The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-26 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

Wr. have received a communication from Dr. Bedforc
Ph. D., to which we must decline to give insertion.
_ _

,v-z have received a note from Mr. Lauren
to the Ormskirk II
that the advertisement for a Chaplain, which appeared in
our impressions of Saturday and Monday, " was not only
without the sanction, but contrary to the express resolu-
tion of the Board of Guardians."

Wright,

mon, in wh

e requests us to stat,

LIVERPOOL FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
AND MIISEIIIL—TO ARCHITECT S.—Th e
Connell of the Boron b of Liverpool are about to E RECT a BUILD-
ING for the purposes of the Free Public Library and the Derby
Museum, and OFFER a PREMIUM of 150 Li,UINEAS for the best
DESIGN, and 100 GUINEAS for the second.
The Designs are to be sent in on or before Saturday, May 31.
Copies of the printed conditions and inatiuctionsto architec a com-
peting, and lithographed plans and sections of the site, may be had
on application to Mr. J. Stuart Dalton, librarian, k ree Public
Library, Duke-street, Liverpool.

IUIRST EXHIBITION of the FRENCH
SCHOOL of the FINE ARTS in Liverpool, including
MAD'LLE ROSA BONHETTR'S

GREAT PICTURE OF
"THE HORSE FAIR"
,

a NOW OPEN at the Liverpool Academy Rooms. Old Poet-office.
place, Church-street. Admission is. Catalogues. 6d. Gentle-
men's Season Tickets, ss.
_Ladles' Ditto, 3s 6d.—Open from Ten
11Five o'clock.

B. FRODSHAM, Secretary,

lqortiitrn fiutto

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY

26, 1856

Tiz PALMERSTON Cabinet have decided on renew-
ng the Bank Charter Act of 1844, provided the
of England do not object !

ectors of

the hank

Such was the language employed by the C

aANCEL-

Loa of the EXCHEQUER in the House of Commons,
last week, in answer to Mr. H. BAILLIE, who
was anxious to know whether, if the act were
renewed, the Government propose to make pro-
vision for the continuance of the payment of one
Per cent. per annum, now made to those private
banks who have discontinued issuing their notes
in fivoitv of the Bank of England, as those of
Llierpool have done. The honourable member
put his question. with all the dryness and tact of
an official of. long experience, and never
was there a query of
greater magni-
tude' put to any nation to be answered by its
rulers. It is one which affects the well being of
every individual in the community ; and when a
measure which has added the greatest intensity of
panic to the gigantic and oppressive expenditure
of war is mobted, a Minister of the Crown is
found tamely abandoning principle, surrendering
the judgment and foresight of himself and his
colleagues, and leaving the matter to be decided by
the Board of Directors

f a Joint Stock company
t deeply interested, both

who are the parties mos, - -
individually and collectively, in continuing a system
which the Government do not know whether to
applaud or condemn! Ministers will renew the
Bank Charter Act if theßank of England Directors
wish it, or they will leave it alone if they object!
What sort of an administration is this ? What
confidence can the mercantile, trading, and indus-
* -ial classes have in any cabinet whohave no views
of their own on a question which affects the daily
bread of the whole community? We have
frequently said, that a few wiseacres in Thread-
asedle,street, govern England; and here is our