The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-19 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.--LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

the establishment, On the next morning the following
leading article appeared in the Courier :

THE WATER QUESTION.

"As the Riving on Pike scheme is to come once more
before the Council to-day, we venture to submit the
following facts for the consideration of that body :
" The quantity of water raised from the reservoirs has
recently been 33,000,000 gallons per week, or 5,500,000
gallons per diem, for the six working days: The new
engine at Green-lane will raiso an increased quantity of
at least 500,000 gallons, or equal to 6,000,000 gallons per
diem. The quantity of water raised has tilled all the
stores, and the engine has ceased pumping. What then
becomes of the former statements that the water was
decreasing, and that the town would be left without a
supply ?"

Pray, sir, tell me to-day, what harm there was in that
article, even if I had written it. But it answered your
purpose. You had nurtured a spirit of revenge against
me because I refused to concede to your patron, Mr.
Simpson, the merits of the plan which I had myself intro-
duced for extinguishing fires in Liverpool, and you had
assumed the mask of friendship, the better to cloak your
intentions; and you, Mahometan-like, shook me by the
hand until you saw an opportunity of cutting it off. My
conduct was too guarded, too correct, to permit you or
any one else to have any just ground of complaint against
me, and you seized on this simple matter with the same
avidity with which the hungry tiger would seize on its
prey.

You knew there were many members of the council who
disliked me for having taken the course I did in regard to
the water supply, and you calculated but too truly on
their support. You fabricated a repovt against me which
is as wicked a production as ever was penned by one
officer against another, under any circumstances. You
charged me with gross breach of confidence, disobedience
of orders, falsehoods fabricated for a purpose, and such
like. And anticipating what the decision of the committee
would be, you actually suspended me that very morning,
and when I attempted to explain and to reason with you
you stated you had orders from Mr. Holme to do so, and
you had no alternative. Talk of treachery, forsooth, of
double distilled ingratitude—here you have it in all its
naked deformity. Well, sir, may you say you do not know
how 1 lost that situation—do you know it now ? And what
do you think of your own conduct in the matter, thus to
bring ruin and degradation on an old friend for such a
cause ? Before I could have been gully of such an act to any
one, much less to you, I would sooner, sir, have lost my
right arm. My appeal to the committee was in vain, for
you had so effectually poisoned them against me that I was
denied a hearing ; my doom was sealed ; I was a ruined
man—ruined by you, sir, and by you alone, for from this
that you might gratify the very worst passions of hurna—
blow I am only even yet partially recovered. Was
there ever such a case as this, assuredly not in Liver-
pool. An old and tried servant to be thus discarded
on such a pretext, better would it have been in
some repects had you had the manliness to have sent a
piognard to my heart than to have been the guilty author
of all the misery you have entailed on an innocent and till
then happy family. lay living gone, creditors clamorous,
I, despairing, and, as a matter of course, steeped in
despondency, hoping against hope, until sick at heart,
sending memorial after memorial to the council praying
invariably for a reconsideration of my case—what could I
do. My little property was swept away more than once
by the ruthless hands of bailiffs, still I clung to my dear
home with the tenacity of despair, until at last I could
hold out no longer, and myself and children were turned
adrift on the wide world friendless and pennyless, and I
was a ruined and broken-hearted man through your
machinations.

I was again made a Police-superintendent, but
long anxiety and excitement had naturally produced
serious illness, and a slight accident to the limb
which had beeh so severely injured while I was in
the Police force resulted in perfect prostration, and
what was thought to be permanent lameness. This
heavy afftction was the sole cause of my leaving the
force, where every consideration was shown me by
the head constable, Major Greig ; but my suffer—
ings were so great, that I could not perform even the very
light duties allotted me. There was no complaint against
me, as you would so cruelly insinuate, nor was I guilty of
any misconduct, as Major Grieg will testify any moment.
These explanations are given as the best answer to your
foul accusation, and in order to set my conduct right with
public.

