The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-03 00:00:00

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we do not u,

of seeing

hold filth.
the extrarodinary facility with which men
cloak the most barefaced disregard of the
moral duties which attends the right of
voting under so many political absurdities, swept
away by time and reflection. Moderation, like all
virtues of civilisation, must be allowed
time to grow; and since a good many who delight in
calling themselves " Tories," voted for Mr. J. R.
J EFFE RY, as the most fit and proper man to repre-
sent Lime-street Ward, it is just possible that, on
the Ist of November next, which is, after all, to be
the day of a general municipal clearance of the
prodigals out of the Council chamber, they will
come forward in the same independent spirit, and
support the best candidates—without reference
to the political cant of the day. Thinking men
are beginning to see that all they gain in malt by
corruption, they lose in meal taxation. The rate
collector is as prompt in his attendance on the
Tory who has been duped into supporting muni-
cipal extravagance, as he is on the vilest Radical
This fact will work wonders,
even within the next twelve mouths, and when
the Reformers show that they are worthy of the
confidence reposed in them, we feel convinced that
the Ratepayers, throughout the town, will unite to
clear the Corporation of spendthrifts and jobbers,

the other

voter in cieation

be they Radicals, Whigs, Tories, or Conservatives•
Political cries are but sorry apologies for acts
which lead to rampant oppression.
Coupling the Constitution with every species of
wrong, is dangerous sophistry ; and to talk of
loyalty and patriotism, in the same breath, is
perfectly monstrous. A. seat in the Council
was a matter of great professional importance to

larceny, of which you have pleaded, I sentence you Mr. JOHN BUCK LLOYD ; and we need not be sur-
to be transported for fourteen years, concurrent to
prised, therefore, to hear him cheering for the
the first sentence I have mentioned The prisoner
listened attentively to the learned judge during the Constitution, in Church and State, where there is
delivery of the sentence. His face was slightly a heavy stake at issue. But we loathe this sort of
suffused. He drew himself up to his full height, loyalty. The Constitution was designed to give
momentarily suryeyed the court with a slight
scornful smile, and then walked from the dock equal rights to all ; but mark the attention Mr. J.
Our latest Continental news is not of much BUCK LLOYD and his supporters bestow, every year
moment. We hear that the Queen of Spain is of their lives, to cutting off the Rate-payers and Tax-
about to send an army from Havana to St. Domingo, payers from the Parliamentary and Burgess Rolls
for the purpose of operating against the re-
-to filch from them their rights of citizenship, and
publican movements for the freedom of the
Dominicans frorn the rule of the Haytian black leave them powerless. And what would they not
government. Five thousand muskets are ready do to perpetuate that ascendancy of their political
to be sent to the Spanish Consul at St. Domingo. order which the Constitution was meant to uproot.
It is said that it is not true that the credit com-
The ex-mayor is, however, no longer a Town Coun-
panies in Spain have, as has been reported,
protested against the decree suspending the sale cillor ; and his rejection should be a warning to all
of the national property. The Danish minister, those who merely play upon the prejudices, and
who had been dangerously ill, was considered
make a handl3 of the passions of their fellow-
likely to recover. A letter from a ministerial
:—« The
to reach place, and power, and emo
source says :
The rumours that have been in
circulation during the last two days as to a lument. The Burgesses are firmly resolved to
ministerial crisis are unfounded ; the Queen con- purify the air of the Town Hall. They will
- to place confidence in Marshal Narvaez. watch narrowly all that is said and done
Several Paris journals have published letters and
in the Council between this and the Ist of
articles which assert that the Queen had demanded
that the property belonging to the clergy should November, 1857, and if the Radicals prove to
be restored, and that the Marquis de Viluma had be time-servers, the Whis to be shufflers,
been summoned to form a ministry in the room of
the Tory continue to be jobbers, and the Cori
Narvaez. But there is no truth in these statements. servatives spendthrifts, they may be fully pre-
Large quantities of wheat have arrived from the
provinces, and a fall in price in this city is to he pared to meet the severe censure which has
expected It was reported that 100,000 bushels overtaken Mr. J. BUCK LLOYD. In a word,
have been purchased at Marseilles. There is a they
hetyNevilml
ondoetrb at eereturned to the Council Chamber
rumour of establishing, under the presidency of i
and independent electors of the
AI. Mon, an association for promoting the cause of Borough
free trade in this country. In addition to the can carry the elections against them.
incorporation of the provincial militia in the army, No party, clique, or cry can prevail over a consti
the Government thinks of forming a reserve, which tuency united for the accomplishment of a great
will be ready to take arms at the first summon moral end, and to all backsliders we would say,
"
The news from Catalonia continues to be satisfac-
Remember the melancholy end of the over-
"sanguine Mr. JOHN BUCK Dawn, and the singular
tory, but the two leading democrats belongin to
the province have been exiled to the Canaries.'
" power of an `lndependent Press.—
Count Walewski, the French Foreign Minister

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