Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-29 00:00:00

THE - NORTHERN TIMES.-.LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, DECEMEER 20; 1857.

ITSEMENTS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, &c.

TUIS BAT.

TNEATKI ROYAL —Grand Comic Pantomime-7 p.m.
SAL Am rllTßNATZll—Elpelltriin PIIffOTMINICB-7 p.m.
44111331e3 HALL, Be L s-orrit ttir —love-8 p.m.
Ilmstarases CIBAVB VAILICTZ, Dais-street-7 p.m.
IZYSZTOOL A.CADXXViI EXHIBITION, Post-office-place.
l'artzunsiowtc Christmas Concerts-3 p.m.
DIAL ADELPHI THEATZE—Grand Comic Pantomime-7 p.m
0ti..7. CoLossxusi—Goaeral Entertainment-6.50 p.m.

tfir For adTertisentents sae second pa=s.

to,nmtrcfal baiek—ffbfi Cap,

At breve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Sweetiug•street, 3,500 Salted
11006 EfidBi.—AlNOLD, L/LETE. ROSCOE, & CO.
At twelve o'c'ock, at the broker's saleroom, 9, Temple-court, 3 cases
ilavannah Cigar..—EDWABD SAM UEL,ON.

NOTICZ TO ADVERTISERS.

?arsons seeking Employment, parties requiring Servants
Assistants orClerks, and those in search of Apartments,
or having Lodgings to Let, can best bring their wants
vender the notice of the public, by advertising in the
NOILTHERN TIMM, and which. from its large circulation,
is the most efficient medium of publicity in this
district.

no cash price for this special otos:. of advertisements is
sear reduced to THREEPENCE FOR TWENTY
WORDS, and for every additional five words one

013 SATURDAY NEXT, JANUARY 2, 1858

WILL BE PUBLISHED,

THE NORTHERN

Baron, upon which there is no speculation as to
duration.

Private ad vices from Canada state that at the
last date (the 14th inst.) the elections absorbed all
other news. The first decided was the unanimous
return of the Solicitor-General. The general
aspect was believed to be in favour of the Ministry.
The weather was unusually mild for the season,
No snow had as yet fallen.

