The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-03 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

The coroner held the following inquests yeWerday
On the body of Ellen Mottrame, two years old. The
poor little thing was killed in Mann-street, by a lorry going
over her by accident. The jury found a verdict of acci-
dental death.
On the body of Patrick Daly, 60 years of age, who lived
at 18, Robertson street, who was a dock labourer, and
en habitual drunkard, ;and who died suddenly on Mon-
day evening, whilst throwing up blood. The inquest was
adjourned until a pas/ mortem examination of the body
could be made. [lt is rather strange to say that on the
30th October last, an inquest was held on Barnard Daly,
six years old, son of the deceased, who was burnt ; awl
on the 29th November, another inquest was held on another
son of deceased, named John, two years old, who was
scalded.]
On the body of Peter Duany, 24 years old, a labourer
who was engaged in Mr. Phillips' bakery, 27, Atherton
street, and who fell out of the warehouse door by accident,
in consequence of over-balancing himself. Verdict, " ac-
cidental death.

COUNTY COURT.-YESTERDAY,

BEFORE J. CONWAY, ESQ.

INSOLVENT Csszs.—The following orders were made
in these cases : Charles Hargreaves, supported by
Mr. Rime, and unopposed, hearing adjourned to
the 7th July. John Riekaby, unopposed, had his
final order granted. A like order was made in the
cases of William Palmer, Thomas Medealf, Robert
Clark, Dunlop, and George Dyer, who were unopposed.
John Small Noble, supported by Mr. Chilton, applied to be
discharged out of custody, and being unopposed was dis-
charged. Samuel Hapson was supported by Mr. Husband,
and opposed by Mr. Hime. The case was adjourned to
the 7th of July, to examine the balance•sheet. James
Whittaker, cabinetmaker, supported by Mr. Grocott; was
oppose] by Mr. Gray. The petition was dismissed on the
ground of improper description, but with leave to amend
the schedule and present a new:petition. Wm. Martin,
blacksmith, supported by Mr. Hime, had his final order
fixed for the 7th of July. John Hugh Jones, supported
by Mr. Husband, received his final order unopposed.
John Rourke, supported by Mr. Roby, and opposed by litr.
Grocott, adjourned to the 16th instant. John Bibby,
supported by Mr. Roby, received his final order unopposed.
Thomas Moynagh, supported by Mr. Chilton, and opposed
by Mr. Martin, on several grounds, was discharged from
custody.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY ;140EmoN3.—Las; week, a
number of Mormoas left Mansfold, Not inThanistlire, for
Liverpool Id route Anton;for Utah. Anton; them was a m-,n
named Robert Wright, who was one of the executive
officers of an Odd Fellow's Lodge, bell at the Angel Inn,
the funds of which were kept in a stronY box locked with
three locks, each key being in the possessionof a different
member, one of whom was Wright. Among the
papers anal nnney \"s a cheque for £2lB, ready drawn
and signed. After Wright had left the town,.some of the
members had misgivings as to the funds of the society,
and c4iised the box to be broken open, when it was ells.
covered the cheque was missiiv,. They were informed at
the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank that the
cheque was cashed so far back as the 136 of April. The
police started in pursuit of Wright, and arrested him and
his family on their way to the station at Sheffield, en route
for Liverpool. A portion of the money was found upon
the prisoner, who was taken before the magistrates and
remanded.

THE LIVERPOOL FINANCIAL REFORM
ASSOCIATION.

A special meeting of the Council was held on Satur-
day last, to despatch arrears of correspondence, and con-
sider the propriety of changing the mode of publication,
by substituting for the tracts a monthly or bi-monthly
periodical, devoted to the advocacy of financial reform,
free trade, and direct taxation, both as most just in itself,
and as the only means by which the country can obtain
the benefits of unshackled commerce. After some discus-
sion on the relative advantages and disadvantages of the
two plans, the matter was postponed for further considera-
tion.

