Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-31 00:00:00

6Diamerciat Sates. THIS DAY Postponed from Friday,. the On account of whom it may concern. Tuft DAY, the 31st instant, at Half-past One o'c Brokers' Office, Corn Exchange-buildings, Brunsv 140 Sacks Damaged French FLOUR, ttPPly to Felix, in stor 11. 11. GOLDING T 0 - M 0 It It. 0 -7 D Pipes of Spanish To MAN vre.crt Apply to \T - OTICE.-IVIRRAL VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS . A MEYTING of the General C omm itt ee w ill b e held at No. , Hamilton-square, To-moanow ( Wednesday). at 9 A.M., to receive a Report of Mr: Laird's Interview with the Lord-Lieutenant, and on other important matters connected with the formation of the Rifle Corps. W. HADFIELD, Hon. Sec. BIRKENHEAD BURIAL CLO -E OF TILE POLL ! For Mr. Laird's Amendment-- ..... ....... For Mr. Craven's Motion BOARD Majority in favour of Mr. Laird's proposal for a Cemetery under charge of the Commissioners. MI jorsty in favour of Mr. Laird's Amendment indicates he feeling of the community. In order effectually estion, and thereby prevent for ever such an exhibi- Tory decided to decide the nnially in the Township, as clearly showe their Votes requested to do so to- , and for ever. TUESDAY, ex Just To-iioßßow, the Ist June, at Twelve o'clock, at t; Broker's Office, 16, Exchange -buildings, 10 Casks SPIRITS TURPENTINE, Landing ex Tamaulipas, from Bordeaux.—Apply to J. 11. RAYNEK and Co.. B of the Mersey Dock Estate, Dunt of whom it may concern.. ..u-...a.u0w and THURSDAY, the Ist and 2nd of June, at past One o'clock each d, A Quantity - of Hal SUGf-AR' SCRAPINGri, COTTON PICKD RICE SWEEPINGS, FLOUR, LINSEED, CORN, GAMBIEt SHUMAC and MYRABOLAM SWEEPINGS, Old ROPES, RAGS CAST IRON, &c., &c., lying in the Stanley, 1 -- Dock warehouses, catalogues of which are now reads Albert, and I Wapping or further particulars apply-to DANIEL C. 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AND TERRA COTTA SOMBRERO, AND OTHER RICH ORGANIC CRUS PHOSPHATES OF LIME, 80 to 85 pi ARNOTT BROTHER% Mersey Chao , ious : thre f Mr. Craven's pi Lose Ratepayers who have not alrea of Mr. Laird's Amendmer' ay, and thus Vie this vexed question now MAT 31, 185 a THE DAY'S NEWS. The most important announcement, that the French Authorities at Alessandria have to send to the Monitezer, for publication, is one reporting that the Emperor enjoys perfect health; that they have but few sick ; th a t th e wea th er is beautiful, and the heat moderate ; that the harvest has begun ; that tho army is abundantly supplied with every and that the soldiers continue full of fidence and high spirits. When _ telegrams are so barren of interest thing ; official such exciting times, it requires something more than invention for a newspaper writer to provide the necessary gratification for his readers. It is true we have another rumour or two about that wonderful and übiquitous individual Garibaldi, who is described as having performed some very wonderful exploits, which will, in all probability, bear a very different interpretation when the actual details come to us,in an authentic shape. It is one of the inconveniences and misfortunes of the present system of telegraphs, that all sorts of absurd reports, unauthenticated, are trans mitted from one point - to another, without the slightest consideration as to their accuracy ; and it is equally unfortunate that newspaper writers, in too many cases, proceed to argue upon these with just as much earnestness as though the facts reported were fully vouched and indisputable. The effect of this is not the less injurious, because the practice is not confined to a particular quarter, but it i s seen and felt in the public mind becoining char, fully impressed with a belief in certain thi zed and which have really never existed of , if they have, in such a manner give quite a different colouring to that has obtained a hold, and become a false opinion. Very much of this, we believe, will to have been the case with this said Garibaldi. last telegram in reference to his movements, dated from Turin, and says he has received rein forcements of troops at Como. The artillery hs been organised, and a national guard Volunteers are hastening to increase the militia The national movement is spreading, and the town of Lecco is free. The Austrians, in considerable force, have occupied Dobbin. The Indcpend• ante, and the Paris correspondent of the Times ; says, it is believed that, as soon as the Frond as to which public prove The mobilised, England and Prussia will rangement between the powers, at an end to the war. The Empress, Prince Count Walewski, and other eminent persi will, it is said, give their support in the matt€ the first condition is felt to be the triumphal ich into the capital of Lombard Terom n from_ Frankfort that t y committee of the Federal D. d the motion of Hanover to place and . that it will propose its adopt e case of the Queen versus the Rev. Roberts, a Roman Catholic Priest, touching they tion of a chi ld, alleged to have been unlawfully de and which has been for some time before the the Rhin T' in London, was brought to a clo child has been restored to her father, anc. ruled, that Mr. Roberts, having made return to the writ of Habeas Corpus, shou the expenses of the proceedings, and he to be discharged, subject to tie paymi the cect • 0 vesterc - W. IN courts The court , ear al auers will learn, with deep regre, health of the Duches s or Kent is in so pre state as to render it necessary to hay, physicians in close attendance upon her. