Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-05 00:00:00

SMITIISONIAN HOTEL, BaOLOWAT. COMET of FIGCSTON-STINET, Mew Yos K. wrawsi in honour of the SJEITRSONIAN IIfSTITC/111N, ltemblisited at VirMININGTON, by the U. S. CONGRESS, With Funds bequeathed by Jam ES SurresoN. of ENOLAND. gavhig the Friendship of the 01 , 710E13 of the NATIONAL itIIITITITTION Is eonluctel on the System of Hotels in ENG ED. CHAS. H. SMITH. TO THE ELECTORS OF SCOTLAND WARS. GENTLE ME Nl,—l beg t') return you my grate ful thanks for the honour whi3h you conferred upon los yesterday in Eleving me as one of your REPRES N TAT IVES o tke Town Council; and assure yin that I shall ever use my best forts to merit the confidence you have reposed In me. I m. Gentlemen, Your obliged and humble cery nt, JAMES CRELLIN. Benefield House, West Derby Road, 3rd Nov., t 857. TO THE ELECrOIt OF VA.UXIL,4_LI,nOAD. GENTLEMEN, --Accept my sincere thanks for the honour you have conferred upon tne by electing Ise as ons o' your Repre3eatatves in the Town Council. I shah devote myself to the best of my ability to the performance of the duties of my office, and hope that I snail not be found unw rthy of the confidence reposed in dxs.—l am, Gent'emen, your obliged servant, 21, Water-street, Nov. 3,1857. C. J. CORRAL ALL!. TO THE ELECTORS OF EVERTON AN D.EARKDALE WARD. GENTLEMEN, —Permit me to return you my best thanks for again electing me as one of your epresentatiee3 iu the Town Council. I fe!l deeply grateful for the renewal of y our confidence, and it will b) my constant endeavour to discharge n.y duty to the bait of my judtasent and at.ility, and to devote the same ss-atl, industry, and attenti tu to your interest!, and those of the Borough generagy, as I hive hitherto done.—l have the honour to te, Gentleman, your obliged and foitofal sar.ant, DANIEL CR uSTH tVAITE. Whltefleld-house, Everton, Nov 3, 1857. TO THE ELECTO.'S ST. PETEit'S WARD. GENTLEMEN, —Your having returned me as one of your Represeatativee to the Town' Couuti', is a mark of yonvconfldence I beg sincerely to thank son for. I take this opportunity to exptess an earnest desire that, at the expiration of the term for which you. I,a• e Oected ins, i may be able t or. turn the trust you have committed to me, with your approval of my conduct, daring the time I he d it. I em, Gen!l:mea, your obedient Servant, C. T. BOWRING. •LIVZ,RPOOL FE iTIVA.E. CHORAL EO,IETY. THE Fifty-Niath Public PERFORMANCE of the above Society will take place in ST. GEORGE' HALL, on TUESDAY EVENING, the 24tn Navenibor instant. Farther particulars will ba duly announced. TO THE LIBERAL ELECTORS OF AUERCROMB WARD. GENTLEMEN —Our opponents have succeeded by a m.joriry of 26 out of 696 votes. The large minority of 335 his bean obt toed, notwithstanding the inadeqiata preparation of afe v days only, whi o they, rsa iy a-4 long fortifla by the bond of a numerous r,quisdion, ware barely able to maintain tile advantaz , - obtained early in tha day. Rairatting tile immeii,ti result, we may yet rejoice in ike evi dence of the strangta of Liberal principles throughout the Ward, and that. ander more equal circam it% ice , . they wi 1 obtain tie influence and authority in Council, to which th -y are sowell entitled.. To yon, gentleman, who, by yoar votes, have h,,noured me with your confidence, my wirmest thanks are due, for myself and the cause. To the many who have soparaddel the aisuranee of their personal regard and good washes. I rctu, - n my grateful ac,noxleclge ment,.—l have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your faithful Servant, 9, Oxford-street, Nov. 4, 1857. JOSEPEI ANDERSON. A,ll E PrJ3LII.) 111E1!:ft'zia..), &c. 'MIS VAY. MAATRE ROYAL—Professor Anderson-7 p.m. Re/AL AMPRiTuEATILR—D amatt: Performance-7 p.m. EiciN3l,zniZZl CIRQUE VARE.LTE, 1)413-Street —7 p.m. LIMPOOL ACADEXI'S EXHIBITS ON, Postaftee-place. is.L.T.aaes WA YWWIB. EXHIBIT[:)?[-10 a m. to 10 p.m. laCraL CoLi6sacr:s—Ueueral Entertainaleat-6.30 p.m. Ctr For particulars see advertisements, ‘, f v- Oltra , 4 (d)4L, TEURS.DAY, NOVEHBER r›, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. Honourable members of Parliament,:finding tho times rather dull, are getting up a little excitement for their own gratification, if not for the enlighten ment of the country. Mr. Disraeli has been making a display in Buckinghamshire, on the occasion of the annual dinner of an agricultural association. The speech of the right lion. gentleman will rival that of Lord .Palmerston, who astonished the public, some years ago, on his opinions respecting original sin in general and babies in Amersham, on Tuesday. In the earlier part of the day there had been a ploughing match, in which 43 teams ere.faged. Mr. Disraeli was not present at the spectacle, but experience told him what it must have been like. "From what I have seen of the peasantry of the county of Bucks, I am aure that he suite gained the priz a did not attain that distinction wi:hout a worthy struggle:" Such is the spirit, and ambition, and skill of a Buckinglir.mshiro labourer, as testified to by the renreseniative of the county and of the great Conservative party. Now, let us see what rewards this bold and gifted race are thought worthy to deserve when they add to their other merits faithfulness and untiring service during a long tern of years. " Prizes atneunting to IL in each case were given for rick-tha'ching and rick building, and for length of servitude in