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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-05 00:00:00

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NORTHERN TIMES,

Pleas. Either of these appointments would be
popular, and the latter in every way unexcep-
tionable. Should Sir Alexander Cockburn after
all elect to take the vacant office, Sir R. Bethel]
would be Attorney-General, and the Solicitor-
Generalship would then become vacant. In that
event the names of Mr. Edwin James, the eminent
Queen's counsel, and of Mr. Collier, the member
for Plymouth, have been mentioned in connection
with the Solicitor-Generalship "
Lord Palmerston has arrived at Manchester, and
is the guest of Sir Benjamin Heywood. On Thurs-
day he is to be presented with an address from the
Corporation of Manchester. A correspondent
writes us, that it is probable that on Wednesday at
noon Lord and Lady Palmerston will visit the
exhibition in the Mechanics' Institution. On the
same day James Watts, Esq., Mayor of Manches-
ter, Stephen Heelis, Esq., Mayor of Salford, Mr.
Thomas Bazley, President of the Chamber of
Commerce, and Mr. J. Aspinall Turner, President
of the Commercial Association; are invited to dine
at Claremont. On Thursday morning it is probable
Lord Palmerston will receive an address from the
Salford Corporation at the free Library, in Peel
Park and afterwards those from the Manchester
Corporation, the Chamber of Commerce, and
the Commercial Association, in the Town Hall.
Thursday evening is fixed for the meeting
of the members and friends of the Me-
chanics' Institution in the Free Trade Hall, at
which his lordship will be present. It will be well
to state distinctly, as regards the presentation of
the three addresses at the Town Hall, that only
members of the bodies can possibly be admitted
to the large room during the proceedings. There
are sixty-four members of the Corporation, for
whom seats will be provided ; the Chamber of
Commerce has 350, and the Commercial Associa
tion from 150 to 170 members ; so that the regula-
tion we have stated is a matter of absolute necessity,
as the room will only accommodate, with anything
like comfort, from 400 to 450 persons.
The tenor of our Continental advices are
interesting. A despatch from Constantinople from
M. Thouvenel confirms the nomination of Redschid
Pasha to the Grand Vizierate, but does not men-
tion the names of the other Ministers. It is said
that M. Thouvenel recommends that no opinion
should be formed as to the political tendencies of
the Government until it be completed ; but he
does not anticipate that anything hostile is
intended against France. The day fixed for
presenting the Sultan with the insignia of the
Gartar, was that on which Redschid Pasha entered
on his functions as Grand Vizier, and in that
capacity he was present at the ceremony. The
Austrian Correspondence, returning to its discussion
with the French journals, relative to the evacua-
tion of the Principalities, says that Turkey only
intended to express a desire for an arrangement;
adding, that the understanding on the question
between the Porte, Austria, and England, is on
the most friendly footing. Accounts have been
received from Constantinople to the 27th ultimo
Baron de Prokesch, the Austrian ambassador,
and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe have visited the
new ministers, and urged the prolongation of
an occupation of the Principalities and of the
Black Sea. Some disturbances have broken out
in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem. Abdel Kader
has returned to Damascus. Some disturbances
have taken place in that city, in which a French
medical man was knocked down by some of the
fanatic people. The consul has obtained the arrest
of several of the guilty parties. The Greek
Chambers have been convoked for the 12th inst.

The export of corn is interdicted until July, 1857.
The Madrid journals of the 30th ult. have
reached us. The Epoca says it is positive that, as
already announced, Queen Christina is to go to
Rome to attend the aceouchement of her daughter
the Princess de Drago, but that she has no
intention to return to Spain for the present
The Espana says :—" We have the statisfaction
to announce that the recognition of the Queen
of Spain by the Emperor of all the Russias
is a fait accompli. The ambassador charged
to make it has already set out and will soon
arrive at Madrid. This important news was
transmitted yesterday by telegraph from Paris."
The Minister of Finance, according to the Epoca
was so occupied in providing means to purchase
food and to meet the obligations of the treasury
and the half year's dividends which fall due at
the end of December, that he had to postpone
the financial measures which had been expected.
It was reported that the Cortes were about to be
summoned.