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday aft The chief business was understood to relate to t. meeting of Parliament, which takes place this day, ternoon TIIE PROJECTED CIIANGE OF NIINISTRY. IF party be " the madness of many for the gai n of what is faction ? The term faction, be it red, means party ; but it is party in its its most mischievous form. It is associated a few remem tx worst, with tumult, discord, dissension A factious man is one given to faction,—that is, loud and violent in a party, publicly dissensions, addicted to form parties, and raise public disturbances. Too often, in the history of our country, do we find instances of faction having overborne the freedom and honour even of Parliament. When men give way to factious discontent, there is no saying to what lengths of democratic violence they may go. It is faction that nurtures demagogues ; for a demagogue, on high lexicographical authority, is defined to be, " a poplar and factious orator." When factions cease, his occupation is gone . " W ou l d you comprehend all hell in one word," it has been said, " call it party, or the spirit of faction." And so it is,—so it has been, and so it will be. Faction is party run wild. Sedition is the offspring of faction. To be seditious, is to be factious with tumult. And thus mischievously it is, that party sinks down, when once it descends from its legitimate and honourable position—for there is a sense in which party is not only allowable, but commendable ; and more parti cularly when it is justified by the axiom, that " when bad men combine, good men must associate." Now, we are very much afraid that the rightful and honourable principles of party are likely to be abandoned by a popular section of those who at present form the Opposition to her Majesty's Government. We say this, ourselves standing independent of both one party and the other. In legitimate party warfare, the overthrow of an Administration is one of those vicissitudes which arc regarded as matters of course, under free institutions like ours. But it must be legitimate, if it is not to be disastrous. We must have a Government—of one party or the other ; and the strength of the party will generally decide the question which it is to be. But if factious arise,—or if the party that is dut degenerates into a faction against the party that 's in, then, assuredly, can there be no hope of any ettled constitutional Government whatever. IV- do not write as the partizans of the Derby But there must be a Government ; and at Ministry, of the ,ent most critical conjuncture it utmost consequence, for the welfare of the whol kingdom, that we have a Government which, whil ,erves a strict neutrality, with reference to the most criminal war that has been commenced in Italy, at the same time takes due care to put our national defences in an efficient state, so that we may be fully prepared for any emergency. Now it fortunately happens, that the country has got such a Govern ment. Whatever may be its faults in other respects, it certainly has that great recommendation. , Its _s non - intervention—its spirit The Lord Mayor of London, as heading the deputa tion to Lord DERBY, the other day, to present the Memorial of the City in favour of non-interven tion, felt constrained to say on such an occasion— although himself of the Opposition party—that the course which had been laid down and pursued by her Majesty's Government, in reference to the war now raging, was fully approved and appreciated by all classes in the city of London ; and to assure Lord DERBY that it was the unanimous desire of the citizens of London to render every possible support to the Government in carrying out such a policy. Nothing, of course, could be more patriotic than this. And eagerly did Lord DERBY avail himself of the opportunity of declaring that, while he was glad to find that the views of her Majesty's Government on this important subject were such as to command the approval expressed in the Memorial, he could assure the deputation, that having fully declared their views with respect to English non intervention, they had no intention or desire in any way to alter that policy. Nothing could well be more satisfactory than this. And it is evident, that for whatever other cause Lord DERBY'S Administra-' tion may deserve to be broken up, it cannot possibly be for any breach, or contemplated breach, of the policy policy of non-intervention And yet is there a factious cry being raised, that notwithstanding the adherence of the DERBY Ministry to that popular and patriotic policy, and the reiterated assurance of their determination on no account to depart from it, they are not to be trusted, because, forsooth, " it must be that their bearings are towards Austria," and not, therefore, in favour of Italian cause! " The DERBY Government is more likely to favour Austria in this struggle than any other Government now possible. And so far as Austria is a German power, and, under certain con tingent circumstances of no improbable occurrence, in