Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-27 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The assize calendars continue to exhibit crime,
not only fearful iu extent, hut character. Capital
conviction follows capital conviction, and the
hangman is once or twice a week called upon to
execute the extreme penalty of the law upon the
murderer. On Saturday, Calcraft was professionally
engaged in strangling John Lewis, at Cardiff; who,
it will be recollected, murdered his wife for the
purpose of gaing a little money to gratify his lust
of intoxication. Shortly after Lewis was launched
into eternity, Thomas Fuller Bacon was placed in
dock at Lincoln, on the charge of administering
poison to his mother. We report the trial in
another column. The unfortunate culprit, although
seeping the indictment preferred against him
at the Old Bailey, has been convicted
on the atrocious crime of poisoning his
mother with arsenic. Of course he has been
sentenced to death, and left for execution. On
Saturday, two women, named Amelia Collier and
Charlotte Butcher, stood their trial before Mr.
Justice Willes, at Maidstone, for the murder of
a female, near the city of Canterbury; the first
named prisoner being the mother. The facts of
the case, although atrocious, and manifesting
brutality and inhumanity in no small degree, were
not sufficient to induce the jury to return a verdict
of guilty, and both were acquitted.
Mr. Disraeli has placed the motion which he
intends to bring forward in the House of Commons
to-night in the Order Book. After calling atten-
tion to the present aspect of affairs in India, he
will move for the following papers :-1. Copy of
any despatch addressed to the Governor-General
of India, and dated about March, 1856, by the late
General Anson, relative to the Bengal army.
2. Report on the organisation of the Bengal Army,
made by the late Sir Charles Napier to the Duke
of Wellington. 3. Minute of General Low to the
Council of India relative to the annexation of
Oude. We may here mention that much anxiety has
been manifested for the arrival of the overland
mail, but up to the time we write, no intelligence
has been received, per telegraph. From telegraphic
enquiries addressed to Cagliari, it appears that no
special steamer had arrived there from Malta up to
yesterday. On the previous occasion the intelli-
gence from India was of so momentous and
important a character, that the Lieut.-Governor of
Malta, Sir M. Reed, despatched a steamer to
Cagliari with a summary of the news brought
overland. The Peninsular and Oriental has no
doubt already arrived at Malta from Alexandria, and
as no special communication has been made through
Sardinia, it may afford some ground for the opinion
that the news is not of so alarming a character
as has been circulated for some days past, without
the slightest shadow of foundation. The Globe of
Saturday evening says :—" In consequence of the
continued prevalence of rumours respecting the
subject to which public attention is so anxiously
directed, it may be well for us to state that, up to
this afternoon, the Government has not received
any additional intelligence from India."
The United States steam screw frigate of war
Niagara, Captain Hudson, and consort, the United
States war-steamer Susquehanna, will leave the
Mersey to-day for the purpose of joining her
Majesky's war-steamers Agamemnon and Leopard,
on the west coast of Ireland, fur the purpose of
laying down the Atlantic telegraphic cable. The
labour in which all the vessels are engaged is a
truly important one, and they will carry with them
the earnest prayers of all good men for their safe
and speedy success. Truly, the immortal Bard
of Avon was a genuine prophet when he spoke of
putting a girdle round the earth in forty minutes.
We may here mention that one of the Rock Ferry
boats will accompany the Niagara and Susque-
hanna as far as the north-west Light Ship.
The Trade and Navigation Returns were
published on Saturday. They show a continued
flow of the tide of commercial prosperity.
The declared value of British produce ex-
ported in June was £10,630,000, as compared
with £10,661,000 in the June of 1856, and
£8,168,000 in that of 1855 ; while for the first
six months of the present year the exports
amounted to £60,826,000, as compared with
£53,968,000 in the same period of last year.
and with £43,112,000 in that of the previous
year. Contrasting, June, 1850, with June, 1857,we
find that the tonnage entered inwards had increased
from 632,000 to 714,000, and that cleared outwards
from 813,000 to 926,000. In the six months of
each year the increase, under the former head,
from 3,327,000 to 3,521,000, and in the latter from
4,394,000 to 4,971,000. The year 1856 was of
course very much in advance of the previous year,
and if we compared 1855 with 1857, we should find
the increase still more considerable. The column
devoted to quantities entered for home consumption
shows that the quantity of cocoa consumed in last
June had decreased to 233,0001b5, from 244,0001bs
used in the previous June. Coffee had decreased
from 2,628,0001bs to 2,565,0001b5. Tea had in-
creased from 4,774,0001bs to 5,358,0001bs ; tobacco
from 2,453,0001bs to 2,551,0001b5. Wine had de-
creased from 584,000 to 575,000 gallons. Thus the
great progress made in 1856 in productive industry
and commercial activity is well sustained by the
half of 1857 which has passed.
On Saturday, several parliamentary reports were
published. They show the total revenues and
charges of India for the last three years, as well as
the estimated revenue and charge for the year
ending April, 1857. It appears that in 1853-4 the
revenue was 26,510,0001, being 2,044 0001. less
than the expenditure ; in 1854-5 the revenue was
27,312 0001., being 1,707,0001. short of the expendi-
ture ; in 1855 6 the revenue was 28,891,0001, being
972,0001., less than the expenditure ; and the esti-
mate for 1856-7 is that the income will be found to
amount to 29,341,0001., and the expense to
31,326,0001, showing an anticipate' deficiency
of 1,981,000/. The principal source of in-
come—the land revenue—had increased from
14,848,0001. in 1853-4, to 16,682,000/. in 1856-7.
The customs had increased in the same period from
1,283,0001. to 2,029,0001, while the revenue from
salt had somewhat decreased, and that from opium
remained at nearly the same amount. Under the
head of Charges we find, from 1853 to 1857, that
the direct claims upon the revenue, including
charges of collection and cost of salt and opium,
had increased front 6,805,0001 , in 1853, to 7,380,000/
in 1857; the civil and political establishments,
from 1,973,0001 to 2,500,0001. ; the judicial and
police charges from 2,307,0001. to 2,633,000/.; build-
ings, roads, &c., from
609,0001. to 1,216,0001.; mili-
tary charges from 10,168,0001. to 10,537,0001.;
buildings for military purposes from 292.000/. to
615,0001. ; the Indian navy, 472,0001 to 603,0001.
The interest on debt, on the other hand, has
decreased from 2,504,0001. in 1853 to 2,162,0001.
n 1857.
Our Paris advices inform us that the statement
in the .bfoniteur, to the effect that the French Gov-
ernment does not contemplate sending troops to
China, has excited some little disappointzr nit in
Paris, where the Zouaves, Chasseurs, and other
choice troops, had already made up their minds
for a campaign, rich is spoils if not in glory. The

