The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-28 00:00:00

,for the year ending the 31st of March, 1856, including a credit
of £3,000,000 and £1,000,000 for Sardinia, at £80,899,561,
-the sum required to make- the -total of £86,339,000, being
made up by a still further margin, of credit to, the extent of
£4,440,000, and a loan of £1,000,000 obtained from the
Savings' Banks. Assuming, therefore,' tlie entire amount
of credits taken by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to be as
above, the public liabilities created in consequence of the war,
were as follows

Exchequer-bonds
Exchequer-,bills, 1854-5
Loan 1855

Exchequer-bills, 1855
Additional credit, 1855
Savipgs' Banks Loan ,

£6.000,000
1,750,000
16,000,000
3,000,000
4,400,000
1,000,000

£32,150,000

ctual increase of

When this sum is compared with
revenue derived from the necessary sources of intone, we see
the utter impossibility of meeting a heavy war expenditure by
taxation alone ; for while the net income derived from this
source during the past year has amounted to £64,457,993, the
supply services have amounted to £55,731,830, which is ex-
clusive of the interest on the public debt, and the ordinary
charges upon the consolidated fund. The total increase on
ordinary revenue for the year ended the 31st of December.
1855, compared with the correspondinv period of 1854, was
£8,133,396; but of this sum £6,517,526 was derived from
the property and income tax : so that the other means only
yielded an increase of £1,615,870. •
These are facts that have an important significance at the

present moment. How far the proposals for peace may affect
the interests of the country. it is at pesent too early to speculate
upon ; our-object is to shew what war has already entailed upon
the country, and the point from which we start at the com-
mencement of another year. We have spent a hundred millions
of rnoneyduriug the past twelve months, and have entered into
engagements for still further amounts. The great question then
to solve is, how are they to be raised ? The income.;tax has
hitherto served as the most formidable friend to the Govern-
ment

But whether it can be increased under the present
principle, without inflicting upon the middle classes a very
dangerous oppression is a question the Chancellor of the
11 do well to consider. We are fully aware that

Exchequer
his task is by

speak of our na
duration, and illimitable in their extent. Bu

We are accustomed to
ost inexhaustible in their

Minister s-.-ho has to extract from them a hundred millions per
annum in hard cash, cannot venture to deal with vague gener-
alities. lie must fix upon something that is tangible : and
while he demands a portion of the produce of industry and
commerce, he must avoid throwing any obstacle in the way of
increasing production. He must not " kill the goose that lays
the golden eggs." Industry and commerce alone can produce it.
Let the Government then determine to encourage these, and
+he people of England will never fail to support it liberally and
cheerfully. There is yet a great weight upon its shoulders;
but the nation cannot afford to submit to an ignominious peace.
In a few days the public will be made acquainted with the
facts of our real position. The events of the past leave us
nothing to dread for the future, if they who direct the affairs
of the State will act with honesty and justice towards the
people.—Bankers' Circular.

POLICE COURT.-SATURDAY
♦
(BEFORE MR MANSFIELD.)

SAVAGE ASstkELT ON A POLICE OFPICER.—A Young man,
named George Tinsley, a butcher, was brought up in
custody, charged with having, with three other men not in
custody, committed Pn unprovoked and most brutal assault
on police-officer 218. About half past four o'clock on
Saturday morning the officer was on duty in Breck-road, and,
hearing a disturbance, he hastened to the spot whence the
sounds came. He found that the parties making the noise
were the prisoner and the other men, and he advised them
to desist, and to go quietly to their homes. He had
scarcely uttered the words, when the prisoner and his
companions, in a most cowardly and unmanly manner,
turned on him, and committed on the unfortunate man as
savage and brutal an assault as has ever been brought under
the notice of a Police-court. His hat and stick were
taken from him, and thrown aver the wall ;
another of his assailant., unloosed his belt,
and ..heat him with the buckle about the head, while
the prisoner knelt on his chest and pummelled his face. As
the prisoner's passion increased his savage propensities were
soon developed. He seized the officer, with his teeth, but
when the latter cried out that he was biting his nose off,
and on his companions telling him not to do so, he desisted.
The other men then ran away, and the prisoner attempted
to follow hint, but the officer succeeded in holding him
until assistance arrived. when ha was secured and lodged in
bridewell. Mr. Mansfield intimated that he would send
him for trial, but remanded him for a week in order that a
warrant may be issued in the interim.

