The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-29 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES..- LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

not improve. The bulletin issued yesterday was
to the effect that her condition was yet more feeble.
As was to be expected we have nothing more
respecting the alleged arrival of the Austrilian
mail steamer at Suez. Some believe it probable
that the steamer which is said to have been sighted
at Suez on the 19th must have been the Oneida
herself. If the European has arrived and brought
no news of the Oneida, then great fears may be
entertained of her safe,y. She had evidently not
reached the Mauritius 49 days after she left King
George's Sound, nor had she put back to Australia
nearly seven weeks after she had left the latter
place. She is also overdue 49 days. at Point de
Gralle, and up to a very late period 9113 had not
been seen or heard of at Singapore. If the
European or Oneida arrived at Suez on the 19, we
shall probably have telegraphic news of her to-
day or to-morrow from Marseilles.

A. London paper, remarking upon the circular of
Lord Palmerston to his supporters, respecting the
meeting of Parliament, says that it is somewhat
strange that the notiee of the approaching meeting
has only as yet bee;a eommuoicated to those who
are regarded as the seopoi ters of the Government,
We may infer from tie:; that Miaieters inten 1 to
ee..in a march upen the Opposition. We live in
fiehtine times, and every thing appears to be
manag,el by subtlety and teaeeeeeeee
`the Bishop of Exeter, who was not in a condi-
tion to deliver his trieneial visitation sermon in
person, has just published it. The Rev. Prelate
congratulates the Clergy Upon the decision in the
case of Weeterton v. expressing, neverthe-
less, the hope that " in the matter of ornaments
there will be no attempt to exceed the measure of
sacred solemnity, still less unnecessarily to
annoy the feelings of any numerous portion
of those who would wish to attend upon your
ministry." A considerable portion of the
charge is occupied with arguments intended to
prove that the doctrine of baptismal regeneration
is not an open question" in the church. ; and he has
re fused licenses to clergymen disbelieving it, and
would do so, if a unanimous resolution of both
Houses of Parliament, and the Judicial Committee
of the Privy Council, combined, declared him to
be wrong. The operations of that committee
ought not to be extended to spiritual matters, for
the members of it cannot he expected " to have
acquired the theological learning which is necessary
for the proper decision of such causes."
A meeting of the shareholders of the London and
Eastern Banking Corporation was held yesterday,
to receive the report of the Directors on the
present position of the affairs of the company,
and the measures taken by them to provide means
to enable them to meet its engagements ; also to
consider the propriety of dissolving the company.
The claims was taken by Col. A Tucker,
C. 8., who read the report, which was that of
the directors, aided by the committee, and
stated in substance that the engagements
of the company had been all provided for
by the prompt assistance of the Oriental Bank and
other assistant banks, so as to protect the public
from loss, the shareholders having given in their
promissory notes for the calls unpaid as
security. On March 23 the estimates then
presentel showed a surplus, but according to
that made since the 11th April, when Mr.
Stewart undertook the management on the part
of the Oriental Bank, the general assets had
exhibited a total deficiency of 6,2301 , it
having been discovered that Colonel Waugh's
property would not realise the advances by at
least £38,000. The report of the directors and
committee was adopted, and Mr. C. Stewart was
continued manager, under the authority of the
committee, and as the representative of th© Oriental
Bank Corporation. It was also agreed that the
Bank should not be dissolved These resolutions
were passed unanimously in the absence of the
directors, in regard to whose transactions it was
deemed prudent not to interfere at present.
The copyright of the Morning Herald, Standard,
and St. James' Chronicle, were offered for sale by
public auction yesterday. The plant was valued
at £6,190, and the leaseholds at £661. The
amounts received for advertisements in the three
papers during the past five years was £1146,643;
but, while in 1850 the amount was £35,730, it was
only 121,758 in 1855. The assignees of Mr.
Baldwin's estate put up the property at a fixed
price, namely, £20,451, being £13,500 for copy-
rights, but although the sale was well attended, not
a single bid was offered.

