The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-16 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, THURSSDAY.

of what may be expected ere the first of November
ensues. As it is, all eyes are now centered on the con-
test in Lime-street Ward. The Tory party
rejoice in their old representative, Mr. J. B.
Lloyd, and the Liberals have selected Mr.
J. R Jeffery. Both are able gentlemen in their way.
We have alluded to it in a leading article, and do

Mr. Jeffery will address himself to the
electors, and say how, and whit, he would do in
reference to the gas and water questions. 'As journal-
ists we know no party. The benefit of all classes of
the ratepayers is our object; and no candidate
be he what he may, Whig or Tory, Radical or Con-
servative, will satisfy us, who fails to declare
openly, manfully, and unreservedly, his opinions
and intentions upon the Gas and Water questions.
To act otherwise is cowardice; and it ill becomes
any one, no matter to which party he belongs, who
aspires to a seat in the Council Chamber, to

xpect

fortunate man whose ruin he had previously
resolved on. This was so well known that the
ministers or courtiers trembled when the King
was more than usually kind or familiar with them.

It is said that a curious and sharp encounter had
taken place between General Narvaez and Guel y
Rente, the husband of the Infanta, sister of the
King :of Spain. At present no particulars as to
the cause have been announced. _

The affair of Naples is drawing near to a crisis.
All hope of an amicable adjustment is believed to
be at an end ; for King Bomba remains as obstin-
ate and inflexible as ever, and will not yield a jot.
The latest report is that an ultimatum, signed by
France and England, was sent to his Majesty on
Saturday last, and if a favourable answer be not
returned to it, the representatives of the above
Powers will be immediately recalled, and the
united fleets ordered to appear off the coast with-
out delay. In a few days, therefore, we may expect
to hear something decisive upon the subject.
The Emperor and Empress of France purpose
leaving Paris for Compeigne on the 19th instant,
where a large party has been invited to join his
Majesty in the sports of the field. The ilioniteur con-
tains two more official reports from Algeria, giving
accounts of further successes of the French troops
over the Kabyles, after a stubborn resistance On
the part of the latter. M. de Brunnow is shortly
expected in Paris, as he has been appointed by the
Emperor Alexander to represent Russia at the
approaching Conference.
The sums deposited in the Paris Saving Bank
last week amounted to 414,909 f., but those with-
drawn reached 583,029 f.