REPRESENTATION OP THE COLONIES.
Mr. R. Montgomery Martin, author of the "History of
the British Colonies," solicited the attention of the Asso-
ciation to the principles involved in a petition from him,
which was presented to the House of Commons by Sir
J. Pakington, on the 15th of May last. In this petition.
being "deeply impressed with the national importance of
treating these outlying dominions as integral parts of the
British. Empire—of uniting their interests and sympathies
with those of the Imperial Government, and of consolidating
their power and resources for the general good," Mr.
Martin prays as follows :

" That in any contemplated extension of the elective
franchise, full and statesmanlike consideration be given to the
policy of permitting such colonies, provinces, or dependencies as
possess representative institutions, to depute a representative
to the imperial parliament for a period of five years—such
representative not to speak or veto on financial questions
affecting the taxation of the people of the United Kingdom,
but on all other matters to be on an equality with the Com-
mons of Great Britain and Ireland."

On discussion it was held that to constitute a really
united Empire, the leading colonies ought to have some
sort of representation in the Imperial Parliament, but
that there were more difficulties in the way than Mr.
Martin seemed to contemplate. It was suggested that
if the colonies were willing to bear their !share
of imperial taxation, or, at least, of a direct
tax for the expenses of the naval and military
establishments, which are maintained for the defence
of the colonies, as well as of the mother country,
the matter might be easily arranged ; but that, otherwise,
representation without taxation, might seem as anomolous
as taxation without representation It was thought, how-
ever, that, for the discussion of colonial questions, repre-
sentatives from the colonies would be very useful in par-
liament, and might prevent a great deal of blundering and
jobbing in the Colonial Office. For instance, had there
been in the House of Commons a member for the Red
River settlement, or for Canada, there can be no doubt
that the monopoly of the Hudson's Bay Company would
have been abolished long ago, and that Oregon would not
have been forfeited to the United States.

THE URQUHARTITES .
The " Manchester Free Trade and Foreign Affairs
Association," through the secretary, Mr. John Johnson,
declared its general concurrence in the views put forth in
the recent address of the Council to members of the House
of Commons, but dissented from it as to the mode of car-
rying them into effect, alleging that the Financial Reform
Association proposes new laws, whilst the Foreign Affairs
Association holds that the existing statutes are quite suffi-
cient for all that is requisite or required. In plain
English, the Manchester Association believes—at least it
insinuates very broadly—that Lord Palmerston is a trai-
tor; and it thinks that he ought to be impeached, and
brought to the block, which is the grand Urquhartine
remedy for all political evils, past, present, and to come.
Mr. Johnson says, that, if he is " rightly informed, the
financial reformers of Liverpool refused to publish a memoir
prepared by their instruction, so soon as they discovered
it involved criminal matter against the minister. The
association on whose behalf I write," he adds, " owes its
birth to this very transaction." In conclusion, he pro-
poses that a deputation from the Manchester association
should wait upon the council, to expound its viws respect-
ing the particular case adverted to. The secretary was
instructed to acknowledge the letter, to state that the
council declines the proposed interview, and also all
further correspondence; giving Mr. Johnson distinctly
to understand that this course is not to be taken as an ad-
admission of the truth of any of the statements affecting
the Council. This proviso was thought the more necessary,
inasmuch as, according to his secretary's account of it, the
Manchester Association is founded on a complete misre-
presentation of fact. What is called the "memorial" was
rejected, because it made a formal
,charge of high treason
against Lord Palmerston; yet, wan great parade of pre-
tended proof, containing
not one tittle of evidence, in
support of it, to which any jury, possessing the ordinary
modicum of common sense, would have attached the
slightest credit. Whether the Manchester Association
has itself published the "memoir," to whose non-publica-
tion it owes its existence, does not appear.
THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE.
The following is an extract from the letter of a member
of the London Society, for promoting the adoption of the
vote by ballot, enclosing his subscription to the Financial
Reform Association :
" Never was a time when your exertions were more
needed. Parliament (except a murmur now and then from
the Lords, which n o one cares for) does not attempt to
control the expenditure of the public money, but votes,
with servile compliance, any number of millions the
minister requires. This arises from the composition of
parliament, in which those who spend the taxes, and who
and whose connexions live out of the taxes, have an over-
whelming majority ; and this parliamentary power arises
from the control which, as landlords, employers, and
in countless other ways, the governing classes exercise over
the voters of this country. I hope your Liverpool Finan-
cial Reformers will support our Ballot Society ; for lam
sure that Financial Reform will never be obtained until
we have made the people as supreme in their House of the
Legislature, as the Queen on the Throne, or the Lords in
their House. To do this, the ballot is the first and indis-
pensible step. Our Australian colonies have adopted it,
and the first thing done by the ballot-elected Parliament of Victoria, was to turn out the minstry for a glaring
fingneial job. I hope this fact will not be lost sight of by
you:' Association.