Then, again, to your very great surpise, I am appointed
Inspector of Smoke Nuisances, but you add that even that
office I could not retain. Again I must explain why I
did not retain it. You had been the means of involving
me in difficulties of a painful character, and these con—
tinued to annoy me much, as I havo already fully
explained. Bat there were other reasons besides that for
my having acted as I did, which I shall now make known.
When appointed to that office I set about the performance
of the duties with all the energy and zeal with which I
was capable. I knew the difficulties I had to encounter,
but I also knew my duties and was prepared to grapple
with them ; this I did, not by making an indiscriminate
onslaught on the furnace owners, but by pointing out, in
practice, how the evil could, in a great measure, be
abated and in this I was eminently successful. In a few
months I had succeeded in freeing the town and river
from the influence of this nuisance to a very great extent,
a fact which is patent to the world. To do this I became
often a stoker, and there is hardly a boat on the river
which I have not occasionally fired, until I had succeeded
in getting rid of the " dense volumes of black smoke."
For a length of time I evidently had the confidence of the
committee, and such informations only were laid against
furnace owners, as, after mature consideration, I felt I
could conscientiously recommend. However, a sys-
tem of serving all parties said to offend
against the act with forma) notices having been
adopted, I was no longer in the po ition to exercise any
discretion of my own. I was all along opposed to these
notices, fearing, as I did, that they were opening a wide
door for abuse, and I felt often at a great loss how to act,
so as to please the committee on the one hand, and on the
other, avoid doing wrong to the furnace owner, or acting
contrary to the dictates of my own conscenee. While I
was still worried to death by clamorous and unfeeling
credi ors, it is not surprising, that a temperament
somewhat impulsive, should have been acted upon
by such inflaences Small wonder if my nervous system
should have been affected to a much greater extent than it
really was. While old sores were still opened up afresh by
some one or other of my kind friends, I was absent and
abstracted no doubt, in manner • and as I could not bear the
idea of being a sort of pest to a large and important class in
thee ornmunity, I resolved, if possible, to find some other
employment. I 'got leave of absence with that object,
but remained a few days longer than my limited
time--which was very wrong, I admit; and as my
• explanations were not deemed satisfactory, I resigned.
For the smoke committee I shall ever entertain the highest
possible regard ; as a committee they were always con-
siderwe and kind. And now, sir, what becomes of your
calumnies against me ? If my old friends have deserted
me, the less it i 3 to their credit, for assuredly I have given
them no cause for so doing ; for I have never done an act
which ought to have forfeited the good ooinion of any one.
Your apologist, ar rather my defamer, winds up his fulsome
laudation of yourself and your untold virtues, by introduc-
ing the names of Arkwtight, Stephenson, and a host of
others, to show that the most eminent men in the world's
history have been the architects of their own fame and
fortune. Whoever said it otherwise, certainly not I;
but I do say that none of these parties owe their posthu-
mous fame to their having pirated other men's inventions,
and palmed them off on the public as their own. You will,
Mr. Duncan, stand no great chance of earning.a niche in
fame's temple by following the course you have seen fit to
select as your own in my case. For the present I have
done with you, leavirg the world to judge betwixt us.

JAMES M 4DJNALD.

AN ITALIAN VIEW OF THE COMING ELECTIONS,—The
Milan Gazette publishes in its number of the 12th, a letter
from Paris on English affairs. In this curious correspond-
ence, it is gravely announced that the corning elections aro
the forerunners of a great social revolution ; that the
Joneses and O'Brions will, during that time, propound
their doctrines to the ►housands belonging to the working
classes, and that socialism will take a quarter of a con ti:ry's
stride among' the people in a few short weeks. A 'revolution
in England, the writer contends, would be neither a
Republican nor a Democratic one—it would be a war
against property.
CHALK SUNDAY.—In. the West of Ireland nine tenths of
the marriages that take place amongst the peasantry are
celebrated the week before Lent, and particularly on Shrove
Tuesday, on which day the Roman Catholic priests have
bard work to get through all their duties. On the first
Sunday in Lent it is usual for the girls slyly to chalk the
coats of those young men who have allowed the preceding
festival to pass without having made their choice of a
partner; and "illegible" young men strut about with
•affected unconsciousness of the numerous stripes which
decorate their backs, while boys just arrived at manhood
hold their heads higher, and show tokens of great
satisfaction, if any goad natured lass affixes the coveted
mark.

THE EXPRESS OPT THE RAILS.—We learn that the
Great Northern express train which left London at 9.30,
on Satur lay morning, ran off the rails, while going at full
speed, at a curve within two miles of Newcastle. The
couplings of the carriages broke in several places, and the
train was thus broken up into four divisions. These
ploughed along the ground at a short distance from each
other, for about a hundred yards, which bad the effect—
the ground being of a clayey nature—of breaking the
impetus without overturning them. The divisions of the
train lay for about two hours on the line, in a zigzag state,
till a train came from Newcastle, and took the passengers
on to their destination. The guard in the rear was brui4ed
but not seriously. All the passengers escaped unhurt. The
escape of the passengers was almost mirnotilotia.—Glasyoui
Daily Mali.

