Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-01 00:00:00

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

0-RAND BALLOON ASCENT.

The anxious'y-expected balloon ascent took place from
these fashionable gardens yesterday evening, and, as was
anticipated, drew an immense concourse of people to the
gardens. It was the great gala day of the Royal Oak
Society, and upwards of 7,000 persons visited the gardens
(luring the day. The officers of the society and the officials
of the gardens were most urbane to the great influx o
respectable visitors. The entertainment was of a varied
and attractive description, and delighted all who were
present to witness it. The grand attraction, however,
lay in the ascent of the balloon, and the proprietor
with other parties, resolved, so far a; they could, to do
every thing to render disappointm nt all but impossible.
The first balloon was inflated, but, owing to an accident,
the gas escaped. The man igers of the society resolved to
have an ascent, and they procured the Prince of Wales,
balloon, at, as we are informed, an extra expense of about
£7O. This fine machine was got into position duly
inflate], and at seven o':lock made a splendid ascent,
with the " captain," es the rearnout was called, as
the guide. Tne discharge of cannon, and the plaudits of
thousands of throats, announced the event—the band
playing "Off she goes." The machine took a southerly
direction, and after a short but very successful run, came
down quite safely with the voyageur in a field behind
Crown-street. Mr. Atkins was indefatigable in his
exertions, and as usual he pleased every one. ' The great
additional expense incurred by the Royal Oak Society, as
above stated, will no doubt be made up in the grand galas
announced by tire same body to take place to-morrow and
Friday. Independent of the attraction of the balloon
ascent, the other entertainment; are of the most fascinating
description, and must please every one.

HORRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT
WESTERN RAILWAY.

PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

WR EX FIANI, 51oxnAy.

Yesterday tnornimr, a man nailed James Jones, tailor,
of this town, lost his life under the following circum-
stances t—Dmeased, in company with four companions,
had been drinking at the Cora Exchange Inn, High-
street, on the Saturday night, and at twelve o'clock they
were turned out of the public-house. They then went in
pursuit of musherooms. On their way they had occasion
to cross the style over the Great Western Railway Com-
pany's rails, about one mile from the Wrexham Station.
On the way to Shrewsbury his companions went away
and left him near the line. When they came back to look
for him they could not find him. They went to his house
and inquired of his wife if he had reached
home. On being told he had not, they returned
and found him lying on the rails in a most fright-
ful condition. He had been knocked down and drawn for
some eiitance by the three o'clock a.m. down train, his
both arms and legs were broken, pelees of his skull and
brains were found at some distance from the body. The-
blood and hair was scattered very much. He has left a.
wife and five children to mourn his untimely end. An
iuqu,st was held on the body this day before the County
Coroner B. W. Shellwall, Ecq , and a resiActable jurb
when a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned.

aalignani Says—" M. Babinet, the astronomer, haaiust
announced to she Ins'itufe that, in consequence of a fa-
vourable change in the currents of the ocean, a series of
years of heat has been entered on, of which the paes_nt is
he commencement.

QUICK PASSAGE.—The Peveril of the Peak, Captain R.
Murphy, made the passage from Bremen to this,port, under
rather disadvantageous circumstances, in nine days. She
had already made a rapid voyage from India to Bremea•
and it is said an ordinary passage from the latter to Liver-
pool in about twenty days.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—On Saturday.night, or early on
Sunday morning, a public-house at the corner of Forest-
street, was broken into and robbed of over £5OO in bank
noes and gold. The robbers must have known something
of the p-etnises, as they broke open a drawer in which the
key of the safe was kept, and then opening the safe, got
off clear with the money.
FROGS FOR SUPPER.—We are informed that on Sunday
evening last, a Frenchman, nmed Charles Seidel, a coni-
posiwr, entertained fourteen friends to supper, at the St.
James's Tavern, Yorkshire-street, and that one course
consisted of the legs of eighty frogs, which had been fried
with butter and eggs in the French manner. Doubtless,
very excellent fare, but we were not at all sorry we wore
not of the party.—Thrclulale Observer,
THE SAILORS' 1101.1E.-IVir. Henry Murphy, who, for
sonic years past, held the important position of Inspector
in the in-door doartment of the Detective Police, has been
appointed (out of eighty candidates) t 3 the office of Super-
intendant of the staff of the out-door department of the
Sailors' Home. The applintment could not have fallen oe
a more active officer, who has gained the esteem of ever/
one, both in his public and private capacity. Besides the
superior abilities of Mr. Murphy as an intelligent and
successful officer, his gentlf manly bearing fits him for the
important position which he has so honourably gained,
simply on his own merits. No doubt he will give as much
satisfaction in his new position as he has ever done in th.:
foro'e, which has lost one of its best members by bl
Merited promotion,

