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NOSDA I', SEPTEJIBER 7, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The incidents of the day are neither numerous
or important. India and the tales of horror which
are being pul)lished daily are the all absorbing
topics. And no sooner has one batch of intelli-
gence been received and perused, than the next is
looked for with a greedy impatience and desire.
Meantime, it is satisfactory to know that every
exertion is being made to dispatch large military
reinforcements to. the seat of the mutiny. We
are glad to observe that the Liverpool clippers en-
gaged in the transport service are maintaining in
their celebrated character for rapid sailing. We are
informed that the James Baines, with the 97th
Regiment on board, was passed on the l 7th ult.,
with thirty-seven sails set—skyssils, studdingsails
slow and aloft, and moonsail ! Her progress was
wonderful, considering the winds. The Champion
of the Seas, with the 20th Regiment on board, was
spoken at the same time, not far astern of the
James Baines. The other clipper of the Black Ball
line, the Lightning, was passed on the 29th ult.,
140 miles S.W. of Scilly, or about 600 miles from
the Foreland, in 46 hours.
The Tavistock election has terminated iu the
return of Mr. Arthur Russell, his majority over
Mr. Miall being 44. Had the latter gentleman been
earlier in the field his chance would have been
much better. The electors of Oldham have deter
mined on recanting their error of March last, and
electing Mr. W. J. Fox. Greenwich has no
lack of candidates. Another aspirant for
senatorial honours has made his appear-
ance, and sues the suffrages of the electors
upon Liberal principles. This is Mr. J. I. Scott,
who says in his address that he has all his life
been connected with the press, and who wants to
get into parliament to obtain a Radical Reform
Bill, a compulsory system of Education, the Vote
by Ballot, and vigorous measures to put down the
Indian mutiny. But he says he woret go, for the
separation of the Church from the State, believing
that a civilized nation should have a religious '
standard. One of the London morning papers
suggests to the electors the propriety of selecting
their future representative from the ranks of the
Cobden party, who were defeated at the general
eleetioe, intimating that Greenwich could not
apply the liberty of choice allowed it this moment
to better advantage then in following the example
of Birmingham, and sending another of the late
members to fill the place they so lately adorned.
We observe that the Annual Cutlers' Feast
has taken place at Sheffield, which gave three
members of the House of Commons—Mr.
Denison, Lord Goderich, and Mr. Hadfield—
an opportunity of commenting upon the Indian
crisis. Mr. Roebuck was not present. Mr. Had-
fell endeavoured to take a rational view of the
difficulties and requirements of India, but the
ether speakers only talked about the necessity of
sharpening our cutlasses to cut the throats of the
rebels.

It is stated that the AI trquis of Dalhousie has
placed the whole of the pension of £5,000,
bestowed upon him by the East India Company,
at the disposition of the London committee for.
relieving the distresses of our fellow-countrymen
is India.
Elsewhere will be found an epitomised report of
the proceedings of the Council of the Reform
Association, last week ; in which several interesting
and important topics were taken up and discussed.
General Sir William Codrington's present occupa-
tion as military tutor to the Prince of Wales. par-
ticularly at the present juncture, was very properly
condemned.
As yet no answer has been returned to the
memorial sent to Sir George Grey on behalf of the
condemned convicts now under sea'enee of death
st liirkdale. By many this is considered as a
favourable occasion, although not a few consider
that it is rather too bad to keep the unhappy
men so long alternating between hope and
fear. We are no advocates of capital punish-
ments, but the case of these wretched
criminals is one so fearfully atrocious, and bloody,
and brutal in the extreme, that it is devoid of a
single atom of palliation.. We talk of the butchers
and brutalities in India, but their barbarous deeds
Isere acts of mercy in comparison with the
cruelties and inhuman deeds of Captain Rogers
and his mates. It is said that the learned judge
who tried the case has sent a recommendation
for a commutation of the sentence, and that he
grounds the recommendation upon the unsatisfae
toy character of the evidence This may be all very
well for Baron Wvson, but the jury, on their oaths
were satisfi ?d, and rendered their verdict accord.
ingly. The fact is, that sit lh is the fearful character
and alarming erent of cruelties practised upon
sailors at sea, that the time has come for the
majesty of tho law to put a stop thereto, and make
one or two terrible c x tmples. A commutation of
the sentence of Captain lingers and his mates will,
we fear, be unpioular with the country, and only
induce such like ferocious characters to perpe-
trate their deeds of violence and blood with a
feeling of indifference. A case, similar to that of the

