Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-23 00:00:00

premise

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cost tor the repurchase of the new lease (now to be
granted), and new buildings to be erected thereon.
Harrington-street (from Castle-street), Rainford-garden,
and Leigh-street, to Clayton-square, ought to be made
as wide as Bold-street; and Cable-street (from
South Castle-street), School-lane, and Wood-street,
to Berry-street, ought to be made of the like width.
We should then have two good linoa of streets to the
northward and southward of Lord-street and Church-

street, which would accordingly relieve the latter streets
and 80ld-street from a great share of their traffic. Mr.
William Earle, who is very shrewd in many of his

suggestions, appears to me to overlook these very
requisite alterations and salutary improvements, and to
be dazzled with the Frenchified prospect of a Boulevard,
for such a _communityas Liverpool ! The idea is simply
ridiculous. If the Cornoration can spare money for so
wil

speculation, let Lem lay it oui in substantial and
useful alterations and improvements in the town, and not
in unsubstantial and serial schemes at the outskirts,
When C

what th

ao When they got in ; VuTilTely had no sooner got into
the parliamentary atmosphere than their schemes-disap-
peared altogether, and they settled down and became

quiet and respectable gentlemen. Our councilmen seem
to undergo the same kind of change, and become mem-
bers of the do-little stamp. Whitechapel is one of the
moot 4 I bPI;--

,st irregular' streets in the town, sun, -neve, by
much the greater_part of it is corporation property. It
is a great pity the council, on the expiration of the old
leases for lives and years in property in that street, ever
granted fresh leases, instead of commencing improve-
ments there as soon as the old leases fell in. A master-
mind is wanted in the council—one who will look these
difficulties in the face—grapple with them—and miry
the improvement through with a strong hand.—Yourp,
August 20, 1859. C. G.
"'"

THE COBDEIS

SOIREE.

TO TILL EDITOE. 0:: THE .NOILTILLIIN

1 has produced its mome, and
I was curious to know the is:

I know not, bow many VII

LoA riaticului rrti

of a muting ab4orbin

ands of gouraionls,• on

attention of numbers in our own enlightened Rochd:7,

Was fixed, and deliritun of delight
.anticipated from
the pseudo-state4man's exposition of his Yankee expe-
riences, to which undoubtedly were added the interesting

views

in general," and

in the Cabinet
of English and European interest,. in particular. These

)jecyts*,

I candidly admit,

evoke a w

t of •euriosit.r
extended to myself; and I was somewhat angry that

er out-of-the-way reside

prevents. my receiv-

mg my

2corthern Daily Times on the day of its publi-
cation. However, here it is this morning; and I took

e. .
it up under some excitement, and more expectation of
being repaid for the perusal by the wisdom of the
istatcsman, and the eloquence of the orator—by the
development of means of escape from the false position
which the change of government has thrown us into
relative to Italian complications—by the unweaving of
that plexus of danger, doubt and fear, which the mind
of . all Europe is now perplexed with, and suffering
under. But alas ! alas ! never was disappointment
greater. The half-hour expended in reading the
Cobden twaddle and trash would have I.).ien better
spent, and much more euphoniously, on a Broadwood's
Grand. Instead of the statesmanlike views of a man
qualified for the Cabinet, we have the worse than i
puerility of a second form boy of a charity school.
Surely no blacksmith stump-orator ever. drummed
suc:-: stuff into " the ears of the groundlings." how
the company set it out is a puzzle. But what a humilia-
tion is the fact, that such a puling nonentity should
have been considered eligible for cake. •
It has always been a recognised fact, that Mr. R.
Cobden was a man of one idea only; and never could
stronger proof be given of its accuracy than in the
speech before me. Not one brilliant idea, not one
scintillation, broke the duil raml-ding monotony of gene
ralities through which he struggled at the overtaxed
expense of his hearers. With weeks of preparation for
the occasion—with months of foreign travel to enlighten'
—with a crisis in the affairs of Europe threateniir; its
peace—with all the interesting matter associated with a
factious upsetting of the best government since Peers,
and of the installation of the worst since Russell's first,
(and heaven knows that was without previous parallel !)
--a plethora, an absolute ove'rllow of political fullness
was expected, that would burst forth into eloquence,
that should irradiate, enlighten, instruct, and vindicate
the exalted opinion of his overweening admirers.. That
he is a sadly over-estimated man—that he has absolutely
nothing in him—is now patent to every reader of his
Rachili oration; and we may well conceive the blank
looks that must have passed through the assembled
thousands, that expected an intellectual banquet worthy
an occasion laying such numbers under requisition as
listeners. And yet this man was considered tit for
otlice' and worthy of a scat in the Cabinet ! Shades of
Pitt, Fox, and Canning, hide your diminished heads !
Spirits or the great departed, blush at the degradation
of the country that gave you birth, and mourn over the
humiliation of that arena which even now echoes with
the mighty eloquence of your speech, and blazes with
the flashing corruseations of your wit !
I shall not take the trouble to analyse or- dwell on
the most illogical and unmeaning speech that ever
wearied my attention to get through; that must be left
to your able pen. There is one point, however, that
cannot be passed over without an observation,—he has
placed it on record, In accord with Louis Napoleon,
he would undo what has been so lately done. for our
navy—he would reduce the number of our sbins—Lhe

would leave us to the tender mercies of the most un-
scrupulous, astute, and ambitious individual that ever
occupied the throne of a Capulet. And this is the man
our Prime Minister delights to honour, and would call to
hei Majesty's Councils. Away with such truckling ; it
is the twin act of that which could make a John Sadlier
a pensioner of office. Noisy demagogues must be
silenced at all hazards. If the law cannot catch and
muzzle them, a factious government can. If the pub-
lic grumble, n'importe,—the ins have it, 'and the opts
must champ the bit,—they are welcome to the privilege
of complaint. A weak, unscrupulous government is
ever ready to purchase the silence of the noisy, trouble-
some demagogue by the emolument, the coin of office.
We now know the man; his shallowness is before Its. .

