The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-22 00:00:00

111 E NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, FRIDIOc, MAY 22, 1857.

the 16th of June. Letters from Constantinople of
the 11th-inst. mention arrival in that eity of an
attache of the Fi.enal Corn its i n, M h Tal le /rand.
Nothing positive hal ti-t!)sniresi ~11- jeet of
his journey, but it is genet;li,y it ~..Ilates
to the events which have recznitly oeeintrd.in th,-
P!•incipalities. M. de Talleyrami's stay in Jassy was
sh,rt. There only remained in that city the Ans-
.,: C immissioner, who appears to be on the best
t.Tns with the Kahn:di zA.

Mehetnet Pasha, Governor of Janine, is about
to be named Minister of P.ilice at Constantinople.
The fearful increase of robberies and murder has
forced RedschidtPasha to adopt severe measure's of
repression, and from the energy of Mehemet, when
formerly in that post, hopes are entertained that
Pera and Galata will soon be freed from the
scourge.
The Presse announces that M. do Hatzfelcit, the
Prussian Minister at Paris, has received instruc-
tions atrhorizing, him to sign the protocol of the
Conference of Paris. "It is further expected,"
adds the Presse, " that when all is concluded His
Prussian Majesty will declare that he renounces
the million offered as an indemnity."

It is expected that the next Conference will be
be held on Monday, for signing the convention.
The following despatch has been received :
BERNE, MAY 19.

The Grand Council of the Canton of Nfrufehatel has
assembed, and Colonel Denzler has delivered the opinion
of the Council of State.

M. Piaget replied, and Colonel Denzler declared be was
sati-fi,d, though still regretting that the observations of
the Council of State on the tree!), bad not prevailed.

The papers give the following account of the
Grand Duke Constantine's proceedings at Bor-
deaux :
The Grand Duke Constantine arrived at Bordeaux ,on
Monday evening at a little before seven o'clock. Early in
the afternoon crowds of persons began to assemble in the
stree's through which the Prince would pass. Although
no official reception, properly so called, was to be given,
General de Tartas, the Commandant of the Div:s;on, M. de
Mentque, Prefect of the Gironde, the Mayor of Bordeaux,
and ttst other municipal authorities assembled at Cie
terminus to welcome the Prince. Immediately after 111-,
special train had reached the station, the Grand Duke
entered an open carriage, accomp ruled by the General,
the Prefect, and the Mayor, an f proceeded to the Hotel d-r
Ville. Five or six other carriages followed, containing
the suite of the Prince, and the nerson iges of the Court in
attend ince on him. The cortege was headed and closed
by a detachment of Hussars. On reaching the Hotel de
Ville, which was splendidly the principal
authorities were presented to his Imperial Highness A
grand dinner then toek place, c .vers being laid for thirty.
Among the persons specially invited by the Grand D ike
were General de Tartas, the Prefect, and the Mayor.
The band of the 27th Regiment played during tte
repast. At half-past nine the Prince left the Hotel de
Ville and proceeded to the the theatre, being hailed on his
passage with acnaerations by the crowd. When the
Prince entered the Mayor's b ix. 'he second ac: of '• La
Faach ,ne'te" was being performed, but was for a time in-
terrupted by all the audience rising at nice, and welcom-
ing the illustrious visitor with several rounds of applause,
while the orchestra struck up the Ressian national hymn.
At the conclusion of the act a cantata, composed for the
occasion, was sung. When this w-8 finished, the
Prince left the Irene, and returned to the Hotel de Ville,
w ;ere he slept. The next meriting the Gr tad Dike eieited
the frigates which are Wine buil fir the Russian Govern-
m-nt. Htstmoetial Highness was present at the 14uach of
a French vessel, at which all the reitholiiies were also as-
semb!ed. The Grand Duke was to leave the next day
(Wednesday) far lt,chfort "
A letter trotn Madiiti of the 16th mentions that,
after severel conferences between M Lafra.gurt and
the Minister ftr Foleign Affairs, the basis of an
arrangement hes been agreed to. When the con-
vention between the two governments is signed,
M. Lafragua will remain at Madrid as Minister of
the Mexican Reteublic

A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor
prvsided, was held yesterday morning at Fontaine-
bleau. in the afternoon their M-ijemties, accompa-
'licit by the King of Bavaria, the Grand Drehess
of Baden, the Duchess of Hamilton, and the other
guests of the Palace, took a drive in the forest in
chars-a-banc In the evening. all the Court assem-
bled iu tha garden, and were present at a night
fete. A number of moreeaux were sung by 4 the
artistes and chorus of the Opera, who were placed

in the sommr house which stands in the centre
of the large piece of water, while boats ornamented
with Venetian lanterns rowed ablut in every di-
rection Fireworks, principally consisting of squibs
which ran along the surface of the water; termi-
nated the evening, which was favoured bydelight-
ful weather.

