The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-26 00:00:00

of the King."

Accounts from Persia, published by the Presse
d'Orient, do not hold out any prospect of the
differences between England and that country
being promptly settled. A Maltese colonel in the
Persian service has been dismissed because he
would not renounce the protection of England.
Among the local incidents of the day, we notice
that the Licensed Victuallers' Association held
their annual meeting yesterday. We report their
proceedings at full length, and are glad to
find that an institution, capable of effecting
so much good, is progressing so satisfactorily.
The proceedings of the Health Committee
do not call for especial notice. At the Dock
Committee, a suggestion was made by Mr. Thomas
Bold to supply a collation to the purchasers of
wool at the Albert Dock this day. Mr. Bold
considered that that would attract a large attend-
ance of buyers, and thereby enable Liverpool to
obtain a share of the Wool Trade which London
now completely monopolises. Mr. Bold's sugges-
tion was not, however, acted upon, so that all who
repair to the wool sales this day must, as Jonathan
would say, "feed" at his own cost.

Mr. M‘Donough, Q C., the eminent Irish Bar-
rister, is seeking senatorial honours. The Hon.
Col. Cotton, son of Lord Combermere, having
signified his intention of retiring from the repre-
sentation of Carrickfergus, Mr. McDonough has
entered the field as a candidate, and has addressed
the electors in public meeting assembled. He
then explained his principles as a politician, and
coaxed the electors to send him to Parliament.
The contest—for contest there will be—is likely to
be fierce. Another Irish Borough will be vacant,
owing to the death of Lord Hardinge, as his son,
who succeeds to the title and estates, represents
Downpatriek.

TETE enrolling of the German Legion was a piece
of extravagant folly, if nothing worse, and their
disembodiment will not be easily forgotten. The
favours and rewards heaped upon thorn out of the
public Exchequer, are perfectly scandalous.
Officers and men, because they are Germans, are to
receive such gratuities as the tritish soldier dare
not expect. Our gallant countrymen, who have
fought and conquered—whose deeds will adorn our
history for ages to come--will be disbanded, and
sent adrift upon the world, without a stiver beyond
the trifling balance of pay due to them on the day
of their discharge, and the few regimental clothes
they may have paid for. If they have not served the
prescribed period, they will get no pension. But the
German, whose worth in the field has never been
tried, is to receive 181. 55., clothes, and a free
passage, with all necessaries, either to his own
country or the Cape of Good Hope. If he goes to
Germany, we shall get rid of him for 181. ss. and
his travelling expenses, but if he goes to the Cape
Colony he is to be paid sixpence a day, and receive
rations for twelve months, and may take to himself
as much land as he requires. From 6,000 to 7,000
of these mercenaries are to be disposed of in this
way. They are to be sent out to a most valuable
portion of our Colonial dominions, where they will
meet as many more armed foreigners, whom we
call " Dutch Settlers," ready for any mischief, and
only waiting for a favourable opportunity to bring
upon us the horrors and costs of another " Gaffer

" war

The rebellious Boers will hail the arrival of the
German element in South Africa with unutterable
delight. They have long cherished a mortal
hatred to the British. If they had a few thousand
pliant Germans at the Cape when they first
became troublesome on the frontier, or revolted
at Natal, they might have put this country to
10,000,0001. expense instead of 3,000,0001. to restore
order. And we cannot help thinking that the
Colonial Secretary, who would allow a large body
of foreigners to be sent to that particular Colony
without remonstrating against it, is incurring an
amount of responsibility which will assuredly
overtake him and his official colleagues. The
Cape is not in a condition to receive so large a
body of men all at once. Married couples, single
women, and families, are the settlers the Colonists
want amongst them. Farmers and women
servants of all work are the class of persons most
in demand. The country wants British bone and
sinew to develope its well known riches, and not a
host of useless foreign soldiery to make common
cause with the restless and turbulent. The
German soldier will never embark in the
hardships of a frontier life. He will never settle
on the banks of rivers where there is no
society, and he must live alone, houseless, and
friendless in the wilderness. A few may
run the risk, and be satisfied with the
fruit of his labour at the end of the first twelve
months, but nine-tenths of the Legion will remain
about Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Grahainstown,
and some of the districts inhabited by the Dutch,
until their 181. 5s is spent, when they will, most
likely, be found ready for anything.
If the Germans sympathise with the Boers in
their grievances, the result may be clearly foreseen
by Government, and no amount of popular repre-
hension will be too great for them if any evil conse-
quences should follow, what they must now know
to be a most dangerous speculation as regards the
welfare of the Colony. In Canada, New Brunswick,
or Nova Scotia, the Germans would be much more
acceptable. They would stand a better chance of
getting employment in those countries, or by
passing on to the States. England has been put
to some trouble and expense to make the Cape
a British Settlement, and why now attempt to
Germanise it at one stroke? Offer the same terms
to all the young and otherwise eligible English,
Irish, and Scotchmen about to be disbanded from
our Crimean army, and some thousands will
gladly accept them. Offer to the peasantry of the
three kingdoms Gd. a day, rations, and a moderate
share of land, free of all cost, and hundreds
of thousands will jump at the proposal, and be
received by the Colonists with open arms. We
question if those who know the Colony, and what
the British settlers have suffered from their
foreign rivals, will venture to say so much for the

German emigrants

The Cape is, it is true, a Crown Colony virtually,
and the peaceable portion of its inhabitants are
glad to consent to anything which the Colonial
Office may be pleased to propose for them.
They desire emigration on a large scare, and
would willingly see the waste lands sold to raise
funds for the importation of labour, but they do
not want foreign soldiers or convicts. The latter

they will not have on any terms, and the presence
of the former they will look upon with very grave

distrust. They will scarcely believe that our love