Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-05 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY CO URT.—YEs TE ?WAY.

(BEFORE MR. COMMISSIONER PERRY.)

IN re RICHARD ROWLINVN.—The bankrupt, commission
merchant and shipowner, Liverpool, came up this day on
his last examination, He was supported by Mr. John
Atkinson. Mr. Lowndes appeared for a creditor, and
briefly examined the ba.ok -upt, who stated that he was
perfectly solvent in February last, and would have con-
tinued so had it not been for Mr. Lowndes client. From
July 1855, when he started business on his own account,
after the dissolution of the firm of Rowlinson, Sons, and
Co., in which he was a partner, to July 1856, he hid had
no transactions except in regird to the barque Ariadne,
of which he was sole owner. He had no iuterest in the
house in Falkner-square, which was settled on his wife and
children in 1837. The last examination was passed, and
a day was fixed for the certificate meeting.

RECRUITING FOR THE ROYAL ARTILLERY.—RI e0119(-
Crellee of the large number of Royal Artillery under orders
for India, and other foreign stations, a " Recruiting Circu-
lar" was issued on Saturday last, from the Adjutant Gene-
!
ral's Office, Head Qaarters, Woolwich.
SLAVERY PROSPECTS IN THE UNITED STATES.—The
Rising Sun of Newburg, South Carolina, says in regard
to the signs of the times in the political horiz m:—
" ennuis and darkness, threatening clouds, ominous dark-
ness, gather around rue political future. A night gloomy
and terrible sets in upon us. We are drifting slowly,
silently into an ocean of storms, fu'ious whirlwinds,
qtfeksands and fearful whirlpools. A solemn silence pre-
vails—nis the precursor of a horrible tempest. Hark !
the muttering rumbling of distant thunder breaks upon
the stillness. Fitful flu hes reveal the sullen gloom. The
lurid air is heavy'and chilly. The storm approaches—
nearer and nearer it comes—louder and more loud it
howls. Man the sails—all hands to their posts. The
South expects every man to do his duty. Lifo and duty,
honour and liberty are involved. Let each heart be firm,
each nerve be steady. The conflict will be fierce as hate
and malice can make it. Stand firm. Hark ! what crash
was that ? Kansas is gone ! List ! a triumphant shout
from the spirits of the storm. Missouri is yielding.
How fierce the b'asts, how lurid the lightning! Howls
horrible, veils terrific, tear our ears. Virginia is as-
sailed. Gloomy, dark, terrible howls the tempest !
Watchman, what of the night? All is dark ! no dawn
appears."
" That Sir Henry Barnard had not yet attacked Delhi,"
says the United Service Gazette," will awaken no surprise.
The mutineers are in much greater force than himself, and
are ;Jed by men who have 'set squadrons in the field,
and something of the division of a battle know.' The
Native commissioned officers, bad as they generally are,
have risen with the occasion, and in their new capacty of
leaders of revolted Sepeys are exhibiting the fruits of their
experience in the Sutlej, G and Affelmn campaigns.
The Native Sappers and Miners and Native Artillery,
who are within the walls of Delhi, know something of
the defence as well as the attack of fortified places, and
we may expect that, in their u'ter desperation, they will
employ every atom of their gained knowledge to ball I
the efforts of their issoilants. Sir 11. Barnard has shown
his prudence in awaiting reinforcements anti contenting
himself with the repulse of the sorties of the Delhi garri-
son. These sorties are evidences of the desperation of the
mutineers. They will make a few more, and then perhaps
endeavour to escape. Sir Henry must have enough to do
to keep the place invested. A town, several miles in cir-
cumference, standing on the bank'of a river, can only
ho surrounded by a considerable and a very vigilant force.
It is true there are four main ga'es of Delhi, and high
roads conducting to them, which may be blockaded effec-
tually, but the intermediate spaces can be traversed and
I the river crossnl at so many points that the most incessant
patrolling will be necessary to enmesh the enemy. For
all this, by the last accounts, General Barnard had but
4,000 men."
The Press thinks that it is a singular proof how open
the aristocracy of England is by its constitution to find
that there are now three ennobled families of the name of
Canning. "At Eton, nearly eighty years ago, young
Jenkinson (afterwards the second Earl of Liverpool). had
to deliver an oration in presence of Mr. Fitt, then Prime
Minister, and with great good nature, Jenkinson gave his
place to his friend young Canning, who first attracted Mr
•Pitt's notice on that day. His school expenses were
defrayed by a relative engaged in commercial life, and
Mr. Hookham Frerc.'s affecting epitaph truly records that
Canning was

