Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The London papers are taken up with the exa-
enination of the Duke of Cambridge's speech at
Sheffield. On the whole, the opinion of the naajo
rity of our metropolitan cotemporaries must prove
very satisfactory to his Royal 'Highness. The
Times says that the Commander-in-Chief spoke in
a frank and manly tune. n It WAR the English
utterance of an English heart. Such a speech, on
such an occasion, shows how muchave have advanced
during the last few years in the mutual sympathy
of classes ; how entirely the policy which divided
the army from the people, and tlept it out of
sight,' has been abandoned. On the subjects on
which his audience desired to hear his opinions
the Duke was not silent. The great anxiety to
the chief military authority in a free country
must be to obtain a supply of recruits'' And
further on, the editor of our leading journal says :
We are happy to record, on the highest
authority, that the exertions of the lest few weeks
have not been without their effect. The narratives
which have been laid before the public, the general
horror and indignation that have been excited, and
the activity of those who have influence with the
labouring class, are now drawing recruits to the
army in numbers not inadequate to the occasion
We do not wish to raise the voice of jubilee too
soon, or to fancy that one swill av makes a spring,
but such an assurance as that given by the Duke of
• Cambridge may certainly be communicated to tke
country with a comment expressive of satisfaction
The only subject," said his Royal Highness, " which
of late has given me anxiety, was the recruiting
for the army. I must, however, tell you—for there
is nothing like being frank and open with you—
that the ordinary recruiting for the army is pro-
gressing in a manner which is perfectly incredible.
The ordinary means of recruiting have in two
days alone produced 800 men. That is a great
-fact. .It is a result which was never obtained
during the Russian War ; a result which was
never equalled in the military history of the
country." This intelligence will, we are sure. he
received with satisfaction and pride. The Daily
NAAS in an article ostensibly on this subject, takes
occasion to pass a very elaborate panegyric on the
whole of the house of Hanover. " There is nothing
brilliant, or great, or very wise in the house of
Hanover;" but they are courageous, temperate,
mild, moderate, prudent, and patriotic ;" and as for
the Duke, " he is plain, unaff:cted, simple, intelli
gent, active, sincere, and an accessible man of the
world, without pimp, pretence, or ostentation."
The writer indulges in still further powerful adjec-
tives. Speaking of the Duke's personal vigour,
temperament, and views. as evinced by his speech,
he says_--" It was frank, manly, practical and use-
ful ; offensive to no one, encouraging every one,
free from all false sentiment or sham philanthropy,
such as Lord. Cenni ig indulges in, but equally free
from- vindictive feelings or instigation to acts of
mere vengeance or cruelty, laying down principles
in a plain simple way, stimulating, by its earnest-
ness, the country to a wholesome action, and
evincing a just estimate of the nation's power and
strength."
Much anxiety is felt for the receipt of the next
telegraph', news from India. Meantime a mush
cooler spirit seems to prevail as to the treatment of
the Sepoys, when sul,olued, than was recently
observable. The word " vengeance" is expressly
repudiated by almost every speaker cf note at the
-Indian Fund meetings, and a discriminative justice
is case I for. At Leicester. on Thursday, the
Duke of Rutland and other gentlemen very
emphatically conieinned the cry for blind re-
venge. The Belgian Consul resident at Bombay has
written to hia Government with a view to state-
the conclusions at which he has arrived as to the
rebellion, and the effect which it is likely to have
-upon trade and. commerce. Speaking of the
.Bengal .Psesidency, he describes the revolt as
assuming alarming proportions, while the English
troops have only gained a few advantages here and
there. Of the Bombay territory he indulges in
.great hope, and states that the elements of the in-
-surrection do not exist, that:eh disorder has broken
out in a tew isolated atations. The commerce of
Tembay was, in his opinion, in a healthy state
Sir ]'sward Bulwer Lytton has been address
ing the farmers at Tring, on India. Sir Edward
highly approves of Lord Elienborough a
.letter, and says that all we must think about
new is the best means of suppressing the revolt.
