Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-29 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, AUG. 27.
There is a project for the cession of Luxery
bourg .to Prussia.

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURGII, AUG. 21.

The Sultan of Turkey has clnferred on Prince
Gortschakoff the order of IVtedjidie, of the first
class.

MANCHESTER UNITY OF ODD-FELLOWS.

FItAUD3 ON THE ORDER.

James Charles Cox, the lee grand master of the Aran.
ehester Unity r.f C) d Fellows, who is now in Southamptott
Gaol as a defaulter with regard to the funds of the order?
will be arrested, as soon as his term of irnorisonment
expires, on a c'uarge of embezzling the Odd Ivellove
funds ; and, if convicted, the punishment will be
transportation. It is now ascevained that Cox haft
misappropriated nearly £3OO of the funds of the,
order, a iarge portion of which helonted to the sacred
fund set apart f(q. the relief of the Odd rellnxvs' widows,
and orphans. What is ta.ch regretted is the attempt of
the chief officia'a of the order to screen Cox from punish
ment. Had it not 13= en for the courage and de'ermina-
tion of the local' officers, many of whom are hard work-
ing men, one of the grearest rascals that was ever entrusted
with poor metier savings would have escaped punishment.
Public confidence in the South of England bas Been mach
shaken in the stability of the Manchester Unity,
through the malpractices of C. x, and the leniency with
which they have been viemed by some of the chief members
of the order, and great t umbers nre expected to le-ave the
order in consequence. Ccx contrived by some means or
other to get e'tcted a member of the Southampton-Town
Council and a guardian of the poor, and through his, social
position unbounded confident„ was felt in his integrity by
the Otid'Fellowo. S eps will be taken to expel him• from
the Southas'pton Town Council.—Express.

DEATH OF .T6lll-E9 ESQ:,
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.

We regret to have to record the death of Mr. Jame)
Platt, the hon. member for Oldham, by accident, on
Thursday afternoon, whilst on a shooting excursion, on the
moors in Saddleworth. On Thursday. morning, about
seven o'eleak, Mr. Platt, with a shooting path, amongst
whom were Jo iah RaOaffe. El., mat or, and Joshaa
Radcliffe, Esq , left Ashciay Gip, Mr. Platt's bunting-bog
—which is situated about two miles from the Greenfield
Rail way-station—f ir a shooting excursion. About a
quarter p st one o'clock, the party were proceeding throne'
a gully, Mr. Platt b log foremost, and Mr. Josiah Radcliffe -
about six yards behind him. when the latter unfortunately
shambled, and his zun went of, the shot b.-ins; discharged
into the calf of Mr. Platt's right leg. The wound waif
immediately bandaged, and the unfortunate gentleman
was conveyed to his house at Ashway Gap, bat he never
rallied from the sh,ck, and, although he b:ed hat little, he
expired between two and three o'clock. This shocking
occurrence has thrown the p;incipil families in Oldham'
and the neighbourhood into the de- pest grief, and has cast'
a gloom over the general population of the borough, 51
whom the deceased gentleman was justly respected.

Redschid Pacha has been named Minister of War in. the
place of J iamai Bey.
Baron Proke'ch Osten has proposal a collective demand, -
on the part of the Powers, that England should restore, the
Island of Perim.

Tnizerg, Thursday.—The negviations opened by Lord
Stratford de Rode'al to obtain the consent of the Porte to
the passage of theßritish army through Egypt en route to
India have failed.

DovEs V. LIVNRPOOL. —A correspondent writing to the
London Times, says :—" Dover is a little Liverpool ; it is
the worst port in England by which a p-or foreigner could
be introduced to the English ; he would hate them the rest
o his days."
THE.IDIDIA, rAITNA, AND AT:STRATA 4N, MAIDS, —The Weds

arrived at Marseilles on the 27th August, with the
Indian and Australian mails. They left Marseilles the
same night at ten, and will be delivered in London thili
morning (Saturday.)
A COUNTESS IN 'fitquELL—The Dowager Ceunte3s of
Castle Stuart has brought an action for a malicious
prosecution against MM. C,rnier and Manoury, tradesmen
in Paris. It appears that the Countess, who lest her
husband some months ago, ordered some mourning of the
defendants, with whom she had frequently dealt before,
and rs she was about to etnb,rk at Marseilles for Rome on
the 2nd of June last, she and her cousin, Mr. Henry:
Bathurst, who was travelling with her, were arrested on s 4
charge of having obtained the goods under false pretences-.
Mr. Bathurst was released in the course of the day, but the
countess was incarcerated in two dlfftrsnt prisons, an&
kept in custody thirty-six hours. When the proper
authorities of Marseilles investigated the charge. they-
decided lhat there was not the remotest foundation for it.
On the pressnt occasion the public minister took a pre-
liminary objection to the Countess of. Cos le Stuart's pro-
secution, on the ground that it did not sufficiently appear
that the examining magistrates had decided the accusa-
tion against her to le:t false. This objection was overruled
by the court, and the cause was adjourned to be heard upon
its merits.

