The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-16 00:00:00

FLATS.

MR. GREEN, JUN., will SELL by AUCTION,
iparA To-morrow (W.doe,day), th- 17th Instant, at Two
tint A-2 o'clock in the afternoon, at Mr. Street's "Hope and
Anchor In Morpeth Dock Quay, Birkenhead, the
Flat JOHN, 120 tons burth n, with iron knees and well fastened;
together with the mores as she now lies. The Flat THE ARCHER,
63 t ns burthen, with iron knees, and well fastened; Masts, Sails,
ato Stores. Now tying in Egerton Dock, Birkenhead —Fur further
particulars apply to the Auctioneer, Hamilton-street, Birkenhead.

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Office a. .d Warehouse-8, CABLE STREET.

THIS DAY,

R. J. NODDER
Will respectfully offer his Selection of Parisian and English
RIDING and WALKING HATS, BONNET-I, and CAPS, with
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fashionable and tasteful kind.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1856.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

Yesterday afternoon we received intelligence that
the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steam ship Com-
pany's vessel the City of Washington had passed
Cork at noon. She will, therefore, in all probability,
reach Liverpool at an early hour to-day. The City
of Washington beings advices from *Philadelphia
three days later than those brought by the steam-
. ship Niagara, which arrived here at an early hour
yesterday morning.
In the
political world there is now a lull; all
of Parliament,
parties seem to be resting upon their oars until a
still nearer approach of the meeting
when no doubt some inkling of the intended
p,,licy of the present Government will transpire.
Meantime we may mention that there is a strong
rumour in political circles that Lord John Russell
is about to return from the Continent ; that he has i
no intention of relinquishing his seat n the
House of Commons for one in the Peers ; that he
fee!s he can yet strike a bold, if not a most
effectual one, for the Premiership, and that his best
plan of doing so, and of baffling Lord Palmerston
—between whom, it would seem, there is anything

but a friendly understanding—is to produce his
long threatened Reform Bill. It may be, that the
frequent meetings of the Cabinet have reference to
this particular matter, as well as to other contem-
plated changes in the ministry. Reports are still
prevalent that, on the other side of the " Speaker's
Chair," there is still much anxiety to divest Mr.
Disraeli of his enviable position, and to effect
a union with the leading Peelites, so as to ,
have Mr. W. E. Gladstone as the leader of
" her Majesty's opposition." A few days more,
at least as soon as the Christmas holidays
are over, we will certainly have more tangible and
reliable information on these points. At the same
time there is no doubt that a great movement and
change in the aspect of political parties is at hand.
We hope it will be a change for the better, and
that we are on the eve of a period when the public
corruption, the unequal laws, and the prodigality
of our rulers under which we live, shall all be
throughly cut off by the pruning hook of Reform,
in both Church and State,
Among the local items of intelligence to which
we Would direct attention is the annual meeting of
the Liverpool Society of Friends of Foreigners in
Distress, which took place yesterday, in the
Clarendon Rooms. His Worship the Mayor
presided, and gracefully introduced the
Committee's report, which, together with
the speeches delivered, will be found in
another column. From these our readers will
gather the useful and truly benevolent character of
the society, the important benefits it confers to
unfortunate and cast-out strangers, whilst society
in its turn, reaps much advantage by the distribu-
tion of the aid which has been spent among
the indigent and distressed of other lands. Taking
into account the objects of this society, we can
heartily recommend it to public patronage and
support.
We regret to see that crime is still rapidly on the
advance, and that notwithstanding everything
which can be done, murders are yet of frequent
occurrence. Our paper to-day records the ac
count of the examination of Martha Davis, by
the Police Magistrates of Southwark, for the
murder of a female named Ann Cox. Again on
Saturday, John Hannah was tried, convicted, and
sentenced to die for the murder of Jane Bonham,
near Leeds, on the 11th of Sept. last. All this in
the face of Marley's deed, and of Jackson, now
lying at Chester, awaiting the fate that befel the
wretched Marley this morning. The particulars
of the execution will be found in another part of
to-day's impression.
We perceive that our cotemporary, the Kentish
Mercury, explains the reason why no one has yet
taken the field for the vacancy in the borough of
Greenwich. The reason is because it will cost
6,0001, and no one is so foolish as to spend that
amount of money. Overtures have been made to
the son of a peer of the realm, but the sacrifice of
hard cash has frightened him. The editor then
goes on to expose the corruptions of the borough,
and in the same paper he plunges into a long argu
ment against the Ballot. He has the courage,
however, to open his columns for debating this
topic, and he and the Vice-President of the Ballot
Society have begun die co;itroversy. No question
ever promised to get on so well as the Ballot now
does. The battle has fairly begun, and it mast be
fought out.

