The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-06 00:00:00

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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

As we anticipated the leading spirits of Cottono-
poli's are preparing themselves in real earnest
for their crusade against the Liverpool Town Dues.
At the monthly meeting of the Manchester Town
Council, on Wednesday, Mr. Alderman Bancroft
moved a resolution, having for its object the sup-
port of the Bill brought into the House of
Commons, "For Consolidating the Docks at Liver-
pool and Birkenhead into one Estate, and for Visit-
ing the Control and Management of them into one
Public -Trust and for other purposes." It no
reMains for the people of Liverpool to prepare
for the contest, and a single day should not be lost
in getting up a towns meeting, so that an emphatic
expression of public opinion against this premedi-
tated scheme of plunder shall be duly recorded.
A deputation has waited upon the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, urging upon him the desirability of
repealing the duty on paper, but the right hon.
gentleman gave little hope that he would at present
attend to the request. In fact, the state of the
revenue will not permit him to abate one iota of the
" taxes on knowledge."
Tne House of Commons only sat three hours
last night. That indefatigable pillar of sancti-
moniousness, Mr. Spooner, gave notice of his
annual motion relating to the grants to Maynooth
After some discusson, a motion of Mr. Lahouchere
for a select committee to consider the state
of those British possessions in North America,
which are under the administration of the
Hudson's Bay Company was agreed to. Mr.
Roebuck and Mr. Gladstone spoke in favour
of the motion. In the Lords, the Earl
of Cardigan, complained of attacks upon his
military conduct, as contained in a publication
recently issued, entitled " Recollections of a Staff
Officer.'" He was received very coolly, and it
seemed, from the conversation on the subject, that
the congregated wisdom of the Upper House
thought his Lordship very foolish in being so
touchy, According to a London cotemporary,
gOod deal of interest, and a good deal of conflicting
opinion have arisen in political circles about the
statement of Mr. Disraeli that a secret treaty exists
between France and Austria, guaranteeing to
Austria the retention of her Italian dominions

The assertion was made with so much solemnity

by Mr. Disraeli, and denied with so much serious.
ness by Lord Palmerston: as to create the impres-
sion that the one or the other of those two distin-
guished individuals will have to humhlo himself

before the truth. In the city the most.
lively discussion has taken place about it,
and it is said that private telegraphic mes
sages from Paris state that no such treaty
exists. The most general impression that prevailed
yesterday was, that Mr. Disraeli had committed
himself in the heat of the debate, while Lord
Palmerston, taking advmtage of the blunder, was
able to achieve a great success. But this impres-
sion might have arisen from the manner in which
Lord Palmerston was reported in all the daily
journals. It d tes not appear from any of the reports
that Mr. Disraeli interupted the noble lord when
the existence of the secret treaty was denied, but
that he did so is certain. Mr. Disraeli exclaimed,
" I have seen the treaty," and Lori Palmerston,
for a moment fell back, but he recovered himself
and rojoined, " Then I have not.'
A Convocation of the Clergy is now in session.
At their deliberation on Wednesday the Upper
House expressed its opinion pretty unanimously
in favour of granting the clergy discretionary
power to abstain from reading the burial service
over persons who may have died in " impenitence
and sin." There appears to be some hope of the
speedy abolition of this scandal to the Church ;
but it is easy to foresee what heart-burnin,gs and
strife such a reform will occasion among the sur-
viving relatives of the ungodly. In the Lower
House the question of the revision of the present
translation of the Scriptures is likely to excite much
learned discussion.
The London police magistrates continue to be
applied to by numbers of unsuccessful artisans and
labourers, asking for advice and relief, and these
unemployed have resorted to the further expedkint
of marching through the streets one abreast,
chaunting words of distress, and bearing a printed
declaration that they are out of work and want I

