The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-03 00:00:00

EDITED. AND COMPILED BY
THOMAS LEE AND J. 11. NIGIITINGA.LE,
OF THE "LIVERPOOL TIMES" AND' LIVERPOOL MAIL."
- CONTENTS:

DAILY HISTORY. OF LIVERFOO
Almanac and Tide Table for 1857.
List of the Corporation and other
Public Bodies.
Music and the Drama in Liverpool
in 1856.
Liverpool Obszrvatory; Tempera-
ture during 1856.
Income and Exi,eLditure of the
Liverpool Corporation during
1856.
The Liverpool Docks—their Ex-
tent, Depth, Quay Space, &c.
Plans for Completing the Birken-
b as iLkitta.
The Rivington Waterworks.
Railway§ connected with Liver.,
pool.
Applications to Parliament for
r Local Bills in 1857.
Liverpool Criminal and Police
Statistics for 1856.
The Liverpool and Australian
Trade in 1856.
Public Drinking Fountains in

IL AND BIIMENTIEAD IN 1856,
The Liverpool Coroner's
,Court
Statistics, 1656.
Digest of Business transacted in
the Liverpool District Bank-
ruptcy Court in 1856.
What was done in the Liverpool
County Court Circuit in 1856. m
Sc rvices of the Liverpool Lifebaats
in 1856.
Corn Duties received at Liverpool
for the Quarter eudinA December
31st, 1650.
Passengers arrived at Liverpool
_slat itte.Sant.e.r sn.dira
in 1856.
Stock of Corn in Liverpool Decem-
ber 31st, 1856,as cotnoared with
the same period in 1855.
Annual and Monthly Statements
of the Export of Coal from
Liverpool in 1856.
War Vessels built for the Admi.
rally by Mr. John Laird.
Gunboats built by Mr. John Miller,

Liverpool. - of Liverpool. in 1855 and 1856.
The Shipping Trade of Liverpool Men-of-War arrived at and pro-
in 1856 needed from Liverpool 1n 1854,
East India Trade—Shipping Sta- 1855, acd 1836.
tistics. Liverpool Stock Exchange—
The Free Public Library and Monthly Highest and Lowest

Museum.
American Telegraphs—The At•
]antic Telegraph Company.
LIVERPOOL'S SHARE IN

Published by Benson and Mallet
and Co., Examiner and Times of
ellen.

IPrices ofSlia-res, Bank Rates of
Discount, Amounts ot' Bullion
in the /lank, &c., 1856.
TUE WAR WITH RUSSIA;

,tt, Liverpool ; Alexander Ireland
ffice, Manchester; and all Book.

LIVERPOOL INSTIT IT I E—LVENING SCHOOL.
WANTED, a PERSON, engaged a Clerk of
Works, or as Foreman in a Builder's Establishment,
or some other Q ialified Person, to TEACH a PRACTICAL
BUILDEK'S CLASS GEOMETRICAL LINES in their applica-
tion, JOINERY, MASONRY, Sze., and to PREPARE WORKING
DRAWlNGS.—Applications to be addressed to the undersigned, of
whom information as to duties and salary may be ol,ta ned.
ASTRUP CARISS, Secretary.

Eije liNttlyrn (Kitrito

TUESDAY, _FEBRUARY 8, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The Pike agitation is not as Carlyle would say,
"squelched." If time was afforded, thousands
upon thousands of the people would attach their
signatures to the petition which is about to be
presented to the Town Council on Wednesday
next.—We forbear for the present noticing the
array of influential and learned gentlemen who
affixed their signatures to the memorial. All we
would now impress upon the attention of our
readers is that this day—Tuesday—is the last one
on which they can avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity: Of signing the memorial in question. To-
morrow we shall again revert to the subject.
Last night, the electors of Pitt street Ward held

