The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-25 00:00:00

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emphatic in his declaration that these cries were
perpetrated by opponents of Mr. Spurgeon, and he
had, therefore, so reported the matter to the Secre-
tary of State. Most of our metropolitan cotempo-
raries are very severe upon Mr. Spurgeon, and,
certainly, not without reason. We object most
strongly to the encouragement of theological curi-
osity shops, such as the exhibitions at Exeter
Hall and the Surrey Gardens, as demonstrated
Mr. Spurgeon's Sabbath preaching. That
a young man of very limited knowledge,
should, with the help of fluent speech,
boundless self-confidence, and a fine voice be able
to attract multitudes so large that no chapel can
contain them, that he should fill Exeter Hall, and
that proving too small, engage the still larger room
of the Surrey Gardens at 151. per night, and there
find some ten thousand, or more persons, rushing
to hear his eloquent declamation, while the
adjacent streets are thronged with half as many
more disappointed candidates for admission—this
is a phenomenon that certainly merits attention,
and which at once suggests the interrogatories of
what the crowd go to hear, and what state of
mental and moral developement they are in.
Terminate as the coroner's inquest may, there is
now sufficient reason to justify the authorities
stepping in and watching with a jealous eye the
mania for theological dram drinking, and as in the
case now under consideration, causing the instan-
taneous death of several human beings, and
maiming and otherwise injuring for life hundreds
of others. Accidents, like many other occurrences
appertaining to human life, do not come singly.
We find, by the London papers of last evening,
that an alarming collision took place yesterday
forenoon, at the Waterloo-road terminus of the
London and South Western Railway. It appears
that a train was being made ready on the main line
for Hampton Court, and several passengers were
seated, when another train was being taken upon
the Windsor line. The last train was going at its
usual speed, when the pointsmen, by some accident,
turned the. points so as to send the Windsor train
upon the main line, and the consequence was,
that the Windsor train came into collision with the
one for Hampton Court, forcing the passengers
from their seats, and hurling them in terrible con-
fusion amongst each other. The Hampton Court
train came rattling down the metals at a fearful
speed. and no one can tell what direful effects
would have ensued had it not been for the presence
of mind of Mr. Parker, one of the chief inspectors,
who, seeing the great danger that existed, and
regardless of his own personal safety, rushed off
the platform, entered one of the break carriages,
and applying the break most vigorously, was
enabled to skid the wheels, and thereby stop, to a
great extent, the momentum of the carriages, but
not, however, until the train had been forced
almost to the extremity of the platform. By the
sudden concussion several persons were injured;
one lady had one of her eyes severely injured ;
another was severely cut about both legs, and three
or four more were more or less hurt.
The continental news of the day is not of an
important character. From Naples we learn that
the official rupture with the Western Powers is not
considered in Neapolitan diplomatic circles as a very
seriousaffair. The King and his court regard the recall
of the ambassadors, without the appearance of the
fleets, as a new delay accorded by France and
England, which will allow a solution to be arrived
at which will spare the susceptibilities of all parties.
The Government appears to have no other
object than to prepare an honourable retreat.
At Naples it was rumoured that France will be
content with pardons, and to some, with certain
reforms, which, however, the King will be allowed
all latitude to carry into effect. It is further added,
that M. Brenier and General Martini are much
more in accord on the affair of Naples than they
appear to be. M. Kakoschine, the Russian
Minister, who at first complained energetically of
the policy of the Western Powers, now speaks
much more mildly, and is full of eulogiums on the
moderation of the Emperor of the French.

NEXT WEEK

MONDAY

On MONDAY next, the 27th instant, at One o'clock, in the
Commercial Saleroom, Temple.court,
500 Barrels Newtown Pippin APPLES,
landing ex Baltic (s.), from New York;
250 Barrels Baldwin APPLES,
just landed, ex Canada (a.), from Boston,—Apply to
GEORGE BADENACH & SON, Brokers.