one place as male or female hired servants, cr as agricul tural labourers." The first prize for " female hired servants" was given to Hannah Smith for 37 years' service with Mr F. Knollis, while Daniel Child and James Dwight " carried off the principal prizes' among the agrieultural labourers—the former for 5.5 years' service with the Hon. C. C.,Cavendish, and the latter for 44 years' service with Mr. W. Lowndes. The limes makes an onslaught upon the whole system for distributing prizes for long servitude, as in stanced above. A man would .be proud if his father had earned the Bath or the Victoria Cross, or a good service pension,. but can we fancy any one risen from a humble station who would not endeavour to conceal the fact that his father had in the extreme of old ago been called up before a set of squires and farm.rs, and, while tho plates were being laid for dinner, and the port got out of the collar, been presented with a pound and a pair of breeches? No; there are some rewards which confer pride and happiness, others that to a self-respecting spirit must burn like vitriol. We cannot but regret that the gentlemen of:England should have taken to the distribution of these sorry doles. That they Jiro offered without a scrupl.?, a.►d accop - e•.i with ,u*. a blush is, to us, one of the most melancholy facts in the history of our time." 'Viscount Sanders, a few days ago, at Stoke-420n- Trent,.took occasion to deliverhis.-opinioks on the education of the working classeo. He said that there „woe nothing more important in the world, connee!ed.with the subjerat of education, than to induce the population of the couWry to take a Ivan tage of the schools now almost everywhere esta blished. : But he deplored that such was not done, and the consequence was that, notwthstanding' the great .intreasa in schools, they found the agricultural labourer just where he was before ; the machine had made but liti.le progre.ss, the collier rind miner had not improve I in intelli gence or morals. What was the reason of all that.? Tiiey fo.und from _statistics that etims had not decrease I, that those humiliating objects, pubic gaols were, as large, if not larger, than .ever, and that their number of inmates did not .decrease. That sad of things led a number of benevo lent people—statesmen, clergymen, mantifae„urets, and others—to consider wha: in the world prevent ed the great machinery of x public school's, with their educated masters, from Producing a greater effect upon the population ; aud they f oun d t h at, after ail, this complex educational mechanism was only a great system of what might be called infant schools ; that directly boys and Oda began to reward the perseverance of the mazter—directly their intellects and their souls began to be deve loped—they were taken from school by their parents, jaat at an age wie i they were bNinoing to prof": by instruction, and set to the labour by which they were to gain their livelihood. In addressing his constituents at Tynemouth, Mr. Lindsay, NI.P. said that we have very much to answer for in our government of India, Ho believed that though we had been drawing large am.ninta of reyepue from the people of India we had been negleatio3 public works, that we had not ' been open . pg out gagals or adding to the facilities THE NORTHERN TIIVIES.-LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1857. of communication as we ought to have -done -; that we had done much, ' , but that we 'had also left much undone, much which we ought to have done. He was against India being governed by a Company. He considered it necessary that there should be avast change in the administration of aflairs in that country. What that change should be, it would be presumptuous, to a certain extent, for him to say; but it struck him if they were to govern the peepleof India well, that the government ought to be in India itself. He said, let them send out a Governor-General, and let there be a Council, though not such as at present, inasmuch as some might be sent from this country, and the others chosen f rom amon g the European residents, and let them be the exe cutive residing on the spot, and be subject to the check of the House of Commons, one member of which should be Seeretary of State for India They would then have some one whom they could hold responsible if India was misgoverned. Hs hoped . tkat in future, by the changes which would be introduced, a great deal would be done for India, and to develope its immense resources. A letter has been received from Captain M'Clin tock, 'commander of Lady Franklin's expedition. An extract from the letter will explain itself : " Here is the Fox, off Cape Crans'own in lat. 71*, having on board an Esquirnaux and ten very fine dogs obtained at Disco. She also is complete with coals, having filled up at the coal cliffs in Waigat Strait. I have sent home one of my crew, who proved to be consumptive, and, hiving proved the others pretty well, I can answer for their sound ness and willing cheerfulness. We get on ad mirably—exactly as in the old Intrepid. At Lievely I saw two whaler captains, whose ships were crushed in Melville Bay last June. They seemed to think I should not experience any difficulty. I c tnuot find that we have forgotten anything, great as was the hurry of sailing. We are very com fortable ; our provisions are most excellent. The Fax sails well, but steams slowly in consequence of the seretv being too small. As the