The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-30 00:00:00

COUNSELS OF THE C UNCIL.

TO THE EDITOR 07 IHE NORTHERN T151E3.
Sir,—The ides Of March art' tt,lrue and gone; our
worthy representatives have been weighed in thi.
balance and found wanting, and henceforth the
people of Liverpool may icuprovisare a new song,
conirnoneinct—

By the margin of Riving's:in Water.—al, si, u
—During the cottony, wince fioally determined the
fate of the nublie health, the noble champions of
the self-same heslrh emitted some glorious and
incontrovertible gems of thought, worthy of the
soul of a Solon or a Solomon. One gentleman, in
particular, uttered the most profound aporhe,grns
with a brevity peculiar to .:he ancient inhabitants
of Lsconia This modern Speran seems to delight
in apophases similar to those indulged in by
certain grotesque eladiators (to pursue the
metaphor) of the arena, and his allusion to Mr.
Rawlinson, in connection with St George's Hill,
and his acceptation of the idiosyncrasies of the
ostrich, with his accompanying eselametion " how
philosophical !" are examples of such. If the
celebrity of a buffon he the noble Spartan's aim,
let him be contented ; he has his reward.
Another equally sagacious individual also im-
mortalised himself on the same oeoasien. More
periphrastic than the noble Spartan, this gentle-
man is no less contemptuous of his good name.
He does not care what people say about him—oh,
no, not be. An upright patriot, and a tyrannous
despot; must alike despise popular opinion, and
thoroughly contemn the - opposition of the
Press ; besides, the honourabte member
admires liberty, and so proceeds to take
a great one with hie constituen's. He also argued
that because Maechester, Bolton, &0., use our
water and are not poisoned, it followed eto ought
to use it ourselves wiih perfect immunity from
harm. Does the honorable member likewise infer
that, as many of our indigent poor contrive to exist
in miserable hovels, aryl oe scanty food, and even
(from habit) eke out some portion of enjoyment in
such an existence, he himself should immediately
quit his present style of living and take eligible
apartments in Sawney Pope-street ? Or that,
because he has the means of securing comfort to
himself and family, he has the right to force on
these poor, a filthy fluid, impregnated with the
most noisome and abhorred agents of pestilence?
But the worthy drawer of inferences does
follow up his law of analogy in one sense ; he
perceives a certain quadruped addicted to •
frequently braying, while performing its round of
labour, and thereupon decides, that it behoves
similar bipeds to pursue the same course during
their avocations, upon which conclusion I coneratu-
late him. It appears that the &fleet:Wants of the
ancient animal that bore Balsam to the review of
the Israelites are still in existence—they, like their
ancestor, are distinguished by their tones. It was
Liverpool's disagreeable fortune, on Tuesday, to
recognise twenty-nine of them assuming the station,
as well as the voice, of rational beings em, sir,
yours very truly, L. HENRY.
Liverpool, 28th May, 1A57.

THE MANCHES rKR Pxquu rioN
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.

TO THE EDITOR OF THS NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—l wish, through your columns (not having
other means of doing so), to _caution the
public of Live,rpoA who may visit the M-Inchester
Exhibition, against a few innocent tricks performed
by some one, I know not whom, belonging to the
Art Treasure affair. There are two turnaliles lead-
ing from the exhibition house into the ananie
Gardens. If one wishes to have a stroll (which
most visiters do) in the gardens, he may
go out by one of the afaresaiLl passages at
a charge of sixpence When he returns
he is slL.)wn to the other stile, where he is
charged two and sixpence foe re-entering the.
building, after having, of course, paid the usual
charge for adini4sioa I know the publication
of this will save many a who would other-
wise be ohisseled as was—Our obedient servant,

DONS.

THE SCENE AT WALTON CHURCH.

TO Till EDIT3R OP Till NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir, iu giving expression to an indigna'lt
denial of what I took to be a grave scandal, I have
been guilty of injustice, I should he grieved, and I
would !cave no stone unturned to repair the
injury ; but it I can give good reasons for the con-
clusions at which you cavil, your charge of " un-
warrantable assumption" is rebuked ; and if I can
show in any one particular that your information
is incorrect, I shall ask your readers to apply she
adage, Ex uno disee omnes, and so judge for them -
selves whether or not you have been " infamously
imposed upon."

It was said more than a month ago, that the
young men expressed their intention to take pos.
seseion of a certain pew, they did take possession,
declining the offer of the verger to seat them, and
laughing at him the while, and proceeding to talk
over their impertinence in such a way as to cause
annoyance. Moreover, I was creditably informed
that they afterwards boasted of having done a fine
thing. Your information states that the pew in
question was the only one they were likely to
obtain seats in. Now, they went out of their way
to it, passing many empty ones, and the verger
seated three hundred people aft r that, besides a
great number of the regular congregation who had
not assembled. These things being so. the source
of your information may be pure, as white as snow.
perchance, but don't tell me that three. or even
four, blacks make one white, and that men, who
have laid themselves open to the triple charge of
perturbation, brawling, and the creation of a
scandal, are not guilty of the sacrilege to whi,•h I
was •
kWITNESS.
Walton on-thc-Ifill, Max 29, 1857. •
P. 8.—1 have been from home all the week or I
would have written earlier.