The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-30 00:00:00

of allegiance to the Emperor. The closing t•ei,ion
of the asszrably was brought to a tet min itio
yesterday, the six years to which the mandate o! the,
body is limited having expired. The g..vernment
journals c attain articles insisting upon the great
claims of the defunct legislature to the esteem and
gratitude of the country. The tttal of the forty.
five persons charged with having formed a seere•
political society for the overthrow Ott the govern-
ment, has concluded. Six of the prisoners wort.
acquitted, and the others were found guilty. The
sentences are rather light, varying from six months
to three or four years imprisonment ; hut th-
lonker terms were only inflicted on a few. The
Ambassador Fxtraordinary of France to China has,
left for his destination. The law for the establish-
ment of three lines of transatlantic mail steamers
has passed the Senate. The ports of departure
are not vet settled.

It is ;Either curious to watch the inconsistent!)
of the Paris journals in being so eager to denounce
the Moldavian agents, who, it the t.ccounts art•
true, do no more than imitate the ex,amnte
set them by the Imperial Governmen. 01
France. A report is current that as the
Porte has not dismissed the Kaimakan
of Moldavia, as demanded by the French arnba-aa-
dor, the French, Russian, Prussian, and Sardinian
Commissioners will quit the Principalities unless
the demand is conceded.

The Pope's journey through his states has vet
yet presented any remarkable incident. The muni-
cipal councils of the towns through which he hail
passed had succeeded in concealing from him the
wishes of the populace. .
Despatches from Algiers to the 26th instant, are
to the effect that the French expedition corps had
attacked Bermi-Ratlen on the morning of the 23rd,
from three different directions. They captured two
positions after a two how's fight. The advance
guard had penetrated into the centre of
Another imperial ukase has been published in
the official gazette of Poland, in reference to the
return of Polish exiles, but it applies only to those
who have sought permission to avail themselves of
a previous amnesty.
Our Belgian advices inform us that one of the
most unpopular clauses in the bill relative to the
endowment of religious charitable establishments,
has been carried, atter a determined struggle in
the Chamber of Representatives, by a majority of
60 against 41. 'the excitement was so great that
the house was cleared, and the people excluded
from the debate. Out of doors much agitation
prevailed. The Pope's nuncio was very un-
popular.
From Spain we learn ,that the Mexican envoy
has not yet been received by the Queen, and the
arrangement of the differences between the two
Governments has, it is said, encountered fresh
difficulties. It is stated that the Spanish authori-
ties at the Phillipines will be directed
to place stores of all kinds at the
disposal of the British and French ships of war in
the Chinese Seas. The address has passed the
Senate by a majority of 96 against 16. O'Donnell,
San Miguel, and Serrano voted in the minority.
The West India mail steamer Wye arrived at
Southampton yesterday from the West Indies,
having left St. Thomas, May 4th, She brings two
passengers, seven invalids, and a full cargo of
bark, cochineal, &a., but no mails.
The Vectis with the India and China mails,
arrived at Marseilles yesterday morning. The
letters for England were despatched at ten o'clock.

DIVINKS as well as Doctors differ in opinion.
Lawyers, too, agree among themselves to dispute

'or and against a proposition, for pay, irrespective

of its truth or falsehood. Never was the accuracy
of this statement better verified than by the legal

harangues which Mr. Sergeant WRANGRAM has
been making before a select Committee of the
House of Commons, in support of that audacious

project, termed the Mersey Conservancy Bil

We have already 'called this proposed measure a

Liverpool Town Dues Bill in miniature. It is
an attempt to introduce a wedge, chiseled in
Manchester, for the purpose of cna'oling the
" Cotton Lords" of that city to exercise a control
in the affairs of the Borough of Liverpool. From
what we know of the magnates of that episcopal

metropo'is, we are convinced that their interfer-
ence would be a calamity, the consequences of
which it would be impossible to tell.
The primary argument of the learned Sergeant
is fallacious. It sets out with a mis-statement.

The Liverpool Docks are not public property.
The royal grants, upon which the Liverpool
Town Dues are founded, have been left out o

consideration, and it would seem that what was
actually purchased and paid for, is to be
surrendered to the avarice and cupidity of a herd
of mercenary commercial adventurers. Had the
people of Manchester paid for the power and
privilege of levying dues—aye, or even providing
Dock accommodation---at Liverpool, they might
with a good grace go to Parliament and say—
we desire to obtain a right and title to control
and regulate the national wharves of Great Britain
and Ireland. What means the learned Sergeant
when he talks of "anomalous privilege,' by way
of enforcing the right of the merchants of Man-
chester, Bolton, London, New York, and God
knows where else, to tell us how we should
regulate our own trust. Does Mr. Sergeant
WRANGHANI or his instructor, Mr. HERON, the
Town Clerk of Manchester ever reflect—sup-
posint their argument good for anything, which
we dispute—that what they have conjured up as
a national wrong, is but a simple evil, when taken
individually ?
Sergeant WRANGHAM tells us that he was
not there to oppose the extinction of this or
that due, but to support the principle that
whatever dues were levied upon the trade of
Liverpool—import or export—should be applied
to the benefit of the port and its trade, and
not used as a means to avert the. imposition of
a Borough Rate, Nevertheless he afterwards
admits the legality of the Tows Dues, but
contends that they were granted subject to a
a regulation compelling the Corporation to
maintain the port and to keep•access thereto
to all points free and open. This, then, forms
the principal object of the Mersey Conservancy
Bill. The people of Manchester and th.-:
promoters of this bill step forward, and in
effect say—" We can manage your municipal
affairs better than you can do yourselves. The
docks of Liverpool, although erected by private
enterprise and money are national property. We,
as manufacturers, have a deeper interest in them
than you have, so we must regulate and control
their management." •It does not require any
lengthened statement or argument to prove the
absurdity of such an ides, nor to show