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IJUTTERMAN!!!

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THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

In the House of Commons, last night, the
Speaker's Retirement Bill was read a third time
and passed. The Speaker returned his most
grateful and sincere acknowledgments of this
mark of approbation of his services. Mr. Fagan
moved the second reading of the Ministers' Money
(Ireland) Bill, and stated his intention of persist-
ing in the motion. Mr. Bagwell and Mr. Mea-
gher supported the motion. Mr. Horsman
said, considering all the circumstances connected
with this subject and the futile attempts at legis
L.cion, the Government had come to the conclusion
that they could not propose any effectual remedies
for the question, except that suggested by the
committee of 1847, and acquiesce, therefore, in the
general bearing of the motion. The committee of
1847 recommended that the funds of the ecclesias-
tical commissioners should be largely increased,
and the tax paid out of them. After some further
discussion, the bill was read a second time and
ordered to be committed for that day three mouths.
A number of bills were withdrawn, and the house
adjourned until Saturday afternoon. In the House
of Lords a number of bille were forwarded a stage,
and the House rose.

It is stated in a Ministerial print of last night,
that there is every reason to suppose that the
state of public business will allow the prorogation
of Parliament to take place on Saturday, and the
dissolution on Monday next. With respect to the
general election, the latest on dits will be found in
our paper of to-day. Mr. Cobden has refused
to stand for Salford, and has issued an
address to the electors of Huddersfield,
soliciting their confidence and support at• the
forthcoming combat. His farewell address to the
electors of the West Riding has also been pub
lished. The requisition to Mr. Lowe and Sir John
Potter requesting them to offer themselves for
Manchester, has been signed by about 3000 voters.
There is yet no reason to believe that Mr. Lowe
will risk. the chances of a Manchester contest, but
Sir John Potter has acceeded to the wishes of the
requisitionists, and may be looked upon as in the
field. Mr. Bright's address to the electors of
Manchester has just been issued. He highly
approves of Mr. Cobden's motion on China,
condemns the policy of the government in making
war with Persia. He cannot approve of the Chan..
cellor of the Exchequer's movement with respect
of the Tea Duties, and is in favour of an extension
of the franchise. From Ireland we hear that Mr.
Butt is to be opposed at Youghal by Mr. Richard
Smyth. Mr. Longford, Q.C., will offer himself on
.the Conservative side for Cork County. It would
appear that Sir James Graham is safe after all to
again sit in the House of Commons, as a member
for Carlisle.

Yesterday the enquiry into the disgraceful prac-
tices carried on of late at the Low Hill Cemetery
was resumed before Dr. Holland, the Government
Commissioner. The faces elicited were even more
disgusting than those previously reported.
The usual weekly meeting of the West Derby
Guardians was held yesterday. A long discussion
took place ou the dispute between the Board and
-its Medical Officer. Dr. Nevins stated to the board
that he was the author of the article which appeared
in the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES some time ago, and
defended the statements contained therein. After
some sparring between Dr. Nevins and Mr. Shaw,
a resolution by the latter gentleman that 30 of the
sick paupers should be drafted to the hospital, was
carried by a vote of 16 to 10. Some tenders were
accepted, and the meeting terminated.
Ten seamen were yesterday sent for 21 days to
. on, by the Birkenhead magistrates, for refusing
to sea after they had signed articles.
`32.§- • terday, the Bacons were fully committed for
the Lambeth magistrates, on the charge of
trial by • • their two children.
murdering arlars of a fire in London on Tuesday
The partit, in another column. We regret to
night are give.i. were lost by this conflagration.
say that five lives match from Dublin states that
A telegraphic des,
.C., died yesterday morning.
Mr. Henry K emmis,.tv,ligenee this morning is
The Continental rate.. , to have made a step
interesting. Prussia seem?. ,tel conference into
towards bringing the Ne?fe „
er representative
working order, by providing
with new instructions, tending to
.4:void the diffi
clilty to which the question has gorcus rise. The

