The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-09 00:00:00

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citizens. The real intent and meaning of Messrs.
KINNY and WALKER is simply to create petty
Republics in Central'America, from which expedi-
tions against Cuba and San Domingo might be
undertaken, for the purpose of extending the
lominion of slavery and perpetuating that most
tholical national sin. There can be no doubt
on this head; and the Government of
America may have discovered in good time that
this is a subject on which the Free-Soilers, Aboli-
tionists, and Know-

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s they have entered into to be violated.
nnexation of Cuba is purely a pro-slavery
)n, and the subjugation of the free negro
tion of San Domingo would be an outrage
nanity, which Heaven itself would scarcely

These subjects must, therefore, become with
,kmerica matters for internal discussion, in which,
xe may rest assured, the conduct of Cabinets will

ed, and the objects of party
If the present filibustering
propensities of a few pro-slavery adventurers should
be suffered to go much further, they will speedily
precipitate a Ministerial crisis at Washington.
The Know-Nothing movement has led to extra-

ordinary equanimity in Congress, which an
extension of slavery agitation would quickly
demolish, when it might be found that there are
under the Know-Nothing standard a far greater
number of Abolitionists and Free-soilers, than
the slavers have any idea of. But, on
locking at the general tenour of the
news last received, and the changed phase
in which the Nicaraguan and Cuban affairs
appear, we have good reason to congratulate
ourselves that they henceforth bid fair to cause
much more domestic disquietude in America than
uneasiness in foreign countries. The American
Government will, as we have all along contended,
act coolly and moderately ; and will neither;allow
the citizens of the States, nor those of any other
country, to take upon themselves the exercise of
supreme power, and the abrogation of treaties
entered into by those entrusted with the destinies
of the Union.

TO-DAY the Council meet specially, for the
purpose of considering the Report published by the
Gas Committee, and the "Reply" of the Company;
and the public will feel no small anxiety to know
how the Corporation will deal with the finding of
a committee of their own members. They have
not yet adopted the Committee's Report, and
therefore the Report and Rejoinder will be brought
up at the same time ; and as both cannot be
sanctioned, one or other must be laid aside as
incorrect and unsustainable. Mr. Alderman
BENNETT will be sure to endorse the Company's
assertion, that " repairing" meters is very likely to
destroy their accuracy ; and Mr. SAMUEL HOLME will
doubtless contend the Company were quite
right in carrying their pipes into suburban dis-
tricts, such as Mosley Hill, where there are
certainly not more than twenty consumers.
are others in the Council who,
though not Gas Directors, are large share-
holders, and have property in suburban districts
who will also support the Company in all they
ive said. But, who will defend the Committee's

Report, and stand by the till of the Gas consumer
and the pocket of the ratepayer ? The defenders
of monopoly will contend that all we have heard
and written is false ; that Liverpool has better
and cheaper light than any other town in the
kingdom ; that pressure has nothing to say to
leakage; and that burners are not made to pay for
waste in manufacture and supply.

Should they admit anything that has been said,
it will be on the ground that it cannot be
remedied; that the public do not understand
the chemical action, and engineering details
connected with gas lighting ; and consumers will be
again told it is they who fill the meters with
water, and would be

that the Company