Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-24 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1857•

under the Act. He had already taken the benefit
on four previous occasions, in 1840, 1842, 1840,
1855, and had also been once a bankrupt. His wife
possessed a separate income of £BOO a year, but
the insolvent attributed his present difficulties to
" pettifogging lawyers, bill discounters, and young
ladies." Mr. Commissioner Murphy thought Mr.
Michael deserving of some punishment, and
ordered him to be imprisoned for six months from
the date of the vesting order.
The Bishop of Oxford has delivered, at Reading,
a long lecture in support of foreign missions. With
respect to India, he strongly denounced the sanc-
tioning and maintenance by the British authority
there of the native superstitions, affirming the true
interpretation of the cause of England's recent
disasters to be that ‘` England has been false to
England's faith, and timid of avowing England's
God."

The Austria, steamer transport, has returned to
Plymouth with damaged machinery. The 94th
Regiment were on board.
Continental correspondents continue .to diseant
upon the question of the Danubian Principalities
A Paris correspondent, in alluding to the warlike
preparations of the Porte, mentions the opinion of
diplomatists that the Sultan wishes by a military
display to impose upon the European Conference
which is to meet at Paris by the end of this or at
!he beginning of next year. Turkey, therefore,
acknowledges the protection bfforded tn her by the
Powers of the West in being the first State who
changes the cause of the Danubian Principalities
from a diplomatic to a military question.
With regard to the affairs of the North, we hear
of a proposed alliance between the kingdoms of
Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Such an alliance
is no new idea. Already, in the autumn of last
year, the Swedish Crown Prince offered to the Court
of Cope-.111-agen a treaty, according to which Sweden
would send an auxiliary corps of 10,000 men to
Schleswig incase of an attack from the side of the
Germanic confederation.

The Federal Diet has not yet come to a resolu-
tion on the question of the Duchies of Holstein
and Lmenberg. It has sent the propositions of
the estates of the latter Du thy, and of the German
Powers, to Copenhagen, calling upon the Danish
Government to reply to tha remonstrance of its
s thjects.
A letter from Kehl of. Nov. 16, says that a Count
Ortowski, a Hungarian major, has been arrested
there. Several false passports and revolutionary
writings were found in his portmanteau.
We have been furnished with a telegraphic
despatch put on board the Persia as she passed
Sandy Honk, some thirty miles-from New York, on
the evening of the 11th inst., to the effect that the
new constitution in Mexico has been suspended,
and Comonfort declared dictator. Campeachy had
surrendered to the government forces. The whole
of Yucatan was in arms.

THE trader is comparatively safe for the present
moment. Every section of the commercial
community hope for the return of a better state
of things, and they are right in upholding public
confidence. But the mischief has extended to
another and more numerous class of society. The
working population have been thrown out of
employment, and they are asse:nbling in
numbers in many parts of the country to
consider the best means of obtaining relief. At
Nottingham the authorities propose to give work
to the unemployed operatives in the construction
of roads. In other inland districts, where
the numbers and sufferings of the unemployed
are still greater, the famine expedient has not
been mooted. Tile threatening aspect of affairs.
does not seem to be viewed in the same
light in nll the densely populated counties which
are -exposed to the common danger. It is to be
hoped, however, that the Cabinet are not looking
with apathy and indifference on the winter we
have before us. A very few days may add the re,
lentless severity of winter, to the worst tali eries of
idleness• Three years ago our merchants and
traders had it in their power to relieve their
unemployed fellow-townsmen ; but who can put
money down fur the same charitable purpose this
year ? No reliance can be placed on private
bounty, under the existing circumstances of
trade. Those who had it in 1854 have it not now,
and if they had, all they could. give would only
be like a drop added to the ocean. Moreover,
the coming distress will not be confined to this
or that locality. It will be universal, and in
such cases, it is ;he duty of the State to devis e
means of relief.

