Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-05 00:00:00

BA LUX ASLOB

TUESDAY EVENING

-FIRST

This was the show day for sheep, and from an
early hour large flocks poured into, the Race-park of
Garbelly. The weather to-day has been fine ; and it is
estimated at present that the sunnly of sheen is fully

to ten o'clock, when business became brisker'. The
Connaught grazers were firm in their demands, and
Leinster buyers were unwilling to submit to the terms
dcmanded. r There was a decline a 9. tic,

60 ewes at .575. 6d., 100 at
435., and 100 at 375.; Mr.4ogle sold 100 ewes at 425.; Mr.
.Masters sold to Mr. Pollock 300 ewes, at 425. 6d: ; Mr.
Holland sold 100 *etliera, at 465. ; Mr. Rafferty sold
200 ewes, at 425. 6d., mixed ; and 200 wethers, at 425. ;
Mr. Coonys Sold 100 ewes, at 425. ; and 100 wethers, at
425. 6d. ; Colonel Greville, M.P., bought 320 wethers,
at 465. 7 • and Lord Clanmorris sold 100 ewes, at 40s. ;
Mr. T. Persse 150 wethers, at 40s. ; Lord Clanriearde
sold 50; Mr. Angier 100 ewes, at 36s.—From Saunders'
Reporter.

r. flipte sok

THE PROGRESSIVE POWER OF CONSERVATISM.—
The _pelulale Observer, a .Radical paper, of the Man-
chester school, thus pays an indirect tribute to the power
eve rirs.a ,n;.s•n gi T., T - __l 1 •

counties which are the hope and confidence of the In-
dependent Liberal cause Couservatisni. has, of late,

The victory .which at the last election gave it the repre-
sentation of South Lancashire, was not
.the result of
spasmodic effort, dictated by the resolution gathered from

?air; but w

successful agitation against the corn laws. That era
of Conservative prostration and undisputed Liberal
predominance has passed away. The Tnry party has
reconstructed itself ; and having accepted free trade
as an accomplished fact, • and reconciled itself to
the altered conditions of the time, has recruited
its ranks until it is able, as of old, to make a
' strong, and often a successful stand against •the
Liberal movement of the age. So long as Toryism
held by exploded 'doctrines, and talked the politics
of 1841, it was hopelessly behind the age, and therefore
fallacies,hopel
essly
reform, it has regained its position, and regained. its
nwdeak; admittinghtit by discarding
thedinseccaersdsiintyg of constitutionalpro ttl?nist
obstructive power. It has given up ostensibly the de-
sire to retrace the steps which legislation has made in
advance of its old principles, and, recognising those steps
as inevitable, aims only to prevent the taking of more.
In fact, it has given up reaction as impossible, and
taken to its natural duty of obstruCtion.- And its
renewed strength and courage is only the natural result
of this alteration in its course."

THE STRIKE.—From information obtained in the'
course of Monday, in quarters the most trustworthy, it
is now beyond a doubt that the strike, taking a fresh
start from recent events, is beginning to assume a new
phase, decidedly adverse to the interests of the masters,
and placing the inveterate obstinacy and determinatfon
of the men in a still stronger light. Until now, with
a trifling and irregular exception, the contest has been
confined within the limits of the metropolitan postal
area, but the emissaries of the Paviours Arms' Con-
vention have at length crossed the Ticino, so to speak,
and are now preparing to engage .the ' enemy on
spphircausoca s usedpart
in yesterdaythe mboyv
movement
natn
fromw ho hthaes
htaekgeinnn con-
spicuous
to-
symbolize the course of action which the members of the
aeasctru'etive committee, there is halting entirely new gihnnouowiwiedv.ree
And
be among
otnhge
masters't(hfeunmnfe'a rnac least,
ty . Keeping for the no or want
omovement in abeyance, they maorenicnotnttheentarnteollofiugrah;
the masters simply. on the question of " the odious
document," being shrewd enough to perceive long
ago that their resistance to the employers on that point,
irrespective of its merits in their own eyes, has attracted
an amount of popular- sympathy never accorded to their
original demand. The defection of the operative masons,
since the failure of their recent attempt at mediation
with the masters, is now more apparent than real. In-
deed, an impetus and a life have been communicated to
their policy, since they took up the quarrel on their
" own hook," which it never assumed so long as
adhesion to the strike remained unsanctioned and unsus-
r
tained by the society at large to which they belong.
otherwiselveWardttho pthhirtesumkena: !'n'
Divided from the Conference, but only in appearance,
now be said to
by a recent misunderstanding, they may
fight under the sane banner, and with a prestige their
un-
known to their previous course of action.

was the

COURT AND 'OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

'Me Royal dinner party included the Prince of Wales,
Princess Alice, Lord John Russell, and Sir James
Hudson, K.C.B.

