Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-27 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. [By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.] THE PRINCE CONSORT. The Gazette of last evening publishes the new title conferred upon Prince Albert, and also con tains a notice directing the necessary alterations In the Liturgy, by substituting the words " the Prince Consort," instead of the words " the Prince Albert." ITALY. The Pope is still at Bologne. The 10th anni versary of his accession to the Pontificial Throne has been celebrated in the midst of an immense concourse of people. FRANCE. The Paris Three per Cents closed yesterday (Friday), at 68f. 20e. BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS Yesterday morning the Board of Trade returns for the month, and the five months ending the 31st May, 1857, were issued. We subjoin a state ment of the total declared value of the exports of British and Irish produce and manufactures during the mon►h and five months, including only the " enumerated articles" : For the month. For five months. 1855 ...... 7,479,483 1856 1857 Including the " unenumerated articles," the aggregate exports stand thus : For the month. For five months. 1855 1856 1857 .... . 11,382,204 ROUX v. CARDINAL WISBAIAN. The 'Court 'of Queen's Bench decided (yesterday) Friday morning, that the defendant upon the evidence was entitled to a new trial, but it must be on payment of costs. MERCANTILE MARINE. Yesterday (Friday) afternoon, a public meeting of ship owners, merchants, mariners, and engineers of the port of London was held at the London Tavern, to take into consideration certain matters connected with the Mer chant Shipping Act, arising from the unjust operation of some of its clauses. BANKRUPTS. Joseph Self, Stanhope-street, builder. Thomas Hawkes, Dudley, glass manufacturer; Liverpool, merchant ; Garston, Lancashire, salt manufacturer ; and Paddington. George Arthur Smith, late of Peterborough and Warring ton ; then of Bacup, Lancashire; afterwards of the Isle of Man ; next of Lancaster; and now of Charil-street. Bedford-row, brickmaker and tile maker. Richard Smith, Salehurst, near Hurst-green, and of Sedlescombe, near Battle, butcher. William Henry Flux, Heston, Middlesex, grocer. Frederick Hollick, Flowers-terrace, Bow, and of Old Ford, Middlesex, chemical colour manufacturer and manufacturing chemist. William Downes, Great Dover-street, Newington, smith. George Archy, Great Clacton, Essex, seed merchant. George Henry Martin, Cowcross-street, City, and Cam bridge-terrace, and Dalston, tallow-chandler: Richard Rowlinson, Liverpool, shipowner; Granville Scott Walton, Wolverhampton, factor and iron monger. William Audnev, Newcastle-under-Lyne, auctioneer. David Arthur Singer, Oxford-street, tailor and draper. James Cook, late of Queen-Street, Cheapside, boarding house-keeper; and now of Peckham. Morris Moss, Somers-place, New-road, coach-broker. Leah Isaacs, Piccadilly, cigar-dealer and tobacconist. Charles Thomas Moon, Regent-street, Westminster, book seller and stationer; also of Rupert-street, Haymarket, coffee and eatinghouse-keeper ; and Green-street, Gros venor-square, child-bed linen warehouseman. John Burton, Manchester, salt manufacture-. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE WINCHESTER RAC E S. - YESTERDAY, HAMPSHIRE STAKES. Vulcan 1 I Lawn.,....... .2 I Shirah Seven ran. Won by half-a-length. Dupe, Tame Deer, and Paula Monti paid forfeit. GRANGE PARK :ITAKES. . 0 I My Niece........ 0 1 Duchess They divide SWEEPSTAKES. .1 1 Vestige.. Seven ran. MEMBERS' PLATE. York... Huntington 1 I Blue Bell I Little Rabin... QUEENS' GUINEAS. Fisherman 1 I Freight.... Four ran. Benefit... CIIRRAGH RACES. -YESTERDAY -...ESTERDAY OAKS STAKES. Agitation. .. QUEENS' PLATT. 1 Lanky 13.4 • STEWARDS' STAKES. •••• Queen . A SCENE IN THE BANK OF IRELAND. A man presenting the appearance of a respectable tradesman, but with a wild uncollected manner, and a face which had been unshorn for days, was charged at College street Police Office. under the following circumstances : A porter in the Bank of Ireland, named Canterbury, deposed that on that day, between twelve and one o'clock, the prisoner entered the cash-office, and was seen stand ing for some time almost motionless. He then went over to . one of the tellers and asked him for money, but, on being told that he had no authority to give him any, the prisoner became very violent, and said he should have it by some , means or oth er .- H e exc laimed that he supposed they would not mind losing a few lives there," and a long le& hern staff was for the first time noticed with him, which, when witness went over for the purpose of removing him, he drew the top off, and disclosed a sharp and dangerous-looking weapon some inches in length, fastened into the staff, which he held after the manner of a demi-pike, and presented at all who came near him, declaring that he would have their lives. He struck witness in the chest with the butt end, and knocked him backwards. Police constable 182 B , deposed that ho was nailed upon by one of the clerks in the Bank, and went over with the object of endeavouring to get the prisoner out or to take the weapon from him, but the latter pre sented it determinedly at him, and threatened to have his life. Ultimately Mr. Roberts , chief of the transfer department, got behind him and caught hold of the weapon, which was then wrenched out of his hand. Upon finding this instrument lost to him, he pulled out a large stone which was also secured, and on being taken to the station-house and searched, another weapon, resembl ing a dagger, was found upon him. The blades of both these instruments consisted of files ground at one end to a thin edge, to which the sharpness of a razor was ultimately given. The prisoner, being called on for his defence, answered slowly, but in a manner which showed he must have been originally a man of considerable information, that an underhand falsified world, which professed to be guided and governed by the maxims of God, without in reality being so, had combined against him for nothing more than being an adherent of the simple unaffected, and single-minded laws of God, and he had been obliged to take up weapons in defence of his own existence. He had nothing to live by but his hand labour, and if persons were so prejudiced that they would not give him any, what was he to do ?