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TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1856

THE DAY'S NEWS

From the very slender and meagre 'telegrams
already published, the public will have come to the
conclusion that the battle on Friday was literally a
conflict of giants ! For : sixteen hours two. masses
of armed men, approaching' an aggregate of half a
million, were engaged iu a grapple (Aide and death;
from dawn to sunset 540 cannon roared and myriads of
bayonets flashed on 'the narrow plains of the Mincie.
The Austrians themselves have candidly admitted
their defeat, and history scarcely records a bulletin
in which a disaster was more explicitly avowed.
The Daily News remarks that "the Magenta defeat
was in some degree to be attributed to the incom-
petency of Gyulai ; but at Solferino the Austrian
i army fought nobly, under the eye of Franeis Joseph
himself. The Austrians commenced this battle with
every advantage—they chose their own ground, and
they possessed the initiative ; they were close to their
reserves and magazines, and were, or ought to have
been, in superior numbers. Nevertheless, fighting in
the presence of the Emperor, and directed by the
very best talent in the empire, they have been, as
they honestly confess, terribly beaten. They
appealed to:the fortune of war, and the response is
unfavourable. But the physical superiority: of 'the
Allies, and 'that spirit of enthusiasm Which a just
cause alone 'can inspire, outweighed every advantage.
The grand details of the battle are still unknown, but
the Austrian centre was pierced, and his left was over-
whelmed." The Daily News in another article observes
that " a grand victory and a great defeat, like that of
-Friday last, cannot buttend powerfully either to bring
about an early peace or to cause a serious extension
of war. The time has now come for Prilssia to
declare her intentions.: She .must do so in fulfilment
of the declarations with which she has accompanied
the mobilisation of part of the army, and it is well
understood that 'her diplomacy has been awaiting
some military event, signal, like that of Friday last,
in order to propose-terms to the belligerents.' The
Daily News adds!: " Let Prussia, then, urge on
Austria the acceptance of those rightful and necessary
terms upon 'which the Emperor of the French is
ready to return within -his frontier. Austria
will be stronger for : having restored to a
nation its rights; the portentous march of the
French army will be stayed ; Europe will see its
I peace re-established upon a firmer basis than it haf
known Q;nna 1-1-.., 1,--_____ ...,..

feared that Ai stria

reigned in the minds of men that sooner or later
the nation would be called upon to repel an invasion
by , the French. We- had, alas, too great reason
to fear invasion, and when a man has forfeited his
word in the manner in which the Emperor of
France had done, it was impossible to look upon
him in any other than a distrustful spirit; nor
could any man, of common sense and acquainted
with human nature, looking to the antecedents of
the French Emperor, conceal, from his mind there
was too much reason to fear 'an invasion by the
troops of _Lours NAPOLEON." This, then, there
can be no doubt, is the plain matter of fact.
And why should it be concealed ? There is no
need of its being offensive to Louis NAPOLEON,—
there is no wish or intention to make it so, we believe,
in any quarter. It is the people of England's true
interest and happiness to " seek peace and ensue it,"
with France, and with all the world. But it is
equally their interest and their happiness to be
prepared for an attitude of defence, should occasion

require it to be assumed. And so far from there
being any harm in LOUIS NAPOLEON knowing
this, we cannot but think that the great good
may arise out of it, of his being curbed in his
bellicose propensities, and checked in his aggresive
desires, by the knowledge that England is in a
position to realise the assurance of the olden time,
that—

" Come the three corners of the world in arms,
And we shall shock them !"

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Sunday, a man named Roper,
whilst in a state of intoxication, fell down in Edge-hill, and
received such injuries to his head that he died early yes-
terday.
MAD Dods.—We perceive that the Birkenhead magis-
trates have issued their usual mad-dog circular. It is really
time for this, as the weather is fearfully hot for so early -in
the season.

