Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-17 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. [By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.] TURKEY. From advices received at Marseilles on Tuesday evening, it appears the relations existing between M. Thouvenal and Rerchid Pasha were satisfactory. The Vizier maintains the popularity he has acquired. A letter, written by Ferhod Pasha to M. Rossles, the Austrian Consul, has been seized. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.) HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY Their lordships met shortly after four o'clock. The Sound Dues Bill, the County Cess (Ireland) Bill, and the Militia Act (1854) Amendment Bill, were brought from the Commons, and read a first time. FRANCE PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. de Romand, a former prefect of the Saone-et" Loire, and now an opposition candidate for that department, sends a remarkably piquante letter to the Sieele, in which he accuses the present prefect, M• Ponsard, of taking upon himself, " with an audacity that surpasses all imagination, to re establish a preventive censure of the press, and being guilty of illegal acts which may have the effect of rendering the election null and void. The quarrel as it stands is such a very pretty one that I subjoin the whole story : TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SIECLE." Macon, June 13. Monsieur le Redacteur —Having been attacked by name on the subject of my candidature by the Journal de Saone e Loire, the organ of the Prefecture, and at the same time, the oLly newspaper authorised to appear at Macon, I required the insertion of my answer in this journal, but I bare just received on the subject a notification of a Pre fectoriul decree which re-establishes the preventive censure with an audacity which passes all imagination. I Subjoin this curious document, which seems to me well worthy the attention both of the public and the govern tient To MONSIEUR ROMAND, EX-PREFECT OF THE SAONE AND LOIRE. I have the honour to send Sou herewith copy of a prc hihition juet received from the prefecture against the ins:rtion in the Journal de Saone ct Loire of a part of the letter which 37 , u yesterday addressed to the editor of that journal.—Receive, PROTAT, Printer and director of the journal. DECREE OF THE PREFECT. We, the prefect of Saone and Loire, seeing the letter dated June 11, addressed to the Journal de Saone et Loire, by M. Romand, candidate for the Corps Legislatif, and requi r i ng the insertion of such letter in the next number of th e paper—considering that this letter, beginning with the words and ending with the words Written with a view only to his election, contains malevolent and even calumunious insivations against the dignity and good faiqi of the administration, prohibit the Journal de Saone et Loire from giving place in its columns to that Part of the letter commencing with the word Post scriptum and ending with the two lines hereinbefore transcribed. The Prefect, H. PONSARD. Done at the Prefecture, Macon, June 12, 1857. I will now transcribe the P.S. the publication of which It t ' Macon is interdicted by M. Prefect Ponsard I.S.—One of my friends, after having read my letter, observes that I have not answered that part of yonr article which says tha t I had carefully avoided speaking, in my electoral address, of the reception which my overtures relative to my extra-official candidature met with from the government and the prefect. My answer shall be simple and categorical. I was authorised by the Minister of the Interior's circular to propose myself openly as a candidate, and th e prefect, M. Ponsard, both directly and indirectly, Invited me to abstain on condition (as is reported to me by M. Pillars, the Mayor of Macon), that he, the prefect, W ould undertake, upon his honour, to obtain for me the firer candidature that might become vacant in the depart !tent. Strong in my right, as laid down by the ministe rial circular, and impressed with the importance of the cause with which I had associated myself, I rejected a pro position Which honour, conscience, conviction, and duty, alike prevented me from accepting. I, therefore, here renew with ray to all' ray throu g h friends my solemn engagement to go task, and remain true to them to the last. After the prefectural decree given above, I now repeat that all the statements in my interdicted postcript are Strictly true, and I am ready to produce three witnesses to prove It. Truth, in spite - of all the prefeetoral decrees in the world, cannot cease to be truth, and it is permis sible to defend one-self by the truth against those who tax you with falsehood. The decree of Prefect Ponsard is incompatible with all the principles of legislation which govern the press, and the violence of its language shows in what way M. Prefect Ponsard supports the " free and sincere practice of universal suffrage," which the Emperor R m. In the name of freedom of election I protest against these illegalities, which may have the effect of ren dering null and vo id t h e o p era ti on s th e f ar e intended to favour, I shall be' very thankful to you, Mr. Editor, if Yee will open your co l umns to t hi s pro t est , t h e p u bli cat i on of w hich will, perhaps, act as a salutary check to such a ouses.—Reeeive, &c., GUSTATIC DE ROMAND, Ex-Prefect of the Saone and Loire. It is quite refreshing to see abuses of authority denounced in this bold way through the Paris press. tv long thi s .sa t urna li a o f lib er ty in the metro pollsth may be permitted to last no one can tell, but e prefects in the provinces seem disposed to g i ve plenty of wor k t o th e wr it er s, who now make f ree to c a ll out l ou dl y f or f a i r p l ay , Th e P r ef ec t it the Dordogne tells the mayors to have his ,etter, reco mmen di n g the Government candi dates, read at the church doors after mass, the ru P a sople being called to attend it by beat of m- The Siecle asks whether it does that follow, from M. Billault's " Circular," Tat an opposition candidate should also have the right to summon people by beat of drum to hear profession of faith ? This same Prefect of the Dor dogne, by the way, discourses as follows on the na ture of the liberty to he enjoyed by the opposition : The government desires the triumph of its can didates just as God wishes