Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-16 00:00:00

Weeks.

At the meeting of the Health Committee yes-
terday, a subject of vital importance, with respect
to the moral character and status of the corpo-
ration, was brought under the consideratietn of the

meeting. From ,answers 'to a question put by
his worship, the Mayor, it appears that recently,
under authority of.an act of parliament for carry-

ing out certain improvements in the town, the
Health Committee acquired some property, 'with
a view of its being taken down. That property

was, it seems, in a considerable degree occupied
by parties keeping disorderly houses, and houses
of ill-fame. As the tenants could not be imme-

diately dispossessed, they were allowed to remain

till the proper time arrived for taking the premi-

ses down ; and the treasurer continued to receive

the rents for those dens of immorality

A feel-

ing, strongly disapproving of such a proceeding

,on the part of the committee, was expressed by

several members, and there seems every reason

to believe that so reprehensible a practice will be

According to an article which appears in the

giustiia, on the ground that the restoration of

the Italian Princes has, been prevented .43, the

interposition of Sardinia, rdleges that he is no

longer bound to carry out the concessions he has

made, including the cession of Lombardy. It is
also said that Austria is sending fresh troops into

In an official circular, addressed by the Govern-
ment of Venice to the delegation of Verona, it is
all but distinctly announced that the Pope, in
accord with the A.ustritin Government, is raising
soldiers in Austria for his army.

THE campaign is about to begin. The Man-
chester athletes, whose vigour, so well tried of
yore, has slept in their veins for so many weary
and ignoble years, are preparing themselves for
England is to be flooded with

a new struggle

demagogism. A new reform league is already
enrolling its army of lecturers ; in the first
instance the simplicity of the ignorant, and in
the second the Constitution itself is to be taken
by storm.

It has been often alleged against the pressing

necessity of large constitutional changes, that
while no class in the community showed any

anxiety on the subject, the very :much larger

number of all classes positively, deprecated them.
The Manchester politicians are therefore na-

turally anxious_ .to supply

that_ part of the

community most open to factitious influence,
with some capital of discontent. They will meet

with a considerable measure of success; who
doubts it ? The stump will be erected in evel7
town and village, and the simple lieges bidden to
tome and hear wisdom. The orators, as they are
to be paid, will, of course, . say anything that
the paymaster dictates, and go on "talking
shop'! to the end of the chapter. They will assail
the ears of Parliament with an incoherent cry ,
and endeavour to drown the voice of the populus
with the clamour of the plebs. They will seek to
make " Reform " the least of evils, by making
the mob dangerous ; and terrify:into large con-
cessions, those who are afraid •of revolution.
But what consideration will be due to the de-
mands of the lowest of the people, whom the
Manchester leaders, and their myrmidons, have
lashed into fury ? Ignorance, when it has be-
come mad, is the most dangerous of all weapons

in the hands of the mob ; and it will be the part
of all friends to the Constitution to present a
bold and compact front to the assault. Is this in
any way to be accounted popular opinion, which
paid lecturers go about to instil into the minds of
the uninstructed and the capricious,. who think

that no change can bring them injury, and love
it for its own sake, whether it present or not a
prospect of good ? What are we to expect from
politicians of long standing, of some character,
of considerable pretension to intelligence and
prudence, and certainly possessed of enlarged
experience, if not that they should refrain from
administering provocative inducements to the
" intemperate rage" of the people—if not that
they should contribute to allay it where accident-
ally-excited?: But here, those who aspire to be
their leaders and instructors are deliber-
ately, and of set purpose, devising the most
effectual means for themselves, rousing the
people to this fury, and pressing them
on to intemperate demands

It is not

pretended that the voice of the mob is the voice
of reason ; we may therefore form our judgment
of the next reform, which democratic leaders are
to demand at the instigation of an infuriated
mob, whose violence they have, in the first in-
stance, invited and encouraged. _ _

The exact nature of the mission with which

Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON, and his confederate
lecturers, are to be inspired, is nothing of a secret.
" What is the temple," said Dr. JOHNSON, "of
" which a monkey is the god ?" What can be
the composition of that band whose coryphtei
and most respectable representatives were the
heroes of that noted banquet of - Huddersfield,
the other night, where the represented and the
unrepresented were invited together to celebrate
the escape of bribery from its just retribution,
and the success of those arts of low cunning and
dexterity, which were enabled to destroy,-not the
evidence of corruption, but the technical proofs
of agency,—where this unmistakeable character