Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-20 00:00:00

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ACCIDENTS.—On Saturday, several persons were attended
to at the Northern Hospital, for accidents received at the
docks ; there was nothing, however, of serious consequence
took place.
ACCIDENTAL DEATIIS.—George Chaloner, aged 4t, a
carter, was accidentally hurt at the Duke's-dock quay, on
the 9th instant, from the effects of which he died on
Saturday. John Simpson, aged 73, ship-keeper, was
knocked down by a car in Chapel-street, on the 15th inst.,.
and died from the effects on Saturday. Inquests will be
held on the bodies this dap.
LIBERALITY OF ens BUENOS ATREIN G OVERNMENT.--
This Government has recently passed a decree into law-
by which it repeals the imposts of port dues 'and Custom,
house rent, and modifies the payment of tJuties on im-
ports over a period of six months from the date they are.
despatched in the Custom-house, instead of their being-
recoverable in equal moities of three and six months, as
previously fixed, leaving the port entirely free in respect
to the transmit of merchandise.
RATTING IN TIIIt HOUSE OF COMMONS.—At the early
sitting on Friday a rat trotted with porfect norchalance
across the floor of the House of Comnacns from the
Opposition to the Ministerial si.le, apparently unnoticed
even by the vigilant eye of the Sergeant-at-'arms. The
supersagacity attributed to the race might suggest some
reflections. Was this feat intended by way of encourage-
ment to new members, to show that ratting might be
accomplished with ease and impunity ? Or was it merely
an assertion of the rights of the nuts genius to look at a.
Speaker, as a cat may look at a King ?
FIRE.—Yesterday morning, about two o'clock, a fire
broke out in the shop of a tobacconist, situate in Mill-
street, Park. It appears that there was no person in the.
house at the time, and at first the aspect of the fire was
very alarming. Soon as the alarm was give?, the reels
from the Brunswick Deck Station, closely followed by Mr.
Hewitt and his brigade, with reels from Temple Court,
were on the spot. The firemen and police were energetic
in their action, and the fire was got under in an hour or
so, with an estimated loss of £3O. It was stated that the
place and stock were insured. How the fire originated is
not known.
Tete ROYAL OAK Bearer. SOCIETY.—The hearing of a
case involving the construction and arrangements of this
well-known society, was filed to take place in the County
Court, on Saturday, when it was hoped that the health
of Mr. Pollock might be so far restored as to allow- him to
preside. We regret, however to state that Mr. Pollock
was not sufficiently recovered to be able to return to town.
Mr. Conway presided ; but in consequence of some diffi-
culties which stood in the way of proceeding with the case,
Mr. Almond requested, by agreement, an adjournment to a
further day. It was, accordingly fixed that, should no
obstacle intervene, the case should come on for hearing on
Saturday, the Bth of August next. We understand that
Mr. Segar and Mr. Brett are engaged in the case.
CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM PACKET COMPANY.—THE /EON
DUKE.—The public, no doubt, will be glad to learn that
the renowned and favourite vessel, the Iron Duke, will
almost immediately resume her station between Kingstown
and this port. She has teed a thorough overhauling and
repairs, with engine fittins, &c. ; and, on Saturday last,
she went out on a short trial trip, and made such way as
even to ontstep even tbe fondest hopes of her admirers—
thus maintaining her former supremacy. Few boats ever
obtained such popular:Ay as the Iron Duke, and it will now
add to her renewed faeue to state that her able and gentle-
manly commandei', Csaptain Triphook, who has won the
esteem of the travell.ing public, still retains the command
of this splendid ship; and that Mr. Thomas Gilbertson,
her chief stewant, who is as well known and appreciated
in his departmeeit as the good vessel herself, holds his
accustomed pleele. No doubt the Iron Duke, on resuming
her station, w-.. 11 be hailed with delight by the public, for
her speed and her 'accommodation, coupled with the neces-
sary adjuncts jll9 t mentioned,
taeleTeno.--There is at present building at Birkenhead
a yacht of nearly 30 tons, which will try her speed
againee tie; Clyde yachts of the same class, at the R.N.Y.C.
