Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-04 00:00:00

caltulateci to piocluee
cane which has to be supported:' by violenvc

It cannot' possibly be trkooti

outrage, or by:injustme of any kindi; and when, one

remembers haw common it 'has been, for the populace

Tinder. ihe influences of this Liberalism, to have re

C 0111330 to outrageous sots of various, kinds, ono can-
nkrt& Int 'suspect 'that there is something in the, prig,
eipjes we refer:to that is exceedingly,misehievo in
ns
on /the popular mind

There are .many

reasons-, we humbly think,' why the, people awaitt be
preserved, if -possible* from such pernicious. political
irrlinences ; but when we,see them excited thereby to

--
aAstate of ruirianism;: such as that. of the miscreant

at Wakefield,. it certainly wonla appear that some
mare earnest; endeayour than has yet been, employed
ought indeed' to be exerted.. to protect the people

from so fearful a .coutaminatiort

NOTES. OF THE DAY.

The motion that has been adopted by. the. House of Com--
inon&for address to Her Majesty, praying-that negotia-
nuca 1J441.Wb, Iva •
4.4„0 government f _
do the
-and cruelties committed on merchant seame
traffic hatween‘thetwo countries, was a prm:lede?ga/ehdli,,Ae
beeemenrgently , , J 7
in Liverpool: Cases out of_ number have been brought-fel.-
ward here, where the grossest outrages have been own_
mitted at sea by Americau,sailers, the perpetrators of wmen,
havc:eseaped, with impunity, in consequenee -of the, effects
of the present system of international. jurisdiction, For
tho law of this countr7, does not apply to offences corn-
natted on hoard foreign ships on the. high seas ; they can
only be dealt with under a special convention with the
Foreign Power concerned ; and. the objeCt, no doubt, will
be• to endeavour to agree to, such a conventiou with the
United States Government,. giving the .Magistrates and
:Courts of both countries, mutually, power to deal with those
cases as though, they had occurred in their own national
ships. It will,, of course, be a matter of negotiation be-.
tween the two countries. ;- and let us hope that there -wilt be
no difficulty in effectiv such an arrangement .as will fully
answer the ends of justice on both sides of the Atlan'iie.
The notice we give elsewhere of the proceedings that are
taking place in the United States, with the object of doing
luruour to the memory:of one of the most emirient of the
Eishops of the Anglo-American Church) will tJe read, we
'are sure, with deep interest.by English church,,nen. Bishop
'Done, to whom the notice refers, was well known in this
country as a man of letters, no less than as a distinguished
divine.. The diocese, to the sacred work of which he de-
li,voted all his energies, and, in fact, fell, a sacrifice to the
labours and anxieties it imposed .upon idim, has been made,
'by his means, one of the must•prosperous in America. The
manner in which they are about tr, testify the deep and
affeetienate regard entertained for him, by all with whom
;he had to do, beam a degree of heartfelt testimony to his
character, such as, few Prelates, of the Church have, proba-
bly, ever had shown towards them under similar, or in any
other, circumstances. . The subject is interesting to us in
this country, not only 'because Bishop Doane had many
friends here, but from the fact of his being one of those
Chrkian Prelates in a distant land who have derived their
succession from the. English Church.
It is earnestly to be hoped that the notice which was
taken by Lord .Brougham, in his place in the House of,.
Lords, the other. evening, of the strike in the Lone_ton
building trade, will have a salutary effect in the r2roper
`quarter. As Lord Broughani very properly showy' k
WOr -
men have a perfect right to look to their own ;:nterests in
their arrangements with their employeral'—'and he, it will
be remembered, has even gone so far s's to advocate the
removal of all restrictions upon the foranation of combina-
tions, if only those who wish 'it he
'left free to go to work
upon the terms they could obtain
But the grievance in the
present case is, that those V/1,10 WWh to work are not left
free to do so, but are forted into the strike against their
will; against their intv,est, and, as no doubt many of them
feel, against their dr.:ty. Violence has been committed upon
those who refuso?, to join the rest in refusing to work; and
at Sheffield, 13.8 our readers must have seen, a very murderous
act Of Yiek:nce has been perpetrated upon a workman who
though,, proper to pursue his own course. The time is