Pays certifies that all the rumours on the
subject of the difference between Prussia and
Switzerland are devoid of foundation. But inasmuch
as these rumours are not homogeneous, the general
traverse of the government journal adds nothing
valuable to our stock of information. According to
some rumours the King of Prussia has entered into
no engagement whatever with regard to the renun-
ciation of his rights in Neufchatel; another story
is that he only wants Switzerland to acknowledge
those rights to the fullest extent by way of pre-
liminary, and then see whether he will not be polite
enough to give them up afterwards ; a third
rumour is that the whole affair is in reality settled,
and that the King's affected resistance is merely
like that of a coquette who wishes to enhance the
value of her favours. The Independance Belye
pretends that M. de Hatzfeldt's last instructions
have been taken in dudgeon by the French govern-
ment, and that Count Walewski has been in-
structed to address a very tart note to the Marquis
de Moustier, the French ambassador at Berlin.

Austrian politicians are beginning to fear that
England is not to be relied upon on the question
of the union of the Principalities, and that she
will go over to the Franco-Russian camp on this
point. The last of the Austiians quitted the
Principalities on the 14tn inst.

ThePiedmontese Chamber has voted for the
fortification of Alexandria a sum equal to 200,0001
—a heavy sum for the Sardinian finances. The
criticisms of the Opposition during the debate
show most decidedly the spread of peace ,princi-
pies, even in Sardinia.

The North Brabander, a Duf eh journal, has a let-
ter from Batavia, dated 9th January, which states
that a conflict has taken place between the English
and the Japanese. Two English vessels of war
have forced their way into the port of Nagasaki,
the entrepat of the trade between the Dutch and the
Japanese, where they remained at anchor. Nothing
was known at Batavia as to the causes which led to
this conflict. One of the ships, a steamer, broke
the chain across the entrance. Although the town
is well fortified on the side of the sea, the Japanese
authorities did not resort to force to repel the two
English vessels.

The Spanish press expresses itself in favour of
the project of connecting the railway net of Spain
now in progress, with that of Prance at Aldudes.
General Prim, who was arrested for publishing a
letter, has been sentenced to six months'
imprisonment by the Spanish Government. The
Mezican ambassador has arrived at Madrid. The
price of grain is rapidly falling throughout the
whole of Spain, in consequence of lame foreign
supplies, and the prospects of a good harvest.

THE demonstration of the Reformers, at the
Amphitheatre, on Tuesday night, was a cheering
and imposing one. It must have taught the
" Tory rabble" who had the barefaced impudence to
obtrude themselvis upon the meeting for the pur-
pose of interrupting the proceedings, that their
cause is hopeless, their chance of success
entirely out of the question, and that their
attempt to monopolise the representation of
Liverpool is futile in the extreme. The hearty
reception which greeted the appearance of Mr.
EWART, as he entered the building, was "gall and
wormwood" to the " ill-bred and unmanly" clique.
They became rampant when they observed upon
the platform a compact band of intelligent,
influential, and wealthy gentlemen, congregated
to maintain the principles of civil and religious
liberty—to battle with bigotry an intolerance.
When Mr. RATUBONE began to discharge the
heavy rartillery of his intellect, and enun-
ciated the political principles which should ani-
mate the true representative of Liverpool, their
ire at times was nearly ungovernable. They
groaned, and cheered, and hissed in turns, to.
mark their disapproval of Reform, their love of
aristocratic despotism, ecclesiastical tyranny,
and civilised serfdom. This was followed
by beastly bellowings, the brute cries of
the cat and; the calf being called into
requisition. Both were fit emblems of the " igno-
rant and debased group" who so outraged every
feeling of fair play and decency, and whose
unpardonable presence prevented the attendance
of hundreds of Reformers who were compelled
to go away for want of room.
We were glad to perceive that the chief
speakers coincided with the views we have advo-
cated, namely, the importance and imperative
duty of recognising no man, be he who he may, as
a fit and proper person to represent this great
constituency, who hesitated to adopt as his
political creed—" Peace, Retrenchment, and
" Reform." On Monday, Messrs. TURNER and
HORSFALL were nothing loth to preach a doctrine
which ignores these three important principles.
They will not ride in the political van of pro-
gress. The former gentleman has given unmis-
takeable evidence that he depends, in a great.
measure, for his votes to the ultra, but absolute,
Protectionists, and their bigoted minions. Mr.
EWART'S manly and patriotic speech comes home
to the heart and the understanding of every
honest and well-disposed man, as the sentiments
of a genuine Reformer, a practical statesman,
and a true friend to the country to which he
belongs. He tells us that he is the advocate of
an extension of the suffrage, and that vote by
ballot has his cordial support. On the question
of education he can point to the unceasing efforts
of his nearest relative, Mr. W. Ewa RT, and tells us
that in those efforts he cordially concurs. Extrava-
gant taxation has no supporter in Mr. EWART.
On local matters common consent certify that he
has been a faithful, efficient, and laborious re-
presentative. Taking, then, the declarations of
all the candidates into consideration, and reflect-
ing for a moment on the wants of the country—
the absolute necessity of ameliorating the condi-
tion of the masses—and of for ever extinguish-
ing the one-sided and class legislation which
has been the order of the day for centuries long
gone by—we once more emphatically declare
that Mr. EWART " is the candidate on whom the
electors of Liverpool should confer the honour of
representing them in the forthcoming Parlia-
ment." The state of the registry enables them
to do so, and sadly indeed will they perform the'
duty which they owe to themselves and to their
country, should they falter in its truthful
execution. •

