The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-05 00:00:00

ly to inform the Nobility and Gentry of (Ayer-
at his NEW STYLES for the Season are NOW READY

rTrotl To THE NORTHERN
TIMES is TWO GUINEA.S m ANNUM.

T HIES ANNLTA

DAILI

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JULY 5, 1856

Tit interview about to take place between the

tmperor NAPOL

FRANCIS JOSEPH of Austria

and al

e small fry of German royally, is an

The consumer is to be at the
expense of taking his meter down to be inspected,
and putting it up again whether right or wrong.
with her German satellites is not surely to be Then, again, one per cent. is to be allowed on
opposed by the Orleanists, and their cry for both sides for irregularities, which it is not
Constitutional Monarchy. France is far from improbable the Company will take to themselves.
contented with her loss of nationality, and look- Still, all the Council propose to do is purely
ing abroad for balms for her internal sores, will officious. Consumers are not bound to go to the
not, it is to be feared, work the salutary change Corporate Inspector. They can call in any Gas
required. A. nation of 36,000,000 of highly Engineer they please to test the meter, quality of
enlightened people cannot exist without free the gas, and pressure, as at present. And the
discussion. Some unaccountable and magical same legal remedies will be open to them when the
agency has enabled the French to do so thus meter is not correct, or the quality of the gas is
far, but good sense and moderation must have not equal to the Parliamentary standard estab-
their day presently. If they are not allowed to lished for the Borough. The Gas Inspector's
speak out, passion and lawlessness will assuredly office may consequently be looked upon as a
overpower them. And so far-seeing a politician comfortable sinecure, in which some lucky hanger•
as the Emperor NAPOLEON can hardly be on will spend two or three years in majestic ease,
looking to Austria for council and succour in while the only consolation we shall receive from
such a crisis. The political dogmas of Vienna Bolton, Sunderland, and those towns which are
would be even less acceptable to the rest of lighted for twenty-five and thirty-five per cent.
Europe than they would probably be to the less, is " serve you right." But there is a
French• FRANCIS JOSEPH cannot keep up a hope of deliverance before us which it
political state of siege in France any more would be premature to mention at this
than he can in the Papal dominions. France moment, but which must secure us what we seek,
must 'ere long witness the return of moderation namely—honest competition. Mr. BELOE'S elabo-
and progress.

event which may help to bring about many

s, in addition to those now

The union of France and Austria

rate statement has shown the Company's weak
And the Corporation, having found it
necessary to appoint a Meter Inspector, on behalf
of the public, will be quite sufficient to convince
the Legislature of the expediency of allowing a
competing Company to be established. A new
Company must, in fact, spring out of the difficul-

When that clay dawns upon the Tuileries,
Austria will he the enemy of the French, and
FIIANCIS JOSEPH the deadly foe of those who
advocate the restoration of Constitutional Mon-
Such a Power, assuming her to be in any
thing like a healthy state, can be of no assistance
t' France in her great and glorious career. She
repudiates all the ideas of modern civilisation, and
resists with her utmost might the advance of social
and political amelioration. She has wedded
herself to spiritual intolerance, that she may, by

point

working on the remaining embers of sectarian
passions and prejudices, accomplish the con-
solidation of that civil and religious des-
which all right-minded men, and
re so than the French, loath. She
denies having any interests in common with

potism

none mo

~eat and enlightened nations of the
earth, and a close union between the Bonapartists
or Orleanists with Austria, if it should not prove
impracticable, Will end in disappointment, if not in

the reall

irreparable misfortunes and disgrace. Broken
, and living solely down in finance, vuY by a Credit
Mobilierinstitution,which,like every other Austrian
monetary scheme, is doomed to be a wretched
delusion, and she must be sustained by large sub-
sidies from those who accept her Pigmy aid.
alliance of France and Austria need not, therefore,

cause Great Britain the slightest uneasiness.
We know FaA.Ncts JOSEPH'S accumulating weak-
ness too well in this country to feel any concern

ties of the old one.
Liverpool is little more than half lighted now
and when the Rate-payers and private consumers
are determined to have cheap gas, they must go
somewhere else for a supply, and then we shall
obtain relief, and not until then. Mr. BELOE'S
" Report" shows very clearly that we must take all
the Gas Directors say for granted, and that our
Borough officials do not hesitate to pronounce
very decided opinions in opposition to those of the
public, on very imperfect data, and very inadequate
personal knowledge of the subject of which they , gross negligence in order to mainta
venture to treat. Mr. BELoE, for example, —,,,,,. It did not appe tr th tt any is formation was
says he has
`, •,, satisfied himself that "various given te the jury a, to what they wera to undet stand by
gross negligence. If they had been told that gross negli-
items on the Company's accounts, " were gence was an absence of that ordinary care which under
" fairly charged to capital and revenue respec-
" Lively;' whereas he tells us in a foregoing part of his the circumstances a prudent man oaght to have taken, the
direction as to the def,ree of negligence might not have
been objectionable. They thotht the rule of law recited
" report" that he has nothing to say to meters, the by all the authorities was that in a case like the present;the
measures through which tl
supplied to the consumers floer
passes, and that it is needless for quantity of gas -
money expended
illuminating power of gas which mheinlantsotnh
of light from which the GAnpany derive their (foods remained under the charge and protection of the inn-
keeper, so as to make him liable as fur a breach of duty,
unless the negligence of the guest occasioned the loss in
(e)ti eeth
qualitye such a way that the loss would not have happened if the
guest haa used the ordinary eae which a prudent man
might reas)nub'y be expect( d to have taken under the
large circumstances. The court considered on these grounds that
revenue. The capital of the shareholders is the direction in the present case could not be supported,
employed in the manufacture of light, and we i and that the rule for a new trial should be made absolute.

The see ind question was,
that there must b