The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-26 00:00:00

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THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

In our columns of this morning will be found a
list of the boroughs and counties in which the no-
m:nations for the ensuing election have already been
fixed. Out of 174 of the former nominations, 148
takes pla!e on Friday, 9 to day, and 14 on Satur-
day. We have but little to add to the news already
published respecting the coming contests. At a
general meeting of the electors of Cripplegatc
(city of London), on yesterday afternoon,
a resolution was proposd in favour of
Lord John Russell for the city, whereupon an
amendment was moved in favour of four com-

mercial candidates, but it was lost by a large
majority, and the original resolution was carried
by an almost unanimous. vote. Lord and Lady
Palmerston have left London for Tiverton, at
which place the nomination is fixed for Friday.
Of course there is no opposition to his lordship.
Mr. Massey, the under secretary of stale, has
again appeared before the electors of Salford, ar.d
he seems to have little chance of being returned.
He professed Radical principles, at Salford,
after having attempted to coalese with
the Tories at Newport, and deserves to
be defeated. Mr. John George Phillimore has
retired from the contest at Leominster. He
justifies his vote on the Canton motion, declaring
that whatever his future lot may be, " as often as
he reflects on that vote he shall feel a consolation
which no external honours can bestow." The
meeting at Halifax of the electors and non electors
of the borough was a very turbulent one, and Sir
Charles Wood could not get through his address,
and the meeting was declared at an end amidst
the utmost-confusion.

A meeting of the trustees of the Necropolis was
held yesterday, but reporters were denied admit-
tance. It is understood that a meeting is about
to take place between the Trustees and the Com-
mittee appointed by the friends of persons intered
th ere.

A full report of the proceedings at the Assize
Courts, also the weekly meeting of the West
Derby Boai•d of Guardians, and other matters
will be found at length in another portion of to-
day's paper.
It would appear that tardy justice has been
rendered to the Crimean Commissioners, if we can
call it justice. In consequence of the recent vote
of the House of Commons, Sir John M'Neill is to
be made a Privy Councillor, having made choice
of that honour out of two placed at his option.
Colonel Tulloch, it is said, will be made a Civil
K.C.B

The intelligence from the Continent this morn
ing is of rather an interesting description. Le
Nord foresees a possibility of certain dynastic
complications in Italy. In case of the death of
the Infant Duke of Parma, the territory, under
existing European treaties, would have to be
divided between Austria and Sardinia, and should
the present Duke of Modena, who has no issue,
die without children, the Duchy would revert to
Austria, unless it could be shown that the Salic
Law does not exist in Modena.

The rupture of diplomatic relations between the
Courts of Vienna and Turin is complete ; the
Sardinian Minister, the Marquis di Cantero, and
the Legation has been recalled from Vienna, and
the interests of Piedmontese subjects entrusted to
the Ambassador of France. It is still believed in
Paris with confidence that the friendly representa-
tions of England and France will speedily succeed
in smoothing over this quarrel, which has no
serious origin, and cannot, without great provoca-
tion on the part of one of the two Powers, lead te
any more serious result than the temporary rupture
of diplomatic relations.

The evacuation of the Danubian Principalities
by the Austrians is complete. The squadron of
Lord Lyons was at anchor opposite Constantinople
on the 16th instant. The time fixed for its with-
drawal from the Turkish waters is the 31st. The
latest intelligence from Constantinople informs us
that fearful storms had been raging in the Black
Sea, and the commerce of the port of Ajaccio had
alone lost eleven vessels near Varna. It appears that
Mehemet Bey (Colonel Bangya), on landing with
his troops from the Kangaroo, was met by several
Circassian chiefs, and by upwards of 350 Polish or
Russian deserters. He will, it is expected, speedily
see himself at the bead of a strong body of dis
ciplined Europeans, who will form the vanguard in
the future operations of the Circassians
against Russia. In Persia civil war seems
to be the order of the day. The Kurds, who
owe allegiance to the Shah, had risen and taken
prisoner the Governor of Kurdistan, who is uncle
to the Shah ; they threatened him with death in
the event of a ransom not speedily appearing, and
his troops, composed of irregular cavalry, instead
of defending him, had formed themselves into
bands of brigands, and were ravaging the country.
On the other hand,the troops ordered into AfTghan
istan had mutinied.

Our Paris advices inform us that the Emperor
Napoleon and Marshall Bandon, Governor General
of Algeria, have arranged the plan of an expedition
on a small scale against the Kabyles. The Coun-
cil of State has been authorised to prepare the
elements for the organization of a new Imperial
nobility.
The Austrian government has paid an indemnity
to the Austrian-Danubian Steam Company, for the
loss of its monoply. A new system of fortified
positions is about to be introduced into Austria,
and the smaller forts and field works erected in
Gallacia during the war, will all be demolished
A Vienna correspondent notices the inconsistency
of Austrian writers who question the right of
Sardinia to arm and strengthen the fortifications
of Alessandria, when it is notorious that the
Austrian fortresses at Mantua, Verona, and else..
where in Italy, have been rendered nearly twice as
strong as they were in 1848.
As intimated in our telegraphic news in yester-
day's publication, the Neufchatel Conference has
resumed its sittings ; and, with respect to the
conditions laid down by the King of Prussia, as
lately published, despatches from Berlin deny
their authenticity. All that is stipulated for is a
general amnesty and the maintenance of the
benevolent institutions. So says the Prussian
official journal ; and, if this be correct, the King
shows more moderation than he got credit for.
The quarrel between Denmark and the German
Corin3deration becomes more embittered, and it is
even said that Russia, which aides with Demark,
is prepared to oppose any action on the part of
the Confederation. The cloud may, gather. While
Denmark thus asserts absolute sovereign rights
over the Duchies, she derides as a " dream" the
idea of a Scandinavian union among the nations of
that race.

