Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-09 00:00:00

LATEST TELEGRAMS, AUSTRIA. • VIENN A • , Friday, April B.—A numerous corps de 1T44 was reviewed here to-day, on the Schmelzer : 418111 g ground, in the presence of the Emperor. e troo l 3 B were most enthusiastic. The formation acw battalio n o f grenad i ers, to be attached to &inlYin Italy, and the augmentation of already ng battalions by calling in conscripts, &c., has well decided on. T uitix ITALY. , Friday, Ap r il B.—L e tt ers f rom Mil an an nounce the arr i val at that town of two batallions of torer°ats. Ord ers h ad been issued to the railway direc to hold their lines in readiness for the transport ani f resh Corps d'A rm e e o f 25,000. The roads were allsl'ebered with m a t er i a l f or war and army stores. p 10,000 volunteers for the Piedmontese service e arrived here. I , I IE PARIS CONFERENCE. Friday. —The Moniteur of this day con i7B the foll ow i ng :—" The Conference of the great I:o.W.ers assembled yesterday to discuss the questions : 11 g out of th e execution of the convention orga ng the union of Moldavia and Wallachia." THE FRENCH FUNDS. ARIS, F riday. -11.55 a.m. : R entes commenced at 67.82 and are now 67.77, very flat. ). 1.24 p.m. Great excitement prevails on the Bourse. Rentes opened 67.70 2' 30 P.m.: A further decline has taken place in securities. Rentes 67.55 for money, and 67.50 es account, :being a decli ne o f 1 per cen t. s i nce t erday. Railway shares sto 14 francs lower. Tht 6% ITA.LIAN QUESTION.—MEMORANDUM -11.11 E SARDLNIAN GOVERNMENT. ihal i l t -e h :" .4 of yesterday and the Morning Post pub governizentorandum presented by the Sardinian the ~e n t to th a t o f h er B r i tann i c Ma j esty, on ti k e-Il uitien of Italy. It would appear that some rue lit l4l° l . to the Ist of last March our own govern- N'ressqi_llested the cabinet of Sardinia to state in feneral Bested what were the particulars of the lalt 6,llltgaint against Austria in respect o 6 "Ws —ti nt Cavour, responding to the invitation, t he te,Y s t that Austria abuses her power within le galC it°r ies which she is acknowledged to hold encr o l i , b Y treaty ; and secondly, that she exercises an State,',,,",rig,undueand dangerous domination in . other t 4 eitn " it hin which she has nolegal right. Piedmont baterwledges the title of Austria to Venetian Lom- V I- • r ' bu t she asserts that the treaties which are .L':',l foundation of that title are bad, since they con- Th e 11° provision. for the good government of Austria, D'el fie nd over a great part of Northern Italy to a Ai; uerman power, without security or stipulatio a n s . 1.4 It Tic° d nditional possessi on or absolute power h 1 4 4 e in an exaggerated form o f b a d government, italochas led to a state of things which has no Tkie in modern history." Itisadded : andth„ sPectacle would, however, become less afflicting, Atria state of the Lombardo-Tenetiansmore tolerable, if sh e t „, 4 would show herself faithful to the promises . which lige E 7e to the Italians when, in 1814, she excited . them to the h N ttst French domination, and if, in conformity with pett'et(liabrnation of the commander-in-chief of her armies, , 4f !o t t k a ' e llegrade, she were to establish beyond the Alps,. " a ‘lon a f g°7ernment, at least an administration entirely kallded,,with a native army quartered in Italy and c * ; e litati °Y Italian officers and institutions . on the repr9- . `nsPireTePriliciPle• This vv , ould be a palliative which would :,cast,,,:: leeling of patience in the minds of dangers ,-,,Qieb. no, so to suffer and remove to a distance the . -" tar o - ' a° illStly excite the attention of public opinion 1 4 1 2e. t ° l ,r Aiis t 'iTi to the second question, as to the effects , -e , ri4 r h i t all Pelic 7 in Central . Italy, Sardinia claims i, ll `t will de C' Point out the illegal acts of Austria, A am ,s br o k e rsend of Europe the fulfilment of us .l.,4res tla Pledges , and the execution of the mea vle,ll t zl e -cess arY to ' remedy the evils which have ; n tati o h n - -, nn .tlsequence of their violation. By that Net an d .1, - " --l edruont finds herself everywhere s.ur "et on is u 3" Austrian influence and Austrian armies. ' r ntlti - Y buts Austria command her whole eastern tf paer, her domination in the adjacent states ill een l i nla and Modena give her other advantages d rtittke,_stent With the safety of Sardinia, an °II a b.'''' neeessary for her to maintain her army the War footing 'at an expense that is fast ruining he lie c , 11 ,• s` c ities have become mere fiefs of Austria. vet 4.l. m Peror i s a„ L ue „,, frequently making conventions n i . e s o b '', u nfavourable to Piedmont. These states h. ,'"te a ss; °land to Austria that they can always secure ~- 4, ,_e n t .4, 1 : 4 , 1 ee of her troops to maintain their govern - 01; . "-te in return they afford to the Austrian . O r r 71, 17er al most important strategical positions. - At is i —e ate f the Papal States less an evil i,,, 4,y. The p ion 0 li Inc elli„,presence of foreign troops in them 2' ti lt , 1 1 - Dar to those reforms which would estab n.paY, 0; 'laPpiness of the people. In short, every "k It 1 ' intervention of Austria in all the concerns It 1. 4 Y ha a 11, 4 • s become of so permanent a character, that „"iti: lld ePendence is altogether destroed. r- ' °lilt; s e gard yto the cure, the danger of a war or ;,vern,-.°ll Would, in the opinion of tle Sardinian 1 l ea „gent, be warded off, and the Italian question, e lPge" s t . tetriporarily, solved by the following !tt - tOta . i n i . in • of treaties, but a ng from Austria—not virtue l a l4 „tje: n -41 e ef the principles of humanity and of eternal a nd '0 net and sparate government for Lombardy the rebiri_ th e k i . eaty o n.. ill conformity . with the letter and spirit of th, t \itat es ~, Vienna, that the domination of Austria over 1 1- the An Uentral Italy should cease, and,. consequently,_ 2 4th ``;,tsehed forts constructed outside the walls of e e , u cf b ltn tild be destroyed; that the Convention . of the IltiPstic, 4 eectube, 1847, should be annulled , that the re f ; el Ple „, ° f the Romagna should cease ; and the reted."' n on-intervention should be proclaimed and thei ) ; inviti ac. nie tt, Do opie ~_ the Dukes . of Modena te and Parma to give to est ab „ am ‘itaatitutions similar it those existing in Pied iii 11811 the'Q the Grand Du e of Tuscany should re -1848 constitution to which he had freely consented t ~ t ier ,. ob t • . .i le ala i la co sep ara ti t r from the So verign Pontiff the adminis to thilformit,, with the the provinces beyond the Appenines, , 4 4 , eabb le i ts witp the proposition communicated in 1856 4 t4l YEa °t London and . Paris. 4 % 1 relievd g l and obtain the realisation of these conditions ! hv o h al s o „,,ancl pacified, will bless . her ; and Sardinia, he t ,__t of Ll Z' u n invoked her co-operati t on and assistance in ill vow to '4 i ttipeqo aa n b co e r g tu r n a a ti t t e nt f i e e llow-cou n runt % .___ l'ir a zetnp ibitIOLL ." En AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN IN PARIS.—Mr. 1117 Itte; an gliShrilall well known in Paris and London, iiut Ili Illealeal officer in the East India Comyany's army, 4, 4 • elf Rue de Parme, ris i ott Monday morning, at N 0.9, h 1'4: v 1 , 4 4e he had resided for many years. ; 4 1 2 1 -o uts s EE It is stated that the Empress, %ilia:- l yr ell 6n a e d e viseu d G 4 lii heTphysicians to drink the waters I giii 11"' Which% will, on the open ingwar- of the Pyrenean ds the end of May or Ni t pig of ~._ _to take . place to a,,,,,e 0 Lute, go direct to Tarbes, and afterwards ts h„„?, res d e gi } IC' 4 eh e , gore, St. accompanySauvelir,bandbleCtaourets. r m a . 