The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-09 00:00:00

inform

Ar presumption and
their ignorance--:there is no toleration, uor ought
there to be ; but to every man who has anything to
say to the purpose, who knows what he is talking
shout, every encouragement is given bythe House

on rtbou

Common-3

)ortaut meetin

has hen held

Mt of the D

,„ r,arope L 3 permit the power
of England to be employed as it ought in the
negotiations which are now taking place with
regard to the Principalities.. After the adoption of
a resolution affirming the expediency, and pressing
necessity for the union of the Principalities, an

address to the Queen, calling for the independence
of the Roman people, was proposed and agreed to.
The Hants and Wilts Adult Education Society
has held its annual maeting at Basingstoke, which
was numerously and influentially attended. The
Dean of Hereford was called to tl
course of his opening add
did not see if the child who was em

.ess, he remarked th

as entitled to ea

ends of the le

.otection

employment was ploughing the fields and watching
the crows should be altogether neglected. It
vas equally bound
'er years, who was

appeared to him th
to take c

his visit t

at the state

pme mi

competition in this di
Royal Mail Company to

can work steam-ships el.

and most irreL

aiid Sotithar.

Australia

the Colonist

packet station

he former have amr

be made rest

"onftir

and Which

aware how they

no expense is spare

years.

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

quite certain, for without the lowest contract for
coaling that can be obtained in England, and full
cargoes for each ship, no line of Australian
steamers can be kept up. The experiment may be
made, but it will prove a woeful failure. Liverpool

only can supply cargo both ways, and, conse

quently, this must ultimately become the port of

departure and arrival for Australian mailers. Here
they must come, and the sooner the better for the
luckless shareholders of the Royal Mail Company.
We could supply their vessels with goods and pas-
sengers to any extent ; and if they advance

any more money to their directors, it should be

on tho distinct undei•strtnding, that t

should be sent here to be laden, and mule. ream

nerative. If they fail to do this

y will t.

lose their money, for our Australian trade is quite
large enough to sustain a line of fast steamers, and

las we are sure to have one in operition before long

it is just possible that We may take A' a consider
able share of their West India

trfid6.

ton would 13

A little

z the

can, by a very great deal ; and we would have the
shareholders, whose pockets are appealed to, take
heed of what is before them.

The Royal Mail Company's Directors ask fifty
five days for the performance of the p
they only propose to run their new v

Panama to Sydney, leaving the Atlantic passages

we presume, to be mixed up with their sluggish

1. if this is to

more, while all we ask for our

weep Chagr

the art

Mersey steamers is

forty-five days to Melbourne—

th© lc

Tradesmens' Mutual Life Assurance Society be
allowed to prevail. There would be no safety
whatever for the insured. Companies with their
large command of funds, connections, and influ-
ence, may do just as they please, to shake off their
liabilities, if the acceptance of a proposal is not
made binding on them under any and all circum•
stances. The plaintiff in the cause we have
above named, not only lost the whole of the

senger and goods port in Australia

We can do
the distance in ten days less than the Royal Mail
Company's reckoning, and this is sullicent of itself

provision which the insured bad made for her,
but she loses also the costs incurred in endea-
vouring to recover what she conceived to be a

perfectly just claim. There is not much mutuality

in this, and we. are inclined to think that it Will

induce the public to abandon the " mutua4" for
the "indisputable" system. And we do not
hesitate to say that, after the verdict given for the
defendants in this cause, no man is safe whose

life is not insured on an indisputable contract

to give us all we can qeeir_

West Indian Colonists, the M

Americans, would be but too
from the Royal Mail Company':

otti pastionger

No jury, it is presumed, would venture to travel
beyond the terms of such a policy, and, if they were
a Court of Equity, would correct the evil. But;
to keep out of the meshes of the law, and to secure
to a man's .wife and children the sum guaranteed,

d South

none but indisputable offices should be resorted
to under any circumstances,

Many Companies hold out a variety of very
!ong inducements, but what are they:all worth if,

bo rel

at the end of twenty or thirty years, the validity of
the-Whole transaction, from the proposal to the certi-
i ate of death, is to be gone into, and proofs brought
forward, which no one but the office, probably, can

supply? We regret that the Merchants' and
Mutual Life Assurance Society should

a spirited Liverpool coin par

out of the trade in less than twelve months. The
Royal Mail Company do not appear to anticipate
a full 'passenger traffic between this country and
they look to the United States for
what Southampton cannot supply. But we need

not move beyond our own quays for c

lgers; and this is the strong hol

who wish f

a permanent, expedi

tious, and cheap line of steam communication, and

on the home Government; who appear resolved

to fly in the face of common sense to keep Liver

pool in the shade as a foreign •and coloni

to provoke

ussion on the relative adtantages of the

mutual and indisputable systems. We are most
anxious, at all times, to aid the cause of
frugality, and to urgo parents to. think of
leave after them, but we

those they must

neVer bring ourselves to sanction a

species of litigation on the part of one society,
which another repudiates with scorn, as a London
Office has just done. It would, in a word, be
better we had no such thing as insurance at all,
than to hear that the needy relatives of insured
persons would be required to find funds to enforce
their claims against strong corporations, and juries
who follow the strict letter of the law as laid doWn
by a judge who has no responsibility as to the
equity of the verdicts returned in his court.

