The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-21 00:00:00

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British in spirit and dimensions

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as the assumed osientati

and of another twelve months

popular opinion worked Gut that chas-
tisement which is due to her crimes. She has
nothing for it but peace or desolation ; and we may

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well pardon her pusillanimity if she is resolved to
adopt the former alternative with a majestic con-
descension! The world long since entertained the
conviction that NICHOLAS was a far-seeing block_
head, and the issue of the present die nachfinnung
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overrun Europe, if Russian rulers were so disposed.
The present discussion must, however, do good, if
it only leads to our redoubling our preparations for
war. There was something required to infuse new
life into the Government at home, and the chief
actors in the tragedy of war in the East. And if it
answers either of these purposes, peace may be
nearer at hand than the country may suppose,
even if the Austrian propositions should fail—a
subject on which, we must confess, we still
entertain very grave apps ehensions.

xis AGAIN" is the title our respected correspon-
, who signs hmself " Ex furno dare lucem," ha s
selected, and he urges us not to drop the Gas
On this head he and the public need
feel no apprehension. All we seek for is an ample
supply of cheap gas, distributed at an equitable
pressure, and charged for according tohonestmeters.
To abandon such a cause would, in our estimation,

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be an act of positive immorality, after having once
taken it up. We have remained silent for the last

ten days, in order to give the members of the Gas
Committee time to wait on the Directors of the
Company with their preposterous propositions, and
for the Directors to wait on the Committee in turn

What these interviews will lead to it is impossible
to say, as the result will establish, beyond all
question, the long suspected insanity of either the
one or the other. If the Gas Company should hesi
tate to express their willingness to give ten or
twenty thousand pounds to any one who can effect
the transfer proposed, they must be stark, staring
mad ! And if the Corporation should seriously, and
really, take the supply of gas into their own hands,
and attempt to create for themselves a monopoly—
make themselves responsible for the quality of
light supplied to the town ; the pressure at which
it is to be distributed through glaringly defective
works and mains, and the inaccuracy of thousands
of measures employed between them and their
constituents—the Council Chamber will become a
model lunatic asylum, wherein the use of the
straight waistcoat could not be abandoned with
safety !

The Council do not expect the Gas Company to ac.
cept the;Committee's resolutions " unconditionally,"
They are merely to be used for the purpose of
introduction, or, what is termed in the diplomatic
world, " the bases of negotiation." But unfor-
tunately the whole of Mr. KITCHEN'S speech at
the special meeting of the Council on the Gas
question was fatal to the adoption of the Com-
mittee's Report. He contended that fl

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not meant

to saddle the whole of these abortions on the
Council, would empower his Committee to put
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parties can be secured ;" while Mr. A. C. STEWART

.ocated Mr. KITCHEN'S views in these words :

" Another advantage in the plan proposed would
" be this—that if the resolutions were carried out,

" they would be relieved from any opposition by a new
" Company being established." Surely Mr. STEWART
must have forgotten that the object of the. present
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-s; NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1856.

gas being superseded. The matter will probably
be brought under discussion at the next meeting of
the Council; and when we have the actual under-
standing arrived at by the conferees we shall
be able to form a better opinion of
the chance we have of obtaining those
desiderata we seek, from the means the Borough
for any I now possesses. Meanwhile, if our ga.s-vendors

of their light is