The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-14 00:00:00

to support the Right Hon. M. T. Barnes, and W.
C. Forster, Esq., as candidates in that town in the
corning election.

A great public meeting of the merchants, bankers,
traders, and electors of the city of London was held
in the Guildhall, yesterday, the Lord Mayor in the
chair, to take into consideration the recent vote of
the House. of Commons on China, and to •express
its high confidence in her Majesty's Government.
Mr. Raikes Currie, M P., moved a resolution to this
effect, which was seconded by Mr. J. Dillon. Mr.
Mosley moved, and Mr. Gassiott seconded, an
amendment, cheerfully acknowledging the claims
of Lord Palmerston for his energy during the war,
but asserting that no Government was deserving
of confidence which did not embody in its domestic
policy a steady, social, and political progress.
Alderman Rose having spoken in favour of the
original resolution, Mr. E. James, Q C observed
that the amendment was one which nobody could
dissent • from ; but an expression of confidence
in the Government, at the present junction was,
by rho means, inconsistent with it. The Lord
Mayor put the amendment, and it was lost.
The orignal resolution was then carried by an
overwhelming majority. Mr. Crawford, one of the
Liberal candidates for the city, made a strong
speech in favour of Lord Palmerston, at the
(-lose of the meeting a succession of
hearty cheers was given for Lord Palmerston.
Far different was the result of a meeting called for
the like purpose at Ashton-under-Lyne. The
meeting was summoned for the purpose of passing
a resolution in favour of Lord Palmerston, but it
was attended with a discomfiture which was proba-
bly little expected. The platform and the audience
took different sides The working men of the neigh-
bourhood mustered in considerable strength, and
gave lusty expression to their sentiments of disap-
proval. After a fierce discussion, the chairman de
(dared the first resolution carried, but in the opinion
of persons present a clear majority were against it
Mr. Greenhall has announced his intention of
offering himself again for Warrington, a step
which, we doubt not, will be highly acgeptable to
the constituency. Mr. Greenhall voted in favour
of Mr Locke King's motion, and along with Mr._
Cobden on the China question. His conduct in
the House of Commons has been independent,
liberal and consistent, and we sincerely wish him
success. It is said that Mr. Cobden will offer
himself for either Huddersfield or Salford.

The intelligence from abroad is interesting.
The Treaty of Peace with Persia is on its way to
Teheran, and although we hear of reinforcements
leaving Bombay for Bushire, that is explained by
the necessary ignorance of the Indian Government
of the settlement effected at Paris.

News from the East also speaks of a defeat of
the Russians by the Circassians on the Labs, a
river which forms the frontier between independent
Circassia and Russia. The advance of Russia upon
Khokand, of which these despatches speak, is old
news. The frontier between Khokand and Siberia
has long been contested.
Letters from Bombay, of the 16th Feb., mention
that Colonel Jacob had sailed for the Persian
Gulf with 1,000 cavalry and a regiment of infantry.
Dost Mohammed had shown himself favourable to
the mission of General Lawrence. The former
believes he shall be able to make Kandahar his
principal residence. _ _

A telegraphic despatch from Constantinople of
the 4th inst. announces that Admiral Lyons, in
an order of the day, has pointed out the order of
departure of the vessels of his squadrom fi om the
Bosphorus. They are to leave in succession, and
repair to Malta, where they will all assemble before
proceeding to England. Admiral Lyons himself
will leave Constantinople on the 15th, in the Royal
Albert, at which time the only vessel remaining
will be the Miranda, attached to the service of the
English embassy.
Our advices from Naples state that the birth of
a prince had been taken advantages of by the
Secret Socities, akid they had placarded during the
niOlt, notwithstanding the vigilance of the police,
a manifesto bearing the signatures of the ministers
and the seal of the State, announcing a full and
entire amnesty, a constitution, and the abdication
of the King in favour of the Duke of
Calabria. Notwithstanding the slight pro-
bability of such measures, some persons
believed the statement to be real, but no dis
order took place in consequence. At the date of
the last accounts, rumours were current of the
approaching settlement of the existing differences
It was known that 400 prisoners had given their
consent to be conveyed to the Argentine republic ;
and that circumstance was considered of a nature
to lead to an arrangement with the French and
English Governments.

