The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-27 00:00:00

dent of the Stanley Dock warehouses, lately open,
complained of the manner in which the appoint-
ment was made. The Point of Ayr station
has been supplied with a life-boat, in lieu
of the- one recently lost. In the lleaLh Com-
mittee, the annual report of the health of
Liverpool was read. The deaths in the Borough
last year were, 11,673, being 931 fewer than in
the preceding year, and at the rate of 27 in the
1000. The deaths during the year from typhus
fever were at the rate of one in 1,035. Inquests
were held last year on 6-13 cases, out of which 43
were froni excessive drinking, and 21 from suicide.
Of the latter, 18 were males, and 3 females, and
10 were in good circumstance, The heathiest
ward in town is Toxteth, and the unhealthiest
is Vauxhall. The births Were in the pro-
portion of 85 to every 1,000 inhabitants, A very
turbulent and noisy meeting of the Toxteth
Park ratepayers took place yesterday. The
object was the election of an overseer,
Exception was taken to the form of adver-
tisement inserted in the local papers for an
overseer, and an amendment that the age
of the party selected should not be restricted
to forty, years, and that the salary be £lOO
per year, was carried. It was moved that Mr.
Whaley, who, in 1854, resigned, or was allowed
to send in his resignation, should be the person
elected, and the votes were 60 for Mr. Whaley, and
only 26 for the highest candidate. A poll of the
ratepayers was demanded, and to day accordingly
has been set apart for that purpose.
At the Police Court, yesterday, one or two cases
of a rather peculiar nature came before the
Magistrate. One, the alleged selling of a wife
somewhere in Scotland Road ; the other a
charge of robbery, preferred by the keeper of
a house of notoriously peculiar character.
Both cases will be found given, at length,
in our columns this morning. One or
two stabbing eases were disposed of. Can we not
do soMething towards lessening the number of
these affrays, which at one time was thought as
un.English in character as they are misehevious
in effect?

The intelligence from France this morning does
not possess much interest. The Paris correspon-
dents seem almost unanimous in the opinion that
the Neufchatel question may be considered settled,
as far as any danger for the peace of Europe is
concerned, and that of Naples can never. assume
formidable proportions, even though England
and France were to adopt a more decided
tone of policy. The only danker which exists
for the tranquility of Europe, lies in the very hostile
sentiments that emanate from the two Cabinets of
Turin and Vienna.

The Austrian Government surprises everybody
by taking another step in the direction of liberal
reform. A great change is to take place in the
vexatious passport system in Austria. The new
regulations seem to be framed on the model of
those prevailing in Prussia. In future it is only at
the frontier passports are to be shown. The effect
produced by this decree is very favourable. The
(official) Austrian Correspondence contains an exp -
sition of its motives, in which a full confession is
made that the system hitherto pursued was pre-
judicial to the development of the material resour-
ces of the empire.
Prince Danielo of Montenegro is shortly to visit
Paris—another instance of the growing influence
of the Emperor of the French among European
Princes.

A. bill is before the Prussian Legislature to
reform the law of marriage, which is at present of
an exceedingly free character. The reform is not
popular, and the contest will probably be sharp.
The session of the Danish Landsthing is closed.
The struggle between the Danish and German
parties in Schleswig increases in bitterness, The
Germans manfully resist using the Diet of the
Duchy as their organ, and also the attempt of the
Government to extirpate the German language
from among them, and thus to render them Danes.
The official journal of the Netherlands has pub-
lihed the new educational bill which is to be
submitted to the deliberations of the States
General. It contains sixty seven articles, the

twenty first of which may be said to contain the
essence of the whole. It provides that " school
instruction comprised under the teaching of fitting
and useful knowledge, is to subserve the purposes
of developing the intellectual powers of children,
and of educating them in all Christian and social
virtues. The teacher is to abstain from in-
culcating anything, or 'from doing or per- •
mitting anything, at variance with the
respect due to the religious opinions of
others. He is to impress this respect on the
minds of the children, and to persuade them to
mutual charity aul forbearance. Religious in-
struction is confided to the Church. Ft r this pur-
pose, the school premises are available when net
engaged for the usual occupations of the sego a 1
Where children are kept from attending the public
school in consequence of the religions scruples of
their parents, and those scruples cannot, after a
careful investigation, be removed, a special school,
if this will remove such scruples, shall be estab-
lished, to be supported, if desirable, by a state
subsidy. Such subsidy, however, must be specially
provided for by the legislature." It is not impro-
bable that the latter provision will give cause to
endless jealousies in such a mixed community as
is that of the Netherlands.
Spanish advices are to the 21st inst., from
Madrid. The military governor of Andalusia
had declared the district of Almaden in a state
of Beige, owing to the reports having been spread
that an insurrection was to take place on pretext of
the dearness of food. In virtue of the state of
siege all the inhabitants had been ordered to give
up their aims, under pain of being brought to
trial before a military tribunal. It is stated in a
ministerial organ that the_number of vessels about
to be sent by the government against Mexico is,
including transports for 1),000 men, to be between
20 and 30. " The country," says, this journal,
"may be assured that the national honour shall
receive complete satisfaction."
With respect to Persian affairs the Pays of
yesterday says—`• It is affirmed that according to
the draft treaty now under consideration at Paris,
England is to enjoy the commercial advantages of
the most favoured nation in Persia. It follows that
she will have the right to send Consuls to several
determinate points in the interior of the empire
and on the coast of the Persian gulf, but she will
not be able to accredit Consuls to any of the
posts of the Caspian Sea, because no other power
has diplomatic agents there.
Later news from America is to hand by the
arrival of the Alps at this port yesterday. The
news is given at full length in another
column Politicians were busily engaged in
"cabinet making," but so far nothing definite
was known. The Atlantic submarine telegraph
bill had been transmitted to the Post office Com-
mittee of the House of Representatives. The
murderer of Dr. Burdell had not yet been dis
covered, and the inquest was still proceeding.
Every day rendered the affair more singular and
mysterious. The Canadian Parliament was to
meet yesterday, the 26th February. Later news
from California mentions the fact that Governo
Johnson, in his message to the Legislature, had
denounced the repudiation scheme, and recom-
mended the peyment of the State debt. It only
amounts to about three million dollars. Mexico
was comparatively tranquil.

Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY'S motion, though
somewhat novel, will serve as a refresher to our
finality Commons. It will serve also to 'keep
the Parliamentary Reform agitation alive, and
by similar movements, on the part of other
honest Reformers, the question may be made to
survive a general election. The strength of the
Reform party in Parliament is quite sufficient to
justify a hope that all is not lost, and that a
vigorous stand will be made during the present
session. The policy of the existing Ministry,
the predilictions of their nominal opponents, and
the views of the House of Commons on the lead-
ing topics of political and material interest, are