Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-02 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS

The usual monthly meeting of the Town Council
will be held tc-day, at which, it is anticipated,
several matters of importance will be discussed.
It is understcod that the report of Mr. Duncar, to
the Water Committee, will be brought before the
notice of the Council, and as he is said to virtually
approve of the supplying of both Rivington and
sandstone water, by a different set of pipes, we
surmise that the people of Liverpool will ultimately
have pure water for dietetic purposes. This state
of affairs would never have been brought about if
the press had not loudly called out, and so
strenuously battled against that monstrous jobbery
scheme—the Pike. It is stated that a move will
be made in the Council for the purpose of voting a
sum of money to Mr. Shuttleworth, the town clerk,
for his services in connection with the Mersey
Conservancy Bill. The sum proposed will be, we
believe, £l,OOO.
The annual excursion of the Dock Committee,
for the inspection of the lightships, lighthouses.
and buoys, took place yesterday. The day passed
off in a most pleas.int manner. At the dinner ou
board the Iron Duke Mr. Charles Turner presided.
A fu'l report will be found in another column.
There were some slight whispering respecting the
filling of the Mayoralty chair for 1857 8, and the
choice, from what we can see, lies between Mr.
James Holme, and Mr. Charles Turner. Outsiders
also think that Mr. Alderman Preston has a
chance. _ _

The monthly meeting of the Toxteth Park and
Garston Boards of Health were held yesterday,
but no business of the least importance was
transacted. We give ample and sufficient reports
elsewhere.
The monthly meeting of the Birkenhead Com-
missioners ,was held last evening. Mr. Laird, the
chairman, entered into full particulars of the pro-
ceedings in connection with the Mersey Cons -
vancy Bill, and the Birkenhead Gas and Water
Bill. The former was adopted, the latter thrown
out. He congratulated the township on the victory
they had achieved in defeating the schemes of the
prom tars of the rejected bill.
A. meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Burford,
Dyer, and Co., African merchants, of Bristol, of
whose suspension of payments some notice has
already appeared, has been hell, and the investi-
gation disclosed a much more serious state of
affairs than had at first been supposed The lie-
bi ities, instead of amounting to £lOO,OOO as was at
first thought, exceed a quarter of a million ; while
the probable assets (apart from the private property
of the partners) will only amount to some £30,000
or 190,000. A proposition for winding up the
estate under inspectionship was adopted, and it
was resolved that a deed of assignment for
the benefit of the creditors should be executed.
The elevation < f Thomas Babbington Macauley
to the House of Lords, gives, it would appear,
almost general satisfaction.
Mr. Alderman Salomens, who was elected by a
large majority in 1833, is in the field for the repre-
sentation of Greenwich, in the place of Mr.
Townsend, who is now disqualified by reason of
his bankruptcy.
Mr. George Byng is it seems to be elected with-
out opposition for the County of Middlesex.
Middlesex has selected Mr. Byng, partly because
he beat's an honoured name, hut in a greater
degree because he has great abilities, and " stands
fast by the good o'd cause." Ho has the staunch
qualities of the venerable father of the house
enhanced by the promise of greater things than
his ancestor ever aspired to perform. So says the
ministerial print of last night.
Several of our London cotemporaries publish
private letters received from India by the last msil.
They are of a most distressing charac'er. The
butcheries practiced by the native population is of
a most horrible descriptien. The whole seems a war
of extermination of all Europeans in India. The
Times, in a manner, praises the Home Government
for its exertions made to suppress this Indian
insurrection. It was on Saturday, the 27th of
June, that the curt and scarcely credible commu-
nications of the telegraph first announced to the
country that the mutiny of the Bengal Army had
assumed the characteristics new but too well known.
Wednesday, the Ist of July, the stream of rein-
forcements from these shores to Calcutta set steadily
out, and from that hour to the present it has flowed
on so continuously and with so sustained and even
accelerated a current that we scarcely know where
to look for any similar example. On a single day
in July—the 21st—six vessels left these coasts,
conveying 1,700 troops; and the whole number of
ships despatched during that month was 29—a1l
but two for every successive day. The month
which terminated yesterday witnessed redoubled
efforts, as the energies of the country rose
promptly to the level of the exigencies which each
mail announced. In the aggregate, we despatched
to the East in July about 9,000 troops; in August
we sent upwards of 15,000, and in ships of greater
isize and swiftness than before. In the 29 vessels de-
parting during July there was only a single steamer;
in the 28 which followed in August there were no
fewer than 17. But it says there is no room