Mr. JOHN MITCHELL IN TENNESSEIL—FrOII a letter
althessoi by Mr. John Mitchell to his friend, Mr. John
Martin, and dated '° Knoxville, Tenness?e, July 30 la" we
clip the following morceau descriptive of Southern-
seen. ry :—" One morning we sallied forth, with reel
dawn, and came out upon the cliffs tot see the sun rev ;
and be rises over this greet vale as though he lowed it•
Yon know how the thing is done, so I need not te;el eon
the sun's method of getting up. You also have been in
the path of the sun as he travels his z ae rood, yet to
see him on the morning of Independence day eleivee out so
kindly neon this Arcady of America is worth rising at
fur o'clock for. Alt around us lies the great mountain
region of the south ; the grim peaks of Scat' eh Carolina,
where the untamed panther yet mama and ravens;
the greges and glens of a thousand rivere, where in
laurel-tickets crouches the bear ; and the long smooth
ridges of Tennessee and Alabama, where herds of deer
are browsing this blessed morning. Far over the
Tennessee valley, sod away into the blue distance, corn
and wheat are waving in such abundance and luxurian.ee
as Tennessee never saw beef Ire. And southward you mal
get glimpses of the distant plains of Georgia, where the
black field-hands are going forth this moment singing, t°
hoe long rows of budding civilisation. Standing on Lb°
tabular cliff, I can see in vision the whole beautiful south ;
and I sly unto you that no peeple pessess such elements
of rower and grandeur. Their climate is matehle3s—thit
products of all sorts varied and exhaustless.. Nowhere
,ten
:you fiord a higher type of manhood, nowhere does woman*
hoed bloom out into more sove,eigu beauty. lief°
Republicanism is in its truest, proudest form. All things
that the States of Greece pesseased (save one) these States
poser se. And as all Asia precipitated herself upon these
immortal isles and rocky promontories and was dashed t 0
shiver's like a wave upon the back of Semium—even so ode
finch it impossible to coneciae how these haughty demo'
cats here could ever by any force be conquered, or so marl/
as cove d. Why, little South Carolina herself has the hear "
and the stomach for a dozen Marathens. Everything the
Greeks pceseesed, says one—high aeohetic culture, Wit"'
lesure and spirit, a fertile brain and a vultiptuous temper'
a ment, the Southerns have yet to begirt to make their Of! •
Art and Literature. Oh thou riaiaa, sun breed for their
own Caitionce ! Smite some rock_ with thy level Eastern
ray, and let our own Aganeppe gush forth, our oWn
llippocane fl nv. IVhat reeds this fair South butl
la.ercture race of the eoile'. tinted with the purple glow ,_°o
the Southern sky, warm. with Southern passicn, and tel_t
red Southern blood ? Such, I pray God, may be Ie
vouchsafed us,"

NvRAT is COMING to LIVERPOOL on the
318 instant ?—Why,
F. GREATEST NOVELTY IN THE WORbill
WHERE IS IT TO BE SEEN
THAT'S THE QUESTION.

THE INDIAN NEWS.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

MARSEILLES, THURSDAY.

The India, China, and Australian mails have
arrived here by the steam-packet Vectis, and will
be despatched hence at ten o'clock this evening.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

The mails from India, China, and Australia,
have arrived here, and will reach London to-
morrow (Saturday) morning.