good, while leaving every man free to do evil." The Mayor of Chaton naively recommends the Government candidate on account of his having lately married the prefect's daughter. "Who," h © says, " can so fitly re present the prefect's views in the Chambers as his son-in-law ?" The worthy Mayor would be quite right only that the mission of the Corps Legislatif does not happen to be to represent the Prefects. At Senlis the prefect of the Oise has Positively prohibited the two local journals from Publishing the electoral address of M. Pontalba, t he Opposition candidate. I understand that most of the opposition candidates in the departments r e put to the inconvenience and expense of Paris, their addresses for placarding printed in the country printers being generally afraid to 'print them. fv. The C onst i tut i onne l re - ec h oes th e com pl a i n t s o f %L ie Ge neral 4 - able respecting the intention attributed to to Cavaignac an lother candidates of refusing take the oa th in the event of th e i r b e ing e l ec ted. Tha t journal thus concludes its remarks :—" We add ress to the candidates of the two lists, and in d efault to the journals which are their organs, this veal 4 question—' Will you, or will you not, take r : at h '' To this insidious question the Prase c u ii" Properly replies that the Constitutionnel's itY Will not be satisfied. The constitution litt, tt „ li i insisted upon an oath as a qualification for n""dateship, b u t mer ely as a preliminary to tak gla seat in the house. General Cavaignac has as has t to stand for Paris as Baron othschild les s St and t h e for London. Noower in the n state,much his cons C onstitutionne/, has a right now to probe The ti tn cie neo or that of his fellow candidates arrived. rn e f or considering the oath question has not Cavai The Pays affects to know that General gnat to t ake and the rest have made up their minds vote f or the oath, and warns the electors that to lature e n , Will be to introduce into the legis that the Pinires of the Emperor. I believe, however, Makes theaal: speaks wholly without warrant, and voki n above affirmation with the view of , pro of in a g no a th oontradiction, which could be made use The foll another point of view. 11. itaya °vying is from the Siecle :—• hint for the eatr has not accepted the candidateship offered tile arrondissement 10th electoral district. Some liberal electors of upon him witi t i ne t ll le t of h Sceaux have the intention of waiting await the resultstheirol?e of changing his resolution ; we visit. THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, WEDNESOAY, JUNE 17, 1857. NEW PEERS. The Duke of Grafton, the Earl of Suffolk, the Earl of Clare, and Lord Kilmaine, took the oaths and their seats• MINISTZRS' MONZY. Lord DUNGANNON presented a petition from West meath against the Ministers' Money (Ireland) Bill. The Marquis of WESTMEATH presented a petition from Munster to the same effect. EQUALISATION - OF POOR-RATES. The Earl of MALMESBURY presented petitions from various parts of London, in favour of an equalisation of poor-rates, and offered some remarks to enforce the prayer of the petitioners. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGU, referring to the Ministers' Money (Ireland) Bill, expressed his opinion that before the second reading, papers should be laid on the table showing the funds at the disposal of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. REPRESENTATIVE PEERS ELECTION EXIIENSES. The Earl of DONOUGHMORE wished to know what had been done with regard to the expenses incurred by Irish Peers, in proving their right to vote for representative Peers, with a view to relieve them from the charges to which they were subject. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought that an arrangement could be made without the introduction of a bill, but would consider the subject. COURTS IN INDIA. Lord MONTEAGLE stated that Sir Charles Wood, when President of the Board of Control, had promised to introduce a bill for the amalgamation of the two courts in India, and charged the Government with breach of faith in not carrying that engagement into effect. The Duke of ARGYLE declared that Sir C. Wood had only given an opinion without pledging himself one way or another upon the subject. The matter was one of great difficulty, requiring the gravest consideration before legislation could be safely attempted. A brief discussion followed, after which the subject dropped. REFORMATORY INSTITUTIONS. The Earl of CARNARVON moved the second reading of the Reformatory Institutions the object of which he explained to be, to extend the age of admission to reformatories from 16 to 20, and in proof of the utility of the measure stated that, of 105,000 persons comrnittecl every year, 25,000 or 26,000 were between the ages of 15 and 20. Lord BROUGHAM approved of the principle of the measure• Earl GRANVILLE suggested the postponment of the discussion on the bill, till Sir G. Grey's measure on the subject was before their Lordships. The Earl of DERBY recommended that the bill should be read a second time, and that further proceedings should be stopped until the Commons' bill came up. Earl GRANVILLE declined to accede to the noble earl's suggestion. After some further discussion the debate was adjourned. BATRING REGULATIONS• The Marquis of WESTMEATH moved the second reading of the bill introduced by him for the purpose of prevent ing indecent bathing at watering places on the coast of Kent. After a brief discussion the motion was negatived without a division, and their lordships adjourned at half. past seven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY, The house met at noon. PRIVATE BILLS. The Fraserburgh Harbour Bill, the Great Northern Railway Capital Bill, and the Margate Water Bill, were severally,read a third time and passed. The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Bill was withdrawn, on the motion of Mr. Chas. Forster. The house then went into committee on the BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. MACARTNEY, being prevented by the forms of the house, moving that the bill be referred to a select commit_ tee, as he had intended, stated his reasons for placing that motion on the paper. He objected to the proposals in regard to compensation to officers injured by the bill, and to the official arrangements suggested. He should