THE BISHOP or COVEMElA.—Yesterday Dr. Hiles, the
Bishop of Columbia, who is now on a visit to Liverpool,
met a number of his brother ministers in the council
room of the Town-hall, which had been granted to them
by his Worship the Mayor. The ineetinz was entirely
private.

were not subject to quarreling, except when they
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drink ; they lived happily only for„ the dril
She lived in the passage opposite them for six months,,
they have four children. I saw the deceased three till.
from that until she died. The young woman, Connor, w.."
again called, and she said she came out of Lane's
house, with the deceased, and met the prisoner -at the dam'
and he said he would kick her entrails out; that was ,frtl
five to six o'clock in the evening. A Mrs. Smith saint
heard the deceased say, "Dear God, dear God ; don't WI
me." I saw him kick her once, but could not say in what
part of the body. Jane Stephenson, the atepdango;
of the prisoner, said he was a godfather to ht
Her sister told her, on Saturday evening, that bol.
mother was in a fit; she went to the P
soon after, and found her dead. Saw her before that'
and she was crying. Asked her what was to To, and she
he said she bad got a fall. She was complaining in -td
morning, and got her a glass of wine. Surgeon Brown sal
he saw the woman after death, but it would be quite jot;
possible for him to say what the cause of death was. '
was reported to him that she was pregnant. There scaL s
i
mark on her eye and cheek. The prisoner was remand
to Thursday, so that a post mortem examination of the body
could be made in the interim.
Hall
WATER COMMITTEE. - Mr. Hodson presided at the
weekly meeting of this committee, held yesterday ; and the
other members present, were Messrs. James Holme, StitL
Ryley, Vernon, Rae, Wagstaffe, Critchley, Jeffery, Bennett'
Crellin, Earle, Mellor, and Woodruff. mr. Duacar,
engineer, reported that the quantity of water received froth
Rivineton, during the week ending the 26th inst., wls
63,901,118 gallons; quantity of water pumpect from
wells, 27,877,685 gallons.; total supply, 91,778,803 gallons'
Mr.-Duncan reported that the reservoirs stood as follows,--

Rise
ft.
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0 0
0 0
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25th June. 18th June
ft. in. ft. in.
Roddlesworth 45 3.. ...... 33 5..
Anglezark .. It 6,3. io
Rivington 4 3 q
Preseot t. ...: 3 3 .... 1 6 ...
The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board made an applicatloD
to the committee for the supply of water to forty fountaiDs'
proposed to be erected within the dock walls. A report
from the engineer was read on the subject, stating that the
fountains could be supplied with spring taps, and that them
would not be near so much water used as in the other fowl'
tains through the town, and sac:Tested that, as a charge of one,
guinea a year was made for the fountains in the ontskirts
the town, the same price should he fixed for these. Id!'
Jeffery objected to this, and said the fountains in the out-
skirts were a great mistake. They only charged the heal Le.
,
committee one guinea a year, whereas it cost not less thee
£lO a year. 'Their works cost them two millioni-of money.
and they were driven by poverty to make a lair charge for
the water consumed. Mr. Ryley said that the water
committee were prepared to supply the fountains at
moderate charge to be afterwards settled upon.ler'
Bennett moved that the dock board be informed that the
fountains be supplied at half a guinea per annum, Or;
Jeffery moved that the committee of the Mersey Dock air
Harb ,ur Board he informed that the' necessafy suPPII
of water for their fountains will. be afforded at the
most moderate charge that the committee Could afford
and that the question be referred to the' engineer
for that purpose and report thereon. Mr. S"-
tt
seconded the motion. Mr. Hilton moved that the,
be supplied at one guinea per annum. Mr. Holmes
seconded the motion. Mr. Jeffery said the health corn'
mittee were charging 2d. in the pound for the supply °f
the water to the street fountains. The water committee
was in a state of bankruptcy, were it not for the security
given them by the corporate estate, and they could e
think of giving water for at least one half its cost. Ite
would give it at a fair cost price; but the Dock Board
must not ask the community of Liverpool to supply the"
with water for their fountains gratuituously: The Chair
man agreed with Mr. Jeffery. They obtair-
at a very large cost; and water was like bread ant
things, which ought to be paid -
conversation, Mr. Earle moved
willing to supply the water to these fountains at the
rate of one guinea per annum to each fountain,
such being the charge paid for the fountains in the
outskirts of the town. The amendment, which was seconded
by Mr. Chilton, was put to the vote and lost by ..a majority'
of eight to six; and Mr. Jeffery's motion was accorciingll
carried. Mr. Campbell reported that the impounded water
from the Roddlesworth reservoir was discharged one-and-a-
half inches into the goit. A memorial was read-from the
inhabitants of Netherfield- road North, complaining that the
road was not properly watered. The memorial was forwar;
tied to the Health Committee, as it was not in the power of
the Water Committee to deal with it. This concluded the
business.

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he committee were