a position to demand German aid, t he innate npathies of the DERBY Ministry will find them strengthened by those of the Court." Such is the miserable, the puerile reasoning, by which this cry of faction is to be supported. wretched stuff and nonsense as this is further put forth,—" Where the Crown and its Ministers are in And such feet accord on one side, and the wishes of the people en unanimous on the other, it is not the latter that usually prevail,"—which ridiculously --Isumes that public opinion, even upon so important subject, can be set aside altogether ! Yet that, it ",ed, " is the danger arising from the con mance of Lord DERBY in office !" Even the attention which the Government, as in ty bound, are paying to the country's defences, ender the present threatening aspect of Europe, is the ground of a strong suspicion against them. asked, " are all these active military repeat What," it iaval preparations for ? Why are the dockyard lowed no repose by night or day ? What means the tivity of Woolwich in the casting of cannon and the turning over to the arsenals of millions of shot, shell, and cartridge ? The extraordinary efforts to man the navy, going so far as even to offer induce ments to merchant seamen to break their contracts and desert their ships ? The authorised rifle corps, turning the heads of our middle class half idlers, and exciting ridicule among sensible people ? What is the meaning of all this ? Is it hard to guess ? On the contrary; if it mean anything, it is that the Government looks forward to the time, and it, thinks that not far distant, when England is to take part in '—and to take part in it, of course it is con tided, in support of the despotism of Austria! And 'n it is asked, " What is the conclusion ?" To the war," vhich the answer, in characteristic phraseology, is eadily given,—" That the Austrian Ministry at St. James', should be got rid of with all convenient ,eed, before they do irremediable injury." And more than this, we are told, that " besides doing much to avert what we feel to be the real danger and indelible disgrace of dragging this country into a war on the side of the Austrian despot, the ejection of Lord DERBY from power would be a graceful offering from England to the Italian people !" Why, if any step this country might take, could be fairly Interpreted as a breach of neutrality, the very pro ceeding here recommended would, to all intents and purposes, be such a step. England could make no THE NORTHERN TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1859 such " graceful offering to the Italian people," during the war that is now being waged professedly in their cause, and yet pretend to be neutral—that is, neither on the one side nor the other. It is clear, therefore, how readily such an "ejection of Lord DERBY from power " would commit us to a calamity which •y , they hypocritically pretend the overthrow of ti present G t is necessary to prevent, amity, namely, of our entanglement in the Italian It is 'virtually admitted in the same quarter from which this factious cry for the " Austrian Ministry of St. James's" being got rid of proceeds, that there is no other Ministry that could be formed in which the country could confide at sucl present a crisis as th We have no great faith," " in the Liberal sympathies of Lord PALMERSTON and although Lord JOHN RUSSELL means well, he i! they -confes weak and prone to en And yet they would have us believ either or both, at the head of affairs would offer a guarantee against the danger of a coalition with Austria or Germany, which is inherent in the possession of office by the Derbyit it, then, be anything but the voice of faction which _ _ !" Can could thus proclaim so arrant a pretence for disturb . ing the Government of the country, at a moment when such momentous issues depend upon EnglaKd's being enabled to maintain that attitude of dignified and constitutional neutrality, which only the policy of the present Government can possibly ensure ? OUR NEUTRALITY . IN DANGER. THE principle of non-intervention is not only essen- tial to the maintenance of neutrality in times of wa also as a preservative against war in tim Intervention is more frequently a cause of war mor( It was the cause of the late wal than anything els the interventio. let it not be recorded to England's reproach that she neglected to encourage the endeavour by her appro bation, and to cheer it with her sympathy." Of course we all know what this means. But come when it might, that England was thus to manifest .er encouragement, it would assuredly involve her i those very " complications," and entangle her in I the very war which is aggravating and incensing them A thoughtful writer in the Star, a day or two since, placed the question in a very just and common sense point of view, when he said,—" Should the growing antipathy to Austria, manifested at present by the English public, become developed into something like the furious hate exhibited towazds Russia during the late war, through the continuance of KOSSUTH'S crusade of denunciation, there would only be one obstacle to the coalition of England with France and Sardinia : the suspicion which is entertained in regard to Louis NAPOLEON'S motives and objects in this war. This obstacle might be removed, however, by