Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-24 00:00:00

GREEK UAPTAI
and John Pic

ad, charged wii

robbing cri

was no- additi
• to the .ehargi

said, as Barter was 17 r years a

--eco'
Vrei

necessity, deal w

Act, and `send him to prison .for sit months wit,
labour. , Pickering,heing 14, was treated as a ill
offender, and sent to gaol for 14 days, after the e
tion of which he will be sent to the Ackbar.
_„

UTTERING *BASE • Conf.—Elizabeth Rallet:',il)
Peter Barrett, were charged with uttering base ",;(i
several occasions. An intelligent. little girl, sheen
years; named Ann_liennel, stated, that she hate-fel
on a message for her mother, when she niethtousif
prisoner, who asked her to go into a beersiiming
glasS of ale; at the same time giving her a
ho be, she
a little jug, promising her a halfpenny' bet
turned. The beerhouse keeper asked -w gaT-'
money. as it was bad, and she said a woman out
The woman and the man were aftei7a.rds appreha

together. Mr: karisfield said as th
e P .
rls
twice tried at the -sessions before,must°llers
he send

trial to the assizes. • ••1
(Before -Messrs. HAnDm.tritinLE, and Wm. PO'
NnisANaEs.—Several parties were- charged
offending against the new bye-law for courts and,
Inspector' Parker proved the offence, and Small peg
were inflicted in each case. A

law
OF, TILE BUILDLIG A9-111 r. 144°:),;ti
clerk to the Health Committee, tippelred to s'o
an informatioh against Mt Burroughs, builder. „1111011151,,
.alleged to have offended against the Local P"iidig
Act, 1),- taking-a' projection in the front'of a -,tepti
in Hanover-street. The 67th section of .„0
enacted that no projection of any kindc_.'"freofro
made in front of any houSe, "except for 'shuroci
and for ttner=waynad:--na__ projection coulAdh.op
twelve. inches over the pavement .m. Fa. streqt 40;,' He did not wish to press' for a 15°1,, tilc'tile
merely to have the building-in conformity wit'res'yr,
The building had been a large warehouse or
corner of Elbow-lane, in Hanover-street;
Burroughs had taken out the lower part of tbedete top,
for the purpose of converting it:into a shop. 03
no objection inadeto the projection so far 35 front was concerned; but after building two pan arch 'Was sprung across the clootlf„gea di
instead 'of 'stopping where the shop ec'-egural
projection was carried up in the builclingle
the whole front to project over the street. T"tio 'ts;
offered was', that it was in accordance with, tieeP
The magistrates thought that the law haa eierk
,Ceeded, but the defenAant.Was of a different open

gave notice of appeal

♦ft4(
A LIBERAL " VIEW OF DENIOCA-

At the anniversary of the Edinburgh Letteil'ii
Printers' Library, on Saturday last, Professol4ll
thus adverted to democracy, as one of the elee
the spirit of the present age :—‘, He had aligee
said, "been a Liberal in his feelings and teal'
(
as a student of history, and a ket/e bit of a 0 I , ,
he did not believe in the democratic principle' 01,
in the general and unlimited way in which 1113-I.l‘i , ,ii
,„,
professed to believe in it, and to look to lot f
regeneration of society and the advanefejjeriii,
civilisation. In ,ther words, he did not ;„'' 06 V,
John Bright. (Hisses and cheers.) No, rio .-„ce.), e,
least. (Renewed hisses, drowned by apPll' 4itil
democracy he meant governing' great itlalo,,eo,,
Of all classes by counting heads—by the itotv r,
majority. That was a principle in which he' Li thS,tp,o'
entirely disbelieved. If they could prove .00ttr.,
greatest number of heads contained the greats, cue
of wisdom, and that they would be sure to Eitvileort,
greatest, best, and wisest men of the commul11100?i,
was the great problem) to represent theurcl ilividlt
cracy would be the right thing. But if 1;R, sof '
that (and it wouldn't), it was a most miser,L. to.tirioli
American, slump, unscientific way of gn'oe ' i
Britain Must find out some other principle 09,,
or it would be ruined as Greece and Ilettpsotiditfref
ago. He believed just as little in an unliralcar,,,i,oooo
or an unlimited aristocracy. . He believed 10.:7045e
mat classes of society.being made to check :et,
,4
so as to keep a just balance or medium °' Off, droil
between them, which no party or class, ace:ottl, solo
present constitution of human nature, if it 0 , 04
hand, ever will or can keep. (Applallsellckw; feu i
aristocratic body, if they had the power., V': turt cA ie
was best for the small aristocratic "b°l; 'filibls liti
tu theyturned
ehdr.adb
about
te b
yp opwa es
passion,
0 nw,
aria
tjuladp
phi
i te :4tr
thought best for their own interests ; bOulyed;,4re'l
they would often fall into ;.hte>' osl
timi;seb lsdeeess:iog
ni fb
ei n g ,
takes—just as the Sicilian expedition' by, P'e :
, tilde
,Greece, was decided on. and organised Jo ti!, pi
because it flattered their vanity. Bui,t;„ to !(3e lit tlti°
place, he believed that all classes and th°llVdte
seated in the national Parliament ; an t, art'" 0
the lowest class, and the next to the lowes_i,tceeSie
would call the sub-middle, were not proPewi ,Itltt 5 ,Ptir
at the present, moment. (Cheers.) 'lewd itt?ll°J,
a Scheme. like what he saw advoc4e vote i coy
pamphlet the other day, by which
of loTte_.:4
given to a certain number of men or ~,e niv-
but he would object most decidedly t° b"
American system."