gets lighter shi will go better. I have tried her among the ice, aid find that her sharp bow readily opens a passage where a hluff one would knock in vain." Of political gossip there is little or none just now The members of the lower house, who have lately been making speeches, have been very cautious in any allusion to a new Reform Bill, and the ballot question has been almost shelved by them. But tney will not have all their own way, for the Ballot Society, the committee of which held a meeting on Tuesday, determined to make endea vours to raise a fund large enough to enable them to make a vigorous campaign, and, thereby to strengthen the hands of their friends in the House of Commons when Lord Palmers`on's Reform Bill shall come to be discussed in that assembly Their appeal for the sinews of war surely only requires to be made known in order to ensure a ' liberal response. The only other sign of an ap proaching political agitation which we have to mention is the holding of Chartist meetings in various parts of the country. One such meeting, held at Birminghan?, on Monday, we report tee:lay. These kcal meetings are being held for tile purpose of preparing the way for a National Conference of the Chartist body. From Harwich we learn that there are three Liberal candidates in the field. Several others made their appearance, bat meeting with no suc cess they wisely retreated. Mr. Marslimar, the brother-in-law of General Havelock, and a gentle man who was formerly connected with the Indian press, visited the borough, but concluded to re:ire. The son of Mr. Begshaw, the sitting member, appears to enjoy the best chance of allecCEs. fifer 11Tajeey held a Privy Council yesterday afternoon, at Windsor. To-morrow, (Friday), Parliament will be further prorouged. Fears are entertained of the safety of the Great Eastern, as she is in a very critical position. Of local news there is little or none this morning All that is really worth reporting will be found in other portions of this day's impression. The inauguratio.l of the Liverpool Qusen's College, will take place to-say. Lord Brougham will attend, and no doubt deliver one of those brilliant orations for which he is s) celebrated. The :weekly meeting. og the West :Derby I was l'ead, :nun the Rev. Th.. Leadriall, resigning the chairmanship of the Board. The Gaardians are not satisfied with the result of the investigation at the Police Court, into the charge brought against Mr. Gough, Governor of the Workhouse, and Monday next has bean set apart for a special m-eting upon the subject. The intelligence from the Continent this morn ing is confined in importance to that relating to the union of the Danubian Principalities. The Prussian goverament is against any such union. It is said that the Emperor of the French is sorely annoyed at the turn things are taking in the Prin cipalities. Neither the Austrian nor the Turkish ambassadors have as yet been invited to Com ' petp, , fine The 18th December is n ow spo!ten . of for the Congress to receive the report of the Commissioners. The French Government has resolved on calling out only one half of the recruits fo:- the army that wm.e voted. In Brussels the nucleus of a Liberal Ministry is evidently forming, no doubt to the disgust of the ultramoc tane party, which has also received a blow in Spain from the assent of the Pope to the sales of Ecclesiastical property, and to other measures very displeasing to the clergy. The Paris Pays publishes letters, dated Rio Janeiro, Oat 2, which ,say that the Brazilian government, by way of a last eff)rt to prevent war with Paraguay, had sent M. Paranhos to the Assumption, but the gene ral opinion at Rio Wll3 that his mission would fail, and in an7,pctrt of thin conjeLeure it is remarked that a ``carps of observation'' has recently been sent to the fcontier under the comm Ind of the Braz!lian G,meral, 5 n Felice. The Piedmontese Game publishes the preliminary decision come to by the great Criminal Court of Salerno on the crew and passengers of the Cagliari. True hills are found agains. e i g h teen o f the prisoners, including the captain and first and st!eond ratites. Eleven more ,are set at liberty, and the ease 3 of one is reserved. No mention is mile of the two English men arrested the crow of the Cagliari. By the arrival of the Nor h Arnorieara here yes terd'Jy, we have later advice's from Canada and the United Sates. Theileancial position of the latter was very ur.favourable TILE fall c,:ir Delhi , must have changed the whole position of affairs in India, in a military point of view. The first grand mistake on our side was attempting .to act on the offensive. At the onset of the mutiny the whole of the British forces should have seen concentrated on those points which were of paramount importance. Following this course could not have led to greater disasters than the distributing of British troops in small parties over the face of a country infested by large bodies of armed men and a disaffected population. The capture of Delhi will, however, force us to adopt defensive operations. The force which carried the citadel of the mutineers can do no more than hold their own. To divide such a small army may lead to a catastrophe such as that which befell our troops under GenFral ELPIIINSTONE at Cabul. The main body o f th e enem y, h a ving made good their retreat from Delhi, will, in all probability, re-collect their scattered strength, and re-appear I in