The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-21 00:00:00

DR. CA HILL ON IRELAND.

The Rev. Dr. Cahill is a political mo;.‘ntebank after the turgf
approved model—he never hesitates at. trill ,s". In his lectures,'
his speeches, or in his letters, which weekly aip'ar in the
Catholic Telegraph, he never evinces any mealy niouthOlues3,
about supporting his case by assertions of the most extmordinai7
character. We give en example or two for the purpose of
showing the sort of trash that still finds readers atuo,g a portion
of the people of this country. Hero is a picture of in
1857 :—" Alas ! for poor Ireland, her entire history, from the
moment the English set their feet on Irish soil, is one
unbroken page of perfidy—our deserted hzrbours, our silent
rivers, our blasted commerce, our ruined manufactures, our
starved artisans, our expelled populatio3, are all so many
evidences of English perfily to Ireland—and although we are
not strong enough to enforce our claims to national justice; and
although we are too divided amongst ourselves to give weight
to one legitsmate remonstrance, yet it gives pleasure to
the national mind, and mitigates the torture of the national
heart, to feel that this character of England is known
to the whole world, and branded with universal eXectation."
Of course, amid such complete desolation, the case of the
Irish tradesman and labourer must he pitiful indeed. Alas !
poor Ireland, it is the only country in the world where the
tradesman is disrespected, starved, degradedto the poorhouse,
or expelled ; it is the only nation where the poor labourers are'
despised, treated as outcasts, left to shift for themselves, to
live or die amid the fluctuations of the labour market, and to
be crushed under the pressure of famine, as if they were the
crawling vermin of earth." This, we presume, is what ie
in the old slang of the agitation, " pattiotic writing," but the'
day for such rodomontade is fast passing away. Only
would be idle to waste reason or argument to reply to such'
silly assertions, which defeat themselves by their own extra-
vagance, we might E.sk Dr. Cahill to explain how it is that
Ulster has flourished, and is flourishing, while the rest of
Ireland is admittedly behind Ulster a century in everything
that constitutes industrial prosperity and greatness. Let him
address himself to this question, and perhaps its solution may
prove serviceable to him.—Belfast Mercury.

Mr. Miall, M.P., the representative of Rochdale, is to
pay a visit to his constituents on Tuesday, the 27th inst.
THE BISHOP OF GRAHAM'S TOWN AND THE KAFFIRS.
—The Bishop of Graham's Town, addressing a meeting(
of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign'
Parts, held at Norwich on Friday afternoon, defended the
Kaffirs from the charge of being hopeless and irreclaimably
barbarous, and condemned the policy which the English and
Ductch had pursued towards them in past times. He said
that our recent wars, necessary though they might have
been, had been carried on as if we had sought to meet the
savage as if we were savages ourselves. The Bishop then,
at considerable length, eulogised the pacific and civilising
aboriginal policy inaugurated by the present Governor,
Sir George Grey.
THE SUN V. THE HAND.—Mr. Thorburn and Sir William
Ross must look to their laurels. Of the pure photographer,
the more dainty race of miniature painters have no fear; the
sun is no courtier ; indeed, he is rather a satirist, loving to
dash with black the most brilliant complexions. Ladies
will not reconcile their eyes to his strong lines and massive
effects. Children, too, come from his kisses dark and spotty.
But Mr. Mayall's new material—the discovery of which
we announced a year ago, and the perfect adaptation to
artistic uses, we have now to announce—enables him to part
company from the mere protographer, and steal into the
artist's studio. The advantages of the new material are,
the fineness of the surface and strength of texture ; smooth
as ivory, and durable as a rock. The sun print b comss on
it the groundwork of a picture, which admits of any delicacy
of finish.—Athanceuvi.

A WELSH HINT FOR THE POST OFFICE AUTHORITIES
The Post office have lately adopted a plan of delivering
letters in districts of London, marked according to various
points of the compass. If their subs. know no more how
to box that instrument than they know of the geography
of their own country, as developed to us in innumerable
objectionable instances, a pretty confusion will arise, and
we shall scarcely be surprised to find letters directed to tha
south western and north western districts of the metropolis
forwarded to the southern and northern divisions of the
Principality, or letters intended for North and South Wales
may probably find their way to the north westerly and
south westerly districts of London. Some Et, ?ALA of
obviating inconvenience from stupidity of this des.crinfion
should be immediately devised and adopted.—North Irilet
Chronicle.

