The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-14 00:00:00

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

A Correspondent writes us to ask whether it is true, that
from twenty to thirty bodies are placed in each common
grave in St. James's Cemetery, contrary to the law pro-
_hibiting more than one body to one graVe.

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TUESDAY. APRIL 14, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

To-day, the Easter Vestry Meeting takes place,
and as there are churchwardens, overF,eprs, and
vestrymen to be elected, we would urge upon all
the ratepayers who can conveniently attend to do
so, and see that the proceedings are conducted in
a straightforward manner. We regret to have to
report two more colliery explosions this morning,
by which eight lives were sacrificed. One
took place on Saturday at the colliery
of the Messrs. Jowett, near Stockport. The
fire rushed along the various workings,
and frightfully burnt those of the colliers
who had not taken the precaution to throw them
selves on their faces. A lad named Hopwood
attempted to crawl to the mouth of the shaft, but
massed his way, and fell a distance of thirty feet,
thereby severely ijuring his back. He neverthe-
less, by some miraculous means, als, groped his
way to the mouth of the shaft. The occupants of
No. 6 level, William Holworth and his two sons,
were not so fortunate. The father and his two
boys were both killed, not, it is supposed,
by the fire, but by the choking vapours
which succeeded the explosion. Of the other
men five were severely wounded, most of
them being both burnt and bruised. The other

explosion occurred on Thursday night at the Garse
Colliery, the property of Messrs. Richards and
Glasbrook, near Swansea, whereby three persons
were killed and several others seriously injured.

The cause is thus explained :—One of the men
engaged in the pit proceeded to a part of the work
where it was necessary that safety lamps should
be used. He carried a safety lamp himself, but
for some reason he had taken the cap off, so that
the light was exposed. The air, which was of a
highly inflammable nature, became ignited, and an
explosion took place.
There is nothing in local affairs calling for
particular.notice this morning. At the Poli;!e
Court another "young man of respectable exterior"
Was, yesterday, charged with embezzling the
property of his masters, Messrs. Smith and

Whitney. He was remanded.
The adjourned Chester Sessions Were held
yesterday, Trafford Trafford, Esq., in the chair.
The only business of interest transacted was that
respecting the Weaver Dues Bill now before
Parliament. At the last Knutsford Sessions it

had been arranged that a requisition should
be prey: rated to the High Sheriff of the
county, urging him to call a Meeting of the rate-
payers of the county, for the purpose of preparing
a petition. to parliament against the bill. The
subject was mooted yesterday by Mr. Trafford
calling the jury's attention to the decision of the
magistrates. Sir Edward Cust attacked the mein

hers of the county for their supineness in allow-
ing the spoliation bill of the Board of
Trade to pass a second reading without
making a determined stand against it, but Mr.
Tollemache defended the members to such effect

tint out of sonic twenty of the assembled MagiS-
tratesonly one signed the rcquisition to the High