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

THE DrssoLurxoN.—lt nlw supposed that this event
will take place on Saturday, and that the writs will be
sent off by the mails of the same evening.

MANCHESTER:
The following is the address of Mr. Bright :
To the Electors of the City qf Manchester.
Gentlemen,—lntelligence having reached me here that a
dissolution of parliament is immediately expected, in conse-
quence of the decision of the House of Commons with regard
to the events which have recently taken place at Canton,
it is my duty at once to address you' that I may not leave
you in any doubt as to the course I am prepared to take
at the coming election of your city. I have been absent from
England just four months, and during that period have
experienced a sensible and steady improvement in my health,
so much so that I may now, with much confidence, expect,
in the course of the present year, to be able to resume
my usual occupations. I am, therefore disposed again
to accept the honour and the responsibility of acting
as one of your reptesentatives, should you be willing
again to place confidence in me. It is not needful that I
should say a word on the many political topics which I have
so often discussed with you and amongst you. On those
points which have recently arisen, however, I wish to be
cletrly understood. I entirely approve of the resolution
moved by Mr. Cobden, and seconded by Mr. Gibson, on the
subject of the melancholy events at Canton. lam bound,
too, to condemn the policy of the government in making war
with Persia without consulting parliament, and without ever
informing the representatives of the people of the course they
were about to take, or of the objects for which they were
entering into war. If we permit a ministry to declare war
1 without the knowledge and consent of parliament, we at once
reduce ourselves in our foreign policy to the condition of those
nations of the Continent of Europe which have no parliaments,
and which do not pretend to possess a free constitution.
I feel confident that every elector of Manchester, of '
every party, will unite to make a stand against a course
so Unconstitutional and so degrading to the nation. I
cannot approve of the proposition of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer to raise the duties on tea and sugar. I should
much prefer to deal with the extravagance of the estimates
than to impose taxes, especially on articles of almost universal
consumption, which interfere with commerce, and lessen the
demand for labour. I need hardly say that I have no sympathy
with the prime minister in his hostility to parliamentary
reform, and in his refusal to extend the franchise to £lO
householders and occupiers in the counties. It is a matter
of deep regret with me that I am unable to take part in person
in the coming election. I must trust, as I do most fully,
to the kindness and forbearance of my friends. If I have in
some things failed to act up to their expectations, I beg them
to believe that I have differed from them with reluctance and
with pain. I cannot say much of what I have done, but I can
speak without hypocrisy of the integrity of my motives, and
of the fidelity with which I have endeavoured to do my duty
to Manchester and to the country.—l am, very faithfully yours,
JOHN BRIOHT.—Rome, March 9, 1857."