have preferred the appointment of a commis. sion to inquire into these points before the introduction of the bill, but as that had not been done, he now proposed the postponement of what were called the pecuniary and official clauses, 'Alt he had an opportunity of moving the re-committal of the bill. Mr. VANCE raised some objections, and expressed his opinion that it would have been better had the pecuniary clauses been inserted in a separate bill. Mr. WHITESIDE and Mr. MALINS argued in favour of the removal of the distinction between bankruptcy and insolvency. Mr. HADFIELD condemned the present state of the law, which authorised long imprisonment for debt or for con tempt of the Court of Chancery. Mr. MALIN% in wishing the Government to give the bill further consideration, moved that the chairman report progress. The ATTORNEY-GENEITAL for Ireland declined to refer the bill to a select committee, believing that the effect would be to destroy it, and considering that the subject had:received ample discussion, he felt justified in resisting the motion for reporting progress. The motion for reporting progress was withdrawn. Clauses 1 to 28 were agreed to. Mr. VANCE moved to amend clause 29, striking out the appeal to the Lord Chancellor, and after some discussion the amendment was agreed to. Clause 34 was omitted, and clause 46 was postponed. The other clauses to 158 were agreed to, when the chair man reported progress, and the sitting was suspended. PRINCESS ROYAL'S DOWRY. At the evening sitting, A. Message from the Lords was received, stating that their lordships had agreed to the Princess Royal's Annuity Bill without any amsidments. THE JEW BILL. The Marquis of BLANDFORD gave notice that, on the third reading of the Oaths Bill, he should move that the bill be read a third time that day six months. MILITARY EDUCATION. # Sir DE LACY EvANs gave notice that, on the 7th ofJuly, he should submit a motion on the subject of Military Education. NEW DESCRIPTION OP PAPER. In reply to Mr DIE.Lwm, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he understood that a companv had been formed for manufacturing, from animal fibre, a substance to be printed upon. From the method of manufacture, that substance would come under the designation of paper, and would, therefore, be subject to the paper duty. THE GERMAN LEGION AND THE CAPE AUTHORITIES, Mr. ADDERLET inquired whether, in consequence of the number of men of the German Legion sent to the Cape, being less than was expected, the Cape legislature had resolved to reduce their contribution of £40,000, by two thirds, towards the expense of locating them ? Mr. LABOUCHERE was under the impression that there was no such intention on the part of the Cape legislature . but, if he found it was so, he should communicate with the hon. member. IRISH WORKHOITEIRS. Mr. FAGAN drew attention to the present state of the workhouse system in Ireland, and, in connection there with, to the laws relating to medical charities and the relief of the sick poor, and moved for a select committee to take the subject into consideration, and report there upon. He suggested that a portion of the workhouse should be set apart for hospital purposes, and that the medical officers should be paid out of the Consolidated Fund in Ireland as well as in England. Milli. HERBERT considered thst injustice had been wich Union fire office; done to the important cause which the hon. member hLld brought forward, by the appointment of a select committees at a time when, in consequence of the sitting of election committees, many of those who were interested in the question would not be able to attend the inquiry. He also considered that they had facts sufficient for legislation, and that steps having been taken in the direction alluded to, but a trifling extension of the system advocated was necessary. The attention of the Government had been turned to the subject, and they hoped to be able to meet a great portion of the hon. member's views. Mr. FAGAN, after this explanation, consented to with draw his motion. Mr. AYRTON moved for a select committee to inquire into the causes of the inequality of the poor rates in the metropolitan district, and whether any measures should be adopted to render the rates more equal. His com plaint was that poor parishes contributed a larger amount to the poor rates, while the contributions of rich parishes were little more than nominal. Mr. BOUVERIE opposed the motion on the ground that the question could not be properly considered by a select committee in the present session. A long discussion ensued, in the course of which. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER denied the inequa- lity of the assessment to the extent stated, and argued that the views of the supporters of the motion went to the establishment of a national rate. Ultimately, upon a division, the motion was negatived, by 81 votes to 123—majority, 42. The Grand Juries (Ireland Act, 1836) Amendment Bill went through committee. The other business having been disposed of, the house adjourned at half-past two o'clock. THE MEDITERRANEAN MAILS SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY. The Colombo bas arrived with the Mediterranean mails. Her India mails were brought home by the Australian mail packet Jura. The Colombo left Alexandria, June 4; Malta, the 7th ; and Gib raltar the 11th She brought home ninety-three passengers. Amongst them are Colonels Spence, Atkinson, and Goodwyn, Majors Bush and Ouseley, and Lieutenant-Colonel Ross. Amongst her cargo are 2,366 bales of silk and one package of specie. Two children died on board the Colombo during the passage from Alexandria. The Colornlo fell in with Lord Lyons' squadron, consisting of four line of-battle ships, one corvette, and one gun-boat, off Tunis. The Hibernia, Ceylon, Vigilant, Ceradoc, and Arrow were at Malta. THE COURT. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, June 16.—The Queen held a Court, yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. Mr. Sheriff Mechi, accompanied by the City It.membrancer, had an audience of the Queen, to learn her Majesty's pleasure relative to the reception of an address of con gratulation on the birth of a princess from the Corpora tion of the City' of London. The Queen was graciously pleased to appoint Saturday next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, for the reception. Her Majesty inspected the engraving by Mr. Thomas Landseer, to be dedicated to the Queen, of Mdlle, Rosa Bonheur's picture of the Horse Fair. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal and Prince Arthur, and attended by the Hon. Flora Macdonald took a drive in an open carriage and four in the afternoon. Major-General Bouverie and Major-General the Hon, C. Grey were in attendance on horseback. CHRISTENING OF TIIE INFANT PRINCESS.—The christen ing of the infant daughter of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, took place yesterday afternoon in the private Chapel of Buckingham Palace, in the presence of the various members of the royal family, her Majesty's visitors, and the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the chief officers of state. The ceremony was performed by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Bishop of London, Bishop of Chester, Clerk of the Closet, Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley, Hon. and Very Rev. Dean of Windsor. The royal princess was named Beatrice Mary Victoria. The bells of various churches were rung. Yesterday evening, a banquet was given by her Majesty to a distinguished circle of the nobility. THE' ROYAL VISIT TO THE HANDEL FESTIVAL —Her Majesty and Prince Albert will be accompanied in their visit to the Crystal Palace, to the performance of Handers oratorio Judas Maccabaus, this day (Wednesday), by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, his Imperial High ness the Archduke Maximilian of Austria, his Royal High ness Prince Frederick William of Prussia, their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal, Prince A rthur, Prince Alfred, and a numerous suite. The party will be conveyed in nine royal carriages. BANKRUPTS. • William Tyres, Nottingham, builder. Daniel Pinkstone, Birmingham, licensed victualler. William Keighley, Sugden Keighley, and James Keighley, now or late of Keighley, worsted manufacturers. James Dodson, the younger, Wormly, Hertfordshire, and Fenchurch Buildings, City, Russian merchants. Louis Phillippe Ronny, Feowick De Porquat, Fenohurch street, and Fairkyts, Horncburch, dealer i❑ agricultural implements. John Charles, Gloucester, innkeeper and coal merchant. William Johnston, Whitehaven, Cumberland, currier. UNIVERSITY Hoerouns.—letelligence has been received that Mr. Arthur, the Masters' Exhibitioner of 1855, and Mr. Wainwright, the Canning Exhibitioner, of 1856, for the Collegiate Institution, are both in the first class, at Tri nity College, Cambridge. COMPLIMENTARY DINNER —Mr. Thomas Dixon, late agent at Arrow Hall, Cheshire, was presented wi;la a hand some Tea and Coffee Service, at a dinner given to him at Inglefield's Hdtel, Woodchurch-green, on Saturday last. Among those present, were Mr. Baty, Mr. Mason, Mr. Tredder and other gentlemen, and an agreable evening was spent on the occasion. In a letter received at Woolwich from Mej )--General Sir W. F. Williams, the General informs his friends there that he has not received the slightest intimation of any probability existing relative to his being likely to resign the command of the garrison for the present. Neither is there , any truth in the report of his having been offered the governorship of the Island of Malta. THE INDIAN DfORAMA..—This attractive exhibition, it will be observed, remains open up to Saturday only, and as the proprietor wishes that every one should have an op portunity of seeing the beauties of Indian scenery, life and manners, he has reduced the charges to half what they were before. This, no doubt, will enable hundreds to enjoy the instruction and pleasure derivable from a visit to the Tuetonic Ball, during the week. FIRE LAST Niaier.—shortly before seven o'clock last night, a fire broke out among a large quantity of timber, stacked on some vacant ground close to park-street, Toxteth-park, A reel from Sussex-street, was speedily on the spot, and succeeded in subduing the flames before the arrival of two engines which had proceeded from Temple court station, under the charge of Me. Hewett. The timber was the property of Mr. E. Choloner; Queen's Dock. TRANMERE TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY.—On Monday evening last, Mr. J. 'Fheophilus Jones delivered a lecture in the school-room, St. Paul's-road, on the " Maine Law, and the necessity of legislative interference for the suppression of the liquor traffic." There was a numerous assembly of the working class, and the deepes', interest seemed to be manifested in Mr. Jones's admirable lecture, his objections to the traffic being stated in the most unobjectionable manner ; and his arguments appeared to convince his hearers that moral suasion to sober habits was only as a " drop in the ocean," and that legislative interference was absolutely necessary. Mr. John Lockhart presided, and Messrs. Guy and Baxter addressed the meeting. The latter wished Mr. Jones every success in his new under taking of reforming the drunkard in other localities, where the efforts of temperance advocates and Maine Law lee revers are more appreciated. It was understood that • Manchester was meant. FlRE.—Yesterday morning, at an early hour . great con sternation was created in Vauxhall:road, and its densely populated neighbourhoods in consequence of an alarming fire having broken out in the stabling belonging to Messrs. Irving, Son and Jones, proprietors ,of the extensive rice mills, Blackstock street, which, at the time, con tained ten valuable horses, and was largely stored with hay, straw, &c. From the very inflamable nature of the contents of the building, and the rapidity with which the flames spread, great fears were entertained that the horses would fall a prey to the devouring ele ment, but, by dint of great exertion, six of them were safely rescued ; another was brought out, so severely burnt, and injured, that it was found necessary immediately to convey it to a veterinary surgeon in the neighbourhood, but the remaining three, we regret to state, were destroyed by the flames. Mr. Hewitt, with engine and reel from Temple court; Mr. Barrett, with West of England engine, and a reel from Rose hill, were quickly at the scene of destruction, and, owing to their great exertions, the flames were confined to the premises on which they broke out. We understand the bilildipg is insured in the Nor- THE had naturally