the London subscription will be opened
for the I,tri,sian Eailwny scheme. To-day that
gigantic swindle will, if possible, be introduced in
our Money Market, and on the Stook Exchange.
Every eff >rt, will be made " to make things
ploesant," and induce a dealing in the obnoxious
scrip. bidding is all that is wanted, an i no
exertions will be spared to " make a market."
Orders to purchase Will he forthcoming ; but, in
this instance, the approved maxim,. Caveat Emptor,
must be reversed. It is the seller that must
exercise caution, must take care that, in the fond
hope of gaining i or I premum, for what he believes
he can obtain at par, he is not beguiled into a
transaction that will ultimately prove a very
" slough of despond," involving himself and his
family in irretrievable ruin.
The Drawings for the prizes in the London Art
Union took place yesterday. We observe that a
" Mr. Dood, holding ticket No. 4,410," drew a

the ryot, or small hold:!r into a labourer at weekly
wages under a capitalist—a change " from the
[quondam] Irish into the English system." But
while these peaceful reforms are proceeding to
strengthen our tenure, and enlarge our resources in
India, the troops in two of the Presidencies show
some degree of insubordination. At Visieragram
this spirit has appeared, it would seem. from the
simple facts that the troops are idle. The more
serious revolt of the 19th Regiment of Native
Infantry at Berhampore originated in some
notion among the men, apparently erroneous, that
their cartridges had been tainted with animal fat ;
and other regiments at Darraelteore, whither the
19th was sent to he punished by being disbanded,
are supposed to have sympathised with the mut
ineers. Not so the Europeans; the Sikhs, the
the cavalry regular or irregular, and the general
body of the infantry, who burned with the wish
that they might be ordered to chastise the mutiny.
The Continental intelligence to- lay contains
rather important references to the Principalities
question. Protests against the rescript suppress-
ing the electoral committees have been made, and
the position of the Turkish government in respect
to the question of union or no union has again
become vacillating, with a perceptiele leaning
however, to the views of Austria, which are anti
unionist. Great agitation prevails in Moldavia.

The quarrel between Deem irk and th. German
Powers respe,:ting the Putchies, like that about
Neufchatel, seems to have almost subsided. There
is now little danger of a collision through either.
The rising question of internal concern in France
is that of unuicn versus blaT,. The Uitrarnon.,
tanists have gone too for in presuming on the favour
of Louis N:,poleon to ignore in their behalf the
rights of the State in ecclesiastical matters. Count
de Montalembert, a clear-sighted Catholic states-
man, has pointed out and condemned their error
and their assumptions.
Advices of a late date from Nicaragua state that.
Colonel Sockridge had abandoned his contemplated
attack on Castello. Seripaqui and the whole of the
San Juan river were in complete possession of the
Costa Ricans. The steamer G. N Scott had been
up on the San Juan river, and reports that sixty
filibusters had been killed. This about uses up
Walker's forces on the Atlantic Slope.

THE late Parliament, shortly before Mr.
COBDEN'S motion caused its demise, had agreed
to institute an enquiry into the mode in which
the affairs of the Hudson's Bay Company was
conducted, and, we should suppose, digest some
plan for the better regulation of that distant and
extensive territory. There can be no doubt but
the vast tracts of land under the control of the
Hudson's Bay Company could be very profitably
employed by the mother country, not only for
the purposes of commerce but colonisation. It
is the duty of the present Government to see
that the affairs of all its dependencies are so
conducted as to ensure the safety, happiness, and
intellectual and social progress of the native
population—that the natural resources of the
soil are developed—and fevery means which
prudence and forethought can suggest, to attain
these ends, should be employed to the best
possible advantage.
The Hudson's Bay territory is not, we regret
to say, so governed and cared for. Its native
population is neglected, in a physical, moral,
and religious aspect. The trade of the country
has been only in a few hands—men who were
monopolists in the true sense of the word, and
who had ever manifested the utmost aversion to
the practical application of the doctrine of Free
Trade. At present a small party monopolise the
whole trade of the territory, a country which is
considerably larger than the entire Continent of
Europe. It is true that they obtained a charter
from CHARLES 11., by which they claim to hold
all they possess in fee-simple. Royal grants,
even in the Monarch's time alluded to, were not
conferred without having attached to them
certain requirements, and it is well known that
these the Hudson's Bay Company have system-
atically failed to perform. Up to the present
time the resources of the country remain
undeveloped, and all who endeavour to cultivate
a trade therewith meet with nothing but
obstacles, and sometimes dangers, which the
timid and the cautious are careful to eschew.