statement was rendered necessary by the attitude
of the French and Belgian papers, which have
laboured for the last fortnight to prove that the
events in India have so completely shaken the
power of England as to prevent her from conducting
her little affairs in China, and to compel her to sue
for the assistance of France. " The fact is," says
a Paris correspondent, " that the French naval force
now in the Chinese waters is already sufficient to
render the British navy both active and zealous
assistance, while the despatch of troops would
have entailed heavy and unnecessary expenditure,
which the Emperor has at heart to avoid." It
would seem as if the movements of the ex-Queen
Marie Amelie in Belgium was causing some sensa-

tion. A late Paris letter states that the mattsr had
created a visible movement among the leading
Orleanista there, who are all hastening to the
Belgian capital. M. Thiers met the ex Queen at
Ostend, and immediately started for Brussels, to
place himself at her disposal. General Changan
nicr bas likewise left the sea-side for Brussels.

In all probability a general assembly of the Or-
leanist partisans will be held in the latter city,
under the mask of witnessing the marriage of the
Princess Charlotte.
Our advicea fi tam Madrid state that on her
accouchment the Queen of Spain would creat•
several grandees, so as to enable their sons to sit
by hereditary right in the Senate The price
of wheat and other grain was declining everywhere;
in some provinces wheat had fallen in three days
8 to 12 reels the bushel. A letter from a ministerial
source says—" The government has this day
learned by telegraphic despatch that the differences
with Rome are terminated, the Pope having
approved of the sales of the church property which
have been made. This fact gives great moral
force to the Cabinet."
Letters from Vienna mention that in conse
quence of the events of Italy, orders have
been sent to Verona to hasten the works now in
progress there for strengthening the fortifications
The two:new forts that have been built in the im-
mediate neighbourhood are to be armed before
the end of the year. Verona will then be the stron-
gest fortress of the empire, Comorn excepted.
The Opinione of Turin states that several persons
have been arrested in various towns of Tuscany
on the charge of being implicated in the late in-
surrection at Leghorn. It also quotes letters
from Parma, stating that several attempts had
been made to induce the people to rise, but without
success, the Mazzinian party being totally extinct
there.

