Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-30 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS.

Farther details are to hand from Alexandria
-respecting the naval operation on the Canton River
A despatch, dated Hong Kong, June 10th, says :
—" There have been brilliant and successful opera-
tions on the Canton River. On May 27th, 13
junks, and on the 28th, 27 heavily-armed junks
were captured. On June Bth, 2,000 of the
English force engaged with and captured,
and took or destroyed 127 junks, mounting
over 900 guns and 9,000 men. The English
lost three officers and eight men, and had
fifty-six men wounded—some mortally.
There was but little business of importance
transacted in the House of Commons yesterday.
Some rather awkward questions were asked by
Mr. Drummond respecting the coal mines of
Labudan ; but Mr. Wilson, Secretary of the
Treasury, not being in possession of the full
particulars of the case, hoped that the ques-
tioner would make his application the follow-
ing night. The Smoke Nuisance Abatement
(Scotland) Bill passed through committee. Some
discussion ensued on the motion for the second
reading of the Superannuation Act Amendment
Bill, but after a further opposition it passed by a
vote of 171 to 111. The second reading of the
Oaths Bill was postponed till Monday, Lord John
Russell expressing a hope that Baron Rothschild
would have taken his seat in the meantime.
We had two arrivals yesterday from the Ame-
rican Continent—the Columbia, from New York,
and the Anglo-Saxon, from Quebec. They both
left their respective ports on the 18th inst. The
news from the United States is to the effect that

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another revolution—or insurrection—had brake
out in Kansas. More troops were required.
We give a full report of a most extraordinary
trial at New York. The Captain of the ship
Switzerland, plying between New York and Liver-
pool, has been charged with committing a rape
upon a young woman, on the passage from Liver
pool to New York, breach of promise of marriage,
and certain hints are thrown out that he is guilty
of murder. We would call attention to the affair.
Our advices from Mexico state that four of the

murderers of the Spaniards at San Vicente had
been found guilty and were soon to be executed.
It is also stated that the British claims had been

satisfactorily arranged. Mejia, the leader of an in-
surgent band, had been defeated and captured. The

advises from Canada are to the effect that the

jury on the Montreal catastrophe had returned a
verdict implicating the owners. captain, mate, and
pilot in the affair. A verdict of manslaughter
against these persons has been returned. From
the Quebec papers it would appear that an arrange-
ment has been concluded between the Canadian
government and Messrs. Edmonstone, Allan and
Co. for a weekly line of ocean steamers. The
success of the semi-weekly line has in every
respect been complete ; and the service has
been satisfactorily performed by the contract-
ors. In point of speed this line has outstripped
every other upon the Atlantic, with one exception ;
and at the present moment, when the Canadian
province is establishing a weekly line of steamer to
connect with. Europe, the United States have almost
entirely left the field from which, two years ago,
they expected to reach such great triumphs.
" We are entitled to congratulate ourselves," says
a Toronto journal, "on the unexceptionable success
which has attended our present provincial line of
ocean steamers. Our first essay in this direction
was far from being perfect; and the boats employed
did not perform the passage within the stipulated
time. The present line, however, has not been
wanting in this respect. It has, besides, been
free from any calamitous accident. But for the
stupidity of the pilot, who ran one of the boats
upon a well-known rock in the St. Lawrence, not
a single accident would have occurred to mar
the steady and uninterrupted success of this line.
As we showed before, a pilot's blunder so stupid
as this cannot he held to make against the line ;
and in spite of this occurrence we are entitled
to regard the success of our present ocean
steamers as complete."
Another being was launched into eternity yes-
terday. Charles Finch was executed yesterday,
at the Essex county gaol, at Springfield, a short
distance ft °al Chelmsford, for the murder of his
sweetheart, Harriet Freeborn. When will these
brutal exhibitions cease in bible-reading England ?
At the Police-court yesterday, William Swift was
sent to trial on the charge of the manslaughter of
his wife. He had been previously committed on
a similar charge by the Coroner. Mr. Alderman
Holme took occasion to allude to the differences un-
fortunately existing in more than one parish between
the magistrates and the coroners, but he exhonerated
Mr. Curry, the Liverpool Coroner, from any inten-
tion to insult or annoy the magistrates. Cannot
these functionaries come to some understanding ?
There is nothing easier. If they do not there is
some stupidity—or, to speak more politely, stub-
bornness—on one side or the other. We do really
hope to see an end put to the bickerings that have
from time to time been so notorious.

