The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-11 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS.

°l'llere is a dearth of any really interesting or
important news this morning. The Coroner's
inquest on the bodies of the engine driver and
firemen at the Edge-hill station was resumed on
Saturday, and was again adjourned. Several im-
portant tic's were elucidated, tending to show that
t'iere was not sufficient rare manifested in the
I .spection of the machinery.
We insert in another column the proceedings
of the last meeting of the Financial Reform Asso-
ciation, when the late attack of the Tithes
upon that body -was taken. into consideration,
and the eonfident assertions of the writer rather
roughly handled. It will be perceived that the
association has got UD a petition to the House of
Commons on the subject of the Hudson Bay
territory, in which the right of the company to
govern the territory as they have done is disputed,
and the Parliament is asked to apply a prompt and
effectual remedy for the evils complained of The
currency question was br,u2ht forward by Me.
Nott, Vice-President of the London Central Cur-
rency Reform Committee. The council agreed to
petition fur a parliamentary enquiry, without
pledging itself to any particular theory.
The Government are said to be very busy in
getting ready several measures of importance for
to-night. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is to bring
forward a series ofresolutions on which he will found
a bill for the better regulation and management of
Savistgs' Banks. It is full time that these valuable
institutions should be placed in such a position
that the industrious classes can have -full confi
deuce in their managemenb. Numerous and heart-
rending disasters have taken place through the
nefarious practices of dishonest actuaries and man-
gers, whereby every discouragement has been
given to the cultivation of prudent habits.
It will be observer} that another sad accident has
happened in London, by the falling of three houses
in Tottenham Court Road. No less than five lives
'n
-have been lost, and ten individuals have been
thlseriously wounded. The disaster has created an
immense ameunt of excitement. Thousands of
people have flocked to the scene of the ruins. It is
said that a government enquiry will he instituted
into the affair. This is the third or fourth accident
of the kind which has taken place within a short
• time. The authorities should cause greater
. vigilance with regard to the stability of old and
kie dilapidated buildings.
1 Four days later news is to hand by the arrival of
01 the Arabia at this port yesterday afternoon—but it
1111 s of no importance. Lord Napier had been mak-
ing a speech at New York, in honour of St.
Andrew's day, and it was very much lauded by the
American Press The warmest expressions of a
Baneroft, a i awrenee, an Ingersoll, a Bu-hanan,
or a Dallas, at Lord Mayors and other banquets in
London, never exceeded Napier's heartiness. The
Speech. too, was tree from the common cant about
community of language and literature, Shakes-
peare, Magna Charta, and Anglu-Saxonistnt which
generally form so large a part of a speech
from an English Minister in America or an
American Minister in England It was a speech of
plat sense,in which comp'itnents were interspersed
with excellent taste. Then there was point in the
con •luding sentence, in which he gave his
shver,ian's recognition of the sovereignty of the
American people, and declared that ho had re-
c«.,ived the cordi ii s.mtintents he hal iitterir‘ii frhm
the Qii.ten herself. and w-old !-.ot .‘ r.ll t'rh'tn in a
"thtpkin.' This rt,
r,=g.ta•d.A as the friendly -nitisageo Vtlthri i her,elf
to the people of the United States. It is a fresh
acknowledgement of the gift of the Resolute, al-
ready sufficiently acknowledged, and it is a new
proof, if any were wanting, that in spite of occa-

•
sional . diplomatic differences, the two nations
are as friendly as it is possible for any two
nations to be. .At this particular time we are in•.
cliued to give a political character to this clever
speech, and derive from it a hope that the Dallas-
Clarendon Treaty, in its amended shape, is favour-
alq regarded, and will be ratiffKl by the British
Government and
.that thus all present causes
of diplomatic difficulty will be completely re-
moved.