We are in receipt of advices from Sydney, New
South Wale,to tho 18 h of December, inclusive,
being ten days later than our previous accounts. A
full summary of the news to hand will be found in
another column.

all the papers on the Chinese question, 'and asks
how many of them have done so. He stated
what he had done, as their representative, and
the meeting agreed, nem. con., to re-elect him
and his colleague. The feeling at Tynemouth
and Ashton-under-Lyne was equally strong
against the Government; Sir ERSKINE PERRY,
who contested Liverpool at the election after
Messrs. TURNER and M'KENzIE, voted in the
majority against Lord PALMERSTON. For a time
his re-election was threatened with opposition,
but we now find that the aspect of affairs in that
borough have changed, and he has been received
with the same enthusiasm which greeted the
appearance of Mr. LINDSAY at Tynemouth. The
members of the Government are issuing their ad-
dresses, one by one. Yesterday we noticed the
Meagre character of those issued by Mr. LowE
and Mr. F. PEEL. To-day her Majesty's
Treasurer of the Household, Lord MULGRAVE,
has appealed to the electors of Scarborough.
He defends his vote on the Canton affair on the
plea of honour and glory, and honestly tells the
constituency, in reference to all other questions,
that he " has no political theories to propound."

All these circumstances are evidences that the
people will not desert what Lord Jonri RUSSELL
so pointedly and so feelingly terms " the good
old principles and the good old cause." In the
approaching contest this must not be lost sight
of. Earnestly do we trust that the electors of
the United Kingdom will look to the principles
and not the man who offers his parliamentary
services. They must not vote for any candidate
until they actually know what he means.
Mere professions and specious generalities will
not do; let them but hoist the banner of political
liberty, and on it affix their unalterable motto,
" Peace, Retrenchment, and Reform."
The antecedents of Lord PALMERSTON show
that he is opposed to all these great questions.
fie is lauded for being wedded to aristocracy.
As long as he is influenced by their dictates, so
long will he be found voting against all measures
of popular reform. He was born, brought up,
and has passed his long and eventful life in the
very heart of the aristocracy. His interest is
entwined with theirs. He will, at all hazards of
popularity, maintain the order. This intimacy
with the aristocracy causes him to view with
jealousy, bordering almost upon alarm, the
movements of the Administrative Reform Associ-
ation. The praiseworthy efforts of the Financial
Reform Association obtains none of his sympathy
—on neither of these momentous questions he
never can be expected to give an approving vote.
His tenure of office, we are bound to say, has
been a complete blank as far as the passing of
any act specially beneficial to the middle or
lower classes is concerned ; and had the present
session been prolonged, it is not too much to say
that it would have been as unfruitful as any of
those which have preceded it since 1853.
We have referred to these matters to show
what duty the electors have to perform, and to
convince them that the country at large are
not satisfied with the Ministerial cry of " Chinese
atrocities" and " PALMERSTON for ever." The
people's choice will be him who comes forward
and guarantees to the country its just rights, the
enactment of wholesome measures of reform in
Church and State, and the proper and impartial
administration of public affairs in every depart-
ment, by those only whose past career is an
evidence that in every respect they are " the
right men in the right place."

THE proceedings of the Water Committee, as
read at the Town Council, are suggestive of the
serious position in which that nefarious job—the
Pike Water Scheme—has placed the inhabit-
ants. They already demonstrate that the course
taken in opposing the entire scheme has been
warranted, and the predictions of failure are
about to be fully realised. Look at the short,
but very significant, debate which ensued, on
Alderman COOPER moving the confirmation of
the minutes of the Committee. We will not
stop to comment upon the delay which has taken
place in reporting to the Council upon the
people's memorial. In dealing with that docu-
ment, the Water Committee have had a most
difficult card to play. It will, therefore, take
some time before these water " conjurers" can
make up anything like an apology for declining
to accede to its prayer.

WHEN the division on Mr. COBDEN'S motion
took place, the adherents of the Premier stated
that the country was entirely in favour of his
policy, and that the universal cry at the hustings
would be, " PALMERSTON for ever." A very
short time has served to show that such was an
erroneous opinion, and that, notwithstanding the
addresses of confidence and sympathy which
have gone forth from some of the leading com-
mercial communities, there are thousands who by
no means sympathise with or confide in the poli-
tical sagacity of his Lordship, In proof of this,
we have only to refer to what has occurred
at Ashton-under-Lyne, Sheffield, Portsmouth,
and Tynemouth. In all these places the people
have emphatically declared against Lord PAL..
MERSTON'S policy on China. At each the adhe-
rents of the noble Viscount endeavoured to elicit
an expression of public opinion on his behalf,
but were defeated. The people declared against
the noble Lord and his Government ; and every
one reading the speeches delivered at the meet-
ings in queAion, must be satisfied that the
career of the Government is most likely to be
shortened. Its contempt for measures of Reform
has not escaped the attention of the masses. It
was in vain for Lord IVloNcic, one of Lord PAL-
MERSTON'S subalterns, to ask the electors of
Portsmouth to return him again as their repre-
sentative—to evince their confidence in the
statesman, whose appreciation of the blessings of
the peace has been shown by his terminating,
immediately that fair terms could be obtained,
the great European War in which we were en-
gaged; while his long and honourable political
career is a sufficient guarantee while he con-
tinues Minister of England. Lord MONCK'S
ideas, as well as a resolution that his Lordship
was a fit and proper representative for Ports-
mouth, did not please his hearers. The electors
resolved that it was injudicious to send him to
Parliament, unless he pledged himself to sup-
port the extension of the suffrage and vote by
ballot.

