The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-29 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

Wa have received two more letters on the Lime-street Ward
Election, which we will publish to-morrow. We have also in
type a letter on Bribery at Elections," and another from Mr.
Charles Millward, which are also held over for want of space
to-day.

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THE DAYS NEWS

The inquest at Hale has taken place, and the
jury, after a deliberation of ten minutes, have
returned a verdict of accidental death. We are
glad that it is so, as it relieves the car diriver from
the very unpleasant position in which he was
placed. We cannot, however, refrain from stating
our conviction that had there been less intoxicating
drink going about, there would have been
much more careful driving, and the life of the
unfortunate deceased been spared to his bereft
wife and orphan child. It is also worthy of remark,
that there was a sad discrepancy in the evidence
respecting the driver's sobriety. The matter is
now over, and may it prove a useful lesson, not
only to Matthew Smith, but all other car drivers,
to be particularly cautious when entrusted to drive
a party of Sunday excursionists on country roads
in a dark night.
We have on more than one occasion, during the
last month, warned the Municipal Electors of
Liverpool of the vast importance of the privilege
which they will be called upon to exercise on Satur-
day next. In these appeals we have alluded to the
pressing necessity of having from every candidate
for a seat in the Town Council, a clear and explicit
statement of his views upon the Gas and Water
questions, because we have, over and over again,
demonstrated with regard to the latter, that it
behoved the people of Liverpool to look well to it,
seeing that the enormous amount of . money
squandered on the Pike scheme, would, at an early
date, involve the imposition of a borough rate.
We are sorry to say we have been true prophets,
for within the last twenty-four hours, information
has reached us that, the Town Council is prepared
to impose this additional tax upon the rate payers.
It is rumoured that the plans for carrying out the
rate, are all but matured, and that one of the first
questions submitted to the council, as constituted
by the Elections of Saturday next, will be the new
tax indicated above. We give the foregoing as a
rumour, but seeing the mess in which the
Water Committee have placed the ratepayers by
pertinaciously carrying out a scheme which
has been repeatedly demonstrated to be un-
necessary and extravagant, we appeal to
the Municipal Electors of Liverpool to
consider these things, as already they corn-
complain of the heavy local taxation to which they
are subjected. Can they, will they, submit to have
that amount greatly increased, simply because it
has pleased a few conceited and significant per-
sonages to ride a particular hobby, and, despite of
remonstrance, of reason and common sense, to
plunge the borough of Liverpool into an ex-
penditure, the amount of which causes all sane
men to shudder ? Granting the correctness of
these remarks, and who in our whole community
would be disposed to controvert them, it then,
becomes a solemn duty on the part of every elector
to see that he is not sending to the Council Cham-
ber, as his representative, one who will vexatiously
add to the local burdens of the borough, and thus
endorse the past misdeeds of the Pike advocates.
While on this subject, we may observe that last
night Mr. Steains made his first bow to the Castle-
street Ward electors, and delivered a neat prosy
speech. On the water question he said as little as he
could avoid, but that little leads us to the conclusion
that Mr. Stains will be tound voting for the imposi-
tion of a Borough rate, inasmuch as his opinion is
that, fixed as we now are with the Pike Scheme, we
must make the best we can of it. In justice to Mr.
Steains, it must be said that he possesses consi-
derable powers of oratory, and, with a little
practice, will, no doubt, make a fair debater ; hut
of late years the great drawback in the Liverpool
Town Council has been, that so many of its mem-
, bers were prone to get up discussions and argue
questions more like the aspiring
than that of a gently.

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supporting. We hope this loquacious propensity
will not be increased by the elections of Saturday
next. If so the Council Chamber may ultimately
be turned into a municipal pest-house, whilst the
wishes, interests, and wants of the burgesses
at large will be either wilfully neglected or
dispised. It will be perceived that Mr.
Stett's friends and supporters met him at Everton
last night, and certainly the remarks "of that gen-
tleman showed that he possesses qualifications for
the office of Town Councillor far in advance of that
of his opponent, Mr. Longton. We hope that he
will head the poll on Saturday next by a conside
able majority

Turning from these matters, which are pure.
n their character, we have to remark that our Conti
nental advices continue barren of news thatis really
important. Most of the journals are still occupied
with the Neapolitan question, which remains
without a definite settlement. According to the
Paris Constitutionnel, the " leading
,journal" of Eng-
land has committed a grave offence for wheeling
round to support Austria after having so constantly
denounced the " Macheavelian" policy of that
power, during the Crimean war. The same paper
takes occasion to make a daily attack on Austria,
by quoting a Philippic against that power, from
the Nerd—a Russian organ, not long since pro-
hibited in France.

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From Spain, we learn that the cholera is making
considerable ravages in the province of Ponte
verdo. With regard to the granting of pass-
ports system, ordered by the Government
at Madrid, and already alluded to in these
columns ; as regards Carlists they shall not he
allowed to return to Spain unless they take an oath
of fidelity to the Queen and Constitution. The
price of wheat was advancing, and the government
journals had asserted that the advance was not
occasioned by any scarcity but by the " ignoble
speculations of avaricious usurers, and the govern -
ment intends to punish them severely. It is
further announced that the government, in order
to prevent a further rise, is collecting large stores
of corn, and that it hoped to get through the winter
months without any difficulty. In the province
of Caceres, one half of the fields, according to the
Epoca, have not been sown owing to the excessive
scarcity of grain. _ _

In the Belgian and German papers we find a
note, addressed by the Prussian government to its
agents at the various German Gout ts, respecting
the Neufchatel question ; and likewise a circular
note from the Swiss Confederation. The Prussian
note is dated as early as Peptember, and is conse-
quently of no political interest ; for the offdr of the
Federeal Government to release the prisoners of
Neufchatel, on the condition that the independence
of that canton should be officially recognised, in-
validates the arguments set forth by the Cabinet of
Berlin in the document in question. The Swiss
note expresses a hope that the great Powers will
admit a representative of the repnblic into the
Congress which is to discuss the 'Neufchatel
question ; whilst it declare 3 that preparations arc
being made in the view of every eventuality.
By a telegraphic despatch which has reached
us from Marseilles, dated last night, we learn
that the French Ambassador at the Court of Persia
has returned front Teheran to Constantinople and
it is said that his Excellency had engaged the Shah
to make peace with England. The preparations in
the Persian Gulf continued, whilst Persia, on her
part, was fortifying Teheran.
From Vienna we have advices informing us that
in the course of a day or two the Cabinet of Vienna
would send an answer to the French note, in which
the immediate evacaution of the Principalities is
called for. Count Boul has had several conferences
on the subject with Baron do Bourquency, but the
result of them has not transpired. it is never-
theless certain that the French ambassador declared
that
the Divans of the Principalities cannot com-
mence their labours until Austrian occupation shall
have ceased.

There is nothing fresh from Turkey. It
was supposed that Rischid Pacha would pro-
bably be Grand Vizer, or Prime Minister.
The firman of the Sultan relative to the convoca-
tion of the Divans of the Principalities has been
communicated to the great Caimscans of
Moldavia and Wallachia. It has been delivered to
the latter with a note, in which the Porte explains
itself at length as to the limits within which the