THE INCOME TAX.
A professional gentleman sent in a complaint to the
effect that, having returned his income at a certain
amount, and having after wards been made bankrupt by
the failure of a Lcndon insurance company, (in which he
held a few shares to qualify him as a local agent) thereby
losing much more than he had made by his profession, he
was not allowed by the Income Tax Commissioners any
deduction on that account, the Commissioners holding
that losses in one business could not be set off against
profits in another. This decision was considered to be
most oppressive, though it might be in strict accordance
with Income-tax law. One of the members stated that,
some years ago, he 11.5. d lent a considerable sum to a friend,
and lost it by his failure. The Commissioners would not
all lw him to set off this as a bad debt ; though they would
certainly have done so had the advance been in the shape
of so many bales of cotton, or hogsheads of sugar, instead
of that of a cheque upon his banker. It was difficult to
see the difference in principle; but the Commissioners
held that he had made a bad investment, and must abide
the consequences.

BOTCHING, AT THE DOCKYARDS.
The experiment now proceeding with the Hood, at
Chatham, was referred to, as showing that the Admiralty
is still at its old work of spoiling ships and wasting public
money. This vessel, it seems, has been on the stocks since
1849, and was intended for an eighty-one gun sailing ship.
In order to convert her into a screw-steamer of ninety-one
guns, she has been cut in two amidships, to be lengthened
forty feet ; and the same opEration has been performed
forward to lengthen her in the bows. It is quite possible
that, when completed, she will, like many other vessels on
which similar experiments have been made, prove good for
nothing.

SAUL AMONGST THE PROPHETS.
he following passage from a leading article in the
Ti,,-cs of Saturday, was read, as showing that its conductors,
though they sneer occasionally at Financial Reform, are
quite conscious that there is something very rotten in the
State : " The history of the Crown property under her
Majesty's predecessors, is one long story of waste, neglect,
mismanagement, fraud, and spoliation. All our fraudulent
bankers, joint-stock companies, railway boards, ar dwe
might throw in the swell mob, c:nld not together produce
such a extalogue of rogueries as those which have imme.
moriidly preyed on the hereditary revenues of the Crown "
Savage as is this denunciation of
it practices which prevail
under her Majesty, just as they did under her predeces-
sors, the Council believes to be no exaggeration of the
way in which Crown property has been, and still is
plundered. It also believes that pretty much the same
system is goirg on in other departments, and will never
believe otherwise, until a standing Finance Committee of
the House of Commons is appointed—Until honest and
intelligible accounts are published, and until those accounts
are subjected to an effective and independent audit.

DRAM( PROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING.--3tl invest ST a s
held on Monday, before Mr. lierford, city coroner, on the
body of Mary Clegg, wife et. a ware.housman (but who
lived apart from her husband, on an allowance), who was
found dead on Saturday in her lodging in Hardman-stnet.
Deceased was very much given to drink, and compelled
her son, a lad of thirteen, who lived with her, to fetch
rum, Sze., while she lay in bed. The lad had brought her
rum twice in the early part of the day ; and she having fallen
asleep, he went out to play, locking the door. When he
returned, he found his mother dead. The jury returned
for,verdict, Found dead from excessive drinking."