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
The latest telegraphic despatch from Constan-
tinople, dated yesterday, does not announce the
resumption of diplomatic relations between the
Porte and the four, Powers. All that was waited
for was the complete constitution of the new
Ministry. M. de Thourvenel has had an audience
• of the Sultan.
Despatches from the French Consul at Tunis
announce that the Bey has granted the full satis-
faction demanded of him for the recent outrages
crlEuropeans. They add that his government is
so weak that similar excesses may be expected to
,03Eur again, and that it is essential to take mea-
sures f.-.r the future protection of foreigners.
The Debate contains a budget of miscellaneous
intelligence from Senegal and the French West
India Islands. In the Upper Senegal the Mahone-
Medan chief, El Hadj Omer, after having been
twice repulsed in fierce attacks on the fort of
Medine, had announced his intention of taking it
by famine. lie had also proclaimed throughout
Senegambia and Guinea that, when he should
have finished with Senegal, he would attack
Gambia, Goree, and all the establishments
on the west coast of Africa, whence he
was resolved to expel the Europeans.
Meanwhile he has been detained two months by a
fort of no great strength, into which, notwithstand-
ing the blockade, supplies have been thrown, and
whither relief was sent in July. From Guada-
loupe we learn that the first cargo of African
labourers had arrived by the ship Phceoix She
left the coast of Africa with 296 on board, and lost.
14 on the passage, which lasted 39 days. The Ad-
Ministration of Guadeloupe had been informed by
the Minister of Marine that "two ships, belonging
to the house of Regis, the Stella and the Clara, were
about to quit Marseilles to recruit, on the West
Coast of Africa, the 1;200 or 1.500 emigrants that
house had undertakers to supply in the course of
1857."
The Duke of Rivas had a long interview on
Friday with Count Walewski, and is said to have
declared that, before proceeding to hostilities with
Mexico, the Spanish Government would publish a
manifesto explaining the question at issue, and
permitting the Mexican Government to open fresh
negotiations. Although accounts are conflicting with
respect to the exact course the Spanish-Mexican
dispute is taking, and to the manner in which it is
likely to be arranged, it is pretty evident that all
danger of collision between the two powers is over
for the present. As regards the final settlement,
that, considering the national character of the dis-
putants, may possibly be long. But fears for
'Cuba will restrain Spain from carrying out those
warlike threats of which her press and some of her
legislature were lately lavish.
In a recent Council of Ministers, M. Abbatuuci
expressed himself in terms of great indignation
with respect to the abuses in Algeria that have
been revealed on the trial of Captain Doineau
and the Arab culprits. Marshal Vaillant, in
reply, endeavoured to extenuate the matter,
observing that, in judging it, we must not look
• at it exactly from the European point of view,
but make some allowance for the peculiar
circumstances of a recently conquered country,
for the character of the people to be dealt
with, &c. A mixed commission has been ap-
pointed to draw up a plan, to be submitted
to the Emperor, for the reorganisation of the Arab
'bureaux It seems to be considered impossible to
dispense with them, but a less military character
will Probably be given to them. It is still reported
that Generals Montauban and Beaufort will be re-
moved from their present commands in consequence
of the scandal this affair has occasioned.
A great reorganisation of the Ministry of the
Inteiior is talked of—into five branches or divisions
Public Safety, the Press, Accounts, General and
-Departmental Administration, and Telegraph.
The following despatches have been received :
Aden from Africa say that the English Governor of
,ouevell has furnished instructing officers to the various
Thcelgus on the shores of the Red Sea.
announabioet of Turin, in a very proper note, has
ed that it will expel 27 Neapolitan refugees con-
asSlu,,ered dangerous•
• sing Ferdinand of Naples has granted numerous deco-
rations, medals, and pensions to the authorities and Urban
-Guards of Calabria. The intendant or Salerno has been
named Grand Cross.

' ITALY.

TURIN, AUG UST 27.