the interests of the commerce and trade of Liverpool at heart. Any complaints which were made were :promptly inquired into, and, if found to be well grounded, were redressed. There was no charge upon the Dock Estate except the interest of the debt. When a surplus was received over and above the sum required for working the docks and for interest, a reduction was made in the charge. I have glanced at the bill now before the committee, and I do not think that any advantage would be gained by effecting a change in the constitution of the Dock Committee. Ido not think that the present consti tution is perfection, but I think it would be difficult to beat it. I do not think that any Dock Estate could be managed by persons who are not resident on the spot. People who are resident would learn from one another the nature of the wants of the community, and would bring them before the Dock Committee for investigation. Mr. MEREWETHER : Those wants would of course have various tendencies, there being conflicting trades and interests. MERSEY CONSERVANCY AND DOCKS BILL. (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUESDAY. The committee re-assembled this morning at twelve o'clock, Sir J. Graham in the chair. The other members of the committee, namely, Lord Henniker, Mr. Phillipps, Mr. Paget, and Mr. North, were all present. Mr. TWEEDIE, the Treasurer of the Corporation was called, and examined in reference to the income and expenditure of the Liverpool Corporation. He put in the following return, showing the net receipts and expenditure during the last:ten years : Income from aschorage Other E xpendi- For the year ending and Town Dees. sources. tare. 31st August, 1647 1848 .... • 1849 .... • 101,016 .... .. 51,242 .. 131,031 19 1850 .... • ... 93,059 .. 46,093 .... 113,674 1, 1851 1852 „ 1853 9 , 1854 .... „ 1855 11 1856 WITNE_S: Undoubtedly. Mr. MEREWETHER : For instance, an arrangement which would be for the advantage of the timber trade, might net be for the advantage of other trades ? WiTNEss : Certainly : I think that all persons appointed upon the committee ought to be upon the spot, so as to have au opportunity of acquiring an intimate knowledge of all circumstances connected with the trade of the port. Mr. MEnEwrrnEn : Therefore you attach great im. portance to the residential element ? WITNESS : I do. Cross—examined by Mr. Webster : I was a member of the Dock Committee for six years previous to ISSI. Mr. WEBSTER : Did you not have repeated representa tions from the shipowners and merchants as to the expensiveness of constructing docks at Liverpool, and the cheapness with which they might be constructed at Birkenhead ? WITNESS : There may have been such represw.tations, but I do not recollect any special complaint having been made. The trade has generally been connected with the docks in Liverpool, and it would have been a great incon venience to the merchants to take their ships over to Birkenhead. Mr. ROBERT GRINNELL examined, said : I am a citizen of the United States, and am a merchant and shipowner of Liverpool. My father is one of the largest shipowners in New York, and furnished the ship which went in search of Sir John Franklin. I have no complaints to make o the manner in which the shipping interests are cared for in Liverpool. I was acquainted with Captain Asa E!dridge, who is now dead. He was examined before the committee of 1855, for the docks, and f tated that he had formed a very high opinion of the Liverpool docks, and had received more accommodation there than in any other port in Great Britain. I think that the port of Liverpool generally is well managed, and that the accommodation provided is very goo 3. Cross-examined by Mr. Webster : I also agree to some extent with Captain Eldridge, when he stated that Birkenhead offered greater facilities for dock accommo— dation than Liverpool. Mr. WEBSTER here read a long extract from Captain Eldridge's evidence, in which he stated that docks should Mr. MEREWETHER : Does the Birkenhead Dock yield pay the interest under which the Corporation are liable for the money paid to the landholders ? WlTNrss : It does not. Mr. MERENVETIIER : Wnat is the sum necessary to make up the difference? WITNESS: The interest is £27,860, and the corporation estimate the surplus from dues, rates, and rents of pro— perty, at about £9,000, leaving a deOcit of £lB,OOO or thereabouts. Mr. AIEREWETHER : Are you in a position to give the committee a return of the receipts from town-dues, from an earlier period than the returns now handed in refer to ? WITNESS: I cannot do so in the absence of Mr. Shuttle_ worth. By Mr. WEBSTER : The returns which I have given are the nett, and :not the gross returns. There would be a difference of abut £2,000 for expenses. I cannot say what sums ought to be added to the sums I have men tioned for allowances to freemen ; nor can I say how much has been expended in any particular year upon harbour or shipping purposes. Mr. WEBSTER Do you know the value of the Corpora tion estate? WITNESS : I do not. Sir J. GRAHAM : Are you in a position to state what is included under the head of " other charges ? " WITNESS : In the year 1856, the Town Dues and anchor age realised £132,592. There was also received in fines on the renewal of leases, £50,401 ; markets within the borough, £7,464; rents of houses, £9,614; rent of tobacco warehouses, £4,097 ; for river craft, £2,731 ; hipwrights' charge, £2,597; property in Birkenhead, £1,812 ; .fees from magistrates, £3,737; fines from summary convic. tions and srecial penalties, £4,011. Sir JAMES GRAHAM: Has the sum received in th 3 shapes of fines on the renewal of leases, always reached £50,000 a year. WITNESS : No, it was above the average in 1856. The average for the last ten years has been about £20,000. By the Committee: The corporation have sold property since the passing of the Municipal Corporation Act, with the permission of the treasury. The sales, however, have been exceptional, and to no large amount. Sir JAMES GRAIIAH : Can you tell us what was ex pended on St. George's Hall ? WITNESS : I canna ; the expenditure was entered into by the corporation withouti previously consulting the treasury. be constructed where nature had designed they should be, which, in his cpinion, was the other, or Birkenhead side of the water. Mr. RALPH BOOCKLEBANK was the next witness. He said—l am an