—he could not lie down and die. He followed an humble business, and lived in Townsend Street, but declined to tell the number or his own name : was afraid there was no one that would go ball for him. He was remanded until the arrival of Dr. Ireland, when he was committed to prison at a dangerous lunatic,—Dublin Evening Mail! FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE., FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The official numbering of the votes for Paris took place at the Hotel de Vile this morning; the numbers do not show any very material variation from those already published. Indeed, there is hardly anything more to be said on the subject. There is no further uncertainty about the pro vinces ; the returns that come in show that the Government has it all its own way, or nearly so and the mortification caused at first by the success of the two or three Opposition candidates has given place, if we are to take the words of official people for it, to great satis faction. Six electoral "colleges" will have to be again convoked in 15 days--three in Paris, one in Mayence, t one in the Somme, and one in the Maine-et-Loire, where the " absolute majority" has not been obtained, but in three of these the contest will be between Conservative candidates. M. Garnier-Pages transfers the votes he has re ceived to his Democratic opponent, M. 011iveir in the fourth district of Paris; and M. Bastide with draws in favour of M. Darimen. The united votes of the former are still 143 lower than thos3 given for the Government candidate, and nothing will be left undone to make up the difference, with what succes remains to be seen. In the seventh the united votes are still 136 under the official candidate ; and General Cavaignac, in the third district, hopes to keep the advantage he has acquired. It is im possible to say how these will turn. In the mean time it has been intimated to the Ministerial press to be very moderate in their language when noticing the second elections ; and to avoid every thing likely to excite au angry feeling. The following are the official results of the remaining elections, the only place still to be decided being Corsica, in which place the electoral proceedings will take place on Sunday : Government Opposition. Departments. Candidates Candidates. Ariege . . 2 0 Aveyron _ 2 0 Crewe ... 2 0 D cubs (2d district) ... .. 1 0 Haute-Garonne (Ist district) 1 0 Landes (2d district) ... 1 0 Lozere ... ... • - 1 0 31.orbihan (3d district) ... 1 0 Nord (2d district) 0 1 (? Oise 3 0 Pas-de-Calais (sth district) 1 0 Basses. Pyrenees (2d and 3d district) ... ... ~ 2 0 Saone-et-Loire (2d and 3d district) .. .. .. 2 0 The French Academy has just elected M. de Montalembert its director for the ensuing. year. The Academicians have shown better taste and a superior appreciation of talent than the electors of the D 04,105. M de Fallow has also been elected Chancellor of the Academy A private letter from Athens, of the 17th inst., mentions as probable the nomination of General Kalergi to the post of Minister Plenipotentiary to Paris. It states, that the King of Bavaria, during his stay in the French capital, intimated his desire to see the General, whose strong anti-Bavarian opinions are known, removed to some distance from Athens, on the ground of his being dangerous. His Majesty was informed that the General had been assured a quiet and undis turbed residence in the Greek capital, on condition that he should do nothing to offend the Govern ment ; that he had done nothing ; and that a forcible removal from Athens, merely because of his linown attachment to the policy of the Western Powers during the war with Russia, would not be viewed with satisfaction in France. If, how ever, his presence in that city, inoffensive as it might be, was obnoxious to high personages, King litho might attain his object by sending him to kParis as representative of Greece. The letter adds : The Camarillas took the matter into consideration, and, though with some repugnance, accepted it. Something has been said about an amends honourable required from the General, but which he declined to give. It is expected that the appointment will appear immediately after the departure of the Queen from Germany in the early part of next mouth. The question of the succession to the throne of Greece will be negotiated by the Queen during her stay in Germany. General Tcheffkine, Director-General of Roads and Highways in the Russian Empire, has arrived in Paris on a special mission. A letter from Leghorn, of the itith instant, in forms us that after the celebrated seizure of the ninety-eighty muskets, so pompously announced in the Tuscan Monitor, usually so discreet on every matter which affects the country of which it is the sole political organ, the police propa gated every species of absurd report. Everybody laughed on reading the article in the Monitor, but the government agents gravely replied that when the facts became known they would be found to afford no matter for laughing. Nevertheless, the arrests are confined to a few of the dregs of the population and the domiciliary visits paid at Pisa, Leghorn, and Florence produced no discovery but that of some unimportant letters forwarded to cer tain suspected individuals through the post.offiee. Still, reports were circulated that public tranquillity were seriously menaced. The troops were confined to their barracks, and the goldsmiths and other wealthy shopkeepers were cautioned to he on their guard. A police agent even told a friend, under the promise of secrecy, that ho had burnt all his papers, fearing a revolution for the following day. At the same time a tragedy was permitted to be performed at the Theatre of Leghorn : in which an actress exclaims " Viva la Republica , ' ' which was loudly cheered by the audience, while the word liberty is not permitted to be pronounced in the celebrated duo of the Puritani, but is altered to loyalty. All these facts have convinced the population of Leghorn that the reports of an insurrection were circulated by the police agents to consolidate the miniW.ry of Signor Landucci, and to cause foreign nations to believe