his showing himself sincerely and earnestly bent on delivering Italy from all foreign rule. In that case, and it is by no means an improbable one, the sympathies of this nation would be with him ; and, what is more, the estab lished principles of English foreign policy, and the prevailing views of international and imperial interests, would not only permit an alliance with France, but would recommend it as highly advan tageous. It might probably be argued that England could not, without forfeiting her position as a great Power, remain a passive spectator while t wo fle great of liberation went on, and allow the future ement of Europe to be determined without her co-operation ;—and I greatly fear that- under the influence of these fancies, she would become the confederate of France in the present war." Thi. view of the case is oars also. England cannot keep out of the war, if she is to manifest her antipathies on one side, and her partisanship on the other. There would be no neutrality in that. " Seeing, therefore, as the writer we have quoted judiciously adds, " that the present tendencies of public opinion might coincide with the prevailing ideas of foreign policy, in recommending this alliance. I cannot but regard the course taken by some parties in holding up Austria to the execration of public meetings, as calculated to do incalculable mischief to the cause of peace." Such is the view which our Liberal con temporary has allowed a shrewd and sensible observer of the case to put forth in his columns. And it is just the drift of our own argument, and the expression of our own apprehension. The character of the public meetings, too, to which the assailants of Austria are addressing themselves, is not such as to afford any calm and contemplative considera tion of such a question as that which is at issue. Their declamations cannot fail to excite plenty of glamour, but they can assuredly obtain no accession of judgment. The friends of peace, therefore, may ivell tremble for the preservation of our neutrality, if such a perversion of the popular feeling should .sisted in. AMERICAN SLAVERY NEW YORK has its May Meetings," as well as London ; and very comprehensive they arc in their range of ,religious and philanthropic objects, —more so, if possible, than is the case in our own metropolis. Nor can one wonder at this. he cause of the present war ratl . ;he Autocrat of France,— principle of non-intervention in entering upon this war. It is not only, in fact, a violation of the prin ciple of non-intervention, but of the golden rule of doing unto others as we would they should do unto us. If the Potentate of one State is to interfere by military force in ,the concerns of another State, on any such plea as that on which Louis NAPOLEON has marched his armed. legions into Italy,—that is, to establish their independence,— the world will Besides, if the Emperor LOUIS NAPOLEON, with his own despotism at home, may do it in Italy, why may not QUEEN VICTORIA do the same thing in France ? For there is no indepen dence in . France, any more than Italy. LOUIS NAPOLEON did not scruple to wade through slaughter Suppose that England, indignant at never be at peae€ - All mankind's concerned in charity All mankind, at any rate, that belongs in any wise to that Christendom of which the United States of America are as much, and as deservedly, an integral part, as is England itself. And, as it has been well observed, " public charities and benevolent associa tions, for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity : no other system of civil or religious policy has originated and they form its highest praise and charac teristic feature " They are the offspring of Christianity, all those various benevolent objects for the furtherance of which the commercial capital of America, like the national capital 'of Great Britain, is at this season crowded with Christian philan thropists from all quarters ; and, in the case of the former city, from quarters the distances of which are computed, not by hundreds, but by thousands of miles. The charity thus organised and commemor- ated begins, no doubt, at home, and thereby attests its rectitude and reality; but this is justly considered no reason why it should not go abroad . . as one 3f our own moralists has remarked, " a man s-hoidd live with the world as a citizen of the world ; he may have a preference for the particular quarter, or square, or even alley, in which he lives, but he hould have a generous feeling for the welfare of an. - Ana this generous feeling is very strikingly exemplified at the May Meetings in New York, which embrace operations for the benefit, spiritual and temporal, of mankind, " from Indus ; to the Pole." Still their charity, we say, begins at home,—it does not overlook altogether even that most delicate Ind difficult of home questions, the Slavery of America. For America has its Anti-S1 ]very So' nnii - ersary has, as usual, been duly eom- nemorated among the May Meetings of the present Fear,--on which occasion there was found one who. occupying its place of honour, did not hesitate to hatever 'sla`•eholders and the the ipholders of sir holders might say t of the )eople al ways rebelled against the system; while out:Ade of the United States the :sentiment of tLe world fell like