THE relief of Lucknow is generally looked
upon as the end of the Indian Mutiny. Such
an idea can only be justified by a correct know-
ledge of the slaughter which took place on either
side, the exact military advantages gained and
lost, as regards position, and the visible changes
in the general aspect of the contest. What all
these amount to we have yet to learn. The
"relief" of a fortress is not always a success or
an undertaking of promise. It will be remem-
bered that it was predicted that General FLivn-
LOCK'S relief of the garrison in question, would
only add so many more mouths to the numbers
of the besieged, and that he, in his turn, would
be confined within the very walls he went forth
to deliver. This proved to be right, and until
we receive some further intelligence from Sir
COLIN CAMPBELL, there are serious grounds for
apprehending that he has found his way into
Lucknow, at great loss, only to be locked up
within its lines, in his turn. A force of 12,000
men only, is not sufficient for the duty to be
performed is the direction in which the rebels
have concentrated the greater part of their really
effective strength. And it must not be forgotten,
that as we increase the number of our troops in
an enemy's country, we add so much more to
the difficulties and dangers of the campaign.
These dangers are more formidable in India than
in any other part of the world. The mortality
in our ranks, even in the best quarters, is exces-
sively high, and in the field it must be increased
ten-fold, without takingcinto account the killed
and wounded.
We talk, moreover, of the rebels as though
they had displayed no military skill in their
movements, and were merely a rabble, led on by
wild mob impulses ; whereas, we repeat, without
the fear of contradiction, that their leaders, who-
ever they may be, have displayed a profound
knowledge of the art of war in planning their line
of operations. Not one movement of the enemy
can be said to have been undertaken at random,
and executed without effect; and where a dis-
tinct and comprehensive plan of campaign can be
traced, it is extremely dangerous to be ever san-
guine of success. When Delhi was evacuated,
the self-evident object was to draw our troops
across the Ganges. In this they have succeeded,
and now we find our forces in Oude, surrounded
by ambuscades consisting,' not of a few men
waiting to pounce upon stragglers, but large for-
tified towns defended by overwhelming numbers.
A more complete trap cannot be conceived than
that which the positions occupied by the rebels
around Lucknow exhiliit;and it is into this decoy
Sir COLIN has fought his way at the head of
12,000 men only. This small force will dwindle
down, at the rate of 1,000 men a week, without
the aid of fire and sword, while our retreat,
and the advance of reinforcements are threatened
by the rebels, who are known to be in force on
the south side of the Ganges from Dinapore to
Gwalior. When we have strength enough in the
field to clear the whole line of road from Calcutta
to Cawnpore, and sweeping the rebels out of the
Gondwana and Malwa countries, we may begin
to think of victories which leave some more last
ing records of military skill behind them than
the mere slaughter of numbers.
In Asia natives losses are but too readily
replaced. The thousands slain during the siege
of Delhi, and the countless hundreds who have
fallen on the banks of the Ganges, have not
rendered the task assigned to the gallant Sir
COLIN the less desperate. Keeping open his
communications with Cawnpore will deprive him
of a large portion of his effective force, and
should his reinforcements be detained, either by
the stratagem of the enemy, or the want of
energy, or inattention to matters of detail on the
part of the Indian Government, we have every
reason to anticipate the worst consequences.
We are quite aware that the London newspapers
find it convenient to adopt a wholesale " Bull"
policy. Now that our monetary mountebanks
have gone through all their juggling perform-
ances, and the country is 150,000,0001. worse
off than it was before they commenced their 10
per cent. thimble-rigging, the prospects of the
Indian difficulty must not be suffered to interfere
with the " upward movement" of politics. Indian
letters, some from Cawnpore and Lucknow, but
all written in Printing-house-square and Fleet-
street, will be employed very largely to give " a
healthy tone" to the market for place and
emolument. But the fabricators of these thirst-
for-blood creating missives should remember that
soldiers have but one, and a very peculiar
language, in which to write on military affairs,
and that no officer or soldier is allowed to send
a letter home from India until it has been read by
his commanding officer.
We deny then, most emphatically, that the
Indian letters which have appeared in the
London Times, and some of its Metropolitan
cotemporaries, were written by officers or soldiers
serving in India. Take for example, the letter
dated from Nusseerabad, which appeared first
in the French and then in the London papers
some days ago,' and which we reprinted in the
NORTHERN TIMES on the following morning.
In this precious production it was stated that,
Nusseerabad and its neighbourhood were in the
enjoyment of all the blessings of peace, whereas
we find by the laSt despatches from the scene of

action, that it was found necessary to hasten to
the relief of the besieged zarrison of Nusseerabad,
and to dispatch a large body of troops to clear the
surrounding country of the rebels. Hundreds of
other letters of the same stamp have found their
way into the London journals, and all to create
and keep up feelings which are uncalled for and
unwise. The Indian mutiny of 1857 must be
put down, but that end will ne►er be accomplished
except by farce directed by the coolest reason.
Paganism is the curse of Hindostan, and if

we would remove this monster human scourge,
we should bear in mind that the slaughter 40,000
Janisaries, only gave more consistency, and a
wider scope to Mahommedanism in Europe. We
have witnessed this within our own time, and in
dealing with the last stronghold of the false pro-
phet, let us employ reason and justice in the
subjection and future government of his infatuated
disciples, in Asia•

Colonel, June 20, 1854 ; and Major-General, August 29,
1857.

PUBLIC AMUSEMENIT, &c.

