The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-02 00:00:00

Commercial lak3.—rbf4 oar,

At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' cince, 2, Dale street, I
a quantity of Loose Myrabalams and Cotton.—Browne,
Hunter and Co.
At one o' lock, at the brokers' saleroom, 25, Temple street, '
baba Cotton R Ts z,r1,1 Greame and Co.
At oae o'cloek, at the PoOkie Saieromi, Exchange build-'
il,gs, about 300 balps Inferior Upland Cotton.—Duck-
w,rth and Rathbone.
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 23, Oldhall
street, 25 tons Myrabolarns.—Gladstone and Serjeant-
son.
At twelve o'clock, a quantity of Manganese and Sago
Flour.
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 14, Exchange
buildings, Woollen, Cotton and Canvass Rags and
Ropes.—S. Dutton and Nephew.
At twelve o'clock, Ll, Oldhall street, 463 double bundles
Piassava.—How and Barclay.
At twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, 9, Rumford street,
800 bags Bombay Rapeseed.—Whitaker, Whitehead
and Co.
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 27, Tithebarn
street, a quantity Rags and Bones.—lsaac Hadwen,
jun., and Cu.

*** For particulars see advertisements.

—AMITSE.VIENTS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, &c.

THIS DAY.

Royal Amphitheatre—Mr. Barry Sullivan-7 p.m.
Hengler's Grand Cirque Variete, Dale-street-7p.m.
Freemason's Hall—Gallery of Anatomy-11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Royal Colosseum—General Entertainment-6.30 p.m.'
Academy Rooms, Old Postoffice-place—Government Exhi-
bition-10 a.m.
Queen's Hall—Organophonic Band-8 p.m.

*.* For particulars see advertisements.

Exclusively for CLOTHING BOYS from 6 to 20 years.
LEWIS & COMPANY, Ranelagh street.

ROBERT MULLINER,
(Successor to Goasr & Co.),
(Late with Wm. Horne, London),
CARRIAGE AND HARNESS MANUFACTURER,
5g and 01. GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL,
mANurAcrtams. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION OF
FASHIONABLE CARRIAGES,
Sole Agent for the Patent Moraples, for which a Prize Medal was
awarded at the Great Exhibitiqn.
A Great Variety of New arm Fashionable CARRIAGES always on
view, which are ready for Immediate use. Estimates given for
repairs.

CARRIAGES TAKEN IN EXCHANGE.
Good Standing on moderate terms. Carriages sold by Com-
mission.
Merchants suppliel with Carriages for exportation on liberal
11Trn. S.

BOYS' CLOTHING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE,
At LEWIS & COMPANY'S Ranelagh street.

FISH DINNERS DURING LENT,
AT

MORRISH'S MERCHANTS' DINING ROOMS,
LANCASTER BUILDINGS,
TITHEBARN-STREET.

BC-11(S' CLOTHING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE,
At LEWIS & COMPANY'S. Ranelagh street.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL.
MATRICULATION CLASSES.
ENTLEMEN who are desirous of MATRI.
kJ. CULA.TING at the University of London next
July, are repeated to communicate immediately with
ASTRUP CARISS, Secretary.
Mount Street, March 18, 1857,'

COMPLIMENT TO BARRY SULLIVAN.

A PUBLIC DINNER

WILL BE GIVEN TO

BARRY SULLIVAN,

ON MONDAY NEXT, THE s.rn INSTANT,

AT THE VICTORIA HOTEL,

W. R. COPELAND, ESQ.,

IN THE CHAIR.

Tickets 7s ad each. To be had at the Victoria Hotel, St. John's
Lane, and at the principal Newspaper Offices and Music Shops.
J. F. TAFE, Hon. Sec.

At LEWIS & CO vIPANY'S, Ranelagh street,
BOYS are CLOTHED from the Ages of 6 to 20 Years.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

TOMORROW EVENING (Friday), the 3rd inst.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF
MR: BARRY SULLIVAN,
AND THE
LAST NIGHT BUT ONE OF HIS ENGAGEMENT.