that Tuscany is too much agitated to merit a reform. The inhabitants of Leghorn are the more impressed with this belief, inasmuch as the events above-mentioned took place in the absence of the Grand Duke and of Signor Baldasseroni. The results of the disastrous accident at the theatre of Leghorn are more lamentable than were announ ced. There are 106 dead and about 300 wounded. SWEDEN The Offici . il Gazette of Stockholm, of the 18th, publishes three bills presented by the government to the Diet—one of which enacts that people may abandon the religion of the State to embrace another, that new religious communities may be formed with the sanction of the King, and that believers of any creed may meet freely for the exercise of worship ; another abolishes banishment as a punishment for crime. an.l the third fixes the age at which unmarried females attain their ma jority at 25. DENMARK A letter from Copenhagen, of the 21st, states that the Danish government, in compliance with the wishes of several foreign governments, and especially those of England and Fral;)ce, has resolved to reduce the exhorbitant import duties (they are larger than in any other country of Europe) which it has heretofore imposed on cotton, woollen, and silk fabrics, porcelain, glass, spirits, wines, hardware, and other manufactured productions ; and that it has for that purpose nominated a commission consisting of merchants, manufacturers, and government functionaries to revise the tariffs. Along the Great Southern and Western Railway from Dublin to Cork, a distance of 165 miles, the grass of the embankments and ditches on each side has been sold by contract to various persons, at the average rate of about £5 per mile, yealding a clear profitable income to the company of nearly £l,OOO IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. :By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.) HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. The House met at five o'clock. ROYAL ASSENT. The Royal assent was given by commission to several bills, the number including the Princess Rual's Annuity Bill, the Cinque Ports Acts Amendment Bill, the T ans portation and Penal Servitude Bill, and the Inverness and Nairn Railway Bill. THE OIIDE QUESTION. The Earl of ALBEMARLE gave notice, that on that day week he should lay on the table a petition from the King and Royal family of Oude, complaining of the treatment they had received from the Government of the East India Company, and praying for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into their grievance. SCRIPTURE READING IN IRELAND. LOTd DUNGANNON drew the attention of the house to the conduct of certain justices acting in the City of Kilkenny, and move for a select committee to inquire into and 7e port upon the subject. He charged the jutices to whom his motion alluded, with having acte 1 with partiality in only inflicting a fine of sixpence uponA, person who was convicted of assaulting scripture readers in Kilkenny, and stated that Mr. Smth wick, one of the msgistr .tes, had censured the constables for acting against their religion in taking the man into custody. Earl GRANVILLE in reply, stated that Mr. Smithwick had denied that he had used the words attributed to him He saw no necessity for the appointment of a committee of inquiry. _ _ _ The Earl of DERBY said it appeared to him the govern ment had not given that attention to the subject which it deserved. He thought the noble lord quite justified in bringing forward the matter before their lordships, though he did not think that a select committee should be appointed to investigate the charge contained in the petition. The motion was then withdrawn. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN INDIA. Tne Earl of ALBEMARLE presented a petition from mer chants, planters, and other inhabitants of Lower Bengal, from the inhabitants of Calcutta, and from the inhabitants of provinces and the capital of Bengal, against the jurisdic tion of the East India Company courts over the British people. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE and the Duke of ARGYLE having offered some remarks, the petition was ordered to lie upon the table. MINISTERS' MONEY (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion for the third reading of the Ministers' Money (Ireland) Bill, The Earl CLANCARTY moved that it be read a third time that day six months. He regretted the course taken by the Earl of Derby in relation to the Bill, and denied tha t the tax inflicted an injustice upon Roman Catholics. The Earl of DERBY did not think it necessary to repeat the reasons which he had given the other night for the course he had taken iu regard to the bill—that course had received the approval of the most reverend prelates of al` Ireland. (Cries of hear, hear.) After a few words from Lord DUNGANNON, in denuncia tion of the bill, The House divided— Contents Non-contents . . , i Majority The Bill was then read a third time and passed. COURT OF EXCHEQUER (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill was read a Second time. Their Lordships adjourned at half-past eight. HOUSE OF COMMONS —FRIDIY. The SPEAKER t ok the Chair at four o'clock. LAW COMMISSION. In reply to Mr. TiloMAnoN, Sir Jowl PAKINGION said that the Common Law Com mission was now considering its report, and he believed that it would be pre , ented before the end of this session. SCOTCH LUNACY BILL. In answer to Mr. BAXTER, The LORD ADVOCATE said, he proposed to move the second reading of the Scotch Lunacy Bill on Monday week. LAND TAX COMMISSIONERS. On the motion for adjoarnment over Ssturday, Mr. W. WILLIA➢MS inquired whether members for Boroughs would have c gull right with County members to recommend persons names to be inserted in the Land Tax Commissioners Bill introduced this session. He had sat in the House for twenty years without learning that County members enjoytd privileges not possessel by Borough members, and if the distinction continued to be drawn, he should oppose the Bill at every stage. Lord PALMERSTON said that the distinction was drawn not arbitrarily, but by an act of Parliament, and the government could not choose, but obey the law. If the hon. gentleman, instead of asking the house to go against the law of the land, world bring in a