Now, this is a state of things which ought not
to exist. The Hudson's Bay Company, no matter
what may be the tenor of their charter, hold
possession of the territory for the benefit of the
mother country, irrespective of personal aggran-
disement and, if it can -be shown that the-
interest of the mother country, by the mode of
Government adopted, has been neglected, and
the welfare and prosperity of the native- popula-
tion overlooked, it behoves Parliament to look to
the matter, and apply an instant remedy for the
evils so justly complained of. The productions
of Hudson's Bay would be of utility to this
country, but we cannot obtain them unless at
extravagant rates. The social condition of the
people is left to chance, hence the snail-like
progress of the whole country.
But there is another reason why the Gwern-
ment and the Parliament should see to the future
regulation, constitutional, fiscal, and social, of
this neglected territory. It borders the United
States, and we well know the grasping propen-
sity of Brother JONATHAN, and his eager desire
to grasp at everything which comes within his
reach, or marches upon the domain of the Stars
and Stripes. Already the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany have thrown their permissive shield over
the Americans in that quarter ; for it cannot be
disputed or gainsayed that had the Company
been much more determined, and, less given to
wink at the intrusions of Americans, that long
vexed question of the Oregon territory would nit
have been such a stumbling-block of offence
between the two countries, nor would the "star-
spangled" banner now float over Oregon, as an
evidence of its surrender to the Uuited States.

There is still another cause of complaint, as
regards the Hudson's Bay Company—it is, their
being put in possession of Vancouver's Island.
Here is a place abounding in coal, gold, silver,
copper, and iron, and " everything calculated to
make it a great and glorious country." Yet it
is put under the control of a Company whose
antecedents proclaim it to be unfitted to exercise
the first duties of civil administration. We do
not acquire vast colonial possessions, often at an
enormous cost of both blood and money, to hand
them over to a sit of selfish, incapable men,
whose only object is personal aggrandisement
and filthy lucre.
We are glad to find that a movement is on
foot to remove the baneful monopoly of the

Hudson's Bay Company. Everything which can
contribute to the material comfort and enjoy-
ment of the people of the United Kingdom, and
which is produced in the Hudson territory, should
be obtained on the best possible terms. The
furs of that country would surely sit as grace-
fully upon the necks of the ladies of England, as
they do upon those of the United States, and it
would be far more patriotic in the company to
encourage their manufacture, and export to the
mother country, than to allow them to find their
way to us through the channels of adventurous
merchants of a foreign country.

Considering the extent of country which goes
by the appellation of the Hudson's Bay territory,
along with Vancouver's'island ; the productions,
and capabilities of the soil, and the other advan-
tages which they are capable of producing, we
hope to see the matter so ventilated, as to evoke
an expression of public opinion, that the Char-
ter of the Hudson's Bay Company will never
be renewed. We are glad to see that the
people of Canada have turned their attention to
the question, and are now endeavouring to induce
the Government to annex the territory to Canada.
The spirit of enterprise which has marked the
past career of the Canadian people, is a guarantee
that they would not be backward in doing all
for that neglected portion of the globe which its
people and its position requires. The Finan-
cial Reform Association have also taken up the
matter, and we shall await with desire to peruse
their promised pamphlet on the subject.

ALTHOUGH Lord PALMSRSTON has obtained a
triumphant majority at the late elections, it is by
no means clear that he is progressing in national
popularity; nor is it certain that he will prove
himself equal to the task of governing this im-
portant Empire to
.the satisfaction of the many,
and the disappointment of the few. If we are to,
take into consideration his recommendations for
Royal favour as an index of his independence of
purpose, and a desire of fulfilling the scriptural
injunction of rendering "honour to whom honour
is due," we are forced to admit that, tried by this
standard, the Premier of England is deficient.
Some time ago we called attention to the case
of Sir JOIIN APNEtu, and Colonel TULLOCH,
who had proceeded to the Crimea, when the mis-
management of the British army was at its height,
and thousands of our brave and courageous
troops, horse and foot, were daily sacrificed, by a
total absence of every thing calculated to nourish,
shelter, and comfort them amidst the rigours of
a Crimean winter, and the incessant fatigues Of
a campaign and a siege, which has no parallel in
the history of ancient or modern times. The
proceedings of these two distinguished officers
had the speedy effect of producing considerable
order and promptitude on the part of the Com-
missariat authorities. Food and raiment, medi-
cal stores, wine, and other indispensable
comforts to an army, were immediately provided•
The consequence was that the health of the
soldiers was soon restored, and, when the proper
time arrived, they' proved that they were equal
to the task of capturing Sebastopol. For such a
service they who performed it were worthy of all
honours. It is true that they did not sally forth,
sword in hand, and capture a Russian standard
or sabre a Russian officer—' hey did not destroy
life in the enemy's camp—but, what is of far
greater importance, they preserved the lives and
the health, and they promoted the comforts, of
thousands of British soldiers, as far as could be
done in a warfare of the kind. The value of
such deeds can only be estimated by those who
experienced their beneficial results. The British
army, and the British nation, too, appreciated
Sir JOHN M•NEILL and Colonel TuLLocifs con-
duct—for the nation's representatives in Parlia-
ment gave their vote, which implied that they
not only were the saviours of our Crimean heroes,
but true patriots, and the benefactors of their
country.

