The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-20 00:00:00

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JAM ES HOUGHTON, Treasures.

The following gentlemen forces tne Committee and Offi:ers for the
prevent year :17.

John Farnworth, Esq., President.
Matthew Gregson. Esq.,
Rev. John Robherds, }Vice-presidents.
It. L. Jones, Esq.,
James Houghton, Esq., Treasurer.
John Atkin, Esq.,
Hilton Halhead. Esq
,} Auditors. 71
COMMITTEE.
Samuel Job, E q.
R. A. Al'Fie, Esq.
Fey H. M'Ne.le. D.D.
Studley Afarln, Esq.
William Mountfi Esq.
XV..f. !Ammon, EFq.
Benjamin Platt. Esq.
C. It. Rawlins, Esq.
John Rogers, Esq.
James Smith, Jun., Esq.
H. Sharpies., Esq.

Harmood Banner, Esq.,
James Bland, Esq.
Christopher Bushell, Esq
Charles Chatliner, Esq,
Ed,.;v:it.i Cropper, Esq.
n. W. Ewing, F.,q.
Roger Fisher, E,q.
A. P. Fletcher, Esq.
E. C. Hindley, Esq.
G. H. Hor,fall, Esq.
James Ingram, Esq.
W. P. Jeffreys, F:sq.
Rev. D. T. Barry, Honorar; Chaplain.
MEDICAL OFFICERS.
'Mr. Rnbberds,
.'Mr. Chalt ner,
Mr. Joseph Churton, Honorary Consulting Surgeons
Mr. James Petrie,
John Cameron, Esq., M.D., Honorary Physician,
J. L. Minshull, Faq.,
J. Nottingham, Esq., M.D., }Honorary Surgeons.
R. Hamilton, Esq.,

ROBERT MULLINER,
(Successor to GORST & CO.),
(Late with Wm. Horne, London),

CARRIAGE AND HARNESS MANUFACTURER,
59:aod 61. GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL,
MANUFACTURER OF KVERY DESCRIPTION OF
FASHIONABLE CARRIAGES.

Sole Agent for the Patent Dioraples, for which a Prize Medal was

awarded at the.Grelii Exhibiti•,n.

A Great Variety of New and Fashionable CARRIAGES always on
view, which are ready for immediate use. Estimates given for
repairs.

CARRIAGES TAKEN IN EXCHANGE.

Carriages sold by Corn.

Gcod Standing o❑ moderate terms
mission.
Merchants supplied with Carriages for exportation on libera,
terms.

linttlitrn iimeo

TITESDdY, JANUARY 20, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

Two matters of importance will be found in our
nolurnns this morning—one respecting the Town
Dues, the other the Pike Water. With regard to
the former question, it will be seen that the Man-

chester Conimercial Association held a meeting
yesterday, to take into consideration the ways and
means to be employed that will best succeed in
robbing " Liverpool of the Town Dues. We would
refer our readers to a report of the meetin,, : they
will observe the sophistry which was used on the
occasion, and will no doubt see that Mr. Lowe's
ideas were re hashed in a number of ways. We
shall allude to the meeting on a future occasion
Professor Herapath, of Bristol, declares that the
Pike water is poisonous ! His analysis of the surface
water from Rivingtou will be found in another part
of to-day's paper.

American vessels are rapidly gaining an unenvi-
able notoriety. Hardly a week passes that our
magistrates are not called upon to investigate some
blood. thirsty emote occurring in ships sailing under
the stars and stripes. Yesterday, another serious
affray occurred in the river—this time on board the
American ship J. L. Bogart, the mate of which
was severely wounded, and several others hurt.
The former was taken to the Northern Hospital,
where he at present lies in a precarious state. The
affair will come before our police magistrates this
day.
It will be seen that a deputation waited upon
Sir George Grey on Saturday. The deputation
proposed to the Home Secretary that there should
be a more stringent application of the laws relating
to the brothel disgrace of the metropolis, and that
new laws should be made for the suppression of that
particular kind of vice which has now grown into
such monstrous proportions. Sir George Grey
was hesitating and unsatisfactory in his replies;
and those who are anxious to see a great scandal
put down may wonder why the Ministers of the
Cvown should pause. We hope it will be found
t hat tli:3 Government hesitation does not arise from
its desire to protect what are sometimes called the
the rights of property. The truth is, that the
greatest Dukes of the land, if not the Bishops
themselves, derive wealth from the rents of some
of the finest property in the West End which con-