While thus approving, cordially and unreserv-
edly, of Mr. EWART'S candidation, and earnestly
hoping for his triumphant return, we are by no
means satisfied on his being left to contest the
representation single-handed. The same power, the
same unanimity, and the same number of votes
which will place him at the head of the poll,
would also return a reforming colleague. The
Liberals, by adopting only one candidate, mani-
fest an unwarranted timidity. The Tories chal-

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

lenge a contest, and they should be met on the
battle-field of the election on equal terms.
Besides this, on all general questions of National
Government, Mr. EWART and Mr. HORSFALL
are opposed to each other. The vote of the one
nullifies that of the other, and the consequence is
that Liverpool is virtually unrepresented. This
should not be. If Reform is so dear to the hearts
of the majority of the people of Liverpool, why
do they not prepare for the contest in real
earnest—bring forward their champions, and,
armed with rectitude, the love of country, and a
desire to elevate, socially and morally, the entire
community, give battle to the fiery bigots, and
the ciders and abettors of every scheme opposed
to the people's welfare. Until this is done,
Liverpool is only playing into the hands of her
political enemies. She is betraying the cause of
Reform, and lending a helping hand to that
party in the State who have no sympathy
with the millions, and whose conduct, as ptiblic
men, show they desire nothing else than one law
for the rich, and another for the poor.
It is to be regretted that the petty jealousies
and minor differences which mark the upper
classes of the people of ;Liverpool, have so griev-
ously prevented native talent from being its
representatives. We have within the boundaries,
men of sterling principle, liberal politics, and
first-class abilities. Surely, in the ranks of the
AIKINS, the HOLTS, the RATHBONES, the HOL-
L.INDS, the ROBERTSONS, the BROCKLEBANKS, the
GLADSTONES, Or the MAXWELLS, we could find a
fit and proper colleague for Mr. EWART. We
know that in all these names there are those
to be found who would do service to their native
town, and reflect honour on the good old cause.
Another Reform candidate should be selected
and put forward, if success is to be secured. A
great battle is to be fought at the hustings. Let
us then encounter the political foe to the best
advantage—choose our position with deliberation
and steadiness ; and now that the election skir-
mishers are already out, we must see that none
but practised and trustworthy hands are em-
ployed, so that when the great day which is to
decide the people's cause arrives, we may The:
found possessed of all the elements of success and
a triumphant victory.

