The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-01 00:00:00

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The monthly meeting of the Town Council will
be held to day. At the adjourned meeting on the
11th inst., Mr. Alderman Cooper stated to the
Council that the Water Committee had not had
sufficient time allowed them to report upon the
statements put forth in the memorial of the inha-
bitants of the town to the Council, concerning the
Pike Water. We presume that at to-day's meeting
Mr. Cooper will bring up the report of the Water
Engineer, to whom they had referred the memorial,
and his answer or reply ought, seeing that he has
bad seven weeks for the preparation of it, set at
west all the uneasiness and dissatisfaction which
has hitherto prevailed respecting this much vexed
question, The engineer is also to submit to the
Council samples of both the Pike and red sand-
stone water, and he will do doubt prove, to his own
satisfaction at least, that the quantity and quality
of the former is far superior to that of the latter.
The report to be made to day will, however,
enlighten us on this point.
The elections are proceeding. At Glasgow, yes-
terday, Mr. Hastie, who has represented the city.
for several years past, was rejected, the successful
candidates being Messrs. Buchanan and Dalglish.
Dublin University has re-elected Messrs. Hamilton
and Napier. Mr. Cardwell has not been returned
for Oxford. The rejection of Messrs. Cobden,,
Bright, and Gibson, has attracted much attention.
on the Continent. The Paris Presse remarks that the
" English elections are going on with rapidity, and
we are already acquainted with a third of the

results. They prove to be both a victory of the
Liberal party, over the Conservative party,
and a personal triumph for Lord Palmerston.
The personal success of Lord Palmerston
consists above all in the check sustained by
some of his most remarkable and most meritorious
adversaries. If Gladstone and Roebuck have been
re-elected, Cobden, Bright, Gibson, and Layard
have lost their seats." To this list of the Peace
party must be added Mr. Miall, but on the whole,
as far as those principles go, the late hon. member
for Rochdale can be well spared. He belongs to an
impracticable section in British politics. He is a
noninterventionist, a " peace at almostauy price "
man, a' voluntary on the education question, the
advocate of sweeping changes in Church and State.
The case of Mr. Cardwell is different, according to
a ministerial print of last night, which says :—" No
one can doubt that he fell on account of his vote
on the Turkish Loan ; and his late conversion to
Liberalism. When at the hustings he was
pressing on the electors that the China question
involved the lives and properties of British sub.
jects, somebody called put—' lives and properties
which you allowed to be sacrificed.' When he made a
merit of resisting Mr. Roebuck's Crimean inquiry
motion, and said that it was not English to
decide a case behind the backs of men three thou-
sand miles away, his audience shouted--` You
condemned Sir John Bowring when he was ten
thousand miles away !' and the retort struck home.
English feeling came out strongly and decidedly,
and not without sensations of triumph Oxford city
elected two Liberals, and did credit to her inde-
pendence. But we regret the decision, since it
deprives so able a man as Mr. Cardwell of
his seat in Parliament." In another column
will be found the latest intelligence in reference to
the Kidderminster voting. It would appear that
Kidderminster has endeavoured to take universal
suffrage by storm ; it ballots with brickbats, and
would unseat by lapidation.
A Palmerston journal, of. last night, gives the
Ministerial gains, so far, at 43, and the losses at
21, making a net Ministerial gain of 22.
We give, this morning, a full report of the pro-
ceedings at the Liverpool and Chester Assizes. It
will be seen that Begley, the man who was charged
with committing the garrotte robbery upon Mr
Saxby, of Rock Ferry, was discharged at Chester,
a kind of alibi on the part of the prisoner being
proved. The case Bushel v. Norman, in the Chester
Nisi Prins Court, we would recommend to the notice
of our readers, showing, as it does, the practises at
what was called the " Wapentake Court of the
Hundred of Wirral."

The fortnightly meeting of the Select Vestry was
held yesterday, but the proceedings were merely of
a routine character. Mr. Woodruff called atten-
tion to the frequency of cases of wife desertion.
From Paris we have ad vices stating that a report
prevails that the intervention of the British and
French Governments for the arrangement of the
existing differences between Austria and Sardinia
has been favourably received, and it is to be hoped
diplomatic relations will be restored sooner than
was expected. The Austrian Government has
been gratified to find that Sardinian subjects in
Austria were placed under the protection of the
French Ambassaddr, as it was feared Count Cavour
would have claimed the offices of the Russian
Minister.