formidable numbers before their lost fortress, or as reinforcements to those large bodies of Sepoys who hold the field in the face of the British troops in other directions. The arrival .of.succour from England will not have been sufficiently large to prevent this, or afford any material relief before the departure of the next mail we are to receive from India. Our last despatches gave us little of a reliable character with respect to the actual state of affairs at Lucknow. The moTements of General HAVELOCK'S column can scarcely furnish us with any hopes regarding definite results. Not having sufficient force to make a decisive blow, he kas been compelled to keep hovering about the enemy, and attacking, at imminent risk, all those points where any concentration of strength was likely to be attempted. This is the duty assigned to a a flying column such as he commands, and he, and his gallant troops, have most nobly per formed the work entrusted to them; but his success supplies, as we have before observed, no grounds for expecting an immediate triumph. Large bodies of troops will be 'required not only to follow up the blows which have been struck, but to told many millions of turbulent people in subjection. To this costly necessity there are the dangers of famine to be added and guarded against without loss of time. The crops of India are known to have suffered from neglect and the ravages of intestine war ; and as the utter extermination of the native popu tation can never enter into British policy in Asia, where the evils of scarcity carry off millions of human beings, gives this portion of our Indian embarrassments fearful interest. It is, in fact, the paramount question of the day. No one can suppose that the British army will be worsted in such an uneven contest. But warfare in that part of the world brings with it appalling consequences to the innocent as well as the guilty. The incalculable treasures which fill the mar ble mosques and tombs of Pagan prophets and princes only serve, on such occasions, to swell the solemn mockery of the works of darkness, and excite the worst passions of the impatient cniqueror; and it were well for the peace of Christendom and the wretched idolators of India that, these temples of superstition and incentives to bloodshed were swept at once from the face of the earth. We have no wish to offer •` dusty ' morals to the martial mind ;" but as long as mil ' lions of riches remain to be captured, there will be no lack of captors. England desires the subju gation and peaceable possession of the Indian Peninsula. Away, then, with the inducements to rebellion, and the obvious cause of incessant bloodshed. If India is to be subjugated, she must be deprived of that wealth which her people look to as a means of regaining the sove reign control of that country. The native princes must first be impoverished, then subju gated, and next Christianised. This is the work before us ; not the mere suppression of a revolt. We have a deeper stake in India than the gaining of sanguinary victories. We want its produce, its trade, and unbroken communication 1 1 1b d P tli;ntr a ran dad 13r pi t and preserving peace in those directions where we seek them. This, unhappily, cannot be looked for under existing circumstances ; but the prolonged duration of the circumstances now pending, induces us to look coolly at what is to be done with that country when the spirit of revolt has been quelled. We are paying a heavy price for its second conquest, and it is not too soon to ask what we are to get for our outlay, in blood and money. We cannot return to our former policy of pampering Paganism one day, and submitting to its massacres, and punishing its victims the next If we are to have Holy wars, let Christian mode ration and wisdom direct our steps. A military occupation of India, with any other object than forcing our creed and laws on its Pagan inhabi tants, is impracticable. It would swamp the physical and fiscal powers of any two European empires. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S coming statement will give us an inkling of knowledge as to what the burden of such an undertaking would be. We can no longer place confidence in native troops, No sys em of mili tary organisation will eradicate religious fana ticism or heathen superstition from the ranks. The question is not then, bow are we to suppress the present spirit of revolt, but how is British India to be held and governed henceforth ? Is the whole burden to be thrown on our exchequer ? impossiblel Is the India house to be swept away, and the thousand of unoffnading annui tants, who look to it for their daily bread in return for the money lent to it for the purposes of the empire, in perfect good faith, to be left t 3 starve ! Is the enormous debt of the India house to be added to the debt of this nation ? These are points which are beginning to force themselves on the people of England, and to take up the place of ,all anxiety with regard to the results of the armed contest now raging. We canna`, however, help thinking that a great deal of bloodshed might have been spared by pur suing, at the onset of the conflict, a strictly defensive line of action ; and we shall have good cause to be thankful if the capture of Delhi does not prove to have been premature. MANY of the Tory candidates for municipal honours at the late election declared themselves in favour of Liberal men and measures. That, although, nominally