Intelligence has been received from Algiers that
Marshal Rawlon, the Governor General, arrived
at T►zi-Ouzon o' the 17th. The troops were com-
pleting their concentration; and the operations
against Rabylia would, it was thought, commence
on the 20th, as originally fixed.
MARSEILLES, MAY 19.
The accounts received from Algiers, of the 15th
instant, announce that throughout the province of
Constantine the crops of corn were abundant,
eceept in the district of Tebessa, where there was
not sufficient rain, and in that of Boucada, where
rain came too late.

has also a- great deal of fever, and the Emperor and
Empress are probably somewhat anxious about her,
for they have summoned a physician from Vienna.
whos, tatt ntion is principsPv directed to the com-
plaints of children The Wiener Zeitung contains
n-wty planner' itinerary of their Afj. sties
but it does not appear advisable to forward it at
present, as neither the Etnoeror nor the Empress
will quit Pesth as long as their little daughter is
so unwell. Baron Sins -is having apartments
prepared for the reception of their Majesties,
in his chateau at Godollo, and one of the
rooms will be furnished exactly as it was eighty
or ninety years ago, when the Empress Maria
:Theresa passed a night in it. Baron Sina spends
his money freely, but still he will find some diffi-
culty in disbursing his annual revenue, which is
somewhat about £200,000. His Mjesty has
thanked Prince Selivvarzolyarg, the President,
and Baron von Hohenbruck, the Vice President of
the Agricultural Society, for their exertions
during the Exhibition, and has given directions
to four of its other members. The Chevalier
von Kleyle has received the Knight's Cross of St
Leopold, which gives him the a right-to claim the
rank and title of a Baron of the Empire. In a
speech which he made at the first meeting of the
members of the Agricultural Society, after the
opening of the Exhibition, M. von Kleyle created
what is commonly called a " sensation." Although
a highly-placed employe, he expressed his senti-
ments with remarkable freedom, and was rewarded
for his candour by the loud applause of the,
assembly. The Ministerial counsellor gave his
hearers to understand that bureaucratic super-
intendence was not necessary to the well-being of
the popular institution of which they were mem
bers. I omitted to mention that there are some
remarkable specimens of maize straw paper in the
Exhibition.

On the 12th inst. the Queen of Prussia arrived
at Pillnitg. the residence of the Royal family of
Saxony, and on the 14th was joined by the Arch-
duchess Sophia. The Queen of Prussia, the Arch-
duchess Sophia, and the Queens Amelia awl Maria
are sisters, and it is very probable that they have
consulted together whether it would be advisable to
give one of the Princesses of the House of Saxony
to Prince Napoleon On the 14th the French Prince
dined at Pilinitz, but we have not yet heard
what reception he met with from the Archduchess
Sophia, who can have no great sympathy for a man
who has always belonged to the ultra-liberal party
It is related that the Austrian court is offended
because the visit of the Archduke Ferdinand
Maximilian to Paris has not been returned, but

there is no reason to believe that such is the case.
Prince Napoleon went to Dresden as a suitor, and
his hurried call at Berlin can hardly he conFidered
a return visit paid to Prince Frederick William of
Prussia.

A private letter from Bucharest contains the

following information :—Baron von Richthofen,
the Prussian Commissary in the Principalities, has
been taken in tow by Baron de Talleyrand, and
they have both promised the good people of Jassy
to make such repre,entatiol,s to the porte that they
shad, if they please, be at full liberty to unite
Moldavia to Wallachia The inhabitants of Jassy
are, however, beginning to fancy that they
should only be losers by a union of the
two Principalities, and an address signed by about
400 of the first " Boyards" and citizens has been
presented to Safet Effendi, the Turkish Commissary,
in which that functionary is plainly told that neither
the European Powers nor th Porte has a right to
unite the two provinces, as each of them has its
own separate capitulations (treaties) op which the
suzerain rights of the Sultan are based. In the
address it is demanded that all the employes
connected with the administration shall be respon-
sible for their management, and it must therefore
he suppos(.d that the document was presented by
the Liberals.

The new Danish Government has expressed its
intention to act agreeably to the wishes of Austria
and Prussia in the Holstein question, and those
Powers have therefore agreed not to call on the
Confederation to -take a share in the diplomatic
negotiations which are about to commence. The
two great German Powers have simply communi-
cated to the Bond the actual state of affairs. The
whole affair, like the Neufchatel question, will end
in smoke.
The Austrian Ultramontanists are doing all in
their power to discover who are the Vienna corre-
spondents of some of the German papers, and more
particularly of the Kreuz Zeitung AUgsburg
Gazette. The foregoing information, which is
perfectly corre,q, is given for the express behoof
of the papers in question. The British machinists
now here aro going to wait on the Minister 'of
Finances, and to beg of him to reduce the duty on
machines of English construction.