extensive merchant and sh;powner at Liverpool, and possess more than thirty vessels. lam a member of the Deck Committee, elected by the rate payers, and have taken my part upon the general and subcommittees. All the members are very zealous in in the discharge of their duties. With the exception of Friday, a general or sub-committee is held daily. I think it is almost a sine . qua non that the members of the committee should be residential. A person not actually resident in Liverpool would be entirely unable to look after the interests of the port, and to master all the details. Cross-examined by Mr. Webster : I have been a con stant attendant at the meetings of the committee latelY. Works are now going on on the north shore for the con struction of a new dock, and for forming an entrance to the Great Float. The dock in question is situated north of the Huskisson Dock, and covers eighteen acres. The entrance at the Great Float will be the largest in the world, being 100 feet wide by 500 feet in length. Mr. WEBSTER : What has been expended in the com pletion of the North River Wall ? WITNESS : I am not prepared to say. £850,000 has been authorised .to be raised by Act of Parliament, for the improvement of the existing docks and basins, and the completion of other works in progress. The flew dock of eighteen acres, and the entrance which I havo referred to, do not come under any of the schemes for which the £850,000 was authorised to be raised. Mr. MEREWETHER remarked that. the witness was mis taken. The works referred to were in progress i•A 1855, and were included in the act referred to. ' Mr. WEBSTER : Now, did not these- very works form part of the £4,000,000 scherse which the committee re jected ? Mr. NORTH : Has all the expenses of erecting St. Georges Hall been paid ? Witrlnss : I believe not. Mr. NORTH: Then there,is::still a debt, notwithstand ing that the corporation have been; receiving a surplus of .E 38,000 a year. WITNESS: Yes. Mr. WEBSTER : What was the debt of the corporation sixty yeas ago ? WITNESS £852,000. Wr. WEBSTER: What is it LBW? WITNESS: A:1,148,000. • Mr. WEBSTER : You say that the corporation have hot effected any considerable sales since the Municipal Cor— porations Act passed. Have they purchased any property since ? WITNESS : Yes ; they are always buying property, more or less. Mr. MEREWETHER.: But have not those purchases since the Municipal Act, been for purposes of Improvement? By the COMMITTEE : The corporation have purchas ed an estate for £96,000, at Newsome House, for the purpose of forming a park. Sir J. GRAHAM : What is the condition of that estate now? WITNESS : I think not. Mr. WEBSTER : What will be the cost of the works in progress on the north shore ? WITNESS : I cannot tell. Sir J. GRAHAM : Speaking generally of Liverpool, can you say that there is an absence of warehouse accommo dation contiguous to the docks ? WITNESS : There is that defect no doubt, but it has been remedied to a certain extent by the erection of WITNESS : It is let out to tenants at will. Sir J. GRAHAM : Then there is no park as yet ? WITNESS : No Mr. MEEEWETDER objected to evidence of this nature being received from Mr. Tweedie. L. The:proper person to afford the information was Mr. Shuttleworth. warehouses on the quay. Sir J. GRAHAM : Has that remedy only been recently applied ? WITNESS : A portion of the warehouses have only been completed within the last 12 months. Sir J. GRAHAM : Then, until recently, you admit that there was this defect in the constitution ? WITNESS: Decidedly so. Sir J. GRAHAM: Until it began to be remedied, where were the warehouses ? WITNESS : Scattered about in various parts of the town. Sir J. GRAHAM said these facts were very important, inasmuch as it had been shown by the witness that within the last ten years the debt had increased, notwithstanding an apparent surplus of X 38,000 per year. Mr. WEBSTER Have not the facts which you have just stated been obtained from the books of the Corpora tion ? WITNESS : Yes, so far as the figures are concerned. Mr. IVEnsTen Now, during thin last ten years have not the Corporation expended a sum of £338,000 in purchases ? WITNESS : I cannot answer that question. Mr. WEBSTER: Have they not purchased at Birksnhead what is called the North Reserve ? Sir J. GRAHAM : At a distance from the docks ? WITNESS : Some of them at a considerable distance from ;he docks. Sir J. GRAHAM : Does not that distance materially en hance the cost of embarkation, to the disadvantage of the consumers and of the shipping interest ? WITNESS : There are extra charges in consequence. Sir J. GRAHAM : Who derive the profits from the ware houses where they are now situated, the consumers and shipowners being damnified by such distance ? WITNESS : The warehouse proprietors. years. Sir J. GRAHAM : Are they the electors of the Town Sir J. GRAHAM : How was the money raised? Council; that is, have they a voice in the election of councillors ? WITNESS : It was borrowed under the prison's act. WITNESS : No doubt they have. Mr. STEWART was then called, and, in reply to Mr- Sir ;J. GRAHAM: Have they a large interest in the Merewether, said the property on the Foreshore was pur- election ? chased by the corporation, of the Woods and Forests, WITNESS :I do not think that they have any greater because it was required for graving docks. The North interest than any other body in the town. Reserve was bought because it was considered essential Sir J. GRAHAM : Are not the warehouse proprietors for for the completion of the Birkenhead docks scheme. The so large a trade a very powerful body in Liverpool ? site did not belong to the Birkenhead trustees, but Mr. WITNESS :No ; they are not a very powerful body. John Abel Smith was the lessee. In witness's opinion, if Sir J. GRAHAM: Are they not a numerous body ? the purchase had been delayed for eight or ten years, and WITNESS ; Yes; they are. the dock scheme had been successful, the cost of the land Sir J. GRAHAM : And being ratepayers, have they nol would have been considerably increased. a voice in the choice of town councillors ? The CHAIRMAN: What sum did the corporation pay? WITNESS: They have. WITNESS : I do not recollect. Sir J. GRAHAM : So that it is to their interest to keep Mr. TWEEDIE, in reply to Mr. Merewether, stated that the warehouses where they now are, at a distance from the sum agreed upon was £lOO,OOO, which was payable by the port, they being the possessors of them? yearly instalments. WITNESS: Undoubtedly, it is to their interest. Mr. STEWART was then cross-examined by Mr. Webster, Sir J. GRAHAM; Until lately, whatever their interest but nothing of importance was elicited. may have been, the fact is, that the warehouses were at a Mr. TWEEDIE, in answer to the Chairman said : £57,000 distance from the docks, and the dock trustees have only has already been paid to the purchase of the North Reserve, lately began to remedy the evil? The cost of the management of the Birkenhead Docks is WITNESS ; The erection of new warehouses was corn" paid out of the Corporation Funds, but the expense of menced ten years ago. extraordinary works, such as the deepening of Wall asey Mr. MEREWETHER; In the bill of 1855, which cut off Pool,,is defrayed out of the borrowed money. An annual the £4,000,000 scheme, £1,000,000 was intended to be sum of £6,000 a year, bearing interest, is payable out of expended in providing warehouse accommodation. the income. Mr. CHARLES SAUNDERS was then examined. He said : Sir J. GRAHAM ; And out of the £850,000 which was lam a member of the firm of MiCallum and Brothers, granted in 1855, how much was expended in warehouses ? extensive merchants and shipowners at Liverpool, and Mr. EROCELEBANK ; Nothing. for six years I was a member of the Dock Captain EVANS was the next witness. He said :I am Committee. A general or a sub-committee sat every a captain in the Royal Navy, and was appointed acting day in the week except Friday, and the meet- conservator of the River Mersey, under the 'Act 4th and ings were well attended 'by persons cognisant of the sth Victoria, Captain Fitzroy was the first conservator, local 1/Iterests and trade of the port. The members of and I succeeded him in 1843. It has been one of my the committee were all gentlemen engaged in the trade of do,:ies to report to the commissioners of the Conservancy. the port, or 6OllllP9ted with the Corporation, Bic, They'. Mr. Menewrraza here read numerous extracts from WITNESS : They have. Mr. WEEiTSR , : At a cost of £98,000 ? WITNESS It is not paid for. They have also purchased an estate at Foreshore, on the Cheshire side. It was purchased of the Woods and Forests for £,4000. I am not aware 'that any purchase has been recently made at Tranmere Pool. Upwards of £200,000 has been expended in the erection of a new gaol within the last four of five Captain Evans's reports, in reference to the state of the port, and was proceeding. with the examination of the witness, when SIR J. GRAHAM interrupted, and asked whether, as it was now nearly four o'clock, the learned counsel proposed to conclude the evidence on behalf of the Corporation with the exception of Mr. Shuttleworth's evidence to-day. Mr. 111EnEwrrnEa said Captain Evans was not the last witn:93 whon he should have to call. Sir. J. GRAHAM remarked that Ma committee would have met at twelve instead of one but for the express understanding that the case of the Corporation would be concluded to-day. If there was to be this continual delay and waste of time, he saw no possibility of concluding the inquiry in time for the House of Lords. Mr. MERE - A-Erma defended himself and the corporation from any charge of intentionally obstruetiag the progress of the kg:airy, and appealed to the committee for indulgence, reminding them-that so far the evilenc '2 on the part of the corporation hal not occupied half the time which had been employed in examining witnesses on the other side. • Si: J. GrAITAM : Proceed with the case in your own The examination of Captain Evans was then resumed until the adjc.,urnment of the committee at four o'clock. Potatoes aro- now selling in Galway at 41 pr:r s'one. Five hundred' and sixty-nine se , ,rrn , n availed th,m eelves, last year; of the advantagrs of tha Belfast Sailors' Ho 113 e, t ° A I% th r c r. r , m F tl ''r :n g'' S s‘ 2 9 oo o f f ro e m ai t r l n l e br f ( a )c n ic d haNT'ellre(Tt,rdnstrt:PtlsleorGliiil7,,,,(l) placed at their disp . al, Er hehoof of E.lticati'mal losti- tutions. The DownsAire Protestant sayl that Mr. Jonathan Richardson, the la!ely-lectcl tn-itihq for Lisburn, has sent in his resignation of nimbersbip in the Orange Ins& tation, which has bean accepte3. MR. W. FL RUSSELL, THE Times CORRESPONDENT.— krrangernFnts have been completed for the delivery in Edinburgh of Vr. Rnsseli's three lec'crzs on the Lite war; the first to be given on the 24'h inst. Cairn RUN OVER IN 131;OMiBERY-SQUARE.—Conwirut's INQUEST —Yesterdny, an inciLyeA ..as held on the bo of a little girl uznr - A E rt . :ma Reynolds, aged eight years, who was run over in High-street, Bi , oms l o'sir;, on Thursday last, by a flurherse van gale?: to Covent-;)•arclen mlrket, and who died Vac same everting at the Middi-ses Hospital. A verdict of" Accident death" was re.orned, with a recommendation to the driver to be more careful in futusa in driving his van. A `YARNING TO TiUTTE DEALT Rs. —At the Belfast Police-court, the other clay. Ann M‘Gee, a dealer in butter, was prosecuted by Markfr-^orlstable Bunting. with having exposed for sale frcudulently made-up butter. The cor,stahle s'a'ed that the butt: r, 41hq., iv's old crock, and pri3 - .ner was s:lling it, tor fre,h. A fine of s s . an d c os ts was implsed ; 0. , .d the butter ordered to be folfeite:l. [Worthy of being imitated ; that, is, the de&sion of the Bench—nog, the efferee.] MIL SPURGEJN AT THE &EERY GARDENS.-03 Sudsy to.)rning, a very latga nonmhr•r of persons att,-ro , el the Music Hall of the Surrey Gardens, in order to hear the Rev. C. Spurr eon. Among V'e visitoN were the Marquis and illareliior;ess of Bligo, Lady Courtney Boyl , s. Major Sibttorp, H , n. Mr. Coventry, Lord and Lady Wensleydale, Mr, Blakewell, M.P : , Lord Kiutore and frierVs, Sir Joseph Pax'.on, Lord Caltherpe, Mr. Merry, M.P., Hon. 'Kir. Bathurst, Countess of Gaittshorough. Lord and Lady Bur lington, Earl and Co:inte:ts Cravn, &c. JOHN SADLEIrt'S ESTATES.—The estates of Jolla Sadleir situated in the counties of Waterford, Tipperary and Limerick, are alvc:rtised for sale in Henrietta-street, on Tuesday, the 7th of July next. The Rttitiorier for the sale is the official manager for winding up th affairs of the Tipperary Bark. The property is offere:l in three lots, the gross net rcn'al of which is estinnte! at £1,282 per annum. In the present fborishing- state of the Irish land market—twenty-two years' rate of purchase being the average for welt circumstanced estates—a handsome — sum ought to be realised towards the relief of the unfortunate vletims of the Sadleir swindle. MISPLACED AFFECTION.