The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-22 00:00:00

FOLEY'S AMERICAN GOLD PENS.

CHARLES WILLMER,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL STATIONER,
19, SOUTH JOHN-STREET,
-Re•pectfnlly Intimates to Merchants, Traders, and Dealers, th_t he
has be, n appo nted Sole Agent for he Sale of

FOLEY CELEBRATED AMERICAN GOLD PENS,
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sively used f )1' that periol, and are preferred to new ores The
Prices rang- 'mom FIVE SHI LOWS to a guinea each.
Supplied Wholesale, by Charles Willmer, 19, South John-street,
Llv, rpool.

USIC FOR THE MILLION.

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ife manages neath to pan erf al airs.
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AMUSEMENTS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, &c.
THIS DAY.

Liverpool Academy's Exhibition—ten a.m. to ten p.m.
Queen's Hall—Hoffman's Organophonic Band—eight p.m.
Royal Colosseum—General Entertainment—half•past six.
Freemason's Hall—Gallery of Anatomy—eleven a.m. to

ten p.m.
St. George's Hall—Meeting of Protective Burial Society—
twelve o'clock noon.
•,* For particulars see advertisements in first page.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1856.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

Last Saturday the Chester murderer, Jackson,
suffered the extreme penalty of the law, and to-day
three other fellow mortals are to lzei launched into
eternity, at Winchester. while other convicts, at
• York and Maidstone, await a similar fate. A party
has been arrested on suspicion, charged with the
murder of Mr. Little, at Dublin, but we fear that
as yet the real delinquent has not been captured.'
. To.day a meeting is to be held in St. George's
H 01, for the purpose of forming a new burial
society. According to the advertisement calling
the meeting, the new society is to be brought into
existence under favourable auspices, and rather
distinguished patronage, as a reference to the
advertisement calling the meeting will show. The
question is an important one to the industrial
classes, we shall therefore have a word to say upon
the subject in a day or two.

onnject 1u " to
The opposition to the income and property taxes
continues to increase more and more every day
It will be perceived from the proceedings of the
Liverpool Financial Reform Association, inserted
in another column, that the matter has engaged
the attention of the committee. Meetings are
being held in all the leading commercial cities and
towns of the United Kingdom ; and we are much
mistaken if the Chancellor of the Exchequer be not
fully convinced, befote the '3rd of February, that it
will he a difficult task for him to attempt the re-
imposition of a tax which has become truly un•
popular with all classes of the community.
We would appear to have no end to the system
of frauds which is being carried on in public com-
panies hence on Friday afternoon, shortly after the
officials of the Great Northern Railway, who had
been attending the ( lerkenwell Police Court, on the
charge against Redpath and Kent, bad left the
Court, they returned, having in custody Thomas
Hogden, a clerk in the registration department of
the same railway. He was at once placed at the
bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt, on the charge of being
concerned with Rei'path in the commission of the
forgery of which the latter stands charged. It
appears that Mr. Mowatt, the secretary of the
coinpanv, having his suspicions aroused, looked
into the transfers. and found that the prisoner had
been the attesting witness to a forged document,
purporting to transfer 1,0001 41 per cent stock of
• the Great Northern Railway from Redpath to Mr.
Stephen George Hammond. From the nature of
the document there could not, in Mr. Mowatt's

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idea, be the least doubt that the prisoner knew that
ire—document was a forgery`.—The -prisoner, in
defence, said that he did not know that the docu-
ment was a forgery, and he was only the attesting
witness. The prisoner was remanded.
The intimation given by Mr. Mansfield of his
intention to prosecute all parties engaged 'in
Christmas treat lotteries, has been the subject
of much gossip during the last few
days. Mr. Peake, having been specially
referred to by the stipendiary magistrate, ad-
dressed the Solicitor of the Treasury, urging in
brief but emphatic terms the great hardship to
which he would be subjected from the fact that he
had incurred heavy responsibilities, and prepared
every thing for the lottery going off on the appointed
day., The reply of the Treasury is to the effect
that the matter is in the hands of the Liverpool
authorities, and therefore no interference can be
made. Mr, Peake has resolved to obey the law,
although it will be to him a serious loss. ! He will,
therefore, return to all subscribers the amount
which they have paid for their tickets ; but whilst
doing so, •he and many of his friends feel that an
injustice is perpetrated by the arbitrary line of con:.
duceivhich the Liverpool authorities have adopted,
for if his Christmas treat lottery is illegal, no also
ere the Art-Unions of Liverpool, London, Dublin,
and Glasgow.