THERE are a variety of rumours afloat respecting

certain Corporate movements, and the coming
Election of Aldermen, is looked for with unusual
interest. It is generally believed that Mr. PICTON
will be raised to the Municipal dignity in question,
and should this take place, we may easily predict
the result. For the present, however, we have to
look narrowly to the principle on which the Council
We have frequently denounced the
system of making men Aldermen who are not
actually in the Council, as a palpable violation of
the spirit, if not the letter, of the Municipal Reform
Act. It was never meant by the Legislature that
a representative body should have a large number
of non-elected members. The framers of the present
Municipal Constitutions may not have expressed
their meaning very clearly, but they certainly never
contemplated seeing such a glaring abuse of
representative institutions staring them in the
face. lYet the practice has been followed in
this Borough on every occasion when jobbery has
found itself assailed by the Ratepayers, and the
reckless prodigals have found themselves dwindling
in numbers and influence. It has never been
resorted to as a mark of public respect. Inde-
pendent men of tried integrity have not had the
honour conferred on them. It has ever been
reserved for some political toady or successful
job-monger. The most deserving men in the
Corporation have been passed over for the most
deservedly unpopular men in the town. Only
three years ago, Mr. GEORGE HOLT was laid
aside for Mr. THOMAS BoLn, a man who would
scarcely venture to offer himself as a candidate
for any Ward in the Borough.

may act

This instance will" serve to show the positively
corrupt use which is made of the principle the
Council act upon. Mr. THOMAS BOLD had fought
hard at elections. He might at one time have
claimed a medal for carrying a Redan or two. He
was never known to be beaten where the-Exchequer
was strong, the Press venal, and the Reformers
disunited. Were he sitting in the House of Lords
or Commons, BURKE or DODD could not say one
word more of his predilections or career as a poli-
tician, and this is the man the jobbing side of our
local government would shovel out of the passing
crowd into the Aldermanic sleeves, to insult the
whole of the community. Now, it is against this
unwarrantable abuse of the power of election
vested in the councilman that we protest, in the
name of the deserving men in the Corporation,
and the numerous class of electors whose opinions
we express, and whose interests we labour to pro
If the list of meritorious names the Cor
porate constituencies have sent into the Council was
exhausted, we should then oppose the pretentious
of those who claim for themselves the right to bring
into a representative assembly men who have not
been duly elected by the Ratepayers; and we do
not hesitate to tell every member of the Corpora
tion, who votes for outsiders at the election of
Aldermen, on the 9th instant, that he will be as
determinedly opposed when he comes before his
constituents again, as Mr. J. BUCK LLOYD was on
Saturday last, in Lime Street Ward.
Mr. LLOYD owes his memorable defeat mainly
to the vote ho gave for Mr. THOMAS BOLD, when
he was brought forward as an Alderman of Liver-
pool. The insult and injustice which accompanied
that act were too gross to be forgotten. The ex-
Mayor thought that he could act with perfect
impunity—that he might bestow the reward due
to long corporate serviceon political hacks and more

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

active than discreet partizans. He,has since then
found out the folly of yielding to such a delusion.
The public care less about the men who are made
Aldermen than they do about the principle
involved in the system. And we repeat, most
emphatically, that every member of the Council
who votes for pitch-fork Aldermen at the coming
election, will be most strenuously opposed by the
independent electors of the Ward he now repre-
sents, when he offers himself as a candidate
for their suffrages. There are plenty of
gentlemen in the Council who have claims on the
burgesses, and as the prodigals have a Majority
we can say nothing to their selecting Aldermen from
their side of the house. But here the Corruption-
ists must stop short. The divisions which take
place on the 9th will be carefully scrutinised, and
good therl will be found ready to contest the seats
of recreant members, regardless of creed or
politics. The Reformers have shown their strength,
ani are resolved to purify and keep the Cor-
poration within the Constitution. They are up
and doing, and, to use a common adage, a snow-
ball once set in motion increases in site, and
just so will the men seeking moderation and
economy in our local government gain strength.
A large majority of the Burgesses of Lime-street
Ward are pledged to purification. They cannot
allow a jobber to represent them henceforth.
They have taken the initiative, and others will
follow their example. The Reform ball is fairly
up, and it will not be suffered to touch the ground
again until the town is secured against the
reckless work we have all witnessed for so many
years. Agitation is. rife, and the Corruptionists
will be soon heard crying nut—mirificissinzum est.
It will show them that a large body of electors
may bear a great deal, but still there comes
a day of reckoning when every man joins in an
effort to shake off his burdens, or reduce their
galling pressure. That day has now arrived, and
the Council must reform itself, or submit to be
reformed by the voice of the Municipality. Re-
turning two or three good and independent men to
the Chamber will not suffice. The work to be
done is too great, unless the prodigals lend a
willing hand. Never did a Grecian stable require
the scraper and besam half so much. The
gallimatia of the subtle Corruptionists has become
positively detestable even among the masses.
They want to hear something beside jobs which
interest architects, builders, engineers, and attor-
nies. They are heartsick of hearing of job I job !
—from one year's end to another ;—and they will
not be one bit better pleased if they find that the
9th of this gloomy month has been set aside for the
Corruptionist's gala, as the electors begin to suspect
it has been.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON
AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.

