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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-04 00:00:00

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1856

THE DAY'S NEWS.

Old December—the last month of 1856—has
entered upon his emu se clothed in garments of
snow, and bedecked with frosty icicles. He pursues
his relentless sway, compelling those who have the
Means to wrap themselves closely up in woolly
raiment-, whilst those who trudge along the stage
of time pierced on every side by the darts of
paverty and destitution, crouch along the streets
eltilled to the very heart, and shivering from head
to foot.. Except where the traffic is constant and
extensive. the streets of Liverpool are almost one
great sheet of ice and frozen snow. The youthful
and the giddy hail the season as one that gives
them an opportunity for physical recreation, and
open air exercise. Regardless of the freezing
winds, boys—and even girls—are to be met with
in the most public thoroughfares, sliding along the
side paths, and enjoying themselves most hillari,
ously when any of their companions meet with a
slight accident, or tumble off their feet head fore-
most on the street. We are glad to see the
youthful portion of the community thus
enjoy themselves, but must demur to the
side paths being made the field of their
sliding exercises. By doing so the aged and
demure are liable to meet with numerous and
severe accidents. We prohibit nuisances that
endanger • health, so ought we to strictly guard
egainat allowing any congregation of youths
forming slides along the side walks of the street.
Indeed, numerous accidents have already taken
place in consequence of the practice alluded to.
The severe weather is felt in London. The frost is
represented as being intense in different parts of
the T,letropolis, and as usual disasters to life
and limb have resulted. Oa Tuesday afternoon
two •persons were engaged in collecting ice on the
surrey canal, when one of them, named Alfred
bigger, by some mischance, fell into the water, and
getting under the ice, was drowned. An alarm was
raised, and several persons came to his companion's
assistance; but owing to the quantities of floating
ice it was found impossible to recover the body.
At King's College and the other hospitals several
persons were admitted having sustained fractured
limbs by slipping on frozen water allowed to remain
on the footways. A lady named Liversidge,
living
in Compton street, Soho, sustained a compound
fracture of the right leg, and it is feared will have
to undergo amputation. A youth, named Baldey,
was drowned in the Thames; near Battersea Park,
through getting on ice that would not bear his
weight. On looking over our exchanges from all
parts of the United Kingdom, we find that the frost

is universal. Whilst the needy and afflicted will
feel the miserable effects of the cold, one advantage
to the entire community will follow this visitation
of frost and snow. Disease. will
,be nipped in the
bud, and the peStirentiar-vapor' of fever and other -
infectiousnotanlaints caused to beharrnless, thereby
rendering our " Bills of Mortality" more encour-
aging and satisfactory in their statistical returns of
the public health.
The monthly meeting of the Liverpool Town
Council was held yesterday, and, as our report of
the proceedings, which will be found in other
columns of this day's paper, shews, much of
them were of an important character. After the
Mayor had taken_his seat,.Mr. Alderman Holme, in
a speech of much.feeling and eloquence, proposed,
and Mr. J. SteiVart, ex-Mayor, seconded, a vote of
condolence to Mrs. Yates, on the death of her much
respected and ever to be lamented husband, Riehd.
Vaughan Yates, Esq. The speeches of both
Alderman Holme and Mir. Stewart, pourtray a
character which not only Mr. Yates' own family,
relatives, and friends, but the community of which
he was a-member, have reason to be proud of. He
has set a noble example to the highbred, thenoble
born, and the merchant princes of theland. His
doings proclaim with trumpet4ongue to the classes
just enumerated the Scripture adage—" Go...thou

and do likewise." The public acts of Mr. Yates
are remarkable for their unostentatious character.
He delighted to. do good =amongst those by whom
he was -surrounded. All classes, high and low,
rich and poor, came in for a share of ;his philan-:
thopic solicitude. It mattered not what was the
religious creed, or the political bias, pro bono
publico was his motto. Nobly indeed did he act
upon it, and when his remains have become com-
pletely mingled with the clods of the valley, there
will not be wanting in Liverpool thousands upon
thousands of his fellow townsmen who, in alluding
to his memory, will declare that he was a truly
honest' man,' arid, therefore; " one of the noblest
works of God." Tdrning from this melancholy
theme, Air. Holme opened the day's business in the
Council by asking for an increase of 2001. a year
to Mr. Mansfield's salary, and, with a deal
of plausibility, urged a variety of reasons
why that augmentation should be made. He
enumerated, with much precision the statistical
returns of the criminal business transacted by the
stipendaries of Manchester and Salford, of Wolver-
hampton, Hull- and Stafford, -Worcester and
Brighton; and argued that Mr. Mansfield's maxis
terial duties were far greater than either of these.
He said that last year he had adjudicated on 24,907
cases, but he did not tell the, Council how many
out of that number were entered on the police
sheet -" drunk,- and booked for safety," or " drunk,
and disorderly ; " a dozen of which could be dis-
posed of in five minutes, and the usual sentence
" discharge," or :s‘:Os and costs," duly recorded.
Nothing can be more mischieVeds and injurious,
to the proper discharge of public duty, than the.
niggardly payment of any official, but we object
-to the system- which is becoming so prevalent
in our Town Conncil, of paying, what Mr. Jeffery,
previous to--his -eleetion---fer --Lime-street -Ward,
emphatically, but truly designated, the "princely
salaries of the Corporation." If Mr. Mansfield is,
as Alderman Holme, would have us believe, over-
worked, :let him have proper assistance. An
increase of £2OO a year would not enable him to
discharge a daily duty, which would :overtax the
physical and mental energies of a much stronger
man. Without •further, comment. upou'the . debate
which ensued on this topic, we have merely to say
that the motion for the -increase was Carried by a
vote of 84 against 20. If Mr. Mansfield is enabled
to do all that his warm advocate, Mr. Alderman
Holme-sets forth, and at the same time does it well,
he justly merits a much high3r figure than £1,200
a year. Another discussion ensued upon the
proposal to appropriate towards the expense
of a choir for the chapel of the new gaol.
The argumentS, ! pro et con, ;were remarkable
for nothing except contrariety of opinion
among our local senators-)=oar- the doctrine of 're-
wards and punishments. Mr. Aikin and Mr.
Steains argued, and we think rightly, that the
Object of punishment should earnestly aim at the
reformation of the criminal, whilst Mr. Stitt
strongly advocated a princip).2 known only, by the
term " revenge," but which he softened down by
the words, "Vindication of a broken law."" Not-
ithstanding a strong opposition, 26 Councillors
)ted for the appropriation, and l 7 against it. The
abt felt that they had vindicated the
ng, "Music hath charms to soothe the