Tories, yet, in the Council, they were prepared to ignore politics altogether. That these declarations, so often and earnestly repeated, had the effect of gaining for them many Liberal votes, and securing the neutrality of many more, cannot be doubted, How these solemn promises will be redeemed, a very short time will suffice to show. For our own parts, we accept them as mere electioneering , claptraps, resorted to for the purpose of securing their election, and nothing more. However, Monday next will test the sincerity or otherwise of those who laid claim to so much liberality and independence. The election for Mayor will prove how far faction is yet to remain in the ascendant in our Town Council. It is generally understood that the choice will fall on one of two members — Mr. WILLIAM PRESTON, a moderate Liberal, or Mr. JAMES HOLME, a staunch Tory, That the Tories are in a majority is certain enough, and If they adhere to their former exclusive policy there can be little doubt as to Mr. JAMES HOLME'S election. If, however, the fittest man, and the one having primary claims on the suffrages of the Council, is to be the first Magistrate, in common fairness, then, Mr. PRESTON ought to be, and will be the man, if the Council act justly, and the Conservative Members, who are not under the domination of a clique, give their votes independently. Will they do so ? that is the point. The antecedents of both gentlemen are such as to require no comment from us; both are wealthy ; both are respectable citizens ; and, in many respects, may be equally eligible for the office, but in others there is a marked difference between them. One, as we have already observed, has always been a consistent friend of rational Reform— both local and national. He has advocated economy and retrenchment in our prodigal municipality ; he has been the opponent of all jobs ; and of none, more so, than that monster scheme—the Pike. From first to last he has been the uncompromising opponent of that scandalous piece of jugglery. Commanding, as he does, a princely fortune, and a bountiful liberality, there can be no risk that the dignity of the Civic Chair would be jeopardised if occupied by Alderman PRESTON, or that the hospitalities of the Town Hall would suffer in comparison with that of any preceding Mayorality. But Mr. PRESTON'S claims to the honour of Mayor are of a character which the Council cannot resist, unless they have recourse to a positive breach of faith, and repudiate promises distinctly made twelve months' ago, when an express understand ing was come to, by men of all parties, that no opposition would be offered to his election this year. Is that arrangement now to be set aside ? We hope, for the honour of the town, it will not. All who know Mr. JAMES HOLME in his private capacity, esteem him—we might, with justice say, love him. But Mr. JAMES HOLME, of Mount Pldasant, and Mr. JAMES HoLmE, of the Town Hall, are very different persons. In the one, we recognise the worthy father of a worthy family, a good husband, a good citizen, and a truly honest man, according to the general _.L . .t_ In the other, these enobling virtues are As „ a public man, Mr. HOLME has identified himself with measures too numerous for us to enter into in detail; we shall only deal with one—The great Water Abomination. No doubt, many of the most esteemed and enlightened men in our community were, unfortunately, influenced to become advo cates of the Pike. But why ? Their advocacy was the result of that want of practical experience which Mr. lIoLmE declared he was capable of furnishing, and in the faith of his oft-repeated and emphatic statements in favour of the scheme many were induced to support it, who, otherwise, might have held aloof. In fact, it is undeniable, that to the exertions of Mr. JAMES HOLME and his brother, the Inhabitants of Liverpool are mainly indebted for the resul's. IL is rather too late in the day, now, for Mr. llourE to come before the public and make his confession " that he has been deceived in the cost of the scheme, in the time of its completion, and, worse than all, in the quality of the water." No doubt, Mr. Hor.mE fully acknowledges the deception practised upon him, but, unfortunately, through his mistaken obstinacy the public have been made to suffer ; and, as yet, he has evinced no very great desire to repair the damage he has wrought. It is, no doubt, very right and proper for those who commit wrong to make a fair and honest confession of the same before they are made to pay the penalty, and it would appear to be a recognised fact, that a lugubrious acknow ledgement of guilt absolves its perpetrator from a very large share of public reprobation ; and, although, Mr. HOLME may claim credit for purity of motives, and give proof of this by a confession of wrong, yet we cannot possibly forget the past so very readily, as to desire to see the individual who has been mainly instrumental in expending a million and a quarter of the public money, on a job which he himself admits to be an abortion, raised to the civic chair, until such time at least, as he has given some tangible, some practical proof of his willingness to relieve the towu from that incubus which he has been mainly instrumental in inflicting upon it. It must be borne in mind that Mr. HoLmE's brother filled the civic chair very recently— Surely all the municipal honours ought not to be monopolised by the one family, at least