bill t ) amend the law, he did not know that he should object to such a bill. After some further discussion upon various subjects, the motion was agreed to. PROBATE BILL The ATTORN RY-GENERAL moved the second reading of the Probate and Letters of Administration Bill, which came down from the Upper House, and entered into an explanation of its provisions. The general object of the measure was to establish a General Court of Probate in London ; to consolidate the Admiralty, Marriage and Divorce, and Probate Courts, and to divide the country into districts, which might exercise jurisdiction in cases of property not exceeding the value of £1,500, the London court having jurisdiction in all other cases. There were provisions included allowing compensation to judges whose offices were proposed to be abolished ; but with regard to proctors, the learned gentleman explained that, as it was anticipated that their business would be increased by the abolition of the Prerogative Court, and the general juris diction of the London court, no compensation was proposed to be given to them. Mr. HENLEY approved of the principle of the bill, and seconded the motion. He expressed his satisfaction with the provision asserting the principle of local jurisdiction within a fixed limit. The question of compensation was one of great difficdty, and he recommended it to the calm and fair consideration of the government. Mr. Coutza supported the second reading, though he entertained general objections to details. He objected to the countrybbeing saddled with a new court, which he thought unneoessary and, as provided, inefficient, and advocated the handing over of contentious will cases to common law. Mr. ROLT, as one of the members of the Commission, defended the bill and stated his intention to oppose any proposition that might be made in committee, at variance with the recommendations of the commissioners. Mr. Mums agreed to the bill as a whole, but would reserve to himself the right to oppose it and its details. Some further discussion having tsken place, in which Mr. Walpole, Mr. Keating, Mr. Napier, and other members took part, the bill was read a second time. FRAUDULENT TRUSTEES BILL. The house then went into committee on the Fraudulent Trustess Bill. The first two clau , es were agreed to, with some verbal amendments, when the chairman was ordered to report progress. and the house resumed. VARIOUS BILLS. _ The Crown, &c., Snits Scotland Bill, the Bankruptcy and Real Security Scotland Bill, and the Bill Chamber, Scotland were read a second time. The Hanley Borough Incorporation Bill, and the Con solidated Fund, £8,000,000 bill, were read a third time and passed, The evidence upon Oath, (House of Commons) Bill was withdrawn. PROBATES IN IRELAND. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for Ireland begged leave to bring in bills to amend the law relating to probate, letters of administration in Ireland, to enable ecclesiastical per sons in Ireland to grant building leases of glebe lands in certain cases, to abolish the rate known as the East Keet Wall in Dublin, and make other provisions in lieu thertot The Rouse adjourned at a quarter past one; MERSEY CONSERVANCY AND DOCKS BILL. (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) HOUSE OF CO3.ISIONS—FRIDAY, JUNE 26. The C ,mmittee re-assembled at eleven o'clock ; Sir JAMES GRAsAm in the chair. In reply to Sir James Graham, Mr. SitIITTLEWORTH stated that the amount received for Town Dues on guano in 1856 was £93 131 9cl, the quantity imported being 22,485 tons, and the charge one penny per ton. The first entry of guano appeared in the year 1839. Sir J. GRAHAM asked what was the amount of bonds originally issued on account of the Birkenhead docks ? Mr. SH UTTLEWORT : £1,143,000. Sir J. GRAHAM : Which, of course, is independent of the £lOO,OOO for the north reserve; Mr. Saurimnwo.tTit : Yes. There is an existing con tract for £123,000 fur deepening the great float, and a large sum has been expended on subsisting works. By Mr. PHILLIPS : The bonds are secured on the borough fund generally. I am told that there has been an expenditure of £7,000 for the improvement of the outer walls. Sir J. Graham : What is the corporate bonded debt ? Mr. SituTTLEw qtTli : About £1,400,000. Mr. CALVERT, Q.C., then resumed his address on behalf of the promoters of the bill, in reply to the case of the Corporation. He contended that there was a conflict of interests between the Corporation and the Dock Estate, and that the Dock Trust had suffered to a very great extent, in consequence of its connection with the Corporation. Ho read extracts from the evidence given before the select committee on the Local Charges on Shipping Bill, last year, to prove that in erecting the Landing-stage at George's Pier-head the Dock Trustees hail acted under compulsion from the Cheshire interest, and that if the docks had been under the control of an in dependent board, the c mces.loa would never have been made. The stage itself was not required for promoting the shipping interests of the port. Sir J. GRAHAIL asked what bad been the cost of the Landing-stage. Mr. SEIUTTLENVORTH : It will shortly be completed at a cost to the Corporation, and not the Dock Trust, of £130,000. Mr. CALVERT then adverted to the constitution and powers of the audit commissioners, and complained that the Corporation, in the act of 1825 for altering, the con stitution of the commission, practically took away all the important powers which the commission had previously possessed, by abrogating those owers which were the great check upon the Corporation in earrying out their project with regard to the sales of la•nd. The consequence was this :—When the Act pasted in 1825 the debt of the Dock Trustees amounted to £664,683, ant in 1851 it had increased to £4,638,402, Sir J. GRAHAM : It is now £6,000,000, I believe. Mr, CALVERT said it was, for there there had been a very large increase duriniz the last five years. On referring to the accounts, he found that do vn to 1851, the Trustees had expended .050,00 in the purchase of land, and only £87,390 of that sum appeared to have been expended prior to the year 1825. Theexcuse for exercising the veto in respect of these sales was that therehal bean a mistake in refere❑ce to the right of the