• a meeting in consequence of the anticipated
' vacancy in the representation of that warl conse-
__suent upon the disqualification of Mr. J. Gladstone,
Jun. Mr. Charles Callis presided. In opening the
proceedings, that gentleman explained the truth
that they had, hal to find a suitable candidate to
represent the ward in the place of Mr. Gladstone.
But after much difficulty they had succeeded in
inducing Mr. S, R. Graves to take the responsibi-
lity devolving upon a Town Councillor; and
expressed the pleasure that he felt, and
what wo must all feel, in having found a
candidate who would go into that Council
chamber unshackled by party; on the question of
the Town Dues, and to carry out the suggeution
,made in the Northern Daily Times of Saturday last.
that they might all be united as one man, to
• resist the common enemy. Mr. Graves
declined to make any pledges as to his
'• future conduct in other matters, because
he , had not sufficient data amongst the
conflicting opinions now current to form a correct
judgment on the important topics of the day, but
regard to the Town. Dues he conceived that it
would be an act of injustice, if not absolute robbery,
to take the said dues from Liverpool ; and should
such a result be achieved, it was only right and
just that compensation should be giyen for the
loss which the borough would sustain. On the
water question this gentleman's opinion was not
quite so definite ; for although he thought himself,
that the Rivington water was pure and good, still
he considered that it would be only right to those
who objected to it, that the Corporation should get
the best medical testimony as to its qualities, and
if it was found injurious to health, that they should
:seek for another supply. Another topic to which
Mr. Greaves alluded, in answer to a question put by


Mr. Anderson, was the police regUlations, regarding
public houses. He could not conceive how such
'an order as prohibiting policemen from entering
the houses of licensed-victuallers, could have been
made—as in his opinion it was most unjnst that,
protection should not be afforded .tO all classes.
He, therefore, pledged his word, that the matter
should have his best consideration, and solicited
an interview with a deputation from the Licensed
Victuallers on the subject.
The annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
was held yesterday. The report of the committee
of the Chamber is a document of some importance,
and we give it in extenso, together with' a full report
of the proceedings, to which we would direct our
readers' attention. .
_ _

The intelligence from the Continent today is
rather interesting. By way of Berlin we are
informed that :the assertions of the English
papers, relative to the pretended acceptance
of the British ultimatun by Persia, are in-
correct. A Russian note protests against the
pretentions of England, admitting, at the same
time, the evacuation of Herat by Persia
The Ilioniteur de l'Arznee publishes. a communi-
cation from Persia, in which is announced what
it terms " a serious fact," that the most imper
tent provinces of Affghanistan, without whose
assistance the British army could not undertake a
campaign in the interior of Persia, had• declared
for the Shah. It is added that the Governor of
India, who had entertained the idea of sending
an expedition to Cabul, had wisely abandoned it,
having received positive information that he could
not rely on the troops of Dost Mahommed. It is
said that, since then; the whole of Candahar had
declared for Persia. The Moiatenr de l'Annee
regards the plan of the General commanding the
British army in the Persian gulf, as developed by
the attack on Bushire as well conceived in a stra-
tegic point of view. It thinks that he never
intended to advance• into the interior of Per-
sia or into the plains of Affghanistan, but
solely to attract the enemy to these points, and
to divert their attention while 'he estab-
lished himself on the Pertian Gulf. It
affirms as a fact that since the capture
of Bushire the British Commissioner who accom
panied the expedition has proposed terms of peace
to the Shah, and among the conditions imposed
on the Persian Government is the right of the
British, to in ftitttre possess an establishment in
the Persian Gulf. Such an establishment is of
tile first consequence for the navigation of the
Euphrates, and for the neW railway which is to
connect that river with the Mediterranean. That
is the pith of the question. " Such," says the
Moniteut de' 'Armee, •' is the plan of the British
Government, always so persevering and so correct
in their point of view with respect to the interests
of the East India Company." The reply of the
Shah to the propositions of the British Commis-
sioner cannot be known for at least a month, in.
consequence of the season and the distance from
Teheran to Bushire.