Two sailors, named Charles Wilmer and Samuel Jackson,
were fined £5 each for assaulting a police officer while on
duty in the Bramlev '-‘ioore-dock.

ROBBERY EY A BUTLER —A respectably df o-sod, m7ddls
aged man, named Christopher Shepherdson, was brought up
~natodo of detective officer Povrv, charged with stealina•
a quantity of plate, valued at £35, the property of M
Schilizzi corn merchant of Liverpool, in who

as as butler, It

ared that he was in Mr. Sehilizzi's

employment for about nine months, and so great was the
confidence placed in him that plate to the value of £4OO
was intrusted to his sole care. On Thursday last he called
at the pawn-office of. Mr. Green, of Brownlow-hill, and
pledged a prir ,of trowsers, and Mr. Green, at whose shop
he had pledged some months previously articles of plate,
suspecting that all was not right, gave information of the
circumstance to the police. Pave)* accordingly tracked
him to the house of Mr. Schilizzi, in Holly-row, Edge-lane,
and on taxing him with the robberies he at once confessed
his guilt, but pleaded that his crime had been the
consequence of want. (His wages were £37 a year,
and both his own appearance and that of his wife,
who appeared im court with an infant in her
arms, and who was deeply affected at the position of
her husband, indicated comfort and respectability.) On
being searched, several pawn tickets were found on him,
till it was then diFcovered that he had pledged other
portions of plate at different offices. In consideration of
the excellent character vihich he bore previous to the com-
mission of :the robbery for which he was now committeed,
Mr. Mansfield committed him for six months, with hard
labour, in place of sending him for trial at the sessions.
As to the plate T ledged, Mr. Mansfield said that he would
follow the course pursued by the Recorder in such cases,
and order that it be restored to Mr. Schilizzi ; but, as it
had been recovered through the exertions of Mr. Green, he
would recommend Mr. Schilizzi to reimburse that gentle-
man in the amount of his advances. Mr. Schilizzi im-
mediately expressed his readineqs to do FO.
(BEFORE MR. MAXWELL AND MR. BENN.)
A little girl, about ten years of age. nam,d Mary Carnes,
was charged with stealing five monkey jackets, from the
shop of Messrs. Williams and Hughes, Scotland-road. She
went. into the shop with four other young girls, and while
they endeavoured to direct the attention of the parties in
the shop, she ran off with the jackets. When arrested, the
property was found with her. She was remanded, to give
time for the apprehension of her companions.

Philip M‘C-ormick, Joseph Ray, and Thomas Ray, were
brought 11D on remand, charged with stealing a quantity of
copper nails from the ship Magna Charta, and discharged.

THE CASE or MR. JACKSON.—Sir G. Grey has advised
her Majesty to remit the remainder of .the sentence of 12
month's imprisonment passed by Mr. Wilson Overend upon
Mr. Jackson, the pawnbroker of Doncaster. In so doing
Sir G. Grey does not enter into the question of the innocence
or guilt of the prisoner, but reverses the judgment of Mr.
Overend upon the ground that the prisoner had not
sufficient time and opportunity allowed him for preparing
his defence.

The following officers arrived in Cork barracks on
Tuesday, with draughts from Templemore and Limerick
—9th Riot—Lieutenant Stair N. Agnew, Ensigns George
M. Chadwick and John H.'Bolton ; 13th Light-Infantry—
Captain H. Maurice Jones and Lieut. Duncan Stewart ;
39th Foot—Captain James Agnew and Ensign Robert
Gray; • 41st Foot—Captain William AUClellan Lambert
and Ensign Guildford M. Onslow ; 47th Foot—Captain
Nathaniel G. Philips. in commend; Ensigns Spencer, E.
Orr, and Robt. T. J. Stammers ; nth Foot—Lieutenants
John Um. Trevor and Cotton E. Theobald.

