The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-05 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS,

Yesterday the " Lords and Commons" of Eng-
land resumed their sittings. In the upper house,
the Marquis of Westmeath laid on the table a bill
to regulate bathing in the sea. Earl Granville
moved the second reading of the Sale of Poisons'
Bill, which was ultimately referred to a
select committee. Several amendments were

agreed to on the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes
Bill being brought up. In the Commons, the
Atlantic Telegraph Company's Bill, and the Aus-
tralian Agricultural Company's Bill were each
read a third t►me and passed. The recognizances
in the elections of 1 isburn, Newport, Beverly,
Taunton, Bodmiu, Weymouth, Galway, Bath,
Maldon, Lanark, Bridport, Ipswich, Falkirk, Sligo
County, Huntingdon, Peterborough, Queen's Coun-
ty, Portsmouth, Chatham, Lymington Sandwich,
North Staffordshire, Yarmouth, Totness, Athlone,

Clare, Leith, Shrewsbury, Sligo Borough,Bervviek,
Dover, and Newcastle-under-Lyne, were declared.

unobjectionable. A communication from Mr.
Richardson stated, that he would not defend his
return for Lisburn. The petitions against the
elections at Newcastle under-Line and North

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Staffordshire were withdrawn. A new writ was
ordered for Carmarthen. Sir F. Thesiger an-

nounced the intention of the opponents-of the
Oaths Bill. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
stated that it was not the intention of government

to introduce any measure with regard Co the grant-
ing of a drawback on paper and books used for
educational purposes. Mr. Horsfall moved for a
select committee to inquire into the origin, the past
and present constitution, and Cne powers ana aun►es
of the Board of Trade. Mr. Labouchre opposed
the motion, on the ground that the question was
not discussed and decided upon by the house. Sir
J. Graham contended that there was no ground for
the motion of the men of Liverpool. Mr. Bentinck

Riad Sir G B. Peehell supported the motion, and
Mr. Lowe opposed it. After some further discus-
sion, the motion was negatived without a division.
Mr. Atherton obtained leave to bring in a bill to

regulate the quantity of licences to keepers of ale-
houses, inns, and victualling-houses. Mr. Hard-
castle brought in a bill relating to burials in con-
secrated and unconsecrated ground. Mr. Malins
brought in• a bill to enable married women to
dispose of reversionary interests in personal
estate. Sir John Trelawney moved for a select
committee to inquire into the circumstances of
the dismissal of Mr. Bertolaccbi from the office of
auditor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Princess
Royal's Annuity Bill was read a third time and
passed. The Ministers' Money (Ireland) Bill was
read a third time and passed, shortly after which
the house adjourned.
The special committee on the Mersey Conser-
vancy Bill, also again " commenced operations ''
yesterday. A full report of the proceedings from
our own reporter, will be found in another
column. _ _ _

At the usual weekly meeting of the Health
Committee, it was shown that during the week
which ended on Saturday last, the deaths registered
in the parish were 136, and in the out-townships
seventy, making a total for the borough of 206,
less by fourteen than the average of the same
week of the preceding nine years From diseases of
the zymotic class the deaths were forty-three, of
which there were from hooping cough, thirteen ;
typhus thirteen, (more than in any week of the
previous eight months,) scarlatina seven; diarrhoea,
three ; small-pox, two ; measles, one. Diseases of
the lungs eaused sixty-five deaths, being eleven
more than in the week preceeding. Various
measures had been adopted for existing nuisances,
and, upon the whole, the health of the town
-appeared to be in a satisfactory state.
The Dock Committee held a lengthened sitting
yesterday, when the semaphore system of tele
graph was discussed, and it was resolved to refer
the question of telegraph communication with
Holyhead to the Marine Committee, for them to
report upon, and thus enable the committee to
adopt a more speedy means of telegraphing to
this town the arrival of vessels, &c. Several letters
were read from various firms, on the different
arrangements of the docks, each of which were
referred to the proper parties, with a view to their
being ultimately attended to.
A meeting of the members of the Chemists'
Association was held last night, when several
bottles of the water from Rivington was exhibited
by the members. The water had been subjected
to various processes, with a view to improving its
colour, but all to no purpose, as it still retained its
original appearance. The chairman also stated
that the water, as at present supplied to theinhabi-
tants, contained animalculie ad infinitum. A bottle
of the " wash" was shown, wherein could be seen,
by the naked eye, insects alive. •
A.case was brought before Messrs. Turner and
Shell, at the Police-office, in reference to the
Kangaroo steamer, having left the port without
first obtaining her Customs clearance papers. It
was adjourned for a week, and, no doubt, will
ultimately be brought before a superior court.
It is said that the member for the Tower Ham-
lets, Mr. Ayrton, has undertaken to bring the
question of the paper duty before the House of
Commons.
Yesterday, a ceremony took place in Bow church,
London, of a very curious nature, if people in this
busy age would only think about it. A recently
made Doctor of Divinity, Mr. Pelham, was elected
some time since by the Chapter of Norwich to
be the Bishop of that See ; and the ceremony
to day was confirmatory of that election. The
electionitself was neither more nor less than an
acted falsehood, since Mr. Pelham was selected
by Lord Palmerston, whereupon the Queen, at his
request, issued her permission to the Chapter to
elect that gentleman, and so other-.-while the

permission carried the force of a command. Is it
not, therefore, a curious sight—many may think it
a painful one—to see a number of reverend and
holy ministers engaged, with prayer and invocation,
in a ceremony which they know to be not what it
purports ?
Another ecclesiastical proceeding with less of
false pretence, if not more of value also took
place. Archdeacon Sinclair delivered a charge
to the clergy in the parish of St. Paul,
Covent-garden, in which he sounded a trumpet of
alarm about the fresh vigour and revived aggres-
siveness of the Romish Church. It may be worth
noting that the Archdeacon hold the aggressions
of the Papal power in the Holy Land to have been
the real cause of the late war with Russia. He is
also of opinion that those of the English clergy (of
his own archdeaconry) who are zealous have no
knowledge, but that for the most part they are
narrow-minded.

