The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-06 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS.

A number of ,elections took place on Saturday.
but they were of no importance. Peelisin and
Independentism are at a discount. Of the former
there is nearly a clean sweep in England, and the
latter does not prosper in Ireland. At Berkshire.
on Saturday, the contest terminated after returning
one liberal and two tories. Three tories have been
returned for twenty years past. In Northampton-
shire one liberal has also been returned.
Of local news there is little or none. Several
ititeresting trials at the assizes on Saturday,
together with a meeting of the Birkenhead Com..
tnissioners, • will be found repotted at full length
in our columns. Mr. Turner, in a letter which we
insert, states in the most unqualified 'manner that
his firm never paid a less sum to the Corporation as
Town Dues than they bad charged their customers.

We have detailed accounts from Melbourne to
the 16th January, by the arrival of the Marco
Polo at this port; There is nothing of importance.
The mines were in a most satisfactory con-
dition : There was a great demand for labour,.
and a good business was being done in the
import market.. From a statement of the
imports and exports of the Colony for the
years 1852 to 1856 inclusive, published in
a parliamentary paper it appears that the value of
the imports were—in 1852, £7 451.549 ; in 1853,
£11,061,543 ; iu 1854, £11,787,226 ; in 1855,
£13,493,338 ; and in first half of [856, £8,057,727.
The exports wore—in 1852,,24 069,742; in 1853,
£15.812 637 ; in 1854, £17,742,998 ; in 1855,
£12,007,939 ; and first half in 1856, £6,885,358.
The exports of wool increased materially in the
years 1852 3, but fell off slightly in 1854-5. They
seem to have risen again last year. The exports
ot gold have risen gradually since 1852, from some-
thing over six to more than twelve millions ster-
ling. It will be seen that the'exPorts of gold for
the first half of 1856 is greater than that for the
whole year 1852.
- Alvices from the United States to the 21st
March are to hand. The news is, politically,
Unimportant. Th 1 basis of the new treaty with
Mexico will be the acquisition of Sonora and
Linaloa With the command of the Gulf of California,
for which the Mexicans are to be paid a sum of
money. The .4;uban filibusters are in high glee
about ihiA- The new . administration is -contein-
plating the anticipated Spanish invasion of Mexico
with jealousy, and great •difliculties are expected to
riseoutcf it. Much excitement existed at Washing-
too respecting anticipated political appointments at.
New York and California by the new administration.
Mormon. affairs. in. Utah are in a dreadful state.
It WAS said that Brigham Young is to be super-
seded, and a military force sent 'into the territory
A report prevailed that the American Minister and
the special commissioner had demanded their
passports from the, government of New Granada.
because the latter had rejected the overtures from
America...respecting the Panama massacre. A sloop
of war had arrived at Panama. Vessels wereloading
guano at Peru for less than .21 ' dollars per ton,
because Vivanos is in want of funds. Political
affair's in Venezuela were in complete disorganise..
lion. The Chilian mines were yielding more
abundantly than ever. -
From the continent there is but little news this
morning.
From France we learn that it was rumoured in
Paris that Chevalier Pianelli, the Neapolitan
-diplomatist. whose departure from Naples, on a
mission to the French ,Emperor, has been
,repeatedly denied, has actually arrived. We have
no report of any further progress being made in
the Neufchatel Conference. Although since the
Emperor's speech promising to give up
Cayenne as a penal colony on account of its
unhealthiness several more transports have been
'sent there, the imperial idea is still held urn to the'
public. The Patrie says there is " a talk" of a
commission: new sitting at the 'Ministry of Marine.
to consider the question of transpertatien,, and that.
" according to a very generally received opinion,"
New Caledonia, where France has already begun
to form an establishment, will, " at no very distant.
time" be substituted for the country to which
criminals are now transported. The climate of

New Caledonia is, the Patrie is instructed to say
more favourable for colonisation than that of
Cayenne.
,A paragraph in the semi-official Patrie leads us
to conclude that France has given' up the idea of
inlerfering in the quarrel between Germany and
Denmark. The same may be said of Russia, In
the meantime, we hear from Berlin that the two
German powers have granted another short delay
to Denmark. during which she must comply with
their demands if she wishes to prevent the question
-being brought before the Federal Diet.
The Sound Dues Treaty has been ratified, and
the first ship, a Prussian, has passed through the
Sound, without stopping at Helsingfors.
The English squadron has at length left the
Bosphorus, and sailed for Malta.
It is announced that the English Government
has sent off orders to the Commander in Chief of
the British troops in Persia to evacuate Bushire
and the Persian Gulf. The evacuation is to take
place before the month of June—a period of the
year when the great heat renders the climate there
most unhealthy.
The Russian railway s3heme has at length been
launched, and the'principal Paris papers "are filled
with an immense preliminary advertisement. which
explains the projects of the company. The only
English names which figure in the list of members
of the council of administration, are Thomas
Baring, vice-president, and Francis Baring. It
is; however, known that these gentlemen repre-
sent more Dutch than English interests in the
matter. On the other hind, ten Russians, five
Frenchmen, and two Dutchmen, figure in that
council. This circumstance should alone deter
the English public from burning their fingers in
this gigantic enterprise, particularly as the vast
majority of the committee of nine members, which
is to sit in Paris, are more or less connected with
the Credit Mobilier, and with the new untried
school of French finance.