Madrid advices, of a late date, state that it is
anticipated that the state of siege will, without
fail, be raised all over Spain previously to the
general elections. It is feared that the eff irts of
the Mexican Envoy, M. Lafragna, to settle in on
amicable manner the dispute between Spain and
Mexico, will fail, in consequence of the Spanish
government being impressed with the conviction
of President Comonfort's impotence to carry out,
in the present state of Mexico, any satisfat.:tory
arrangements that might be concluded.

FOR his remarks at the meeting of the Irish
Church Missionary Society on Monday even-
ing, Dr. M'NEILE deserves, according to his own
request, to be gibbeted in every print and news-
paper in Liverpool that appreciates a Christian
spirit, and is willing to concede to our opponents
the same rights of conscience which we claim for
ourselves. We are informed that if we are
earnest we must be bigoted. Easy liberal men
don't care about religion. It is your red-hot zealot
who alone is in earnest. " He (Dr. M'NEILE)
" would no more talk of Romanism having a
" chance of being true, than other gentlemen
" would talk of the Reform Bill being wrong."
Now, we do not blame Dr. MWEILE for express,
ing his real opinion of those who differ from
him; it is the tone and temper which we feel to
be un-Christian and unlovely. The absurdity o
the thing is, that while denouncing the infallibi-
lity of Rome, he assumes his own. He seems
unaware that he is merely delivering an opinion.
not dictating an oracle ; and that the Roman
Catholic priests have just the same logical right
to call him an apostate priest from the truth as
held by their church, that he has to call them by
the same flattering title. How long shall this
miserable and detestable spirit of denunciation

and calling each other bad names take credit
to itself for earnestness, and walk abroad in
the garb of Christianity ? Was it thus that the
founder of Christianity treated his antagonists ?
Is this the way that any modest and humble man
would treat those opposed to him ?
The truculent spirit of Dr. M'NEILE'S in-
vectives against Roman Catholics has long been a
public nuisance in society, This reverend de-
claimer seems to think he has a mission to
preach bitterness and bigotry against his
fellow-Christians, whose only crime is to
differ from the infallible Doctor in the
interpretation of Scripture. And it must be
owned he labourslin his vocation right worthily.
We approve of calling a spade a spade, and
we should defend even Dr. 11/PNEItE's right
freely and unreservedly to utter his true con-
viction ; but in speaking what we really believe,
it is not necessary to forget the courtesy of the
gentleman or the charity of the Christian
To be sure, it is revealed to us by the rev.
Doctor, that Truth is intolerant, and that
earnestness is bigoted. But the revelation is
false, and the doctrine is Satanic. Truth is
tolerant, for she recognises the equal rights of
all to think freely and honestly—even to think
wrong, till evidence set the understanding right.
The Liverpool merchants may have very earn-
est convictions respecting tea, sugar, and cotton;
but as gentlemen, we assume they agree to differ
from each other; they do not assume that they
must be right, and that others differing from them
are certainly wrong ; and we trust none of these
gentlemen would use the violent and undignified
language of the arch-priest of all intolerance.
Of course we expect nothing else from Dr.
IVINErLE ; he feels that he deserves to be gib-
beted; he speaks according to the gift that is in
him; but we think it right, for the sake of public
morals, and the purity of the English language,
that such theological " Billingsgate" should be
rebuked as it deserves.

Who is this reverend declaimer, that
the usages and the language of gentlemen
should be laid aside, in order that he
may vent his narrow bigotries and his foul-
mouthed invectives against men whose only
crime is to differ_in opinion from him ? Let him
express his dissent from Romanism, and in the
strongest English, but let him remember that he
must still speak as an erring, though earnest man;
let him not forget that hediffers as much from the
Romanists as they differ from him. This is what
the Doctor always forgets or seems unaware of.
He opens his mouth as Sir Oracle, and then no dog
must bark. Now, all this would be ridiculous,
if it were not something worse. It is melan-
choly to see a man filling Dr. IVPNEILE'S posi-
tion in the Chnrch, as by law estab-
lished, so constantly acting the fire-brand,
scattering about evil names and bitter accusa-
tions; and instead of acting as a minister of
Christ, to bring all men to the temper of Jesus
the meek and lowly, acting rather as if he felt
that he must sting, and wound, and embitter,
and stir up feelings of all uncharitableness. We
would solemnly ask the rev. gentleman to put
the iquestion to his own solitary conscience,
whether he is deporting himself as a minister of
that religion which is peace and good will to