We have confiratatory reports of the attempted
assassination of an archbishop, -by a priest in the
Rtngilom of the Two Sicilies, and the actual
murder of a canon by the hand of the same assas-
sin, is confirmed in various quarters. The name
of the prelate was Gaetano Rossini. He was
Archbishop of Acerenza and Matera. The
Gazette de Lyon says, that the murderous
attempt was made during the forty hours'
prayers, " while the archbishop was on his
knees on the steps of the altar, adoring the Holy
Sacrament. A few moments before the benediction.
a priest rushed from behind the altar, and stabbed
the archbishop with a poinard. One of the canons
near the prelate pushed the arm of the assassin,
andl3rolo the force.of the blow. The poinard hung
in the archbishop's robes, and wounded him but
very slightly. He at once took to flight, and then
the - priest, drawing a .pistol from under his
garments, shot the canon dead. No reason for this

:s t'acriloaious murder is yet known."
Oar Paris advices informs us that the French
Foreign Office is engaged in examining the validity
of the claim of France to the island of Kaarack in
the Persian Gulf, now occupied by our forces.
An official communication appears in the Moniteur
about the reduction in the French army, to be
effected at the special wish of the Emperor, and it
will be seen that this reduction is by no means
fnr it.ciaridg Aflo snlriiprs to .their
Will be effected, which, together with the restriction
put by the Ymperor on the naval service and on
the civil branches of the administration, comes to
a sum altogether of sixty millions of francs in the
way of reduction of the expenditnre for this year.
Such a reduction will nearly' counterbalance the
deficit of last year.
Our intelligence from the United States,
received by the arrival of the Asia last night, is of
little moment. In Congress no business of im-
portance has been transacted. The Peninsular
mails arrived at Southampton yesterday in the
steamer Alhambra.

MR. BUCHANAN has received a check at the
" earliest opportunity." The Democratic bri-
gade which he leads cannot carry the Republic
by storm, and trample on humanity and civilisa-
tion as they please. The Democrat in America
is a slaveholder, and his presence in a free coun-
try is as dangerous as it would be in the
dominions of a despot. He seeks to maintain
that which is untenable in the face of Divine and
human law. He demands a right of property
in human flesh, which no State has to give
and which religion dare not countenance. The
slaveholder had no right to expect that President
BUCHANAN'S official career would be one of un-
chequered success. A Chief Magistrate or Min-
ister may owe his elevation to office to party
influence and tactics, but once he takes the seals
of government into his hands, he becomes the
servant of the public and must yield to the
majority of voices. The acquisition of prairies,
mountains, rivers and lakes does not bring
one tongue to swell the tide of public opinion.
Adding the solemn grandeurs of the wilderness
to the terrible realities of thinly peopled slave
regions, can do little more than increase the
burden of moral indignation which guilt has to
bear. Hence, slavery gains nothing by the ac-
quisitive propensity of the South. Filibustering
can never barricade the valley of the Mississippi
against the instincts of freedom and Christianity,
which are so generously nurtured in the cradle
of American greatness.
The South cannot be so sceptical as to suppose
for one moment that Mr. BUCHANAN and his
Ministry are to set the North at defiance, and
follow Mr. CALHOUN'S march beyond the borders
of decency, at all hazards. The Pennsylvania
ticket was well managed at the Presidential elec-
tion; but who ever supposed that the represen-
tatives of that Free State would feel themselves
bound to follow out the policy of that ticket ?
What interest has a Free State in the perpetua-
tion of slavery, or the prosperity of the South,
while its social condition exhibits a spectacle of
demoralisation never before witnessed on the
earth ? It only required a shade of true
moral feeling to have turned the election
against Mr. BUCHANAN
, and since Penn-
sylvania has supplied the needed tint, the
new President's reigning in office may prove an
administrative nullity. It is ,quite evident that
he must not think of dictating to the men who