MONS. JULLIZN AT THE LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC HALL,

Last night Mons. Jullien gave the first of his concerts
at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. His band is nearly
the same as last year, but we miss the veteran licenig.
The overture to the Zauberflote commenced, and was
very beautifully played, as was also the Andante from
Mozart's symphony in E flat, which followed a new ar-
rangement of the Lancers Quadrilles. Mr. Henry Russell
executed a solo on the Trombone very cleverly, and after
a " Constance" Waltz des Soupirs, the Havelock Quadrille
completed the instrumental portion of the first part.
Madame Grisi sang with wonderful power Tacea la notte,
from ,‘ Il Trovatore," and Qui la voce from I Paritani,
and was encored in both. She very readily responded, and
repeated the quick movements of each. In the second
part she sang " Home sweet Home," and being again
encored sting " 0 weep for England's daughters," by
Macfarren, a sort of lament for the ladies murdered in
India, and a call to Englishmen to
" Avenge them ere you die."
_

Madame Grisi was in very good voice, and sang with
great spirit and character, manifesting her artistic training.
She will (by particular desire) repeat " Home, Sweet
Home" to-night, and the lament also. Some apprehen-
sion was expressed during the day lest she should not be
able to appear, as a Manchester audience was disap-
pointed last week, This had doubtless some effect
in causing the thin attendance last night. The galleries
were crowded, but the body and boxes were scantily filled.
The selection from " Don Giovanni" was in many respects
very good, but Mr. Hughes introduced .21'ox Peie Andrai,
from " Figaro," instead of Finch 'llan Dal Vino. The
remainder of the part was made up of dance music, and a
beautiful solo on the flute by M. Damon- To-night the
overture will be that to " Guillaume Tell ;" the symphony,
" Mendelssohn's Italian ;" the selection, from " Il Trova-
tore ;" and Madame Grisi's scans, Conan e _Bello. She
will also sing a waltz, composed exprassly for her by
Alary.

TEE " CHRISTMAS MINSTRELS," AT THE

CONCERT DALT., LORD NELSON-STREET.
Religious subjects are not for public representation—we
mean stage representation—more particularly when made
a handle of for lucre. There is no second opinion on this
point. Sacred music is tolerated, and, coupled with some-
thing semi-religious, may be used pablicly for purposes
of charity ; but when purely religions matters are put on
the stage, to draw houses for private gain, such cannot be
too strongly reprobated. "A Musical Entertainment, for the
Christmas season," as the bills put forth, was announced
for last night at the Concert Hall, and it was added that such
would be produced " with appropriate scenery, costumes,
and decorations." First, as to the "scenery," it has a
dull imitation of the penny shows to be met with in
the streets here and there. As for " costumes,"
Argos could not have discovered any, consequent
on the almost Egyptian sableness that prevailed ;
and so far as the " decorations" went, there was a green cur
taro, with some holly and ivy wreaths, presented in front
of a small stage, made on the already small stage of
the house. The vocalists were—or might have
been, for the only thing that could be ob-
served was the outlines of four figures—two
males and two females—according to the bill, Miss
Wynne, Mrs Scarisbrick, Mr. Millar, and Mr. ScaHs-
brick, and once for all, it may be said that so far
as they were concerned, they sang well enough,
and certainly would have done credit to an entertainment
of another character. The affair opened with a:prologue
called " Christmas Night"—a dialogue between some
one with a " big manly voice," and some one
else with a squeaking tone like a boy of ten—it
was superlatively doll beyond all precedent—that's hardly
enough to say of it. Then followed some five scenes,
intended to illustrate passages in the life of our
Redeemer, from his birth until the wise men came
to adore Him. These attempts, i 3 scenic illustrations,
were accompanied by prose and rythmetical compositions,
of the propriety of putting forward such on a public stags
for the amusement of a publics audience (for money) we
say is more than questionable. Truth compels us to say
thus much of this performance—more we care not—more
we wish not to say about it.
MUSICAL AND PICTORIAL ENTERTAINMENT.
Last night Mr. Henry Smith made his first appearance
in the Clayton Hall, to give his popular entertainment
entitled His Voyage to and Wanderings Through America.
The entertainment consists of a magnificent Diorama of
scenes commencing from the Mersey, where the harbour,
docks, public buildings, floating pier, Rock Fort, light-
house, and numerous other objects along the river are
given with striking truthfulness, and admirably executed ;
then follow on the passage to America, which equal
anything we have ever seen of the kind. Numberless
views of American scenery are next presented, which
elicited the warmest approbation of the audience. As
the Diorama passes Mr. Smith sings a selection of songs,
several of which are composed by himself, and well known
to the public. He accompanies himself with a magnificent
bychord grand piano-forte. Mr. Smith has a good voice,
and sings with taste and s till. The enthusiastic applause
of the meeting was called forth at the conclusion of every
piece. The Hall was not so well filled as we are sure it
will be, before he leaves town. The Liverpool public
cannot fail to appreciate this delightful entertainment.