Regatta At Dunoon in August. She is the property of
George j arrison, Esq., and although her geel was only_
laid trail weeks ago most of her bdtat is oe board, and

was convicted on Monday last, before Mr. Baron Channell tribunal at Carlsruhe. _ _go Bow_
at the Yorkshire assizes, for the cruel murder of her child published an article in which it was said that the beer the `aessel is flaatable, while her
„—____ at Moorsholme, will undergo the extreme penalty of the brewed was gradually losing all the fine flavour of the hop, are all well 4orward. It 4; expected that she will be
A SNAKE REMOVED FROM A WOMAN'S STOMACiI !—The law, on Saturday, the gli of August, should no reprieve or the brewers became alarmed, and brought the editor before ?we all standing, a`att with sails bent, about the first
Logansport (hi.) Phaos states that Dr. Meyers, of that respite arrive in the meantime. We understand that the the court on a charge of libel. The tribunal, however, kin August, wi-c a epar-sTgear, and canvas
a she will proceed to Carnaryon, and
city, who has acquired some celebrity as the inventor of a convict remains much in the same state of mind as when dismissed the case, saying that as dealers were a!lowel full. thence to Clyde.. She is 50 feet in length on deck. with
trap for the removal of tape worms, has recently performed on her trial, evincing occasionally great grief ;at the liberty to praise the merchandise which they dealt i.n , 11,1 fe,et b'..atn, and is heavily sparred. Her lower mast
a cure that is worthy of more than ordinary mention. same time she is comparatively indifferent as to the awful journalists ought to enjoy equal liberty in eriticising at
-s is 42 ':eet above deck (36 feet from d ,ck to hounds), her
Mrs. Ryan, of Fort Wayne, about 20 years of age, has fate which awaits her,her demeanour not being charac'erised quality. Loam 47 feet. and her bowsprit outward 28 feet. She has
been severely afflicted for four years with a sensation in either by that dejection or intensity of anxiety with which ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—TI-u. annual exhil-Jition been d'esigned by Mr. St. Clair J. Byrne, late of Greenock.
the stomach, as though there was some reptile moving in it. ono would suppose a woman, especially, plaaed in so of this society commences at Salisbary on Tuesday nem
Hearing of Dr. Me)era, new process for the removal of awful a position, would be agonised. Jemmison is, of and the South Western directors have made liberal arrway- ►v: hate -no doubt, however, that Mr Fyfe's crack 30 ton
parasite from the um
stomach Mrs. Ryan went and course, now an inmate of the condemned cell, where she ments for the accommodation of the public on t_liaa- .
placed herself under his charge. 'Within two weeks Dr. haste,
female attendants constantly with her, day and night, constant trains running betwoen London aria ,
Meyels removed from her stomach a snake about 3,1 feet and is regularly visited by the chaplain of the prison (the throughout the. day at reduced fas •
long and 11,- inches in diameter, instead of aggravating it, as Rev. T. Sutton), who does everything in his power to tickets will be sawed, available lava.
had been I'ae result of previous treatment she bad received. minister to the spiritualnecemities of the unhappy crim- July. Arra,
Xrs, P.yan supposed she swallowed the snake, which was inal, and to maist her in directing her appeals to the Ald- stant e., -agements have aloe
'tiamuoication beta-,a line test. The Gipsy
Q teen schooner, 190, Sir H. Houghton,
a_- y' aceht, Crusader, will put this new craft's mettle to the
I' bur ' Bart R.Y.S, arrived in the river on Friday, and is lying
whilsta is
t y ~
the '2oh to the return
2 u 5
h has sailed on a cruise. The Jalia, 122 J . Rouldsworth,
'oeen-made for' giving con-t Eva ,
in each case the return tickets being I. M. R swan, EN-, etas teached Largs from Isle of Man.
