for the last nine months,
has been sending away the finest of the agricultural
labourers atthe rate of four a week."

PLACING THE SADDLE ON THE RIGHT HORSE.-At
the provincial and other meetings on behalf of the work-
men, it has been stated with a strange bravery that the
present is not a strike on the part of the men. Surely
the speakers knew better. The strike, let it he right or
wrong, is a strike on the part of the men; pure and
simpl. They struck-at Messrs. Trollope's because their
request to have ten hours pay for nine hours' work was
not granted. By, their organisation they could have
ruined the Trollopes, or forced them into compliance,
and. so with the rest of the masters, one by one after-
wards. The masters, of course, saw this, and made the
strike general instead of particular, hut the strike is the
act of the men • it is they, and they alone, who have
brought about the present melancholy state of affairs.—
The Builder.
THE LATE LORD JAMES STEWART, M.P.—The death
of this nobleman was awfully sudden. We learn that
his family having retired for the night, Lord James rang
the bell for his servants to extinguish the lights, and
give him his bedroom candle. In the act of rising to
take the candle, he fell forward into the arms of the
butler, who replaced him in the chair. Medical aid was
instantly sent for, but arrived only to confirm his
bereaved family and friends in the sorrowful impression
that his lordihip had breathed his last. It is a remarka-
ble fact that the late Marquis of -Mute, brother to Lord
James, died equally sudden, but at an earlier period of
life by ten years. The late Marquis, IN hile in his usual
health, had .a few friends to dinner. Ile was sitting
afterwards in the drawing-room at tea, laid down his cup,
retired to his dressing-room, and in a few minutes after-
wards was found resting on a bed lifeless.

THE DUCHESS OF PARMA AND HER
,peaking of a recent tour which he made in Switzerland,
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31. Fiorentino, a will,Cl iu Lite uonstitutionnel, states
that he happened to take passage on board the same
steamer with the Duchess of Parma and her young
family, whom he thus describes :—" Scarcely had we
taken our places on the deck when we noticed at the
other end of the seat a lady surrounded by a group of
morning
gne sweeter, dress of
merry laughing children. She wore a straw hat without
eexitthreermeri sbimbopnlicsitoy. or
Itis i to feathers,
rn paonsdot M
a

e ramble manners. That
s of Parma, on her way from Genoa
h her children and several attendants.

or more pleasing tea

lath, was ti

to Friburg, wit

witli a thougiitful air

4"ut
His younger b;Otherutr

touched hisllat whenever he spoke to him
princesses had am( 1-asing air of
The To Pe`'

I THE RIGHT HON. j-W-HENLEY, M.P:, IN

OXFORDSHIRE.

At the anniversary meeting of the Thame Agricultu-
ral Association, held at Thame last week, the Right
Hon. J. W. Henley, M.P., in responding to the' toast of
" The health of the Members for the County of Oxford,"
with which was coupled the name of Mr. Henley, said—
r believe I am now fairly entitled .to congratulate. you
upon the complete restoration of tranquillity throughout
the whole of her Majesty's dominions, and upon' the
prosperous and flourishing conditon of the country gene-
rally. For .the last two or three years, we
have here met at a time when the amicable
relations of Europe were disturbed, or, when our troops
were employed in suppressing a great revolt. Last year
we met in the middle of all the horrors of the Indian
mutiny, when almost every man was oppressed by the
feeling that the, knife of the Indian might at that mo-
inent be at the throat of some dear friend or connection,
and when we hardly knew what was to be the result of
that terrible outbreak. (Hear, hear.). Thank God,
all those fears have new passed away and complete
tranquillity has been restored. (Cheers.) Since then we
have had some uneasy feeling in reference to the course
of conduct likely to be pursued by one of our near
neighbours on the Continent. Of course any feeling
of uneasiness with regard to so powerful a Sovereign
must naturally be the subject of great anxiety
to all of us, for I do not suppose that there is a single
man living in this country who would not strongly de-
precate a war between England and any other continen-
tal Power, and more particularly a war with France.
(Hear, hear.) With regard to the supposed necessity
for making some change in the present system of the
representation of the country in parliament, I may say
my own opinion is that the main body of the people in
this country are very well contented to leave things in
the same condition as they, are at present. At all events,
if they are to be altered at all, what the people at large
' naturally desire to see is that any alteration made should
be of such a nature as to lead to a reasonable hope that
it would produce a real and substantial amendment of the
condition of all daises of the population. (Hear.) Above
all, due care ought to be taken that in any projectedalter-
ation of the existing state of things, no mischief should
arise in consequence of rash and reckless innovations.
(Hear, and cheers). I believe that the feeling I have ex-
pressed upon this point is not only the feeling of the
great majority of the well-instructed and well-informed
classes of the people, but the feeling of the majority of
the people at large ; and, it is a feeling in which I
candidly confess that I perfectly concur. (Hear, hear.)
Gentlemen, when I was a young man I can assure you
that I was never very fond of putting my foot forward
unless I was perfectly well aware of the nature of the
ground upon which I was about to place it, and now
that I have grown older and do not find it so easy,
perhaps, as it used to be to stand upon one leg, I
am still less desirous of lifting my foot and shifting my
position, unless I know very well in what direction I
am about to advance. (Hear, hear.)l At the same time,'
although I avow these sentiments, say also that where
a real reform is to be effected I will never be backward
' • • (Cheers.) Either in reference to
of our own country business, or while