The late French diplomatic changes have naturally
,given rise to much speculation in Italy as to
their signification regarding the policy of the
Imperial Government towards Italy in the future.
While on the one hand the Liberal party flatter
themselves that the nomination of the Due de Gra-
mont as representative of the Emperor at the Court
of Rome gives promise of the inauguration of that
much-desired policy shadowed forth in the
well•known letter to Edgar Ney, the Armenia and
its fellow labourers fi.ld consolation in the fact
that even the Liberal papers are obliged to
describe the appointment of the Due de Gramont
as promotion, which, says the Armenia, proves
that the Emperor of the French esteems the
government of Rome much more than he does that
of Sardinia. A letter received from Bologna this
Morning says this appointment had raised great
hopes among the Liberal party there, and the
writer adds that the Pope, in taking leave of the
Austrian authorities there, had said " he had felt com-
forted in seeing himself surrounded by brave men,
who had not only had reestablished the Pontifical
Throne, but maintained and defended courageously
'the sacerdotal power against the attacks o luke-
warm friends of little faith," which was supposed
to be an allusion to the French Government, as
the remark was made shortly after Count de
Rayneval had been there to take leave of His
Relines&
t I have good authority for saying that the Pope's
reception at Florence has been very much what it
was throughout his journey in his own dominions
—that is to say, respectful towards himself as head
of the Church, with a strongly-developed curiosity
to see a live Pope. I met a friend yesterday who
had witnessed the Pope's reception in several
towns of the Marches and Romagna, and also at
Modena and Florence, and he assured me the
reception at Modena was the nearest approach to
an enthusiastic welcome that he saw, and even
there it was vefy tame. As to the Fierentines, he
said they crowded in hundreds and thousands to
look at the Pope as they would at a wild beast, but
they paid very little attention to him once their
curiosity had been satisfied ; and though the
streets and open places were full of people, and
the houses decorated with flags and garlands,
and tapestry and other inanimate symbols of re•
juicing on the day of his arrival, few people even
uncovered, and hardly any knelt to receive his
benediction as he passed along. The Court
and clergy at Florence .had, of course, done
'their utmost to invest the Papal visit with
1,1,1,e air of a triumph for their views and
°Pinions, but although the priests undoubtedly
have great influence over certain classes,
the people of Tuscany are by nature far too acute
to be led by the simple diction of preachers
against the evidence of their oNn senses ; and it is
said this visit of the Pope to Tuscany will, therefore,
probably have done more to destroy the faith in
Papal infallibility than all the efforts of Protestant
or Evangelical missionaries could have effected in
a century.
Lord and Lady Normanbv passed through Turin
Yesterday, on their way to England. His lordship
was hastily summoned by telegraph in consequence
of the serious illness of one of his brothers, and is
expected to return in about six weeks.

BOROUGH OP Gamown:ie.—Some excitement has been
Occasioned in consequence of the prospect of au immediate
vacancy in the representations, arising out of the proceed-
ings in bankruptcy against Mr. Townsend. It is supposed
Mr. Chambers will again seek the suffrages of the
electors.

LORD ELGIN IN CHINA,

The great event at Hong King, since the departure of

the June overland mails, was the arrival of Lord Elgin
at that city on the 2ad July. His lordship landed under
salutes from the men-of-war and the Murray Battery,
being received on the wharf by H. E. Sir John Bowring,
Generals Ashhurnham and Garrett, and the whole of the
diplomatic and military staffs. He at once proceeded to
Government House, where he held a public levee on
Wednesday evening. After the reception, a deputation
of the community wait2d upon His Excellency, and
presented the following Address, signed by the great body
of British residents, and to which we are enabled to
append His Lordship's reply :

TO THE EIGHT NO NOIIELAELE THE IC tIIL OF ,

Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Court of Pekin,
MY LORD —We, the undersigned British subjects do
ourselves the honour of offering to your lordship our
hearty congratulation on your safe, arrival at the country
of your embassy. The satisfaction with which your lord-
ship's acceptance of this difficult and peculiar mission
was hailed in England, has found a loud and ready echo
here, and we rely with great confidence on that judgment
which has so signally distinguished your lordship's public
career. We are by no means insensible, my lord, of the
many difficulties which beset the great mission upon
which your lordship now enters, involving as it does so
many of the highest interests of civil and religious liberty
and commerce. We venture upon no opinion at present
respecting the readjustment of our relations with this
empire at large, though always prepared to hold our ad-
vice and experience at your lordship's command; but
upon that branch of the question which we distinguish
as the " Canton difficulty," we would take this the
earliest opportunity of recording our opinion—an opinion
founded upon long and reluctant, and we may add tra-
ditional, experience—that any compromise of it, or any
sort of settlement which shall stop short of the complete
humiliation of the Cantonese which shall fail to teach
them a wholesome respect for the obligation of their own
Government in its relations with independent powers,
and a more hospitable reception of the foreigner who
resorts to their shores for the peaceable purposes of trade,
will only result in further suffering to themselves, and
further disastrous interruptions to us. Many of us have
already been heavy sufferers by the present difficulty. It
must be apparent to your lordship that our best interests
lie upon the side of peace, and upon the earliest solid
peace that can be obtained ; but notwithstanding this,
we would most earnestly deprecate any settlement of the
question which should not have eliminated from it the
very last elements of future disorder. We beg leave in
conclusion to repeat the assurance of our entire confidence,
and we trust that the grand result of your lordship's
mission may be worthy of your lordship's high reputation,
and may form the dawn of a new and more auspicious
era in the history of our intercourse with this vat and
productive empire.—We have the honour to be, your
lordship's obedient and humble servants,
Hong,Kong, 3rd July, 1837.