Belfast was represented on \Vednesday in its wealth
and influence, at the meeting -convened by the
Xayor, for the purpose of raising a fund for the
relief of the sufferers by the calamities in India.
The appeal made was liberally responded to, at
-least AG • far as the town of Belfast ,is colearried.
Weald it not be well, as the High 'Sheriff of the
couety-suggests, that local meetings should beheld
in Ball,ymentt, .Ballym.aley, Antrim, iLarne, and
other towns of the eon:ten-, and local subscription
lists got -up in coincideaee with the movement?
The character of the county Antrim for loyalty
and liberality is, to no small extent, concerned in
the matter, and we trust that the hopes entertained,
from the result of the suggestion, as to what is
fitting to be done, will not be disappointed..
The Lord. Lieutenant of Ireland, who has arrived
in England, is said to be in possession of the
report Of the commissioners appointed to inquire
into the Belfast riots, but it is not known wheu the
;report will be published. The sooner the report is
in the hands of the public the better. It is not
probable that the evidence will be published,
-artless moved for in the .11 )use of Commons. Now
that the report has been made, its aoasideration,
sure2y, cannot occupy much time, an it ought to
be .made public forthwith.
-We have some particulars of the execution of
Booth at Aberdeen, en Wednesday lest. lie walked
'with the utmost firmness to the seaff Ad, and there
addressed the large ce3wd for about two or three
minutes, in a clear and distinct voice. The tenor
of his address was an advice to the spectators to
.look .to Christ for guidance and mercy, as hope
for pardon at death, as he at that moment did.
regard to what he sail in the court at his
trial about the unfaithfulness of his wife, and his
Ming driven to commit the deed for which he was to
suffer by the conduct of his mother-in-law in sanc-
tioning:hat unfaithfulness, he now, in his last
moments, asked all who heard him to omit from
their naiads the statement he made in court ; fur
what would not man say to try and save his life ?
He then bade the assemblage farewell, and having
for a second or two engaged in prayer, Caleraft
drew the belt and the drop fell. The unfsrtunate
man struggled but a few seconds. Booth has left
statement i 3 the hands of the Chaplain of the
gaol of the same import as his speech on the
scaffold. He was 37 years of age.
At a meeting of the Cambridge Town Council on
Thurslav, the Right lion. Baron Macaulay was
elected High Steward of the borough, in the room
tpf the late Lord Fitz willinin• The noble lord had

(previously intimated his willingness to accept the
- office.
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A curious case, illustra`ing the anomalous state
of the Church-Rate question, was held before the
Lord Mayor of London, on Thursday. A gentle-
man of the name of Burgon, occupying a house in
Bucklerabury, was summoned to show cause why
he had not paid a church rate amounting to
..t5 2s 6,1, alleged to be due to the churchwardens
of " St. Benet Sherehog." The defendant pleaded
that the rate to be legal . must include some
charge for the repairs of the building, whereas
it was actually levied to pay the sexton-
e,ss, the vestry clerk, and other parties. The
reason why no charge was made for the building
became sufficiently apparent when Mr. Goodman,
the chief clerk, stated that the parish of "St
Benet Sherehog" had been unblessed with any-
thing in the shape of a church since the Great
Fire of London. The Lord Mayor, under the
peculiar circumstances of the case, refused
to adjulicate upon it, so that the church-
wardens who levied the rate may, if they pleas©,
find their remedy in the Ecclesiastical Courts.
Mr. Burgon will need something more substantial
than public sympathy should he be dragged into
that court, which, as he not unaptly says " was
formed to ruin individuals:"
Two "fortune tellers" were, yesterday, sent to.
gaol for three months, with hard labour, as rogues
arid vagabonds. It is stated by the police that
there are a great number of these characters in the
town. They will nz,ver he put down until both the
astrologer and his victim are sent to gaol. The
latter is as bad as the former.