'Nu that the Emperor will , be a 1 , 4 Jesty. ed 14 44 t rr li4etbB °N. X xowLEDGE.—The Association for . Pro d f ° 1 101.: - "Peal of the Taxes on Knowledge t d in.g ,, . "pg addres s to the electors of the 'VIA e. . 11 has issu Z, is;jl:?°lv Countrymen — The annual ' Ministe_n o a u l wul ) , i , " 'iron.", b... , public business to a standstill. House r ;rtibeioiin'graereensf°r.e) vshortly be c 9a t leupon to elect a new 14 4. : burthens,o Aaiun, ra ion proposes to reduce the or to relieve the producing classes . o tealzeeeelitiigtaxthaetien which. presses upon . them in a ratio far (I /It 4 One staroportiou of their income. Among these . ti l 3' o n a _ preeminent, as the only remaining excise f_ltt t he utanufacttn•e• It has been abundantly proved . to edlle a e t il io a n Per di tY is a . tax upon literature, an obstruction kiaIII P I NT, 1' an lelPediment to commerce, and a hindranc o e , elltltikeitzerae°ll; that it interferes with the process 1 ge therefroerpe,rseveersyindustry, and injures the revrue. candidate to vote for its repeal. ' IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOTJSE OF LORDS.---FRIDAY. ROYAL ASSENT. Their Lordships met at four o'clock, When the Royal Assent was given, by commission, to the East India Loan Bill, the Oaths Act Amendment Bill, the Pateffts of Invention Munitions of War Bill, the Common Rights, &c., War Department Bill, and several private SUPERANNUATION BILL. The Superannuation Bill was brought up from the House of Commons, and read a first time, • VOTE OF THANKS TO LOAD CANNING. The Earl of Derby gave notice that he should postpone from Monday to Thursday next, the vote of thanks to Lord Canning. PEACE OF EUROPE. In answer to the Marquis of Clanricarde, The Earl of Malmesbury said that he hoped to be able to make a statement to the House, before the prorogation, which wonld show that her Majesty's Government had done all that possibly could be done to preserve the peace of Europe. INDICTABLE OFFEN CE BILL On the motion for the third reading of the Indictable Offence (Metropolitan Districts) Bill, Lord Lyndhurst opposed both its principle and details ; and after a debate, in which most of the law lords shared, the bill was withdrawn. The other bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and the house adjourned at half :past seven. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. The Chancellor of the Exchequer appealed to Lord Pal merston not to press the question of which he had given notice, respecting our foreign relations. He assured the noble lord that it would be inconvenient, and more than inconvenient, to the public service, if he put that great question at the present moment. On Monday or Tuesday in the ensuing week he should make a statement as to their relations which would either satisfy the noble lord, or enable him to make such remarks as he might think fit. Lord Palmerston replied, that it was impossible for him to refuse to comply with the request thus made. His only object was to ascertain the position in which we stood, and that object probably would be attained by the statement of the hon. gentleman • or, if not, he should be able to take the opportunity of demanding further information. In reply to Lord J. Russell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said he would conclude with a motion, so as to permit the , discussion of the subject. Replying to Mr. Davison, Sir S. Northcote said, that the contracts of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company had been continued for two years after the expiration of their former contract, at the express demand of the company, and in accordance with a minute of the late government. Lord Stanley, in reply to Mr. V. Smith said, that he should bring forward the vote of thanks to the Indian officials on Tuesday next instead of Monday, and at the same time lay a form of thanksgiving on the table. The Attorney-General gave - notice, that on Thursday, he should bring the whole question of the consolidating of the criminal law of England and Ireland before the house. On the motion fur the adjournment till Monday— Viscount Castlerosse asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether his attention had been called to the fact, that, at the trial at Tralee, of Daniel O'Sullivan, convicted of being a member of the Phcenix Society, the eleven Roman Catholic jurors, including a gentleman lately appointed a magistrate of the county, who were called and answered to their names, were directed to stand by the Crown, and, if so, whether such a course was adopted with the approval of the government. Of the men set aside, were some men of property, and others of unimpeachable character, and were set aside solely because they were Roman Catholics. Mr. Vance said that this que;tion was brought forward solely to influence the Irish elections. The Whigs advised the same course in the case of the trial of Daniel O'Connell, simply to obtain a fair trial, and the Conservatives had done so for the same reason on the present occasion. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, that no instruc tions had been given to the Crown officer to exclude Roman Catholics from the jury, nor would any such course meet their approval. There had recently been many Ribbond trials in Ireland, in which Roman Catholics had been put on the juries, and it was not the wish of Government, either in political or any other trial to make any distinctions between various classes of her Majesty's subjects, He read a letter on the subject, in which it was expressly stated that no challenge was made to any juror on other than personal grounds. The prisoner challenged 20 Protestant jurymen, and the crown 16, of whom 8 were Protestants. The letter came as an enclosure from the Attorney •General for Ireland. One of the jurors, the magistrate alluded to, Mr. O'Connor, was challenged, because he had formerly been convicted for conspiracy.__ 11fr. H. Herbert defended the gentleman last alluded to. The trial at which he was convicted took place many years ago, when he was a very young man, and got into a scrape in consequence of a tithe agitation. He was glad to hear the declaration of the Government, being con vinced that the trial was fair, and that Sullivan was justly 'convicted. It should at the same time be recollected that it was of the greatest im portance that no suspicion should be excited in the minds of the people of Ireland, and for that reason he greatly regretted the course taken by the law officers of the crown. Mr. C. Fortescue bore testimony to the merits and respectability of the jurors challenged. Mr. M. Mahon read a letter froiii the solicitor to the trial, who declared that he never knew a more flagrant attempt to pack a jury. Mr. S. Estcourt said that the statement just read differed greatly from the one just made. There was no use in dis cussing the matter till further informatiim arrived. The Attorney-General for Ireland would be in his place on Monday, and the discussion might then be renewed. Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald said that the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was by no means satisfactory. At a recent trial in Tralee every Roman Cathohc juror had been laid aside. Even if it was true that the prisoner challenged twenty jurors, all of whom were Protestants, the same course ought not to have been taken by the Government. He protested against the course of those representing the ground whereby every Roman Catholic who answered to his name, was ordered to stand by. Suspicion was thus excited in the minds of the people, who lost confidence in the administration of justice, and who believed that the object was not to arrive at the truth, but to obtain a conviction. Mr. M. Milnes called attention to the report of the com mittee on the Consular service, and hoped that some assu rance would be given that the whole system could be recognised. He wished to know to what extent the recom mendation of the committee could be carried out. Mr. S. Fitzgerald said that the subject had occupied the unceasing attention of the Foreign Office, especially with regard to the proposal that the consuls should be paid al together by salary, and that the fees they now receive should be handed over to the Treasury. It would be desirable if the system recommended by the committee had been more largely adopted, but many of these recommendations had been already carried out. Mr. W. Williams protested against any increase in the expense in the consular service. Sir Minto Farquhar declared, on the contrary, that these officials were very inadequately remunerated. Mr. Beamish asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether Sir Samuel Cunard had offered, through a depu tation which waited on the Admiralty and Treasury depart ments, on Monday last, to convey the mails weekly between an Irish port and America, for the sum of £soo' the voyage out and home. Is it the intention of Government to per severe in completing a contract for £3,000 for this service fortnightly between Galway and America. He demanded, on the part of the public, that this offer should be duly eonsidered. Sir S. Northcote said that the offer of Sir S. Cunard was to call at Cork on the way from Liverpool to America and on the return, for £5OO. The Galway offer involved a third American service, in addition to the two now undertaken weekly ; but as the Galway service was only fortnightly ; there would be three services in one week and only two in another. This was felt .to be inconvenient, and it was therefore proposed to ask the American Government to undertake a postal service in the alternate weeks not com prised in the Galway service, and if America declined, it was proposed to make a similar offer to Sir S. Cunard. It was, therefore, the intention of the government to complete the contract with the Galway line. Mr. Gladstone observed that the consent of Parliament was first necessary. Lord Dunkellin protested against the monopoly attempted by the Cunard line, and pointed out the advantages of the Galway line. He called on the Irish members to unite in forwarding a plan so evidently for the advantage of the country. Mr. 'Maguire adduced the decided opinion of Sir Samuel Cunard, that the port of Cork was the fittest for the service, and was ready for the object without any outlay. The passage from London to Cork could be effected in eighteen hours, while the service as proposed by Sir S. Cunard would be w ee kly, i ns t ea d o f fortnightly as proposed by the Galway company. He urged the government to give the small subsidy asked by Sir S. Cunard in addition to the sum allotfed to Galway. Mr Monsell moved that the contract should be submitted to public competition. The advantages of the port of Galway were very doubtful. He demanded that the Chan cellor of the Exchequer should give some assurance. Before the matter was decided, the:House should have an oppor tunity of expressing an opinion. Mr. Repton hope 4 that the decision of the GovernMent would be adhered to. Mr. Labouchere demanded that all the postal eonttacts season should be brought directly under the cognisance of the House, and wished to know whether the expenditure to be caused by this contract would be put upon the estimates. Mr. Cogan approved of the very prompt and proper assistance given by the government to postal communications betweed Ireland and America. Mr. J. Ewart observed that there were parties in Liver pool desirous of tendering for the contract. Sir J. Graham denianded a categorical answer from the government to the question put by Mr. Labouchere. He objected to the proceedings of the government by private engagement, without the consent of that house, doubting whether the advantages of the Galway line would be equal to the sums expended upon it. Mr. Lindsay said that a great question was involved, and and that the government ought not to be committed until it had been fully discussed. The motion for adjournment till Monday was then agreed to. In reply to Mr. Cayley, the Chancellor of the Exchequer denied that he had ever declared it to be his intention to introduce any further measure of reform. All he had said was that he had fulfilled his pledge, and would not bind himself to bring forward any measure at a specified time, by which he meant especially the meeting of parliament in June or July ; but on a future occasion, if the opportunity was favourable, the government would bring forward a measure on the subject, for the settlement of which the Conservative party offered peculiar advantages. On bringing up the report of the committee of supply, Sir S. Grey, alluding to certain statements made by persons of high authority, that some delay would be inter posed between the prorogation of Parliament and a dissolu tion, demanded how far those statements were true. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that they iested on no foundation whatever. The dissolution would take place as soon after the prorogation as possible, towards the end of the month. As to the question which had been raised respecting the postal contracts, it would be a new precedent to have them, in the first instance, submitted to that House. Contracts were constantly granted without previous tender. He recalled the facts of the Galway undertaking, which offered increased speed at diminished cost : they gained two days and saved £4OO. However, the company offered pecu liar facilities for the transport of troops. The government, therefore, thought right to adopt on its own responsibility a policy it felt to be advantageous to the empire, and in accordance with duty. The amount would, as a matter of course, appear in the estimates before any money was paid. Lord Palmerston, recurring to the dissolution, did not see why the new writs should not issue immediately, and not be delayed till the end of the month. Were they to under stand that the new parliament was not to meet till July ? If so, the government would be open to the reproach of wast ing the year. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, he had only mentioned July in reference to the introduction of a reform bill. He repeated that the dissolution would take place as soon as the public convenience admitted. Lord John. Russell could not see why the dissolution should not take place after the prorogation. The new par liament could meet by the end of May, and a Reform Bill could be introduced ten days after. Mr. Gladstone, in reference to the subject of the contract, demanded that the house should exercise some previous con trol in matters of importance before the faith of the country was actually pledged. Colonel French asked that, if such was . the opinion of the right hon. gentleman, why did he not make a motion ? Mr. F. W. Russell urged that the subject should be treated on larger grounds, and that the contracts should be suspended till the meeting of the new parliament. Mr. Richardson vindicated the right of Galway to be selected as a packet station. The report of the committee of supply was then agreed to, The Sale and Transfer of Land (Ireland) Bill was with drawn, as was the Receivers in Chancery (Ireland) Bill. The Local Governments Supplemental Bill was read a second time. The Pauper Maintenance Act Continuance Bill passed through committee. The Combination of Workmen Bill was read a third time and passed. The other orders were disposed of, and the [louse ad journed at 9.20 p.m. LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.-YESTERDAY In re W. S. HAYES.—The bankrupt, an outfitter and hatter, at Liverpool, applied for, his certificate. He was opposed by Mr. Anderson on behalf of the assignees, who urged as the grounds of opposition that the bankrupt, had received goods from various creditors and disposed of them to some of his friends, leaving the creditors to prove on the estate, from which there was only a sum of £4O, insufficient even for liquidating the court expenses ; that he had also made payments to his brother of various sums of money at a time when he was insolvent, and which sums were not entered or accounted for in his cash book. Under the circumstances he asked his Honour to mark the censure of the court by inflicting a severe punish ment on the bankrupt. Mr. Roby for the bankrupt, ex amimed him with the view of contradicting the charges alleged by the assignees, and afterwards addressed the court on his behalf. His Honour thought the case was one which deserved the severe censure of the court, and adjudged the bankrupt a certificate of the third-class, with twelve months' suspension, no protection being allowed for the present. In re J. H. SKEELES.—This bankrupt, a boot and shoe maker in Liverpool, who was unopposed, passed his last examination after a slight alteration had been made in the balance sheet. The certificate meeting was fixed for the 6th of May. In re - TITTERINGTON. This bankrupt, a licensed victualler at Liverpool, applied for his certificate. He was opposed by Mr. Bretherton, who appeared for the assignees. Mr. Bretherton examined the bankrupt in reference to his having given to a Miss Wignall, to whom he was indebted, security at the time when he was supposed to be insolvent. The bankrupt admitted that he had given security, but denied the allegation of having done so with a knowledge of his insolvency at the time. Mr. Yates appeared for the bank rupt. The case was adjourned to Tuesday next. In re J. P. G. SMITH.—The bankrnpt, a banker at Liver pool, made an application for his certificate. Mr. Fletcher represented the bankrupt, and Mr. E. Banner appeared for the assignees, but offered no opposition. His Honour, after examining the proceedings on the file, awarded the bankrupt an immediate certificate of the first class, and allowed the costs of his solicitor's attendance. The Paris Conference was opened on Thursday. There seems to be no doubt that the double election of Cohinel C . ouza will be sanctioned. No SHIP SHOULD GO TO SEA without one of Saunders and Co.'s Patent Self-cleansing Charcoal Filters, cased and fitted-up expressly for use on board ship. Note the address, SAUNDERS & Co., 16, Parker-street, Liverpool. The Morning Post publishes a long and important memorandum, presented by the Sardinian Government to that of her Britannic Majesty, on the condition of Italy. It is dated Turin March Ist, and is in answer to interpellations of the English Government. It points out the changes by which the danger of war or revolution would be warded off, and the Italian question at least temporarily solved. THE RECTOR OF THE PARISH.—" He was not much of a preacher. He preached short, moral sermons. But then he acted pretty much up to what he said. He didn't set up for being so different from other folks one day, and then be as like 'm as two peas the rest ; and he made folks love and respect him, and that was better nor stirring up their gall wi' being over busy. Mrs. Poyser used to say—you know she would have her word about everything—she said he was like a good meal o' victual, you were better for him without thinking on it, and Mr. Ryde was like a dose of physic, he griped you, and worked you, and after all he left you much the same."—Adam Bede. THE AGILE GIBRON.—When startled, the Agile Gibbon flits at once to the top of the tree, and then, seizing the branch that seems best adapted to its purpose, it swings itself once or twice to gain an impetus, and launches itself through the air like a stone from a sling, gaining its force very much on the same principle. Seizing another branch, towards which it had aimed itself, and which it reaches with unerring certainty, the creature repeats the process, and flings itself with ease through distances of thirty or forty feet, flying along as if by magic. Those who have seen it urging its flight over the trees have compared its actions and appearance to those of a bird. Indeed these creatures seem to pass a life that is more aerial than that of many birds, putting out of question the heavy earth-walking birds, which have not the power to raise themselves from the ground even if they had the will.—Routledge's Illus trated Natural History, by the Bev. T. G. Wood. HINTS FOR PARENTS.—The human infant, though not destitute of sight, at its entrance into the world, like the young of the cat, dog, or rabbit, is equally helpless, and dependent upon its parent not only for support but for warmth. And as the human body is longer in arriving at its full development than is any other, so is it necessary that this assistance should be longer afforded. It is too frequently neglected by those who are well able to afford it, under the erroneous idea of hardening the constitntion ; and the want of it, consequent upon poverty, is one of the most fertile sources of the great mortality among children of the poorer classes. This is easily proved by the proportional number of deaths which take place in different parts of the year, at different ages. During the first month of infant life, the winter mortality is nearly double that of the summer ; though there is very little difference between the two ility of pdults.—Carpenter' s dnima4 TIM NORTHERN .TimEs, SATURDAY, APRIL 9 1859 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, TO THE RATEPAYERS AND OWNERS OF PROPERTY IN TRANMERE. Gentlemen,—l make no apology for the intrusion : if, while you slept, enemies were endeavouring to inflict a great damage upon you, you would not require an apology for my impoliteness in waking you. If those enemies pre tended to be friends, that would make no difference. Deeds, not pretences, you would judge by. Is such a thing about to happen ? —No, if you wake, and speak, and act, and vote. But if you do not, assuredly, Yes ! The only property which, as a township, you possess, will be abstracted,—while you are cloroformed— gently soothed into unconsciousness, by doses of sophistry, misrepresentation, and fiction. I say your only property. You had another, but that has been appropriated by Birkenhead, on the payment of £3OO to the party who is now seeking to deprive you of your water rights. (See Mr. Laird's speech at foot.