Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-13 00:00:00

CIRCUMLOCUTION.

An unpretendiag Irish coun'ry paper, the
Fermanagh Mail, very properly calls public atten-
tion to another striking simple of the working of
the Circuml3cution office. The military authorities
are, of course, the most competent judgt s of such
meters as are here touched upon ; but to mere
civilians the wanderit.ga of her Majesty's 55th
Regiment f,r the last month or so are a perfect
riddle.— •

The head-quarters of the 55th Regiment, afer a stay of
eight or nine days here, marched hence under th com-
mand of Lieut.-Colonel Daubeny, on Tuesday, for Dublin.
Two companies remained behind to do duty in this
garrison, Oar readers are aware that we considered the
gartering of such a corps here at the present momentous
crisis iu In'ia, as most unneresary and unwarrantable on
the part of the authorities. The corps should have gone
direct to India from Gibraltar, instead of being brought to
this place in the " out- of-the-way" route via Dover, Cork,
and the Curragh. For such a proceeding cui bone?
may well be a,ksd. The revenue of the country is found
to have fallen very considerably short of the expenditure
during the last fivaneial year ; an I can it be wondered at
when the fundamental principle of our military administra-
tion is cne of, we cannot term it less than, reckless extra-
vagance? What purpose under the sun could it serve to
bring a regiment from Gibr .ltar here for a few days, by
a most circuitous route, when all the nation knew that
Enniskillen, of er being a length of time without anythir g
like a proper military force, l►ttle expected tie arrival of a
regiment just now. A far greater necessity existed f r
their transport to Calcutta than to Great Britain when
they left Gibraltar in the early part of last month ; and,
in cur opinion, it will not be long until their speedy arrival
in the East will be desiderated by all.
Under the head of " The Car before the Horse,"
the Cork Reporter prefers another charge against
the " sit cut locution" system, arid a curious one it
is, truly—
The government authorities conduct their arrangements
with an uniform confusion, which, besides the disgrace of
the b'undering, comes home heavily to our pockets in a
very tangible shape. The case of any of the preparations
for the transmission of our troops might be token at
random to illustrate the fact ; but we may particularize the
mode in which the Great Britain was relayed and mis-
managed. This enormous vessel was chartered by the
government to take two cavalry regiments out to India, of
course, at a vast cost per dint. Under such circum-
stances, it might be suaosed care would be taken that
the troops should be in a fit state cf preparation to
walk on board the minute the ship was under contract.
This would be the common sense course of doing the
business, wide ut either loss of time cr money. But the
" Circumlocution-office" begins at the other end, and first
having undertaken the expense, and the transport being
ready, it then begins to see if the soldiers are in a con-
dition to embark. The ship entered our harbour and was
inspected upon the 20th of September, and she was to
have sailed neon the 2nd of October, but not one of the
cavalry had the equipments for a horse upon that day to
carry with him. The practice is when horse soldiers
are to go on distant foreign service, that they
render their horses with their accoutrements,
and take out with them new articles of horse
gear, to be used on their arrival. Our provident
authorities, when letting the men part with their old
saddles, seem to have been forgetful that they would
require others in their stead ; and accordingly at the
eleventh hour orders had to be given fcr the pie curement
of nearly a thousand saddles. The demurrage which was
incurred by the delay of the vessel, and which, we presume,
began to run from the 2ad of October, was, we understand,
at the rate of £3OO a day, ar d she has been delayed six
days behind her time, so that in this one particular a dead
loss of £l,BOO has been suffered, because the authorities
forgot that cavalry soldiers use saddles. Bismillah It
is waederful I"

ROW TO BENEFIT THE WORKING CLASSES
WITHOUT A PENNY'S EXPENSE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.

Sir,—ln these days when largo pecuniary efforts
are necessary for the relief of the sufferers from
the Indian mutiny, and many other subscriptions
required, any good plan (to assist ou: townsmen
of the middle and working orders to pass the long
winter evenings pleasantly and instructively, and,
perhaps, keep a few from the public house and
worse places) based on the heading of this
letter will, I am sure, be welcomed, and, I
hope, carried out by our Merchant Princes'
and others. Many of them have a superabundance
of books cf which they themselves are hardly aware;
let them, their fur wives and daughters, look them
up, and send all they can spare to the public
lending libraries. I feel very sure a splendid col-
lectian would be the result; this would enable the
committee, perhaps, to expend part of the money
they now lay out in books in providing a shelter
f the anxious realers who stand on the
steps outside the present buildings all weathers,
waiting their turn to be supplied, the rooms not
being nearly large enough fir their accommodation.
The kind librarian, and his equally kind assistants,
are as quick as they can be in famishing books,
still many a man, boy, and young girl go home
with wet clothing in addition to their week's read-
ing. Let any one go and see this, and they cannot
fail to help. The report lately issued shows how
the books arc appreciated.—Yours,

PRUDENCE.