so rapidly. In another year the Council will no doubt recog nise Mr. TloLms's claims on higher grounds than his being a mere Tory—for the present they will best consult their dignity and independence, and prove their sense of justice and honour, by re deeming their pledges and placing one of the most worthy and enlightened citizens, in this or any other community, irrespective of political consideration in the civic chair on Monday. THE LATE JOHN FINCH, ESQUIRE. The body of our townsman JOIIN FINCEI, cannot be allowed to sink into the grave without some ' notice from us, for he was a man to whom not only the Liberal party, but the town at large, owe no small debt of gratitude. . For the last ten years Mr. FINCH has been one of the most energetic workers on the liberal side ; quietly and unobtrusively has he worked for the spread of every opinion by which his fellow townsmen might be benefitted, by which their political power might be increased, their burthens lightened, or their happiness secured. His purse has been ever open to the call of all who had the prosperity of the lower classes at heart, or who were labouring for the welfare of his fellow citizen s. We need hardly recall to our readers, the part which he took in the later portion of the struggle I for the parliamentary franchise we enjoy, the Muni cipal Reform Bill, under which we have so lately exercised our rights, or the civil and religious freedom which has preserved us from internecine strife. Whenever the cry of Reform, Progress , liberty of conscience or purity of election, has been sounded, JOHN FiNew has responded to the call. We speak with much connaissance de cause when we say that even in the heat of contested election, his voice has ever been successfully raised against every deseription of illegal action, of corruption, treating, or bribery, and the high reputation for purity, which the Liberal party enjoy is, i❑ no small degree, owing to the calm but resolute firmness of JOHN FINCH ; He had too high a reverence for freedom of conscience, for Liberal opinions and Radical principles, to allow those principles to win the day by other than the very fairest and purest means; and "many a time, and oft" has the expression of his quiet and decided opinions checked the younger and more arduous,but not more sincere members of his party, when the slightest dereliction from the highest line of action was contemplated. JOHN FINCH was not a finished orator, and he spoke but seldom, bait when he did speak, it was to the point; firm, simple, and straightforward ; and he invariably carried his audience with him, for Eng lish audiences may often be led away by rhetoric ; but they never fail to recognise and appreciate the man who speaks from his heart ; this JOHN FINCH ever did—as a writer, he was very successful, many of the remarkable election articles were from his pen, and not a few valuable contributions to the Local Press, on other subjects were written in his spare moments, But it is not from the Liberal Party alone that we claim feelings of gratitude to the man, and of re" gret at his loss ; he has been snatched away from among us, while he was as ever devoting himself to the cause of the people of this town at large. But a few days ago, the Recreative Society opened its beautiful Concert-room, the rival of flaring gin p daces, and sottish beer-shops. JOHN FINCH has not lived to see the success of a schema of which he has been the warmest supporter, of a society of Whenever any idea was started, which seemed to his sapient and well balanced mind likely to be beneficial ; whenever any question arose, which was p:egnant with the seeds of good, to the lower orders of his fellow townsmen, his purse, and what was far more valuable, his time, gaol advice, and sage council, were at the service of the public. He was a "Liberal" in the highest sense of the term, enlightened, devoted to his fellow citizens, generous and tolerant; he was a " Gentleman" in the full meaning of the word, single-minded, straightforward, honest, pure, and independent. Of such citizens, no city has too many ; of such men, no community can spare one, even when called to a higher sphere, without feelings of deep heartfelt regret. Of JOHN FINCH'S private life we cannot trust ourselves to speak ; the blank he leaves is not a small one; the grief which we who have known him well, who have worked with him in public, counselled with him in private, benefited by his honest advice, and loved his true and simple nature, is not for the public eye. This much we have written, for it was due to the memory of a good Liberal, and an honest true hearted man. LIVERP3OL DCCKS t►. BIRKENHEAD —An import ant conference was held yesterday in Manchester between some representatives of the Great Western Railway Company, the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, and Commercial Association. Among those present were H. Littledale, Esq and John Laird, Esq. of Liverpool. The object of the meet ing was to consider what steps should be taken in the event of the Liverpool Dock Authorities going to Parliament, for powers to enter upon new docks on the Liverpool side of the Mersey. A series of resolutions was adopted, and it was unanimously agreed that, in the event of any application being made, the strongest opposi• tion should be off: red until the Birkenhead Docks have been completed. A report of the proceedings will be found in another part of our