Born of an ancient name of little worth,
And disinherited before his birth.
The son of an unfortunate Irish gentleman, George Can-
nirrg, rose to be prime minister. His widow was made a
viscountess; he raised one of his Irish cousins to the peerage
(Lord Garvagh) ; another kinsman he advanced in diplo-
matic service ( taord Stratford de Redcliffe); and the son
of the landless ornhan' (» dnceeiFofl by Afx.
e'rere) is now Governor-General of India ! At his farewell
dinner the noble viscount uttered a generous and truly
filial aspiration that he might show he was worthy of
wearing his hereditary coronet. We cordi illy echo that
prayer. Some of his advisers have broken down; but in
such circumstances a min of inherent vigour would rise
with the emergencies, and we sincerely trust that Lord
Canning will prove .brilliant exception to the general
rate that the sons of famous men are failures. He is of
Anglo-Irish extraction, and Anglo-Irish names, like those
of Sir Eyre Coote, Lard Maoutnay, the two Wellesleys,
the Marqnis of Has ings, and others, shine brilliantly in the
eventful annals of our Indian empire."
TIM WEATHER, PROVIoIONS, AND HEALTH.—At the
Greenwich Observatory the temperature was below the
average in May and Juue. The intense heat in June was
remarable. The 28th of June was the hottest day we
have experienced since July 6, 1816. It was also remarks
ably dry. The average price of wheat, like that of consols,
has been nearly the same as it was in the first three
moths of the year. It waa:,s6s. 91 in the thirteen weeks
of April, May, and June, 1857, and consequently wheat is
cheaper by 23 per cent. and 17 per cent, than it was in the
corresponding seasons of 1855 "and 1836. In the London
market beef has risen 7 per cent., while mutton has
slightly fallen since last year. The high price of potatoes
is the mast unfavourable circurpstance. The price of
this important esculent was 59 per cent. higher in London
than it was in the spring quarter of 1856. The Moult:lent
crop of fruit will, to a certain extent, supply its place as
an anti-scorbutic. 100,205 deaths were registered in the
(leader ending on June 30, and this implied an annual
mortality at the rate of 2.086 per cent. The mortality in
the districts containing the principal towns was at the
annual rate of 2.323, that is, .125 less than 2'448, the
average of t'he preceding ten spring quarters. In the
remaining districts, comprising chiefly small towns and
country parishes, the reduction in the annual rate of
mortality was .210 ; it was 1.873, while the average raze
of the season was 2.083. The deaths in London have
fallen progressively since 1655, notwithstanding the
increase of population, from 15.801 to 13.201 ; and the
dimunition has been proportionally most sensible on the
south side of the Thames, where the improvement in the
water supply has been the greatest.
CONFIRMATION DAY.—It was half-past nine o'clock in
the morning. The midsummer sun was already warm
on the roofs and weathercocks of Mil:by. The church
bells were ringing, and many families were conscious
of Sunday sensations, chiefly referrable to the fact that
the daughters had come down to breakfast in their best
frocks, and with their hair particularly well dressed.
For it was not Sunday, but Wednesday ; and though
the bishop was going to hold a confirmation, and to
decide whither there should be a Sunday evening lecture
in Millby, the sunbeams had the usual work-day look to
the haymakers already long out in the fields, and to
laggard weavers just " setting up" their week's "piece."
The notion of ice being Sunday was the strongest in
young ladies like Miss Phipps, who was going to accom-
pany her younger sister to the confirmation, and to wear a
sweetly pretty transparent bonnet with marabout feathers
on the interesting
.occasion, thus throwing into relief the
suitable simplicity of her sister's attire, who was, of course,
to appear in a new white frock; or in the pupils at Miss
Townley's, who were absolved from all lessons, and were
going to church to sec the bishop, and to hear the Hon.
and Rev. Mr. Prendergast, the recto-, read prayers—a high
intellectual treat, as Miss Townley assured them. It
seemed only natural that a rector, who was honourable,
should read better than old Mr. Crewe, who was only a
curate, and not honourable; and when little Clara Robins
wondered why some clergymen were rectors and others
not, Ellen. Marriott assured her with great confidence that
it was only the clever men who were made rectors. Ellen
Marriott was going to be confirmed. She Was a short,
fair, plump girl, with blue eyes and sandy hair,
which was this morning arranged in taller
cannon curls than usual, for the reception of the
episoepal benediction, and some of the young ladies
thought her the prettiest girl in the school ; but others
gave the prefe me to her rival, Maria Gardner, who was
much taller, and had a lovely crop of dark brown ringlets,
and who, being also about to take upon herself the vows
made in her name at her baptism, had oiled and twisted
her ringlets with especial care. As she seated herself at
the breakfast-table he'ore Miss Townley's entrance to
dispense the weak coffee, her eron excited so strong a
sensation that Ellen Marriott was at length impelled to
look at it, and to say with suppressed but bitter sarcasm,
"Is that Miss Gardner'a head ?" " Yes," said Maria,
amiable and stuttering, and no match for Ellen in retort;
" Th—th—this is my head." " Then I don't admire it at
all I" was the crushing rejoinder of Eden, followed by a
murmur of approval among her friends. Young ladies, I
suppose, exhaust their sac of venom in this way It school.
—,Bladwood's Magazine, fin August.