The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-11 00:00:00

due discharge of their Parliamentary duties, and
properly representing the people of Liverpool.
Having, then, made themselves justly popular
with all clesses of their constituents, and fulfilled
all their husting's promises and pledges, they
have merited re-election.'The coming contest
is, therefore, uncalled for, and inconsiderate in
the highest degree.
In the second place, this determination of the
Tory chiefs is nothing less than unpardonable
dictatorial arrogance. In a community like
Liverpool ,with its half million of inhabitants,
there must of necessity be a great variety of
opinions—political and religious. It is not at
all likely that the High Churchman will coalesce
with the Roman Catholic, or that the bigoted
Tory—he who plants upon his breastplate the
inscription, " Derry, Aughrim, and the Boyne,"
and " No surrender"—will fraternise with the
liberal-minded Reformer, whose motto, both in
politics and religion is, " Live and let live." A
Parliamentary representative, to be really useful
and efficient, must enjoy the confidence of his
constituents. Hence it is that each of the two
great sections of politicians—Conservative and
Liberal—seek to have as their representative a
member whose general principles coincide with
their own. Seeing that interests, great and im-
portant, are entrusted to the Parliamentary re-
presentatives of Liverpool, the heads of the
Reform Association, although certainly in a
position to command a majority on the poll,
waived their legitimate right and power to return
two members, and agreed to allow the Con-
servatives to nominate one candidate, and
themselves the other. " But no," says
Messrs. THOMAS BOLD AND CO., "We will
" make another attempt at • usurping the repre-
" sentation of the borough. Our old election
" cries of Down With Maynooth,' Repeal the
" ' Emancipation Act,' Oppose Reforms,' and
" Persecute the Romanists,' will again serve our
" cause. We are well versed in all kinds of

" electioneering tactics, our purse is long, and
" despite acts of Parliament putting down
" bribery and corruption,' we can and will evade
" their provisions ; our watchword, then, shall
" be, On ! Turner, on!' "
Taking " the will for the deed," the majority
of the clique who congregate in the small
room in Harrington-street consider that no
elector has a right to differ from their bigoted
opinions, that they are the sole masters of
the representation of the borough, and that,
cost what it may, once more will political
strife and party feeling be roused to the highest
possible pitch. Every lover of fair play, every
one not controlled by the direct or indirect
influence of Toryism, must own that the deter-
mination to provoke and carry out a contested
election just now, is not only ill-advised, but
must ultimately result in the complete discomfi-
ture of the entire party. Once again do we raise
our voice against the movement of the Tories.
We blame Mr. Tennnn for lending his name and
influence to such a course. He has no legitimate
claim upon the electors. He is not a gentleman
of great commanding abilities. We admit that
he has business capacity, but as a speaker he is
weak and ineffective. His vanity has overcome
his better judgment, and he may rest assured that
the thousands of voters who rallied round Mr.
EWART two years ago, and thus defeated Sir
GEORGE BONHAM, will not fail to come to his
support now, and place him at the head of the
poll.

To-day we shall learn what the fate of the recent
memorial of the inhabitants has been at the hands
of the Water Committee, to which body it was
referred by the council to report upon. From the
sovereign contempt with which that most perverse
and despotic section of the council have hitherto
treated the respectful memorials and remon
strances of their constitutents, we should not
feel surprised that this had shared the fate of all the
others ; but, we hope, there are some independent
spirits in the Council, who will not brook such
treatment as has hitherto been exhibited towards
the ratepayers on this important question. Should
the committee demur to the prayer of the me-
morial, on the ground that a second line of
pipes would involve a very large outlay, besides
causing much inconvenience in opening trenches,
&c., throughout the town, objections which certainly
have some force in regard to this place, but which
assuredly do not in any way affect the plan
propounded recently in this paper, of giving
the whole body of water consumers a supply
of Pike and spring water on alternate days,
a plan which must recommend itself to every
unbiassed mind which has been directed to the
consideration of the subject. We only fear that
this scheme is in reality too good—too simple to
be entertained by the engineering magnates who
are in the habit of dictating such terms to the
Water Committee as suits their own purposes. Its
very simplicity and cheapness may of themselves
be sufficient to cause its rejection ; but we shall
see, for assuredly something must be done,
and that right early. The slimmer heats
will soon be upon us, when it will
be found that, in spite of the impertinent special-
pleading reports of the triumvirate engineers,
the Pike water will be found totally unfit for table
use, and many other purposes. Knowing that no
reliance can be placed on the meagre reports which
the water engineers condescend, occasionally, to
favour the committee with, we have deemed it

worth while to have a special report male of the
actual state of the works and the water supply, up
to the present time, and we beg to call the atten-
tion of the water committee and the council
generally, to the facts contained in that document,
which will be found in another column.

The firm of Messrs. Dodge, Bacon, and Co., merchants,
and patentees of indiarubber cloth, have suspended in
consequence of the non receipt of remittances expected
yesterday by the American mail. Their liabilities are
stated to be upwards of £lOO,OOO, of which a large portion
is on account of correspondents, by whom it is hoped they
will be met, in which the assets available for the general
creditors may, it is said, realise a considerable dividend•
The house have an establishment in America, at Newark'
New Jersey.

TAKEN BY SURPRISE.—IIer Majesty delayed leaving
town on Monday in consequence of the unsettled state of
the political world. The defeat of the ministry on Tuesday
night was quite an unexpected event in court circles, for
it was only about six o'clock on that evening that the
Premier apprehended any danger to the stability of his
administration. From Saturday up to that hour the
Government entertained a confident hope of a majority in
the Commons, thouo a small one, and it was only then
that the Secretary of the Treasury became aware of the
defection of some members on whose support the Govern.
ment had confidently relied. The Queen, on leaving town,
intended to return on Wednesday the 11th, but the state
of public affairs may at any time cause her Majesty to
alter this arrangement.—Court Journal.