Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-12 00:00:00

In answer to Mr. Sullivan,

The ArroRNBY GENZELL for Ireland said that the Secre-
tary for Ireland would probably be in his place on Monday,
and would then state whether the Fairs and Markets Bill
relating to Ireland would be introduced.

COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.
The report of the Committee of Supply, in consequence
of the absence of Lord Palmerston, was postponed till
to-morrow.

THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER,
Mr. Wise drew attention to the accounts of the Duchy
of Lancaster, presented to Parliament, in pursu ince of the
Act 1 and 2 Vic., Cap., 101, and moved an address for
a return of all manors and estates now
belonging to the crown, in right of the Duchy
of Lancaster, of all sales, grants, and enfranchise-
ments which had taken place since 1838 ; of the pur-
chases and exchanges of land which had been made since
the same period ; and the date and term cf all existing
leases of the lands, mines. and rents of the said Duchy.
The hon. member stated that the revenues of the Duchy
were eaten up by burdens, and only existed on paper.
During the last nineteen years, the total revenues were
£722,960 of which only £251,000 went to the privy purse,
and the out-goings were 1 171,960. Last year the receipts
were £41,048, of which £20,000 went t-) the privy purse.
There were sixty officers receiving £8,527, of which the
Chancellor took £2,000 a year ; the Vice-Chancellor,
£6OO ; the Receiver-General, £B7B ; and the remainder
included to two attornies, fifteen receivers, and twenty-two
stewards.He condemned the mismanagement of the pro-
perty, and appealed to she Government to provide a
remedy.
Mr. M. T. BAINES observed that much had been done in
the improvement of the property, but it had not shown
any great result, owing to charges upon the estates and
long leases, which had not yet expired. The government
had already diminished the expenditure by reducing the
number cf officers; and, acting upon powers given under a
bill introduced some time ago into parliament, had pro-
ceeded to the consolidation of the property of the Duchy,
by selling dis.ant estates and buying contiguous ones.
After a brief discussion the motion was agreed to.