On MONDAY next. the 27th Instant, at Eleven o'clock, at the
Commercial Saleroom, Temple-court,
600 Boxes Port ORANGES,}
ex Allegria do Minho;
290 .. ONIONS,
500 .. ORANGES, ex Alice;
140 .. .. ORANGES,
50 . ONIONS, ex Rattler (s.s.) ;
60 Bags CHESNUTS,
320 Boxes Port ORANGES, '1
54 Baskets .. ONIONS,
10 Bags .. CHEiNUTS, i• ex Douro (s.s.) ;
2 Cases .. GG4,
60 Boxes Lisbon TOMATOES, ex Rattler (s.s.) ;
g Valentla ORANC4ES,
29 .. POMEGRANATES, ex Tajo (s.s.) ;
100 Baskets .. ONIONS JJJ
61 Boxes Lisbon TOMATOES, ex Minho (s.s.);
30 .. POMEGRANATE SS,
200 Bags Black Spanish NUTS, ex Albert;
47 Kegs Russian CRANBERRIES.
Apply to GEORGE gADENACH & SON, Brokers.

On MONDAY next, the 27th Instant. at Twelve o'clock, at the
Brokers' Office, 21, Oldhall-street,
50 Tens St Lucia LOGWOOD,
ex Castries, now land.ng east side King's Dock.—Apply to
BUCHANAN BROWNE & CO., Brokers.

We are without Much news of moment from
Paris. A telegraphic despatch dated Paris,
Friday evening, has reached us. It con-
tains the following:—" The Funds have again fluc-
tuated to-day, and it is said that this sad effect
had been produced by certain calumnious articles
in the English newspapers, mention of which
was made in yesterday's Moniteur. Speculators
are said to be severe looera by the occurrence.
The 3 per Cents. were done at 66f. foe."
_ .

We are in possession of Stockholm advices of the
23rd inst., containing an account of the opening of
the Diet. The speech from the throne had produced
great satisfaction. The general prospects and finan•
cial position of the country was represented to be in
a satisfactory position, and an announcement was
made of the re establishment of formal relations
of good friendship with France through the treaty
of November. The speech also proclaims the
union of Norway consolidated. If we are to
believe the news from Spain, the administration of
Marshal Narvaez is destined to enjoy a very brief
existence. It it stated, that on the 18th the Presi-
dent of the Council had resisted the endless pre-
tensions of the Court, and had offered to resign.
His resignation was, however, not accepted, as
the Court is perfectly aware of the weakness of
its present position, which will require some
months to be Consolidated. The Queen of Spain,
it can no longer be concealed, has fallen entirely
into the hands of priestly power, from which,
for crowned heads, there is no salvation. It
was expected that the Queen had some idea of
sending for the Archbishop of Toledo to form a
ministry! From these and other circumstances it
is much to be feared that still more serious events
than the last are likely to occur in Spain.
According to some of the German papers, there
would appear to be grave doubts as to the reported
meeting of the Paris Congress. We read as
follows, in a Berlin paper:—The question of the
Paris Conferences isnot yet decided. Whilst Russia
and Austria are anxious for the immediate reunion
of the Congress, England is not favourable to a
resumption of diplomatic discussions Russia first
Proposed the re-assembling of the Congress to
settle the Bolgrad affair, and should it meet, the
Eastern difficulties will be the principal subject
of the discussions.

The general and local news in other parts of to-
day's paper are, in many respects, interesting. To
the lover of scandal the trial for crim con, in the
Court of Passage, will afford food for gossip; whilst
the " Scene in the Police Court "will convince the
most sceptical, that zeal, without discretion, is at all
times not only injudicious, but injurious to those
who practise such a principle. Another. Election
demonstration came off at Halliday's Coffee House
Everton, last night. Mr. Longton, deficient
of cratorical powers, and unaccustomed to
address public meetings—schoolboy-like—read
his speech, in the midst of which he appeared
to have got confused. Certain it is, that Mr.
Longton's exhibitions as a candidate for municipal
honours, add but little chance of his return to the
Council Chamber.

We have in another article alluded to the
people's concert, at St. George's Hall to night, and
can only repeat our strong impression, that the
music to be given will be grand, and that all who
stay away will deprive themselves of enjoying a
musical treat, as rich mit is rare.

According to advices from London, it appears
that several architects, who submitted sketch
designs in competition for the Liverpool free
library and museum, are anxious to obtain an
exhibition of the ninety-nine rejected, and have
asked the Editor of the Builder to mention the
desire, and to invite those who concur in the idea
to send the mottoes of their designs to the office of
the Builder, so that a judgement may be formed
as to the wisdom of taking any further steps in
the matter.

