The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-14 00:00:00

when we shall have the supply we are now paying
rates for, and what it will be like when it reaches
Liverpool? We all want to know the extent of the
Borough property in land and houses, the rental it
produces, the condition it is in, and the names of
the persons who occupy it. Did Mr. LLOYD desire
that this most necessary information should be
given ? We stand in need of increased dock
accommodation; not at Bootle, but at points
on the River nearest to Liverpool. Mr. LLOYD
directs us to Lord DERBY'S and Mr. JOHN SHAW
LEIGH'S waste lands on a shore inaccessible from
the sea fcr many months in the year. Mr. LLOYD
is, in fact, one of our Corporate impracticables,
and no suck man ought to be returned to what
should be in its essence a practical Council, except
by some species of trickery. The sensible and
moderate Ratepayers of Lime-street Warn would
never vote for such candidates if they were not
gugeoned into it, and the prodigals on the Ward
Committee being aware of this have resorted to
their old tactics. They make it appear that the
Committee is still composed of Liberals and
Tories, as they style themselves, and that the
retirement of the Chairman, Mr. J. r. J.I.FFERY,
was not

the Union can wish to witness such an anomaly.
Every patriotic American must view such a proba-
bility with consternation. BUCHANAN hurried away
from Europe to heal a Presidential movement
against the Republicans, to lead a party who
scout their name, and to direct a council opposed
to the principles for which American Republicans
contend.

Is there not danger in selecting such men to
rule over Republican states ? What has the Union
to hope from men of such a stamp ? The Con-
stitution has scarcely been reduced to so complete
a nullity that men can support, without a single
scruple of conscience, the two extremes of man's
political existence. BUCHANAN cannot justify in
one breath the extremes of human freedom and
degradation, socially and politically, on one and
the same soil. He cannot be sincere in his
professions of sincerity towards both. No ! He
must be a time-serving first cousin to our routine
men in England, and the States should beware of
such aspirants to the highest offices in the land.
They should bear in mind the lea ding incidents
in the Crimean war. Hunters after place and
emolument are the same thio,ighout the universe•

followed by the immediate with-
drawal of the Liberal members from the
Committee. For instance—at their meeting
of Tuesday, there were only forty members
present, and of this number six only were Liberals,
and, out of those, four made a precipitate retreat
when they found themselves in such a miserable
minority. They left in disgust when they saw the
chair occupied by one of that minority. The trick

They can accommodate the most glaring contra-
dictions, show as ina:iy colours as the cameleon,
and advocate the most conflicting principles in
the same assembly, by merely transposing names.
And we do most sincerely hope that the States
will never be afflicted with men of this type as
Presidents. BUCHANAN is not the man to be
entrusted with the destinies of a civilised Republic.
He is not of the Republican party even, and all

was too palpable. The object was, to make it
appear to the electors that the Committee was as
united as ever, and that the Liberals were in the
ascendant on the Committee, if they were not so in
the Ward and in the Council.
This was, no doubt, thought to be a grand stroke

who desire to see the Union maintained should
withhold their votes from a statesman who
relies on two political faces for a triumph in a
land where there ought to be but one voice and
one mind.

of electioneering chicanery, and, coupled with the
forgery of the circulars to gain admission to the
meeting of private electors held on Friday evening,
shows what a certain class of corporate corrup•
tionists will resort to to carry their point. Of this,
however, there cannot be the remotest chance.
Mr. LLOYD is not the man to represent tradesmen
and over-taxed Ratepayers. He is not a moderate
man—he was never known to oppose a job either in
or out of the Council—he is a corporate spendthrift
in the strictest meaning of the word—he is ono of
the corner stones of a party who have no regard for
the Ratepayers' pockets—he has no interest in
common with the merchant or tradesman, and we
might just as well have men totally unconnected
with the trade of the town and commerce of the
port to represent a Liverpool Ward in the Corpo-
ration. Consider' Mr. LLOYD'S conduct towards
the very Committee who returned him at the last
election. He gave them a pledge that he would
not vote for Mr. THOMAS BOLD as an Alderman, as
the elevation of that gentleman in the Council was
meant as a reward for political services. But Mr.
LLOYD did vote for Mr. THOMAS BOLD the moment
he was placed in a position to do so by the Commit-
tee. He duped his Constituents, and then laughed
at them. And are these the men the Ward would
return again to the Council? The public only
ask for straightforward and independent men for
municipal representatives ; and, as the Ratepayers
now have an opportunity of responding to a
moderate request, which will be found on every
honest elector's lips, we firmly believe they will
do their duty towards themselves and their neigh
bours.

