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THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1857.

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEHBER 9, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The news this morning is varied and interesting.
And first as to local matters. The Select Vestry
held thair usual fortnightly meeting yesterday,
when an animated debate, opened by Mr. Bairstow,
took pis,,e, on the proceedings of the Industrial
Schools Committee being moved for confirmation

The debate had reference to a speech lately made
by the Rev. Dr Goss, in reference to the manage-
- meat of the Industrial Schools. Mr. Bairstow's
speech was temperate and candid, and although
he may have hit rather hard upon the right rev.
prelate, for the speech to which the debate re-
ferred, and characterised it as an after-dinner
oration, studded with quotations from the classic
Joe Miller, it is impossible not to come
to the conclusion that the Bishop was indis-
creet in many of the statements he advanced,
and th it Mr. Beirstow was perfectly right
in vindicating the upright intentions and
tolerant views of the Se!ect Vestry with
regard to the children educated and brought up
in the Industrial Schools. Of course Dr. Goss
had to be defended, and Mr. `Witty undertook
the task. Of trio remarkable character of Mr.
Whitty's speech, seeing that Mr. Bairstow did not
provoke a single ungracious remark, all we shall
say at present is, that our readers should peruse
his remarks, and judge whether it was either
judicious or necessary to indulge, as he did, in a
strain of strop .± and indignant condemnation
against the Protestant religion and Protestant
members of the vestry. The speech of Rector
Campbell was certainly a caustic one, and we

must say Mr. Wbity gained nothing by the speech
be delivered for the purpose of defending Dr.
`Goss, who evidently was too rash in his condemna-
tion of the doings of the vestry. We deplore these
religious displays. They can tend to no good end.
At the same time, it is well when bigots get up—no
matter to what party they belong—to make cries-
tionable statements, that thy should be met, ex-
posed, and refuted.
Another new feature has been brought to light
with respect to the Glasgow poisoning case. To.
day we publish a variety of documents connected
with the unfortunate L'..kngelier, a copy of his
diary (which the majority of the judges refused to
admit as evidence on the trial of Madeline Smith),
and a pathetic letter from his mother to Mr. A.
Pringle, who has taken a deep interest in the matter.
Most of our readers are aware that this gentleman
was, until a late period, an extensive tradesman in
Bold-street. The documents which we publish
to-day go far to establish for L'Ang&ier the
character of a really upright, honest, and religiously
disposed young man.
The street preaching riots at Belfast, to which
we referred yesterday, will be found detailed at full
length in another part of our paper to-day. A
careful perusal of the whole anir will show that,
although the Protestant clergy may have a
right to expouud the Gospel in the public
thoroughfares of crowded cities and towns it is
Belfast is concerned, evil alone has followed From
what has taken place in Belfast and other places
in various parts of the United Kingdom, it becomes
a question for the ruling authorities to consider
and determine whether all attempts at street
preaching, no matter by what party, shall be put
down. The Majesty of 'leaven or the glory of
God cannot be promoted by the riots at Belfast on
Sunday.
The fate of the wretched criminals in Kirkdale
appears to be still undecided. Our advices from
London last night informs us that an appeal has
been male to the Marine Department of the Beard
of Trade on behalf of the unhappy delinquents.
The communication, we are told, has been
forwarded to the Home-office, and Sir George
Grey, Secretary. of State, has directed some inquiry
to be made, with the ♦iew of ascertaining whether
there are any grounds which would justify a
mitigation of the sentence in either of the cases of
the convicts. The log-book of the Martha Jane
is also under examination. The position of the
criminals is certainly a trying one, but a few hours
more must bring them tidings whether the law
must take its course or not.
Turning from this melancholy matter, we have
to remind our readers that to-day a most interest-
ing ceremony will take place at the new Hebrew
synagogue, in hope-place, namely, the consecra•
tion of the building to the sacred purposes for
which it was erected. The building is described in
another column, and we hope that its dedication
to the service of the Great Jehovah will be pleas-
ing and satisfactory to all concerned.

