The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-10 00:00:00

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FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

At the meeting of the Dock Committee yesterday
no public business of importance was transacted.
Letters from two firms engaged in the fruit trade
were read, complaining in a very energetic manner
of the enormous charges on goods landed in Stanley
Dock. It would appear that the charges are in
almost all cases double, and in some cases treble,
what they would be in any of the other docks.
Such a state of things ought to be remedied. The
letters were referred to the Warehouse Committee.

At the Health Committee the only allusion
made to the late disgraceful proceedings at the
Necropolis was that by Alderman Cooper, chair-
man, suggesting that all such burial grounds
should be brought under the notice of the Watch
Committee, and that they should have the power,
through the police, of entering them both by night
and day. Mr. M`Gowan intimated that such a
proceeding could not be persevered in, as
they were private property, and could not
be so entered without an order from the
Secretary of State. In the meantime it is
asserted that the Health Committee have received
a letter from the solicitors of Mr. Kirkus,
who, as far as they go, entirely exonerate Mr.
Kirkus from any blame in this affair, and
also stating that the directors or committee
of shareholders of the Necropolis were
aware of the irregularities which had been
going on for some time. This is all very well.
Mr. Kirkus must have also known that the dis
reputable practices complained of were being
carried on, and why did he not at once stop such
a course. He is as much to blame as the Com-
mittee ; and it is to be hoped that the Health
,committee will see that the law is enforced, and
that those breaches of moral rectitude are severely
punished.
The Cheshire County Magistrates and the
Birkenhead Commissioners are at loggerheads
as to which shall have control over the town•
ship of Claughton. The former have decided
that tie county chief constable shall take possession
of the township, and the latter that their superin-
tendent shall do so. The Home Secretary must
be applied to to settle the dispute.
It would now appear that the Ministerial candi-
date for the Speakership of the new House of
Commons is to be Mr. Evelyn Denison. Mr. Baines
has been set aside, it seems, because he is too old,
and can't see well enough; and Mr. Fitzroy because
he is warm tempered, and may at any time succeed
to a peerage by the death of his brother.
At the Central Criminal Court, yesterday, Webb,
who had been indicted for the attempt to murder
Mr. Alfred Buckler, in a second class railway
carriage on the North London Railway, was placed
upon his trial, and, after a patient hearing, was
found guilty. He was sentenced to transportation
for life.

Yesterday, the ancient and Royal charities
incident to Maunday Thursday, were distributed
to thirty eight aged men, and thirty-eight aged
women, the numbers of each sex corresponding
with the age of the Queen.
The elections are drawing to a close, and in a
few days we shall have complete returns. In
fourteen of the Irish boroughs the late members
have been returned without opposition, and in
Coleraine Dr. Boyd has replaced Viscount Naas
without a contest. Eighteen boroughs have been
contested ; nine have returned their late represen-
tatives; end eight have chosen new members. In
Galway, Mr. A. O'Flaherty, one of the old members,
has been returned, with Lord Dunkellin as his
colleague, in place of Mr. Martin Joseph Blake,
who represented the town for
.many years, but