LEWIS AND COMPANY'S NEW ESTABLISTIMICNT FOR BOY'S
CLOTHING.—Nambar of boys clothed for the week ending
Saturday, December 2Gth, 1,016 ; corresponding week last
year, 547—increase, 469.

EXERCISE AND HEALTH Comuntio.—Our readers will
have noticed the advertisement of Herr Otto Schultze, who
has established a new riding academy in Elizabeth-street.
Herr Schultze has gained a wide reputation for his success
in teschinz the science of equestrianism to bath male and
female. We would, therefore, advise amateur equestrians
to visit his estahlishment, and there witness the many im-
provements which he has introduced, certain that they will
appreciate them. We may asid that there is a splendid
gymnasium on the premises.

CLOSE OE ALLSOP'S Rant. WAx-Wojut EXHIBITION,
LIME-STREET, LIVERPOOL.--The above splendid establish-
ment will positively close on the 25th of January, 1858,
wi.hout fail. Mr. Allsop respectfully announces that he
has just added full-length figures (correct likenesses) of the
Rev. Mr. Spurgeon and General Havelock, and a numbar
of other beautiful figures, as an addition for the Christmas
holidays. Mr. A. respectfully begs to inform his friends
and the public that he is going to travel with his Wax
work Figures; therefore, after the close of his Exhibitio-,,
the proprietor has given instructions to M. Branch to sell
by auction the whole of the splendid Statuary in the
Sculpture Galleries, all the plate looking-glasses, twelve
gas ehindeliers, a number of single brackets, a great
variety of choice busts, and. the whole of the timber in the
Sculpture Galleries. Mr. A. would be willing to come to
satisfactory terms with the next incoming tenant to let the
galleries stand.

We (Athenfflum) understand that some of the foreign
singers who went in " the fall," to America, with the
hopes of gleaning a golden harvest there, have already
returned—public music having been virtually silenced by
the crashes "on every side of bank and warehouse, and
speculat ors' cfEce.

In the year 1862, the thousandth anniversary of the
foundation of the Russian monarchy is to b.; celebrated
with great pomp and national manifestation in Russia. A
monument, commemorative of the day, is to be erected at
Novgorod, in the centre of the Kremlin thore, not far from
the Sophia Cathedral. •

THE.GAME LAWeI AT BLACKBURN.—On Wednesday, at
the Town Hall, James Walton, of Peter-street, Daisy
Field, Blackburn, was charged with trespassing in pursuit
of game on the preserves of Daniel Thwaites, Esq., at
Rishton, on the previous Friday. Gorge Boardman, Mr.
Towaites's keeper, saw the defendant on the land in
question with a gun, about two o'clock in the afternoon,
Lie and another keqoer followed the defendant, when '-„to
ran away and eluded their pursuit, but was known, hp•ving
been forgiven by the prosecutor in August last for a similar
offence. The bench inflictel a penalty of £2 an' costs, or
to be imprisned for two T.cuttlts,

LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.---ISSTXRDAt.