Exelasive'y tir CLOTHING BOYS from Six to Twenty Years
LEWIS & COMPANY, Itanelsgh-street.

"We (Cambridge Independent) have heard that there is
snne intention of requesting Lard Mecenlay to honour the
corporation of Cambridge by accepting the effLe—almost
honorary—of High Steward." This office has become
lament by the death of E irl Fitzwilliam.
A FUER PARDON.—Wm. Wells, who W 39 sentenced to
twelve years' penal servitude, for rape, at the last asszes as
Huntingdon, has received a free pardon from the Secretary
of State, certain facts having come to light prejudicial to
the character of the girl. A merneriel was presented from
the village of Gidding, which, by the assistance cf the chief
censtible end county magistrates, fortueaely for Was,
has ben successful. Wells i; a married !UM
THE EMPRESS EVGCNIZ AND TILE FASFIIONS.—Paris is
now rioted by a second Jessphine, with whom dress is her
favourite branch of the fine arts, end who is ale is a
sprightly witch, well inclined to try how far she may g ) in
caprice with the w rld at her heels, and to put to the proof
the power of her beauty in making foals of " all ladies in
all lands." A crowd of emotions—curiosity, wonder,
admiratior, and all the feelings which go to make up what
we ell romance—have urged the women of England,
Russia, and America, and perhaps a good many mere,
iota extrvagant exseg !talons of the caprices of au extra-
vagant beauty. oto article a'one, the full skirts will
remain a monument of their impressibleness. It was
emvenient to the graceful Empress to disguise her Lure
fora time ; and every dowager, and every young maiden
just emerged from the Belied-loom, adapted 'he device
without any coasciou3ness of the absurdity of the
imitation. Thus our !Vies pr;ved themselves no wiser
than their great grairdmothers, though they plumed
themselves for a long time on being so.-- Westmineer
Review, now number.
HOOPS AND Dattssns.—,More harmless were the hoops of
the Grandisen days, when, as Herriet Bti ran shows us, the
the levies made to ra 'or the gentlemen in carriages, and
for their own cireumrerence in sedan chairs, by slipping
the hoop upon the left shoulder. More accommodating
were the ladies f a can' ury ago than cur cotemporerics,
we fear ; for they would he Sr a remonstrance which we
hove no idea would be at all respected now. When the
Messiah, as yet unheard, was to be rehearsed, in Dublin,
under the guidance of Handel himself, public'y, for the
benefit of certain charities, the a lveitisement of the re-
hearsal ended thus :—" Many ladies and gentlemen who
are well-wishers to this noble and grand charity, for which
this oratorio was composed, request it as a favour that the
ladies who boleti:- this performance with their presence
would be pleased to come with out hoops, as it will greatly
increase t'.e charity by matting room for more c )mpley."
Three years liter we find the committee, on a smiler oc-
casion, declaring that if the ladies will lay aside their
hoops "for one evening, however ornamental, the h t I
will contain an hundred persons more, with full ease."
The grammar is here not so good 3s the serse and spirit of
the notice; but it might not be amiss to read it according
to the construcion, for that w u'd certainly be an orna-
mental evening cn which the ladies should lay ache their
folly—the brightest evening of the year. Nrw that even
parliament has listened to inquiries and appeals about
the crowding to which the Queen's visitors are subjected
when her Majesty holds a diaw!ng-room, we may hope
that one of the inferences natural to the occasion will occur
to the sovereign and her visitors at once—that if the
drawing-room were attended by Litres in gowns, and not
by dresses with women in them, there would be more roe m,
if not enough.— Westminster Review, new number.

BOYS' CLOTHING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE, at I4EWIS and
COMPANTI, 133aelagh-street.

ALCOHOL;
OR, THE

MINOR CURSE OF ENGLAND.
BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A VRIES OF ADDRESSES DELIVERED IN
CONNIhTION WITS ST. M IRV'S TOTAL ♦BSTINENCE SOCIETY,

KIRKDALE.

DEDICATED TO THE
REV. C, E. TIT FERION, 8.A., PREEIDEST,

TA
LIVERPOOL WORKING MAN.

" Woe unto him that giveth his notgliblur drink, that putlest thy
bottle to hlm and makes.. him drunken."-11abak. ii. 1:5.

[Continued from 12'h Octoer.]