One of our metropolitan cotemppraries of yes-
terday, insinuates that the ministerial storm of
wrath and vengeance against all that is Indian has
evidently abated, and it may well be supposed
that Ministers have instructed the editors
under their controul that the thing has
been so overdone as to excite continental nations
against us. The Premier -has the sagacity
to perceive that an Indian insurrection is difficult
enough without invoking the of every
Christian and civilised country. Then there i 3
another reason for the journals mitigating their
furious and hell-hound eloquence, and that is
the discovery that the people of England do
not share in the display of so much Pagan
feeling, and are more likely to symyathise with the
Sepoys than denounce them, if such extravagant
threats are persisted in. In connection with
this subject we may mention that the Aborigines
Protection Society have addressed a memorial to
Mr. Vernon Smith, protesting against the cry for
blood and vengeance against the mutineers which
has been 93 vehemently raised, and especially
deprecating those measures of indiscriazinate
punishment which would draw no distinction be-
tween the innocent and the guilty. The memorial
also prays for inquiry into the causes of the insur-
rection, and points to various acts of our national
policy, and especially to our interference with the
religious convictions of the natives, as having first
produced discontent, then conspiracy, and ulti-
mately rebellion.

Fro-m
. the Continent we have not any stirring
incidents, political or general. Our French neigh-
bours and allies seem bent on speculations on the
future, the present being devoid of interest. The
Emperor is drilling his guards, and the public
naturally asks whether he intends practiially to
try the efficiency of an army on which he expends
so much care and attention. In connection with this
we may mention that a Paris correspondent alludes
to the assertions of certain well-meaning peor Is
that the Ein?eror Napoleon will urge upon the
Czar Alexander not to make use of the Indian
events for the disturbance of the equilibrium of
power in Europe. The Paris Univers again
reverts to India—a subject on which it expatiates
with much gratification—and once more un-
hesitatingly expresses a hope that the English may
prove unsuccessful in their efforts to put down the
insurrection. Its reason for so charitable a wish
is that the English, being Protestants and heretics,

are just as great barbarians as the Hindoos
themselve.p. The plan suggested by the Univers for
changing the face of India would in any other
journal seem mere mockery—being to send
out a number of Raman Catholic missionaries.
The Debats remarks on the delaration of the
council general of the Herault in favour of a
revision of the French customs' tariffs, and
expresses its satisfaction at the persistence with
wh:ch that body each year publishes its arguments
in favour of free trade. It is only by such perse-
verance, adds the Debuts, that the free trade system
*an eventually prevail in France, where nothing
affords a greater support to the protectionist party
than the ignorance which exists respecting the
real situation of most of the great questions of
political economy.

The following piece of intelligence has been
received from Persia, and will be read with great
interest :—" The official journal of Teheran will in
a short time publish a despatch, by which the Shah
will prolaim absolute equality between the Mus-
sulman , Christian, and Jewish subjec►s of his
dominions. All Persians, without any distinction
of race or creed, will be declared fully capable of
discharging all civil and military functions. This
document, prior to its publication, has been sent
to the provincial governors, with injunctions that
they should strictly and faithfully enforce the will
of the Shah in this respect."
Late letters from Vienna mention that a tele-
graphic despatch had been received in that city,
bringing news from Moldavia to the 3rd of Sep-
tember. Up to that date the period fixed for the
elections was not known, but it is supposed they
would take place in the month of October next
The instructions for the formation of the new
electorial lists were expected to arrive from Con-
stantinop:e on the 6th. The members of the
European Commission were expected at Jassy in a
few days The Caimacan was after visiting the
chief districts of the province. The greatest tran-
quillity prevailed, and all were quietly awaiting the
day of election, when the will of the country
would be made known.