The. official report which these distinguished
and brave men prepared, setting forth all they
saw and did in the . Crimea, was not to the
liking of the aristocracy. Sir JOHN M'NEILL
and Colonel TuLLocn exposed incapacity,
negligence, and error wherever they detected it,

no matter how high or influential the delinquent
might be. Of course, such a report could not
find favour with these conspicuous branches o
the nobility, Lord PALMERSTON and Lord
PANMURE, the consequence was, that both the
Crimean Commissioners were allowed to go un-
noticed and unrewarded by any mark of Royal
favour. At length, an indignant remonstrance
warned the Premier, and he was forced to pay a
" half and half" compliment to their zeal and
ability, and to the advantages arising from their
mission. Afterwards, his lordship proposed
a pecuniary reward to each of £lOOO. The offer
was more insulting and unpardonable than the
tardiness with which their claims were acknow
ledged. Our readers know, that neither the one
nor the other accepted the paltry ZlOOO, which
the first Lord of the Treasury announced he was
prepared to advance. The public acquiesced and
approved of the manly and independent- spirit
which dictated their refusal of the proposed
grant, and for a time there was nothing further
heard of the matter.

Recently, however, the case, as far as Colonel
TuLLocn is concerned, has been made the sub-
ject of public comment, and, as heretofore, Lord
PALMERSTON comes in for an additional share of
well merited condemnation. On the 14th
of the present month, the Gazette contained an
announcement which startled all who read it.

It announced that Dr. CUARLES Lococx, who
had that day assisted in her MAJESTY'S delivery
of a Princess, had been elevated to the style,
title, and dignity of a baronet of the United
Kingdom, and that Colonel TULLOCII was created
a Knight of the Bath ! These creations at once
show that, in the estimation of Lord PALMERSTON,
the merits of an officer, whose energy and ability
have been the means of saving the lives of a
whole army, are not deemed coeval with those of

a man midwife ! or, in medical parlance, surgeon

accoucheur.
We do not know that a more insulting or
impudent course of conduct was ever practiced on
a public servant, who has done incalculable good
to his country than that which the QUEEN,
through her Ministers, inflicted upon Colonel
Timocn. We dare not harbour the impression
that her MAJESTY was aware of the gross slight
cast upon Colonel TuLtoca in estimating his
important and really eminent services far
beneath those of her surgeon accoucheur. The
jaunty Premier may regard it as a capital joke
for the names of both gentlemen to appear in
juxtaposition in the same Gazette. But it is
more than the people of England can bear, If
Royal favours are to be bestowed in such a
capricious and ill-advised manner—if public
services, the benefits and importance of
which can hardly be estimated, are to
be thus treated and placed on a par
with the single op€ration of a skilful
surgeon, it would be much better they were not
bestowed, and that the nation which counte-
nances their existence should, in a voice of
thunder, which could not be misunderstood,
demand their future extinction. There are only

two ways to account for this unpardonable piece
of Court favour—first, that it was an attempt on

the part of Lord PALMtRSTON to play off on the
people an impertinent joke , or else it was
intended as a Court pet. Should it be the
former, we hope some notice will be taken of the
matter in Parliament ; and, if the latter, we do
not see any reason why Mrs. LILLY should not
be made a Knight of the Garter !
Lord PALMERSTON may depend upon it that
he will hear of this affair. The public has not
forgiven him for his previous conduct towards

the Crimean commissioners, and now that he has
been the means of adding insult to injury, he
will see the sun of his popularity set as fast as it
rose. Neither his diplomatic skill nor warlike
propensities can screen him from the well-
merited indignation of the entire populace.