The Reverend Chancellor Raikes, at a public meet' ng, convened to
consider the susject of reformatory schoAs, said—' If it ever should
be asked, as assuredly it wou'd, how is it that parents in En,,land are
found deficient in those moral ani rat ona' feelings which usually
bind the p rent to the chi'd, that a con Wry which possesses the Bible
and boats cf re Wens privi eges is still more bac%ward than any
otiose country in the fulfilmest of its duties, the on'y answer that
could be given was, that there w s the prevail og vice of drunkenness
among the low-r -orders of England which the legislature must and
can meet; if it ever hoped to check the evils resulting from drunken-
ness, something must be done to check the awfu► curse in this country.
He appealed to his raver.nd brethren around him, who[hor (lest' tnte
children were not invarlab'y the child 'en of drunkenness. The vice
of drunkenness has be n encouraged and fostered by r.peated Acts of
Parliament, and has brought the evil to its pre ent pitch. He was old
enough to remember the introinct on of the Beer Bill, and had seen it
spreading a blight all over the country villages, which for nerly were
like the creatures of romance, so beautiful were they; Was, they had
become the scene of every evil. When he resided in Essex there was
not a9yt'ing like so great an evil to religion."l

Canon s towel said, at the sane meeting,i" Thst the damnable sin
of enoess turned the day of God almost into the day of Satan."
Christians may build c urches and multiply schools, but until the
drunken habits of tt e people are changed, no human a ency will
act upon them for the conversion of their souls. While the pot-house
us th. drunk rd's church, gin his sacrament, the taproom his even-
ing school, how is it possible, I ask, for the Minister of the Gospel to
svt upon him for the conversion of - is soul.
Having thus glanced at the het, th A drunkenness prevents the
inculcation of religions instruction being imparted, and .s?ecially to
the rising generation, I will now endeavour to de nonstrate th tt
drunkenness is a mighty hindrance—nay, is the chief outward
obstruction—to the progress of religion.
Not only have we bad the goodneos of God made manif st to us in
the oven page of crash o, in the p' pi ,Icgy of the mind and body of
man—ln a thousand provis ons of oda; t dion na.cle for his comfort,
evidently ,hovving vrh Aan o' jec: o " c-ale man is to divine providence
—but the Gospel' of God I as been preached la England upwards of
tizhteen handred years, and the keepers of the moister " gin shops,"
with their base allurements, triumph over the minister of the Gospel at
this mo 'cent iu Liverpool ; and why n while there is an es abli .h-
-meat for the sale of in o hg thinks far every 16 1 of t! e
inhabitants, and a place of worship for every 2.300 of the e eop'e ?
Alcohol, the belly God of Liver, out, is more devoutly worshipped
than the Lord of Heaven and E arth. •

It was demonstrated by public returns that more than one half of
the cases of drunkenness brought before the Magistrates of the city
of York during ihe year occ irrel on Sundays; and, farther, prior to
the introduction of Forbes M'Kenzin'a Act, th 3 pab'icans of Glasgow
sold more intoxicating drinks on Sundays than all the other days of
the week put toge:her.
In 1812, a law came into operation in Liverpool, prohibiting the
sale of intoxicating drinks from Vie hours of twelve o'clock on Satur-
day even'ng t a one o'clock on Sunday. When this enactment came
into force, I heard a publican declare that it was a great shame to
take four hours of the very besi; time from thin. Often have I hear ]
this publican boast c f the amount of money taken on Sunday, thus
making e%ident thA her God was a sever, ore, compelling her to
work on the Lord's d .y. This wise arraiigemon: re-ultei in a
remarkabli ileaease is drunkenness, there bAng 5,205 cases less of
drunkenness the year following, than the year preceding its ii,tro-
daction.