ead our citizens to merge all other considerations in the one
idea of glorifying a minister, and farewell liberty, popular
rights, and constitutional government. So fell Rome at
Caasar's feet; so France prostrated herself before the great
Napoleon ; so Cromwell, amidst the suicidal ridicule
of the people, discarded the Long Parliament. * * *
Now, we know of something worse than a coali-
tion of opposing parties in support of a C3IIIIIIOII
principle, and that is a coalition of opposing prin-
ciples in the person of the same party. Reader,
have you heard of " England under seven administrations ?"
Lard Palmerston has been in office for 52 years. He has
spoken and voted for and against every measure of any
historical importance which has been proposed for upwards
of half a century. Like the Morning Post he has been
always ready to say—

God bless the bake of York, the faith's defender,
God bless the Pope and also the Vretender;
Should heaven in mercy make the Spirit of Evil
England's prime minister—then bless the Devil !

LORD PALAIRRSTON, THE MANCHESTER PARTY, AND THE
Livcarocr. TOWN DUES —At one of the ward meetings
in Manchester, on Tuesday evening, Mr. Milner Gibson
was in attendance. and, in the course of the evening,
he entered into some explanations on the course pur-
sued oy the Government with reference to the Local
Dues on Shipping Bill. lie explained that he had waited
with a deputation on Lord Palmerston immediately before
the introduction of the bill, and that the clear understanding
with the Government was that the bill would be proceeded
with vigorously. The withdrawal of the bill took himself
and his friends entirely by surprise. The debate had been
deferred purposely, that those members who were interested
in the measure might speak upon it. Nothing could
be more nnjnst than the insinuation that either he (Mr.
Gibson) or his hon. colleague had neglected the bill.

MORAL STATE OF FRANCE.—A Paris correspondent
writes :—Would any of your readers like to have a picture
of the moral state of France, fresh from the hands of a
French artist ? Let them cast a look upon the following
extract from a pastoral letter of the Bishop of Nisrnes, the
exalted piety and gentleness of which has thrown the
Univers into hysterics of admiration. The Bishop, I should
state, is searching for the causes of the public calamities of
France ; France, that is cited every day in the Moniteur as
a very Eden of prosperity and happpiness. The Bishop
never thinks of attributing any of the misfortunes of France
to individual or collective ignorance, or to a lack of political
life. He ascribes it to irreligion and impiety. " Outrages of
present rationalism towards the divinity of Jesus Christ; out-
rages of indifference or of impiety towards the Holy Sabbath
—these are two crimes which would suffice of themselves
to make us consider as quite natural, and a hundred times
merited, the misfortune under which we have groaned.
Could not we also cite a hundred others—could we not,
above all, indicate that profligacy of public morals, which,
without having been completely unknown in previous
centuries, shows itself everywhere in our epoch, with
featu'ea meta singular, we had almost said more mon-
strous. Did not these shameful disorders call down the
Deluge upon the world, anal the rain of sulphur and fire
upon Sodom and Gomorrha, and the other cities that sleep
now beneath the waters of the Dead Sea ? There is a general
opinion in England that France is a very wicked country, at
least, that its capital is a very wicked city. Yet few people
imagined, I suspect, into what depths of degradation
the French nation had fallen. It will be a surprise for
most folks to hear that France is a second Sodom, in daily
danger of a shower of fire and sulphur. It says little for
the efficacy of that church of which M. the Bishop of Nismes
is, no doubt, a distinguished member, that so much vice
has been allowed to grow up, notwithstanding the array of
bishops, cures, and priests of all degree, whose special
mission it is to put vice down. The French people must be
very wicked, or the French clergy very idle. Protestants
may evidently take heart. Their rule, after all, is not so
bad. For what English minister, not a fanatic, would
have the hardihood to declare that England is as far
gone in vice as France—France, I mean, as painted by
the Bishop of Nismes ? Misery, want, crime, and its
parent vice, ignorance, we have in abundance, no one will
deny. But in the midst of all this moral darkness, are
there not many gleams of light ? Is there not a wide-
speed feeling of sympathy with suffering, a generous eager-
ness to relieve it; and a sentiment of real devotion that
stands in place of the " hard belief" current in our days ?
And in France, although many circumstances have operated,
and are still operating, to check the development of the
highest civilisation, there is a much larger amount of virtue
than in earli:T times. These ravings of the priesthood terrify
a few old women, but they disgust all thoughtful men, and
make the unthinking smile. Your readers will have had
enough, for some time, of the Archbishop of Nismes.