The strife of nationalities grows more critical in
Holstein. The Diet of Ilzehoe, knowing that it is
supported by the national sentiment of Germany,
and encouraged by Austria and Prussia, holds a
bolder tone towards the Danish ,rzoveramont. It
is stated that Prince "Gortchakoff has notified to
the Gaman courts that his government will
support that of Copenhagen against demands
which would weaken the connexion of Holstein
with Denmark, and impai: the entireness of the
Danish Monarchy
Placentia, like Rome, is to have its monument
in honour of the dogma of the Immaculate Con-
ception. The Duchess Regent has given a colossal
Roman column, which will be erected before the
cathedral, and support a bronze statue -of the
blessed Virgin. A subscription is in progress, and
7001. has already been subscribed.

By the arrival of the screw steamer Angle-Saxon,
after a splendid run of less than ten days, we have
been put in possession of Quebec advices to the
29th ult. inclusive. The news is unimportant.
She reports the loss of the screw steamer Clyde,
from Quebec'to Gasgow. Fall details of the news
and the disaster will be found in another column

IT is reproach enough to us that we have
allowed ourselves to be surprised by blood-
thirsty traitors and assassins. There is,
happily, no difference at home among
the people or the Government, that the
most energetic means must be taken, and are
now being taken, to subdue the mutiny, to rein-
force our countrymen, who are now contending
against .such fearful odds, and to execute ven-
geance on those cruel and cowardly miscreants
who have tortured sand massacred women and
children. It sounds horrible and unchristian to
talk of vengeance, but no softer language befits
the occasion. We have no time and inclina-
tion for feeling sentimentality ; retribution must
unresisting woman and the child. No wonder
that our brave fellows, few in comparative num-
bers, are yet burning with indignation to be
launched upon the foe, and shout to each other,
" Remember the ladies, remember the babies," to
intensify their courage.
Forbearance to the human monsters who have
committed these atrocities would be weakness
and a dereliction of duty ; those who have so
foully profaned the earth with deeds of murder
and cruelty are no longer worthy to enjoy the
light of heaven. We are not stirring up to
indiscriminate slaughter. If it were possible to
ascertain each dastardly miscreant who has laid
a profane hand on woman or child, he
ought to be suspended by the neck, dying
the death of a dog, because this
is the single punishment which is most
dreaded and most ignominious in the eyes of
those butchering Brahmins ; and again let it be
tried—" Cursed is every one that hangeth on a
tree." We have heard set up for these cut-
throat mutineers the flimsy plea, that, after all,
they are only patriots, contending for the liberty
of their country against the English—desiring to
emancipate India from the misgovernment of
England by driving their oppressors into the
sea. Patriotism, even when mistaken, is to be
honoured ; but never yet was the violator of
women and children a patriot. Our battle is
not against patriots if there are any such in the
insurgent ranks. Our denial is not of Indian
misgovernment; our blindness is not to our own
shortcomings; our assertion is not of the unim-
peachableness of E ]gland's sway over India ;
but our indignation and our battle are against
cowardly torturers,ceuel traitors, and bloodthirsty
assassins. With these Englaneis at war, and
she will not sheathe the sword till she has
inflicted the vengeance of heaven for deeds of
blood. The outraged and mangled bodies of
our countrywomen and their little ones cry aloud
for vengeance—and vengeance becomes righteous
indignation in such a cause. The reform of
Indian misgovernment will come, but first, in-
surrection must be put down, and murder and
treason meet their award. Neither the Govern-
ment nor the country must relax their efforts ;
throughout the three kingdoms the ranks of the
army must be filled up, and reinforcements
must pour into India, that our countrymen
may be at least one to three against their armed
antagonists. Fortunately, from all that the
telegraph has yet reported, the insurrection
continued to be yet purely military. Were the
wildfire of insurrection to invade the armies of
Bombay and Madras, the affair would be far
more complicated and far more formidable.
Now, we confess we were among the parties