We regret to learn that another serious collision occurred
upon this line of railway on Monday. The Midland
express up-train, due at Euston-station at four p.m., ran
into a coal train near the King's Langley Station, causing
serious injury to a great number of passengers and blocking
the up-rails for a considerable period. The cause of the
accident has not transpired. Several of the passengers who
had suffered only minor contusions went on to London
during the evening, but those most seriously injured were
left at King's Langley. The interruption to the truffle on
1 the line was unimportant, all the later trains during the
evening having arrived at Euston-station with the nstla
legularity.

TOXTETH PARK LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH

The usual monthly meeting of the members of this Board
was held yesterday, at the public-offices, Park-road—Mr.
Alpass occupied the chair. The other members present were—
Messrs. Rathbone, Jeffery, Lathbury, Lee, Urquhart, lbbeson
Hughes, Rogers, Darsio, Boult, and Cropper.
The minutes of the last meetings were read, as was alec
that of

FINANCE COMMITTEE,

The proceedings of this committee contained recommenda
tions to pay certain tradesmens' accounts, and also the salaries
of the several officers connected with the Boat d.
On the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. Rogers
the proceedings were confirmed.
THE SEWERAGE COMMITTEE.

The proceedings of this committee announced that the
General Board had assented to the Local Board borrowing £640
for the sewering of Grove-park. It also recommended that
the plans, as prepared by Mr. Newlands, should be adopted by
the Board.
The Clerk suggested that the loan should be repaid out of
an improvement rate, and be levied in accordance with the 91st
section of the act.
After a brief conversation, in the course of which it was
stated that the Corporation of Liverpool had consented to
forego any claim for entering their sewer, provided they could
eventually make use of that about to be constructed, on the
motion of Mr. Jeffery-, seconded by Mr. Rogers, the recom-
mendations of the committee were adopted and confirmed.
Mr. Rogers then moved, and Mr. Urquhart seconded, a
resolution empowering the clerk to raise the money ; and on
the motion of Mr. Darsie, seconded by Mr. Boult, a rate
was ordered to be levied according to the 91st section of the
act

LODGE-LANE IMPROVEMENT,
Mr. Boult suggested that, now that an opportunity arose for
widening the entrance to Lodge lane, that the Board should
take the subject into their consideration. At the present time,
the entrance was so confined that the omnibusses could not
pass without running on the footway. And there was now
some land to be disposed of, and for £l5 or £2O the road
could be widened fifteen or twenty feet.
Mr. Jeffery asked if the Board had.Oa° power of making
such an outlay.
Mr. Boult : The act provides for all necessary improve-

ments.
The Chairman thought that the consideration of the subject
had better be postponed for some future time, when it
could be brought before the Board.
This suggestion was adopted, and the subject dropped.
THE COMMITTEES.
The name of Mr. Boult was added to the finance committrteeto'
,
and those of Mr. Hughes, Mr. Darsie, and Mr. Urquha,
the finance committee, in the place of those persons who had
previously been appointed and became defunct, through non-
attendance.
Some routine business was transacted, and the Board
adjourned