The Archaeological Institute have terminated the
proceedings of their annual meeting. They were
surprised, amazed, astonished, and gratified by
turns at the reception they met with from the
people of Liverpo_A and its neighbourhood.
Don Francisco Tomaso, a Spanish interpreter
was yesterday charged with the offence of swind-
ling a Spanish merchant of 4/. The case will be
found in another column. The prisoner was dis-
charged.
We to-day report another breach of promise of
marriage case. Damages obtained, 2501.
The gravest piece of European intelligence we
have comes from Constantinople, and concerns the
Principalities. Everything in connection with the
re-organisation of these provinces has come to a
stand-still, because the Great Powers are unable
to agree respecting the conduct of the Kaimakan
of Moldavia. In the meantime, we hear that
many of the influential electors at Jassy had
formally protested against the validity of the
elections that had taken place there. The
representatives of the four Powers, France, Russia,
Prussia, and Sardinia, on the European Com-
mission in the Principalities have also protested,
and the next thing we shall hear of will pro-
bably be a similar protest by the ambassadors at
Constantinople.
France has not merely, as it seems, made repre-
sentations in London against the liberty left to
the refugees, but likewise at Lisbon, where many
Spanish refugees reside.
The English papers containing M. Ledru Rollin's
latter has arrived in Paris, and the liberal journals,
although of course unable to give a translation,
mention it and state that it contains a flat denial
by M. Rollin of the charge brought against him
in the Moniteur, and of his having had any in-
tercourse or• connexion with the Italians now in
custody at Paris. This is an act of courage on the
part of the French journals, and contrasts very
favourably with the conduct of some London jour-
nals in the same matter, by whom no notice has
been taken of M. Ledru Rollin's denial, although
it was published in London and in the English
language. There can be no objection to a news-
paper trying to influence public opinion by what-
ever reasoning it thinks efficacious; but when an
important fact is in question, its suppression is a
real falsehood, and a wrong inflicted not merely on
the political adversary but on the general reader,
who has a right to demand that he should be put
in possession of all the important facts
Political news from Paris is scanty. The
attention of the public is absorbed by the over
land mail despatches, which were received yester-
day from Trieste. A letter from Brussels in the
Constitutionnel says :—" M. Thiers, who lately
went to Ostend in company with General Chan-
gamier, to pay their respects to the ex-Queen
Marie Amelie, had taken a passport for the
Duchy of Nassau These two persons had, it is
said, expressed a hope of being received at the
chateau of Lacken ; but this expectation has not
been realised."

AMONGST our wealthier and middle classes
there is something almost like a holy horror for
the poor. It ever has been do. Poor things, Ido
pity them, says Miss TABITHA, as she sees a score
of shivering wretches sheltering in some door-
way from the pelting of the pitiless storm,
barefoot and barelegged, with just as much thin
and scanty rotten calico stuck together over
their imaciated bodies, as will suffice to merely
cover their absolute nakedness; while their dirty
squalor-str ken countenance clearly proclaim the
wretchedness and want which holl the mastery
within. Miss TABBY pities them, but then she
moralises thus--" There have always been poor
people ; our Bible tells us that we shall always
have the poor amongst us; and, therefore, it

must be the will of God." It is certainly a great
pity that there are so many distressed mortals—
but what can be done to relieve them If she
was to part with her whole annuity, it would
only be a drop in the bucket; she does give to the
old blind match man, and the widow with three
children, who sit all day on the steps over the
way, and also to several casuals ; but then her
means are limited, and she cannot give to all.
And, reasoning thus, Miss TABITLIA is perfectly
satisfied that she has done her part. and rings
the bell for Mary to fetch the tea and some
more coals, for the weather is bitter cold, and
she draws her chair to the fire, and thinks no
more about the shivering wretches outside.

This is the way of the world, and TABITIIA'S
reasoning is that of all the kind charitable
spinsters in the country ; they all pity the poor,
their hearts are full of compassion for their