The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-08 00:00:00

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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We believe the widow's portion is one-third—the
remainder going to the eldest son.

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WEDNESDAY. APRIL 8, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

There is not much news Stirring. The elections
which took place yesterday will be found recorded
in another column. The only one calling for
notice was that of Queen's County. The polling
commenced at an early hour yesterday morning
Great excitement prevailed throughout the day.
The disturbances at Abbeyleix, Borris•on-Ossory,

and Stradbally, were of so alarming a nature, that
the polling was adjourned till to-day. A large body
of troops and constabulary have been drafted to the
various towns to keep order. Captain Wheelan,
the resident magistrate, read the riot act at Mary-
borough, at half-past five o'clock. So far the
elections have " resulted,"according to a Ministerial
print of last night, in the return of 366 liberals,
and 249 conservatives, but as the gentlemen are
classified according to what they did, or would do
on the China question, we do not place much
reliance upon these figures. The authority
to which we taint is of opinion that the
whole election is, not simply to return a majority
of increased strength for the Liberal party and
for the government, but a majority animated
by a spirit of confidence unknown to the late
parliament, elected under Tory auspices, and
gradually dying of its own old age. "We have
some hope, therefore, that the geniality which has
upon the whole reigned at the elections will show
itself in the debates, and have practical fruit in
the divisions of the ensuing session."
There will be a new war with China if measures
be not taken to prevent it. It seems that we are
now going to make war on the Imperial Govern-
ment, to compel them to pay the expenses in-
curred in the bombardment of Canton—at least
we are to infer so from the reports that have been
published within the last day or °two, by that
pertion of the press which at present upholds Lord
Palmerston's government.
The Liverpool Guardian Society have been the
means of ridding us for some time, at least, of a
gang of the most successful swindlers that have
infested this country. At the Chester Assizes, on
Friday last, four persons were prosecuted by the
Guardian Society for having obtained goods on
false pretences. The way they proceeded was as
follows :—One of the gang would take a house in an
aristocratic position, and from this send orders for a
large amount, and of eyery conceivable description,
to shopkeepers, farmers, coach makers, &c , through.
out the country. In very many instances, they
succeeded in swindling the gentlemen whom they
patronised" to a serious extent. The ringleader
was sentenced to four years' penal servitude—the
others to two, six, and eighteen months' imprison-
ment.
Another action against an insurance com-
pany will be found reported at full length
in our columns to day. The action Was brought
to recover the sum of £IOOO, the amount of
a policy of insurance effected on the life of
a Mr. Jones. The company refused to pay
the amount on the man's death, alleging that
the state of his health at the time of his being
assured was not truly represented. Of course the
plaintiff i n the case received a verdict for the full
amount. Insurance companies have, of late, been
in the habit of setting up frivolous and vexatious
objections to paying the amount of policy when it
becomes due by death. It is time that this was
put a stop to.
Two more stabbing cases will be found recorded
in our police intelligence to day.
Another of the children of the man Gibbons, who
cut the throats of his wife and three children on
Monday, has died, and the state of Mrs. Gibbons
is far from satisfactory. All the facts of the case
which transpired yesterday, as far as we could
learn, are laid before our readers in this morning's
impression.
Although great efforts have been made
to - pump the water out of the Lundhill
coal mine,
.there is yet fully 36 feet of
water in it, and the heat is about 66 degrees
Farenheit.
We to day give an abstract of the treaty recently
agreed upon between the English and French
Governments respecting the Newfoundland fish-
eries, and which has kicked up such a bother in all
the British North American provinces. It certainly
appears to us to be anything but satisfactory. It
gives the French an undue influence, and rather
too many facilities for fishing on the banks of
Newfoundland, and we shall be much surprised if
the various provinces on the northern coast will
put up with its provisions. An address was being.
got up to her Majesty, praying her not to endeavour
to enforce the treaty in question.
to hrea. ieie.ey. 0111 17 ',MCI CT CO 111. ..1-J,VI .14
ats ts rise in the cattle breeding districts of
eastern Europe. We are all interested in this
matter; it is one whose importance can hardly be
overrated. It is not alone an agricultural question.
It is a great social and economic fact, which must
not be paltered with, and it is the duty of every
man in Ow community to give heed to it in time.
Competent authorities tell us that the mortality
arising from it amounts to ninety three per cent—
that
there is no known reme -r for it, no human
means of cure—and that when it once sets in its
infectious character is so deadly that it runs with
incredible rapidity over an entire district, and
leaves but seven out of every one hundred head of
cattle remaining. The only preventative lies in the
prohibition of all importations. This can
be done solely by Government interference, and
it is therefore with much satisfaction we
find that a proclamation to this effect appears in
the supplement to the London Gazette. We
sincerely hope that that this measure will prove.
effectual, though we could much have desired
that it had been promulgated at an earlier period.
Repeated warnings have been addressed to Go-
vernment on the subject—until now without avail ;
and if this order in Council be found ineffec-
tive, because too long postponed, upon Govern _
meat must fall all the blame, bas well as all the
consequences.
A meeting of the Birkenhead Commissioners was
held last night. The proceedings were of no great
importance. A committee was appointed to con-
sider the subject mooted by the Chairman, of pur-
chasing land for forming a cemetery fur the parish
of Birkenhead, &c.