We understand that the Ray. Dr. Aspinall will preach at
St. Stephen's Church, Byrom street, on Sunday evening
next, on behalf of the current church expenses.
THE VACANT CAPTAINCY AT GREENWICH HOSPITAL.—
The United Service Gazette states that Sir Charles Wood
has conferred this appointment upon Captain William
Alexander Willis.
'.ICHE GREAT CROSBY GOOSE FEAST.— We understand
that this ancient feast commenced yesterday, at Great
Crosby. We have been informed that the feast this year
will last three days, and that to-morrow will be the " great
day," at Mr. Belshaw's Ship Inn, Crosby.
Signor Felice Orsini has consented to lecture at Leeds,
on Thursday, the 16th, on behalf of the London Committee
for supplying the Italian patriots with 100 cannons and
10,000 muskets. He also lectures at Brighton on the 14th.
He will proceed from Leeds to Newcastle, Northampton,
and other towns to which he has been invited by influential
persons.

THE WEATHER.—As predicted a few days since, the
weather continues gloriously fine, and for this season of the
year, unusually warm. Yesterday and Sunday were bright,
dry, and exhiliratincr. The general state of the weather
is highly favourable for agricultural operations ; and the
farmers in the rural districts are availing largely to do their
autumn work in good time.
SALOON PASSENGERS PER R.M.S. CHAMPION OF THE
SEAS : Lieut. David Edwards, R.N., Mr. T. A. White,
Dr. Brownfield, Mr. Jos. Franks, Mr. Henry Rockcliff,
Mr. Jas. Anderson, Mr. George Turnley, Mr. Jas. H.
Dunlop, Mr. Alfred Withers, Mr. T. P. Fay, Miss Ellen
Fay, Miss Catherine Fay, Dr. Melchior Krauz, 1)Ir. S.
Berens, Mr. Daniel Symons, Mr. Julius Matthews, Mr.
and Mrs. Meade Hobson, Dr. William Cooper, Dr. Chas.
Lewis ; and 143 in second and third cabins.
ROSCOE LITERARY SOCIETY.—." The life and character of
Daniel O'Connell" was the title of a paper read by Mr.
Thomas Knowles to this society, last Wednesday evening.
Mr. E. Williams occupied the chair. A very animated
debate took place, after the reading of the paper, as to
whether D. O'Connell was a benefactor to his country. The
majority were in favour of " Ireland's great statesman."
To-morrow (Wednesday) evening, Mr. James H. Franklin
will deliver an essay on Perseverance.
AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—On Sunday evening, about
half-past six, Mr. Thomas Bage, builder, of 154, Mount-
pleasant, was passing along Soho-street, and, when at the
corner of Wilton-street, he was seized with sudden illness.
He was taken into Mr. Palmer's, at the corner of the street,
and medical aid was at once procured. He died in a few
moments, and it would appear that death wad the result of
a combination of disease of the heart and affection of the
brain.