who, at the first, did not think this beyond the
range of possibility. Nor must we too con-
fidently yet presume that this is impossible.
Some telegraphic despatch may, on some
pleasant morning, announce that Bombay and
Madras are not quite untouched. To lessen the
chance of this as much as may be, and reduce it
to the highest improbability, we must expedite
and increase our reinforcements to India. More
than one-half of our success depends on the
promptitude with which we take action in this
emergency. Twice gives he who promptly gives.
While recognising, with most of our countrymen
and cotemporaries, the commendable energy of
the Government, we yet beg very earnestly
and respectfully to urge them to continued and
increased activity.
It is much, no doubt, in the circumstances of
the country to have despatched from England,
within the last two months, something over
thirty thousand men. Bat this may be inade-
quate, and our fighting men are still in a for-
midable minority, as compared with the
mutineers, without making allowance for disease
and the climate. We must be prepared with
eighty or a hundred thousand men to sweep the
fields of India, and uphold our supremacy. We
cannot reckon to do it with thirty or even with
fifty thousand. There is no use in deceiving
ourselves, or in blinking the greatness and
gravity of the occasion. Better to he over
armed than under. India must be made to feel
that though England, through her incapable
misrepresentatives, may be surprised and taken
unprepared, yet she cannot be subdued ; nor the
English driven into the sea ; but that this same
England can stretch forth her iron arm, and at
the distance of half the globe, smite the oppressor,
avenge the tortured, and crush the traitor. We
venture still to repeat that, in our judgment,
troops might most advantageously have been
sent, partly overland to India through Turkey,
and with more expedition. Satisfying reasons
must be known in high quarters why this was
not done. We prophecy, too, that before all is
over, the militia will have to be embodied. on a
large scale, as a possible feeder to the line.
Whatever is done let it be done heartily, unani-
mously, expeditiously, vigorously. Let cur
soldiers when they march to battle remember
the women and the children ; it will nerve their
arm, and intensify even their British valour ;
and the last result of this temporary anarchy,
we may hope, will be a more enduring peace,
our more undisputed 'supremacy, and for the
people of India a new era of reform and improve-
ment.

IT is with pain that we are called upon almost
daily to notice occurrences which go to prove
the gross immorality that is practised on board
emigrant ships and the total disregard of all
those principles of propriety of action and con-
the 'corn shOre. We do not particularly
refer to the crimes committed on the James L.
Bogart, the Martha Jane, or the more recent
case of the captain of a vessel belonging to
Hartlepool, who beat and abused his apprentice
to such an extent that the unfortunate youth
was induced to jump overboard and drown
himself. We allude to those minor irregularities
and social evils which, as a whole, aggravate,
deprave, and vulgarise the character of our mer-
cantile marine. Improprieties on the part of
sailors are looked upon as the mere follies of men
who know no better, and who also, from the
hardships which they endure, and the privations
they encounter, are entitled to a little indulgence.
Hence it is that our seaports, generally speaking,
present a strong contrast to the less bustling,
but more peaceable inland towns of the United
Kingdom. This can only be accounted for from
the fact that the frivolities of JACK and his shore
debaucheries gather to all our maritime towns
and villages lots of characters as loose and incon-
siderate as himself.

Unfortunate and objectionable as such a state
of things is, they seem to be evils for which there
is difficulty in finding a remedy. The patriot
and philanthropist may deplore the scenes of
iniquity and acts of aggravated indecency which
are to be witnessed every day in such places as
Liverpool, London, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Glas-
gow, Dublin, Belfast, &c., &c. ; but they are much
more pained when they reflect upon the terrible
immoralities that are practised on shipboard at
sea ; and although we are much indisposed to
lift the veil and see what scenes of depravity are
enacted on board ship, it would be a dereliction
of duty on our part to close our eyes to such
evidence as comes naturally before us.

