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TVEDNESDA.Y, JANUARY 7, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWTS.

The lota', occurrences of the day are somewhat
nurnerous. A meeting, under the presidency of
the Aitayoe, was held in the Underwriters' Rooms,
yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of raising
funds to relieve the widows and orphans of the
Men who were &Owned by the capsizing of the
life boat at the Point of Ayr. From the feeling
which was evinced, and the readiness of the gen-
tlemen present to contribute, we have reason to
hope that a goodly stun will be obtained.
So that the awful effects of such a dire cala-
mity may be, in some little degree, mitigated,
There was a Special Vestry Meeting of the Rate-
payers of Toxteth Park yesterday, for the purpose
of considering the proposed alterations and exten-
sion of the West Derby Workhouse. Mr. John
Wilson presided, and Mr. Williams addressed the
meeting at some length, and moved a resolution,
to the effect that a separation of Toxteth Park
from the West Derby Union was desirable, aad
that the Toxteth Park Guardians be requested
to intimate that feeling to the West Derby Board
at the next meeting, and to use every effort
to secure that object. The resolution was carried,
and the meeting separated. The proceedings of
the Waterloo and Garston Boards of health yes-
terday were of a mere routine character, and do not
cull for special remark. The Liverpool Select li
Vestry held their fortnightly meeting yesterday;
Rector Campbell presiding. According to a reso-
lution of the Workhouse Commi►tee, confirmed by
the Vestry, the children of the officers of the Work-
house are prohibited from residing therein, and
that in future if one officer marries another, it will
It e a disqualification for holding their situation.
We give (in another column) the proceedings of
the Financial Reform Association on Friday, from
which it will be perceived that they have had under
their consideration the questions of Government
wastefulness and parsimony—direct, versus indirect,
taxation. The council of the Association deprecates
the present agitation on this subject. 'the monthly
meeting of the Birkenhead Commissioners held last
night, together with our law and police intelligence,
will be found fully reported in this day's publica-
tion.

The home news informs us that the. election
contests at Greenwich and Southampton continue
Sir William Codrington addressed the electors of
the former borough on Monday evening; but he
raised a storm of opposition round his head, when
he announced that he was opposed to the Ballot
One of our London cotemporaries alluding to the
General's debut among the Greenwich electors says
—The General presented himself before a promis
cuous assembly of the people of that good borough,
and he seems no more to have gained upon them
than ho did upon the northern fortifications of
Sebastopol. The meeting was a scene of uproar
• from beginning to end, and the storm, it may well
be supposed, did not abate when he intimated that
the Ballot would be of no practical use. The
General and his friends, after their patience was
exhausted, retired, when the meeting unanimously
affirmed that the representative of Greenwich
ought to be a Ballot man With regard to
Sou'himpton it is very unlikely that the idea of
Lord Palmerston will be acted upon. The contest
gets more fierce every day. Falvey continues
4‘ suspended" from the office of stamp distributor.
Somerset House allowed him to back up the Attor-
ney-General, and to support Mr. Edwin James; but
when-once he espoused the cause of Mr. Andrews,
it interfered to punish him. It cannot be doubted
that if he had entered the field for Mr. Weguelin So-
merset House would rather have aided his rise than
his fall in worldly prosperity. The best answer
the people of Southampton could give to this
spiteful proceeding would be to send Mr. Falvey
himself to the House of Commons, and with
special instructions to demand the Ballot, as, at
all events, the only protection for Government
officials. We do not think the Premit r could
affirm that a journalist is less adapted for the
treatment of political questions than a banker.
We shall have something to say respecting Lord
Palmerston's conduct with regard to this contest
in our next publication. Dr. Livingston seems to
be the hero of the day. Scotland has just been
heaping honours upon, end feasting him
in splendid style. On Monday, a meeting
of London ladies and gentlemen assembled