The Empress has taken under her patronage a
Benevolent Society, whose object is to take apart-
ments in the faubourgs, and sublet them, at half
price, to those who cannot of to pay the high
rent demanded by the proprietors. This remedy
is but temporary ; it may relieve the most pressing
wants, but it will not prevent the proprietors from
raising their demands as they think proper.
Preparations for the Compeigne festivities are nearly
completed. Their Majesties purpose repairing
thither on the 10th to hunt; and for the 20th the
first list of invitations is already sent out. Seventy
persons are included in the " first category ;"
among them are the Ministers of Foreign Affairs
and Sate ; the Duchess of Istria (Dunn), who has
hitherto passed for a Legitimist; M. and Mme.
Cadour, who occupy some high post in the house.
hold ; M. Hubner, who is now at Vienna, whither
his invitation was sent by telegraph, when he
replied that he should be at Compeigne in time
for the chase ; M. Hatzfeit, Sze
Advices from Constantinople to the Bth, state
that there were still rumours as to a change of
ministry. Riehid Pacha is named as Grand Vizier.
A finnan has been published relative to the
national representation of the Principalities
There is no question in the finnan of the union of
the two provinces.
By the last American steamer we have received
intelligence confirming our previous advices of the
total loss of the West Indian Royal Mail Steamer
Tay, off Lobos Island, in the Gulf of Mexico.
Captain Strut, the commander, has forwarded a
full account of the disaster to the directors of the
company, wherein he says—" The Tay left Vera
Cruz at noon on Friday, the 00th of August. The
wind was very light from the N. and N.E,, and
calm. After having steered three miles N. and by
E., shaped the course N. and by W, half the engines
being in the sixth grade of expansion, making 16.2
or 10.4 revolutions per minute, giving the speed of
(oa
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ogen'inktanobooNt surltv
b2Rsyulnvnting in this
miles,
supposing
oasiitnecourse, by
gl'etclhatthiet coursewould
take me twelve miles to the eastward of Lobos. I
was on deck at two a.m, and remained
there up to the moment that the ship
struck. I was on the forecastle looking out
with the chief officer, and suddenly observed on the
port bow what appeared to be a squall of wind
coming over the water. I drew the attention of the
chief officer to it, who thought the same. I
immediately went aft, in order to get my night
glass, but before I could get it, the chief officer
cried out, 'Hard a port, hard a port,' which was
immediately done, and the engines stopped ; but
the ship struck with much force, and after striking
heavily her head came round to the N. Seeing
the perilous position of the ship, I immediately
ordered all the boats to be cleared away and
lowered, which were carried out without confusion.
I then got the mails from below, and placed
them in the starboard lifeboat. which soon
after left the ship in charge of the Admiralty
agent and second officer, with the intention
of proceeding to Tampico. All efforts were then
made to get the ship off. I got a 16 cwt kedge
anchor out on the starboard bow, with an eight-
inch hawser fast to it, hove well taut, and steamed
on ahead, engines going at full speed. During this
time the rollers were breaking heavily over the after
part of the ship, and sea increasing momentarily,
the hawser broke by the great strain, and the ship
surged much further up on the beach. Stopped the
engines and eased down the steam, for fear of
accident in the engine-room. I then got a second
10 cwt kedge, with a nine inch hawser, out. I
hove this taut, but by this time the stern had been
carried further up on the beach; the stern-post
and rudder were gone, and the cabin was full of
water ; in fact, the sea was making a breach right
over her, and. finding it impossible• to do anything
more, resolved to abandon her to her fate, in order
to save life. lam unable to account for the sad
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THE Western Alliance, at one time, promised to
be the precursor of European amelioration. The
Continent looked upon it with hope, and Great
Britain hailed it with delight. Every imaginable
good- was anticipated from it, and a career of
honour and glory would, it was believed, have
cemented the union of the two most powerful nations
upon earth. The world has been woefully disap.•
pointed on these several points. The dream has not
been realised, and the rich promise is still further
off. We are not the independent nation we were.
We have an Ally who will move or not as he thinks
proper. It would be wrong to speak out on King
BOMBA'S atrocities, to drive the Russians from the
Isle of Serpents, to order the Austrians out of the
SULTAN'S dominions at the point of the bayonet, to
make O'DONNELL find money to pay Spain's
foreign creditors, and to settle the difficulties of
Italy, simply because we have allied ourselves to
the Bopapartists We must hold our tongues
forego our independence, or break up the union of
the two Powers. We are laughed at throughout,
tha world as the last people in Europe who can
move in the cause of humanity, or civil and reli-
gious liberty, much as we may talk about such
things.
The King of Naples cares no more for our
threats than FRANCIS JOSEPH, the CZAR, or the
ruler of Prussia. France has check-mated Great
Britain in diplomacy, and instead of reaping a
harvest of honours, and drawing round us the
confidence of Europe, the most we, can get is a
charter for a college from the Vatican, and a gua-
rantee that the Irish Government hacks in the
House of Commons shall be returned at the next
general election. If Lord PALMERSTON had not
arranged this little affair through Bishop
CULLEN'S influence at Rome, we should
really have lost all the Cabinet have been playing
for abroad. How long this state of things is to last,
we may simply leave the reader to infer from what
he knows of the past. Permanent Councils sitting
pire, wil
in foreign capitals upon the material and political
interests of this great Constitutional Em
not give the public the security and satisfaction
which some wiseacres believe. British rights and
instincts can never be fairly represented on the
Continent. We have been in a minority in Europe
for ages, and we shall have fewer Powers on our
side in these days of rampant despotism than we
ever had. France will play her own
game, and if
• the PALMERSTON Cabinet eau turn the elections in

their favour through Rome, or any other foreign I
State, we may consider ourselves Wry fortunate.
But how long are we to occupy this contemptible
positkii ? Russia escaped from our grasp
just at the moment we were ready to fight our
battles unaided, and now we hate to submit
to a renewal of her designs upon Turkey, to
drive her garrisons from the mouth of the Danube,
and to defeat her intrigues in Naples and Spain.
This is what we achieved by Paris Congresses.
The people of England were deceived, and thrown
back into a far worse position than they were in
prior to the declaration of war. And we are
sinking deeper daily into the humility which we
allowed to be brought upon us by accepting the
terms of peace at the hands of a foreign council.
We are called upon by the voice of humanity to
send relief to the cuff, ing people of Naples ; but
we must pause for the consent of Continental
diplomatists. The Austrians ought to be met by
force, as invaders in the Danubian Principalities.
The Russians should be made to evacuate the Isle
of Serpents by the broadsides of our fleet. But
Great Britain must wait for the Emperor
NAPOLEON, and France must tarry for her ruler.
All thie reads very like " drifting into war,"
or something much more deplorable. What