rn at the Tail of B ink. The Seabird, 30, J. King, Esq.,
is about to proceed on a cruise to the North of
een Basingatoke amd Salisbury, Ireland. The S. Ursula, 180, H, Tea's" -.a
aPrearently of the water species, while drinking from a might.; ,nchester and, q . arrived
S:atisbury, Portsmouth, Gosport, and here on Monday from the M.e,1;.-
erranean. 'T4ll6- Oithona,
spring. She left the care of Dr. Meyers for home, feeling in ponouncing sentence of . iw s not I spo ri
ia that mercy whichdeMatrh. Btaroan Channnellhiintimwatee
ias though she was saved from worse than death. '1 to extend to her.—Yorkskere gazette. 1 available from ate Monday to Friday. —Noatit Pritish Mail,
Southampton, am,
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SPIRIT OF THE WEEKLY PRESS:

The Saturday Review thinks there is no question
That for the failure of the Jew Bill we are indebted
in a great measure to the general impression that
the present administratio will stand quiet under
any rebuff. " Somehow or other, we certainly do
not appear to be getting all the advantages we were
promised from a strong government. Considering
the slender provision of legislation with which the
ministry met the parliament, the defeats and
enforced compromises which it has had to undergo
have been extraordinarily numerous ; and, indeed,
on the whole, its success does not seem to have
been greater than that of administrations which
had to steer a difficult course amid the snags and
sawyers of broken-up faction. In the present
instance, the obligation of carrying through the
Jew Bill weighs the more heavily on Lord Pal-
merston, because there is one part of his policy
which has directly contributed to its rejection.
The Cabinet gained the not very impressive adhe-
sion of Lord Shaftesbury, and it had, of course,
the Whig vote of Lord Clarendon's episcopal
brother, but the Bishop of Ripon, the premier's
most significant appointment, divided against the
bill. The theological partisanship of Lord Pal-
merston has, in fact, been a heavy blow and severe
discouragement to the cause of religious liberty.
It is impossible to promote with impunity the ex-
treme members of an extremely bigoted party.
People have a difficulty in persuading themselves
that the patron of Dr. Biekersteth is really siacere
in his hostility to a grievance which would have
been removed long ago but for the fierce opposition
of Dr. Bickersteth's school ; and thus while
Ministerialists feel themselves at liberty tohesi-
taid,v/itathwaturily did in the instances signifi-
The exhibition of Sir James Graham, says the
Press, at the meeting of the members of the House
of Commons, in Palace-yard, on Thursday, was
highly characteristic of the man. "It was a regular
case of Ccelebs in search of a party.' He recited
all his votes in favour of religious liberty,' but he
.took no notice of his conservative votes from 1834
to 1845, of his bitter allusions to death's head-
and-cross-bone denunciationee and more flowers
of rhetoric in the same vein. He disclaimelhav-
ing had ' communication with Lord J. Russell '—
a point apparently uppermost in his heart—
and he spoke of the very liberal opinions
of Sir Robert Peel's later years.' Sir
James Graham then, in a set style, talked of war-
ning the House of Lords, and assumed a menacing
air. We must protest against any statesman taking
such a tone to either branch of the Legislature. It
was the tone used in the Sebastopol committee by
Sir James Graham, but the House of Commons
laughed at his threats, and in his imitation of Mr.
Croker's celebrated passage in the Reform Bill
debate about Cromwell and 'that bauble, the mace.'
On that occasion Sir James Graham was told
that he was a great proficient in the oratory of
terror,' and it is a style of eloquence not
calculated to sway Englishmen of any rank.
A politician injareshis cause by employing it, as was
found by some of the Anti-Corn-Law League
Legislators, who ceased to use it as they acquired
more experience. Sir James Graham has many
talents, but to improve by age is not amongst his
qualities. His displays have always something of
that heedlessness which was a reproach to him in
early days. For one who prepares his speeches,
he is singularly incautious. We like to see a
public man improve, and we call to mind what
pleasure was felt, even by avowed adversaries, on
seeing the late Sir W. Molesworth improve every
year, up to the time of his early and regretted death.