in the Egyptian Hall, of the Mansion-
House, under the patronage of the Lord Mayor,
and Lady Mayoress, to originate a testimonitd
fuud for the Doctor and his amiable partner. No
person has as yet been arrested for the murder of
Mr. Little, in Dublin. - The death of the Bishop of
Cork is announced—an event e Lech places another
high piece of Church patronage in the hands of
Lord Palmerston, for the authority of the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland in these appointments is a
mere name.
There is very little news from the Continent.
Owing to the prevalence of the gale in the chan-
nel, the French mails of Monday had not reached
London yesterday evening. Under these cire'tm-stances, there is nothing fresh respecting the Paris
Conferences. From Stadtgard we learn that the
Committee of the Diet, adhering to the requisition
of the Eleven Deputies, has unanimously decided
against the right of the Prussians to a passage
through the territory of Wurtemberg. The Pius-
sian Government has requested from that of Wur-
temberg a statement of the position of negociations.
The People's Assembly has voted an address to
preserve the. country from the calamity of war,
which must compromise its material interests.
Madrid advises of the 3rd state that the rumours
of a ministerial crisis are contradicted. The state
of Catalonia is less threatening. The Press is
placed under the entire control of civil governors
of provinces ; the censors to be named by the
Minister of the Interior.
Our latest Berlin advices inform us that, on the
Ist instant, the bands of all the reeiments of the
Guards assembled and treated the Prince of Prussia
to a morning concert ie honour of his jubilee
Shortly after nine o'clock the Prince and Princess
of Prussia, with their family, drove out to Char-
lottenburg to present their New Year's congratula-
tions to the King and Queen, with whom also they
attended Divine service iu the chapel of the palace
there. Long before the Royal party returned front
Divine service at Chariottenburg the open space in,
front of the Prince of Prussia's palace, began to be
thickly covered with anxiously interested specta-
tors. Shortly before one o'clock the representa-
tives of the Prussian army began to stream into the
Music hall. It was here that the main act of con
gratulation on the part of the army took place. At
the time when the Royal party entered the Music-
hall after their arrival from Charlottenbtirg, the
company assembled, then consisting entirely of
officers, presented a brilliant tableau vivant of the
entire Prussian army. When all was arranged,
the two Field Marshals fetched the silver shield
which the officers of the army present to the Prince.
The King and the Queen hereupon gave them the
benefit of their assistance in holding this work oF
art, while the King addressed the Prince in the
name of the army.

The King's address was short, but though spoken
with great emphasis and warmth not distinctly
audible at a distance; it was clearly observable,
however, that he made use of the familiar form of
address used to near relations, `thou" and "thee;''
and the sense of what he said was, after pointing
to the shield before them, that not only he and his
whole family—not only the officers present, but
the whole army, sought to express by their offer-
ing their hearty desire for many a happy return of
the day to him. The Prince replied, and was
deeply affected throughout.

The Black Ball Australian clipper :Montmorency,
which sailed from Melbourne on the 17th of
October, landed her mails at Waterford on Mon•
day. She brings £400,000 of gold, and a large
number of passengers. We expect the Montmo-
rency's mails this morning. Her passage is
excellent for the season. Two of the vessels of

the line have made the run in less time, namely,
the Lightning in 62 days, and the James Baines
in 69 days. The Montmorency may be expected

up every tide.
It is said that the French Government has
determined to abandon Tahiti, finding that it costs
much and produces nothing,but, on the other hand,

it is seriously occupied with the creation of the newly
founded colony, New Caledoniß. This island is
rich and the climate healthy, and is appropriated
to receive a portion of the French colony of Guian

A permanent garrison of 700 or 800 men is to be
established there. The French Government is
likewise much occupied with the development of

the colony of Senegal. An expedition has been
sent from Algeria to ascertain the practicability of

establishing a communication between these two
colonies by land.

THE London Times is ready, as Punch once said
of his friend, Mr. DisnAELI, " to smash every-
body." The Liverpool Town Dues stand at the
head of its list of doomed grievances. The Great
Man o f Kidderminster has not yet been taught
to respect the rights of property or the sacred
straightforwardness of the British Parliament.
He still hopes to he able to subvert one and per-
vert the other. To rely on the force of facts and
reason would not answer his purpose. The
former must be mystified, and the latter dis-
torted. The local taxes levied upon shipping,
for local marine and commercial purposes, are to
be taken out of the hands of local representative
bodies, and transferred to a board of Govern-
ment nominees and Ministerial partisans. This
is the relief Mr. LOWE demands for the shipping
interest, and the base unconstitutional change
the London Times employs its wits to effect. But
this barefaced attempt at separating taxation and
representation, and centralising all the subject
holds most dear in the hands of Government
boards does not end here. Our cotemporary
looks a long way beyond the hope that the
coming " session will not pass over without an
" instalment of that justice which the shipping
" interest has a right to expect on these matters."
" The transfer of land," it is hoped, will be no
longer subjected to the delays attending the
translation and reading of title deeds which
extend over centuries, or submitting titles to
estates wrongfully obtained to a jury of twelve
impartial and honest men. This process is ill
adapted to these SADLEIR, and STUBBER, and
WOLF times. " The Encumbered Estates Court
" has familiarised us with the immense benefits to
" be derived from a quasi-judicial investigation
" of title, and a Parliamentary guarantee for its
" completeness " against all lawful owners and
creditors subsequently brought to light, when
delivered to the purchaser from a government
commission.