chance have we of being able to do our duty while I
we are trammelled by the whims and caprices of i
other countries? We are able to preserve our
independanee, or we are not ; and it is time that
we made up our minds whether we should declare
that we have not abandoned our pretensions, or
admit at once that we are no longer able to stand
alone, and meet all the contingencies of a perfect
freedom of action. The idea that we are not able
to maintain our ground in European affairs, is
spreading rapidly, and we must speedily unde-
ceive the credulous, or bow to the dictation of
imbeciles and intriguers. If France is strong, it
is not because we are weak, but because we are
willing and in a condition to sustain her in the
hour of need. She is powerful because we do
not dispute the assumption ; but if she would
preserve her union with Great Britain, in fact,
she must either lead on our time-honoured
course, or follow in our wake with a degree of
alacrity which will leave no doubt as to her
sincerity. The King of Naples and his despotic
supporters must he checked in their career of
crime towards their own subjects, and perfidy
in their dealings with foreign countries. If
France cannot take her part in this work,
England is not surely to be made to remain a
mute witness of inhuman atrocities, by her Ally's
want of decision or strength !

Oun Monetary position, as depicted by Mr. JOHN
Wir.r.s in the NORTHERN TIMES of Monday, is really
alarming for those who throw aside all common
sense, patriotism, and sound principles, and rely
solely on the extraordinary powers and perfection
of Bullionism. All who dread prosperity will be
terrified to find, that while the Bank of Englan3
has parted with 1,000,0001. of gold, the discounts
have increased 2,000,0001., leaving the Bank with
only 10,784,257/. in bullion to meet 39,967,511/
liabilities. This state of things is enough to
cause the Bullionist to tremble ; but we do not see
what more enlightened monetary men have to fear
from the failure of the great usury scheme. The
Bank of France will assuredly buy gold as long as

they are pressed for specie, and no advance in our
rates of discount will prevent them doing so, as we
have repeatedly shown. They can buy our yellow
metal at a high premium, and still make a profit
on their discounts, and they will make any sacrifice
to sustain their issues at the highest level,

and keep the springs of industry in motion

It matters little to them what inconvenience
we suffer from their prudence, and instead
of stopping the supplies, as Mr. WILLs suggests,
their policy, according to Mr. WlLLs's own
showing, is to purchase gold in order to keep up
their circulation and preserve a fair commercial
rate of discount.

The suspension of " cash payments" would be
a still more suicidal course. Let those who will
and must have gold, have it R 5; long as the Bank
of England can give it. Merchants must have
bullion, and our manufacturers and other large
employers of labour must have sovereigns, in the
absence of the one pound legal tender note. The
suspension of " specie payments," before an
enlargement of our legal tender note issues has
been sanctioned by Parliament, would instantly
prostrate our importers, exporters, and employers,
and 'few men would advocate such a course.
If the Bank of England should experience a
further drain of the precious metals, and if their
resources should eventually be reduced to eight
or nine millions of sovereigns, we should feel no
uneasiness about it, if it were not that the Bank
would follow their old practice, and reduce the note
circulation, and raise their rates of discount.
These two movements invariably produce a
suspension of ‘` cash payments" in trade. Money
is not to be obtained under these circumstances
by the merchant or trader, and although the
Bank may be all right enough, the public are left
without a sufficiency of either gold or notes to meet
their demands. The large excess of the Bank's
liabilities at the present moment over their bullion
reserves shows that the legitimate drafts made
upon them are too urgent to be resisted with safety
to the commerce of the country and the stability
of the State. And they find themselves constrained
to pursue a course which they would never attempt
with the law and practice as they are laid down, if
they could avoid it.