*) Most of the ancient, and many of the modern towns, have properties of various kinds. Chester has considerable landed property. Liverpool has an immense landed estate, as well as her town dues, which, though r ecen tly t a k en from her, she has received a million and-a-half sterling as an equivalent for. The only property which Birkenhead had was her gas and water supply, and that she allowed to float from her apathetic possession, twenty years since. Only twenty years ! And what happened last year ? Why, that very property, so listlessly abandoned for nothing, she was glad to pay £210,000 to regain. Mr. Laird says, that with all expenses, it cost not less than £240,000. What happened besides, last year ? Why, the property, so abandoned for nothing, so re-purchased for £240,000, brought in, as one year's return, the magnificent sum of twenty-seven thousand five hundred pounds. You are now invited to do what Birkenhead and Liver pool did, and which cost them so much to repair. Will you do so ? Why, if you reckon the extra interest and compound interest during 60 years, and the enormous premium which Liverpool had to pay when she re-bought the Water Works, and the money spent on Rivington, for which there would have been no occasion had the yield of the wells been developed as they have since been, you cannot set the loss to Liverpool by that fatal blunder at less than Three Millions of Money. The men who ask you to do this, in the face of such examples, are surely either beside themselves, or presume you are so. Why, when they tell you it is no property, do they expect you to believe them in the face of facts like these. If it is no property why are they so desirous to get it ? Why have they already spent £1,500 in the Commons, and avow their readiness to expend £1,500 more in the Lords to get it ? Gentlemen, be sure this is a property—and a great property; and what is-more—it is your property, and that is the cause of the trouble to these gentlemen. They know it is yours ; they want it to be theirs. And if they can persuade you it is worth nothing, you will let them take it. No property, and not yours indeed ! Why, whose is it, if not yours? Is it not under the ground of your own town ship, as completely as the air above envelopes it ? Is not the air you breathe, yours,—well, so is this water, as much as the air. What is yours, if this is not ? It is yours by nature, by justice, and by law. It might be a natural and . just right, and still be wrong for you to appropriate it, because living in society your natural and just rights may be limited by the natural and just rights of others ; but, gentlemen, you have in this case, that which gives vitality and authority to all natural rights —that which enables them to live and to act ; for the Ligislature of your country, by the Local Government Act, makes them yours by law, as well as by nature and justice. But your opponents tell you—there are no men in Tran mere, fitted to take the direction of a great property. What, in ten thousand people, are there none who can ad minister the government of the community—not even manage a water company ? Why, have we been trained in France or Russia ? Are we not members of one of the greatest municipalities in the world ? Surely, to say nothing of Major Orred, Major French, Mr. lkfoorcroft, Mr. Branch, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Liversage, and many others, these gentlemen have forgotten themselves—they have forgotten that they live in Tranmere. Or, is it that they are as grand in modesty as in all other virtues ? What ! Does not Mr. Woodward reside in Tranmere, who, on all occasions, proclaims to us that he is a man of great public spirit, and a friend of the poor ?" Does not Mr. Baynes, who, on his oath in the Commons, tells us that he has a large landed interest in Tranmere, and who modestly, under great pressure, reveals, as the extent of his possessions, that they consist of five acres between him and his partners ; does he not reside in Tranmere ? And Mr. Ross, the dis tinguished arithmetician, who reckons, when all the princi pals paid, the interest remains ; and Mr. Ramplin, who is content to advertise himself as an eminent architect, of forty years' standing: and Mr. Blaylock, who can safely call a township meeting for a private company, but dare not call one for the township of which he is overseer ; who, though obliged to admit on his oath that he is a shareholder, can tell us from the chair that he is quite disinterested; who declares a majority of eight to one, an equality ; who, when amendments are proposed, will not receive them; who, when motions are made, will not put them; who, when a poll is demanded, will not give it ; and, above all, Mr. Gill, who, in the matter of their own bill, to say nothing of the gas matter last year, has shown such remarkable public spirit and disinterestedness, and such consummate ability. Is not Tranmere honoured as the residence of all these gentlemen ? and, with them amongst us, surely, though all other intelligence and virtue should expire, it is superfluous to fear th want of guiding minds or honest hearts to govern us. No capacity to manage ! Why, the assertion is not more grossly insulting than it is false. Of course they have every qualification, for they have asked parliament for authority to direct a water company. Well, let us see what proof they gave of their capacity, on their oaths, 'before the committee of the House of Commons. They all avowed the opinion that water works constructed by the township, would ruin it; but not one had tested his opinion by any calculation—not one could justify his assertion by a single figure. Mr. Raynes "had not inquired into the relative expense of the township's scheme, as compared with the private company's, but thought, by a great effort of mind, he could understand that the farther the water was brought, the more it would cost ;" Mr. Woodward had not considered the expense of supplying Tranmere alone with water, and confessed he was not competent to do so ; Mr. Blaylock had not ascertained the comparative expense of the two schemes ; Mr. Houghton had not done so. This extraordinary man (a great encouragement to struggling genius) was sure it would be more expensive for the Township to supply itself with water, than to be supplied by the company. He had not calculated the expense, and nobody had told him, but he knew it " from a calculation in his own mind." Thus, the man who ascertains truth by intuition is found at last—a farmer on the top of Tranmere Hill. Let it be proclaimed to the world, and let the earth rejoice ! Mr. Ramplin had not calculated the expense, though he was an engineer Mr. Ross had so distinguished himself by arithmetical achievements, before he went up, that they did not dare to ask him. Of all these men, but one, Mr. Britten, had any foundation for his opinion, and he was actually under Mr. Webb in his estimate for the cost of the Township's Works. Mr. Gill was not examined. It would have been very unpleasant to him to have been questioned as to certain matters of figures, on his oath. He might have had to admit that Mr. Laird's statement was true, and Dr. Baylis's denunciation deserved. But now, in seriousness, are not these fine gentlemen to set forth the want of governing and administrative ability in Tranmere. Truly, if we were limited to their light, our darkness would be great indeed. Why, if they were fair representatives of the intellect and educa tion of Tranmere, then, indeed, they