A THRIFTY PARSON.—A donation party was given the
other day to a clergyman in one of. our New Engly.d.
villages, and among the articles he received was a superb
" from the Genin of the place. The parson, much
pleased with the hat, ventured to ask the donor what such
a hat ought to be worth ? That is an eight dollar hat,'i
was the reply. The parson turned it over again, renewed
his thanks to the hatter, and remarked that it was " very
fine, very fine indeed," and so they parted. The next day
the parson wended his way to the hatter's store, and after
the customary salutation, took him aside, observed that he
was not accustomed to wear hats worth eight dollars ; that
a four dollar hat was good enough for him—a plenty. He
concluded by proposing to exchange the hat he had received
for a four dollar one, and to " take the balance of maaey."
—New York Evening Post.
THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND ANTIQUE CHURCH FURNIn
TUBE.—A meeting of the parishioners of St. Glare's, Exeter,
was held on Monday, convened by the churchwardens,
Messrs. Husband and Escott, "to consider an outrage
committed by the rector, the Rev. R. Roper, on the parish,
by placing crosses in the church, contrary to law." The
bishop's reply to a letter on the subject from the archdeacon,
includes the remark, " That he is always sorry when any of
the clergy involve themseves in disputes with their peop:e
about these miserable ornaments." A scrias of resolutions
were unanimously passed, thanking the archdeacon for the
true Protestant spirit in which he had acted, condemning
the rector for allowing the crosses, &c., to remain in the
church after the bishop's disapproval, and resolving to
wait, in accordance with his lordship's suggestion, the
decision in the St. Barnabas' case before taking any
proceedings against the rector.

DRAT:IFROM DRINKING GIN.—An inquest was held on
Monday, before Mr. E. Herford, city coroner, Manchester,
at the Infirmary, on the body of Joseph Smith, of Mel-
bourne street, flulme, striker at a forge, whose death had
resulted from drinking seven two pennyworths of gin, in
from five to ten minutes. The evidence of various witnesses
showed that the deceased, at ten o'clock on Sunday night,
went into the George the Fourth Inn, Great Mount street,
being then partly intoxicated ; that whilst there, seeing a
man named named Charles Bentley (also intoxicated)
treating a person, he asked Bentley if be would treat him
to a glass of gin. He replied, " Yes, as much as thou'st a
mind. Smith drank seven small glasses in succession, and
shortly afterwards became insensible. Another drunken
man poured some cold water down his throat. Smith was
taken home, and died at half past one o'clock on Sunday
morning. The jury, while returning a verdict of " Acci-
dental death," censured Bentley for his conduct.
HUGH MILLER IN HIS YOUTH.—With all my enjoyments
(says the deceased, in his Schools and Schoolmasters), I had
to suffer some of the evils of excessive toil. Though now
seventeen, I was still seven inches short of my ultimate
stature ; and my frame, cast more at that time in the mould
of my mo her than in that of the robust sailor (Miller's
father), whose " back," according to the description of one
of his comrades, "no one had ever put to the grJund,"
were slim and loosely knit; and I used to suffer much from
wandering pairs in the joints, and an oppressive feeling
about the chest, as it crushed by some great weight. I
became subject, too, to great depression of spirits, which
took almost the form of a walking sleep—results, I believe,
of excessive fatigue—and during which my absence of mind
was so extreme that I lacked the ability of protecting myselfiger
against accident in cases the most simple and ordinary.
Besides other injuries, I lost, at different times, during the
first few months of my apprenticeship, when in these fits of
partial somnambulism, no fewer than seven of my
nails; but, as I gathered strength, my spirits became more
equable; and not until many years after, when my health
failed for a tine, under over exertion of another kind, bad I
any renewed experience of the fits of walking ales a.