The recent advance in the rates of discount was
forced on the Directors by a pressure which the
law alone makes them feel. They know full well

that the country view convulsive contractions of
currency as great social enormities, and 6,7, and
8 per cent for bona fide commercial accommoda-
tion as usury or a frightful political abomination.
Every man sees that, notwithstanding our incal-
culable wealth and unfailing industry, we are
wade to participate in all the poverty of the Con
tinent, and to share the curses of the natural
sloth, filth, and darkness of the Hindoo.
\\ hen a panic comes, no man can find money to
pay his debts, and millions of beings, whose
highest ambition is constant employment, are
thrown out of bread. It would take

something more than a temporary drain of two or
three millions of gold, to justify or reconcile the
people of England to such a string of lamentable
consequences. And it is hard to believe that the
Directors of the Bank of England would resort to
stringent measures if they could avoid it, and we
believe that there is patriotism enough in the
Banking world to avert a panic at this critical
moment. If the Bank of England does feel a
heavy drain, it does not follow that the Private and
Joint Stock Banks of Great Britain have experi-
enced a similar amount of exhaustion. It is not
likely that they have been heavy Bullion sellers,
or that they have fed the drain by increasing their
discounts.

If we can believe our London counsellors on this
subject, it will, no doubt, be found that they have
reduced their discounts, and contracted their liabi-

ANIMMiNIMSBII

litlea as much as possible. Every prudent banker
we may fairly conclude; has taken the usual steps
to prevent a drain. But sho-uld caution have
proved irqile-,;-should the positiori of the Bank
of England kale all other t anlis in
a powerless condition-4f the Bank of France
should buy the Bank of England's
remaining 10,784,2571. of bullion, and leave them
with nothing btit bills and liabilities, what would
the result be? First, an insufferable panic and
universal ruin, caused by a depreciation in the
prices of all commodities. And it must soon
become a question with our Private and Joint Stock
Bankers, whether it would be better to wait for
those calamities to overtake the country, or at once
convene a meeting of their body and make a
voluntary return of the amount of bullion they
actually have in reserve. The dangers the public
now apprehend, and the high rates of interest
demanded for money, may be traced to their silence
on this subject, and the only way to meet the evils
of alleged scarcity, or threatened exhaustion of
our bullion reserve, is to declare openly, and at
once, the amount of bullion there is in the banks
individually and collectively. If the bullion basis
of our entire circulation and banking transactions
has been reduced to the reserve held by the Bank

of England, the sooner specie payments are
suspended the better it will be for all
parties concerned. But we believe the country
was never so rich in gold as she is at this hour ;
and if the Private and Juiut Stock Banks have in
their vaults twenty or thirty millions of
bullion, and refuse to admit it, and allow the
nation to be prostrated by groundless fears,
they will bring upon England a season of trials
and suffering which it is the duty of every patri•
otic citizen to labour diligently to avert. Should
they hold back to the last moment, the public may
not be willing to receive information which ought
to have been supplied at an earlier date, and before
moral movements assume the aspect of political
expedients.

THE Municipal contest in Lime-street Ward is
becoming fierce and characteristic. The ad-
dresses of both candidates are before the Consti-
tuency. Mr. J. R. JEFFERY accepts the distinction
his fellow-townsmen propose to confer upon him,
as an onerous and sacred trust. He reverts to
his past career in public matters, and pledges
himself to continue on the path he has so
long trodden. Mr. J. BUCK LLOYD writes to the
Electors of the Ward in the strain of a man
separated from the vulgar multitude by a
Peerage, and isolated from all Corporate affairs
by chains of dignity and State, which , fortunately
for the exalted wearer, are more ideal than real.
Mr. LLOYD relies on his lofty position, and the
extraordinary purity with which his name has been
associated. His opponent's address is- in some
respects reasonable and explicit enough, but we
notice the total omission of all reference to the two
most important questions which must speedily
press themselsks upon the attention of the
Council for permanent adjustment. We did
expect that in Mr. JEFFERY'S address we should
have had a clear and candid expression of his
sentiments on the Gas and Water questions, and
we do not hesitate to express our belief that his
silence in reference to them has jeopardized his
election. The omission may have been accidental,
and, if so, he cannot too soon remove the dis-
appointment universally felt, if not expressed.

There is a grave question at issue in this contest.
The great bulk of the Ratepayers of Liverpool
are tradesmen and shopkeepers, and the question
to be decided is, whether the tradesmen of the
town—the bona fide Ratepayers—ere to be all but
excluded from the Town Council, or whether they
are to be fairly represented in the Corporation by
men of their own class ? We dispute the right
of the Corporate Electors to go beyond the
limits of the Borough for their representatives,
and to select men who pay two or three pounds a
year rates, while they have active, intelligent, busi
ness men, who contribute as many hundreds of
pounds towards the support of the town, and give
employment to a large number of its inhabitants.