THE COUNTESS OF ELLE,MERS'S JEWEL,—The valuable
missing jewels of the noble countess, lost on Teusday after-
noon from a cab, while in charge of a servant, proceeding
from Bridgewater House to the Padilington railway statiou,
had not, we understand, been recovered up to Saturday
afternoon, although from th,e first moment that Lord Elles-
mere was made acquainted with the loss, while at Windsor
Castle, the most unremitting inquiriji and exertions have
been made to trace or recover the property. A reward of
£5O has been offered for their recovery.
SEVERE THUNDER STORM AND•EXTRAORDINARY EFFECTS
OF THE ELECTRIC FLUID.—BRISTOL, THURSDAY EVENING.
—A little before ten o'clock this morning a portion of the
outskirts of this city was visited by a thunder-storm of a
remarkable character. The night had been exceedinglv
boisterous, the wind blowing heavily from the west and
south-west, and the rain falling in torrents, but beyond a
very considerable fail in the barometer there was nothing
to predicate any electrical phenomenon. At about 9.50
a.m., it became suddenly very dark, and the rain fell with
great violCitce, and a thundercloud broke directly over
the top of the Hotwell-road, at its junction with Limekiln-
lane, doing, extensive damage at the house of Mr. Henry
Fitzgerald, the Melbourne Tavern, Melbourne-terrace.
Upon the bursting of the thunder-cloud the electric fluid
descended the bar parlour chimney with a loud, sharp
Sound, like that caused by the explosion of a small piece
of artillery, passed through the bar, shivered the brass
rods of the curtain to pieces and shattered into fragments
the entire 'glass frontage from top to bottom and from end
to end. The shelf and decanters were also demolished,
and nOthing was left standing of the front but some long
fragments of plate glass, in their form like icicles. Two
persons narrowly escaped with their lives. A gentleman
was in the bar parlour, and so near the course taken by
the electric current, that by the mere displacement of the
air he was thrown violently against the wall; and Mrs.
Fitzgerald. sen., the landlord's mother, was sitting at the
time behind the bar counter. The hotise after the occur-
rence vas filled with a peculiar sulphurous smell, and upon
the roof of the house being examined, the chimney-pot
upon being touched fell to powder.

THE SABBATH-DEFENCE MOVEMENT.

TO THE EDITOE OP THE NOITHERIP TIMES.
The article of a correspondent in. your paper to-day, en
the Sabbath defence meeting, is only what might have been
expected after such a meeting from one of his school of
Rationalism; the meeting has proved-to be a severe knock oft
his corns, and he cries out evidently•in pain.; as for the
objects of" that meeting being, as he says, "to tighten the
bonds, already tight enough, in which onr labouring popu-
lation plods unwearily along," is, to say the least of it,
mis-stating the question altogether. . Convert the Sabbith
into a day of pleasure' arid amusement, as your correspon-
dent would, and that would create labour for the working
man, and impose upon him bonds that he has no desire for-
..

—from my connection with, r.nd knowledge c
working clams, I am in 'a positi.'n to
that the really sober, industrious, intelligent, an(
gious of OA working classes would consider such a-S

as your correipondent advocates, more a curse th
sing to them. Your correspondent says " Were' w

though he, wisely for hims(
not venture suet' .an attempt. No doubt he, and
like him, think this an easy task ; so thought Satar
_ _

we could. easily quote ;"

as angel of Ught he quoted. but his quotation row

quotation, and The arch-deceiver was toiled ; and
like him try the trick must fail.

The Bible is plain to him who reads aright, and w
heart is in the right place. And what does the Bible
" The carnal, mind is enmity against God ; and is
sabjcct to the law of God, neither ini
can it be." ' And why ? Because such a, r
discerns not spiritually—not according to the spirit of
gospel—but carnally, according to the' maxims and' 13(
of the world, as your correspondent evidently does;
doing so, views it through a false medium. Now,

