Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-09 00:00:00

man's,notice the PfOston graduation, which materially

There is no doubt that his pungent
satire might be very aptly diversified 'and deepened

alteiss the scale

by_ the new manity" improvised by JOHN TURNER

Pressiveness 'of verbiage. "A plumper' or a split
vqe," is: the simple formula of inquiry to the-for-
tunate elector ; and according to the reply, 'is the
instructive monosyllable, which is passed on to the
--" One" or " Two." The

satellite of the inner-room—
elector is immediately ushered by the attendant into

a dark chamber, where a mysterious figure is sup-
Posed to be sitting on inexhaustible money-bags, and
'96thout it word the price of his conscience is dropped

lilt° his trembling hand.
However ludicrous a side may be given to all

till, it is very, very sad. It calls for something

,_lll43re than laughter. ✓ The tale is still going on ; and

We do not intend to let slip its various lessons

NOTES OF THE DAY

I. 'oat Ministers have abandoned the idea of holding a supple
it' 14entarY session in November. Parliament will be pro-
°Ogled for the usual period, so as to admit of such a session,
r
'S
11°111d any urgent and unforeseen necessity happen
,:to
Par ) but not otherwise. The intention at present is, that
Lt ' ,ament shall not meet until the beginning of February ;
0 and we learn from one of the ministerial journals, that the
II(till's,
a taniudeasure to be introduced will be the new Reform
! And, if beaterupli upon its fate the Government will make a stand,
,f e, every
Torthen go to the country." There is, there-
probability of another General Election next
.1 1 Zring:s under any circumstances, we SIMON, there must
I,

Dissolution in the course of next year

niel7:As
ine s

—izes throughout the country, which are
-6 to a close, have disclosed a fearful amount of
d `more especially of that most dreadful of all crimes,
-'der. We believe that the number of uses of murder-
°llB
Outrage, of one kind or another, is larger than for a
and seems likely that there will have been
,
ul'r
!'eara before. This is a° fact which requires the very serious
`°llaideration of our rulers. However gratifying may be
n-ational propprogress in many most material respects, it is
evident that we are falling away most fearfully in a moral
kid soel •
al point of view.
be'ae denizens of the metropolis are certainly much to
p pitied, The stench from the Thames has been
n°,,i—tling- their atmosphere all the summer ; and now, in the
Th(3x-rentsi direction, the. Serpentine has become intolerable.
thei, rivers appear to be much upon a par, asT. regards
ah,„- coe°olPosition and their influences. The Times,
th—rve, calls the Serpentine "a reservoir of liquid filth;" and
rime Thames, we suppose, must be considered something very
ebbs
an
of the same kind, only on a larger scale, and with certain
h 8 and flows which the other has not. The Serpentine,
ni°ewever, has this advantage—being smaller, it is more
tandll„ag.eable ; and on this ground an attempt is about to be
effect its purification, although the method of do-
-0 is
dese '
declared to be most unsatisfactory. The plan is
the
~r1_,71 as nothing bat a palliative, which can never meet
Pa 'at difficulties of the case. The dirty water is to be
R,er4ed out and fresh water' pumped in ; but the fact, it
02118, is lost sight of, that the filthy basin into which the
bea7vWeryatesrhl:rttO b 3 poured will make it as bad as ever again
time. Well, therefore, may the Londoners
he Zasatisfiet The tvil is a monster one, and can never
the ease by any half-and-half 'schemes, whether as respects
)erPentine or the Thames.
The appointment ofATr. James Wilson to a seat in the
pif Finance,
Council of India, and the special care of Indian
e; is severely criticised, we observe, by the independent
Kith rress Mining
"t Mining Star calls' it "double government
a •srti
govern geanee,"—meaning, we suppo.se, Mr. Wilsoa's
his
government
through the Supreme Council at home, and
the president by himself, as Finance Minister in India,
°f
fmhdius
funi
centiotri:fttohaenCouncil in_London delegating the chief
Adviser at Calcutta. As India cannot
this
coca ai financier of its own, one is to be exported from
one 0f.°1417' We heartily join in the hope expressed by
our
contemporaries, that " the article will not turn
(44 a° Various as it ought to be superfluous." But the
aPPointment would seem to proceed upon a wrong prin-
ej4l,_e ;
_for, whilst Mr. Wilson is intended to be a Chancellor

Lime Vast

"le Exchequer for India, and in India, the agency of the
e°llncil at home will not improbably render his whole
"Aerations often valueless.
The question of Endowe4 Schools is nott„,after all, to be
hit aside during the present session of Parliament. Lord
eranworth, even at this late period, has brought into the
'tense of Lords a bill concerning it, with the view, it is
of superseding Mr. .Dillwyu by a less objectionable
"(Illrse of proceeding than that which the latter has pursued
11 the COimans. It remains to be seen how Parliament
;till deal with the bill so suddenly and unexpectedly brought
°llvard,

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