A witne3s be'ore a Parliamentary committee, to inquire Into the
canoe and effect of drunkenness, declared it as his deliberate op'n on,
th it nineteen out of every twenty of Eels-spent Sabbaths, were attri-
butable to the demoralsation produced by intemperance. Thus, the
religious stets of the messes, sunk on the vortex of drunkenness, is a
qsestion not merely fir a few individuals, but must ere long become
a national questien.
The followieg extract from the Trlct Majazile, wi'l illustrate to
some extent the hindrance drunkenness is to religion. " I have
a great favour to ask of you, said a man to the writer;
and what i. it, 1 enquired, you want me to do for you. I want you,
said he, to obtain me a little relief from the parish, my family is in
great distress. What is it that has oceasiened it, I enquire I. He
said no work—in such a shame-face I and hesitating maener, that I
questioned him very closely, an I bend that he was addicted to drna-
kenness. The unfortunate man's conversetion co avineed me that he
was not unsupalWed with his Bible. It turned out that he had
been a regular attendant on the worship of Almighty Go I, bat had
looked on strong drink, " When it gave its colour in the cup, when it
moveth itself aright ; and at /ast it had bitten him like the serpent,
and stung him like the adder."— Froyerbs xxiii 31. I visited !'is
abode; and, oh, wlmt a scene of misery and wretchedness did his
habitation present, and how forcibly did it illustrate the trult of
scripture—" The dr enkard and the glutton she'd come to pot er,y."
Myse:f and a friend /assisted him, and fora time all sent :n well; he
however, got to the pot-house again, lost his wale, which I hal
obtained for trim, and was again with his family plunged into distress.
"The drunkard and the glutton than come to poverty." lie then
committed fe!nny, and got into Warwick gaol, and being nnable to
Indulge there in his vicious habit he behaved himself so well that he
was appointed by the Chaplain to attend upon a c3ndunned criminal
awaiting his execution, and was of such use to that unfortunate man
the, after his execution, the Chaplain represented his exemplary con-
duct to the Secretary of State, who ordered him to be discharged from
gaol. Though the sentence of man was mitigated, there was that of
the law of God still h ingieg over him—" The drunkard and the
g'nston shall come to po ecrty." It was reaseeable to expect that
If anything short of the grace of Gal could reclaim thjs man, he
would have g :hied wisdom from the pest ; but no, his besetting sin
clang to him, and his punishment also—" The dran'eard end the
publican shall come ti poverty." :Wearied oat by the repeated
transgrassi no of Smith, I abuittoned every attempt to reclaim him,
and the last time I brew this victim of drunkenness w in the poor-
hone e Thus aas drunkenness the hindranre to the progms of
religion in this man's sonl.

Toe minister of the goseel, I contend, has no chance of coping
with the drunkard; his vivo after hevine drive❑ from his mind every
holy ani rational sentiment, he-dens him against any impressions
from w.thi ut Thie fact is iiluetrated in a very striking manner by
the foliowine declaration of is minister of the Eetabeshed Char h :
" I am one of several clereymee officiating in an agricultural parish
of some extent, where it has been my happiness to labour for the
last 18 yeas, and in some relects, I the* God, not without sac-
dess ; but whatever effect my ministry has on other vices, it fails in
stepping drunkenness. This may aepear a startling assertion; let
me, however, s ate so.i e facts to substantiate it. I,•npressed myself
with the failure of my ministry in this respect, and thiaking that I
had nee 1 every means in my power, I called the neighbouring clergy-
men together, to state to them nay difie cities, all to ask their opin-
ion res, eating t 'tat abstinence SO3iSticS and the expediency of adopt-
ing them. Having convened the meetng it fell to me lot to open the
disaussioil, which I did by asking them severally, what is the sin o
your perish which you feel to be the greatest obst Lela to your
ministry ? The answer from them all, without exception, was
drunkenness. I then asked them how mmy had been reclaimed from
drunkenness, when in health, through their ministry? They all
declared, with one exception, not one. I have repeatedly asked the
same question from my brethren in the mini-try, in different parts
of the country, and uniformly received the same reply. During this
one week I have met many clergymen from d ffareat parts of the
country to whom I put the same quest on, and from wham I received
a similar reply. Bleep clergymen, at diffent t mes, and in different
pasts of the country, have dee,laeed that their ministry has
so far as they have any evidence, in reclaiming the drisikard.
Total abstinence i s true philanthropy, not th mawkish sentimental
inn vanity, standing ❑loo: from the fallen and despised, attracting to
itself oily the vlr item and wet thy. It is a humanity that identifies
itself wth man's fall, and with all its consequent s: ,iseries; itself
pu-e, it impels the movement, which is as a golden chain lowered to
the very depths of wretchedness and woe, throws an all-encircling
shield around the peer d:unkerd, assi nilatea him to the character of
a man, and brings him into ce num-lion with the children of God.

The Ray, John Wesley, In his 65th sermon, observes that " mtny
sty never attempt to reprove a drankel mix when he is intoxicated;
reproof, it is said, is then thrown aw ay. I dare not say so. I have
seen rot a few clear ins al es of the kind. I reprove 1 a drunkard is
lloorfields who could lc trc.ly Fps , but he p-onthed me that he
would drink no more. I enquired his address, and found that ho had
kept his proralse. Four years have now elapsed since that promise
was made, and the reformed drunkard is now a member of the
church." Hare compassion on poor drankarls, lot not shams or
frar prevent yea sympathizing with them. Poor hiugs, Ikn
experimental:y that many of them aro self-con Ismael. Tell them
of the advantacas of total abstinence, and urge them to sign the
pledge.

The Rev. G. Wiltdeld mentions in his jou.nal, that daring his
first voyage to G. orgla, the sh p's c )ek was so awfuily addicted to
drinkin;, that, when he reprov.ed him, he boasted th tt he would drink
u til within two yeirs of his death, awl then r germ. He, however,
added Mr. Whitfi -id, was selz: d with that dreadful malady of
drulakenness the diirium tremens. On his reresvery he gave up
drip hag before the vessel atrived at her destined haven.
If total abstinence principle' come not with the sharp-si_htedness
of Him who stained the wid ,w in the temple, and 'meted her for her
mite, they come with the power of a man, the sympathy of the child,
the Liminess and loge of a woman, and with the olive branch of
maternal affection, subdue the drunkard into conscioasness of his
guilt, and the minister directs him to Chr-bt and he is safe.