From abroad this morning we learn that the
establishment of a political notility is seriously
contemplated in France as a support to the Napo-
leon dynasty. The measure to check the assump-
tion of unauthorised titles is only a pretext for that
purpose.

The condemnation of the Bishop of Moulins, in
France, by Imperial decree, for undue assumption
of ecclesiastical authority and violation of the
concordat, i 3 a proof that the Court of Rome need
not rely on the protection of the great Catholic
Powers to further its ambitious schemes, as it was
.enabled to do in the reaction following 1848
The Austro Sardinian rupture has at length
become serious, and an Austrian circular. despatch
states that, should the mediation of England and
France prove unsuccessful, Austria will have to
look to measures for her own protection.
The latest telegraph from Madrid is sufficiently
cbscure ; it announces the recognition of the
Spanish chinas on Mexico, but whether by the
Mexican Ambassador or by the European Powers
does not appear. Party bitterness prevails at

Our Naples advices inform us that the reaction
goes on, and new tortures continue to be inflicted,
but the public spirit bends like steel under the
pressure, and recovers itself with the same
elasticity.

A letter from China informs us that the King
of Siam had published an edict, in order to enforce
ihe execution of the treaties concluded between
him and the European powers. The edict says—
" Wo will that the members of these different
nations shall freely circulate in our states, transact
commerce, and exercise their religion, while con-
forming to all our laws, and respecting the acts of
our author ity." And there is annexed a long list of
customs tariff, with the import and export duties
to be paid on each.

THE scandalous revelations conne2ted with the

Necropolis will not be soon forgotten ; they
ought not to be forgotten, and huddled away
out of sight like a carcase consigned to a noisome
grave; the violated ashes of the dead would
surely cry out against this community, if we did
not unsh rink ingly keep this affair before the
public mind, and demand exposureancl adequate
punishment of the men who have dared to trade