yet for contentment or repose. Common sense
calls for unremitting exertion, arid with inex
haustible resources and a unanimous nation the
work of Government should be easy. They have
not been wanting to their task. Fifteen thousand
men of the militia will be immediately called out,
and fifteen re a )nd battalions of t'ae Line will be
formed in the stead of the regiments which have
emberked for India. Those regiments, moreover,
which are either at home or on colonial service will
be raised from 8.10 to 1,000 men each as soon
as the progress of recruiting permits. An addi
tional force of artillery will also be sent to India,
so that there may be no doubt of our supremacy
in that most essential arm. We have been sur
prised by assassins and traitors, there is no deny-
ing, and we lutist put up with such reproach as
that event implies, but the reproach of leaving
anything undone which can accelerate the rescue
of our countrymen and, the re-establishment of
our power would be far more disgraceful
and unendurable, and we feel sure the
nation will not deserve it. There has been already
upwards of 5,0001. collected in London for the
aid of the sufferers in India, aril the French
ambassador has subscribed £lOO, in his " private
capacity." The Daily iVews slys that there is no
time to be lost. The need of aid in India is real
and urgent. " Case- after case of destitution is
brought to our knowledge. Few of the fugitives
have been able to carry with them more than the
clothes they had on at the moment of their escape,
and many fled with sufficiently scanty covering
At one time we hear of the destitute family of
some merchant or planter, who, after years of
meritorious industry—just as the prospect of
being in a short time able to retire from business
was beginning to dawn upon him—aees himself
obliged to begin the world again with nothing
At another it is some civil or military servant of
the Company, whose little capital invested in
bungalow and other necessaries has perished in
the flames. And there are yet more helpless,
because less befriended victims than these—the
widows and orphans of private soldiers who have
lost their brave fathers."

Many people think that there could be no diffi-
culty in carrying on our corrective measures in
India and our war with China at the same time.
There are, doubtless, Sepoy regiments which,
although not openly in revolt, are not trustworthy
in action against their co•religionists. Why not
send them to China? Sepovs have already been
upon the heights above Canton and behaved
admirably. The sun of China, under which our
ruddy English recruits grow feeble, as flies in frost,
would deal tenderly with the Bindoo. So it was
when Gough took Canton and Elliot sold his con-
quest. So it would be again.
The only item of continental news this morning
of any interest or importance is that relating to
the Principalities. It is denied that England and
Austria have in the slightest degree changed their
idea of the question. The populations are to vote
a second time as a matter of legality ; and if, says
the official Verona Gazette, as is `probable, the
second result tallies with the first, "it will be
curious to s e what the fusionists will do to op-
pose the execution of this vote, and neutralise the
sovereignty and independence of the Porte, by
undermining the edifice of tl- e peace of Europe,
only just restored" Of the result of those elec-
tions, very. sms.ll doubts are entertained
by any acquainted with the feeling in that
province. However fairly conducted, says a Paris
correspondent, they will result in an anti-Unionist
majority. "The reasons for this have been repeat-
edly given. It appears to me that French public
opinion daily becomes less favourable to the Union,
and I have repeatedly heard the remark made that
France has taken up its cause without sufficient
information upon the subject. Fortunately, she
has not by any means so compromised herself in
its favour as to render a modification of her policy
impossible or even difficult. Since Divans there
were to be, representing, as far as possible, the
feelings of the Moldo-Wallachians, it was quite
right to have the elections fairly conducted. But
this is very different from binding the Paris Con-
ference to act simply as the executors of the will
of those Divans, a course which assuredly was
never contemplated in the treaty."
The Spanish Cortes will reassemble about the
10th of October. The Peninsula announces a piece
of news which appears exceedingly doubtful,
namely, that the government of the United States
had concluded an arrangement by which they were
to supply to Mexico
.15,000 armel volunteers, in
case of that power engaging in a war with Spain ;
the said troops being intended to seize on Cuba in
the name of Mexico.
There is a renewal of the rumours of the intended
coronation of the Emperor Napoleon.

IN our last we concluded by saying that the
Water Committee had made us pay dearly for
our Pike Piper ; that the town had been
mulcted of a million and a half of hard cash,
and that in return they had given us a limited
supply of Rivington bog wash, of such
.a disgust-
ing character as to render it unsuitable for many
sanitary, let alone dietetic, purposes.

The advocates of the Pike were formerly in
the habit of taunting its opponents with igno-
rance and narrow-mindedness. " Wait," said
they, " till this hubbub dies away, then the
people will discover who have been their real
friends—the advocates of the scheme, or the
ignorant agitator; who have set the town by the
ears with their mendacious denunciations of the
grandest project ever undertaken for the benefit
of the inhabitants." " Oaly wait" said they,
" until the water is once fairly introduced, the
whole town will bless the authors of it for

their determined perseverance in carrying it out
in defiance of popular opinion, indignation, and
every thing else." Well, the people have had a
fair trial of the Pike—at least, they have had
a sample of it conveyed into their houses for
the last eight months—and what is their ver-
dict upon its merits ? Has it gladdened the
hearts of those who were represented to be
perishing for want of an ample supply of the
pure element ? Have the poor invoked bless-
ings on the heads of its promoters ? or have
the inhabitants congratulated the Water Com-
mittee on the successful issue of their labours ?
Verily not.
The Pike has been fairly tried, and as fairly
condemned by the public voice. In place of
gushing fountains of life and health-giving
water, we have had substituted feculent streams
of living wash—a semi-fluid teeming with
animated montrosities of the most revolting
description, sowing the seeds of disease and
premature death amongst all classes who
are doomed to use it ; while the poor, in place of
blessings, heap curses—if not loud, yet deep and
heartfelt, on the heads of those who, for pecuniary
benefit, conspired to rob them of the greatest, if
not the only real blessing they could boast of pos-
sessing—their ample supply of pure water,—sub-
stituting in its place the foul abomination which
all abhor, while the , ratepayers at large, in
place of congratulations, indulge in nothing
save angry remonstrances against the proceedings

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