The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-27 00:00:00

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1853

WE are perfectly tired of announcing telegraphic
despatches with reference to the " Eastern ques-
tion ;" and the public, we are pretty sure, are just
as tired oforeading them. However we cannot
withhold any information that comes to hand, es-

pecially at tthis particular stage of the Russo-

Turkish embroilment

Despatches have just been received from Con-
stantinople up to the 17th instant, from which we
learn that the reply of Prince GORTSCHAKOFF to

OMER PACHA'S communication had been received ;

that the Anglo:French fleets were under weigh for
Gallipoli ; and that a proclamation forbidding
the exportation of corn had been made.

The CZAR has not issued a second manifesto, as

was reported, to the Two Weistem Powers. Count

NESSELRODE, however, has forwarded a diplomatic

note, the tenor of which is considered of a decidedly

pacific tone. For ourselves we are not disposed
to rely overmuch on anything emanating from the
pen of such a double-distilled specimen of Jesuitry,

necromantic diplomacy, and contemptible special-

pleading.
M. de la Cour, the French Ambassador at Con-

stantinople is about to be recalled.

The Foreign Correspondent to one of our Lon-

don Contemporaries asserts that " positive hostili-

ties have already commenced" on the Danube

between the hostile Powers ; orders having been
sent to OirEn PACHA to that effect. We must, how.
ever, be wary in accrediting such statements ; and

patiently await information from more reliable

sources

WE resume the subject treated of in our first
leading article yesterday. It is a topic at all
times important, but doubly so at this particular
crisis, when the Burgesses of Liverpool are about
to return representatives to sit in the Council
Chamber, and conduct the Municipal affairs of this
Borough. A very onerous position truly, and one
which involves no slight accountability.
Independently of our private responsibilities,
we, as journalists, owe a duty to the public. From
the obligations which this duty imposes we have
no disposition whatever to shrink. As faithful
sentinels we shall ever be found vigilantly at our
posts ; and should we perceive the enemy's scouts
advancing, no time shall be lost in raising the ne-
cessary alarm ; and, if needs be, engaging in the
combat. " Trust in GOD, my boys, but keep your
powder dry," was the advice OLIVER CROMWELL
used to give his troops. And it is .one which we
mean to follow, " through evil and through good
report." We should regret much if this open and
honest avowal on our part were calculated to
bring down upon our heads the displeasure
of Mr. BRIGHT, and his party of Peace advocates.
But it must be borne in mind, that we simply
mean to act on the defensive—not on the aggres-
sive ; and " human natur," as SAM SLICK would say,
:is so constituted, that while it might refrain from
the one, it is sometimes forced to adopt the other.
In glancing over the list of Candidates for Muni-
cipal honours, we find that most of them have already
been, and. are now de facto in office. A very natural
question then arises. What have those gentlemen
already done to warrant their putting themselves for-
ward as Candidates for the public favour ? What
single act of theirshas met with such general appro-
val, as to induce the Burgesses of Liverpool to bestow
upon them the favor of their votes ? Let us select
one or two examples, out of many, which, had we
time and inclination, we might adduce. First of
all, there is the Candidate for Abercromby Ward,
who, after a triennial lease of office, is about retiring
to—go in again! How has this gentleman signalized
himself? Good deeds fasten on one very speedily ;
and the public heart is never slow to forget them.
We repeat, How has this Candidate promoted the
interests of the Borough during his long tenure
of office ? Echo answers—" How 1" If the " do-
nothing" policy is really meritorious; and if those
who adopt it are considered worthy of all munici-
pal and civic honours—not only elect as your
Councillor, but give the highest dignity if you can,
to the Candidate who now solicits your suffrages,
ye Burgesses of Abercromby Ward !

One other example will suffice in illustration of
an opposite policy. The Candidate who solicits
the votes of the rate-payers of Pitt-street Ward is,
unfortunately for himself, too well known in his
official capacity. This gentleman, it will be re-
membered, before his election to office, made strong
professions of his intention to promote retrench-
ment in the expenditure of the Corporate purse.
Has he done so ? Have his promises been ful-
filled ; or rather, like pie-crusts, have they not
been easily broken? In looking over the Corpo-
rate .aecounts we can find no trace whatever of his
pruning-hook ? It is notorious that whenever an
increase of expenditure happened to be proposed,
he was invariably amongst the foremost to con-
cede it. Doubtless this gentleman
,4*ce, upon hisas conseien-
and he
tiously altered his opinion ;

own showing, if he were elegible for office at the 1
last election of Council-men, owing to his avowal 1

of economical principles, he possesses no longer
a claim upon public support ; and a delicate sense
of propriety, one would think, should induce him
to retire from the forthcoming contest. We know
not if his constituents have forgotten the course
he pursued with reference to the election of Head
Constable. If they have, probably this passing
allusion may serve to recall circumstances which
in themselves are deserving of serious consider-
ation. It requires no small:degree of self-assurance
for an individual to act thus, and yet try to bam-
boozle the public by thrusting himself forward to
regain their favor.