The evidence a Mr. Parnell, dock master of the port of Lireqool,
before a Parliamentary Committer, illustrated in a very striking man-
ner the hindrance the drunkenneell of DritLilx 'icemen 0.01 eel-

di3rs is to the speed of Christianity in heathen countries—that
gentleman observed that the outward conduct, at least, of the Hindoo
was boautifsl when compared with that of our seamen on shore. I.
have often thonsht, added Mr. Parnell, that when the missionary was
pointing out to the Hindoo the absurdity of foiling down to inordi-
nate stocks aad s' ones, end the necessity of turning to the worship of
the one tru3 and living God, tie Hindoo migh', with great propriety,
retort upon the missionary and say —" Do you want me to be lire
your drunken sailors." Mr. Corry, King's Dick Master, made a bl2:li-
!sr statement to me.

If we may be sent with justi3l to learn from the rud3 and ignorant
Indian—observed Mr. Corry—the firat elements of civil wisdom, we
have not much to boast of our foreslght and knowledge. We must
confess that we ha 73 hitherto value I ourselves on cur art*, wealth,
and commerce, but we have not learned to preserve virtue and
temperance.

The Venerable Archdeacon J,ffriei, of Bombay,-st -.ted at a public
meeting. that the result of his obier,,ition was, a deep conviction that
the int, eduction of ,ihristianity into India along with the drinking
customs of England, would enpose the natives to the very worst
forms of depravity, to evils rio great, that unl, ss the ini.isiolarles were
total abstain-re, and enjoined total abstinence on every one of the
converts, the introduc ion of Christianity would prove a curse instead
of a blessing.

The Rev. W. Hume, at the meeting at which the Venerable Arch-
deac n presided, said more of th 3 converts gathered by Protesta❑t
missionaries have fallen through drunkenness than anything el e.
In Persia, drunkenness has increased in the retie of intercourse of
the nat. ves with Caristlan countries. It has become a standing
reproach to the religion of Christ, that a drunken Mussulman is
disowned by his fellows, and turned over to the Christians as
being one of them. Ile has left, they say, Mahommed, and
gone now to Jesus. The following pnaish.nent, inflicted for drunk-
enness by the mob at Constantinople, will chow how sensible the
Mahomm-dans are of the di'gusting %ice of drunkenness, and i-i what
light they look upon Christians through drunkenness. A ahomme-
dais, who had got drank, was tel on a lame mule, with his face
to the tail of the be st, upon his head was placed an European's hat,
end behind him was tied a dog back to bock. After having paraded
the streets with him, and sprinkled him at every fountain that was
passed, he was docked twice in the Bosphoru', the dogs' hair was
shaved in the foam of a cross, and the man was shaved with the
s-me sazo", then ducked agsin twice in the Bosphoras. Aft_r this
ceremony, the man is considered purified. liaho:net is said. to ha-re
been led to put the prohhitian against the uss o 7 wine in the Koren
by an incident which occurred to him-elf. Passing through a villaye
one day, he was delighted at the merriment' of a crowd of persons
njoying themselves drinking at a wedding party. Being obliged to
return the sans, way next day, he was shocked at seeing the ground
where they had been drinking drenched with blood, and, asking the
cause, was told that the company had drank to excels, and getting
into a b awl, fell to slaughtering one another; from that day his mind
was made up—the mandate wen, forth from Allah that no child of
the faith.'ul should touch wile, on pain of being exc'udted from
paradise. The simple t uth was that Mahommet foresaw that there
there would be no stability to the re'igion and ernl ire he was hnilding
np if the ute of intoxicating Hu srs was allowed to his follavrers as a
re.nit of this inju❑ction.

(To be continued.)

CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BETWEEN LONDON
AND DUBLIN.