Yesterday morning the marriage of the Hon. Edina
cr
Campbell, younest daughter of the Right Hon.,John
Campbell, LoreChaicellor, and 13aroness Stratheden,
with the Rev. William Arthur Duckworth, M.A„ son
of 'William Duckworth, of Orchelugh-parki Hampshire,
was solemnised at All Saint's ChurCh, Ennismore-place,
Princes-gate, Knightsbridge.

4 -
POST-OFFICE INQUISITION.

The following extraordinary series of questions put to
the subordinates of the Liverpool Post-office is extracted.
from a late number of the Civil Service Gazette :

Post-office, Liverpool, Aug. 24.
For Mr. who I request will carefully answer the fol-
lowing questions, for the information of the Postmaster-

1. Where do you reside ?
2. What rent do you pay ? What taxes ?
3. Do you pay the rentquarterly, monthly, or weekly
4. Have you any income beside that received in your official
capacity here, or do you can 7 on or share profits in any kind
of business? If so, state particulars.
3. What family have you ? If you have any children, state
their ages, aad whether any of them is in employment ; and,
if so, the wage. received, and by whom employed.
G. Did your expenditure for t•ie year ended 31st July last
exceed your income? If so, what amount ?
7. State as nearly as you can the principal items of expendi-
ture, and what caused the excess,

8. State the amount of your debts

owing ?

end to whom they are

9. From whom have you borrowed money during the last two
years? When did von barrow it, and has any portion of it been
repaid ? Have you undertaken to repay debts by weekly instal-
ments or otherwise ?
10. Have you le.it money to any person in this office? If so,

state his name, the amount, and when the transactitm occurred?
also, whether such money or any portion of it has been repaid?
11. Are you a boadsman for any person (whether connected
with this office or not) who has borrowed money from a loan
society 7 I f so, state his name, address, the sum you are surety
for, and when the loan was contracted • also, the name of the
society from which the loan e.-as obtained

12. 'State the elrcums ancesfuil;;,hich led to your present
pecuniary embarrassment?

" Would it not," asks the Times, "excite the angry
surprise and indignation of any Englishman to be told
that there were public departments in which the employes

were oblizec

the minutest Da

ke returns to the head clerk,
r no interest in the matter, as to

S of tili

,nei: ren

taxes; w

I week

I the rent, was paid by the quarter, the month, or the
whether they had any income beyond that
ren they had, how
)1d they were, where they were ; if the children were
employed; and, if so, what they were paid, and the
names of their employers ; if their own expenditure
exceeded their income for the last year, and, if so, how
much they owed, and to whom they were indebted; if
they had lent any money to their brother employes, or
were sureties for any one, and, if so, who that one was?
Where,' he would" ask, can this inquisition be tole-
- Is it in Austria, in Naples, or in Russia ?
)ort of the

I rated

many c

• 'l-The fact is," our contemporary adds, " that the
Post-office, which is established for the diffusion of in-
formation, seems to be possessed lately by an insatiable
thirst for knowledge for its own particular use and ends.
The proper study of mankind is man.' The proper
study of a Postmaster is a post-office clerk. We do not
say to the sufferers, • Thank Rowland Hill for this;'
for so far as our information goes, the inquisition to
which we refer has not erected the rack in any town but
Liverpool. But the document, which will be found in
another place, is said to be issued by the authority of

the Postmaster-General. We all remember that a year
ago the subordinate officers in this department were
driven into rebellion in London itself by the petty
annoyances of the authorities. "W"

not think-that he ,has in virtue of them any right to,
torture the public servants under his control. We don't
p2rmit our Nelsons to hang, our quartermasters, or our

lingtous to flog our Corne►,s of

)ureau-

cratic spirit is repugnant to our feelings

The surveil-

lance exercised abroad over all classes of citizens is not

Englishmen; it is neither neees-
We have submitted to some little
'-General without a murmur.