I atrr inteltie•ence from California and Nicaragua
is to hand. In the latter place Walker's position
was becoming more critical; in the former nothing
of importance was occurring.
From the New Brunswieleer of the 25th um learn
that the news Which we published some time ago„
respecting the Newfoundland Fisheries,_had been
received in the Colonies. According to the paper
quoted the colonial minister at home has had.. the
gOod sense to appreciate at its proper value the
sturdy spirit of resistance to the late Fishery Con-
vention, m tnifested by those of whose rights it dis-
posed ; and, in the words of our cotetnporary,
the " treaty is at aa. end." Mr. Labouchere s
despatch to the Lientenant Governor, is said to
have been, extremely. fran and: conciliatory. We
shall be glad to see the document itscif, and also
to know bow the absolute. Monarch of France
relishes this breaking up of his arrangements
The colonists have learned the importance of
promt and energetic action. We, on our part, also
learn something : that the desire for consolidating
all British NoNth America into a political whole is
spreading far.and wide, and over-ruling petty local
interests. .
Our Paris adviees inform us that the French
Commissioner to China is not to be accompanied
by any that can be properlytermed a naval force.
' The Grand Duke-Constantine- of Russia will, it is
said,:pay'd visit by linvitation, to the Queen at
Osborne. Het is not to go Itod.,ondent;.-e:MhelegiVt.
lative body lieldla aittingi ondiritclathee.,The• report.,
on the budget: of I BaBiw asttire seined by RI Leroux;
also; tineby Beatrveiger, on-the bilLdems.ndims
180,000 fr., for the purchase •of the property con- '
neeted• with .the residence of Napoleon 1., at
St. Helena. The discussion on the military code
was resumed, and adjourned to the next day.- -
The Grand Duke Constantine, at the dinner
given by the Count de Krs'se'eff, the Russian am-
bassador, in -proposing the ttoatti to; the ;French
army, used the followin----languaf.7,e :—" To the
French army, which, far from having degenerated,
has risen 'in the esteem
_and .adnairittien,:of all
nations! To those ,hrave,soldiera whom. any nation
maybe proud, to lia.ve.for e.dVersaries, on- the field
of battle, and; still more= to have.for•friends. in the
midst of the proaperities of a fruitful peace. I
return thanks to Providence for having given me
an. opportuniiy of loudly proclaiming this my
opinion. before the chiefs who represent the elite of
that valiant army."- - -
The Upper House of the Prussian legislature has
rejected the ffrst paragraph of the ministerial bill'
to i;,ezease the. tax on trades. Nobody expected
' to See the Upper Honse thns,'fulfil the duties
neglected by the LoWer. 'The ministerial crisis
continues in Denmark,. and there seems no alter-
native for the King but abdication or the recal of
Von Scheele, if he will not completely, throW
hini-
self into the arms of the Eiderdane party. From
Spain we hear that the squadron for --the.--West
Indies was on the point of- sailing. The subscrip-
tion to the Russian railways has been opened at
St. Petersburg, and in one day a third of the shares
were taken up.
Great excitement has been caused in, Switzer
land by the note in the Monitezir, blaming .the
Federal Council for its so-called indiscretion in
publishing the draft of the Neufchatel Treaty.
The whole nation seems to support the Federal
pocket the insult, but that an energetic protest
will publicly be addressed to the French Govern-
ment, in case it does not retract. It is quite evi-
dent, from the nature of the Swiss Constitution,
that the Federal Council could not have acted
otherwise, no matter what the risk might be.
The Madrid Gazette contains a royal decree,
which enacts that a general census of the popula-
tion shall be taken on the 21st of this month. A
Treaty had been signed with Buenos Ayres, by
which Spain recognises its independence, and the
two countries promise to maintain friendly rela-
tions with each other. The Pope's Charge d'A -
faires, Mgr: Simeoni, had an interview with the

llinister of Foreign Affairs, described as of a very
cordial character. At Barcelona, a number of
persons had been condemned to exile fur having
been concerned in a democratic conspiracy.

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The European and Australian Company's simmer
Jura, Captain Moody, arrived at Southampton on
Friday, to be in readiness to convey to Alexandria
the Australian overland mail of the 12th instant.
She ran from Liverpool to Southampton in thirty-
six hours.

THE debates in both Houses of Parliament
have been exceedingly tame. Like the Royal
speech itself. they have embraced but little to
interest the politician or the general. reader, and
as a matter of course, the first sittings of both
branches of the Legislature were unusually.brief.
But although little has been either said or done,
much has been promised ; and from notices
given by Mr. HAYTER, on the part Of the Gov-
ernment, the Ministry has screwed up courage,
and are to bring in with the least possible delay
a Bill to remove the Jewish disabilities, one
respecting the system of transportation has been
read a first time, and another to extend—or, we
suppose, to perpetuate—the powers of ,the Gen-
eral Board of Health, is promised. We are also
informed that the Bank Charter Act of 184-1, as
well as the government of the Hudson's Bay
Territory, are to be referred to select
committees. In addition to this, measures for
regulating the management of Saving& Banks, a
Bill to incorporate Insurance Companies and
Benefit Societies, and also a Bill to make fraudu-
lent breaches of trust criminally liable, are to be
introduced by the Government. We are not
disposed to be unreasonable, and therefore regard
the proposed measures as au instalment of what
the country has a right to demand of the new
Parliament. Some of the measures just enume-
rated are highly important ; and if concocted in
an equitable and comprehensive spirit, must
confer advantages of no minor importance upon

the country at large.
After the announcement of what Ministers
intend to do, there was a debate on the Address.
It was remarkable for two circumstances—Mr.
BUCRANAN, the new member for Glasgow, who
seconded the address in the Commons, touched
upon tender ground by making an attempt to
open up a debate on the China question, but the
House manifested impatience, and felt no desire
for going again into the lorcha and bombardment
business; and when the honourable member,
warming with his subject, drew the fatal Arrow
to the head, a shudder of irrepressible impatience
thrilled through every part of the well-filled
House. From these unmistakeable symptoms, it
is quite evident that no matter who is to blame for
the origin of the Chinese difficulties, the nation,
through its re pr -.•eritatives, are propared to saeri-
fi?e every' thing which will b necessary to attain
a settlement of the unf)rtunate dispute with as
little sacrifice of life, as little cost, and as little
loss of prestige as possible.

But, althongh the House cared nothing for Mr.