The contract agreed to be entered into between the
Postmaster-General the London and North-Western, and
the Che3ter and Holyhead Railway Companies, and the
Dublin Steam Packet Company, was approved of at the
meeting of the Lon Jon and North-Wes ern shareholders,
held ou Friday, and is thus described in a circular issued
by that Company :
The contract is for fourteen years, subject to a power of
the Goverament, at any time after the first fire years, to
put an end to the contract, if they have reason to be dis-
satisfied with the manner in which it is generally performed;
in which event the government will purchase the packets
at a price to re-imburse the net cost, to be determined by
arbitration. The existing contract with the City of
Dublin Steam Packet Company is to terminate when
the new contract takes effect. There aro to be provided
four packets, each being not less than 300 feet long,
1,700 tons measurement, and of such construction as
shall be approved by the government as being suitable
for this improved service. and for the accommodation of
the public. There are to be four communications—two
each way daily—between London and Kingstown in
eleven hours, subject to penalties for delay, except in
certain cases, when arising from causes beyond the con-
trol of the companies. Nothing contaiaed in the con-
tract is to be iuterpr.-ted to interfere with the rights of
the Postmaster-General, or of the companies, under the
existing agreements or contracts with the Chester and
Holyhead Railway Company, and with the Loudon and
North Western Railway Company, excepting so far
as the establishment of these new trains will render
the service under suoh contracts or agreements unneces
sary. The new service is to commence within two years
from the execution of the contract. By agreement
bet weep the companies, the necessary capital, estimated
at 300,0001., is to be provided equally by the London end
North-Western and City of Dublin Steam Packet Compa-
nies. This company had the option of being half owners
and managers of the steam packets to be provided under
this contract.; the directors, however, deemed it more
expedieut to arrange with the City of Dublin Company
for the performance of the sea portion of the service—this
company being relieved from all liability in respect
thereef—the vessels being available and at the disposal of
this company for the development of passenger traffic, as
fully as if they were its own property. Under this
arrangement, the proportion of the capital to be provided
for the construction of the steam boats by the London
and Nerth•Western Company will be advanced as a loin,
bearing interest at 5 per cent., on the security of the four
packets (costing double the amount of the advance), and
of the receipts for traffic earned by the steam vessels. The
capital so advanced will be repaid by annual instalments.
For the land service, there is to be paid annually the sum
of 23,0001., independent of and in addition to the amount
now paid to the London and North Western Company
nnder their present general contract ; and the earn
of 30,0001. now paid annually to the Chester and
Holyhead Company tinder the existing arrangement
bet aesn that co npany and the government, will
continue to be so paid ; which sum of 30,0001 shall, during
the existence of this contract, include, in addition to the
service uovr performed in respect to it, the service herein
provided for.

At LEWIS & ()NEPA NY'S, Ranelagh-street,
BOYS are CLOTHED from the Agee of Six to Twenty Years.

PROVIDENTIAL RESCUE FROM DICNNING.—On
day evening four young men, named Dickson, Hutchison,
Adamson, and Turner, left Richmond for Caudon in a large
sailing boat. Oa their way the wind, which had been high,
increased, and the water became rougher, and it was with
difficulty that their stout craft wes safely navigated. After
passing thimmersinith railway-brdge, they mistook the
light of a dredgiegebarge for a cottage, and steered towards
the object with the view of putting ashore. They then
hard loud cries, add passed an out-rigger wherry, bottom
upwards, and three persons clinging to her to save their
lives. These were immediately rsscue Iby the crew of the
sailing boat, who, about twenty yards further on, di-covered
a fourth person, abs lutoly " stuck in the mad," with the
with the water up to his chin. He was also rescued. The
wherry was lashed asters, and the half-drowned crew were
taken to the Star and Girter at Putney. Tne crew of the
soiling boat also picked up an outrigger wager-boat and a
gig, both bottom uproar le, the occupants of which they
supposed had been drowned.
AN ATLAS GRATIS WITH THE "DISPATCH."—Os and after
Sunday, October 4th, 1857, each copy of the Dispatch
will be accompanied with a map, a chart, or the plan of
of a principal town, so as to furnish to each subscribsr,
gratis, the most comprehensive, canallete and generally
useful Alas hitherto published in Great Britain. The
size of the engravings will be that of one page of the
newspaper, six maps and two plans, in each year, will be
of double the size-17 inches by 25. The ordinary map
will be correctly tinted, the charts will be properly relieved
in blue, acid the plans will be printed in a rich colour.
rhe double maps will be the object of great attention in
the desire to make them beautiful specimens of maps
colouring. It is hoped, in the course of no unreaeanably
protracted time, that the Dispatch Atlas will contain
more names and positions of places than any other English.
publication of the kind, The counties will be given se-
parately, and where they are large and populous, as in the
case of Lancashire, each div:sion of the coanty will occupy
a pace; egaiu, the States of Italy will be the subject of
six distinct maps. The nemea of the draughtsmen and
engravers will be the best guarantee for perfect accuracy.
The maps wili be as full as clearness and reference will
allow. Corrections and discoveries will be given from
the best authori iee, The engravings will be in the
highest style of art, miny thousands of pounds being
devoted to their cast, and they will be taken from original
drawings expressly prepared for the series. Directors of
mechanics' institutes, the conductors of all educational
es'ablishments, the proprietors of hotels, reading-rooms,
and coffee-houses, will, in poezessing the Dispatch Atlas
be sap died with a daily want, The money value of the
completed work may be best ascertained by inquiring the
selling price of any large and trustworthy collection of
maps. The Dispatch Atlas will he forwarded with the
numbers of the paper at the usual price, sdsper copy, or
6d. stamped. On the fist issue some hints ni Ibe given
for preserving, indexing, and binding the Atlas. Orders
received by every
news-agent and bookseller in the king-
dom, and at the Dispatch office, 139, Fleet-street. The
nidey evening, edition may be received in the most distant
part of the kingdom on Saturday morning.