caprices of the Postmaste

We have consented to the introduction of a new improve-
' in the way of receiving our letters, which is now in
some measure dependant on the possession of a map
of London, or of immense local knowledge, and
of acquaintance with arbiirary geographical divisions on
the part of our correspondents. We have bored large
holes in our hall doors at his behest, and are threatened
with pains and penalties in case we don't bore more of
..,„.

them. The directions on newspapers have been the slit-
ject of a recent ukase from St. Martin's-le-Grand.
These and other indications of a despotic tendency have
been tolerated.; hitt because Mr. Rowland Hill has
won his Solferino, we really cannot permit him to tor-
ment his Italian's. If he be not responsible for the

issue of the document in question, he should at once
exercise his authority to save the officers of the Liver-
pool ,Post-office from the absurd Paul Pry who has
subjected them to such persecution. What action,
we should like to know, can be taken on the replies to
such questions ?. What authority is there on the part
of. the Postmaster to put them? Would he dare to
dismiss any officer who refused to answer them ? It
is altogether monstrous and intolerable that those who
are entitled, in the discharge of their duties, to the Con-
fidence and support of their chiefs, should be exposed to
the covert insults and degrading suspicions which are
implied by these inquiries on the part of the heads of the
Department which they serve. The Post-office May carry,
but it cannot pass, an Act of Parliament, and Mr. R.
Hill himself would have our warm support if he were
dismissed for refusing to tell the Postmaster-General

what he had for dinner. last "Sunday,' or to communi-
cate to that Minister any information as to his tailor's
residence or the amount of his rent, or how old his
eldest daughter was. We trust we shall hear no more
of such outrages on the rights of private life on the part
of the Post Office, or of any other Department."

THE LATE EXPLOSION IN EIRMINGHAIL—Fourteen
of those who perished by the sad occurence were buried
in St. Mary's churchyard on Sunday afternoon ; from
thirty to forty thousand persons are said to have been

of
po ph oi
lad
rr e do inn
C havea nbteeern-
one child dying on
present.
irulent
Friday, awary y
DIPHTHERIA.—This
within
tirillien: daaisayilte, sfaeanen family
a sy7h' e, third on Sunday
morning.

TERRIFIC EXPLOSION AT THE HEBREW COLLEGE.—
Yesterday morning Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent
of the Fire Brigade, received information that at a late
hour on the previous night a terrific explosion of gas
occurred in the Hebrew College, the property of the
London Society for Promoting Christianity among the
Jews, situate at 5, Palestine-place, Cambridge Heath.

BANKRUPTS.
John Brown, beerseller, High-street, Heaton
Charles Flegg, milliner, Great Yarmouth

Bassett Edward Leigh, merchant, Birmingham.
Thomas Wilson, farmer, Wickersley, Yorkshire.
Jacob Themans, tobacconist,- St. George's-street East.
Thomas Hustler Pars, grocer, Newmarket, St. Mary,
Suffolk.

Thomas Benjamin Blocksidge'cti9bacconist, Birmingham.
David Alexander Inglis, commission agent and porter
merchant, Liverpool.

Sipotting (*lttitigturt.

RACING FIXTURES, 1859,
OCTOBER.
Royal Caledonian Hunt and Ipswich . ...........

Perth
Bedford
Newmarket, S.O

5 kelso .............
6 Newmarket, Ti
10
__

Worcester Autumn.
Upton-on-Severn
Hereford

.. 1 Li rerPool Autumn...
.... 4 Shrewsbury Autumn

RICIIIVIOND
NG RASTAKES. CES.-TUESDAY
SAPLI

Ilpperhand ............ . ...............................
Grand Master (late Bivouac)
Four ran.
RICHMOND HANDICAP

Archduchc"
PeggyTatt..
Dilkoosh .....

lively aspect as to the
was mostly confined to
LATEST MANCHESTER BETTING.
number Our market
oafrkpeetrstoon-sd
pa yr
spresents
ba e
tvtie rnix•
Clydesdale, Marine, and North Lincoln.

C.ESAREWITCH,
9 to 1 against Artless, taken.
100 to 6 against Clydesdale, taken freely.
100 to• 6 against Petra, taken.
100 to 6 against Gaspard, off., taken 20 to 1.
105 to 5 against Marine, off., taken 100 to 1.
25 to 1 against Yorkshire Grey, taken.
100 to 3 against Vanity, offered.