The debate on Wednesday originated by
Alderman PARKER putting two awkward pies-
tions to the Chairman of the Committee--one as
tD quantity, and the other as to quality. He
complained of the " saffron" like appearance of
the water, and comforted the community by
intimating that, with a little patience, they
should know at the end of six months, how
things should be ! It will be perceived that
Alderman COOPER was quite silent on the effect
the supply had upon the reservoirs, or how the
mills along the course, by which the Rivington
water was taken, had bees supplied. In this
he displayed an amount of diplomatic skill,
which would do credit to a better and worthier
cause. It may suit the purpose of the Pike
party to refuse information ; we have, however,
already supplied what Alderman COOPER stu-
diously concealed, and, as it cannot be too ex-
tensively circulated, we again refer to the subject.
In Wednesday's NORTHERN TIMES, we pub-
lished a document, containing a special report on
the state of the Rivington Reservoir, the quality
of the water, state of the filter beds, and the
condition of the leakage at the Millstone Bank. •
This report sets forth that the water in the
reservoir at Rivington has greatly decreased
during the past two months, the diminution
being computed at from six to eight feet, not-
withstanding the fact that heavy rains had fallen
in the interval. It should be borne in mind that
no water had been withdrawn from the reservoir
for fourteen days previous to the date when this
report was made. We were promised 16,000,000
gallons per diem from the Rivington Works ;
but according to calculations made respecting
tho valve for regulating the now from the equal

This is a most significant demonstration.
Portsmouth is a Government borough, and one
.
would have deemed it about the last place in the
United Kingdom where an open and unqualified
expression of opposition to our present rulers
would be heard. Mr. ROEBUCK, at Sheffield,
has been as pointed as Lord JOHN RUSSELL in
his address to the electors of London, on the
impolicy of the Chinese war. In his address to
his constituent, as
ent% he t them that he km rod

NORTIMRN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

ising tank into the Pike, it appears that the pipe
has not been filled more than one-twelfth of its
capacity, and that the quantity of water at
present sent down does not exceed 2,000,000
gallons per diem. Taking this fact in connection
with the diminution of water actually in the
reservoir, we have cause to fear not only a scarcity
but complete famine in water should we be
visited with a dry summer. These statements
were published, and no doubt read, by Mr. COOPER.
before he entered the Council Chamber on
Wednesday. He was therefore aware of the
alarming character of the supply, but acted
upon the old adage, " least said soonest mended."
He should, however, have recollected that
" silence gives consent," that his omission to
allude to the quantity of water in the reservoir,
its diminution during the last two Months; and
the estimated quantity sent down the main pipe
daily, is satisfzutory evidence that the statements
which are put forth cannot be denied. Surely,
then, it is time for the inhabitants at large to
feel alarmed at the practical results, thus early
:developed, of this unpardonable expenditure and
waste of public money for a project uncaller.l for,
and a complete failure in every respect.
As to the quality of the water, Mr. Alderman
COOPER essayed a little information in the shape
of an opinion. But it was just as discouraging
as the facts we have mentioned in connection
with quantity. He coolly alluded to Mr. Alder-
man PARKER'S statement, and said that he did
not calculate that the water would be sufficiently
pure for several months to come—perhaps for
twelve months ! This is an astounding admission
from the Pikeists: The people of Liverpool are
to drink an infamous and deleterious compound
for twelve months !

Our special report, published on Wednesday,
sets forth that the water in the reservoir is so
discoloured that it is not possible to discern anv
object at a greater depth than two feet, and then
very indistinctly. To this testimony we have that
of Mr. Alderman BENNETT, who declares the
water never will be fit to drink, and to this
opinion he adds, that no person should drink the
water from lead pipes or cisterns. But there is
another frightful fact to be considered : there is
the leakage at the Millstone Bank. At first, the
Water Committee led us to believe that it was
but a mere trifle ; but it has assumed formidable
proportions, and is costing the ratepayers not
much, if anything, less than 2001. per week.
One hundred men, horses and waggons, steam
engines, and four pumps, are constantly in
operation day and night. The prospect of repair-
ing this breach in the works is as remote now as
it was twelve months ago.

