Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-12 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[By BritiA and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.]

FRANCE.

M. de Fould has left Paris for England, with
the object of visiting the Manchester Exhibition.

Marshal Randon, after reporting his own
losses in the expedition against the Kabyles,
estimates the number of the enemy killed at 400,
and wounded at 800.

The Pope arrived at Bologna on the 9th
instant. The crowd was immense.

The Paris Three Per Cents closed yesterday
(Thursday), at 68f. 10c.

HEALTH COMMITTEE ACCOUNTS.

---Yesterday were issued, the annual accounts of the
Liverpool Health Committee, in the form of an octavo
pamphlet of some twenty-four pages. Respecting the
-township of Liverpool, we learn that the amount in the
hands of the bankers, Messrs. A. Heywood, Sons and Co.,
on- the 31st March, to the credit of the Health- Committee
was £7,139 14s. Bd. The net income derived from the
paving rate, (including a sum of £4,900 received
from the Treasurer of the Borough fund) was
£40,358' 19s.- 4id. The ordinary expenditure of
the year, on account of paving, was £37,799 153 id, (in-
cluding £4,063 Hs 51 due to the bankers on the 31st
March, 1856), and the extraordinary expenditure at
£9,547 lis 2d, making a total gross expenditure of £47,430
is 9d, or £7,071 2s 4jd more than the income. The
amount received for the sewrage rate was £12,709, against
an outlay of £15,707. The general rate collected
amounted to £16,079, against .416,936 expended. The
amount received for the paving rate for Kirkdale was
£4,644 (including £1,843 in the hands of the bankers at
the beginning of the official year). The expenditure
under this head was £2,450. The sewer rate collected
was £4,332, and the expenditure £5,007. The general
rate was £584, and the expenditure £531. With regard
to the township of Everton, we learn that the paving
rate collected was £5,647, which with £3,000 in the hands
of the bankers, amounted to £8,647, against an
outlay of £5,646. The sewer rate collected was
£6,592, and the expenditure £6,431. The genera
rte reached £1,774, against an expenditure of £1,583.
The paving rate for West Derby collected was
£9,313, which, with £2,126 in the hands of the bankers,
made a sum of £11,439, against an expenditure of
£13,723. The sewer rate reached £9,451, against an
expenditure of £10,226. Toe general rate collected
was £1,559 against £1,802. In Toxteth Park the paving
rata collected was £6 785, and an extraordinary income
of 294. The expenditure was £2,867. Tho sewer rate
collected was £13,271, and the expenditure £13,781.. The
general rate reached £3,198, and the expenditure £3,501 •
The total income of the year was £161,714, and the
-total
expenditure £175,924, leaving a balance due to the bankers
a sum of £14,224.

THE COTTON SUPPLY ASSOCIATIONS MEETING

TO-DAY.

Today there is to be a meeting of the association for
promoting the increase of the supply of cotton. The
question is one of deep importance to the country, and we
have no doubt that the gentlemen who are to take part
will satisfactorily demonstrate that the ideas which the
association contemplate are quite practicable, and will not
be attended with the serious consequences which some of
our correspondents fear. The state of oar cotton
supplies, and the latest accounts respecting the
growing crop in the United States, are sufficient
to induce merchants and manufacturers to look
a-head, and not only to inquire what is the remedy for the
apprehended evil, but to act with promptitude in the
matter. This consideration should pervade the breasts of
all who attend the meeting—namely, that whenever we
can draw a supply from oar own Colonies it should be
done. We should not foster and feed the foreigner at the
expense of our own enterprising fellow countrymen, scat-
tered over the entire globe in the various British pos-
sessions. But while we are anxious for the extended
cultivation of cotton, wad deem it essential to the
prosperity of the United King.lom, the meeting
to-day will do well to ask themselves if there
is not any fibre which can be obtained aad mindfactured
that will decrease the demand for Cotton, and, at the
same time. open new fields of enterprise and pecuniary
advantage to all persona co icerned. We believe that
there are. And we understand that Mr. Smith, from Wel-
lington, New Zealand, wi:l attend the meeting
to-lay, and submit specimens of New Zealand
Flax, in its living state, and also when cut down ands
dried. Oar readers wilt recollect that Mr. Smith attended
the banquet given on board the Great Tasmania, prepa-
ratory to the sailing of the Oliver Lang for Wellington, in
September last, and delivered an interesting speech, as to
the capabilities and encouraging character of the Colony.
Mr. Smith, who has been a resident of some sixteen or
seventeen years in the col .ny, tells us that there are
millions of tons of New Zealand flax growing wild ;
that it can be applied to a variety of purposes for
which cotton is used,—from the finest cambric down
to the strongest cable rope. Now if this is so—and
we hare no reason to doubt it it becomes a
question of the deepest importance to this country
to take the matter up, and see how far the skill and
ingenuity of Great Britain can turn this important article
ta advantage. Indeed, infantile though the Government
of New Zealand be, we learn that it has offered a reward
of £4,000 for the discovery of any process by which the
native flax can be converted into an article suitable for the
looms of England. Specimens of the.fl -tx will be sub-
mitted to the meeting. These, although small, will, -
we have no doubt, be deemed sufficient to satisfy
all coneerned that the New Zealand flax contains
all the useful and important properties which
the colonists set forth, and when the meeting hears
the statements which will be made by parties who
have resided there, we feel satisfied that some steps will
be devised to test the practicability of employing it in
many useful and important commercial purposes. We
shall enter more at length upon this subject on an early
occasion.