savage breast." The other matters disposed of by I 1
the Cou:lcil were not of much moment. It will
be perceived that Mr. Alderman Parker made his
motion with regard to the charges of St. George's
Hall for Concerts, Sze., and that in the debate
which ensued thereon, Mr. John Stewart, the late
Mayor, expressed himself sil'ol3gly in favour of the
Saturday Evening Concerts originated and managed
by Mr. Reynolds. This gentleman has addressed
a communication to the CoUncil on the same
subject, which will be found in another column.
Its statements, along with the whole matter,
have been referred to the St. George"s
Hall Committee. Let us hope that they will
consider the ends and objects for which the build-
ing was erected, and so arrange the rent tariff of
the Hall that the humblest class., of the community
shall have the opportunity of frequenting it for
purposes of mental, moral,,and social recreation..
The Gold Dust Robberies have again been before
the London Magistrates, and again remanded. The
enquiry is a most interminable-one. 'The prisoners,
-Kent and Redpath, seem to bear their incar-
ceration well. The chief object of yesterday's
examination was to show how Redpath obtained
the means of carrying out the frauds with which
he is charged. The affairs of the Royal British
Bank-were-before the Enid' J-trstires -of- Appeal -
yesterday, when Sir F. Kelly appeared to upset
an order of Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, to transfer
from the official manager of the Court of Chan-
cery to the assignees of the bankrupts, the books,
money, and effects in his hands, formerly belong-
ing to the Royal British Bank, and to obtain an
order from the Court to extend the injunction
formerly granted by the Vice-Chancellor against
any interference by. the official assignee, with the
proceedings and property in ,the hands of the
official manager. The questions of law which Sir
F. Kelly put forth and: hrgued much .length
were :—" Whether an act of bankruptcy-had been
committed ; and whether, assuming an act of
bankruptcy had taken place, it dispossessed the
Court of Chancery itst jurisdiction to wind up
and administer the. affairs of the coinpany, the
abjudication in bankruptcy having been made
after the absolute order for winding up was pro-
nounced by the Vice-Chancellor.
Another trial of some interest and importance
took place in the Court of Exchequer, the action
for libel, brought by the Earl of Lucan against
the Daily News. The grounds of the plaintiff's
ease were that the article complained of was dic-
tated by malice, and calculated to injure him
as a gentleman and a soldier._ Sir .Frederick
Thesiger conducted the noble plaintiff's case, and
Mr. Edwin James, Q -led the defence: From
the statement of Sir F.-TheSiger Lord Luean was
hardly dealt with, and. the jury. would be bound to
award such damages as would compensate for the
injury that had been-inflicted upon 'him by the
libel in question.
The foreign news this morning is not important.
We learn that a new demand has been made by
Russia and France, addressed to Austria, to fix a
time—the Ist of February was proposed—for the
evacuation of the Ottoman territory. The propo-
sal, it seems, has been rejected by Austria, which
in this course of policy enjoys the full:support, by
deeds as, well as by declarations, of our own

Ministers.
Respecting the recent insurrection near Paler-
mo, we are informed that the Government author-
ities had been driven out. •A deputy of the
Parliament of 1848 is at the head of the move-
ment. The Neapolitan Government had despatched
trcops to the disturbed places. Arrests had taken
place in Palermo, but nothing is yet known of the
importance attaching to the insurrection.
From Madrid, our advice's inform us that it is
untrue that the government intend calling 50,000
under arms. M. Mires's proposals for a loan of
300 millions of reals are under consideration. The
payment of the interest of the nati.,nal debt for the