The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-01 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY

Commtrtfal Saito.

THIS DAY

On account of whom it may concern.
Tuts DAY, the Ist October. at Three o'clock, at the
Brokers' Saleroom, 10, North John-street,
14 Sheets Devonshire WOOL and TOPS,
saved from the wreck of the Sarah. Also,

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WOOL.
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intolerable, and anything but creditable to a
community like this to return a man to act as
the guardian of the destitute and unbefriended,
whose principles and practical policy is to force his
own peculiar religious dogmas, the truth of which we
believe he has not the ability to establish, down
every other person's throat. As far as religion is
concerned, Mr. Satchell would make an excellent
Nero in his way. lie considers all who belong to
the Roman Catholic faith unfit to hold a public
situation under the Select Vestry—an idea which
we believe Dr. M'Neile would hardly venture to
promulgate. Mr. Satchell made nothing by his
move. The Vestry very properly rejected it by a
vote of 12 to 7. In noticing the Vestry proceed-
ings of yesterday, we say that these displays of
narrow.minded bigotry are totally unbecoming.
The public at large detest them, and they who
originate them should not be sent to the Vestry a
second time to wound and annoy the feelings of
those who hold different religious views than the
erudite Messrs. Satchell mid Co.

While on this subject, we may just as well refer
to the insolent and reprehensible conduct of some
parties connected with the St. Mary's Catholic
Young Men's Society. Last night, the members
held their " Annual Grand Soiree " in the
Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street. A ticket of
admission was sent to this office, which
we handed to our reporter, so that he
might attend, and furnish for our publication
of to-day, such portions of the proceedings as
were of interest to the public. On arriving at the
Concert Hall, the parties having charge of the
matter at the doors, refused admission to the
gentleman from this office, and repudiated the card
of invitation issued by the committee of the society•
Meeting this rebuff, and being unable to obtain
admittance, so that he could perform the duties
of his office, he was about to leave the Hall,
when he met, at the bottom of the building, a
gentleman belonging to the reporting corps of our
cotemporary the Daily Post, and, after consulting
for some time together, they again tried, but in
vain, to obtain admission, after which they retired.
Now, this is a piece of conduct which. we cannot
pass over unnoticed. If it was not intended to
admit on the card sent to our office, why insult us
by placing it in our hands ? The gratification of
of swallowing a cup of swashy tea and chewing a
mouthful of cake to it, or listening to and reporting
the raw compositions of amateur orators, are not
sufficient inducements to any reporter to attend
at the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson-street, were
it not that as public journalists we deem it a
duty to leave nothing unnoticed which can
contribute to make the pages of the NORTHERN
TIMES interesting and attractive. The sample that
we have had of the members of the " St. Mary's
Young Men's Society," induces us to say, that the
sooner they acquire something like manners, and
can recognise the admissability of their own invi
tations, the better it will be for themselves, and
those who may have occasion to come in contact
with them.

Among the more important items of Continental
news is the protest of the Czar of Russia against
the interference of France and England in the
affairs of Naples. This important manifesto has
been addressed by order of the Emperor to all his
representatives at Foreign Courts. His Imperial
Majesty grounds his protest upon the supposition
that France and England have no right to meddle
with the just independence of other governments
It is dated Moscow, September 2. Looking at the
document in question, we must regard it as neither
more nor less than a solemn declaration, haughty
in tone and defiant in language, of the part that
Russia intends to assume in the political transac-
tions of Europe ; and a denunciation but thinly
veiled under the stately courtesies of diplomatic
style, against the projected interference of the
two great Western Powers in Naples and the
continued occupation of Greece. The manifesto,
after reminding the Western Powers of the
alleged cause of the late war in the Crimea,
declares that in the continued occupation of
Greece, and the menaced interference with Naples,
it is impossible not to perceive a violation of the
principles to which the adhesion of Europe was
thus understood to have been given in. The occu-
pation of Greece against the will of the Sovereign
and the will of the nation, is declared to be wholly
unjustifiable on any ground of political necessity
or political morality. With regard to the inter-
ference in Naples, the expressions used are at least
equally strong. The King of Naples, it is declared,
is subjected to pressure, not because his Majesty
has transgressed any of his treaty engagements with
foreign Powers, but solely because, in the exercise
of his incontestable rights ;of sovereignty, he governs
his subjects according to his own fashion. Amicable
warnings, even pressing exhortations, are allowed
to be admissible in such a case, but that the
Russian Manifesto declares is the extreme limit of
what international law allows. There never was a
time we are told, when Europe could less afford to
forget the absolute equality of Soverieigns among
themselves ; and the endeavour to extort from the
King of Naples, by threats or demonstrations, any
concessions as to the internal management of his
own dominions, is represented as a violent usurpa-
tion of his authority, an attempt to govern in his
stead, a proclamation, without disguise, of
the right of the strong over the weak.
From these points, the manifesto intimates
the regret of the Czar, that the union with those
who in conjunction with us have so long up-
held the principles on which the peace of Europe
for a quarter of a century has depended, exists no
longer in its ancient integrity. It declares that the
Emperor, though primarily devoted to the develop-
ment of the internal resources of his own dominions,
cannot yet remain a stranger to the general politics
of Europe ; that his policy, though national, is not
isolated ; and that, though he regards the interests
of his people as the first object, he is convinced
that even the pursuit of that object cannot excuse
a violation of the rights of others. Russia, we are
told, might reasonably have taken umbrage at the
misconstruction to which her policy has heretofore
been subject. Her protective action on behalf of
the rights of Governments has been perversely
interpreted to mean an aspiration after universal
empire. She is, however, too magnanimous, on
this account, to retire into silence and inaction,
convinced that such a course (and these, reader,
are ominous -words) is unworthy of a Power to
whom Providence has assigned that place in
Europe which is occupied by Russia.

