The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-22 00:00:00

evidence produced has fully stlstiined the
complaints made, and the Inspector has
intimated his intention of rccommendint.;
that an order in council should be issued, putting

a stop to pit barials Interments in common
graves in St. Anne's, Edge-hill, has ceased ; the
sexton has been .dischaiged, and an order in
council will be issued for the peremptory closing
of this hu ial ground.
At our Police-court yestert: v, an r stabbing,
case was brought before the magistrates. The
prisoner was sent for trial.
The inquest on the man killed on the railway
near Warrington, has ended in a verdict of acci-
dental death. The man lost his life through his

owu carelessness and inattention.
At the meeting of the Dock Committee yesterday,
a letter from the Rev. Mr. Glover, who had already
addressed the board upon the subject of reclaim-
ing the Mersey from the sand deposits, was read
by Mr. Robertson Glaustoue, to whom it was
addressed. We give the letter in full.
The meeting of the Chemists Association was
held last evening, A letter from Dr. Medlock,
of Lor,don, was read, wherein he described a
process by which he affirmed the Rivington water
could be rendered pure and colourless. A short
discussion took place, and the general opinion was
much against Dr. Medlock's theory. Dr. Nevins
and Dr. Edwards had both followed out the
instructions of Dr. Medlock, but instead of the
water being more pure and colourless, it was, after
the operation, more dark, it approaching an amber
colour. • _ _ _

On Wednesday, Mr. Disraeli was down with his
constituents saying something to the farmers after
dinner. His speech was very much to the purpose,
for it was about the coming Parliamentary Reform
Bill, and as the right hon. gentlemen is undoubt-
edly still the Tory leader, his arguments may be
summed up thus :—" He does not wish to disturb
the existing arrangement, although the landed
interest suffers great injustice under it, but
since it is to be disturbed that interest must en-
deavour to have its injuries redressed by the new
bill, and have representative equality extended to
the:counties." This speech of Mr. Disraeli is really the
first step to open the discussion of the important
subject in the nation itself, since it is not to be
mentioned in Pirliament, and we are glad of it
but it is obvious that the member for Bucks dis-
trusts the heartiness of the squires, either in their
purpose of resisting a Liberal Reform Bill, or in
their following their present leaders.
The dowry of the Princess Royal will come on
for discussion to-night. A London evening co
temporary of last night thus alludes to the
subject :—" The respectable' classes can afford
to be as generously loyal as it pleases them in
the matter of the Princess Royal's dowry, since the
money is only in small part their own. Besides
it would be so' low' and 'radical' to raise any objec-
tion to whatever may be proposed. Among the
people, however, who pay the bulk of the texas,
and who work hard and live poorly, the thing is
regarded with very different feelings, and no
exuberant loyalty at all. Undoubtedly the least
objectionable plan would be to vote a sufficient
sum as dowry, and then be doise with it ; but we
observe that the Morning Post, which probably
has had some hint of intentions at head-quarters,
decidedly condemns that plan, and anticipates a
proposal for a mixed grant of a capital sum and an
annuity. From the adumbration of our ministerial
cotemporary we should not be surprised if
.2100,000 down were asked, and a pension of £5,000
a-year.
The news from the Continent this morning is
not of much importance. Prince Alfred has been
spending two days at Brussels, en route from Ger-
many to Osborne. He was received at the Brus-
sels station with considerable ceremony. A bat-
talion of chasseurs carabiners was under arms. In
the evening the Court gave a grand banquet in
honour of the Prince's visit; and all this for a lad
of fourteen!
Advices from Paris state that a conference is
spoken of, to be held there, composed of represen-
tatives of the various Powers who have signed
treaties of commerce with Persia, in order
to agree to an arrangement, which will
apply to all the Consular agents in Persia.
The reception which the Russian Grand Duke
met with the other day in the- great commercial
city of Bordeaux, the stronghold of the Free-trade
Party in France, shows that the reconciliation
between Russia and France extends to the people
at large. It was in Bordeaux that Louis Napoleon
pronounced the memorable words " the Empire is
Peace," and the presence of the Grand Duke can
now be taken by the inhabitants as living evidence
of their truth. If the Empire means peace in
Europe, however, it means war in Algeria, for at
the present moment a military expedition, on an
extensive scale, is preparing against the liabyle
mountaineers. Of course it is to " civilise" Africa.
Sardinia has got into favour with the Russian
Court. The Emperor has conferred the Grand
Cross of St.' Alexander Newski in diamonds on
Count Cavour, the same order without diamonds
on General Della Marmora, and has decorated two
other members of the Sardinian Cabinet. The
works for the construction of the railway from St.
Petersburg to Warsaw have been commenced at
four points. The Government has placed 6,000
soldiers at the disposal of the company for the
execution of the earth works.
Respecting the dispute between Austria and
Sardinia, the Paris Des Debats states that up to the
present moment nothing approaches a reconcilia-
tion of the two Governments, On the contrary,
both maintain their past attitude and language—
Austria because she had obtained nothing, and
Sardinia because she does not feel herself called
upon to make the least concession. However, as
both courts profees to be animated with sentiments
of moderation, the Debats thinks that means will
be found for effecting a reconciliation.

WHEN PEEL immortalised himself by repealing
the restrictive laws on the importation of food,
the cry on 'Change was—" Where will you find
a Protectionist ? " To-day the question may be
most aptly repeated in Liverpool—" Where will
you find a Pikeist ? " No excuses on our part
are now necessary for. the course we have
hitherto pursued in regard to this, the most vital
question which has ever occupied the attention
of our local legislature.
The Town Council—the legal representatives
of the Liverpool public—naturally anxious to
discharge the high and important duties con-
fided to them by their constituents, made a visit-
to the works at Rivington. We shall say
nothing about their gastronomic or bacchana-
lian arrangements. These, confided to the care
of that caterer for gourmands and wine bibbers,
the celebrated Mr. LYNN, were all that could be
desired—at least we are told so—not having
had the luck to win the good opinion of the
Liverpool Corporation by flunkeyism, we were
excluded froth all participation in the exquisite
dainties, liquid and solid, supplied to the truth-
seeking representatives of the people of Liver-
pool.
We thank the Pike jobbers for their scorn
and exclusion. We assume that the Town
Council of Liverpool did not originate an excur-
sion to the Pike for• the sake of mere sensual
gratification. " Truth lies at the bottom of a
well," and we h3p4 their object was to go and

" fish it up."
If such was the case, they must admit that
every word which has appeared in this journal in
reference to the question has been more than