LAST night, a numerously attended meeting of
the Ratepayers of Birkenhead was held at the
Town-hall, " to determine the best course to be
adopted in regard to the future supply of Gas
and Water to the Township." The principal
speakers on the occasion were Messrs. LAIRD,
CUNNINGHAM, and BRETHERTON. All the
resolutions condemnatory of the Gas and Water
Company's proceedings were carried unanim-
ously. The inhabitants of Birkenhead are now
thoroughly alive to the importance of having an
ample supply of the two great necessaries —Gas
and Water—furnished to them on the most
efficient and economical system known. The
arguments of the various speakers were, in fact,
merely a repetition of those which have already
appeared on this subject. Mr. BRETHERTON'S
speech was in perfect unison with the views we
enunciated a few days ago, respecting the utter
inefficiency of the existing arrangements of the
Water Company for supplying an adequate
quantity of water for the purpose of extin-
c,uishinc, fires.

The total want of water at the late fire in
Chester-street was alluded to by all the speakers,
and the conduct of the company or their
officials in that case was denounced in no
measured terms. Mr CUNNINGHAM, C.C., pro-
nounced the scheme propounded by Mr.
HAWKESLEY, for bringing water from Flaybrick
Hill, as unscientific and absurd, declaring that
the action of the two engines would be anta-
gonistic to each other, &c., &c.
Birkenhead may now be truly said, in every
sense, to be a component part of Liverpool,
and it behoves the Corporation, as owners of a
large amount of property on the Cheshire shore,
to aid the ratepayers in their present efforts,
to secure to this rising community the very
best and cheapest possible supply of water,
Our object is not either to censure, or in any
way to damage the company. Like all other
llybred corporations having certain private
interests to serve, and ill defined public duties
which they are supposed to perform, it is only
natural, that the interests, the solid and tangible
interests, of the individual shareholders should
always take precedence of that ideality—the
public good.
In thus acting, the Birkenhead Gas and Water
Company are no more culpable than other bodies
similarly circumstanced. They were adventurers,
and as such they have naturally endeavoured to
make the best of their speculation. The grow-
ing intelligence of the present age has, however,
long since discovered that for the future the
supply of gas and water ought no longer to be
dependent on the cupidity or capriciousness of
private individuals. Hence the unanimous de-
termination of the rate-payers, at their meeting
last night, to relieve them of their future respon-
sibilities; at- the same time recognising to its
fullest extent the rights of private property
and vested interests. To the rate-payers of
Birkenhead we have only to say, be firm, be
honest, be guarded, and you have nothing to
fear.

ATTEMPT TO POISON Two CHILDREN IN CHESTER BY A
SERVANT Glnt„.—On Monday Fanny Stanley, 15,
was charged, is the City Police Court, Chester,
before the Mayor, Mr. P. E don, and a full bench of magis-
trates, with having attempted to administer poison to
Frederick J :lin Dunn, aged 3,1 years, and Mary Ellen
Dunn, aged 1 years. From the evidence of the prosecutor,
Mr. P. J. Dunn, whn is cashier to the Chester and Holyhead
Railway Company, it appears that, between seven and
eight o'clock on Sunday snorting last, he told the prisoner
to cut the children some bread and but er, which she did ;
and on the prisoner going upstairs with it she was met by
Mrs. Dunn, who took the plate containing the bread and
butter, and then told her to go and change her frock. Mrs.
Dunn than noticed that the bread and butter was double,
and., on separating two pieces, found that it was strewed
with a bluish substance. She immediately acquainted her
husband, and on going to the kitchen they found an empty
pa:ket labelled " poison" it ing on the table, and a knife by
it, covered over will a similar substance to that on the
bread and butter. On being questioned, the girl said she
knew -what it was, but assigned no reason for her act. The
girl had only been engged a week, and was hired at the
door. The poison had been purchased by Mrs. Dunn to
kill rats, and had been kept on the top shelf in the kitchen,
out of the girl's reach, but she had obtained it by standing
on a chair. An analysis of the poison was ordered to be
made, and the prisoner was remanded.

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.]

BERNE, APRIL 27.