land, bat he wished to remind the com• mittee that the veto extended much further, and applied to the mode of assessing the value of the property, as weal as the title to it. The excuse for exercising the veto applied oaly to one part, namely, the right to the property, and did not apply at all to the other. When all the circumstanc s were carefully considered, he thought the committee would agree with him that there had been a conflict of interests between the Corporation and the Dick Trustees, and that the Corporation would never have accumulated the large sum of money which he had just mentioned without having got rid of the power cf the Audit Commissioners in the first instance. There fore, under cover of a bill to explain the powers of the Commissioaers, the Corporation, without informing Parliament what their real object was, repealed all the important powers of the commissioners, conferred upon them by the acts of Anne and George 111., in order to check improprieties on the part of the Corporation. The result had been the enormous expenditure which he had referred to, which had been paid out of the coffers of the Dock Trustees into those of the Corporation, to th advantage of the town and the injury of the port. SIR J. GRAHAM asked by whom the landing-stage was maintained. Mr. CALVERT said it was maintained at the expense of the Dock Trustees. He did not say for a moment that the Cirporatiou had done the smallest injustice to the town of Liverpool, but where the interests of the shipping were opposed to those of the town, the Corporation had studied the advantage of the town to the injury of the shipping. It was a remarkable feet that whenever the Dock Estate proposed to do anything which was calculated to benefit the town, no matter whether it was for the benefit of the shipping or not, the Corporation were never found exercising their veto. The learned counsel then combatted the asertion that the Corporation had made munificent gifts to the port, and pointed out that of these so-called gifts the sum of £935,000 had been expended on streets which were of no earthly benefit to the docks, but only benefited the town. He believed it was necessary that the manage ment of the port should be removed from all local pre judice, and it was hardly to be supposed that Liverpool would care as much for the Cheshire side of the Mersey or for the navigation of the whole of the Mersey as for the Liverpool side. In point of fact, it had already been established that the buoys in the Mersey were not laid down as far as Garston by the Dock Trust, although ships using that part of the river paid Liverpool Town dues. The learned counsel then quoted the evidence of the late Captain Eldridge, with a view of showing that for twenty-eight years Liverpool, for ifs own pecuni try benefit, had deprived the commerce of the country of one of the finest harbours in the whole of the kingdom, aid had subjected the shipping to the dangers of the east side of the river. He then adverted to the sale of land at Bir kenhead, and asked what gentleman in the room would have accepted a fortune on the terms upon which the Corporation sold that land, if they knew that in one parlour they sold the land with power to make docks, in another they were at the very time engrossing a petition to parlia ment against the construction of such docks. After such a flagrant act of dishonesty, could parliament consent to repose in such a body a trust of this immense importance' itSir J. GRAHAM said an hon. member wished to know if there was any distinct allegation in the petition of the Cor poration in reference to the Town Dues ? Mr. CALvnier believed that there was. Mr. TURING, at the request of Sir James Graham, read several passages in which the allegations with respect to title were contained. Mr. CALVERT thought he had now fully established that the Corporation, by meddling with matters which they would have religiously eschewed i❑ a private capa city, had disgraced the body to which they belonged. Looking at the dealings of the Corporation with Birken head since the commencement, seeing that they intro duced in 1856 a plan which was abortive and contemp- tible, and which was rejected by the committee after hearing a single witness ; that they were bound to com merce their works in 1856 and had failed to do so ; that in 1846 they had purchased the land at Birkenhead in order to prevent Mr. Telford's plan from being carried out, and that they kept it in their p issession until the public indignation became too stroll.' for them, and obliged them to sell it ; and that when they did sell it they effected the sale on what amounted to a fraud, which, in a private capacity, they would never have dreamt of. Considering all these things, he thought the com mittee would experience no difficulty in coming at the conclusion that from the beginning of their career in connection with Birkenhead down to the present time, the conduct of the Corporation had been so discreditable that they were not entitled to consideration. He was not sur prised that his learned friend, Mr. Hope Scott, had passed lightly over these matters. His learned friend knew how utterly impossible it was to offer an apology, and that was the real meaning of the attack which had been made upon the Board of Trade. If he had adhered to the evidence, his learned friend knew that he bad an impossible ease, and that the whole conduct of Liverpool in dealing with Birkenhead had been contemptible and abominable. He knew that the com mittee moat judge of the future by the past ; he knew how infamous the conduct of his clients had been, and he knew that the transactions were such that no person in , r. private capacity would have consented to take part in I them. There bad been plenty of talent and genius at Birkenhead, but Liverpool had prevented its develop ment. If Mr. Rendel were present he could tell the committee how be had been thwarted and opposed from year:to year by Liverpool simply to conciliate the abominable selfishness of the Corporation of that town, but most unhappily for the country and for Birkenhe,arl and its neigboarhood. Mr. Rendel was no more. He trusted that the efforts which Mr. Reudel had made would not be forgotten, and that the decision ofa commi tee would not put the