a thunderbolt against it." Now this " sentiment of the world," it is, against the Slavery merica, which does more, we believe Americans ashamed of it than anything else besides to make And the right to form, and to express that sentiment, was not only frankly acknowledg e d, b u t powerfully . . _ to his throne. such sanguinary proceedings in an adjoining country, had, under the plea of protecting the French people against one who could slaughter them in the streets of their capital to gain his ambitious ends, marched her armies into France, what would he have thought of it ? What, indeed, would Europe have thought of it ? Would it not have been denounced as a piece of monstrous intervention ? And yet, what Louis NAPOLEON is now doing in Italy is a very similar thing, —in principle, indeed, it is precisely the same thing. It is being do ne , moreover , w i t h g ross incon . _ _ _ sistency For his people at home are th; victims of his own opprogQion, while he 8-003 forth with his hosts, and invades another's territory, on the pretext of doing for the people there, what he himself refuses to do, or to have done, for the people that are under his own despotic rule at home ! Now this principle of non-intervention is an im partial principle. It is not one that will admit of an arbitrary observance,—of being merely respected as prejudice, or self-will may dictate,—bound by no law —following the will without restraint. It is a principle which, to be effectual, must be regarded in its integrity. And this is just what there is reason to suspect that some of the loudest declaimers, at present, for our country's neutrality are not at all disposed to do. They insist upon our non-interven tion, evidently because they have taken into their heads, that if we did interfere at all it would be in favour of Austria. Not that there is any just reason for such a suspicion. But they seem to suppose, and not, perhaps, unnaturally, that a Constitutional Government like ours would, at any rate, not be likely to interfere on the other side,—not . of order but of confusion,—and one' that is collecting towards it, apparently, all the political disaffection and turbu lence of Europe. Certainly all the republicanism of Europe has been set on the alert by it. And if we look into the movements it is exciting here in England, we see that it is the republican party among whom the sympathy in favour of Italian indepen. dence mainly prevails. The despotism of th( pretended liberator of ItalN. quite over looked for the nonce, it is evident ; when w( find, for instance, an ardent democrat like the member for Oldham (Mr. Fox) exclaiming, as he did at a reform dinner there last week, "We English men owe our glorious Constitution to a Dutchman" which, by the way, is an impudent fallacy.—" why should not the Italians owe their independence to a Frenchman ?" It may be all very true, that "it requires the voice of the people to keep the Govern- went stead] to ensure that the neutrality is a real neutrality, and not a masked way of helping the des'. it is equally true, that voice of the it requires grea people causing that neutrality to be other way,—for to be really neutral, it mu remembered, is not to interfere on either sid there must be no " masked way of helping " even the so-called " independence of Italy," if the neutrality of England, at such an European crisis, is to be a real neutrality. It is not very characteristic of neutrality, we cannot but think, to see K OSSUTH going through the country, doing violence to the spirit of our nouncing one of the Powers vindicated in New York on this occasion. non-intervention, by " Europe," it was maintained, " is competent to sit that are at war, and plotting its overthrow. At in judgment upon the United States. We never such a moment, the Hungarian exile can only be knew an American who did not claim. the right to regarded in the light of a political firebrand ; for if speak his mind upon Russian, Austrian, or his instigations were to be acted upon, this country Neapolitan despotism ; and .they had as clear a would soon find itself involved in this most criminal right to speak of the great, despotism of this war that has been entered upon at the instance, and country." And, consequently, various addresses of for the peculiar ends, of the despotic ruler of France. sympathy with the objects of the Society were read, He, in words, it is true, counsels non-intervention ; from England, and froM the Continent of Europe, but in spirit he would violate its fundamental all concurring in denouncing'Slavery in America as principles. England, he urges, must hide her time— a crime. One of these, from the Continent, while must look out for her opportunity—and interfere at speaking in high terms of the spirit of the the opportune moment. " Let England," he says, Republican institutions of America, and deprecating watch with care and interest the phases of the the existence of institutions in Europe antagonistic struggle, and should it happen, as happen I trust it to freedom, earnestly 'besought the United States to will, that the cause of national emancipation will he i remove chattel slavery, the last stain upon their likely to take advantage of the prosput oompliegtous, i Government, out of the way for ever -a prayer the cause of