Our at:ention has been called to a statement;
which appears in the columns of a L•mdon con-
temporary, to. the effect that transports are taken
up. to
.carry troops, to Persia. This is hardly
crcdible.• We eaßnot believe that such a step
would he taken without first summoning Parlia-
ment together, and obtaining -that; authority.
Should it, however, prove otherwise, it is clearly
the duty of the country to stigmatise and oppose
conduct, not only unusual, but unconstitutional.

We have New York advices of the 10th instant.
The news contained therein is interesting, and
somewhat alarming, for it reports a negro rising in
the south western states, and we are informed
that some scores of these unhappy slaves haire
already been 'shot or hanged, in fear of course, by
their owners. The whites were ,arming and orga.
nising,. and so, too, were the negroes. The
Southerns who would revive the slave trade had
taken fright, and dropped the discussion of the
nefarious project. Animated and protracted
debates had taken place -in both Houses-of Con-
gress on the Presidential Address. These discus-
sions, as might naturally be suppotied, turn upon
the slavery question, and ,the .objects which the
Republican party have in view. In neither branch
of Congress does th ,re appear to have yet been a
division which would indicate the state of parties.
The news from the Continent will be found at
full length in other columns. .Froin Paris we learn
that all the _plenipotentiaries, save that of Turkey,
who waits his instructions, have received their
powers, and are ready to enter on -the business of
Conference. The same letter speaks of what the
Confiirencels likely to be - occupied with:. hut we
perce7ve by It telegraphic despatch that the French
Government has informed the Cabinet at Vienna
of its inablility, "after mature consideration," to
accept the interpretation of the Bolgiad and- Isle
of Serpents questions in the absolute tern-is pre-
pounded by England, Austria, and Turkey. The
declaration is said 'to -haire been unexpected; and
may
_postpone the Conferences indefinitely.
The Paris correspondent of the Independanee
Beige says it is rumoured. that the -Emperor ,Napo-
leen has written an autograph letter to the King of
Naples, there being 'at present no official repre
sentative of France at /laples,.to cangrattilate him
on his escape from assassination.' . -
Accounts have been received from Naples to the
15th. All the English in that capital, residents
and visitors, had signed an address of congratula-
tion to the King, and had -gone to the palace to
present it ! His 'Majesty showed great emotion at
receiving the address, and expressed his gratitude
for the proceeding All foreigners of distinction,
as well as the population. have visited the King to
offer their congratulations !
A letter from Vienna in the Boersenhalle, of
Hamburg,-says :—" It is announced as positive that
the Porte is preparing fresh difficulties by obsti-
nately opposing the incorporation of the Delta of
the Danube with the territory of Moldavia, and that
Gholib Pacha, a'son of Resehid Paella, has left for
Paris on a private mission relative to this affair."

Our last advices from St. Petersburg inform us
that Count V. Esterhau, the Austrian Ambas-
s.idor, has had within the last few days an interview
with Lrinee Gortschakoff, in which some conversa-
tion took place on- the subj at of the reply of the
Cabinet of Vienna to the Russian memorandum
The Prince remarked that the pretension of Austria
to occupy the Principalities until the question of
the frontiers should be settled was inadmissible for
two motives—first, from the declaration of Count
Buol at Paris that the evacuation of 'the Turkish
territory by Austria presented less difficulty than.
that by France and England, and that it should
• take place before ; and secondly, because the
projected instructions drawn up at Paris for the
members of the Commission for the organisation of
the Principalities declaring expressly that the
Divans could not meet until the foreign troops
should have evacuated the Principalities. The
Austrian Ambassador confined hiMself to replying
that Russia could not invoke the treaty of Paris so
long as she occupied any point of the Bessarabia',
territory, which she bound to cede to Turkey
This conference was consequently without result ;
and it is probable that the Russian Cabinet will
reply in writing to that of Vienna, which may,
perhaps cause d new delay in the meeting of the
Conference of Paris.