ALL who have read Mr. J. R. JEFFEav's speech
on Thursday evening, will have discovered that
talent, truth, and honesty strengthens the hands
of the Reformers. It has ever been so. Little
party men must be always at their wits ends to
make the multitude bow to the few. They will eat

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY

any amount of filth, do any quantity of dirty work, '
and treat veracity as a cumbersome and unneces-
sary piece of political virtue, to carry their point.
We felt somewhat dwarfish after reading Mr. JOHN-
BUCK LLOYD' s asmurance that all the Burgesses, who
require information respecting the Corporate
Estate, had to do, waS to call at the Town Hall, ask
for the report of the Commissioners of 1833, and
satisfy themselves as to what the extent, condition,
and value of the Borough property really is.
Making such a statement was equivalent to tell.
ring the Council, and their constituents, that all
that had been said in the Corporation, and written
out of doors, on the subject, was mere moon-
shine. Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE viewed the
matter in thin light, and we felt for an instant as
if an extinguisher had been put upon our senses,
The feeling, however, was momentary with us. but
with Mr. GLADSTONE it was far different. He was
the only man in the Council who
would have dared to moot such a deli-
cate and mighty question. He had the
courage to tell the Council that they were
dealing with the substance of the Bar,,zesses in the
dark—the morality to demand a full statement of

the nature and v;llue of the property which they

been sent into the Chamber to care, and the high
public rectitude to stick to his honest text until he
forced the Council to disclose the secrets of the
hidden treasure.
Mr. JOHN Bucx LLOYD was silent on that memo-
rable occasion—that glorious day of discomfiture
to all our Corporate jobbers—and yet he has had
the cool effrontery to tell the Electors of Lime-
street Ward that there was a schedule and rental
of the Corporate Estate in existence when Mr.
ROBERTSON GLADSTONE moved the straw, and
scattered the corporate rats. And we ask any
man, be he Radical, Whig, Tory, or Chartist, who
has read Mr. GLADSTONE'S reply to Mr. JOHN BUCK
LLOYD'S charge of incapacity against the majo-
rity of the Council, whether he would vote for or in
any way encourage Mr. J. BUCK LLOYD as a Muni-
cipal representative ? Is he entitled to that unqua_
lified confidence we ought to have in our public
men ? The Tories, as a party—what strange
phrases we are compelled to use in ordinary com-
position—cannot, surely, be concerned in the
mystification of their brother Burgesses' property
and are they so hard driven for men to represent
them- as to be constrained to put forward such
candidates as Sir GEORGE BONHAM and Mr. JOHN
BUCK LLOYD ? No ! They knew nothing of Sir
GEORGE until they saw and heard him, and we feel
convinced they never knew Mr. LLOYD until now.
They would not, we presume, keep large and
valuable estates in darkness and confusion, merely
to encourage peculation without the possibility of
detection. Their ethics do not, we hope, date
from such a root. As Mr. J. BUCK LLOYD knows
all about the extent, condition, and income of the
Borough Estate since 1833, he ought to be able to
satisfy the public that its rents and profits have
been, and can be, accounted for to the penny. If
he cannot do this, of what value is all the informa-
tion he has kept bottled up for so many years ?
Do Tory constituencies give their representatives
a carte blanche to do as they please with public
property ? Are they so unsuspecting as never
to demand accounts where large incomes are
fingered ? Have they such implicit faith in
legal and municipal probity, as to leave all in
the hands of any man or body who choos a to
assume their title? But it is cowardly to strike
the fallen. Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE has pros
trated Mr. J. BUCK LLOYD, as a public man, and
we shall be curious to see how many really honest
and independent men will record their votes in
favour of that gentleman on the Ist of November.
Party feeling, and strong attachments to faction,
may lead men a certain distance; but there are
limits beyond which no man can go, without violat-
ing the sacred trust which accompanys the
franchise of an enlightened age, and setting a bad
public example. Mr. J. BUCK LLOYD may expect
his former supporters to do these things ; but we
do not. We cannot conceive how any, the humblest
member of society, could ask for the numerous
agents which Mr. LLOYD evidently requires to
return him to the scene of his past corporate life.
If we are to have self-stuffed Liverpool Tories, give
us men whose public statements cannot be
refuted—men who care nothing for recrimina-
tion, and can talk about business—gentlemen
who love the cheerfulness of the light of
the sun; and not mortals who can be thrown
into the mud, must be taken up and washed, and
made to appear new beings by the aid of certain
coloured soap, and faction napkins. Give us
something worthy of Liverpool as a town, if you
despise the trade and commerce of her port, and the
wealth-creating industry of her people. Honest
voters have now, in fact, no choice left between
Mr. J. It JEFFERY and Mr. J. BUCK LLOYD.