the present war in —the uncalled-for and un- ion of France in Italian affairs is France, therefore to which the meeting itself appeared to respond with religious fervour. There is, then, in the United States, a strong religious feeling against the sin of Slavery, as well as in this country. But at the same time, strange to say, there is also a strong feeling of another kind among the various religious bodies—a feeling, if not of sympathy with, yet of dread of acting against it. Another Society that has its anniversary among the May Meetings at New York, is the American Tract Society. The object of this Society is to circulate Tracts and Books in the whole scope of religious teaching ; and yet not one word does it dare to express of any Christian precept, or any Evangelical doctrine, having the remotest bearing upon Slavery, or even upon the Slave - trade,—notwithstanding that we are most divinely assured, that among " the lawless and disobedient " for whom the law of God was made, are most certainly to be included " men stealers,"—and, of course, since the receiver is as bad as the thief, even the retainers of such stolen men in bondage cannot possibly themselves be altogether exempt from that law. "We are bound to say," observes a New York paper with reference to this Society, "that on certain topics connected, or supposed to be connected, with morals, and about which Evangelical Christians, judging from their practice, very widely differ, the Society has spoken with extraordinary boldness and an unflinching confidence in the correctness of its judgment. It has circulated tracts by tens and hundreds of thousands against no vel reading and' dancing, against the circus, the horse race, and the theatre, against travelling on Sunday, against selling wine and drinking wine, against smoking cigars, taking snuff, and chewing tobacco. Touching these latter sins— for so the Society regards them—it has spoken in very solemn and impressive tones, asking, What Christian can indulge himself in using tobacco, a habit which benumbs the moral sense P' So far from regarding human laws as justifying crime, the Society, rushing boldly into the arena of politics, even to the ballot-box, in behalf of temperance, has thus exhorted American voters : Let all who regard the virtue, the honour, and the patriotism of the country, withhold their suffrages from those can didates who offer ardent spirits as a bribe to , secure their elevation to office.' Against Slavery, or the evils growing out of Slavery, the Society has said nothing, but has for years carefully expunged from its reprints every syllable that condemned them." Such is the gross inconsistency that prevails, even among decidedly religious communities, in the United States, on this subject of Slavery. Net but that they have endeavoured, or professed to have en deavoured, to do away with such inconsistency. A Committee of this very Society was, it seems, appointed in the year 1857, to endeavour to do so, which re ported a resolution that was unanimously adopted by the Society, declaring that " the moral evils and vices which slavery is known to promote, and which are condemned in Scripture, and so much deplored by Evangelical Christians, undoubtedly do fall within the province of this Society, and can and ought to be diseussed in a fraternal and Christian manner." But the Society has never desired to act upon this resolution. At the next anniversary, as the New York Tribune has just pointed out, " the Publishing Committee made a special report apologising for their non-performance of the duty thus imposed upon theth by the Society, on the ground that the Southern members threatened a withdrawal if that duty was performed, and suggesting that, in view of the disapprobation of slaveholding Evangelical Christians, it was under the Constitution a question of good faith, of legality,' of the widest and gravest practical consequences.' The action of the corn mittet it is added, " was approved, and thus the Society now stands—its unanimous resolution of 1857, unrevoked, distinctly declares its duty; and the resolution of 1858, passed in spite of the opposition of the minority of those present at the meeting, virtually declaring that that duty shall be shirked, and that ' the moral evils and vices which slavery is known to promote ' shall continue to flourish and spread in the very field of their labours, and among the footsteps of their army of agents, without a syllable of rebuke." Are we not right, then, in stigmatizing this as at least gross incousis- tency ? We might apply to it a stronger; odious stigma But we forbear. It 1 however, that the poi lea is ( accommodating a character to have much moral influence, when it can be reconciled with a evangelical aspects to act the part of the Priest and the Levite towards the African slave —come and look at him, and pass by on the other side ; rather than the part of the good Samaritan who, " when he saw him, had compassion on him,"—can so act, too, quite regard less of the divine assurance, that so to do is clearly to violate the second of the two great Christian profession of it in its most I commandments, and to set at nought the injunction, I that under those Christian obligations, they must I " go and do likewise." LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. The Black Ball clini r ship Commodore Perry, from , was left by the steam-tap• cc, at 8 a.m., yesterday, off Cape Clear, all well. TEA MEETING.