Is that tl.e man you desire to represent you ? Is that
the minister in whose government you desire to express
confidence I CoAdence for what ? Assume that the
majority on Mr. Cobden's motion were in the wrong, are
China and Dr, Bowring to become the pivot of British
politics P Are parties and principles to be confounded and
forgotten in an insane cry of " Palmerston and ---- noth-
ing You are about to return a parliament for
seven years. What have ministers done in the
past to merit your trust for the future ? Is it for having
proposed an unnecessary expenditure of £2,000,000
in their estimates ? Is it for having choked off
Sir W. ClAy, and quashed the movement for the
abolition of church rates ? Is it for scouting the
motion for vote by ballot ; far laughing at the proposition of
Sir Joshua Walmsloy for the eitension of the suffrage ; for
ignoring Locke King's proposal for giving the franchise to
£lO occupiers in the counties ; for sneaking out of the
question of Jewish disabilities ; for opposing every law
reform proposed even by tories ; for sacrificing all the
principles of reform in the Commons as the price of support
in the Lords ; for putting up a whig Lord Chancellor to
maintain every antiquated abuse in the law, and venerable
absurdity in jurisprtidenee, against the assaults of
progress, of reason, and even conservative peers ?
You are proverbially " proud islanders." Through
piracy end filibtistering, through cajolery and
violence, through forca and fraud, you have seized an
empire on which the sun never se:s. Like the Romans,
and confident in your strength, you believe your destiny to
point to aggression and conquest. You can listen to no
enemy until you have laid him prostrate. Not until
resistance is at your feet, can you think either of justice or
of mercy. But are you to make the conquest of China the
instrument of subjugating yourselves ? Are you to help
PalmPrsten not only to humiliate Yeh, but to subjugate the
the people of England ? The fever fit is on you—the
ague may come soon. The Minister may appeal to the
Country ; China and Bo wring won't save him. For all
his effected horror of coalitions, he will go on, as he
has done, to coalesce with Tories to beat Reformers, and
to conspire with Whigs to defeat the Tories. But all
will not serve him. The liberals who followed Lord John
Russell in the present parliament will support him in the
next. Not with impunity will the Premier have charged
them with conspiracy. They will bide their time; but
assuredly it will come. And then a Derby ministry will
fellow, and that will fail, and last will come Lord John
Russell and a radical administration. Let Reformers
beware; to return a pledged Palmerston to Parliament is
to postpone progress, retrenchment and economy, for the
space allotted to a human generation.—Weekly Despatch.

EMIGELTION TO AUSTRALIA.-The cheering accounts
which are daily coming to hand from all our Australian
settlements, have given a considerable impetus to the emi-
gration trade. On Tuesday the clipper ship. Crimea took
her departure for Melbourne, completely filled with pas-
sengers; indeed, so great was the demand for berths, that
a notice was posted on Thursday is the consignees' office,
Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, & Co., stating that she was full. We
observe this enterprising firm are advertising the Royal
Charter, as their monthly packet for April. The Royal
Charter has been fully described in these columns. Her
last outward passage to Melbourne was quite successful ;
and from her fame, the popularity of her commander, Capt.
Boyce, and the well known liberality of her owners, in doing
everything they can to promote the comfort and happiness
of the passengers, there is no doubt but all her berths will
be fully occupied.