regulations of the Mersey iu the hands of men who had shown that though they were honest and honourable tnen in a private capacity, in a public capacity the temptation of keeping down Birkenhead by any means whatever was too strong to withstand. Nature had done much for Birkenhead, and it was the duty of the committee to step in and prevent Ihe ambition of Liverpool fro - n de stroying the Mersey. To do this they must create a body without the old associations and prejucEcts of Liverp m', an 1 then there would be some prospect that the Mersey would give to the country the great benefit which it was calcu lated to confer, that a fair an I equitable adjustment of the differences on both sides of the river would be arrived at, and that the natural advantages of the port would not be crippled and destroyel for the mere purpose of favouring the anxiety for accumulating wealth and importance, which evidently actuated some of the best men of the Corporation of Liverpo As regarded the Town-dues, if they were going into a court of equity to obtain a trust for the benefit of shipping, the short answer was the Municipal Corp-- rations Act of 1835. But fortunately they were before exactly the sort of tribunal which could correct the legis lative mistake, which he should satisfy the committee had been committed. In 1692 there were proceedings in the case of Lancaster by the Liverpool Corporation. and the 6th interrogatory of the plaintiff went to show that there was an obligation connected with the dues, and tha, that obligation was to do exactly that which had reference to 1692 corresponded with the keeping of docks. And it was a common law principle that if tolls or dues were paid, there was an equivalent given; and when, in the reign of Anne, dock dues were authorised, the Corporation had lost sight altogether of the fact that before levying such dues they ought to have expende 1 the Town-dues. The CHAIRMAN called the counsel's attention to the fact that the Town-dues had been the subject of marriage settlements in the Molyneux family. Mr. CALVERT did not know the tenor of the marriage settlements, but it was clear that in every instance the estate was conveyed for better or for worse, subject to reductions ; and he contended that only so much of the dues were the subject of the marriage settlement as were surplus over and above the amount required to meet and fulfil the requirements of the port. The property was subject to an obligation; it was converted into a trust, but that was a wrong trust. It was a legislative enact. -meut—the trust should have been one for the benefit of shipping, not for the benefit of the municipality. The mistake would properly be corrected by the proceedings before the committee, and he did say it was high time that it should be corrected. The CHAIRMAN : Permit me to ask, is there any statu table recognition of the Town-dues, qua Town-dues, other than the 92nd section of the Municipal Reform Act ? Mr. CALVERT : I know of none. Mr. MEREWETHER: By statute, none, with the exception of saving clauses. The CHAIRMAN Then the only statutable recognition is the 92nd secti , n of the Reform Act. Mr. MEREWLTHER: Permit me, the anchorage dues— The CHAIRMAN : Order, I have got my answer. Mr. CALVERT proceeded to point out the necessity for immediate legislation on this question, quoting in sup port of that view, the report of the Shipping Dues Com: missioners. He then charged the Dock Trust with neg lecting to call evidence before the committee, because they were afraid of the damning disclosures that would be wrung from them. As to the pilot question he did not think it necessary to occupy the time of the com mittee, for the bill did not affect the pecuniary position of that body of men. He very briefly referred to the question of taxation and represention, and urged that the local prejudices of the people were so great it was absolutely necessary to find a cons'ituency elsewhere ; and who, he asked, would be so eligible as the Leeds or Manchester manufacturer, whose real and true interest it was to have the port fully developed. The learned gentleman then concluded by remarking, that if Liverpool wished her conduct to be esteemed, she must emancipate herself from the tics whic'i now bound her down, and consent to give no further oppo sition to a proper scheme for the conservancy of the river. His learned friend, Mr. Hope Scott, said that Manchester loved not Liverpool, but what ground had his learned friend for the assertion. If Manchester was prosperous, so Liverpool must be similarly prosperous. If Manchester required the raw material she found it in the ships of Liverpool, and, on the other 'hand, if Liverpool required goods for exportation she obtained them from Manchester. In point of fact, Manchester and Liverpool were twin towns, twin in their advancement and in their misfortunes, and so far from their being any hostility on the part of Manchester against Liverpool, the committee had seen the anxiety with which Manchester had endeavoured to avoid collision, in the hope that they might bring the Corporation of Liverpool to reason. The learned counsel thanked the committee for the attention with which they had heard him, and, at the close of his address, SIR JAMES GRAHAM, at half-past two o'clock, directed the committee room to be cleared. After the committee had deliberated with closed doors, the parties were re-admitted, and, Sir JAMES GRAHAM said the committee had given the most patient, the most anxious, and the most dispas sionate consideration to this great case. They felt them selves greatly relieved with regard to the principle which it involved in conseqnence of the House having virtually affirmed the principle by not objecting to the second reading of the bill. The principles of the bill were shortly stated in the last clause o: the preamble, namely—that " it is expedient that the management of the docks of Liverpool and Birkenhead should he vested in an independent public body, elected by the persons who pay the rates, and that all rates and dues levied on shipping shall be applied for the benefit of the shipping that frequents the port." The committee had come to the decision that the preamble was proved, subject to certain amendments, a copy of which would be submitted to council