tinues to be employed for purposes the most
debasing.
The Oude party, who still snj6urn in London,
have of late been made much of by the India-house
magnates, and there appears to be no doubt that
an arrangement has been come to between the
royal family .of Otide and our East India directors.
As a natural consequence, we need not anticipate
that the case will come before the House of Com-
mons, except in the way of interpellation. Probably
the East India Company were willing to adopt any
compromise, or give any amount of compensation
for the very purpose of avoiding a Parliamentary
enquiry.
The annual meeting of the Southern and Tox-
teth Hospital was held yesterday. From the pro-
ceedings it would appear that the expenditure
during the year was £2,] 67, and that there was a
balance of £652 in the treasurer's hands ;—the
more satisfactory when the hospital is entirely out
of debt. Two honorary medical officers were
elected, Dr. Nottingham and Mr. R. Hamilton
being the successful candidates.
At five o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke
out in the Bank of Ireland, and after raging for
about an hour and a half, was got under ; not,
however, before the accountants' and bookkeepers'
offices were seriously damaged, and a great number
of books totally destroyed.
Our Continental intelligence this morning is
varied and interesting. The trial of the assassin
who put the Archbishop of Paris to death, is the
event that excites most attention in France: The
trial took place on Saturday amid the greatest
excitement of a closely packed court, and the
scene which followed was one which made the
arena of justice look more like a stage for dramatic
performance. A long t• act of accusation," in ac-
cordance with the French form, was read after the
prisoner was placed at the bar, and the document
professes to give a history of the man, an account
of the way he executed the atrocity, and the
possible motives by which he might have been
influenced. Such a paper is generally drawn out
with a strict regard to accuracy, and trom its con-
tents, and the violent demeanour of Verger at the
bar, NN e can have little hesitation in tracing his
crime to an obstreperous nature or an empty
stomach. He became so violent before the trial was
finished, that he had to be removed from the court
and this was done amid the execrations of the people
who, no doubt, would very heartily have extended
to him that Jedburgh justice which puts to death
in the first place arid judges in the second. The
jury found the prisoner guilty, and the court passed
upon him the sentence of death. An appeal to
the Court of Cessation, which was made on the
part of Verger, means that his counsel challenge
the legal procedure of the court which tried him.
If the Court of Cessation should be of opinion
that the prisoner had not a fair and just trial,
according to the laws, a second jury will be im-
panelled to settle his fate, and the decision of this
second jury would, under all circumstances, be
final.
A couple of Paris papers who copied from certain
Swiss journals a letter purporting to be written by
the secretary of the Emperor Louis Napoleon, and
conveying the arnende to the Swiss Government
for the first harsh note in the Moniteur, while pro-
mising to rid Switzerland of the Prussians for ever,
are to be prosecuted. 'The French official journal
describes the letter in question as a " lying one."
As the diplomatists will endeavour to settle the
Neuchatel question before the Conference meets,
it may be well to state what the future policy of the
Austrian Government is likely to be. I. Should the
King of Prussia issue the order for the " mobilise•
lion" of his forces, Austria will do all in her power
to prevent their march through the Federal terri
tory. 2. The Austrian Government will employ
all its influence on the Berlin Cabinet to induce
it to renounce its claims on Neuchatel. 3. If
Prussia should propose that a Representative of
the German' Confederation shall have a seat and
voice at the Conference, this Government will not
second the proposition, "as the Bund has
hitherto always been represented by Austria
and Prussia when questions of European impor-
tance have been discussed by the Powers."
4. If the independence or non-independence of
Neuchatel is to be determined by vote, Austria
will, in all probability, go with France and
England. 5. Any hostile demonstration made by
France against the King of Pussia, would be a
political blunder, as the Emperor Francis Joseph
has a very high souse of his duties to his
Federal Allies It is not yet settled where the
Conference is to meet, but probably in London,
as the Protocols were drawn up and signed there
in 1852. The Austrian Government would cer-
tainly not object to the British metropolis, but we
could not speak so positively should the French
capital be proposed.
It is stated that the Prussian Government has
signified its willingness to permit a Conference of
the representatives of the Great Powers on the
Neuchatel question ; but it is understood the
basis for the said Conference are not yet arranged.
The Procureur-General set out from Berne on
Saturday for Neuchatel to arrange the formalities
necessary for abragating the law proceedings
against the Royalist prisoners. He is the bearer
of their passports.
The Sardinian Government has introduced a
measure for the education of the people, and one
which is very much condemned by liberal minded
Sardinians as unnecessarily infringing upon the
private duties of subjects, and as placing too much
power in the hands of the government. The bill
has been debated in the legislature, and may con-
tinue to be discused for many days. England is
thus not the only country where the question of
education is distracting and difficult.
The present political state of Spain is not very
re-assuring. It is telegraphed that General Prim's
case will be gone on with. His trial will take
place before a council of war at Barcelona, and so
enraged is the Court said to be against him, that
even if the council of war refuse to find him guilty
of rebellious language, the Court will have him
transported without judgment to the Canary.
Islands. O'Donnell too has thought the precau-
tion not unnecessary to disappear for some days,
so that nobody knows his whereabouts. He also
may be in fear of being transported, as it has
transpired that in an assembly of the Carlists in
the King's apartments it was resolved to get him
out of the way, before the intended fusion is
openly effected.
Naples advises (private) to the 12th instant,
mention that fresh arrests have been made there,
which were supposed to have connection with a
secret society in correspondence with a Mazzinian
club in Genoa and Turin. Pieces of money are
also said to have been discovered, newly coined,
and stamped with the effigy of Lucien I , King of
th4Two Sicilies. Some of the parties arrested
were subsequently released ; the others were still
in custody, and an investigation was going on.