From what we gather in the Paris and other
Continental journals, the foregoing protest is not
likely to exercise much, if any, effect. France and
England will pursue the course which they have
chalked out for themselves with regard to the
Neapolitan Government. The other news from
the Continent is of little moment. The rumour of
strong reinforcements being sent from Paris to
Rome is unfounded. The present force is not to
be increased by a single company. The Genoa
Corriere Mercantile, of the 26th ult., announces
that the Sardinian Parliament::is to meet on the
2nd of January.

The revenue returns issued this morning are of

a satisfactory character, denoting, that notwith-
standing the late taxation upon our industry, all
departments of trade are in a very satisfactory
position. From what we learn of the returns in
question, the increase on the quarter is put down
at 1,100,0001, on the six months 1,600,0001, and on
the year compared with 1855 to same period not
less than 3,300,0001. The Customs receipts are
steady, and the years increase put down at
200,0001. Owing to the increase in the hop and
spirit duties, the revenue of the excise has in.
creased during the quarter to 300,0001; for the half
year, 500;0001; and for the year, 450,000/. An
increase of £lOO,OOO is shown in the department of
stamps ; but in the year there is a decrease of
220,000, attributable to the full working of the
modified newspaper stamp law. Under the head of
income and property tax, increased assets are put
forward. The entire result of the returns are
most satisfactory, and denote a state of considerable
prosperity.

WE rejoice at the hearty reception given to
Mr. WILLIAM ''WART GLADSTONE in his native
town on Monday evening, at the Collegiate
Institute. The occasion was one of peculiar
solemnity and importance. Mr. GLADSTONE Met
in that room men who had combated the heathens
of America, the idolaters of Africa, and who have
struggled to convince the Brahmins of Asia, that
there was no salvation for those who went bare-
headed and footed, and who lived on the wild herbs
of the desert—to uproot a fanatical belief in the
transmigration of souls, and the base doctrine
that, at the creation of the world, all things came
from the bosom of the Deity, and that the world
will perish by all things returning to their first
origin—men who had broken in upon the faith—
that this Earth shall be destroyed by fire, and
another called forth from its ashes, in which there
shall be no sea, and be blessed with eternal
Spring. There were men on the platform
who had laboured to wean the Brahmins of the
Indian Ocean from the belief that there is a plura-
lity of worlds, that they are successfully destroyed
and renewed at certain periods--to shake their
veneration for cows' tails at the moment of death,
and to strengthen their faith in their traditions
which teach them that God has been incarnate,
and lived for some time among men. These were
the men who had assembled to push ahead the work
of the Gospel and to welcome Mr. GLADSTONE. And
what a perfect reflex of their own earnestness,
piety, and hopefulness the Church and its Mis-
sionaries found in the mind of the statesman who
addressed them!