Mr. J. BUCK LLOYD'S partisans may put forth
placards on the walls to insult every tradesman in
the Borough—they may make what use they please
of " awful sacrifices," and issue as many " import-
" ant notices" as they think proper, but it is to be
hoped the tradesmen of Liverpool will not make
an " awful sacrifice" of their class, self-respect,
rights, and interests ; and that they will show that
they know how to resent an insult, and exercise
the power the Constitution has conferred upon
them. We could reply to the insolence of those
who treat with habitual contempt, the intellect,
bone, and sinew of the town with cutting sarcasm,
if it were necessary, but we leave the spirit and
letter of the " important notice" to be dealt with at
the Corporate hustings. We must confine our-
selves to supporting the claims of shopkeepers to
their fair share of representation in the Council.
They are the heaviest Ratepayers, and if we wish
for an economical and honest administration
of the Borough funds, the public must
select those men to watch over their tills,
who have tills of their own to guard. Professional
gentlemen with tin boxes filled with the dusty
records of many an " awful sacrifice," in which
they may have been the manipulators as well as
the vendors, cannot be expected to look as carefully
after the prodigal doings of their compeers as a
man whose pocket is to be emptied to pay the
piper. What need any man, who lives out of the
town, and has no stake in its burdens, care how
heavily the tradesman and householder is taxed ?
Merchants, bankers, warehousemen, and trades-
men, are those who should represent the town in
the Council. When we come to Parliamentary

representation the area widens to bring in every
man who contributes to the support of the State.
We may select our members of Parliament whence
we please, and the inhabitant who pays assessed, or
any other Imperial tax, is entitled to vote as he
thinks best.

It is quite a different affair, however, in Munici-
pal Elections. The Ratepayer is bound to see
men returned who understand the business and
true interests of the locality he comes
forward to represent—men who will not
job away his brother townsman's substance
and make an incessant feast of what ought to be
a moderate and frugal meal. Separate truth
from political humming and sectarian clamour,
and we shall be amazed at the shocking
resemblance the prodigal side of our Corpo-
rations bears to the most ravenous members
of the animal kingdom. Cant does much to per-
vert reason and defeat human exception ; but we
have not heard of any invention which is to keep
the local tax collector from the Burgesses
door. Political and religious party leaders
have yet to teach the world how this most neces-
sary end is to be attained. Mr. LLOYD has to tell us
how all the monster jobs he has supported are to
be carried out, without putting the hand of the
Council in the pocket of the Ratepayer. We once
had a " BONHAM for Liverpool" who was cruelly
puzzled when called upon to answer straightfor-

. __.

ward questions, and we fear 111 t. LLOYD, who wag
Sir G. BONHXM'S bottle-holder in the late elec-
tioneering farce, will be equally confounded when'
asked to enlighten his constituents as to what
future policy will be on the Gas, Water, Dock,
Corporate Salaries, and other itnportant MosE
questions, in which the shopkeepers and baba'
bitants of Lime-street Ward. are. so deePII
interested. There is nothing like malwaise honeo
about Mr. J, Bum LLOYD, and the Electors, whose(
suffrages he solicits, hope to hear something 133ore'