The Evening's Entertainment will commence with the admirable
Comedy of

A CURE FOR THE HE ART ACHE!
After which, by particular desire, the favourite Drama of

DON C/ESAR DE BAZAN ;
Ou, A MATCH FOR A KING!
Toeenclude with the bauzhable Farce of
THE POPULAR CANDIDATE!

Private Boxes and Seato In the Dress Circle may be secured at the
Box office of the Theatre, each day, from Eleven to Four o'clock

SPRING ASSIZES

GREAT SALE OF
PIANO FORTES, HARMONIUMS, HARPS,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,

!AND

PRINTED MUSIC,
Partly a Consignment (for immediate Sale), the Stock of a Music
and Musical Instrument Seller, Retired from Businesv.
The Entire will be sold at Prices which must command a complete
and early clearance.
ROYAL MUSICAL REPOSITORY,

MUSICAL CIRCULATING AND PRESENTATION LIBRARY,
JAMES SMITH,

MUSIC SELLER, BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT, TO THE QUEEN,
66, LORD STREET,
LIVERPOOL. •

£lOOO worth of Printed Music, at half the Publishing price.
£lOOO do.
£lOOO do.

at one-third

at one-four h do.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

In consequence of the pressure upon our columns to-day,
we are compelled to defer the publication of the trial
in the Crown Court yesterday, as also the report of the
meeting of the West Derby Guardians, yesterday.

Cgt 3o.,ntOPrn(iirtito

THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

We had three arrivals from the Australian
colonies yesterday; the White Star, from Mel-
bourne, the Antipodes, from Hobart Town, and
the Orient, from South Australia, the former at
Liverpool, and the two latter in the Downs. The
news is of some interest. The Oneida and the
Simla, steamers belon.ing to the European
and Australian Steamship Company, had
arrived at Melbourne, and proceeded up to
Sy, iney, the former in 06 days, and the latter in
55 days, from Southampton. The Ministry at
'Victoria had threatened to resign, should certain
measures then before parliament become law ;
but, notwithstanding, it was anticipated that
there would be no such thing as a
Ministerial crisis. The first levee by the
new governor was held on the Ist January. The
first of a series of letters, which Mrs. Chisholm
yirprises addressing, on the subject of Family
Colonisation, to the working classes of the United
Kingdom, through the columns of the Australian
Press, had appeared in the Melbourne papers
The Victoria Land League, in opposition to the
government, was making great headway, and an
enthusiastic public meeting had been held at the
Amphitheatre, Melbourne, on the subject. A fire
at Geelong had destroyed upwards of 50,0001 worth

of property. Our South Australian advices inform
us tha.t the governor had been very ill, but was

recovering.
The Foreign News is not of much importance
this morning- A superior offieer of en,_7incers of
the Piedmontese army has arrived in Paris. He
is stid to be, charged by his G.,vernment with
requesting the favour of being permitted to copy
the old plans of the fortifications of Alessandria,
which were executed during the first empire. It
is said that one or two more arrests had been made
in Paris ; the charge is the same—a plot against
the person of the Emperor, and it is rumoured
that sufficient evidence has been procured to
satisfy the authorities that some of the refugees in
England are the accomplices, if not the instigators,
of this new conspiracy, and that this evidence will
afford a ground for a demand to the English
government respecting the refugees. The
plenipotentaries met for the fifth time on Tuesday,
on that wearisome business, the Neufchatel
question. Dr. Kern has received despatches
containing new instructions in reply to the
Prussian propositions, and they have been laid
before the Conference: What the precise nature
of these instructions is we do not know.
The French government hasreceived intelligence
of the intention manifested by the King of Siam to
despatch an ambassador extraordinary to England
and France.
Count Buol's despatch, recalling Count Paar
from Turin, has been published. In reply to
Count Cavour's hint, that Austria could prosecute

the Sardinian press, Count Buol says that that
remedy might do for ordinary cases, but not when
revolt in a neighbouring country is openly
preached.
We are in receipt of Constantinople advices to

