Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-05 00:00:00

man declared that he did not in any way authorise
such a proceeding, and indeed repudiated the
notion altogether. The investigation will be
resumed today. _

Of domestic news there is very little to notice to-
day. Beale, the man arrested on the charge of
murdering the woman near Bristol, has been com-
mitted by the coroner's jury on the capital charge
Of the murder near S ockport we have not received
any additional intelligence. he inquest will be
resumed to-morrow (Tuesday). At present the
affair looks very suspicious against the eldest son
of the murdered man.

The Continental news is not of much importance
this morning The Paris Constitutionnel announces
that the French Government has taken certain
measures to encourage the production of cotton in
its West Indian possessions. As we might have
expected, a rumur is already current in Paris,
respecting a separate treaty between France and
Russia, concluded, or prepared for conclusion, at
Stuttgardt.
The Emperors of Russia and Austria have had
their interview, and both li.tve left Weimar. The
Emperor and Empress of France arrived at Chalons
on Friday evening.
The Pays says it has news from Pondicherry of
August 30—that is news fileen days later than
the last. At that date the state of the five districts
composing the French possessions in India con-
tinued to be good 'I he Mussulman fele com-
menced on the 27th. All went off with the
greatest order. At the date of the 30th, navigation
was very active at Pondicherry, and in all the
other ports of the Coromandel coast.
The royal mail steam-•hip Europa, which sailed
from Boston on the 23rd tilt , arrived in the Mersey
on Saturday afternoon. The chief item of news
in the letters and papers by this arrival relates to
the total loss of the steam ship Central America.
when on her passage from Ilivannah to New Yot k.
We have given full details of the melancholy
disaster in another part of to day's impression.
Meantime, we may here mention that the stac-
ments made by nearly all the passengers, and
even portii-ms of the crew, show that the accident
was mainly owing to the pumps being is an unser-
viceable state. 6o that when reepririag to free the
ship from an hourly accumulation of water, they
were worse than useless, and when the carpenters
went to repair them, they had to abandon the in-
tentirm for want of tools ! This is a state of things
which must be explained. The loss of life has
been severe, and, until further advices reach us, we
must suspend any comment as to the real
cause, and the parties blameable with
the catastrophe. Meetings were being
held in various parts of the Uuion to raise sub•
set iptions in aid of the sufferers. There is a dearth
of poli'ieal intelligence in the Europa's advices
The American journals seem to take a great
interest in the mutiny in India, and most of them
to wish England a speedy and a glorious victory.
Not so the Irish refugees. They hail held a
meeting at New York to discourage any party
enlisting to aid the cause of England.

"To be forewarned is to be fore-armed."
This ancient, but forcible adage is presented to
our consideration at the present time in a manner
which all classes of the community would do well
to "read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest."
Upon its faithful observance, much of the health,
and, we may add, safety, of the entire popula-
tion depends. Cholera, we are told, will, in all
probability, visit our shores at no distant date.
The General Board of Health has issued a letter
of " Precautionary Advice" to the sNletropolitan
Board of Health, in which it is stated that this
fell pestilence " has again become epidemic in
several of the Baltic ports and at Harnburg,h,
which, on three occasions when the disease visited
Englan 1, has been the precursor of its appear-
ance." We are told, too, that diarrhcei has been
of late not only prevalent in London and the
provinces, but that it has been unusually fatal.
This disease, be it observed, has ever been found
to be the pioneer of the epidemic periods of
cholera. How does this remark apply to Liver-
pool ? Independent of the general diseases
which are at all times prevalent in a populous
sea-port town like Liverpool, we find that
diarrhcet has been making unusual ravages
among us. At the meeting of the Health Com-
mittee held on the 3rd ult., the medical officer
reported that the deaths from diarrhoea during
the week ending August 29th, were 73, being
18 more than the corrected average. A similar
number of fatal cases was reported in the follow-
ing week. Since that time, a change for the
better has taken place, and the deaths by this
disease have fallen off to 36. This may be the
result of the state of the atmosphere, and other
external favourable circumstances. Indeed,
we find, on referring to the report of
the medical officer presented to the Health Com-
mittee on Thursday lust, that the mortality of
Liverpool was above an average. The deaths for
the week ending September 26 " were 350, being
thirteen more than the previous week, and five
more than the corrected averages of the preceding
years, including cholera." Here, then, are facts
which are well calculated to create no small
amount of anxiety on the part of those to whom
is entrusted the regulation of all matters relating
to the sanitary condition and health of the town.
Of all places in the United Kingdom which
should dread a visitation of that fatal scourge—
cholera, Liverpool stands the foremost. Her
extended commerce brings to the banks of her
noble estuary the weather-beaten mariner of
every country and clime. These men mingle
with the inhabitints, and if they bring with
them the seeds of a contagious disease, awful, as
well as general, must be the result.

But let us see what is the tenor of the " pre-
cautionary advice" tendered by the " General
Board of Health." After referring to the neces-
sity of removing all sources of contamination of
air within and without dwelling-houses, the
Metropolitan Board of Health are earnestly
advised to be particularly vigilant as regards the
means of ensuring the purity of the public supply
of water ! And this caution, or friendly advice,
they enforce by observing that " during the epi-
demic in 1853 and 18.54, it was found that the
cholera mortality in the houses supplied by bad
water had been three-and-a-half times greater
than in the houses to which better water had been
supplied." Surely this warning will not be
thrown away upon the Water Committee. For
months they have been serving Liverpool with a
most unwholesome, unhealthy, and " impure"
water from the Rivington-hills. Professional
gentlemen—medical and chemical—have, one