The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-27 00:00:00

THE DAYS NEWS

Mr. Braithwaite Poule has addressed a circular
to the Goods' Managers of the 64 Railway Com-
panies associated in the Clearing House, Lon.
don, on the occasion of his resigning the chair-
manship of that association, consequent upon his
leaving the employment of the London and North
Western Railway. The circular in question con-
tains the letter cf the Secretary of the London and
North Western Company, accompanied by a minute
of the confirmation of Mr. Poole's dismissal. The
Board condemns the conduct of Mr. Poole with
regard to Wm. Parsonage's trial; and, considering
that such conduct was calculated to destroy all
confidence in a servant occupying such an im-
portant and confidential position, regret to be
obliged to dispense with his further services. To
this communication he replies by questioning the
justice of such a sentence, and refers, in vindica-
tion of his conduct, to the special committee of the
London and North Western Directors, appointed
to investigate the Waterloo and Wapping Sta-
tions. by whom he was exonerated from all
blame. He admits that not answering the subpoena
on Parsonage's trial was an error, but that, he
contends, was only an error of judgment, and not
of inclination, and should not have met with such
severe punishment. Tor his hasty removal from his
situation he claims the usual notice, or an equiva-
lent in money. The circular then concludes by a
reference to the Goods Managers' Association, the
length of time he has been connected with it, and
then appeals to the members to say,. whether he
ever did or said anything that would warrant them
to impute to him dishonest or dishonourable
motives, he concludes by expressing an earnest
desire for the prosperity of an association over
which he presided for so many years. A considerate
perusal of the entire circular leads one to think
that the directors acted with undue precipitancy
in the matter, or, at all events, presuming that
Mr. Poole was culpable of a minor offence in neg-
lecting to appear at Parsonage's trial, the
punishment is not commensurate with the alleged
dereliction of duty. Mr. Poole has laboured long
and earnestly on behalf of the best interests of
the London and North Western Company. He
tells the Directors that, for seventeen years, he has
devoted all the energies of his body and mind on
their behalf, and he feels that his dismissal for the
offence alleged, is not only unreasonable and unjust,
but a poor recompense for all the exertions which
he has made during a long series of years, to prove
himself an energetic, industrious, intelligent, and
strictly faithful officer. We are truly sorry for the
denouement, and hope that, ere long, a suitable
field will open up whereby all the qualities he
possesses, and which have rendered him the most
renowned of railway officials, in this or any other
country, will be called into active and energetic
play.
According to advices received from a Wrexham
correspondent, we learn that, after twenty-four
days and nights pumping the Bryan Mally coal
works have been cleared of water. As soon as this
became known, great excitement prevailed in the
town of Wrexham and surrounding neighbourhoods.
News reached Wrexham on Friday evening that the
body of Ishmael Griffiths had been found. After fur-
ther search the bodies of Edmund Hannah, aged
26, and Stephen Davies, 28, each of whom leaves a
wife and one child ; also Stephen Parry, a youth of
15. These bodies presented a shocking spectacle,
and were only recognised by their dress. An
inquest is to be commenced to-day, which will be
adjourned. The enquiry will, it is said, occupy
several days. A public meeting has been held at
Wrexham for the purpose of raising subscriptions
in aid of the sufferers. Already Xl.OOO has been
raised for this purpose.
The letter of our Paris correspondent contains
an important announcement respecting the re-
marks of some of the English papers on the conduct
of the French Government.

The Moniteur has just published the correspon-
dence between Count Walewski and M. Brenier
on the subject of Naples. The last despatch
addressed to the latter terminates with the follow-
ing words:--" You will, therefore, M. le Baron,
have the kindness, on receipt of this despatch, to
take the necessary steps to leave Naples with all
the members of your Legation. Similar instruc-
tions have been sent to the English embassy.
You will band over the archives of the Legation
to the Consul of his Imperial Majesty. More-
over, and to provide eventually efficacious protection
to French subjects residing in the kingdom
of the Two Sicilies, a French squadron will
be kept in readiness at Toulon, where it will be
within reach to receive the orders that it might be
found requisite to transmit in case it should become
necessary to entrust to it, in the interest of our.fel-
low-subjects, the care of supplying the deficiency
caused by the absence of official protection. To be
prepared at the proper moment for such an eventu-
ality, the commander of this squadron has instruc-
tions to send occasionally one of the vessels placed
under his orders to visit the ports of Naples and
Sicily, when the captain of such vessel will place
himself in communication with our Consuls. With
a similar object in view, it is the intention of her
Britannic Majesty to station a squadron in the
port of Malta."
The Spanish Government order to deliver pass-
ports to Spanish refugees in foreign countries is to
include all Carlists who will recognise the existing
Government The Government papers pretend
that the Cortes will shortly be assembled, and that
" excellent measures" will be submitted to them.
The Frankfort Post Zeitung lately stated that
" Naples was hound by treaty not to establish any
institution similar to the Spanish Cortes." The
Leipsic Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung denied the
statement, and the Post Zeitung replies by publish-
ing the subjoined important document, which is
the secret article of a treaty concluded between
Austria and Naples on the 12th ofJune,lBls:—"The
obligations which their majesties take upon them-