THE ADMINISTRATION OP JUSTICE IN INDIA.
Mr. KINNAIRD moved resolutions to the effect, that from
representations to the house, there was reason to believe
that the present administration of the lower provinces
of Bengal does not secure to the population the
advantages of good government, but that the magi
of the. people suffer grievous oppression from the
police, and the want of proper administration of justice.
That it is desirable that the government shoud take im-
mediate steps to inquire into the social condition of the
people, and to ascertain what measures of amelioration have
been taken, and also that such report be laid on the table
of the house. He remarked that in India there were
150,000,000 of natives. to 100,000 Europeans, including
native soldiers, and that the governmeut should consider
that their power was only maintained by prestige, and Toe Soverteroet Feeneres.—The marriaee of Prince
that there was a limit to all endurance, and that, therefore, Oscar of Sweden, born in 1829, second son of the reigning
it was necessary to
monarch, with the Duke of Nassau's sister, bona iu 1836,
give their immediate and anxious
attention to this subject. took place at the palace of Bibrich on the sth, at seven in
the evening:—Our private letters, says the Pays, state
At the close of the hon. member's address, a count out
was moved, but was unsuccessful. that the journey of the King of Saxony into Italy is con-
nected with a projected maniacs of the Princess Sidonia
Mr. DUNLOP seconded the motion, and corroborated the
statement advanced by the mover. - of Saxony with the King of Sardinia. The King of
Saxony has not, therefore, made a journey merely to pay
Mr. V. SmtTll admitted the fact stated, and urged that a visit to the Duchess of Genoa, as was stated.
consequently there was no ground for instituting the inves- THE Juucie , AND THE DEvIL.—At the Geeei,wich
tigation suggested by the motion. The government being County Court, on Weinesday, in a case Gilbert a. Busford,
very anxious to improve the c nditien of the the plaintiff, a factor, residing at Deptford, claimed for a
people, had instituted inquiries '`with that view, load of straw. He did not know the defendant, hut from
and measures had been taken in reference to each his honest-looking countenance, and saying he was work-
of the subjects touched upon in the restulations before the ing for Alderman Wire, he gave him credit till the fol.
House. There were no secrets in the operations of the lowing Saturday. As defendant did not keep his appoint-
Government in the case, and there were no inquiries inae- ment, he (the plaintiff) on meeting him some months after
much-as papers already before the Hence would show all in the streets asked him for the amount, when he said,
that had been done. He could not disguise from himself A WHOLE FAMILY POISONED. " Oh, l'il pay you seine day." Upon this plaintiff said,
that late occurrences were attributable to impressions that ---. " I'll take you before the judge." He replied, "You may
corantdsory measures were to be taken against the native On Wedeeelay morning; the neighbourhood of Cleator take me before the devil, if you like." (Laughter.) So I
religion, and he mentioned this bee'oise it originated with Moor, near Wl-ntehaven, was thrown into great excite- have brought him here. [lncreased laughtete]—His
missionary operations, and the petitions upon which the recut by the disocvery that ari en! ire family were in' an Honour : Then you brought him before the judge ?
motion was founded came fe ,rti tbeee who, while rePre- appareHtly :tying state, and, in eli probability, from the i Plaintiff: Yes, your honour.—Mr. Bishop (chief.clerk) :
"ming they were the mouth-pieces of the Wyete telked-of etteeta of POiSOD• About nitro o'eneen a.m., it was observed , Then your taking him before the devil was the reason you
degeneration of the native worship. - thet the h6use of a trainer, nar.ed SnsePh Armstrong, ; brought him here? Plaintiff : It was. (Rears of laugh-
BiS E. PIM" contended that in regard to the social remalee:t ':11).':-`,1, though its intn o.es should have been up I ter, in which his Honour joined.)—Judgment for the
condition of the natives, there were no bette tittilr- arid sheaf their work for hours. This aneaeting the
rities than the Bengal Missionary BRUTAL MURDER IN DUNDEE.--At a late hour on last
plaintiff for full claim.
And their petition. al.tent'lon of some n ighbaars, ihey anreachA the house, 1
authortteenrtu ed by the evidence of indigo and. beeline; wire stn.- ge. nois„;s, looked through ;he Saturday night, James Coyle, a weaver, entered a house in
pT.lhanatters, etas
w hi:::Y was equal to that of the mis- window, and saw two child: en lyieg apparently dead. They Shepherd's Close, Dundee, having no previous acquaint.
stonaries• He proceeded to refer to the system of appoint- at on-e broke -pen the door, and found two lads one of ante with its inmates, who were two females, a mother
ing boy judges of appeal, and argued that the evils nineteen, and the otter of ten ye:11.5., dead. _ Their father, and daughter, the daughter being a married woman,
complained of in the administration of justice might be his wife, and three daughters, wereeleing convulsed and named Burnett or Quinn, egel between sixty and seventy.
rejected by the Government of Judges of legal training I inset;sible, M.dscal !assistance was at once sought ; but He was drunk at the time, and he accosted the daughter
and educated, and magistrates of competent age and ex- I Armstrong's wife, N, tic, 4,1 s six no.;rlths advanced in preg. : Ina rude Innoner, and the mother abused him for his con-
perience. He concluded by moving an amendment to the nency, after linger:rig rill one o'clock, pen, expired. The ' duet, and succeeded, along with the daughter, in forcing
resolution, the seconder embodying his views on the husband and one of the daughters were ctnsidered in a him out of the hens', and locking
.the door to prevent his
subject._ very precarious state; their recovery was very doubtful, entering again. The house being only one storey high,
Lord JOHN ItussE" concurred with the Presi lent of Of the oeher two daughters there was some hope that, with .he went round to the window, through which he again got
the Boird of Control that inquiry would but delay the great care, they might ree,.rver. Ac to the cause of this into.the house. He was about to renew his assault .upon
proceeding, and that the time had now come for acti n. fatality. uothing certain is known. There are rumours in the young woman, when she affected her escape, and, ran
He held it to be clearly proved that the police force wag in th- locality of disagreements hetweee the husband and ' for a policeman. During her absence Coyle appears to
l
an insufficient state, and that the ccmplaints respecting wife, but whetherthesedifferenees- laare provoked either to have immediately commenced in a most bruta manner t(I
ress..°'?dY .iI;
the administration of justice were well founded,
, but he the commisaion of a dreadful ()rime, or whether the cit.. I attack the defenceless old woman, knocking her down wee
objected to the motion, urging upon the un vernment to eumstances whia hate imperilled the lives of seven indi, kicking her about the head and othey pßrts Of hoe
devote their attention to the subject. - viduals, and certainly destroyed the lives 'of three of the shuacshbaeemnasnennetrfothratt she
ria.pEpdeia::::orgithaDveat.7l;xpimmeatatety;
Mr. Malloutts believed that the action of the raissionariei fiteity, have hoc of eu Accidents), nature, islet Involved He was taken into cnetedy after D. stout resistance, and
in seeking PelitiP4l irgiaistance would letyl to distrust of ' in tpystety,

