The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-03 00:00:00

t his duty to s

t charges, with a view of
putting them and the court in possession of the
anode by *hich the frauds had been committed .by
the prisoner. In stating to them the history of
these transact ions, it was necessary for him to refer
to the general conduct of the prisoner. It appeared
that the prisoner was a person of great intellect,
and considerable powers of mind, alai possessed
of an edlication far beyond his rank in life. He
Otltel'ed the service of the Crystal Palace Company

bireumstames of the preset

as a clerk, at 11 per week. The prisoner was one of
those persons who, from the intelligence he pos-
sessed, might, by honesty and straightforward con-
duct have risen to the highest position in this great
commercial country. Unhappily, though possess-
ing these abilities and advantages, and entering
into life which most people would have grasped at
with avidity, he was not content with that, but
sought to obtain wealth rapidly, and to obtain
those ends which could only be obtained (in a
peeson like him by honest industry) by a qUick
leap. The prisoner now stood before them a
felon on his own confession, and had to uncle
trial for one of the gravest charges known to our
laws. The prisoner, shortly after he was taken
into the services of the company, was promoted.
and his salary increased to 1001, and in a few
months after he was promoted higher, to Mr.
Fasson's office-registrar at a salary of 1501 per
annum. That gentleman suffering from ill health.
and finding the prisoner to be a man of intelligence
and ability, and believing him also to be a man of
integrity and honesty, left a great part of the
management of his ,office to him, and in that
inanner ha possessed facilities which he had
applied in a manner to the injury of the com-
pany and his own ruin. After the bearing of
several witnesses the judge, Mr. Justice Erle,
and the ',try returned a verdict
s lordship then proceeded to sen-
;oner. He said—You stand con-
victed of felony, and the enquiry on this occasion
shows me that you have practised crime for a
considerable period of time. You have practised it
in a breach of that trust which was placed in you

summed up.

of guilt
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by your employers. You have practised it so as to
throw doubt and uncertainty on important mer-
cantile instruments, and you have obtained large
sums of money by the course of crime you have so
pursued. It is my duty to give a warping, by the
sentence I shall pass on you, that the apparent
course of prosperity derived from crime in reality
leads to misery and destruction. For the forgery
of which you stand convicted I order you to be
transported for twenty years, and in respect to the

(a Pole), is to have the Polish estates of his family
restored to him again, for his services to the Czar
in the late war. Ire-Mbecow, during the corona-
tion, the-Russians always spoke. of M. de Morny,
the French Ambassador-Extraordinary—behind his
back—as a fortunate speculator. .
Vienna letters of the latest dateS mention that
the impression produced by the new marriage laws
is even worse in tilt provinces than it is here, and
many families have already communicated to the
erintendents of the_ Lutheran—and—Calvinist
io-rifesSians their intention to embrace the Pro,

testant faith

Advices from Naples of the 31st ult., say that the
cannon of the -Allies remain silent before the
lazzaroni of. Naples, and France and 'England have
bowed before the Neapolitan Pulcinello. So much
for present impressions. • s
It is said that nine forts have been constructed
around Verona, which is at , present one_ of the
strongest fortresses in the Austrian empire.

The succeds of the Municipal Reformers of the
Limn street and. Everton Wards will, we trust,
be received as a salutary lesson. It would be
peurile to, call such a movement an ovation. It
was a whole triumph, or, as Mr. J. R. JEFFERY well
observed, when addressing the triumphant Eke:

" a great moral victory." The Reformers
only desired to carry their Wards, and they did
conquer in both If we had lost one, gaining the
other would have served, as a great demonstration.

tut, rejecting two prodigal _representatives,
despite all that money and intimidation could do,
was a magnificent result to attain. 0 shows what
the Reformers and their Independent Press can
do—what the Burgesses have lost by not being
fearlessly represented by their public journals.
The paltry assumption of Toryism, which is so
rife in Liverpool, would never have reached the
height it has in the Town Council, and in the

Parliamentary representation of the Borough, if
there had not been a frightful amount of toadyism

going on among our artful cotemporaries.
We are indebted" to the time-serving advocacy of
those who crave the support of the Reformers,
for all that has taken place in the Borough for the
last fifteen years, and- the-severity of the struggle
they had to make on Saturday to establish a just
principle of representation, and to rdstore prudence
and integrity to the Council. Our respected Tory
cotemporaries have laboured hard to keep up their
falling house. The vulgar and depraved " Con
"'seivative" press—the Carlton will pardon us for

using this quotation—has, in the excess of its
licentiousness and gross plebianism, killed the
sick man, and strangled the remaining respect-
ability of its generous patron's representatives.
We feel so bitterly the base use to which type
and paper have been put of late in this good
old English town, that we will • pass over

in silence the service the " Conservative"

Press has done to the cause cue advocate.
Our cause has triumphed. Reason' has won
a signal victory over political affectation; conven-
tional twaddle, and intolerable corruption. The
Reformers behaved gloriously. They might have
polledfully one hundred more votes in both the con-
tested Wards. They have, however, set the other
Wards an example which they will be called on to
follow next year. To keep off a Borough Rate, to
cut down local taxation in every direction, and to

save the Town Dues, we must remodel the Council.
We must break down the monopoly of the Cor•
ruptioniste. Same limit must lie found for the
Corporate expenditure. The confiding multitude
must not be cajoled into submitting to gas

monopolies, water schemes, nor incomprehensible
improvement projects. All this political insanity
must be laid aside for plain common sense—for