" Them Britishers" are to be run off the ocean,
and to resign the sovereignty of the seas to abler
hands and bolder hearts ! So says Mr. VANDER-
BILT, of the United States. A moderate contract
from his government is all he asks to enable him
to realise his very laudable design, The waves
are as open as the winds to all the nations of
the earth. The mastery we have obtained over
both may be a matter of chance, an idle fable,
in the opinion of our enterprising American
friend. But it matters little what our competitors
may be pleased to call our triumphs over time
and space. They stand recorded on the annals
of every sea, and never were such achievements
in all the arts and sciences connected with navi-
gation chronicled more prominently, than we find
them in the legends of the turbulent Atlantic. For
upwards of fifteen long years have our noble
steamers been traversing that immense expanse
of water—buffetting winds, waves, ice, snow,
and fogs—ploughing their way, up and down
most dangerous channels—entering and leaving

the intricate mouths of rivers, and finally
depositing in safety the million of lives and in-
calcuble amount of property entrusted to their
commanders.

The punctuality with which they have per-
formed their passages is one of the most re-
markable features in the history of the great and
successful undertaking. The extraordinary care
and unremitting industry which have led to this
crowning triumph in ocean steam navigation
appear to be perfectly superhuman. It is diffi-
cult to believe that man's vigilance and anxious
thought are capable of the same incessant wear
and tear which we see going on in the machine
by which those noble vessels are propelled. Still,
the mind must have been as sleepless as the
paddle, and the hand as steady and effective as
the piston. We may, in time, outrun all
that has been done in speed ; and leave
room for posterity to laugh at us as we do
at the slow pace of our ancestors ; but the
perfection of science and human devotion,
in the discharge of a most onerous and trying
duty, such as we see displayed in the manage-
ment and navigation of the North American
mail steamers, can never be surpassed. The
history of that line will serve as a lesson to ages
to come ; and it will be held up as an example
to the world, after all its competitors—daring
and honourable men as they are—have passed
from the memory of their respective countries.
It would be idle to attempt to call this " boast-
ing.' For fifteen years we have seen the Cunard
Line of packets leaving and returning to this
port, with the regularity of a Channel mail boat.
In that long space of time not one vessel has
been lost by their gallant navigators. The loss
of the Columbia--the only British Atlantic Mail
Steamship which has met with any serious acci-
dent—cannot be laid at her commander's door.