But Sir James Graham remains hard and harsh in
his tone ; he does not mellow with time, and his
ability is depreciated by his acrid air and
minacioua manner. It is the peculiarity of this
eminent person to damage any cause which he
takes in hand. Nobody has so often contradicted
himself; he is eternally fighting a hard struggle
against the ghosts of his former acts and speeches.
After his scenes' with so many members of the
House of Commons, from the O'Gorman Mahon
to Mr. Thomas Duncombe, it is possible that Sir
J. Graham would wish to close his public career
by getting up a 'scene' to his own glorification
with the House of Lords. But we trust that he
will be disappointed ; and we feel assured that,
while the peers of England will always remain
open to conviction from arguments of real ability,
they will disregard such a peculiar tone as that
employed with sinister effect by Sir James Graham
in his ill-expressed speech at Palace-yard."
The Economist says there is great danger of
English opinion becoming unworthily suspicious
as to official partiality and patronage. There is a
very natural disgust at the administrative blun-
dering anti dull spirit of routine which has come to
light in the public service during the last few
years. But what is the true remedy ? " Certainly
not the substitution of one sort of mechanism for
another sort—the mechanism of cram-examinations
for the mechanism of official patronage ; but the
infusion of a higher spirit of responsibility
into the management of public affairs. The
excessive reliance on the competitive, as dis-
tinguished from the comparative principle, tends to
lessen this sense of responsibility. It exempts
our higher authorities from all influence in appoint-
ments, and so tends to diminish their answerability
for the result. If a mere system, if the marks'
given by examiners are to be the appointment, the
system—the marks—will be alone responsible
The end is likely to be as gross a failure as before
while there will be less personal responsibility
than before for that failure. Our administra-
tive system cannot be saved by any me-
chanism. There must be individual responsibility
for the nomination of candidates as well as
free competition amongst the nominees, or we
shall lose half the checks on improper selec-
tions and half the sense of responsible
authority in our ruling men. There is no better
example of this than the army. It has
been in a state of stagnation from the absence
of all healthy emulation and competition. But no
man in his senses would regard success in exam-
inations as the sole and sufficient reason for the
promotion of an ordinary regimeetal offieer. Other
qualifications far more than outbalance in his case
the qualifications of knowledge and literary
diligence. An officer who could prove the binomial
theorem or find the horizontal range of a cannon
ball in a resisting medium, would not, perhaps, be
necessarily fit to command in the field. The
absurdity is visible in this case, but as certainly
exists, though in a less degree, in the civil service,
and we believe it will be found that the principle
of limited competition,' as it is called, involves a
far less limited comparison of the real qualifications
of the candidates than its more boastful rival."
We read in the Weekly Despatch :—" The slight
put by the House of Lords on the House of Com-
mons by the seventh rejection of the Parliamentary
Oaths Bill, begins to do its work. The minority
of Peers and majority of Commons are both very
indignant. There is a very pretty quarrel as it
stands' between Derby and Dizzy.' The former
threw out a taunt about a Jewish Chancellor of the
Exchequer, which the latter neither forgets nor
forgives. Lord Granville takes very good care to
work upon the raw' which that taunt has begun.
Sir John Pakingtou begins to suspect that Derby
is no statesman,' but only a leader of faction. Sir
Fitzroy Kelly is of the same mind ; and Lord
Stanley has been heard to declare that, for a man
of genius, his father is the most ignorant man he
ever knew.' Upwards of a hundred members of the
House of Commons have gone to Lord Palmerston
and told him he must either give a pledge
to make the seating of Baron Rothschild a govern-
ment question, or they must look to another
minister; and Lord John Russell stands by, play
ing the part of judicious bottle-holder.' Well
may men exclaim,' Woe unto you, ye lawyers ; for
ye will neither go in yourselves, nor let others
enter,' There is a very large majority of the House
.of Commons ready, even anxious, to seat the mem-
ber for London by a resolution. The government
lawyers, who really do not understand the case,
and declare that in the face of the decision of the
Court of Exchequer in Salomons' case, such a step
would be illegal, have fairly estoppel the adminis-
-