Trial by jury is to be laid aside in all cases, in
favour of a " quasi-judicial investigation," as far
as the rights of land-owners are concerned, to
open the door of double fraud to the property
swindler, and allow him to plunder the purchaser
and rightful owner of land. Then we are to have
the present Parliamentary and Ministerial
system of interfering with the current and prices
of trade, as first attempted in 1819, and so
happily consummated since the passing of the
Bank Charter Act of 1844, " carried out much

" further than it has been done," in order, as the
enlightened Londoi:c. Timex says, " to maintain
" the integrity of a standard of value," which is
ever varying with every other commodity, in
obedience to the alternations of supply and
demand. What the << leading journal" proposes
to do with the corporate property of London
remains to be told at a future day ; but we should
not be at all surprised to hear that it is to be
transferred to the Board of Trade, or some other
State tribunal. In the meantime, however, we
caution the landowner, shipowner, trading, and
and industrial classes against the danger'of treat-
ing the programme of legislation, which appears
to have been resolved upon for 1857, too lightly.
If the jury box is to be superceded in all matters
relating to the title to land, if local taxation is
to be separated from local representation, and if
the amount and profits of trade, commerce, and
industry are to be regulated by a Parliamentary
standard and the circumscribed capital, constant
fears, and shallow hopes of a Joint Stock Bank-
ing Company, we shall be involved in the dangers
of organic changes, of, which no living man can
venture to say he sees the end.

A more deep or designing blow could not pos-
sibly be levelled at the sacred principles of local
self-goveinment, or the right of private judgment
in commercial and other ordinary pursuits
of life. To reform social and political abuses,
as it were, the land-marks of our civil rights and
liberties are being demolished in rapid succession,
and if the Constitutional Party do not perform
their duty, we shall soon find the country in the
condition which follows- a protracted and bloody
revolution, fomented by designing tricksters, and
headed by incompetent demagogues. Land,
trade, and employment are the three great staples
of our existence, and these are the favourite
objects of experimentalist. Every four or five
years brings about some innovation on the fun-
damental principles which have governed them
for ages, and some abortive attempt to overthrow
the natural laws which must govern them through
all time. We can count their signal failure,
by the hundreds of thousands the false doctrine
has brought to undeserved beggary, and the
growth of the nation's prosperity by the numbers
who have lost their all by their faith in treacher-
ous laws, and amount of bankrupt estates, stock-
in-trade, and household comforts and necessa-
ries, which pass annually under the hammer of
•
the auctioneer.

Those who have contrived to hold their own,
despite all the boasted philosophy and changes
of the last thirty or forty years, do not talk so
loudly of the growing prosperity of the country
as those who have become " familiarised with
" the immense benefits to be derived from a
" quasi-investigation of titles to land," and every
other species of property, The value of perpe-
tual contracts are no longer recognised. A grant
in perpetuity from the Crown is only respected
when it gives a title to sell, or can be used to
subvert some subsequently acquired right to pro-
perty. That small class of mistaken money-
worms who advocate the maintenance of a low
standard of value, which is composed of the most
fluctuating of foreign commodities, must have the
power of bringing everything the subject pos-
sesses to the hammer, irrespective of the claims
of wives, widows, orphans, and old age.
The law of primogeniture must end with an order
to sell from a government commission. Few
will feel for a blind aristocracy, who have been
led into the ditch ; but where will be the secu-
rity for those who take their plac6 as land-
owners ? The cost of another war of very few
years' duration, would swallow up two-thirds Of
the value of the fee-simple of our soil. Incumber-
ances would follow in the wake of a low standard
of value, and the tax-collector and a government
commission, would close the aristocratic career of
the new aspirant to landed influence and honours.
It would be impossible, in fact, to describe in the
columns of a newspaper, the prodigious ramifi-
cation of organic changes, social dangers, political
treachery, and absurdities which are embodied in
the programme put forth by the London Times
for the guidance of the Senate in their next
session. We believe, however, that the people
of these Isles, without distinction of creed or
politics, will see that the subversion of the rights
of property, and the overthrow of the principle of
taxation and representation, are innovations which
must prove equally inimical to the best interests
of society at large, and that the time has arrived,
when superficial scribblers and legislators must
be strenuously opposed in their blind and reckless
career.

As a general rule, it is undesirable to interfere
with the constituted authorities ; but there are
occasions and circumstances when it becomes the
bounden duty of the public journalist to notice
and comment upon their proceedings. In such
cases, the object in view is the correction of error
• and the enforcement of a system of public conduct
on the part of those, to whom are committed the
good order and proper police regulation of tho
entire community. For ourselves, we should be
very loath indeed to depart from the strict obsei-
vance of the former principle. But, no matter how
reluctant we may be to interfere with the actions
of the Magistracy or the police, we should not be
true to those principles which have ever charac
terised the NORTHERN TIMES, and won for it the
approbation of all classes of the people, if we
allowed the monstrous sayings and doings of those
to whom are entrusted the management of our
police force without condemning them, and giving
to the public timely warning of the serioum con-
sequences which must ensue, if the evils which
exist arc not speedily arrested, and a final and
effectual stop put thereto.

Last week we were called upon to refer to, and
eensura cortnin singular' actions and remarks
of Algjor GREIG in his capacity of Head Constable
of Liverpool. We felt indignant that he should
have foolishly prostrated the dignity of his high
and responsible office—incurred the contempt of
the entire force under him, for the mere purpose
of gratifying an overweening ambition, an unpar-
donable vanity, and at the same time manifest to
the entire community that he labours under a
lamentable infirmity of temper. We have reason