We trust that the Burgesses of Liverpool will be
"up and doing;" that they will equip themselves
like men; and honourably and conscientiously.
discharge their duty on the forthcoming occasion.
Let them not elect to the Municipal office those
who do not know their own minds, and who are
incapable of arriving at definite conclusions on
matters of moment. "He that wavereth," we are
told, "is like a wave of the sea ;" and Burgesses
should look for, and expect in their Co.uncillors,
at all events, stability of purpose and wisdom to
direct; else their council and their works are
likely to prove of no greater value than a " bottle
of smoke ! " Let them select, and return men of
tried public virtue ; who are interested in the
welfare of the Borough, and who are likely to
discharge their obligations creditably to them-
selves, and satisfactorily to their constituents—
men who will do all in their power to promote
essential improvements and curtail unnecessary
expenses; and who will be unlike the " starved-out
Commission of Sewers," whose doleful tale ever
is, when any work of public utility is proposed,
"we have no funds," and whose song, according
to Punch, is to the old tune of " I've no money" :

" I've no money ! so you see
Nothing can be done by me ;
I owe it to my sorrow :
But if I were rich, you'd see
Wonders would be done by me ;
So call again to-morrow."

THE New York Tribune, in announcing to the
American public the fact of our existence, writes
as follows :—" We have received by the Arabia the

first number of the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES

Hitherto, Liverpool, a city containing a population
of over 400,000 people, has been without a daily
organ ! ! !"

We do not use notes of admiration ourselves, but
when employed with sincerity, as in the present
instance, they are highly gratifying and complimen-
tary. The fact alluded to by our respected cotem-
porary, is one which is looked on with quite as much
astonishment at home as it is abroad. But what is

the number of our population compared with the
extraordinary diversity and magnitude of our com-
mercial, trading, and monetary interests, both
domestic and foreign ?

As one of the great centres of European and
American intercourse, every paragraph of news,
every word of commercial intelligence, and every
comment and idea relating to trade, is of impor-
tance and actual value to some one individual or
class of a community such as we have in Liver-
pool. The value and interest, however, of such
information depend mainly on the promptitude with
which it is given to the public ; and in the discharge
of this important branch of newspaper management
we have not been surpassed by any of the leading
London papers; and, considering the sources of
inforination we have at hand, we at once challenge
universal competition. The spontaneous support
we have already received, is sufficient to show
that the want of a daily newspaper, in this im-
portant locality, was most severely felt by the
leading commercial interests of our port. Nor
has the high moral and national principles of the
NORTHERN DAILY TIMES been less highly appre-
ciated by the public generally, if we may judge
from the avidity with which our daily issues are
sought after.
Since the commencement of our publication, we
have been called upon to advocate great national
rights and interests—to oppose recognised princi-
ples to a variety of dangerous nostrums—to expose
tyranny—denounce despotism—to hold up to pub-
lic ridicule and contempt flagrant.attempts at fraud
—to suggest means whereby our trade and com-
merce might be greatly increased—and, lastly, to
comment upon all the minor topics of a most
remarkably eventful period; and in descanting
on this extraorainary multiplicity of subjects, we
have not given the remotest offence to any party
or individual. • Thus far, then, we have laid a
claim to public support, and feel assured that
the people of Liverpool will co-operate with us
for the general good, until they see the NORTHERN
DAILY TIMES as powerful an exponent of the
moral and national voice as any now to be found
in the United Kingdom.

For the marked encouragement and influential
patronage we have already received, we feel most
grateful. And as for the future, while we hold it
to be our paramount duty, we conceive it to be no
less our interest, to continue as we have com-
menced, uninfluenced by party views or party
interests.

The Foreign Intelligence, particularly that from
the West, which has appeared in the NORTHERN
DAILY TIMES, has been supplied considerably in
advance of that given in the London papers ;
while our Metropolitan cotemporaries are con-
tinually compelled to take from our columns a
variety of local intelligence, which, in all proba-
bility, would never have found its way to the
public, if it had not been for the extensive and
extending arrangements we have made, to
secure every particle of information which is likely
to aid trade, inform the public, and assist legis-
lation.

In the Statistical Department of our paper, we
have made as rapid progress as time would
admit, and ere long we shall have left on record
all the facts and figures connected with leading
events required to aid the political economist in
his inquiries into the moving phenomena of the
day. Thus, in addition to the Chat, Talk, Gossip,
Fun, and Frolic of the panorama of daily life, we
supply tho keys to the great temple of material
existence.

Sanguine in our hopes of the complete success
of our present onerous undertaking, we only
repeat the amazement of our cotemporary, the
New York Tribune;—" Hitherto, Liverpool, a city,
containing a population of over 400,000 people,
has been without a daily organ ! !! "

The Aztec Lilliputians will be exhibited in Belfast
to-morrow and Saturday next.

FATAL ACClDENT.—Elizabeth Jones was admitted
last Thursday week, into the Royal Infirmary. Her
right arm was broken, and the bone protruding.
She was attended to by the surgeons, and the bone
set in its place. She appeared to progress favour-
ably until last Friday, when mortification set in,
and she died on Saturday. An inquest was held
yesterday, and a verdict of accidental death was re-
turned.

SUDDEN DEATHS.—George Showne, a carter, re-
siding at 36, Hotham-street, died suddenly on Sa-
turday, at his residence, of disease of the heart.
Ann Davies, a child 12 weeks old, died suddenly
of fits of convulsions on Monday morning, at her
mother's residence, in Bostock-street. Inquests
were held in both these cases yesterday, and ver-,
diets of deaths from natural causes returned.