0 TEmPo4A.! 0 Moitis !

19th August, 1859

--4---

INDIA

The news from India on the whole is satis-
factory, particularly as regards the rebel move-
ment. From the Bombay Gazette we learn that
no material alteration has taken place in the
relation of the rebels, except such as might
reasonably be expected to arise from the operation
of natural causes, all tending to an apparently-
speedy
extinction of the rebellion. The paper
quoted says:—

Intelligence from Onde and the several seats of war
in the North-west Provinces, continues to grow less and
less. We have•no movements to record, and the armies
necessarily cease to supply relatable events. The war
might have ended some months ago, or at any rate the
rebels would have been driven away from the mountains
of Nepaul, where our soldiers have been in pursuit of
them during the whole of the hot season, had Jung
Bahadoor co-operated with our troops and cut off their
retreat to the northern ranges. Vigour there has been
none in the efforts of'the Nepaulese to get quit of the muti-
neers in their own territory ; and the struggle in the
mountain ranges of Nepaul has been maintained by
our soldiers without any aid from' them in any shape.
Between Philebeet and Gurwall the rebels are now

snttered, but they are not likely to desmid to the
plains at the foot of the Himalayas, as a strong body of
police, composed chiefly of Sikhs, is stationed at the
points through which Oude is approachable from the
hills. They are beset by formidable difficulties on the
south, and alarm seems to have driven them frantic.
We occasionally hear of some skirmishes with small
bodies of insurgents. Burjoro Sing and his brother-in-
law Chutter, at the head of about NO rebels, were
lately in the vicinity of Jhansi ; the whereabouts of the
former having been discovered by Catania (adjutant of
police), an attempt was made to catch him in the dark,
but it failed. A small detachment of the 24th Madras
Infantry, and one of military police, horse and foot,
under Major Davis, went in .search of the enemy, but
after knocking about for some time, on the 19th of
June the little force reached Joarum at one o'clock
p.m., when the two rebel leaders were eleven miles off
across the Dessaum river, close upon the border of the
Tehree State. Leaving all the heavy luggage at Alipore,
Major Davis made a rapid march at two o'clock, and got
up to the attack about five. Overtaken in a dense jungle,
the rebels fled in all directions, about ten being killed
and fifteen taken prisoners ;.amongst the faodilb•%en,yiii,lelorinniiwaatjlkaoles:
loßicuec rajwsoioor
rene'
af foster-brother, tv• oae tll r,be,
valuable
that he,
ornaments,
tlesv,arse
shot
ht
Davis just after he had fired at Lieutenant Hawthorne
a considerable addition to the prize property,

session
of
nPo A lasta.sse
assent
31rT
aosf
the
Parliament,eT.
the
royal
given to an important measure introduced by the Poor-
law Board. Alsins
law Board. The ostensible object of the act is to
define the payment of debts incurred by boards of
guardians of union parishes and school districts, but
it is intended mainly to meet such cases as that
of the City of London Union, in which it will
be remembered a large number of our City parishes
refused to contribute towards the liabilities incurred
by the late frauds of Manzini and other defrauding
collectors, because they were not the parishes by
whom they were employed, and in which they col-
lected. The act directs that, after its passing, all
debts incurred shall be paid Within the 1. l If-
year in which they have been incurred; but debts
incurred prior to its passing may be paid, although
extending over a period of two years, and even to six
years, with the sanction of the Poor-law Board. The
last clause clearly points to the case of the City of
London, for it provides that when any debt or
liability which shall or may have been incurred shall
have been already paid by any parish to the board of
guardians of any union, and shall not have been applied
for that purpose, any funds which may again be required
to be contributed to discharge such debt, claim, or
demand shall be levied on each parish in the union in
proportion to the rateable value of each such parish,

10 to 1 a,

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reports
Cambria

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match did not come off, be
got on, &e." Now, sir, t
place simply and solely 1
made it, did not appear o
whereas I was at Cambric

previously, and

from LoudOn, a
at the starting •
thousand nerso

preserve

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lectators 0r

'lr. Marshall, who had jl;ra;
ny connivance between that e,

and the poli
;ed for two trti:

thictly to declare that I claim now, as I did on Friday, that he
buuLieman and myself, I beg, dis-
shall pay the £lOO forfeit, upon which we mutually agreed
when the match was made. I am, at this moment, ready to
match my horse for £5OB to trot a greater distance,
within the
space of one hour, than any other horse, mare, or gelding in
the universe. Upon those terms I will make a match to trot
either in two days or two months.---Yours, &c.,
Newmarket, August 16. ROBERT HARLAN.