THE cause of Negro emancipation progresses
gloriously in the United States, and the triumph of
the Abolitionists is almost certain. The monied
Democrats—save the mark ! of Wall-street—have
become alarmed, and have held a meeting, at which
twenty or fifty thousand dollars were subscribed to
secure a victory for BUCHANAN in the State of
Pennsylvania—to induce the Puritan State to recall
its religious vows—to abandon its moral precepts,
and betray, in the face of God and man, the politi-
cal principles it is pledged to uphold. The
descendants of PENN cannot be capable of such
diabolical treason and base treachery towards the
cause of justice and humanity. Money will never,
we feel convinced, be suffered to so far degrade
and disgrace the Quaker State in the eyes of the
whole world. They will never vote for an American
Czar, or a republican BOM BA. BUCHANAN is
a true political type of one, and a very fit
and proper representative of the moral
excellences of the other. Russian serfage
and Negro slavery belong to the same kidney—and
Naples ought to be ashamed to mourn over the
torture of her children, while the slaveholder in
America is suffered to manacle, flog, and sell his
human herds, which BUCHANAN and his " Demo-
" crats" are ready to defend as a Republican
institution.
BUCHANAN is not, however, the man to rule the
United States in this enlightened age. He is a
mortal whose patriotism is of little worth when he
would risk the dismemberment of WASHINGTON'S
mighty Union to gratify his personal ambition.
Men may run such hazards when they stand
forward on the side of civilisation—when they
preach on behalf of humanity—and denounce the
savage cupidity and tyranny of man. But they
are a disgrace to our race when they raise their
voices to justify a career of national debasement
and crime, which the ablest chroniclers will fail to
hand down to posterity in their true colours. We
are only giving expression to what Pennsylvania
has longifelt to be the truth ; and since the rich
Democrats of Wall•street have no hope of carrying
the BUCHANAN ticket in any other State, and rely
wholly on a few thousand dollars to silence and
convert,Pewasylvania, we think we can guess how
the Presidential contest will terminate. All who
revere the name of WILLIAM PENN, and desire to
conserve the splendid superstructure of unity and
freedom, which WASHINGTON bequeathed them, will
scout BUCHANAN'S pretensions, and hurl back upon
the money-worms of Wall-street their insults and
their dollars.

LIVERPOOL LADIES' COLLEGE.—The following lectures
are announced for delivery at the College :—One on Natural
History and Physiology, to morrow, at two, by Dr. D. P.
Thompson ; another ou Geology, on Thursday morning, at
eleven, by the Rev. Professor Griffiths; and a third next
Tuesday, at three, on English Literature, by the Rev. James
Cranbrook. These lectures will be open free to ladies, their
object being to recommend the study of these subjects, and
to indicate the course these professors will pursue in their
several departments.
ANOTH ER ACCIDENT AT BRYN MALLY MINE.—On
Thursday evening, about eight o'clock, the chief engineer,
Robert Kenrick, had descended the pumping shaft a short
distance, for the purpose of changing the buckets, and was
engaged in that duty, when suddenly the capstan chain
broke, and with some other gearing, fell upon him, knocked
him off the " burrell" or platform on which he was stand-
ing, and precipitated him to the bottom of the shaft. His
body was got out the same evening, and conveyed to his
residence on the works close by, where it now lies waiting
the coroner's inquest,
IMPORTANT TO HOUSEHOLDERS AND SERVANTS.—Some
of the greatest domestic evils, to which housekeepers are
subject, is bad servants, and, in many cases, the latter obtain
employment by means of false certificates of character. To
meet this great evil, the Waiters' Association, to which we
have recently alluded, have established a registry, the great
feature of which is to supply housekeepers with proper
domestics, whose character will be a guarantee for honesty
and competence. This will be, no doubt, duly appreciated
by the public, whose cry is always for a good and faithful
servant.
CORONER'S INQUESTS.—Yesterday, the coroner held the
following inquests :—On the body of Mary Hollingsworth,
9 years of age, who was killed in Great Howard-street,
under the circumstances stated in our paper of yesterday.
The jury found a verdict of accidental death ; but, at the
same time, made a presentment to the effect that the owner of
the shandry, Mrs. Jones, of Wilton.street, ought to pay the
expenses of the funeral, &c., as the parents of the child are
very poor, and the driver was not altogether free from some
slight neglect.—On the body of a young man, named Joseph
Barton, a painter, who was killed at Welsley Terrace, in the
Park, by a fall from a house. Verdict, accidental death.
A meeting is announced in our advertising columns, at
which the claims of the Turkish Aid Society will be
advocated by Dr. Blackwood, who was one of the ablest
assistants of Miss Nightingale, at Scutari, during the late
war. His personal experience, both at Scutari and in the
Crimea, and his knowledge of the present condition of
Turkey, and the prospects of the establishment of complete
religious liberty, and the spread of Christianity, will enable
him to communicate information of the greatest interest, in
respect to the past war and the future of the Turkish empire.
This meeting will be held in the Philharmonic Hall instead
of the Great George-street Assembly Rooms, as at first
intended.
IMPORTANT TO POOR'S-RATE PAYERS. —A case of im-
portance to rate-pavers came on- for decision before the
magistrates, at the Public-office' Clayton-square, on the
25th ult., the principle involved being whether a tenant,
having paid the rate in full to which he may be assessed
for the current year, shall be compelled, in case of re-
moval to other premises in the same parish, to pay an
additional portion of such rate for the premises into
which he may so remove. A rate-payer residing in
Everton was summoned by the overseers of that township
for payment of 19s 10d, being a proportion of five months'