The tenor of the news from Constantinople is
grave. Discord prevails in the diplomatic body
there, and France, Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia
are ranged on one side, against Turkey, England,
and Austria on the other. The difference arises
in respct to the course taken in Moldavia, and the
refusal of the Porte to assimilate the electoral law
to that of Wallachia, and to arrest the arbitrary
proceedings of the Kaimakan. The Commissioners
in the Principalities are also at loggerheads on the
same subject.
The Niagara arrived hero from Boston yesterday
morning, with three day's later news. Great
exertions are being made by the administration
for the subjugation of the Mormon territory. Large
numbers of troops were being forwarded to Utah.
Kansas was in a peaceable state. General Walker
had sent a despatch to the President, intimating
that he would surely restore law and order. In
New York still more bloodshed had been the result
of further rioting. A New York journalist, under the
head of" Civic affairs, 6rder,riot s,trife,j ebbing," thus
writes :—" Thankful are we that it is consistent
with our sense cf duty to our readers to condense
into brief space the leading municipal events of the
week. To do even this is an irksome task, so foul
is the atmosphere, so full of moral, political, physi-
cal, and legal contention is every hole and corner
of our civic departments. The Fourth of July was
ushered in and celebrated by the riotous and
meaningless street fights of banded hordes of
ruffians. Nearly a dozen lives were lost ; nearly
half a hundred men and boys were wounded ; and
barricades were for the first time used. by gangs of
New York rowdies. The police, under their new
managers, were powerless ; the military were called
out and overawed the brawlers. Order and dis-
order alternate.

TUE City of London is again the scene of a
Parliamentary election. Baron ROTHSCHILD has
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds—a new writ has
been moved for—and the millionaire once more
asks the electors of the metropolis to return him
as their representative, so that, in his person, a
further and final struggle may be made to
obtain Jewish Emancipation. This step shows
that the question is no longer whether Baron
ROTHSCHILD, and gentlemen of his religious
persuasion, shall be permitted to take their seats
in the House of Commons, but what is to be the
result of a conflict between that branch of the
Legislature and the House of Lords, should it be
resolved to admit the Baron by a simple resolu-
tion, permitting him to be sworn in any manner
he may deem most binding upon his conscience.
Our readers will have observed that Baron
ROTHSCHILD met the electors of London at the
London Tavern, and that he delivered a brief but
telling speech, which it would be well if the
House of Lords pondered over with earnestness.
Short though the Baron's address was, it did not
fail to tell when he grappled with the
fallacious argument put forth by the enemies
of Jewish Emancipation, namely, that there was
no cry on the part of the people for the admis-
sion of members of his persuasion into Parlia-
ment—that the desire to obtain Jewish Emanci-
pation was not accompanied by riots such as
compelled the repeal of the Corn Laws, and the
passage of the Reform Bill. This is a most
dangerous doctrine for any statesman to pro-
pound, namely, that in order to ensure the
enactment of just and salutary measures of
progress, the House of Peers is justified in
withholding its assent, until the mandatory
shouts of an indignant populace compel the
realisation of all their political demands.
Gracious GOD ! if Parliament is to refuse
measures of useful and necessary reform until a
platoon of soldiers and a brigade of cavalry
swarm the streets of our cities and towns better
for us at once to remodel the Constitution, and
curb the legislative powers of our hereditary
peerage. If the doctrine of the Tory side of the
House of Lords is permitted to be acted upon,
we see nothing for this once happy country but
anarchy and confusion—for what free people
will bear to have their reasonable political
demands treated with contempt and scorn. and a
loyal, well-conducted, and useful section of the
community denied the glorious privileges which
civil and religious liberty confers upon all who
live under its influence and sway.
From what took place at the meeting which
was held at the London Tavern on Thurs-
t day, it is evident that little hope is placed
in the effort made by Lord JOHN Russnu. to
settle the question by what is regarded as a