Our readers had presented to them, in yester-
day's NORTHERN TIMES, the details of two heart-
rending occurrences which recently took place on
board emigrant ships The narratives exhibit
most painfully the horrible dangers and irresista-
ble temptations to which the poor but honest
girls, who expatriate themselves from their native
land, and seek in other climes a subsistence and
a home, are exposed, where most they hoped to
find shelter and protection, and, above all, a free-
dom from the voluptuous desires of rough and
heartless seamen. The tale of both the girls
named in yesterday's paper may be briefly told.
A short time ago, a philanthropic Irish gentle-
man, named Mr. VERE FOSTER, conceived the
idea of taking out to the United States a number
of young and healthy females, with the view of
putting them into situations on the other side of
the Atlantic, and thereby enabling them to get
on in the world, free of many, if not all, the
harrassing turmoils and drudgeries which cling

to persons of their' rank and station at home.
Mr. FOSTER selected from Louth, Meath, and
some of the adjoining counties, one hundred and
twenty females, whose characters were pure and
spotless. They embarked on board the City of
Mobile, their port of destination being New
York. Mr. FOSTER, in order to be befo:e them,
and have all arrangements made for the arrival
and landing of the girls, proceeded by the
steamer, so that as far as lay in his power he did
every thing which he could to carry out his
praiseworthy design.

But we must now turn to the black side of
this horrible picture. When the City of Mobile
reached New York, out of the 120 e►►aigrees, only
twelve consented to leave New York. However,
Mr. FOSTER proceeded with these twelve, and
before he parted them succeeded in putting
them into good situations. Nothing was heard
of the remaining 108, until within a short
period, when one of the girls, SUSAN SMITH,
was picked up in the streets of New York, in a
state of abject destitution. Her face was
covered with bruises, and her body with rags.
She was taken before the Emigration Commis-
sioners, to whom she told her sad and melancholy
tale of woe. To strengthen her statements, she
deposed on oath that when the vessel anchored
off the port, five of the female passengers were
taken on shore the same night by one sailor, that
five others were taken off by the quarter-master
next day, and that she herself and a girl named
ELLEN LEARY, were carried away to a house of
ill-fame, at noon, whilst the rest lay concealed in
the vessel, and landed as opportunity occurred.
How great must have been the horrible profli-
gate influences set to work to contaminate and
corrupt an entire cargo of virtuous girls within
the short passage from Liverpool to New York.
Nay more, there must have been an unpardon-
able and woful want of vigilance on the part of
those to whose care these unprotected girls were
entrusted. The second case is that of MARY
ANN BRETT, who took passage in the Cambria,
from Liverpool to New York. Shortly after
leaving the Mersey, the :second mate seducel her
under the promise of marriage, bat he discarded
her on arriving at New York. BUTT'S case was
heard before the Emigration Commissioners, who
was told her only remedy was an action for
seduction. In investigating this case, it appeared
that two other female passengers had been
similarly dealt with on hoard the Cambria, and
that they had been detained under the pretence
that they were wanted to nurse the ship's
doctor. But all that Yankee law could do to
punish these violators of female purity, and
heartless .miscreants, was to inflict a penalty of
one hundred dollars against the Captain for not
landing the girls in question.
There are two cases which require and demand
investigation and quick correction for the evils
of which they are a mere sample. We send our

Atlantic to seek and obtain a home in a new
country. On leaving the land of their fathers
their hearts beat with high hopes. Although
sighs and tears attend their last farewell of
relatives and friends, the prospect of. finding
among strangers better days and more pros-
perous times abates their grief, and as soon as
the ship gets fairly under weigh happiness
beams from every eye—their delighted hearts
bound across the rolling waters of the ocean,
feeling the gale that speeds their ship along the
mighty deep too slow to keep pace with their
impatience. But in the midst of all this they
meet their destroyer. Some brutal and fiendish
ruffian, under the plea of intentions he never
means to perform, pollutes the virtuous mind,
and ultimately effects her ruin. Sad indeed
would be the record, could we obtain it, of the
artifices, and it may be personal violence, used
to effect the unholy purpose of the profligate
betrayers of female emigrants. From what has
been revealed, the moral pestilence of the emi-
grant ship has become so formidable that it is
no less dreaded than the fever that strikes the
body. For the present we shall leave the subject,
but on another occasion glance at the duty of
our government in grappling with an evil which
shocks morality, puts Christianity to the blush,
and ruins hundreds of the fair daughters of our
land.