-- Loving Wife : Here, James', see what a good little wifey I've been in your absence. Whilst you'v.) been aw.iy, amusing yourself, I've cicaned all your pips. Look, Sir, I'd be bound you would'nt know this Meerschaum again ? It looks nice and elan now, doesn't it ? though you can't tell, dear, what a deal of time it took me to take all the nasty colour and dirt off, I assure you I had to scrape it ever so thick with an oyster knife. [Poor James looks very disconsolate, and gazing, with eyes of ahjrct despair on his favourite Meerschaum, that had taken him five years' hard smoking to " culrotte," . turns upon his heel, and wipes away a tear.] The recent eemits in Belgium have produced a deep impression on the Viennese, and they do not attempt to conceal the satisfaction they feel at the check which the Ultramontanists have received. The daily papers of Vienna describe the state of public feeling in such plain language that the Cardinnl Archbishop is wroth, and vows that he will complain to the highest authority in the realm ot the "unbearable license" of the press. The paper which most stirs the bile of his Eminence is the Wandel er, and he not long since sent one of his subalterns to tell its printer, who has a shop on the ground floor of the archiepiscopal palace, that he would give him notice to quit if he did not without delay break off all connection with the paper. FALLING DOWN A WELL.-0a Tuesday last a singular accident occurred to the• wife of one of the constabulary recently appointed in the district of Elhana. It appears that the poor woman had occasion to draw some water from a well on the premises, and by some mea.lls which she is unable to explain, ste fell head foremost into, the well, a depth of sixty feet. An alarm was immediately, given, and .on the neighbours assembling, the woman was attempted to be drawn up. In raising her the bucket got detached from the rope, and fell with a crash t) the. bottom ; the rope, however, by some means was twisted round her, and she was thus brought with safety to the top of the well. The only damage she sustained was a complete drenching. —Kentish Gazette. TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRATM COMMUNICATLON.—fIer Majesty's steamer Cyclops, one of the vessels empl iyei in carrying out submarine telegraphic communication with America, is at present at Valentia taking soundings along the shore portion of the line, preparatory to laying down the cable, which will take place in August. The M opetic Telegraph Company intend laying down a act of wires from Valentia to Killarney, from whence additional wires will be extended along the present route to Loudon, in order to facilitate the tratismitsion of intelligence between the two continents. A set of distinct wires will be laid down from Valentia via Killarney to. Donaghadee, following the route of the present wires, across the Channel to Portpatrick, and thence to London. A CLERICAL CASE.—CLERICAL ERROR.—On dit in the gossiping circles, in a certain town which skirts the shores of a celebrated western firth, that a young, handsome, and accomplished clerical celebrity has, for some unknown cause, left in the lurcha beautiful young lady of the most agreeable manners, and of handsome fortune, who was looking for ward, on the tiptoa of expectation, to the fixed day, which was rapidly approaching, when, for better or for worse, she should bestow her hand and heart on him who had long sought them. Bat a " chahe came o'er the spirit" of the intended bridegroom's "dream." He had wooed, he had won, but now he would not wed ; and the words, "the last link is broken that bound me to thee," came like a peal of thunder on the expectant bride. Of ; course, scandal is busy in search of the reasons for this fitful fancy of the faithless swain. Rumour has her thousand tongues, and a thousand stories find their way abroad among the gossip-hunting young ladiec, eorious old maids, and staid matrons of the sea-side town. They have it that, on the discovery of the " tocheri' being " thirled" to the lady, exclusive, as the lawyets say, of the jus mural, the " Lewin' love" of the miutster waxed cold, and he broke the link. Gossip further insinuates that the lady did not break her heart, but consoles herSef with the reflection that not she herself, but the tocher's the jewel that he sought to Win."—GreenockTelfgrapla. A GOOD. SHOT —Abram Bass. Esq., of crielteting edge, brity, whilst practising with other members of the Barton on-Trent Rifle Club, was one day unexp:daily joined by a bevy of ladies, one of whom requested to see some of Mr. Bass's shooting. A two-inch bull's-eye being plat: d, four successive shots were fired at 110 yards. Every shot went through the same hole, a little to the left of the centre, without breaking the outer edge of the paper. On another occasion, when lunch had been discussed on the banks of the river Trent, and the black bOttles looked as though their occupation was gone, employment was found for them. A wager was laid that the bottles should be worked and thrown into the river, seventy yards from, the shooter (Mr. Bass), and that, whilst floating, the cork of each of the six bottles should be hit to win ; if the body of the bottle was struck, to lose. Every cork was struck. The weapon in this case was a pistol or peculiar construction, with a 10-inch rifle barrel. The staple fixed in the stern of a flat-bottomed fishing boat was struck, the first shot, for a wager, at 300 yards. A swan was shot through the head at 170 yards; a duck feeding upon a weir at 320 yards, and a hare ht 280 yards—both shot dead. A boy was seen angling upwards of 90 yards from the bridge on which Mr. Bass wasstanding, with not less than two score lookers on. A bet was made' that Mr. B. would break through the upper part of the fine rod the boy was using. the firth shot. The wevon in this case was the pistol before-mentioned. Tho, shot was made ; the line, with the whalebone monnting % fell from the rod. The boy stood aghast. The wagin , w as won, and handed oiler to the little 6 • 81 M11140:=-Irt: A tish Gazette!