=ERN TIMES.---LP

in some of the holiest feelings of our nature—
the respect we owe to the remains of departed
friends and relatives. A week has now elapsed
sinceithe indignation meeting, held at the Concert
Hall, Lord Nelson-street, and there has been
nearly a month to offer some explanation of the
atrocities, and yet no explanation has been
vouchsafed, or even attempted. Is not this
silence a confession of guilt ? If the trustees
really felt that they could extenuate the charge
against them, would their lips be sealed ? Is it
the modesty of the men that withholds them
from speaking, or is it that they are conscious
that they cannot defend themselves against an
impression which is widely spread, namely, that
they have grossly mismanaged their trust. They
undertook a duty to the public which they have
publicly betrayed. We do not, of course.
impeach them in the capacity of private gentle-
men, but we say that their public conduct has
been most reprehensible, and nothing will satisfy
the wide-spread indignation of the public of
Liverpool short of exposure, punishment, and
security that such atrocious proceedings shall
never occur again. The only plea which Ive
notice, as set up for them in that report of the
Committee which was read at the meeting, was
the improbable statement that they were igno-
rant of such proceedings. This, however, proves
culpable negligence, to put it in the mildest form.
It was their duty to see that their officers acted
according to law, and according to propriety and
ordinary decency. They—good, easy men--
thought no evil, and intended none ; they quietly
pocketed their 15 per cent. dividend and never
troubled themselves to inquire whether their
gain was got fairly or foully.
This is the mildest interpretation of their con-
duct, even if we believe their own statement. We
are uncharitable enough to think that this state-
mentis highly improbable. Bynotcomingforward
with a full-defence or satisfactory explanation,
they let judgment go by default. They do more
—they offer to give up the desecrated ground to
other managers, and they have dismissed the
holy chaplain whu filled their pockets to the
tune of fifteen per cent. Does this look like the
conduct of men who felt that they had a good
cause
~to support, and could with truth and
honour vindicate themselves ? In shame and
confusion of face they hang down their heads,
and speak never a word. They are ready to die
as a Board of managers, but they will make no
sign. Thus conscience doth make cowards of
the self-convicted. They feel that they cannot
justify such infamous proceedings, or even lend
a colorable appearance to them, or persuade the
public of Liverpool that they were innocent of all
knowledge of them ; but " where ignorance was
bliss, 'twas folly to be wise." Why should they
have enquired, as the thing paid so well ;
fifteen per cent. is a good figure; and the many
headed public may be neglected and defrauded if
it yield a clear annual profit. None of the strong
and revolting facts stated by the Sexton and
SMITH have been gainsaid. The case is even
worse than we had dared to fear at the begin-
suiu as a private grave, and vet as many as
thirty bodies have been interred in it. Who-
ever are the chief delinquents, they seem to have
conducted business on a grand scale. They
outraged decency ; they poisoned the pure air Of
heaven; they endangered the health of the
neighbourhood; and over all was thrown the
mantle of religion, for the burial service of
Church or Dissent was repeated there as a
solemn requeim over the dead ;—and then all this
was ignored and forgotten, the remains of the
deceased were accounted as an unholy thing,
tossed away contemptuously like the off-scour-
ings of the streets. But then money was made
by the concern.

The town of Liverpool will stand as a disgrace
in the Empire if it does not purify itself from this
foul pollution. We demand this purification in
the name of decency, religion, and of our reve-
rence for the dead, which have all been foully in-
sulted by the transactions lately brought to light.
We demand this as a public example, an atone-
ment—some small and poor atonement—to the
desecrated feelings of surviving relatives, who
thought that they were depositing the remains
of lcved ones in a resting place that would not
be profaned. We demand it in the name of that
Christianity which pronounces, " blessed are the
dead that die in the Lord." The ancient Pagan
collected in his urn the atoms of dust that had
once formed part of a beloved friend ; he
cherished them as a sacred memento of the
loved and the lost. It is a natural and corn-
mendable feeling that among continental nations
the graveyard is connected with gentle and
soothing associations ; the graves are decked with
flowers, they are visited from time to time to keep
up a sort of communion with the dead, and the
last resting place is sought to be made beautiful,
and stripped of its repulsive features. Even bar-
barous tribes respect the graves of their ancestors.
But here are we in the middle of the 19th cen-
tury, and in one of the principal towns of Eng-
land, in arrear of barbarian and heathen—far
behind them in the proper and decent regard
which is due to the dead—or, rather, here are a
few among us who have trafficked in the tears
and griefs of the widow and the orphan, which
now cry for some adequate atonement, and which
cannot accept of less than indignant exposure,
retribution, and prevention for all time coming,
so that other culprits may fear, and other false
prophets may tremble, when they are tempted to
covet the reward of unrighteousness.

AN efficient and well-regulated police is one
of the greatest blessings a community such as
ours can possibly possess. Were it not for the
watchful vigilance of our guardians of the night,
what individual could look upon himself as
secure for a single hour from the attack of the
midnight burglar or assassin ? Policemen may
be said to be necessary evils, like standing armies,
but, un question ably,as we find society constituted,
they are quite necessary. But for the terror they