The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-04 00:00:00

and Eichequer Bills, but we limit our confidence
to large amounts. We allow them to create
any amount of indebtedness by the issue

of paper, but we question their honesty
when it comes to the creation of a national money
wherewith we might supply industry and pay
taxes. They cease to be the Ministers of the
Crown when we ask them, or they take upon
themselves, to issue their paper in the form of
currency, or money, more properly speaking. They
may put the State stamp on a foreign cotnniodity
the corner of a bill of exchange, a
receipt or a letter, and it passes current without
being depreciated in value. Yet the moment they
are required to come to the aid of industry and
trade with the legal tender of the State, the whole
of our usurers, money jobbers, and gold holders
deny the right of the Crown to regulate the quality
or quantity of local or taxation money the people
shall have. If we must hare foreign gold for all
money purposes, it is obviously the duty of the
Crown to supply the means with which we are to
possess ourselves of that which it requires. The
Israelites could not make bricks without straw,
and how heartily we declaim against their
oppressors for asking them to perform an impos-
sibility.

Few modern rulers would like to share the
reputation of PHAROAH, and yet here we are
turning the middle of the nineteenth century,
buried in the depth of his guilt. The follies of
an age are always too glaring to be seen through
by their victims. Few enlightened leaders of a
nation would be willing to liken himself to an
Egyptian King of antiquity. The present time,
hoWever, is adding much of Gospel, which closely
resembles the Scriptural revelations of earlier and
less civilised epochs. We must go to lands a far
off for the material by which we are to escape from
the hands of the tax-collector, and the bolts, locks,
and bars which await the fallen trader. The
Crown must not relieve its subjects ; the State
may not defend itself, and fly to the highest
prerogative of the Sovereign, to succour that
national virtue—industry The Ilullionist has
the Empire between his finger and thumb. He
suspects the Government who protects him, the
merchant who feeds him, the tradesman and
farmer who pays him rent, the citizen who toils
for him, the very house that shelters him, and the
land that gave him birth. His heart is
wrapped up in a usurious discount market, and
his soul yearns for Mammon which is
imbedded in the bowels of a distant land.
He will hear nothing but what the ghost of ADAM
SMITH repeats by rapping on his table, and finds no
greater consolation than that of seeing the precious
metal he has laboured so hard to obtain flowing
from his hands into the lap of his country's ene-
mies. He will sell it for nothing, which must be
the sort of bullion business we are doing at this
moment, as we can show no returns for all the
gold we are said to be selling, sooner than allow
money to remain at a a fair commercial rate of
discount. For such men, and for such a system,
there remains but one cure—the diffusion of sound
information—and a great and general crash, such
as some men see impending over our heads at the
present hour, and we would simply ask, if our best
men are doomed to fail, what is to become, even.
tually, of those below them ?

THE COURT

WINDSOR, SATURDAY

The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of
Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Royal, and
the Princess Mary of Cambridge, her Serene Highness the
Princess Amelie of Hohenlohe Schillingfurst, Lady Augusta
Bruce, Lady Geraldine Somerset, the Marquis of Abercorn,
Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Lieutenant-General Sir
W. and Lady Codrington, Major-General Sir Harry Jones,
the Baroness de Spetb, Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. Gibbs.
The band of the Coldstream Guards played during dinner
the following selection :

Overture,'" Die Z tuberflote "
Fantasia, Trovatore "
Waltz, "Fair Star" D'Albert. -
Selection, " Elijah"
Quadrille, " St. Patrick " (Irish Melodies) Laurent.
Her Majesty's private band- porformel in the evening the
following compositions :
_

Overture, "Die Najaden"
Introduction " Fidelio ". ,
Brabant Polka Mazurka..

W. S. Bennett.
Beethoven
13aere.

The Queen, with the Princess Royal, walked in the Home
Park this morning. Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Marquis of Abercorn, Viscount Sydney, and Lieutenant.
General Sir W. Codrington, went out shooting. The
Duchess of Cambridge took leave of her Majesty, and, with
Princass Mary, left Windsor for Kew. Lord Abercorn,
Lord and Lady Sydney, Sir William and Lady Codrington,
and Sir Harry Jones have also left the Castle. Lord Chas.
Fitzroy and Captain Du Plat have succeeded Lord Alfred
Paget and Colonel F. H. Seymour as equerries in waiting
to the Queen and Prince. Prince Albert, the Prince of
Wales, and Prince Alfred, attended by Captain Du Plat and
Lieutenant Cowell. left Windsor at 6 o'clock in the
evening, by the Great Western Riilway, for London, and
went to the Princess's Theatre. The royal party returned
to the Castle at a quarter before eleven. Her Majesty's
dinner party included the Princess Royal, Lieut.• General
Sir F. Stoves, and Mr. Gibbs. The band of the Ist Life
Guards played during dinner.

Overture
Aria. " Martha" . •_ • ••
Quadrille, " Dibden " - Coote
Grand Selection, " Semiramide " .... ~ • i Rossini
Walzer' " Clemenza de Tito "
Mazurka

SUNDAY, Nov.2.—The Queen and Prince, the elder mem,.
hers of the Royal Family, with the Duchess of Kent and
Princess Amelie of Hobenlohe Schillingfurst, the Ladies and
Gentlemen of the Court, and the Domestic Household,
attended Divine service this morning in the Private Chapel
of the Castle. The Hon. and very Rev, the Dean of
Winds )r officiated.

The foundation stone of a new building for the accommo-
dation of the schools attached to St. Saviour's Church, was
laid by the Rev. Mr. Warr, in Upper Canning street, yes..
terday. The band of the schools was in attendance, and
performed admirably several pieces.
- NEW MAYORS.—For Manchester it is expected that Mr.
James Watts, and for Salford Mr. Stephen Heelis, the
present mayors, will consent to take office a second year,
and as this compliment has been usual in most previous
cases, their re-election may be regarded as almost certain.
FURIOUS DRIVING.—At an early hour yesterday
morning a cab was driven at a furious rate down Elliott
street. When entering Clayton square the horse fell, an d
the cab was almost dashed to pieces. At the time the
driver was in an almost helpless state of intoxication, He
was immediately apprehended ; and, upon being taken
before the magistrates, he was fined ss.;for being drunk.
CORONER'S INQJESTS.—HORRIBLE DEATH FROM FIRE.—
The deputy coroner held the following inquests :—On the body
of Ann Briggs, aged 59, who lodged at 66, Pembroke street.
The husband of deceased is at present in Australia, and she
was destribed as a very sober person, but was subject to a
d'zziness in the head. It would seem that, on Friday night,
oue of these fits came on whilst she had a lighted candle in
ber hand, and her clothes baying caught fire- she was burnt
to death. Verdict accordingly. (The deceased was de-
scribed as the owner of several houses in town )—On the
body of James Ruth, 34 years of age, who was a porter at
the Lime street railway station, and who was killed on
Saturday under the following circumstances : —There was a
bundle of steel about 2 cwt, and some six or seven feet
long, and several of the men on the platform were trying
their strength at lifting it. The deceased, in trying to lift
it on his shoulder, fall, and the steel falling on his neck,
killed him on the spot. Verdict accidental death.—On the
body of a child named Thomas Hyams, aged 2t- years, who
dropped dead in his aunt's arms, on Saturday morning, in
Mitchell street. Surgeon Kemp, who examined the body,
stated that death was the result of disease, brought on by
natural causes. Verdict accordingly.—There were two
inquests held on young children who were suffocated in bed
by accident, but the details were not worth noting. Verdicts
of accidental death.