The Cantonal Government of Neufchatel has
sent a deputation to the Federal Government at
Berne, declaring- the acceptability of the propo-
sition made by the other Powers.

PALERMO, APRIL 20.

A Royal decree has commuted the banishment
of four persons condemned to death (or political
offences into eighteen years' imprisonment in
irons. o,,her acts of grace have also been
accorded.

BERLIN, APRIL 27.

Several modifications of the taxes on manu-
factures, decreed in 1820, with other reductions,
have been passed by the Chambers and adopted
by the Government.

BANKRUPTS.

Thomas Harrison, livrietsham and Maidstone, coal and

timb•r merchant.
Joseph Bruce, Yarmoaih, Isle of Wight-, grocer.
El'zabeth Silby Small, Fonthill -place, Clapham-roads
plumber, painter, and glazier.
Gilliam Pa•kell Garrard, Little Tower-street, City, wine
and spirit merchant.
Alfred Hinton, Birmingham, druggist and grocer.
Henry Walters and Benjamin Walters, Aifreton, Derby..
shire, druggists.
George Parker, LecOs, grocer.
Henry Markinfield Addey, Henrietta-street, Covent gar-
den, and Gloucester-terrace, Hyde-park, bookseller and
publisher.
WElliam Tasker and John Attit;2, Selby, Yorkshire► and
Hampstead-road, potato merchants.
George Alexander Hewitt, Derby, chemi,t and druggist.
Robert M'Lean and James M'Lean, Hulme, laaaties'er'
builders.

THE " EASTERN CIVIC "—This is the name of a nobly
vessel, now under the management of Mr. Walthew of.
Chapel street, the well known Australian agent. She is
flee commanding looking vessel, and to judee from her last
voyage, which was made home from Callao in 83 days, bet
passage to Melbourne, for which port she sails about the sth
.lay, will be a rapid one, She is well and comfortably
fitted for passengers of all classes, and is fully 8 feet bee
t ween decks, with every . accommodation that may ha
required. She is 210 feet long, 37 beam and 22 feet dtein
Her registered tonnage is 1,223. Her commander it
Captain Alexanier Crombie, who is well lOn/4m and.
es'' emed for his gentlemanly bearing and abilities' el a.
sailor. The g,eater part of the cargo and a number of
passengers are already engaged, but such persons as intend
to meet with a desirable ship to convey them to the land
of gold, will not fail to b 3 attracted hyths " Easter' City/
THE ORG QUESTION' IN THE ENGLIiII PBW.HTTERIXIt
Cnunc 5.--The annual meeting of the English Presbyterian
Synod was held, at. Newcastle .on Wedces.lay, April 22.
At one of the diets, the organ question came on for disc
cession. At the sitting of the Synod last year, it was
decided that instrumental music was contrary to the
standards of the Caureh, and it enjoined all Presbyteries
to prevent the innovation. It appears, however, that St.
George's congregation at Liverpool had previously erected
a fine organ in that chapel, and the session contended that
the resolution of the Synod was nut of a retrospectivo
character, while this was denied by the opposite party
Mr. Adam, an elder of St. George's, appeared on behitlf
of
that congregation. He stated that there was intense feeling
amongst the members of his chapel in favour of the con-
tinuance of the organ, and if it were removed the eff
would be ruinous. Several motions were proposed en tfid
,Wjeot. The Rev. W. Chalmer's met.= was to the effect
that the use of instrumental music in public worsbiPt
thou- li not without precedent, was not in accordance with
the ordinary practice of that Church, and ought not to bP be
introduc:d in any case without the permission of I/
Supreme Court. But with regard to the case of Sr 2
George':, Liverpool, and St John's, Warrington, that the,
should be considered as excepti-nal, and that no fathet
steps should be taken rest ecting them, but that the Synod
eejoins other Presbyteries to cultivate the harrnonietr,
exercise of vocal music. The clerk proposed as an amend,
ninnt that the use of organs at the above places age
improper, but that, from the specialiics of the cases, to;
instruments should remain, on the understanding that no
new innovation should be permitted elsewhere. 'After ,d
long discussion, the vete was taken, when there appeare
—for the motion, fifty-three ; for the amendment, fortr
nine.

