Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-16 00:00:00

shall thereby be promoting the public interest

The Globe announces the death of Lady Morgan, authoress
of the " Wild Irish Girl."

The Queen has been pleased to grant the dignity of a
Kinzd3m unto Brenton Hallihurton,

Knight of tilt
Esq , Chief Justice of Nova Scotia

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Benares .ailed from Suez on the 28th March, with
the English mail for Australia, of that mouth.

ADDITIONAL MAILS FOR CANADA BY CANADIAN MAIL
PACKETS.---illrOrMatiOTl has been received that a new con-
tract has been entered into between the government of
Canada and the AI-entreat Ocean Steamship Company, for
the establishment of a weekly mail service between Liver-
pool and Quebec during the period that the navigation of
the River St. Lawrence is open. The first despatch from
Liverpool under the new arrangement will be on Wednes-
day, the 23th instant, and there will be a Canadian mail
packet despatched from Liverpool to Quebec on each suc-
ceeding Wednesday, until the close of the navigation. By
command of the Postmaster-General, ROWLAND HILL, See-
--General Post-office, April 15.

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THE CJIINER OF DUX

-STREET. —Now that some of the
coffee-house nuisances have, been checked; suppose the police
try the eAperirnent, which we have already fruitlessly sug-
gested more than once, of suppressing the open air gatherings
and indecencies of prostitutes• and their friends around the
corner of Duke-street and Paradise-street. The public
honors attending an expedition into Lime-street may not,
indeed, await an attempt such as we suggest, but it would
have the merit of coping with a nuisance infinitely more
outrageous than any which ever was witnessed in the com-
paratively civilised neighbourhood which seems at present
wholly to absorb police attention. It has this advantage,
too, that there can be no legal question raised upon it.
Whoeve'r may think prostitutes entitled to shelter themselves
under the roof of any one base enough to harbour them, no
one will contend that they are entitled to a privilege not
accorded to any other class of persons —that of blocking up
a thoroughfare and assailing every passenger. Some doubt
appeared to exist .as to whether any positive indecencies
were committed in the supper 'Morns, whose doings were
described in yesterday's papers. Any one who passes at
night the coiner of Dike-street can have no doubt that such
things occur there under the cover of no roof, and with no
policemen, magistrate, or society of any kind taking thought
for their suppression. Ma ay other parts of the town have
been represented to us, and are, to our knowledge, equally
requiring police attention, but if our local authorities can
do nothing for Dake-streot, it seems useless to distract their
minds from speculations on the essential causes of the " social-
evil" by pointing to such common-place matters as blocked-up

corners and general meetings of low-class prostitute,

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THE DURATION OF OUR CABINETS SINCE THE REFORM
CT. -- The following account of the names and duration of

the various administrations which have governed England
since the passing of the Reform Act of 1832 may, at this
moment be interesting to all parties. The ministry of Earl
Grey held office from November, 1830, to August, 1834, and
was instrumental in carrying the bill for the reform of the
representative system. On the- resignation of Earl Grey, in
Angust, 1834, the Whig ministry was modified, and
Viscount Melbourne was raised to the office of First Lord
of the Treasury. This ministry was dissolved by William
IV., in November, 1834, when Sir Robert Peel was sum-
moned by the King from Rome to form a new government
on moderate Conservative principles. Sir Robert's tenure of
office, however, was brief, for, in the following April (1836)
the right hon. baronet was defeated on the famous "Appro-
priation Clause," and Lord Melbourne once more resumed
the reins of government. This, the second Melbourne Min-
istry, endured from April, 1835, to August, 1841, or up-
wards of six years, exclusive of the week's interregnum in
1839, when Lord Melbourne temporarily resigned, and was
reinstated on the refusal of Sir R. Peel to take office under
certain circumstances. In the summer of 1841 the Whigs
were defeated, and Sir Robert Peel formed that Adminis-
tration which carried the principle of Free Trade, and

was eventually upset in 1846 by the secession of
its "Protectionist" supporters. Lord John Russell's
Administration, which succeeded, lasted from June,
1846, to February, 1852, when a defeat on the Militia
bill induced his lordship to resign office. Then came the
brief Administration of the Earl of Derby, which lasted
about nine months. It was dissolved just before Christmas,
1852, and the Earl of Aberdeen succeeded as the head of a
Coalition Ministry which was overthrown in January 1855,
on the Sebastopol Inquiry motion, thus lasting a week or
two more than two years. The government of Lord Pal-
merston was then formed, and continued until FebrUary
1858, when, being defeated on the Conspiracy Bill, his
lordship and his colleagues resigned office, which they had
held for three years. The government of Lord Derby was
then formed.