in advocating it

the condt

taking part in the transaction of
business of the em

never shrinl,

lung as i occupy toe honourable position in which
NOR have placed me, from giving my best attention
to the consideration of the true merits of any proposed
change, and if any person can show 'me that there
is a reasonable prospect of such a change doing 'good
to the great masses of the population, not only
shall I he ready to adopt it, but to give it my strongest
support: But change is not always reform. (Hear,
hear.) I never have been, and if I am to give you a
candid expression of my opinion upon the matter, I do
not think I ever shall be ready and willing to adopt a
proposition for a change in the existing order of things
simply because it is a change. (Hear, hear, and cheers.)
I do not say that the present system is perfect, for
undoubtedly some evils may exist in it ; but what I
say-is, that it is far better to endure an evil the nature
and extent of which is known, ti as to jump into another
of which we know nothing. (Hear, hear, and cheers.)

LORD DERBY AND HIS IRISH ESTATES.—Lord
Derby's mode of dealing with the abeam of murder
on his Irish estates ought to produce a very salutary
effect. It may be remembered that a 'man, named
Crowe, was a short time since brutally murdered at
Doon. Large rewards being offered .for the apprehen-
sion' of the assassins, but the tenantry have been as
silent as death, their sympathy being evidently in favour
of the murderers. This, indeed, has been so palpable,
that his Lordship has instructed his agent to have Doon
cleared of all tenants, with the exception of the im-
mediate friends of poor Crowe.

THE FRENCH MARITIHE ARMAMENTS.--The Paris
correspondent of the Independanee Belge says, that the
French Government have resolved to construct twenty
iron-plated vessels instead of ten, as was at first con-
templated. Of the first order for ten vessels six have
been completed. Although the sheeting of these war
vessel.; is not less than ten centimetres in thickness,
they are on the whole very light. The government,
being apprehensive that the Imperial foundries could
not supply the whole of these vessels, have given an
order to the proprietors of the Creusot foundries for the
manufacture of some. Fifty large steam-transports,
each capable of containing 3,000 men, will be finished
in a short time. Preparations fer defence are being
made along the whole coast. ' Besides the casemated
batteries, of which the Nouvelliste of Rouen has recently
spoken, the forts on the Mediterranean and the ocean,
which have been abandoned for a long time past, are
being re-armed, The forts of St. Malo are also taking
in nets ordnance. .

THE ACT ON THE. NEW COINAGE.—The New Coin-
age Act, which received the Royal Assent on the day of
Jlie -prorogation;, is. entitledAn Act to extend the
..Ehactinents relating ;to the Copper Coin to Coin of
Mixed Metal."- It' states that her Majesty may think
fit, for the public convenience, tc cause to•be issued coin
of bronze, or mixed metal, instead of copper monies, or
for the purposes of the like payments for which copper
monies have been made current. There is only one
enacting clause, which provides that, when any coin of
bronze, or mixed metal, shall be current by virtue of
any proclamation that may be issued by her Majesty,
all the penalties and provisions of the Act 2 and 3 Wm.
IV., c. 34, are to apply to current coins of bronze, or
mixed metal ; and all enactments, where current copper
coin is mentioned or referred to, are to be construed and
to take effect as if in addition to current copper coin,
current coin of bronze, or mixed metal, had been men-
tioned. By virtue of this act, bronze coin will be issued
by the Mint.

MASTERS AND MEN : COITNCILS OP CONCILIATION.
—As regards negociations with their men, masters must
be held responsible for injustice done by their foremen.;
and they should prevent such injustice, or misunder-
standing, as in the present case, by choosing themselves
to meet their men on matters such as wages and hours
of work. Workmen must put some one forward as
spokesman ; and such an individual is,not necessary to
be viewed as an agitator ; he is made one, however, by
being dismissed. The system which has been adopted
in the carpet trade in the north of England, and in
the Potteries, as well, as in some other instances, has
led to the best results; and in the appendix- to the
report of 1856, the fact as to the Carpet )fanufacturers'
Association is testified to by masters and men. The
workmen say that for some years the annual meetings
of masters and delegate's ,took place, but that latterly
the good temper produced by the steady working of
the system had rendered the attendance of the men
infrequent; they had such, confidence that justice would
be done, that it was seldom the delegates thought it
necessary to attend. However ,Qpimons differed in
1856, as to the constitution of equitable councils=
whether these should be directly on the model of the
ium, or

Conseils des Prud'hommes in France an(
otherwise ; there seems to have been every testimony to
the value of some medium, even in regard to the most
fertile source of strikes—wages ; though in regard to
these at least it was not contemplated to give any power
of final decision. Indeed, there is at present an act
(sth Geo. IV., c. 96) which permits disputes. relating
to past contracts between masters and workmen to
a justice of the e peace,

settled summarily by

—tfiough

ro/n cer-