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rates in respect of a dwelling in Spencer-street, into which
There must be no vestige of European despotism he had removed from a house in the same street and township,
left in the States, to destroy their Union, blast their and upon which he had paid the full year's rates. The
political consistency, and draw down upon their bench, however, refused to countenance so unjust a demand,
and ordered the sum of 8s 6d only to be paid, being the
people the ridicule of mankind, and retributive difference in value upon the rental of the two houses. One
justice of Heaven. Remove the accursed word of the honorary overseers reminded the justices that a
slavery" from the national escutcheons of the
mandamus would compel them to enforce payment of the
" larger demand, but the presiding magistrate, Mr. William
West, and the last foul blot will be wiped from the Rathbone, very properly said, that he would take upon him-
name of the most promising people upon earth— self the responsibility of refuaihg to sin a warrant of dis
wipe away this stain, and the tongue of the political
traint under such circumstances—an example which should be followed
e by all gentlemen in the commission of the
slanderer, moral critic, and spiritual fanatic, will be peace. The monstrous injustice of the principle sought to
for ever silenced. The United States will then pre- be established may be illustrated by stating, that an indi-
sent to the world the ordinary amount of folly and
vidual in occupation when a rate is laid, would, in case of removing every month, be liable to pay not only the fell
stupidity, virtue and crime, life sustaining hope amount of the original rate but eleven proportions in
and cruel disappointment, we find in other large addition, calculated upon each succeeding occupation, his
communities. They will have their rich harvests only remedy being the doubtful one of recovering the
difference from his seeeessors, if any. Bat still stronger
and bitter seasons of scarcity. Bullion panics will cases occur, of which the following is a sample :—A respect-
follow in the wake of "hard money Democrats"..... able firm in London-road removed to premises in the same
wars, shipwrecks, devastating hurricanes, terrific
thoroughfare, in consequence of their manufactory being
about to be ulled down and rebuilt. The were accord-- ,
fires, steam-boat explosions, awful railway acci- ingly mulcted by the parochial authorities of Liverpool in
dents, duels, rows, riots, robbery, murder, and all the full rate upon. the first occupation and a proportion of
second. It is but fair, however, to state, that the T'oor-
else that goes to fill up the measure of human lawthe Board, in London, have authorised these fraudulent
existence ; but they will have no slavery, which exactions, which are made under cover of an almost obsolete
act of parliament
il4, Geo. 11., c. 38, s. 12 ; but it is evi-
is worse than all the rest, and no BUCHANAN, no
dent that theintention of the legislature has been
Russian, no Croat, nor playmate*Of despotism, as misconstrued, and rate-payers owe it to themselves to resist
a ruler of a Great Republic. No true citizen of so manifest a perversion of the law.