At LEW Is & COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-street,
BOYS are C LO IED from the Ages of Six to Twenty Years.

VISIT TO THE MORMON TEMPI''
GREAT GEORGE-STREET•

TO TH3 EDITOR 05 THE NORTHERN T11(0.
t on,
Sir,—How ready people, influenced by he
scionsness of the truth of their principles'lte,
rectitude of their conduct, are to cornecuoie,,e,
how wining to impart instruction. On the centril`ile
when influenced by the conviction that they :re
mere pretenders, what shuffling; subterfuges
resorted to, what meanness is manifest• ecintuhe
when Orson Pratt, the Mormon apostle, v.; 9--e,
Rev. Mr. Barcisley's meeting, in Bond-street, and
inquired where the law given to Moses ,N_Yas.„ of
posited, that rev. gentleman, with the 11'511"e-id
a mind imbued with truth, replied,
the Covenant." But when Mr. Bardsley slag
Pratt, in return, where the plates that Morta for
say resisted the earth's corroding infillenc:anj
1,400 years were, the imposture was apPlWll.,w'c-self
Mormonism exploded. Consequently, when
Ae
and three others visited the Mormon teniP'
found ourselves among deceivers and liars' Who
one of these men, the individual, I believ't to
addressed the meeting, has thought Proper es
attack the accuracy of my statement in refercner,
to that visit. The following declaration, bewev • •
will show that it was eorresil:— gr•
" We hereby certify that the account givoll ""le
tour" 1.
Bennett of our visit to the Mormon
strictly correct, ".B p,OOO,
T. BlsellAi",'
BeYlvlitio
This Mormon, says "he did not advert to list
Danite Band"—this is simply false—and: di
"he was not aware of its existence." la"-Tebe
in the Ar._ea
then I must inform him on the subject.
following is the oath of this vile band et'odo
" In the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of fist
I do covenant and agree to support the
presidency of the church of Latter-Day Saint gra •
all things, right or wrong." I will faithlully $ll7O
them, and report to them the acts of all n3o!iiig
far as in my power lies. I will assist in er.'e°ll3,o,
all the decrees of the first president of the tvve Tee'
and I will cause all that speak evil of the Prue,/
coition,s e edil y confessand dea
death
and
shallrepent,
ffollow
for pestilence, dent to be put to death, as apostates, unless tfser
•esli
He says "he was not aware of the Allieril'
government charging crimes to Mormonis'
the
cneto Fee; of

That is another falsehood. and
I have before me the report of L. G. Brandeb
chief justice, R. A. Brochus, assistant justices( tilt,
R. D. Harris, secretary. These officers °'.tod
supreme court of the United States to the terrlio
of Utah, charge this Danite Band of Brig tot
Young with the murder of Messrs. Munroe $
Vau
h ghan, and other dfabolical crimes. it?
I ave also the report of Judge DrurunOn",s' 10
reference to that sworn band of as.lassins, oh,
commit murders at the command of the 011,ti'die
which chargas this sacred Danite Band with
509,
murder of secretary Bubbit, Captain Grun.Lee,
and eight othrrs, and other foul enormities.
et of
the despatch of Amerioan soldiers, by °r",:itoti
President Buchannan, to teach Mormon tr',:idatt
morality, civilisation, and obedience to Alj3e—

