Northern Times. — 1857-06-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE FOREIGNER IN ENGLAND.  Mr. Edgar Bauer, the brother of Bruno Bauer, that well-known Prussian writer on theological and historical questions, belongs, like his brother, to the most advanced school of Radicals in Prussia, and is at present, in consequence of a little politi. cal disagreement with the home authorities, a sojourner in this country.ln an essay which he has just published (Englisehe Freiheit : Leipsio, 1857,) he has tried to collect and mould the impressions which the march of events in our own country, from the outbreak of the Oriental war, has left upon his mind. It is altogether a very curious book, written in a light and amusing way, though the undercurrent of a serious and warm interest in the progress of humanity is nowhere to be missed. From the very fact the general conclusions he arrives at run counter to the common view of things to be met with in all other English as well as continental writers. Nevertheless, on the bearing of the late events on future history, this essay is well worthy of attention. The arrangement is apparently highly aphoristical, as will be seen from the titles he has given to the different chapters. "Jack in good luck," for example, means Mr. Cobden, whose essay, "What next? and next ?" forms the starting point of the book, and whom Mr. Bauer declares to be very wrong in complaining that the people refused to listen to his warnings, inasmuch as in the main, the opinions, first enunciated by Mr. Cobden and his school. were already altogether victorious, the diplomatic and military history of the Eastern war itself being the evidence of it. The coneluding passages of the book gives the writer's opinions of the character of the English people. It is done in the following way : There it stands, the English people, a stout figure, a personality full of contradictions, like all true personalities. There it stands, enterprising, yet tempering haste by phlegm—progressing, but never losing the ground from under its feet—fond of phrases—cultivating thought, yet clinging to hereditary conceptions—a father of laws, and a destroyer of right—hypocritical and sincere, alternately crushing and vivifying, cruel and humane, bloodthirsty and generous, greedy and profligate—admired most by those who do not know it—and so confident in its own resources that it can be put up with being hated by whosoever wishes to hate.  TWO SUICIDES AT Bovrox.---On Tuesday mornine, about four o'clock, the body of John Crook, aged 46, formerly clerk with Mr. Peat, solicitor, of this town, was discovered suspended to a beam in the house of Joseph Haselden, of Back-street, Deceased resided at Longfold, but had lately been lodging at the house where he was found. For some time past he has been of very intemperate habits, and recently in a low desponding way ; and, no doubt in consequence of dissipated habits, has of late felt the pitching of hunger. He was quite dead when found.— kbout four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, Mr. George Taylor, aged 46, rope manufacturer, residing in Union Buildings, was found hung behind the door of the cellar under his own house. He has also of late led a very intemperate life, and no doubt his course of life has in this accelerated ➢is end. He was quite dead when found, and had no doubt been hung several hours, as he was last seen alive "between twelve and one o'clock the same day. Singular to relate, both the above persons have frequently been together drinking, and were together on the " spree" no later than Saturday last.