would prove their own assertion to the committee, true. But is it possible that in the lowest parts of the Township, greater incapacity, allied to greater presumption, could be found than was shown by the very men, who went to London to represent that, except themselves, there was not a man in the Township capable of managing a Water Works. The only parallel to their capacity is their honesty in getting up a riot at the Township meetings, and then slandering the Township by telling the House of Commons Committee that the meetings were so disgraceful, that the decision was not of the smallest consequence. On the other hand, Mr. Webb had no opinion or conclusion, but he had facts and figures on which to base them. So nnanswerable too, that they were never attempted to be questioned, and his opponents had to content their malice by enquiring into his previous life, and were delighted to find that seventeen years since, he had been unfortunate.l and Mir; Docra, the largest well contractor in the vford , . Fulton, the eminent London engineer, entirely confirmed calculations. ? Why,Whatw that entht whereas oseundis this puted a i n fr d . indisputable Webb binhis calculations * ARRANGEMENT WITS MR. GILL. [Extract from Mr. Laird's speech to the Commissioners of Birkenhead, copied from the Daily Post of August 4, 1858.1 Mr. Laird said, the par liamentar y committee thought, when they were before parliament, that it would be a judicious arrangement for them to prevent any opposition in the House of L a n d to ensure the carrying of the bill, by paying £4OO to Mr. liretherton and £3OO to Mr. Gill. These amounts were paid, and the com missioners thereby obtained great powers. There was an additional c - o r n ' : rin teereason for settling with Mr. Gill—an important one —and one that would explain to the commissioners that the parliaments. com mittee had made a judicious arrangement. parties had pro posed a clause to the committee of the hous T e had entertained the clause, and proposed to insert it was to the effect that — at any time when the Tin the bill, w hi c h Ferry, or Oxton people thought fit to come to ranmere, or Rock works, the commissioners should be compelled parliament for gas &c., in those districts, at a valuation. to sell their pipes, mittee felt that the admission of that The parliamentary com prejudicial to the interests of the that clause would have been about £3OO would be well laid out to ratepayers; and they thought of that sort in it. If those parties secure a bill without a clause rights which the board now came to parliament to take the pay them according to the possessed, they would now have to. They could not come _ Prodt and the value of their works there. and take them at a bare valuation. • TABLE COMPARATIVE SCALE OP No. 2 company could nctt build water works for less than £40,000, the township could build them for les than £15,000. Talk of burdens, indeed; these are the men who are going to burden you, if you will but let them. And what, as the consequences, did Mr. Webb, that able and devoted defender of the town ship rights, show ? Why, that the township, expending so much less on their works, would be able to supply for all public purpose s without charge, while to private persons the charge would be one-third less than that made by the com pany; leaving besides a handsome surplus every year, for drainage, baths, or other useful purposes, and at the end of 30 years the entire water works as the magnificent unencum bered property of the township. Gentlemen, here is one of those unanswerable tables of Mr Webb, unchallenged before the committee, or anywhere else —aye, and unchal lengeable : ELECTION NEWS. Bourn LANCASHIRE.—CoIoneI the Hon. James Lindsay, who, we stated yesterday, had issued his address to the electors of Wigan soliciting their suffrages, has been re quested by a numerous body of Conservati ves t o o ff er hi mse lf for the southern division of the county, but has respectfully declined. At a large and highly influential meeting of the liberal electors of South Lancashire, held yesterday, at Manchester, to consider the question of the cou n ty repre sentation, the utmost harmony prevailed ; and resolutions, pledging the meeting to use every possible exertion to secure the election of Mr. Cheetham and Mr. Heywood, were passed unanimously. NORTH LANCASHIRE. — CoIoneI J. W: Patten and the Marquis of Hartington, the two present members, are again in the field. REPRESENTATION OP MAN9HESTER.----JaMeS Aspinall Turner, Esq., though still suffering under an impaired state of health, has placed himself unreservedly in the hands of his friends, We are also glad to be able to express our full belief in the existence of a similar spirit on the part of Mr. Bazley's friends. We understand that that gentleman will, like Mr. Turner, be put in nomination without the slightest connection with any other candidate, and with the same desire that a contest may be avoided. We understand that Mr. George Melly, of this town, in tends offering himself to the electors of Macclesfield. COCKERMOUTH.—Mr. John Steel, one of the sitting mem bers, has issued an address, appealing to the electors to return him, for the third time, their representative in parliament. He is in favour of the £lO franchise in counties, and a large extension of the suffrage in boroughs, but is opposed to the ballot. ASHTON.—The Right Hon. T. M. Gibson has issued an address, stating his intention again to solicit the suffrages of the electors. BEDFORD.—The Liberal sitting members, Messrs. Whit bread and Barnard, have issued an address, again offering themselves as candidates. DENBIGHSHIRE.—It is unlikely that anyone will be brought forward to contest the county with Sir Watkin W. Wynn (Conservative) or Colonel Myddleton Biddulph (Liberal). DENBIGH BOROUGHS.-It is stated that the Liberals will bring forward Mr. J. Maurice, of Ruthin, to contest the boroughs with Mr. Mainwaring, who voted with the Government. KENDAL.-A meeting of the liberal electors was held on Wednesday evening, at which it was resolved to reqnest Mr. Glyn to allow himself to be again nominated. NOTTINGHAM.—We have now four candidates in the field. Mr. Paget, the present Liberal member ; Mr. J. A. Nicholls, of Manchester ; Ernest Jones, Chartist ; and Mr. G. H. Vernon, who is;understood to be the candidate of the Liberal Conservatives. Mr. Nicholls was expected to address a meeting of electors last night. STAFFORD.—Mr. Alderman Sidney, of London, is a can didate for the seat of Lord Ingestre (Conservative), who, it is rumoured, may be nominated for the county in place of Mr. Smith Child ; and Mr. Wise seeks re-election. Other names, including that of the Hon. Colonel Littleton (in the Liberal interest), are mentioned. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.-There is no probability of opposition to Mr. W. 0. Foster and Mr. H. J. W. H. Foley, the present members, who are both Liberals. TAMWORTIL—The present members, Sir Robert Peel and Viscolftt Raynham (both Liberals), will be returned without opposition. SHEFFELD.