1857.

MERSEY CONSERVANCY
AND DOCKS BILL.

FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY.
The. Committee on the Mersey Conservancy and Docks Bill met
to-day, at half-past twelve, Sir James Graham its the chair.
Mr. Minx/swims, on behalf of the Dock Committee, In concluding
his address to the committee, observed, with reference to the evidence
of one of the witnesses that the Lending-stage, opposite the icorge's
Pierhead, although of local value only, was supported out of the rates
levied on the commerce of the port generally, that such a complaint
was disgraceful, fer that stage was actually forced on the trisek Com-
mittee by the Cheshire people, with
,the consent of Parliament, with
whom, therefore, must rest the blame if the money paid in support
of the stage by the Dock Trust were an improper expenditure-. The
truth of the assnmption that that p tyment was wrong in principle
will be, however, very mush doubted. The learned counsel nest
replied to the objection raised by the promoters of the bill to the
widening of Wapping. Now, the streets in the neighboorhood or the
Wapping Docks had fer some time been in a most o ijectionable state,
and with the increasing commerce of the town it was found absolutely
necessary to make this improvement. Hai ing said this math on that
head, he had no doubt bat that the committee would see the ground-
lessness of the complaint of Mr. Heron and his friends. Then, great
stress had been laid on the fact that whilst the Dock Committee
proposed t borrow £4,000,000 far carrying out the north dock
scheme, they declared that they could not get .4'1,200,000 to pay for
the Birkenhead Docks. The simple answer to this was that that
increased dock accommodation was mucn required at Live. pool, and
there was no doubt that had the north dock scheme been carried out
it would have bean profitable—not so, however, with the Birkenhead
Docks; they were an experiment. They had been a losing concern, and
must be for some time yet. Again, the Dock Committee were bound to
consider the purpose for which they were .ippointed, they ought o have
considered, and they did censsier, their ditties to the parties who had
nominated them to that important trust, and to the creditors of the
Dock Estate, whose money they had borrowed acid spent. Therefore,
when they found that Birkenhead mast be an unremumerative specu-
lation, they acted very properly i-s not committing taemselves to that
scheme. If they had so committed themselves, what would have
been the opinion of those parties in different quarters of the globe to
whom the Dock Trust owed 4,r3,000,000 sterling? He had to complain
of the ignorance of detail shown by the witnesses for the promoters of
the bill, and instanced the case of the Brazilleira and Sarah Sands.
Those gentlemen wished the public to believe that the Dock Trust
had behaved in an arbitrary and unwarrantable manner by levying
dues upon" a few parcels of patterns" put on board the Brazille ra
in the stream of the river, whereas, in truth, no patterns were put on
board, but 'upwardeof 60 bales of silks, 50 firkins of butter, 68 sheets of
copper, and many other packages of valuable goods. Such ignorauce
was unpardonab:e, but the promoters of the bill were too fond of what
they termed general principles—details they seemed to ignore alto-
gether. The committee must, therefore, see that the Dock Trust had
simply done its duty In levying these dues. It was only fair that they
shou'd do so, for, if they encouraged the use of the river as a pace
of loading and discharging, who was to pay the bondho dare tie
money that had been borrowed and expended in docks? 51oleever,
if a flat from St. Htlens had been allowed to discharge a few tons
of goods in the river, and had nrt been charged dues for so
doing, what would have been the cry of the owners of the
Brazilleira when charged with dials for a similar practice ?
Under all these circumstances; he thought the committee wou'd find
no case made out against the Dock Trust, and that they would declare
the preamble of the bill not proved;