paper. THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE JOHN FINCH, ESQ —A. few of the private and political friends of the late John Finch, Eig are desirous of paying respect to his memory by following his remains from the Landing St IL e to the place of interment, at the Ancient Chapel, Toxteth-park, near the Dingle. For this purpose they will meet the Rock Ferry steamer, at the Landing Stage, this (Thursday) morning, the sth inst., at 10 a.m. THE DIVORCE Am—A. memorial to the Queen, of which the following are the chief portions, has been com posed, and has already received the signatures of more than a hundred of the clergy of the Church of England, and of others :--The undersigned would humbly represent to your Majesty that there is great reason to conclude that the provisions of the Act 13 and 14, car. If, c. 4, commonly called the Act of Uniformity, could not have been present to the mind of the Legislature at the time of passing the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act. which, without referring to the said Act of Uniformity, does, neverthele3s, contain provisions at variance, and in con flict, with the said Act. For the book of Common Prayer, and therein the form of solemnisation of matri mony, as settled at the last revision, A D• 1661, unani mously subsceibed by both Houses of Convocation of both provinces, December 20, 1661, and made to be the law of the land in and by the said Act of Lnifurmity, contains a prayer in' which are foun3 the words follow ing; 0 G o d, v th o lby Tily , mighty power haat made all things of nothing ; Who also (after other things se TO° order) didst appoint that out of man (created after own image and similitude) woman should take her begiu; sing; and knitting them together, didst teach lo os s 1 it should never be lawful to put asunder those 10 Thou by matrimony hadst made one ;" with dia°rse other declarations and expressions to they Ow effect ; more especially the prohibitory words, 112°s; whom Gad has joined together let no ma ll asunder." The ;undersigned would humb l y rePtc sent to your Majesty that if the principle o f repeall.o.l! any material portion of the said Act of Unifo rmity is ct , o rectly and by implication be once admitted , the Plaihe meaning of the Prayer Book may bo nullified , an d , i t o , express directions which it contains imperceptibly gjit gated —in so far as the statutablo obligation of these be. concerned—and that fundamental alterations may thereby effected in the relations of the Church to the S tli without the attention of laity or clergy having be rs ,, awakened to the legislative process by which such alt e ' b tions shall have been effected. That the Unit ed Churere, is disunited, in respect of a material point, by the af d said act, Inasmuch as in Ireland marriage remains soluble by the general law, while in Eng land it has b ec°- ..1 dissoluble. That the said Divorce and „or Causes Act cannot come into operation except uP(:",,,,, after, the Ist day of January, 1853, by your Itsjel'hilf Order in Council. The undersigned, therefore, h ull:l : t i t plea se' , 0 pray that your 'Majesty will be graciously withhold such Order in Council, until time shall ha v e l l e d Mateo:01" given for Parlianamat to amend the said Divorc e — OO , Matrimonial Causes Act, that the confusion an d o , ' venience and scandal which must arise from a state law contradictory to itself may be avoided. _ n THE BALLOT Is AmEarca.—At the meeting w Ballot Society, on Tuesday night, the following le tte , r f 1 ;°1 read from the Hon. Wm. Beach Laurence, late O e '; 1 11 84t of Rhode Island, U.S. :—Though the constitution e l ;rs required the voting to be by ballot for all state to and representatives to Congress, and even fa r officers, when demanded by seven voters, this Pr °l ,l - , i i° l till 1851, was evaded by a law which made it ne ee Tfes that the Christian and surname of thi elector s lOl- 2 0 written on the back of his vote. In 1851 the detnaCti partylhaving for the firstitime in a series of year e if gl the ascendancy, a new election law was passed . " aa l I act omitted the indorsement of the voter's name , all e - h e the same time adopted the self sealing envelop ) I v recently introduced into Massaehusetts and of whie b i - o er Walker has given y a full account. The ne xt t he, however, the opponents of the democracy, then cail e % or Whigs, but who have since rallied under the 1 13a1e ,.e/r Know-Nothings and Republicans, modified the t- o, so as to make the use of the envelope only aP ti° l n t st Rhode Island is in territorial extent the stliaAel State of the Union, and its population in 1850 ere' not exceed 150,0)0. The right of suffrage is e restricted with us than in most of our sister states , /1 ": 5 it is, in general, universal. Here all naturalised olt W e; unless they are freeho:ders, are excluded, and itir° ll , ° t t§ citizens, of full age, are required either to be iree° ° " - : 0 1 or to be registered three months prior to the election' ; 1 0, to pay in default of a tax oa property, a registering of one dollar. The distinction between the qualifioati:jr of nature and naturalised citizens is peculiar to ° e st Island. Of late years, 18a,00 votes have been the ler 'tes number taken at a general election. The voting i g two cities and thirty other towns into which the St a ;lit divided. The cities, moreover, are subdivided int o °- Olt and the large towas into voting distt iets, in each of °lel, a poll is held, so that the number of voters seldom e ° list 500 or COO at any one poll, and in some of th e o°1" 4o • towns the electors are less than 100. As this i 3 masts facturing state, the corporations and large P r ' the ir capitalists exercised great iuflaeace over thr c . employ, and by them the elections were ordinarily s ib trolled. Indeed, as the registry tax was not usugillitricsi by the individual, but by his employer or the Pal:'esi party, it began to be considered that there was a ,r 4 th e obligation on the part of the poor elector, to vote '" the person who had qualification might prescribe, and °g o er name was written on the back, it was always in the g! of any one who desired it, to ascertain how a /e t , e ,agr given, and to punish any rioiatioa of the implied I ) `` the ' To counteract the supervision of the masters I°s too vi envelope ~,A c tioo ' our brief oilt 4 , 1 1st did not prove a pe r f e ct P r ", — ; Those who had contracted for a vo t e we re in u , ll , c 4 adopt additional precautions to sec ure it ; while : rll ll O times happened that the very s ecresy o f the ball a means for effecting fraud an d caus i n g s a I f v..- b 4 deposit a ballot different from th e one that ael-fl ee intended. Some of these defects a l on ger e%P er/ lf would. undoubtelly, have remelted ; a n d m ach, is be all of the independence of the voter, h as been elff.t,et-loOe' our law of 1851, notwith s t an li ng t h e m odal' 0 ft° of 1852. Our optional se cre t b a ll ot d i ffers '- 11 ur the old system, and f rom v i va yore voting* 1 0 now generally practicabl e f or a voter to 00 04- vote, and there are, I think, few cases, in wi ll ' tbo known, where it would n o t h ave b een easy ferti having an interest in so doi ng , t o have as eer f fi ti 'll eg it Yor 1 with a compulsory en ve l o p e . Th e f 13 privately islarge also gre ttee in constitueneies t-Srl ete f our very limited communities. In New York , 4 r h ' e. the l i was born and passed the grea t er part o f DIY s envelope re has never been intr o d uce d ; b a t the ball °- :0 1 ' required to b 3 S.) folded as t their Notwithstanding the de v i ces of different'-i coloured P;Pee• there never was, as far as I am inf orme d, an y di ffie L eluding oef the supervision of oppon en t s , w h en a I ° l ',, f ert desirous from the apprehensi on o f o ff en di ng an Or " f oto or from any other cause, that the character al l , e 0 a most " doe I should not be known. Ind ee d, th oug h ost ea „:lO t everyone to advocate of the p r i v il ege f or e vote V being accountable only to hi , conscience, it 15 0 e Ci P candour for me to state that I never a tt ac h e d ens 5 0 atie ll importance r to the M tssac h use tt s envelope systea I have considered as a m eans . b u t not the on ly jod e, ensuring to every voter the exercise of a free and pendent suffrage." f sSi IN LTG UATION OF THE QUE rN' S COLLEOIL"'"' S O f prevent considerable disappoint me nt if the 101cle :0 08 . tickets of admission to th e ceremon i es , w hich ta ke- 0 d 1 th e av nt e h_ tiseLiverpool Isstitate to-d a y, wou ld obs er ' „ ll ment which appears in our columns ' l° 2 Id subject. It will be se en th ere that th e nu mbers ni r r gl on the tickets do not re f er t o correspon di n g 0113 b - 11 the seats in the lee: ure hall. The seats in the ",00 1 " not be reserved, b u t w ill be filled up as par ties P%,01i themselves for admi ss i on . The necessity f or attendance is therefore apparent. ARRIVAL OF LORD BRouGHA IN Ar LIVERPOOL. Lord Brougham arrived in Liverp3o - . by the tvit ie tpr osi' reached the Lime-street s t a ti on a t 3 . 23 p.m 11 Y es— 6 °' r. William Br own , M.P., Mr. C. 0 A number of other gentleme n , were in w Ewer , aiting to recd 0.130° lordship. A large Crowd gradually gathered, 03 the the train lett the tunnel aud began to aPP r° , 3 a e r tlief station, a rush was made towards the spot ~land carriages were expected to stop. Mr. Brown en . f . Ewart had no slight difficulty in pushing thel s ' irb ell up to the carriage in which Lord Brougham s at. ' V et ' his lordship appeared he was greeted with a lee d 1138' which he acknowledged by takinoff his hat and b° .: ll With that good taste and politeness whi ell „.. tl ;l>_ characterise British crowds—well-dressed o r ottv` 01;' another rush was made, as if the illustrious visit°o4 s Imething to be scrambled for, and it was ° 11 ele" ZO' exertion that Lord B roug h am an d Mr. Brown la tte r way across the station to the carriage of t h „_ e gentleman. whi c h was i n waiting. They did, n ee- d at last, succeed in reac hi ng th e * carr i a ge, the c retg o rfe r the while rushing and hustling roun d them in a dir which would, p ro b a bl y , have been e xtrem e , ls : an 4 composing to one k ss accus t o med to popular l* et ) its occasional inc onven i ences , th a n his lordship' if° Lord Brougham t oo k hi s sea t i n the carriage, " l to th again loudly cheered. The carriage drove ° if to b e* residence of Mr. Brown, where his lordship ifleroopio guest during his stay in Liverpool. [The c er co lleg e in which celebrate the inauguration of the Quee n's Ord Br Liverpool, and of which an a d3ress fr°3 l at on Brougham will be the leading feature, take P lac* -, 1 o'clock to day, in,the hall of the Liverpool lastitary A NLEG By trim -44 AND 1 114. Prussian 4 ?ri k l sne d the Ith poities. 1311 13 i 1 % 41 411 00 w n siderabi ent, entel AT/O: ett Y TO