The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-06 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES

Sir,—A. remedy was once proposed as a cure
against bigamy, viz., to shut the guilty party up
in the same house with his wives, and allow them
to administer the punishment; so, I think, the
very best punishment for Cobden ands, Milner
Gibson would be to send them down among their
constituents, where, I think, their conduct would
only meet with the punishment it deserves.
The numerously signed address of " sympathy
with, and confidence in, Lord Palmerston," at
this critical moment of the China question,
indicates only too clearly the feeling of this
community, for a look down, the list of
names shows the conservation. The Tory, Whig,
and Radical joined in expressing their disappro-
bation of the Cobden movement. Ido not say I
agree with all Lord Palmerston and his party do or
say, or that the present was the fittest time for
engaging in the war, or the excuse the very beet
that could have been chosen, as insults would
have been heaped most rapidly upon us more and
more frequently, and more and more glaring ; bu
Ido hate the mawkish cant of the " peace-at any
price party," who would allow the flag to be
trampled upon, and sullied by anybody who thinks
fit to do so.. _ _

While sending up one address to the Premier,
let us net,' forget one of our members, who
stood up manfully before the whole House
of Commons, and told his own friends, to their
faces, that they were acting with duplicity, and
were a disgrace to their constituents. Let us not
forget the telling speech, the open and independent
conduct of our Horsfall, and let the record of our
appreciation of his worth as our representative,
accompany the address to the Prime Minister.
In this second, as in the first expression of our
feelings, all will again unite, and I have no doubt
that the same names will be again as Willingly
subscribed by those who could barely find room at
the table to day.—l am, sir, yours, &c , •
sth March, 1857. R. C.

Mu. CHISHoLM A NSTEY—During the debate on Tuesday
night, Mr: B. Osborne announced that amongst the persons
suffering from the poison put into the bread by the Chinese
at Hong Kong, was her Majesty's Attorney General ('Mr.
C. Anstey). The learned gentleman is not expected to
recover.

AN AMUSING INCIDBNT.—On Monday afternoon, as a
number of oxen was being driven along the Blackfriars road,
London, one of them ve-y quietly walked into the shop of
Mr. Freeman, chernis', in that neighbourhood, and located
himself with the greatest coolness and unconcern behind
the counter, to the utter consternation of the proprietor and
his assistant. A crowd soon assembled round this repository
of choke and carious physics, but none had the courage to
venture in to relieve the affrighted proprietor of his unwel-
come visitor. Three policemen drew their staves, and
stretched their necks to glance upon the unruly delinquent,
but they evinced no desire to claim their right of entree to
eject the formidable and four footed trespasser, who seemed
quite at ease in his new abode. At length the drovers
returned, and by a little management, peculiar to their
calling, succeeded in getting the bull out of the house,
without having done any mischief, to the great delight of
its resident inmates, and to the no small amusement of the
bystanders who bad been witnesses of this laughable scene,