A remarkable meeting of railway proprietors was
held on Wednesday in the London Tavern, one that
would lead to the belief that the railway interest
is a suffering body. Those who were present
resolved to memorialise the Vice-President of the
Board of Trade to give them protection against
competing schemes. They represent that a railway
capital of some £300,000,000 is at stake, and they
pray that no further extensions, branches, or com-
peting lines should be encouraged, except in cases
of permanent public necessity.
A work which has been spoken of in Paris, from
the pen of M. Garnier de Cassagnac, touching
the establishment of the Empire in France, is to
be published before this week is over, and in the
meanwhile the French journals are able to give us
notice of the nature of its contents. We now
learn that the coup d'etat, of which Victor Hugo
has spoken so eloquently, was deliberately
resolved upon, not on the 2nd of December,
but as early as the 26th of November, by a
council of officers called together by General
Magnan. Not fewer than twenty offi3ers were
present at this council, and among them will be
recognised the nan*s of some who served in
the Crimea, such as Canrotert and D'Allonville.
General Magnau told them what the intentions of
the President of the Republic were, and by what
means he proposed to execute those intentions
He also appears to have said that they were free
to act or not, as they deemed prudent, but at the
same time he imposed upon them a solemn decree
of secresy. The twenty officers who were present
all appear to have accepted the news, the service,
and the oath with as much pleasure and fidelity
as if the matter in hand had been a marriage
or a betrothal. Their joy was so full
and inexpressible that they proceeded to
embrace one another, and their secret
was not only kept until the 2nd of December came,
but up to the present hour, for the revelation of
this fact is given for the first time in the Paris
journals. The meeting of the 26th November
ended undoubtedly in a conspiracy, and those who
met and parted were, beyond all doubt, con-
spirators. But as they succeeded in the end
they had in view, they are now, according to M.
Cassagnac, to be ranked as heroes ; if they had
not been successful they would have met a
different fate—ignominy, expatriation, and the
guillotine.
The Continental news this morning is not of
importance. It is again rumoured that the Em-
press Alexander and Louis Napoleon are to meet,
and Gissengeu, in Germany, is mentioned as the
rendezvous. Perfect tranquility continues to reign
all over Belgium. The affair of the murder of the
Duke of Parma is being heard before an ordinary
tribunal. having been taken out of the hands of
the Austrian officers. One Cerra, Now in the
United States, seems guilty of the crime. There
is nothing worth mentioning in the Constantinople
news, except the failure of the Baltazzi bank
project.

" WHAT are we to make of the Pike Water ?"
is the question put to us daily by scores of
persons who feel an interest on the subject. Are

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doctoring and mixing the nauseous stuff with
our pure Well water, or shall we call upon them
to abandon the whole concern, and dispose of
theaworks to the highest bidder ? The bare idea

of sacrificing a million-and-a-half of money is
indeed enough ,to " appal the stoutest
heart." But sooner than permit the people
of Liverpool to be longer drugged
with this iniquitous filth for their
dietetic purposes, we would seriously counsel
them to abandon the Pike, at whatever sacrifice
of money ; but we believe no such sacrifice will
be necessary if our rulers will only lay aside
their passions and prejudices, listen to reason,
and act accordingly. The Pike water has been
condemned in every possible manner, as totally
unsuited for the domestic requirements of the
people of Liverpool ; but, at the same time, there
are purposes to which it may be applied with
great advantage.

Then let us endeavour to devise the best
possible means of making the best of a very bad
job. We want water ad libitum for sanitary
purposes ; and although for such it would have
been infinitely preferable to have procured it
from our own river, yet, as we have brought the
Rivington wash here, and paid for it, let
us try and make it available for watering
streets, flushing sewers, extinguishing fires,
supplying baths, hydraulic cranes, ' and
such manufacturing purposes as it may be
adapted for. Certainly, it is of no use for
brewing.
In order that it may be available for such uses,
a duplicate set of pipes will be absolutely neces-
sary—but not such as suggested by the
Water Engineer in his Report—a Report, by-the-
bye, concocted for no other purpose than that of
stultifying the Memorial of the Ratepayers. We
want no costly plan. A single trunk main
leading direct from the Pike conduit-pipe
through the most central portion of the
town, from east to west, and continued
through the warehouse and manufac-
turing districts from north to south,
with branches leading to those establishments
where the consumption of water is great, would
suffice to relieve the well supply of a very heavy
draught. This could be accomplished without
serious cost or damage to our streets—a very
important point, certainly. We do not under-
estimate the cost when we say, that by an outlay
of not more than 10,000/. the Pike water might
be supplied to the extent required, say some
3,000,000 gallons per diem. This accomplished,
and the well water left intact for the use of the
inhabitants, we should have no more water
battles for the next fifty years at least.
Surely there will be an end to the perverse and
dogged obstinacy hitherto manifested by a
section of the Council towards the Ratepayers,