laws." -
dig'
He says "he did not use blasphemous '3-4
r
ie
gusting language." Among other vile thug, „r
said " that Mormons teach and practice polYg;of
because Jesus Christ was a desecndel," olr
polygamists " Six females manifested tborviog
horrence of the disgusting language by 18%46
the room—the astonishment was how one le—
could remain.
He says the placard is not in the Witicif:;
Suffice it to say, I read it myself in the Wilj":o3t,
and the two Mormons that invited me to them the
ing informed me that I might put questions t°
spi,alcer. oci
He admonishes me " to examine my Biblevileff
exereisa charity." This advice comes Wit' .01
bad odour from a Mormon, with the Danite °or
and the charges of murder, of the American d°,:iiBbiet
inent, before him. Bat I have examined nlivof .
and it tells me " to try the spirits, because "-de
false prophets are gone out into the wOl,lOll
Mornam prophets, fiy this rule, I find to .02
teacher., nay, impostors. They say they 1491;10
revelation from Gel, found in the earth-,
again is false. It is simply the ehimera C'
ordered brain, perverted by Joe Smith, an '7:01
can swindler, or fortune teller, for purPes—
delusion and plunder. so&
Mr. George Turnbull says, I have opP°10;
Mormons during the summer" This is t4-'
because they profess to speak from the New Ledt.
mont in our public streets, when their 0-08
are influenced by that vile. imposition
raoo
Book of Mormon, which is the g°/".:00,
Bible; and, further, I oppose M,rnaous be"„,--seo
Miss Brotherton and Miss Sehind decP„,"itb
on oath, before a magistrate, that Joe
said he had a revelation from God to I;ttie;
their persons and thus prostitute their v""ost
and 45 of these M mnon monsters. carryingsalt
the adulterous practices of their Head at al);
Lake, according to a Liverpool paper, rece; of
issued, have :nveigled 415 women into live to
ptofligacy and shame ; and, therefore, I bcog to
inform Mr. G. Turnbull that I shall coutilla-004.
oppose murderers, polygamists, robbers. Will
.deceivers, trusting, ere this, American arms die
have accomplished in America what I trasidt
g.col sense of Englishmen will do in Eng,'ine •
v,z., banish Mormonisn anti its vile ab°"-i9Ol
tions from the land. To tolerate Morra°'
wouid be national suicide.--Yours, &c..
JOHN DEDis°
0 q. 10th, 1857.
My attention was only directed to-day '°
dot.
Turilbull's letter, or I should have replied se"--

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On the evening of the 3rd the Queen of SPi`„-riee'
ministers were at the Madlici Theatre, and in the enbok
the performance, the latter waited on the Q men, ill eealoott
and held, under her Majesty's presidency, in the L;if le
adjoining the box, a sort of council which lasted
hour. This naturally excited a good deal of Ceriweioll
amongst the public, but no one knew the refie' ,
come to.
o°ol
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MORE Tanors FOR INDIA.—On Saturday 390 '...,r-n301:,1
all rinks, consisting of the you. Eat India C)l7.rice",
Ar,illery, and the company's Sappers and MiserS, s
at Tillbury Fort from the Depot B cracks at lire,rie;thi,c,:
embarkation ea board the Malabar aod Ben.,„lo",lo°_,'
hava been taken up by the Direcors of the xos-
Company for their c)nveyance to Madras. The Ov°,,
saihd ething the afterno.m for sea. About 900 Me', oath'
are to Embark from Warlq daring the present Ireot
The depot has sent cut already 3..000 different
during the last two months to Bombay and 1101.,7,,1g,eatsb`°
AUSTRIA'S DISORD,,RED FINANCR.--It is inuTas
that the numerous measures for preserving the ."ce-rrlhe,
treasury from the continual menace of bankruptcy' A$
into execution by M. do Bruck, Aftnister of Fi9anh "PT;
is oae of the most intelligent fiaanciers of the oPec,::b0„(
remained without result. Within a short period ";00 v
seen sccceel each other at short intervals st
125,000,000 f., another of 87,500,000 f , and a natfi rn
of 1,250,000,000 f., also the sale of the st to rat'7oo,oi
mines, and the cessioa to the Bank of more than 0; fed (1,250,000 acres) of domains and foreleMis,l
yet, in spite of all tilt-se sacrifice, a new loan, ulb;01130
under the firm of an issue of Treasury bills, begation
necessary. A letter from Vienna ascribes this Fit% erni'f
the overwhelming charges of the public debt and tboo,oooi
In 1845 the interest on the debt only absorbed 110,°/0 10g
annually, and in 1356 it required 220,000,000 r. it cellg
the army cost )31,000,000f. ; but last Yearn„cl, de4
310,000,000 f. In 1854, '55, and '56, the anal 7 sell
together absorbed on an average 655,000,000'4 40_
exceeded by 255,000,000 f., cr 63 per cent., the totaolo7 101
budget of 1845. The deficit is now 1,612,000,°afid
presence of rich a state of tbir.gs we can underst FinOest
the boldest combinations of the 'Rlioister of te° ons%
must in a very short time, and in spite of the
so 00
incre,.s.) in the yield of taxes, be sterile; gnaha legs
understand' also how strong in Austria must he belie's,
to see the expense of the army reduced. Bet IteVien„ilit
that in this respect illusions are indulged in a
France and Russia may without danger re"ger
military forces, but Austria cannot do se. Onus
renders services it the interior ; and she requires ed
down Italy and Hungary, which, though conquer.cjiaa.
revolu ions of 1848, are still only imperfectly
Indepenclance Beige.

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