on either side. The committee then adjourned until Monday at twelve o'clock. PONTEFRACT ELECTION COMMITTEE. By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIOAY, JUNE 26 cig Tue committee met this morning. Mr. Headman in the chair. Mr. Oliveira was examined as to alleged payments for a corrupt purpose made by his agents with his knowledge. A. lengthened argument took place between the counsel of both sides, which was of a purely technical character. ROCHDALE ELECTION CO3ISIITTEE. By British. and Irish Magnetic Telegraph• HOUSE OF COMMONS FRIDAY, JUNE 26, The evidence was proceeded with in respect to the allegations in the petition of bribery by the agents of the sitting members. CAMBRIDGE ELECTION PETITION. By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, JUNE 26. Mr. Power resumed and concluded his address on beh& of the petitioner, Mr. R A. Shafto Adair. WAREHAM ELECTION PETITION. By British and Irish Magnetic telegraph. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, JUNE 26. This committe met this morning in Room No. 18, Mr. J. Milnes Gaskell in the chair. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. Phinn, Q C., and Mr. Welsby, appeared for the sitting member; and Mr. Mon tague Smith and Mr. Clarke for the petitioners. The evidence was purely of a local character, as to boundaries of certain property giving a qualification to a voter. MARLBOROUGH ELECTION PETITION. By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, JUNE 26. The committee met in Room No. 11, Mr. Monckton Mines in the chair. Mr. Edwin James, Q C , Mr. Pickering, Q C., and Mr. Forsyth, appeared for the sitting member; and Mr. Ed• ward James for Mr. Bingham Baring. The inquiry was confined to the examination of wit nesses as to property qualification. MAYO ELECTION COMMETTEE. By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FainAT, JUNE 26, Mr. PRENDERGAST, a retired solicitor, was examined. He corroborated the evidence given yesterday by Mr. Routledge, respecting the mob, headed by the Rev. Peter Conway, attacking Colonel Higgins's voters. The mob acted under Conway's directions, who spoke to them in Irish, saying, "WI the curse of GA, and the curse of the flock, fall upon any one who votes for Higgins." The witness gave the expressima verba in Irish, which created 9 9 2 1 e arctlieement, This language Conway repeated several times with great solemnity. Joseph Burke (son of a c.)unty magistrate) was the next witness.. When the voters reached Ballinrobe he saw Peter Con way, the priest, who spoke to the men, and in a m 'went Col. Higgin,'s voters were assaulted with stones. Witness drew a pistol from hls bag and presented it at the priest. who had a stone in his hand. His reverence then disappeared. Mr. James French, of Tuani, a landed proprlet,r, gave evidence respecting the denunciation of Conway at chapel. He sa . d that " the curse of God would rest upon every man who voted for Higgins." The last two witxt , s , cs, in cross examination, said they were not, aware of their oxn know ledge of any e'ectors hiving been prevente 1 fraiu voting by reason of violence on intimidation. CORONER'S INQuESTs.—Yesterday the Coroner' held the inquests:-Oa the body of Arthur Treviit, ten ye Irs of age, who was accidentally drowned in a mill-pond in Rilkoer-street. Verdict accordingly. On, the body of a child named Conan, aged six years, that was accidentally smtherrd in a ditch i r Kensington. Vrrdiet accordingly. Toe Warrington Guardian gives a long aceourit of a trip from Warrington to Lon fon by the Rev. W Q iekett and 414 of his parishioners. They were in London fir part of three days ; saw the chief sights, and returned wit hone a single mis:i .p. Tae rev. gentleman is the one described a few years ago as the " Model Carate," in Dickens' House hold Words. He was then curate of Christ Church, St. George's-in-the-fields, London. RECREATION FOR THE WORXING CLASSES.—Tt will be pereAved by our advertising columns that a meeting is to be held to c irry out the above project. Most sincerely do we wish them God speed. Public amusements- for the pe iple are much wanted, and though the committee may meet difficulties is the outset, they will have alt right minded men with them, and, no doubt, ultimate success will crown their darts. BIRKENHEAD MODEL YACHT CLI7II-.SECOND SKIVING MATCH OF THE SEASON.—These matches will come oathis day (Saturday) 27th instant, on which occasion one of the Woodside Ferry steamers will accomp-iny the yachts sailing in the matches. The steamer will leave the Landing-stage, Prince's Pier, at one o'clock, p.m., and the Woodside Pier at half-past one. The starting print will be north of the Woodside Pier, and the prome nade at Woodside Ferry presents one of the best views on the river for seeing the start, race, and final close of the same. MERSEY LINE Or AUSTRA,LIAN PACKETS —The John Line, of which we have already spoken, belonging to the " Mersey Line" of Australian packets (Mr. E. Thompson's), sailed yesteriay. according to the usu )1 punctuality of the house, with 350 passengers, and a varied ant valuable cargo of over 1,500 tons, for Melbourne. She was com plete in all her departments, and the arrangements gave general satisfaction to every one on boord. The captain of this fine ship (Mr. Ray), from his long experience i❑ the trade, and the high testimonials that he possesses, is a great favourite ; and from the ship and her urbane commander a speedy voyage, with the utmost kindness, may Ite ex p zoted. STEAM TO CANADA.—It is stated on good authority that the Canadian G ivernment has finally entered into an arrangement with the proprietors of the Montreal ()bean line of st , Fam-ship, by which they will run every week to and from Liverpool, ard Quebec or Montreal, in the summer, and every fortnight to Portland is the winter season. The subsidy granted by the Canadian Legisla ture was £50,000 a year, and we conclude that the company will at once take means to obtain the additional vessels necessary to carry out their contract,. which we feel confident. they will do in the same efficient manner that has already made their line so popular, and brought so much credit upon the enterprise of the provincial mer cantile community.--Canadian News. CRYSTAL PALACE.—(One Shilling Day.)