Despalches from Constantinople of 27:h March
announce. that Rila Bey has been named ambas-
sador of the Porte at St. Petersburg. An energetic
note relative to the delimitation of .the Turkish
and Persian frontiers has been presented to the
government of the Shah by the Sultan's envoy.
Accounts from Vienna, in the Cologne Gazette,
state that the government, on hearing of the
violation of Austrian territory by the Montenegrins,
immediately ordered, by telegraph, General de
Mamula, governor of Dalmatia, to demand corn
plete satisfaction ; that is, the release of Luci s
Radonitch and the punishment of the offenders.
In case of refusal, Austria menaces to blockade the •
frontiers of Montenegro
" The fortifications of Galicia," says the Austrian
Gazette, "are to be immediately commenced, and
carried on with great activity. The troops are, it is
said, to be employed on these works."
Up -to the hour of going to press, the Cunard
steamer America had not arrived. She would sail
from Boston on the 25th March, and will, no
doubt, arrive
,here during the day.

THE Water Committee appear resolved to
persevere to the last in the desperate game of
deception they have so long pursued. The
history of jobbery presents no parallel to the
iniquitous proceedings which have characterised
every phase connected with the rise, progress,
and present development of that hideous mon-
strosity, the Rivington Pike Water Scheme. In
no instance have we known a more gross viola-
tion of every principle of straightforward dealing,
than there has been in this nefarious job. The
people of Liverpool have been plundered to the
extent of upwards of a million sterling, and now
the jobbers insist on polluting those fountains-of
pure water which has for centuries proved a
blessing to the inhabitants of Liverpool, and to
the tens of thOusands of those who leave our
shores for distant lands, by an admixture with
the foul, disgusting, and poisonous wash, col-
lected amid the bogs and quagmires of Horwich
and Anglezark ; and when the poor unfortunate
inhabitants venture to complain and remonstrate,
they are subjected to every species of indignity
and insult, by their relentless oppressors. We
boast of our free institutions, and rejoice that we
are not subject to the iron rule of the despots of
the earth, and we point with pride to our muni-
cipal governments, as the best proof of our perfect
independence and self-government. But what
must the world think of such freedom; when
informed that 400,000 people, constituting the
inhabitants of the greatest seaport in the world,
are doomed, in order to gratify the avarice of a
few reckless adventurers, and the crotchets of a
combined clique of dogmatic Town Councillors,
to swallow such filth as we have described, or
perish with thirst. The atrocities committed by
the NEROS and CALLIGULAS of history are
mercy' self, compared with such a hideous pro-
ceeding as this. In fact, history records no out-
rage more monstrous.

The supply of water which Liverpool enjoyed,
until a very recent period, was, as all know,
unsurpassed by that furnished to any town in the
world, as regarded purity ; it was the admiration
of all strangers —while the quantity might truly
be said to be unlimited. What is the state of
matters now ? Since the night of the 2nd of
January, when the Rivington filth was first
smuggled into the Rivington reservoir, the quality
of the water has been completely changed.
Although every artifice has been resorted to to
disguise it, and palliate its offensiveness, yet the
result is the same. It is in every sense disgust-
ing. At first we were assured that the dirty
appearance of the water was caused by oxidation
in the pipes ; that when these were scoured out
the colour of it would be equal to that from the
red sand-stone, and a month was said to be
enough for that purpose by the Pike engineers.
Well, those who opposed the scheme agreed to
wait with patience; a month passed away—
another, and another—and yet there has been no
improvement. Delay, secrecy, and deception,
have hitherto been the weapons employed by the
Pikeists so successfully against their opponents.
They will find now, however, that these weapons
are nearly worn out, and that by them they can
no longer bolster up their sickly and miserable
abortion.

The ignorance and coarse vulgarity exhibited
by certain members of the Water magnates on
every occasion when this important subject is
under discussion in the Council Chamber, would
only be provocation of ridicule and contempt
were it not that the subject is of too grave a cha-
racter. A matter involving the best interests
of the present and the future generations of
Liverpool ought to be discussed with becoming
seriousness. Vulgar personal jokes, which might
pass' for wit amongst the muddled frequenters of
a pot-house are out of character in the Council
Chamber; neither the subject or the place are
fitted for the display of buffoonery or ill-breeding