Trade was never more healthy than it was two
months ago, according to the London Times, and
the special organs of the Government. That trade
has vanished. It exists no longer, except in name.
Men in business have contrived to pay from six
to eight per cent. discount for tea years, and ho
they have done it must ever remain a mystery to
the uninitiated; but they cannot pay ten per cent.,
and no wan would attempt it, except to make his
downfall certain. Labour—skilled and unskilled
—cannot be employed at the Whig rate of dis-
count. Who will risk his name on paper which
is to be decimated by way of recognising and
testing its real worth ? Who will open a mid to
make fortunes for money lenders of PEEL'S and
JONES LLOYD'S creation ? Working men cannot
expect their former liberal employers to ruin
themselves by borrowing money on usurious
terms, nor can they really get it at ten per cent
ven. The truth is, that, borrowing money in the
legitimate course of trade is virtually prohibited
by law. The Bank of England may enlarge
their issues at the risk of their Charter, if they
think .proper, and the Government can give them
power to afford relief to trade by taking the
chances of obtaining an indemnity for the Bank
from Parliament. But what has ten per cent.
discount to do with a concession to n itional
exigencies, which admit of no parley ? Why
couple relief to trade with wholesale commer-
cial destructi)n ? The whole country are well
aware that the Builionists cannot pay their
contracts in gold, and that they have only.
eighteen pence,. of cash, in the pound, to meet
their promises.
The commercial public are ready, neverthe-
less, to receive 20,000,090/. of legal tender notes
at a fair mercantile rate of interest. Give them
this amount at 41 or 5 per cent., and employ-
ment will be speedily restored, and we shall
not be driven into the calamities of famine in
the midst of plenty. Less than 20,000,0001.
will not now suffice to place trade on a solid
barbs, from which it has been so inconsiderately

hurled by unjust laws unwisely administered.
This plain, unvarnished, Saxon language, may
jar on the half self-refined ears of some of our
cotemporaries, but they must bear it. The
Poltroon—who is too idle to think, and too lazy
to write—who, modestly engrafts on the
work of other men's brains the most solemn
assurances that " the country is in no danger,"
and " things are looking better," reminds us of
BARNEY O'REARDEN, who, when he had lost his
way in his little hooker, undertook to pilot a
ship. The very heart of the nation is immersed
in the deepest misery, and the very heavens are,
at this season, full of incalculable dangers
Disguising these palpable facts can serve no
moral or honest political end. Our rulers must
be told the true position in which the country is
placed, that they may look the real dangers of the
times full in the face, and be enabled to devise
prompt and adequate means of relief.
The first, and indeed the only thing we
want, is money at a mercantile rate of in-
The impossibility of limiting the
commerce of England to a metallic currency,
is now, it is to be hoped, self-evident. A sub-
stitute must therefore be found, to enable us to
carry on our domestic trade—and we only know,
of one human necessity, which calls for the issue of
a given amount of money at all times, and which
brings with it an imperative and never-varying
demand for the supply it requires.
We need scarcely say that this universal
want is taxation. There is no greater scourge
when it is not properly understood, and no
greater source of strength and prosperity when
rationally employed. It places in the hands of
the Sovereign the power of bestowing on the
subject the means of obtaining all those first
necessaries of life, which enter so largely into
the production of the works of man's skill in the
arts and sciences, and all the other pursuits from
which wealth and comfort are derived. The use
of this power identifies the Throne with
all the vital interests of its people, and
renders even the abuses of a State a source
of increased prosperity to a nation. We have
witnessed this in the prosperity this country en-
joyed, when the most prodigal budgets were
tolerated in order to carry on bootless and san-
guinary wars. The State threw no discredit on
the. British one pound note, or commercial paper
of the realm. PEEL and JONES LLOYD, were the
first men of notoriety who dared to slander the
national integrity and commercial honesty of
Great Britain. They were the first to sow
the seeds of universal distrust, and to call for
taxation in a foreign product, and out of the
money of commerce. One of the authors of
the miseries which have fol'owed this folly, if we
may use such a charitable expression, has lived,
fortunately, to witness the terrible end of his
handy wcrk. To the miser, ten per cent. may
be dearer than his country's salvation, but ten
per cent. for credit notes worth only eighteen
pence in the pound, is equal to demanding over
130 percent. for an "entirely metallic currency,"
and the Crown will surely never require the
citizen to 'pay taxes in metallic money at such a
preposterous rate of interest. Her Majesty's
Ministers may not see the bearing the present rate
of interest has on taxation ; but it is to be hoped
that there are statesmen about our Queen, who,
will not disguise the condition the country is in,
and the the utter impossibility of our escaping
a winter of intense suffering and unprecedented
danger, except by making taxation the basis of
our paper currency, and throwing the estimated
amount of the next quarter's revenue into circu-
lation in the form of legal tender, without the
least possible delay. Bullion theories have done
their work, and any man who will manfully resist
their visitation, re-establish the commercial cre-
dit of the Empire, on what we must, we blush to
say it, call its " good' old Tory" basis will deserve
the undivided support of every honest and rational
man in the community, let his poLtics be what
they may. Finally, we would ask Statesmen
to consider the helpless condition we are in,
without money, while Europe is bristling with
bayonets. And we now say to the aspirants to
fame, that the man who discovers what really is
money, and secures the merchants and traders of
England a rational currency, will be rewarded
by a reputation rarely bestowed on our public
men.

terest.