THE CONSICRATION OF THB NEN,/ JEWISH SYNAGOGUE.—
This day our Hebrew brethern will b 3 deeply engaged in
the solemn and imposing ceremony of consecratieg the new
synagogue, in Hope-pace. This beautiful and neatly c on-
strueted edifice has jest been competed, at a cost of
upwards of £30,000, and will not alone be a credit to the
congregation to whom it belongs, bat will be a great
ornament, as an edifice for public worship to the locality.
It is in the Assyrian style of architecture, built with red
brick with stone pointing. It was arched by Mr. Isaac
Dixon, beilder, of this town, from a design by Mr. Thomas
Walley architect of Hanover-street. The exterior is ex-
ceedingly neat, the portico being supported by four fine
pillars, the floor and encoatic, tessalated tiles. In the two
nitches on either side of the door, are elegant bronzed
gas-burners, which aro intended to give light. In the
centre of the doorway is a very handsome marble
column, in the top of which is a box for con-
tributions for the po3r : which are presented
by the hon. secretary, Mr. Davis. Oa en-
tering the building all must be struck with the neat
appearance of its decorations. In the centre, and immo-
diately under the dome, is the altar, forming a circle—it is
slightly elevated, the panels being an imitation of
mahogany, while the top rails are white, inlaid with gold.
At the east end of the altar is the seat appropriated for tho
wardens. The altar will be covered with a handsome cloth,
similar to the curtains of the ark. The ark is at the centre
of the east side of the building, it is surmounted by two
black marble tablets, on which are emblazoned in geld
Hebrew characters, the ten commandments, with the text,
" Know thou before whom thou art standing," in the
same language. It has, altogether, a most impaling
appearance. Over the ark, in stained glass, is the " all-
seeing eye," and chi each side two large stained glass
windows, beautifully executed, and bearing the following
scriptural mottoes in Hebrew---" The Lord is our strengthi

" The Lord is our King," on the right side, and, " Our
God is one," " Great is our God," " Holy is his name," on
the left side. These windows were stained by Mr. Moss, of
Paradise-street, by whom they were presented to the con-
gregation. Along three sides of the building—the north,
south, and west—runs a gallery, exceedingly light in
construction, which will give accommodation to about 200
persons. The entire edifice is capable of holding between
four and five hundred persons, and will, for the present, be
ample accommodation for the worshippers. Perhaps the
most striking novelty of the building is the mode by which
it is lighted—being similar to that at the Philharmonic-
hall, consistir g of a great rumber of tripods around the
immediate base of the dome, and sho;vs a most beautiful
light. The whale construction and decorations of the
edifice are exceedingly neat and beautiful, and does great
credit to all who have been engaged in making the arrange-
ments. This day the ceremony will commence at one
o'clock, when the Rev. Professor Isaacs will deliver an
impressive inaugural sermon, and in the performance of
the service will be assisted by several eminent ministers
,belonging to the pereuas;on. After the ceremony the
congregation and friends will adjourn to a most magnifi-
cent dejcuner in the large dining room over the school-
rooms, which has been most tastefully decorated with flags
and evergreens for tha occasion, under the superintendence
of Mr. Cowan and Mr. Foinquinos, who deserve much
praise for their exertion!, There is no doubt but that this
great Event will pass off with the greatest eclat, every ar-
rangement having boon mode to afford comfort and accom-
modation to the congregation and friends who will be
present to witne;s this interesting and imposing cere-
mony.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On the 31st August, a man, named
Godfrey Evans, was hurt by a cart going over him in kike-
lane, and he died in the Northern iiispital, yesterday,
from the effects.
CL tYTON-lIALL -G)RDON CUMMING'S ENTERTAINMENT.—
The excellence of an entertainment is judged by its dura-
tion in public estimation, and taking this sta dard as a
criterion, Mr. Cumming h,s been pre-eminently success-
ful, for he has now continued for many weeks to have a
peculiar hold on the public patronage, by xis varied and
pleasing, as well es instructive, entertainment. Lately he
has added some new scenes and descriptions to those
already so attractive, and as ha proceeds the public seem
still delighted, as the audiences attest every evening by
their applause. These who have not enjcyed the enter-
tainment, should lose no tame in doing so,