Owing to the strange proceedings of the tory mayor and
town clerk, the Rochester burgess roll is reduce
lst of d
N from
1,100 to 283 votes, so that the elections of the ov.
in the different wards were a mere farce and resulted in the
return of all the tory candidates. The mayor and town
clerk were hung in effigy.
LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY FOR CRILDELEN, 58, Hope Etrept.
—Monthly Report, October, 1856.—Medical officers, Mr.
Stephens and Mr. Hey. Surgeon-dentist, Mr. Newman.
Fresh patients admitted in October, 79 ; patients who hay
received treatment during the month, 171 ; patients re.
maining under treatment, Ist November, 74.
SUICIDE IN THE RIVER.—On Monday evening, as the
Standard, Dublin boat, was passing Holyhead, on her way
from that city to Liverpool, one of the passengers jumped
from the deck into the water. Every exertion was made to
as
extricate the man from the water,
which was successful,
he was got out alive, but died from) exhaustion before the
vessel arrived. The &ceased was ames Browne, a dis-
charged soldier. His body was deposited in the dead house
at the Prince's dock, and an inquest will be held on it this

fire recurred on Friday last

FIRE IN STOCKPORT.---•A - ••• ' •••-
about ten o'clock p.m., at the mill of 11r. Walmsley, Sheep
wash Mill, in Heaton Norris, Stockport. Great praise is
due to the fire brigade of the West of England, and also to
the late superintendent, Mr. Fox, for as,isting them to ex-
tinguish the fire before the borough:engines could be brought
to bear upon it. The fire originated in the lower room of
the mill, which is the blowing room. It is supposed to have
first begun in a mixing of cotton which was in the blowing
room. The damage is supposed to be about £7OO or £BOO,
which is partly covered by the West of England and
another insurance company.
hila North, of Glenham
Wru.s.—The will of the Counss de Mesnard, late of
Paris, was proved in London andsr £B,OOO within the
Mrs. Mary Dewe, of
Morrison,
`Guff3r, M.D., Con-
provincestantinop
loef, Canterbury;£l4,oco ;
the
HSoanm. Samuel p
Reading, £25,000; Mrs. Catherine Weston, M"al
borough.
place, £20,000; the Rev. William Fortescue, of Atte-
00of ;sathaerelisboir.)o.oLkr
xy7CO3uooost, ;
ford, £14,000 ; Mr. Frederick Burmester, Woodford,
£70,000; Mr. John Moginie, Phillimore-place, £30,000;
Mr. Benjamin Ogden, Bristol, .30,000 ; Miss Elizabeth
Anne Jones, of Foot's Cray and Salisbury-square, died
possessed of £120,000 personalty, and has bequeathed to
the Blind Asylum, at St. George s-fields, Jel,ooo, and
liberal legacies to many other charitable institutions. ,

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

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FRANCE

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING

From a quarter which is generally well informed,
I am told that no additional intelligence respecting
the change of ministry, which has taken place in
Turkey, has reached the Government to-day. The
substitution of Redschid Pacha for Mehemed Ali,
took the Turkish court by surprise ; and, it is said,
that the Sultan took occasion to announce it on
the solemn presentation to him of the insignia of
the Order of the Garter by Lord Stratford de
Redcliffe. It is believed here that Redschid Pacha
will re-appoint some of the retiring ministers to his
Cabinet. The change that has taketi place, is an
undoubted check to French influence ; and great
soreness is manifested at it in our political circles.
M. de Thouvenel, the French Ambassador, is much
blamed for having played his cards so badly as to
cause it. It even seems, that he acted with undue

precipitancy, in announcing to his Government that
the Turkish Cabinet had summoned the Austrians
to quit the Principalities, and the English the
Black Sea, as that Cabinet hesitated not to admit
to the other Ambassadors immediately after that it
had only done so to please him, not that it really
wished the thing done.
M. Brenier, the French Minister at Naples, left
Marseilles last night direct for Compiegne, to
have an interview with the Emperor. M. Petro,
the English charge d'affaires, and the members of
our Legation have, I hear reached this city, and
will probably be in London early to-morrow. The
Neapolitan Minister, the Marquis d'Antonini,
remains here. It is not true, lam told, that, as
stated in some of the Continental papers, the
Neapolitan Minister of Foreign Affairs has sent
a circular to the European powers on the subject
of the rupture. _ _ .