does the law say ? It says, among other things, 6' Thou
shalt not kill ;" but the same law also says—'!Remember
the Sabbath day to keep it holy." How can your cor-
respondent get over this quotation ? Does he mean to say
that the Fourth Commandment is not as much a part of
the moral law as the Sixth, or any other of the Ten Com-
mandments; and that this moral law is not binding on us;
Christians at the present' day ? What does our 4" Great
Maiter" who was Lord of the Sabbath, [say :—" I came
not to destroy the law, but to fulfil it." And
•the
man who came to our Saviour and said he had kept
ill the commands from his youth up, was commended bf
him for so doing—" thou doest right"—so much for " our
great Master's life and teaching," to which your correspon-
dentt, unfortunately for himself, alludes. The question
resolves itself into this, " Are we to observe the moral law
or not ?" If you throw aside one of the commands of that
law, why not throw them all away as so much waste paper ?
But I scarcely think your correspondent will venture so far.
though consistently he should ; before he accuses others of
being inconsistent, he should be- consistent himself.
Now, as a specimen of his consistency he' says, ,6 We
are in, favour of no innovation, of no desecration."
Now isithe throwing open of public places of amusement on
the Lord's Day, and making it instead of a Christian
Sabbath a Continental Sabbath, which is no Sabbath at all,
no innovation—no desecration ! As well say light is ,
darkness, and darkness light. Again, as to our great
Master's teaching, we hope we know the spirit of that
teaching. The Pharissees in his day were what we call
professors in our day—men who observe outward forms of
religion, but have no inward living spiritual principle;
and it was this snook observance of •the Sabbath'
that our great Master's teaching was especially directed
against; not against the true worshippers, who worshipped
in spirit and in truth. As for our Saviour's life,
as regards the Sabbath, he and his disciples observed it
by meeting together on that day for religious service, and
your correspondent is labouring under a sad mistake if he
supposes Christ's life in any way favoured such an observance
as he calls rational. As for-thelrowing intelligence "being
on his side," that is only a figure of speech. and easy to use ;
it may, be a wordly intelligence, a mammon knowledge, but
that is all, and the Bible says, "the wisdom of this world
is foolishness with God." The nation that honours God,
he will honour ; take away our Christian Sabbaths, and we
s:t aside his law, and dishonour him; and when a nation
forgets God, that nation's fa'l is riot far distant, her glory is
departed, the Bible and history attest this great fact,

A SUBSCRIBER.

Liverpool, 25th January, 1856.
[Contrary to our usual practice we have given insertion
to the above, although the writer has not given us his name
or address.. Any further communications must be sent in
conformity with our regulation.--4:D. N. T.l

TO THE EDITOR.OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
-rc, is not my desire to waste your tint-t in introcluc-t
6 a subject to you, which is now the great topic of public
conversation, and the value of which you are not ignoran
of, I mean the Sabbath defence meeting. On rt,aciing ovt
the' 'Post this morning, I saw a long letter, the title,
which is, " Saints and Sinners," the sinner finishing
with railing against our priests and deacons for not w
inc, to cilurch, and allowing their se. wants an opporttr
of:' keeping the Sabbath. Now of this lam positivr
cannot prove, in one. single instance, that a pries
ao.onntc cprvsnt is kept. from his place of worsubi,
I Lord's day. But this is not my
service he at present.

feet in Writing' to

Thanks to the clergy and laity of this town for inter
esting themselyei in the cause of the working man's
bath ! and I should have been more thankful
them if they had shown more zeal in
working clerks' Sabbath. Who is there that toil
hard next to the working man, but the clerks
equal to them ? Take one single instance out of 1,
hundreds. The young man is bound an apprentice,
for five years, for which he receives the liberal sum of
£lOO ; he is expected to appear well dressed, write a good
hand, &c., the first year or two he is taught Custom
House work, the third year he Is allowed to report a
steamer at the Custom-house, write out manifests, and to
despatch her—which always goes away in a hurry—the
consequence is, you are over-worked, late nights com-
mence, must wait at the consuls for her, papers,
which, after a quantity of sealing, stamping, :&c.,
you receive, perhaps, at twelve or one o'clock at ,night,
return to your office, and find your employer gone home
some time ago, and a polite note left on your desk desiring
you to see them put on hoard the steamer, or else you
have to go to the captain's house, he, no doubt, living at
the north end of the town, and lat the south. These
are the facts of, one single case, and, no doubt, many
more could be brought forward to show the necessity
of giving the working clerks some relaxation,
but not in Sabbath breaking—no. I wish to
urge on those gentlemen who attended the
meeting on Tuesday, that at the time they are taking
the interest of the working man to heart, let them also
think of their own clerks, who are slaving for them from
Monday morning till Saturday night.