unfortunate IL)se, is now before the Loud. 3n Police
Court, where a captain from 11.trtlepool so heat and

tortured his apprentice that the poor lad jumped
overboard and was drowned, thus terminating his
sufferings and relieving himself from. the Nero-like
deeds of hls wicked commaader. If there is to be

any commut ition of the sentence, reprieve the mates
but mak4 an example of the captain by allowing
the law to take ite course. A riper candidate for
the gibbet never appeared upon the etage of
time.

We have not mush continental news of moment.
The last act of the legal drama connected with the
late attempt on the Emperor's life, has been per-
formed. At the meeting of the Assize Court, on
Thursday, the formal proceeding was gone throagh
of finding Rollin, Mdzzini, Massarento, and Cam-
panella guiltyof the imputed cr;ma, aad this having
been done, they were sentenced to transportation.
There was no speech for the defence, no speech for
the prosecution, no jury, and no evidence. The
act of accusation was read, and as the prisoners
were not present to answer it, their guilt was
assumed, and their punishment was pro-

nounced. Our latest Paris adviees inform us
that the King of Wurtemberg has quitted Biarritz
to return to his capital. It now appears certain
that the Emperor and Empress of the French have
resolved to return tho King's visit, and that their
Imperial Majesties are expected at Stuttgardt on
the 25th of this month. From that place the
Emperor of Russia will have gone to Baden
to rejoin the Empress Maria. Both will
remain at Baden from the 20th to the 24th,
and arrive at Stuttgardt on the latter day,
where they will stay till the 28th. It may there-
fore, be looked upon as positive that the interview
between the two Emperors will take place at
Stuttgardt. According to the Paris journals of
Saturday, the most perfect understanding exists
between the French and English Governments on
the subject of Chins. If the Court of Pekin does
not give immediate satisfactton to Lord Elgin,
war against the Celestial Empire will be declared
simultaneously by the two Governments.
From Constantinople we learn that the Sultan
was about to send an envoy to Spain to consolidate
his relations with that Power. Nothing new had
taken place concerning the Principalities. From
Palestine the intelligence was not satisfa'tory, as
disorder was increasing. At Jerusalem, the Latin
Patriarch was so menaced that he had tendered
his resignation. The consul of France had inter-
fered. Throughout Syria nothing was heard but
threats against the Christians.
News from the East, by way of Trieste, is to the
29th. The most important pert of it refers to the
troubles in Syria, the spread of which we early
anticipated. These now sesnas to have grown into
a general oatbreak of Mahommedan passion
against the Christian part of the population, just
as in India. It certainly does not appear that the
Mahommedans anywhere feel very grateful for the
assistance afforded to them by Western Earope,
during the late war.
The news from Northern Europe is somewhat
more reassuring, as it tends to show, that the
Danish gove'nment is not much inclined to make
use of warlike menaces in its quarrel with the
German districts. On the contrary it has dimi-
nished for the time being, the effective strength
of the army, and is said to listen with favour to
the proposition of an arrangement which would
amount to a legislative and administrative separa
tion of the two incongruous parts of the
monarchy.
The Russian organ at Brussels announces that
the interview between the Emperors Alexander and
Louis Napoleon, is to take place at Stuttgardt on
the 27th of this month. It seems destined to last
three days, and, as the Empress of Russia will be
present, it is possible that the Empress Eugenic
will accompany her husband. St. Petersburgh
letters of a late date mention that the
Commission entrusted with the adminiitration of
that part of Bessarabia which has been ceded to
Moldavia has just been dissolved. The Emperor
has prohibited Jews from inhibiting Sebastopol
They are not even allowed to go thither in order
to embark in a steamer for foreign parts ; for that
purpose they must go to Eupatoria.
We have later Madrid letters and papers,. They
state that at Seville, on the 27A.i, the Captain-
General had ceased a placard thus worded to be
posted up:—"At three o'clock in the afternoon of
this day, the soi-disant Colonel Joaquin Jema,
and Cajetano Morales will be shot for having
instigated the late rebellion, and acted as chiefs
in it." Three hours after, the two men were
executed as announced. A letter from a Ministerial
source denies that there wits truth in reports that
were current of modifieations in the Ministry.
We have three days later news from America,
by the arrival of the Canada. She brought
430,000 dots. in specie. The only item of any
interest is in reference to commercial matters. A
number of heavy failures are announced—those of
John Thompson, De _I aunay, Iselin and Co., and
E. S. Munroe, of New York; and the Ohio Life and
Trust Company. The failure of the latter is one
of the heaviest financial calamities that has ever
stained the commercial annals of the country.
The liabilities probably exceed six millions of
dollars. It is said that the assets are suffieient to
protect depositors, but there is no law which will
secure priority to their claims. The failure is
likely to carry embarrassment and distress into
many unsuspecting families.
The South American mails arrived at Southamp
ton on Saturday afternoon. We supply our readers
with a full summary of the news. General Rosas,
the late Dictator, has been convicted of high
treason, and all his property confiscated. It was
stated at Rio de Janeiro that war was imminent
between Paraguay and the Brazils.
The Mails from the Cape of Good Hope by the
W. S. Lindsay have been delivered. The in-
telligence is of a highly interesting, although
not of an exciting, character. It relates
chiefly to questions of internal progress and
improvement ; and we hope the time is far distant
when the din of war will be heard again on
South African soil. It appears that in consequence
of a disagreement between the legislative repro_
sentatives of the Eastern and Western provinces
upon the subject of pledging the money of the
constituents of the former for, as they state, Cape
Town purposes and the co nstruclon of a railway,
the entire representatives of the Eastern province
have resigned, and a dissolution of the union is
threatened. Already a movement to effect this
object has been commenced at Fort Elizabeth.