According to Berlin advices of the 20th, it would
appear the Federal Council have ordered 20.000
men to be put under arms. A reserve will likewise
be formed Col. Borgeoas will occupy Basle with
10,000 men, and Colonel Wiegler will go to
Schaffosen with the other 10,000 men. The Grand
Council of Berne unanimously granted unlimited
credit for purposes of war.

THE Financial Reform Association have just
issued one of their periodical pamphlets, entitled
—Cooking of the National Accounts; What they
are, and What they thigh! to Be. The facts
arrayed in this brochure will appear very
startling to the uninitiated. We think we see the
amazementdepicted in the merchants countenance
after reading such an announcement as this :L.--
" No. 1, Cash Account, shoWing the whole of
" 'the Financial Operations of the Lords' Com-
" missioners of her Majesty's Treasury, in con.-
nection with the
,Income and Expenditure of
" the United Kingdom, between the Ist April,
" 1855, and the 31st March, 1856.' This, he
" imagines, will give him exactly the information
" he requires. Glancing at the foot of the page
" to the left be sees the total receipts set down
" at 133,261,3891. 13s. 4d. This enormous sum
" he finds to be composed of the following items :
" Balance in the Exchequer' (at the Banks of
" England and Ireland) on the 31st of March,
" 1855, 3,9.19,7741. I is. 8d ;' Total Income'
" (from Taxes, Crown Lands, and Miscellaneous
" Receipts) 69,808,996/. 2s. 2d. ; Repayment
" of Advances,' 1,245,248/. 17s. 4d.; Money
" raised by creation of additional Debt,'
" 26,478,750/. ; 'Conversion of unfunded Debt,•
" 2,101,2001.; Supply raised by renewal of
' Securities,' 16,430,700/. ; Temporary ad-
" vances received,' 1,740,000/. ; and 4 Exche-
" quer Deficiency Bills,' 11,506,720/. 2s. 2d "
To the commercial mind such things are wholly
unintelligible. We bear occasionally of a
romance of the Counting House, and the loss of
princely fortunes in a labrynth of irregular totals.
The worst of Whitehall cannot, however, be
told in one breath, or seen at a glance. The

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Financial Reform Assodiation have discovered
thiS, and they invite the -reader to turn his eyes
first to the right, and then the left. " Casting
" his eye on the opposste 'page the investigator
" sees the Total Expenditure' for debt, army,
" navy, and civil purposes, stated at 92,532,859/.
4' 7s. Bd. To this, sum are added sundry other
items, the last of which is 5,600,6211. 6s. 10d.,
" set down as a Balance in the Exchequer on
" the 31st of March, 1856,' and thus
" both sides are squared. Here the be-
wildered pursuer of financial , logarithms be-
comes dumbfoundered, and, doubting the accumu-
latiie evidence of his senses, rubs his eyes, and
returns to his studies. Having waded, for a
second time, through " No. 1 Cash Account,"
he ventures to turn over a leaf ; when, lo ! he
finds that the 133,261,389/. 13s. 4d. total of
receipts is a phantom. The fiscal FRANKENSTEIN
ceases to be the monster he first appeared as the
reader gets deeper into the novel or conte bleu.
The Association have also discovered this ; for
they tell us that, on turning over another leaf,
the reader finds another " table, in which the
" Total Income, including Balances,' is set down
at 73,171,781/. 15s. 94 dl., with the Expenditure
" conforming down to the three farthings. Turn-
" ing the leaf again, he lights upon another table
" in which the Total Income, with certain abate-
" ments, is given as 65,704,4901. 15s. 10d., and
" the Total Expenditure as 88,428,3451. Os. 11d.
Once more pursuing his explorations, he sees a
" fourth statement, from which :it appears_that
" the Income, making, certain deductions, was
" 70,397,0911. 13s. 6id., and the Expenditure
" 93,120,9451. 18s. 7,1 d." Here we lose sight,
for a moment, of the national accounts " as they
are r and we cannot take leave of this portion of
the subject, without offering a tribute of praise
to the ingenuity displayed by our arithmetical

