The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-25 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

am Martin, Mr. Masters Smith, ' Sir Robert Peel, Sir
Herbert Maddock. Mr. Deedes, Mr. Fitzroy, and five
members to be added by the committee of selection ; five to
be a quorum.

The house divided. The numbers were—

For the motion .
Against
44

Majority against
*SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.
Mr. Napier then drew attention to the communications
with her Majesty's government respecting the Franklin
expedition, and the urgent nature of the claims for a further
and complete search. lie adverted to the traces obtained
by Dr. Rae and the Hudson's Buy Company, and urged
the government, now that the search had become confined
to a small space, not to abandon it, but on grounds of
humanity and science to send a new expedition.
Captain Scobell also considered that a new expedition
should be sent in search of Sir John Franklin and urged
that no delay should take place.
Admiral Walcott regretted that it became his duty, from
conviction of its fruitlessness, to oppose the renewal of the
search,

Sir Charles Wood considered that any farther search
would be a useless destruction of human life. He thought
that now no hope was left of discovering any of the party.
It bad beon decided, upon the best evidence, that none had
lived after the year 1853. Th? ships were lost, and the
most valuable articles that could be found had been dis-
covered, and he thought that sufficient evidence to conclude
that all were dead, as those valuable records would never
have been abandoned. For these reasons, feeling never•
theless great regret that many would be disappointed in
the result, he could not take upon himself the risk of
despatching a new expedition to the arctic regions.
Mr. W. Lindsay and Mr. M. Milnes advocated a new
expedition.
Mr. Whiteside took a similar view.
Admiral Berkeley and Mr. E. Dennison sapported the
arguments of the Government, and Mr. J. W. Fox spoke
in favour of a new search.
The motion was then withdrawn.

LEASES IN SCOTLAND.

Mr. Dunlop obtained leave to bring in a bill to provide
for the registration of long leases in Scotland, and assig-
nations thereof; and also a bill tO amend the Commis-
sioners of Supply (Scotland) Act.

BANKRUPTCY, &C., IN IRELAND.

The Attorney General obtained leave to bring in a 13:11
to consolidate and amend the laws relating to bankruptcy
and insolvency in Ireland.

AAITINGS' BANKS

The Chancellor of the Fachequer moved for leave to bring
in a bill to amend the law relating to Savings' Banks
and to-provide for their establishuent under the security of
Government. After some remarks from Sir H. Willough-
by, the motions was agreed to.
The house adjourned at half past ten.

BANKRUPTS.

(From the London Gazette of last n►ght.)
FREDERICK FRANCIS SHAW, Blackfriara road, iron
monger.

WILLIAM SMITH, Mansfield, Nottingham, licensed
victualler.
JOSHUA DOWNING STANBURY, Richmond, Surrey, draper.
James GRIFFITHS, Bristol, and of Cardiff, builder.
ROBERT SrEmmovg, Sheffield, horse and cattle dealer.
ROBERT GRAVES, Gravesend, corn and flour merchant.
LORENS THEODOR WANG, Sunderland, timber mer-
chant.

FRANCIS BEE, Sheffield, table knife manufacturer.
EDWIN SHEPHERD and WALTER SIIEfHERD, Crane-court,
Fleet street, lozenge manufacturers.
FREDERICK MoasE, Minster court, Mincing lane, rice
and spice merchant.
SLEATER GEOGHEGAN, Palsgrave place, Strand, engraver,
printer, and stationer.
SAMUEL SMITH, Derby, iron merchant.
THOMAS KING, Spalding, Lincolnshire, licensed vie-
tuk ller.

THOMAS WHITE the younger, Patsmouth and Gosport,
ship builder and engineer.
JAMES ARMSPRONG, Berwick-upon-Twee3, linen and
woollen draper.
WILLIAM SADGROVE, the younger, and RICHARD RD6G,
Eldon-street, Finsbury, and D unning!s-alley, Bikhop's!
gate street, cabinetmakers and upholsterers.

EANKEDPTCY ANNULLED,
ROBERT ASHWORTH, Vale Mill, Newchurell, R-s3endale,
LancasLire, cotton spinner and manufacturer.

Mr. William Smith O'Brien has been summoned to
attend the grand jury of the county Limerick at the ensuing
assizes. This is the first time he has received a notification
of the same character since his return from exile. The
local pipers say he will be in his place in the grand jury
box at .the appointed time.
THE Collards% .—Captain Morris' discovery to overcome
the eject of local attraction on compasses is greatly spoken
of, and the committee who investigated the matter say
" that the evidence presented to them is conclusive, that
Captain Morris has found a way of doing what no one, in
their knowledge, has done before, and they unhesitatingly
recommend to merchants and to navigators the adoption of
his corrections. How the adjustment is effected is not
made public, the discoverer wishing to preserve his secret
for his own use, and fcr the public through him. It may
be mentioned, however, that Captain Morris does not
pretend to treat all compasses in the same way; on the
contrary he states that every ship has her peculiar error,
and must be treated according to the magnitude of that
error.—Boston Board of Trade Report.
LIFEBOATS FOR THE COAST.—Tbe National Lifeb at
Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck has
decided to place lifeboats on every point on the coast where
it can be shown, first, that one is wanted in consequence of
the frequency of wrecks in the locality ; secondly, that an
efficient crew can be found to man the boat; thirdly,
that some local contributions will be raised to assist
to pay for the erection of a boat-house, and the per-
manent maintenance of the lifeboat station. The cost
of a lifeboat establishment, including boat, transporting
carriage, and boat house is between £3OO and .£4OO. The
first, and most important step has been secured by this
institution, viz , a safe and powerful lifeboat. The next
step now is to build a sufficient number of such boats, place
them where required, and provide fur their supervision and
maintenance. In the accomplishment of a work of such
benevolence and importance, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution surely need have no misgivings as to funds being
forthcoming.
THE IMMIGRANTS.—There never was such a rush upon
the Geelong Depot for hired servants as lately occurred.
Between ten and halt-past one o'clock there were ninety
single women engaged, at rates varying from 416 to £3O,
the average rate being £27 per annum, inclusive of board
and lodging. There remain in the depot about forty
single women waiting to join their relations. In the event
of their relatives not coming forward, these girls will be
eligible for private service in the course of a few days.
There were eleven married couples hired out for £67 per
annum, with rations, the majority being agricultural
labourers. • Of the single males, five were taken at £45
per annum. There were remaining in the depot thirty-
seven married couples, and eighteen single men. There
are still eight single women, four married women, and one
single man at the Sanitary Station. Thus, of the 379
immigrants who disembarked from the Nugget, there have
been upwards of two-thirds disposed of within three hours
of the first day—an event unprecedented in the history of
colonial immigration, and a fact, also, which strongly
indicates the demand tor labour at present existing in
Australia.—Geelong Observer.
THE NEWSPAPER AND THE NEWSPAPERB.--The follow-
ing observations from the New York Tribune may be read
with interest in England at a time when the Court of
Queen's Bench has declared that newspapers are liable to
be punished for reporting public meetings :—" A news
paper should mean the news; and unless it gives all the
news, it is probable that its circulation will be extremely
limited. It is not a part of the reporter's duty to decide
what is pertinent, and what is not. Reporters have little
time for splitting moral hairs. Their duty is to record
what they hear. The whole question must, we think, go
to the query whether or not newspapers, spreading con-
tinually betbre the People the most recent information of
events, picking DO here and there, in the exercise of their
enterprise, a hundred curious facts, showing by the know-
ledge which they communicate those different points of
view from which-the public can arrive at a just conclusion,
are to be, by some censorship not known to the constitu-
tion, altogether suppressed. Unless this is decided upon;
unless these million sheets continually flying in all direc-
tions are to be by law arrested, we must take them with
all their good and ill, as we find them ; and if they are
quick, pertinacious, and scandalous, readier to report a
tale than to examine with the acumen of a chief justice
into its truth—these faults must be carried to the account
of a depraved society, and not to that of the newspaper
press, which, having a certain work to do, is in the habit
of doing it, we think, with a great deal of judgment and
fairness. '

nations, and he therefore resisted the motion. At the same
time, it was open to consideration whether some one
should not be associated with Dr. Ball in conducting the
examination.