THE RIVINGTON WATER,

CHEMISTS' AS OJIATION.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Chemists' Associ .-
tioa was held in the R yal Instituiion, at half-past eight
o'clock last night. • M r. Abrahams, the president, occupied
the chair. Tim s-e/ etary, Mr. Mercer, announced dona-
tions to the Musen u ol • welve specimens of indigo, from
Mr. D. Begg, NI D., L radon, and five specimens of East
India rhubarb and chincona bark, from Mr. H. S. Evans.
Some conversation arose in reference to a Sher produced
by Dr. Higgins m, in exhibiting which he stated that he
had found auirnalculre in quantiies of the Rivington water,
Of at least the mixed water supplied at present, taken
directly from the m tin. The chairman observed that he
had kept +he water for some time without fluding any
:mire Dr. Higgins' n eat t he showed several an-
is the water to Dr. Holland on S.mday last,
through a microscope. There were dead and living
animalculm. Dr. Nevins said he had frequently kept, is
former years, the spring water, and seldom failed in finding
animalcule in it. lie b3lievcd there were few waters which
did not contain them. They might, perhaps, be found sooner
in the present water, but he thought if they were sought
with equal care and efficiency in the spring water, they
would be found there too.

The Chairman called attention to the proposed bill for
the better regulation of the sale of poisons, of which he
read an extract.

One or two gentlemen having spoken in decided con-
demnation of the bill,

The Secretary, Mr. Mercer, suggested that the question
was too important to be entered into that night, and movod
that it be postponed to the next night of meeting.
The motion was seconded and agreed to, the Chairman,
in putting it, expressing also his condemnation of the bill.

THE RIYINGTON WATER.

The Chairman read the following letter from Dr. Ned-
,ock

20, Great Marlborough-street, London,
13th May, 1857.

Dear Sir,—A paragraph from a Liverpool paper, con-
taining a short account of the last meeting of the
Chemists' Association, has just been forwarded to me. I
see, as chairman of the association, you have called the
attention of the meeting in general, and of Dr. Edwards
in particular, to my letter in the Daily Post.-: Now, as I
have no wish or intention to enter into a newspaper
controversy on the subject of purifying water with
Mr. Edwards, I take the liberty of addressing you
personally. I read the reports of Drs. Edwards and
Nevins with utter astonishment, anti was the more
surprised that no member present pointed out the absurdity
of attributing a simple chemical decomposition of organic
matter to galvanic action ! I am glad to see, sir, that
although Dr. Edwards has no reason for altering his
opinion, he abandons altogether his galvanic notions, and
rests his opinions upon a vague assertion, unsupported by
the slightest experimental evidence. The question at
issue, says Dr. Edwards, is " can the organic matter be
removed by means of iron l" The question is not at issue
at all, for it has been decided by my own experiments on
the Thames and other river waters; and by Dr. Muspratt
(than whom a more careful investigator does not exist)
on the Rivington water. He has repeated my experiments,
and found that, by placing this water in contact with iron
for 24 hours, "every trace of organic matter is removed,
and the water rendered perfectly bright, colourless, and
• pure." I think, sir, for the reputation of the association
of which you are presi lent, you should call on Dr.
Edwards to support his assertions by experiment al proof.
Let him take two gallons of the Rivington water, and
make a complete analysis of it. Let him then take two
gallons more of the same water, suspend in it several
helices of iron wire, allow it to stand 24 or 26 hours,
filter, and then analyse it. He will find the water as
bright and colourless as the finest spring water, and that
the organic matter is entirely removed from it. One
more observation of Dr- Edwards I will take the liberty
of alluding to. H" says that "he has found that iron had
some eff'ct in destroying the vitality of the organic matter
in the Rivington water, but does net remove it from solu-

tion, because when heated the water became more highly
coloured than before, in consequence of the decomposition
of organic matter present." Now, I shOuld like to know
what vitality remains in the vegetable matter dissolved in
the Rivington water? To be in solution it must be in a
state of decomposition, and not possessed of vitality at all.
—I am, dear sir, yours very faithfully,
John Abraham, Esq., Chemist, • HENRY MEmocx,
Bold•street, Liverpool,

20. Great Marlborough-street, London May 15, 1857.

Dear Sir,—ln my experiments on Thames water I have
found that the organic matter is reduced by the iron
process from two grains per gallon to less than half a
grain. I have not myself experimented on the RiVington
water, but Dr. Muspratt ha;, and he assures me, that by
suspending coils of iron wire in a gallon of the water,
and allowing it to stand twenty-four hours, "every trace
of the organic matter is destroyed." This result certainly
exceed my expectations• Although I was sure that a
considerable quantity of organic matter would be removed,
I did not expect every trace to be destroyed.—l am, dear
sir, yours very truly, HENRY MED LOCK.