M. Kisselaff, the new Russian Ambassador, who
arrived here a few days back, is to go to Compiegne
to-morrow, to present the Emperor with an auto-
graph letter from the Czar. On Sunday he is to
present in the usual form his credentials to his
Majesty,. at St. Cloud.
On the Bourse, to-day, the liquidation has gone
off pretty well, and there has been a slight rise in
prices. Credit Mobilier shares have advanced 25f,
owing to the concession of the Russian railways to

it.
The Independance, of Brussels, has been seized
by the police to-day, Seizures of foreign papers
have been rather frequent of late.
The Moniteur contains an Imperial decree, pro-
mulating a treaty of commerce and navigation
between France and the Republic of Liberia, which
was concluded so far back as the 17th April, 1852.
The Constitutionnel contradicts, evidently par
ordre, the assertion of some Italian newspaper, to the
effect that differences have arisen between the Em-
per and his uncle, Prince Jerome, relative to the non-
completion of the tomb of Napoleon L in the
Invalides ; but it admits that the Emperor has not
yet settled in what manner the tomb is to be ter-
minated. From what the semi-official paper says,
it looks vastly as if the Italian paper was in the

right. •
Vienna letters, in the Paris papers, say that the
greatest satisfaction is manifested in the Austrian
political circles at the rupprochement which has
taken place between England and Austria on the
question pending with Turkey.
Madrid accounts say that official intelligence
had reached that capital, that Russia had des.
patched an ambassador to make a formal acknow-
ledgeMent of Queen Isabella, and to' re-establish
diplomatic relations with her Court. The
recognition, which took place a few days 'ago,
through Count Benkendorff, was, it appears, only a
preliminary one.
The Chamber of Greece are convoked for the
12th Nov. The Government has interdicted the
export of wheat to the 12th of July, 1857.
Constantinople accounts to the 27th, record
disturbances at Damascus, and near Jerusalem. In
those of the former place, a Frenchman was nearly
killed, their dread being a new earthquake at
Broussa, but it did no great harm.

POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY

BEFORE WILLIAM BROWN, ESQ , ILP

ARTFUL HOUSE RonuERY.--Threo young, men, well
known to the police as professional thieves, named Theodore
Pennington (alias Williams), Thomas Smith, and George
Ho!are, were placed in the dock, charged with robbing the
house of Mr. Thomas Pugh, beerhouse keeper, 41, Copperas
hill, under the following audacious circumstances :—On
Wednesday night last, Pennington called at the house of the
prosecutor, and asked to be accommodated with lodgings,
observing that he had come from Manchester, and was a per-
fect stranger in Liverpool. He could not be accommodated
that night, but on the following night ho was provided with
lodgings in the house, the charge to be sixpence a night, for a
month. •He paid the money regularly until Sunday night,
and did nothing to excite suspicion, except when, on one
morning.iuring the week, he, ad it were, casually asked Mrs.
Pugh, if they kept much money in the house ; adding, " I
suppose the brewer comes pretty quick after it." (Laughter.)
On Sunday evening he came to the house, accompanied by the
other two prisoners. After taking a little drink, his companions
left, and he retied to rest about, half-past eleven o'clock. About
half-past two o'clock on Monday morning, Mr. Pugh heard
the noise of a person coming down stairs, and when they after-
wards rose it was found that the till and drawers had been
broken open, and £5 10s. in money, a silver• watch, a quantity
of silver plate, and a number of rings, brooches, &c., stolen.
The windows of the house were found quite secure as on the
previous night, and Pennington was found quietly sleeping in
bed. On communicating the 'circumstances to the police,
suspicion at once fell upon Pennington and his companions,
and they were shortly afterwards arrested by detective officers
Scott, Povey, and Laycock. On Holme, bills were
found showing that he had just purchased £6 worth of
clothes, and in the Smith's house, in Liverpool place, liotham
street, was found the copper wire frame of an eye glass, which
was identified as part of the stolen property. A pair of Pon-
uington's stockings were found, quite wet, on Monday morning,
in the house adjoining Pugh's, and police officer 764 declared,
in the most positive manner, that about 3 o'clock on Monday
morning he saw Pennington come out of Smith's house, and
run towards Copperas hill. Mr. Bluck defended Holme and
Smith, and contended that, against them, at all events, no case
had been made out. The Magistrates decided on sending the
case for trial, and the three prisoners were, accordingly, com-
mitted.