OLDHAM having, by a melancholy accident,
lost one of its members, could not do itself a
greater honour, nor the country a greater service,

than return its former member, WILLIAM JOHN-
SON Fox. Mr. Fox belongs to that eminent band
of able men who were excluded from the House
by the late election. He does not belong to the
Manchester school; though, of course, as a Free
Trader, he has points of contact. with them,
because his views and sympathies are too wide
to make him the property of any school. Fox
belongs not to a party but to the nation; like
MILTON, he is the defender and advocate of the
people of England. His views and principles
utterly disqualify him by their breadth and libe-
rality from being a good party man. But what-
ever is based on evident philosophical principles,
arid comes recornnaeaded by its usefulness and
practicability, is sure to have his enlightened
advocacy and support. He is one of those who,
in former days, were called the philosophical
Radicals. A. Liberal in politics and in religion,
his suffrage is in favour of every thing progres-
sive. For many years before he entered Parlia-
ment he defended the cause of the people in the
Motethly Repository, a periodical of which he was
for some years editor. His advocacy of Reform
began long before that cause became popular,
and was taken up by a Prime Minister, carried
through an enthusiastic House of Commons,
forced upon a reluctant House of Lords, and
ratified by Majesty. He was then styled the
poet-orator of England, for the eloquence and
elegance of his speeches on the platform ; and
the poet CAMPBELL pronounced him the most
eloquent preacher in England. All his speches
and writings are distinguished by their artistic
finish—their full and rounded eloquence, without
redundancy and without defect—their sweet
poetic rhyme—their chaste adornment-, united
with simplicity.