The Right Honourable Gentleman could never
have felt more deeply interested in a subject, or
more perfectly at home, than he did on Monday
night. When he took a spiritual glance at his
theme, ho was all the Church could desire—when
he dealt politically with it, he gave expression to
all the Constitution could exact—and when he
looked at the material condition of Christian
nations, as compared with those of the heathen,
he ascribed it to the existence of that freedom
which the Gospel bestows on all true believers. A
more beautiful outline of a public oration could
scarcely have been conceived ; but as Mr. GLAD*
STONE went on filling up the back ground of his
picture, he could not, for the life of him, leave out
the rocks on which so many empires have been
wrecked, and those rapids which have swept away
so many churches. Almost every profound
historian falls into the same cardinal error, and
every vacilating politician makes the same capital
mistake. And Mr. GLADSTONE was not the
exception to the pile. For instance—He would
give a grant from the national purse to the Society,
for the Propagation of the Gospel, and would call
on the parent State to endow the Episcopal Church
in those Colonies where she has the power to do
so, and on the Colonists to act likewise, where they
have the governing voice in such matters in their
own senates. This was advocating, virtually, the
extension of the Established Church to all parts of
the Empire, and throwing aside the claims of the
Voluntary system, and the indefatigable labourers
the Dissenters have sent into the vineyard. This
was a most unhappy touch of the political brush.
It did well enough for the hundreds of mother
churchmen whom Mr. GLADSTONE was addressing
at the moment, but it was ill-adapted
to an age—an empire—struggling for de-
liverance from the interference of the
State in the spiritual affairs of a people,
and for a season when much more is expected
from men as the work of love, than from a
Church which is in the receipt of 9,000,000/.

a-year.
Such a revenue ought to be sufficient to sup-
ply all our spiritual wants at home, and to
Evangelise every other nation upon earth. It is
anything but a Godlike sum to appropriate to
any individual service, unless it be the propaga-
tion of the Gospel, and the preaching of the
true faith of a Christian country. A tree of such
vast dimensions ought to bear an abundance of
fruit. The Colonies ought not to be left
languishing with only twenty_eight Bishops and
440 Missionaries ; and, if our Colonial subjects
will endow one Church, they ought, in common
justice, to make a permanent provision for the
clergy of every creed. Less than this will lead to
the same spiritual discord, and kindle the same
passions of sectarianism abroad which we are so
much troubled with and divided about at home.
It would afflict British North America with a
PUSEY, South Africa with a WILBERFORCE, British
India with a NEWMAN, and Australia with the
retirement of Bishops. Religious minds will
sympathise with the unfortunate, and some
Divines, more charitable than the rest,
would forsake the flock who would take all
for themselves, and leave others, equally zealous
in the great and good, relying on man's compassion
and God's providence. Had Mr. GLADSTONE
reflected a little on this portion of his speech, we
feel assured that he would have kept clear of the
question of Church Endowment in the Colonies.
Still, the right honourable gentleman's object, and
that of the Society he addressed, were equally
laudable and necessary.
Where the speakers touched on the material pros-
perity which reigns nearly throughout the whole
of our distant dominions, they ascribed it, as we
I have before observed, to the superior intelligence,
morality, industry, safety for life and property,
and high veneration in which the Anglo-Saxon
race holds the Gospel, and labours to secure to
themselves and their children, the inestimable
treasure of religious training. These are facts
which all may freely endorse, and where such
objects are, it is hoped, to be attained, every man
ought to lay his shoulder to the overladen wheel.
It is time that we set about our work with a spirit
and determination worthy of the epoch in which
we live, and went forth
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what we firmly believe to be destruction. With
such work before us, there is but little time for
cavilling about endowments and other means of
encouraging the growth of Christianity. It has
taught man too much already to think of its essence
being lost or passing away with the freehold of
church lands, or the brickwalls from which we
have received, and are to draw, our divine know-
ledge. It is destined to take the whole world into
its grasp, and it only remains for each church, each
sect, and each nation, to do their duty to the suffering
pagan in proportion to their means—to make the
remotest parts of the earth what the most favoured
portions of Europe are in all that reveals the
majesty and wisdom of the Godhead, and con-
tributes to the greatness and glory of mankind.
To be able and willing to take our share in a work
so full of promise, morally, politically, and
materially, will make us, through all time,
one of the most revered nations on the earth,
and leaving such a record after us will be among
the most enduring triumphs of the Christian
era.