from him than his

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WARRINGTON POLICE COURT.—OR S,tUr daYt
°- E;(1.•
Rudd and George Gill were brought before T. YG 'area -
charged with night poaching on the preserves I;=
unlawful
hall, Esq., M.P., and having in their possession ,it, 0401
weapons, namely, a dagger and two bludgeons, at t•
hour of two o'clock in the morning. They were copal'
to K nutsford, for trial at the ensuiog asszes. p,„,r.
SOUTHERN AND TOY.TETH HOSPITAL, WEEKLY. ----
October 15, 1856.—1 n-patients Discharged : C ured,a' d„
j,
Ili:
relieved, 0 ; at own request, 1 ; irregular, 0 ; dee,,rea
entered, 25 ; under treatment, 65. Out-patients :
,
46 ; entered, 45 ; under treatment, 59. Treasu,e
James Houghton, Esq. Visitors : J. Farnworth,
and S. Martin, Esq. Honorary Chaplain : Rev t
'
Barry, BA. Physicians and Suro,ons for the egr,,
Dr. Cameron and Mr. Minshull. House Surgeons
E. C. Garland and Mr. William Townsend. oObis'
THURSDAY LECTURES IN HOPE HALL.---The first taip,
interesting course is to be delivered this evening, st pro'
past seven o'clock, by Dr. Fairbairn, Prinaarius
fessor of Theology in the Free C:.-‘urch College, 613sge-ele;
and author of " Typology of Seri' 'Aare," and othejoisb,
bratA works. The topic of lecture, " The 04
Theocracy," is one which his great talents and leatisfac.
qualify him for discussing in a most thorough and selue
:ory manner. Recent important changes in the Sestigeturet
singular attractivene;s to the subject of next weele„sobY the
" Mabornet and the Koran," which is to be talc
En' tagetti
Rev. Mr. Hope, of Wamphray. The chair is t bog
to-morrow by Mr. William Jones. Mr. Edward ..-je;
consented to act as chairman at the following lectui of
LECTURES AT BLACKBURNE HOUSE.—The fir,st,vdi.e"
111"
series of lectures on scientific and literary subjects, „'-
the
for ladies, was delivered at two o'clock, yesterdah
Ladies' College, Blackburne House, by Dr. D. P. The„g3oo;
on ," The Study of Natural History and PbysiologY•
subject wan treated by the lecturer in its broad and I°,?
aspect, and afforded both information and pleasure'.°sibge
large assembly of ladies who were present. This irr'iore,
at eleven o'clock, the Rev. Professor Griffiths will, Ireton,
el
on " Geology ;" and on Tuesday next, at three ,1;01
lecture will be delivered by the Rev. James Cranbroolcrthe
"English Literature." These lectures will be free te thb'
public, and, from the reputa•on of the lecturers, an,uii oce
attractive nature of the subjects to be discussed, v7:t fit
doubt draw together large audiences. It is said
" little learning is a dangerous thing," but in these dais'
lo one need incur such a risk. Sciences the most abstt 0,
ai
•nd difficult are made simple to all h '•
cornpre ension dittere
of such lectures as those to which we now invite atte".. ir
and the advantages of which are eo obvious that il'rie#
unnecessary for us to here dwell on them. Th,iB„sfeesser
will be followed by another course of lectures by xr---