WEST RIDING.
The follovving is Mr. Cobdeu's farewell addrese:—
To the Electors of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Gentlemen,—Although at the last election I made an
unequivocal declaration of my intention to withdraw
from the representation of the West Riding at the close
of the free trade contests—a determination which I have
since repeatedly communicated to the chairman of
my comtnitttee —yet I should be wanting in cour-
tesy to you and fail to do justice to my own
feelings, if I allowed our political connection to
be brought to a silent close. Elected your repre•
sentative in Parliament, without solicitation or
expectation, when a thousand miles distant from
England, I dissolved, very reluctantly, my connection
with the borough of Stockport, to enable you
to give an emphatic expression of attachment to
the cause of commercial freedom. From the moment,
however, when the free trade policy was no longer op-
posed by any political party in the country, I felt that
every motion which led to my having become the
representative of your most important electoral district
has wholly ceased. For to one who, like myself, takes
an active interest in the leading public questions of the
day, it offers no advantage to be elected for the largest
of our cons, ituencies. On the contrary, it involves the
additional labour of much local and private business, and
a great increase of correspondence—that terrible tax on
the time of public men. Nor does it confer any compen-
sating rank or privilege in the struggle of parliamentary
life. The House of Commons is a pure republic,
where each member's position is decided by his own in-
trinsic qualities,and his arguments derive no force from
the weight of the body whom he represents. Lord John
Russell would be equally our first debater, whether he
sat for London or Tayistock. It is true that a very
different rule applies to the members for large constitu-
encies, for they serve to indicate the policy which, sooner
or later, the government must pursue. But as, with the
exception of free trade, my honourable colleague and
myself are generally opposed on the great questions
of the day, I am deprived of the satisfaction of feeling
that my vole has any weight in the decisions of the
legislature. In fulfilling my intention of restoring
into your hands the trust with which you honoured me,
it only remains for me to tender you my congratulations
on the results of the struggle which first made me
acquainted with the population of the West Riding.
It is little more than fifteen years since, upon the defeat
ofyour justly popular candidate by the protectionist party,
the free traders rallied for the recovery of the Riding.
In this short interval of time we have witnessed the reversal
of that verdict, not only in your district, but throughout the
whole empire, and we have had the unprecedented good for-
tune of winning even opponents to our principles, and seeing
every trace of resentment or sense of wrong or suffering
obliterated from their memory ' • thus substituting for the selfish
pleasure of a party triumph the purer satisfaction of having
effected an act of universal beneficence. It will ever be a
source of grateful happiness to me that my name was
permitted to he associated with your great constituency in the
achievement of so good a work.—And I have the honour to
remain, your obedient humble servant, RICHARD COBDEN.
38, Grosvenor street, London, March 16, 1857.
SALFORD —At a meeting of the liberal electors of Salford,
held on Tuesday evening, at the Mechanics' Institution,
Mr. Cobden announced hat he had decided on public
grounds to accept an invitation to become a candidate for
the representation of Huddersfield, and that he had
already forwarded his address to the electors of that borough.
Considerable disappointment was expressed at this decisicn.
The opinion of the meeting was most hearty for Mr. Cobden,
and a resolution ex-eressive of regret was carried. After
stating his own determination, Mr. Cobden recommended the
liberal elector 3 to unite in supporting Sir Elkanah
Armitage. That gentleman has acceded to the wishes
of the- electors, and has issued his address. Sir Elkanak
Armitage is no stranger to the constituency of Salford.
He has resided in that borough for the last forty years, and
has been known throughout for his consistent adherence to
liberal principles. The position he holds, as the treasurer
of Messrs. Gibson and Bright's committee, sufficiently in-
dicates his views on the leading political questions of the
day.

BOLTON.—The address of both Mr. Banes and Mr.
Crook, the present representatives of the borough, have
been issued, and a preliminary meeting of the friends and
supporters of these genthmen has been held, for the pur-
pose of making the necessary arrangements for securing
their re-election. No other candidates are yet announced,
and there appears every probability that this borough will
escape the turmoil of a contest.

Oiastirtm —Mr. W. J. Fox, one of the sitting members,
has just issued his address to the electors, offering
himself for re-election. The address is rather lengthy,
and, in the course of it, Mr. F,x says:—r° The ex-
perience of nearly tea yesrs renders it unnecessary
that I should na lA. any formal profession of my
nolitical fai h, or or the principles which guide my public
c induct. Toey are in all respects unchanged. I am, as I
was when you first chose me, the advocate of freedom,
civil, religious, and commercial. I am, as,,l then was,
devoted to , he interests and well being, the social, educa-
and political rights of the working classes, to whom
I have ever considered myself as belonging ; and every
year that I have sat in parliament has rivetted more firmly
in my mind the conviction that a thoroug'i reform, such as
shall render the House of Commons a full, fair, and free
representation of the people, is vitally essential to the
purposes of good government. Should you do me the
honour of again returning me, I shall certainly not go into
parliament as the supporter of a Derby and Gladstone
coalition. And with equal certainty I shall not go as a
blind follower of the policy of Lord Palmerston. My latest
votes have been against a heedless bloodshed abroad, and a
needless continuance of taxation at home. If we must fight,
lot it be in a better cause than that of aggression on China,
and as we must have taxation, let it press anywhere
rather than on articles of daily consumption by the poor,
or with the inequality and injustice of the income tax as
at present levied." None of the other candidates have as
yet issued their addresses, but there is no doubt that a
contest will take place, the friends of Mr. J. M. Cobbett
and Mr. James Piatt, having been actively engaged during
the past week in making the necessary arrangements for
the election, A rumour \Yes in circulation on Saturday,
that Mr. Peter Seville, of \Vellfield House, Lees, would be
induced to come forward by a section of the liberal party,
but nothing has yet transpired to show whether or not it
has any foundation in fact.

