The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-31 00:00:00

GRAHAM has intimated as much to the elector
of Carlisle.

On these grounds we rejoice that the late Pa-I
liament was dissolved. Constituted as it was, it
was perfectly powerless for good, whilst the
several political sections of which it was coin-
-posed possessed in an -eminent degree the power
to retard the progress .of wholesome and salutary
legislation.

We see in the election returns, which reach us
every hour, the complete prostration of Toryism
as it was. The people's cause appears to be
triumphant everywhere; and, when the tiouse
of Commons meets in the beginning of May,
there will be such an assemblage of thorough
Liberals, that he would be a bold, a reckless, and
a deficient Minister who would gainsay their
demands for a thorough regeneration of the repre-
sentation of the people, and the enactment of
such laws as will secure the prosperity and hap-
piness of the nation in every thing that relates to
its intellectuality, morality, and the social scale.

FANCY DAESS BALL.—We are glad to learn that the late
Fancy Dress B ill, at St. George's Hall, realiied for the
public charitiet, in whosa aid it was held, the handsome
sum of £B5O. This is exclusive of all expenses, many of
which were rather heavy, and it has been distributed as
follows:—Royal Infirmary, £250 ; North Dispensary,
£l5O ; South Dispensary, £150; Northern Hospital, £150;
add Southern Hospital, £l5O. We also understand that,
at the meeting of the committee for the distribution of the
money, a vote of thanks was un tnimowely passed to Major
Greig, and the police generally, for the efficiency of their
arrangements on the night of the ball. All who witnessed
those arrangements were, at the time, loud and unanimous
in their praise of them ; and we feel assured that the
public of Liverpool will admit that no compliment was ever
better merited than that now paid by the ball committee
to Major Greig, his officers, and mcn.

A splendid banquet was given by the Scots Fusilier
Guards at the London Tavern on Saturday evening.
Covers were laid for 40. Among the company were
Colonels Moncrieffe, Ridley, Seymour, Walker, C.B ,
Rotnillv, Stephenson ; Lieutenant Colonels Neville,
Hon. W. Scarlett, Hon. R. Charteris ; General Knollys
Captains Farquharson, White, Moore, Viscount Kirkwall,
Rouse, Hay, Lambton, Wheatley ; Majors Lindsay,
Fraser, kitley, Gipps, G ge.

THE BELGIAN Tnoors AT WATEaLoo.—An interesting
ceremony took place at Brussels on Tuesday. A
committee of patriotic Belgians, including M. Van School.,
a member of the Senate, and several members of the
Chamber of Representatives, waited upon General Renard
and presented him with a sword of honour, in acknow-
ledgment of the service which he has rendered his country
by refuting, in a series of letters in the Independence Beige,
the accusaious brought by certain foreign historians
against the conduct of the Belgian troops at the battle of
Waterloo. The general remarked that there was really
no foundation for that cal.anny, which only or!ginated in a
half jesting :in an obscure English cotemporary
pimphlet, and had been incautiously adopted by later
aus hors.

Vice Admiral of the Blue Sir Barrington Reynolds,
K.C.R., is nomi:-ated to succeed Admiral of the White
Sir William Parker, G e. 8., as Commander in Chief on.
the Plymouth station.
INTERNATIONAL DRAMATIC COPYRIGHT.—We read in
.the Messenger des Theatres that orders havo been sent by
the French French Ambassador in London, and to the French
consular agents in England, to adopt immediate measures
necessary to protect the interests of the French dramatic
au!hors.

ELECTION OF AN ARCHBISHOP.-Oa Friday the parish
priests of the diocese of Cashel proceeded to elect a successor,
subject to the fiat of the Holy See, to the late Archbishop
Slattery. The result was as follows :—Very Rev Dr, Leahy,
Vice President to the Catholic Univers;ty," prinzus Very
Rev. Dr. Renehan, President of Maynooth, secumfus ; Very
Rev. Dr. Hensley, terlius.