ACCIDENTAL DEATll.—Michael Keating, aged 26, a
plasterer, residing at 3 Court, BaThorsa—lane, was killed
yesterday by falling from a scaffold, on which he was at
work.

QUARTER SESSIONS, LIVERPOOL.—The" following sen-
tences were passed yesterday : Francis. Bradley, eighteen
months; Martha Bradley, four months ; John Griffiths, six
months ; John Carmichael. twelve months.

CORONER'S INQuEsT.—Yesferday the Coroner held the
following inquest : —On the body of a girl, named Maria
Carter Scarrow, 12 years of age, who died in consequence
of injuries received by an accidental fall at a school in Jordan-
street. Verdict, accidental death.

DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY.—The Liverpool gentlemen
who have been guests at the opening of the junction
between the German and Dutch railways, write that the
festivities have been conducted on a scale of unparrelled
magnificence. The banquet at the Palace at Amsterdam
was regal and superb, and those of Cologne and Rotterdam
were scarcely inferior. At the latter, C. Holland, Esq.,
responded to the toast of the Queen in a very eloquent
speech. Full details of this interesting event will shortly
appear in the newspapers.
CUSTOMS APPOINTMENTS.—The Civil Service Gazette of
to dav, contains among others, the following Customs
appointments at Liverpool :—To be weighers, Mr. Thos.
Chaunon and Mr. William Foulkes ; to be a tide waiter
and patrol, Mr. Thomas Davis. [We understand that
Mr. H. G. Alder, of Liverpool, has received an official
intimation from the Treasury, that he has been appointed
as a landing waiter at Liverpool, and that as soon as he
undergoes the necessary examination, will enter upon his
duties in the foregoing capacity.—Ed. N. T.]
REWARD OF MEmr.--- 11. r. Jetties F. Goggin, son of our
late respected fellow citizen, Mr. J sines D. Goggin, now of
Liverpool, has received the magnificent honorary bronze
medal of the Royal Humane Society, London, which was
unanimously awarded to him by the committee, for his
clurageous and humane conduct on the 7th of August last,
in baying rescued from drowning John Naughton, who had
sunk while bathing in the sea at Ventry Harbour. The
medal has been often described. It is of massive bronze of
the best material, and contains on the obverse the name of
the gallant young gentleman who so nobly risked his life to
save that of a fellow creature. and whose conduct on the
occasion was universally applauded. Mr. James F. Goggin
is presenting his studies at present at the Missionary
College, Ventry, county Kerry.—Limerick _Reporter
NEW WESLEYAN CHAPEL, WATERLOO.—Yesterday the
foundation_stone of a new Wesleyan chapel was laid at
Waterloo, by Daniel Sutton Leather, Esq., of Liverpool, in
the presence of a numerous assembly, including several
clergymen. It will be a plain Gothic building, after a design
by Mr. Wilson, architect, of Bath, and will be completely
faced with stone. It will have a plain open timber roof,
and the pews will be also open. it will accommodate from
350 to 400 persons, and its dimensions .nside will be 62
feet by 35 feet. The estimated cost is £2,100, and it is
expected that the building will be completed by February
next. The builder is Mr. John Saunders. After
the ceremonies generally observed on such occasions,
and which included the reading of the 19th and
I32nd psalms by the Rev. Mr. Lorraine, and prayer by the
Rev. Josiah Pearson, an address, expository of Methodism,
was delivered by the F. A. West. It was listened to
with much attention. After the ceremony, a hymn was
sung, and the assembly then separated.