novelists. • T.
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:Mr. DISRAELI can never regain the laurels
Sir G. CORNEWALL LEWIS has won and wears in
this department of the State's service ; and great
credit is due to the Financial Reform Association

for the pains they have taken to show us how the
national ledger should be kept. Their last
pamphlet is, in a word, a most masterly expo-
sitiOn of our disgraceful and highly criminal
mode of dealing with the hard-earned money of
the nation, who labour from early dawn to sun-
set for the revenue taken from them. It leaves
no item in the long list of fiscal abuses untouched,
yet the Association scarcely ventures to hint at
the word e Retrenchment." They seem to have
no comprehensive view with regard to a' speedy
reduction in the national burdens beyond what
might possibly follow an improved system of book-
keeping in government offices. They allude to
an income of 133,261,389/. 18s. 4d. as something
excessive ; but their satisfaction appears to be
complete when they find that it may not have
exceeded 92,532,8501. 7s. Bd. ; nor do they say
one word about the 5,600,621/. 6s. 10d. excess
of taxation taken from the tills of the country
and set down as a " Balance in the Exchequer "
over and above the wants of the State. This
large sum could have been employed at a profit
if it had not been absorbed before it was actually
needed, and with great advantage to the whole
community. Its free circulation might have
averted all the commercial difficulties experienced
in 1855. The pressure of taxation in the years
of war was excessive, and it is not likely to be
less in these days of peace.
We have at present several large camps in
England and Ireland, and a war fleet which will
swallow 37,049,6441. this year just as readily as
they did in 1855. The " reductions " which
have taken place in these departments will be
found to be little more than nominal, as military
and naval retrenchment has no friends, not even
in the Financial Reform Association. This
society evidently thinks that if the State accounts
were kept properly, and a few trifles struck out
of the balance sheet, that the Government could
keep just whatever armed forces they might
think proper. This may arise from a wish not to
give offence in certain high quarters. " Retrench-
ment " in a straightforward and comprehensive
sense is not, however, what the Association
seek in their last publication. They
have no principle to propound with regard
to what ought to be the basis of taxation—how
the expenditure ought to be provided for, and a
revenue created, without taking the only avail-
able means of commerce from the till of the
trader. On these subjects they are as purely
Whig and PEELITE as though they had the Earl
of DERBY for their president, and Lord PALMER-
STON as their deputy-chairman. They pass., by
in silence the great substratum of- finance, and
confine themselves to raking up from the
Exchequer's accounts a frightful grievance. By
pursuing this course they have failed to scare a
Tory or alarm a Whig Administration. They have
not succeeded in forming a party of sufficient
importance to do more than nominate two
or three silent members of Parliament ;
and they are fast falling away, we regret
to add, from a great Reform League, down
to the standard of a provincial Tract Society.
They have left the worst of the evils of which they
complain untouched, and the decline of their
influence and popular favour proves that they are
too superficial for the age, both in the selection
of men and treatment of measures.

WE published, on Friday, a letter from Mr.
JAMES M`DONALD a person who was once the
smoke inspector, or " your engineer," as he was
wont to style himself. The libellous charge con-
tained in the ex-inspector's epistle we can afford
to treat with the utmost derision and contempt.
With regard to the value of our enlightened
author's legal opinion as to what constitutes a
patent right, and the validity of the claims set
up by rival inventors, we must leave the public to
decide. Of the mechanical applications adopted
by the contending parties, one of whom our Vere
.4dpetus loves most dearly, while he evidently
hates the other as the rude disturber of his
official peace. That he knows nothing whatever