John Abraham, Esq.

Dr. Edwards stated that having been shown the letter of
Dr. Medlock, and having still in his possession a portion
of the water he had obtained from Rivington, he made an
experiment in precisely the manner required by Dr. Med-
lock, upon what he considered a sufficiently large quantity,
one gallon. 1.11 produced specimens of the water before
and after the process, and showed that the effect of the
contact of the iron was greatly to heighten the colour of
the water. In fact, he stated, that the water became, after
•
the precPss, a deep amber colour.
Dr. Nevins also exhibited the results of experiments,
tending to show that the opinion Dr. Edwards and he had
previously expressed, to the effect that Dr. Medlock's
process would not succeed in rendering the water colourless,
was quite confirmed.
Mr. Mercer asked. whether the process had the effect of
removing the organic matter.
Dr. Edwards stated that he had not analysed the speci-
mens to ascertain that print.

The Chairman said the water which had gone through
Dr. Medlock's process was not fit to be drunk.
Mr. Mertair expressed some regret that Dr. Edward's had
not carried his experiments a little further, so as to decide
whether any of the organic matter had been removed.
He had no doubt that Dr. Medlock's plan might have
sueeeeded with Thames water, but owing to tho totally
different character •of the constituents of the Rivington
weer, he did not think it was applicable to the purpose
of purifying the latter.
Dr. Nevins contended that Dr. Edwards and he were
not bound to carry the experiment any further. As they
found that the process did not decrease but increased the
c)lour, he did not think it would have been considered or
any importance to the public to know that the organic
matter had been reduced in some inappreciable degree.
When the discussion on Dr. Medlock's letter had closed,
Dr. Nevins described the recent visit paid by Dr. Edwards
and himself to the Rivington reservoirs, and stated, in doing
so, that tbey could not find the place where the black scum
was stated to be, in one of fit- local pipers. In only one
or two of the filtering bads did they see any appearance of
organic growth, and they were very slight although the
day was warm.
The business then terminated.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT IN THE ISLE OF SKYE. —A
young man of the name of M•Kinnon lost his life a few
days since. At the hamlet of Balvicquian, in the parish
ofKilmuir, Skye, a sheep found its way into the face of a
bgh precipice overhanging the sea. M'Kiunon volunteered
to extrica'e the animal f-om its perilous situation, and
fastene i a rope :thou: his person. by which ha was to be
let down over the precipice. When lowered a conmi-
derab!o way the rope snapped, and in a moment the unfor-
tunate youth was dashed to pieces on the beach under-
neath, and his mangled body was immediately swept away
by the tide.
THEBAGP. FOR FOREIGN MUSIC.—The musical rose of
the season is now full blown, as it always is in London in
the month of May. Two Italian operas in full blast, and
—shades of Purcell, Arne, and Bishop ! Concerts by the
score, and Sir John and Milaly 8001, looking exquisitely
foolish, and trying to be very foreign at soirees and Mati-
nees Musicales. By the way, since English professional
men and English professional women think to enhance; and
no doubt do enhance themselves in England by pretending
to be of foreign growth, and put ini or ino after their names,
and try to make Anderson resemble Mendelsohn, by spell-
ing it Endersohn, I wonder we do not find foreigners doing
the same sort of things abroad. How the French singer,
Monsieur Roger, might improve the beautyogfaohr xa
isnarimg
by calling himself Mister Rogerkins, and Signor
come out with renowned eclat as Mister Matioson ; and
how tasteful it a ould be to announce in Paris a Soiree
Musicale as a Musicale Evening. But somehow or other
foreigners, who have nothing like so fine and copious a
language as ours, are contented to prefer their own names,
their ow language, and their own •
. . "11,0'

M-PE TARLDLAIENT.

[ a .d Irish iraync`ic Telegraph.]
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Thar4clay oein„; Aszension Day, the Home of Lords did not sit.
HOUSE OF COMMONS. —THURSDAY.
The Speaker took the chair at a few miLutes before four o'clock.

N6W M MBERI.

Lord Ebrington, Mr. Somers, Sir Thomas Burke, and Mr. Corbally
took the oaths and their seats.

EMPLOYME T OF CAPITAL IN I, DIA.

Mr. B. Smith gave notice that oa an early day after Whitsuntide,
he should draw attention to the obstacles which im. eded the applies'
tion of capital and skill to the deve'opement of the productive powers
of India, and move that, in the opinion of the house, it is expel ent
that Parliament should direct attention to the removal of those
obstacles.

Mr. Fdgan gave notice that on the 28th o f May he should submit a
motion on the subjectof medical relief in Ireland.
In answer to Lord Molguni,

The Lord Advoc A said that nothing but want of find! had pre_
vented the Government from introducing a bill for the improvement
of national education In Scotian 1, and it Wa3 intended to attempt
legislation upon the aubjo t nest session.