Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-22 00:00:00

THE MERSEY CONSERVANCY BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—Are the Liverpool people tatnely allowing
leir enemies to deprive them of their birth-
ghts ? The above bill has passed a second
)ailing in the Lords' House of Parliament, and is
01119 waiting a stage to become the law of the

ithWhy does not the Mayor convene a meeting,
out
a moment's delay, and the whole town,
leir e
ith a voce' of thunder, tell the Lords' to look to
states --.Yourq, Sic JUSTITIA.
Liverpool, July 21, 1857.

PIKE WATER

TO THE E OF Tli3 NORTHN .
;Ir, —The
waterDITOR supplied to us the ER
IastTIMES few months
been yellow, leaves a coating on the water
'We, and on two mornings recentl3, although
'awn from the tap the evening previous, was po-
tively putrid. Are the ratepayers not justified in
fusing to pay for such filth?
Ia common with all I meet, I constantly grumble
id chafe at being supplied with such a substitute
r our sparkling well water; bitt all know it is use-
B 8 complaining to those who supply, as they
'lieve in ani support the Pike. These gentle-
en would be rather uneasy if they realised the
bunt of smothered discontent which their dirty
tter occasions ; and really it is singular no
°T.,ang are devised to make them know it. J. S.
Edge-hill, July 21, 1857.

IE RELATIVE MERITS OF MUSICAL
BANDS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
SIR,—In your paper of to-day I find that you
?•ntion Mr. Peter Stubbs's Royal Harmonic Band
LS engaged, and performed on board the Austra-
',,la Clipper ship Carrier Dove, when her popular
" "go-a-head" captain gave an entertainment to a
v of. his friends on Saturday. I happened to be
swing Prince's Dock on Saturday afternoon while
a entertainment was going on, and having read
blest detractive notice of Mr. Stubbs' band in
a *lfana' Sun, I stopped to listen to their per-
'eaanee• I heard " Yankee • Doodle "—." He's a
ht good Fellow"—and the " Flower of Douglas,"
LYed ; and although our Isle of Man friends may
great musicians, I would challenge your co-
riporary (the Manx Sun)—certainlv by a small
Lellectual or musical harmony—to produce any
of musicians, to produce a band in the whole
and, which would presume to approach the
leical intellect and genius of the band in
estion. Mr. Stubbs has long enjoyed a
Polarity as such which few of his competitors
1 lay claim to. 'Music is his forte. He has
d it as an art and a science, and has mastered
the difli3ulties connected therewith. The
"oust assemblies of the ''Great, and the marriage
L'emionies of the nobles of the land, ask his services
tiles) occasions : and it ill-becomes the carping
itiee of a small and fishing speck on the map of
e 3verU nited Kingdom to deny the merits of a really
experienced, and enthusiastic bandmaster,
Ld able and well-onalified assistants, to find fault
uwhat they never could equal or approach.
rifled to the letter—
Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates the excellence it cannot reach.
make these remarks for the purpose of sustain-
nth musical honour of the " good old town," and
Idication of the talents of an excellent and
iluY useful fellow-citizen. I am, sir,. your
'edient servant, A LovEa or FAIR PLAY.
July 20, 1857.