THE COURT,

We have .lost nothing, however, thus far. All
our mail lines have answered the expectations of

the public, and the purposes of our contractors•
sfied with

scharge their

onerous mules, ana the latter are reaping a rich
harvest from their well-directed enterprise. The
travelling multitude are carried at a cheap rate, and
to make them comfortable

while on board our packets

Our readers are well

BALMORAL, Oct. 6.—The Queen, the Prince Consort,
and the Princess Royal attended Divine Service at the
parish church of Crathie yesterday. There were likewise
present the Duchess of Wellington, the Hon. Mary Seymour,
Miss Nightingale, Lord Panmure, Major General the Hon.
C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. C. Phipps, and Sir J. Clark.

The service was performed by the Rey. Dr. Macleod. Dr.
Macleod had the honour of dining with her Majesty in the

evening.

The Court will leave Balmoral for the south on Wednesday
next. It is understood that her Majesty will travel on this
occasion by the Spittal of Glenshee, and take the railway at
Biairgowrie.

On Tuesday, the Queen, the Princess Royal, and Prince
Alfred, attended by the Duchess of Wellington, Miss
Seymour, and Sir George Grey, drove to the Linn of Dee.
On their return the royal party took tea with Lady Agnes
Duff, at the Cottage, and then, acoompanied by• her lady-
ship, proceeded to the fine Fallei of Corriemulzie. Her
j ,sty had never been at them before, and certainly a

aware that we should not be ju
much for our Southampton riv

better cet3asion could hardly ever have been chosen for
seeing them in perfection. In crossing the high road which
runs between the Cottage grounds and the site of the Falls,
the party met a large drove of cattle coming from the
Castleton market. The drover, a fine looking man from
Athole, addressing Lady Agnes, said, " Please can you tell
me if the Queen is forward to-nigh ? " Her Majesty over-
heard the question, turned round and bestowed on the
stalwart Highlander a most grac'ous bow and smile. Sir
George Grey then fell back, and told him that that was the
Queen.

His Royal Highnessthe Prince of Wales, whilst in Devon,
honoured Sir LyPston Newman with a visit at Mamhead.
Mamhead is a beautiful place, erected by the first Sir Robert
Newman, on the heights of Haldon. It is one of the finest
spots in Devon, and the resources of art have been lavished
to make the house and grounds worthy of the site. The
parish church is situated in the park. His Royal Highness
visited it to see the monument erected to the memory of the
late gallant Sir R. L. Newman, who cfell at Inkermann. The
young prince excited admiration by the quick intelligence
he displayed, whilst his bearing, though not wanting in
the dignity due to his station, placed every one who came in
contact with his Royal Highness perfectly at their ease .
After taking lunch with the family his Royal Highness left
for Exeter, much gratified by the scenery, and leaving every
one delighted with his genuine goodness of heart and quick
intelligence.

The Court journal, in speaking of Miss Nightingale's
presenoe at the ball at Balmoral last week, says :—" Miss
Nightingale was specially invited to be present, and was
seated with the Royal family and the Court circle at one
end of the hall. This young lady is taller than the por-
traits published of her would lead one to imagine. In the
severe attack of illness she suffered in the East, it was
absolutely necessary to have all her hair cut off, and it is
now therefore quite short ; but a charming little cap makes
a very graceful head-dress ; and in the elegant and lady. like
figure there is everything that bears out the ideal picture of
the moral heroine of the Crimea which most have depicted
to themselves."

The Imperial yacht, the Reine Hortense, arrived at
Havre, on Monday, with Prince Napoleon, on board, hav-
ing effected the passage from Hamburg in fifty-two hours•
Immediately on the arrival of the vessel, his Imperial
Highness was waited on by the Commissary-General of
Marine, and the Colonel ofj the 29th Regiment of the line,
whilst a considerable crowd of spectators assembled on the
quay. The Prince seemed in excellent health, as did all
'the persons who accompanied him. His Imperial Highness
was to partake of a farewell dinner on board, and then to
reeve for Paris. The yacht, after her eraize of 12,000
miles, would, it was thought; remain for some days in the
Vieux Basin to effect some slight repairs. His Imperial
Highness left Havre last night by the express train, and
arrived at the Palais Royal on Tuesday morning about one
o'clock.

We read in the Gazette de Lausanne :—" The Duchess of
Orleans has quitted the baths of Stackelberg, after a stay ot
four weeks. The health of the august princess appears to
have greatly benefited by the use of the sulphurous waters
of this establishment, and from the pure air of the Alps.
Shezeturns to Genoa, where she will pass the winter, by
the St. Gothard. The two young princes have profited by
the fine weather to make excursions upon the neighbouring

The Nouvelle Gazelle de Fives° announces the complete
recovery of Prince Adalbert of Prussia, and states that he
has resumed the command of the Prussian navy.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING

Notwithstanding the peculiar and stringent state
of the Money Market, and extreme rates of discount
accommodation, business matters are in a tolerable
sound state, Money- is still in active demand ;
and, if anything, the enhanced rates of interest
established are fully sustained. As yet, we are
unable to state the precise effects of the rise of
Monday. To-day, bill discounters, both here and
in London, would not accept less than '
cent. for good bills of 60 days' date.
canvass the cause which induced tho

the Bank of England to ado
course of Monday,theadmissl

or 8 per

ral, that the step taken was legitirn
to avert what might other

hay

parties

d assisted
led out a

monetary crisis of a most exf e sive and serious eba.
meter. This feeling manif.sted itself in the Consol
Market to-day," from whence we halve better
reports. In the early part of

usiness

done for Accounts, first at
rose from 918 to a2i closing stem

'after v

The dealings for transfer op

at 921 o 92

A
at 9 1 ',-',I, air

they then f

a slify,h

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