Such a miraculous run of success cannot be
ascribed to superstitious trifles. No set of half-made
seamen ; no half-taught navigators ; no timid,
nerveless, headless, heartless men could have
worked out such miraculous results ; and there
is not a set of gentlemen in the world to whom
this nation are more deeply indebted for the
services they have performed, in keeping up the
commercial intercourse between two of the lead-
ing countries in the universe, than they are to
the commanders of the British and North
American Steamships. No amount of public
respect is too great for men who have won,
in the peaceful path of commerce, a wreath of
immortality which will long survive the me-
mories of the heroes of war. The greatest
admiral of the age might study, with ad-
vantage, the discipline and internal econo-
my of one of these noble ships, where
everything that is required in the way of obedi-
ence, combination, and concentration of strength
is secured without chain or lash. The whole
picture is one of moral triumph—true greatness
without the revolting drawbacks of the war ship.
And if the commanders of this majestic steam
fleet should be allowed to continue in their pre-
sent really brilliant career without receiving some
substantial mark of their country's approval and
admiration, they will be most illiberally and
ungratefully treated. They are the Pleiades of
this maritime age, and let us hope that we are
not waiting until one is lost, before the public
recognise the remainder of this glorious constel-
lation of oceanic heroes.

In another, and, perhaps, not less important
direction, the mariners of the Mersey are making
great strides a-head of those of rival ports. The
paragraph we published yesterday, showed that
our Liverpool and Australian clippers can make
the passage to Melbourne in seventy-four days,
while the London ships take one hundred and
six days from the Thames, and ninety-eight days
from Plymouth, to reach the same destination.
Now, the commercial importance of this saving
of time can scarcely be over-estimated. It brings
us to the threshold of a new era in the ocean
navigation of commerce: for it matters not what
improvements are made in steam propulsion so
long as steamships cannot take the whole round
of cargoes, dead weight as well as measurement,
every knot gained on our sailing merchantmen
is a national boon. It economises capital to
an extent which is almost incredible when
spread over the time employed in the transit
of produce to and from our shores. It shows,
also, that those sciences on which speed and
safety mainly depend, are not overlooked, and
that they are susceptible of a development which
may add still more advantageous results to those
we have already received. And without wishing
to be at all invidious, or to advocate one of our
Australian lines more than another, we cannot
help expressing our belief, that the Liverpool
clipper ships in the Melbourne trade surpass all
the other sailing vessels in the world ; and that
the country is under weighty obligations to those
spirited men who have devoted their time and
capital in bringing them to the perfection they
have attained.

HETIAPATH'S OPINION OF THE

RIVINGTOIV PIKE WATER.

We lay before our readers, without comment for
the present, Dr. Herapath's opinion of the Riving-
ton water, as applicable for the domestic use of the
inhabitants of Liverpool. It is as follows :
" The quantity of solid matter in the gallon is
certainly very small, indeed—under 10 grains in
70,000 grains of water. It is a soft water, and
decidedly good for washing, or any of the
mechanical purposes for which water is usually
employed about a house or city ; very little loss
will be occasioned in soap ; it will make strong
tea, and, therefore, housewives will like
it. Its action upon lead will be very
decided, and, of course, it should, on that
account, be condemned for household purposes,
or as a drinking water. Lead colic, paralysis,
and dropped hands, with painter's colic, may be
looked for if thus used. Its organic constituents
are decidedly not a desirable addition to one's
daily dietary. If animal, most disgusting to every
one's notions of propriety—if vegetable, likely to
produce ague, diarrbcca, or colerie symptoms ;