The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-25 00:00:00

T) J. NODDER,

HATTER,

-81, CHURCH-STREET,

Begs respectfully to inform the Nobility and Gentry of Liver-
pool that his NEW_STYLES for the Season are NOW READY

tor Inspection,

E4e Rorttorn (CUM

MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1856

THE DAY'S NEWS

The foreign news received since Saturday,
though brief, is of considerable importance. The
commotion caused by the Riff pirate affair
engrosses the entire attention of Court and diplo-
matic circles. England has been solicited, on all
sides, to take a conspicuous part in the chastise-
ment of the mendacious offenders; but since it is

just possible that the unceremonious visit
of the Prussian Prince may have been
considered as an hostile demonstration
subjects of the King of Mo-
rocco our readers will be glad to find that our
Government have suggested the propriety of
opening a diplomatic correspondence with the
ruling Monarch of the country, before entering
on hostilities. This is a perfectly reasonable
course, and its adoption may save considerable
trouble hereafter, should not full repara-
tion be made. The conquest of Algeria
commenced with bloody " reprisals," and
the sequal, in this instance, may be too
much akin to what we have already witnesses in
the same direction, to suit British taste and com•
mercial interests.

against the

O'Donnell's influence at home and abroad con•
tinues to decline. He and his colleagues talk
largely, but their fears are as numerous as their
words. Temen nueva cuenta. Whether they will
`overcome the terrors of " the situation" remains to be
--seen. The proposed dissolution of the Constituent
Parlitiment has not bean attempted, and should it
take place it will doubtless lead to great popular

agitation, ind a sanguinary revolution, sooner or
t later, as all extreme measures do in Spain. The
first decisive act ;of O'Donnell's camarilla is all,
in fact, that is required to give unity and new life
to the Opposition. "We much regret the position
t in which the SPanish bondholders have been
placed by the events which have recently taken
place on the Peninsula, and it is high time that •
O'Donnell was asked what provision he intends to

gn eredi tor;
make for the payment of forei of

Spain

Rus'sian intrigue is beginning to develope itself
in the East. The Czar's agents are active in
prompting the Principalities to ask for the union
of the two Danubian Provinces, and an in-
dependent existence—conditions which were

never once mooted at the Paris Conference, and

h are wholly incompatible with the letter and
spirit of the Treaty of Peace. This mode of
creating fresh difficulties will retard the final
settlement of the Eastern question, and may
eventually give rise to along season of hostilities
between the Porte and its Wallachian and Mol-
davian subjects.

The steamship Tagus arrived at Southampton
last evening. She brings a small amount of specie
—three thousand six hundred pounds. Her dates
are Gibraltar, the 16th ; Cadiz, the 17th ; Lisbon

the 19th ; Oporto, the Mt

and Vigo, the 21st inst

Her political in tel

nee will probably contain some
items of importance, as we fear the recent outbreak
at Lisbon was more serious than is generally
believed. Should it prove otherwise, it will afford

considerable relief to those interested in the trade
and finances of Portugal.

By the American steamship Washington, which
arrived at Cowes on Saturday, we received our files
of papers to the 9th instant, one day later than
those brought by the Alps. They add but little to the
intelligence published in the NORTHERN TIMES of
Friday morning. The Washington brings 61,000
dollars in specie for France

She announces that
tholera had broken out at Staten Island, and that

ich uneasiness was felt at New Orleans, as the
hour was crowded with shipping from all parts
The news from Nicaragua is

of the world

Walker having gained a signal triumph

Presidential election.

Our local reports are full of interesting matter
r those engaged in the Assize business of the

southern division of this largo and populous
county. The prisoner, Betsy Al`gullen, charged
with the murder of her husband at Bolton, was
found:guilty of manslaughter. The learned judge
deferred passing sentence until he had consulted
his brother judge. His Lordship commented with
just severity on the base and brutal conduct of
women using drugs. "A system which was utterly
" reprehensible, and totally at variance with the
" feelings which ought to exist between man and
" wife

and his Lordship concluded by observing
that "he hoped the women in court would
"understand that they, must not drug their
"husbands; and also; that persons like
" Mr. Simpson, who sold such drugs, were
" guilty of manslaughter"— a fact which, we
trust, will not be thrown away upon the
Legislature. The prosecution in the. Excelsior
collision case having broken down, tho whole of
the prisoners were discharged, and tho criminal
business of the Assizes terminated.