No living writer has wielded the English

language with greater mastery, or more happily
exhibited its richness, variety, and flexibility.
SOM./LEY, MACAULAY, and Fox, are among the
purest models of a classical English diction.
As a platform speaker he has scarcely an equal.
Who can ever forget his stirring and brilliant
orations at the meetings of the Anti-Corn-Law
League ? S;nce he entered Parliament in 1E347,
he has shown great discretion and forbearance
by the way in which he has employed
his brilliant powers of oratory. Possibly Fox
may have entered Parliament too late for
rising to the full height of his abilities as a
speaker; his speaking may not be sufficiently
dry, hard, and statistical for the House, and he
has no baronial influence, as a holder of broad
acres and rich lands. Fox is essentially a
tribune of the people, but with nothing of that
fiery spirit that would array class against class,
and set the poor against the rich; his tribuneship
is of that humane and Catholic description
which does not pander to popular prejudices.
but consults the true and lasting good of the
people, even in spite of themselves. In the case
of the strike of the engineers near Manchester,
he had a ctifficult part to play, and many puzzling
questions to answer, yet there was no truckling,
no plausible equivocation, but he spoke right
out the conclusions which a sound political
economy has reached in the writings and
inquiries of JOLIN STUART MILL. This honesty
perilled his popularity for a time; but in the
end he was, as usually happens, a gainer by his

openness and fidelity. In Parliament he has
spoken rather too little than too much ; and in
this he has shown a sound discretion. He is
always listened to with deference and attention,
as we have ourselves, oftener than once, witnessed
in the House. He has not stormed and carried
captive the House of Commons as he used to
sway and enrapture large audiences from
the platform. His oratory is not of that

precise kind which is most adapted to fix the
House of Commons. His previous studies and
engagements had not prepared him witt. that

intimate acquaintance with all the details of
business and the minutiae of political history
which are requisite to a House of Commons
orator. his style of speaking is too brilliant,
poetical, and philosophical for that embodiment
of national wisdom and national folly. - We
mean no disrespect to the House when we say
that Fox is too elevated and philosophical for

them to appreciate him. Yet he never broaches
any whimsical, fantastic schemes of impossible
reform. Wise and moderate, philosophical and
practical, W. J. Fox, without being a statesman
of great and commanding genius, is one whose
presence adds a grace to the House, and is an
honour to his constituents. His votes have
always been on the right and popular side.
When the question of Jewish admission was
brought before the last Parliament the speeches
of Fox were neither the least effective nor the
least admired. lie has always, by pen and
voice, advocated the placing of the Churchman
and the Dissenter on the same ground of a just
equality. With views and purposes that spread
far beyond the horizon of ordinary reformers, he
has specially devoted himself to three grand
objects of national importance—First, The estab-
lishment of a sound and comprehensive system
of Public Education ; Second, The attainment of
complete Religious Liberty by all classes of her
Majesty's subjects; Third, Such a Reform Bill as
would rectify some of the defects of the former
one, and enfranchise the millions. With such
views, purposes, and principles, Fox would be
rather the member for England than for Oldham.
We hope he will allow himselt to be brought
forward ; and as Birmingham has known its
opportunity in returning that able, energetic,
and incorruptible patriot JOINT BRIGHT, we trust
that Oldham will follow so good an example,
and send him no unworthy coadjutor in that
eloquent advocate of the people and poet orator
of England, W. J. Fox.

THE Pike advocates could not accede to the
condemnation of their darling project, without a
show of justification for the extravagant and
serious expenditure to which they have subjected
ratepayers, and latterly jeopardised the health of
the inhabitants. We need not wonder at such
conduct. At the same time, it seems strange
that gentlemen can stand up iu the Council
Chamber and utter statements utterly at variance
with truth. Mr. Alderman Hor3tE may declaim
as much. as possible upon the necessity for water
from Rivington; and, to use his own classic
expression,.he may "lash" and abuse us for dis-
charging a public duty, exposing the prodigality
of his party in the Council, andshowing up the
absurdity of the entire scheme. Nevertheless, it
is unpardonable in any member of the Council
to make a statement which is destitute of founda-
tion, and from that statement draw inferences to
justify conduct which has been unpardonable in
the extreme. We have already commented on
the drivelling nation of Alderman HOLME oa
Wednesday last, and showed that, as a justifica.-

tion of the Pike scheme, it was hollow and
worthless ; that it proved the subterfuges which
certain local officials have resorted to, in
order to perpetuate the job, and that
language which the Field Marshal of the
Pike Brigade employed merely denoted the
rottenness of the cause which he and his
party had espoused- But there is a petty subal-
tern connected. with the Brigade in question
whose speech on Wednesday last merits notice
at our hands, and that is one of the members for
St. Anne's Ward, Mr. T. L. HODSoN. So long