We are still without any intelligence of the cap-
ture of the murderer of Mr. Little, though the
recent discovery of the bag of silver has induced the
police to hope of ultimate success in bringing the
diabolical assassin to justice. It is now stated to
be the intention of government to off3r a reward
for the detection of the murderer of Mr. Little.
Mr. Horsman, chief secretary, has again visited the
Broadstone terminus, for the purpose of ascertain-
ing the progress made in the enquiry, which is now
carried on with renewed energy. . .

A letter from the Emigratioi, Commissioners has
been published in a provincial journal, intimating
that of Cie single women sent out to Adelaide at
the public expense during the last year, Ireland
had supplied more than her share, and that no
more Irish women should get a free passage until
the deficiency in the English portion of the
emigration should be made up.
The Washington from New York has arrived at
Southampton, and the Hermann from Bremen,
via Southampton, has put back to the latter port,
having broken her centre shaft in a hurricane on
the Atlantic. Happily no lives were lost, and both
ship and passengers were brought safely back to
Southampton.
Our Continental advices are still occupied with
the Neuchatel affair, which seems to have taken a
decidedly serious turn in consequence of the
refusal of the Federal Council to liberate the
Royalist prisoners Prussia has declared, in a note
addressed to the Great Powers, that she considers
herself freed from the engagement she voluntarily
entered into in the London protocol not to resort
to military measures. Immediate military prepar-
ations are mentioned by some, while others think
a mobilisation of the Prussian army not very pro-
bable. In any case the Federal Council would do
well to reflect on the line of action it has pursued.
From Bei lin, we have the following respect-
ing this 'affair— The Neuflhatel affair progresses
very slowly, and, "like a wounded snake, drags
its slow length along." Herr von Sydow, the
representative of Prussia, has received orders to
withdraw to Sigmaringen, where he occupies a post
in connection with the administration of the Prin-
cipality of Hohenzollern. This withdrawal of the
Prussian representative is, however, not a diplo-
matic recall, but serves only to show to
Switzerland that as long as the prisoners are not
released Prussia cannot treat ; the personnel of
the Prussian mission at Berne are still there.
About a week back the representatives of France
and Russia, in conformity with the example of
those of Austria, Bavaria, and Baden, made
fresh representations to the Federal Government
of the danger and impolicy of the course
it had adopted, and renewed their remons
strances for the liberation of the prisoners.
The Federal Council refused again to listen to
these well-meant representations of the foreign
governments, and in so doing was backed
and encouraged by our diplomatic representative
there. The next step that the Government will
take is to present a report to the German Bund,
showing what little effect its cumulative represen-
tations have had in Berne, and this report, backed
with similar and corroborative reports from the
Governments of Austria, Bavaria, and Baden, will

then probably be referred to a committee to con-
sider what further steps the Bund may find it
expedient to take in the matter.
Our Neapolitan letters state that the soldier who
attempted to assassinate the King was hanged on
the morning of the 13th inst. It is alleged against
him that he was an insurgent in 1848, was amnestied
in 1852, and entered the army by means of forged
papers. All is quiet.
We have just received a telegraphic despatch,
which states that Prussia is decided on an armed
intervention in case the Royalist prisoners should
be condemned. It is asserted that the military
preparations are already made.
By the arrival of the Niagara yesterday morn-
ing, we were enabled to lay before our readers a
copy of the President's Message, the last which
General Pierce will deliver,—at least for years to
come He makes a justification of his conduct in
the Kansas question the principal feature of his
message, which, in other respects, professes to be
congratulatory. The internal prosperity and
finances of the Union are buoyant, and its foreign
relations are peaceful. The only circumstance
which is not congratulatory is the state of affairs
in Mexico and Central America. Financial affairs
are stated to he in a satisfactory condition. The
Central American difficulty has been happily got
rid of, so far as Great Britain is concerned. He
would indeed have been fastidious, if discontented
with the concessions already made. But there is
a little cloud displayed in reference to the Sound
Dues that may lead to a future tempest in the po-
litical atmosphere. He does all he can for his
party, but fortunately on the present occasion the
Power is by no means equal to the will. It is a
display of petty spites and impotent malevolence.
By the Niagara's news we learn that the difficulties
between the New Granadian Government and Mr.
British Minister, in relation to the
payment Griffiths, the
of
the M'lntoah claim, have been amica-