WHEN we asserted some weeks since thait traders
were compelled to resort to adulteration in order

to add excessive taxation to unnaturally low nrices,
we had no idea that a report of the Selee't Com-
mittee of the House of Lords would be so
soon cited to establish the truth of our Allega-

tion, and to justify the gross immoralii y of

such a practice

We have for many years ap'pre-

hended the disclosure of serious national :mis-
chief from the high favour in which .the
philosophy of cheapness, and the insane inter-
ference of the legislature with value and the natural
current of prices, have been held. Our worst fore-
bodings have, however, fallen very far short of
the reality ; for we never expected to hear bare-
faced cheating tolerated on the score of cheapness,

and the adulteration of duty-paying and excise-
able articles recommended as " mixtures," to
curtail the lawful revenue of the State, and render
the other burdens of taxation all the more insup-
portable. There may be excessive Parliamentary
and Ministerial prudence in giving that particular
class who constitute the bulk of our legislative

constituency all the benefits of cheapness, and
the profits of adulteration, but the country has to
consider the propriety, in a political and moral
sense, of allowing one branch of the public income
to be swept away for the pleasure of making up
the deficiency from the property, income, and
wages of those who are sold birch besoms for

rough congou, prime sawdust for good coffee, and
sparkling sand for highly crystallised sugar.
There is something so sacred about the bread—

the staff of life of a nation—that we scarcely know
what to think of thos3 who could suffer its com-
position to be tampered with or changed in any

The poor man, the hard-working wife,
the growing youth, the toddling child, and the
youngest infant, all require the full nutriment of
a pure wheat flour loaf. The public pay for a loaf
of pure wheat bread, and they ought to get that
for which they pay their money in this and every
other case. The House of Lords think otherwise,
and they would allow adulterated articles of all
kinds to bo sold as " mixtures" without giving the
consumer the power of ascertaining of what the
" mixture" is composed. Verily, this is opening the
door to the evasion of revenue, and wholesale
fraud on the public. If the grocer and baker are
to be allowed to sell what they please for
articles which are heavily taxed for the
State's defence and government, why should
not the butcher be suffered to sell horse
flesh and beef, dogs flesh and veal, diseased
and wholesome meat as " mixed"—the poulterer
dead cats and rabbits—the fishmonger stinking
and fresh fish as articles of a " cheap and innocuous
"character ?" The Lords 'Committee asks us " what's

degree

" in a name ?" We have heard of large ventures in
wooden hams and wooden nutmegs neatly turned
and slightly coloured on the outside with lime, and
we shall no doubt be favoured with a few importa-
tions of the kind from our Connecticutt relations,
as soon as the recommendations of the Committee

in question become law.
A few hundreds of good balk hams, and bushels
of spicy deal nuts, " mixed" with the genuine
articles, would go a long way towards making up
the tax collector's demands, and would give a
degree of solidity to the arguments of our
Cheap Johns, which would remove all murmurs
except those of the national stomach. Where the
jaws of the empire escaped the tetanus of mastica-
tion, they would be left powerless by the excessive
labour of chewing the produce of the timber
yard and the crystals of the chemist's shop•
The few who wish to maintain a character for
loquaciousness would be compelled to kill and
cure, make and bake for themselves. How far
the adoption of the Lcrds' report would affect
the price of building material, we cannot say,
bu't plasters and soft woods would certainly
exhibit upward symptoms, and bone dust and
Isoot would most assuredly rise to a famine level.
Such is the age to which we belong. The

Vegetarians have been laughing at us for our
inhumanity and want of wit for some years, but
we had no idea that the mineral and vegetable
substances on which they lived were so varied
and solid. We could never have supposed that
when we stood by the side of one of that
respected class, that we were in the presence of a
walking alembic, in which the refuse of the
vegetable and mineral kingdoms were in a most
active stage of distillation. Nor can the public have
had the slightest conception that they themselves
possessed the extraordinary alexiterial powers of
digestion, which
brought to li
the recent revelations have
ght. But so it is. All we seem to
require, in order to
!is afe
enable us to thrive on our
legislative " mixtures,
cross beams
and iron girders, just to keepwbody and soul
together.

Copper is, unfortunately, too
corrosive, and we
cannot therefore hope to avail ourselves of a pan
made of that metal in our stomachs, and as 1
earthern vessels are too cumbersome and" apt to;
break, we must depend on lead and gutta pereha '
for minor pressures and strains. Once these are
effectively introduced into the inside, the food
which carries its own acids and other elements of