Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-24 00:00:00

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY

24, 1859.

THE DAY'S NEWS

In the House of Commons, yesterday, Mr.
Alcock's Bill for the Commutation of Church
Rates was postponed until after the discussion
upon the Government Bill upon the same subject.
The second reading of the Juries (Ireland) Bill
was postponed. The Sale and Transfer of L ands
Bill for Ireland, and the second reading of the
Receiver in Chancery Abolition Bills were also
postponed. The House then went into Committee
on the Manor Courts (Ireland) Compensation Bill,
and the first eight clauses were discussed and

agreed to.
The report of the Commissioners appointed to
inquire into the best means of manning the Navy,
is published. A plan is submitted for manning
the fleet on an emergency, by forming a reserve of
60,000 men at home ; 20,000 are to be selected
from the mercantile marine, who would engage as
Royal naval vohinteers, to come forward when the
necessity arose for their services. The Commis-.
sioners conceive that their plans would elevate
and unite the British seamen in the two services.
School ships are recommended to be used at the
naval arsenals, and in the chief commercial ports.
The various recommendations can be carried out
at an additional cost of X 598,000 a year.
The extraordinary trial of the case of seduction
of Gardener v. Godfrey, was concluded yesterday,
and resulted in a verdict for the defendant. The
verdict was received in court with great cheering.

The nomination—of a - -
d. '
can idate to supply the
vacancy in the representation of Marylebone,
caused by the retirement of Viscount Ebrington,
took place yesterday morning on the hustings in
Park Crescent, Portland-plaee The attendance of
electors was not very numerous,.
and there was an
utter absence of anything like excitement either
haninthas
we, street or on the hustings. The show of
in favour of Mr. James. A poll was
demanded"
on behalf of Colonel Romilly.
The news from France grows more threatening
every day.
That l
yet to hand. Theast received is the most warlike
~
i. correspondent of the Herald
declares that he a position to inform you
that war is so far in
on by the French
Government that the
already
which are to commence
the campaign have 1
orders have been given toytheee
It
is
of War to
designated, and
s strongly contem-
plated, a plan of operations.
a l !ear.
Austrians
plated, I am assured, to attack the
simultaneously in front, flank, and
The
Piedmontese, supported by . ai —e
5 French
army, forming the main division, while another
will march northward from the Papal States,er
and a third will seize on Trieste or Venice. A
sinister impression has been caused here to-day
by a letter from Paris in the Independence Beige,
which states, and I have reason to believe with
t
ruth, that orders
to prepare for a campaign in

Italy, were given out immedately after the return
of the Emperor from Compiegne. What connec-
tion there may have been between this determina-
tion and the visit of Lord Palmerston, this is not a
fitting place to inquire. Coupled, however, with
the tone the Palmerstonian organ has not ceased
to adopt on the Italian question, it is not surprising
that his lordship should be accused by the public
with having aided and abetted the fatal policy
which is about to involve the world in a war, the
termination of -which it is difficult to foretell,
with a selfish view of recmining the office whence
he fell through his deplorable dereliction of the
high trust once reposed in him. The correspondent
of the Independanee only states a fact with which
the diplomatic world in Paris has been long cog-
nisant, when it states that the representatives of
the foreign Courts in Paris have abandoned all
hopes of a pacific solution of the question. The
Presse last night mentions the fact, which I have
already communicated to you, of the interview
between Prince Napoleon and the Italian refugees,
when the latter offered the Princess Clotilda a
banquet ; and his Imperial Highness reciprocated
the compliment by a display of revolutionary
flowers of rhetoric. Some of the papers had
previously mentioned it. The new pamphlet
turns out to be a mystificatiou after all, and M.
de la Guerroniere, the Pattie assures us, had
nothing to do with it. It is quite obvious
that as it advocates the respect of treaties,
it could not proceed from an official source.
The 14th Regiment of Horse Artillery, quartered
at Vincennes, has received notice that its comple-
nient of horses is to be raised to 1,400. In con-
sequence of the great accumulation of horses and
men in that garrison, four batteries (a battery is
equal to a company in our service) have been
despatched to Senlis, which is not a garrison town,
and, there being no barracks, have been billeted,
men and horses, on the inhabitants.
Yesterday, J. B. Aspinall, Esq., Deputy-Recorder,
in the absence of Gilbert Henderson, Esq., Re-
corder for the Borough of Liverpool, took his seat
at the general Quarter Sessions of the Peace. The
calendar Showed that the number of cases on
charges of felony were one hundred and eleven,
a number of which were disposed of, as will be
seen by referring to another column. On the
charge of misdemeanor, there are thirty cases
which are still untouched.
The proceedings at the West Derby Board of
Guardians, yesterday, were unusually quiet. On
the motion of Mr. Roberts, the clerk was instructed
to prepare a petition in favour of the bill now
before Parliament for rating the docks.
The half-yearly meeting of the Newry, Warren-
port, and Rostrevor Railway Company, was held
yesterday, at the Clarendon Rooms. Mr. M‘Gee,
of Newry, made a long speech in opposition to the
management of the company of late, but after
considerable discussion the report and accounts
were adOpted.
The annual meeting of the Orphan Boys' Asylum
was held yesterday. The committee appeal to
the public for additional funds. •
In the Police-court yesterday, a police-officer
was charged with having committed an assault on
a young lady, by taking her into custody, at Seel-
street Chapel, on Sunday week, because she con-
descended to speak to a poor pauper woman, who
was asking alms. The case had proceeded to a
certain length, when an apology was offered, and
accepted. The result was quite obvious. The
discipline in the police, as we have frequently
shown by facts, is of a very lax character, and,
without attributing it to anyone, Major-Greig is
the responsible person. However, whilst the major
carries on a civil force, with military ideas, it is
clear 'he never can do as a ruler of a municipal
body like the Liverpool police, the head of which
requires more knowledge than that of " drill."