:be 23rd ult. The Grand Vizier had given notice

to the different legations that ho would expel all
Mussulman subjects, with confiscation of their
property, who should refuse the usual military
subsidies under pretext of being under foreign
protection. The Russians were concentrating con-
siderable forces at Anapa and Ekaterinodar. The
news of the successes of the Circassians is confirmed.
Mehemet Bey is adopting energetic measures to
resist an attack of the Russians. From Persia the
accounts speak of the continuance of the civil
disorders. The operations in Affghanistan were
suspended by the severity of the weather.
From Madrid we have accounts stating that the
elections in the provinces continue to be favourable
to the government. One of the journals contra-
dicts the report of a government plan relative to a
constitutional reform. The government has given
formal orders to continue the fortifications of
Mahon.
A meeting is to take place to-morrow, at the
Cotton Salesroom, to take into consideration the
arbritrary power which the Board of Trade possess
respecting captains, in the case of disasters to
ships. We need not say that we heartily concur
in the objects of the meeting.
We, yesterday, gave insertion to a communication
from a correspondent concerning the management
of the Grand Trunk of Canada Railway. Mr.
Bidder, the general manager of the line, has
written to us on the subject, and contradicts in
the most unqualified terms the insinuations con.
tained in the paragraph alluded to. We willingly
give insertion to Mr. Bidder's letter.
The usual monthly meeting of the Town Council
was held yesterday. The proceedings included the
report of the Finance Committee, the burden of
which was" advancing salaries." It would appear
from the report of the Water Committee, that the
receipts of last year were upwards of £70,000.
A long discussion ensued on Mr. Ald. Cooper mov-
ing the confirmation of the proceedings of the corn
mittee. Mr. Bennett alluded to the unsatisfactory
quality of the Rivinaton Water as it is at present
supplied in Whitechapel and other parts of the
town, but he was attacked by Mr. Earle and Mr.
Hodson for holding the opinion he does on this
subject, and there was pretty near being a scene.
No report from the Water Engineer was presented
to the Council, as there evidently ought.te have
been. It would appear that Mr. Duncan has re-
ported to the Water Committee, but they have
not had time to consider it, and therefore did not
bring it before the attention of the Council. From
all that passed, we very much fear that the memo
rial of the inhabitants of the town will not be
considered in that unprejudiced way which it
certainly deserves. The Library Committee
announced to the Council how they wished
the tickets, to be present at the laying
the foundation stone of the new • library,
should be disposed of—and a very objectionable
one it was—so that we are glad the Council did
not sanction it. Let the Library Committee
dispose of the tickets as they may think proper,
and if they do not do so to the satisfaction of
every one interested in the affair, then they can
be called to account for it Mr. Gladstone brought
forward his resolution with regard to the Corporate
property. He instanced several cases whet e
tenants were not paying one half the rent that
they ought to do, and severely censured the
Finance Committee for allowing such a state of
things to exist. Mr. Holme endeavoured to defend
the committee, but he had no objection to the
return of all the property let to tenants at will, or
at lease, of which the original term did not exceed
fifteen years, showing where situated, the names of
the occupiers, and the annual rent.
None of the election contests yesterday call
for attention. A paragraph from an Edin-
burgh paper may interest some of our readers. It
is as follows :—" A meeting of the Liberal electors
of Hawick was called in the Town Hall on Mon-
day, at five o'clock, for the purpose of expressing
their disappointment at the Manchester and Hud-
dersfield constituencies rejecting the free trade
candidates, and for the purpose of inviting Mr.
Cobden to come forward for Roxburghshire " Mr.
S. R. Graves, of this town, has been rejected by
New Ross. He, however, polled 71 votes to 90.

IT may be as well, perhaps, not to count our
chickens before they are hatched ; but enough
already is seen of the elections to show in what
direction the current is flowing ; and the nation
has great reason to congratulate itself that, on
the whole, we have the promise of a Par-
liament whose tharacter will be decidedly
liberal and reforming. So far as any
party cry is concerned, this is the quietest
election of any that has taken place in England
for the last twenty-five years—the disgraceful
episode of Kidderminster notwithstanding.
Indeed we hope that mere party ties set more
loosely on our representatives than in the good
old days when Whig: and Tory were all the rage,
and each monopolised all virtue, patriotism, and
public spirit to itself. Happily those times are
gone. Liberals and Conservatives are now all
Reformers, differing chiefly as to the rate of pro-
gression. And inside the House there has arisen,
or there is preparing to rise, an independent
party—men who swear neither by Whig nor
Tory—neither by CHARLES Fox nor W
PlTT—men who will welcome good measures
from whatsoever side of the House they may
come—men whose motto is, according to the
good old Roman maxim, " Nullus in dicta
jurare