THE CONDEMNED CoNvicrs.—Up to a late hour yester-
day, no further intelligence had been received with regard
so thesl three unkapp., men. Toe general impression is,
that they will be ex cuter—but while there is life there is
hope—therefore until the thfioito crder has been received
for their execation, their fate remains uncertain. Front
what we can Teara, their b;:haviou: in gaol is most exem-
plary, and they p:y. the most devout attention t the
prayers and exhortations of the worthy &captain. Mr.
Snowball the solicitor, who so ably defended them on their
trial, is in Lindon, and in caw:tunic Won with the HAM
Office, for the purpose if possible of obtaining a mitigation
of the awful sentence of death.

PASSENGERS per Montreal Ocean Steam-ship Company's
Steam-ship Anglo-Saxon, Captain M‘Master, from Quebec
to Liverpool :—Miss Brew, Miss Mason, Miss Curtiss,
Mrs. Knill, Miss Moneypenny. Mrs. Brooks, Miss Mather,
Mr. Fulford and lady, Dr• Burton, Mr. Ledyard, Mr. G.
S. H. Browne, lady, and three children. Messrs. Smith,
Knight, Rev. Mr. Archambault, Bev. Mir. Picard, Rev.
Mr. Franchemontagne, Messrs. L. A. Moreau, Mountjoy,
Belton, Gilks, Gilchrist, Mrs. Markid, Messrs. Spittle,
Waldon, Waoe, E. Horton, Master Griffin and nurse,
Messrs Williams, Young, Lieutenant King, Messrs.
Gamble, Caxley, Wickham, Mr. Tuthill, wife, and five
children, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and infant, Miss Wilson,
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman and son, Messrs. C. L. Wurtill,
Messrs, Wilde, Alexander Drysdall, John Drysdall, Holmes,
Kenworthy, Capt. Saulsby— 60 cabin, and 86 in steerage.
—Passengers from Steam-ship Clyde : Mr. A. Mackenzie,
Lieutenant Harley, Messrs. A. Murroy, John Bell, Mr.
and Mrs Bray, Mr. Parker-7 cabin, and 57 in steerage.
—Total per Anglo-Saxon : 67 cabin, and 143 steerage-
-210.

UTILIZATION OF BL AST FURNACE GASE3.—Several
attempts have been made to accomplish this most desirable
result, bu' hitherto afieulties hive been found to exist
which have prevented its general adoption. A patent has
now been taken out by Mr. Charles E. Darby, the plan of
which has been in operation for some time past at the
PiN %IA irglianSlife.Ndr WiShrce&l'dcogiqurviin:
drawing the gas from the top of the blast furnace by
means of a large pipe or tube introduce:l down the centre
of the top of the furnace, and the bottom of which is
covered by the materials with which the furnace is sup-
plied. Teis method obviates the difficulties which have
heretofore been found insurmountable—it withdraws
from the furnace an amply sufficient supply of gas, it does
not confine the top, or interfere prejudicially with its
working, and the quality of the iron made appears cot to
be altered in'the slightest degree. That the public may
form some idea of the value of an unobjeotionable plan for
the utilization of blast furnace gases, it may be further
stated, that were this patent applied to all the furnaces in
the United Kingdom, an annual saving of £300,000 would
result.