Sheriff to call a meeting,
In our columns of to day will be found a copy
of a correspondence that has passed between the
Bishop of the Diocese and the Attorney
General of Newfoundland on the subject of
the Fisheries Treaty concluded between the Bri•
tish and French Governments. The Attorney
General addressed a letter to the Bishop, asking
him how long he had been connected with New-
foundland ? what effect the treaty would have on
the interests of the people of Newfoundland ? what
is the value to the people of Newfoundland of the
fisheries ? and what they would receive as a
recompense for their abandonment, &e., &a.
The bishop replies at great length to these ques-
tions. He has been 13 years in Newfoundland as
bishop of the diocese. He is of opinion that the
• concessions will he very injurious, if not ruinous
to the inhabitants: The concessions " would
probably double the amount of the French catch,
which, with the help of their bounties, would
enable the French at once to command the
European markets, and, probably, in a few years,
those of the West Indies and South America. They
would seriously disturb and distress the poor
livers' on the north east, north, and north
western coasts of Newfoundland, [from Cape St.
John to the Bay of Islands] and on the Labrador;
and lastly, would probably give occasion to much
collision and strife between the French and
British fishermen, particularly in the Straits of
Belle Isle." His loedship also says that he must
be permitted to ascribe the sentiments and pro-
ceedings of her Majesty's ministers to ignorance
of the interests involved in, and the manner and
degrees, which those interests would be affected,
by the proposed treaty —an ignorance partly,
he thinks, to he accounted for by conflicting
reports and recommendations from this country.
In addition to this correspondence we have
a mass of papers and documents, all tend-
ing to show the sense of injury and injustice under
which the Colony is labouring, and the determina-
tion to resist at all hszards the consummation of
the obnoxious agreement. But whilst we ponder
over the space that might be devoted to extracts
and explanations, our eye lights upon one clause
in the Convention itself, which considerably
cheers us, and the importance of which; with all
respect, does not aepear to have been duly appre-
ciated. The treaty is only to go into operation,
after the Imperial Parliament and the Legis-
lature of Newfoundland shall have enacted
the requisite regulations, or in other words.
shall have given their consent. Now, if
Newfoundland unites as one man, in opposition,
how is this hateful change to become law? It rests
with the Newfoundland legislature either to reject
the treaty altogether or to propose an amended
one. It will be in the recollection of our readers,
that some three years ago, Captain Belvere, in
command of a French frigate, visited the French
settlements in the gulf of St. Lawrence with a
'view to promote the extension of the French
fisheries, hence the new treaty, said to be based
on that of Utrecht. The British government do
not object, but leave the points at issue to the
parties mast interested, the colonists themselves,
who, judging from what is passing, are quite equal
to the occasion. This is a brief summary of the
whole affair.
We have it on the authority of a Scotch n ews
paper—a very slender one at any time—that Mr.
Horsman had resigned his office of Secretary for
Ireland. We are inclined to believe that such a
rumour is in want of confirmation.
Three bakers at Croydon have been fined 110
each for using alum in their bread. Dr. Normandy
described the process by which he discovered
traces of alum, and stated it to be decidedly
injurious to the constitution, and also afforded
means to bakers of defrauding the public, as by its
aid, it having the property of absorbing water, it
increased the weight of bread, added to which it
also enabled the baker to use a commoner flour,
giving it the appearance of bread of the first quality,
and considerably deteriorated its nutritious pro-
perties. It would be a blessing to the town at
large if the Liverpool magistrates would follow the
example of their Croydon brethren.
We have received information of the demise
of Mr. James Hartley, the great Dublin shipowner,
and director of some of the principal steam packet
companies in the Kingdom. Mr. Hartley went a
few months ago to Egypt and Ceylon for the
benefit of bis health. He was found dead in
his cabin on board the Nubia between Ceylon and
Suez.

The emigrant ship Boanerges, with passengers
for Sydney, which put into Cork for repairs some
time ago, and afterwards lost her topmast in the
Thy of Biscay, in putting back on Thursday,
grounded near the dock gates at Millbay, and
sustained some damage. She has been surveyea
by the Emigration Commissioners, and the 400
emigrants she bad on board landed. She is to be
towed round to Liverpool for repairs today,
There is very little Continental news this morn-
ing. The Moniteur publishes an Imperial decree,
promulgating the convention which was concluded
on the 14:h of January between Count de Per
signy on behalf of the French government, and the
Earl of Clarendon with Mr. Labonehere, on the
part of the government of Great Britain, for the
regulation of the Newfoundland fisheries. The
campaign of Kabylia has commenced, and at this
moment some ten thousand infantry, with eight
squadrons of cavalry, and a strong division of
mountain artillery, are in full march from all points
of French Algeria on the districts inhabited by the
powerful tribe of Beni flatten, which form the first
point ID f attack.
The Nord of Brussels pretends to know that the
Four Powers, heartily tired of the delay in the
settlement of the Neufchatel question, intends to
hold a conference without the Swiss and Prussian
Plenipotentiaries, and to draw up a proposition
which they will call upon Prussia and Switzerland
to accept. The Independente confirms this news in
substance, and volunteers an opinion that this step
of the mediating Powers will greatly facilitate the
solution of the difficulty. A reason alleged by the
Nord for the anxiety of the great Powers to wind
up the Swiss matters, is that the affairs of Italy
press very greatly upon their attention.
M. 4fragna, the Mexican envoy in Paris, is
about to leave for Madrid, to negotiate a settle-
ment of the diff,2rence between Spain and Mexico.
Despatches were received on Saturday at the
French Foreign office from M. de Bourquency,
the French ambassador at Vienna. It is again
said there are hopes of the differences between the
Austrian and Sardinian Governments being
arranged through the friendly intervention of the