The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-23 00:00:00

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Commercial. Salo.

THIS DAY

THIS DAY, the 23rd instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the
Brokers' office, 15, Oldhall-street,
50 Bales SARSAPARILLA,
• 7 Bundles BARK DE MALAGATO,
ex Bing, from Chiriquo.—Apply to
BUCHANAN, BROWNE & CO., Brokers.

On account of whom it may concern.
Tnis DAY, the 23rd instant, at One o'clock,
A Quantity of Loose CO ['TON, damaged and wet,
saved from the wreck of the Constitution, from New York;
now lying at the wreck shed, Prince's Dock. —Apply to
Bowman, Grinnell & Co., Merchants, or to
SAMUEL KEARSLEY & CO., Brokers.

T O-M 0 R R 0 W.

On account of whom it may concern,

TO-IriOßßow, the 24th instant, at the Broker's saleroom,

Exchange-chambers,
About 150 Bales Mexican FIBRE, all faults,

ex Jacobus, from Tampico.—Apply to Messrs. Leech, Har
rison, and Forwood, Merchants, or to
FRANCIS J. EATON, Broker.

TO-MORROW, the 24th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the
Broker's office, 7, Exchange chambers, Tithebarn-street,

About 30 Tons BONE ASH,

lately landed ex Penelope, in Birkenhead Dock.—Apply
FRANCIS J. EATON, Broker.

WOOL SALE.

On account of whom it may cfrucern.
'IV-MORROW, the 24th instant, at Tw-dive o'clock, at the
Brokers' office, 13, North Sohn street,
eep's WOOL, ex sundry ships

130 Bales Peruvian She

all faults,

170 Baj

s Sundr

300 Bales,

For oatalogy-s and particulars apply to
LAW & WYLIE, Brokers,

FRIDAY

On account of whom it may concern

mAY next, the 26th inst., at Half-past One o'clock,
at Golding and Nash's saleroom, Corn Exchange, Brmls-

wick-street,

A Quantity Damaged Indian CORN,
ex West Point, from New York; lying on Waterloo Dock
Quay.—For particulars apply to
J. Sc M. HARNETT, Brokers.

On FRIDAY next, the 25th instant, at Two o'clock,
at the office of the undersigned,
120 Tons Bird Island GUANO, ex Neptune,
50 Tons Ground PHOSPHATES,
10 Tons Ground BONE ASH.
For analysis, &c., apply to ARNOTT, BROTHERS,
Liver-chambers, Tithebarn-street.

ILLMER'S EAILWAY AND STEAMBOAT they cannot be losers, or a rival corporation em-
GUIDE, for APRIL—PRICE TWOPENCE. barking in a Parliamentary campaign, the expenses
&RIMS Wtramas, 19, South John-street, (and by all
of which are paid out of market tolls, and the
working man's gas light. Manchester will be
made to pay for Mr. HERON'S professional gambols,
and his Corporation will take care that they are
not charged with the sport. But what is all this

to the Select Committee, or to the Liverpool
Ratepayers? The Committee must sit in obedi-
ennco to the order of the House, and Liverpool
must pay for the defence of the Burgesses pro-
perty. We shall see in the Borough accounts for
the current year a large additional item under the
head of " Parliimentary expenses," which must
be paid out of the corporate funds, and just
because Mr. LOWE will sit and hear Mr. HERON
read over the Blue Books of Parliament. There is
an immense deal of the political morality
of the day about all this. The Committee
will sit as long as there is a witness to
examine, a heap of dusty evidence to be read, or

the present House of Commons is in existence ;
and what will it come to ? Mr. LowE's Committee
will most likely report in favour of his bill, and
the Premier will have to divide the house on a
question eubversive of the whole corporate reve.
nues of the kingdom.
Mr. LOWE'S production is but the fine point of
the great centralisation wedge. Let it but once
enter the trunk of local self-government, and we
shall hear something ere long about the hardship
of having poor rates, and other local revenues, in
the hands of local bodies. The House of
Commons saw through the drift of Mr. LowE's

bill, and the attempt would have been signally
defeated if the Ministry had gone to a division.
And now that the Committee, that monster ruse of
injustice, have sat two whole days over one witness,
what have they gained which will give the spolia-
tors additional strength? Why, literally nothing,
beyond an insolent declaration from the TOWN-
CLERK of Manchester, that "he did not come
" there to raise the question of the right of the
" corporation at all to these dues; what he corn-
,' plained of was the appropriation of the dues." Surely
the good sense of the House of Commons must
interpose between the public and this enquiry.
The whole thing is becoming too paltry even for
this gullible age. If we are to be legislated for let
it be by some higher authorities than Vice-
Presidents of the Board of Trade and Town Clerks.
Let Parliament decide on the " appropriation" of
Corporate revenues, and not such mortals as Mr.
HERON, who, although he cannot dispute our

" right" to the Town Dues, would dictate to the
ratepayers of Liverpool, and every town in
England, what they. should do with their own !
The whole thing is now becoming very funny, and
we should laugh heartily at it, if we could make
either Mr. LOWE or Mr. HERON pay our bill of

costs.
Mr. HERON thought it would be " highly desira-
" ble that the Town Dues should be expended to a
"certain extent, as was done now by the Corpora
" tion, for the benefit of the shipping." This is
really rich. In the course of the first day's
examination he did nothing but grumble, because
the Corporation did not expend the Dues on
shipping purposes. It was never intended
that they should be so expended. The
original grantees were not compelled to
apply the revenue they received to such purposes
The SEFTON family were not required to build
docks, to widen streets for increased trade traffic,
and to lay out 6,0001. a year on the river, to facili_
tate the ingress and egress of ships ! The Corpo-
ration have done it of their own free will, and yet
our enemies complain one day of our title, and the
next of the mal-appropriation of our funds ! But
what has become of Mr. HERON'S originality ? He
says :—" With regard to the printed documents
" from which he had read, he had read nothing
`` which was not on the authority of evidence before
" Parliamentary committees, evidence taken before
" the municipal corporation commissioners, or
" evidence furnished by officers of the Liverpool
" corporation ; and if he had inadvertently made
" any error in his statement, the corporation had
"it in their power to correct him." All this must
have been very edifying to the committee. Blue
Books are not the lightest reading at any time, and
the recital of the dry records of the Liverpool
Corporation must have been a dose indeed ! But
we may safely take our leave of HERON and Mr.
LOWE for the present. They are tolerably well
" used up," and we may await the issue with as
much cool patience as the House of Commons
can well display, when they receive the Select
Committee's elaborate report of stale trash !