—The annual tea party of the Christian Alliance and Central Band of Hope Society was held in the Hope-hall, last night. Dr. Roche presided. The - ^incrian (or bell-ringing) performers enlivened, in fort . the addresses, th e en t er t a i nments of keel m ter va the evenir projects which have been forwaru 'enuouslY to z/. 28th may, ases were II me Waddi )n. was )and, both CIPr eaSed attendan It may 1 .re, and that many of the p( the notice of the Admiralty ,red on account of the perm - JUS 'manner in whicha,, they have been advocated. A blished a few days since in the Times, from ship-builder, Mr. John Laird -- Iventions hay disreg letter was pu the eminent 7;araing wooden and iron In this he each, and pointed ou respective merits of ments which should be It may that some yea of the [Mina Aumns led hi to iron ship-building, and thes, expressed by Mr. Laird at the p lished by Mr. f Clare years sine( ,s which have aowever, ca lenied, but that many of his have been lopted, and at Clare has devoted h energies to the development of our iron s but fair play to render " honour z•reat amount of ias striven in place our naval and mercantile n:iariireln position. In the preseht state of affairs enabi ed by his knowledge and experien • armaments, in will be duly CORONER'S CoI t the Coroner's The followin, y years of age, wife of J found dead by - her husband, between yesterday - - "'‘e deceased and , drank, and -*I in that stat V aul ts. _.....eNsn CRANE.—A few days ago, a colossal crane was . aorning. Tilt being drawn through th e streets, about four o'clock in th e 7ould quarrel wl morning, by some 20 Powerful horses, and which we under- is in a burial club. - 1 - )- stand was for the MerSey St ee l an d I ron W orks, of this He was sent for whet. town. ''" of the crane made it "come for nearly an hour after general nnwieldiness . Dale she was necessary to remove it earl 'otind dead. He did not Samuel_Willesy, residing at 5 comet, Prim' _ . ion to the thorou g hf ares . Coroner. THE WEATHER.—Yesterday morning, about four o'clock, hill, was hurt the heaviest shower ever seen in Liverpool fell. It lasted Blacksto , . l half an hour. Yesterday afternoon, there was several heavy I fr,-- tevons, SO'n, an, He died showers with vivid flashes of lightning, and fearful claps of ; about twenty-six years of age, named John IV thunder, the latter appeared to be quite close, and the I found drowned in the river, near Speke, on Sun& lightning ran along the streets, as it w ere , i n li qu i d flame. removed to the dead-h ouse. —Ab out We did not hear of any damage. Sunday night, William Johnsf— BANKRUPTCY COURT, YESTERDAY.— (Before Mr. the ship Governor Langdon, Registrar Brougbam) —ln re WILLIAM PARRINDER. getting on board that vessel wnen he accidentally This bankrupt, a grocer and provision dealer in Liverpool, the dock and - was drowned.—John Cattare came up on his last examination. Mr. Campbell, who yesterday of tetanus, the result of an injury appeared for the assignees, offered no opposition. His great toe.—The infant son— aged sixteen nu Honour, after remarking that the balance-sheet was entirely of, Mr. William Newton, of No, 4 Court, Back Clar estimate,, said, th e b an k rupt m i ght pass, reserving all grove, Kirkdale, was put to bed at eleven o'clock on Sandal questions of account to be dealt with at the certificate morning, in perfect health, and at two o'clock he was found sitting, which was fixed for the 30th June. dead. Dr. Parker was immediately sent for, but he WATER COMMITTEE. —The usual weekly meeting of this pronounced life to be extinct, but did not state thy. committee was held yesterday, Mr. Hodson in the chair. —Elizabeth Hughes, a woman abotit 39 years of age, The other meml e:s present were, Messrs. Wagstaff, Ver- found dead under the following circumstances : _ non, Stitt, Bennett, Ryley, Farnworth, Mellor, Woodruff, I evidence of the deceased's husband, for the last ten Jeffery, and Crellin. Mr. Dunca n reported that the quan- years she has been awfully addicted to drinking, and very . tity of water received from Rivingtou durin g the week was quarre l some. - She was constantly fighting with the neigh 53,950,584 gallons. The q uan tit y received from the wells bears, an d e very b o d y else when she was in drink. She was was 32,092,781 gallons, making a total of 90,043,365 drunk several - days last week, and was very gallons. The proportion of Rivington water to well water, Saturday night and Sunday morning, and was found det_ o 6 was as 29 to 16. It was further reported, that the Roddles- on the cellar fib r. She was out quarrelling with the worth reservoir had fallen during the week 4 feet 271 neighbours on Sunday morning.