—On Thursday evening, a numerous meeting of the committee of Messrs. J. A. Roebeck and G. Hadfield, the present members, was held. A resolution, expressive of confidence in the honourable members, and requesting them to stand again, was unanimously carried. Mr. Roebuck acknowledged the compliment, and proceeded to explain the course he had taken with reference to the Government Reform Bill, which he characterised as a sham. Being willing to take an enstalment of reform from the present Government, because he knew that, what ever measure of Reform Ministers pledged themselves to they could carry through the House of Lords, he asked them whether, if the bill went into committee, they would retire if a resolution were carried in favour of a £6 rental franchise in boroughs and other provisions. Had they consented to this, he should have voted for the second reading of the bill, and had no doubt a majority of the House of Commons would have done the same. He did not name the ballot, because he knew that that could not be carried in the present Parliament, and not because he had changed his opinions on that or any other point with regard to Parliamentary reform. He was further influenced in his desire to prevent a dissolution, on account of the critical state of Europe. We might have war before another month was over, and knowing the misconceptions which prevailed abroad as to the English institutions, he feared that the country might be thought to be in a state of confusion, and advantage might be taken of this to prejudice the interests of peace. The government having refused to give the pledge he asked, they alone were respon sible for the dissolution ancLits consequences. Mr. Roebuck said he was not a friend of any particular party or individual he would support a good government of whatever party formed. In conclusion, he urged the importance of the middle classes educating themselves for the work of govern ment. He was repeatedly cheered. BELFAST.— Sir H. M. Cairns will again offer himself for re-election. Mr. Williams retires from Lambeth. Mr. Horsman is to be opposed at Stroud by Mr. E. A. Freeman Mr. Cowan retires from Edinburgh. Mr. Cardwell has addressed the electors of Oxford, offer ing himself for re-election. 'sir W. Heathcote retires from Oxford University, and Mr. Roundell Palmer is spoken of as his successor. . Mr. Robertson Gladstone has been invited to Leith Mr. Laing will probably resume his seat at Wick The Doncaster Gazette of yesterday (Friday) announces the retirement of Mr. E. Denison from the West Riding. The Conservatives will bring forward two candidates. LORD PALMERSTON'S ELECTION ADDRESS. In offering himself for re-election, Lord Palmerston says that the question submitted to the electors of the United Kingdom is as folloivs, viz. :—Whether the bill proposed by the Government was good or bad, and whether the Government was right in proposing such a bill, or whether the majority of the House of Commons were right in dis approving it. His lordship says that, as Ministers took office avowing that their supporters were in a minority, they were bound to go as far as possible in shaping their course in conformity with the declared opinions of the majority. As with the Indian Bill, last year, Ministers might have withdrawn their Reform Bill and have proposed another, framed in conformity with the views of the large majority of the House of Commons. Lord Palmerston next notices the ministerial pretext as to their continuance in office being essential to the peace of Europe. He says : A government of this country, to be listened to with deference abroad, ought to have strength and stability at home, and foreign powers ought to see, in the probability of its duration, a security for the continuance of the policy on which, as representing the British Crown, it is acting. But the pre sent Administration exhibits itself to Europe, at the outset of an approaching Congress, as having an irreconcilable difference with Parliament, of whose assistance it will have deprived itself during what may be a critical period of the negotiation, while that confidence of the country which so long as no expression of public opinion was asked for might have been assumed to exist, may possibly, by the result of the elections, .be found not to belong to the present administration. THE POLITICAL CRISIS The morning papers simply announce that about 140 members of the House of Commons had a meeting, on Thursday, with Lord Derby, at his official residence in Downing-street. All the journals are in the dark as to the object of the meeting. The Star asks if it had reference to any step that Lord Derby is yet to propose to the existing Parliament ? " FACTS AND FABLES ! " TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES, Sir,—l shall feel greatly obliged by your insertion of the following facts in your valuable paper. Not many days ago I received a summons, charging me with causing an obstruction in the street by allowing a float (No. 2,478) to remain there unemployed. Yesterday morning I appeared before Mr. Crosthwaite, at the Police-court, to answer the The case was called over, and I replied that neither my mother nor self never had, nor have we at present, afloat of that number. Police officer Carter, 442, was present to support the charge, who, without any deliberation, swore to the float and the number—of course his word was law with the magistrate—and the fine was inflicted. Now, in the name of everything that is reasonable, when are we going to have a reform in our police-courts? When will the time arrive when the honest will have the same chance as the dis honest, and truth the same toleration as falsehood ? Surely, a magistrate is not bound to believe a man because he is girded with leather ? Therefore, why not give all ques tions a fair and impartial hearing, and not be quite so ready to punish the just upon the evidence of the unjust, Yours, &c., D. RICHARDSON. 38, Ormond-street, April 8, 1859. CHARGES FOR WATER, TOWNSHIP WORKS A House - Assessed Water per An. At £l5 per An £0 13 0 „ 30 ~ ~ 30 to £6O per An 2 2 ( COMPANY'S WORKS, Rouse Assessed ~ 60 to ElOO „ ... 3 0 0 At £l5 per An. „ Above £lOO 4 0 C Thus, on the one hand, the utterly discredited by the it Charge for Water per An. £1 2 g 2 4 6 2 18 6 3 12 6 4 5 6 4 18 6 ) 70 II 80 „ 20 ~ 5 11 0 6 3 0 100 „ „ Above £lOO per An According to the Company's Scale. ire never was a scheme more 'competence of its advocates than is this private company's—while, on the other, there never was a scheme more thoroughly justified by reason, justice, truth, and humanity, than in the case of the town ship arising out of the Local Government Act. To suppose that, because the House of Commons passed the company's bill, the township's position must be wrong, is a most super fluous conclusion. It is known that Mr. lope Scott repre sented, at the last moment, in the absence of Mr. Calvert, that the Local Act did not give the power to supply the township with water. Had Mr. Calvert been there, he would have contradicted it, and Mr. Calvert is an autho rity quite equal to Mr. Hope Scott. Mr. Calvert has since contradicted it. Besides, the Secretary of State, in that most satisfactory and conclusive letter , which has been published, declares we have the water supply power, and that the clause relied on as limiting it, is, in reality, ex extension of the power. While to remove all possible doubt, the Secretary of State, adds a list of more than sixty places, which are actually at this moment supplying them selves with water under the act. If this be not sufficient to satisfy us on this point, it. Is difficult to say, what proof people will require. For to doubt more, is equal to saying that what is competent to supply any and every other place in the Kingdom with water, is utterly powerless to enable Tranmere to obtain a single drop. The