The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-06 00:00:00

Lord Palmersten has arrived.at Manchester, and
to-day he is to deliver an addresTat the Athenaeum

_ It is expected that the fioble premier
will make some allusion to the political topics of
the day. We learn from a Manchester cotempo-
rary, that on the arrival of the train at Manchester
there were from :300 to 400 persons on the platform
When his Lordship and Lady Palmerston got
seated in Sir Benjamin Heywood's carriage, a
slight attempt was made to get up a cheer, but it
was not responded to save by one or two indivi-
duals. The fountains near the Royal Infirmary
played during Tuesday afternoon, and from two to
three thousand -fersons assembled on the espla
"I'f" .usual in I iceadilly and Market_street, who
orsre evidently desirous of catching a passing

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The usual weekly meeting of the West Derby
Board of Guardians was held yesterday. Among
tie proceedings was a letter from the Secretary of
the Poor Law 'Commissioniers, Lord Courtney,
which, among other matters, stated that in accord-
ance with the wish of the Guardians the Poor Law
Board will issue en order to authorise the

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fltiatdiahg to divide themselves into committees
foi, the purpose of hearing and determining appli
be,tions for relief. A charge has been preferred
itgaiest Mr. Stevens, one of the medical officers of
the Union, for being guilty of neglect in the
treatment of a poor woman named Kelly. The
charge is to be investigated before the Board at
its next meeting.

There is a daily increasing anxiety for the
ts'Ablisliment of a responsible board of agricul-
tural statistics. There is no doubt but much and
real good would be effected by such a board. It
ivould enable all parties to know, with something
approaching accuracy, the actual results of our
*harvest, and the probable quantity of grain
end grain produce which we would require
'to import, so as to meet the wants of our home
consumption. Among others who hive lately
touched upon this subject, is Mr. Henry Drum-
mond, M.P. The hon. gentleman says that it was
all very well for scientific gentlemen, who wrote
and prepared other volumnious matter, about
having agricultural returns, or whatever they
liked to style it, but they must be informed that
they could not get tha information they sought
until the farmer had sold his crops. Notwith-
standing what Mr. Drummond may say, we hope
the Government will not omit to devise some
means whereby a proper return of the quantity of
land under cultivation, and the probable yield of
its grain and other crops, will be given annually.

Yesterday was the anniversary of two important
events in the history of England—the gunpowder
plot, and the battle of Inkermann. It was this
year anticipated with but little anxiety. By some,
it was thought that the historical characteristics
would no longer beillustrated by street exhibitions,
but from an early hour the boys of Liverpool
commenced the firing of cannon or letting off
In the evening the Rev. Dr. Taylor
delivered a sermon in St. John's Church, in which
he spoke at great length upon the mischievous
character of the Gunpowder Plot, and argued
that the policy of the Church of Rome was truly
evidenced in the murderous designs of that
nefarious conspiracy, which the timely inter-
ference of a kind- Providence set at nought,
by a discovery of the conspirators. What makes
the day doubly interesting is the fact of its being
the anniversary of the battle of Inkermann. To
those nho remember the French "coming over
the hill" at the moment of extremity, it is signifi-
cant of the function which French and English
ought to fulfil in time to come—occupying, the
same field, and marching to one another's aid
whenever barbarism transgresses its boundaries,
and presses too heavily upon the brave. Every
event of this day, and of each notable day, is a
foreshadowing of some future analogous disclo
sure ; and so it will be with this fifth of November,
if its remarkable events become as numerous as
the hours of the day ; for "
the thing that hath
been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is
done is that which shall be done ; and there is no
new thing under the sun.
We publish to day the reports of the meet-
ings of the Birkenhead Commissioners and
the Waterloo Board of Health, which a
pressure of news compelled us to omit
in yesterday's issue. At the former, there was au
important discussion, in which Mr. Laird took
part, speaking in no very complimentary terms of
the Liverpool Dock Committee.
Our continental news is rather interesting. The
Paris Constitutionnel publishes along and somewhat
insolent article—stating that the continued occue
pation of the Principalities, and the presence of the
English fleet in the Black Sea, are " infractions of
the Treaty of Paris." It boasts that the French
press has, "unanimously" condemned the preten-
sions which the Governments of England and
Austria, in an interested connivance, have arrogated
to themselves." This boasted unanimity is a
there are amongst others two honourable
exceptions,- the Moniteur and the Siecle, neither of
which has, at any time, contained a syllable favour-
able to the pretensions of Russia ; while both hold

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