TELEGRAPHS To IxurA.—There are two schemes for
uniting India to this country by means of a telegraph. Both
take their starting point at Alexandria, and both terminate
at Kurrachee, where they become connected with the Indian
system of telegraphs. The one line is submarine to Jaffa
and Scleucin, then overland through Mesodotamia to
Bassora, and then submarine down the Persian Gulf to Kur-
rachee. The other is overland through Egypt to Suez, then
submarine down the Red Sea to Aden, and running parallel
to the south coast of Arabia, terminates at Kurrachee.
The difference in length on the distance from England to
India is 300 miles in favour of the line by the Euphrates.
By each, the communication from one end to the other will
be instantaneous. Toe overland portion of the Euphrates
line is to traverse 1,000 miles of country, only nominally
under the rule of Turkey, but practically possessed and
ruled by numerous tribes of Bedoain Arabs, capable of
bringing into the field may thousand armed men, and, like

all savages, never at peace with one another. They live
by plundering the crops of the settled Arabs along the

banks of the river, by exacting the tribute from them
which should be paid to the Porte, by plundering caravans,
and, in short, by acquiring property by any means
but their own industry. Such are the people it is
proposed to protect a telegraph against—a telegraph, be it
remembered, which, unlike the proposed railway, saves a
far less distance, and nothing whatever in speed, ease, or
economy in the transmission of news. The telegraph will
require as efficient, and, therefore, as costly, protection as
the railway ; once that made, it would follow as a matter
of course. But what chance is there of the railway being
completed for many years to the head of the Persian Gulf ?
General Chesney's concession only gives him powers to lay
the rails, and only secures the guarantee of interest as far
as J'aber Castle, a distance of 180 miles out of a 1,000. As
to the remainder of the distance, there is only reserved to
him an exclusive right to continue the line. Now we
require immediate telegraphic communication with India.
Are we to wait for the railway to be completed ? If we do
not, and the line down the Euphrates is really persevered
in, independent of the railway, let the cost, both in
money and political dangers be at least first calculated. First,
as to the cost of protection and maintenance. A body
of 15,000 cavalry is considered by the most competent
authorities as necessary for the protection of the line. It
is indeed proposed, instead of having troops, to subsidise
the Arab tribes ; but no doubt can be entertained but that
both plans would have to be adopted. Would subsidies
indeed at all secure the safety of the line? Each tribe would
consider itself underpaid, as compared to some other ; they
would all have a direct interest in destroying the telegraph
to force increased subsidies ; they would look upon the
owners of the telegraph as a body with unlimited means,
upon the telegraph as necessary to the existence of the
British Empire, and with the rapacity natural to ignorant
minds, would take every means and every opportunity of

Toes STRUGGLB. —We shall not " call good evil, and
evil good." J,ohn Bull has lost his head. He is drunk
or ma I. Shall we, because he is in his cups, or in his
dotage, put our eyes in our pockets, or our brains in
the beer barrel ? We are councillors, not panders of the
people. We seek not to cater for their humours, but to
instruct their understandings. When the whole nation, at
the heels of statesmen, yelped after popery, as beagles after
vermin, we alone exposed the imposture, and refused to
follow the red herring trail. Now, when the million,
blind to consequences, and deaf to the voice of reason,
prostrate themselves before Ministers, and ignore
equally their representatives and their institutions,
we, at least, shall refuse to flatter the current delu-
sion, and labour to restore public opinion to reason
and a sense of right. Once for all, the dissolution is a dodge.
The pretext for it is a tranparent artifice, a ministerial
artifice, an electioneering trick. If it succeed, we are in
for a cycle of political famine, a seven years' dearth and
barrenness. Let but the cry of " Palmerston for ever," the
furore of mere man worship, the popular sycophancy and
national flunkeyism, so far forget what is due to the dignity
of the national character, to political principle, and to the
rights and independence of the Commons of England as to

increasing their demands, never once thinking they might
thereby be killing the goose with the golden eggs. Now,

as to the political cost : We shall undoubtedly excite to the
highest degree the jealousy of Russia, Persia, and France.
Political interference will be perpetually required to get the
Porte to keep the protecting army to its duty to punish trou.
blesome Bedouin tribes, and for a thousand other purposes,
But will the line by the Euphrates and Persian Gulf be at

least more useful as a local line than that by the Red Sea ?

lig Very far from it. The Red Sea is the highway for commerce
1 to India, Australia, China, and England, and the most im-