The following are a few additional particulars of
the contents of the Indian mails, which have been
forwarded to London. Amongst the killed at
Cawnpore, are :—Brigadier Yack, Colonel Wil-
liams, Lindsay, Prout, Sir George Parker, Quin,
Redman, Supple, Halliday, Reynolds, Prole, Smith,
Eckford, Dempster, Jervis, and Challwin.
The engagement on the sth of July before Agra,
between the garrison of that place and the
Neemuch mutineers, who had marched thither
'with re-inforcements which brought their
numbers up to 10,000 men, have resulted in
the defeat of the garrison. " Our force was obliged
to retire with a heavy loss." Among the officers
killed in this action were Major Thomas, Captain
Dqly, Lieutenants Lamb, Pond, and Fellowes ;
and of the civil service, Messrs. O'Connor, C. Horn,
P. Horn, Carlton, Smith, Jordan, Prendergast,
Whiteray, Black, Burdbrank, Freeze, Outram, Old-
field, and Deedes. The oth Light Cavalry and 46th
Native Infantry, who mrttinied at Scalkote on the
9th July, massacred Capt. Bishop, Dr. Graham, the
Rev. Mr. Hunter, with his wife and child. Briga-
dier Brind was wounded. The remaining Europeans
at this station were safe in the fort. These muti-
neers, it will be remembered, were totally defeated
by General Nicholson, on the 16th,
At Meerut, General Hewitt had been removed
from the command " for supineness.''
At Setapoor were killed Col. Birch, the Christians,
Gavins, Snell, and Bas.
The Queen's oth Fusiliers, and 90th Light
Infantry, had safely arrived at Calcutta.

The Calcutta portion of the Indian mail arrived
at Alexandria on the 16th inst., and the Bombay
portion on the 21st. The former was detained in
Egypt five days If there had happened to have
been a steamer at Alexandria on the 6th which
eouhl have taken the Calcutta mail on to Mar-
seilles, the full particulars of the deplorable news
from India could have been published on Wednes-
day, whereas now it cannot be published until
this day or Monday. Even if the regular mail
.packet this side of the isthmus could have reached
Alexandria on the 16th, the day the Calcutta mail
arrived there, the packet could not have left for Mar
seilles before the 21st, because it must have waited
for the Bombay portion. The last India mail
before the present one, the Bombay portion
.reached Alexandria before that from Calcutta.
According to the dates of the present India mail,
'the letter bags were despatched from Calcutta,
two days after time and the Bombay letter bags.
four days before time. The monsoon• at this
period of the year, the great distance which the
-Calcutta and Bombay steamers have to run, and
the difference in the speed of different ships, pre-
4vent any calculation so as to make the Calcutta
and Bombay steamers arrive at Suez at the same

time. In consequence of the importance of India
intelligence at the the present time, a government
'steamer waits at Alexandria to receive the
news by telegraph from Suez and convey
it to Cagliari to be transmitted to England.
The last message brought by this steamer was
very meagre, and partly unintelligible. Now it
would be much better if the authorities would
Push across the isthmus of Suez, as fast as possi -
ble, the Marseilles portion of the first portion of
the Indian mail that arrives at Suez and for the
government steamer to wait at Alexandria until
it arrived, and then take it on to Marseilles, drop-
Ping a messag..) containing a summary of the news
.at Cagliari; to be transmitted to England. The
.post between Delhi and Bombay was, at the
last account, sixteen days. Thare is every
reason to believe that this time will be
diminished as the season advances, unless the
'mutiny spreads. The Australian steamer arrived at
Suez with the mail on the 19th inst. According to
the telegraphic message, this mail left Alexandria on
the 21st. Now, as it was impossible for the Etna
to get to Alexandria by that time, the Australian
mail must have been sent home with the India
and China mails in the Vectis and Bipon packets.
The Australian packet left Sydney on the 20th of
-4uue, twenty days before time, and only arrived
at ue Z four days before she was due, so that she
must have made a very bad passage.

LAYARD ON INDIA.
In returning thanks on Thursday for a testimonial pre-
sented to him by his late constituents at Aylesbury, Mr-
Layard said :—" All eyes are turned to what is taking
Place in India. lam not in Parliament, and perhaps it
IS better that I should not be ; but I cannot look at what
Is going on there without the deepest dismay. The Go-
vernment say now, We were taken by surprise, we
"could not foresee it.' Well, if they really were surprised
by an organised mutiny of long standing, spreading from
?Re end of India to the other—if they knew nothing until
't actually broke out, then the Government has been
ti"tY of a degree of ignorance, of a neglect of proper at-
tontion to duty, for which they deserve to be driven
from
office But 1 cannot believe they were ignorant.
If they were, they were the only people in the country,
who knew or were supposed to know anything about
India, who were ignorant. There was my hon. friend,
Mr" Denby Seymour, the actual Secretary of the Board
of Control—he was chairman of a society called the
young
Indian Society, the object of which was to expose
the wrongs. to which Indian subjects were subjected, and
which It was believed must lead to revolt, unless remedied.
He
w°'nt out to India to see what the facts of the case
were.
He satisfied himself of the bad state of our
Indian subjects, and he came back as a great adieu
reformer. Well, Lord Palmerston made him Secretary
of the Board of Control. What was that for ? Either to
get the benefit of his information or else to stop his mouth-
‘
ttlear' hear, and " That's it !") I believe it was the
latter ; at any rate we have heard nothing on India from
Mr. DaubY Seymour from that time to this. (Hear,
hear.) All the stories of the evils infi,cted on the
natives, all the stories of native princes who had been
defrauded of their possessions and had died from the
ill-treatment inflicted on them—all have disappeared.
We don't want vengeance, we want justice. (Hear, hear.)
justice is more terrible than vengeance, it is more than
vengeance, more Christian than vengeance. (Hear, hear.)
Do not think that I would not punish ; but you only
complicate by vengeance—you punish by justice. (Hear,
hear.) I have had a great deal to do with Easterns—not
in the way that many gentlemen have to do with them
who go • out with £3O 000 or £40,000 a-year, and with
Government authority to support them. I have tired
alone amongst Eas• erns, without a single friend near me,
and [ generally managed to deal with them. My maxim
Was this—Be as severe as you like but be just, and,whea