employ. To look at them, they have all the ap-
pearance of peaceable, able bodied, and simple
minded men, altogether- .7,ltiltless of political
feeling, anti with no 'other purpose in view hitt, as
the Scotch poet has expressed it, to beg their fellow
man for leave to toil. It certainly a heart
rending spectacle fee the humane and the conside-
rate, and those who call them infidels, socialists,
and brutes, should be the first transports sent to
any rew colony that the Home Office may•create.
John Paul was convicted yesterday at the Central
Criminal court of embezzling enormous sums of
rnoney,ibelonging to the City of London Union
and was sentenced to 14 years' transportation.
The local items of the day are rather interesting,
The annual meeting of the Governors of the Liver-
pool Dispensaries was held yesterday ; the Rev.
Rector Campbell, in the chair. The report states
that the institution, in every department, is in a
satisfactory and efficient condition ; and that the
annual subscriptions have been increased by
upwards of 1001., but in collections, there is a
decrease of nearly 8001.
The annual meeting of the friends of the
Lancashire Female Refuge, was also held
yesterday. A report of the proceedings will be
found in our columns this morning. Another
victim of the notorious "hop" in Lime street
appeared before the magistrates yesterday on a
charge of embezzlement. The prisoner was only
19 years of age, yet he was in the habit of frequent
in that den, and in one night changed two ten
pound notes the produce of his robbery, without
any notice being taken of the transaction by the
proprietors of the hop.-11-
e was committed for
trial. Thomas He
who shipped two c /lore('
seamen 20'n time ago for one ship, and had them
t'lln.l on board another, was yesterday brought up
at the Police Court on a charge of crimping. I
having been proved that he shipped the men in
question without a license from the Board • of
Trade,-he was fined in the penalty of £2O, or three
months' imprisonment. He was allowed one week
to pay it, altlemeh the magistrates were of opinion
that twenty-fours would be enough. It is to be
hoped that Mr. Tyndall, the solicitor for the Board
of Trade, will see that the penalty is enfored. We
could mention a case where a like penalty was
inflicted by Mr. Mansfield some time ago for a
precisely similar offenee ; the party implicated left
the town for a week or two, came back, never paid
the fine, and is, no doubt now carrying on his old
game of crimping.
By a reference to another column, it will he seen
that the Liverpool Reform Association held. a
meeting yesterday. We have reported the pro
ceedings at full length, and they will repay a
perusal.
The Dock and Health Committees held their
usual weekly meetings yesterday. Nothing of
importance transpired. The health of the town is
pretty good ; the deaths last week being 217-24
less than the previous week. In answer to Mr
Stitt, as to whether the Pike water had any influ-
ence in producing diarrhoea, the Medical Officer of
Health was very cautious—would not commit
himself—and only said that the deaths from that
disease were about the same as usual, for the
period of the year.
',•There is little or nothing from the continent this
morning. The German Diet has approved the
change made in the Luxemburg Constitution by
the King of Holland as Grand Duke. The people
of the Grand Duchy, however, do not approve it.
The journey of the Queen of Spain to Andalusia is
regarded with apprehension, as it is feared that
during her absence from Madrid the absolutist
party may attempt a coup d'etat. The negotiations
about Neufchatel progress but slowly, the Swiss
Government refusing, it is said, to accept the con-
ditions of Prussia. The official reply of Ene,laid
has been received in Paris, stating that the formal
evacuation of the Turkish terri.ory and waters will
take place towards the close of February. It is
stated that the Russian squadron in the Caspian
Sea has just been organised into two brigades
—each will be commanded by a Rear-admiral,
and will be composed of four vessels of war,
two corvettes, two steam advice boats, and
twenty other vessels. The latest news from
Teheran is, that the Shah had prepared a consi.
derable army to preserve his kingdom, and that he
is indignant at war having been proclaimed while
negotiations were in progress. The Pays an-
nounces that another collision has taken place on
the frontiers of Persia, between the Russians and
the Turcoman tribes. From the same authority,
we learn that negotiations have certainly been
opened on the subject of the dispute be-
tween England and Persia, and there is reason to
hope they will lead to to a pacific solution. Russia
has interfered in the question, and a circular is
spoken of as having emanated from St. Petersburg,
in which the Russian Government declares for the
state qeo anti balm in Asia, and consequently of
the abandonment of Herat by Persia.
so. _

At the London Court of Bankruptcy, on Wednes-
day, the adjudication against John Paul, the clerk
of the City of London TJnion, ,charged with em-
bezzlement, was disputed ; and after the case had
been partially entered into the proceedings were
adjourned.

THE Pikeists are getting deeply into the
diplomacy of their shameful job. They have
called in their Engineers and Chemists to sneer
at the Liverpool Press, and cram the public with
twaddle. Mr. HAWKSLEY dates his letters, of
modern days, from Great George street, West-
minster, and is by far too great a man to be
questioned by those Ratepayers whose money he
receives ; but Mr. HAWKSLEY must bear the
lash of honest criticism, where his own words are
not sufficient to expose him to universal ridicule.
He came to Liverpool to supply its inhabitants
with pure water, and not to destroy that which
they previously had ; and now he says—" That
1" the water should, in fact, be, on its arrival in
" Liverpool, so clear and useable ai it now is, is
" to me a matter of surprise and unexpected
" pleasure." We can very readily believe this
statement; but mark the position he would have
been in if he had not had our wells to fall back

on :

The change from a bard to a soft water should always be
effected with caution; for although the apprehensions of
danger from the theoretical formation of a solution of lead
are entirely without foundation, (and I speak as one having
the authority of experience on the subject.) it is apt to
exert a temporary PCI ion on the various matters forming the
internal coating of long used iron pipes, and so become
discoloured or redened. The quantity admitted into the
pipes should therefore be, for some time, limited in quantity.
and be mixed with the harder water obtained from the
wells. Moreover, the mixture should be as uniform as
possible in the different quarters of the town, and the
different days, and the proportion of the Rivington water
should be gradually increased, till at length the oqe supply
will be entirely substituted for the. other. While, however,
the quantity to bo supplied to the town should ba thus
limited, the quantity conveyed from Rivington should he
considerable, in order to cleanse the pipes and divide the first
dissolved oxide through a large volume. For the present we
are in a position to send down eight million gallons per
dial'', and this quantity is now actu illy being transmitted
through the main pipe. Of this I recommend that four
million gallons per day should b, distributed through
Liverpool, and that the other four million gallons per d sy
should be allowed to discharge into the Kensington
Reservoir.

Now, suppose Mr. ITAWK.SLEY had not had
any water except that supplied by his pipes,
what would have been the exisequence ? He
could not have divided and subdivided the
Pisonous and discoloured trash as he directs.
The town must have taken his disgraceful dose
or have gone dry ; and this is the gentleman
who would venture to tell the world " it is not
" necessary to notice the outcry raised by one
"or two of the newspapers." It should be re-
membered, however, that Mr. HAWKSLEY has
only delivered us about one-third of the supply