NIIIiMOVAL OF AN EXTRAORDINARY B tTCII OF CONVICTS.
otice has been given at Lloyd's that her Majes'y's
erament required a ship immediately to carry 400 male
uvicts from England to Freemantle, Western Australia.
'chaps a more remarkable set of convicts never 1-ft the
ePtry at one time than will go out in this ship. Amongst
400 will be found Sir John Deau Paul, Strahan, and
Ites, the fraudulent bankers, Robson, the Crystal Palace
rger, Redpath, who committed the forgeries on
e Great Northern Railway Company, and Agar,
ne railway guard, who committed the great gold
kry on the Sou'll Eastern Railway. The notorious
forger, Barrister Saward, alias Jem the Penman,
e Pater up of all the great robberies in the metropolis
r the last twenty years, also goes out in this ship, which
ill leave England on the 25th proximo, embarking
Le convicts at Deptford, the little Nore, Portsmouth, Port-
Id, atld Plymouth.
inApes GAY Monaa—We have been told on high autho-
-4a that the days of the present session are numbered.
3el evern did youthful prodigal fling away his wealth
191. reckless profusion than the representatives of
seharge Of i nation have latel wasted the hours allotted for the
rs
public buysiness. It was understood e
!I that the session was to be a short one. Certain ques-
r'ens were to be brought before parliament, which it was
lat kh"wil would fully occupy the whole of the time
fie could be allotted. Sites then more than one question
a.cting the vital interests of the country have forced
allieelves upon the attention of the parliament, still
set cr occupying their time, and rendering economy in
I, assion still more indispensable. The effect upon
arableellcura members apnears to be the very reverse, and
3: as if, despairing., of getting through the whole
;o,llt allotted to them, they had determined to abandon it
,L;cgettier, and to leave the business of the country to
bat Car
care of itself, A few weeks age.we had some hopes
e the session would not end without having some prac-
teal results to show for their labours. That hops has
ell waning of late; and we now begin to fear, from the
spec
lately displayed, that, except for the routine
,tarsiness, the session will end as it began.—Evening
PRENCH PARRICIDE.—The Court of Assizes of the
soiret, on Saturday, tried a man named Lachau, of Olivet,
aor the 'murder of his father. In April last the prisoner's
other di
ant\ died, and the man ac-used his father of having
013 a. „,,Tri_,lted a certain portion of her property to which he
a a-:re" himself to be entitled, but the old man refused to
hat that On the 13th of May he said to some persons
was the last day he had to live, for he meant to
ifutrderihis father, and then cJinmit suicide. Some hours
Inns", 'AI Lachau, who was a mason by trade, returned
Cul in his cart, and as he, with the assistance of his.
1h g4ter, was unharnessing the horse, the prisoner came
"P and began abusing him for having sold some planks,
:u..ti I
.li he claimed as his property. The old man retorted
glily and either struck his son or seized him by the
'altar, on which the prisoner, dragging him into a shed
,sii,ere there was a carpenter's axe, seized the axe, and,
we it above his head as if to strike, called on him to
:,`"., up the property he claimed. The old man refused,
buii4t the prisoner then struck at him with all his might,.
„.atilloaled daughter seized his arm, and he missed his blow
_,
him !Dan took to flight, and the prisoner pursuing,
parmtcK three times with his axe ; one blow sliced off thres°l the face, and the other two were so grave that in
Thee_ hours the old man died, without speaking a word.
am !oull went to his room, which was in his fathea ho"'se,
0441. tell? Proceeded to place his papers and acri-junis in
was s
engaged when
the.t offlejers of justice
rrs,te 1,9
sentence lita• Tile jury declared gity, and the court
fern, d him to death—the extCue
..on' to take place in the
hared prescribed by law f
1-ated to the -
his bead
covered scaffoll,
theca with 1 -(n
'parricides, namely, to walk
with a shirt over his clothes and
i, rreEss,,, A, o ack crape.
1 accide '•
scleasar.—We have to rectrd a distrese-
hoursnt, ~.. .be f„ ..nich occurred on Thursday morning, a few
create()
gee our time of publication, and which has
a
W. a,D feeling of sorrow among the community in
a as and hen
one of eytovvn. It is the death, by drowning, of
Waters, shiAlexander
our most respected townsmen—Mr.
the
south head most
and commission agent. Between
salmon fiche Wick Bay and tho Old Man of Wick, the.
o'cicck this na4 At nine
have one of their nets stationed.
their boat
rocks in the vici
wh:nning they were proceeding towards it in
they observed some clothes lying upon . the
Was drawn to thr:ltT of the Pow. The boatmen's attention
time in the vielnitycirl!lunastance that no person was at the
proceeded to their netat, swilissred".
-an-hour. At the nothing wrong, they
~,a,t. ~..a they were engaged about
their return to the a PITY of that time, they set out on
Still observed 1 - ay, but as, on repassing the Paw, they one near
at v t'''',3 clothes untouched, and failing to see any
occurred ',and, they feared some accident might have
nearir.o, Asulad accordingly rowed towards the spot. On
r4Pli ti,
,in creek, they discovered the body of a full-sized the borate.' a on the surface, with the face downwards, and
the clotheandilega depending under water. On examining
kens„ratoi they discovered by the marks on the linen and
Waters. "Lill the pockets, that it was the body of Mr.
of bathing at Wafers, it would appear, was in the habit
left the Ira :the spot at which he met is death, and had
-Vire believe\ :
it i
at, about half-past eight for that purpose.
death was .8 the opinion that the immediate cause of
immersion .aPaplexy
,lon in tb ,p o y
r bats' hastened by the sudden
the le
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