TUE Commercial panic has reached the
working. classes. A voice has gone forth
from the manufacturing districts, Nottingham,
the seat of Chartism, has given evidence of the
crisis, and its working people have all but com-
mitted outrage and brutal assault!. There is no
rebellion which is more dreaded than that of a
hungry belly. It despises peace, law and order,
treats the monarch with contempt, and the
" powers that be" with indifference and disdain.
We cannot wonder at this. Hunger is one of
the most relentless of tyrants, and those who are
its victims the most excitable beings on earth's
creation. We can understand all this, and feel,
too, for the terrible diffinilties of the position in
which the unemployed find themselves at the
present moment. It is certainly a difficult thing
for a man with a starving wife and family to be
swayed by the ideas of abstract justice, or the
laws of political economy. Nevertheless, the
humblest mechanic must be prepared to submit
to his share of the consequences of the Cora-
mercial crisis through which we are now passing.
All classes are suffering from it. The banker,
the merchant, the broker—aye, and the
pauper too—are alike its victims. The
calamity is therefore a national one. .Our

fellow-countrymen at • Nottingham have given
expression to their sufferings and privations.
We deeply regret that they should have set the
example of disorder. We should not wish them
writhe under the evil results of the commercial
panic. Nevertheless, we desire that they should
bear up against the evils of the present times
with a good grace, manliness and dignity. No
good can result from illegal gatherings, and
ebulitions of ill-regulated and discardless tempers.
It is for these reasons that we deplore the
manifestations made at Nottingham on Wed-
nesday. Those who think that by such conduct
they can better their position are sadly de-
ceived. In fact they only make it worse than
it originally was. No doubt, much and serious
suffering prevails throughout the land in con-
sequence of the Monetary crisis, and the war
in India, but the manifestations that took place
at Nottingham will not aid or assist the sufferer s
one iota. We council the people then to bear
up against their sufferings, and show that, notwith-
standing the fact that they unenfranchised they
understand their duties as British subjects, and
like true patriots and Christians they discharge
them. We are glad that Parliament is about to
assemble, and that the case of the working classes
shall meet with some consideration at the hands
of the assembled c' wisdom of the nation." Our
monetary► laws have certainly inflicted great
injustice upon the country, and that injustice has
at the present moment thrown thousands of the
population out of employment, hence our work-
houses are becoming crowded, and our gaols and
bridewells filled to repletion. Our pauper and
criminal expenditure is swelling in magnitude,
and next to the commercial crisis, increased
taxation stares us in the face. It will be the duty.
of Parliament to investigate it, in all its bearings,
and to devise some means whereby the working
classes will be extricated from the consequences of
the present unfavourable symptoms, meantime we
hope and trust that the working classes will not
give vent to feelings such as manifested themselves
at Nottingham on Wednesday. Such conduct
as that exhibited on the occasion to which
we allude, only merits contempt and
reprobation, and the object it seeks to advance is
effectually marred at every step. The working
men of Nottingham, of Derby, Leicester, Leeds,
Manchester, and all the other hives of manufac-
turing industry, must not suppose that by any
physical force aisplay they can command
employment, and with employment a fair rate of
wages. Such exhibitions may do very well for
America, but they are antagonistic to the charac-
ter and standing of the " Britisher." It is satisfac-
tory to know that the proclamation issued by
the Mayor of Nottingham had a salutary effect,
and that the town has at length assumed a.quie.t
and peaceful aspect. The conduct of the Clown
WALLETT, in offering a large quantity of bread,
on Thursday, was anything but praise-
worthy. It is too bad to sport with the
hungry bellies of an idle and poverty.stricken
1 population.

Charles .Dance, " A Won lerful Woman." The parts
were sustained as follows :

The Marquis de Fr mtignac .. . Mr. Anaurin D. Rogers.
The Viscount de Millefieurs. Mr. Richard Carstone.
Rodolphe (A young painter)
Crepin ...... (acobbler) Mr. George Msyriek.
Tailor . . ... . . Mr. Townson.
Servant
Madame Hortense Bertrand. By kind per- anal page.
(a rich widow) ...... mission of W. Hiss Edwards.
Cecile ....(her niece)•. .... R. Copeland, Hai. Garland.
Maid . • • • • • Esq.

Our space will not allow us to enter into any detailed
description of the acting, whtch was in general of an ex-
cellent character, and much superior to that of many long
established dramatic societies. To the Crepin, of Mr.
George Meyrick, however, especial praise must be given.
An interval of 15 minutes took place after the fall of the
curtain, during which the orchestra, under the direction of
Mr. W. Loader Meyrick, performed a selection of music.
The farce, of "Affairs in India," followed, the characters
being thus arranged :