In the foregoing remarks three important
points are established ; the water is deficient in
quantity and bad in quality ; and the works
are so defectively constructed as to cause a
constant outlay for repairs, which promises to be
perpetual in its character. Surely same steps
will be taken to arrest the progress of a nefarious
scheme—a scheme which threatens death and
destruction to the people of the town and dis-
trict. The proceedings of the Water Committee
throughout has been wholly opposed to the public
voice. Bent upon carrying out their project, they
have squandered thousand, of the ratepayers'
money, for which is now offered in return a
scanty supply of a peat bog poisonous liquid.
But the day of retribution may be nearer than
anticipated.

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday, a man named John Jones,
a cotton porter, was killed in Whitley-street, in copse-
qnence of a bale of cotton falling on him by accident.
GOVERNMENT ART EXHIBITION.—ThiS exhibition will
open in Post Office Pact next Saturday, at noon, when
a !as m ticket holders only will be admitted. We understand
that the Mayor has kindly promised to be present.
The Paris spring races, which ate to come off in the
new course at Longchamps, between the Bois de Boulogne
and the Seine, have been fixed for the 26 h April, and the
3rd, 7th, and 10th May. The spring races of Caantilly
have been fixed for the 17th, 21st, and 24th May.
THE PAPACY.—The Rev. Dr. Tayler'clelivered, a leenre
in the Concert Hall, last night, to' a very numerous
audience in contray.-ntion of the doctrines contained in a
lecture delivered the previous evening by the Rev. Father
Christie, entitled—" The Papacy, a Counterpoise to
Tyranny."
EXHIBITION OP WORKS BY MODERN ARTISTS OF THE
FRENCR SCHOOL.—Oar readers will perceive from ad.
vertisement that this exhibition will close this evening.
The children of the North Corporation Schools, and Ragged
Schools, Soho street, have, since our last notice, paid a
visit, anc fully appreciated the kindness cf the promoters.
Quicx PASSAGE —The packet ship Ocean Monarch,
Captain Page, arrived here yesterday aftereron, in fourteen
days from New York. No mean performance at this
season of the year—indeed, we believe, this passage has
only been eclipsed on one or two instances during the pact
five years. The Ocean Monarch left New York on the 27th
February.
DARING AND EXTENSIVE BURGLARY.—AbOUt six hun-
dred pounds' worth of watches, jewellery, &c., was stolen
from the shop of Mr. James Capella, silversmith, and
hardware dealer, Newport, Wales, on Monday night, by
burglars who were evidently of the "crack " school. It
appear 3 that suspicion is directed towards two men who
visited Newport, from Bristol, a week or two since, and
who were aader police surveillance from the time of their
arrival till they left, a few days after,
HENGLER'S GRAND CIRQUE VARIETE.—We feel pleasure
in calling attention to Mr, Hengler's advertisement in
another column, aanouncing the opening of his new and
splendid circus, in Dale street. on Monday evening. The
professional character of Mr. Hengltr, and the talent of all
his artistes, together with the 1:e. of his having erected a
special building for his performances, which is everything,
that can be desired, leads ns to nredict for the company a
long and prosperous career. We have every reason to
recommend this as a most worthy place of popular enter-
tainment.

BRYNGLA'S SILVER LEAD MINE.—We published the
prospectus of this undertaking a few days ago. Since thee
we have had an opportunity of examining specimens of the
ore, which has been left at this office for examination.
The ore is very rich, in both lead and silver, according to
the opinion of the best authorities on such matters. The
ore ground at present discovered is sufficient guarantee for
effectually working this mine. The company is under the
management of a trustworthy and influential directorate.
Any one addressing a line to the company's offices, Talbot
Chambers, Shrewsbury, will obtain ell p articulars. We
have only to add that the Bryn lass silver and lead mine
appears an eligible investa3ent., and one that will, -ere long,
hold a high position iu the mining market.
THE LIVERPOOL MASTER MARINER'S ASSOCIATION.—
Some time since we had occasion to refer in favourable
terms to the working of this society—a society as important
in its operations to the public as it is to the members,—for
upon the capabilities and conduct of master mariners de-
pends Thousands of lives and millions of wealth annually;
and it must be admitted that the parties engaged in such
important trusts have met the approbation of all classes.
The objects of the society are of a character so excellent,
that it becomes the duty of shipowners and merchants to
countenance and support it. By the exertions of the
secreta-y and managing committee, a great deal has already
been done, considering that many members have n'!..rit,
._;an
opportunity of being constantly on shore like other peih4l.o.
The seventh quarterly meeting of the body is advertised for
the 19th inst., and we understand the report and financial
statement will be found encouraging, and such as to prove
that it will be beneficial for many others, as well Rs master
mariners, to identify themselves with the body that hag
effeotPd rp much almcly,