Retslag. 'We ar,,6.
BONDS ON THE EXPORT or WARLIKE STOD.:--,-‘. soro-1
xtrcmcly gratified to be able to annouuce to the o:e.stet
parties here who are suffering the inconvenience inel,,7
to having given bonds on the shipment of iron, 10' OA
during the war, fur which they now experience the grdeer tb'
difficulty in obtaining the necessary certificates in era dente'
have them cancelled, that, alter a lengthened corresponeetbe
bete•ePn
the
Chamber of Commerce and the
latt r have ae•reel to meet the case by Tre
the baao
asr:,riot
legal construction of the documents rewqauiivriff,
placed the whole matter in the hands of the Custorn'titiof
re
authorities here; so that, after proofs' have been eieeee'
the arrival of the ship at the port of destinitiont theesitV
f the transaction may be established, and, 13,,ev beltfii/
s, confirmed by such other evidence as It 132'„•7,ee
the power of parties to furnish ; thus putting each
its real merits. The business qualities and acconle"cli-eie•
nt'
spirit of the Collector of Customs here afford 3 66
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guarantee that no better solution of this difficult Vet tbe!
could have been arrived at; and we feel assured th.it itr
mercantile community will appreciate the liberal sPiraseed
th
which her Majesty's Treasury have met the rernnesitTffieolt
and suggestions of the Chamber of Commerce on isall ova
question, backed as the; have been, on this as ort
sions, by the influential ait; of our borough membere'lis ogih
GRATITUDE OF A SAILOR VOY.—Some twelve melit sore
a poor destitute boy applied to Mr. Mansfield fereristie
Charaelopa
assistance, and that gentleman, with his
benevolence, not only procured the lad a ship, but Ord tlO
hire with an outfit, and got him ap
n Tuescleeift
before
finest vessels sailing out of Liverpool. 0
manly, well_dressed sailor lad, presented laiteneelffrebit °gt.
worthy magistrate, and tendered hie gr''
tude to him; and if anything could add tO
fication of one who has done so much for poor e',„•• bls,
pe.,enticed to one goo
boys, it must be the receipt of the following letterro
was written by the able commander of the shililetbielil
Mansfield. Such conduct, on the part of boys,
e el
grallising, end we hope to see others following ""*. thiS• iI7
of this grateful lad. The following is the letter :, be
,
Gipsy Bride, October 14, 1856, Sir,—The bearer Ike shit
who came recommended by you to the owners of tb,leedte;
Messrs. Magee, Levingston, and Walthew,before P° pay
on her last voyage to Melbourne. He is anxious t° ort
respects, and tender his gratitude to you ; and ha°;th the
pleasure in stating, that he has conducted himself sr'reatr
hit
greatest propriety, and has always shown the Ite t
inclination and aptitude in everything connected, wi 000
profession. lam sure you will be glad to hear ths aostlf,
of him, and 1 have great pleasure in making the flee, fr.
cation, and in subscribing myself, faithfully
MURPHY, Commander of the Gipsy Bride. To fie)
field, E-q." This is highly creditable to he oaPta- ° cape
fee6o-
- to the boy.
FEAST OF THE TABERNACLES.—This eetr;
observed in accordance with the Divine commaine Ow;
conveyed in the book of Leviticus, and intendetetlijereLe-i0
merative of the Israelites wanderings in the " 00'0
settle ,ide
between their exodus from Egypt and their
the Land of Premise, is cow being held by the JeWsreegbablie
in Liverpool, in common with the Hebrew race tbr°l4 t
the world. The Bibilical scholar knows that, Herer cob;
celebration of this festival, the Jewish people ho.et-0
mended to dwell in tabernacles or booths, which eracibere"-f,
open to the Heavens, and, accordingly, sach a
eel stfe-$
has been erected close to the synagogue, in re":6o
where the feast is here being held.ltis P attiaLkle vi,nao
over, the climate of these countries being too 1)-;",b, wif
severe to allow such shelter being diseelsed
openings are left through which the Heavers' ereets if(10
visible. The climate also interferes, in other re-011;0'0W
the strict observance of the festival here. In °tie ao-to
the strict Jew sleeps as well as eats in the tuberose- get,
A &IP I
the feast, but in England the inconvenience and eV I,
health would be so great, that he is obliged .041°
devout pleasure to him of dwdling in it tin.rin_girts :10
The religious services, according to the requtre' tedi"
th• e
Levitie 11 law peculiar to the oce.asion are condu,e of
na Adel
adjoiningv. synagogue, and embrace 'an invocatle „roe,job
which is
on the abundance of the earth'e.fir, Voir
theich is symbalised in the fruits and flowers if1;0, of oe,
tabernacle is in rich profesion decorated. s,hoese het'sof
_fruitst were covered with gold and silver, and "-„Tel'",,eli
bined with the Hebrew inscriptions in letters of g:og'lntio
amidst. the evergreens, gave to the tabernacle g, „ls 04,
striking and pleasing appearance. The decorntl°-ceere
free-will offerings of the female members of til? -teec!,44
tion, and refl,ct the greatest credit alike on theireir celitr,
nationality. We may mention also tha';
services inclede a prayer for the health and hloblvitb.
Q•ieen Victoria, her royal spouse, and the othere. °'
the royal family, and for the peace and Pr°sP

Ivies of t

whole country. -
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MONEY MAKING BUSINESS.—It is repOr'firoirl—At
fe tlifiLtl:ll‘;
Of
nceevErer was greater activity seen in the FrenOnc't
h is at. present. Not only is the chief ests'ools;lo.l
work Finance
night and day coining money. but the t porrn fa
f,
has issued orders to the branch ruints;,9l-allf,lo°,:i
Rouenet, Lille, Strasburg, &c., to keep nnllt-114,0v'ers
operation. At Paris the mint produces about 600 ft rye
per day, chiefly in gold pieces ; and at Strashait'aods
in silver coin. The Bank of France is receivillg''
f of ate;
rate of 5,000,000 f. per day.
It may not be generally known that the fatilheire eelto'
Nightingale possesses, in addition to his Stafforeas'est of 10'
a very fine property adjoining Broadlandst tilp of Sit ll:.
Palmerston, and that long previrus to the nal'ofed cloff
gale having become so distinpi ished and 11°,,Iftinteff-0017;
person of Miss Florence, there had been a gr—dtha' .00
of neighbourly civilities between the Minister and bieeti otob
Miss Nightingale is understood to have a Kethatthe
being lionized, and this feeling, coupled vo mP
atie
ien' .401
state of her health, induced a desire for se° ors r
requiredired the all-powerful influence the
invitation to induce her to visit Scotland.