once you have set your mind on a right thing, never be
turned aside from it. (Cheers.) Nothing makes so
strong an impression en the Eastern mind as that
justice which is irrevocable, and will not be turned
byt time :or circumstances. The Eastern thinks he
may commit a crime and go away for four or five
years and it will be forgotten. I would disabuse
them of that. (Hear, hear.) I would not let one man
escape who has been concerned in these massacres.
never take my hand off him as long as he lived.
(Hear, hear.) But I would not advocate indiscriminate
vengeance. I could no more approve of the slaughter of
women and children by ourselves than I would the
slaughter of women and children by these miscreants who
have destroyed our countrymen aed their families. No
doubt what has taken place in India is very horrible, but
are our hands clean? From the very beginning our
empire was founded upon fraud. You remember that
treaty that was forged by Clive. We began oar rule
with fraud and injustice, and from that time our dealings
with India have been fraught with injist.ice. Well, you
have beard a great deal about Lord Dalhousie's good
government. Well. Lord Dalhousie finished by making
enemies almost of the British residents in India them-
selves. Nothing could be more extraordinary or unjust
than the act by which he suddenly reduced the interest
upon the loan from 5 to 4i per cent, thereby half ruining
many of the company's servants, and immediately after-
wards issuing a new loan at 5 per cent. That was nothing
less than a direct act of fraud. (He kr, bear.) It is not
vengeance that we have to look for in the present crisis'
(Hear, heer.) It is not the reconquest of India that is
before us, but the reconstitution of an empire—(hear,
hear)—the bringing together those who govern, and those
who are governed. (Cheers.) Hitherto you have done
nothing towards that of ject, nothing to reconcile the feel-
logs of the people of India to the government weevil rules
them. (Hear, hear.) If you tell them you are a peaceful,
a christian, and a civilised nation, and do not recognise
the rights of those who are not civilised and are not
Christians, but will take possession of their property
and their country, that would be honest; but you must be
prepared to carry your doctrine out by force. But by
practical), acting up 3n that doctrine while pretending to
respect Olt rights of the Indian people, and professing a
regard for their interests you hive so weakened your
moral power over them that the whole country is against
you. (Hear, hear.) Well, you have now to restore the
whole Indian army—who is to do it? Mr. Smith, or
Cannon-row. You have to reform the whole civil adminis-
tration of India—who is to do it ? Mr. S nyth, of Cannon-
row- (A. laugh) You have to reintro Nee a system or
government to reconcile opposite races and hostile religions
—who is to do it ? Mr. S pith of C annen-ro we (Laughter.)
We want a man of genius—a Wellesley or a Clive—and
whom have we? Mr. Smith, of Cannon row. (Hear )
And who is Mr. Smith? Mr. Vernon Smith he is called
—he is proud of the name of Vern (" H tr, hear, "
and laughter.) He is a most excellent persoo, I believe,
and one of the yellow-glove men of the administration
and one who, no doubt, in all that concerns personal up:
pearance, is an ornament to the Government—(laughter)
but he is not the man to refound the Indian empire, and
that is what we have to do. We have the E Ist India
Company 'on the one hull and the G wernment on the
other, the Board of Directors undergoing what the Board
of Control does, and the Board of Control undoing what is
done by the Board of Directors. Is it wonderful that we
find matters in such a chaos ? I say it would be far more
wonderful if we did not. (Hear, hear.) The only wonder
is that the subject is not taken up more fully throughout
the country. I trust the time will soon come when the
country will 'rise as one man and compel the government
to do something not only to reconquer our Indian empire,
but to make India an integral part of her Majesty's
dominions. (Hear, hear.)