THE retirement of Mr. Hour from the Town
Council has led to some little agitation out of
doors. There is no lack of candidates to fill
vacant places in thosr, cllys of competition. Castle-
street Ward has its sons of ambition. This is all
very proper, and we are ready to aid the man who
will bring the greatest amount of public morality
and enlightenment into the Council Chamber. The
two months allowed by Mr. HOLT for the arrival of
the Rivington Pike water, will have expired before
November, and as many more years, we fear, will
have passed over our heads ere we taste the sweets
of the oxidised liquid ; and, as Mr. HOLT has,
probably, a very strong suspicion that the disap-
pointment of the Burgesses will be too great for him
to face the corporate hustings, he prudently declines
the honour of being put in nomination at the
approaching Municipal Election. The first of the
ostensible grounds put forward by Mr. HOLT
we dare not cavil about. " A limit has been fixed
" beyond which human activity cannot be extended
to advantage?' Had Mr. HOLT stopped here, the
tongue of criticism must have remained silent.
But when a man who boasts of twenty years
actual service in the Corporation, ventures to say
that the Rivington Pike scheme " is really and truly
" carried out and realised," after what the public
have so recently heard from the Council them-
selves, we fear that Mr. HOLT must be suffering
under some greater infirmity than that to which he
attributes his determination to retire into private
life.

" All that remains to be done," says Mr. HOLT,
"in order to bring to Liverpool the water which
" has been so abundantly and completely im
" pounded in the reservoirs at Rivington, are some
" odds and ends of connecting links on the pipe
" line. The two small reservoirs or tanks, the one
" at Apul Moor and the other at Mountrey House
"are contracted for by parties fully capable of
" doing the work; and these, when finished (but
" which are not necessary for bringing the water
"to Liverpool), will complete the undertaking
" altogether in all its details." The public know
the exact value to place on these assurances, and
time will enable us to form a more reliable estimate
of their worth. It would be useless, however, to
follow Mr. HOLT any further. He has evidently
fallen into an hallucination which cannot be
removed by the use of reason. We therefore take
our leave of the veteran Town Councilman. Our
business lies more immediately with the Council
as a body. We have to look to what they have
done, in order to judge of what we have to expect
from them henceforth. We have seen nearly three
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bubble.

The four million dock job was a project of pre-
ciselyt
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Com-
mission to enquire into the local charges on
shipping, and it called forth the opposition of Man-
chester, which led to the introduction of a bill for
the " abolition" of our town dues, and a Parlia-
mentary committee to enquire into the shortest
road to the subversion of the principle of local
self-government, and the rights of property. Need
the Ratepayers be reminded of the juggling of tho
Council on the gas question ? Who ever beheld
such an exhibition of toadyism and jobbery ? The
town is saddled with a " meter" inspector, and an
establishment which will cost the Borough fully
1,0001. a year, when all is told. Turn again
to the expense the port has been put to
by the jobbery attempted in the Birken-
head Dock Bill of last Session. This
scheme was thrown out of Parliament, and the
Dock Committee must be proceeding with the
works on plans condemned by their own engineers,
or on plans not sanctioned by law, and in direct
opposition to those laid down in the Act, in which
the mode of construction is clearly specified. The
defeat of this Bill, then, leaves the shipowner
without the increased accommodation required
to preserve the trade of the Mersey, or our
dock celebrities to make peace with the House
of Commons, at an additional cost to the Rate-

payers,

We might here allude to the fact that the inha-
bitants are paying rates for the Rivington Pike
water before any member, with the exception of
Mr. HOLT, can venture to say when we shall receive
the water in return for our money. This is a corpo-
rate abuse which is without a parallel in the history
of municipal corruption. We have now
to supply wrought iron pipes where cast
iron were thought to have been sufficiently
strong ! The difference in strength of these
two materials does not appear to have been
discovered until the water was wanted, or some of
our large wrought iron workers probably suggested
the propriety of trying them. But we might go
on in this strain to the end of our paper, and still
find something to bring to light—the smoke
nuisance question, with its cushionings, favourit-
isms, and twaddling evasions of the main points at
issue, both in a scientific and sanitary point of
view—for example ; but the summary we have
given will suffice to show what the Council, as a
body, really are. And that the Burgesses are
morally bound to see these abuses put a stop to,
by rejecting every candidate, who asks for their
votes, while they know that his name has been
mixed up directly or indirectly in the schemes,
jobs, and juggles which we have seen going on in the Council Chamber and Corporate Committee-
rooms within the last three years. Mr. HOLT has
acted with great delicacy in decliningt a
oan certain
defeat, and there are others whose period of office
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