DERBY. —The contest for Derby appears likely to be an ex-
citing one. No less than four candidates, with the probe..
bility of a fifth, are in the field, all pr ecessing the same liberal
opinions. On Thursday evening, Mr. James addressed
the electors. On Friday evening a meeting of the friends
of Mr. Hepworth (who had sent in hie resignation) was

held, when it was resolved to ask this gentleman
reconsider his decision, add allow himself to bs Patriot
nomination again. In consequence of this, Mr. flerri°sio
arrived in Derby on Monday, but nothing dec„w,.
is at present known. On Saturday night Mr,
ALP , the present member, addressed his et-os
tuents in the Lectare Hall, and a vote of conflue.ois
in the honourable gentleman was passed. On the con°lll.
of Mr. Bass's address. Mr. Beale, deputy chairman °id hi
Midland Railway, was introduced as a candidate, an
explained his political views at some length. Theo
candidate, Mr. Alderman Moss, has not yet addressed ir
electors. ol
BRADFORD.—GeneraI Thompson has issued the folio
address : "I come to refresh the acquaintance we hale rise
had. It began in the time of struggle for a great print) 17,4
to the value of which every portion of your town 70i
witness. To detain you with sentiments which bare L"
been common to ns would be waste of time. To a
points it may be well to advert. Of wat, as of surgery,ool,
lees we want the better ; but what we have should I)?
To reduce wars and fightings to a minimum is the
practical problem for wise men in the present day., „ for
cerning intervention, the same. We want intervent,°"o
good, and not intervention for evil. Is not your rope
maintained on the same principle ? Nations will at
time unite for a police, which shall do on a great so,leob,
the other does. Though not as fast as we could
reform and improvements are making head in all direct,
We have had time to take lessons in the method of__,Plis
ing." Though no candidates but Mr. Wickham so"
ge
general are in the field, the committee of the lattli
continuing their canvass, and acting in every "1
they had a hard battle to fight. arid.'
LEEDS.—Another phase in the Leeds election has isj,
both Mr. W. E. Forster and Mr. Francis Carbutle,t7.Bol
vanced candidates, having withdrawn, to avoid a split Lop
Liberal party. A meeting was held on Monday aft2;4ol
at the Stock Exchange, and it was resolved to intrg.f.
another candidate coadjutor with the Right Hon. osa
Bathes. A committee of selection, consisting of II W
appointed to select a suitable gentleman, Who of tbl
introduced as early as possible to a general meeting
Liberal electors. of the
CITY OF LONDON.—The most significant result . tot
meeting of the Liberal Restriction Society, haigov
the unsuccessful effort to substitute Lord J. "'
for Sir J. Duke.
NO.RTH HAMPSHIRE.— The Speaker has
farewell, after a p.zrliamentary connection of Wen"'
years. $d of
OXFORD, TUESDAY EarzniNet,—The Right pir tips.
Cardwell met a large body of his supporters-0'1'150404
the leading tradesmen, &c., in the et.:- v—at the the Starmois
on Monday evening, when he entered into Will, oil
and other important questions, to the satistaCti" of,oo Oct
wavering constituents: The return of Mr La.:llfLs-ope0;(
sidered certain, as his conduct for many years pasl7_,-4.,..0.
have rendered him an especial favourite with the 01"folsi,
Oxford. The partizans of Mr. Neate have this .0110
formed a committee. Mr. Sergeant Gaselee bar I,lifisol
several public meetings in different parts of tb*,,c.'ooll
reiterated his political opinions. The four csod.:7l-;:c of ,
"
actively canvassing, so that there is every probala
strongly contested election, as it is now undera,
Messrs. Neate and Gaselee are determined to go to

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LONDON & EASTERN BANKING. CORPOT
ta%lt transpired on Tuesday that the Joint Stock esno
lishment known as the London and Eastern I.ooe
Corporation, have found it necessary to make ILA
reents for wiudirg up. The concern was establishrw A
three years back, with a capital of R500:000, ,°,„0(11 P;
one half was paid up, and it had declared dirl"`„hes 1
the rate of six per cent. It had three brae' IL.
London, as well as at Calcutta and Bombay' 01 IF
announced, oa authority, that all the engageraentso4
liquidated in full, as they fall due, and a hoPe., tbsP,,
tamed by Mr. Coleman, the accountant called lrilotri
considerable portion of the capital may be U.
saved for the shareholders.

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