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

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1857

THE DAY'S NE S.

The election of Birkenhead Commissioners took
place yesterday. The- list proposed by the
Roots" was the one carried by the ratepayers,
and no change can be said to have taken place in
the policy hitherto maintained by the board. A
full and graphic report of the procedings will be
found in another column.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Select
Vestry was held yesterday. No business of
special importance was transacted. There are at
present two vacancies on the board, and Mr. Den-
ton had the bad taste, and we might almost say
audacity, to give notice that he should move that
Mr. Satchell be appointed to fill one of the
vacancies. Mr. Satchell not long ago was rejected
by a large majority on a poll of the town at large
being taken.
In future the collectors of taxes and cottage
property in Liverpool, are to be paid 71 per cent.
on the amount collected, instead of, as at present,
a yearly salary.
At the meeting of the Toxteth-park Local Board
of Health yesterday, Mr. Boult gave notice that at
the next meeting of the board he would move the
following resolution That it is desirable that
the rural district of Toxteth-park should be incor-
porated in the borough of Liverpool, and that it
be referred to the Finance Committee to consider
and report upon the bolt means of carrying out
the same."
The speech of His Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge at Birmingham, on Monday night. will
be found in this day's impression. As the Duke
said at the dinner, ",Birmingham spoke out." His
Royal Highness was not in error in his interpreta-
tion of the demonstration, for Birmingham men,
democrats though they be, admire the mild and
benignant sway of the estimable lady who occupies
the British throne, and are attached to the insti-
tutions of their country, though they desire that by
all means they should be perfected and made in all
respects consonant with public opinion. "We are
proud," says a local paper of yesterday, "We are
proud of our country, proud of our commercial and
manufacturing greatness, proud of our free insti-
tutions, and proud of our Queen as the embodi-
ment and representative symbol of all that is nobl-
and free and glorious, in our free and great and
glorious country. As the representative amongst
us of the Royal Family of England, as the head
of our valiant army, as one who had taken a
prominent part in at least two of the great vic-
tories achieved by our brave army, and as a Prince
who gives promise that be will aid in promoting
the best interests of the nation, in which he holds
such a prominent position, we gave his Royal
Highness a welcome so cordial and so enthusiastic
that he must deeply have felt its power. And if any
one in the course of the day harboured the idea that
the reception was too great—too imposing, such an
idea must have been dispelled had they heard the
excellent address which his Royal Highness de-
livered in the evening at Dee's hotel, in presence
of the guests which the munificent liberality of the
Mayor had gathered round him. It breathes
throughout such a spirit of liberality, and is so
marked by practical, enlightened, and common
sense views, that it cannot but commend itself to
the appreciation of every man in the community.
Such a speech would do honour to any man, bill
it is doubly refreshing to hear it from the lips of a
royal prince, when we know that royal princes in
_general are not noted for the extreme enlighten*
.anent or liberality of their views.

The sudden death of the member for Carmarthen
is likely, if we are not misinformed, to give a seat
in Parliament to Mr. D. Pugh, a gentleman of
local influence The name of Sir James Hamilton
has also been mentioned as a candidate ; but we
are not aware whether there is any serious inten-
tion of bringing him forward. Mr. Pugh's mind
is warped by Tory politics, but otherwise he is a
most estimable man, and has the advantage of
wealth on his side.

A London correspondent states that the appoint-
ment of Mr. Keating to the solicitor-generalship,
although not the one that would have been most
satisfactory to law reformers, is not one that, under
all the circumstances, is open to much objection.
Although a heavy, dull, commonplace speaker,
ineffective as an advocate, certainly not likely to
end any Lvery powerful assistance to the house,
the hon. and learned gentleman is a sound and
learned lawyer. It is no secret, that there is
likely soon to be one, if not two vacancies on
the bench ; and there is no doubt that he would
discharge the duties of a puisne judge as wellas any
man who could be found. That he has in him the
materials of which chiefs should be made will
hardly be alleged. But, in fact, it is not easy just
now to see where they are to be found. Ten years'
enjoyment of the sunny side of the house has
weeded the ranks of liberal lawyers. And the
modesty of two at least of those who would in time
have had the strongest claims to the government
law offices has placed Mr. Justice Erle and Mr.