Tae Society of Friends in Dublin, with their Wu",
pro-nrit liberality, have set about raising subsaiption,'
for thet famine-stricken M ons. Already a sum of nearilt
£5OO has been raised among a few of their prominent
members. Mr. Malcornson, of Porn tw, heads the he
• et
with The Freeman's lattnal presses the sub./tin
on the Irish public, gracefully and feelingly alludifl
the generous efforts made in foreign countries, and eel
in Russia, to alleviate the distress caused by the St"
Irish famine.
FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT, AT STANDISIL - Satur-
day, Mr. Myers, of Preston, held an inquest at Standi'll
near Wigan, upon the body of James Hall, aged 19;1:
drawer, who was killed on Thursday, at the Pit O °
Taylor, in Sherdington. Hall was engage!! in boleinPf PA
when about two tons of c al fell from the roof and !Alge;
his h 'ad and shoulders. Two men were occupied Oldie
hour in extricating him, and he was then dead. A ler of
e
of Accidental death" was returned. A large piec a
coal fell from the roof of the same pit on Wednesday,
injured a collier, named James Tomlinson. named

BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF A SLAVE.- A man bag
Vincent Rossin, says the West Tennesme
recently been run out of Purdy, fur appearin to claim his
runaway slave woman, wh ) was induced to lea he
service by the most barbarous treatment. Ire Pes".„-ntef,
out into the weather during the coldest of ),81°03;ffw ere
barefooted and poorly clad, until her fingers and
badly frosted ;. he then took his knife and cut them ° hot
threw them into iha fire -ponred hot water and thre the
embers on her-beat and abused her in every
811 eve:
devil himself could hay invented, and she is only yo
or twelve years old. At length she could bear 1t hs
longer, and then ran away. She was taken up and breego
to town for imprisonment, in a horrible condition, CO3'l'
with sores, and nearly dead.—eFinerican Paper. tee
DISTRESS IN LIMERICK.—The Limerick ReP°. the
states that, owing to a combination of adverse causes,
labouring classes in that city were never in deeper drag
than they are at this moment, and adds, "The ShiPP;or,
interest, which in former years, at this season of they -nt,
contributed to afford large numbers of them emploYo4o
just now gives them very little to occupy their time. Joe
with railroad and steamships, the business heretofore dif
by the liners between this port and England i° !te'd *
fallen off, and the quays, which in other days presenfilnigh
busy and active scene at this time, are now "*";;Te.11
deserted. Our shipping news counts but compare
few arrivals and departures. Meantime, the emie-er
of the population is greater than we ever remenl-youte
' Crowds leave almost every morning by train Or
to Liverpool, to take shipping for America, Ca".
Australia." rbe
EXTS \SPIN OF THE BOROUGH OF HUDDERSFIELD•rn of
Haddersjidd Examiner earnestly urges the exte!rir-.0
the of the borough, alder the next reform to
present says the Exant-ner the borough is so fraeae" la'
give the Ramsdell family a most undue and urjus;ziog
thence. In fact, the borough is on ground be'°,:;ure,
almost exclusively to that family, and in order t° tended
that object the limit of the borough has been eibn't,
nearly four miles from the centre of the town inn°,ards•
rection, whilst in others it only extends about 80t' Jne*fer,
Such an arrangement is of a most objectionable char 7-010
and it is the interest and the duty of the people 0'
town, to make a most earnest (Tat to abolish suebich
unjust and absurd arrangement. The alteration sytiolf
whiei we would propose, and which alone can eirecitnreesC
remedy the evil of which we complain is that the :10%
radius which can now be obtained in the borough,
the market place as a centre, should be used to de"‘," the
circle, and the area of that circle should constit?'optr
borough. By snub an alteration a great number °I P the
lons and important places would be brought withlfireatli,
borough, and the constituency would be very g' of
increased, both in numbers arid importance. The are 061
the circle would include considerably more tha-nwoul"
hundred thousand inhabitants. Such an increase nob,
of course, completely alter the character of the berithe
It could not do otherwise than very greatly augillenfloas'
influence of Huddersfield in the House of C°sl-„,berS
With such a consiqiency we should have two me-, Os
instead of one. Indeed, if the alteration we proP°:;olve
effected, Huddersfield would become one of the twelve
most important boroughs in E,: land; and if wek orittl
London and its suburbs. Iltddersfield would tenmeds,
Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Sheffield and to in
as one of the six most important provincial boroeg
England.