There are hints thrown out that the great Rus-
sian railway scheme is quietly waiting for the
termination of the election excitement in England
to pounce on the unfortunate money markets of
Europe. The projectors of the scheme have laid
their plans with consummate skill, and as far as
France is concerned the bait will take ; let us hope
that the English public will for once be
cautious and prudent. The great "rig" is to
be worked on the Bourse, where speculators
and under-brokers are prepared to send up
the scrip to an immediate premium. In order to
facilitate this measure the smallest possible number
of shares will be allotted to France. The 600,000
shares will be thus divided :—Russia, Stieglitz, of
St. Petersburg—S Fraenkel, of Warsaw, 225,000 ;
London, Baring Brothers, 170,000 ; Amsterdam.
Hope and Co., 70,000 ; Berlin, Mendelsohn and
Co., 10,000 ; Paris, Hottingeur and Co., 25,000
ten other firms, chiefly connected with the Credit
Mobilier, 100,000.
With respect to the Neufchatel 'affair, we are
informed that the Conference will not again meet
before Saturday ; also that the instructions de-
manded by Dr. Kern are not likely to give rise to
new difficulties, inasmuch as the principal point
now in discussion is a demand made by the King
of Prussia for a sum of 2,000,000 f for arrears of his
domains in the canton since 1848

There is not much additional regarding the
Danish question. An interview took place at
Vienna on the 25th instant .between Baron de
Budberg, Russian Ambassador, and Count de
Buol. The Russian Minister represented the
danger that would be incurred were that question
submitted to the Diet, and he endeavoured to
prove the advisability of settling it in a general
conference of the great Powers. Count de Buol
replied that the fact of the King of Denmark being
represented in the Diet removed all fears of
danger. The question will be certainly laid before
the Diet:

It appears that the order to emancipate the
Press in the Danubian Principalities has alarmed
the Austrian Government.

We have Madrid journals to the 26th March, but
their contents are not of importance. The govern-
ment had raised the state of siege of Granada,
Malaga, and Valencia, but not either in Catalonia
or Aragon. In the elections at Madrid, the Pro.
gressist candidates—MM. Olozaga, Asensio,
Patrico de la Escosura, General Prim, and Marquis
Perales—had been defeated by large majorities.
We have intelligence from Constantinople to the
23rd inst. It includes a repetition of the statement
of the defeat of the Russians by the Circassians,
which, however, still wants confirmation. Quite as
important a piece of news, if it be true, is that the
Turkish Grand Vizier had officially declared his
intention to confiscate the property and expel the
persons of all Mussulman subjects who should
refuse payment of military subsidies under pretence
of being under foreign protection.
The Valetta, with the India mails, arrived at
Marseilles yesterday, and they are expected in
London in time for despatch to the provinces by
the morning mails of to morrow (Thursday).
By the "Etna, which arrived here yesterday, we
have a day's later news from the United States, but
it is not of the least importance.

Now that the excitement of the election is
over, and in a way which is creditable to the
town of Liverpool by the return of two gentle-
men highly respected and trusted by their
fellow-townsmen, there will be time to look into
that disgraceful series of nefarious transactions
connected with the Necropolis. We hope that
the committee which has been appointed to
investigate this matter will spare no pains to get
at the real facts of the case, and will enter into
no compromise, hear of no half-and-half
measures, but, remembering the duty they owe
to the public, will stop short of nothing less than
the simple truth, and the exposure of the delin-
quents, whoever they be.
What we published in our columns about a
fortnight ago, revealed enough of what is shock-
ing and abominable. We do not desire to
forestall the judgment of the committee, or the
verdict of the public, who will pronounce impar-
tially when the whole case is before them. We
do not assume to say who fraudulently pocketed
the money, who were enriching themselves at
the expense of the ignorant and the innocent
that consigned the remains of their departed
imagined, to a resting-place
relatives, as they
that would not be violated, but we may he
allowed at least to suggest that there are some