SHARP PURSUIT AND CAPTURE.-A few days ago a man
named Dunne, who had been in the employment of a Mr.
Cavanagh, of Dublin, cattle dealer, absconded with ab ut
) in cash, the property of his mister. Mr. Cavanagh, hav-
ing traced the delinquent to Liverpool, lost no time in pro-
curinv the aid of Mr. Bites, of the Private Inquiry-office,
Sweeting-strset. The Horizon, Australian ship, being
then in the river and about to proceed to sea, Mr. Bates,
with Mr. Cavan-igh, at once proceeded on board, but Dunne
hiving got a sight of his pursuers, contrived to secrete
himself in such a manner as for a while to elude his pur-
suers. Nevertheless, Bates rr3evered, and determined on
accompanying the ship until such time as the tug steamer
would be leaving her, and accordingly sailed in her as far
as Ortne's Head. Having in vain repeatedly searched the
ship, he turned his attention to the tug steamer then en-
gaged in taking the vessel out. Having with considerable
difficulty rualagod to get on b)ar i the tug, he commenced
another search, determining not to be ''dooe," and after
some time disc)vered the fugi ive concealed in the coal
hunkers, amongst the coals, but in such a blackened and
begrimed state as to be hardly distinguishable from the
pieces of coal by which he was surrounded. Upon being
hrou;ht on deck he presented a truly ludicrous appearance.
Tne fugitive' was yesterday placed on board the Dublin
steamer, aCCO tyanied by his captor, and sent to the latter
city to answer the charge.
At the Marlborough-street (London) police-court on
Saturday, a half blind young Swiss presented himself to
Mr. Beadon, to thank him for his assistance he had given
a few days ego. This young man was found by a sergeant
of the police wandering about the streets in a state of be-
wilderment and destitution ; and as the readiest means of
getting at his story, the sergeant brought h m to Mr.
Albert, the interpreter of this court, who having questioned
him, immediately brought him before Mr. Beadon, who
elicited these facts : —The young foreigner's name is Jaques
Winckter, of Z Rich. He arrived in this country about a
fortnight ago, with the view of giving public specimens of
his calculating powers. He had met with a person who
induced him to believe he could carry out his views ; but
that person robbed him of all his property, his little stock
of clothes and mousy, and what was of more consequence,
of a packet of letters to persons of scientific eminence
here, of the addresses of whom he retained no recollection.
Being utterly without means to procure a bed, he had
wandered about the streets at night for more than a week,
and must have perished from actual want because unable to
snake his condition properly known, had he not met with
the police-sergeant. The young foreigner proposed to give
immediate proofs of his powers. Sums of multiplication
eight, ten, twelve figures, by tour, six, and eig!it figures,
were calculated mentally with unfailing accuracy ; cube
roots, six places of whole numbers„ and as many places of
decimals, were extracted with facility ; and such appeared
to be his astonishing power, of mental ealculetion and
imnemonic tenacity, that whenever a doubt about the
correctness of any solution was hinted, he instantly re-
peated the whole series of figures, and went over the
calculations again. Me, Beadon, having satisfied
himself that the powers possessed by this young man ware
of no common order, directed 53. to be given him from
the poor-box for his present necessities. On Saturday the
young man stated he had not been able to discover the
addresses of any of the parties to whom he had received
letters of introduction ; his hopes, therefore, of interesting
some influential p rson to patronise him so far as to enable
him to give public specimens of his powers of mental cal-
culation were completely blighted. In the course of
conversation, the young foreigner said he became blind
some years ago from over study, and while blind cultiva'ed
his calculating powers to their present extent. He had
now, however, very imperfectly recovered his vision. His
chief inducement for coming to England was the kind
notice which had been taken of his case and powers by
Mr. Charles Dickens in the II:ousel:old Words. Mr.
Beadon gave the young foreigner ss. more, and advised
him to make application to the directors of the Polytechnic,
or 4011114 other popular and scientific institution,

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS•

[By Britis.4 and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.]

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY NIGHT.

The .dssemblee Nationale', after'a suspension of
two months, has re-appeared to-day, under the
title of Spectator.

The Empress will most probably accompany
the Emperor to Stuttgardt, where they will meet
the Emperor and Empress of Russia.

The Three Per Cent. Rentes closed to-day at
66 95.

It is reported in Paris that the English Govern-
ment is about to open recruiting offices in several
of tb'e German Principalities, as well as in the
United States, to raise reinforcements for its
army in India.