—Thurslay, June 25, 1857.—Admissions oo payment, 6,013; claw, by seLls - ri tickets,4Bo ; total visitors, 6,493. . . Despatches from Vera Cruz, dated May 21, state that the country is arous , :d by tha Spanish invasion, and extens've prep irations are making to repel the enemy's force. 25,000 men are organised to meet the invaders. _ THE FRENCH IN ALGERIA.—A letter from Algiers of the .sth inst. announces that the Russian Admiril Thlirens. who anchored in that port in the frigate Vih)rg, has been invited by Marshal Randon to visit him at his camp at Souk-al-Arba. SUDIUMARY PROCEEDINGS BEFORE 3.IAGISTR ATES.—There is a bill before Parliament, brought forward by the Gtvern- merit (printed on Thursday), to enable parties to obtain the opinion of a Superior Court on questions of law, without appealing to the sessions. RETURN HOME OP THE GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE.- Tne Grand D Constantine reached St. Petersburg on the 15th, on his return from 11s tour in Western Europe. He will assume the direction of the government during the approachinz absence from the capital of the Emperor Alexander. _ _ ANOTIIER 4 PLOT AGAINST THE FRENCH EMPEROR.—It is rumoured in Paris that, in con,equenee of the discovery of a plot connected, more or fess, with the present election movement, four Italians have been arrested. The plot is slid to Le of a most serious nature. Papers and fire-arms have been found on the prisoners. THZ ORIENTAL CHURCH.-Out Of the 10,000..000 Chris tians of the Oriental Church in European Turkey, it is computed that only 1,00!),000 are Greeks ; of the rest, 4,000,000 are Routnans, in Moldavia and allachia, less than 1,000,000 Armenians, and all the rest are either Slaves by race, or have become Slavonians in the course of time. In this number the Bulgarians are rather more than 3,000,000, PROJECTED MERTING OF THE SOVEREIGNF*, OF AUSTRIA AND PEADVIA.—" We learn that the Emperor Francis Joseph," says a letter from Vienna, in the German Journal of Frankfort, " proceed to Toplifz at the commencement of July, to visit the King of Prussit, with whom be will remain two or three days. Count de Blot and d. de Manteuffel will accompany their sovereig, and important political questions will in all probablity-oe dis cussed." A KING AMONG SCHOLARS.-The Academia della Crusca, Florence, held au extraordinary sitting on the 14th, to celebrate the arrival of its correspondent, the Kiel!, of Saxony. His Majesty honoured the sitting with his presence, in company with the Grand Duke and the here ditary rince of Tuscany. The President, in an appro priate address, did justice to the King's metrical transl it ion of Dante, and to the Grand Duke for his splendid edition of the poems of Cosmo the Magnificent, and the arranging of the works of the great Galileo. DER.kRTURE OF THE CONNAUGHT RINGERS FOR INDIA. —The '•'8t1; Regiment left Aldershott on Thursday f)r Portsmouth, to await transports to convey them to Calcutta. They will embark about the Bth July, and evious to their embarkation will be presented with new colours.. The old colours, which accomp viied the regi ment throughout the Crimea, are to be placed in Galway Church, so that the principal town of Connaught may contain a memorial of the achievements of the famous regiment whose gallant career forms one of the proudest associations of the province with which it is Pentified. THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE KING OF NAPLES. The report that an attempt hatl been made by a collier on the life of the King of N Ties is not generally credited. A Naples correspondent gives the following as what he believes to be the true version of the stor ;—" About 560 soldiers have been congediali at Gaeta. According to the usual practice these should have received fifteen days' pay above what was due to them ; but it was withhe'd by their superior. Irritated, they waited for his Majesty, whom they surrounded, and to whom they presented their complaints. The King ordered them, to retire, and pro mised redress, but immediately after they were put under arrest ; not, however, until the police had been well pelted with stones, and the military called in." COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION.—The London correspon dent of the Mail says—The sucass and permanence of the principle of competitive open. examination, as applied to the scientific branch of the military service, has been placed beyond all doubt by the examination which com menced on the 20th instant, at Burlington House. At this examination 120 candidates have presented themselves from all parts of the United Kingdom; and, as there are only thirty cadetships to be divided amongst them, the competition will be very severe, and none admittedto the Royal Artillery and Engineers but those endowed by Pro vidence with talents of a high order. It is understood that twenty-four of the candidates, or one-fifth of the whole, were educated in Trinity College, Dublin. SUICIDE OF AN, ITALIAN iN YORK.—On Monday last, an inquest was held at the York Union Workhouse, before J. Weod, Esq., on view of the body of an Italian, who came to York as a nrivate in the Anglo-Italian Legion. A few months ago, the deceased, who was twenty-three years of age, attempted to destroy himself by opening a vein in his left arm, after which he was removed to the workhouse, where he has remained till the present occasion, ap parently labouring under great depression of mind arising, it is supposed, from his absence from his native country and friends. On Sunday night, he appears to have arisen, and having dressed himself with great care proceeded to the wasbhouse, where he hanged himself with a clothes line, which be had previously soaped in order that the noose might slip with greater celerity. The rope he had secured to a beam, and in this position he was ft:.lnd in the morning. 110 had left a letter behind him iu Italian, to the effect that he, wretched as he was, had done this of his own free will, and by his prayers, with the permission of Jesus Christ, who before had prevented him from carry ing out his suicidal intentions. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased had banged himself, being at the timei an unsonq ;}ate of mind, THE NORTHERN TIMES - LIVERPOOL, SA_TUR OA if, JUNE 27, 1857.