The Northern Daily Times. — 1856-06-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MONUMENT TO WALLACE.-01.11' Scottish cotemporariea contain long accounts of the meeting held on Tuesday at Stirling, to take measures for erecting a national monument to Wallace. The day was fine, and was observed as a holiday in the neighbourhood, and the numbers present were variously estimated at from 10,000 to 20,000 persons. Lord Elgin presided, and in the course of his speech he said—" If time permitted, I would undertake to show that it is to the successful struggle carried on under Bruce and Wallace that it is owing that the union between Scotland and England has been not only honourable to tho former country but profitable to the latter. I think the comparison of the results which have attended the con and nection between England and Scotland and England Ireland, will go very far to show how little a nation gains which succeeds in forcing its own foreign institutions, foreign laws, and foreign religion, on a reluctant and high-spirited people. (Cheering.) Oh, gentlemen, I fear, I greatly fear. that we have not yet read that most valuable but most painful lesson to its close, for, rely on it, that if ever a collision takes place between these two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race which dwell on the opposite shores of the broad Atlantic, that calamity, the most grievous that can befal either country, will-be attributable to the humiliations which in bygone times England has sought to impose on Ireland. (Hear, hear.) I believe. therefore, that if the whole truth were to be told in this matte we might show that England owes to Wallace an.d Brucer, a debt of obligation only secand to that which is due to them by Scotland. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A FEMALE IN A POLICE Yesterday, Ann Mack, a tall, fine looking young woman, of dissipated appearance, was brought before with A'Beckett, at the Southwark Police-court, charged vvith committing damage at a coffee house in High-street, Southwark ; also with attempting to commit .suicste id when confined in the cells at the rear of the police Cation. The prisoner, who has been known to the police o, a long time as a drunkard, went into the Saint George coffee house, High-street, Southwark, and commenced creating a disturbance and annoying the customers. She was told to go out, when she seized up several curs and saucers and broke them. She was eventha at ejected and taken into custody, and placed in a cell t the Stones End police station, with other femai pri soners. During the time she was in confinemesnutoisdhee. was discovered to have attempted to comomoit suicide. was at Police-constable 99 M said, that he. was placed .in a the police station, and he saw the out that thee cell with other females. About ttPthrerirre morning he heard some of trmleadiately went to the prisoner was in a fit. caolic d •t b noise, an qui e ack the seat, making a .gurgling cell, and on opening it hen. efounmd the prisoner lying on her neck, which he cut, and thi face. He perceived that she had a small handkerchief tied tightly round room, where she so .n Mr. A'Beckett asked her what she had to say recovered.answer to that portion of the charge ? She replied brought her the reserve that she wawaunk, and not aware what she was about. She did not hto commit suicide. Mr. A'Beckett told her that drunkenness was the cause of all, and to prevent her making another attempt on her life he should commit her to prison.