The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-11 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS BILLS,

The Extra Parochial Places Bill went through committee.
The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Bill, the Customs D,atiee
Bill, the Indemnity Bill, the Copyhold and laclosure Coo-
missioners, &c., Bill, and the Municipal Corporation AC
Amendment Bill was severally read a second time.
The house adjourned at half past eleven.

THE REFORM Curs —George W. Harris, Esc!, late
stipendiary magistrate of Grenada, has been chosen secre-
tary of the Reform Club. The candidates were 126 is
number.

ABOLITION OF GREENWICH FAIR.—We stop the press to
announce, on tie most reliable authority, that the battle is
now won, and Greenwich Fair is abolished.—Greenwich
Free Press.

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CIIELTENIIAM.—A very strong feeling has been cream
in this town by the defeat of the ministry on the GNI:
question. The name of our own representative, CaPta.—
Berkeley, appears in the minority. On Saturday
after-
noon a- few influential gent em
en (including several'
military men of conservative tics) issued handbill?.
with an address of confidence in Lord Palmerston and
foreign policy.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—A. meeting of gentlemen
favourable to reform of Parliament was held in Lindon 011.
Monday, at which resolutions were adopted to the (*it'
that an opportunity should be given for expressing Pub,";
opinion on the questions to be made tests at the ensuing
election ; and the holding of a public meeting for that Par'
pose was urged upon. An address to the e ectors was al
drawn up, and will shortly be published. The time an-
place of meeting will be duly announced.
A. HEATHEN PARISH.—There is a picturesque village i°
the north of England wherein resides the venerable reel
who has enjoyed this excellent living for upwards of
years, during which period he has received for his labour
the sum of 40 6001; but a short time ago the rev. gentle::
mau gave, in one of his parochial sermons, a sing,l`:',
account of his stewardship. He stated that during hid
last year 27 of his parishioners had departed this lite, an
only two of them had gone to heaven! and during that
period there had been 37 children christened at the pariah
church, and out of that number only two of the childeed
had Christian parent's. These strange sentiments produced
the greatest consternation amongst the congre„ga.iou, ant
many of the deceased rela ions, who were present, wen
into a flood of tears, and others again looked with scorn ce
the minister who had spoken so unkindly of both Oa
living and the dead. On leaving the church an aged and
venerable parishioner said to his neighbours that be CO„_ 7
sidered that parson spent more of his time in the collectP'"
of tithes than ho did in giving forth the bread of filet"'
Nort'dern Daily Express.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT TO Mn. GLADsTINE, p
accident of an unusual nature, the occurrence of winch
seems to be known to very few persons, happeue",Jr.
Tuesday night last to the right hon. gentleman. "^to
Gladstone was returning from the House of Commeng.,,B
his own residence in Carlton-house Terrace aftertl;t
division on Mr. Cobden's resolutions, and in a SolneW cog
hazy state of mind, when he inadvertently trod on a of
signal which some railway guard, in passing the Duke...t.
York's column, had carelessly dropped on the pd.Veal.'".o
The effect was instantaneous; the right hon. gentlealtli
was proje ted some feet into the air, and descended w
a heavy fall. A policeman was by his side in a memekati
ed
and found him apparently unconscious. On being es.d
where he lived, no reply could for some time be obtain a
except the one word " sixteen," though in the course at,
quarter of an hour, Mr. Gladstone, on being more ergenitoki
pressed as to his address, got so far as " sixteen, D'w„.,,b,
street." He was forthwith conveyed thither in a 'race
and on knocking up the old hall porter, the latter at
and
recognised the ex Chancellor of the Exchequer, a,n
right honourable gentleman was removed to /us, 00
residence. lie dozed throughout the remainder on..
to
night and was better in the morning. The story 01,00
fog signal rests upon the authority of a policem of
declares that he distinctly heard the exPlcsininties
which he was well acquainted with the peculiar.
__se
but we hear that several members who were in the Pct,
on the previous evening are sceptical on the n 2.00
They allege that unmistakeable symptoms of spen!a_u`hori.
comnus:ion had exhibited themselves in the rienr„.eet
gentleman during the debate, and attribute the "Pion's'
accident to the matured deviloptnent of those 851" are-
We rejoice to hear that Mr. Gladstone is now el) fot
Lively calm, though his friends still feel grounds
considerable uneasiness.—Morning Post.

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