unscrupulous opponents Of the Local Act represent that it will entail heavy burdens on the township. Well, the board will be appointed by yourselves, not by the government, or any outside power. If you appoint sensible men, and men who have property in the township, what earthly reason can there be for fearing extravagance or burdens. The township may be as much injured by parsi mony as by extravagance. At the vestry meeting, last week, there were great boastings of economy ; and there might well be little cost, when large masses of property were allowed, not only to drain their pigstyes and cesspools through open ditches all along the main road of the township, but when those ditches were allowed to remain stoppedup, and the festering contents to poison the atmosphere all around. On that road, at each point of human habitations,—the very places where them should be cleanliness and purity,— for the last three months the most deadly stenches have been steaming out. In a block of houses in Paul's Road, at this moment, the water in the well is poisoned from the oosings of the cesspools around it; a little cement would surely stop this horror, but according to these gentlemen, that would be extravagance. Before there were any boastings of economy, it should have been ascertained how many of the poor had sickened and perished from the poisoned atmosphere, and the poisoned water, and we should then be able to strike the balanee, and see what is the actual profit and loss of our economy. In America, a black man, as a chattel, will fetch from £2OO to £4OO, and surely Englishmen are worth as much as Africans. And if that be so in Tranmere, would not even our money gains be small, if set against our losses by sickness and death. And it is clear that while we may injure the township by excessive rates on the one hand, we may still more injure it on the other by making it unsightly and unhealthy ; and the Local Government Act would enable us to do all things necessary for our comfort, health, and life, by the funds which it will place at our disposal, from the water works, if wisely managed; and all direct taxation for sanitary works would be unnecessary. Sewers, baths (without which it is impossible for any community to be healthy), wash-houses, and possibly a park, even ma y by careful management be secured. If the scoffing at the latter may be justified by the result; if Tranmere, notwithstand ing her present open spaces, which might be secured almost for the price of an old song, grows up as closely packed as Liverpool, without a lung to breathe by—if this happens, it will prove not that a park is unattainable (for Birkenhead had not a larger population, nor a higher rateable value, when she secured her park, than Tranmere now has), but simply that, for want of a properly consti tuted governing body, Tranmere has given no opportunity to the thoughtful and prescient minds of her community, to develop her resources, and build up her interest. "What is wanted, is simply a public board, around which the intel ligence and patriotism of the Township may gather, and the sweeping away of the mockeries that now pretend to guide and guard us. What is the use of water with nothing to store it in but a hole, into which your cesspools and pig styes drain ? Tranmere wants almost everything necessary to a good sanatory condition. And the local act will enable you to do whatever is wanted ; and, if it do not, the rate payers will have themselves alone to blame, for, whoever constitutes the board. the ratepayers will send them in. Our opponents know that these objections have no reality, much less force ; for they—their leading men, to a man have already adopted the act in Rock Ferry. There it will not interfere with their 'Water Works. In Tranmere they oppose it, because there it will. What can more conclusively demonstrate the selfishness of their opposition than this simple fact ? One thing only remains. We are charged with factiousness, by not adopting the Local Act before the company launched their scheme. Why, the Act only came into existence last September, and, ere February was out, we were moving to adopt it. Before taking a great step like th a t— determining on the township's form of government,—will any man say that six months was too long to deliberate ? The fact is, that it is the company who are chargeable with some thing more than factiousness. Have they not endeavoured to anticipate and to prevent us taking up our Parliamentary rights. If they have lost money in useless Parliamentary struggles, is it not their own fault ? 'Who will pay us the money, and the time and labour we have been compelled to expend to defeat their scheme? Did not the township assemble, by - their own invitation, to consider their bill? and was not the conclusion a request, not that they should abandon their tilleh bill, but th e but that they would simply suspend their ope rations Local Govern township had said "Aye or a N t t bytiafaultm blame the u they y t l Act. ese t h l e f i r they mo did not, owt,hios is and surely they will richly de s e r ve their losses. By inducing, the overseers not to call our meeting they lost us a month ; by demanding a poll they lost us another month ; but after all, they will not succeed in carrying their scheme. They will succeed in destroying their own characters for public spirit, and public honesty, and usefulness—and in begetting a feeling of mistrust and bitterness against themselves, that for years will not subside. The parlia mentary tide has suddenly gone out, and left them helpless—high and dry upon the beach. And, now, if it were possible for them to obtain their act, not one half the people would take their water—they would do without it rather than take it from them. So that it would be a barren victory, even if they could win it. It would be .. Like as a town that's won by fire So won—so lost." such a But if the township even,i.si ignominious n t ol ni e s i impossible. opiutossssodihwefitfioeer.a. interests, just, wvictoryillb e and i : nv: involved legal—orlvuesdasittlhaatnto hand them over simply is " Will we work and vote, —or against our selves; to preserve our ownOauTr c h o e m. q p u a e n s yt opponents oo; there can be no doubt rights and properties—national, speculators ?" And if there be only the same sense and any other Township in England, what answer will be given to that question on Tuesday next.—l am, Your obedient Servant, Rock F erry, April Bth, 1859. J. R. WILLIAMS. BRIGHT 1 AND " THE " BUTTERMAN ! (Air-' ." Villikins and his Dinah.") Oh ! 'tis of a famed merchant who in Liverpool do es dwell, Who supply folks with Butter who want it to sell ; His name it is Kelly, you scarce need be told, Whose Butter is worth all your silver and gold. Singin'• P—Bater-li—Butter-ii- Butter-li- , As Kelly was weighing out Butter one day, In walks REFORM BRIGHT, and to him did say, Come leave your shop Kelly, and with me away, And I'll find you a place with no work and good pay. Singin'—Butter-li—Butter-li—Butter-li-day Oh! no, my brave BRIGHT, that wont suit mymind, " For to" cut my " old place" I do not feel inclined, So to you the good pay I will gladly make o'er, To serve England with Butte r a y ear or two more Singint—JAuttcr-lx—Butter-1: That's a good noble Ke ll y —then John Bright replied You're a "Brick," my "old buck," and not to be • So, in order your B utter to put to the te,t. Send me weekly , f " '- ' -ward a ton df — Butter-li-day, :for a'— Butte: