The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-17 00:00:00

THE KNIGHTSBRIDGE PUSEYITES.

The inhabitants of the western district of the Metropolis
have been informed, for several days, by placards, that a
great Protestant demonstration" would come off on
Easter Tuesday, on the occasion of Mr. Westerton's
again cffering himself as churchwarden of the parochial
district of St. Paul's Knightsbridge, and a hope was
expressed that as a candidate in opposition to him was to
be brought forward by the high church party, persons who
sympathised with Mr. Westerton would attend, in order,
by their numbers, to declare their abhorrence of
tractarian innovations in the services of the church.
From some uncertainty as to the time appointed for
the commencement of the proceedings, crowds of persons
assembled early in the morning, amongst them being a
large number who bad no connection with the district.
They found, to their disappointment, that the nomination
of candidates was not to commence until half-post two or
three o'clock. The Hon. and Rev. R. Liddell took the
chair at the meeting which was held in the schoolroom,
Wilton place. After nominating Mr. Jackson as the
minister's warden for the ensuing year, he called upon the
parishioners to proceed with the nomination of their
warden. The Hon. and Rev. F. Baring moved, and the
Hon. Grenville Berkeley seconded, the re-election of Mr.
Westerton. Both gentlemen denounced, in very severe
terms, the system pursued by Mr. Liddell and the high
church party in conducting the services of the church,
and expressed a hope that the recent decision of the corn:
mi'tee of privy council would put a stop to all such inno-
vations for the future. There being no other candidate,
Mr. Westerton was declared duly elected.amid loud cheers.
Mr. Westerton, in thanking the parishioners for his re-
election, said that, from the opinions the Bishop
of London had expressed, he had every reason to believe
that his lordship would set his face against those innova-
tions of which churchmen generally had so much reason
to complain. In reference to the recent decision of the
committee of privy council, he hailed it as a g►eat triumph
for the Protestant party. It had been decided that there
should be no altar in the church, and with the altar, of
course, the sacrifice would fall. He had reason to know
that the lArchishop of Canterbury hailed the decision
as a great triumph for evangelical truth, and had
expressed an opinion that the sacramental party must now
retire from the church, (Hear, hear.) He thought the
committee of council deserved great praise for their
impartial judgment, more particularly when it was
remembered that noblemen, fashionable ladies, and others
who had influence, did everything they could to bias
their minds in favour of the tractarian party. The
proceedings terminated with the usu .1 vote of thanks to
the chairman.

PAPAL BULL.—The Bishop of Nancy, principal almoner
to the Emperor of the French, has returned from Rom",
and has brought with him a Papal Bull for the better
organisation of the Imperial Almonry.

HARVEST PROSPECTS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE.—Wheat is
falling in the Marseilles market. The last arrivals amount
to 80,000 heCtolitres. A further fall appears to be
inevitable, in consequPnce of the accounts received of the
fine appearance of the crops in Provence, Languedoc,
Spain, Italy, and Algeria.

THE MISSION TO CHINA..—It is understood that the Earl
of Elgin is to be accompanied in his diplomatic mission to
China by his brother, the Honourable Frederick Bruce, by
Mr Oliphant as his private secretary, by Mr Fitzroy, and
by a gentleman to be selected from the Foreign office.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, Mr Charles
Symonds, landlord of the Railway Hotel, Teignmouth,
while engaged in his brewbouse, accidentally fell into a
vat of liquor, many degrees above b iling point, and was
scalded in a frightful manner. He is not dead, and
although seriously injured, hopes are entertained of his
ultimate recovery.
General Todtleben, the famous Russian engineer, is just
now at Paris, and all the French officers of distinction
hasten to his hotel to do him honour. We (United
Service Gazette) hope devoutly that he purposes paying
England a visit when France shall have exhausted her
courtesies. We are convinced that the British officers—
the British Court—and the public at large, will rejoice
to have an opportunity of paying generous homage to
so distinguished a soldier.
CAUTION TO EQUESTRIANS IN LONDON.---A day or two
ago a gentleman gave his horse in charge of a boy in
Southampton row, Bloomsbury, while he attended to some
business. The boy imprudently mounted the horse, and
struck it with the reins. The high spirited animal galloped
into Bloomsbury square, and jumped over the railings into
the plantation. He broke one of the rails, tore open his
hocks, and fractured the boys arm. The poor animal,
which was worth £lOO, was shot.

On Friday last, during a thunder storm in Pontefract,
the electric fluid struck the house of Mr. Ramsden painter,
gorse Fair. The, fluid passed down the chimney post Mr.
Ramsden, who was standing near the fire, and on to his
daughter, who was struck down with great force, was
blinded, and rendered for a time insensible. Mr. Ramsden
speedily recovered from the shock producsd. Miss
Ramsden is still suff qing, but she has recovered her eye_
sight. The fluid pursued a very eccentric course before it
passed out of the house.
We have to announce the death of Sir Charles William
Taylor, Bart, who expired on Good Friday at his seat,
Holiycombe, Sussex. Sir Charles had attained the great
age bf eighty seven years, and sat in Parliament for a
considerable time. lie married a sister of the late Right
Hon. Charles Poulett Thompson, afterwards Lord Syden-
ham, and leaves issue one son, now Sir Chsrl, s Taylor,
who inherits the family estates in Sussex and Sarnerset-
shire, and one daughter, who is married to Mr. Wm.
Brougham, brother to Lord Brougham, hod formerly
one of the Masters in Chancery.
PARISIAN COURT GOSSlP.—Although no official an-
nouncement has yet been made that the Imperial Prince
walks alone, an engraving has Just appeared in the print
shops representing the interesting baby with nothing on
but a shirt, making his prowler pas. The nurse, in her
provincial costumer is kneeling down by the side of the
cradle presented by the city of Paris. She stretches out
her arms on either side of the infant, and, indeed, sup-
ports him with that piots fraud which accompanies
every first " going alone." The child advances towards
the Empress, seated in an arm chair, behind which is
the Emperor with an expression ofvoider and delight
depicted on his coun'enance. Whether this is an actua
or anticipatory portraiture I cannot say, but as the Prince
is now nearly thirtean months old, he ought to walk
alone.—Letterfrem Paris.
PRAISEWORTHY CONDUCT.—A short time ego a man in
humble life, accompanied by his wife and family, left the
neighbourhood of Maghera, county Derry, to emigrate to
Australia, and as a precaution for better safety the wife
carried the purse; it contained upwards of forty sovereigns,
all their money. They were on their way to Belfast, and
took tickets at the Castledawson station of the Cookstown
extension on the Belfast and Ballymena Railway. The
good woman paid for the tickets, hut with all her care she
dropped the purse in which was the residue of their little
.store of weal!h. The loss was not discovered till the train
arrived at Randalstown, when the woman determined to
go back to Castledawson, and make an effort to _recover
the lost treasure, She did so, and on making known her
errand to Mr. Henderson, station master,that gentleman
satisfied himself that she was the owner of the money and
purse he had found after the departure of the train ; he
restored it to her, and thus enabled her to proceed with h'r
family to our Australian colonies in independence, instead
of being compelled to remain in Ireland bereft of both
home and property. Such an act is creditable to the
gentleman who performed it, and is also creditable to the
company that possesses such a servant. Be?fast Mercury.
SIR JOSHUA WALMSLEY.—A Leicester correspondent
says : Now the elections are over, we can look back and see
how Leicester came to send adrift the best member it ever
had. On first entering Leicester, Sir J. Walwsley found
personal enemies had followed him from Liverpool. Thee
sought every opportunity of working the Liberal interest
to his disadvantage. Local accidents have also favoured
the spread of this spleen, by creating in two Liberal families
an itching for his seat. One of these in trying to clutch it
made a blunder, and then the most influential member of
the other family was put forward, and who commanded a
great commercial interest, besides uniting the defections
from the Liberal body on relieious questions. The Tories
seeing in these dissensions their opportunity,cocrietted with
these " Liberals," under the pretence of breaking down
some imaginary dictation on the part of Mr. John Biggs ;
not, however, by upsetting Mr. Biggs, but by supporting
him to the sacrifice of Sir Joshua! Such were some of the
crooked ways of Sir Joshua's opponents. The result was,
850 Ponies voted in favour of a candidate to whose every
principle they had ever shown the most deadly hostility.
These, with the votes commanded by extensive and intricate
commercial connections, and those of the conscientious
objectors to Sir Joshua on religious grounds, presented a
too formidable opposition. The feeling is inteese in
Leicester upon the result of the election, especially amongst
the poorer classes. The working men feel that a stab has
been made at them, as in Sir Joshua they had an advocate
of position and influence. In Mr, Biggs they had an
accessible local member, and Sir Joshua residing in London
had rendered immense services to the inhabitants of Lisle-es.
ter. But oil these considerations for the unrepresented
have been sat aside by the splenetic concoctions of two or
three " ieflueutial" families, who adopted a candidate
, and who has not created even a entirely unknown to fame
hurl rate public ,position in his native town. The ad-
vocates of universal suffrage are charged with incurring the
risk of an ignorant dictation, The "enlightened" and
" influential" constituency of Leicester have shown that
they can do the same thing. They can remove a gentleman
of experience and ability, and adopt an " uneducated"
representative with no other qualification but social position.
Can democracy do worse ?