We welcome the rise of this party, and bid
them good speed. If they will really act out
these principles, they will set a high example to
the nation, and give a wholesome impulse to
Ministerial tardiness ; they will help to balance
parties, and impart steadiness to the general
machine. Such a party is needed—a catholic
independent party, who look not to men but to
measures ; who will recognise no favouritism or

nepotism ; and who will, with the tenacity of
the faithful dog, steadily keep in view the public

good.
Two of promiz,ing nien who occupy
this ground. are it JOHN PAKIN9TON, just
returned for Droitwich, and Lord STANLEY, the
enlightened and Most popular member-for Llynn,
in Norfolk. Both these gentlemen are usually,
ranked with Conservatives, but they are Conser-
vatives of the most liberal order. Let us rather
say they belong to this independent section of
the House which is destined, if it act with prin-
ciple and discretion, to exert a great influence on
the Ministry and on the country. Speaking
generally, every thing that is liberal and patrio-
tic finds increasing favour with Sir JoLiN PAK-
iNoToN ; especially he takes an active part in
philanthropic schemes, reformatories, criminal
legislation, and education. He now indicates
that he is' favourable to the consideration of
extended franchise, and though at present
opposed to the ballot, yet even this would not
disconcert him.

We earnestly trust that Sir JOHN will lend
the force of his clear intellect and high reputa-
tion to forward a liberal system of public educa-
tion, even if it were not all that we could desire;
we should be willing to make some concession,
and abate something of our just requirements, in
order that something may be done, that a begin-
ning of the good work may be made. Lord
STANLEY is one of those men of whom any aris-
tocracy may be proud. He is no orator, to our
ta.ite, and has some great defects as a speaker.
When we heard him as he developed his views on
leading questions of the day, in a most frank and
statesmanlike manner, we could not resist the
impression that we were listening to an honest
man, a genuine lover of his country, one who
will support the right thing, come from what
side of the house it may—a real aristocrat, as
being one of our best. In his speech the other
day he was opposed, among other things, to a
large standing army, and he demands the repeal
of the duty on paper. Such as these are hopeful
signs for the nation, and for the aristocracy of
England,

It is not to be doubted that very interesting
and Important measures of reform will be
mooted in the ensuing parliament. As the
people of this country are now engaged in per-
forming a high duty, they have reason to expect
that the new House will not disappoint the na-
tional hope, but that they will give their most
patient attention to everything that comes before
them, having for its object to lessen the burdens
of the nation, to extend industry, and to promo e
the public happiness and prosperity.

" BROWN'S" FREE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM,--As the time
approaches for laying the foundation stone of this important
building, the arrangements bee me more orderly and
complete. The day appears to be mapped out as
follows :—At eleven the guests will assemble at the
Townhall, by invitation of the Mayor, and partake of
refreshments. They will be met by the bankers, merchants,
clergy, public officers, and others, who will be formed into
a procession; and walk through Castle street, Lord street,
Church street, Clayton square, and Lime street, to the site
for the building. At twelve the Mayor will hand to Mr.
Brown the magnificent trowel which is in preparation,
and the ceremony will take plan-. The religious services
will probably be conducted by the Rector, but there will
not be much speaking. At two the gentlemen who have
invited Mr. Brown to the banquet in St. George's Hall will
be in readiness to sit down. 'enough this demonstration is
thoroughly a public one, the committee made selection of
our worthy chief magistrate as the most suitable person to
occupy the chair. Arrangements have been made for a
most elegant entertainment, and we understand that due
attention will be paid to the convenience of the press. The
galleries will be devoted exclusively to ladies. At about
six a soiree will take place in the Concert Hall, Lord
Nelson street, under the auspices of the committee for the
Saturday Evening Concerts, Nathaniel Caine, Esq., in the
chair. Other supplementary arrangements are in progress;
and will be announced in due time.