We have often directed the attention our
readers to the har lahip and inconvenience under
which the publican is placed, respecting the billit-
ing of so'diers. At the Police Court, yesterday, a
ease bearing upon this question came before the
macistrate. A publican, in Mulberry-street, was
served, by a corporal of the Scots Fusilier Guards,
with a billet. He was offered 41. to fo: ego his
privilege, but refused it, whea he was to'd there
was a bed for him He returned at night, but
the publican was under the impression that the
party was not the one for which the billet was
issued, and refused him a bed. A summons was
taken out, and the defendant was fined in a sum
of 40s. and costs. It is surely time that this bil-
letting system was done away with.
A fob report of the proceedings at the Concert
Hall last night, when Neal Dow made his farewell
speech in England, will be found iu another
column.

The news from abroad this morning is not of
much interest. The naw Spanish Ministry has
shown a disposition to be conciliatory towards the
press, but seems resolved to govern without the
Cartes as long as it can, for it has postponed their
meeting till the 31st Deeemhor, the utmost period
allowed by law. The King of Russia is
getting bettor, and there is something
said about his signing in a day or two an►
ardonnance bestowing temporary royal power
on the Prince of Prussia, but this is doubtful.
According to the Austrin press, Lord Palmerston
is still firmly resolved to support Austria and
Turkey in their resistance to the union of the
Principalities.
The returns of the Brunk of England issue, last
night, show a decreasa of upwards of £355,000.

OF late we have heard many, and, to our
mind, singular speeches respecting the Indian
Mutiny. But the most wonderful, and at the
same time unmeaning, of all that has come
under our observation is that delivered the other
day by Mr. J. P. WILLOUGHBY,. an East India
Director, to his constituents at Leominster.
Just now, the gentlemen who " rule the roast"
in Leadenhall Street, are important personages;
consequently, everything they say, particularly
in reference to the position and prospects of their
own empire, is seized upon with avidity. Their
orations are scanned, sentence by sentence, in
order that, if at all possible, we may know the
" why " and the " wherefore" of the mighty
struggle now going forward on the plains of
Hindoostan. Certainly, one would imagine,
that of all other personages who could furnish
such desirable information, a member of the
Court of East India Directors would be the
personage. If, heretofore, that body was only
a small congregation of commercial gentlemen,
regarded as being well posted up in Oriental
matters, which in themselves were dry and
uninteresting to the public at large, a change
has come round, and lie must be little of a
patriot, or a politician, who would carelessly
overlook the driest details issued by the " Esst
India House." or not peruse every word, line,
and sentence, of a Director's speech.
Well, one of these great Eistern luminaries,
as we have before remarked, has been to
Leominster and had his say, and that too on no
less an exciting and all-important topic than an
attempt to enlighten his audience as to the
causes of the Indian Revolt. But any one who
carefully peruses the speech will be at a great
loss to know what the " Honourable Proprietor "
actually means. It is an oration full of negative
qualities. Instead of setting forth the legitimate
and true causes of the outbreak in Bengal, Mr.
WILLOUGHBY merely demonstrates what they
are not; and if we were disposed to be extremely
critical we should siy that his argument, if
sound and good for anything, proves that the
mutiny had no cause at all. But this is a
philcsophical idea that we would not desire to
establish, particularly at the expense of an East
India Director. Commencing his address to the
Electors of Leominster there was a cautious and
extreme guardedness, which did not say much
for the speaker or his colleagnes at the India
Board. He told his hearers that he was there as
a private individual, and not as an E.ist India
Director. If, however, Mr. WILLOUGHBY et
that what he was saying was the truth, there
could be little cause to think his colleagues in
Leadenhall Street would have been ashamed of,
or repudiated, any of his remarks. .I.t strikes us,
from this little piece of preliminary fencing, that
there must be divided, counsels at the E Ist
India llouse. If so, we need not be surprised at
what has taken place. The language of Holy
Writ declares " A house divided against itself,
cannot stand."

But let us see how Mr. WILLOUGHBY disposes
of this Indian mutiny. In the first place, lie
tells us that the war, or rather, rebellion, is one
in which the people at large do not ihun nor
sympathise with. The people, instead of rising
agaist their exiting rulers and countenancing
the mur.lerous deeds of the rebellious Sepor,
keep aloof from them, 41)(4 where dangegPf their