LORD; PALMERSTON AND WALMESBURY.—Lord Pahners_
ton has returned the following rcnly to Lord Malmesbury's
letter of the 25th inst. : —" 91, Piccadilly, March 25.—My
dear Lord Malmesbury,—l have received this evening
your letter of this day. I have nei!her time nor inclination
to renew the China debate. I have used a right which I
do not deem myself deprived of by my official position, to
express publicly my opinion-of the conduct of public men
on an occasion of no small public importance, and I have
nothing to retract or to qualify.—Yours faithfully,
PALMERSTON—The Earl of Malmesbury."
PaBVENTING STEAM-BOILER EXPLOSIONS —Mr. J.
Knowelden, Southwark, has invented some improvements in
apparatus for preventing steam boiler explosions, which consist
in using two valves thus arranged :—On the top of and con-
nected to one of the valves is jointed the, end Of I a lever,
which in the direction of its length passes over and
rests upon the top of a second valve, which at times
acts as fulcrum to: the ' lever Ft orn the top
of the first named valve, and above the lever
joint; proceeds a spindle, the top of which works in a guide
screwed into the top of a chamber or box which encloses the
valves ,this chamber or box having a slot in it to allow the lever
to pass through, the valves being locked up in the box, the
weighs. and portion of lever only being on the outside on the
top of the first named valve to which the lever is joined; and
fitting loosely round the spindle proceeding from the same.
A. spiral spring is fixed, one end of which presses against
the snindle guide on the top of chamber, the other pressing
on the valve with a force equal to double the working
pressure of steam desired. On the end of the lever is
pla'ed the weight in the usual manner, which acts in the
ordinary way upon the second valve.—Mining Journal._
The Pre se says in its weekly commercial review : Trade
shows a gradual tendency to revive from the state of 'atrophy
into which it has been plume I for many months. Stocks
hove b ame so low that dealers can no longer postpone
m,king purchases, and the -consequence is that many articles
which have been long stagnant, have experienced a sudden
r.,e3 in price. The noueewees shops• have begun to show
their spring patterns, and an active sale may be looked
for within the first fortnight of April. Business is still
paralysed at Rotten and Mulhouse;-on -account of -the
dearness of raw materials, but advices from Roubaix
St. Q tentie, Rheims, and Amiens, are satisfactory.
Woollen stuffs mixed with cotton now come into very
serious competition with Rouen goods, so- much so. that
some of the Rouen houses are thinking of changing.
the nature of their manufactures, Very few orders fur
Amerrca have as yet be-n received at Lyons, but most of
the factories have work in hand for six weeks to supply the
Paris demand. The rise in. raw silks is checked. Large
purchases have been made in China silks at London, and
this commodity is now pretty abundant both at Lyons and
Marseillfs. There is a considerable fall in leather iu the
Paris market. Corn is again lower.
• Poottamism.—When Martin Chuulewit met that remar_
able man, Edjah Pogram, on board the Mississippi steamer,
_ill the passengers expected him to fall down and- worship
the author of !he Pagram Defiarc?. Martin had never
heard of the Pogram Defiance; but that emintn. states-
wan did not long delay giving him a specimen of the- styre.
A. Rough he may he," cried the . patriot—" so air our
B ire. Wild he may be—so air our Buffeters. But he is a
Child of Natur, and a Child of Freedom ; and his boastful
-newer to the Despot and the Tyrant is, that his Bright
Home is .the Set tin' San." - " Part of this," observes Mr.
Dickens, "referred to Cr oflop, at'd part to a We-tern
postmaster, who, being a public defaulter not long before,
had been removed from office, and whose behalf Pogram
had thundered the last sentence, from his seat in Congress,
at the head of an unpopular president." Now, it is very
well for us to laugh at E ijeh Pogram and his admirers ;
but we ask seriouly, are we not at this very moment
living under the dominion of pure Pogramism ? It is totally
impossible to get a reasonable answer to a reasonable ques-
tion on any political subject whatever. If we propose to
discuss Sir J. Bowring we are told—" Though he may be
r ugh, so-air our hairs. But he is a child of Freedom
and a child of Nature. And if you wish to say anything
more, sir, on the Chinese question, then my boastful answer
to you is—that my bright home is in the settin' sun." It is
no use saying, " Well, what then ?" Pogramism is too strong
for us. It rules with a rod of iron. If we ask, how about
peace, or retrenchment, or reform, or anything else, it is always
the same thing—Pogram tells us that his "bright home is in
the settin' sun." And so we are cornered: The answer is
conclusive, and we had better say no more about it.—Saturday
Review.