Now, I am far from wishing a secular Sabbath, because
I think that God will visit us with his wrath, and vex es,
with his sore displeasure ; but I would suggest to some of
our merchant princes that they should close their ofacee
at one o'clock on Saturdays, so as to enable us to visit
St. GeUrge's-hall, the Derby Museum, or the Parka, oz'
any place of improvement, or amusement combined, that
we might think proper, which is now closed against us:
I believe that all our banks, most cotton brokers, and
wholesale spirit merchants, close at that time on Satur-
days. I wish to ask these gentlemen, since they have,
done so, have they found themselves worse off at the enter
of the year for it'? Have their clerks taken advantage of
this privilege by coming late on Monday morning ?--No
Hoping that this will meet the eyes of some of the con-
scientious masters of this great commercial town, and that
I may live to see the day when Saturdays are given for,
a holiday, 1 remain yours, Ric., THE WORKING CLERK.

NAVAL MEDALS FOR THE KAFFIR WAR.—The Gazelle
contains a notice that her Majesty has been graciously
pleased to grant a medal to the officers, seamen, and marines
borne on board hei Majesty's ships Castor, ilerme, Styx,
Dee, and Rhadamanthus, between the 24th of December,
1850, and the 6th of Febinary, 1853, for their services ill
connection with the army engaged in the Kaffir war during
that period. All claimants to such medal, notwi!hstandinB.
any previous applications, should, apply personally, or by'
letter, stating particulars, to the Accountant-General of the
Navy, Admiralty, Somerset House (with " Kaffir Medal',
outside the appl,eatiori).

EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY OF 3171.—0 n Friday mot,
ning the police received information that 3171. tsv°
watches,
&c., being a portion of the property stoleo
from Mr. W. Kinsey, of Penny Park, had been reco-
vered under the- following singular circumstances
appears that suspicion attached to a man named 'Mule:
Kinsey, who was apprehended, but discharged for Wan'
of evidence. He subsequently becaMe alarmed, an",
absconded from his employment, which led Mr. Super:
titendent Gregory, of Crichowell, to believe tit 2"
he (Daniel Kinsey), was the person who committed 0°
robbery; he accordingly apprehended him. at the Caul,:
,brian Arms. Crickhowell, and found on his person t:11'
cheque for 2201., 161. lOs in gold, lis. in silver, two silY('f
wateheS, a tailor's bill for 71. 10s., and a quantity of
wearing amiarel, watch, &c., were found at his 1. dgings; •
-and two receipts for 401. each, deposited in the Nation3'
Provincial Bank. The total amount stolen' was 355/., gv
that he expended in about ten day 371. 13s.
tak9n before a bench of magistrates, who fully coal'
mitted him for trial.

THE SUSPE, TED MURDER NEAR RICHMOND —On Fri
evening, Mr. William Carter, the coroner For East Sucre}''
resumed, for the third time, at the Crooked Billet -Tave r4f
in this town, the adjourned inquest respecting the death i)d,
Mary Ann Peacock, who, it is allegcd, had been murdere
together with her infant child, by two men named rop",c-
tively Ford and Jackson, bargemen, in the emptoy of ~
Styles, Long Ditten. •Some additional evidence was pat ins
but though it was shown that Ford (who had stated that ,
was on board a barge from ten to twelve o'clock on o
night of Monday, the 14th inst.) had made a false statemet)t
he having been at the Rowboat public house'up to half-P,s,
tett o'clock, yet nothing was brought forward to satisfile-f,
rily dispel the u'certainty connected with the death of the
deceased. "Under these circumstances the jury returned II:j
following verdict :—That the deceased was found drovoev
in the river Thames, without marks of violence on her b°lA;:',„,
but how she came by her death there was no evidence
prove." The coroner said that he perfectly concurred in ,v
verdict.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 28,1118.