—lnquests will held an inches, and thQ Anglezark 2 feet inches, Mr, Jeffery all those cases today and to-morrow. drunk or! a seaman, be/on in the St. , emont- From the remarked, that there were some of Melly's fountains not kept constantly running. He instanced the one at the south-end of St. John's Market, and one in West Derby" Road. Mr. Duncan said, they were obliged to stop them occasionally, for the repair of pipes. A conversation ensued as to the waste of water at some of these fountains, which were not much used. Mr. Crays suggested that they should use a new tap which was lately patented. Mr. Ryley advocated the present system, he said, 11:as not wasted, but served a sanitory purpose in r unning own. kr. Campbell reported, at Roddlesworth was discharged that the im one inch deep into the goit. A letter was read from Mr. T. Lester, asking permission to use the enclosed land opposite the unused reservoir in Everton Valley, as a practice ground for the Kirkdale band. Mr. Lester suggested in his letter, that the old reservoir might, at a trifling expense, be converted into a plunge or other baths, which was much needed in that part of the town, and might be made self supporting. The board considered the suggestion a very good one, and appointed a deputation, cona Bennett, Jeffery, and Stitt, to wait on nx of Messrs. commit- the bath in reference to the subject This concluded the business EXCURSION j—lt will be si ference to advertise- Kan- ment, that the proprietors of the 'passer.,..„.--- -- chester, are about commencing a weekly trip to Llandudno, under such arrangements as will enable the people of Liver pool to spend from five to six hours at this beautiful and rising watering place, and return to LiVerpool the same evening. The excellence of the accommodation offered by the Manchester, and the manner in which the excursions are managed, have only to be known to insure for these , cheap trips a largo amount of - public patronag EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, 126 ; Pleasant.—Weekly Report.—Eye Del patients admitted in the week en 106 ; patients prescribed for, and who surgical assistance, 462. Ear Departmc._., patients admitted in the week ending Way 29; patients prescribed for, and who hay gical assistance, 137. Neill Surgeons • Esq. n • •hnent New top of Mount ty 28th, received N 7 ed sur- R. Hibbert Assistant-surgeon T. Bid Treasurer : J. G. Livingston, Esq THE WAR IN ITAI "Cassell's Illustrated. beautifully executed 11 With No. 80, for Ma 30, 0f ily Paper," will bn ."”1 jacent coun: tries, mess the most win A important sula will 1 des( graphical Awn of Cardin. the 'fo'mliardo- States of th halfpence. of " Cassell's Illustrated. s issued a grand an Map of Europe, measuring 38 i engraved on co es by 22 ni authentic documents. nd commercial Europe. In N( powerful tale, by Mr. J. F. Smi nmenced a new or, Broken at Last The price of the map and ther is 2d. Londo of the paper t Galpin, and all booksellers PYNE AND HA ROYAL. —Last ni ERA UOMPANY, AT TIIE TIII d Mr. Ha made a N ,r opera s with Balfe's well filled; and Die house was usual success, and appeared to give still tno. _ idience Miss Thirlwall took the then when ii'wa fication part of Donna C very good; but we could not help missing Miss Susan Pyne, and we must pay poor Ferdinand Glover the same compliment, at the expense of Mr. H. CorH, who, however, was also an effective substitute. Mr. George Honey's .es excited as much laughter as usual, and the 'ores took place, Miss Pyne singing , 4 The Cell "in the most finished manner. The laughing trio, and other concerted pieces, went very well, and the choruses were sung with energy and precision. Mr,- Harrison was enco re d i n th e song "'Twas rank anu fame," which he always sings with great - - eceentriciti 1 expres- sion, and his acting throughout contributed much to the effect of the opera. BIRKENHEAD BURIAL BOARD.—Birkenhead, during the whole of yesterday, was the scene of considerable bustle and excitement, in consequence of the poll demanded by Mr Craven, at the meeting of ratepayers on Wednesday l' convened to consider the propriety of placing the fort , of a cemetery for that township under the management of 0 vestry burial board. The poll, it will be remembe,,—, demanded by Mr. Craven, against a majority obtained a the meeting in favour of an amendment, proposed by Mr Laird, to the effect— that the commissioner. - ' invited to form themselves into a burial boarci - toc;:og t the construction of a cemetery. The time of polling bei"% fixed for Monday and Tuesday, between eight o'clock a. o ' and eight o'clock p.m., the Town-hall, yesterday, sae crowded at an early h our , b u t, from the very first t'l e ` amendment enjoyed a large majority. The following are. $_ few of the statements of poll issued, atd post€ Town-hall:— For Motion or Amendm 8 447 1008 561 Much anxiety is displayed is to the result of the poll, sal° being sanguine that to-day will " turn the tables." Tili s " however, considering the sweeping majority for the amend ment, looks like "hoping against-hope." _ _ IRON SRIP - BUILDINO:-Xt this time, when it is of such great and paramount importance that our naval armamen t/ should be in an efficient condition, the of those who have devoted th e i r s t u d y CI to the construction of r i A, _ • - ral ‘‘if t merely of a visi ,ST ._. The. Ot ti seel "hill 11, 4 erib 'lit tt;_ Ins t4,l s att a 1 11 .4 th s a41 !,1 1 , • al an h a k The En ; '1111)r( 8 "11 fir ' to ot .),, 8 , th i ° 3n ,aada _ ~, h -4 ' 4 l . tr a " E 4 and _O,Oll 11 b ttl e bO l 1; 'lll‘,ll 1 , 4 , col] Pty t Aix 1 ii ' l ltlll w 1ce, e 44T11 . 1 11 5 1 , r 3 artil kie, 3 • 1, BaN. 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